The police of the Netherlands had them, Amsterdam is only a city in the Netherlands.

Properly euromaxxing, this is the way.

This is not a proper black-box reimplementation, I doubt they can get away with that. And that's not mentioning all other obvious ethical concerns of course.

black-box/clean-room isn't necessarily required, though. It does make it a lot harder to argue in court, of course.

Thanks for the reminder, I made a very simple and small mac os guitar tuner and intonation app (all others are either paid, have in app purchases or are outdated) that I still need to publish!

It's 15% for small developers

the 15% rate only applies to the first $1 million in proceeds, it does not work like a permanent tax bracket

Yes, small developers.

Apple doing their best to keep "small developers" small, since the catch is that in the following year, because those "small" devs exceeded the $1 million mark even temporary, just once, will be disqualified from the Small Business Program for the entirety of the next calendar year. They will pay the standard 30% commission on all earnings from the very first dollar.

The emergence of this SBP was due to pressure from looming anti-trust measures anyway, which Apple would have never willingly conceded without it.

Can't wait to try it. Made a small log app for my IBS which allows free text input and uses LLM to create JSON. If that could be done on device with a foundation model, it would be awesome. (and also completely bomb my income model)

I think that can pretty realistically be done with Gemma or Qwen, although maybe with some delay. They run great on android in the Edge Gallery app.

Further, you could allow for voice input by running whisper STT locally, then doing a small context-aware correction pass with Gemma or Qwen to correct words it got wrong.

The issue with those solutions is that it would balloon my app size because I'd need to embed the model, or add a mechanism to download the models afterwards, for something that is essentially a note taking app. But maybe I can make it an option and word it effectively, that is an idea! Your idea for doing a context aware correction pass on STT is very interesting and something I hadn't thought of yet. Thank you for your thoughts!

That just means you lack creativity, exploring new ideas and building new interesting things is easier then ever, all you need is an idea.

Yeah, all you need is an idea.

Look at how Meta's "ideas" turn out.

VR and metaverse surely sound like interesting stuff. Right? Right???

VR and virtual worlds have been explored for decades, both in fiction and in the real world. The issue has always been that the target market is small. I don't know how Meta does market study, but the conclusion was already foreseen.

But the realm of what you can do with a computer is huge and working on the web is a very small part of it. Some other interesting part (for me) are OS development, network communication, computer architecture, embedded hardware and programming languages.

I am not Meta, neither are you, nor are we doing things on their level. You can just build small things for you and your friends that fits your specific usecase that other tools do not fit yet, it doesn't need to be a world changing idea.

I've never had this much fun at work. There was nothing more that I disliked in my job than months long projects with everything already planned out in advance. It made work extremely predictable and boring, the project was already fully thought out, all that needed to be done was the boring bit of writing all the code that you already know how to write, all the fun of exploring different ideas and implementation directions was already done.

People sometimes mention this, but I have a hard time relating.

The amount of code you produce in months of just typing must be enormous, no?

To me it seems no matter the plan there's many unplanned things that I need to handle, and that's where the time is spent. I never had a day in my career where I knew exactly what had to be done and just spent it typing...

I'm not really following. Why is the problem you mentioned no longer a problem? Did your workplace change the way it plans projects now that AI is here?

Planning is the same, implementation time is just way shorter, so we can spend more time on things that are fun. The barrier to see if some outlandish idea works is also nonexistent now, you can generate a (non production ready, of course) MVP in an hour, where before it would take a few days.

These MVPs aren't used to plan projects at all? They're just fun things your job lets you make on the side? What sort of work do you do?

Meanwhile you probably use Spotify or other streaming platforms without issue.

Artists have to agree to be featured on Spotify, and agree to the royalty fees they receive. AI just pillaged recorded human history with zero compensation. Big difference.

This is not some sort of company making unique tech, it's a company handling some of the most the vital infrastructure for our government, you can imagine the privacy concerns. Completely different case

Sure, but the point is that it's tit-for-tat. This US administration is petty.

All the more reason to block vital stuff going to the US. They cannot be trusted anymore.

Sale was happening soon, couldn't wait longer, IIUC.

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I don't think it's changing after this administration.

True. But the reaction also depends on how much money the leverage is worth and how much Solvinity has to offer here.