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by est31 2y ago
Thank you! This is very informative.
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> late stage acquisitions don't benefit early stage investors as much as an IPO or SPAC I've heard this repeated multiple times, but I wonder how the FTC's policies can influence this? > how early stage investors can&#x
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rustls together with aws-lc-rs (and its FIPS mode) can do FIPS-compatible cryptography together with memory-safe TLS processing around it. The FIPS-compatible cryptography is provided in C, but low-level crypto routines is usually not where
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by est31 2y ago
Computational photography uses AI a lot (next to parametric approaches), and without these algorithms, smartphone cameras would be quite shitty. People do care about that. AI isn't just LLM chatbots.
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Mobile websites used to be ad free as well.
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The sun is the biggest neutrino source in the sky. So we'd need some way to filter out neutrinos that are not from the sun, like we do with various photon telescopes. Furthermore, we can barely detect neutrinos. Building neutrino detec
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It contains the word "delve", a word that got way more popular in use since the introduction of LLMs. Also this paragraph sounds a lot like it has been written by LLMs, it's over-expressive: We systematically advanced t
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by est31 2y ago
Yeah it's only a kludge until the processing can be done on the GPU, and maybe one day, a proper driver can be developed for the ISP.
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In many ways the USA does rule the earth now. The Grand Area is big. With AI, I think there is extremely strong power laws that benefit the top performing models. The best model can attract the most users, which then attracts the most capit
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by est31 2y ago
TSMC has a market cap of 0.9T USD. It would be the 7 largest US company by market cap if it were one. Manufacturing chips is extremely profitable, at least in the current climate. It used to be that software is more profitable than hardware
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by est31 2y ago
Nvidia's moat is real but not big enough that one can't surpass it with a lot of engineering. It's not the only company making AI accelerators, and this has been the case for many years already. The first TPU was introduced i
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by est31 2y ago
> 6 years ago this RFC was written: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2497-if-let-chains.html - which fixes my issues. But it still hasn't shipped. As someone who has worked a lot to get if let chains stabilized
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> Most GC langs have these features too they're just not in your face. That's what I meant by "strong and widely used default". Defaults and syntactic sugar do matter and influence the type of code written.
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> Rust's memory management is automatic in that you can write entire Rust programs without once calling `free` manually. Personally I'd put the bar around not requiring people to distinguish different pointer types (owned vs sh
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> Rust is the first language to bring non-GC automatic memory management to the mainstream. It won't be the last and it might well be the worst. Other languages in this space include Swift Rust's memory management is not automa
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The winapi dependency comes from the rust tooling (cargo specifically) putting a great value on portability, and practical concerns like people collaborating from different platforms on the same project. Many Rust projects check their Cargo
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Yeah it's the startup vs established company dilemma. An AI company can publish a tool that makes mistakes. If Google publishes a version of that tool, maybe making it respond a little bit faster so that it can be shown next to search
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by est31 2y ago
HIV has a crazy high mutation rate, way larger than other viruses like SARS-COV-2 or the influenza virus. In an infected untreated human, you have at least one copy of the HIV virus produced for each base pair mutation within a day or so. I
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by est31 2y ago
How a search engine looks hasn't fundamentally changed since then. I'd argue the same about other products, like phones, excel, word, or operating systems like Windows. Yes, the newest versions of these have more sophistication th
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According to the paper, their demonstration chip MANA has 21k of JJ units, which according to their estimates correspond to around 5k transistors. To compare, a single Nvidia GA100 has 54 * 10^9 transistors.
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Another example is Bavaria, which used to be a poorly developed place until the post-ww2 immigration of Germans from the east happened.
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Zuckerberg is a famous person though, and famous people can't go to places which are sufficiently open to the public without causing major issues. A random billionaire nobody knows might walk around the Colosseum undetected, but try do
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Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481933 I'm not so sure about the "forever" part as git gc is a thing, and at least in 2013 they ran it regularly: https://stackoverflow.com&#x
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by est31 2y ago
Humans also constantly make mistakes that are due to proximity in their internal representation. "Could of"/"Should of" comes to mind: the letters "of" have a large edit distance from "'ve",
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> It’s the most interesting Postgres-aaS product I’ve seen, alongside postgres.ai, but you’re (I think) targeting slightly different audiences. I wish you luck! This is always great feedback to hear, thank you!
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The old school sysadmins who know technology well are still around but there is increasingly less of them while the demand skyrockets as our species gives computers an increasing number of responsibilities. There is tremendous demand for te
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> I wonder if this is the endgame of social mobility as more and more humans become replaced through automation: a competition for the attention of those at the top. I think in general, the creative industry has always been one that fasc
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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40988954
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You are right in the sense that there is groups among the MSM community who feel emboldened by PrEP to have unprotected promiscuous sex. I've ran across this mindset myself. It's a free world but the mindset is short sighted: ther
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S3's standard tier costs a fifth of ECR in terms of costs per GB stored. Egress costs to the free internet are the same, with the exception that for public ECR repositories they make egress to inner-AWS usage free.

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