tech_ken

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by tech_ken 8mo ago
> No, they're 1 order of magnitude off. (22 MW total capacity of the constellation vs your bar of 100 MW for a single DC.) Why on earth would you compare their entire fleet to one project? Power generation trivially parallelizes onl
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by tech_ken 8mo ago
> So 3 years ago they managed to get to 10% of the power budget of one data center by accident, using satellites not explicitly designed for that purpose, using a partially reusable launch platform with 1/10th the payload capacity o
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by tech_ken 8mo ago
> I don't get why we aren't building mixed use buildings, maybe the first floor can be retail and restaurants, the next two floors can be data centers, and then above that apartments. I mean a DC needs a lot of infrastructure a
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by tech_ken 8mo ago
> The author uses the power capacity of the ISS's solar panels as a point of comparison, but SpaceX has already successfully deployed many times that capacity in Starlink satellites[1] without even needing to use Starship, Your link
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
> I'm trying to understand what the criticism is here, because the example seems to support the point that these are meant to be a way of learning the future, not oppose it. I thought the whole point was that yes, people with inside
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
> If we evolved to be more rational, then the phenomenon probably wouldn't exist. I strongly disagree here, I think the phenomenon is in fact part and parcel with the evolution of our rationality. Betting (as you accurately describe
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
> It's just that if the service is run for-profit, counter to the interests of the users, it will eventually become a problem for the users. That's the problem to fix, and it's not one to fix with technology, but just with
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
My (admittedly a bit tinfoil) take on the recent self-hosting boom is that it's highly compatible with individualist suburban capitalism; and that while there are elements of it that offer an alternative path to techno-feudalism, by it
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
I think this is a good idea so long as you ensure you've got a good backup going or don't put anything super critical on there. I think it's seriously outside odds that Claude `rm -rf /`s your server, but definitely not
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
Managing the wg.conf is a colossal PITA, especially if I'm trying to like provision a new client and don't have access to my main laptop. It's crying out for a CRUD app on top of it, and I think tailscale is basically that pl
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
> Observability made us very good at producing signals, but only slightly better at what comes after: interpreting them, generating insights, and translating those insights into reliability. I'm a data professional who's kind o
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
I think you're making the mistake that any of their points are cogent or intended to function as proper arguments. It's just bullshit chaff to make you waste time, and provide a patina of legitimacy for the fact that they really j
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
> Do these "studies" account for second-order effects on housing, local job markets, etc.? Yes everything improves. Displaced workers find new jobs, markets and economies expand, etc. etc. > At the expense of legal immigrant
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by tech_ken 9mo ago
You'll spend way more tax money to haul them across the border than you would to just print them a permit to live and work in the community they've been contributing to for years. Every study ever conducted on the issue has conclu
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
It's got that analog warmth
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
This is an important clarification; from the abstract and title I was super confused how they identified a "subspace" that could be consistently identified across model structures (I was assuming they meant that they saw stability
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
Basic rule of MLE is to have guardrails on your model output; you don't want some high-leverage training data point to trigger problems in prob. These guardrails should be deterministic and separate from the inference system, and basic
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
> A few were allowed to be sacrificed, but most of the risk wasn't realized, and instead rolled into new positions that diffused it across the economy. Yeah that's a more accurate framing, basically just saying that in '08
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
O(n^(~2.8)) because fast matrix mult?
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
> correction that wipes out the incumbents who absolutely are working to maintain the masqerade You need to also have a robust alternative that grows quickly in the cleared space. In 2008 we got a correction that cleared the incumbents,
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
Okay :) I actually do have a pretty deep familiarity with all of this and that's why I'm criticizing the article. It felt like a rehash of known facts (Thiel is a christian fascist, his company Palantir does innovatively horrible
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
> This is what Thiel’s apocalyptic geopolitics looks like in practice: a twisted military-industrial eschatology where an AI-powered genocide is understood to be “restraining” rather than enacting the end of the world. I could have used
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by tech_ken 10mo ago
Jacobin is to communism as Gary Johnson is to JD Vance. "Left politics" covers a lot of ideologies and they all hate each other.
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by tech_ken 11mo ago
> Did Feyerband also not argue that Galileo's claim that Copernicus's theory was proved was false My reading of AM was that it's less about what's "true" or "false" and more about how the actual st
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by tech_ken 11mo ago
> Though there is a key difference – Galileo could see through his telescope the same way, every time. Actually this is a really critical error- a core point of contention at the time was that he didn't see the same thing every ti
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by tech_ken 11mo ago
> With the emergence of AI in science, we are witnessing the prelude to a curious inversion – our human ability to instrumentally control nature is beginning to outpace human understanding of nature, and in some instances, appears possib
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by tech_ken 11mo ago
> I haven't heard of that being the argument. The main perspective I'm aware of is that more powerful AI models have a compounding multiplier on productivity, and this trend seems likely to continue at least in the near future
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by tech_ken 11mo ago
The adoption and use of technology frequently (even typically) has a political axis, it's kind of just this weird world of consumer tech/personal computers that's nominally "apolitical" because it's instead ali
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by tech_ken 11mo ago
Wow I've needed harmony for years, thanks for sharing! My dumb ass was filling out the Musicbrainz by hand for like two months before I just gave up on beets.
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by tech_ken 11mo ago
> “Worse insomnia, depression/anxiety or the use of other sleep-enhancing medicines might be linked to both melatonin use and heart risk,” Nnadi said. “Also, while the association we found raises safety concerns about the widely use

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