MontyCarloHall

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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
>Reich in particular is borderline deliberate about attracting those sorts with his lab's research, because of how badly he chooses to handle the topic and terminology of race. Sorry, do you have any examples? His views that I'
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A proxy routing all webtraffic through Qwen, removing all enshittified crap(geohot.github.io)
7 points by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago|0 comments
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
>It will be violence from the rich towards the poor, because democratic AI is not acceptable for them. Unless the rich somehow manage to completely stifle the progress of consumer-level computing advancement (all chip manufacturers would
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
CEOs have been saying the exact same thing for the entire history of automation. Take computing, for example, an industry that's always been unusually amenable to automation: — in the 1960/1970s, when compilers came out. "We
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
People currently assume AI will be an accelerant of inequality because all currently useful models (i.e. those potentially capable of mass labor disruption) are only able to run in multibillion dollar datacenters, with all returns accruing
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
Before the industrial revolution, approximately 90% of people worked in agriculture. In fully industrialized countries, that figure is now <2%. That decrease constituted a nearly full replacement of everything humans were doing, better a
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
I think you underestimate just how much we value human achievement. Why do we watch Olympic runners, when cars on your average city street easily exceed Usain Bolt's top speed on their morning drive to Starbucks? Why do we watch the To
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
>Labour displacement leads to an erosion of standards of living The two biggest labor displacements in human history were the agricultural and industrial revolutions, both of which resulted in enormous gains in human living standards. Ca
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
They are pretty good friends of mine and I never sensed any tension. It really was a marriage-ending bolt out of the blue, like discovering an affair or severe financial infidelity.
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
Indeed, but the rage I've seen during political fights at family gatherings (and another politics-induced divorce) pales in comparison to the rage I saw in these two anecdotes. The worst political debates I've seen involved raised
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their re
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by MontyCarloHall 6mo ago
S3 GET requests have negligible cost, at $0.0004/1000 requests. Upload requests are $0.005/1000, which is also negligible.
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by MontyCarloHall 7mo ago
>This option enables local file caching, but does not change NFS cache coherency, and does not reduce latencies. That's true for any NFS setup, not just EFS. The benefit of local NFS caching is to speed up reads of large, immutable
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by MontyCarloHall 7mo ago
I agree, it's an oddly low threshold. The latency differential of NFS vs. S3 is a couple OOMs, so a threshold of ~10MB seems more appropriate to me. Perhaps it's set intentionally low to avoid racking up immense EFS bills? Setting
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by MontyCarloHall 7mo ago
Since EFS is just an NFS mount, I wonder if you could do this yourself by attaching an NVMe volume to your instance and setting up something like cachefilesd on the NFS mount, pointed to the NVMe. Would mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1
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by MontyCarloHall 7mo ago
The threshold at which the cache gets used is configurable, with 128kB the default. The assumption is that any read larger than the threshold will be a long sustained read, for which latency doesn't matter too much. My question is, do
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by MontyCarloHall 7mo ago
This is essentially S3FS using EFS (AWS's managed NFS service) as a cache layer for active data and small random accesses. Unfortunately, this also means that it comes with some of EFS's eye-watering pricing: — All writes cost $0.
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by MontyCarloHall 7mo ago
Would reduced heating due to warmer winters offset this? Global carbon emissions due to heating are approximately 4 times the amount of carbon emissions due to cooling [0]. (Of course, the ideal scenario is not that rising carbon emissions
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
I ran into a similar issue years ago, where the base infrastructure occupied the lion's share of the container size, very similar to the sizes shown in the article: Ubuntu base ~29 MB compressed PyTorch + CUDA 7 – 13 GB
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Anthropic is claiming that SWEs will go away, but hiring more SWEs than ever(old.reddit.com)
3 points by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago|0 comments
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
I'm willing to bet you don't full-on YOLO vibecode like the lead Claude Code developer, running 10 Claude Code sessions in parallel to push 259 pull requests that modify >40k lines of code in a month [0]? There is zero chance a
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>Waymo benefits from Google's unparalleled geospatial data. How much of Waymo's training data is based on LIDAR mapping versus satellite/aerial/street view imagery? Before Waymo deploys in a new city, it deploys a hug
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
I am curious how much Claude Code is used to develop Anthropic's backend infrastructure, since that's a true feat of engineering where the real magic happens.
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
Isn't the main problem with pensions today the dramatic increase in life expectancy post-retirement? They were never intended to support decades of retirement: in the old days, you retired at 65 and there was a good chance you'd b
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>I'd expect to see movements to force government regulation of AI. I agree. It will be an interesting debate to watch play out, because a) lots of end-users love using AI and will be loath to give it up, and b) advances in compute w
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>Are those people cutting the grass/operating the elevators happier/unhappier than they would be otherwise? There are numerous studies that show menial labor leads to poor mental health. Perhaps these people employed as makewor
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>Life and business is not about profit. It’s about bettering the lives of people. This mentality results in the grass at the Taj Mahal being cut with hand tools [0], or Japan having a whole category of "useless jobs" like eleva
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>>Brynjolfsson found a 13% relative decline in employment for early-career workers (ages 22-25) in AI-exposed occupations since late 2022. For young software developers specifically, employment fell almost 20% from its 2022 peak >T
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
100% agreed. When/if that pivot happens will be the sign that gen-AI is truly disrupting the software market in a profound way. "You're using the model wrong/you're not using the latest model" is an oft-repeate
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
Addendum to counterpoint: why haven't those SotA gen-AI companies become the most productive software companies on earth, and release better and cheaper competitors to all currently popular software? People always gripe about the poor

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