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Kudos to Tesla for having the guts and endurance to try. This is relevant for Tesla and for the industry.

A big part of the reason people are paid multiples of six figures is to put up with an unhealthy amount of stressful bullshit.

I don't know if the Zen 4 Threadrippers can be similarly run with a power limit. If they can, I'd expect much better efficiency than whatever Intel offers.

This has eco mode benchmarks: https://youtu.be/W6aKQ-eBFk0?si=o8l1qGUhSQKxmY_c

How is this sector siloed against a newcomer that undercuts every incumbent while remaining profitable?

There's no vet industrial complex, so no administrative/insurance/legal parasitic overhead like in human medicine (in the US).

Not even Google can get Qualcomm to upstream their drivers. Let that sink in. And it's not because of confidential IP, because many of the drivers are already open source.

Silicon vendors could save a lot of time by mainlining their code rather than having hundreds of forks of every library. Security would dramatically improve. OEMs could update their products.

Maybe it will take legislation or a special interpretation of the 2021 executive order on cyber security [1] to force silicon vendors to take this seriously.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Security in this space is a absolute disaster.

The non-zero mean and relatively small standard deviation (0.4 sigma) make all the difference here.

I'd say the ethics and legality are entirely determined by how this distribution was determined and if it's consistent with promises to customers.

Europe leads the world in legislation and regulation, both good and bad. Their labor laws are the strongest in the world. Manufacturing in Europe can't compete on price, and the price disparity will be significant, so they will regulate and tax imports.

The price difference is for the VRAM.

Executives are expected to be mature enough to not need hand holding.

This keeps coming up, and I can only assume the author has not interviewed many candidates.

I've interviewed hundreds of candidates. I've lost count of how many tenured engineers I've interviewed who could not write basic code or explain basic programming concepts. Things that a practicing programmer would encounter every week.

A hiring manager naive enough to waive coding tests will almost certainly hire a low performer who will hold back their team.

Wordpad is very basic in comparison.

Big oil and big tobacco share a strategy of promoting false skepticism, shifting blame to consumers, using the legal system to harass and intimidate scientists, and lobbying to get support from elected representatives. Big oil is of course bigger, and the entanglement with politics, jobs and other companies in the private sector is much stronger.

These issues are widely documented, and the books that climate scientist Michael Mann wrote were eye opening to me.

The only sensible exit is to legislate at scale. These companies will not self regulate. The lag between cause and effect makes this extremely dangerous. A heavy carbon tax is an obvious way to do it.

At work, ask culture puts higher burden on managers. Especially when requests cross the line into unreasonable territory, and the manager has to study the problem with objectivity, and politely articulate why the request cannot be granted.

Example: request for time off overlaps with important deliverables due by the requester. In guess culture, the requester studies their schedule and does not make a request if there's a conflict. In ask culture, the requester asks anyway and if the manager approves, they have now entangled the manager into what could be a bad business decision.

Imagine you're 15 and look at the graph above. What deadline do you set for humanity to fix the issue?

Oil and gasoline are some of the most subsidized products in history. Too many Americans demand cheap gas, like it's a human right.

If solar had been similarly subsidized over the last 20 years, we'd see solar panels on every other business and house in every state except Alaska.

This is the situation, and environmental groups did not cause it. And they did not pivot towards undermining their own mission at scale, like they're being accused of.

If this is real, then discoverers found this in 1999, apparently couldn't synthesize with good yield, couldn't analyze rigorously, sat on the discovery for 24 years, were recently rushed to publish half-baked papers, and are now silent. None of this inspires confidence.

LK-99 could hypothetically be the real deal, and I want to believe, but I'm patiently waiting for people who actually know what they're doing to offer experimental evidence.

If you believe in your work and would like to see someone build upon the results, having clearly reproducible results also makes all the difference. Most of the time, you won't even know that people are trying out your code/model/whatever, and friction in the onboarding often means that they will move onto something easier.

If you bound the last 10% and avoid scope creep, I am all for investing the time.

The U.S. healthcare system is deeply broken, so it's tremendously difficult for someone who is poor and sick/mentally ill/addicted to drugs to regain control of their life. Irrespective of the legal status of hard drugs.

My belief from working in very large companies, and (previously) in mission critical systems is that a clean bootstrap and recovery process is extremely unlikely, almost impossible. Because in complex systems full of legacy parts and people who have long retired, the stars won't align.

The only way to truly know is to design and periodically test for disaster scenarios (emphasis on the plural). But due to the scale in time and space, cost and bureaucracy, this planning and rehearsing is not going to happen with the desired detail and intensity. People do not seriously plan for things that have never happened.

If it does happen, there will be a small group of extremely capable people that will find a way to bootstrap the system. It won't be according to some previously laid out plans -- they will make the plan in real time. They're not famous and probably never will be.

I encourage every PhD student to get industry internships, one per year. This needs to be commonplace. It shows them an alternative, gives them a dignified exit (whether they graduate or quit), creates heavyweight competition for the professors with big egos, pays students a decent wage for a while, and injects some novelty on both sides.

The operators decided this was too much work. They gambled and they lost.

Moreover, what will be the short interest should this company go public?

I become more confident with every week that the CEO is holding back the company. And so is the board by allowing executive decisions and objectively false statements based on ego.

If Bill Gates took this advice he wouldn't have dropped out of university to run Microsoft. That's fueled by ambition and initiative, not arrogance.

Arrogance is telling OP or young Bill Gates that they aren't qualified enough to do it.