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by wrsh07 2y ago
Imagine that something fundamental shifts in the world of AI research. It could be anything: AI suddenly makes programmers much more productive, AI becomes very good at identifying vulnerabilities, AI chat becomes a new major source of ente
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Sure that sounds plausible but it's literally not what happens in practice (see the other comment I linked that discusses research on this very thing)
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There's a winner take all network effect: research happens on cuda, if you want an off the shelf solution you'll need to use cuda, etc
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TPU is extremely high performance for Google because it can be optimized for Google's workloads. Google has absolutely world class data centers (think power efficiency) and TPU performs extremely well in them. (In turn: I expect Gemini
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TPU is available to people outside of Google, but people prefer Nvidia It's not obvious to me that a hardware business manufacturing tpus for the general public is necessarily more valuable than one that benefits from tight integration
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I'm not sure what to say. Your arguments are extremely hypothetical and there's no evidence of the claimed badness today. I don't find them convincing - why is it bad that someone paying for exclusive access to data gets excl
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This is just noting that different brokers give different performance That doesn't really have anything to do with pfof (TD Ameritrade gives better execution and receives pfof) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378
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This example is apples to oranges Imagine you are a market maker: you offer 2 APIs. The first, you allow anyone to trade on. The second, you only allow traders who are doing less than 100k in volume per day (and don't allow users to ha
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Please see my other comment that provides links to a study that shows: yes you get the best price from a broker using pfof Your argument seems reasonable but isn't borne out empirically https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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I think you're only highlighting my point that it's woefully misunderstood The fact that 70k people signed a statement making a bunch of strong but vapid claims is umm telling Let's take a longer money stuff excerpt: >>
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Here's the money stuff excerpt: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/02/th... > I feel like most of what I read about payment for order flow is insane? Otherwise normal people will s
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Pfof is woefully misunderstood In general, citadel wants to pay to trade with retail investors because it knows it isn't going to face adverse selection. So it will give them tighter bid/ask ratios (this is better for the customer
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Probably just research on quantum computers? I don't think it's big enough to let you solve any practical problems, but maybe someone can correct me
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As Nvidia's CEO likes to say, the price is set by the second best. From an API standpoint, it seems like enterprises are currently split between anthropic and ChatGPT and most are willing to use substitutes. For the consumer, ChatGPT i
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I like unnecessary cat because it makes the rest of the pipe reusable across other commands Eg if I want to test out my greps on a static file and then switch to grepping based on a tail -f command
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Why are monopolies bad? In general, monopolies are bad because they can leverage their power in ways that are worse for consumers - ie they make the usual market functions break down. (If the market continued to work correctly, consumers wo
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I don't really understand this Safari works fine?? It's web kit based and is better for both memory usage and battery life iiuc I almost exclusively use it on my phone. I also use it on my laptop (I have chrome FF and safari but p
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This is funny to me. I don't really trust Google's incentives in general, but unlike all of the social networks, Google benefits from a more open internet. Sure, this has gotten worse over time (if Reddit is closed, goog can pay f
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How does that help? What business model do we expect chrome to have? The same DOJ doesn't like Google giving Apple money for traffic acquisition. Why would that be allowed for spun-out chrome? Why do we expect the rest of the ecosystem
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Do you think there's a solution that could reasonably be enforced in order to fix that problem?
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Fair correction, but they didn't acquire the most popular browser company or something
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Do we really still think operating systems shouldn't ship with browsers?? I thought that one had been retroactively deemed a pretty silly decision
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I'm failing to see why "this product we built from the ground up integrates better with our other tools" is an anti trust problem Isn't that what we want companies to do? I have two frustrations with this kind of decisio
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It can be illegal to distribute something even if it's not protected by copyright. I don't know how courts will rule on this one, though
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The friend's kid isn't a Montessori kid He just likes programming. He likes building stuff. One of his best friends is a kid his age who lives across the country. They just like being productive. At the end of my previous post, I
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Even today a friend's kid has been programming since younger than eight - watching YouTube videos about game development etc I think you'd be surprised at what kids are able to do at what ages if they're allowed to work produ
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I think you could replace "weights" with other things that you probably would want restricted (eg private keys). My point is exactly that: just because something is the result of some fixed mathematical process plus randomness doe
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While not directly analogous, people often think "it's just math" or "it's just numbers" and therefore claim their use is ok. I would encourage those people to read about illegal numbers: https://en.
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Did you comment on the wrong post? Or did the link get swapped out on you?
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Cost plus contracts are an absolute disease that atrophies any company's ability to ship on a budget

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