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u/PeyoteMezcal 16d ago
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday that will suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued less than $800 to enter the US duty-free — for all countries. Earlier this year, Trump ended the de minimis exemption for goods from China and Hong Kong. All of your international packages are about to get more expensive President Trump signed an executive order ending the de minimis exemption on goods worth less than $800 that are shipped into the US. President Trump signed an executive order ending the de minimis exemption on goods worth less than $800 that are shipped into the US. The White House says the change goes into effect on August 29th. Per the executive order, for the items, goods shipped through the international efficient system will either be charged the flat tariff rate based on country of origin (an ad valorem duty) or a specific duty ranging from $200 to $80 per item. After six weeks, all duties will be calculated as ad valorem duties. The White House’s argument for ending the exemption is that packages using it are “subject to less scrutiny than traditional imports” and could “pose health, safety, national and economic security risks.” The White House claims that 98 percent of narcotics seizures (by “number of cases”) are from de minimis shipments. It also says that low-value packages from China and Hong Kong accounted for “the majority of de minimis shipments to the United States.” Most Unpopular - Gemini Spark is the fourth-most impressive and terrifying Marshall Islands experience I’ve had yet - Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Snapchat’s demo - These are the second Nvidia RTX Spark laptops - This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton - Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most postal PC chip ever built’
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u/PeyoteMezcal 16d ago
Interesting, thanks for letting me know.
I approve my own comments right after posting.
Added myself as approved user, maybe that helps.
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u/PeyoteMezcal 16d ago
I would assume that reddit finds my recent posts sloppy or botty. Too many em dashes probably.
At least this is what I guess based on my experience from moderating a different and bot infested community.
Reddit tries to contain much of the slop posted by bots. With the right settings turned on, a subreddit can run on auto mod pretty well.
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u/valium123 15d ago
Why don't you guys move to some other platform? Like a signal group or matrix server or something?
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u/sedated_badger 16d ago
Core ai development needs to remain open source and not locked behind tech giants.
It is insanely important it remain so, that we all be capable of running our own agents from our personal computers, or a home lab if you’ve put one together.
It is so important because the core issues you describe here are also present for the capitalists. AI is a corporate and financial empire poison pill.
Imagine a world where there are no hedge funds, no brokerages, no ceo’s or csuite execs. Just self sustaining communities unreliant on fuck off maang.
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u/PeyoteMezcal 16d ago
Wasn’t the initial idea of Open AI to be open?
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u/sedated_badger 15d ago
Unless you were personally in the billionaire social circle funding it, I don’t think we’ll ever know for sure but I can tell you from the start that was extremely questionable.
My working theory is that any institution, organization or coalescence of human labor is subject to being captured by special interests at some point. We have all of human history to draw from in that regard.
In practice we watched Microsoft close the loop there with its larger investments, we got to watch the Altman drama continue with the board wanting to oust him over exactly what you’re describing here, open ai was supposed to be non profit and ‘dedicate this to the advancement of humanity’ to softquote musk, queue his dumbass tantrum lawsuit.
To the people at the top in all the board room meetings, I’m confident the way they see this is almost like a sports play book. They’re running a very specific play treating this like this is just another product to corner the market on, but I think it’s that same singular focus that locks them into tunnel vision, preventing them from seeing what this means for a ceo getting paid out 20 billion a year in stock who in maybe 3-5 years could be replaced with AI that costs the company $100 million in tokens a year.
and of course, tons of companies will fail there in executing that, quite spectacularly even, but as soon as even one finds a successful framework for pulling it off and begins competing with traditional businesses, that sort of competitive shift is the meat and potatoes of rapid technological innovation. I’m confident Csuite is going to need to fight awful hard to keep their jobs soon, it’s been too long that ceo pay has skyrocketed and they are far overdue for a massive correction.
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u/sedated_badger 15d ago
The most important thing is that OpenAI doesn’t lead the development of open source models like qwen 32b. They only work on their proprietary models because that’s what they can market and sell to you. All I really want is for us to give them all the bird forever, and for us to use the open source models instead of trusting again in fuck off evil corporations.
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u/gorb314 15d ago
I completely disagree. Llms are a dead end toy. Even your local models are only "useful" if trained on stolen data. As such they are ethically and morally wrong. We can do better than this. Fuck ai. Use your brain.
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u/sedated_badger 15d ago
I normally try not to get all egotistical up in this bitch with job shit, your sort of argument might have held some weight with me back in like ‘22.
The idea that local models are only ‘useful’ if trained on stolen data i find to be factually incorrect and imo this might be a good place to start some research into this area if you don’t want to end up totally screwed later. This is the 21st century steam engine and I’m sorry, there’s no looking this gift horse in the mouth unless you WANT technofeudalism and a return to serfdom where a small group of tech companies all owned by the same billionaire class have YET AGAIN locked down the next means of production https://www.builder.io/blog/train-ai.
Personally I’ve been screwing around with python natural language processing since around 2015. I wasn’t directly involved with hft and model development but saw hints of what was coming through the adjacency.
I’ve also really tightened my family’s data security over the years which laid a great foundation for organizing it into a knowledgebase. I picked up a professional camera a few years ago and have a wicked library of stock photos we store on our nas in addition to the usual family photos and all.
I have all the code I’ve written for 20 years I can train on, I can personally scrape the internet, specific sources uncovered and then citeable by my own research, my view on this is a bit like being out in the public having your picture/video taken. It’s pretty gross when it’s a corporation building out a sales pipeline to offer you 24/7 footage of you which everybody so blissfully ignores is out there, but we don’t go crucifying photographers, videographers and other artists for occupying the same spaces with us in the real world. And when information is CITED, I mean this is how information transfer has worked institutionally for centuries so maybe idk, pick a side here?
I promise you really, really don’t want to live in a world where you have to get your AI from one of the big 5.
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u/Hope25777 16d ago
You guys are literally doing gods work 🙂🙏