Ok? They do that anyway. Sometimes people leave and they have to hire externally.

China is strategically investing and they don’t care about Africa, only China

Yes, sure, it’s not altruistic. But there’s a huge difference between non-violent trade relationships which benefit one party more, and also benefit the other party, just less, and purposefully ensuring that an entire continent is in a constant state of civil war and desperate poverty so you can extract the maximum amount of resources through slavery. China’s foreign policy is absolutely for its own benefit but they’re taking a “rising tide lifts all boats” approach there and while there are some specific things which are fair to criticise it’s way better than what other major powers are doing.

heat protection rules in Germany are actually quite weak, above 30 they have to let you wear some lighter clothing and give you water… but yeah I think over 50 would not be allowed

Not everything which involves a reference or comparison to a similar thing is whataboutism, smartass. “Pakistan has a rape problem” implies that there’s somehow something special about Pakistani culture or environment which makes it so, and that it’s distinct from rape culture in other places. It’s perfectly valid to push back at that by saying that actually there is a global problem in this regard, and the only reason to single out specific countries like this is to stoke racial animus.

Yeah, unlike the west which definitely doesn’t have any kind of rape problem.

If you are American it 100% does. Why would you think the moment you signed up would be the moment they would stop starting wars suddenly? I mean, fuck senator Collins obviously, what an awful ghoul, but she’s correct in this case. Anyone signing up to be in the military has to own what they’re signing up to do and it’s not like there’s no way to know.

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I don’t think that’s relevant to their comment, this isn’t branching out of their field when they’re old and senile and success has gone to their heads. This is probably in the top 100 most famous paintings (or at least some from that series are) and extremely recognizable, just the fundamental basics of the field. Even when he started on his crazy vitamin C megadosing bullshit, Pauling almost certainly understood the electronic structure of atoms just fine.

damn, Charlie really fell off

Or for short, The Aristocrats

Yeah, but they never really systematically subsidised fares as such, except for some one-off bonuses to attract divers and stuff like that, in the sense that they didn’t systematically pay drivers more than people were paying per ride. They subsidised it in the sense that the cut they took didn’t cover their development costs, servers, marketing, etc. But those costs don’t increase linearly per customer and they also plateau as the software stack matures, so there’s a path to just raising prices and getting to profit, and each additional customer brought them closer to profit even while the subsidies existed.

OpenAI and Anthropic are paying something like 10x the amount for inference as they get from subscriptions, let alone free usage and training costs. So each new customer is taking them further from being profitable. And if they jacked up the prices 10x, so that the basic subscriptions were a few hundred and the pro ones a few thousand a month, they would still be in the position that Uber was when they were doing the subsidies for their infrastructure. I think it’s fairly obvious that they wouldn’t be acquiring customers very quickly at those prices.

That’s got nothing to do with how expensive it is to serve models to customers which is what was being discussed.

Who gives a fuck about voters lol, this war is unpopular in the US too. As if they care what we think about stuff.

The cost of inference has passed the cost of training quite a while ago and it’s by far the majority of expenses

I think they mean the company since they’re the most famous example of subsidising the product to gain market share and their name is invoked all the time in discussions of AI economics

We are still in the Uber-subsidized part of the relationship.

It’s not comparable, the costs for Uber are fixed development costs which decrease per customer with more customers. AI is strictly more expensive the more users there are since the cost is per use. The financial outlook for the industry is very bad, it will probably never be profitable except maybe in some extremely niche situations.

I don’t feel they went hard enough on him, but there might well be something to that

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I actually liked a lot of the food I had when I lived in the UK. Not necessarily all the cuisine as such (although plenty of it is fine), but I found in general that supermarkets had really good quality produce and ingredients for very decent prices, and I love cheddar and various other British staples. An English breakfast is great too, and I know this picture isn’t representative.

But Australia and NZ have really perfected pies and sausage rolls, and they’re far more of an everyday thing. You can get pretty decent ones basically anywhere. I moved to the UK after a couple years in France, where the food was of course great, but I was really looking forward to being able to finally get a good sausage roll. So you can imagine my disappointment when I couldn’t.

A single diode a micrometer away from anything else is not suddenly a transformer without which a 400 um² antenna stops working.