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massive bong rip musk is broadsides-ing the spacex ipo so hard not only because he’s desperate for cash (he is) but also because he wants to stick it to saltman after losing the recent court case
just taking the piss at this point?
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It’s on netflix in the states
their catalogue is notoriously variable across countries, and it’s even worse in ZA (we are often-disregarded by various content cartels). but since all of these shitters just ran headlong for reinventing cable monopolies so rapidly.. I stopped entertaining the “you need to have 7 streaming services and 3 flavoured vpns to circumvent region-blocking” dance a couple of years back
remarkably educational, nice
okay damn you o7 I checked
Claude Fable 5 introduces our 5th model generation for your most ambitious work. Tackle days-long, complex, and asynchronous tasks previous models couldn’t sustain.
folks, can I get a “please god pay us for even more tokens” for 500?
and they listened to The Safety Dance
not sure they’re cool enough even to do that
Hope you get to feeling better fast!
ty! rest is helping, but why are sinuses
It’s also fun to sort by pnl and see just how far the gap is for others that aren’t nvidia
I’ve also seen mention of “Fable” and I’ve been too sick to go check up on whatever the fuck that is
I’d been betting on one of the promptfarmer companies being the ones to set off the bubble-popping chain reaction, but looks like musk is so desperate for cash that his coterie of grifts are speedrunning for the underdog position
given that the promptfondlers still haven’t even levelled up to -*- power level, I suspect this take is pretty correct
the dicebot will dice all the time, you’re only guaranteed a start under certain filenames. besides, there’s plenty of evidence out there that shows these fucking things can’t even scope to cwd for replica management
(Posting this at 01:41 after a very, very full week and with flubrain: take considered potentially faulty on delivery)
I’ve often thought about this specific problem part, and i gotta admit I’m pre-conflicted. Due aforementioned note I haven’t read the license yet (I’ll do in the week and post a reply with thoughts) but from what I’ve observed to date:
- only certain kinds/sets of corps appear to give a damn about licensing
- even if one initiates legal action against the offenders, they’re typically banking on financial asymmetry first and inter-area regulatory friction second
And ito a policy having defensive teeth, those are two load bearing pillars that turn out to not even be moth eaten wooden beams but instead rice crispies held together in a sugar glaze
Consider: what if some popular projects had a “if you’re using this in something making >= $thresholdOrPortionCalc, you must support the project with $percentageOfRevenue” clause in licensing? Modulo the payment distribution admit (lol @ modern aml nightmare), would help a ton with the open source funding squeeze. But can you imagine the bleeting (and probably parasitic forking) if that started happening?
Put another way: without copyright and IP reform (into what shape I have only vague suggestions), how far do licenses get us?
(I’m sorry if this sounds extremely negative -afaict with current regulatory climates and where-IP-is-at, it’s the broadstrokes view. Icbw in detail (I expect I am at least in some detail). But I want to be wrong because god this all fucking sucks)
some recent data shows the 2020s dip quite significantly: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2026/co2-emissions
which is, well, hopeful at least. if we ever get any global movement on consensus to deal with the issue
https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#Using_pinning
Beware that down the line you may run into dependency resolution issues (but hopefully the upstream situation is resolved by then)
good morning
that fuckin company had another funding round
the further one reads, the more depressing it gets
Joining them are strategic infrastructure partners—Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix
cool so it’s going to be even longer before one can buy affordable computers again
I wish all of this a very fuck off and stop already :|
and since it’s likely that there is no writeup, I am now already starting with “polymarket site:lesswrong.com”
we all know the abyss would get upset if I don’t visit enough
hey awful, a Question:
do any of y’all know if there’s a decent writeup of the rationalist/hanson/thiel pre-history of prediction markets (a la polymarket etc) before they hit the much-heightened popularity of the last ~18mo?
the only kind of spine casey has is the kind in his old school ringbinders, and you can’t convince me otherwise
fuckin casey is at it again
haven’t got time to sneer it just yet, but had to share
it’s funny because it’s almost directly the eve capsuleer picture, but we already knew these dipshits don’t read
also, how would this work? body grows old, but brain just….doesn’t? self-rejuvenating hermet crab brain!
ooh, brava!
the first part wasn’t really a surprise (I am the someone else’s computer in a number of areas), but those numbers.. 100k/mo hit cap/target? holy shit. no wonder such fucked fortunes have been made off wordpress
for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32..48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4..8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y
I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit
I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem
so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing
I went with the whiskey glass-sized gin/campari/martini rosso/cherry thing. a less regrettable decision
thank you for saving me a search
and even then I regret looking
151 thousand views
one hundred. and. fifty one. thousand. views.
brb ordering a tasty cocktail with which to distract myself
also I just realized: he didn’t post this from his forkiverse account
did they already abandon that hilariously bad idea? did the widdle influencah realize that his social currency is his unfortunate popularity? gnnnngh
‘ole yuzzie has already solved the halting problem: he can never fucking stop writing
til soyweiser’s current char build is chaotic semi-evil
(I jest I jest)
casey newton, well-known fawning stan of promptfarmers, has now started on some mildly revisionist wording
you could’ve been engaging with this point for 2+ years casey! why *now you spineless shit? goose-goose-meme.jpg
yeah, my answer to this also used to be pandoc until they took the prompt unto their soul
it’s deeply fucking frustrating
well fuck :|
I wanted to make some kind of this/esherah crossover joke but my brain is failing atm, but to the former part of your comment: hehe :D
(I often like to hear how folks found their way to being who they are, there’s so much fucking humanity out there with y’all!)
I had some good fun learning about the different roulette systems recently. along with how many places say they’re typeA when they’re typeB
but then they do operate in a target rich environment :|
he was most frustrated a couple of weeks back when people called bullshit on his previous round of takes about this
there continues to be a rather particular shade of selfishness involved in each these-shape takes I keep seeing. it’s always about how the prompt is for them, how dare anyone else not believe them? and what do you mean externalities we’re not talking about power plants we’re talking about them
it’s exhausting
someone linked me a screenshot of the “claude helped me figure out I’m trans” post (from there) and whew, that one’s a real ride
nasb some criticism of the human damage is tasting up eve in places like ieee spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/measuring-ai-societal-impact-khan
awful does indeed use iocaine! and yeah the codebase is fun :)
it’s stunningly effective at handling scrapers, and it’s even more fucked how intense a plague the scrapers (combined with running shitty job scheduling with even worse code through resproxies) are
I signed up for ACM last year, just hit my expiry (like, today), and truly don’t know if I want to renew
it’s been an extreme avenue of generative hype, constantly pushing talks, books, etc. I have no idea how they square it with the ethical pledge
what a name choice
just fucking stunningly naked grift, incredible