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Wouldn't the labor cost be amortized over millions and millions of units of production? Yeah, I'd be happy if the cost comes from labor. I worry instead that that cost comes from the fact that we can't mass produce any more a
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> Just don't see how this materializes in any meaningful timeframe in the United States — if it's even doable at all. Many people, especially successful business people, believe this. And this both saddens me and puzzles me. I&
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Naive question: what are the most suitable problems that Genetic Programming is to solve, despite that machine learning especially deep learning is all the rage now? Or do we have models that integrate genetic programming into deep learning
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A naive question: why is global warming bad for the earth, especially for the environmentalists? I mean I get it that it will be bad for human, but the biosphere thrived in much warmer pre-historical ages, right? Or rain forests still have
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I think deindustrialization is detrimental to the US. We couldn't even make masks fast enough during the covid. The YouTube video that compares the factory of GM and that of BYD's is just embarrassing. It really shows how far we&#
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote something like below in this book Skin in the Game . It looks to me that there is a lot of inequality and unfairness hidden in the Europe. "Consider that about ten percent of Americans will spend at least a
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> In the last century, typesetting used to be a big industry. It once required specialized skills and machinery. You could make great money being one. However, in the 1980s, desktop publishing software suddenly enabled anyone with a comp
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> It just needs to be able to deliver 80% of your output at 20% of your cost Yeah. The average cost of a senior engineer in an IPO'd company is about $500K in the bay area (salary, stock grants, and all the company expenses). That&#
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> The DOGE point of view says if the government can’t do anything, we should just get rid of the government I have a hard time wrapping my head around this statement. If a department in a company does not work, we don't get rid of t
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An honest question: what is wrong with reciprocal tariff? Wouldn't that be fair to both countries? I understand that there were many compromises when the countries signed trade deals like NAFTA, so we got some protective tariffs here a
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What about the series of really creative and complex prompts that an artist uses to create the AI-generated art? That is, the creativity and the associated values will be in the prompts.
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Yup. And more than that, Israel picks the brightest high-school kids to join their special school that trains intelligence officers. The kids learn advanced STEM and analytics in the school. It's not a coincidence that many of the grad
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> The more "politics" you have at a company, Note the "politics" do not necessarily come from any malicious intention. It's just part of the company dynamics. As more layers are added to a company, visibility dec
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This is also more than just saving a few billions of dollars but making a giant like Amazon more efficient, especially when it comes to making decisions. It's just too soul crushing to have a dozen of people who spend all day gatekeepi
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> Pay is still excellent in comparison to most professions. Agreed. Amazingly good, in fact. Sometimes I wonder how we can sustain such level of amazing income > The tooling we have now is amazing, Yes, although it's not necessar
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The end of ZIRP is necessary for us to return to economic reality. As Henry Hazlitt explains in "Economics in One Lesson," proper capital allocation is fundamental to a healthy economy. During the ZIRP era, market signals were dis
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I'm curious why their claims are controversial. It seems pretty obvious to me that LLMs sometimes generate idiotic answers because the models lack common sense, do not have ability for deductive logical reasoning, let alone the ability
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Will uBlock Origin Lite[1] a good alternative to uBlock Origin? It is one of the alternatives recommended by the uBlock Origin tea. [1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...
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> Nothing kills your company’s culture like layoffs,” Kelleher once said. Or maybe the culture is already rotten before the layoff. I've seen so many companies in the bay area have become so bloated and bureaucratic. Directors and V
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> Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axle of layoffs when most people are in a chronic state of tech job hopping? I know lots of people hop jobs to get promoted. It's understandable too: promotion has become a prestige. I
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> but I wonder how much of this initiative and energy is driven by people at Microsoft who want their own star to rise higher than it can when it's bound by a third-party technology. I guess it's human nature for a person or an
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> If European leaders don't watch this and realise they need to take control of their own destiny they're idiots They should take control. That's why it puzzled me why they are okay to get deindustrialized, are okay to des
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That's the only information I have. That said, High-Flyer had about 160 people, total, in 2021. Given that F3 was in production in 2019, 60 people is a generous estimation.
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Thanks! Updated to 60 per their author list in their paper.
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A distributed file system is honed as one of the trickiest software to write, and we are usually advised not to write a file system from scratch (even on top of FUSE), let alone a highly optimized one. When a silicon value company is having
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Wow, time flies. Thanks!
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This reminds me of Rob Pike's article "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant," written about 15 years ago. Perhaps many systems have matured to a point where any improvement appears incremental to engineers, so the convicti
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> It sounds like it's so expensive and the difference in usefulness is so lacking(?) they're not even gonna keep serving it in the API for long I guess the rationale behind this is paying for the marginal improvement. Maybe the
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I think what Grok's team did was deadly wrong. I didn't flag this submission. Instead, I'd rather see discussions. So this is just my speculation: people on the left on HN flagged the posts they didn't like left and righ
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How would EU enforce their regulation with an open recipe? Say I take the recipe plus my own data to train a model that has no check of my speech whatsoever, and let my friends use it, wouldn't that violate some regulations of EU?

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