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Are there any news stories about these specific claims (executives held by the US until they divest assets, EU companies losing their data in discovery and being copied)?

The EU's biggest exports to the US are cars & pharma. I guess the VW diesel situation could be seen through that lens, or the GLP1 compounding rules.

The thing that gets me is the disingenuous parallel construction. Just say the truth.

Europe wants to improve its economy by growing their consumer tech industry. Some of these products like Google Analytics (the example he is upset about) are really hard to replicate (writing to a database on every visit to your website is an expensive thing to do, significantly more expensive than hosting the website!). So they've been slowly increasing the tariffs (disguised as privacy regulations) on US tech firms. It's gone poorly, even EU governments (let alone EU businesses) still use products like Google Analytics, and US tech firms have been able to engineer their way around the regulations, again doing a better job than EU governments who have been busted countless times for breaking GDPR with their own systems.

No one cares about any "data sharing agreement" or a "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" no one has ever heard of that has never done anything. Its a tariff with various ways to pick winners and losers.

The only thing thats changed is there is a higher chance these privacy regulations will be recognized as tariffs by the US.

The cuts are justified regardless as they are in wasteful areas that don’t contribute to anything you listed.

The next argument would be that most of the spending is not wasteful, so doge will fail to make a dent, as most money is going to directly help people.

Lets see!

Another example is Joe Biden, who had this exact thing happen (covid twice in a row with paxlovid).

Notable because while the chance of him just catching it again from someone are not 0, but about as low as it can go (an elderly POTUS under intense medical supervision and quarantine procedures).

AWS has a cool general approach to this problem (one badly behaving user effecting others on their shard)

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/workload-isolation-u...

The basic idea is to assign each user to multiple shards, decreasing the changes of another user sharing all their shards with the badly behaving user.

Fixing this issue as described in the article makes sense, but if they did shuffle sharding in the first place it would cover any new issues without effecting many other users.

Having a permanent bureaucracy that ignores directives from the executive only really benefits democrats (look at the Washington DC presidential vote totals). So this executive order is not a both sides thing, or about executive overreach.

Something like the REINS Act, forcing regulations to be voted on by congress, would be something that hurts both sides & prevents executive overreach.

To me Milei is worse because he should know better with his background in economics. Argentina is also a relatively big user of crypto due to their currency being worthless, crypto actually has utility there [1]

Trump has been licensing his name to anyone who asks for decades.

[1] https://www.econtalk.org/devon-zuegel-on-inflation-argentina...

Its the same in the US. Except for texas which does some slightly more innovative things. Its really hard to do anything else than overbuild, Texas was strongly criticized for underbuilding its network when there was an ice storm a few years ago.

This is a third party site that just scrapes utility websites. So open data initiatives are not relevant.

Gas turbines can be spun up really quickly through either portable systems (like xAI did for their cluster) [1] or actual builds [2] in an emergency. The biggest limitation is permits.

With a state like Texas and a Federal Government thats onboard these permits would be a much smaller issue. The press conference makes this seem more like, "drill baby drill" (drilling natural gas) and directly talking about them spinning up their own power plants.

[1] https://www.kunr.org/npr-news/2024-09-11/how-memphis-became-...

[2] https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power/resources/case-studies/t...

The new scaling vector is “test time compute” ie spending more compute in inference.

Much more likely is what xAI did, portable gas turbines until the grid catches up.

China bans them. Europe, Canada and Australia are constantly trying to regulate the media parts of the business. If they had the capacity to built an alternative (like china) a ban or forced divestiture doesn’t seem that out there.

The report identified (but didn't directly name) 1 sheriff. Assuming it’s the current sheriff, a quick google of his background + the fact that he "facilitated" the militia members FBI interview gives a pretty strong hint why mainstream media would not pick up this story.

Reading the article he found nothing right?

This is the authors other cartoons FWIW

https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ann-telnaes/

It must be pretty boring drawing donald trump twice a week for the majority if your career....

Capital one shopping (basically the same thing) definitely originates traffic, like it prompts users to go to other websites for a better deal.

I think the author is twisting things a bit to suit their own hiring needs.

Researchers at big tech companies always struggled to get promoted without showing some sort of impact.

What changed is before they could just publish papers (with 0 reproducibility due to “ai ethics”) and still coast by with a decent salary.

ChatGPT ended the whole “the paper is the product” phenomenon, and the end of ZIRP ended the smooth run for slackers in big tech overall.

AI phds are still in an amazing position compared to any other new grad software engineer.

How do the cache sizes compare between AMD GPU’s and nvidia? I remember reading a while ago they were quite different (enough to make flash attention painful to implement)

I think it’s hardware not software.

“Cuda moat” is a misnomer. The PTX spec is relatively short (600 page pdf). Triton directly writes PTX, skipping cuda. Flash attention was created by a non nvidia employee without access to any of the secret sauce within Cuda or its libraries.

The hardware is just not as good, and no software can paper over its flaws.

This seems like exactly the sort of problem Elon is good at solving (or more accurately incentivizing engineers to solve).

xAIs cluster buildout (powered by generators while the grid was being ramped up) would’ve had a lot of lessons.

The issue is in corporate jobs (including tech) Friday is a very relaxed day. If you are working a shorter week than everyone else, you end up doing the same amount of work in less time for less money.

Didn't they end up taxing competitors who didn't use the government owned network?

What happened here is a specific scam where companies are targeted for ADA violations, which are so vague it’s impossible to “comply”.

Bizarre article, it makes it sound like this is some new experiment and a contrast to the US?

Homeless camps were effectively legalized by a 2018 court ruling in the US, as long as there isn’t shelter space. Sounds simple enough, build more shelter space.

However in the west coast cities that was interpreted by local zealots as “shelter space that allows heavy drug and alcohol use”. A bed is not enough for this scenario, you need a separate structure per person.

West coast cities have been supporting camps like this (tiny) one in Halifax for decades.

Very recently the 2018 ruling was overturned, there are still thousands of camps supported by billions in government funding.

The past few years there has been a weird situation where Google and AWS have had worse GPU's than smaller providers like Coreweave + Lambda Labs. This is because they didn't want to buy into Nvidias proprietary Infiniband stack for GPU-GPU networking, and instead wanted to make it work on top of their ethernet (but still pretty proprietary) stack.

The outcome was really bad GPU-GPU latency & bandwidth between machines. My understanding is ConnectX is Nvidias supported (and probably still very profitable) way for these hyperscalers to use their proprietary networks without buying Infiniband switches and without paying the latency cost of moving bytes from the GPU to the CPU.

“ This ended up helping to drive the A350 manufacturing surge and successfully 4x’ing the pace of manufacturing while keeping Airbus’s high standards of quality.” come on…

Im not sure Google is GPON (or has passive splitters at all). They were very early to deployments, and their plans are always symmetrical (which doesnt make sense for any standard *PON deployment).

Article is from 2020, when there was a big load increase from WFH.

They way HFC (cable internet) works you would have to cap upload speed for everyone on the network, as it uses time multiplexing for uploads.

What is the basis of the China solar panel install number? Given China lies about their economic data like GDP why do we trust other data?