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Dylan16807··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Isn't MongoDB relatively stable? I can't think of why it would need any particular CEO, and an executive moving to a company that burns money for fun doesn't say much about their previous job. So why the huge stock drop?
Dylan16807··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
We can't tell the future.

But we can say that if it will be overturned, it's already wrong. (unless the overturning is the wrong one, yadda yadda)

We do not have to wait to use basic logic.

And judges do not always work on "the best of our society's knowledge". Some judges have massive biases. They make incorrect rulings that we can see, and sometimes the incorrectness is not only obvious but objective, like when multiple judges are on a case and some dissent; they can't all be right.

Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
Can someone please explain what was apparently wrong with my comment?

GiB is unambiguously the big one, power of two. You want S3 to be priced in dollars per GiB. "shrinkflation power of ten GiB" is getting it backwards.

Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
If it's cross-subsidization then that's admitting it doesn't cost very much!
Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
That's a good argument that at a lower amount of storage you won't save money at all.

This is very different from the idea that the savings are a few percent. In almost all cases the savings are nothing or a large fraction.

Dylan16807··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
Thankfully some other programs ignore MS and do perfectly good live captions on the CPU, even if that CPU is over a decade old.
Dylan16807··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
The battery life, if you use enough AI, is the main feature.
Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
> a few percent

Really? No, it's not a few percent.

Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
If they were offering it in a competitive market without the special bundling factors, basically nobody would choose their egress. So yes they're overcharging, because they have control of your data.
Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
The things you listed don't inflate costs 100x or 1000x.

They could charge 10x-ish as much as T1 ISPs and cover all those costs and still have it be almost all profit.

Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
You got those backwards.
Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
Cloudflare was really unclear about their motivation was and it was effectively a matter of kicking them off for not liking them. CF was annoying them about an overpriced enterprise plan, before suddenly throwing out accusations that if true would have meant cutting the company off even if they did buy enterprise. And they were demanding a ton of money, much more than bringing an IP is worth.

Maybe maybe bringing their own IP would have solved the problem, but Cloudflare was obstructing everything and then did a cutoff without proper warning. It was really bad on Cloudflare's part.

Dylan16807··on When did Google get so weird?
I can't tell if you're joking but they're talking about 5 digit and 6 digit numbers.
Dylan16807··on When did Google get so weird?
If you want it to read letters, all you have to do is make your tokens be letters. That's easier than normal tokenization.
Dylan16807··on When did Google get so weird?
That's not a math question...
Dylan16807··on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
There's no catch. They don't care about the bandwidth. If 20 million people make a single request each then you'll pay $3.60 to cover the requests.

And you're going to have to pay $15 of storage costs for your terabyte.

Dylan16807··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
The one in the HuggingFace incident was misaligned on purpose, wasn't it?. So if we're talking about the alignment research aspect it's not a failure.
Dylan16807··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Okay I wasn't considering streaming devices. Those are going to have trouble participating in P2P at all but maybe they need something else.
Dylan16807··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
CPUs and GPUs a node or two old aren't really cheap compared to the cutting edge, though. If the fab's selling price has dropped a ton, are Intel and Amd and nVidia all making an extra big profit on the older models they're still selling?
Dylan16807··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
There's no popular peer to peer video system in the first place so uh not yet?

Peertube has moderation.

Dylan16807··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
A continent of people didn't sit in bombed out cities and countryside for fifty years before getting major repairs going, what are you talking about.
Dylan16807··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
Okay, that's a very interesting look at the difficulties. Thanks for the link.

But the example you have isn't quite that bad. Yes the models are way too likely to rationalize their way into bad actions in the pursuit of achieving their task, and it's hard to figure out how to fix that. But the example of "that must not be for me" was a tool call, not exceeding access, and it only did that after they specifically trained it that failing that tool call was good.

Dylan16807··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
That's fair but I don't think it would have stopped a "Silicon Valley" effort, especially not across all of Europe.
Dylan16807··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Okay, but it wasn't the thing we were talking about...
Dylan16807··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Can you give a reason you don't want data from that dude? Because the design I outlined can only make your buffer bigger, never smaller. The absolute worst case of phone guy dropping out still leaves you in the same place youtube puts you by default. So there's no downside.

As for upside, is fewer ads enough to tempt you? That's the easiest one to do if the fast servers need much less bandwidth.

Dylan16807··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
I count German reunification as something quite different from rebuilding from WWII.

By the mid-90s we were 50 years after the end of the war. It didn't take three generations to put the cities and infrastructure back together.

Dylan16807··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
Link? Name?
Dylan16807··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
When you're giving the orders to those people, and they're generally trying to obey, you can.
Dylan16807··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
When people talk about zoning ruining things, they're talking about restrictions on housing. A good system would get rid of 95% of those.

Also corner shops should be allowed everywhere.

Dylan16807··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Nobel winners can be wrong about a lot or even cranks. Don't pretend winners are superhuman.
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