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That’s just not how the world works.

Youths lack judgment, so they can’t vote, drink, drive, have sex or consent to adults.

A 14-year-old can’t be relied to understand the consequences of making nudes of some girl.

Beyond that, we regulate guns, speed limits and more according to principles like “your right to swing your fist ends at my nose”.

We do that not only because shoving kids into jails is something we want to avoid, but because regulating at the source of the problem is both more feasible AND heads off a lot of tragedy.

And again, you fail to acknowledge the investigative burden you put on society to discover who originated the photo after the fact, and the trauma to the victim.

If none of that computes for you, then I don’t know what to say except I don’t place the right to generate saucy images highly enough to swarm my already overworked police with requests to investigate who generated fake underage porn.

You can’t “undo” a school shooting, for instance, so we tend to have gun laws.

You can’t just “undo” some girl being harassed by AI generated nude photos of her, so we…

Yes, we should have some protections or restrictions on what you can do.

You may not understand it, either because you aren’t a parent or maybe just not emotionally equipped to understand how serious this actually can be, but your lack of comprehension does not render it a non-issue.

Having schools play whack-a-mole after the photos are shared around is not a valid strategy. Never mind that schools primarily engage in teaching, not in investigation.

As AI-generated content gets less and less distinguishable from reality, these incidents will have far worse consequences and putting such power in the hands of adolescents who demonstrably don’t have sound judgment (hence why they lack many other rights that adults have) is not something most parents are comfortable with - and I doubt you’ll find many teachers, psychiatrists and so on who would support your approach either.

I just don’t see it.

I mean, the long arch of computing history has had us wobble back and forth in regards to how closed down it all was, but it seems we are almost at a golden age again with respect to good enough (if not popular) hardware.

On the software front, we definitely swung back from the age of Microsoft. Sure, Linux is a lot more corporate than people admit, but it’s a lot more open than Microsoft’s offerings and it’s capable of running on practically everything except the smallest IOT device.

As for LLMs. I know people have hyped themselves up to think that if you aren’t chasing the latest LLM release and running swarms of agents, you are next in the queues for the soup kitchens, but again, I don’t see why it HAS to play out that way, partly because of history (as referenced), partly because open models are already so impressive and I don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t continue to do well.

In fact, I do my day-to-day work using an open weight model. Beyond that, can only say I know employers who will probably never countenance using commercially hosted LLMs, but who are already setting up self-hosted ones based on open weight releases.

FWIW, this is a variation of the age-old thing about open source.

It isn’t “have it your way”, he graciously made code available, use it or leave it.

NixOS would like a word

Beyond that, Gentoo, SuSE and a few others.

But generally, yes, be careful with what you install :)

Relevant, I would definitely be sleeping uneasy if I was at “Open”AI.

Some insist that Chinese models are a few generations behind, how many probably depends more on patriotism rather than fact.

Those people typically also insist that Chinese models are just distillations and often neglect to see how many of these companies contribute to the theory of designing efficient and capable models. It is somehow thought that they will always trail US models.

Well. i would say look at recent history. China worked up the ladder of manufacturing from simple, bad stuff to highly complex things - exactly what westerners then claimed they’d never be able to. Then as that was conquered, westerners comforted themselves by insisting that China could copy, but trail-blazing would always still be our thing. Well, Baidu and Alibaba face scaling issues few western companies do and BYD seems to match Tesla or VW just fine.

I am unsure why anyone would think US models are destined to remain in the lead forever.

At “best”, I see a fragmented world where each major region (yes also Europe) will eventually have their own models - exactly because no one wants to give any competitive power a chokehold over their society. But beyond that, models will largely be so good that this “generation”/universal superiority idea becomes completely obsolete.

What little immigration we have from India are highly educated and thus quite productive individuals.

You’re (deliberately?) confusing the issue with e.g. illegal immigration or asylum seekers who often come from poor, war-torn areas with little education and possibly a very different mind-set.

I haven’t been accosted by roving gangs of well-educated IT Indians, I find the thought funny ;)

It never ceases to amaze me the contortions some people put themselves through to make this US administration seem sane or even vaguely interested in the flourishing of Europe, Canada or the wider west.

I think you should do the work of making it apparent why someone should use this over lutris.

Frankly, most people have neither the bandwidth nor interest to research people’s projects and understand the value proposition. Speaking from bitter experience :)

All the best though :)

While I still object to them having a say in that matter (next thing is; we don’t serve darkies) - that is different. There are hundreds of shops to get that cake from.

But Anthropic and “Open”AI especially are firing on all bullshit cylinders to convince the world that they are responsible, trustable, but also that they alone can do frontier-level AI, and they don’t like sharing anything.

You don’t get to both insert yourself as an indispensable base-layer tool for knowledge-work AND to arbitrarily deny access based on your beliefs (or that of the mentally crippled administration of your host country).

You can try, but this is having your cake and eating it too territory, it will backfire.

It's not either-or, necessarily.

Yes, we have a pays-as-you-go pension system in Denmark (sigh). But regulations were also changed a while back such that employees must pay into a pension scheme of their own. In our case, that's handled via your employer and there's a minimum contribution limit and often incentives to pay a higher level.

((not my area of expertise))

Yes, but also no.

Pension funds around these parts are big, we are often forced to pay into them. Years ago, I noticed they started advertising green funds. Would not be surprised to see options that exclude the US too.

If you look at Trumps polls across EU countries, it is heavily in the negative and a lot of us are wanting to put our money where our mouth is about it.

Same issue (I am Danish).

Have you tested alternatives? I grabbed Open Code and a Minimax m2.1 subscription, even just the 10usd/mo one to test with.

Result? We designed a spec for a slight variation of a tool for which I wrote a spec with Claude - same problem (process supervisor tool), from scratch.

Honestly, it worked great, I have played a little further with generating code (this time golang), again, I am happy.

Beyond that, Glm4.7 should also be great.

See https://dev.to/kilocode/open-weight-models-are-getting-serio...

It is a recent case story of vibing a smaller tool with kilo code, comparing output from minimax m2.1 and Glm4.7

Honestly, just give it a whirl - no need to send money to companies/nations your disagree with with.

Poor thing, talk about going in the wrong direction :)

Impressive though.

Because every other agreement we have made with him on tariffs or Ukraine, every other appeasement, has done nothing to sway him from his actual course.

Contrary to popular thinking (and it is a nicer fantasy), he is not an inconsistent, emotionally manipulated short-termist with no attention-span.

He is actually smarter than we thought (or wanted to think) OR someone actually is a bona-fide Trump whisperer.

His main foreign policy aims and beliefs seem remarkably fixed.

All of this to say, no further appeasement. No need to completely undermine the Nobel peace price also for 5 minutes of respite, he will literally be back to this within a fortnight.

If you compare them to Finnish or Norse arctic troops and if it ever came to combat, yes, this isn’t the place a US soldier would want to be.

(Hehe, ow, sowwie about triggering someone’s feelings. Fun to see that jingoism should have safe spaces even as the same electorate railed against it on college campuses).

I hear this said, but never substantiated. Indeed, I think our big issue right now is making actual benchmarks relevant to our own workloads.

Due to US foreign policy, I quit claude yesterday and picked up minimax m2.1 We wrote a whole design spec for a project I’ve previously written a spec for with claude (but some changes to architecture this time, adjacent, not same).

My gut feel ? I prefer minimax m2.1 with open code to claude. Easiest boycot ever.

(I even picked the 10usd plan, it was fine for now).

Well, for one, you may have noticed that MS put in the work, over years, to make .NET the same implementation across all three platforms. So that’s at least one pillar of impossibility removed.

From Reuters: “ The extra imports represent 1.6% of EU beef consumption and 1.4% for poultry”.

Maybe take a deep breath and relax a bit before storming the ramparts. This is a slight adjustment not something undercutting all EU farming.

Oh absolutely, I adore most every country of the EU, maybe except Hungary and recently... Slovakia.

But in principle, I think the EU, some voting forms, and a federal army is necessary if we desire any degree of self-determination.

Made a Ask HN, but screwed it up by editing the text.

Anyway, good ideas/tools for evaluating LLMs ? Naturally, as a Dane, I am moving away from Claude, but I’d like more than a gut feel about how much I may have given up to do so.

Same, though, as a Dane, I must express preference for Norway, Sweden and Finland (and Iceland), obviously :)

I hope his antics do nothing except push us closer together.

I know I’ll get downvoted for this but it needs saying.

I don’t think the allies made any exemptions for the German that wrote their representatives in the lead-up to and during the second world war. All got stuck with the bill, 6 million got forcibly deported from their homes. There is a thing as collective guilt and responsibility.

Your country is on collision course with mine, threatening invasion. I really don’t think a few letters absolve you.

I might like you as an individual, who knows, but you can’t run from some responsibility for this.

Small countries lack agency and international law is being repurposed as toilet paper right now. Look at Ukraine, look at Greenland.

Your view is demonstrably proven wrong.

As for cost of living, name a developed country, big or small, where things are going swimmingly on that front and I’ll name you ten others where it didn’t, big and small.

It is not a popularity issue. If it were, company after company would have switched as soon as they could make it work (office365, outlook online, whatever SAAS they use, none care about their desktop, only the browser, and all major browsers are available on Linux).

From there, popularity outside the organization is irrelevant, internal support and userbase is for and on some version of Linux.

As this would spread, we would eventually see global usage increase and global popularity become a non-issue.

I think this project actually has merit and highlights the core issue.

We have gone through one perceived reason after the other to try and explain why the year of the Linux desktop wasn’t this one.

Uncharitably, Linux is too busy breaking and deprecating itself to ever become more than a server OS, and that only works due to companies sponsoring most the testing and code that makes those parts work. Desktop in all its forms is an unmitigated shit show.

With linux, you’re always one kernel/systemd/$sound system/desktop upgrade away from a broken system.

Personal pains: nvidia drivers, oss->alsa, alsa->pulse audio, pulse audio->pipe wire, init.d to upstart to systemd, anything dkms ever, bash to dash, gtk2 to gtk3, kde3 to kde4 (basically a decade?), gnome 2 to gnome 3, some 10 gnome 3 releases breaking plugins I relied on.

It should be blindingly obvious; windows can shove ads everywhere from the tray bar to start menu and even the damned lock screen, on enterprise editions no less, and STILL have users. This should tell you that linux is missing something.

It’s not the install barrier (it’s never been lower, corporate IT could issue linux laptops, linux on laptops exist from several vendors).

It’s also not software, the world has never placed so many core apps in the browser (even office, these days).

It’s not gaming. Though its telling that, in the end, the solution from valve (proton) incidentally solves two issues - porting (stable) windows APIs to linux and packaging a complete mini-linux because we can’t interoperate between distros or even releases of the same distro.

I think the complete and utter disdain in linux for stability from libraries through subsystems to desktop servers, ui toolkits and the very desktops themselves is the core problem. And solving through package management and the ensuing fragmentation from distros a close second.

I wonder how. Everything I let claude code majorly write, whether Go, F#, C or Python, I end up eventually at a point where I systematically rip it apart and start writing it over.

In my study days, we talked of “spikes”. Software or components which functionally addressed some need, but often was badly written and architected.

That’s what I think most resembles claude code output.

And I ask the llm to write todo-lists, break tasks into phases, maintain both larger docs on individual features and a highly condensed overview doc. I also have written claude code like tools myself, run local LLMs and so on. That is to say, I may still be “doing it wrong”, but I’m not entirely clueless .

The only place where claude code has nearly done the whole thing and largely left me with workable code was some react front-end work I did (and no, it wasn’t great either, just fair enough).

Try telling the boomer generation that they have to work in the city center, for a salary insufficient for suitable housing (read: space for children) close by. Then, while remote-work could work, tell them they can’t, instead, push then toward sleeping in a king-sized coffin while god knows how they can manage having children.

I think it’s time for a societal reality-check.

This has been covered ad nauseam, but since rust advocacy has waded into enough discussions about code in other languages to lecture people on performance and safety, it has naturally pushed some to find a bit of satisfaction in commenting on shortcomings in rust projects.

And this is very much also something which is helped along by the community’s defining voices.

He actually addressed your point by pointing out that, in his view, the models this machine can run today are the worst it’ll ever be - he thinks, and my own experience over the last year, is that local models improve and at a pace which is CLOSING the gap to commercial models.