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by bcherny 2y ago
My understanding is it's this, then having to repeat it over and over for each city (network effects are within a city, mostly).
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by bcherny 2y ago
I listen to Acquired religiously, but felt this particular episode was pretty weak. They went through Zuckerman's The Man Who Solved the Market [0] chapter by chapter, butchering a few parts because the hosts don't know quant fina
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by bcherny 2y ago
My understanding is that PnL doesn't tell the whole story for a capital-intensive business like Uber. Instead, you want to break it down by city -- for a mature market like SF, I'd expect a healthy profit margin; but for a new cit
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by bcherny 2y ago
Blog post: https://developers.googleblog.com/2024/04/gemma-family-expan... Github: https://github.com/google-deepmind/recurrentgemma HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/google
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by bcherny 2y ago
Looking through the code, Pylyzer seems to be a thin wrapper around Erg [1]. To typecheck, it converts your Python AST to an Erg AST, then runs its through the Erg typechecker and returns the errors. Faster typechecking for Python is very m
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Designing-data-intensive-application-notes.md(gist.github.com)
14 points by bcherny 3y ago|0 comments
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by bcherny 3y ago
If you press the … menu next to a post/ad, there is literally a button to report it as a scam.
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by bcherny 3y ago
I wonder why cars and trains don’t use tech like this to keep passengers stable, even when the road/track has bumps. Something like this, built into shock absorbers, could be revolutionary for transport.
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by bcherny 3y ago
I loved this game, but the controls on this web version are not great (on mobile).
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by bcherny 3y ago
This is one of Hofstadter’s big ideas that he explored in his main work: GEB, Mind’s I, and I am a Strange Loop. The latter is a good intro to his work.
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by bcherny 3y ago
Super cool. I love how minimalistic the identification UI is -- just dwell on the subject for a few seconds, and the holographic reticle changes to the name of the bird. No extra text, no complicated interactions. Really nice work making th
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by bcherny 3y ago
Are there any numbers on how many megapixels the camera is, and how many DPI the display is? (What are the upper bounds for these over time?) The demo looks greyscale, and super low res and low FPS.
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by bcherny 3y ago
https://archive.is/wOgiW
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by bcherny 3y ago
Cybershoes looks cool, but what makes you say they work better?
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by bcherny 3y ago
I’ve never had to pay more than a fixed copay. (I use public insurance)
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by bcherny 3y ago
I moved from SF to Japan, can confirm. YMMV — like any other country, cost of living depends on what city and neighborhood you’re in, lifestyle, etc.
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by bcherny 3y ago
Does anyone have a link to the actual “conversation”? Is there a transcript?
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by bcherny 3y ago
A 12x decline is staggering, as is the consistent year-over-year drop. This smells like a data issue to me. I wonder if any changes to crime reporting standards, the definition of burglary, etc. have been rolling out.
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Learning to work (very) remotely(borischerny.com)
3 points by bcherny 3y ago|2 comments
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Learning to Work (very) Remotely(borischerny.com)
3 points by bcherny 3y ago|0 comments
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by bcherny 3y ago
If you want some relevant sci-fi, Watts’ Freeze Frame Revolution explored this, on a scale of decades (not months).
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by bcherny 3y ago
One could argue that open source won’t change much with regard to China and Russia. Both countries have access to LLMs already. And if they didn’t, they would have built their own or gotten access through corporate espionage. What open sour
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by bcherny 3y ago
If getting paid was his motive all along, wouldn’t taking equity have been a more straightforward way to do that? Like, why would he not take equity, but instead rely solely on an acquisition?
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by bcherny 3y ago
Honest question: How would he make money if he didn’t have equity in OpenAI?
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by bcherny 3y ago
I was looking forward to the benchmarks. Did I miss them?
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by bcherny 3y ago
This was my life, until I moved from SF to Japan. Now my life is 90% coding and I’m 350% happier.
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by bcherny 3y ago
Looks neat! Is there a way to buy one without having to build it myself?
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by bcherny 3y ago
Nice! Lots of tricky edge cases to do this right: there’s ambiguity in the JSON Schema spec, version-to-version changes, many popular community conventions that don’t adhere to the spec, etc. Feel free to check out the tests to understand s
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Ask HN: What app do you use for book recommendations?
7 points by bcherny 3y ago|7 comments
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Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App(engineering.fb.com)
1 points by bcherny 3y ago|0 comments

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