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"We replaced a cluster of virtualized servers with a single bare metal server. Nothing has gone wrong, yet."

Its not upside per se, more like avoiding the downsides of diabetes and obesity.

Healthy, non-obese individuals likely aren't seeing these "benefits"... But I'm not a doctor, I just pretend to be one on the Internet.

They brag about hiring on visas, so you can read between that post and the visa sponsorship as a 996 organization.

Australia, The Philippines, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and possibly France would join American military intervention. Not to mention Taiwan itself. Probably get logistical support from other places like Singapore, Thailand, etc.

American sentiment would change if mass casualties were inflicted on US troops.

This war scenario is different for Americans than Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. There is direct threat to the American homeland if Taiwan falls. Not to mention destroying our technology infrastructure and industry.

I’m saying it is highly likely that the next leap in AI technology will require massive amounts of compute. On the order of tens of billions per year. I’m also saying that there are a small number of companies that would have access to that level of compute (or financial capital).

In other words, it’s is MORE likely that an OpenAI/Google/Microsoft/Grok/Anthropic gets us closer to AGI than a startup we haven’t heard of yet. Simply because BigTech has cornered the market and has a de facto monopoly on compute itself. Even if you had raised $10 billion in VC funding, you literally can not buy GPUs because there is not enough manufacturing capacity in the world to fill your order. Thus, investors know this and capital is flowing to BigTech, rather than VC funds. Which creates the cycle of BigTech getting bigger, and squeezing out VC money for startups.

Without US military intervention and support, Taiwan and Ukraine would fall. Then dozens of other islands in the Pacific as well as Eastern Europe. The U.S. economy and technological growth would be devastated if Taiwan (and TSMC) falls to the Chinese. This is a WW3 scenario.

The barrier of entry is too high for traditional SV startups or a group of folks with a good research idea like transformers. You now need hundreds of billions if not trillions to get access to compute. OpenAI themselves have cornered 40% of global output of DRAM modules. This isn't like 2012, where you could walk into your local BestBuy, get a laptop, open an AWS account, and start a SaaS over the weekend. Even the AI researchers themselves are commanding 7- and 8-figure salaries that rival NFL players.

At best, they can sell their IP to BigTech, who will then commercialize it.

On the flip side of it (and where most institutional investors are mentally) is that if OpenAI is to ever achieve AGI, it must invest nearly a trillion dollars towards that effort. We all know LLMs have their limitations, but next phase of AI growth is going to come from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, maybe even Microsoft, and not some stealth startup. E.g., Only Big Tech can get us to AGI due to sheer massive amounts of investments, not a traditional silicon valley garage startup looking for their Series A. So institutional investors have no choice but to continue to throw money into Big Tech hoping for the Big Payoff, rather than investing in VC funds like 10 years ago.

AMD did this deal because it's literally offering financing to them. OpenAI doesn't have access to capital markets like AMD does. So it's selling off shares of its own stock to finance the purchase of billions of dollars worth of GPUs. And the trick appears to be working since the stock is up 30% today, meaning it has paid for itself and then some.

Don’t play the race card, you sound emotional saying that.

You admitted that there were tons of abuse. This gets back to the law’s original intent. This is the best fix that corporations “pay up” for.

It’s just politics. You have CS grads facing employment headwinds against AI, H1B, and high interest rates. They aren’t going to vote for the incumbents if they’re unemployed. Now they’re going to have a $100k discount to hire them instead of from a WITCH company. FAANG will still hire H-1Bs.

Your employer would just hire local talent at a $100k discount. Problem solved.

Major companies will spend 10-100x that if it resulted in real tangible productivity gains for their businesses.

The breaking changes are very well documented and are esoteric in nature. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...

Scott Hanselman has a very short blog on how 20 year old code is upgraded to the latest .NET in just a few short minutes: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/upgrading-a-20-year-old-unive...

lol, whut?

Microsoft created the ".NET Standard" for this. Literally anything that targets .NET Standard 1.0 should work from circa 2001 through modern day 2025. You still get the (perf) benefits up the runtime upgrade which is what the blog post is about.

The problem is there is no real way to validate. With AI, every person has a really good looking resume that matches the job description.

Real verifiable references, referrals and LinkedIn recommendations are more important than ever.

The bubble years did some really bad things to folks.

They were made to believe that money was free and would be free forever. Just think, if you were a kid in the Bay Area from 2006-2021 you knew nothing but free money with ZIRP.

Fast forward to today. These kids are now startup founders and they have a warped view of the world. ZIRP is over and simply pitching VCs isn't a viable business strategy anymore.

We have a $37 trillion dollar deficit. I think traditional government isn’t working and we need to find ways to raise revenue sooner rather than later before this spirals out of control.

Their dataset only runs up to 2018?

Our bodies haven’t evolved yet to produce more GLP-1 because until recently (~70 years ago) malnutrition and hunger had been one of the top killers of humans. Frankly put, we weren’t designed to live this long.

We’re designed to consume calories and store those calories indefinitely to meet short term needs, rather than lifelong health.

But we weren’t also designed to consume microplastics, artificial sweeteners, or flavors designed in a laboratory. Yet here we are. And it’s quite probable those things contribute to obesity.

Sad that this isn’t natively in browsers…

Article assumes LLMs stay where they currently are or progress only incrementally.

Many Fortune 500 companies are seeing real productivity gains through Agentic Workflows to reduce paperwork and bureaucratic layers. Even a marginal 1% improvement can be millions of dollars for these companies.

Then you have an entire industry of AI-native startups that can now challenge and rival industry behomeths (OpenAI itself is now starting to rival Google/Microsoft/Amazon and will likely be the next "BigTech" company).

It's a tale of bureaucracy.

The tech community simply wants DOM access for web apps, but the committee is focused on trying to effectively rewrite the JVM in Rust because Rust seems trendy these days.

So the web features languish while the committee still can't agree on how to send strings between two functions on Linux. And the committee moves at a slower pace than the federal government.

TLDR: Tech has cargo-culted the interview process and people are gaming the system based on that interview process.

High likelihood and even Mustice Thomas mentioned it being high.

Even then, it only affects those in the class. E.g., it wouldn’t stop across the board federal enforcement as unconstitutional. It would take take a better part of a decade for that class action to move forward.

Various sources are saying 6 to 12 of these bombs were used. So, you'd need a lot of C-130s and those planes are too slow to NOT get shot down.

Vibe coding is enabling personal startups to be the modern day MLM pyramid scheme.

Push out crap, hope it sells, leave the problem for someone else to figure out.

Because the USA has more money than other countries. People outside the US can't afford to buy our products, but we can afford to buy theirs. This is ideal for many people in the US who want cheap $200 flat screen TVs in every room of their house.

This isn't good for unskilled labor in rural parts of America, often in swing states. Manufacturing had always been a place for high school grads to have a decent career. Those days are over with, but politically they decide the election.

WASM Components levels the playing field across all languages.

You can mix and match a C# Blazor component and a Rust component, and a Python component and they all compile to WASM and runs at equal speed.

April Fool's!

The article missed the biggest thing:

SequenceEquals is SIMD accelerated. memcmp is not.

They intentionally waited til after the AWS reInvent conference to announce this.