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YetAnotherNick
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> this instills an enormous amount of trust So you are saying the reason that it is just perceived better? Even that's quite debatable as I worked in few European companies and has never faced any backlash for choosing US vendor. Bi
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> Digital sovereignty sounds like a buzzword until you think Sure now just think and give me the reason. All these moving to Europe post is getting tiring. Amazon follows the same EU rules, if not more, than Scaleway.
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The thesis of the space datacenter is that energy is the expensive thing not silicon. If it's silicon it doesn't matter anyways if you run it on ground or space. And energy might be cheaper on space.
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5mo ago
But if solar panel is significantly cheaper and latency doesn't matter you can have servers in any part of the world. Even if they are not up 50% of the time due to limited battery it would still be cheaper.
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I think it is fair to blame Github if they repackage other services. We run a much smaller service than Github and have all sort of fallbacks to different providers and different models.
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5mo ago
Instead of spending time making product tour, add a info to each button or show the detail when user hover for 2 seconds. Most product miss that and I don't know what exactly the button does until I click on it. I don't know what
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5mo ago
There has never ever been a case that AI has resolved my query, except the simple decision tree for things like refund. Have you got any positive experience with gen AI in any of the site?
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I said better sensitivity and specificity. Not better accuracy.
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Assume if you know for certain that AI has better senstivity and specificity than your local physician for the particular diagnosis, which likely would be the case now or in few years. Would you purposefully get inferior consultation just b
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5mo ago
So when there is no rain you let the cattle die? Feed on other people's land? By that logic even server's water can come from rain. > Around 14 percent of the 3 670 km3 of freshwater withdrawn each year for the irrigation of cr
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Grass takes lots of water to grow.
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Cows drinking isn't the major pie anyways. Cow feeding on Alfalfa which has been grown and irrigated with huge amount of water is the problem.
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5mo ago
It has similar SWE bench score to qwen 3.6 27b[1]. No one is comparing it to frontier. [1]: There is no other common benchmark in the blog.
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6mo ago
Why don't they monitor average prompt and response token length(both cached and uncached) per interaction. Seems this could have solved all their previous unnoticed degradation. Also bit surprised they don't have any automated qua
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6mo ago
The site that he bought the crypto from to make a bet could trace it back to him, and many, if not all, crypto trading sites have shady ties with some governemnts around the world.
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6mo ago
> I suspect that when things get really big, Google's systems will always be more cost-efficient. In fact I am opposite of this hypothesis for two reasons. Google has artificially limited production. And because TSMC favours whoever
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WCAG is lot lot more than just using <dialog> and unless you do a thorough review with a professional in this field, <dialog> won't solve anything. Do you know how many other WCAG guidelines your app or your site misses. No
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Why do they need to sell to government around the world. I mean I highly doubt Europe governemnt is in the top 100 customer of any US lab.
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Author took the most simple application and managed to make it so complex beyond belief. If he needed all this for 1 modal, I don't even want to imagine what would he had done if he had 10 different types of modal with 10 different rul
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> We are only just now getting a taste of the “true cost” of these tokens Why do you believe that? Better metric would be price per token of open models served by third party. Last I was tracking the price for similar level model was dec
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6mo ago
Just because someone is running non profit they are expected to take 10% of their deserved salary?
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OpenAI doesn't pay 1 developer higher salary than all the chess.com developers combined.
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No it is not. Yes it could be for your average everyday developer but if someone can run site with millions of active users alone, there is no difference in salary based on where the developer stays. Does Mistral pays $100k salary to resear
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Also power is not at all a limited resource as many top voted post on HN thinks it to be. Increased demand decreases the price of power not increases it in the long term. And in any case ban doesn't make any sense. Instead they could c
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I don't know if you ever worked on big tech? Everyone knows this through gossips, referrals, friends of friends etc. The hard part is to figure out how actionable this information is. > information that can move markets. That's
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> Your average developer at Apple has no idea how many iPhones Apple sold in China. But if anyone is connected to few friends across team, they would know they are hiring for China sales team(or dependent team like internal tooling for s
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> The average rank and file employee at any BigTech company knows only a minuscule more than the general public. They know the clients, the contracts, hiring, cost cutting way before the general public does. The problem is that many BigT
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> 17% revenue growth I think ads is going to massively change this number.
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Firstly how is this related to opportunity costs. Secondly, no one said that to create digital computer you should start a war. It's just that war is already present, regardless of you invent digital computers or space travel.
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I am reasonably sure that these kind of fingerprints can detect if the browser is inside a VM.
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