curious_cat_163

> At the root of it all is people. I care about people (their existence, their happiness, my connections to them, their connections to each other)

100% agree. That's what it is all about. That, and our time.

> and any use of LLMs is (in my mind) anti-people

Hard disagree. A lot of good can be done for the people with this tech. Blanket rejection of an entire category of technology has not worked out well for the disadvantaged communities in the past. We have plenty of history.

I have used pgvector on an Azure DB. It did a "reasonable" job. I am not an expert on HNSW vs PRISM but because it is all backward compatible, I am curious why they didn't just send a PR to the pgvector folks?

Like, I would love to learn more about the design process that led to a whole new thing. I am sure the decision was not taken lightly, but the README is very thin on the details for why anyone should go through the troubles above, at least in the making of it.

I recently started an AT Proto PDS.

> most people in bluesky moved to bluesky driven by hate and fear instead of love and curiosity

My personal experience has been a lot more balanced. But, I don't want to say that there is no hate and fear on ATProto...

Agreed.

Also, it is not a monolith. There are parts of the internet (arguably like HN) that are off the charts when it comes signal-to-noise ratio, for me personally.

> I'd skip M5 and M6 chips for LLM work and wait for a year for M7.

Please say more? Is it because it is a one-time cost, unlike a recurring subscription of Claude/Codex?

> The play seems to be: lock what was once commodity compute up into datacenters depriving us regular folk of it, then sell it back to us on subscription.

I had not considered that as a possibility. It is somewhat dark and unlikely, imho, but a real possibility.

I am more inclined to believe that the fab capacity will grow over time and "commodity" compute will be available to us all again.

However, I can also imagine going back to the 60s era "hyper verticalized" mainframes, in which case, the frontier labs might not just be producing models, but chips and an ecosystem around themselves and their suppliers/customers.

I am not developing with the ATproto, but keep an eye on the specs. There is a lot brewing in that ecosystem so I understand your skepticism.

I think that avoiding the word “private” is absolutely the right move here, because they are not building for the individual privacy. That’s not what the spec is intending to unlock. Their goal is to enable the next set of apps, that need to enable sharing of content with a specific and controlled group of users.

The data is stored in a PDS. You can use the one that Bluesky PBC or any other service provider provides, or you can self-host.

Space Authority is a DID, per the link above. So, in ATProto land, that’s just an account. The authority DID controls the accesss to the the space for other DIDs.

I can’t answer your question about encryption. Hard to answer it without a specific use case.

Looks like their auth is broken. Do they ever publish postmortems?

Ah, my bad. I may have misread it.

> It’s going to move us from the big iron era of AI to small portable brains. Nature has already proved it’s possible with 20 watts and very little heat generation.

Agree. I know enough about the vagaries of scientific progress to not put any money on any timeline but directionally, that's where we are headed.

> And I think the data center buildout will end in carnage.

Disagree. And this is quite the leap from the previous statement, btw. The carnage happens if the demand for general purpose GPU compute disappears and even then there are so many ways to salvage the asset.

I think the test above is about tool calling... That's how I read it. The issue here is known as "out of distribution detection" in the old-timey classification world.

I am not sure how a micro model will fundamentally solve it. Would love to understand what dannyw and team did there?

Thanks!

When is Gemma5 coming out? :-)