Keeping things simple and calculating the axle weight to the fourth powers of both vehicles, the F-150 causes 5.4x the road wear of the Honda Accord while using only 1.6x the gas.
The reason this doesn't matter so much, though, is that the types of trucks used for shipping goods, when loaded, cause on the order of 10^4 the road wear, dwarfing any differences between standard commuter vehicles, which is why commercial trucks have to stop at weigh stations.
The big trucks also have a lot more tires / tire surface area, to mitigate that. IIUC, the weigh stations are to ensure they aren’t overloading the truck, so that road wear is comparable instead of being that vastly greater
I think that this has the benefit of both raising a non trivial amount of money as well as reducing housing demand from the wealthy in a supply constrained market
I used to work with a guy who would always say "if you're looking for trouble, you are going to find it"
When I hear that "we found X bugs using some new tool", where the standard for bugs is low and doesn't neccessarily require user impact in realistic scenarios, I think to myself- duh! You went looking for bugs, of course you found them.
For a sufficiently complicated product, in my experience, you don't have to look far.
Sure, but the bugs were found in an automated process. They just let an LLM scan. That's very impressive finding 100s of needed code changes. And it's even better if those needed code changes are bugs / vulnerabilities. The part no one is talking about comes from the bill. I'm sure Anthropic let Mythos analyze possibly for US$10,000s in tokens. A similar phenomenon happened back when an LLM scored well on some math olympiad competition. Yeah, it got all the answers right, but it was a frontier model running for 8 hours straight. That'll hurt the budget quite a bit. We're likely not at a stage where big corporate systems can just throw Mythos at it willy nilly for a complete analysis unless they have a ton of money.
The things I’ve read from various open source orgs with access to it is that Anthropic is giving them unmetered access for now as part of Glasswing. I’d bet that the corporate partners have to pay though.
> if you're looking for trouble, you are going to find it
That's the "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" of unsafe languages.
There are huge swathes of problems we know how to categorically prevent, but some people won't do it because they're more comfortable believing it was never preventable than accepting any culpability for not preventing it previously.
> Could be. But 99% of the repos are static garbage with no PR nor actions.
But the 1% of repos that do have PRs and actions are likely going to be seeing enormous increases in volumes
I have been a part of two very large companies with self hosted gits and I've seen enough to be confident that this is an incredibly hard thing to manage
Ya but they are owned by freaking microsoft and have billions of dollars and employees to throw at the problem. The outage problems shouldn't be happening period.
Easy to say that! Some problems are legitimately hard to solve though. Github is likely seeing usage patterns that have never been seen before and I bet some of these failure modes are novel
If you are at the limits of your architecture you may need to re-write things, and if you are rewriting things you can not arbitrarily speed that up by throwing dollars at it.
That's entirely a predicament of Microsoft's own making, though. Don't forget that they're the ones who launched "AI" programming into the hype cycle to begin with. So it's entirely reasonable to hold them as a company responsible for the resulting outages, which indeed shouldn't be happening. Dogs, fleas, and so on.
Not all prompts require the same compute, and Gemma-4B runs on our phones with parity output for ordinary 1-5 sentence queries. The common use case of Google-style queries is already solved locally, saying we're miles off is ridiculous.
With a good CLI, an agent may be able to do something outside of the scope of it's skill fairly easily, by running help commands or similar. With even a well written API it is not as easy.
I suppose that curl + API docs could replace a CLI but that's really token inefficient
I dislike that the conversation about wealth is increasingly tied to comparisons with the wealth of others.
Just because I am not likely to join the class of billionaires, does not mean I can not become wealthy! I prefer to measure wealth in terms of quality of life rather than by comparison to others.
I do not have to join the capital class to produce a great life for my family and live in stability and happiness
Generally speaking, people thought that government spending led to massive inflation, and the republicans have stronger rhetoric around cutting government spending.
> republicans have stronger rhetoric around cutting government spending
All they have is rhetoric, because their record with respect to actually doing it is not strong. Government deficits increased under every Republican administration in recent memory. They talk the talk, but never walk the walk.
I totally agree that republicans are irresponsible with the deficit. But americans don't seem motivated by the deficit, they seem motivated by inflation.
Inflation and the deficit don't have a 1:1 relationship. For the same dollar of debt, you'll see more inflation from social service spending than you will from tax cuts.
Republicans are responsible for making their constituents happy in some way at least, directly or indirectly. Voters can say they want cutting, Republicans can cut, but when does that translate to better life? There has to also be spending.
So true. You can apply this to limiting federal government. The GOP used to all be about states rights to self government. It’s so reversed that it feels like that’s never been the case.
The GOP was never actually about that. They were only ever about states rights to govern themselves according to conservative Christian principles. They have always opposed states' rights to support social welfare, abortion, gun control, environmental programs, immigration, etc.
Dems have repeatedly ceded that ground and our joke of a "free press" refuses to challenge the notion. So whether it's true or not is ultimately irrelevant. Everyone (including and especially Republican voters) just let's them say it.
And in reality shifted labor markets and supply chain was the issue and the FED in 22 raised interest rates to 'regress labor back to their natural position'.
Never forget: the FED did this more than any republican or democrat and their new stated position is to ensure not the enablement of the population but keeping the labor pool 'in their place.'
This, beyond everything else, changed america the most in recent history.
I don't know that higher interest rates are necessarily anti-labor. Low interest rates result in rapid asset inflation and labor usually owns fewer assets.
Whatever your political affiliation and thoughts on the war, I hope we can all agree that it would an awful thing to base our foreign policy on the US election cycle.
Not so awful as it may seem. It would be even more awful if election cycle had no influence over decision to wage one more war. "Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".
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