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On site stuff likely paid minimal wage and not trusted change a freezer settings. Centralized management is cheaper (until it's not). But there are many ways to do it more secure than connecting the device to the internet and allowing incoming connections from any IP (how likely it was done).

Lua? Tcl? both AFAIK have less vulnerabilities than PHP likely thanks to smaller code size.

The loss is from model training. Serving an open-weight model is profitable and these models are already good enough for many tasks. If Anthorpic/OpenAI will try to recover training investments with higher prices they'll loose the volume (and given infra spending commencements they need the volume). So I don't expect any significant price increase.

AI give employers immense leverage - by threading with AI layoffs they can exploit workers and in the current job market many have nowhere to go.

> Electric cars don’t really solve this issue because electricity generation is not yer 100% clean.

Electric cars reduce emissions even if electricity is 100% generated from gas (a gas power station has higher efficiency than ICE, burning gas emits less CO2 per watt than burning petrol). Also fraction of non-carbon sources in electricity generation is rising almost around the world, not as fast as one may want but rising. Large cars is mostly an American problem, most of the world even if wants large cars cannot afford them anyway.

In a long run - maybe but in a short run high oil/gas/diesel prices push CPI up, as a reaction central banks are rising rates, bonds yields are rising even faster in anticipation of future rate hikes - this makes credit expensive and most green energy project depend on credit so investments into green energy going down too AFAIK. At least clean energy stock indexes are falling for the last few months because of high credit interest rates. So paradoxically Iran war is slowing energy transition.

If I knew it's relatively easy I would have saved $$ on yubikey - for personal projects security requirements are not high but it's good to have something better than a file which could be stolen by malware. Kudos to author for the how-to.

You could generate an additional backup key pair, add to authorized_keys on remote hosts in additional to the stored in enclave key, test then backup and wipe from your macbook (to reduce compromise risk).

IANAL but AFAIK no matter which other passports do you have if you are an US person (a citizen or a tax resident) you must notify you bank in any country to comply with the US laws (but having another passport makes it possible to hide that one is an US person).

> enjoyed the close to unanimous support domestically

That’s what Russian propaganda wants you to believe. And I see no reasons to trust it. Assessing public opinion in an autocracy is from hard to impossible - people afraid to tell what they think and they have good reasons for this.

ZIRP is over but rates are not especially high and yet I don’t remember job market being that bad. Maybe employers are taking wait and see approach and avoid hiring developers they expect to layoff in a year or two if models will continue to improve and becoming cheaper at the current pace.

45 is not far from an average chef salary in London.

> It dipped at the peak of the Boris Wave, and is only now starting to creep up

1. I did check graphs and see low correlation - GDP pp dipped after GFC (2008 crisis) then again around Brexit referendum and started to recover 2021 - around the start of the Boris wave. 2. Even if we had a correlation it doesn't imply causation especially given multiple factors battered the economy around the same time - Brexit, COVID (which had delayed and lasting impact) and Russian-Ukrainian war.

> When you factor in the entire extended family that an immigrant on a work visa settles in the UK, this is not true

An immigrant cannot bring an extended family - only a spouse and children (younger 18). And they are not eligible for benefits so have no impact on the budget. Skilled visa is abused (to bring relatively low skilled workers) but that's not too common and they still pay taxes, just less than someone working at Google.

I recommend to listed to this podcast (or read transcript) it's not trying to defend immigration at all but di-spells lots of myths about economical impact of immigration: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/how-does-immigration-affect-publ...

Centralisation happens in the west too with AWS getting bigger and bigger. One doesn’t necessarily need the state for this, it’s other way around - the state should stop monopolies and encourage competition.

There is no evidence that Boris Wave had negative impact on GDP per person while there is evidence that Brexit had significant negative impact.

Generally refugees / asylum seekers have negative impact on the budget but their number is small so overall drag is small while skilled/work immigrants have positive impact (paying more in taxes then getting back) and there are more work migrants than refugees.

A firewall which allows to send sensor metrics from in internal network to an external collector and block everything else will go a long way. Not an air gap but much batter than whatever French supermarkets had in place.

SQLite does allow write access from mulitple processes - file locks (fcntl) are used to ensure at any given moment only one of processes modifies the database (or WAL if WAL is enabled).

> Fossil fuel subsidies, $7T/year worldwide. Poor countries subsidize a lot!

That’s puzzles me a loot - there are many countries which hardly have any money for social safety net yet they keep fuel and electricity prices very low as a matter of government (social) policy and poor people benefit the least because they don’t drive and use little electricity.

> the top 10% get about 50% of pre-tax income

May be not top 10% but top 0.1% are good at avoiding tax using various loopholes. Like borrowing against stocks (and other appreciating assets) till death to avoid paying CGT and debt is then repaid by heirs which do not pay CGT AFAIK. So they can spend more than income stats would suggest.

In the UK it's common to have 3.4% beer/ale (for ABV >= 3.5% the duty is higher) but there are little options between 3.4% and <=0.5% (alcohol free). I find 3.4% to be a good trade-off between the taste and the alcohol content. I do drink Lucky Saint occasionally but find it less pleasant than various 3.4% ales.

They do contribute to GDP growth but society at large sees no benefits from this growth. Governments like growth because it allows to collect more taxes and reduce the budget deficit. But AI companies are not paying taxes because they are not yet profitable and even profitable tech companies are bad tax payers (they actively exploit tax loopholes, the most famous is the Double Irish but it's no longer the current scheme AFAIK).

If people who are responsible will be prosecuted the company unlikely fail (just because of this) and will continue to be a part of the economy. Hacking is good for their marketing but they should be able survive without such rogue marketing. But that's unlikely to happen anyway.

The US GBP is 100x large than Iranian one and yet the US cannot open the Strait of Hormuz and even defend own bases in the region from cheap drones (52 aircraft lost, most on the ground). GDP is not the only factor when it comes to military capabilities.

If a private person did a fraction of hacks OpenAI did they will be put in jail for years. But AI companies can operate with impunity. How that works?

> I’m particularly interested in how they plan to finance reactors in a grid dominated by solar.

Solar is 15% - a lot but not yet dominated. Solar works at day and demand is also highest during the day so solar should not be an enemy of nuclear.

Greenland stuff doesn’t make sense even if they believe into the climate change. The US already has military bases there which are barely used. It’s just plain imperialism.

> There aren't that many places outside of MENA that produce oil in reasonable quantities

AFAIK all these countries can increase production given enough investments: US Canada Guyana Venezuela (high political risk but with high oil prices the risk will be taken) Brazil

Whether US is self sufficient or not is not that important as net production and its dynamics.

Oil will not stay expensive for a long time without some carbon tax. Even if Hormuz will remain closed for years production will rise elsewhere. The main reason production is not increasing significantly right now - investors are not sure that prices will stay at the current level for a long time (3+ years) and expect prices to fall before they’ll get enough to recoup investments. The longer prices will stay around $100 the more will be invested into new oil wells.

It's so tempting (because it's valuable) to give a model access to the internet (via harness) that the only way to stop people from doing this is some enforceable legislation or stricter liability when people will not be able to avoid responsibility by saying it's not me, it's AI on it's own.