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by jonas21 2y ago
This is an interesting writeup, but I feel like it's missing a description of the cluster and the workload that's running on it. How many nodes are there, how much traffic does it receive, what are the uptime and latency requireme
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by jonas21 2y ago
The answer is Google. I'm not sure why you're being so dismissive. When we look back in 20 years, things like the transformer architecture, AlphaFold (which just won a Nobel prize), and Waymo are going to have improved the world
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by jonas21 2y ago
Note that it's an " or ", not an " and ": i.e. your employer can require you to assign the invention to them if it's done during work hours OR with company equipment OR related to the company's busin
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by jonas21 2y ago
Yes, but the DOJ determined that the auto-generated captions were "inaccurate and incomplete, making the content inaccessible to individuals with hearing disabilities." [1] If the automatically-generated captions are now of a simi
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by jonas21 2y ago
Most Netflix employees have worked at other places and can make the comparison for themselves. They don't have to take Netflix' word for it. Also, since when is telling people they're good at what they do "worker-harming
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by jonas21 2y ago
Apple was a computer company and now their biggest business is selling mobile phones.
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by jonas21 2y ago
What happened to Reddit? AFAIK, they're bigger than ever now.
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by jonas21 2y ago
Google employs thousands of researchers who would be less productive (and upset) if they scrapped it. That alone is probably enough to make it worthwhile to keep it going, at least until a good alternative emerges.
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by jonas21 2y ago
So that would be $7.72 per taxpayer, a single-digit dollar amount. (based on number of taxpayers in 1989 -- using the numbers from 1972, it would be a low double-digit amount).
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by jonas21 2y ago
Yeah, it's such a cynical take. I'm astonished that anyone here would believe this, much less write it up as a blog post and submit it to Hacker News.
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by jonas21 2y ago
Also note that he wasn't fired specifically due to ejecting -- he was fired "for loss of trust and confidence in his ability to execute the responsibilities of his command." And the investigation was completed back in January
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by jonas21 2y ago
To be fair, it was a human in HR who didn't read the email carefully and replied with "congratulations". An LLM probably could have warned them before they sent the email, if only it had been integrated into their email clien
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by jonas21 2y ago
It wasn't even bad news, or at least the markets didn't think so -- they were up slightly. It was basically the expected effect of the two hurricanes on October and Boeing strike.
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by jonas21 2y ago
I believe this is what they plan on doing. See, for example: https://www.youtube.com/live/Y2F8yisiS6E?si=GbyzzIG8w-mtS7s-...
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by jonas21 2y ago
Yes, it's very weird. When I write JavaScript, I expect it to run reasonably fast because of the JIT - and it does. I've never felt the need to use FFI, and libraries that use it generally do so because they want to interact with
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by jonas21 2y ago
Do you think the animals in Busytown are all working their dream jobs and following their passions? Of course not -- as someone else pointed out, the butchers are all pigs! But they mostly seem to have found something that they like well en
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by jonas21 2y ago
Apple puts the memory, CPU, and GPU all on the same chip. This generates less waste as you only need a single package and socket, and uses less energy during operation.
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by jonas21 2y ago
This may be a silly question, but how do I install the Google Pay app on my iPhone? I'd like to try it out since it's the first app listed in the Flutter Showcase, people keep mentioning it in this thread, and it probably works a
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by jonas21 2y ago
So, basically: Python is performant when you don't use Python?
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by jonas21 2y ago
If that's the case, then why does nearly every company have a native app in addition to their website? Surely, they could save a lot of time and money by just not building and maintaining the app.
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by jonas21 2y ago
> based on a detailed analysis of the investments of 125 of the richest billionaires in some of the world's biggest corporates and the carbon emissions of these investments. These billionaires have a collective $2.4 trillion stake
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by jonas21 2y ago
It's not like people had been ignoring Yann LeCun's work prior to AlexNet. It received quite a few citations and was famously used by the US Postal Service for reading handwritten digits. AlexNet happened in 2012 because the condi
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by jonas21 2y ago
NPUs are already included by default in the Apple ecosystem. Nobody seems to mind.
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by jonas21 2y ago
That says pretty much the opposite of what you claim.
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by jonas21 2y ago
> Google is famous for not innovating on anything successfully, they produce graveyards of trash. - AlphaFold (just won a Nobel prize) - Transformers (the "T" in GPT) - Waymo (autonomous vehicles) - Sycamore (quantum computin
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by jonas21 2y ago
> The way to judge the quality of a depth map is to use it to reproject the image into 3D and rotate it around a bit. They do this. See figure 4 in the paper. Are the results cherry-picked to look good? Probably. But so is everything e
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by jonas21 2y ago
> They just care more about their career. It's not even that. In most fields, you need lab space and equipment and grad students to get stuff done. And to pay for that, you need funding. And to get funding, you need to publish and
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by jonas21 2y ago
I feel like they're particularly bad at this, especially compared to other large companies.
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by jonas21 2y ago
> I have a long rant about how open source is wage theft and value extraction by unscrupulous third parties is built in and unavoidable. How can it be wage theft when people voluntarily contribute to it? If you don't want others t
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by jonas21 2y ago
The top entry is based on a Transformer architecture. It's basically an LLM, but trained on the input instead.

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