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by hintymad 2y ago
I don't quite understand the sentiment. Lowered cost of training and inference means more companies can join the game, and therefore more demand for the hardware. Basically Jevon's paradox in play. What will more likely fall inste
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What I don't understand is why Meta needs so many VPs and directors. Shouldn't the model R&D be organized holacratically? The key is to experiment as many ideas as possible anyway. Those who can't experiment or code shoul
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by hintymad 2y ago
A trajectory observation: People from the US and maybe Europe seem love having all kinds of niche forums, like PhysicsForum. On the contrary, Chinese people seemed love having a centralized place. Case in point, Zhihu(zhihu.com) was a clone
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by hintymad 2y ago
Is it just me or this book looks rather like a Word doc than a Latex one?
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I hope this serves a cautionary tale to the left. If you think it's righteous to block or cancel someone who offends you on your moral or political ground, someday someone in power can do the same to you. That's why I'm all
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by hintymad 2y ago
I'd go with that the industry has changed and that the makeup of the HN users has changed. I'd venture to guess that a much larger percent of HN users back in 2013 were really into startups than merely tech news. What's reall
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A big reason is that an eSIM is virtual, which means anyone can easily get an eSIM that allows them to punch through the great firewall -- a defeat that the Chinese government would never allow to happen
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by hintymad 2y ago
UK probably made that mistake first by moving lots of manufacturing to their colonies, like North America and later the US. The UK said the same thing the western world said about China: they built low-level low-quality stuff, and we focuse
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by hintymad 2y ago
Yeah, I do recognize that. I just wish that the US could have a healthy mixture of light and heavy industry, so that the cost building any mission critical systems will not go through the roof, and so that we will be able t build anything d
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by hintymad 2y ago
UK ignited the First Industrial Revolution. It's sad to see that UK has slipped to number 16 or lower when it came to the market share of global manufacturing. And the problem is not to just UK, but to pretty much all the developed cou
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by hintymad 2y ago
I wonder if there's a reversed solution: using physical SIM card on devices that have only eSIMs. The use case: recent fewer versions of iPhone support only eSIMs, yet we will need a physical sim when traveling in China (yes yes, one c
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by hintymad 2y ago
This sounds evil. Why protect the rich when the states always spend huge to help the the poor?
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Per my experience with cloud, the most powerful Infra abstraction that AWS offers is actually EC2. The simplicity of getting a cluster of machines up and running with all the metadata readily available via APIs is just liberating. And it ju
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by hintymad 2y ago
Holy shit!
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In the late 80s and early 90s, the foreign-exchange reserves of China was less than a billion dollars. The US government could spend $50M to negotiate a lot of things from China, like having a war with Vietnam even though it was Soviet who
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Residents who no longer have any insurers available can buy insurance from the state, but its far more expensive than the plans it rejected from private insurers Sounds like a state-run racketeering business
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It was based on some reports (or podcast? I can't remember) that the California government didn't allow the insurers to sufficiently increase their premiums in the burnt areas. The government (or the insurers) cited two reasons: t
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by hintymad 2y ago
Do we know why the insurance companies can't simply raise the insurance price to match the risks in those areas that are prone to natural disasters? I mean in general, not as in California where the government imposes strange policies.
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by hintymad 2y ago
Yeah, me neither. Some analysis said the absolute number is large but the percentage is still small. And the migration is more about protesting. Xiaohongshu will need to come up with better monetization schemes too.
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by hintymad 2y ago
Since the ban is about not allowing app stores to host TT, can TT build its own App Store to offer the download of its app, given that Apple has to allow other app stores?
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by hintymad 2y ago
Exactly. And what puzzles me is that the evidences offered by the Congress was quite speculative, whether it's about data collection, content manipulation, influence of Chinese laws, or the potential future threat. Yet ByteDance chose
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Yeah, if "widely used" means that multiple nations and cultures use the service, then they are not widely used.
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> This is going to be an interesting experiment: A widely used social network across the world WITHOUT american content. China has had such social networks for a long time. Their Weibo and Xiaohongshu are two prominent examples. Weibo st
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by hintymad 2y ago
Yeah. If we feel strongly about Dorsey speaking, just don't go to the keynote? Imagine the keynote has few or even no audience, wouldn't that be strong enough a message? Dragging everyone down for one's own morality is not go
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by hintymad 2y ago
Speaking of school, I find it disturbing that many schools switch to pure digital, i-ready and that some similar shit. The problem with pure digital is that the kids won't learn how to communicate math, like writing down step-by-step s
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by hintymad 2y ago
How much does salary contribute to the overall cost of operating TSMC? Perplexity said that the average salary of a TSMC employee is $76K a year, and TSMC had about 80K people. So it cost them around $6B a year on salary. In the meantime, t
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by hintymad 2y ago
Personally I won't mind paying more to buy manufactured goods. My mom told me that a pair of sneakers before the offshoring back in the late 80s usually cost more than $300 in today's dollars. Yes, it was expensive, but I would ju
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And I'm not sure why this got downvoted. Not that it matters, but I'm very curious about why people were not happy with the questions. My fundamental belief is that if someone chose to accept an offer and then work hard, it's
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by hintymad 2y ago
Maybe this is the discussion worth having. Taiwanese engineers competed to get into TSMC. Their management practically lived in the factory to solve production issues when needed. The local workers in the Arizona factory said the pay was pr
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Do we know why the US government did not promise to buy chips but to give tax breaks (or investment thereof)? Wouldn't promise to buy create a better incentive to the manufacturers?

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