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by jsnell 2y ago
It's an improvement, playble enough that I finished a puzzle. It still wasn't particularly engaging though, but a purely mechanical exercise in pencilmarking and ticking off the obvious conflicts. It's answering the question
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by jsnell 2y ago
Yeah. It's an original idea, but it just doesn't feel playable at all. I feel that this sentence from the blog post should have made some alarm bells ring: > Sometimes I fall back on selecting cells randomly until I find one wi
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by jsnell 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349473
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by jsnell 2y ago
(2012) Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36746014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13119138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989136
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by jsnell 2y ago
That would apply equally well to other bodies of water with disputed names, which have been stylized as e.g. Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf) and Sea of Japan (East Sea) on Google Maps for like, 15 years? How much outrage have you seen over thos
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by jsnell 2y ago
> The person I responded to stated: "AMD server processors are so big these days that you could spend a quarter of your compute on QUIC without blinking an eye". Ah, gotcha. Sorry about missing that context. I agree that nobody
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by jsnell 2y ago
You'd still have exactly the same hot write path, it'd just have maybe 50% of the load. That could be a legit optimization, but not having it hardly warrants an incredulous "seriously?" like the OP's. (And the same
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by jsnell 2y ago
> You are arguing: “Why should Google care about wasting 25% of their compute costs?” So your estimate is that 25% of Google's compute costs are spent on terminating QUIC connections? I'd be very curious to hear how you arrived
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by jsnell 2y ago
What alternative design did you have in mind, given that a Twitter-like data model of individual follows is likely a strict product requirement? There are obviously other ways of doing it (doing the timeline propagation in a batch job, fann
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by jsnell 2y ago
> IIUC to serve an LLM is to perform an O(n^2) computation on the model weights for every single character of user input. The computations are not O(n^2) in terms of model weights (parameters), but linear. If it were quadratic, the numbe
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by jsnell 2y ago
The cost to serve.
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by jsnell 2y ago
> which leads to the question of what did cause the payouts to stop? Pretty obviously the most common reason would be that the payments never started in the first place. US social security payments don't start automatically on reach
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by jsnell 2y ago
We don't actually know what he was told. We only know what he is saying he was told, with no evidence, and in a context where he's playing to the crowd. He might have misinterpreted what he was told. He might have been told mult
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by jsnell 2y ago
You spent hours equating US corporate taxes to VAT, not examples that had any connection to reality. When it was pointed out that you were confused, you did not actually engage with those rebuttals, but just copy-pasted the same nonsense ag
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by jsnell 2y ago
> Why carry on doing that for so long? They weren't actually losing money. If you read further, it turns out that the channel was profitable thanks to video sponsorships.
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by jsnell 2y ago
> To advertise on my channel, that number [CPM] is about $29 per thousand views. > My RPM is around $10 > Again: It costs $29 per thousand to run an ad in my videos, and I get $10 per thousand. Where does the other $19 go? You can&
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by jsnell 2y ago
Yes, you keep making this assertion about "tax relief", but you have yet to provide a concrete example of it. (Other than the ludicrous claims about EU exports being exempt from corporate taxation.)
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by jsnell 2y ago
Happy to see some progress here, I trust you will stop bringing up corporate taxes as a distorting element. Next up, what you need to understand is that there's no tax relief happening here either. When the end consumer is in the US, n
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by jsnell 2y ago
> A example is a German car manufacturer exporting to the US gets a full VAT refund and only has to price based on cost + profit. > For VAT countries, the export price is lower because it does not need to factor in corporate taxes lik
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by jsnell 2y ago
> A US company selling to the EU still has to factor in US corporate taxes in its pricing A EU company selling to the EU also has to factor in their local corporate taxes. There's no structural difference there. (There are EU count
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by jsnell 2y ago
The VAT is a consumption tax, not a production tax. It's totally agnostic to where the production happened. If you want to sell something to a EU-based consumer, that money has to be paid no matter where you're from. What could be
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by jsnell 2y ago
What you're missing would be obvious if you looked at where the money ended up, and didn't play the sleight of hand with pretending that there was just one government involved. In the second case, a EU government has $2k, the stee
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by jsnell 2y ago
> I wonder how often the US consumer actually gets a VAT rebate on their imported purchases, or how many US consumers are even aware of this. It's quite unlikely they would have been charged VAT in the first place if buying online.
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by jsnell 2y ago
What you're ignoring is that the VAT is not just applied to imports. It's applied to all consumption, it doesn't matter whether the good was imported, produced locally, or a mix.
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by jsnell 2y ago
That's not the previous standard. Here's a counter-example: zoom to Falkland Islands as an English-language user, and you'll likely see "Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)" as the name. (Unless you're in the UK
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by jsnell 2y ago
It tends to reveal a lot of extra information, even when you're playing it straight rather than trying to trick the AI. Like, when you ask the "does the reason the window is open matter?"-style questions that should be bread
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by jsnell 2y ago
Major channels typically would be using a YouTube brand account, not a single normal Google account. (This is so that they can e.g. delegate parts of the channel management to multiple people without sharing a single login). The email addre
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by jsnell 2y ago
As far as I can tell, there was no such original statement. There was, however, a statement saying the opposite: https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/1884012872768053467 > Also longstanding practice: When offici
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by jsnell 2y ago
The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to claim that somebody did not read the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html But if you're going to do it, the one time it's really misplaced is whe
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by jsnell 2y ago
Leaving aside the efficency of the solution, I find it hard to believe that the problem is all that frequent. Yes, there are people who don't keep around decks of cards or other basic game components. But do those people organize game

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