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Obviously because roses are red but the grass is greener on the other side.
It is strange, agreed. I just manually mitigated it using Claude and also blocked ipoptions at the router and in every node iptables.
There's no way for me to tell you that I am well aware of this without it sounding like some braggadocious detailing of events of my life, so perhaps it will suffice to say that my parents are surgeons and we lived in rural and urban India at various points in our lives.
I still think their monetary compensation should be provided by market valuation of the utility of the work they do.
This is certainly true. With modern AI agents, it is entirely possible that the duty cycle of a software engineering enterprise is not actually the 8h/24h we have today but closer to a 24h/24h system. Certainly my ideal is to proceed software engineering organizations closer to the latter system.
Proposing solutions that you cannot put into place because others do not agree with you is also fiction. One might as well propose an algorithm for finding an item in a singly-linked-list that is O(1): just select the right node. Finding the right node is the entire cost; just as coordinating people for one's solution is the entire difficulty.
"Make everyone happy" is even better than your solution if we're ignoring coordination. And it is many characters shorter.
There's no concept of "deserving higher wages". It's a popular online meme but what on Earth does it even capture? If you value the work higher, then pay them more and you'll win the market for that labour.
There's a good argument to say that sufficiently aggregated marketplaces can launder price collusion, and if we were in such an aggregated marketplace then you could make that argument. But we're not in that situation right now.
The 'Edit:' is even more confusing. If I talk to someone in a profession and I wouldn't take twice the pay they receive to do half the work they do then they deserve higher wages? But that list is huge. Congressmen, Senators, many CEOs, Wagner-group mercenaries, ICE officers, drone pilots. In fact, almost every profession has this 4x effective slippage you're talking about.
Bit of a pet-peeve of mine with people confusing fiction with reality. Reality has constraints that fiction doesn't. Every group of people greater than one encounters a misalignment issue at some point. Fiction is useful. Narratives guide our understanding and help bring ideas to people.
But real life has friction. CA HSR would fund PEPFAR for 40 years. So...PEPFAR or CA HSR? Is the guy who chooses the former the good man with power or the latter? Or is it a third guy who pays for both through increased taxes so that the United States middle class pays the higher proportion of total taxes that Norway does? Groups of people have priorities and they have their own objectives.
Labor unions are generally fairly xenophobic. They were at the forefront of restricting Indians and Chinese from being citizens and the mob Hoffas held power there even till just a few years ago. A Georgian union got a bunch of Koreans deported. Who's the villain here? The Koreans? The union? The Indians? The Chinese? The people who want to employ them? Who's the good man?
Constraint-free optimization is trivial. I can do it with no problem. In fact, I shall do so here with a single line: "Make everyone happy".
As was I. Ran it on a Via pentium-compatible!
Like almost everyone here I only recall this DE/WM with nostalgia. It’s interesting to see how minimal it is now. It felt like the height of maximalism back then. And on very weak hardware had compositing.
I find it fascinating that the cost of these gorgeous places is roughly the same as the cost to build a public restroom in San Francisco. Notably the architects in SF are much more expensive than those in Norway. Certainly quite interesting.
Huh interesting. They expected the whole thing to fall apart so they actually had cameras up on a drone to inspect it. Very cool.
Strangely I do that quite often. When my personal agent fails at a browser task, I have Claude browse the page and rebuild it as an eval and then run an iteration loop in Claude code. Just does it to prompt Deepseek.
The geotargeting is iffy. I accessed it accidentally from HKG Airport WiFi with no trouble. Your point probably still true. Just adding an anecdote.
Why, though? I have half a terabyte of VRAM in cards in a datacenter and it’s absolutely not clear that anything I’ve learned using these to program or inside an app has taught me anything significant.
I talked to my friend about all the things I do to ensure my personal assistant behaves reasonably. The prompt engineering, the fake site evals, everything. And then I have Opus 5.5 do it and it doesn’t need anything. It’s simply fully aligned to performance by default.
And what did I learn anyway. Going from one model to another changes what works. And you can simply learn everything from the Chinese model in days. The whole “building skill” thing is bogus.
I have this library of techniques, a scant few of which I’ve made available on my blog, and what is reality instead: the next model blows the need for the techniques into the dust. Back on level playing field.
It’s a false god, this cultivation. Waste of time. Use the best model you can. Once you hit the guardrails move out to the other models. Even Opus 4.8 is fine. If you legitimately want to dodge the guardrails use the -cyber models.
Then move on. The library is dust.
Right right, not saying VC is tainted. Just that I know the name as a software engineer and now he’s actually a crime boss! Crazy!
In the sense that 9 people decided that abortion is legal (and then illegal) in a country of hundreds of millions: it is being decided by a small group of people who were assigned to the role of deciding. No different from the ACA being decided by a few hundred people. A repeal of all rules decided not by plebiscite (or a large fraction of voters, even) would lose us the constitution.
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Either we let the sidewalk become a free for all or we don’tWhy? You already demonstrated that we are able to acknowledge scooters and wheelchairs. That shows that exceptions can be made. They were made on some basis that is not all or nothing. Likewise we can review the basis here and decide that robots are not allowed or we can decide that robots are allowed.
It’s a collective space and how we collectively allocate it is useful to consider. I’d happily take wider sidewalks if it meant admitting robots for instance.
There’s no reason to believe this is a walk-or-nothing situation. In SF, for instance, children do not need the sidewalk to travel on their bikes but they are permitted to use it.
The classic two FS errors I’ve seen are MacOS case insensitivity fusing two separate files and Windows reserved chars. Most people build and deploy to Linux so repos are usually sane to that OS. It’s just life though it’s funny to see the shoe on the other foot.
I think they definitely boosted usage. I certainly started using the -cyber models defensively against my own systems. But defenders like me are usually late to the party. I think the attackers have been here for a while but that the technology reached performance only recently.
This is the TrueCrypt guy. Sometimes it feels like I just missed out on big history. VeraCrypt's license still includes him:
https://veracrypt.io/en/VeraCrypt%20License.htmlWhat on earth, man. I remember the name being familiar for software reasons back in the 2000s because a bunch of people were talking about TrueCrypt back then and not trusting anonymous software and this and that. He became a crime boss? This is a revelation for me as big as the ReiserFS situation.
The average French retiree makes more money annually than the average French worker (who is the one paying the retiree). Any attempts to reduce the number or benefits of the former is met with riots. The French state represents the will of the French people, which in the limit, has a single luxury French bag salesman selling to a single rich tourist a bag for $400 b which is then used to pay for that years pensions.
No, the number of serious incidents is rising. The new -cyber models are incredibly capable.
That does present the situation grimly. Do you pay the Danegeld to get the former to not do the assault thing? After all, the malicious competent can perhaps be bought. On the other hand, the incompetent could be manipulated by a sufficiently capable intelligence. I'm not one of those, but then again I'm not one of those who can buy the malicious competent either, to say nothing of the unfortunate situation where one ends up with the malicious incompetent - having mistaken malice for unaligned self-interested competence.
You can still ban everyone who doesn’t respect robots.txt. My experience with a crawler is that people don’t actually provide a robots.txt far more often. I can back off on 429 but I’d rather use Crawl-Delay etc.
Bots have limited ability to announce themselves. I just use fixed IP range and UA. But the Chinese trawlerbots use smart TV residential proxies and will copy someone else’s UA.
It’s not hard. It’s power intensive. It’s $15k/mo at 15 cents / kWh. If you want the experience there’s a massive A100 liquidation sale that happened recently
https://www.ebay.com/itm/178522410497These come around once in a while. Go get that seller’s Gaudi rig if you want to test the experience. It costs one-time as much as the monthly power cost on a B300 NVL72 and uses a fifth the power.
That’s the dream (which is what I meant by “everyone would love to do that”), but what you gain in the cost of money you lose as demand eats into supply ahead of you.
Right now, the lead time of these racks is like 36 weeks and they’ll want payment down unless they’re sure you’re good for it which is in the $100m range. You just try to get them as soon as you can because and when the integrator and Nvidia can get them to you.
I don’t understand what the problem is here. You think they’re damaging their own economics on purpose? Every time I’ve been involved in hardware procurement, it’s been the case that you try to get things as fast as possible on everything because you never know which seemingly fixed lead time suddenly clears.
If you intentionally bake in delays you’re guaranteed to not make it work, esp. in a demand crunch. My GPUs are SMB/prosumer range and even they are much harder to get now. The smartest thing I did was lock in my purchases in January. If I had been unable to negotiate the rack space it would have been suboptimal but if I had decided to wait for guaranteed time I would have been screwed. As it so happens I should have gone to 2TB VRAM instead of aiming low.
This is the calculus that all businesses are facing, not just mine.
There are definitely datacenters that aren’t live due to power hookups. Is the idea that we should precisely time both? I think everyone would love to do that. To the extent that GPUs are not in production, it’s not because they could be and are not so. Literally everyone who buys them is trying to put them into production because they’re as close to a money printer as one can legally have. The operating margins on a running GPU are incredible.
Even my old RTX 6000 Pros would be profitable if I rented them out.
It would be interesting if there were some kind of holographic LLM. You could send part of the encoded prompt and receive generated tokens that only you can decode. Then we could use the distributed capacity of the world and everyone could be paid for marginal token generation capacity. Even open models are profitable to run on almost all electricity.
Is the idea that buying GPUs before you buy the datacenters is hoarding but buying datacenters before you buy the GPUs is not? Everyone would prefer to put all their capacity into play. Demand is so high that every marginal computer here is marginal operating revenue.
