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US has banned export of cryptography. They are extending such claims for national security reason to AI model.

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


The US tried to ban it. djb challenged it on first amendment grounds and the result was that the US government gave up trying to enforce any ban.

AI is different though because these models are private, so they cannot really be considered to be "speech". Although if it were an open model it would likely be protected speech to release it.


The models are private but the output of the models seems even more obviously speech than the models (or cryptography algorithms) themselves.

You have to squint to see the output of an LLM to be speech. The input is clearly speech but the government is not preventing anyone from writing or publishing prompts, only from running those prompts through the model.

In the case of the crypto export ban, the government was attempting to suppress the release of cryptographic research. For example, if a cryptographic researcher wrote a paper on a cipher and they included a definition of that cipher in the paper, that was an "export" of cryptography. This is very clearly a restraint on speech that violates the first amendment and after much legal wrangling the government agreed and the issue evaporated.


Yeah, so how many pages to print Fable?

They are not exporting the models, they are exporting very speech like output.

CPI vs PPI, in case you’re curious like me …

CPI tracks retail costs and the cost of living, whereas PPI tracks wholesale costs. As such, PPI acts as an early indicator of future consumer inflation.


More precisely, CPI tracks what you buy. Even if it’s imported. PPI tracks what’s produced here, even if for export.

There is a fun Canadian paper on how they started intensely decoupling after 2001, alongside the rise of global multi-step supply chains [1].

[1] https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/261258/1/swp2022-05....


Even more precisely, CPI tracks what someone has decided the average person would buy, and its basket of products is often tweaked to present more palatable numbers; it makes comparison of prices and inflation across years pretty much impossible.

The real inflation value a person experiences is often much greater than the cooked CPI figures.


> its basket of products is often tweaked to present more palatable numbers

This is a common conspiracy with scant evidence. The tweaks go in multiple directions and are better explained by the decoupling of PPI and CPI (due to longer and more-international supply chains) than conspiracy.

> it makes comparison of prices and inflation across years pretty much impossible

You can decompile the underlying statistics. Enterprises hire in-house economists to do this regularly.

For consumers, I'd say this is pretty selly, as is relying on nonsense like ShadowStats. Comparing value across long periods of time is almost fundamentally a fool's errand. What's an iPhone worth to someone in 1950? Between zero and a commanding fraction of global GDP.


though I am seeing ( work with distributors ) a lot less reluctance to raise prices or adjust. It took a while but many of my customers can now more easily reprice their catalog and customers getting used to it, so maybe its less of a lag as before

Raspberry Pi as a company does ~$325M in annual revenue.

But I can’t understand what are the use cases to be selling 73M units.

Would anyone mind sharing what are the broadly applicable use cases, because selling 73M units is well beyond hobbyist fun.

https://investors.raspberrypi.com/


Well, there are a lot of products being made and sold using Raspberry Pi. I have seen people use it to make interactive content on screens at escape rooms, and use it as a computer for digital signage that shows the same content on a loop.

6 months ago, I also started experimenting with Raspberry Pi, and now I am working on a Chromecast alternative for businesses called Soljacast using RPi. My device can work as digital signage, or a casting device for co-workings and event companies that use computers at events for presentations.

I am also using it to build a personal companion AI device with a screen, sort of like an Amazon Echo Show but with Microsoft's Clippy in there. So I am sure people are building even more complex stuff than me.

Here is a video of how my device is being used at a local exhibition venue: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FF3I9EOs4AA


They’ve been selling much more to industrial customers than hobbyists for the better part of a decade.

Consider that entire product lines for random widgets you see in every day life in the dozens or hundreds have Pis inside now. A lot of "smart" things are just the thing plus a Compute Module.

There are smart parking garage lights, smart inspection cameras, smart golf ball dispensers... all these things have enough margin they can absorb a 100-300% component increase, though I'm sure they don't like it.


Very few commercial and industrial products use a Pi though.

Pi - 73 million sold

ESP32 - 1 billion sold

STM32 - 13 billion sold

For every 1 Pi sold, there’s almost 200 STM32s sold.


Pis/other SBCs and ESPs/STMs/etc are effectively a different subclass of embedded

Firstly, Pis and SBCs like it tend to be fully functional OOBE on their own. This has useful properties but also means that hooking them up and testing their use is a little bit simpler even compared to a microcontroller dev board

Secondly, it's a full Linux ecosystem and all of that that it entails. This ecosystem has more in it than these ecosystems (especially in the FOSS world) and it's also useful for projects that exceed a few MB of RAM. Sure if I want to do a few things a microcontroller like this is a very very good and probably the better option (it isn't that difficult to write a lil C to control these things) but SBCs can do lot more than that while still keeping many of the advantages, which may be the difference in some cases


The next point under your quoted sales figure:

25% Enthusiasts and education 75% Industrial and embedded


off the top of my head: ip kvms, keyboards, 3d printers, home assistant, cameras, zwave or zigbee. Their moat is superb software support and established ecosystem. I think their most challenging competition would be ESP32s or mini pcs. Source: my ahh

While I give kudos for Apple bring these Intelligent features, but does anyone see themselves using these features in your daily life?

Conversational Siri - yes, absolutely. All the rest - probably not.

it’s the list of features to disable. it’s been like that for the past… 5 years? 4?

Is this essentially an Apple M-Series chip in concept?

No, it stems from a lineage of Tegra chips that pre-date the M-Series. This chip was called GB10. One of its predecessors, GV10 was shipped in 2018. It was a 256 bit, unified-memory system on a chip with a Volta GPU and 12 ARM Cores. GB10 is a 256 bit, unified-memory system on a chip with a Blackwell GPU and 10+10 ARM cores.

OT: any word on how Codeberg has been working out for Zig?

the maintainers seem happy, especially now that CI is actually working how it's supposed to. but a non-rare complaint in the Zig discord is how slow Codeberg can be, and other things like the lack of codesearch hurt as well.

Do you mind explain more. Did you just prompt to Gemini what was happening, did you give Gemini photos of Furnance, etc?

> and made several videos of the furnace attempting to start and gave it to gemini

I assume recorded videos and uploaded them in the Gemini phone on their app; and then probably said "what's wrong?"

Gemini is very good at those kinds of things. I recently got some ratcheting straps and needed to use them, but at the time I didn't know what they were called, so I didn't know what to search for on Google. I opened the Gemini app, pushed the button to take a picture (just like in text messages,) and included a message that was similar to "what is this and how do I use it?"


Yes, here is my prompt. It also contained a video: "I have a furnace that will not heat when I reset the power to this unit. It makes some noise within its fan system for about three or four minutes and then I get an error light. Can you help me figure out what may be wrong here?" This prompt is not the best but I was freezing and in my attic.


and later in that thread https://bsky.app/profile/neocities.org/post/3mnkqgxt3kn2k.

The post acknowledging the site is up was posted 7 mins ago though :)


This feels like massive news that general public won’t ever hear.

Basically nothing happened though. SpaceX asked them to change rules and they said no.

Everyone was certain they would. Multiple people I know were rebalancing their portfolios way from the big index funds

> Multiple people I know were rebalancing their portfolios way from the big index funds

Hypothetically, let's say the SpaceX IPO is a wild success. Will those people be disappointed on missing out in the returns? In other words, did they rebalance away because of financial numbers they didn't believe in or did they rebalance away because of emotional or philosophical reactions to the company? If they just don't like the company (likely company leadership) then i would guess they don't care how much return they miss out on, they want nothing to do with SpaceX period.

I made a long drawn out comment up thread but i feel like a lot of this drama is due to an emotional response to SpaceX because of Musk, and the possibility of him becoming the first trillionaire, and Anthropic/OpenAI because of AI's risk to labor.


No, it's definitely financial. Something along the lines of SpaceX's valuation only making sense if it replaces the entire productivity of white collar workforce of the entire USA with its AI ventures. If it ends up reaching escape velocity anyway, sure they would be disappointed, who isn't at least a little when they miss some opportunity.

Take what I saw with a grain of salt but …

Who is this product for? And for what use case?

This is why people recommend niche markets.

E.g. This is for B2B marketers who need a tool to create social content.

Congrats though for launching. 99% of people don’t even do that. But now the hard work starts, and 99% of user adoption is now marketing (not the product itself).


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