Shouldn't we at least be a little bit scared already when shoe companies pivot to AI and their stock goes up ~750%?

Once past IPO, I suspect the 70% -> R&D must shrink, right? I mean, to keep the stock afloat long term P/E must come down right?

Public investors strike me as less willing to pour money into R&D, which is why I'm wondering about the timing of IPO in my initial question.

I'd like to get in front of a whiteboard with someone who knows economics and the token providers businesses well enough to answer my "explain to me like I'm five" questions. But I'll start with these in here:

Is my observation correct that for the token providers this is a margins game, while for the consumers this is a quality of service/product game? If the quality:margin lines will cross at some point on the x-axis, is the race is to reach this point before running out of money? If yes: What historical examples are there where the delta between these two is huge?

I'm guessing LLM's are unique in a sense, since there's really no limit to how good a consumer of the product expects it to get? (Compared to for example email which is much easier to scale in regards to compute.)

Also extreme noob at life question: Why would you want to IPO before having a sustainable business model? What's the upside?

I recommend you go look at some of his talks on Youtube, his best five talks are probably all in my all time top-ten list!

I've not said anything else than that I think this specific bug isn't worth the attention it's getting, and that 20k USD would benefit the OpenBSD project (much) more through the foundation.

> When it’s a security researcher, HN says that’s a squalid amount. But when its a model, it’s exorbitant.

Not sure why you're projecting this onto me, for the project in question $20k is _a_lot_. The target fundraising goal for 2025 was $400k, 5% of that goes a very long way (and yes, this includes OpenSSH).

Given the tone with which the project communicates discussing other operating systems approaches to security, I understand that it can be seen as some kind of trophy for Mythos. But really, searching the number of erratas on the releases page that include "could crash the kernel" makes me think that investing in the OpenBSD project by donating to the foundation would be better than using your closed source model for peacocking around people who might think it's harder than it is to find such a bug.

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AITA for thinking that PRISM was probably the state sponsored program affecting civilian life the most? And that one state is missing from the list here?

I was replying to the statement that "maybe code quality is really not that important for trivial things", not whether LLM's are good at analysis nor not.

Thanks for the link though, looks like an interesting talk!

I hear this narrative being pushed quite a bit, and it makes my spidey senses tingle every time. Secure programs are a subset of correct programs, and to write and maintain correct programs you need to have a quality mindset.

A 0-day doesn't care if it's in a part of your computer you consider trivial or not.

> Anything a person without skill can build with AI is worth very little, because anyone else can build that same thing.

And it's going to be interesting seeing what happens to big tech when there's no real difference in what an engineer and a (technical) PM can produce daily. Tweak some configs, find and fix a bug, push.

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Like (~9K) Jumbo Frames!

> CERN is using extremely small, custom large language models physically burned into silicon chips to perform real-time filtering of the enormous data generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

I don't have much hope, but I wish that ignoring software licensing and attribution at scale becomes harder than it currently seems.

I can totally see AI having an impact which results in the media wage for computer/math-people to drop 60%, or employment of white collar workers to drop 45%?

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https://youtu.be/WFMYeMNCcSY&t=1024

Teaser: "It's like throw a rock, you're gonna hit something... I pointed people in the wrong direction, and they still found a bug".

The suffix "written in Rust" is getting cringy though.