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manquer
1y ago
Not really, that is why they sell Batch API at considerably lower costs than the normal API. There are also probably all kinds of enterprise deals that they are okay with high latency (> hours) that they do beyond the PAYG batch APIs
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Not necessarily , for a given definition of AGI you could have mathematical proof that it is incomputable similar to how Gödel incompleteness theorems work . It need not even be incomputable, it could be NP hard and practically be incomput
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Maximize economic output not necessarily profit outside of that I agree with your comment, nobody is questioning whether we should have other goals. The problem is however first can we all define the goals consistently and agree on the defi
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It is established economic theory not just some opinion . Constraints in form of regulations, subsidies, tariffs by government intervention will produce inefficiencies. This is the core economic philosophy behind both the modern centre righ
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For a company also running a hosting service like GCP? nothing. They already have plenty of unused compute /older hardware / CDN POPs, performant distributed data store and everything else possibly needed . It would be cheaper th
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The fastest away to acquire the know-how to do for Big Co is to get the talent who have spent the years in building the new tech. Poaching, acquihirng or acquisitions and the myriad modern forms we are seeing today have been the tools and w
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The backyard option is only feasible if you live somewhere without light pollution and clear skies, which is not most people. $600/month is a reasonable deal if comparing it to driving couple of times a month to a dark sky location nea
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Law does not work like that. - Contracts can have unenforceable terms that can be declared null and void by a court, any decision not to renew the contract in future would have no bearing on the current one. - there are plenty of restrictio
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That is not a problem if the price paid is lower than what generating synthetic data of similar size will cost .
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1y ago
Hard to imagine costs were ever a factor. For company running GCP and giving things like Colab TPUs free the costs of running a URL service would be trivial rounding number at best
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Not a lot directly today, but as a data source for targeting other platforms ads
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manquer
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Well… cash was and is still instant. When doing large enough transactions that makes cash cumbersome, the slowness is a feature not a bug. We would want multiple reviews and time before it settled. The value of $100 bill was much higher in
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1y ago
Instagram and WhatsApp and maybe even Threads are used fairly frequently by a large number of people . Meta as a company is doing quite well, Facebook the product which is closer to a ghost town filled with Al slop. Facebook has been probab
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Vandalism / sabotage would still be a concern even if theft isn’t ?
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manquer
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It could be consecutive too and even start with a 9 and be all nines here you go : 9.9999999%
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Google(and others) marketed these alerts as features of their product, as one of the reasons to upgrade a smartphone from a feature phone. Median price of phone went from couple of hundred in Nokia era to a thousand or more today, justified
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We are tied to ASML and TSMC and to an extent to the likes of NVIDIA . As cost of innovation in the industry soars, you are bound to end up with a monopoly or at best an oligopoly who will collude. Competitors get acquired or fully fail whe
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Flash Apps hosting which was Facebook did then was not ground breaking at all, There were many other competing flash hosting sites . The killer thing others couldn’t do Facebook did was make available social APIs for the app developers to i
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Yup It is power dynamics always, legal documents only matter in court. At the time in 2006 there were plenty of competing networks and any one of them could have climbed to the top. Facebook wasn’t unique tech wise by all accounts one huge
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I am curious why these workarounds continue to work . If the content owners care so much about the paywall integrity they can verify if it is really google bot . Google provides a reverse dns lookup of the IP addresses of their bots[1] [1]
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There is no mathematical guarantee to a contract or task being done if that is what you mean. Yes, however first there is an understanding involved when the other operator is intelligent [1] secondly there are consequences which matter to l
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> Paid compilers. I don't think this one is a good comparison. Once you had the binary, the compiler worked forever[1] The issue with them was around long term support for bugs and upgrade path as the language evolved. --- [1] as l
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It could just be mundane technical debt or just organizational bureaucracy . I recently moved into Menlo Park and had no problems getting 2.5Gbps from ATT fiber.
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While airlines are the obvious source for such data sets , there are a number of other sources. The barcode in the boarding pass contains all the information that airlines know about you [1]. It is after all only encoded and not encrypted a
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> an emergency airworthiness directive would have been issued by now. This hasn't happened. 737 Max incidents proved it isn’t always the case. This is also not the NTSB or FAA doing direct investigation . Without certainty no one is
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I just tried it out. It does feel better than CC for some tasks . I think what Junie does differently it has better context on what the IDE knows or sees , from what files are open or typedefs are loaded, I could achieve some simpler tasks
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That doesn’t mean the cockpit will burn . The wings hosts the engine and a good portion of the fuel is quite a bit back from the nose in a big plane like 787. The engines lost power and hit just 180 knots just 4 seconds after the plan lifte
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All we know is the pilot flying is only asking whether the pilot monitoring if he cut off - We don't know if he meant the switch specifically at all. He could also have meant engines or thrust in general. There are many other visual si
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Given the fly by wire nature of 787 there is an also fourth option. The physical switch was not touched at all , and the software has a bug under some rare conditions which cut off the supply to both engines.
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it only guarantees an accident it doesn’t guarantee death of the pilot, at such low altitude and speed anyone can survive as the one passenger did . Why would anyone risk potentially surviving a sabotage like that ?
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