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by jonas21 1y ago
> Since the 1980s, we have been consistently taxing less. Assuming "we" means the United States, this isn't really true. Tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has been remarkably stable, not just since the 1980s, but since
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by jonas21 1y ago
It's funny you should mention that because years ago, I did own a mini-fridge with a freezer section, and after a few years the freezer stopped working. I was still glad to have had it while it lasted.
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by jonas21 1y ago
It's only the networked features that are being discontinued. You can still use the Nest as a "dumb" thermostat. Assuming you wanted a smart thermostat, surely a smart thermostat that reverts to being a dumb thermostat after
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by jonas21 1y ago
If going from a product with miniscule market share and no revenue to a $610M exit is a tragic unforced downfall, I really need to start failing more.
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by jonas21 1y ago
South Korea has a number of unusual regulations, including extremely strict restrictions on spatial data [1] and an AI law that, among other things, requires foreign companies to have a representative physically in South Korea to answer to
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by jonas21 1y ago
This is a civil case. The point is to remedy the situation, not to punish a crime.
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by jonas21 1y ago
Do you not see ChatGPT and Claude as viable alternatives to search? They've certainly replaced a fair chunk of my queries.
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by jonas21 1y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that the author is a founder of beehiiv, a Substack competitor.
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by jonas21 1y ago
I think they just missed the segue from the intro (about the caning of Charles Sumner) to the body of the article (about gutta-percha). The two are only tangentially related in that the cane happened to be made of gutta-percha, and its easy
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by jonas21 1y ago
Maybe on a mediocre team. But that was the parent comment's point. On well-functioning teams, product feedback shouldn't have to be filtered through layers of management. In fact, it would be dishonest to discuss something like th
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by jonas21 1y ago
You omitted an important part of the sentence (in italics below): > The MP initiated a conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers through the on-duty supervisor of flying (SOF). The MA held for approximately 50 minutes while the te
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by jonas21 1y ago
What exactly are you basing this assertion on (other than your feelings)? Are you accusing Google of lying when they say in the technical report [1]: > This impact results from: A 33x reduction in per-prompt energy consumption driven by
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by jonas21 1y ago
The article is surprisingly unclear about this, but the enhanced subsidies that are expiring apply to households making over 4x the Federal poverty level ($62,600 for a single person or $128,600 for a family of 4). Subsidies for those makin
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by jonas21 1y ago
No, the question was whether "the same size space of apartments" (i.e. apartment buildings occupying the same land area as the datacenter) would use more or less water than the datacenter. Under reasonable assumptions, the apartme
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by jonas21 1y ago
And that article is a summary of a book that contains an interview with a guy who is describing a test that took place around 2017.
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by jonas21 1y ago
I think it's less that they sat on their laurels and more that a team of 2 had trouble keeping up with the dozens of well-paid folks working on VSCode. Which suggests that perhaps a shareware model did not work out so well for them.
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by jonas21 1y ago
So you're saying they're basically right, but 5 or 10 years too optimistic on the timeline?
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by jonas21 1y ago
They're used a lot on mobile. Apple uses their "neural engine" NPU to power their on-device ML stuff and Samsung does something similar in their Exynos processors. Apple also exposes the NPU to developers via CoreML.
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by jonas21 1y ago
There was a movie from the 80s with this premise. When I mention this to people, I'm usually surprised to find out that I'm the only one in the group who's seen it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%
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by jonas21 1y ago
Look, I hate to be that guy, but according to your own comment [1], it sounds like you started this fight when you tried to block them from registering the "Deepki" trademark in the EU. They were perfectly happy to coexist with yo
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by jonas21 1y ago
> GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media. Huh? The whole premise on which Github was founded was that it was "social coding". The phrase was even in the log
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by jonas21 1y ago
It's likely that the skills you'd learn as an entry-level engineer today will be mostly irrelevant to being a senior 10 years from now -- just as knowing how to write a program on punch cards is irrelevant to today's engineer
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by jonas21 1y ago
How much would you be willing to pay for a replacement?
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by jonas21 1y ago
When they say "the start", I think they mean the start of the current LLM era (circa 2017). The main story of this time has been a rejection of the idea that major conceptual breakthroughs and complex architectures are needed to a
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by jonas21 1y ago
If you're remote, you can. This is the crux of why a lot of developers love remote work and management hates it.
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by jonas21 1y ago
> You can't compress the back and forth of 3 months of code review into 1.5 weeks. If your organization is routinely spending 3 months on a code review, it sounds like there's probably a 10 to 100x improvement you can extract
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by jonas21 1y ago
The part that was most surprising to me was how much the performance of serializing floating-point numbers has improved, even just in the past decade [1]. [1] https://github.com/jk-jeon/dragonbox?tab=readme-ov-file#perf
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by jonas21 1y ago
Wasn't the bitter lesson about training on large amounts of data? The model that he's using was still trained on a massive corpus (22T tokens).
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by jonas21 1y ago
You can use an API key to get more usage on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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by jonas21 1y ago
It's under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY). That's about as open as it gets.

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