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21 hours agoOpenAI exec highlights the rising importance of AI compute in tech job compensation.
In other news, Roblox executive thinks that having companies pay employees partly in Robux would be a great idea.
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61·2 days agoThat was the enrichment facility, but Iran won’t have kept the output it generated prior to it being bombed there.
If companies are going to place increasing reliance on review due to having lower-quality submissions, then they should probably evaluate employees weighting review quality (say, oh, rate of bugs subsequently discovered in reviewed commits or something like that).
If you can use Termux, you can use the command-line
lftp, which supports SFTP; I use this on Linux, so I’m familiar with it.$ pkg install lftp $ lftp sftp://foo.comI also use
rsyncin Termux after being exasperated over the lack of a reasonable F-Droid graphical client for that.I wound up using some non-open-source graphical SCP or SFTP client out of the Google Play Store using Aurora Store’s anonymous login at one point, which worked but wasn’t what I wanted to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamenei_family
Assuming that Mojtaba Khamenei meets with an untimely demise in the near future, apparently there are two other sons after this: Mostafa Khamenei and Masoud Khamenei.
3·4 days agoI mean, it’s politicking.
There is a segment of the population that considers Trump to sound authentic, not pretentious, academic, or egg-heady. He sounds like the people they talk to.
What I’m less concerned about is Trump in particular doing it and more about it becoming the new norm. If politicians decide that it works, the world might see a lot more insults, dishonesty, and such.
My hope was “Trump leaves office, this gets toned down”. But…it might not. And it might spread to other places, if they find that it works in the US.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/09/democrats-tone-cursing-casual-trump/
Democrats try a new tone: Less scripted, more cursing, Trumpier insults
Party leaders are swearing more, recording more direct-to-camera videos and trying to project an authenticity many voters have come to associate with Trump.
There are gentler forms of this. For example, I remember an interview with a senior British translator (this was pre-Brexit) working at the European Commission who said that they’d made a conscious decision not to codify an “EU English”, because they were concerned about the political impact of European Union politicians sounding different from the public — more distant, elite. “Sound like the people who you want votes from” isn’t new. But…I’d hoped that we could keep a higher bar than something like Trump’s stuff.
But, well, we live in a new era in terms of media, where social media is how a lot of people communicate. It’s gonna have effects. Fifty years from now, I suppose we’ll see what norms have been established.
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He just wants to appeal to the collection of people who do like that sort of thing being said.
I remember an incident a bit back where the White House Press Secretary said “your mom” to a journalist’s question, followed up by Trump’s communications director saying the same thing. Those are not people who are going to let that idly slip, much less at the same time — their full-time job is using speech to politically influence people.
Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.
When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.
61·5 days agoIt won’t be targeting the race in particular. They’ve been jamming GPS since the war in Ukraine kicked off, so all sorts of things near Russia have been having problems. I’ve seen a number of articles talking about problems that aircraft near the Baltic states had, for example.
Neural net computation has predictable access patterns, so instead of using the thing as a random access memory with latency incurred by waiting for the bit you want to get around to you, I expect that you can load the memory appropriately such that you always have the appropriate bit showing up at the time you need it. I’d guess that it probably needs something like the ability to buffer a small amount of data to get and keep multiple fiber coils in synch due to thermal expansion.
The Hacker’s Jargon File has an anecdote about doing something akin to that with drum memory, “The Story of Mel”.
I’m assuming that the point is the bandwidth.
goes looking for HBM bandwidth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory
It says that HBM 4, which came out one year ago, can do 2 TiB/s.
A little bit, but normally Token Ring didn’t just keep data running around in a circle on and on — Token Ring works more like a roundabout, where you enter at a given computer on the ring and then exit at another device. Without looking, I suspect that, like Internet Protocol packets, Token Ring probably had a TTL (time-to-live) field in its frames to keep a mis-addressed packet from forever running around in circles.
Also, I’m assuming that an implementation of Carmack’s idea would have only one…I don’t know the right term, might be “repeater”. You need to have some device to receive the data and then retransmit them to keep the signal strong and from spreading out. You wouldn’t want to have a ton of those, because otherwise it’d add cost. On Token Ring, you’d have a bunch of transceivers, to have a bunch of “exits”, since the whole point is to move data from one device to another.
Creating workable consumer-grade alternatives
I think that this is intended not to replace DIMMs in PCs, but to replace HBM for AI use. If you’re doing neural net computation, you have very predictable access patterns, so you can store your edge weights such that the desired data is showing up at just the right time.
Note that this is from last month, though I haven’t seen it submitted.
Note that the article is from the beginning of February.
The only time the US has fought really serious carrier battles was in WW2. Those carriers also had oil-powered engines and were without catapults.
It doesn’t sound like analog clock reading is quite dead, even if it’s in decline.
https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/52878-younger-americans-hard-time-reading-clocks
Younger adults are much less likely than older Americans to be able to instantly read an analog clock. 95% of Americans 65 or older say they can instantly tell the time from the hour and minute hands, while only 43% of adults under 30 can. 78% of Americans with college degrees say they can instantly tell the time on an analog clock, compared to 68% of non-college graduates.
The concern is going to be attacks by Iran. One of Iran’s points of leverage is that it sits astride important maritime trade routes, so it can threaten to generally dick up global maritime trade to try to influence countries, and it has done so in this case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
During 2023–2025, 20% of the world’s liquefied natural gas and 25% of seaborne oil trade passed through the strait annually. The strait had never been closed for extended time during Middle East conflicts (unlike the Straits of Tiran/Bab-el-Mandeb)[5] though Iran occasionally had threatened to close the strait,[6][7] and preparations to mine it have been undertaken.[8]
On 28 February 2026, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards began issuing VHF transmissions stating that ship passages through the Strait of Hormuz were “not allowed”, amid the 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, including the assassination of Iran’s leader.[9]
Iran confirmed Sunday that it had attacked an oil tanker for defying orders not to cross the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Anadolu reports.
A Bahamas-flagged crude oil tanker was targeted by an Iranian remote-controlled boat laden with explosives while anchored near Iraq’s Khor al Zubair port, according to initial assessments. A second tanker at anchor off Kuwait was taking on water and spilling oil after a large explosion on its port side.
Nine vessels have come under attack since the conflict broke out between the U.S., Israel and Iran on Saturday. Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday and also sent drones into Azerbaijan, injuring four people.
The escalation comes after a motion to halt the U.S. attacks was blocked in Washington and as the son of Iran’s slain supreme leader emerged as a frontrunner to succeed him, suggesting Tehran was not about to buckle under the pressure.
Around 200 ships, including oil and liquefied natural gas tankers as well as cargo ships, remained at anchor in open waters off the coast of major Gulf producers, according to Reuters estimates based on ship-tracking data from the MarineTraffic platform.
Hundreds of other vessels remained outside the Strait of Hormuz unable to reach ports, shipping data showed. The waterway is a key artery for around a fifth of the world’s oil and LNG supply.
President Donald Trump offered U.S. Navy escorts and insurance in a bid to restart shipping flows and curtail energy prices. Insurance market Lloyd’s of London said on Thursday it is engaging with the U.S. government on a plan.
My own personal guess is that saying “Chinese owner” or something like that on AIS isn’t going to have much impact, since whatever assessment Iran is doing before going after a ship probably is a little deeper than a quick skim of whatever AIS says, but I suppose that if you’re on a ship and plan to do a run through, you do whatever you can.
Setting aside mass transit use, the relative impact of higher oil prices in the US will, I’d imagine, probably be higher than in somewhere like Europe, because Europe already has relatively high prices because it has hefty fuel taxation in the places that I’ve looked at, whereas the US has relatively low fuel taxation. That’ll make the relative price change of the cost of the crude oil changing be larger in the US.
https://moneyweek.com/economy/uk-economy/budget/604621/what-makes-up-the-price-of-a-litre-of-petrol
This has fuel duty in the UK (a consumption tax) being 39% of the price of fuel. Then VAT is 17%. So right there, that’s over half the price at the pump, 56%.
The cost of the gasoline itself — and the crude required is only one input of that — is only 29% of the price at the pump.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=10&t=10
For mid-2024, this has federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline, and average state taxes — sales and consumption tax in the US varies by state and municipality — of 32.61 cents per gallon of gasoline.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000074714
Average fuel price in February 2026 is $3.065/gallon.
So taxation makes up about 17% of the price of fuel in the US.
EDIT: That being said, the US is also, these days, a net oil exporter. So there will be winners in the US, like oil extraction companies — but it won’t be vehicle operators.
EDIT2: Actually, it’s probably slightly lower than 17% in the US, because it’s convention in the US to exclude sales tax in listing prices, so the $3.065 won’t actually be the post-tax pump price. It will include state consumption tax, though, so I don’t have a way to directly compute it from just those figures.