We all know that working from the office was once the norm. That fact by itself tells us nothing about how much the workers liked it. Nor is it relevant to the modern day which includes excellent technological solutions for remote work and widespread evidence that it does not harm productivity.

So, the suffering that some people face, today, in dealing with a work-from-office mandate are not in any way addressed by saying "well people used to have to work from the office regardless." We don't live in the past, and the tribulations of the past aren't relevant to the present.

Of course, I don't expect Amazon to show any compassion. Why would they? They succeed, in part, by exploiting workers, so they don't care if there is some suffering involved. They believe (right or wrong doesn't matter) that their bottom line benefits from this policy, so they will push it. Workers who don't like it can push back if they choose, risks and all.

Personally, I approve of worker pushback and wish we had more of it, because power is not in balance and being a worker sucks in general.

I know a student who brings them into tests.

"An argument about the world is interesting. An argument about a word is not." I can't find the origin of that quote.

How many pages of chess instruction do you think ChatGPT has been trained on? How many pages do you think it would take for it to play a decent game of chess?

I pulled out an Atari and did that.

The Atari won because it didn't make any mistakes in the summary.

Usually not into offshore accounts. You are completely wrong here.

When someone buys stock, the money goes to whoever sells the stock. And they use it to buy something else.

What percentage of loans made by banks are bad? Show you can think.

It's like the clock problem on steroids. Not all the required positions are in the training set of images. With the clock, you can easily just increase the number of images in your training set. With the chess problem, you can do that to some degree, but there are more positions than planets in the universe, so you won't have enough disk space.

Chess is a problem where you need to be able to tell the machine "these are the rules" and have it follow them. Humans can do that, the LLM can't.

A job is obsolete when a person is no longer needed to perform it.

A job that can be replaced by a machine and increase ROI, meaning the overall cost of the machine is less... Or if a job is distasteful enough or dangerous enough a human shouldn't do it, we have an ethical duty to use the machine instead.

We will replace humans far more rapidly over the next 10 years than ever before. The job market won't keep up. We should expect to see national emergencies and a lot of discord.

400Gb/s is about 40GB/s. That's 144TB/hr or ~7hr per PB.

I have dedicated 400Gb/s links all over 10 countries and 100Gb/s all over a bunch more. Pretty sure there are a few in China. I think it's typically costing me $25-30KUSD per fiber (8xwavelengths) per year on 25 year leases.

If you're in the game, you buy fiber. It costs nothing. And transferring to spinning rust at 150MB/s per drive and flying it is much slower and much less reliable. 7GB/s per sled for 64TB Huawei SSD is much better, but much more of a headache than just signing a lease for about the cost of one small NVidia DGX.

Of course, running a local farm of Huawei Ascend is just faster, cheaper and smarter.

Problem is, it's the NVidia software stack, not the chips that they want.

It's really impossible to say if it's running on it or not until you open the box.

They're going to have a chip with 200 qbits. If they succeed, that's something. Not a lot, but it's something.

Gnome is fine but stay away from Wayland.

When someone buys a stock, where exactly do you think the money goes? When you put money in a bank, do you think the bank keeps it in a vault?

I'm really wondering what you think cables are made of, if not from commodities.

In your hypothesis, how much cost pressure are Japanese people facing from climate change?