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Right right, not saying VC is tainted. Just that I know the name as a software engineer and now he’s actually a crime boss! Crazy!

In the sense that 9 people decided that abortion is legal (and then illegal) in a country of hundreds of millions: it is being decided by a small group of people who were assigned to the role of deciding. No different from the ACA being decided by a few hundred people. A repeal of all rules decided not by plebiscite (or a large fraction of voters, even) would lose us the constitution.

> Either we let the sidewalk become a free for all or we don’t

Why? You already demonstrated that we are able to acknowledge scooters and wheelchairs. That shows that exceptions can be made. They were made on some basis that is not all or nothing. Likewise we can review the basis here and decide that robots are not allowed or we can decide that robots are allowed.

It’s a collective space and how we collectively allocate it is useful to consider. I’d happily take wider sidewalks if it meant admitting robots for instance.

There’s no reason to believe this is a walk-or-nothing situation. In SF, for instance, children do not need the sidewalk to travel on their bikes but they are permitted to use it.

The classic two FS errors I’ve seen are MacOS case insensitivity fusing two separate files and Windows reserved chars. Most people build and deploy to Linux so repos are usually sane to that OS. It’s just life though it’s funny to see the shoe on the other foot.

I think they definitely boosted usage. I certainly started using the -cyber models defensively against my own systems. But defenders like me are usually late to the party. I think the attackers have been here for a while but that the technology reached performance only recently.

The average French retiree makes more money annually than the average French worker (who is the one paying the retiree). Any attempts to reduce the number or benefits of the former is met with riots. The French state represents the will of the French people, which in the limit, has a single luxury French bag salesman selling to a single rich tourist a bag for $400 b which is then used to pay for that years pensions.

No, the number of serious incidents is rising. The new -cyber models are incredibly capable.

That does present the situation grimly. Do you pay the Danegeld to get the former to not do the assault thing? After all, the malicious competent can perhaps be bought. On the other hand, the incompetent could be manipulated by a sufficiently capable intelligence. I'm not one of those, but then again I'm not one of those who can buy the malicious competent either, to say nothing of the unfortunate situation where one ends up with the malicious incompetent - having mistaken malice for unaligned self-interested competence.

You can still ban everyone who doesn’t respect robots.txt. My experience with a crawler is that people don’t actually provide a robots.txt far more often. I can back off on 429 but I’d rather use Crawl-Delay etc.

Bots have limited ability to announce themselves. I just use fixed IP range and UA. But the Chinese trawlerbots use smart TV residential proxies and will copy someone else’s UA.

That’s the dream (which is what I meant by “everyone would love to do that”), but what you gain in the cost of money you lose as demand eats into supply ahead of you.

Right now, the lead time of these racks is like 36 weeks and they’ll want payment down unless they’re sure you’re good for it which is in the $100m range. You just try to get them as soon as you can because and when the integrator and Nvidia can get them to you.

I don’t understand what the problem is here. You think they’re damaging their own economics on purpose? Every time I’ve been involved in hardware procurement, it’s been the case that you try to get things as fast as possible on everything because you never know which seemingly fixed lead time suddenly clears.

If you intentionally bake in delays you’re guaranteed to not make it work, esp. in a demand crunch. My GPUs are SMB/prosumer range and even they are much harder to get now. The smartest thing I did was lock in my purchases in January. If I had been unable to negotiate the rack space it would have been suboptimal but if I had decided to wait for guaranteed time I would have been screwed. As it so happens I should have gone to 2TB VRAM instead of aiming low.

This is the calculus that all businesses are facing, not just mine.

There are definitely datacenters that aren’t live due to power hookups. Is the idea that we should precisely time both? I think everyone would love to do that. To the extent that GPUs are not in production, it’s not because they could be and are not so. Literally everyone who buys them is trying to put them into production because they’re as close to a money printer as one can legally have. The operating margins on a running GPU are incredible.

Even my old RTX 6000 Pros would be profitable if I rented them out.