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by summerlight 1y ago
Unless we see unexpected side effects (like a lower number of housing or even more housing demands due to SB 79) I guess this will indirectly help the buyers looking for larger properties since so many people have no choice but purchasing a
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by summerlight 1y ago
> since required fields don't contribute to b/w incompatibility at all, as every real-world protocol has a mandatory required version number that's tied to a direct parsing strategy with strictly defined algebra At least I
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by summerlight 1y ago
> would’ve been a “nature is healing” moment for the web. A more likely scenario is that some other big techs like MSFT or Meta would acquire Chrome and replace the monopolist position. This is the sad truth that many people try to under
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by summerlight 1y ago
Because the rule of law, specifically the principle of proportionality, does not allow us to penalize some entities only to hurt them. That might be something entertaining to see for many of us, but civilized societies typically limit the p
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by summerlight 1y ago
If you see some statements like below on the serialization topic: > Make all fields in a message required. This makes messages product types. > One possible argument here is that protobuffers will hold onto any information present in
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by summerlight 1y ago
This seems interesting. Still not sure if `required` is a good thing to have (for persistent data like log you cannot really guarantee some field's presence without schema versioning baked into the file itself) but for an intermediate
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by summerlight 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190005 Just FYI: an obligatory comment from the protobuf v2 designer. Yeah, protobuf has lots of design mistakes but this article is written by someone who does not understand the prob
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by summerlight 1y ago
I wonder how the creative workflow looks like when this kind of models are natively integrated into digital image tools. Imagine fine-grained controls on each layer and their composition with the semantic understanding on the full picture.
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by summerlight 1y ago
Not sure about classical computing demands, but I think wiring distances definitely matter for TPU-like memory heavy computation.
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by summerlight 1y ago
Well you know, all those fun and creative parts in software engineering has been taken over by vibe coding and now humans are supposed to do only tedious works, so probably the same thing applies here.
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by summerlight 1y ago
Not sure why you're trying to conflate intellectual capability problems into this and complicate the argument? The problem layout is the same. You delegate the works to someone so you cannot understand all the details. This makes a fun
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by summerlight 1y ago
Because now it has brought real competitions to the field. GPT was the king and Claude had been the only meaningful challenger for a while but OpenAI didn't care about Anthropic but just be obsessed with Google. Gemini took a quite tim
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by summerlight 1y ago
Though the same logic can be applied to everywhere, right? Even if it's done by human interns, you need to audit everything to be 100% confident or just have some trust on them.
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by summerlight 1y ago
I wonder what's the status quo on the non-LLM side; are we able to manually decode sound patterns to recognize dolphin's communication to some degree? If that's the case, I guess this may have a chance.
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by summerlight 1y ago
> They must very much compete with others. All these chips are being fabbed at the same facilities in Taiwan and capacity trades off against each other. I'm not sure what you're trying to deliver here. Following your logic, eve
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by summerlight 1y ago
Not sure how familiar you are with the internal situation... But from my experience think it's safe to say that TPU basically multiplies Google's computation capability by 10x, if not 20x. Also they don't need to compete with
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by summerlight 1y ago
The model itself is likely built upon their own open source system JAX so they should be usable in Nvidia. Of course cost efficiency is going to be a different story.
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by summerlight 1y ago
Lots of other factors. I suspect this is one of the reasons why Google cannot offer TPU hardware itself out of their cloud service. A significant chunk of TPU efficiency can be attributed external factors which customers cannot easily repli
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by summerlight 1y ago
Yes, that's what Google's doing for AI overview IIUC. From what I've seen from my experiences, this is working okay and improving over time but not close to perfection. The results are stale for developing stories, some bad r
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by summerlight 1y ago
AFAIK they got 15% of unseen queries everyday, so it might be not very simple to design an effective cache layer on that. Semantic-aware clustering of natural language queries and projecting them into a cache-able low rank dimension is a no
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by summerlight 2y ago
Agreed, the root of the problem is that America has relatively zero modern manufacturing infrastructure and manpower, especially compared to China. Those MAGA folks just don't know this. Offshoring happened not just because of cheaper
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by summerlight 2y ago
If you have more than 10k employees and still keep the "spark" then you solved almost of all the modern days corporate problems. This is why big corps typically choose to spin off their innovative but not-yet-profitable business.
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by summerlight 2y ago
Many have pretty serious concerns about its direction, speed and product strategies, but I guess most of them also agree that there has been some progress and the situation has improved. I think that not many people think that Google will s
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by summerlight 2y ago
You can use a paid tier to avoid such issues. Not sure what you're expecting for those "experimental" models, which is in development and needs user feedback.
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by summerlight 2y ago
Your understanding seems outdated, I think people are referring Gemini native image generation
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by summerlight 2y ago
This looks like the first model where Google seriously comes back into the frontier competition? 2.0 flash was nice for the price but it's more focused on efficiency, not the performance.
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by summerlight 2y ago
Looks like they're gradually removing guardrails, it returns Nixon for me.
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by summerlight 2y ago
Yeap, kinds of. It's preferred because whenever you propose/evaluate some changes, you can have a rough idea whether it was worth the time. Like you worked on some significant optimization then measure it and justify like the savi
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by summerlight 2y ago
I don't think that makes much sense in business. They want to move customers from competitors and as an underdog you need to provide some migration path. You don't get these kind of system integration freely. Provide your service
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by summerlight 2y ago
Yeah, I'm tired with all those nanny things. Why is Google so obsessed with filtering? They even got all of reputational damages from unnecessary filtering and manipulation, not from unsafe output. I'm pretty sure they've los

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