It's doing well on both sides. The Republican Party was just more willing to compromise its values to give them power. The debate over electability in the Democratic Party, on the other hand, is taking longer to manifest, but is probably going to result in far fitter candidates than e.g. Ken Paxton.
> Why is populism doing so well on the right? Is that what the pools of money want?
I think it is. It’s hard to believe Musk doesn’t want China tariffs and he loves the hard right agenda. Those like Thiel have some deeply dubious views.
But it’s not so much the political views as the opportunity that exists at the moment. Give Trump enough money and you can do what you like.
In 2016, Clinton spent $576.4 million and Trump spent $332.4 million. In 2024, total spending including PACs was $1.6B for Biden/Harris and $1.1B for Trump. There was less money behind Trump both times.
if you spend the zillion dollars on switches and racks and power and cables and redundant power in your datacenter for infiniband(the only vendor: Nvidia), you get IB.
> if you spend the zillion dollars on switches and racks and power and cables and redundant power in your datacenter for infiniband(the only vendor: Nvidia), you get IB.
Worth noting that Nvidia/Mellanox is currently the only vendor for IB, but that has not always been the case. I had Intel IB switches for the backend network of my Isilon at my last job (we starting using them when they were 'just' Isilon, then EMC Isilon, and now Dell-EMC Isilon); only post-Dell did they start going Ethernet-only, and now with AI/ML they're re-offering IB as an option (LOL).
So Nvidia is kind of being 'rewarded' for sticking with a technology that everyone gave up on (I guess HPC wasn't big enough to bother with).
Besides IB, the other options being used in Top 500 are Slingshot (Eth-base?) and Omni-path (Category: Interconnect Family):
... which brings the question, "how is X solved?".
For IB the answer is generally a centralized controller, a lossless flow control algorithm and the credit system with subnet coordination. Ie. the packets that would be dropped due to buffer problems never get sent because the originating node knows it's out of credits. This means packet drops should be nonexistent and so the protocols make the assumption only one packet in a zillion ever gets dropped. On the down side: the tiniest of problems on IB networks have incredible impact (but it's realistic to just not have those)
IB doesn't interface with others. Yes, there's an ethernet bridge but it's not going to work nearly as well once you insert that bit of kit.
In ethernet packets are dropped when congestion is experienced, and you configure through priority queues whose packets get dropped first (you configure priority), and "stuff will sort itself out" like on the internet. RoCE tries to construct IB semantics from this, but there's limits. On the plus side: this is how the internet works and so the whole actually works somewhat reasonably over internet or other long-distance links (and tunnels into Neoclouds and/or Clouds). On the downside it's never going to match IB in speed (it's still going to get to 90% or so link speed, 98% if you just naively check the link utilization and ignore the effect retransmissions will have)
My last memory of him writing was he claimed he has definitive authoritative inside info that Google was going to start charging up to a $1 for each search request on the website.
The girls school strike was followed up by a strike minutes later. Same spot.
The girls school children was probably made up of the kids of IRGC members.
A strike on the girls school would attract IRGC members to it, who could be finished off with the second strike.
There've already been numerous postmortems published about what happened with the school strike.
The school was located on a former military base. 10 years ago, that location was a legit military target. Nobody bothered to update the satellite imagery from 2013 when feeding it into whatever LLM was assisting in targeting. It saw an airstrip and missile base. The human reviewing the targeting saw an airstrip and missile base. When you go to take out a military target, you don't send one missile. You send a missile or two in first, and then another couple in a few minutes later.
Hanlon's Razor very much applies here. There's no need to posit that the children were IRGC members or that the attack was deliberate or even that the children were the targets. There's a very obvious explanation, which is that nobody bothered to check the date and assumed that if it was military base in 2013 it was still a military base today.
> There's a very obvious explanation, which is that nobody bothered to check the date and assumed that if it was military base in 2013 it was still a military base today.
That's not a particularly obvious or even likely explanation. The US clearly has updated intelligence on Iran since 2013, or they wouldn't have been able to bomb any of the targets they did successfully hit.
The simplest explanation--Occam's razor being sharper than Hanlon's--is that the country that has repeatedly
- Threatened to target the families of 'enemies'
- Boasted of their accurate weaponry
Fired their accurate weaponry at a target consisting of the families of those they think of as enemies.
You've never met a stupid employee who doesn't use all of the tools available in their organization?
Decisions are made by people, not by countries. People have limited capacity in their wetware and frequently take shortcuts in their work, particularly if they are just doing a job and face little personal consequences for lazyness.
I've met all kinds of people, but the most likely explanation for people doing something they said they were going to do and had the capability to do is that they did it.
Twisting yourself in knots to pretend it's more likely that the US has paid no attention to Iran for 13 years than it is that they did the thing they said they would is not rational.
No, it was just a certain country's tactic adopted by the US where you bomb then wait for first responders to help innocent victims of war then bomb them again increasing your murder count.
It's just a war crime. Try not to think harder than what it actually is.
Israeli "Lavender" AI-assisted targeting was used with/in "Where's Daddy"[1] mode, which had several frameworks for using family to strike identified targets. One method is to liquidate the residence with maximum family members on prem, which had a high chance of drawing the target to the location where a second strike would have a high chance of lethality.
One aspect of Lavender that proved frustrating: the system identified so many targets that exasperated ground controllers eventually just ordered the equivalent of full on carpet bombing. When the whole building's showing up as red on your computer screen, I suppose that makes sense. From a particular perspective.
[1] I'm . . uh . . not making that up. That what is/was called. Undoubtedly it has a more digestible name now.
These supports my argument more than yours. You are posting confirmation of what im saying and articles that are speculation and out of context quotes or complete rejections of the claims you are making.
Look up how successful the US has been in getting right wing crazy people elected as the heads of state in nearly every Central and South American country by funding right-wing groups, with the exception of Mexico and Brazil (but top minds are working on this).
Russia has been trying to get locals to elect governments on their side and even revolt and destroy their own countries to do so ... since 1917. They used the red army to make this happen in most of Eastern Europe, half of Asia, Africa, South America, Middle America ... and they're still at it in quite a few places (like Africa). They fought until their state collapsed to change the government in Afghanistan.
Just because the US does something bad, does not mean others don't do 100x worse. In both meanings of the word.
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