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Whilst it seems like a good idea to have academics run government, history has shown that countries run by engineers and scientists tend to end up with some great roads and dams, but failing economically and socially in almost every other way.

Kinda sad that LLM's let me build little projects that would take a week in an hour, yet Google still isn't releasing much new or different, or even fixing bugs faster.

Mr boss man needs to uncork Google's 'labs' culture.

> access "in case they need it"

A good solution to this is to have a "break glass" system. Ie. access permissions get granted to the developer directly in an emergency by going through a set of steps available beforehand. All requests by that developer are then allowed, limited to 10 kilobytes of results per minute and logged.

For example, imagine you run a bank, and a rare code bug means that at exactly midnight on new years eve all bank balances have $1B added to them.

Your oncall takes down the production servers to to reduce losses and uses the break glass system, by getting approval from n other developers, allowing them direct database access. They use that access to count(accounts) with a balance around $1B or more, see it is everyone, and subtract $1B from them all, before bringing production back up with an older software release. Downtime = 2 hours.

In the morning, all the developers actions are reviewed.

If the developer turned evil and trying to dump the database, the n approvers and 10 kilobytes per minute would reduce data loss. But the break glass system still lets the developer make fairly major emergency fixes to reduce losses or downtime.

So when tether is blacklisted, is it reissued?

Only down 3% today, which is pretty much nothing for something that regularly sees 20% swings

I dunno... DeepSeek has much lower prices, yet still demonstrated substantial profitable inference compared to hardware rental costs.

It all depends how many billions are going to paying salaries...

When every day matters to profitability, I'm really surprised providers do voluntary cyber security testing or government approval in the critical path.

To be honest, if I were an LLM provider I would be wiring up my release process to be fully automated so within 10 mins of the last bit of fine-tuning it got released and a blog post posted.

I think the next big step is automated fast labs.

The equivalent of a GPU but for bio lab experiments. It should be able to do all the basic lab operations of mixing chemicals, heating, cooling, various tests etc tens of thousands of times per second.

Then you hook many AI's up to the automated lab and watch science happen far faster.

I don't think you can look at any lease system and claim success until leases have expired and been reissued many times and the system achieved steady state.

That isn't the case in Shenzhen.

Are they really commitments if either side can cancel on the other after 4 months?

Doubt you'd be storing important ssh keys on the same VM

I really don't understand why Microsoft didn't build this when they released 64 bit windows.

16 bit windows wasn't complicated, and a simple VM and API translation layer could have kept compatibility going back 30+ years for not many engineering hours.

Yet instead they dropped 16 bit windows support and probably spent more engineering hours to support all the ancient software trying to update, and users who held back upgrading windows because they needed said ancient software, etc

Sure, but big ones still are expensive compared to say sand or other hard materials.

Lab diamonds are used in huge quantities (ie. By the bucketful ) for making cutting tools like saws and drill bits.

I believe the main difficulty is making large and pure diamonds. Making small low purity diamonds is cheap and easy to scale.