They will, they won't. Start blaming the fucking tool already because you're stuck with it.

I've worked with monitoring and alerting software of different stripes long enough to see the same pattern, the tool is somehow blameless for data quality issues when we all know damn well the data quality problems can be traced back to UX design of the tool. We're stuck with it anyway and that's the go-to defense. I've seen too many people give software, the tool, a pass because getting accurate data in and maintaining it, owning it, is the hard part. Well no, fucking, shit, the tool's developers know that, and bad software design is always the user's fault, we're always holding it wrong.

Who owned that data entry, for a suspected murderer, with what, plates and no description of the car or driver? That's like setting a bear trap in a busy campground. Don't worry, it's for the bear! I'll just mark a X on this bubblegum wrapper with some squiggly lines, and forget about it. Were they watching it, does the tool enable that, does it enable the level of ownership that is required for anything that dangerous? Were they aware of the first police response? Was the second team of responders days later aware of the first team's response? Was the owner of the alert? Bad data entry? .. and this information system is fine right, don't blame the tool. Bullshit.

Probably LRO vs. Danuri

We could easily spend a few million more years living in houses made of sticks and stones and do other cool things but not do any of that. It feels like a very bad extrapolation.

Except instead of pursuing policies that would help open models at the expense of Big AI, anti-AI people pursue just the opposite - policies that can cripple open source AI but have no realistic ability to meaningfully hurt big AI. It's so short sighted.

Actually, no, what they usually do is much more insidious: fingerprinting rather than watermarking. The fingerprint isn't actually included in the audio, it's included in a database. If they want to tell if the track was generated, they just try to match the fingerprint in the database. Can't filter it out of the track like you can with a watermark.

The two mainstream options (both about half a year old now, we're due for something better) are Ace Step-1.5 and Stable Audio 3 Medium.

Ace Step has full vocals with its music. See here for examples. The downside in my opinion (judge for yourself) is that it has Suno's flaw of sounding too "clean", "mainstream" and "uncreative", except even moreso (Udio was always much better than Suno at this, albeit "less well behaved" - but Udio is out of the game now).

Stable Audio 3 doesn't do vocals, though it has other useful features, like inpainting (great for fixing glitches in recorded tracks for example). In my view, it sounds a lot better. It can also be used to create sound effects. License is a bit more restrictive, though, if you actually care about that, but generally won't affect the average user.

Both are trained on fully licensed data and both are open-weights. So even if the devs released a version that included some sort of watermarking in the future (or someone developed a fingerprinting algo for the existing versions), you could just finetune them to break that.

TL/DR, if you want open source and want to just churn out a full track: choose Ace Step 1.5.
If you want open source and want to do instrumental tracks or to supplement manual work (such as your own vocals) or do audio editing: chose Stable Audio 3.

Mmmm... if we're going to nitpick terminology, Claude code or codex in a container with access to your GitHub repo is a typical AI sandbox. Anything from a dedicated Mac-mini to an actual container in the cloud running a coding CLI is what comes to mind.

This is a type of shared, multi-user AI sandbox, and that's probably where the idea to call it OS comes from. It's dumb, but I get it. So a centralized MCP configuration, shared skills and prompts, shared agent configs, some kind of centralized knowledge system and scheduled discovery processes, event driven hooks, in one spot with corporate governance. I've never touched it, but I think I get the pattern.

Fair, it's an AI sandbox, I don't have a better name for them, this is new stuff. For comparison, Amazon has something called AWS DevOps Agent, same concept of a shared agent sandbox with all the features I listed but they bill it as "your always-available teammate that spans software change and operations across AWS, multicloud, and on-prem environments." *gag* cut through the marketing and it's another multi-user AI sandbox, they say devops, but what's a devops LLM? No such thing, and their harness is neat but not remotely specialized enough to really nail it down. Nothing indicates this cloudflare one has a particularly specialized harness environment either, you plug company data and services in, your monitoring tools, jira, incident management, logging systems, etc and share useful prompts and agents with each other, have agent threads spin up in response to customer complaints, code commits, doctor's notes, whatever.

Bad names and descriptions aside, this is very likely what enterprise AI services will all end up looking like, so it's worth a glance at least.

This has to be a troll. Nobody on Slashdot is actually this stupid.

I often wonder how all these people who believed that COVID vaccines were a plot to sterilize or murder humanity have justified to themselves the continued-unchanged existence of babies-in-specific and humans-in-general, respectively.

We make fun of people using an LLM to spellcheck an email, yet here we are asking a human to define a common word, right?

Curate means you choose what goes in. Like monthly.xls orgchart.doc and context, for example, "This field means employee is NLE, unless they were a contractor, then it means the contract ...". This ain't rocket AI neurosurgery my dudes. Anyone can do that individually with existing tools, but what Cloudflare is trying to do, I guess, is make it easier to do that from one place and share with the company. Like Jupyter/run book type stuff but with LLM, probably. Just guessing but that seems kind of obvious to me.

No you're conflating very different things, this "tokenmaxxing" crap is some Microsoft/Amazon/Google/Meta scale thing where we have our own data centers dedicated to AI compute that could be seen as a wasted investment if not driven at 100% usage. Maybe some startups going balls to the wall at $API rates with someone else's money, but that is not "a lot of corps"

Then you have rando fintech, edtech, *tech adjacent business paying $20/head a month for office workers to have AI access because that's what all the other cool kids are doing. There you have Sally from Accounting turning bullet points into emails because the CEO said everyone should be using AI. That is a lot of companies, and what Sally is doing is not insane. Neither is putting a $20/month high value information tool at everyone's fingertips and encouraging its use to stay competitive. That is not the craziest thing happening in IT, ffs. A lot of that usage will go down the same way online video training services that the company bought and encouraged everyone to use.. queue up an Intro to Java video and go to lunch to show you used it. This isn't REMOTELY the same thing as "tokenmaxxing".. some AI subs will get dropped, a lot will stick, because it is genuinely useful every day for a ton of people.

Hawaiian eruption last a long time and the lava flows persist for years.

Your effusive eruptions last on average no longer than our effusive eruptions. The fact that Iceland also has phreatic eruptions doesn't change the fact that most of ours are effusive basalt, just like yours, with corresponding eruptive dynamics. Also, FYI, for a given total effusion volume, slow eruptions are easier to divert. Diversion is much more challenging when an equivalent volume of lava is effused in a short period of time. And it's not like you have vastly larger average lava flows than we do. The largest lava flow on Earth in the Holocene (modern era) is in Iceland (the THjórsárhraun - 900km2, 25km3, 70km underground travel followed by 130-140km on the surface). For comparison, Hawaii's largest holocene flow is the Ailaau Flow at 430km2, 4-5km3, and 40km.

If we want to limit to more recent flows (since Ailaau was fairly recent, in case you think Iceland stopped having big eruptions), Iceland's biggest *after* Alia'au was Laki (1783–1784 AD), at 600km2, 15km3, and 80km. It lasted for 8 months to 2 years, depending on whether you count the concurrent Grímsvötn eruption as part of it. So much gas was released from that huge volume of lava that despite us being nearly arctic (polar volcanoes have much lower near-term climate impacts than equatorial volcanoes), it caused a winter so severe that the Mississippi froze at New Orleans and ice was seen floating in the Gulf of Mexico.

We simply get bigger effusive eruptions than you, full stop. Not all eruptions, of course, both of us have a huge variance in eruption scales and dynamics. But trying to claim ours are somehow "easier" is just not in line with the facts. Also, Hawaiian eruptions tend to occur on terrain that slopes significantly more consistently toward the sea, aka where you want to divert lava toward; on flatter or less-consistently-angled terrain, lava "piles up" more and makes it easier to overtop berms.

There is a practical side that it is easier to move people and build coffee shacks

I'm not talking about "coffee shacks", I'm talking about whole communities and beloved places. In particular, I'm thinking about the 2018 Lower Puna eruption. Of course the homes near the vents in Leilani Estates were doomed, but there is absolutely NO reason why you should have lost anywhere close to as much as you did so far from the vents. Losing Kapoho Bay for example was simply cultural fatalism. I watched a person crying on the news saying she didn't understand why Pele chose to take such a beautiful place. It's not Pele who took it, it's your insane resistance against doing anything to protect yourselves. That was one of the easiest possible flows to divert. Most of the lava fronts moved at a crawl, you had warning long in advance of the eruption and a very slow eruptive rampup (didn't really take off until June), and you had a steep slope to the south into unpopulated areas you could have easily diverted it down. Losing all that was a choice.

"Oh, we can't!" is just an excuse for your fatalism that gives you an excuse to not put forth the effort to actually do it. It's not the 1940s anymore, we're not chucking surplus WWII bombs at lava tubes anymore. Lava diversion is a science and is routinely effectively done. There are limits, but you were nowhere near said limits for sites far from the vents. There are costs, but they are nowhere near the costs that you paid by refusing to act.

I take native Hawaiian religious objections seriously. These are people who take a fatalistic "Pele will take what she wants, it's pointless to try to stop her" attitude toward lava flows running over their houses that seems utterly insane here in Iceland. We'll buy up every available water pump on the international market and walk on active-flowing lava fields to save a harbour for a couple thousand people. We'll keep running tourist sites right next to a volcano that erupts every couple months by building multi-story-high berms around it with giant bulldozers and cooling anything that tries to overtop to make the berms even higher. And it totally works . But Hawaiians will sit back and watch incredibly slow-flowing flows with easy diversion paths take out everything they hold dear. At best they'll point to some primitive failed attempts in like the 1940s as a reason to not try, but then when pressed, it often comes back to: "Pele will take what she wants to take."

Another example: geothermal drilling on the Big Island. Massive protests. Massive resistance, way beyond the token NIMBY resistance here. Meanwhile Hawaii continues to generate most of its electricity from oil, at great cost. Hawaii is the only other place (outside of Iceland) to have accidentally drilled into a magma chamber. In Hawaii they treated it as a major incident and immediately shut down the well. When we did it? Our reaction was, "WOW, we can produce REALLY hot steam from THIS well!", made it into a production well, and started planning to drill more.

I guess one major difference here is that in the early Icelandic cosmology, volcanoes weren't the product of a high-ranking creator goddess, but rather, Surtr, who was practically a demon and was fated to destroy the world. It's good to resist Surtr!

Except his complaint is not.

Yes, it literally was. The main public complaint of the weavers was that they spent their entire life learning their art, and then their bosses come in with a machine that they teach to replicate the patterns that they developed, churn out cheap "slop" versions of them, and fire them.

And here we're talking about profits, despite their huge scaleup expenditure. Theirs and OpenAI's margins on serving inference are ~40%.

It's almost impossible for a company undergoing a massive scaleup rate to turn a profit, let alone growing 10X annualized for 3 1/2 years running, but Anthropic pulled it off.