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by acchow 2y ago
Cline was fixing my type errors and unit tests while I was doing my V60 pourover.
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by acchow 2y ago
> ~doubling every 2-2.5 years) puts us at 20~25 years. The trend for power consumption of compute (Megaflops per watt) has generally tracked with Koomey’s law for a doubling every 1.57 years Then you also have model performance improving
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by acchow 2y ago
Drivers don’t get held accountable in America. You can actually kill someone without any significant consequences, as long as you do it while driving https://sfist.com/2024/04/18/71-year-old-driver-skates-with
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by acchow 2y ago
Sure, that’s not good, but neither is getting killed along with your whole family, while waiting at a bus stop…? https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/3-month-old-infa... Also, it’s certainly better than hav
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by acchow 2y ago
Your local library might have it. San Francisco public library has 11 copies of it, with 5 available right now. https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3909179
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by acchow 2y ago
Probably China will always outpay Cruise so you see migration from Waymo to Chinese companies, but not to cruise
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by acchow 2y ago
Humans have basically always been cyborgs. We literally cannot survive without technology like fire and clothing.
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by acchow 2y ago
It’s quite common in the middle class and below in the US to spend every extra dollar you make as your income rises. This means, despite getting promotions or raises, your a savings rate remains zero (or negative). One primary way to increa
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by acchow 2y ago
I find o1 much better for having discussions or solving problems, then usually switch to Claude for code generation.
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by acchow 2y ago
Consider a $350k/year engineer. If Claude increases their productivity 5% ($17.5k/yr), but CGPT Pro adds 7% ($24.5k), that's an extra $7k in productivity, which more than makes up for the $2400 annual cost. 10x the price, but
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by acchow 2y ago
The intent is there, it's just not currently hooked up to systems that turn intent into action. But many people are letting LLMs pretty much do whatever - hooking it up with terminal access, mouse and keyboard access, etc. For example,
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by acchow 2y ago
A $700/mth new-ish car is quite ordinary for many Americans, but they probably only "need" something about half that price. A Netflix subscription is ordinary but not necessary.
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by acchow 2y ago
You nailed it. This was the case across all developed economies, a direct result of money printing. You did especially well if you had assets bought with borrowed money since your gains were leveraged and your loan principal inflated away.
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by acchow 2y ago
It's a broken system but it will never go away since tips are tax-advantaged (there's no sales tax on the tip). The mental block can be helped a little by adding 1/3rd to all the menu prices as you read them.
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by acchow 2y ago
I’ve eaten many mealy honeycrisp apples. Just let it sit on your counter for 2 months then try it. Discount grocery stores are often selling many-months old apples.
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by acchow 2y ago
> but couldn't we add some training data to teach the LLM how to spell? Sure, but then we would lose a benchmark to measure progress of emergent behavior. The goal is not to add one capability at a time by hand - because this doesn’
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by acchow 2y ago
In software, building bug-free software is almost never the goal. There is a constant juggling act of tradeoffs between time, requirements, and tech debt.
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by acchow 2y ago
> and here in Germany people buy a car for life The average age of a car in Germany is 10 years so I guess this was sarcasm?
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by acchow 2y ago
60-90 minutes is far too long at the gym. If you space your sets correctly, you can have a very effective workout in 25 minutes. Change your muscle groups every day. Do people want to spend 60 minutes as some kind of gym time standard? Wher
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by acchow 2y ago
How do you know this? Apparently 20% of Nvidia's quarterly revenue is booked in Singapore where shell companies divert product to China: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048065
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by acchow 2y ago
> I know ancient iGPUs had that thing for setting the GPU memory size in the BIOS, but that's aaaaaancient and completely obsolete. If you still have that, just set it to the minimum value. The rest of memory will be unified. I hadn
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by acchow 2y ago
No, I'm saying Singapore's systemic prejudices aren't exhibited as overtly biased violent police behavior. America's always are.
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by acchow 2y ago
Yes, competition is what causes the margin compression.
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by acchow 2y ago
It is clear when looking at the history of policing in America, whenever you let the police be “tough on crime”, they abuse their power and particularly against certain minority groups. America is unable to figure out its systematic prejudi
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by acchow 2y ago
GIF format includes a flag inside it to indicate how many times (or forever) to loop the video. HEVC does not have such a flag. Quite unfortunate
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by acchow 2y ago
iPhone sales make up 46% of Apple's revenue, so it has expanded beyond just being "a phone company". They offer an integrated experience across their products.
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by acchow 2y ago
The growth is one thing, but maintaining gross margins of 76% in big tech is quite challenging. Ignoring AI bubble risk, in the near term, their main risk is margin compression
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by acchow 2y ago
"OCR : Computer Use" is as "voice-to-text : ChatGPT Voice"
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by acchow 2y ago
In San Francisco, all the Walgreens and Safeways have been increasing how much stuff they keep locked behind plexiglass. You can’t get to it. It’s irritating as a shopper. Sometimes you just leave while waiting. Mostly now, you just order o
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by acchow 2y ago
When you get to higher level, you’re not doing work but instead you are guiding work and making decisions. Whenever you don't know which way to go, you consult someone more senior. Those people do the same with their seniors. And so on

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