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Usually the manager doesn't care about this though - a p-number is a p-number, it doesn't matter if they are paying them $200k or $100k (assuming the salary range for the position was that large).

If anything the manager would prefer a higher offer that the candidate is likely to expect than a low-ball which they reject and then the hiring process has to continue.

Loudoun County, Virginia is about to get even richer.

It's incredible the minister didn't resign after the January crash and I doubt he will now either. I understand that perhaps the problem started in the control centre but surely at the end of the day the minister is responsible - they don't get paid a fortune just to pass the blame on to the workers.

It reduces risk though - solar power will be much less useful if battery tech doesn't continue to improve, and we can't be certain that it will.

They aren't mutually exclusive - we should have more of both.

The page doesn't load for me, but surely token consumption isn't a very good metric?

A poor model could require many more runs to solve a task, or much longer internal 'thinking' runs - all of which will increase token consumption but are a bad thing for the user.

Can you take that on an airplane?

I'd rather pay 40 cents per hour than have to pay really inflated prices for the games like Stadia had.

Ultimately, you end up paying for the usage somehow.

They should both go to prison. One for giving out unauthorised access of the resource and the other for exploiting it.

If the authorities want people to accept systems like Flock etc. then they need to severely punish abuse like this.

The vacation time is genuinely better, yeah.

The universal healthcare is hard to quantify - because most decent companies include health insurance in the US and the quality of the public healthcare provision in Europe can be quite patchy (i.e. location-dependent)

Remember that you are comparing gross salaries too, and taxes are much higher in Germany so the engineer ends up with much less take-home pay.

It would be. But it also feels like the "Can it run Crysis?" of robotics.

By the time we get robots capable of folding laundry, we'd already have solved many, many other use-cases.

Engineering salaries in the EU are far lower than in the US though.

They probably just used the Germans because they are cheaper.

I played it in 2001 (I remember when paid memberships first came out) and yeah, I could spend ages doing everything because I was a kid with no responsibilities aside from schoolwork.

Nowadays with a wife and kid of my own it'd just be impossible to spend that much time on it.

Yeah, I found the writing really hard to follow. And it was really difficult to visualise any scene due to how complicated it all was.

I was surprised it's recommended so much.

They could just make sentencing tougher and keep criminals in prison.

The strongest predictor (by far) for committing a crime is having a prior criminal record.

I find it odd that people don't complain about all the water these guys use, but apparently data centers are the Great Satan.

It seems like the astroturfing accounts are managed (perhaps by humans, perhaps by advanced AI) for quite a while before being used. So they won't look like new or 'thin' accounts and will have reasonable looking posts across different subreddits.

We are in the age of the replicant now.

I think Huang is correct and the AI doomerism is just the new Satanic Panic.

Of course, if he can make more money making "watchdog" chips then I can understand his change in opinion.

> This invitation followed a meeting I had with Jensen, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky on my houseboat

> Then, in April 1996 - by which time I’d expatriated to the Kingdom of Tonga and was working on various internet startup schemes

He must have so many interesting stories!

I'm old enough to remember when my company had everything on-prem (both analytical and operational databases and servers) due to cost and security concerns. Nowadays we have everything on GCP.

The biggest problem we had with on-prem was maintenance as it took a lot of staff and time to ensure decent reliability.

Given we can write the documents in LLMs and summarise/explain the documents with LLMs one would hope we would go back to written documents instead of videos now.

Instead we've worked out how to get the LLM to make videos.

I'm surprised this didn't get more attention here.

Aren't the royalties usually revenue share deals with the record labels like Spotify has?

So that makes it really hard to make a lot of profit - as the royalty costs grow linearly with your revenue.

I feel the same way - I'll probably get a Pixel next. I had one many, many years ago before switching to an iPhone and it was excellent.

The Enterprise plans with OpenAI and Anthropic include clauses that they won't use your data for training (unlike the 'civilian' plans).

I guess it depends if we believe that or not.

Sufficiently large enterprises could get their own GPUs to run the models though.

It depends though - I'm not in the US and in my country ETFs get taxed continually whereas mutual funds don't get taxed until you sell.

In general, invest in low-cost index funds is pretty solid advice everywhere. In different countries you might use slightly different instruments due to tax advantages (like the ISA in the UK etc.)

The biggest problem nowadays is the focus on low-value industries like agriculture and tourism.

The Civil War and subsequent dictatorship help explain how the country ended up in this situation but I think people often focus on them too much rather than how to improve for the future.

It was blocked for me on O2, which is part of Movistar - have you tried it now?

Yeah, I'm on O2, which I think is part of Movistar? And it's blocked.

Fortunately, I already have a VPN anyway :)