That is literally what patents were invented for. Give the entity that puts the resources into creating something new some protection to be able to recoup that
That does not answer the question of how the affordable versions would exist if the money to create them was not there in the first place. You cannot recoup what never existed.
I don't understand your point then. The original product exists because someone used their own or their investors money and made a bet on an idea.
Then they hope they can sell it at a profit.
Products becoming cheaper is a result of the processes getting more optimized ( on the production side and the supply side ) which is a function of the desire to increase the profit on a product.
Without any other player in the market this means the profit a company makes on that product increases over time.
With other players in that market that underprice your product it means that you have to reinvest parts of your profit into making the product cheaper ( or better ) for the consumer.
Is the idea that the person with $1M in 1900 had the ability to direct that towards their idea for air conditioning , whereas if the same amount of money disbursed among 100,000 people, they would just moderately increase their consumption and we would end up right where we started?
I'd say prices of products come down due to competition, not due to the companies getting more money outside of the regular supply/demand relationship.
Let's assume you have a monopoly on something with a guarantee that no one else can sell the same product in your market. Then there is no direct incentive to make the product cheaper, even if you can produce it for cheaper.
Adding more money on top of it that is supposed to trickle down in some way will not make that product cheaper, unless there is an incentive for that company to do so.
The real world is of course more complicated, let's say you have two companies that get the incentives and one of them is using it to make the product cheaper, then that will "trickle down" as a price decrease because the other company need to follow suit to stay competitive. But this again is driven by the market and not the incentives and would have happened without them just as well.
You seem to describe commodities, rather than new technologies that are not commodities. New technologies start so far out on the supply demand curve that an order of magnitude decrease in price can expand the market by orders of magnitude.
The first cellular phone in modern currency cost something like $15,000. At that price, the market for it would be orders of magnitude below the present cellular phone market size. Lower the price 1 to 2 orders of magnitude and we have the present cellular phone market, which is so much larger than what it would have been with the cellular phone at $15,000.
Interestingly, the cellular phone market also seems to be in a period where competition is driving prices upward through market segmentation. This is the opposite of what you described competition as doing. Your remark that the real world is more complicated could not be more true.
Prices going up is only true if you also let the specs go up
If you fix the specs and progress time then the prices go down considerably
Take the first Iphone which was $499 ( $776.29 if adjusted for inflation ) and try to find a currently built phone with similar specs. I couldn't find any that go down that far but the cheapest one I could find was the ZTE Blade L9 ( which still has higher specs overall ) then we are looking at over 90% price reduction
Hmm that actually seems extremely slow, Piper can crank out a sentence almost instantly on a Pi 4 which is a like a sloth compared to that Ryzen and the speech quality seems about the same at first glance.
I suppose it would make sense if you want to include it on top of an LLM that's already occupying most of a GPU and this could run in the limited VRAM that's left.
assuming most answers will be more than a sentence, 2.25 seconds is already long enough if you factor the token generation in between... and imagine with reasoning!... We're not there yet.
This was such a random post on HN, because I didn't even know about echarts about 2 weeks ago. I had been using amcharts for the workout analysis in XRWorkout for several years but wanted to switch to a more open library.
Converting the old amcharts code to echarts worked almost automatically with Gemini 2.5 Pro and since a bit over a week all stats in the game ( via webview ) and in the web on the user portal are now using echarts.
Let's assume there is a payment processor where anything goes, the company utilizing it would still be punished by the other payment processors.
I don't think Visa/Mastercard would care that you only sell the things they don't want through other payment processors, they still would threaten to cut you off entirely for having the content they don't like
The most annoying thing is repeat questions ( reddit, linkedin, facebook, ... ). If I already told the site 10 times that I don't want to use the mobile app, stop asking me. That's even worse than cookie consent banners, at least those stay away
Not an AI researcher here so this is probably common knowledge for people in this field, but I saw a video about the quantization recently and wondered exactly about that, if it's possible to compress a net by using more precision where it counts and less precision where it's not important. And also wondered how one would go about deciding which parts count and which don't
Great to know that this is already a thing and I assume model "compression" is going to be the next hot topic
Thanks! But, I can't find any details on how you "intelligently adjust quantization for every possible layer" from that page. I assume this is a secret?
I am wondering about the possibility that different use cases might require different "intelligent quantization", i.e., quantization for LLM for financial analysis might be different from LLM for code generation. I am currently doing a postdoc in this. Interested in doing research together?
Oh we haven't yet published about it yet! I talk about in bits and pieces - we might do a larger blog on it!
Yes different use cases will be different - oh interesting! Sorry I doubt I can be of much in our research - I'm mainly an engineering guy so less research focused!
I recently ( a few months ago ) finally caved an bought Davinci Resolve for linux and despite that I almost exclusively use Kdenlive instead every time I quickly want to make a video.
This of course is most likely a skill issue at my part but it really feels to me like kdenlive is getting in the way of my flow much less than davinci
I really tried to onboard on Davinci Resolve but it's just too complex for the basic editing I need. It does have brilliant color grading options that are not available in Kdenlive but I'm using premade LUTs for 99% of my edits and Kdenlive supports LUTs really well these days!
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