USDA Organic isn't perfect but it is, largely, the only meaningful information you can be given.

Everything else is weasel wording and subterfuge.

However, I never asked for LLMs nor did my consumer nor professional behavior send market signals that I would use them. They were thrust upon me apropos of nothing.

Now that I find them useful, the least I can do is stop making the problem worse.

I've been "doing this" for over 30 years now and I consider these LLM results to be fantastic.

If one has a deep, conceptual understanding of tools, systems and protocols and if one has the ability to carefully provide careful, concise specifications, these LLM tools are like being granted superpowers.

In fact ...

My next project upon which to bring LLM tools to bear is a fully local, solar-powered, self-hosted LLM toolchain.

Not only do I intend to never work without these tools again, I intend to do so without the ongoing environmental externalities that they produce.

I actually have this trophy from the previous bursting bubble ... a Sun microsystems rack populated with three e4500.

$750k + of equipment at original list price ...

It's the other way around.

There is a high likelihood that many countries of the "west" (the "global north"?) will outlaw, restrict, or otherwise control LLMs and the tools that enable them.

The US, however, is blessed with the first amendment which makes it extremely difficult to restrain speech in any form - including code.

I would think everyone in the HN crowd would be aware of HEAC, the hdmi Ethernet channel, etc.

With full access to the hosts tcp/ip stack, we’d do well not to overlook the potential vectors for a monitor to install software on your computer… especially when the operating system is complicit.

https://sqlite.org/rsync.html

... and is installed and available:

  # sqlite3_rsync -vv ./test.db user@rsync.net:test.db

Anecdote: I just created an API access account at openAI, for a business I own, two weeks ago, with no identification check of any kind.

No human name is anywhere on the account.

They build a test rig with 10,000 drives which they run continuously producing a total "drive hours" count and then wait for the first one or two or ten drives to fail.

X failures / 10,000,000 drive-hours will give you your MTBF, etc. ... and only takes ~40 days given a 10k drive test rig.

Some pictures from Seagate lab in Longmont:

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yHqDagRDz9H5koWBefi24K-120...

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EiZ9tA6p3UbaJFTaW75JdN.jpg

Of course they can.

How do you think they get the MTBF for hard drives?

What they do is deploy thousands of them and wait for the first one to fail. Then they wait for the second and third ones to fail… And then they can construct a statistical abstraction for the entire population based on the very first degradations … and that doesn’t take long at all.

Every emergent behavior from these actors - whose claim to positive moral values is barely plausible - should be reported, discussed, dissected and critiqued early and often.

What is the behavior if one were to run GLM 5.2 with only a single H200 ?

Would it fail to run at all, or would it just run so slowly as to be unusable ?

I would like to prove out the build, and concept, of a SOTA model locally, but then backfill the rest of the GPUs in 18-24 months when they cost significantly less ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUCAS_device

… which are commonly carried in ambulances.

Anyone who thought they had invented something new here were kidding themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer

I would have said that about the Japanese as well…

The increase was 25% and was, of course, mainly due to hard drive prices.

How would that change (improve) if you had two R9700 in a similar configuration ?

See above where I frame this as a classical arms race and the equilibria (stalemate) between white/black hats is a very safe and stable place to be.

You and I don't get to choose who the white hats are and those actors could change dramatically as US administrations change, etc.

It's better to rapidly reestablish a new stalemate ... and I say that as someone who has spent the last six months rapidly triaging vulnerabilities and newly discovered attack surface in an attempt to safeguard the livelihoods of everyone who depends on my business.