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The BBB, i.e., the bill passed via the special mechanism that only works once a year and has stringent requirements on what can be in the bill for the mechanism to work.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The idea that the Republicans are going to bail out AI and pay for it with massive tax raises on the plebs is just utter bonkers, if for no other reason than they're currently utterly incapable of getting any legislation passed, let
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This is going in fits and starts, but I'm working on a Win16 decompiler. The problems with existing decompiler tools for 16-bit code are a) support the NE file format is far less widespread; b) 16-bit code means geating to deal with se
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Despite being their namesake, biological neurons operate quite distinctly from neural nets. I believe we have yet to successfully model the nervous system of the nematodes, with a paltry 302 neurons.
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"Reported to shareholders" is a whole heck of a lot more accurate than some person on the internet playing numerology to turn similarly sketchily-sourced user numbers into revenue numbers.
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The value of revenue as a metric is that you can't really play financial games to screw with revenue, while there's lots of stuff you can do to inflate or deflate your profit. See, e.g., Hollywood accounting. Neither revenue nor p
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If you want officially announced data, OpenAI made $4.3 billion in the first half of this year.
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> 2. ChatGPT has 800M weekly active users. If 10% of these users are on the paid plan, this is $19.2B/year. Adjust this value depending on what percentage of users you believe pay for ChatGPT. Sam has announced that they're pro
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The claim was "most revenue." Of course, even you go by most profit, Saudi Aramco still has Google beat, because it turns out that being able to charge highest market price for oil that costs you $5/barrel to make and being a
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> I believe Google has earned the most revenue of any business ever [1] By yearly revenue, the highest revenue company is Walmart, followed by Amazon, which make somewhere near twice the revenue of Alphabet (around 11th place, per https
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Even as someone who is generally inclined to agree with his thesis, I find Ed Zitron's discussions as to why AI does not and will never work deeply unconvincing.
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30 years ago, right before Windows 95 came out, Windows was a 16-bit OS and the modern versions of Windows no longer support 16-bit programs. PCIe came out only in 2003, and I don't know that PCIe slots can support PCI. SATA is also fr
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is one of the mini-case studies analyzed in the piece, specifically for its note that Russia's disregard for Clausewitzian principles has failed to bring it meaningful success. It should also be noted
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As far as I'm aware, all of the major exchanges in the US are in NY or in Chicago, and even then, Chicago is mostly just futures exchanges for commodities and not stock exchanges. So unless you're headquartered in NYC (which most
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> (This difference possibly shows the more fundamental difference in the cultures, where one values truth more, and one values agreement/harmony more.) I'd be extremely wary of ascribing any cultural significance to the languag
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My recollection is that, by the early days of Crunchyroll, fansubs weren't really competing on quality so much as speed. And with the legitimate licensors having access to the scripts slightly in advance of the Japanese release, the fa
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OpenAI is supposed to be buying something like $100 billion of chips from AMD. On top of the hundreds of billions to like five other companies for AI chips and other compute. Where do those several hundred billions come from? That's th
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Don't forget that OpenAI also has a similarly-massive deal with Oracle and another one with Nvidia. And its own Stargate initiative. And probably a couple more massive contracts with neoclouds to use more stuff. Like best possible scen
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> By that I mean, those were the last consoles where performance improvements delivered truly new experiences, where the hardware mattered. The PS3 is the last console to have actual specialized hardware. After the PS3, everything is jus
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by jcranmer 1y ago
As binary formats go, UTF-8 is extremely tame. Some of the complexities that binary formats love to throw at you: * Things may be non-byte-aligned bitstreams. * Arrays of structures that go "read until id is 5, but if id is 5, nothing
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> The records do show that the railways were profitable for a short while, but it seems only because the government paid for the infrastructure. If they had to incur the capital expenditure themselves, the math doesn't look like it
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I must disagree. The most important thing to understand about peasant farmers is that their economic prospects are tied to the availability of land, and land is a finite resource of which there is not enough and no more can be had. Most pre
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As a compiler developer, if you give me a bug and the source is not reduced, I'm decently likely to tell you to reduce it first before I attempt to take a look at it.
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As someone who generally agrees with the thesis, I still find the length of the article quite frustrating, since it's definitely quantity over quality for text here. The core issue is that OpenAI is committing to spending hundreds of b
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Unless you're calling a variable-argument function--floats are promoted to doubles for variable-argument functions: > The arguments are implicitly converted, as if by assignment, to the types of the corresponding parameters, taking
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I wish C++ name lookup and overload resolution were that simple.
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> * uniform function call syntax that is : a.foo(b) vs foo(a, b) being interchangeable. Herb Sutter has proposed this: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p30... (twice,
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The US Army has literally put out a video game as a recruiting tool: America's Army.
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I think "were" is the correct tense. EA's dictates for SimCity (2013) ended up crashing that franchise entirely, and a decade into The Sims 4, EA has admitted it's planning on endless expansion packs for Sims 4 rather th
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> As far as I can tell, modern C++20/23 is as safe (if not safer) than rust. It is not. Rust will, for example, prevent the following memory-safety issue from compiling: std::vector<T> meow; T &x = meow[i]; m

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