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541.
by foota 2y ago
Is building a long high voltage line not profitable? It seems like the potential for arbitrage should allow for sufficient profit, but maybe not? I know there's a lot of blockers, but if there's money to be made I would have thoug
542.
by foota 2y ago
Didn't they die by the droves?
543.
by foota 2y ago
Won't you still need to enter and exit gravity wells? I guess you never lose the energy from launch though if you stay moving, so maybe it's easier?
544.
by foota 2y ago
Say that Nvidia partners with open AI because they think open AI is the best positioned to succeed (and hence result in increase demand for Nvidia) as opposed to if they got some direct financial kickback, it that legal?
545.
by foota 2y ago
Renewable energy?
546.
by foota 2y ago
Yes, but if you then reference that as a foreign key in some other table or system, then whatever migration you need to do will encompass those systems as well, whereas if you use a synthetic key from the start you wouldn't need to cha
547.
by foota 2y ago
The most expensive trip you can take while staying within WA! Perth is in Western Australia, or WA.
548.
by foota 2y ago
There's some related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406194
549.
by foota 2y ago
I think once it's been in place for a year it will be very hard for them to take it away.
550.
by foota 2y ago
I wonder how much of the benefit is from just not using json vs reducing round trips. I guess if you had a large table you could stream (smaller than normal) row groups from parquet? Not sure how much work that would be though. I'm not
551.
by foota 2y ago
That all requires a lot of hardware support that probably didn't exist at the time, and is probably still esoteric today.
552.
by foota 2y ago
It's probably part of it, but also overhead from small requests and latency from round trips.
553.
by foota 2y ago
I think there's some other mechanisms that wake CPUs? This is just saying, if something decided to idle the CPU, don't wake it just because there are tasks waiting to run (let something else decide to wake it). E.g., if the system
554.
by foota 2y ago
We come up with all sorts of things that are initially a step backwards, but that lead to eventual improvement. The first cars were slower than horses. That's not to suggest that Renaissance is going to start using Chat GPT tomorrow, b
555.
by foota 2y ago
You could dump all of a companies financial statements together, or dump all of a companies competitors in with it, for one.
556.
by foota 2y ago
I agree this isn't earth shattering, but I think the benefit here is that it's a general solution instead of one trained on financial statements specifically.
557.
by foota 2y ago
Yes, but they do violate the part about being close to China (and hence easier to conquer in a hypothetical war). If the only supplies of bauxite were across an ocean or a whole continent it would be much easier to deny them supplies of bau
558.
by foota 2y ago
Hm... I think there are things with one sided uncertainty, that make the ops example possible. For example, things rarely start before they're scheduled, so if you know something is supposed to happen at 5 and last an hour, it's r
559.
by foota 2y ago
I think this hypothetical is more about once a conflict is imminent. Also, general consensus seems to be that economic codependence has failed, with Russia invading Ukraine, humans rights abuses and authoritarianism in China, and China pois
560.
by foota 2y ago
While true, it looks like bauxite is mostly mined from Australia, with a long tail of other countries, many of which are within the US sphere of influence or far from China. The biggest exception seems to be Vietnam, with a very large reser
561.
by foota 2y ago
Compare and swap
562.
by foota 2y ago
Yes, I'm not claiming that they're going to perform as well, just that they're sort of similar in the space of problems. There's different techniques used for compressing them, mostly around sorting the keys and e.g., ru
563.
by foota 2y ago
That's the hard part, but the OP is claiming they'd done that part :)
564.
by foota 2y ago
Anyone that wants to keep selling new phones every year?
565.
by foota 2y ago
The easy answer here would be to look at analyst estimates. If you notice nvidia selling 20 billion in H100s and the consensus revenue is 10 billion, then it's probably not priced in.
566.
by foota 2y ago
Imo this depends on whether the limiting factor is demand or production. If it's production capacity, then if in a year they're able to get TSMC to make them twice as many chips, they could likely increase their growth rate? I&#x2
567.
by foota 2y ago
Yes, that makes sense. Ooc, what do you think about the comparison to posting lists (aka bitmap indexes). Some searching shows ML folks are also interested in compressing KV caches for models, so if your technique is applicable there you ca
568.
by foota 2y ago
Nvidia must be the fastest growing in revenue a company has ever been at their revenue, right? If you adjust for inflation I imagine they'd have some competition from the robber barons, but it's hard to imagine.
569.
by foota 2y ago
I wonder... The comparison here is against a bloom filter, but is this actually more similar to a sketch? Or... Actually this is sort of like a posting list (e.g., a list of places that a given document appears: https://en.m.wiki
570.
by foota 2y ago
It seems like this would be most suitable for a system aggregating data. As long as you aggregate enough data points that the error averages out, it wouldn't be an issue. I guess another use case could be as any kind of "hint&quot

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