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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
Remind me which of Palantir's models would it be competing with?
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
For the non-Americans in the room, is "America 250" anything other than the 250th anniversary of the war of independence?
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
How fast does it move? How's the latency?
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
Seems like this should be a net cost adder. Yet even new builds are quite affordable.
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
It was still very affordable in 2009 - 2014 when the yen was not weak.
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
Presently high housing prices are causing this; a lot more people would be living in SF today if there was more supply, which is equivalent to the high prices having kicked people out. Do you have any policies in mind that could reduce the
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
I hear this about every Chinese product from steel to LLMs, but it can't be possible to run every industry at a loss at the same time, especially not for a net-creditor nation. Which Chinese industries are running the surplus that subs
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
If you're streaming the audio waveform, you can calculate the peak volume and adjust the gain.
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
Seems like there's a clear free-rider problem, the volunteers make the sacrifice and the non-volunteers reap the benefits.
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
Link to your GitHub? I'd love to play the version with your improvements!
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
This is like saying "an under-appreciated value of ordering from Amazon is that they deliver to your house".
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
He's also been a vocal advocate about copyright reform and against DRM, and his arguments are coherent and generally well-regarded among the tech crowd. In context, "giving away books for free" is a particularly strong form o
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
Have you ever been to China? They haul huge amounts of stuff with bicycle trailers. But yeah, you got me. It's impossible to ride a bike in the rain, or on your period. Checkmate, I surrender.
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
Yes, they are, and they do.
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by mitthrowaway2 3mo ago
My primary mode of transportation is an e-bike; how should I react?
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
Due to a favorable exchange rate a lot of people are traveling to Japan these days, and encountering these unfamiliar symbols for the first time and perhaps wondered what they mean.
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
General Fusion's approach seems pretty realistically commercializable. They're struggling to get any funding though, probably a symptom of being in Canada.
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
Of course, typical of the wonderful ambiguity of decibels, 0 dB is also usually defined as the quietest sound that the human ear can perceive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_threshold_of_hearing
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
It was.
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
Trains don't get stuck in traffic, and some of them have restrooms and space to walk around in. They're also better for the people outside of the vehicle.
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
Present me with the option to ban generative AI worldwide, and I will show you what my revealed preference is.
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
Also in high performance magnetic steel, as well as SmCo magnets.
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
This really isn't the case in Japan. It's extremely easy to develop new rental housing, and rents are fairly low. However, it can be difficult for foreigners without a Japanese support network (like a blue-chip employer) to rent p
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
I have to say though, the abundant authentic, high-quality and low-cost Indian and Nepalese restaurants across the country was a real quality of life benefit for people living in Japan.
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
I posted this comment on the other thread, but it deserves mention here too, because Anthropic also asked for this ~10 days ago, separately from the post linked in the article. https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recurs
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
Even a truthful answer can require a lot of long-winded disclaimers because an interview is a new relationship without shared context. You have to state the obvious because nothing can be taken for granted.
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
Do you know about how many transistors are needed to implement the adder (or the FPU as a whole)? And how it scales with the width of the numbers (16 bit, 32 bit, etc)? I've been curious about transistor counts for floating point units
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
Yes, it's marketing straight out of the Big Tobacco playbook. Convince everyone your product is dangerous, get government to ban it, and then... uh... pivot into adjacent market segments?
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
> If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers. ... Isn't that basically what Anthropic asked for, literally a week ago? https:&#x
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by mitthrowaway2 4mo ago
I don't understand why headlight elevation isn't standardized.

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