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Say what you will about Andon, they definitely do know how to market things. This is like the 4th stunt they’ve done that’s become worldwide headlines

How dare New Zealand mog us Swedes this hard, I can’t believe it

It’s not quite techbro fantasy, the actual point of the whole thing is marketing.

It’s worked quite well at that, the amount of coverage they’ve garnered from the stunt is remarkable. Bravo, to be honest

Reading what the law actually says, these seem to be sensible changes, bringing the rules in line with European standards.

The middle racks host weird temporary services while the side racks host the regularly stocked services

Not Invented Here includes the whole stack, including the operating system and the hardware

On the use of dollars internationally in tourist contexts, I once spent a few fairly unpleasant days in Cancún (the rest of the Yucatán peninsula and CDMX were great, though!), I noticed that a lot of shops and services would accept dollars, which Americans more than happily made use of.

The crux of it was that anything paid in dollars had its price, when compared to pesos, inflated to about double.

It was essentially a form of idiot tax.

If you get a push notification on your phone, everything you see in that notification must by definition pass through the push notification service.

This is immediately disprovable by anyone who has ever implemented push notifications on Android

Anthropic’s uptime website is actually one of the funniest jokes of this year

Most hardware is only really true if you account for older hardware in circulation, most new hardware will be shipping hardware decoder support for AV1.

On top of this, the software decoder support is remarkable for AV1, libdav1d is a marvelous piece of software, bringing access to a plethora of devices lacking hardware decoder support.

This is only really true if you have extreme throughput requirements, a regular VOD operation can get by fine on software encoding.

If you have the kind of throughput needs that warrant hardware encoders you’re going to want to go ASIC anyway, so regular server hardware won’t cut it. Like YouTube for example had to build their own ASICs because of the downright absurd scale they are running at

Communal laundry rooms are better for spreading the capital costs among the residents - energy still costs more or less the same on a per-load basis, and it gets charged to the residents in one way or the other at the end of the day.

They’re also successively being replaced by in-home laundry machines. Lots of places offer a communal laundry room, but the residents also have a machine in their homes for the sake of convenience. Some new builds have started omitting a communal laundry room in favour of in-home machines.

A bit of a pity, to be honest. Spreading capital costs is societally good. I say this while having had a laundry machine in-home for the past 10 years (came included with the purchase of the apartments), which I do use and enjoy the convenience of.

Rip bozo

I mean, that’s gotta be grounds for termination if anything

It’s a really dumb way to frame what the OpenAI people actually said on this - they are saying that the people applying to them want to know how many tokens they can use as a tool to accomplish the job they are applying for. There’s a fundamental difference to compensation here to compensation, where tokens as compensation would be how many tokens the people applying for the job would be able to utilize for their own purposes, whatever they may be.

To illustrate - I would probably be reluctant to work for a company which would not be willing to spend the amount of money that would get me a more or less top of the line computer with which to perform my job. Not because I consider my company-provided development machine as a part of my compensation - it is merely a tool I use for my job.

The people applying for these jobs are the kinds of people who think that burning an exorbitant amount of tokens will make them quite significantly more productive, so the metaphor of having the best tools available to accomplish the task at hand extends here, in accordance with their belief system.

There’s then the quote from the VC ghouls, but I don’t think anyone could accuse them of being competent to any significant degree, so their quotes are most appropriately used as toilet paper.

Sure, but that can be said about almost anything.

Still, I’d be surprised if they went the route of embedding ads into the stream, in part because of measurability/skipability/etc. It’s definitely not out of the question, but I think we’re still ways to go before we get there.

And even then, tools like yt-dlp would probably be able to apply some heuristics to figure out which segments are foreign to the stream and slice them out that way. Blocking yt-dlp would require DRM, which in turn requires changing the transcoding pipeline in a pretty non-trivial way. I also doubt they would willingly go this route.

That would mean reencodingevery video for every user and would need an insane amount of computing power.

You actually don’t have to, on account of how adaptive video streaming works. It’s fully possible to serve a few segments of ad content mid-stream.

This is my understanding as well, yeah.

Those will not block YT ads.

This is correct

but YouTube ads are delivered directly into the video stream.

This is false

It’s hardly viable as a temporary step when the time to bring a new one online is 20 years. The economics are already bad today and have been trending to be worse every year, while renewables and batteries are trending in the complete opposite direction.

The time for transitionary measures has passed. Renewables and batteries are here today. All we need to do is build it.