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by jefftk 1y ago
> Barriers to entry for self hosted sites. Easier to host with Google now. Let's Encrypt (which Google helped fund) is the opposite of a barrier to entry. Free domain-validated fully automated HTTPS cert distribution wasn't
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by jefftk 1y ago
This is just obviously false. If you want to claim that Google's impact has been on balance negative we can certainly argue about that, but some clearly positive things include: * Massive security improvements, including encryption (p
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by jefftk 2y ago
To the extent that their past spending was debt, interest on that debt that should already be accounted for in calculating their net income. But the way it usually works for Silicon Valley companies and other startups is that instead of tak
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by jefftk 2y ago
Maybe? But that's not what anyone means when they describe a company as profitable or not. I was guessing they meant something like the net profit only came from a weird tax thing or something.
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by jefftk 2y ago
I'm not a finance person, but how is net income of $9.9B for FY 2024 not profit?
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by jefftk 2y ago
Uber had their first profitable year in 2023, and their profit margin was 22% in 2024. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-technologies-full-2024-e...
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by jefftk 2y ago
> Billboards require power Digital billboards, sure, but traditional static billboards only need power if you want to light them at night. My guess is the majority of billboards in the US are unpowered, since it's so much cheaper
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by jefftk 2y ago
Much easier to require fields not have tabs than not have commas, though.
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by jefftk 2y ago
If you can get a pathogen vector to infect all of humanity you already have just about everything you need to cause massive damage; the gene drive doesn't make this situation appreciably worse. (Speaking for myself, not SecureBio)
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by jefftk 2y ago
It's reasonably likely, but not yet settled, that LLM training falls under fair use and doesn't require a license. This is what the https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/ class action (from 2022) is about, and its
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by jefftk 2y ago
A clearer way to understand this project is to look at their graduated proposals: * https://open-ui.org/components/popover-hint.research.explain... * https://open-ui.org/components/popover.research
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by jefftk 2y ago
538 had Trump at 30.7% the night before, FWIW: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107224336/https://projects....
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by jefftk 2y ago
> In a "normal" company that money goes straight into the pockets of the company owners. Only if the company returns money to its shareholders (ex: pays a dividend or does a stock buyback). Many growth-focused companies don&
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by jefftk 2y ago
> The battery powers nothing, but the microcontroller senses it’s voltage and when it is too low, it changes the behaviour of the thermostat to randomise the temperature cut in/out points by about 10 degrees Fahrenheit This is rea
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by jefftk 2y ago
> "solving" the fp32 incorrect-rounding problem by using fp64 is naive (not guaranteed to always work, although it will with high probability) The key thing is there are only 2*32 float32s so you can check all of them. It so
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by jefftk 2y ago
> Float32 should only be used when Float64 computation is too expensive Or when you're bottlenecked on memory and want to store each number in four bytes instead of eight.
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by jefftk 2y ago
Definitely! I see social media, in part, as a place to write initial drafts. If I write a comment somewhere and end up with something I think is decent at explaining something, I will often expand it into a blog post.
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by jefftk 2y ago
Other things I get out of blogging, in addition to Andy's points: * I can link people to my carefully considered thoughts on a subject instead of needing to write something up each time. * While most people don't read what I write
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by jefftk 2y ago
I'm not arguing the obviously false "no one has been cancelled for arguing an approach to increasing diversity is counterproductive". I'm arguing "Trace wouldn't have been (and in fact wasn't) cancelled fo
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by jefftk 2y ago
> if you pointed that out before Trump's election This article is an expanded version of the author's reporting a year ago: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-... While it didn&#
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by jefftk 2y ago
> These countries are leaking countless gallons of oil and fuel into the ground using engines and equipment that are over 100 years old Pre-1925 engines must be a minuscule fraction of all engines in active use, even in poor countries.
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by jefftk 2y ago
It's common for terms to have a more specific meaning when combined with other terms. "Open source" has had a specific meaning now for decades, which goes beyond "you can see the source" to, among other things, &qu
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by jefftk 2y ago
> Open source just means you have access to the source code. That's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software , not 'open source'. The latter was specifically coined [1] as a way to t
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by jefftk 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying!
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by jefftk 2y ago
I was thinking you could pick a group of songs that were close to the same length, and then make up the difference with fading, gaps, or a fake DJ? For this to work I think you want your overall loop to be just a few minutes.
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by jefftk 2y ago
I thought we were talking about DeepSeek's models, not Meta's?
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by jefftk 2y ago
Instead of struggling to generate this in real time, perhaps you could generate it in advance and loop it? The median Taylor Swift song is 3:52, then at 20M samples per second (and four bytes per sample) you need a little over 19GB [1] and
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by jefftk 2y ago
I do think the world would likely be better off without price controls during catastrophes, but I also think disasters are one of the places where they're least harmful: they're temporary situations, and also the normal assumption
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by jefftk 2y ago
> I always thought congestion pricing was always mis-priced, and it should be tied to income/wealth. NYC has a low-income discount system: https://new.mta.info/tolls/congestion-relief-zone/discounts-...
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by jefftk 2y ago
When I see things like: > Bus speeds also increased after the tolls were turned on. The Manhattan-bound B39 bus, which crosses the Williamsburg Bridge, ran 28% faster compared to a similar January week last year. Other buses like the SI

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