It allows technical folk to live wherever they’d like as long as they’re working remotely.
The mobile applications, particularly in the case of airline aircraft, have also been compelling and worth a lot of money to SpaceX.
Starlink has also brought broadband Internet to a vast number of people that would not have had it otherwise. This will boost the worldwide economy by an enormous amount.
Since you have such strong (and numerous) opinions…
AI is a tool, and one that governments of all stripes will use for many things, including military applications. It’s overly simplistic to say “AI was used to bomb things”. There’s always a human making the decision to hit a target or not in Israel and America. Of course, that won’t necessarily be the case in totalitarian countries…
As to hitting the school, bear in mind that it was literally part of a military base.
On energy use, there’s actually no reason to limit it unless worldwide usage grows by orders of magnitude. What does need to happen is a transition to clean sources. Natural gas isn’t ideal, but still much better than coal. However, there’s a lot of interest in modular nuclear reactors for this application, which would be fine.
As to how well current AI works, the canard “Past performance does not guarantee future results” applies. We’re just at the infancy of the tech.
Your anecdotal screeds of hate towards AI should be balanced with the numerous stories here on HN and elsewhere of people using it very successfully and happily. As to the general populace, the daily usage figures for ChatGPT and other chatbots belie the hate you’re claiming to be universal.
Finally, yes the price increases on RAM and SSDs aren’t great. This too shall pass as more capacity comes online due to the wonders of capitalism. Don’t panic! ;-)
Nonsense. The sea floor in those areas is soft muck, 20,000 ft or more deep.
The waste, likely packaged in torpedo shaped structures made of corrosion proof, high density, high strength materials, would arrive at somewhere around 150 MPH. Being extremely dense and heavy, they would penetrate deeply into the sea bottom, estimated at 35-55 meters deep. There’s no chance they’d somehow be forced back to the surface. Even if they were, being sealed they would be harmless.
Even if by some miracle one broke open at the sea floor, the nuclear material is dense and wouldn’t disperse. There’s very little life to affect down there regardless.
We should all keep in mind that foreign interests, primarily China, are astroturfing to drive resentment in the USA against AI and datacenters. National governments are largely viewing AI as a strategic capability.
That’s not to say there aren’t downsides, but they vary quite a bit depending on location and grid capacity.
I actually expect there will be major progress made on the energy efficiency and performance of LLM models using novel hardware. So, the buildout may overshoot by quite a bit… If so I hope we can find a use for all those racks…
A much better, safer, and cheaper idea is dropping suitably packaged waste on the subducting side of the Mid Pacific Subduction Zone. It’d be inert long before seeing daylight again…
The only downside is the “waste” is quite valuable. MSRs can also use it, and their waste is only dangerous for ~300 years.
>Trucks and guns pose outsized risks to bystanders, and if you don't agree with that, you are either being grossly disingenuous or you're just extremely stupid. In the case of trucks, you can literally just go read OP's article if you want to learn more about the risks they pose, but I suspect you have no interest in doing so.
I did read the entire article. One point you may have missed is the same increase in frontal height happened in other countries, but didn’t result in the same increases in pedestrian fatalities. It’s likely that other factors are in play in the USA.
Various tools represent varying levels of risk to bystanders. Every auto or truck is a potentially lethal weapon.
Guns and large vehicles are similar in that both increase the safety of the owner. There’s no downside as long as the owner is responsible. One flaw in the NYT analysis was around the “A column” blind spot. No competent driver will look for pedestrians without moving his head enough to eliminate that blind spot.
There is no denying that large vehicles are safer for their occupants, the statistics are clear. Regardless of whether large trucks and SUVs are in play, the major offenders will remain…those being delivery trucks, busses, and semis.
On a final note, everyone in the USA has the legal right to own firearms for self defense, as it should be. Many in Europe are wishing for the same thing about now…
My impression was that Gossamer has good Rust FFI rather than basic C FFI, sharing struct layout etc. I may play around with Gossamer and see how it really does performance wise…
The syntax similarities help make for a more painless two language approach.
It doesn’t have a garbage collector, it uses reference counting with a cycle detector. So, no GC pauses. It should be suitable for hard real time systems.
Neither trucks nor guns cause a single death. The people using them may cause deaths.
It also should be pointed out that in many cases, both large vehicles and guns save lives.
There is absolutely no denying that larger vehicles are safer in an accident. Anything to the contrary that you have read is propaganda.
In the case of guns, defensive gun uses have actually stopped a tremendous number of crimes. Those statistics were altered by the FBI to make gun ownership less appealing. Note that many of those uses did not involve firing the firearm.
Please educate yourself before you spread more propaganda.
My informed opinion says that you are wildly wrong.
(Also don’t forget the Starlink related military contracts that SpaceX has.)