mbreese

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Comment · 1 hour ago

It’s probably a lower regulatory burden to get the approval of the FAA than it is any number of municipal bodies to get approval for building and powering a new data center. There are a lot of people that need to sign off on things. When you’re talking about space, if you can afford and build it, that list is pretty short.

I’m not convinced that the economics are favorable to space based data centers, but ironically, it still might be a lower hurdle than terrestrial data center approval.

Comment · 4 days ago

Is there a way to automate port knocks in your .ssh/config? I think that’s the main reason why I haven’t added it to my home server.

Comment · 4 days ago

Apple will happily sell you the Mac mini for that setup too. Or the Mac Studio if you want something beefier.

It’s all about segmentation of the market.

Apple has customers that want a small, well designed all in one computer that fits on a desk. If it has a pop of color, all the better. It is a customer segment that Apple knows well and has been serving since the first Macs.

There are many companies that want to address the market for a budget friendly small PC with an external monitor. There aren’t many that try to address this segment of the market.

Comment · 4 days ago

And sometimes having something that looks nice and clean and colorful brings you joy. That’s who this is for.

Comment · 5 days ago

I didn’t think they still sold x86 servers.

I can picture that they’d have the software side sorted out with RedHat. But I don’t know what hardware they’d push to support local on-premises models. It looks like when you buy Fusion HCI, you can choose from Dell or Lenovo as the underlying hardware supplier.

Comment · 5 days ago

I didn't think that IBM had gear that mortals would want to run. If you're not running a mainframe, what do they have to sell you? They still sell Power servers and it looks like they have an AI card that can be used on both. But, if we're talking about the IBM CEO talking about on-premises, what are they really talking about hardware-wise? It's not something they would sell, is it?

This is more of a statement for their consulting customers, right?

Comment · 5 days ago

But, Openrouter stats can only measure the usage they see. I'm not sure it is really all that representative of total LLM usage across the market.

I think that's the difference here -- OpenAI and Anthropic are competing more with each other (and Google Gemini) than they are with open weight models. While people on HN are familiar with Kimi and GLM models, I'm not sure how many casual users of LLMs know about them. I think the competitive risk open weight models pose to OpenAI and Anthropic is much further in the future.

There is a lot of usage that's only known by Anthropic or OpenAI that's not visible to the rest of the world.

Comment · 6 days ago

It is often better to use a pretrained model. But the choice here is using a frontier LLM to classify or a purpose built classification algorithm.

I know which I’d expect to perform better.

Comment · 10 days ago

I didn’t actually see that in this post at all. They mention that the end goal of the attackers might be to get to AI inference providers. But I don’t think they are crying “AI was used” here.

Or did I miss something?

Comment · 13 days ago

The issue isn’t with people in the LLM space knowing what is happening. It’s with normal or less-technical people believing that the LLM is actually thinking. We can understand the difference, but that doesn’t mean we need to encourage the misconception.

Non-technical people believing that these models are actually thinking can lead to all sorts of inappropriate uses.

Comment · 15 days ago

But there are definitely people out there that will need to run these models locally (contractual or legal requirements). By validating a Mac Studio as an option for running local models, it might be the more appealing option.

For most of us though, you're right -- the OpenRouter option is far more cost effective.

Comment · 16 days ago

I think the idea was to intentionally disable the speaker in an AirTag you own. The use-case that I think they were describing would be to make it more difficult for a thief to find the AirTag and remove it. Thus, you'd be able to track your stolen bike for longer (and have a better change of finding it).

Of course, this would also make it easier for someone to disable a speaker and track a person without their knowledge, making it more difficult for that person to find a stealthy AirTag.

I'm not surprised that someone didn't think this through. I am surprised at how many people this must have gotten by to make it into production. You'd think that with any AirTag related product, privacy would be more central to the planning.

Comment · 23 days ago

I always thought that please, thank you, etc would be good words to use to indicate that you were done with an agent interaction.

Siri, text my dad … send it. Thank you.

And then it could stop trying to listen. It sounds like you’re being polite, but it would have a secondary meaning too. Kind of like using the stop word to end an LLM’s output token list.

Comment · 23 days ago

Would that then create a moral imperative for the human operators to keep the model running and answering/asking questions? Or is Claude working to pay for its electricity?

This perspective creates so many unanswerable questions.

Comment · 23 days ago

citation required

Actually, I’d really like to know the answer to this. I’m not a fan of clickable TUIs. Mouse events in my terminal are one of the banes of my existence.

But, if they are more popular with others, that would be helpful to know.