The entire industry is plagued by oversupply right now.
These sorts of power plays are impossible in a resource-constrained setting.
Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor devils graduating from CS degree programs right now.
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These sorts of power plays are impossible in a resource-constrained setting.
Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor devils graduating from CS degree programs right now.
And, with the market flooded with experienced devs, why should any employer take a chance on a 100% green dev, when they can pick and choose from among 5+ YoE SWEs, who are desperate for jobs? As Shawn's post from yesterday showed, many of us are willing to work at much lower salaries, so even financially, it does not make sense to hire a fresher.
Anyone care to engage with this topic?
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It was (and continues to be) a surprisingly pithy summary of the entire MAGA movement (and what we can do about it).
Ship of Theseus, etc.
It needs careful oversight, for if you're too generous with it, it'll happily add tons of code into your codebase that will make it horrendously difficult to understand and debug later. As capable as it is, I find it prudent to keep it on a short leash.
* Narrow scope of Section 230.
* Stop U.S. companies from "feeding, training, and improving" AI datasets belonging to Chinese companies.
* Expedite work to support low-earth orbit satellites like StarLink.
"By default, Anthropic doesn’t train our generative models on your content. This commitment to privacy is core to how we build our products and services."
IIUC, this is actually different from Gemini and ChatGPT, which sets Claude apart.
I'm probably missing something here.
No one was able to come up with a mass-appeal killer app back then, and no has managed to do that this time around, either. No, "Beat Saber" is not it.
I imagine we'll see Apple throw in the towel first (like how they got out of the self-driving car space), and then Meta will be left holding the bag.
I want to clarify that the tech has improved, plus lots of us geeks will continue to buy and enjoy such devices, but it is not a Visicalc, nor an iPhone. Thus, the Gartner hype cycle hump is gonna tank very soon, and big players hoping to sell millions of units every month will have to exit this space.
If history is any indication, then the blowback will be leveraged (successfully) to point fingers at other parties (doesn't matter who), and then the proposed remedy will be to double-down:
"It didn't work the first time around because we weren't strong-willed/determined/patriotic enough, this time We Must Go All In, and stamp out any dissidents with extreme prejudice, for they are the Enemy holding us back from our Finest Hour!"
etc, etc.
https://redarrowlogistics.com/international/dodging-tariffs-...
Excerpt:
> Put simply, transshipping is when a country ships product through a third country so that the product will look like it’s coming from the third country, thereby avoiding duties or tariffs. For example, one supplier, Settle Logistics, goes through Malaysia: a 4600 miles diversion compared with sending a container from China straight to the US.
> This is much more expensive: shipping via Malaysia costs $3,000 to $4,000 more per shipping container, at least $2,000 more than shipping direct. Those costs are still worth it in order to avoid tariffs.
TIL that the resulting defeat was soundly milked by Mussolini and friends to rise to power.
If at first you don't succeed, blame the Voices of Reason (and demonize them), until you do succeed.
This entire section is full of people (not everyone, but several) analyzing it carefully, as if it were a scientist handling a moon rock inside the nitrogen environment of a glovebox.
I can't see anything productive emerging from this post-hoc theorizing.
"Oh, don't worry, all the politicians are corrupt liars, so the current administration is just like the preceding ones. Nothing to see here!"
Thank you for calling this out!
I guess this website is for folks who're trying to equip a data center in their backyard with H100s?
I keep offering them Safeway Gift Cards, but they lose interest pretty fast...
(Highly recommend Sarah Wynn Williams' book)
Lately, I've found that another mental model fits that sort of medium even better:
Hot takes scrawled on the bathroom walls of pubs.
1. At-scale boycott: would you eat at a McD's where the "Happy Meal" has fentanyl in it? But somehow, this doesn't work for "social" media -- we're all aware what it is, yet we still use it, unironically.
2. Regulation: if a food inspector eats at your restaurant and confirms rumours that your food is actually addictive, your restaurant will get shut down. But somehow, FB/IG/etc. can operate without regulation, and free of any consequences. Sarah Wynn-Williams' book "Careless People" is worth reading.
Consider how big corps are able to get laws passed that benefit them (or stall laws that would harm them).
All this, to say that the C-suite and senior leader types are more like "ticks riding on the back of a mega-parasite", than "greedy entities deliberately transforming formerly-benign corporations into harmful entities".
...and TV brought us Ronald Reagan, and the Internet gave us Trump as POTUS.
Thank you, stranger!
For my part, I'll add that "Humans are visual creatures", which biases every aspect of our culture -- and might help explain why many would consider other primates "closer" to us than birds.
Their end-user privacy policy says "We will not use your Inputs or Outputs to train our models" (followed by carve-outs, which seem reasonable).