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The kind of RAM on an RPi uses the same wafers and fab equipment as the kind of RAM in a $40k GPU

Even if I wanted to buy this data, I can't figure out how

ooh I like this. I deal with a lot of random geojson files in my own project, https://landrecords.us

Ok but downtime isn't the same as failure. Downtime means planes can't take off. Failure means people die.

Tell me the difference between early and wrong

depends on your definition of "hurt". Installing one swimming pool instead of 3 hardly qualifies as pain for most people

Rule of law literally means that the law is the ruler, not government.

It also affects unionized firefighters and teachers with pensions.

If a multi-millionaire loses 50% of their net worth, they are still a multi-millionaire. When normal people lose 50% of their net worth, they have real problems.

Not arguing for a bailout, but the "it mainly hurts rich people" argument is pretty weak, and may actually be backward.

That'd be like successfully suing a gas station because your self-driving car filled up there and then killed someone.

It is the driver/user of the car who is liable, and possibly the manufacturer if it's defective.

Yes, revenue shows people's interest and willingness to pay for the product. That's exactly what it is.

ANT also has positive gross margins, so they aren't selling gold bars for $1.

I don't understand why people on HN treat ECON101 like some fringe theory every time this is discussed. This is basic stuff.

The dot-com era had a lot of companies with high valuations and zero revenue. That was the main problem.

Revenue is the one number that indicates how interested customers are in your product. What would you have us measure, then?

I don't know if it's "bias", exactly. This particular guy has been wrong on AI recently.

My M1 Max 64GB macbook is a consumer product that can be had for $2k on ebay. It runs Qwen3.8 just fine.

Is $2k for a whole machine not "consumer" ?

Nvidia owns HF. Why would they want people to have fewer reasons to use their GPUs?

There was some other research out there that says a weaker model can't just think forever and become a smarter model. What is different about this setup?

yea, until privacy.com gets hacked

useful idiots in the US who buy crypto because "it's the future"

or just use regular money.

pros: can already be used to buy all things, and doesn't set the earth on fire in order to verify transactions

cons: cannot be used to buy live grenades and CSAM

this isn't crypto, it's US dollars with a techno-wizard sheen on the top for no reason

nothing about crypto is decentralized. it's verified by enormous mining farms, who contribute hashes to centralized pools, all stored on one central ledger, and interfaces with the fiat/legit financial system only by using that very financial system.

oh, and three acounts hold like 25% of all btc in circulation.

crypto can do some things, but decentralization isn't one of them. just ask Coinbase

USD tether is barely crypto at all, it's a wrapper around treasury bonds which the US govt. regulates

I worked at Google up until 2 months ago. In my exit survey, the #1 reason I left: "Bureaucracy"

huh?

bigger number = more megahertz

Well there are risks to being part of a crowd that's all compelled to make the same decision at the same time. Certain risks can only be transferred, not reduced in absolute terms.

It's not economical today to run my own hardware, but the insurance is worth it to me in the sense that if my bet is wrong, I'm still okay with paying extra for the protection.

ok comrade

The bet we (self-hosters) are making is that once these companies IPO, they will be forced to do whatever they have to do to make money. i.e. price increases, more throttling of subscription non-usage-based accoutns, etc.

They are subsidizing all of us to the tune of $billions in losses per month. That can't go on for a decade. Probably not even for another 18 months.

I still use all the tokens Claude will give me on the max plan. But I also run deepseek v4 locally for overflow and for... contingencies.

Yes.

yea but I thought they had a massive compute shortage. Something doesn't add up. Imagine there being a beef shortage and the beef producers cut prices because "competition". why?

Right, but also shouldn't it be showing up in rationing as well? i.e. why am I not in a 4-hour-long queue waiting for Claude to respond?