Also future datacenter builds are going to be focusing on specific applications which means specific builds. I think Nvidia has a much better chance here with their superpod than Oxide. The target use case is pretty unclear.

On-prem buyers are doing cost reduction and cost reduction targets things like, as one example, the crazy cost of GPU servers on the CSPs. Your run of the mill stuff is very hard to cost reduce.

You can see their sort of lack of getting it by using Tofino2 as their switch. That’s just a very bad choice that was almost certainly chosen for bad reasons.

Kind of crazy we're still using monolithic kernels in 2023. Nothing about `io_uring` needs to happen with elevated privileges.

I would take a large—say, 2-5x—performance hit just to escape these kinds of vulnerabilities.

This also works in _so many different work environments too_! I like how you term it "intellectual humility" but I wonder if "professional intellectual humility" is more suited.

Well, actually you forgot the “not really” guys too!

I worked in a big box electronics retail store in the early 2010s. Most customers were reasonably trusting which as someone not looking to screw them over made for quite a pleasant job. Perhaps the worst type of customer, was the vaguely ‘informed’ know it all ‘nerd’. Around this time, the “don’t buy the expensive gold-plated HDMI cable” movement was in full swing, but it was also about this time that different types of HDMI cables were starting to matter for (higher-end) prosumer setups.

Trying to convince some abrasive knowitall that our $15 home brand HDMI cable is going to be the bottleneck in their setup, and that it was basically orthogonal to any ‘good plated’ BS, was almost always not worth it. Eventually I learned to just let them make their own mistakes, dooming them to slink off to Amazon or whatever when they weren’t getting the resolution or frame rate they were after and eventually happened upon the CNET article that made them see the light.

The fact that there is an objective functional difference between different types of HDMI cables, whereas the jury is still out on blue blocker glasses, is pretty much irrelevant to my point. Any ‘science says…’ rhetoric is almost always parroted by people that don’t know what they’re talking about. At the end of the day, self-described ‘informed consumers’ LOVE feeling like they’ve got The Knowledge that’s going to give them a leg up on the slimy salesperson. A fair bit of the time though, the fact that the majority of these people aren’t actually all that knowledgeable means that these pearls of wisdom get corrupted over time and end up being entirely untrue. I’ve got no doubt that plenty of Hacker News regulars are the sorts of people that were incredibly hard to work with back then.

Are there employers out there who find articles like this actionable or is this just entertainment?

How long until the whole work performance pantheon of alliterative accusations is fleshed out and we get a personality test like the big 5 to find out which sins the employees around us are committing?

Am I missing something or is the only thing that makes this different than so many other "insider" claims is that this guy has a career history that implies he isn't just another crackpot spewing theories?

It reads just like so many claims like we have heard in the past, but this time people think the guy is more reliable.

It is pretty funny that the one of the people often quoted who backs up Grusch's claims is Jonathan Grey. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2241801/)

I'd love to think that alien contact is possible, but as I attempt to learn more and more about physics, travel approaching the speed of light, the mechanics that transformed us from a basic life form to a life form with a consciousness, it just seem incredibly unlikely sadly.

Honestly ChatGPT-4 sucks at writing code (if similar code isn't in its corpus of knowledge).

I asked it to write a YAML parser in pure Rust. The first thing it did was write this:

    pub enum YamlNode {
       Scalar(String),
       Sequence(Vec<YamlNode>),
       Map(HashMap<String, YamlNode>),
    }

This is what I expect a freshman in college to write as their first Yaml parser.

Literally unusable as a starting point.

I did try to correct it but it tripped up and somehow managed to fuck that up to.

I wish I could bet real money on this cause I would bet hard against this statement. The issue is that nobody seems to agree what AGI even is.