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by Traster 8mo ago
I guess there's two ways of looking at this, way (1) is leaning heavily into what seems at least seems to be top of cycle in a cyclical business, which is likely to be highly problematic when they hit downturn, or (2) doing an Amazon
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by Traster 8mo ago
I fell out of love with the living wage when the UK government bumped minimum wage and called it living wage. The government kept on getting raked over the coals by charities who claimed that people working minimum wage were in poverty an
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by Traster 8mo ago
It's very clear that at some point they decided stalks are bad, and so instead of having an indicator stalk - a universally understood control they decided to stick them all on the steering wheel so you can drive around looking at whet
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by Traster 8mo ago
I clearly don't understand Design. My expectation is that an amazing prolific designer would deliver different designs in different contexts. At Apple maybe it's this minimalist industrial design. But what I'm seeing here - a
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by Traster 8mo ago
I'm british so I apprecitate this condition, we need to talk down, we need to down play. An American will celebrate an LLM surprising them, a brit will be disappointed - until an LLM suprises by failing and then we'll be delighted
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by Traster 8mo ago
To be honest, I would rather the author be put in a box he seems grumpy.
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by Traster 8mo ago
Thanks for this, it's really important to reflect the fact that aside from anything else, the common law tradition practiced in most anglophone countries is fundamentally at odds with a lot of European countries.
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by Traster 8mo ago
(a) that phase out is going to take an extra-ordinarily long time. and (b) it'll be pretty trivial to extend this to charging networks.
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by Traster 8mo ago
Galloway and Swisher have been speculating about this (as well as a Tesla roll up) for a while. It makes tonnes of sense from Musk's perspective- he's got this behemoth monopoly that'll be worth a trillion on the stock market
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by Traster 8mo ago
Almost certainly less than it cost them to train grok and definitely less than they're paying to service X.com's debt load.
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by Traster 8mo ago
Because Elon Musk owns a space company not a shipping company. If Elon Musk happened to own a tonne of boats sure as hell sea-steading data centres would be the future. But he doens't, so it's AAAAIIIII IIIIIN SPPPPPAAAAAAAACE.
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by Traster 8mo ago
I think you're totally wrong on this. Tesla didn't waste the first mover advantage. They benefitted from it whilst it existed, but Electric vehicles turned into a commodity, which was entirely expected and there's no moat. Yo
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by Traster 8mo ago
I think this article doesn't really engage with why TSMC is in the position it is in. It is in the position it's in due to 2 key reasons. The first is scale, in order to make the R&D worth it you need to sell a hell of a lot o
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by Traster 8mo ago
It's totally understandable, but it would have been good to have been given a heads up - I'm totally new at the company (new to the industry), assume one of these people knows what they're doing. In the end I got a new boss
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by Traster 8mo ago
>I wondered, “Who is this feature even for? Who will use it?” No one on my team knew. I think there's another key here - Don't assume someone else knows something. If you don't know why something is done some way, find out
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by Traster 9mo ago
I'm kind of surprised the article doesn't spell out why these are "prediction markets". They're prediction markets because it used to be that what they were doing was illegal. It was illegal to just set up a gambl
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by Traster 9mo ago
This seems a bit like a needlessly publicized finding. Surely our baseline assumption is that there are lots of systems that aren't very good at finding cancer. We're interested in findings that are good. You only need 1 good
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by Traster 9mo ago
Fundamentally when you think about it, what people know today as AI are things like ChatGPT and all of those products run on cloud infrastructure mainly via the browser or an app. So it makes perfect sense that customers just get confused
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by Traster 9mo ago
And importantly, in this analogy - most people here aren't even able to play that lottery. He founded a company based on the research he did whilst studying for a government funded PhD. Most people are not in a position in their life w
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by Traster 9mo ago
Firstly, >Series 3 will be the most broadly adopted and globally available AI PC platform Intel has ever delivered. The true competitor is Ryzen AI, Nvidia doesn't produce these integrated CPU/GPU/AI products in the PC seg
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by Traster 9mo ago
It is the nature of YC that you're going to get instances like Pickle. YC invests at a very early stage in lots of companies. 40% are literally just an idea. It isn't a scam that one of the companies pivot, it's expected. The
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by Traster 9mo ago
This stuff is so difficult because it's all situational. In my first job I got hired into a small team, within a year or so my boss quit. I essentially stepped into that job. But in order to be the manager of that team you needed ot be
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by Traster 9mo ago
It's pretty clear from other articles the answer is not. Although from what I can see it claims to be about 50 times better than conventional methods. One claim is they tracked a plane to within a few hundreds meters for a 300 mile fli
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by Traster 9mo ago
It's kind of annoying that they don't go into specifics about why this is good. The problem with traditional accelerometers is that the error accumulates, and so even small errors accumulate. The article doesn't really addres
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by Traster 10mo ago
I was quite surprised the direction this article took. I wasn't expecting reheated whinging about the toolchain. FPGAs do need a new future. They need a future where someone tapes out an FPGA! Xilinx produced Ultrascale+ over a decade
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by Traster 10mo ago
There's a few things. Let's start with the core of what they say is their value. They have forward deployed engineers - this a totally new, previously unknown innovation - who go to a company, understand their needs and build da
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by Traster 10mo ago
Ah I see, so the [token holder] hires a [builder] to build something, and uses that to then hire [intellectual] to scam the ['pragmatic user']? To take this a little more seriously, this is computer programming, very famously you
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by Traster 10mo ago
There's a difference between a good product and a good business. It's easy to see this is a great product but it's really difficult to see how it's a great business. All the traditional things we look for from great busi
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by Traster 10mo ago
Training is taking an enormous problem and trying to break it into lots of pieces and managing the data dependency between those pieces. It's solving 1 really hard problem. Inference is the opposite, it's lots of small independent
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by Traster 11mo ago
I'm actually not that worried about this, because again I would classify this as a problem that already exists. There are already idiots in senior management who pass off bullshit and screw things up. There are natural mechanisms to co

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