I noticed they chose the SSPL licence. I'm working on a similar sort of project and am evaluating AGPL3 vs SSPL. (If my project is successful, it has a high risk of cloud providers both large and small co-opting it, and I'd like to proactively head that off.)
This is why you have to be significantly surproducing food (or have agreements with other parts of the world when too much critical food is going away violently, with a transportation system at scale).
i am just old enough to have experienced 9/11 when i was in elementary school. it was a similar change to society to how covid screwed everything
when i was a child, there was no security in airports. like literally NONE. you could walk in and buy a flight with physical cash. if you wanted an international flight, there was a metal detector like you might find in a night club
government ID and drivers licence did not have your photograph on it, and some state drivers licenses were printed on non-laminated card. there was also no functional internet surveillance (there were no good search algorithms or tools in the early internet, so the government couldnt search either).
but the real big change, which is kind of what everyone felt i think, is the whole world was celebrating the end of the cold war and so vehemently protested going into the middle east, and the government just did it anyway. the largest protests in the history of the west were against that war and it was all totally ignored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
then we got the PATRIOT act, NSA/CIA spying on the population, heavily armed police. btw, in the 1990s you would NEVER see police with assault rifles and armoured trucks etc except for swat teams in major cities and the ATF. The idea of your local police department having a heap of military equipment was crazy. a great example of this is the LA riots in '92 - they had to call in the army and the national guard because the police simply werent equipped for it
and they would run these polls on tv, like gallup polls, falsely claiming that 20%+ of people publicly supported the war
even though it didnt affect anyone as much personally, it was the turning point where the gov just started brazenly ignoring people and introducing the heavy duty surveillance state, which was especially painfully felt in aus, canada, new zealand, the us, and the uk. and covid19 tyranny was only possible because of what bush did in response to 9/11 - it physically could not have happened in the 1990s as there were no government agencies that could have done it
> I got a picture of my great grandfather, thing took six hours to take your picture. [...] Every guy had one picture back then. And it's just him like, "[grimacing] I gotta get back, feed them hogs!" Now, in the future of course it'll be different. 50 years from now, people will be going like, "Hey! You wanna see a hundred thousand pictures of my great grandfather? I got 'em right here plus everything he did every day of his life." --Norm Macdonald[1]
There is certainly a portion of stuff online that is absolutely worth saving, but there's a considerably larger proportion that's just redundant to the point of being unremarkable and pointless. The trick is filtering, which can be capital-H Hard. That's why some may want to err on the side of over-collecting to reduce the possibility of missing something that will actually be important someday.
First-time home buyers are getting squeezed by a combination of peaking market forces, but those forces are peaking and we're probably seeing the worst of it at this moment [1]. It will get better.
I listen to radio quite a lot. There are commercial-free stations that play whatever they believe is good music.
My favourites are:
- Concertzender and all its theme channels. The main channel has a lot of classical during the day, but jazz, world music and electronic in the evening/weekend. I got deep into folk music thanks to their music. On Sunday evening there is even two hours with techno and adjecent music. Discovered a lot through that as well. The station is Dutch, but talk is minimal.
- FIP. A bit more main stream music, but also unexpected songs and generally very enjoyable programming. It's in French, but talk is usually minimal as well.
Tracking down people involved in an album is a good one for me. Find the producer of a favorite tune and search out more of their work, or check if the bassist plays in other bands or has a solo project. Lots of fun and sometimes unexpected results.
I use mpop with a local mailbox file ~/Mail/inbox and mutt as the mua
(so no fancy archive hierarchy), cleared annually and copied to a file
named like ~/Mail/inbox.2024, searchable with grep, backed up remotely
in encrypted tar files on backblaze with passwords committed to
memory, locally on a zfs file server, and annually on dvd for at least
a decade in case all my hardware gets fried.
Old drugs are also at least sometimes social. Even heroin gives rise to cliques of users. It’s deeply unhealthy and self destructive but at least there is connection. Sometimes you get art out of it too. A whole era of great music has many bittersweet odes to smack.
I particularly worry about men. The greater cultural and possibly (more controversial) biological susceptibility to isolation coupled with this stuff means a generation of young men who are isolated, hopeless, poor, lonely, and sexless.
Then we have a culture that, depending on which side you listen to, either shames them as potential rapists from the patriarchy or simply “losers.”
As we have seen the gurus that appeal to such men are the likes of Andrew Tate. As awful as he is Jordan Peterson is actually among the less toxic of the crew since he does occasionally say something good.
In the future we could have gurus for hordes of lonely poor men that make Tate look helpful and wise. This is how we either LARP the Handmaid’s Tale or — worse — ISIS or the Khmer Rouge.
I have two daughters and I fear for their safety in a country full of fascism radicalized angry emotionally stunted men.
Our industry is the industry making the opium to which these youth are addicted and that is destroying their minds.
> If someone truly loves their partner, wouldn't they be happy that their partner is getting more of what they need? Even if that is more sex?
When analyzing my feelings after I got cheated on by a fairly long-term partner, I realized I wasn't upset she had had sex with another guy, but the rather the betrayal of doing so behind my back and trying to hide it.
This realization shaped my following relationships.
> I can't imagine being happy or maintaining my own identity without spending at least a portion of my energy on myself.
This is also true for myself, however it doesn't involve sex with others in my case. I'm content with my partner.
Definitely more models right now. GribStream will be supporting many other models soon.
But open-meteo free access is only for non-commercial use. GribStream allows any use.
Also, can open-meteo query forecasts 10 days out at hourly resolution for 150.000 coordinates in a single request and take just 8 seconds? At what price?
Well... storage is cheap, but not cheap enough to save everything, with just usenet being in the 400TB/day range these days. Sure, it's cheap enough to save every webpage you visit during your life, but probably not cheap enough to save every video you click on youtube or watch on a streaming-service, and all the music you listen to all day.
Though just the music compressed in opus at 128kbit might work ok, 60 years of 24/7 128kbit is 30TB, so that would fit on 1 large HDD currently.
Um, I back up EVERYTHING, like any sane person? And, like any other sane person, I self-host (on a server that's obviously backed up), and keep at least one copy of my email on my main working computer (which is also obviously backed up), so I don't have to do anything email-specific to make that happen.
> No, they are an incredible breakthrough, because extending them with things like internal thoughts will so obviously lead to results such as o3, and far beyond.
While I agree that the LLM progress as of late is interesting, the rest of your sentiment sounds more like you are in a cult.
As long as your field keep coming with less and less realistic predictions and fail to deliver over and over, eventually even the most gullible will lose faith in you.
Because that's what this all is right now. Faith.
> Maybe a few more people will start to understand the trajectory we're on.
All you are saying is that you believe something will happen in the future.
We can't have a intelligent discussion under those premises.
It's depressing to see so many otherwise smart people fall for their own hype train. You are only helping rich people get more rich by spreading their lies.
OpenAI recommends using o1 to generate the verbose plan and then chain the verbose output to a cheaper model (e.g. gpt-4o-mini) to convert it into structured data / function calls / summary etc. They call it planner-executor pattern. [1]
This is the closing line of the very nice article.
> The future is in our hands.
It always has been, and always will be.
The problem, as outlined in the article, is that we (the entire human race) have almost always left it in the hands of our "betters", and those wealthy folks have very rarely given a crap about the rest of us, or our beloved mother Earth.
They think that their having wealth makes their every whim and fancy the right and proper thing to do, and, as the article shows, that is far from the truth.
Of course, we peasants have to, ourselves, learn how to truly be better, truly know how to wield power for the benefit of all human beings, out of compassion for all of our children, and our children's children, ...
"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights." --Peter Tosh
"Love is the truth." --Jack White's song of the same name
