The debt has ballooned because massive tax cuts have been given to the already ultra-wealthy.
In the most recent bill, the rules for writing off private jets changed such that you can take the entire write-off in one year instead of over the life of the plane. This alone is set to cost hundreds of billions of dollars [1].
Of the ~433T in debt over the entire life of the US, ~$8T of that came from Trump's first term [2].
Some people physically break their bodies and risk their lives doing necessary but relatively low-paid work. But telling baggage handlers, construction workers, agricultural workers, firemen, commeercial fishermen and agricultural workers that they need to work to 70 instead of 65 so the debt doesn't balloon while allowing Jeff Bezos a much bigger tax break in buying his 3rd private jet is utterly bananas.
Hesitate to bring up politics here, but it's hard not to view the divide in the US in terms of this framework.
I'm very much a progressive side. But it seems focusing on lots of different (and divisive) issues affecting small parts of the population .. it exposes a lot of weaknesses to the other side to exploit. On the other hand, liberal politicians have ignored basic things like jobs, wages, housing (yes, the Uniparty is in the pockets of the oligarchs). Those are things which affect a lot of people on both sides and are worth much more effort than is given. The NYC mayor primary shows this clearly. But still, the Democrat leaders all seem to be hiding, and even worse working to undermine the NYC primary. Sad!
Approximately, yes. For MoE models, there is less required bandwidth, as you're generally only processing the weights from one or two experts at a time. Though which experts can change from token to token, so it's best if all fit in RAM. The sort of machines hyperscalers are using to run these things have essentially 8x APUs each with about that much bandwidth, connected to other similar boxes via infiniband or 800gbps ethernet. Since it's relatively straightforward to split up the matrix math for parallel computation, segmenting the memory in this way allows for near linear increases in memory bandwidth and inference performance. And is effectively the same thing you're doing when adding GPUs.
> The Gitea project is still community-driven and has the same yearly elections for leadership that has been around for close to a decade now :)
[1] mentions changes to the election process that mandates half of the oversight committee to be appointed by the Gitea company. Doesn't that conflict with your assertion that the "same yearly elections" have been around?
Where can one find the governance charter for the Gitea project?
If pensions depend exclusively on what each person has contributed during their working years, then lowering the retirement age might theoretically help young people by opening up more senior positions for them.
However, in many developed countries today’s pensions are mainly paid for by today’s workers, often through a combination of social contributions and taxes.
In Spain, for example, the social security has a large structural deficit that gets covered by large taxes on salaries, taking money from other social services, and sovereign debt.
In other words, young workers are forced to support retirees through means that make it much harder for them to build a future of their own.
This system is kept in place because pensioners are a huge 1-issue voting block that no political party wants to antagonise. I believe that this is somehow downstream of cultural changes that have made all of society more individualistic and self-centred, incapable to work together for a common future.
When you see "artist's impression" in a news article about space, what you're looking at is a painting or drawing created from whole cloth by an artist.
This article is about how sensors turned signals into images. When you take pictures with a 'normal' camera, we've designed them so that if you take certain steps, the image on your screen looks the same as what it would look like in real life with no camera or monitor. This article is stating that with the cameras and filters they use for telescopes, that same process doesn't really work. We use special filters to measure specific spectral properties about an astronomical object. This gives good scientific information, however, it means that in many cases it's impossible to reconstruct what an astronomical object would really look like if our eyes were more sensitive and we looked at it.
I’ll throw out a mention for my project Plandex[1] which predates Claude Code and combines models from multiple providers (Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI by default). It can also use open source and local models.
It focuses especially on large context and longer tasks with many steps.
Thats what im thinking as well. I was concerned when Straubel announced his departure but after reading multiple sources, it seems like the real reason he left was because he was getting bored and wanted to start something new (battery recycling). My hope is that he put a team there to continue onwards. It didn't seem like anyone was panicking when he announced, sounded like it was in the works for a while.
Cybertruck was supposed to have something like 250k yearly right? Are they even getting 30k yearly?
But still...tabless, structural pack, 4680, dry cell these are all things they had in production first right?
BYD Blade is amazing, but its more of a optimizing a mass market LFP cell no? Whereas I am referring to putting cutting edge tech into production.
Interesting that the current President is 79 years old (and will be 82 by the end of his term) and he took over from someone who was also 82 at the end of their term.
Given that, software work at 67 should be well within cognitive limits.
Interesting that Kojève and Bataille were pals. Might be relevant to the following:
> In “Colonialism from a European Perspective,” Kojève argued that the industrial nations of Europe should give financial aid to the “underdeveloped countries” that were their current or former colonies. Drawing on anthropologist Marcel Mauss’s theory of the gift and Bataille’s theory of expenditure, Kojève called this “giving colonialism.”
Bataille did suggest this in his book The Accursed Share, specifically that the US should give all its excess wealth to India "without reciprocation". He posits that energy (wealth) that isn't used for maintenance or growth can only be wasted on war or luxuries like monuments, calling that wealth the book's namesake.
What he misses is that there are other options, like investing in research which can open up new avenues for growth, or hoarding commodities (thereby storing the wealth) like China is doing with rare earths. Whether either of those (or other options) is a good idea is a separate question, of course.
This is just a personal take, but I consider this in conflict with (my interpretation of) Bataille's famous essay, The Solar Anus. Perhaps if he was able to conceive of the above, that wouldn't be the case.
Yeah, it's "let's fix this no matter what" is really weird. In this mode everything becomes worst, it begins to comment code to make tests work, add pytest.mark.skip or xfail. It's almost like it was trained on data where it asks I gotta pick a tool to fix which one do I use and it was given ToNS of weird uncontrolled choices to train on that makes the code work, except instead of a scalpel its in home depot and it takes a random aisle and that makes it chooses anything from duct tape to super glue.
Eventually the interest payments crowd out most other government spending, or require significant across the board tax increases to maintain current levels of spend.
The US is currently at $1T+ a year in tax revenues that instantly go right out the door toward paying bond interest. It will likely be $2T within 10 years, even fewer if rates don't come down in that time. It's compounding and therefore exponential.
Situations like Japan are even more dire. A small increase in the interest rate results in a HUGE increase in interest expense at 260% debt to GDP ratios. Worse, their population is naturally shrinking a million people a year on account of their decades-long birth rate implosion. Hard to outgrow that.
> as if the liberal arts are predicated on producing language rather than language with utility
I'm sure that the liberal arts are engaged in activities and the production of language with some utility, but this is orthogonal from the question of its correspondence to reality or its epistemic value, as originally posed.
The grievance studies affair [0] is replete with "scholarly works" accepted for publication that are devoid of both epistemic and utilitarian value, ranging from the merely absurd to literally paraphrasing Hitler.
Playing the publish or perish game is different from developing some genuine insight, "justified true belief," into the state and mechanics of the world.
It's worth noting that many NASA images use the "HSO" palette which is false color imagery. In particular the sulfur (S) and hydrogen (H) lines are both red to the human eye, so NASA assigns them to different colors (hydrogen->red, sulfur->green, oxygen->blue) for interpretability.
At risk of going off-topic, when I see comments like these, I wonder how the comment author comes up with these corrections (cross-checked, the comment is in fact true)
Did you have the number memorized or did you do a fact check on each of the numbers?
Handheld router != CNC. A fixed-base 2.25hp DeWalt handheld router runs about $370. The 1.25hp Makita 700 in the Compass' glamour shots and assembly instructions runs about $130. Most fall in that range.
It's worth noting that crypto lobbying groups also spent a lot to support Democrats too.[0]
As usual this heavily leans towards one party and the situation would be 'less bad' with the other party but as usual the problem is money in politics and Citizens United. At least watching the collapse of your state from abroad provides entertaining reading.
