The only thing you really give up is HA/failover and DR. But there are solutions to deal with those. And single-server systems are generally surprisingly robust (since, in the absence of very complex control planes, uptime goes down with more systems).

How bad does a design have to be that this is a valid attack?

The Luce is so generic it borders on nihilism - destroying the very concept of Ferrari precisely because Ferraris are good.

Source: I’ve worked in aerospace in Orange County.

As you say, you start with a random array and start mutating it until you get something that magically does interesting things.

Sure, you can hold copyright over all the software used to train the thing. And trade secrets or patents around your data selection, training methods, and infrastructure and such.

But unlike typical software compilation, the model isn’t a rote translation of something that has a creative element. Ordinary software has creative source code as input, mechanically processed into an output.

Models start with a bunch of inputs that are not the creative property of the model maker. Those non-creative inputs are not imbued with novel creativity, no matter how advanced the intermediate machinery may be.

By analogy, you may hold a copyright on the layout and creative elements of a phone book, but you have no rights over the actual data of phone numbers. Nor will any amount of ingenious layout engines or ad placement algorithms or complex printing press methods turn those numbers into something that can be licensed.

IANAL. This is truly baffling to me and it seems like everyone is going along with it because some corporate lawyer probably said “Iunno, let’s just say we are licensing this thing before release. Worst case, a court throws out the license”.

Here is a recent non-rigorous benchmark I ran against a bunch of models. Qwen3.6 35B A3B fine-tuned with opus data runs plenty fast on my local machine and produce outstanding results - easily in the top 5, comparable to GPT 5.5 Pro (which is $180/mtok).

https://gistpreview.github.io/?31d66ef69e4aed3efae1aec69d86c...

I've predicted for years now that the industry will head down the path of the virus scanning vendors: selling subscriptions to be able to download the latest versions of models. I simply don't see how any other business model is remotely viable, except at the very highest end of inference or video gen.

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https://gistpreview.github.io/?7bdefff99aca89d1bc12405323bd4...

Full session: https://gist.github.com/abtinf/7bdefff99aca89d1bc12405323bd4...

Generated with LM Studio on a Macbook Pro M2 Max

https://huggingface.co/hesamation/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Claude-4.6...

If you're like me, the "magic" around agents is uncomfortable. I needed to understand precisely how they work. Partly inspired by the simplicity of the Pi agent harness, I decided to build the simplest agent I possibly could.

I also made a video walkthrough building it up, from a simple console agent to a self-modifying harness, in a single page HTML file.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180382

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In California, you are required to submit to chemical testing (breath, urine, or blood — I don’t recall the rules for which applies in which situations). However, you are not required to otherwise talk to or perform the absurd procedure of the field sobriety test (“you have the right to remain silent”).

This has existed for a very, very long time; its just a business feature you have to pay a lot of extra money for and that is generally unavailable to consumers.

Business customers get access to DNIS and ANI.

DNIS is the number that was dialed to reach the business. It is used for call routing and marketing analytics.

ANI is the phone number from which the call was made. It’s used again for call routing and analytics, but also billing. It’s how they knew where to send the bill back in the days of 1-900 numbers. Because real money is involved, it’s a pretty good bet it’s usually tied to the real entity.

You, as a mere consumer, are left with caller id, which no business user cares about.

S&P 500 includes companies from multiple exchanges. Like Nvidia, which lists on Nasdaq.