It is so exciting to see that we are once again in a position where hardware is the main bottleneck for new Computing/Software technologies.
I remember back in late 80s (I was a kid) when we had MSDOS and Windows was just starting. We had all kinds of crazy stuff like Quattro Pro, and later in early 90s we had Wolf3D and all sort of software that was limited due to hardware advances.
With the current state of LLMs... imagine how it is going to look like in 10/15 years when the hardware race goes raging again.
It is also very interesting the position of the different countries: China is in a great position economically and with the amount of talent it has; in addition to its culture and political direction (centralized government that finds it easy to direct policies quickly). Meanwhile, the US is in a more fragile stance, with lots of internal fighting and even pushing [intelligent] people out of the country.
The previous race was to get to the moon (US vs Russia), it seems we now are watching a race to AGI.
Thanks for this. As someone who is not from the US nor for China, I am getting so tired of this narrative of how bad DeepSeek is because it sensors X or Y things. The reality is that all internet services censor something, it is just a matter of one choosing what service is more useful for the task given the censorship.
As someone from a third world country (the original meaning of the word) I couldn't care less about US or Chinese political censorship in any model or service.
I agree with you because I'm not from the US. I understand HN is a page from California, so US centric themes.are most likely to pop up.
But I do prefer to consume my US dose of politics circus from elsewhere.
This!. Thing is you are preaching to the wrong choir,
Hackernews roots were not about the "original" hacking, but more about Silicon Valley for profit entrepreneurs creating stuff for profit to heavy quotes "make the world a better place" and "democratization X".
The real hackers were in usenet, /. and similar forums. Now, I'm too old and haven't found a good place.
Information wants to be free, copyright is a last century millennium construct to earn money from invention. (Before copyright, people got paid by patrons to invent their stuff).
Copyright should be left at the XX century door, and whoever wants to "monetize" their intellect should use methods for the XXI century.
At least in the United States, copyright has existed since the founding of the country, and the Constitution explicitly grants Congress the authority to regulate it. It’s not as recent as you make it out to be, and it’s not going away anytime soon. To the extent that there is a problem to be solved here, it must be solved within the context of copyright law.
I hold both of them high enough. As Aaron, I did my good share of book/articles piracy, even before it was online (here in Mexico it was veery common to Xerox and share whole books with students in the 80s and 90s).
I understand, Aaron became a martyr; even though he died due to depression and not for "a cause". I applaud what he achieved as a person.
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