throwawaythekey

A person's total luck is constant over a lifetime

Ah yes, the much revered cosmological fairness constraint.

More precisely -> the competitors heavily subsidize which causes cursor to feel expensive.

Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the weekly limit. It's widely believed that a $200/month plan maxes out at ~$2000/month worth of tokens (assuming API pricing). However, we found that the subscriptions are actually far more generous. (2/4)

https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2064815044085318040/

In my workplace AI has more credibility than humans, so dropping a block of claude with attribution can be:

- A way to convince others of your position.

- A way to demonstrate that you did research (because experience is worthless)

- A way to soften harsh feedback.

At first I found this very dysfunctional but now I don't mind too much. It beats being ignored and/or offending someone.

Battlemage had the best perf/% and most the driver issues from Alchemist had been ironed out. Another generation or two of steady progress and intel have a big winner on their hands.

Intel's foundry costs are probably competitive with nvidia too - nvidia has too much opportunity cost if nothing else.

Part of the interview is explaining when and why these techniques are necessary as part of demonstrating your understanding.

The slightly altered "explain when and why these techniques are *not* necessary" is much less appreciated.

I would've expected the candidate to at least be able to talk about indexing, tradeoffs of joining in the DB vs. in the application, schema migrations and upgrades, creating separation between data-at-rest vs. data-in-flight, etc.

The problem is that many of these trade-offs only applied to older databases. The more relevant axis is about how distributed the db is, the replication type etc.

Or at least counterbalance it with

"America arms Israel to attack Lebannon and Palestine"

- Trump murdered top a top Iranian general (Soleimani)

- Israel bombed an Iranian Embassy

- Iran counterstruck Israel but relatively restrained and with warning

- Israel bombed several high ranking Iranians, especially those involved with the nuclear program

- Iran counterstruck Israel.

None of it had that much to do with America.

"To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.” President Trump

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-pr...

The first time founders I had couldn't keep 100% of the equity out of the VCs pockets, so YMMV.

Isn't it obvious that (2) in practice entirely negates (1)?

In Australia we recently had a proposed law to prohibit information that "potentially undermines faith in the banking sector" regardless of truthfulness.

What's the better kafka/redis? Mongo I know you can just use your favorite relational tool with JSON support if needed (PG/MYSQL)

Not sure but molotov-ribbentrop provides an interesting precedent.

Yes and to me it is a fine tone for all of 'hacker' culture if you will. Perhaps not if you were giving a presentation to your boss, but as this is a message between peers it seems fine.

If it were on x it would seem fine.

Not trying to flame or anything but what is your age?

As someone in my early 30's who grew up on message boards/gaming the language he is using is fairly mild. I think we just have very different social norms.

I'm thinking about him every day lately due to a new set of AMD GPU drivers which has stopped my pc from being able to reliably wake from sleep.

You also have the crazies that initially advocated for the policy now reversing their positions.

It was a fair bit more than that. From the left-leaning guardian

The most worrying issue the Twitter Files have exposed is the level of contact between the social media company and state security organisations. The FBI regularly holds meetings with Twitter executives, pressuring them to take action against “misinformation”, even when this amounted to little more than a satirical tweet, and demanding the personal data of users.

Take note of the "pressuring", in line with what was reported by Zuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-tw...

I agree with the thrust of your argument but the idea that you need to have a really really large pile of gold sitting in a warehouse to fix it seems silly to me.

Can't they just not print so much?

Is there a fundamental repudiation to Austrian economics?

All I know about them is that they don't like funny money, which to me as a systems thinker is perfectly reasonable. At worst you would expect it to be harmful, at best to obscure what is really going on.

Sounds like a line from "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies".

Thanks I'll check it out.

Either way, you're certainly not in the middle, you're actually supporting the violent ones to be violent

I think I understand where you're coming from but I would instead state it as supporting first amendment style laws for my country, warts and all.

Would you argue that the first amendment should be annulled?

Would the difference in density be more likely due to a difference in design philosophy or the intel design team being less expert?

As a customer do intel pay for mm2 or for transistors?

Forgive me if you are not the right person for these questions.

We don't ban Maoists or Stalinists or Mussolini style facists. We don't ban Napoleonics or Confederates.

After WW2 there was a period of strong Jewish support for nazi rights. Were they not an open democracy? Is the risk in 2025 stronger than what they faced?

I don't know really, is it that every era needs a boogeyman or is it just that we are on a grand cycle away from liberality? Both maybe?

I'm not deflecting I think we just have different points of view.

The point ... is to defeat them while you can.

That can be your point, and with that framing almost anything is permissible! My point is generally to let free, open democracy run its course without putting our fingers on the scale too much.

I'm not scared of people doing a salute in the style of a movement that's been dead for almost a century. I'm not scared of communists flags or chants, or people chanting from the river to the sea. I think it's all healthy as long as it's non violent. The argument that it leads to violence is not logically sound and very minority reportesque.

No, the neo-nazis can defend themselves. I just support personal freedoms.

This week we've had the federal laws strengthend to a one year minimum jail time for nazi salutes. I think saying "punch a nazi" unironically could now also get you a year in jail, but I'm not sure about that one.

Personally I enjoy slippery slope arguments which is why I didn't use the term fallacy. What I dislike is the reddit framing of having already slipped!

Calls to violence have no place in a civil society. Perhaps as a response to real, physical, violence it would be ok.

I also had trouble with all the far right wingers who kept talking about civil war.

It's a shame it's become hard to make free speech arguments on reddit. RIP Aaron Swartz.

Let me put it another way. Trump is likely to try many outrageous and unexpected things.

As someone who tries to be non partisan, and isn't even american, I am fatigued by all of the claims that the world within the USA is ending. Whenever I take the time to examine any of the claims they tend to be fairly hollow or making slippery slope arguments.

As an international user of reddit, there are many of us I presume, I want the outrage to be saved for Trumps undeniable and worst offenses. In my eyes the memecoin was worse than anything which has happened since he became president and yet it has completely left the collective focus. Everything since then has just been a mix of people allowing trump to dictate the media cycle and the deep state deploying its immune system.