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I wonder where the China labs supposedly distilling anthropic models rank among the top customers

Plugin solar is entirely different.

My family got an fixed three phase setup with a 12kWp, 8 kWh battery (BYD) and a Hybrid Inverter (SMA) alongside a Level 2 22 kW EV charger for a grand total of 16.000€.

My plugin solar setup was a DIY with 1kWp of panels + an 800W inverter and did cost a total of 350€, including the mounting hardware.

Well you don‘t know me, but you can still feel free to count me against your stats

I find demands like that equally funny like the ones wishing for Autodesk alternatives.

I would not trust slopcoded tax software and I would not trust slopcoded CAD tools in any way.

I mean that is often times true. But efficiency in this context - particularly with infrastructure - usually means extracting most profit while providing the bare minimum of service.

The expectation that the service gets either better for the same amount, or cheaper for the same service, is usually naive

I know this is a long standing joke, but I am 27 now, born and raised in Germany, and genuinely never had the opportunity to use a Fax machine. It honestly kind of bums me out because there is something that seems cool about Fax (being fully aware that it should be fully obsolete by now)

In all honesty, all these distillation complaints brought forward by Anthropic etc make me enjoy the cheap Chinese models even more

I am not sure about international availability, so your best bet are probably very large breweries.

If you like pilsner, I do enjoy an occasional Kulmbacher Edelherb.

The Augustiner Helles Alkoholfrei is incredibly popular, but hard to come by even here in Bavaria.

Similarly popular and among my favorites is the Bayreuther Hell Alkoholfrei.

That being said, neither of these options is available at Lidl or Aldi in Germany, so I would assume they aren‘t internationally either.

> non alcoholic beers taste terrible

Might be a market issue. I grew up along beer drinkers and over the past few years, so many good alcohol free beers have entered the German market, that a lot of them shifted almost fully to alcohol free beers.

> I’d say the burden of proof is on you though, can you supply epidemiological evidence that wine isn’t harmful to health, if you’re going to advocate for the alcohol industry

I do not think anyone would argue that alcohol consumption is good for your health, regardless of what kind of alcohol.

> My observation is that the young people who do drink aren't going for beers and wines, which are tastes that can take time to acquire, they're going for sweet liquors and premix cans of fizz.

Born in 1999, I qualify as GenZ. All my peers drink beer, which is unsurprising given the strong cultural presence. But more and more people have been moving to alcohol free beer, which is becoming more and more widespread. Loads of breweries reacted and started with alcohol free beers, even the ones you would have never expected, like Augustiner Bräu in Munich.

Pretty much all surveying data for my home country for the last few years suggests that GenZ is just drinking less alcohol overall. While there probably are some shifts within the consuming population, that does not fully explain the shift away from the alcoholic staples.

I don't think this is merely a gratuitous reference given the fact that AI demand is probably - among EVs - a key driver for the sales of power related ICs.

pointless, yes. Entertaining, also yes.

Regardless of my whataboutism, I still think tax is an very apt description of what the Google Play and App Store fees effectively represent. I would be happy to call it a fee if the stores would actually allow effective competition. But as it stands right now, the "government" like behaviours make the wording tax fairly accurate.

Can you share any official communication where somebody claimed this fab was for AI?

It was pretty clear that this fab - much like the other Bosch facilities - is going to be for automotive and industry ICs, not for high end node sizes in CPUs or GPUs.

Good thing the companies that participate in the current AI craze would never ever behave in any way parasitic.

The longer I work in corporate, the wiser Todd seems

I have never understood the appeal of foldables, but I guess with Apple launching them now, they're probably going to see significantly improved software support within the next few years

In Europe, the Fiat Topolino and his siblings are an increasingly common sight (while still being rare).

Relatively cheap, can be charged with a regular 230V socket, tops out at 45kmph. Not as compact as a bike for obvious reasons, but still a substantially smaller footprint than any modern car - and comes with proper weather protection.

Flatpaks are a common packaging mechanism used on immutable systems. They are very attractive (conceptually) for large org deployments, so I can totally see the appeal here

> The sad truth is that the status quo for GUIs is absolutely terrible, and most were rushed out and not properly tested to check if they're really usable without a mouse.

This is the key point. No platform UI paradigm focuses on keyboard navigability and speed, all focus on mouse and visual effects for discoverability in a pursuit to dumb down the user experience enough to make it usable for everyone, breaking power users in the process (and increasingly also accessibility stacks).

Interesting given this is the polar opposite of my experience. I find Googles AI overview to give wrong answers constantly. Occasionally, even for questions I believe Google circa 2018 was able to answer confidently.

Ironically, Googles AI overview often links to references that state the polar opposite of what the AI overview claims.

> Not many are running banks or hospitals on Postgres.

Certainly not. But the key here is that not many are running banks or hospitals in the first place.

I work at a big company, we run on SAP as the big commercial DBMS, but also have some oracle instances. By number by far the most widespread commercial RDBMS seems to be SQL Server

With all things going on among AI bros and the AI industry as a whole, are you really that surprised there is a widespread aversion against the tech?

I do not think it is a mystery why people favor Postgres over OracleDB, is it?

Realistically, without running the numbers, only few industries come to mind that may come close. Chemical manufacturing, steel production and maybe glass production as well.

For the remainder, the wage costs - more specifically - the overhead costs are the true killer. If you want to pay someone 80k a year in Germany, the actual costs are closer to 100k a year in purely salary overhead costs, not to mention the other bureaucratic overhead in Germany

I don‘t think someone disputes that this is in the realm of AI/ML. I just think its questionable if this kind of usecase is genuinely something were an LLM is necessary or outshines the more traditional approaches

I know, this doesn't really address the core issue, but is stuff like balcony solar legal in Australia?

Here in Germany, it is absolutely massive and an increasing number of people run their balcony solar with batteries that just feed into a regular Schuko Plug. It only allows to feed in 800W at a time, but there are workarounds for that as well

That is not an App Store functionality, that is a Safari functionality

Generic screening is where I draw a line where the risk of substantial damage is just too high to justify it.

I am nowhere near an expert on this matter, but probably more informed than the average Joe. What always strikes me in these kinds of debates among non experts is - as outlined in the article - how people equate genetics to certainty. This assertion does not hold up at all once you start taking an even superficial look, but most people never do that.

If you justify this kind of screening on todays data, that most likely overestimates the penetrance for most conditions, you also cannot undo it in the future. If you start screening now and after 30-40 years it turns out your lifetime risks were off by a factor of 3, you still have created a generation that (possibly) underwent extensive and invasive screening, waiting for a diagnosis.

> It is almost guaranteed it will also introduce export controls on the models.

The current models are open weights and already out the door. They are hosted by many providers and are already comparatively good in many domains. Even if this generation is the last one to be open, I‘d argue it would already put the US providers in trouble