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by kolbe 4y ago
"the prize you get for being #1 in any market is enormous" I believe this for broad markets with network effects (though see how quickly tiktok obviated facebook), but for companies that send out text messages to your customers or
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It kind of depends on the frame of the solution. Google can answer leetcode questions, leetcode's answers section can answer them as well. If ChatGPT is solving them, that's one thing, but if it's just mapping the question to
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by kolbe 4y ago
A period of time with a lot of inflation and wage growth? How dare I say the two are related. It's not a blanket statement. Real war causes inflation, monopoly power causes inflation. But in the context of modern US, the biggest thing
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The only thing that really causes inflation is wage growth, and an observed phenomenon is that overall wage growth does not increase the living standards of workers anyway, because scarce necessities like housing will just increase at a hig
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by kolbe 4y ago
You know nothing about this guy or his values. It can be just as stupid to harm a great accomplishment in order to drive a fancy car, so maybe let people have their own values
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by kolbe 4y ago
This video asserts that FPGAs do the 10ns work, and C++ does the >100ns work. I've never heard of ASICs being used, since the deployment cycle is too frequent to justify the expense of fabing. https://m.youtube.com/w
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by kolbe 4y ago
I'm guessing the guy criticizing latency sensitivity is talking about the applications where that does matter. There are plenty of applications in say finance where they need to run a 20 parameter dot product and get the result back in
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by kolbe 4y ago
Explain? I didn't think there was any way around paying the pcie cost. If your data is hosted in memory/cache, and the computation takes less than a few mics, I didn't think there was any way to make GPUs competitive.
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by kolbe 4y ago
You have not shown that hiring more IRS agents increases net revenue whatsoever. Let alone that it helps them collect from billionaires evading taxes.
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Republicans fund the military because it's a handout to the people who vote for them. Democrats fund the Federal bureaucracy because it's a handout to the people who vote for them. Neither of the actions are about accomplishing th
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He owns a substantial amount of TikTok. He very well may have influence over what happens on Reddit.
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Jeff Yass is amazing at staying out of the news in general. I'm surprised to find him on the front page of HN. But while Ken Griffin is top of mind to every gambling Redditer, with them following his jets and calling for his imprisonme
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Friendly reminder that litigants can and do make wildly outlandish accusations that may not have any relationship to the facts. This is a lawsuit, not journalism.
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Two companies pay each other absurd amounts of money for their (nearly) zero marginal cost services, netting no money transferred, but loads of recurring revenue for each. Your #2 hint at this, but paying more than lifetime value of a custo
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by kolbe 4y ago
There are many shenanigans that startups can play to juice ARR to render it meaningless. The idea isn't terrible, but that's why I invoked Goodhart's Law. > After all, sales is sales and if you don't have repeatable s
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by kolbe 4y ago
I got the impression that the 2022 late stage funding implosion was also the death of ARR as a be-all growth metric. It got Goodhart's Law'd to death after all the companies that went public at huge valuations based on ARR turned
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Given how much of computing is memory bound in loads that exceed cache, I appreciate AMD's efforts to expand L3 more than Intel's to increase clock speed.
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I think the real fear is that you never know what the FBI really wants. So unless you feel confident that you've covered all of the possible angles that an intelligence agency with 10000x the information you have could only be seeking
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I've only scratched the surface of the avx512 instructions, but they are much more broad and useful. Masked gather, scatter, double precision exp and mantissa extraction, and floating point to integer conversions are all new and all pr
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Whenever I don't want to endure that annoyance, i just copy this single file header only microbenchmarking code: https://github.com/sheredom/ubench.h
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I see now. I looked twice. I think most people stop after a section called "Conclusion" that ends with "Thanks for reading." It doesn't help that the formatting then leaves a large gap between sections that doesn&#x
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Anyone know why seemingly knowledgeable people (like the person who wrote this article) don't use micro benchmarking frameworks when they run these tests? Also, whenever you do one of these, please post the full source with it. There&#
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While Musk's antics are a convenient political point, the larger issue is that growth stocks have all been struggling this year. Ark Investments is down 70%. Tiger Global around the same. The one saving grace for Tesla earlier this yea
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I think if every single great discovery in the course of humanity had to have been "well planned," they would have never happened. Like I said, most of the "disruption" and "innovation" happening in the startup
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I think it depends on the project. 90% of SWEs are using pre-packaged databases, analytics, logging, APIs and whatnot. There is no 10% or 1% tail bogging them down because they're just configuring tools. But if you're in the busin
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by kolbe 4y ago
> Just think about it - what happens when everyone has a self driving car? All of those cars that are otherwise parked are now on the road. Traffic. Same thing that happened pre-COVID with "ridesharing". Explain this logic? To
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It's hyperbole, sure. But if you were to put it in a productive-unproductive and bullying-kindness matrix, it's in the unproductive/bullying quadrant.
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The US has 18 large cities with a higher homicide rate than Guatemala. 50 with more than half of Guatemala's. The difference between the two countries from a violence perspective hardly constitutes "fleeing." Edit: country le
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No, you absolutely bullied him. And now instead of apologizing, you're doubling down. He never claimed to be a starving African child. He told us what he had to do to make up for his limitations, and instead of working with that conver
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Says the person who attacked a commenter for being "privileged." I'm just helping defend him against your irrelevant accusations of privilege (even though you know nothing about him) while he's attempting to discuss ways

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