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by choppaface 2y ago
Besides the many CAPEX-vs-OPEX tradeoffs that are completely unavailable due to not being able to buy physical TPU pods, there are inherent Google-y risks e.g. risk of the TPU product and/or support getting killed or fragmented /
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by choppaface 2y ago
The result is minor AND Google spent a (relative) lot of money to achieve it (especially in the eyes of the new CFO). Jeff Dean is desperately trying to save the prestige of the research (in a very insular, Google-y way) because he wants t
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by choppaface 2y ago
Not a full solution, but seeing the OP seeks to be a key-value store (versus full RDBMS? despite the comparisons with Spanner and Postgres?), important to weigh how Rockset (also mainly KV store) dealt with S3-backed caching at scale: *
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by choppaface 2y ago
notably that link shows “@tensorflow tensorflow deleted a comment from fchollet on Nov 21, 2018” as well as other deleted comments
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by choppaface 2y ago
For those who don’t want to click thru: the link shows Gen 4 60 TB drives from Western Digital and Solidigm for ~$7,262.00 ($121/TB). The Micron Gen 5 part is likely much more money. Note on eBay there are currently many listings for
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by choppaface 2y ago
Also missing that he oversaw layoffs of 2550 https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-ceos-pay-rises-63-to-73m...
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by choppaface 2y ago
Leetcode can work well for junior / new grad candidates if you help & hint them a bit. For example they probably forgot breadth-first search, but if you give a couple hints about queues and they show tremendous swiftness, then tha
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by choppaface 2y ago
“but use caution, since this is going to charge you money” terraform apply ALWAYS charges you money!! Use caution because this action will put more on your plate not theoretically but *physically
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by choppaface 2y ago
The Apple Intelligence demos showed Apple is likely planning to use on-device models for ad targeting, and Google / Facebook will certainly respond. Small LLMs will help move unwanted computation onto user devices in order to circumve
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by choppaface 2y ago
The competition has a precise definition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_world_cycling_rec...
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Googler Chris LaSala instructs to disable chat history for Jedi Blue(twitter.com)
3 points by choppaface 2y ago|0 comments
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by choppaface 2y ago
Could be more comparable to Clubhouse, which VCs quickly piled $100m into[1a], and which Clubhouse notably turned into layoffs [1b]. In this case, the $1b in funding and high valuation might function predominantly as a deterrent to any fli
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by choppaface 2y ago
To be clear, Google very much had and has a culture of optimizing for (a certain) quality. They definitely fought spam. It just so happens that their culture and employees value a “quality” that is distinctly incongruent with the wider 6b-
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by choppaface 2y ago
If VR is to compete with smartphones, it needs at least more screen pixels, and AVP delivers. The multi-user UX is still undecided (hence the device leans so much on “teleporting” capability). But for sales calls, group work, education et
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Neural Space-Time Model for Structured Illumination Microscopy(github.com)
2 points by choppaface 2y ago|0 comments
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by choppaface 2y ago
Article says yes steering wheel until regulatory approval. There’s also a 100% tax on Chinese cars imported to the US, so hard to say if this demo is a realistic model.
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by choppaface 2y ago
Schmidt oversaw lots of “stealing” at Google, from Google Books (Author’s Guild), to Image Search (e.g. Perfect10 etc, before even Getty), the French press .. all before Viacom vs Youtube and others. Schmidt was also notably part of the tec
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by choppaface 2y ago
Could be a Double Robotics clone instead of having an arm https://www.doublerobotics.com/ If it does have a large arm, could it fold clothing? If not, hard to think of a killer app. Maybe they expect to pivot.
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by choppaface 2y ago
As with the likely false claim about a DDoS attack during a recent political rally on X [1] the claim of "guardrails" from this group warrants suspicion. Could be similar to Tesla FSD, where the philosophy is 'we tried to ma
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by choppaface 2y ago
FYI HN mods consider paywalled to be off-topic for HN and thus liable for moderating action. Even though WSJ and others are paywalled and HN readers don’t care.
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by choppaface 2y ago
Google has yet to experience significant penalties due to their Jedi Blue price-fixing scheme ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue ). Perhaps this story covers some other set of claims that will be broken out of
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by choppaface 2y ago
Telegraph Hill is one of the most touristy parts of the city, hence lots of crime (especially at night). It might be pretty but you just chose poorly / naively if safety was a priority. Raising a kid in SF is definitely tough, but pla
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by choppaface 2y ago
Add that in the dotcom bubble, internet-flavored growth had never happened before, so it was relatively harder to predict the growth of (say) Google. But today, deep-learning-flavored growth is a 10-year-old concept, and LLMs largely have l
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by choppaface 2y ago
But Yelp is not big tech, certainly not by market cap. It could be old tech, in the way that a 2010-era data API may have been a growth hack intended to create an app ecosystem. But 10 years later, there’s no app ecosystem and the com
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by choppaface 2y ago
If 90% of the content doesn’t get daily attention then the spider can blow out the caches and cause inordinate costs.
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by choppaface 2y ago
Also the opportunity to run on user compute and on private data. That supports a slate of business models that are incompatible with the mainframe approach. Including adtech models, which are predominantly cloud-based.
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by choppaface 2y ago
To be fair, the xd backdoor wasn’t immediately obvious https://www.wired.com/story/xz-backdoor-everything-you-need-...
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by choppaface 2y ago
Trust as a term is a bit overloaded. For software teams, I find “trust” can often be a shared lingo, shared mental model, and shared expectations. The first two can be easier if the two sides both use the same programming language and int
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by choppaface 2y ago
I found the tldr really confusing and next-to-useless. It’s a really really long article and I just wanted to read about queuing since yeah story points can suck.
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by choppaface 2y ago
Feedback is a critical part of education as well as motivation for learning. But the act of giving feedback is very hard to scale, even for virtual learning. Enter an LLM chatbot, which is imperfect but can fill a lot of gaps in expectatio

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