It's not like apple is going to eat the cost of this for either though. As soon as their tariff supply runs out they'll price hike like everyone else.

Basically every integrated circuit is exempt from retaliatory tariffs, current custom MacBook Pros are shipping from China direct: which tariffs are you referring to?

I'm referring to the plane loads of hardware they shipped in during the tariff panic.

Which tariffs would be applicable to this hardware?

I can‘t imagine Apple doesn‘t have capacity booked well in advance, and their suppliers aren‘t going to stiff them because they‘d lose those long-term contracts. Sure, if the shortage lasts a year or more, there‘ll be issues, but if it‘s short term they might be fine.

Sadly pipewire still has issues properly delivering audio on my system with all core load of ~50%. It makes media consumption on a linux pc simply impossible for me, even a 13 year old thinkpad running windows is better in that regard.

what are you hinting towards?

what are you hinting towards??

From the outside, it always looked like they gave LeCun just barely enough compute for small scale experiments. They'd publish a promising new paper, show it works at a small scale, then not use it at all for any of their large AI runs.

I would have loved to see a VLM utilizing JEPA for example, but it simply never happened.

I'd be surprised if they didn't scale it up.

The obvious explanation is they have scaled it up, but it turned out to be total shite, like most new architectures.

Eh, this is way overblown IMO. The product page claims this is for training, and as long as you crank your batch size high enough you will not run into memory bandwidth constraints.

I've finetuned diffusion models streaming from an SSD without noticeable speed penalty at high enough batchsize.

You will never guess what the upcoming gemini 3 has been benchmaxxed upon ;)

Yeah, the blog post took a bit of a weird turn there + the AI slop headers are also quite off putting. I know this may be conspiracy territory, but it does make me wonder whether this is guerilla marketing to ensure big E meets the sale goals for his $1T payment.

except the only infrastructure to replace is the satellite dish, and not the fiber that goes into your home. Or am I wrong here.

Thinking that there is anything worth scraping past the llm-apocalypse is pure hubris imo. It is slop city out there, and unless you have an impossibly perfect classifier to detect it, 99.9% of all the great new "content" you scrape will be AI written.

E: In fact this whole idea is so stupid that I am forced to consider if it is just a DDoS in the original sense. Scrape everything so hard it goes down, just so that your competitors can't.

HN crowd really is not beating the allegations with these replies.

As someone who has spent decidedly too many hours in Aegisubs to create at least somewhat decent subtitles, for projects which have long ago gone the way of the DMCA, these changes feel quite insulting. ASS has been a perfectly cromulent subtitle format and should've been widely adopted.

Though on a related topic, on Netflix it is not just the subtitling that is bad, the translations are awful too. They are cutting every corner so hard I fear they might become a circle.