we have a pretty intensively used postgres backed app handling thousands of users concurrently. After 6 years and thousands of paying custoners, we are only now approaching to the limits of what it can support on the horizon. TLDR: when you get there, you can hire some people to help you break things off as needed. if you're still trying to prove your business model and carve yoruself a segment of the market, just use postgres
It's worth noting that the EACTS can at maximum dissipate 70kW of waste heat. And EEACTS (the original heat exchange system) can only dissipate another 14kW.
That is together less than a single AI inference rack.
And to achieve that the EACTS needs 6 radiator ORUs each spanning 23 meters by 11 meters and with a mass of 1100 kg. So that's 1500 square meters and 6 and a half metric tons before you factor in any of the actual refrigerant, pumps, support beams, valve assemblies, rotary joints, or cold side heat exchangers all of which will probably together double the mass you need to put in orbit.
There is no situation where that makes sense.
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Manufacturing in space makes sense (all kinds of techniques are theoretically easier in zero G and hard vacuum).
Mining asteroids, etc makes sense.
Datacenters in space for people on earth? That's just stupid.
Telekom is a bunch of strange folks.
I lately was not able to send mails, from my private mail servrr to my fathers telekom mail. After investigation I found out my server got blocked. After a decade of working.
I mailed them, and they told me to register my mailserver with them. I shall tell them what mails I will send from there and about what content. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Sure, thats how mail was supposed to work. Register with every mail server in the world, before you can send mail.
Their mail excerpt:
This system has not sent any e-mail to our customers for a long time.
For security reasons our systems will only accept e-mails from such IP
addresses after a check of setup and information about these systems.
Please give us details about this system and the company using it,
tell us all about the sending domain, what type of e-mail will be sent
and especially if you or your customer want to send newsletter give us
detailed information on how recipients e-mail addresses had been
acquired. Who in person is responsible for e-mail sent from this
system (MTA)?
Please be advised that only technically proper configured and very well
maintained systems are qualified for a reset of reputation and please
see our FAQ section 4.1 (Requirements for smooth access to our e-mail
exchanges <https://postmaster.t-online.de/index.en.html#t4.1>):
"There must be a domain and website with direct contact information
easily deducible from the delivering IP's hostname (FQDN)."
I looked into this a little because I was curious. I guess the ostensible "national security" rationale (which clearly is not the only reason!) for this is that turbines severely degrade the utility of radar surveillance along the coastlines.
This is particularly relevant for low-altitude incursions and drones.
Now, other large governments (UK) have resolved this in several ways, including the deployment of additional radars on and within the turbine farms themselves.
So clearly this is politically motivated, and they're using what seems to be a real but solveable concern as a scapegoat.
India too has been adding more green cover than ever. Higher CO2 in atmosphere leads to faster growth of forests. But more important factor is urbanization for India. As people move to cities the need to cut down trees goes down.
Being effective with llm agents requires not just the ability to code or to appreciate nuance with libraries or business rules but to have the ability and proclivity of pedantry. Dad-splain everything always.
And to have boundless contextual awareness… dig a rabbit hole, but beware that you are in your own hole. At this point you can escape the hole but you have to be purposefully aware of what guardrails and ladders you give the agent to evoke action.
The better, more explicit guardrails you provide the more likely the agent is able to do what is expected and honor the scope and context you establish. If you tell it to use silverware to eat, be assured it doesn’t mean to use it appropriately or idiomatically and it will try eating soup with a fork.
Lastly don’t be afraid of commits and checkpoints, or to reject/rollback proposed changes and restate or reset the context. The agent might be the leading actor, but you are the director. When a scene doesn’t play out, try it again after clarification or changing camera perspective or lighting or lines, or cut/replace the scene entirely.
Consider adding for or five more 9s to that. There are 50+ million corporations in the county, and then you need to add all the churches, clubs and nonprofits.
The article cites the availability of air conditioning as a major factor in vacation home trends. Prior to AC, escaping heat was the main purpose to have a vacation home. That’s why so many vacation homes are near old major cities like Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, etc. In the summer, families with money escaped to the mountains or the beach, where it was much more pleasant during the hot months.
I would guess that another huge factor has been the decline in the real cost of air travel. It’s now cheap enough that people with money can reasonably expect to fly somewhere for every vacation they want to take. You don’t need a condo near the local ski resort if you can fly to a different one every winter.
In fact, I feel buying property in one vacation spot is starting to look more like an anchor than an escape hatch. Keeping capital in securities instead is more liquid and less expensive (stocks don’t have roofs or plumbing). Let someone else own the hotel or AirBnB or VRBO. I’ll fly in and rent it just for the vacation. This mindset may partially explain why vacation home ownership has not “kept up” with the growth in real wealth.
> Where do you move the weights anyway once they are loaded into the GPU VRAM?
The GPU can’t do anything with weights while they are in VRAM. They have to be moved into the GPU itself first.
So it is about memory round-trips, but not between RAM and VRAM. It’s the round trips between the VRAM and the registers in the GPU die. When batch processing, the calculations for all batched requests can be done while the model parameters are in the GPU registers. Compared to if they were done sequentially, you would multiply the number of trips between the VRAM and the GPU by the number of individual inferences.
Also, batched prompts and outputs are indeed mathematically independent from each other.
I explain this in sibling-node comment but I've caught Claude multiple times in the last week just inserting special-case kludges to make things "pass", without actually successfully fixing the underlying problem that the test was checking for.
Just outright "if test-is-running { return success; }" level stuff.
Not kidding. 3 or 4 times in the past week.
Thinking of cancelling my subscription, but I also find it kind of... entertaining?
Getting into the swim app itself takes a couple of different buttons presses. But then it tries to be both too smart and too stupid at the same time. All I wanted to begin with was lap counting with a big number on the centre of the display. Can't configure it and can't even start to get it to count laps without some ceremony of setting up interval training and it only gets more convoluted from there. It's useless for an amateur like me who is not a peak performance athlete who needs to track every minutiae of their swim stats. How many people are they targeting with these this UX? Just people getting ready for the Olympics? There are hundreds of them. Hundreds!
Really amazing and impressive work. And also an excellent resource for future explorers.
One thing I didn't see mentioned in the video is the total cost of all the materials to complete one laptop not including all the experimentation cost. I'd be super curious about that.
Morale of the story is that always have SHA, and preferably with reverse vesting ( with some cliff ) so that if you leave early you get something but if almost immediately nothing.
Having said that, I would go with trying to improve the numbers - eg 5% of company as your remaining share ( that makes it still probably fine in investors pov ), or more money, depending on which you want.
Ok, well, maybe it’s different from where you have been. But I’m pretty sure there is no global conspiracy to make me believe this, and it has been directly explained to me by people that were in the life, so to speak.
Of course, the term “superhobo” is a farcical literary confabulation, I’m sure nobody actually calls them “superhobos”
My exposure comes from Fairbanks in the 00s, Santo Domingo, Delhi, someplace in California near LA can’t remember. Figured it must be common?
Am I the only one who thinks he wasn’t killed by a resistance hero? Wasn’t he supposed to testify the next day? All this “deny defend depose” thing is a distraction, so that the masses cheer, all the while the man was probably killed right before the only time he would have actually crossed his overlords.
The USD dollar is backed by the universal belief that it will continue to be valuable, plus the entire productive capacity of the US economy and the war making ability of the US government.
Bitcoin is backed by a less universally held belief that it will be valuable in the future, and that’s it.
One of these things is just a much smaller subset of the other.
I appreciate Kim Dotcom for running MegaUpload and later Mega, in a time when the internet was younger and wilder. Also for his pirate spirit and "stick it to the man" attitude. But everything has a limit, specifically his resistance against the law, even if he hid it behind virtues. I think it's clear for everybody that one cannot get away with this kind of stuff, once governments get involved. Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? But people are superficial and tend to develop an "i'm the main character" personality, pushing them into recklessness, like persisting doing certain things or publicly talking shit. Hope he and his family will be ok.
Apps were a bubble. Cloud was a bubble. WWW was a bubble. Houses were a bubble. Bubble tea was literally bubble.
Things can be beneficial and a bubble at the same time. Useful things in short supply are expensive. It's a bubble when someone buys a thing for expensive in a gamble to sell it off to someone else for more expensive. It's not a bubble when a house seller sells a house to someone who wants to live in one. It's a bubble when they're selling to a seller, who sells to another seller, and so on.
Also I think one oddity with AI is that it came in very cheap. So it's hard to make it a bubble. But I guess grifters are stockpiling the shovels without realizing that everyone has one... hence OP's question.
There are also advantages to being slower. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%2FK_selection_theory , which I reference historically and encompasses also the discussion on Wikipedia about subsequent refinements of the theory.
