Red Hat is IBM, the OG big tech really

"Game servers" also doesn't just mean Timmy's Minecraft server. It's big commercial games.

Final Fantasy XIV keeps getting hammered, likely Aisuru, off and on since at least September.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/6b56814...

It doesn't sound like anybody really knows or has any clue about what this law will do or be used for. Exactly what are the implications?

It’s kinda good the planet gets to run both experiments, and more.

The EU approach seems to want to insert government in to contracts between private individual and those they do business with, and the US approach seems to want to maybe allow too much power to accumulate in those who wield the mercantile powers.

The optimal approach probably lies in the tension between multiple loci.

The fact that we now have to write cook book about cook books kind of masks the reality that there is something that could be genuinely wrong about this entire paradigm.

Why are even experts unsure about whats the right way to do something or even if its possible to do something at all, for anything non-trivial? Why so much hesitancy, if this is the panacea? If we are so sure then why not use the AI itself to come up with a proven paradigm?

This is interesting but the causal relationship inferred by the article isn't supported by the evidence.

Unlike alcohol for example, there's no clear dose of THC where it can be concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that the person is impaired. A dose that might give a regular user a gentle buzz could render a first-time user completely stoned.

It's possible that these people were all incredibly stoned while driving but it's also possible that many drivers in Ohio are regular THC users and have such a high tolerance that their function is unimpaired.

And like always, there's the definite possibility of confounding factors, like reckless drivers also enjoying recreational drug use.

It's also important to note that the article's focus on legal limits is somewhat pointless. As there's no clear threshold above which one is impaired, the legal limits are somewhat arbitrary and are determined by other factors, like whether THC can be reliably tested at the given concentration.

Ultimately, as far as I can tell, the current state of things is that we're fairly certain that THC is able to impair driving ability but we have no idea how much THC is needed to do it or how impaired drivers become.

For a somewhat reputable source, the NHTSA did a report to Congress in 2017: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/812440...

This is not really true, e.g. Cogent was basically created by buying bankrupt dotcum-bubble network providers for cents on the dollar.

The biggest problem is the infrastructure left behind from the Dotcom boom that laid the path for the current world (the high speed fiber) doesn't translate to computer chips. Are you still using intel chips from 1998? And the chips are such a huge cost, and being backed by debt but they depreciate in value exponentially. It's not the same because so much of the current debt fueled spending is on an asset that has very short shelf life. I think AI will be huge, I don't doubt the endgame once it matures. But the bubble now, spending huge amounts on these data centers using debt without a path to profitability (and inordinate spending on these chips) is dangerous. You can think AI will be huge and see how dangerous the current manifestation of the bubble is. A lot of people will get hurt very very badly. This is going to maim the economy in a generational way.

Definitely don’t argue against that, once people get into a habit of using something, it takes quite a bit to get away from it. Just that an American startup can literally run ZLM models themselves (open weight with permissive license) as a competitor to ChatGPT is pretty wild to think about

HN isn't always right. There was massive pushback against self driving and practically everyone was saying it would fail and is a bubble. The level of confidence people had about this opinion was through the roof.

Like people who didn't know anything would say it with such utter confidence it would piss me off a bit. Like how do you know? Well they didn't and they were utterly wrong. Waymo showed it's not a bubble.

AI is an unknown. It has definitely already changed the game. Changed the way we interview and changed the way we code and it's changed a lot more outside of that and I see massive velocity towards more change.

Is it a bubble? Possibly. But the possibly not angle is also just as likely. Either way I guarantee you that 99% of people on HN KNOW for a fact that it's a bubble because they KNOW that all of AI is a stochastic parrot.

I think the realistic answer is we don't actually know if it's a bubble. We don't fully know the limits of LLMs. Maybe it will be a bubble in the sense that AI will become so powerful that a generic AI app can basically kill all these startups surrounding specialized use cases of LLMs. Who knows?