How does Deno compare to Bun (which is now funded by Anthropic).

Spinning hard drives have come back down. I bought 4x 30TB in December when I was afraid the prices would climb. Paid ~$2500 direct from Seagate and got 78TB of usable RAIDZ storage. By January those same drives were only available 3rd party went up to $900/each on Newegg. Now, the Seagate 32TB are available on Newegg for ~$700/each. If I had waited, I could have gotten quite a bit more storage for a little more ... but the 32TB are also sold out now, so those prices might skyrocket again.

They're not being responsible in their rapid data center expansion, so why would they be responsible in anything else?

I suspect when this AI bubble pops, all the corporate customers will end up being charged $200~$400/month per engineer, and they'll have to chose between Anthropic or OpenAI (no more just enabling both in CoPilot enterprise). Individuals might start shelling out insane amounts per month, and maybe we'll finally get a push for more usable local models for coding.

I also suspect there are developers who will be totally lost now if they lose access to the LLMs or can no longer afford them.

It's unclear if CXMT got removed from the US sanctioned entities list, but it really needs to be. The fucking CHIPs act needs to be revoked. Billions of our tax dollars went to Micron and they turned around and fucked all consumers. I wish there was more consumer demand to run this stuff locally. Local image generation models are pretty good, but video is still a long way off and local coding models are all piss poor. I know that AI-gen video is funny and I'm gonna laugh at it, but come on man .. that person shelling out $50 ~ $200 to pay for making it is the reason we can't have ram!

Those types of things are illegal in the US too: Immediate an imminent incitement. If you tell a angry mob in person to go kill someone in a crowd, that's not protected. That's not what people are going to prison for in the UK. Show me where that is happening. People are going to prison in the UK, and having cops come to their door, for benign posts .. Countdankula had years of legal litigation because he made a funny joke with his dog about "god's chosen people," and still ended up paying 800 GBP for a fucking joke!

Meanwhile the Rotherham went on for decades and trafficked thousands of children. My original point still stands too. 2 years is prison for a post that's protected in America, versus child rapist getting 6~8 months. I'd rather have the free speech and rights to guns please. The UK has already turned into the world Orwell warned about. The US isn't far behind.

Maybe if your body can't produce a child, you shouldn't have children? If they're using a transplanted womb and IVF, I guess at least you're not passing on those genetic problems, but it still seems like such a massive step to have a "child of one's own"

Yes, AS IT SHOULD BE! Surrogacy is basically human trafficking. Most cases are pretty reprehensible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's essentially renting a womb and buying a child, dressed in extra steps of science and modern medicine.

The entire "donating eggs" process is also very hard on women, and many of the drugs they use for preparation and extraction have not been thoroughly tested and may have led to serious cancers.

The funny part here is that basically every reasonable person across all nations would note that emergence of AI and the way it's transforming the battlefield is an obvious emergency for a reigning sole superpower.

Especially considering how seriously it's primary antagonist rising power that is PRC is taking the same issue. If DoW doesn't break any corpo that tries to sabotage the process of staying ahead, and US still manages to win whatever contest is coming over Taiwan etc, whoever failed to break the corpos will likely get convicted of criminal negligence.

Weak sovereigns indeed fear corpos from strong sovereigns. And they fear strong foreign sovereigns themselves far more.

Because as scary as corpos are to weak sovereigns, they are terrified of their own sovereigns. To death and beyond. How many court rulings from their sovereign do they dare refuse, even the most mundane ones?

No, his option is to invoke relevant post WW2 legislation about government requiring resources for national defense and prosecute them for refusal.

Notably, it's not just US that has this sort of legislation. As I noted above, this is one of the lessons from WW2, so most of us have some variant of it. Consequences for corpos vary depending on jurisdiction, but they are exceedingly ugly.

The TikTok thing was smoke and mirrors. Years ago ByteDance US hired former CIA people into high ranking roles, including moderation. It's not a secret. Their LinkedIn profiles literally showed CIA right under either ByteDance or TikTok US. The only reason Congress pretended to care about Tiktok was likely due to lobbyist from Meta and Google, who were losing millions to Tiktok's superior ad algorithms.

Most of the Western nations learn some lessons from WW2 and letting corpos choose to do business with enemies or not do business with government when it comes to national security.

Corpos have the power to do jack shit here other than posture. If government invokes relevant legislation, they'll obey or they'll lose everything and spend the rest of their lives entertaining Bubba and his fiends.

Remember: government is sovereign. Corpos aren't.

How's the biggest problem for US military according to "adults in the room" pre-2024, recruitment numbers doing?

What is his popularity with new recruits?

Could it be that this man is more qualified for the job than any in last decade or two by the objective numbers and you're melting down because you don't know anything about the subject nor care about it?

I use use Librewolf. They also remove all the Firefox telemetry that always keeps getting enabled. It's crazy that we now need a privacy aware version of Firefox.

Example: it's an anti-feature if I don't want bloat and want proper high end translations by a much larger model instead. I.e. google translate, or chatGPT.