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Any model that is going to be meaningfully useful is going to have the potential for harm too. It's not possible to know enough about chemistry to be useful to a chemist, without also being able to figure out how to synthesize drugs. It's not possible to have enough knowledge to be useful to any/all programmers, without being able to figure out how to hack a system, or create a virus. That's just kind of life though.

It's not that simple. The odds are always stacked in favor of the hacker. It's like saying, "why not just make a prison that's impossible to escape from". You can make a prison very, very hard to escape from, but you have to shut off every possible way someone could try to escape, whereas someone trying to escape only has to find one vulnerability, once. It's much harder to plug every possible hole in a complex system than it is to find one point of weakness.

China can produce chips at "7nm", that's more like 8-10 years behind. My M1 macbook pro is 6 years old, and that chip was made using a "5nm" process. The advanced US chips are now on "2nm". Explain to me how China is going to produce a computer that beats US supercomputers using 10 year old technology.

Neither one is illegal though. Scraping the internet is as legal as surfing the internet. And what Anthropic calls "distillation attacks" is really just paying for and using the service Anthropic provides. I would think a judge would have the same view of distillation as they do of scraping, if Anthropic doesn't want a subscriber to have access to the model, they are within their rights to block access, but it's not the user's job to refrain from using the service. If their usage is so different from everyone else's, they should be easy to detect and block. If their usage is so similar to everyone else's that it's difficult to detect, then it shouldn't be of any concern.

Ok, and when there's a power outage at my house as happens quite often in CA? When my internet goes out about once a week and I'm not home to reset it, what then? Just tell the customers "Sorry, I'm running this out of my garage, it's the best thing to do".

I'm not asking them to give me something for nothing. The whole point is to get me hooked and spending so that when those credits run out or a year is up, I'll have to start paying cash. That's like saying giving someone free heroin is just giving them something for nothing. No, the person giving the heroin absolutely has a reason for doing it, and it's not for nothing.

I'm not asking for them to send me a GPU, just to let me use a GPU instance, you know, like people often do in cloud computing. I'm guessing you've never heard of it. More of a kitchenwares guy?

Nope. No, it's not.

Appears so. I was able to start CPU instances.

Seems like a bait and switch when instead of saying "We can give you that SKU in this data center" they say "We can give you that SKU if you use a paid plan".

You must be using some of the higher priced GPUs(which they offered me), but I'm looking for something in the <$1k/month range.

> contributor to Livebook and Nx here

While accurate, it's a bit of an understatement :) Thanks for all your work, Jose.

I'm just finshing up my first macOS app. I went with SwiftUI because I was new and didn't want to learn an "old" tech. The reality is outside of very basic stuff, SwiftUI is not capable of doing a lot of stuff, so I ended up have to learn not only AppKit as well, but how to fuse AppKit into SwiftUI and fuse SwiftUI into AppKit.

My advice is don't be attracted by the shiny toy that is SwiftUI. It's a steaming pile to dung, unless you just want some basic forms/tables/text.

Google is progressively getting worse, month by month. I think Bing will overtake them if they just stand still, but it would be a while. At this rate, I think Google could drop the top spot in 5 years or less.

If Bing is smart I think there's a real chance to dethrone Google in the coming years. In the past 3 years, Google has gone from damn near perfect, to damn near useless. It no longer even listens to what I type in, and very basic queries that I know should have results come back with total meh. I'm not sure what's happening over there at Google. 5 years ago I tried to switch to DDG, but couldn't because the results were too bad. Now, I think DDG is about on par, and that's more from Google degradation, than DDG improvement. It's unfortunate because I'm struggling to find simple things on a daily basis, especially software related things.

Every piece of art is a collage of other pieces of art. Everyone is inspired by other, and copies others, whether they admit it or not. You can't write a song or paint a picture and say that the way you stroke a brush or strum a guitar is not something that was learned by watching others. I think in general too often people are awarded copyright judgements when they shouldn't be, however in this instance I do feel that absolutely nothing of artistic value is being added, and it does seem to be intended to replace the original. If you like a song you heard, and you write something with the same chords, and a similar melody, that's fair game, but if you write something so similar, _and_ market, and sell it as a replacement "don't buy that expensive song, this ones basically the same, and half the price", then I'm quite sure you're in some very murky, and potentially illegal waters.