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"Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing."

If you're going to do this with your life you have to believe that you're necessary - and you are - everyone wants to drive their fancy cars and their big fucking houses they can't afford they need you - you're necessary.

The only reason any of this works is (you) have (your) hand on the scale in their favor. (You) take it away, everything gets really fucking fair, really fucking fast - and don't no one want that.

They want all of the things (you) have to give them and .... then they want to pretend they don't know where it came from.

It is here:

https://sqlite.org/rsync.html

Are you aware of sqlite3-rsync ?

It is a tool that was created by the author of sqlite. It does just what you would expected to do.

I have one of these that I purchased ~16 years ago:

https://github.com/Retrotink/PockeTerm-II

Very simple serial -> VGA device. Unfortunately no longer in production but the github project contains everything one would need ...

"Short everything this guy has ever touched ..."

“… There is no way of contacting anyone at Google about it …”

Of course there is: you pay your lawyer to send correspondence by registered mail.

Then you have them send followup correspondence a week or so later.

You will absolutely get a response.

“… These are later accounted for when you sell. Though AFAIK if you sell at a loss you can't get the Vorabpauschale back directly, but it would increase the losses you can potentially apply …”

That sounds simple and elegant.

So many of these M5Stack products are not actually stackable and have no physical relation to their "stack" system.

No, this is because they want to IPO soon.

If the chips weren't this compelling they would have something different to announce.

These are paperclip maximizers who just happen to wear human skin - there is no underlying premise nor ideological goal.

Yes, address is verifiable.

A reminder:

Neither visa nor MasterCard networks have the ability to verify cardholder name.

Everyone behaves as if they do, but your name cannot be verified.

Which is to say, all of these cards have name anonymization, not just robinhood.

No, your parent is correct.

In addition to the pragmatic point about how nobody actually paid those rates, there is an ideological mismatch as well:

Those very high marginal tax rates were not enacted to address inequality or any of the typical social goals that we think of when we advocate for higher marginal tax rates. Rather, they were imposed to combat war profiteering during the WW2 period:

"The crisis of World War II led Congress to pass four excess profits statutes between 1940 and 1943. The 1940 rates ranged from 25 to 50 percent and the 1941 ones from 35 to 60 percent. In 1942, a flat rate of 90 percent was adopted, with a postwar refund of 10 percent; in 1943 the rate was increased to 95 percent, with a 10 percent refund."[1]

Can you argue for a very high marginal tax rate as a means of wealth distribution and furthering progressive policy ? Yes, of course you can.

Have we ever had one ? Not really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_profits_tax#United_Stat...

I highly recommend the “collected interviews” of Ballard that was released some years ago … very interesting exchanges and some almost shockingly present judgments about the future… Especially the future of media in the YouTube age.

Then I would read Empire of the Sun.

"... as I was incredibly surprised to learn of nuclear energy existing in the Caribbean ..."

You may also find it interesting that South Africa had nuclear weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...

Free account, indefinitely, to whoever needs it to store this data … including the storage vendor.

Just email…

"I went to restaurant last night and asked ..."

USDA Organic isn't perfect but it is, largely, the only meaningful information you can be given.

Everything else is weasel wording and subterfuge.

This is a fair point - and well taken.

However, I never asked for LLMs nor did my consumer nor professional behavior send market signals that I would use them. They were thrust upon me apropos of nothing.

Now that I find them useful, the least I can do is stop making the problem worse.

"To someone who never did anything like this themselves the result might seem fantastic ..."

I've been "doing this" for over 30 years now and I consider these LLM results to be fantastic.

If one has a deep, conceptual understanding of tools, systems and protocols and if one has the ability to carefully provide careful, concise specifications, these LLM tools are like being granted superpowers.

In fact ...

My next project upon which to bring LLM tools to bear is a fully local, solar-powered, self-hosted LLM toolchain.

Not only do I intend to never work without these tools again, I intend to do so without the ongoing environmental externalities that they produce.

"Free server racks for everyone when the bubble bursts!"

I actually have this trophy from the previous bursting bubble ... a Sun microsystems rack populated with three e4500.

$750k + of equipment at original list price ...

"Why would other countries, that don't share the same anxiety about China as the US, would be troubled with the this?"

It's the other way around.

There is a high likelihood that many countries of the "west" (the "global north"?) will outlaw, restrict, or otherwise control LLMs and the tools that enable them.

The US, however, is blessed with the first amendment which makes it extremely difficult to restrain speech in any form - including code.

“I think everyone in the HN crowd knows that.”

I would think everyone in the HN crowd would be aware of HEAC, the hdmi Ethernet channel, etc.

With full access to the hosts tcp/ip stack, we’d do well not to overlook the potential vectors for a monitor to install software on your computer… especially when the operating system is complicit.

sqlite3_rsync exists:

https://sqlite.org/rsync.html

... and is installed and available:

  # sqlite3_rsync -vv ./test.db user@rsync.net:test.db

"Ordinary rsync does not understand SQLite transactions. Rsync will make a copy of ORIGIN into REPLICA, however the copy might not be consistent. Parts of the copy might be from one transaction, while other parts might be from a different transaction. The database copy might be corrupt."

"... prove you're not a child by handing over your ID ..."

Anecdote: I just created an API access account at openAI, for a business I own, two weeks ago, with no identification check of any kind.

No human name is anywhere on the account.

Thank you - this is correct and cannot be repeated enough, especially in the context of infant and child doses.

No, it doesn't take years and the testing is performed, roughly, as I just described it.

They build a test rig with 10,000 drives which they run continuously producing a total "drive hours" count and then wait for the first one or two or ten drives to fail.

X failures / 10,000,000 drive-hours will give you your MTBF, etc. ... and only takes ~40 days given a 10k drive test rig.

Some pictures from Seagate lab in Longmont:

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yHqDagRDz9H5koWBefi24K-120...

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EiZ9tA6p3UbaJFTaW75JdN.jpg

“They can't realistically do anything else to estimate it …”

Of course they can.

How do you think they get the MTBF for hard drives?

What they do is deploy thousands of them and wait for the first one to fail. Then they wait for the second and third ones to fail… And then they can construct a statistical abstraction for the entire population based on the very first degradations … and that doesn’t take long at all.

Actually, it’s not obvious why you’re using a throwaway account…

Every emergent behavior from these actors - whose claim to positive moral values is barely plausible - should be reported, discussed, dissected and critiqued early and often.

"GLM 5.2 is "almost Opus," and it needs at least 8xH200s for comfortable inference ..."

What is the behavior if one were to run GLM 5.2 with only a single H200 ?

Would it fail to run at all, or would it just run so slowly as to be unusable ?

I would like to prove out the build, and concept, of a SOTA model locally, but then backfill the rest of the GPUs in 18-24 months when they cost significantly less ...

I want to see the zine(s) so I can duplicate them and publish them at Kozubik.com.

An hour of cpr in an ALS scenario almost certainly involves a Lucas device:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUCAS_device

… which are commonly carried in ambulances.