It could be the case that we’ve reached the last generation of frontier models that can be accessed by the general public. That eliminates a risk that Anthropic could be leapfrogged by a competitor.

Now it’s a competition between products on the near frontier. Anthropic has executed well on products so far. They blew up thanks to Claude Code, not Opus by itself.

I lean libertarian but I can recognize the danger in having access to a machine that can craft pathogens to spec.

A pathogen with a very long incubation time and a high fatality rate would be about as bad as nuclear war. Maybe we need to figure out how to possibly defend against one person doing this before making it easy for anyone to do it.

I use my Gen 1 Tesla Wall Connectors to charge my NACS-native Lucid Gravity.

I had forgotten how much time I spent with this software until I saw the screenshot. Thanks for the port!

Kid pix was the time sink for me

And then there’s this: https://kidpix.app/

I realized that should I end up getting laid off soon I won't have an unlimited token budget and for the workflows I've settled into it would be quite expensive. So I was exploring what it would take to run open models at home.

Was quite disappointed to see that the PC side hasn't kept up. The unified architecture on Macs makes it very hard to justify spending money on a Linux machine for inference workloads.

Long ago in Linux if you wanted to listen on a privileged port (< 1024) you had to do so as root.

If you're connecting to a host on a port < 1024, then you know a SysAdmin must have set it up, and it must be trustworthy. It was a simpler time.

It's more that Unix systems were timesharing systems, any user could run a daemon, but you didn't want users to have the ability to grab a port used by system services, not just because they could impersonate a system service on the network, but also because then you couldn't trust localhost services, either, as well as it just being a PITA. This is still true today; though vanishingly few Linux systems are multi-tenant, it's still common to implicitly trust a local service.

is that no longer true?

No, now you have the option of using CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE

There is also net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start

If the application supports it, there’s also systemd socket activation (or traditional inetd sorta stuff too if that fits)

Forgot to mention: you can use systemd-socket-proxyd to bridge to an application that doesn't support socket activation too: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/systemd-socket-pro...

I'm enjoying it. It's wild to realize that I spent countless hours playing Theme Park when I was around 10 years old, and Demis had been a big contributor to the game when he wasn't much older.

Also I don't really care that it's a bit of a cheerleader for DeepMind and Hassabis. Substantive criticism is good, but too often with these kind of books it feels like an editor told the author that the book needs something negative and the author has to inflate an issue to meet the requirement.

The author did give him credit for the whole you-can-make-the-fries-super-salty-to-increase-demand-for-drinks thing in Theme Park, which I remember vividly. (I, too, dropped many hours on Theme Park as a kid.) Although I imagine there’s about half a dozen people who lay claim to that idea.

The insult to tictacs.

They can't just build Apollo 18 and resume the program as if there weren't a 50 year hiatus.

Imagine if your employer wanted to start using a software system it retired in 1972. What would you do?

Just another monday in any big old company adjecent to finance or airline industry ? ;-)

Maine banning datacenter construction is is a bit like Texas banning lobster fishing.

No because they have a big interconnect being built from Canada right now that people want to tap into