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protocolture··on Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom
>Ok great, thanks for clarification. But still, on year 3 of the AI buildout, assuming the pace doesn't accelerate (it's already pretty fast!) then each GPU bought logs $0 profit since it's offset by amortization of the last two years.

Probably worth noting that Azure has had GPU resources for a while, I think it was already a profitable line for them, and since people have been chasing GPU compute on cloud platforms it can be difficult in some regions getting a reservation. Microsoft is probably looking at AI as Another profitable use case for our assets, let's expand it rather than a greenfields GPU buildout from zero. And where capacity doesn't get used by AI their customers can use it for other stuff across most not all SKUs

protocolture··on Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron
Virtual call center agents all suddenly think they are Ford F-150s
protocolture··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
>The US has the 1st and 2nd amendments, which gives us protection from tyranny in the government

Lmao. Jim Tyranny has had what? 3 cracks at him? Hardly protection.

protocolture··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
>Meanwhile there are more heat deaths in Europe than gun deaths in America.

This is a weird metric of freedom. It seems more like a reflexive, zeitgeist based response than any actual freedom metric.

In my experience the country with the most freedom is Canada. I have never seen anything like it. It's just so easy to do business there. Even if it wasn't that the laws enable it (they do) but even the way people operate. Being able to have a discussion with a customer without 12 rounds of a solicitor trying to insert dumb loopholes into a contract, costing the potential customer more in billable hours to their solicitor than the cost of the contract.

The USA is just junk. States that want to be Feds, Feds that want to be States, and when you cut through all the red tape you still have to deal with Litigious, ignorant Americans. Oh and if you want to import or export something just forget it.

"Oh but we have guns" is basically the exception that proves the rule, in a country where people get detained for such crimes as "Being beloved childrens author Mem Fox" or "Said naughty things on reddit" or "Working while waiting for Immigration to sort their status out".

But guns right. Guns. Woohoo freedom yeehaw guns.

protocolture··on SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef
Might not be great for the fish tbh.
protocolture··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
<subsidised, officially sanctioned by nearly every government, regulated to be easily deployed> technology overtaking <banned by several governments, mired in red tape, with a huge opposing lobby with deep pockets that's part of every group that should be supporting it> technology who would have thunk it.
protocolture··on US designates helium as a critical material
>They should have smuggled nukes from the collapsed soviet Russia or do whatever was necessary to produce nukes.

The plan in Iran was always self sufficiency.

protocolture··on ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems
>Opened a Meta for Business account to try and buy ads. Immediate lifetime ban before taking even a single action.

It let me pay for ads for 2 weeks and then decided I need a temporary ban. Theres no reason posted for the ban. Temporary ban has no end date. Every time I submit a support ticket, they tell me to just chill out and maybe it will end next week. This has been going on 3 years.

protocolture··on Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
>Somehow the anarchists never seem to expect people to use their newfound freedom to erect a new government in place of the old.

Theres so much anarchist writing on this exact topic lmao. It's even the core theme of Le Guin's Dispossessed, with the anarchists replacing a state with an internalised social hierarchy, even while worrying that certain elements of their organisation layer are going to become the government, they rebuild the government.

No anarchist I have ever met has ever thought that one day they turn the government off and thats the end of the job.

protocolture··on US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams
No says the man in washington, listening to your own song 10000 times simultaneously is "fraud"
protocolture··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Its just like, 1TB of LLDP/Pings/Probes/Whatever

Looks like nmap OS detection can use ~90kb per host per attempt.

protocolture··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Define "Liberal".

I know conservatives love some kinds of control, and centrist/leftist parties love other kinds of control. Swinging from one to the other gets you both, not neither.

protocolture··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
The gang gets used as target practice for a Tomahawk missile.
protocolture··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
If its modelled after the Australian Access and Assistance bill, which it probably is, they will just compel the app to provide the capability to gather the data before/after its encrypted/decrypted, and stream it to some kind of logging device the feds install in your rack.
protocolture··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Satellites are very reliant on ground ops. Its much like crypto. You think all your stuff is in space, but the FBI agent has a wrench and will just break your kneecaps until you let him in. But also the FBI agent will pull your operating permit for the country your ground stations are in and take you offline.
protocolture··on Our approach to EU text provenance rules
This also isnt that.
protocolture··on Our approach to EU text provenance rules
>There's lots of regulations that are easy to bypass.

Considering kids already use word substitution and other techniques to avoid plagiarism detectors, is creating a new kind of plagiarism detector weak to word substitution a valid path forward?

Actually, if anything it's just going to compound the false positive rate, making things worse for people who arent cheating.

protocolture··on 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
>Graeber has been dead for years.

Yeah I have been trying to "was" him as much as possible.

>Your references post date their work

Yep but theres no conspiracy to hide these facts that only the brave Graeber can explain through the medium of book sales.

>Jomon Japan

Yeah I am faintly remembering something about their giant burial cairns or something.

protocolture··on When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
Somehow I read that in popeyes voice.
protocolture··on Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
>Windows NT 3.1 and Jurassic Park were both released

A horror about the unchecked madness of human technological development, and a movie about dinosaurs.

protocolture··on 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
Again I don't see the comparison being made?

Like we known hunter gatherers had social hierarchy, settlements and crafts.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/01/preserved-10500-year-o...

“These aren’t people that were struggling to survive. They were people confident in their understanding of this landscape, and of the behaviours and habitats of different animal species that lived there,” added Gray.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ArchP..27..329T/abstra...

"Their social organization was complex and can even be compared with that of the Levantine Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) farming society."

It seems like Graeber was fighting a strawman?

protocolture··on 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
>The linear narrative of the evolution of human societies is dead

This is I guess one of the bigger problems with Graeber, like when he was attacking Silicon Valley he demonstrated he had absolutely no idea what he was arguing against.

Likewise, armchair reading of human social development has never appeared to be linear to me. Palace Economy > Crash > Temple Economy > Crash seems pretty damn standard. I was watching an old documentary on the socioeconomic development of Egypt and it looks like they discovered and rediscovered several important social and economic reforms, that were then lost and rediscovered by themselves and other societies over and over again.

The question is, was Graeber an idiot and just didn't know what he was talking about or was Graeber just another grifter like Hancock who relies on misrepresenting other peoples arguments for financial gain.

protocolture··on OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
Considering that the venn diagram of AI safety gooners and OpenAI is a circle, and that these idiots are starting to worship this stuff as a religion, expecting rational action from them is kind of ludicrous. For all we know Aella promised them a gangbang if they delayed the model a week.
protocolture··on OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
They would never upset their AI eschaton by switching it off. If anything they need more ceremonial cult leaders.
protocolture··on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
Jimmy CIA here to sell you a new security product.
protocolture··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
>has been repeatedly shown to allow unfriendly AI to escape containment:

Has it been shown, or has the cult simply updated their tenets to preclude AI containment?

I swear any idiot with the tiniest bit of security or networking experience could box up an LLM. Failing to do it properly is a choice.

protocolture··on Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built
More power than anything* the fibre usually comes later.

One going up near me is being built on the site of an old coal fired power plant. Lots of juice and an old dam for water. Theres not exactly 2000 cores of fiber out that way, but I am sure it will come eventually.

Theres some going into old paper mills and logging camps too, same sort of thing, near water, lots of juice, out of the way.

*Sometimes theres a simultaneous fibre buildout, or they are built where theres a lot passing through but its less of a concern afaik.

protocolture··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
>but our retrospective review identified other cases of external DNS access that it did not flag at the expected severity.

How after all this time have they not just spun up a DNS server inside the sandbox?

I detest that the stupidest people on the planet are the ones in charge of this stuff.

protocolture··on OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare portal
*explode
protocolture··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
The order of operations here seems to be:

1. Albo goes to meet with Altman to discuss AI safety

2. Altman says "Yeah bro we hacked medicare"

3. Albo seemingly acts as Altmans stooge and lets everyone know that a hack took place, helping cement the AI danger narrative Altman has been pushing.

4. Police Taskforce is being put together now (indicating no hack was detected earlier, which seems unlikely for Medicare) at the say so of Altman to investigate.

There doesnt appear to be any evidence of a hack that has been presented, there doesnt appear to have been any detection of a hack earlier (it doesnt make sense for the government to hide a medicare hack until it can be used for OpenAI marketing)

Once again, the whole thing smells so bad.

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