Not the guy you're responding to but I'm not going to willingly pay money for pork rind ads to be shown to Muslims. In fact I'd go so far as to suggest that should be illegal as a hate crime.

Under that legal regime I could imagine Meta being simultaneously sued by one group of people for not discriminating enough on one demographic category, and by another group of people for discriminating too much along a different category. And this ultimately why I would like to see these kinds of laws repealed completely.

only if the ads are targeted specifically at muslims. otherwise such ads would be offensive even if posted on streets in cities where muslims live.

I politely disagree. I spent maybe 8 hours over a week rightsizing a handful of heavy deployments from a previous team and reduced their peak resource usage by implementing better scaling policies. Before the new scaling policy the service would scale out and new pods would remain idle and ultimately get terminated without ever responding to a request quite frequently.

The service dashboards already existed, all I had to do was a bit of load testing and read the graphs.

It's not too much extra work to make sure you're scaling efficiently.

You disagree but then cite another example of low hanging fruits that nobody took action on until you came along?

Did you accidentally respond to the wrong comment? Because if anything you're giving another example of "most devs not wanting to interface with ops, hence letting it slide until someone bothers to pick up their slack"...

Ads are how they get paid until they're big enough for alternative revenue generation.

This actually hints at a way out of the YouTube monopoly. Make creators' business model no longer work on YouTube, by blocking the tracking. Make it so that creators are forced to go to other, paid video platforms, instead of them feeding the YouTube monopoly.

This might temporarily lead to a collapse in video creator business, but in the long run might result in more viable businesses for creators, without them having to push shit onto their viewers. Make videos and enjoy them being seen, or make paid content and have people pay for that, but don't try to shoehorn it into viewing videos that are accessible for anyone running a Youtube search.

What if the medicine costs 100$ to produce, should uninsured have to pay that rather than a subsidized 20$?

What if the medicine costs $0.01 to produce and both are getting hosed?

Given US universities did the research for nearly every drug on the market, we've already paid for it.

Universities need to get into the drug production business

It's not a bad game, I played for about a year in a relatively well run clan. Never spent any money on it though.

Yeah this is the thing people miss a lot. 7,32b models work perfectly fine for a lot of things, and run on previously high end consumer hardware.

But we're still in the hype phase, people will come to their senses once the large model performance starts to plateau

I expect people to come to their senses when LLM companies stop subsidizing cost and start charging customers what it actually costs them to train and run these models.

I mean, there is no reason for a inference provider og open models to subsidice you. And costs there is usually cheaper than Claude API pricing.

Its still a market though, there is always the incentive to subsidize if all the competition is keeping prices artificially low.

People don't want to guess which sized model is right for a task and current systems are neither good or efficient at trying to estimate that automatically. I see only the power users tweaking more and more as performance plateaus and the average user only changing when it's automatic.

> 7,32b models work perfectly fine for a lot of things

Like what? People always talk about how amazing it is that they can run models on their own devices, but rarely mention what they actually use them for. For most use cases, small local models will always perform significantly worse than even the most inexpensive cloud models like Gemini Flash.

Gemma 3n E4B has been crazy good for me - fine tune running on Google Cloud Run via Ollama, completely avoiding token based pricing at the cost of throughput limitations

What kind of applications are you using it for?

Doesn't this just fall apart if a video is reencoded? Something fairly common on all video platforms.

Take a computer screen with a full wash of R, G, or B. Sync the RGB display with your 2FA token, but run it at 15FPS instead of one code per minute.

Point the monitor at the wall, or desk, or whatever. Notice the radiosity and diffuse light scattering on the wall (and on the desk, and on the reflection on the pen cap, and on their pupils).

Now you can take a video that was purported to be taken at 1:23pm at $LOCATION and validate/reconstruct the expected "excess" RGB data and then compare to the observed excess RGB data.

What they say they've done as well is to not just embed a "trace" of expected RGB values at a time but also a data stream (eg: a 1FPS PNG) which kindof self-authenticates the previous second of video.

Obviously it's not RGB, but "noise" in the white channels, and not a PNG, but whatever other image compression they've figured works well for the purpose.

In the R, G, B case you can imagine that it's resistant (or durable through) most edits (eg: cuts, reordering), and it's interesting they're talking about detecting if someone has photoshopped in a vase full of flowers to the video (because they're also encoding a reference video/image in the "noise stream").

No, unsafe-yt

I'm not part of Oxide, but I think you're assuming everyone is okay with not controlling the hardware they run on.

There is plenty of addressable market where a public cloud or even a colocation of hardware doesn't make sense for whatever bespoke reason.

I don't think their target customer is startups, and that's okay. You likely aren't their target customer. But they've identified a customer profile, and want to provide a hardware + software experience that hasn't been available to that customer before.

An entire hotel probably wastes less from the mini fridge specifically than a family of 4 for a year.

It's in the ballpark if you include all energy source for the family.

100 rooms times, say, 50W (5kW) is 43,000kWh. That's over 10 UK families of 4-5 (4100kWh/yr) for electricity, or 2 if you include gas usage. So for Americans, it's probably must closer to parity.

The fridge does dump heat into the room, so it has a small additional penalty for the aircon in hot countries, but a small, but inefficient compared to a heat-pump, heating offset in cold countries.

As an American. I'd rather a single well established player get a large contract and actually deliver, than 20 disjointed companies each get 1/20th of the problem, have to work in concert, and possibly not even deliver at all.