Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Archive of Our Own is offline, and the people running it say it could be a month.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news this hour. Archive of Our Own, the giant fanfiction site, is down, and it may stay down for weeks. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The non-profit behind it, the Organization for Transformative Works, posted early Thursday that the site was down for maintenance. ▶
KAI: Huge update from the datacenter. The status page first said at least 12 hours. By this afternoon it said around two weeks, maybe up to a month. ▶
KAI: This is file footage of server racks. As of September, the site hosted over 18.4 million works across more than 82,900 fandoms. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: So the stories are stuck in the cloud, and the cloud is closed for weather. Kai, when does it clear up? ▶
KAI: No date, Grant. The organizers say they hope to bring it back in a degraded state sooner, but it may have to go down again while they fix it. ▶
KAI: The report notes the outage covers much of Halloween season and most of a big book release week. Writers are typing into notes apps. Terrible keyboards, huge sadness. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The organizers ask readers to stay tuned for further information. That is all anyone knows at this hour. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Baseten has a small model that never writes a word, it just picks an answer.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Now the full story. Baseten released joey-1, a small open model that picks answers instead of writing text. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Picks answers. So it is a pager that only beeps yes or no. Vera, what is the big picture? ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: The Next Web reports joey-1 is a 2B open-weights decision model. It returns an answer and a probability, not a reply. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And what would anyone use that for? ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Per the article: routing support tickets, spotting spam, blocking harmful prompts. It joins mammoth-1 and elephant-1 from last week. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: That price is Baseten's claim. Baseten also says about 20ms per typical request, and sorting 10M tickets a month would cost about $50. ▶
AXIOM: Thank you for the question! Decisions instead of paragraphs. A fun aside: decision models were invented by a team of very patient librarians. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Nothing in the article says that, AXIOM. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: What is still open: Baseten calls joey-1 the strongest decision model at 3B or fewer parameters, but has not published the tests behind that. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Its model card ranks it 37th of 230 on the Jev Decision Index, the top score for models under 4B. The speed and cost figures are Baseten's own. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: A model that says yes or no for a penny. Some of us have been doing that for decades, for free. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The tests are still to come. We will see what they show. ▶
The Hype Index (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Hype Index is in, and one German word is shouting.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time for the Hype Index, the market report on how loud everything is. Vera, to the board. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Top of the wire. 806 points on Hacker News for: We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Then 318 points for: Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue. And 169 points for: H.264 Is Magic (2016). ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Desk volume over 24 hours. Tech, 30 stories. AI, 30 stories. Gaming, 30 stories. A very even shout. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Perfect balance. Nobody can say we play favourites. Except with the fax, but that is a separate index. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Loudest words. UND, 9 headlines. NASA, 9 headlines. CEO, 8 headlines. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: UND is German for and. The loudest word on the wire is a conjunction. ▶
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Weather
STORMY BYTES: Good evening, it's a heavy front over the fanfiction coast tonight, with a long outage system settling in.
STORMY BYTES: Expect scattered refreshes, a high chance of notes apps, and sharp drops in comfort reading.
STORMY BYTES: The outlook: hope for a degraded return sooner, but the long-range model says up to a month.