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541.
by nightski 3y ago
I think that just demonstrates the point that maybe scientists put too much emphasis on the science itself when what really matters is influencing people.
542.
by nightski 3y ago
The key segment that tends to soak up extra cash is housing/rent, and I'm not sure you'd see the economy of scale theory play out there. If anything I could see this just far increasing the wealth disparity. But I'd lo
543.
by nightski 3y ago
Who said they don't? Who says those stocks wouldn't have performed considerably worse without good management? That's what I am getting at. Just because a stock goes down does not imply bad management or vice versa. But ag
544.
by nightski 3y ago
I feel like that entire study is flawed because you can't just compare stock performances straight up. You have to look at how the same stock would of performed with a different manager. There are many factors outside of management&#x2
545.
by nightski 3y ago
Not sure why that would matter. The team is still there. Everyone moves on at some point in their career.
546.
by nightski 3y ago
You know you are in the HN echo chamber when we have yet another comment telling us how useless crypto is.
547.
by nightski 3y ago
In what universe is it obsolete?
548.
by nightski 3y ago
It baffles me to this day that Google never made TPUs more widely available. Then again it is Google...
549.
by nightski 3y ago
Honestly the links in the article are really good whether you hate a16z or not.
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by nightski 3y ago
Right but cease and desist usually relates to intellectual property or copyright matters, typically not TOS violations. Please correct me if I am mistaken.
551.
by nightski 3y ago
I think the point was you are looking at technology purely through the lens of processor speed. But technology incorporates a lot of elements of the design, not just raw speed. While processor speed may have withered, there were other inno
552.
by nightski 3y ago
The discourse has made it seem that with context length larger is always better. I'm wondering if there is any degradation in quality of results when the context is scaled this large. Does it scale without loss of performance? Or is
553.
by nightski 3y ago
You are reading way to deep into it. It's just a simple transformation and really not that interesting at all.
554.
by nightski 3y ago
Bias is what makes models useful. If you remove all bias, you remove all information in the model and the result is a uniform distribution or pure randomness.
555.
by nightski 3y ago
You are implying a causal relationship where I was not. My point wasn't that socialized health care would be bad or that we shouldn't adopt it in the U.S. (I support the idea). Just that for many Americans working in tech (who do
556.
by nightski 3y ago
Not only that, software salaries in Europe tend to be far lower on average.
557.
by nightski 3y ago
Or better yet WASM was a first class citizen and we could abandon JS once and for all.
558.
by nightski 3y ago
I thought Google was as proponent of standards so things like shims and multi-browser support weren't really a concern /s
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by nightski 3y ago
I have a hard time getting excited about anything AI with a company whose main profit center is in harvesting your data. Incentives are just not aligned. In this case AI is simply a gimmick to get us to give them more data to serve their r
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by nightski 3y ago
Yes, I am not exaggerating. The Framework came to around $1.8k and the Macbook Pro came to ~ $3.9k. The only compromise with the Framework is that it is a 13" screen and the Macbook pro is a 14". But that's because Apple o
561.
by nightski 3y ago
Maybe this is a regional thing, especially in SV driven by the VC hype. In general I find America very focused on small business rather than startups. Our economy is really built on small business and the more we forget that the worse thi
562.
by nightski 3y ago
It is, because I can buy a framework laptop w/ 64GB ram, 2 TB SSD and these latest Ryzen chips for half the cost of a macbook pro with similar addons.
563.
by nightski 3y ago
I was super excited after seeing the demo, but have to echo the parent. Not really looking for a journey, just wanted to try the language & engine out locally. Will check back in a few months/years.
564.
by nightski 3y ago
You don't need a federal bank to solve that problem. A simple regulation would suffice requiring private banks to service these customers in some fashion.
565.
by nightski 3y ago
No one is pretending anything. It's still an extra step that adds transparency even if it is not a huge barrier. But in reality, that is a lot larger barrier than just direct access 24/7.
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by nightski 3y ago
1080p vs 4k is a huge difference, that's pretty amusing. Also what about someone with an ultra-wide monitor such as myself at 1440p? Overall it's just terrible, and good riddance it failed.
567.
by nightski 3y ago
No. There is a big difference to "they already know" and/or they "could trivially find out". Even if the latter may be true, the former is not. The government does not have direct access to personal bank account l
568.
by nightski 3y ago
I mean paying for a game and then getting a low quality version of it without a sub isn't very compelling to a lot of PC gamers if I am being honest.
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by nightski 4y ago
I'd be curious, is this at the expense of coal? Or has demand just grown because of cheaper electricity due to more supply being available.
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by nightski 4y ago
Rich Hickey started Datatomic (along with Stuart Halloway & Justin Gehtland). He also created the Clojure programming language and has been on Hacker News numerous times with many popular talks. In fact they all have made famous contr

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