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No, your parent is correct.

In addition to the pragmatic point about how nobody actually paid those rates, there is an ideological mismatch as well:

Those very high marginal tax rates were not enacted to address inequality or any of the typical social goals that we think of when we advocate for higher marginal tax rates. Rather, they were imposed to combat war profiteering during the WW2 period:

"The crisis of World War II led Congress to pass four excess profits statutes between 1940 and 1943. The 1940 rates ranged from 25 to 50 percent and the 1941 ones from 35 to 60 percent. In 1942, a flat rate of 90 percent was adopted, with a postwar refund of 10 percent; in 1943 the rate was increased to 95 percent, with a 10 percent refund."[1]

Can you argue for a very high marginal tax rate as a means of wealth distribution and furthering progressive policy ? Yes, of course you can.

Have we ever had one ? Not really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_profits_tax#United_Stat...

I highly recommend the “collected interviews” of Ballard that was released some years ago … very interesting exchanges and some almost shockingly present judgments about the future… Especially the future of media in the YouTube age.

Then I would read Empire of the Sun.

"... as I was incredibly surprised to learn of nuclear energy existing in the Caribbean ..."

You may also find it interesting that South Africa had nuclear weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...

Free account, indefinitely, to whoever needs it to store this data … including the storage vendor.

Just email…

"I went to restaurant last night and asked ..."

USDA Organic isn't perfect but it is, largely, the only meaningful information you can be given.

Everything else is weasel wording and subterfuge.

This is a fair point - and well taken.

However, I never asked for LLMs nor did my consumer nor professional behavior send market signals that I would use them. They were thrust upon me apropos of nothing.

Now that I find them useful, the least I can do is stop making the problem worse.

"To someone who never did anything like this themselves the result might seem fantastic ..."

I've been "doing this" for over 30 years now and I consider these LLM results to be fantastic.

If one has a deep, conceptual understanding of tools, systems and protocols and if one has the ability to carefully provide careful, concise specifications, these LLM tools are like being granted superpowers.

In fact ...

My next project upon which to bring LLM tools to bear is a fully local, solar-powered, self-hosted LLM toolchain.

Not only do I intend to never work without these tools again, I intend to do so without the ongoing environmental externalities that they produce.

"Free server racks for everyone when the bubble bursts!"

I actually have this trophy from the previous bursting bubble ... a Sun microsystems rack populated with three e4500.

$750k + of equipment at original list price ...

"Why would other countries, that don't share the same anxiety about China as the US, would be troubled with the this?"

It's the other way around.

There is a high likelihood that many countries of the "west" (the "global north"?) will outlaw, restrict, or otherwise control LLMs and the tools that enable them.

The US, however, is blessed with the first amendment which makes it extremely difficult to restrain speech in any form - including code.

“I think everyone in the HN crowd knows that.”

I would think everyone in the HN crowd would be aware of HEAC, the hdmi Ethernet channel, etc.

With full access to the hosts tcp/ip stack, we’d do well not to overlook the potential vectors for a monitor to install software on your computer… especially when the operating system is complicit.

sqlite3_rsync exists:

https://sqlite.org/rsync.html

... and is installed and available:

  # sqlite3_rsync -vv ./test.db user@rsync.net:test.db

"Ordinary rsync does not understand SQLite transactions. Rsync will make a copy of ORIGIN into REPLICA, however the copy might not be consistent. Parts of the copy might be from one transaction, while other parts might be from a different transaction. The database copy might be corrupt."

"... prove you're not a child by handing over your ID ..."

Anecdote: I just created an API access account at openAI, for a business I own, two weeks ago, with no identification check of any kind.

No human name is anywhere on the account.

Thank you - this is correct and cannot be repeated enough, especially in the context of infant and child doses.

No, it doesn't take years and the testing is performed, roughly, as I just described it.

They build a test rig with 10,000 drives which they run continuously producing a total "drive hours" count and then wait for the first one or two or ten drives to fail.

X failures / 10,000,000 drive-hours will give you your MTBF, etc. ... and only takes ~40 days given a 10k drive test rig.

Some pictures from Seagate lab in Longmont:

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yHqDagRDz9H5koWBefi24K-120...

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EiZ9tA6p3UbaJFTaW75JdN.jpg

“They can't realistically do anything else to estimate it …”

Of course they can.

How do you think they get the MTBF for hard drives?

What they do is deploy thousands of them and wait for the first one to fail. Then they wait for the second and third ones to fail… And then they can construct a statistical abstraction for the entire population based on the very first degradations … and that doesn’t take long at all.

Actually, it’s not obvious why you’re using a throwaway account…

Every emergent behavior from these actors - whose claim to positive moral values is barely plausible - should be reported, discussed, dissected and critiqued early and often.

"GLM 5.2 is "almost Opus," and it needs at least 8xH200s for comfortable inference ..."

What is the behavior if one were to run GLM 5.2 with only a single H200 ?

Would it fail to run at all, or would it just run so slowly as to be unusable ?

I would like to prove out the build, and concept, of a SOTA model locally, but then backfill the rest of the GPUs in 18-24 months when they cost significantly less ...

I want to see the zine(s) so I can duplicate them and publish them at Kozubik.com.

An hour of cpr in an ALS scenario almost certainly involves a Lucas device:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUCAS_device

… which are commonly carried in ambulances.

Anon.penet.fi is clear prior art - from 1993[1].

Anyone who thought they had invented something new here were kidding themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer

“Switzerland, unlike the USA, seems capable of safely operating these plants …”

I would have said that about the Japanese as well…

We increased our prices - for the first time in 21 years - last week.

The increase was 25% and was, of course, mainly due to hard drive prices.

"An R9700 is $1350 and can get 100 TPS running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q5 with 130k context window ..."

How would that change (improve) if you had two R9700 in a similar configuration ?

I disagree.

See above where I frame this as a classical arms race and the equilibria (stalemate) between white/black hats is a very safe and stable place to be.

You and I don't get to choose who the white hats are and those actors could change dramatically as US administrations change, etc.

It's better to rapidly reestablish a new stalemate ... and I say that as someone who has spent the last six months rapidly triaging vulnerabilities and newly discovered attack surface in an attempt to safeguard the livelihoods of everyone who depends on my business.

"Mythos found 1000 zero days in a few weeks - if I had asked your thoughts on this a few years ago, I'm sure it would've been "that is a super-weapon"."

No, my take would have been that a very strong new move had been made in a long-standing, classical arms race.

Since I rather like stable equilibria in areas like this, my thoughts would have been that white hats need to catch up immediately to reestablish the stalemate ... which was probably the course we were on, prior to today.

"We need a Second Amendment for AI: the right to keep and bear strong AI shall not be infringed."

It is already robustly protected by the first amendment.

If I had legal possession of the fable source repository, etc., and printed it on paper, it would be legal for me to possess and distribute, discuss, annotate, etc.

It is possible to work in technology and not contribute to the moral bankruptcy that your parent refers to.

No. A figurative toddler.

A literal toddler would be one to two years old.

I have five figures of karma with which to fight this battle.

"I know some people who are adamantly against solar and wind ..."

Ignore them because it doesn't matter.

Physics causes finance, which causes politics ... and their politics will immediately change when the finance crosses whatever threshold they happen to be anchored to.

That's different for different people and different situations but you can be sure it will happen. Those people will not pay markedly higher electrical bills or have a (relative) doubling of their cars TCO for their politics.

Just be patient.

I am rarely in Atherton and have no connections to it.

However, I really appreciate both dense city centers and nicely organized single family home towns and neighborhoods.

So it makes perfect sense to me that one would advocate for the network effects of upzoning and building in dense, transit and service connected job centers ... and simultaneously be against breaking up an existing equilibrium in a smaller town.

Urban and sub-urban sprawl is an aesthetic and environmental disaster and it disappoints me that what was once a progressive imperative (working against sprawl) was jettisoned the moment it ran counter to economic self interest.