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As long as we don't underestimate the power of motivated reasoning for other certain people as well, who like AI coding for various ideological or financial reasons.

That's why I don't believe most AI hate I read on HN and I don't believe much AI hype I read on X.

I think microservices are supposed to be easier to deploy independently, that's the whole point. And if they are not, it means you're just doing it wrong.

But in truth, all the projects with microservices I have seen in real life had deployment coordination problems, and looked to me like distributed monoliths. So maybe it's a 'no true scotsman' thing. Maybe they are always, or at least most of the time, harder.

Makes it harder to justify using them.


People do microservices (read: an API spread across multiple processes), but then make all of the mistakes that logically couple the service deployments together. They use shared databases instead of one per service, make breaking changes to API schema instead of non-breaking or versioning, use a shared library of schema definitions instead of having each service define their own data objects for API calls, and have startup logic that depends on another service being up.


> Are you aware of the world you live in?

Certainly this world comprises many other things than the Holocaust and IBM's support of it. Perhaps your awareness is lacking if you think that is the main thing to be aware of in this world.


> Perhaps your awareness is lacking if you think that is the main thing to be aware of in this world.

I don't think that's what GP was saying at all.


Maybe say what you think they were saying? What is it with these maximally ambiguous comments?

To me "Are you aware of the world you live in?" suggests "If you don't even know this, you don't know anything. This is the first thing anyone should know". I'm willing to learng if they meant something else, but I guess that's asking a lot.


The point is that Oracle's actions are unremarkable in the context of the existing state of the world, and that corporations are generally not concerned with the morality of their customers.

This was, to my thinking, such a straightforward interpretation that it didn't bear making explicit; and your interpretation genuinely didn't even occur to me.


It doesn't surprise me that corporations [whose primary, if not sole concern is the profit motive] don't care about the morality of their customers. What I don't understand is why you're objecting to me voting with my wallet, something that's been a popular retort against progressive and humanitarian movements for at least the past two decades.


> What I don't understand is why you're objecting to me voting with my wallet

I did nothing of the sort.

I simply said that I disagree with your stated motivations for your vote.

The way that you discuss your plan makes it sound as if you consider it morally incumbent upon others to follow suit. I do object to that.


> I simply said that I disagree with your stated motivations for your vote.

That's a semantic distinction without a difference.

> The way that you discuss your plan makes it sound as if you consider it morally incumbent upon others to follow suit. I do object to that.

That's more or less true: I do believe that people should BDS corporations that knowingly and willingly harm humanity (eg: aid and abet genocide); that it's not within our interests to let such things slide. And while I am biased, this doesn't feel like a particularly controversial take: it feels like I'm just spelling out basic civics. But.. this is also just like my opinion, man. You do you.


My thought exactly. "May guarantee" is meaningless nonsense.

> Nvidia has revised its plans to support a proposed OpenAI data center project in Ohio and is now expected to initially guarantee less than $120 billion

There is no actual information in this article. "Plan", "proposed", "expected", "initially", "less than". It's just a report on the thoughts of some people.


>> the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.


The issue is "the matter" completely lacks any substance.

"An insider told me NVidia spent 10 billions on hamburgers yesterday."

"An insider told me NVidia is thinking about maybe spending up to 10 billions on hamburgers or some foodstuffs by 2050".

Can you spot any differences?


The former isn't of interest ti HN, the latter is, because we're current obsessed with the second derivative of hamburgers' growth curve.


May be so, still your quote doesn't make any sense as a reply to my comment.

"This article is about nothing". "Well of course it is, they say right on the page they talked to some people".


Yes. If you discount anonymous sources as a legitimate source of news, then I'm not sure where and when you hear about things.


There is hardware attestation that prevents a perfect sandbox from being possible.

Unless you know how to build a sandbox that can simulate a TPM with a key inside that only Google knows. Or something like that. I'm not an expert but there's plenty of information on the internet about this. It's definitely more than "the sandbox is buggy".


For me it's the rythm. It's a list of chapters, each with a list of subchapters, plenty of bulleted lists, and paragraphs of close to equal size with sentences of close to equal size. Everything is trying to be an element with an impact. Each sentence, each paragraph, each entry in a list, each list, each subchapter... feels like I'm being hit with an impact drill. This! Then this! Now this! Conclusion! But there's more!

It's not a human way to think, talk or write.


> Conclusion!

I will give them one positive though: They didn't actually label it "conclusion". That's always been a signal to me that someone doesn't know how to tie their thoughts together and is just blindly following the intro-body-conclusion pattern for essays from gradeschool.


Gee I wonder if anyone on HN might have some ulterior reason to write such a statement, without it being true.


I'm again reminded that a significant percentage of HN readership are those working in US AdTech, who's very salaries are dependent on abusing peoples privacy. Hardly surprising a hefty part of the HN demographic slants towards opposing privacy laws.


> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Seems ths qualifies in spades.


The "interesting new phenomenon", obviously, is the potential of the generalization of what expressed in the title. It has very evidently both relevance to intellectual curiosity and a potential of impact on our activities.


> The "interesting new phenomenon", obviously, is the potential of the generalization of what expressed in the title.

Why is this thing so difficult to name and you need to describe it in such a roundabout way? "Drones might be shot down a lot"? It's neither new nor an intellectual curiosity. "Drones are used for war" also not. It's been happening for years now. What is so interesting? Can you name it without references to generalizations of expressions of other references?


> Why is this thing so difficult to name and you need to describe it in such a roundabout way

Because it is a multifaceted thing. Where, how, how much, why, what next... And the rest of the "W"s.

Read the posts: we find them interesting.


What's the difference between using GPT to write the prompt to GPT, and "thinking"? The LLM uses the first tokens to predict more tokens, and then uses those tokens to predict even more tokens.


Roughly speaking it is the difference between having a contractor go out and do some work and having that same contractor first come up with a plan to do some work, run that by you, and then go out to do that work.

Part of it is as a another comment in this chain mentions the chance to review the prompt. Part of it is that it forces the AI system to plan things in a certain order, in much the same way that forcing the contractor to write the plan out first forces the contractor to proceed in a certain predefined order that may (or may not!) be better at getting to a final answer.


The ability to correct the plan/prompt.


> Someone who does not believe in god will not be convinced to believe by a proof of god's existence

I'm sure some atheists could be convinced. The rule "all atheists will reject evidence of God" seems false. The rule "all atheists will accept evidence of God" also seems false. Life is more complicated than that. It depends on the atheist and on the evidence.


This is not true, Atheists position is that there is no God. Agnostics position is that there may, or may not be a God.

In this case, you're talking about Agnosticism rather than Atheism.


The distinction has always been assinine.

An agnostic and atheist both live their lives as though there is no god. Because it is equally meaningless to say "there might be a god" but describe no further characteristics of such an entity, akin to "their might be faires but you can't see them, hear them, touch them and they have no effect on the world in anyway".

People trying who insist on a difference are just emotively trying to find some perceived middle ground from which they will claim intellectual superiority.


My entire point was that some people are able to change their position.


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