So, it used to be that the EU would sue for a valley company for a few billion every year or two to pay for the operations of the government.

The UK is out of that loop and realizing it needs a fund raiser.

But honestly, I think if were Microsoft, I would just consider shutting down UK operations.

Doesn't this suggest that the free market economy has lost to communism when the government of the leader of the world's free market economy admits that it can no longer compete in the free market economy without socialist protectionism?

More people are born
More people need work
More people are creative about what to do
More people see other people needing better tools
More people make better tools
More people become more efficient
Less people are needed for the existing jobs
More people struggle to find more creative ideas
Market demand in every major sector can be met without more workers

And here's the real kicker. The best place to find jobs right now is in making better tools... which reduces jobs.

I am the specific target audience for these drives.

And ... they are a TERRIBLE idea.

Assume PCIex4 v5.0 for the interface. That's a theoretical 15.75GB/sec. To read this drive sequentially would take 4.25 hours.

This is so slow it's absolutely useless for AI. Assume for a moment I loaded 8 of these into a 1u chassis. 800Gb XDR InfiniBand would be too slow, a double link would work. But you would be better off building half-U trays with four drives and an 800Gb link.

That said, let's say you had half a rack of that. That would be 48x245TB or about 12PB. And remember this is performance storage, not reliable storage. Everything here should be treated as entirely volatile... it's just cheap/slow RAM, it's not bad.

I think overall, I would architect a similar system on 64TB sleds because with the exception of rack space and power (and the drives use no power next to GPUs), 64TB drives destroy 245TB drives in every way.

Once we hit PCIe v9.0 or so and 4Tb Ethernet or InfiniBand, then 245TB will start making sense.

If Micron wanted a serious product, they would have dropped U.2 in favor of Ethernet or InfiniBand.

Huawei too

Huawei has great massive scale power systems.

Yup, all models can do this. If they have reasoning, they can crack. In fact many models without reasoning can crack easily enough.

The number of jobs are increasing, because the number of jobs being filled is rapidly decreasing. So, new job listings are often old job listings reworded to exclude more candidates.

If you have one or two good engineers (not programmers, not developers... honest to goodness engineers) who with AI can keep 15-20 tasks running simultaneously (the cost is GPUs and screens), you don't need to hire someone right now.

Companies want the best they can get. They don't want to fill seats anymore. If they already have a few developers, the LLMs are increasing their productivity 10-20x (yes, real engineers who learn LLMs and how to use them as though they're programming languages get that kind of gain), then they can hold out.

Here's a great one for you... I would never hire anyone without a great GitHub now. I want to see projects and I want to see both hand written code and LLM generated code. I want to see external projects they've patched to see if they can work on other peoples code. I want to see student/professional projects (things with deadlines) AND fun projects.

I'm in no rush. I will post a job, if I don't find someone great, I'll change the posting and wait again. LLMs will give me the buffer I need.

Google, Microsoft and Meta profit by open sourcing models. (more like hedges their losses)

OpenAI released shit models as open source and OpenAI and Anthropic are junk without gigantic caches from mass economy. The model is far less important than the cache. So, if Anthropic actually opened anything it would be junk too.

And I think the Pentagon should be legally required to make their own models. I think that depending on external companies for their most important technology is idiotic. The government should own and operate their own drone companies and their own AI companies. They should not legally be allowed to use outsiders that are easily influenced by external entities.

AI belongs in a sandbox on test servers. We don't use AI in production.

When a programmer is programming, they use an offline database and an offline server. When their code passes tests and code review, we push to production.

If you don't work like this you have no right to sue.

"chase kids on ebikes across parks and playgrounds."

The problem is they aren't in parks and playgrounds riding their "e-bikes" (they're more electric motorcycle than bicycle). They're on the road with cars and major traffic. I see it, particularly, in more affluent neighborhoods (Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica).

And we're not talking about a few... They're everywhere -- particularly after school hours and weekends.

Ebiikes are a legal workaround loophole for motorcycles.

Fuck... I even budgeted about $3000 so far for version 2. I don't like the physical design of v1 and I am almost desperate for v2 :(

I have spent time with 9 neurosurgeons, 2 neurologists, 1 orthopedic surgeon, 8 general practitioners and over 50 nurses in 2026. There have also been 3 or more radiologists/neuroradiologists involved.

They all disagree on what is wrong with me or throw their hands in the air and say "I don't know" and another said "it'll heal in a few days, ignore it".

Here's the catch, the doctors all lack the ability to understand what is wrong with me. But as I collect information from each one of them and I upload the CTs and MRIs into the AIs and finally I have a doctor who isn't very good, but is not a specialist. As a result, I have a list of questions to ask the doctors to see if we can work on the problems.

As someone who takes 16 pain killers every day for months now, I want to get past this. I don't believe the doctors will figure it out. I believe it will be the AIs

You realize there are a bunch of homes available for sale in all sorts of places for next to nothing. The problem isn't "housing", it is "housing where people want to live". Declining population in places like Italy have created housing collapse where nice houses aren't sold, and sit empty, and they'll pay you to move into one.

It isn't colonial, it is industrial. The current format of school is that of preparing for a factory workforce. We are post industrial, knowledge/AI/Whatever it will be called workforce.

Educators need to come to grip with getting EVERY child their MAX educational value we can. This means breaking the rows and columns of desks in a classroom, and getting kids their most valuable education they can get. This means some will do much better than others. Talent has gradations. Not everyone can be a Astro Physics expert.