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by pjc50 4mo ago
People were starting to think that way at the "end of history" period between the Cold War and 9/11. At that time the major powers were not involved in wars, and it was believed that regional ones could be "solved"
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by pjc50 4mo ago
The goal is a very simple one: make Trump look good. It wouldn't be the first war in history to be driven by pure vanity of an absolute ruler.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
And let's not forget: the voters back them on this.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
cf the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845442 ; Ukraine has a hugely inventive and effective drone industry because it has to work . If it doesn't succeed, there is no Ukraine, and everyone involv
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Not OP, but since I looked up the corresponding UK process: https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-approval/individual-vehicle-appro... You end up with a special "Q" (as in James Bond?) number plate. There's a whole
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Medium ELI5 answer: each company and to a great extent each individual fab has a slightly different recipe, which is known as a "process node". This defines all the fabrication steps, every individual layer and its chemical&#x2F
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by pjc50 4mo ago
From the paper: "Second, memory dominates the carbon footprint of the fleet [8], accounting for 69% of CO2 emissions and posing a significant sustainability challenge [4]. DRAM dominates datacenter embodied CO2 largely because it is ub
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Source paper linked is https://aisystemcodesign.github.io/papers/isca26/vistara_cam... From a quick skim, you could think of this as roughly equivalent to shoving a large amount of DDR4 on a PCIe card and using it
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by pjc50 4mo ago
You can just insert the word "some" as required.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
This is true, but: you should see how many other cloud services have these terms. It's very insidious.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
There's a long running treasure hunt for some still-crated Spitfires that were supposedly shipped to Burma at the exact end of the war and then buried when no longer required. The amount of equipment left over from WW2 was staggering.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Over what timescale? Is the presumption that China, the country of one child policy, will do nothing about the problem?
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by pjc50 4mo ago
> they do seem to be causing fewer dollars to leave the country in imports Have you accounted for the dollars that are no longer re-entering the country due to boycotts or retaliatory trade policies?
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by pjc50 4mo ago
I'm fairly sure the old capital-L Liberal Economist wouldn't have done that, and it's a real shame they got dragged into culture war like everyone else. They were always overt about being Liberal, though.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
The FT's market is the small remaining group of people who actively don't want to be lied to. The latter three are basically just propaganda now. James Delingpole has worked for at least two as a climate change denial correspondan
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by pjc50 4mo ago
I think the way to determine how real this is: is the corruption allowed to damage the real economy? Most of the problems of Africa and South America are linked to that answer being "yes".
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by pjc50 4mo ago
The directors like money. And are probably beholden to their investors.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
The lesson of Nintendo is yes. Note that this is different in gaming than film because of technical progression. But also Nintendo are very good at "same charm, familiar characters and plot, different feel".
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by pjc50 4mo ago
If you don't have citizenship, you're just an expensive guest worker who can get kicked out at any time. (This is also true of Europeans in Dubai..)
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by pjc50 4mo ago
So it's a "management consultancy" with a special AI flavor? Definitely lucrative to take a 30% cut of your fleet of staff, in exchange for being a seal of quality. Not yet clear how effective trying to "distil" the
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Hacker News really isn't what it used to be, huh.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
A lot of this stuff is simply Veblen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption They're not trying to consume less, they're trying to consume more (and I would count lines of code as "spend&q
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by pjc50 4mo ago
People like using the "AI is like bringing a forklift to the gym" metaphor. I suppose for the shopping one it's using a SUV to make the 500m trip.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
I think this is where aggregate effects have to be considered. One person building an idiosyncratic house out of found materials: neat little project. One million people doing so: shanty town that can be seen from orbit and is a disaster wa
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by pjc50 4mo ago
> finds which Windows PCs were active with a certain IP on that time period .. and how do they do that? While we're on the subject of telemetry, has anyone got a GDPR orientated writeup of what's known?
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Someone's already done the UK as an OpenTTD map: https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Community/Scenarios/United%20Kin... , although I suspect that one cell =~ 100m makes it hard to accurately represent the real
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by pjc50 4mo ago
So, we don't know if this is the case, but one way to do this is not to ask the phones but the cells . The mobile network has to know where the phones are by cell; the cells are often small relative to the speed of the train; there
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by pjc50 4mo ago
No, that's Deutsche Bahn. (probably an inappropriate place for a joke, but at least it's about trains)
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by pjc50 4mo ago
I'd be fine with the nuclear compromise: if AI training is allowed to infringe copyright, then there is no legal protection for the models themselves and their weights. Distillation should be explicitly legal. There will of course be a
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by pjc50 4mo ago
I think this is an uncharitable reading of GDPR that is probably not backed by actual decisions?

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