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by acchow 11mo ago
> Starlink isn't necessary. In India you can get 1GB/day of cell phone data for $4/month, and other developing nations aren't far behind. Does that operate at good speeds in rural areas?
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by acchow 1y ago
> So why didn't chimps get some of them? The chimps that did get them we now call humans. There were no chimps back then. We had a shared common ancestor, and subgroups gradually emerged and gradually became different enough that
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by acchow 1y ago
"Why humans evolved intelligence but orangutans did not". There's a different way to think about this that is closer to how evolution actually works and will make the answer clear. Our common ancestor (common to orangutans an
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by acchow 1y ago
"Subsidizing" is one way to put it. But these are options not shares. We will discover in a few years that it was actually AMD who is paying OpenAI to take GPUs.
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by acchow 1y ago
They did have backups. But the backups were also destroyed in the same fire.
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by acchow 1y ago
> The issue here is not refusing to use a foreign third party. That makes sense. Encrypt before sending to a third party?
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by acchow 1y ago
Credit card transactions were only done offline in the 80s. So it’s very doable. They physically imprinted your card numbers on some special paper with a mechanical device. Wild.
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by acchow 1y ago
The Anthropic models are also better at coding. Why wouldn’t they price it higher?
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by acchow 1y ago
Covid
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by acchow 1y ago
Have you tried an apple silicon macbook?
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by acchow 1y ago
Most people don't encounter this. It only happens when your macbook battery is about to die while in sleep mode.
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by acchow 1y ago
> Does Mac hibernate? Not by default. If you just shut the lid on your macbook and put it in your backpack for 2 days, it does not hibernate. Which is why waking is instant.
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by acchow 1y ago
> and you cannot hibernate a lockdowned kernel Why do you need hibernation? Apple gets the ultra low power without suspending to disk?
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by acchow 1y ago
I was thinking more of gp's comment "and the first user is an Argentinian bike importer that finds transacting with their suppliers to be challenging" Wise isn't great for paying suppliers. Their business account limit f
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by acchow 1y ago
> they always rely on trust in an off-chain oracle or custodian. At that point, a shared ledger implemented with traditional databases / protocols would be faster, easier, and more transparent. International wire money transfer is f
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by acchow 1y ago
Google has a monopoly in search. But it expanded to many other markets with plenty of competition. It will continue to thrive in those markets
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by acchow 1y ago
Apple also stopped selling new x86 machines. You had no choice but to port to Arm
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by acchow 1y ago
The objective is to force TSMC to accelerate their US production plans.
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by acchow 1y ago
USA workers will not accept Taiwan salaries. Numbeo shows the cost of living (including rent) is 45% higher in Phoenix than in Hsinchu (where TSMC's 2N is) Rent is 176% higher.
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by acchow 1y ago
Please take a look at the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Notably: > Be kind. Don't be snarky > Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
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by acchow 1y ago
Not just performance. They enable smart pointers, reducing memory leaks and simplifying memory management
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by acchow 1y ago
If you want the titled 2500 tokens/second, you need to use the on-chip SRAM
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by acchow 1y ago
> If you prompt a LLM with ambiguous instructions, it requests you to clarify (i.e., extend prompt to provide more context) It does not understand that it needs clarification. This behavior is replicated pattern
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by acchow 1y ago
> The whole system has the ability to do around 275 base processes It’s incredibly easy to get LLMs to do a lot of stuff that seems convincing. They are literally trained for plausibility.
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by acchow 1y ago
CSE-3 chip has 44GB, which can hold 22B parameters in FP16. 400B parameters would need 18 chips. Then you need a bit more ram for other stuff
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by acchow 1y ago
Apple gets paid $20 billion per year to set Google as the default search engine in Safari...
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by acchow 1y ago
Like how Google Translate has been translating between languages for a decade+ now...? There's been a stepwise jump in the capabilities of AI that's changed "products" from mostly fun to actually useful
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by acchow 1y ago
As someone with both a biochem and CS background, I found the comment insightful and clear. Zero technobabble to my ears.
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by acchow 1y ago
Which LLMs seem to be vibe-coded over a weekend? Do you perhaps mean small language models? I doubt Llama or Deepseek were vibe coded..
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by acchow 1y ago
If they wanted something like a watermark, they could have just added a watermark...

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