Stop reading tech news?

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to. The three possibilities:

1) The training is distilling their own model? Yes, I guess you could argue that. It's even dumber than the argument about distilling other peoples' models though.

2) The contractor using a third party model to evaluate the output of the contracting company's model: yeah, you could argue that's distilling. That's on the contractor who's not doing what they're supposed to be though.

3) Or did you mean you're distilling the contractors' brains? You are doing that yes. That's explicitly what they're getting paid for.

A Merkle Tree is not a tree of hashes. Unless you want to say, hashkeys are sorted in a Merkle Tree as a set of hashes.

I have no idea what you're trying to say with this.

I did reread your original message and, minus the bullshit at the beginning, if your point is that Bitcoin's transaction tracking is novel, it's not. It was proposed by Hal Finney in 2004. Satoshi neglects to reference it.

I was also incorrect. Bitcoin didn't come up with the hash based proof of work concept either. That's reference 6.

They probably never dreamed big companies would put these cheap boards in everything.

I'd be surprised if they didn't. Industrial computers were stupidly priced before the Raspberry Pi. Lots of them still are. And industrial customers care much more about whether the drivers work than whether they're open source.

"Word-guessing?" How does this naive notion persist?

It's true. Kind of. Just enough to make a catchy false premise.

Also, the human brain is barely comfortable with binary. It does not like probability, much less distributions. It especially doesn't like conditional distributions.

They don't need contractors for that

They do need contractors for that. That's what the contractors are doing. The model produces a couple of outputs and a human chooses which one they think is better. That goes in the training data. You can also ask the same or another model which is better, but that defeats the purpose.

One of the reasons I got on the OnePlus bandwagon years ago, was the ability to put CyanogenMod on it. Then the idiots there thought they could literally take on Google head on, and experienced on of the greatest blunders short of land wars in Asia and Sicilian with death on the line, without first immunizing against iocane.

My only hope right now, is Starlink/Spacex/Testa/xAI creates a whole new ecosphere for communications. Crossing my fingers Starship becomes fully operational sooner than later. Its the only real threat to Google and is likely big enough to take whatever Google tosses at them. Fingers Crossed.

FU to Micorslop, Google, Cell Phone INC (especially T-Maybe), Apple, etc, and their continued inshitification of everything.

you deny that ICE has killed innocents? that trump stopping USAID hasnt killed thousands? That wealthy self driving companies don't get a pass when they stop in front of an ambulance taking someone to a hospital? you live in a dream world.

I can only really think of one...that medical guy up north, an activist. He was pushing and getting physical with ICE...he was carrying concealed (legally)...and when one officer was pulling the guys weapon from it, a SIG I believe, it appears that pistol fired and all officers reacted thinking the medical guy had fired and they shot him.

That sig model has been known to have "spontaneous" fires....

I think that many mistakes were made here on part of ICE, but also, if the guy had not been getting physical with officers and even though legally carrying, if he had NOT been carrying to an event like this (common sense) he'd still be alive, but there should be trial on this.

Other than that, most of the others seem pretty justified to me...trying t run over officers in cars, either on purpose or while trying to escape, etc.

that trump stopping USAID hasnt killed thousands?

Nope...and even if some collateral damage....USAID was throwing money out to many organizations that were detrimental to our country. They also seemed to be funding through hoops...a lot of the leftists propaganda and orgs that we just do not need. That was a slush fund that needed to be stopped.

And, incidentally, the EU already has pretty reasonable regulation. Copy that.

From what I've heard the EU regulations also go a long way to preventing (at least eventually) the ability of private individuals from setting up their own hardware and running their own models and agents from home or private business, keeping their own data and not sharing data with the frontier companies.

From what I hear this is the path of regulation making it far to expensive and legally regulated for any individual to run their own hardware and open source models and agents.

I think they are also thinking ahead and want to keep individuals in the general public from running their own, independent off cloud private models and agents, where the individual is the one in control, not paying the frontier companies and keeping their data to themselves.

Their reasoning sounds plausible only if read from a "business weasel" perspective. If there's a market for RPis with more lower quality RAM, nobody is "undercutting" RPF; they're selling the products they want to, at the price they want to, and choosing not to offer big/slow/cheap OEM RAM configurations. And even if someone could undercut them on the exact same components - So what??? RPF may be a non-profit, but I am not!

The problem isn't resellers undercutting RPi. It's someone buying a 1GB RPi, doing the mod with 8GB of poor quality RAM, then selling it as an 8GB RPi at a modest discount.

The problem is that you buy the board and because the RAM is bad, you perform a return and find out it was a counterfeit RPi board that doesn't work for you.

Despite the AI issue, you can find RAM. Often poor quality recycled RAM with errors are stupidly cheap (and used in many products as-is). The board can boot with bad RAM, but run stable it might not, and you'd be more likely to blame RPi than on the reseller you bought the dodgy unit from

The fact that RPi took this long to do it would mean they're actually seeing a bunch of returns with the RAM swapped out.

It could also be that people are buying the 8GB units, swapping them with 1GB units and selling them as fake 8GB units, like those $20 "1TB" USB sticks you can find easily on Amazon.

Changing the RAM on an RPi isn't a trivial procedure - I believe it's PoP RAM so it's not something a hobbyist would easily do without a lot of specialized equipment and experience in being able to separate PoP RAM from the base CPU and reballing and such. So hobbyist wise, they aren't likely to be ones affected since few would have the expertise or equipment. But those trying to sell counterfeits do.

Oh, you are 100% right There needs to be more mental health for police. The moment a person decides he or she wants to apply for a police job they need to be placed into a mental institution, they are a danger to people around them.

Police generally don't need a warrant to request security camera footage or obtain it voluntarily. They need a warrant to compel the owner to give it to them.

Whether the owner volunteers footage and under what conditions they do so is pretty much up to them. Ring used to be pretty free about it but clamped down when it became controversial. Public sources like traffic cameras are likewise up to the public agency or government that owns them and they often have privacy laws or policies that might require warrants.

Flock is obviously motivated to cooperate with police requests since that's the service they're providing. It isn't "the way it's always been" but the OP's suggestion of requiring warrants could be easily implemented. Tapping phones without a warrant was perfectly legal in the US until it became a problem and a law was passed.

Like this one?

The police aren't going to find your stolen car with or without flock. That's not what they do.

They also don't stop thieves who steal catalytic converters.

There is definitely room to ask, "What exactly are the police accomplishing?"