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pkaye commented on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study cnbc.com/2025/08/28/gener... · Posted by u/pseudolus

OtherShrezzing · 13 hours ago

AI training costs are increasing around 3x annually across each of the last 8 years to achieve its performance improvements. Last year, spending across all labs was $150bn. Keeping the 3x trend means that, to keep pace with current advances, costs should rise to $450bn in 2025, $900bn in 2026, $2.7tn in 2027, $8.1tn in 2028, $25tn in 2028, and $75tn in 2029 and $225tn in 2030. For reference, the GDP of the world is around $125tn.

I think the labs will be crushed by the exponent on their costs faster white-collar work will be crushed by the 5% improvement exponent.

pkaye · 11 hours ago

The current trained models are already pretty good enough for many things.

pkaye commented on Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

vel0city · a day ago

While I'm not trying to argue for or against any particular law in this comment, California is far from a "free state" in terms of internet laws.

If I run a server in Utah primarily for myself, and you as a Californian happen to stumble upon it, should I have to abide by California privacy laws?

pkaye · a day ago

https://termly.io/resources/articles/ccpa-vs-cpra/#who-must-...

> should I have to abide by California privacy laws?

It seems these are the conditions:

As of January 1, 2023, your business must comply with both the CCPA and the CPRA if you do business in California and meet any one of the following conditions:

* Earned $25 million in gross annual revenue as of January 1 from the previous calendar year

* Annually buys, sells, or shares the personal information of 100,000 or more California consumers or households

* Derived 50% or more of your gross annual revenue from the selling or sharing of personal information

Also lots of states have their own data privacy laws.

https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/State_Comp_Privac...

pkaye commented on SSD-IQ: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance [pdf] vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p429... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

p_ing · 5 days ago

While not the same issue, I took four 500GB Samsung 850 EVO drives and created a Storage Space out of them for Hyper-V VMs. Under any sort of load the volume would reach ~1 second latency. This was on a SAS controller in JBOD mode.

Switched to some Intel 480GB DC drives and performance was in the low milliseconds as I would have thought any drive should be.

Not sure if I was hitting the DRAM limit of the Samsungs or what, spent a bit of time t-shooting but this was a home lab and used Intel DCs were cheap on eBay. Granted, the Samsung EVOs weren't targeted to that type of work.

pkaye · 4 days ago

The Samsung 850 EVO drives probably used an SLC write cache. A small portion of the NAND is configured to use as an SLC write buffer so they can handle a burst of writes faster and later move them the the MLC/TLC region. This is sufficient for typical consumer workloads.

Another thing you will notice is the 850 EVO is 500GB capacity while the Intel one is 480GB. The difference is capacity is put towards overprovisioning which reduces write amplification. The idea is if you have sufficient free space available, whole NAND blocks will naturally get invalidated before you run out of free blocks.

pkaye commented on Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups macrumors.com/2025/08/21/... · Posted by u/greenburger

bloomca · 4 days ago

Is it allowed to charge more in storefronts which take these cuts? Why nobody does that?

What about Steam? Can a publisher sell a game for ~$45 in their store and $60 in Steam, or is it against some TOC?

pkaye · 4 days ago

For Steam, I believe the price parity requirement for Steam only applies to Steam Keys. Publishers can sell at a lower prices on other store front as long as it doesn't involve Steam infrastructure.

pkaye commented on How Not to Buy a SSD andrei.xyz/post/how-not-t... · Posted by u/speckx

dehrmann · 7 days ago

Does anyone know if Amazon still comingles when Amazon in the seller? I've only seen mixed, dated info on this.

pkaye · 7 days ago

I've read that its already an option for sellers to avoid comingling. But you have to have a special barcodes or stickers to track them separately.

https://www.sostocked.com/amazon-commingled-inventory/#pros-...

pkaye commented on Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait? namvdo.ai/cpu-branch-pred... · Posted by u/signa11

zenolijo · 10 days ago

I do wonder how branch prediction actually works in the CPU, predicting which branch to take also seems like it should be expensive, but I guess something clever is going on.

I've also found G_LIKELY and G_UNLIKELY in glib to be useful when writing some types of performance-critical code. Would be a fun experiment to compare the assembly when using it and not using it.

pkaye · 10 days ago

Here is some examples of the different branch prediction algorithms.

https://enesharman.medium.com/branch-prediction-algorithms-a...

pkaye commented on Funding Open Source like public infrastructure dri.es/funding-open-sourc... · Posted by u/pabs3

pabs3 · 15 days ago

The EU CRA law is going to fix that, companies will responsible for the open source code in the products they sell.

pkaye · 14 days ago

What are the penalties? Will they crack down on the buggy WiFi routers which often times have open source software that they never maintain?

Also I see this as a benefit for the major commercial Linux Distribution like Red Hat, Ubuntu and maybe SuSe because small companies can't provide that level of assurance.

pkaye commented on Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated] cnn.com/2025/08/12/busine... · Posted by u/mastry

SamuelAdams · 15 days ago

> Kodak aims to conjure up cash by ceasing payments for its retirement pension plan

I have always wondered, what happens to a pension plan when the company files for bankruptcy? What happens if the lump sum payment is not enough for retirees? Are they financially screwed until they die?

pkaye · 15 days ago

Probably the PBGC partially covers the retirees through employer premiums payments and tax payer funds.

https://www.pbgc.gov/

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LeoPanthera · 16 days ago

I thought we were only just up to 5? Did we skip 6 and 7?

pkaye · 16 days ago

Some of the newer ones maybe more for data centers.

pkaye commented on New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients news.keckmedicine.org/new... · Posted by u/geox

blackhaz · 16 days ago

My father currently suffers from bladder cancer, he's currently in palliative care, he's in Ukraine. If there are any medical professionals here, could someone provide an advice - is there any chance to get him access to TAR-200?

pkaye · 16 days ago

You may want to look at this study. Its preapproval expanded access. There is an email and phone numbers for the company which is running the study. Usually the further along the drug trial is they more the loosen the criteria. Wouldn't hurt the ask if its suitable for your father.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06877676?intr=TAR-200&ra...