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Ah shoot, I War of Worlds' myself. I didn't realize this was fiction until the end.

Why can't effort just be at the end of the prompt? My understanding is that that is how modes and other "dynamic updates" like the time are handled.

Calling China a country that "bred like rabbits" over the past few decades is first of all offensive and second of all stupid for a country that has one of the biggest problems with their coming population pyramid and limited couples to a single child for most of the last 40 years.

China is at a higher installed capacity by 6x from overall and 30% by per capita capacity. They're growing installed capacity from your source at 45% y/y as compared to 20% in the US.

Sure, there might be more transmission constraints or whatever, but those will certainly be solved in time (transmission capacity is more distributed so I'm not surprised it's lagging capacity).

The quote you pulled for China is conveniently 3 years old and missing the global context that it was in response to supply issues with other fossil fuels, not a reflection in meeting demand.

These charts address your points:

https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/china https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/united-states https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/india

India is a bit more concerning for a number of reasons (lower per capita income means they are lower on per-capita emissions currently and hence have more room to grow, and they don't have the resources that China does to build out renewables) but criticizing China from a renewables perspective (there are a whole lot of other valid reasons to criticize them) is insane.

Hmmm... Why wouldn't this be handled like other end of prompt things like the current mode?

Ah, so it's more that "LLMs just bypass Rust's safety" rather than "LLMs write perfect C"? That's a more fair argument.

> "because LLMs don't make the same coding mistakes that humans do that justifies the existence of the borrow checker"

Citation absolutely needed.

Just curious, are there lifeforms today that rely on these metals to live in anaerobic environments? Maybe the hydrothermal vents that are talked about?

Do you think complex life could develop (perhaps by moving backwards) in a way that they rely on an anaerobic metal-rich environment?

I guess the oxidation event maybe was necessary for life to develop enzymes (since there wasn't sufficient evolutionary advantage for it to develop in an anaerobic environment?) but maybe something could go backwards? I'm just curious if there might be advantages for live in that sort of environment.

This is neat. I'm only halfway through but some really cool discussion about the internals of the chips and what they offer.

I feel like the future is people building applications with tightly integrated LLMs that work hand in hand with the application's own lifecycle and code.

I also didn't realize that people were using agentic harnesses for search, it's an interesting idea. If the context length is short enough it should be fairly cheap compared to running "normal" agentic coding workloads where you have O(100k) context length for doing almost anything.

I think there's probably a "in a long time" missing from unsubtle bully. American diplomacy was a lot less subtle in the past.

> only ~20-30% of the energy in the fuel turns into useful work, while electricity is much, much more efficient. So, we need much less of it.

Isn't a lot of energy used for heating, not work?

Perhaps an un-fun fun fact if you're living near one of these, but Boom aerospace has pivoted to start selling turbines for data centers in addition to its normal business.

Because their model previously got blocked by the government for this and they don't want a repeat?

Claiming that it's more expensive isn't true, it's workload dependent. Filling the cache (worst case) 12 times in an hour is much more expensive than caching it for an hour, and the cheapest is to have your 5m cache refilled by a ping like this is doing.

Imo it's their fault for not having pricing that aligns incentives.

Through the courts though, right?

Wow he was born a _lot_ earlier than I would have thought!

It's a bit unrelated, but I've been wondering if LLM providers are using cache read costs to preserve the illusion of constant output token prices. In reality, the longer your context the more expensive output tokens are, but anthropic and openai both have flat output token pricing.

In practice though as a result of cache reads over multiple turns you will end up paying quadratic pricing anyway.

I once shared a proposal at Google that Vint commented on and encouraged me to follow up on. I haven't, but it certainly made my year :)

How would it help? MMOs generally don't need to know where things are right now since it's mostly static, no?

No reason other than you're giving user's a cost footgun? That's a pretty good reason.

What? This is the opposite of regulatory capture. Neither anthropic nor openai are getting to choose what happens with their models.

I find the way that models understand images to be seriously lacking. The root cause of the issue as I see it is that image encoding isn't contextual. The encoder should be aware of the prompt so that it can encode the right things. It seems like this should be something that could be trained into a model.

It feels like this would be beneficial to give the model more of a deep understanding of visual knowledge.

Weird justification since 9/11 was a plane hijacking, not something on the streets.

What if life was born under the surface?

Fun fact: I once got a security bounty because they sent the 2FA emails through click (some email monitoring SAAS thing) with "view in web" enabled, and it was set up so that the emails under a given template used an auto incrementing ID, so you just had to request a 2FA email and then access it through click's web UI.

This is an internet comment forum, not my team's slack chat, it's ok to have some fun with creative ideas.

In theory the new futures markets for chip components would help here, since it would allow DRAM suppliers to insulate themselves from that risk.