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by cwyers 1y ago
```When Uber entered the taxi market without securing taxi licenses or extending the workforce protections required under law, it said the move didn’t count because it did it with an app.``` It's so weird to see the first half of this
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by cwyers 1y ago
And not even a commonly used one. Gemini Flash or o4-mini would have been a much better choice if they wanted a cheap model
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by cwyers 1y ago
It's easy enough to track objects on the field (I say easy enough, it's a lot of work), but in terms of tracking game state, that's all still done by stringers.
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by cwyers 1y ago
Retrosheet is a project which reconstructs historical baseball games from old newspaper accounts, scorescards purchased at estate sales, and other means. They actually have an ASCII scorecard format: https://www.retrosheet.org&#x
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by cwyers 1y ago
Classical search
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by cwyers 1y ago
`Anyone is great at creating a bad first draft` Famously not so! Writer's block is real!
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by cwyers 1y ago
`Is Automattic a struggling business?` I mean, everytime I see someone talking about them on Twitter, they are clearly struggling with _something_.
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by cwyers 1y ago
The issue with investing similar levels of effort into making C++ safer is the C++ standards committee doesn't want to adopt those kinds of improvements.
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by cwyers 1y ago
I'm sure they don't pay retail on GPT-5 either.
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by cwyers 1y ago
This is Microsoft subsidizing Claude inference costs -- if you look at how they charge models against your allotment, Gemini, GPT-5 and Claude 4 Sonnet all cost the same, despite Claude 4 Sonnet being more expensive than the other two. Not
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by cwyers 1y ago
The thing about large fixed costs is that you can just solve them with growth. If they were losing money on inference alone no amount of growth would help. It's not clear to me there's enough growth that everybody makes it out of
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by cwyers 1y ago
I'm just going to ask this: if your coworkers ask "can we upgrade from ruff to uv format," and it takes you that much time to explain it, have you just considered going "sure thing," spending two hours on Twitter, a
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by cwyers 1y ago
The HN commenters in a nutshell: ruff: Aww, you're sweet! uv format: Hello, human resources? Meanwhile, they provide identical functionality. (`Under the hood, it calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code according to con
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by cwyers 1y ago
The author calling them "GPTs" suggests to me maybe not keeping up with the state of the art.
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by cwyers 1y ago
So, the way speculative decoding works, the model begins predicting at the first wrong token, so you still get 'is' for free.
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by cwyers 1y ago
This is a great book (parts of it are available as blog posts from the author if you want to get a taste of it): https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-f...
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by cwyers 1y ago
Basically everybody.
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by cwyers 1y ago
If you count the number of ignorant people who use Windows versus the people like you, you'll quickly realize the tax is very cheap for the level of protection it offers to the number of people it offers it to.
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by cwyers 1y ago
Right, but HP hadn't figured out how to make and sell profitable $99 10" tablets, they had figured out how to wash their hands of unsold inventory of $500 tablets that people didn't want. They had no moat in selling cheap tab
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by cwyers 1y ago
My employer can't go out and get me three actual people to work under me for $30 a month. EDIT: You can quibble on the exact rate of people's worth of work versus the cost of these tools, but look at what a single seat on Copilot
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by cwyers 2y ago
I remember one time going into a Books-A-Million and being flabbergasted when I asked someone at the Information desk to look and see if they had anything by T.S. Elliot in stock, and she said, "What does the T. stand for?"
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by cwyers 2y ago
The counterpoint is that by locking people into carrier relationships allows T-Mobile and AT&T to offer loans on consumer electronics at much more consumer-friendly rates than others in the same business, e.g. Rent-A-Center. As I note d
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by cwyers 2y ago
Yeah, you can let the service lapse and resume it, you just can't take the phone elsewhere. T-Mobile is taking on some risk there, to be sure. As far as why you would immediately switch -- T-Mobile is not losing money on these phone su
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by cwyers 2y ago
In the pre-paid market niche, you have people who really struggle to put together the money for an iPhone 12 all in one go, and T-Mobile has essentially worked to create a razors/blade model with some obfuscation. It's possible th
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by cwyers 2y ago
A good example here is Betamax. A lot of people lament that Betamax lost despite being better on a lot of measures: picture quality, etc. But what Betamax wasn't better at than VHS was runtime, and an early application of home VCRs was
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by cwyers 2y ago
What this ends up being in practice is "give away everything that I am better at than AWS for free, and charge for the things that AWS is better at than me." It shouldn't be surprising that AWS comes in and eats your lunch on
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by cwyers 2y ago
kitty is a product of a single open-source project, Sixel is a product of DEC with multiple independent implementations. DEC is out of business and there's very little risk of anyone coming out with a new version of VT333/VT340 re
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by cwyers 2y ago
`Protectionism hurts the ultimate consumer of the product.` So do lots of other things, and you need to balance competing sources of harm against each other. Allowing foreign companies benefitting from protectionist policies drive domestic
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by cwyers 2y ago
You're right, it would be better if there was fair competition and we could let the market decide things. But that's not the status quo. The status quo is one party (China) has extremely protectionist policies and encourages IP th
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by cwyers 2y ago
Do you consider companies that refuse to comply with GDPR banned in the EU?

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