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New comment by khurs in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:44:51 +0000

"It's a big club and you aren't in it"

New comment by khurs in "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:43:53 +0000

and take over Venezuela.

New comment by khurs in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:01:58 +0000

>H100 is nearing five years and costs more to buy a used one now than a new one when it was released :)

Because everyone is buying as they want to run their own models and not pay for a cloud service?

New comment by khurs in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:57:36 +0000

sorry, my error. Bonds was $31.5 billion

https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabet-sells-bonds-worth-...

New comment by khurs in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:55:49 +0000

Meta entering cloud at scale would see huge competition and lowering of profit margins.

New comment by khurs in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:54:44 +0000

>and yet they earned enough to shrug it off.

Zuck has 60% voting power, otherwise he would have been fired over metaverse and then model delays

New comment by khurs in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:49:17 +0000

Are you clicking on more ads now or less. Are you using google search more now or less.

I'm using it a lot less.

Don't think Google can point to past revenue an indicator of future revenue, they need to establish new streams of revenue.

New comment by khurs in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:42:55 +0000

Thanks for this informative post. Many have been puzzled as to why Google keeps claiming search isn't affected by chat apps, when clearly it is.

New comment by khurs in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:39:11 +0000

That $85 billion was bonds, and requires ongoing repayments of billions every year in interest payments

And then the $85bn to be repaid too.

New comment by khurs in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:35:54 +0000

How does this spend affect Google CEO's $692 Million potential pay? Is it meeting the required goals or taking him away from them?

https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-692-...

New comment by khurs in "The startup's Postgres survival guide"

khurs — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:18:21 +0000

I don't do this.

I find that most ID's in majority of tables are internal and only used for internal joins, so I use v7

The tables where the uuid will be sent to the client e.g. UserId etc, I also store an external_id of v4.

Much rather have a static column than continually convert.

New comment by khurs in "Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:30:37 +0000

Thank you

New comment by khurs in "Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:03:26 +0000

Can someone ELI5 this?

Is this a breakthrough of something or 'kinda interesting'?

New comment by khurs in "Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:55:55 +0000

Yes.

New comment by khurs in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:00:45 +0000

This story has been headline news in many news sites today. So huge amount of free publicity for OpenAI.

New comment by khurs in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:56:11 +0000

91.5% Gross margin :)

https://investor.redditinc.com/news-events/news-releases/new...

New comment by khurs in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:24:50 +0000

If you use DuckDuckGo and use the video search, you can watch many YouTube vids embedded

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rickastley&ia=videos&iax=videos

Fun fact: some countries have no YouTube ads, so if you use Tor/VPN to change to an ad free country, then can watch ad free without an adblocker.

New comment by khurs in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:23:08 +0000

Same with many/all news paper website comments, there is a preferred narrative that is controlled.

New comment by khurs in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:03:50 +0000

Reddit has licensing deals with OpenAI and Google, so is likely trying to keep other AI companies out

https://mediaandthemachine.substack.com/p/reddits-new-ai-lic...

New comment by khurs in "Laguna S 2.1"

khurs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:47:21 +0000

chat as listed on that page: https://chat.poolside.ai