Only if it's Australia.

Still better than five eighths.

It's almost like Qwen 3.5 9B is 4 times larger.

and that 4x difference allows you to use CPUs and much cheaper hardware to achieve the same level of outcome... for free

> A weekend of focused work, Claude as pair programmer, no ML degree required

It's not caught up if you're using Claude as your pair programmer instead of the model you're touting. Gemma 4 may be equivalent to GPT-3.5 Turbo, but GPT-3.5 isn't SOTA anymore. Opus 4.5 and 4.6 are in a different league.

good callout, want to clarify. claude helped us set up the test harness. gemma took every question alone with zero help. the ~8.0 is all gemma. and you're right, opus is in a completely different league. we're not arguing otherwise. we just found it interesting that a free 2B on a cpu matches what a lot of people are still paying for daily. every tool has a cost. some are free, some are expensive, some have rate limits. the right move is matching the tool to the job. thought it was worth showing where that floor actually is now.

Get the metadata from Anna. At least now it's freely available.

Also it's unfair to call Anna greedy. There can't be much money in giving stuff away for free.

Have you considered blaming Spotify or the music industry instead for how ridiculously closed the entire system is?

There is nothing open about that. You own none of it. Only usable within their walled off platforms.

Want to build an alternative player? Can’t do that. Support new or alternative hardware? Sorry, no API access. Want to record them onto a tape/CD/SD card? Forbidden. Want to play songs at your neighborhood party? Illegal. Use them for a funny video? Nope. Even sharing lyrics gets you a DMCA takedown request.

I really hate people using terms like "theft" or "piracy" to refer to the act of artificially-limited copying. Copying something does not take anything away from the person you're copying from inherently. Theft does. And piracy is like theft, but with murder and kidnapping too.

I'm pretty sure piracy also includes threats to phisical security by the pirates. No such thing here. Let's not dilute the meaning of the word.

I've been against the UK trying to shove its regulations everywhere and I'm just as against the US doing it.

> I used to think that HN is full of enlightened open minded people who are open to correcting misconceptions if presented with new evidence, and adopting better practices.

Well, I don't think the average HNer has much of a say in how WordPress is operated, or even uses WordPress by preference.

Rust is like this too. Every time I open a Rust project I look at Cargo.lock and see hundreds of recursive dependencies. Compared to traditional C or C++ projects it's madness.

> Compared to traditional C or C++ projects it's madness.

Those projects typically rely on an external package manager to handle their dependencies for them. Apt, yum, etc. Otherwise you end up in dependency hell trying to get ./configure to find the development headers of whatever it needs. I don't miss those days. Rust/Cargo is a godsend.

It may be better from a DX perspective, but it's pure pain for distros like Debian who don't want to use cargo at build time to fetch arbitrary dependencies and instead use vetted system versions.

Seems like we should not be centralizing control like this.

Take control of your computing, user.

Even the MIT-licensed weights are just that: open weights. Let's not call the weights "source", because they're emphatically not. I can't retrain Qwen from the ground up with different pre-training algorithms, for example.

Model weights are source because they are "the preferred form for modification", e.g. you can use them for fine-tuning. Training a new model from raw data (1) gets you something very different from the original and (2) is computationally unfeasible for most, compared to simpler fine tuning.

I disagree. Fine-tuning, while useful, feels more like patching executables than source code. Besides, just because most people don't compile e.g. Android for themselves doesn't mean that Android should only be distributed in binary form.