HACKER Q&A
📣 ravenhappy

Anyone want models snail-mailed to them?


Like a station wagon barreling down the highway...

With the advent of enormous models such as R1, do any of you want me to download a model for you, and ship it to you on a storage device?

Having a gigabit connection at my home, I'm lucky enough to be able to download any model that piques interest. I know from experience that this is not the case for everyone.

I'm an established eBay seller since 2000(!), and I can send you the model of your choice, on the device of your choice, by snail mail. Like the car full of hard drives barreling down the highway, except in a well-packaged box, delivered to your doorstep by the courier of your choice.

The way I see this working is I share my ebay account, we establish trust..., you tell me which model, or probably which models you want, I git lfs them (from huggingface or wherever) onto a storage device that you send me, or that I purchase for you, and then I mail the model(s) to you via your preferred postal method, including to international addresses.

Can I help you get your hands on DeepSeek R1 or any other model, by snail mail?

  👤 rboyd Accepted Answer ✓
elaborate supply chain attack eventually generates backdoored code
👤 FloatArtifact
That's a really generous offer. However, I feel most people are compute before bandwidth-constrained. I hope over the next years we'll have significantly advanced models 70b without paying $3,000 for something like Nvidia's digit.

Perhaps some may be region locked out of downloading such resources which may be able to take you up on your offer though!

👤 sourcecodeplz
Nice initiative, but I feel the ones who can afford to run R1 locally also have the resource to download it
👤 matt_heimer
Why not make a snail mailer download service?

Mediawiki dumps, Linux distros, AI models, etc.

👤 tomcam
Gigi Hadid, pls

Seriously, what a generous offer. You rock.

👤 ge96
That could be a movie plot, some drive lost in the mail that has to be recovered. Where is it?! I don't know! Don't give me excuses give me answers!
👤 tonymet
no, but xbox prereleases.