If that were all there was to it, they would just pocket the profits. They’re cutting prices because they need to stoke enough demand to pay for their ever greater and every more costly capacity.
Unfortunate naming which conflicts with Google’s Blaze, but I would love to integrate this with Bazel persistent workers. Bazel, for the most part, can build Rust better than cargo can.
It’s unfortunate that Rust’s incremental compilation has so many bugs with -Z threads, maybe this can work around that.
Some people are born with nervous systems which aren’t capable of noticing the difference, just like there are people who can’t see better than 20/20 no matter how good their optical acuity is.
It's a failure because AI beat the FSF to the punch: it made software effectively free, as in freedom. You can have whatever software you like, now. The FSF never came close to that.
The parallelism is nice, but it only helps cloud inferencers if there is an efficiency improvement. Autoregressive inference isn't parallel, but parallelism can be recovered with sufficient batching.
Airbnb drives up the rents of residential neighborhoods to benefit rich travelers. YC needs to stop investing in these morally questionable businesses.
This is one of the dumbest takes I’ve read online in a while. We are nowhere close to understanding the complex emergent behavior arising from LLMs. The author comes across as so simple they don’t even know what they don’t know. Like a confident high school freshman. They would probably claim we also understand how the human mind works because we know about atoms and molecules.
What a waste of time. Arguing over the definition of “inevitable” like a child trying to get out of something. Almost nothing aside from perhaps heat death of the universe is literally inevitable. However, in the world we live in, AI is practically inevitable outside of an asteroid strike ending all life on earth. It’s almost as certain as the sun rising in the east.
Humans can make decisions because they have a random number generator inside of them, and therefore computers cannot? Or are you making a free-will argument based on some mystical substance in a human brain? You need to think this through a bit more.
Not quite the same. Attaching a GPS tracker involves physical trespass and can track a person to non-public locations. Also, collecting data does not restrict one’s freedom of moment. Nor is it stalking. Stalking is a pattern of conduct designed to intimidate or inflict emotional distress. Flock may facilitate staking, but it is not stalking itself. If knowing that someone else knows you were at a particular location at a particular time causes you distress, you have issues. Do you flee from every other car that sees on the road?
This; batteries are still ungodly expensive for seasonal or long-term storage.
And what happens if you need to satisfy peak demand for more than four hours at a time (and you will)? You still need some generators or overprovisoned batteries.
Exactly this. Digital devices with GPS are pervasive and there is no reason sunrise shouldn’t be at 6 a.m. every day. Every night at 3 a.m. the time is skewed ever so minutely so we have all the advantages of daylight savings with no sudden, jarring transition. Time zones would be 2D.
Only if you’re video conferencing with some other time zone would you ever need to look up the meeting times (via your AI assistant) which are block aligned and start at slightly different times every morning, far after you’re comfortably at work.
It’s Human Time, the way humans evolved to thrive—rising with the sun. What daylight savings time should have been and what it will become.
The biggest issue is payload. Right now they’re launching with very light payloads, way less than the Saturn V or even the Falcon. Definitely short of their goals. They’ve never demonstrated a real payload weight. Until this happens their progress is illusory and a skeptic would claim their engines can’t take a real launch payload weight.
Then they could be sued by a minority shareholder for knowing they should take action, but then failing to, and resigning instead. Failing to take an action is still breach of fiduciary duty.
It is not the textbook definition, because what Anthropic is doing is not sabotage, malicious, or subversive. Those are the key words in the definition. They are just refusing to add a feature to the military's specification. So their bid falls short of requirements.
That’s because that car is made in China and has already sold 1.45 million copies, many heavily subsidized elsewhere. So it has recouped its development costs. EVs are simpler and cheaper on a per-unit basis, only the development costs are more expensive. And BYD uses the same platform for a bunch of other subsidized EVs, too.
There’s an argument that a private citizen operating a Flock-like device is exercising a constitutionally protected right to gather news and observe public events, and sharing those observations is constitutionally protected free speech. And, unfortunately, the Fourth Amendment is worded to restrict government invasion of privacy, not citizen invasion of privacy.
I expect the Supreme Court to eventually rule on the constitutionality of mass surveillance of public places, at least by the government. Maybe also by random citizens.
The US is roughly 30% of the world’s car spending, and if Toyota made a car only for the rest of the world, it would be more expensive than a competitor’s platform which is sold in EV and non-EV forms everywhere. An EV is still more expensive than the equivalent ICE and it would be even more expensive if it doesn’t share a platform.
An EV built on a dedicated platform doesn’t become more profitable than the shared platform version until it sells about two million copies. That’s because it costs $1B more in fixed costs for a dedicated EV manufacturing setup. If that car isn’t going to sell that many, it’s not worth making dedicated. In Europe EVs are still outsold by ICE 4 to 1. Even if I did sell two million copies, all you have done is recouped your $1B, not made any more profit than if you did the shared platform.
Yes. Just because this forum is frequented by loud Musk incels doesn’t necessarily color the whole community with some other label. This is a classic forum problem where extremist views are amplified merely by the enthusiasm of the extremists.