Arn_Thor

Good for you. But I didn't refer to any specific pro-democracy figure. I am advocating for free and open elections where everyone, pro-mainland or localist, can choose the direction of the city.

If Epstein had the photo in his possession, then that would explain why it's there!

And to most Hong Kongers (at least judging by the last local election after the 2019 protests), anone who collaborated with pro-mainland forces to kill one-country-two-systems and stifle the free speech guaranteed under the handover could be considered traitors. You know what would settle Hong Kong's status once and for all? Free and fair elections. Then the people could choose to align with the mainland, or not. But I have a hunch you wouldn't be so keen on that.

Hong Kongers would very much like to choose their own leadership. I understand that you're arguing from a mainland Chinese perspective, but in so doing you're ignoring the people who ought to have the most to say.

Minor blip? First one million people marching. Then a week later nearly two. Street battles between police and protesters supported by many thousands of people. I saw a video of a guy being shoved out of a high-rise window. No doubt that was ruled "suicide" too, but it never broke out as a news story. A protester was shot but not killed by police. It's a miracle more lives weren't lost. To say it was a "blip" betrays a profound lack of understanding and knowledge about the events.

The takeover was deftly executed, with the kind of patience only a government not concerned with elections can exhibit. While local elections came and went, and the opposition parties valiantly fought in the public sphere, the institutional takeover was slow but steady. That is the only way the pro-China powers in government were able to outlast and suppress the protests in 2019. The government faced unprecedented public opposition, but enough people at all levels of government feared for their livelihoods that neither the bureaucracy nor the police reached a critial mass of sympathizers.

Another crucial factor that's part of the CCP's victory in HK is that China inherited a police force essentially structured as a colonial occupying force. Police staff get benefits that include segregated housing (such as the West Kowoon Disciplined Services Quarters), which maintains morale in the ranks and allows those so inclined to live quite separately from the rest of the populace.

Where there's a will--or a law--there's a way. Hallelujah!

In that case it makes perfect sense

All I'm saying is that pointing to patents as evidence isn't convincing in and of itself. Now you've brought up specific programs, which are at the very least evidence of their own existence. I think the hurdle is still massive to accept there is any kind of global-scale geoengeneering project afoot.

I know what picture we're talking about. 1) it's not the same as the Getty stock image everyone seems to mistake it for. 2) we don't know if the redaction is erroneous or intentionally misleading, but either way the non-celebrity faces were redacted even though another image of them exists in the public domain. Probably easier to just apply a blanket policy when handling all these images rather than observing edge cases.

That's not the exact same image, though. It's a separate image, from the same time and place. The one released may have been in Epstein's possession and therefore part of the files. Either some DoJ drone just redacted all children and non-celebrities due to procedure, or it was deliberately done in such a way as to make Clinton and Jackson look suspicious. Whatever the reason, this was not a Getty stock image planted in the files.

As you say, it's not the same photo. If the one in the dump was in Epstein's possession, the reason for the redactions are either that some drone in the DOJ just redacted all children out of habit, or that it was deliberately done in such a way as to frame Clinton. I can't decide which I find more credible.

The fact that someone has filed a patent doesn't mean that they have a workable idea, only that they can formulate and illustrate said idea and that it doesn't overlap with something that already exists.

That is inevitable. Too many people ship only on price and we’ll never reach sufficient mass

It does, but much more important to me is the color grading. The white point in the film versions is infinitely better.

Wow, that genuinely gave me goosebumps. It is incredible to live in a time where so much of that hopeful optimism came to pass.

There is one key way in which I believe the current AI bubble differs from the TMT bubble. As the author points out, much of the TMT bubble money was spent building infrastructure that benefited us many decades later.

But in the case of AI, that argument is much harder to make. The cost of compute hardware is astronomic relative to the pace of improvements. In other words, a million dollars of compute today will be technically obsolete (or surpassed on a performance/watt basis) much faster than the fiber optic cables laid by Global Crossing.

And the AI data centers specialized for Nvidia hardware today may not necessarily work with the Nvidia (or other) hardware five years from now—at least not without major, costly retrofits.

Arguably, any long-term power generation capacity put down for data centers of today would benefit data centers of tomorrow, but I'm not sure much such investment is really being made. There's talk of this and that project, but my hunch and impression is that much of it will end up being small-scale local power generation from gas turbines and the like, which is harmful for the local environment and would be quickly dismantled if the data center builders or operators hit the skids. In other words, if the bubble bursts I can't imagine who would be first in line to buy a half-built AI data center.

This leads me to believe this bubble has generated much less useful value to benefit us in future than the TMT bubble. The inference capacity we build today is too expensive and ages too fast. So the fall will be that much more painful for the hyperscalers.

Ok, so I'm not a programmer, just a knuckle dragger who is vibe coding myself a digital assistant to help me prioritize emails and do scheduling. And because I may use a cloud AI's API rather than local processing I already consider the following to be essential: Token estimation, agent state persistence, cost monitoring and rate limiting, circuit breakers, retry logic, context caching, deadlock detection.

Those are just some of the requirements for AI agent deployment that this article mentions. And hell, I'd want some of them even if I were running the agents on my own GPU...

How does anyone have the brass stones to go to production without at least the precautions that I found necessary within half a day of thinking about it?

Is there really so much funding in the AI space?

Your 2006 MacBook was pre-retina, a.k.a. High-resolution, displays though. Any kind of smearing effect probably improved the perception of the image because it masked the very visible pixels in the LCD

Then I must clearly congratulate you on your other ventures!

There are certain tells when anyone with a homelab starts making real money off the work they do on it

AI and vibe coding does not prevent the creation of good, robust and durable code. All it takes is for the coder to think carefully about the functions and not fall for the temptation to make the LLM add a bunch of fluff and features "just because they can".

Don’t believe all the bullshit you read in your racist echo chamber. You look really foolish when you repewt it in public.

It’s a matter of degree. It all adds up. Surely you’ve heard of the great smog in London? That’s an extreme example but all major cities had appalling air pollution. Bad air alone killed untold numbers of people every year.

What kind of tasks do you use it for, if I may ask? Does it include local LLM/AI?

First thing I thought of when reading the linked post! You explained it for a non-Norwegian audience better than I could have too!

Perhaps. But it’s telling that someone whose job is selling those kinds of services wasn’t aware of any personally.

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in months. Maybe years? Incredible stuff

I spoke with an Amazon AI production engineer who’s talking with prospective clients about implementing AI in our business. When a colleague asked about using generative AI in customer facing chats the engineer said he knows of zero companies who don’t have a human in the loop. All the automatic replies are non-generative “old” tech. Gen AI is just not reliable enough for anyone to stake their reputation on it.

Shein crap falls apart in the first wash