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What a terrible outlook. “It’s not possible to do this thing safely at Meta’s scale” is an apologist cop-out. First of all, yes it is, Meta makes tens of billions of dollars of pur…

This author has a ton of axes to grind and a poor grasp of computing history or how industry works. Pretending like it’s strange or even bad that industrial datacenter builders wit…

Yes, the new ones often use dirty generators 24/7, and probably will for years. They are loud and toxic to the local community.

They tend to use coal and natural gas, instead, often in especially dirty forms. The fact that they can use solar doesn’t mean they do.

“Disability, the new form of welfare”? How old are you exactly?

Is it worse than having to create endless functions for each type pair? (b IntBox) MapToStringBox(f func(int) string) StringBox (b IntBox) MapToBoolBox(f func(int) bool) BoolBox (b…

And they all, universally, are terrible, slow, buggy, confusing, constantly changing, and have terrible UX. It’s no wonder people think it would be a good idea to use an AI to disi…

Who told you that? FIFA?

This statement is weak and wishy-washy compared to the blunt UEFA statement. Kudos to Europe. Here’s hoping CONCACAF can get brave enough to take the moral stance as well.

And they took a 15% commission on both sides of every aftermarket transaction. I’ve never seen such an overtly avaricious “marketplace”.

FIFA has announced they plan to officially sell off everything to private investors, dropping all pretense of being a steward of a common good.

Based on the quality of their World Cup ticketing website, I’m not surprised. That was the worst ticketing experience I’ve ever endured.

The LLM is reading the bytes of the file, not looking at a picture of its rendering. File metadata exists as well, and change history. Tons of places to hide text. Even if you proc…

TLDR: “we’re going to try to get money from LLM providers for access to our back catalog without getting permission from the authors or providing them with any share of the revenue…

China, Russia, and plenty of other countries have all been actively and successfully destabilizing the US for well over a decade now. To the point that your argument about who is l…

Dario Amodei Literally makes this exact argument in the OP.

Ironic to oppose giving AI tech to “authoritarian governments” while approvingly quoting the authoritarian-wannabe government of the US and framing that government as the good guys…

The “contents” represent the majority of the cost and meaningful functionality of what we call a “datacenter”. Those contents will not last for “real estate” debt timelines.

“In order to serve our customers better, we are phasing out the ‘Pro’ and ‘Plus’ plans, which will be replaced with new ‘Premium’ and ‘Extra’ plans. In addition, our ‘Business’ pla…

If you believe literally anything Sam Altman says, you are a fool.

The idea that we can’t get enough electrical power on earth because of supply constraints, but that we can solve that by launching the datacenters and their entire support infrastr…

Twain seems the obvious choice, so yeah I’m disappointed they didn’t even mention him. Given that they invited submissions, I’d have loved to see a bigger variety, rather than two …

This is exactly the sort of thing that’s not possible, though. An AI will not be able to detect a “lambda loop” because it will look exactly like a “successful lambda rollout”. Thi…

You’ve been misled about how encryption works apparently.

It’s written by folks who want to convince the military to do better. The fact that the US wastes a lot of money on what’s likely a very ineffective military is not a surprise, sur…