> many of the people on HN worked for firms that built the technology required to use internet based subscription models
And I hope we all start calling these people out more for what they've done. I've worked in tech a long time but I would never contribute to something like this.
Yeah you're right. I always use a model like GLM served straight from z.ai if I'm asking about anything that could be construed as nefarious. I'm a US citizen and don't trust my own government. The CCP doesn't give a shit about me as anything other than some data point.
Ok, but do you not see where this leads? This leads to RL on your data at the very least, which leads to the CCP having true SOTA models, which they will obviously stop making open once it benefits them just like OAI and Ant. Here we are now, with TFA model not open at all.
Again, I am not pissed at you or anyone in your position. I get it. I am pissed at the Project 2025 type people who destroyed our institutions, and in the decades prior they destroyed our mutual trust in our own country. (With the help of foreign actors ffs)
2025 types declared us the enemy while they took over everything, and it turns out it goes both ways. BTW, I don't mean this in left/right partisan way. The 2025/authoritarian type people don't seem to be aware that they made even non-partisan people feel like they are now being tread upon. There is so much proof of this on HN, like this thread, and many others.
My thesis is that just like every other authoritarian scheme in the last hundred years, these people have not thought it through, and in the end will make their country less powerful. Would be arguably OK if there weren’t even bigger assholes ready to fill the vacuum.
You never explained why them having true SOTA models is worse than the people who you then criticize in your rant furthering their SOTA models, as they're the ones RLing on your data if you use US models. I don't get it.
I can agree with you that the Project 2025 philosophy is misguided but I can also assure you that it has little to do with my distrust of the US government. I think the biggest factor is the trend toward valuing "safety" above all else and at any cost to our citizens. This has been going on for decades and a quest like this is also an authoritarian one. I agree with your general thesis though that it is not thought through and ultimately destroys our mutual trust.
Prime's app is ridiculously bad imo. I'm not sure why that is, but everything is slower and takes more clicks and digging than similar apps on the same device. There are also significantly more ads than on Disney+ or Netflix ad tiers.
I find that Netflix and Paramount+ are the American services that offer the best app experience on my (very low-end) smart TV.
I haven't actually paid for Apple TV in some time but I remember thinking it had the worst interface of any streamer I've tried. Impossible to know which show card you had selected.
How so? I have 1 bank account with a local credit union and I have never logged into any of the online stuff. What do you take issue with, specifically?
KOReader is awesome and it's my go to for most e-reader reading. I've recently been trying out Plato (https://github.com/baskerville/plato) as well and it has a really nice experience for reading PDFs. It crops the margins and pages through the PDF in chunks nicely.
I don't really understand this trope and I grew up in a tiny town. Why not start a band or make movies with your friends? Build model airplanes, explore some creeks or forests. Not to say I didn't smoke and drink as well but why should that be more likely to be one's outlet in a small town with few commercial consumer experiences?
All of that is a lot harder to do if you have to start from first principles because you have no place to look up how its done or talk to others who are already doing it.
And I hope we all start calling these people out more for what they've done. I've worked in tech a long time but I would never contribute to something like this.
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