> Not really sure I understand the economics here There is nothing to understand. The point of such subsidies is to turn OPEX into a green line on the stock market. Especially as Microsoft is currently also in a fight…
> Well, all a judge can/should do is to apply current law to the case before them This is true, and I do not mean to suggest it is bad. But rather, that it leaves uncertainty. These cases can all be struck down without…
It is not.
Whether or not it's "essential" is kind of irrelevant for the ergonomics; Languages do exist that provide only closures. (And yes, the likes of Java do struggle a bit with function pointer ffi) Similarly, "we need this…
It's not strictly about the money. (Though it is absolutely also about that) > Dealing with unexpected job terminations (fired or laid off) is the problem. Herein lies the problem. This gives employers absolutely…
> But every article I've read on this makes no statement about whether any of these hundreds of people were actually working without an appropriate visa This is because ICE is being particularly tight lipped about those…
> 5:10 "475 were illegally present in the United States" Not quite; The figure includes those with visa. "Illegally present in the United States or in violation of their presence in the united states, working…
> I hope the recession ends up being smaller in length and magnitude than the 2008-2009 recession Not a chance. Were it just the tariffs, the recession would be quite small. The tariffs might even be cancelled if the…
That's not the point under contention. Removing the de minimis exemption is a perfectly cromulent policy. It's not even particularly unpopular to remove it. The problem is that the Trump Administration is plainly…
To be slightly rude, there is just a wikipedia article by the name "Dumping"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) The actual legal mechanics are complicated; "Illegal under international law" here…
The entire idea of "Oh they'll leave" is ridiculous, an empty threat from billionaires who are afraid of regulation. The EU has 450M (+80M for UK & similar non-eu countries that are likely to follow the EU on such…
> If they all have valid visas and are legal to work, I'm confident they'll be released The Trump administration has been in court several times already for trying to deport people who, not only are not supposed to be…
Two things to bear in mind here: 1) As much as JD Vance and his puppetmaster wishes they were the president, they are not. The tech fascism isn't happening, just regular kind. What you're seeing here with the…
They have visas. Ones that permit specific kinds of work. They are not "illegal aliens".
> Is that no longer the case? Generally (but there are exceptions) in the US they have not gotten better. It's just that datacenter demand has eclipsed the effect of that. > My assertion is just that it is misleading to…
The distinction is that you cannot make the LLM do the drilling. And the way these tools are designed is to train the user to use the LLM rather than their own brain, so they'll never learn it themselves. A big problem…
> Just beware the “real programmers hand-write assembly” fallacy. It was said that compilers would produce a generation of programmers unable to understand the workings of their programs. In some sense, this is true!…
> What if I want to listen to an obscure book? Should I be paying a human narrator to narrate my personal library? You weren't doing that before AI either, were you? The practical answer has already been "you pipe an…
I'm sorry but I simply do not believe you that it does handle things like puns and things requiring footnotes, my experience is that LLMs are miserable at this even when directly "instructed" to. But for what it…
There's a big difference in precisely how the technology is applied. Transformer models making screen readers better is cool. Companies deciding to fire their human voice actors and replacing all audiobooks with slop is…
Bear in mind those are revenue figures, they're costing claude hundreds a day. One imagines Leadership won't be so pleased after the inevitably price hike (which, given the margins software uses, is going to be in the…
"Before they were like this" I would like to remind you that Facebook got it's start as a sex pest website.
> You really do have to account for why this is mainly happening in industries that are adopting AI Correlation is not causation. The original research paper does not prove a connection. > I doubt very much that these…
It's a business model problem; The "Uber" business model relies on a monopoly. The business model is 1) "Have artificially low prices to push all competing business into bankrupty", 2) "Now that we're a monopoly, raise…
In part it'll be Europe, though VC in the "throw money into a fire" style does/did exist. But VCs, especially in those days, bordered on antipathy for sensible business plans. They didn't want small businesses that…
> Not really sure I understand the economics here There is nothing to understand. The point of such subsidies is to turn OPEX into a green line on the stock market. Especially as Microsoft is currently also in a fight…
> Well, all a judge can/should do is to apply current law to the case before them This is true, and I do not mean to suggest it is bad. But rather, that it leaves uncertainty. These cases can all be struck down without…
It is not.
Whether or not it's "essential" is kind of irrelevant for the ergonomics; Languages do exist that provide only closures. (And yes, the likes of Java do struggle a bit with function pointer ffi) Similarly, "we need this…
It's not strictly about the money. (Though it is absolutely also about that) > Dealing with unexpected job terminations (fired or laid off) is the problem. Herein lies the problem. This gives employers absolutely…
> But every article I've read on this makes no statement about whether any of these hundreds of people were actually working without an appropriate visa This is because ICE is being particularly tight lipped about those…
> 5:10 "475 were illegally present in the United States" Not quite; The figure includes those with visa. "Illegally present in the United States or in violation of their presence in the united states, working…
> I hope the recession ends up being smaller in length and magnitude than the 2008-2009 recession Not a chance. Were it just the tariffs, the recession would be quite small. The tariffs might even be cancelled if the…
That's not the point under contention. Removing the de minimis exemption is a perfectly cromulent policy. It's not even particularly unpopular to remove it. The problem is that the Trump Administration is plainly…
To be slightly rude, there is just a wikipedia article by the name "Dumping"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) The actual legal mechanics are complicated; "Illegal under international law" here…
The entire idea of "Oh they'll leave" is ridiculous, an empty threat from billionaires who are afraid of regulation. The EU has 450M (+80M for UK & similar non-eu countries that are likely to follow the EU on such…
> If they all have valid visas and are legal to work, I'm confident they'll be released The Trump administration has been in court several times already for trying to deport people who, not only are not supposed to be…
Two things to bear in mind here: 1) As much as JD Vance and his puppetmaster wishes they were the president, they are not. The tech fascism isn't happening, just regular kind. What you're seeing here with the…
They have visas. Ones that permit specific kinds of work. They are not "illegal aliens".
> Is that no longer the case? Generally (but there are exceptions) in the US they have not gotten better. It's just that datacenter demand has eclipsed the effect of that. > My assertion is just that it is misleading to…
The distinction is that you cannot make the LLM do the drilling. And the way these tools are designed is to train the user to use the LLM rather than their own brain, so they'll never learn it themselves. A big problem…
> Just beware the “real programmers hand-write assembly” fallacy. It was said that compilers would produce a generation of programmers unable to understand the workings of their programs. In some sense, this is true!…
> What if I want to listen to an obscure book? Should I be paying a human narrator to narrate my personal library? You weren't doing that before AI either, were you? The practical answer has already been "you pipe an…
I'm sorry but I simply do not believe you that it does handle things like puns and things requiring footnotes, my experience is that LLMs are miserable at this even when directly "instructed" to. But for what it…
There's a big difference in precisely how the technology is applied. Transformer models making screen readers better is cool. Companies deciding to fire their human voice actors and replacing all audiobooks with slop is…
Bear in mind those are revenue figures, they're costing claude hundreds a day. One imagines Leadership won't be so pleased after the inevitably price hike (which, given the margins software uses, is going to be in the…
"Before they were like this" I would like to remind you that Facebook got it's start as a sex pest website.
> You really do have to account for why this is mainly happening in industries that are adopting AI Correlation is not causation. The original research paper does not prove a connection. > I doubt very much that these…
It's a business model problem; The "Uber" business model relies on a monopoly. The business model is 1) "Have artificially low prices to push all competing business into bankrupty", 2) "Now that we're a monopoly, raise…
In part it'll be Europe, though VC in the "throw money into a fire" style does/did exist. But VCs, especially in those days, bordered on antipathy for sensible business plans. They didn't want small businesses that…