Anon1096

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by Anon1096 5d ago
Before the ad, you had no brand awareness at all of Liberty Mutual. Now, you know their name enough to call them out specifically in a Hacker News comment. Your propensity to buy has improved a lot just based on that fact, regardless of whe
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by Anon1096 6d ago
Yes multiple companies in people's favorite acronyms.
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by Anon1096 6d ago
Literally every single HN thread these days mentioning big companies the top comment is some cynical conspiratorial nonsense. Say Big Tech is out to get you in any way possible no matter how outlandish and people eat it up. Nothing can just
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by Anon1096 8d ago
This is probably why they are launching now. There's no real other competitor right now in the nicely made managed openclaw space for personal use (or at least, very very early. Maybe Grokbot can be considered the lead competitor but a
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by Anon1096 8d ago
The best selling point is an end-to-end purchase flow that you don't have think about at all, it does the price comparisons for you. However, if you want to use it to just get the list of top candidates and compare and go make the fina
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by Anon1096 14d ago
HN isn't really a good place to have an informed discussion on ads efficacy unfortunately. In this thread we have many many people talking about how online ads in general are completely worthless. All of the top comments I see are harp
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by Anon1096 15d ago
Nah, I think this is a common misunderstanding of how LLMs work, where people think that they mimic the pre-training data. Stylistically everything you see is an artifact of post-training, which is from reinforcement learning not from absor
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by Anon1096 17d ago
Nothing is priced according to what they really cost. Things are priced at what the market will bear based on supply and demand. You might as well ask this question for oil, iphones, bitcoin, restaurants, or housing the answer is all the sa
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by Anon1096 17d ago
That is the point though, if labs are maximizing svg image generation capabilities it is a very good thing. That's a general skill that is useful. So assuming they aren't specifically maximizing pelican bicycle svgs (and it doesn&
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by Anon1096 27d ago
How much infra have you seen of the top 100 sites in the world? I've worked on multiple top 10, and absorbing a 2x increase (and the peak is very likely more than 2x) is a very very hard problem that would cause hundreds of pagers to g
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by Anon1096 29d ago
RSUs are great for workers because if the value dips 75% you can just leave and get a new job and get new RSUs at a reasonable price. Of course it's not trivial to switch jobs but at a 75% cut it's surely worth at least looking ar
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by Anon1096 1mo ago
Note: if your reason for switching is purely uptime, you will be sorely disappointed with codeberg Their own site reports the 2 week uptime at 1 nine https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg and I suspect if you use
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by Anon1096 1mo ago
The millisecond-term zero sum game is part of what allows for a positive sum long term. For example, zero fee trading was pioneered by Robinhood and only possible because of payment for order flow, and as a result it's virtually unhear
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by Anon1096 1mo ago
To be clear, since the mobile app users are decreasing, what you would actually need to claim is that "web users are more likely to continue using the app than mobile users are", not just that "there are a lot of web users&qu
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by Anon1096 1mo ago
Reading the responses to your comment the discussion would be a lot more productive if you shared your logs (preferably several of different top models since that's what you're claiming) where LLMs fail at this. Not very useful fo
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by Anon1096 1mo ago
Databricks is most certainly getting charged API pricing no matter what harness they are using. OpenAI and Anthropic models are so sought after right now that they set the terms even at the world's biggest companies, there is not a cha
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by Anon1096 1mo ago
You have no clue what you're talking about while trying to act smug and talking down to someone who knows at least a little bit more than you. Netflix cannot run without massive DCs, whether that be theirs or Amazon's.
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
When I type 56789*23456 into my calculator and get the result I don't claim to have solved the problem, the calculator did it.
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
Github salaries can't afford devs from Google and Meta who have seen the bliss of a well oiled massive monorepo change management system and forge.
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
The very next bullet is > $233 in 2024. 13x in 13 years So yes you would in fact need to pay ten times that and then some. And by virtue of being on hacker news I'm guessing your actual ads targeting value is more like 20x that or m
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
2 main problems with this article: one it's fundamentally asking for something impossible, and two for the part that _is_ possible it's using the wrong tool for the job. It's not possible to magic details into existence that
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
It's not hidden at all. Financial blogs very accessible to laymen like Matt Levine's Money Stuff have talked about this structure months ago. If you are an investor and surprised by this news you weren't sufficiently prepared
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
I would guess the price for payment processing drops tremendously when you don't need to handle fraud or chargebacks at all. It's for sure worse for consumers but I do think it has its place (for example adult content that has hug
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
Your experienced latency will be heavily influenced by which DC you hit, in which case we care about the relative traffic loads because you aren't just hitting your closest one all the time.
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
By traffic load east coast datacenters dwarfs these.
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
Most of big tech's major data centers are in Loudoun County, VA on the east coast not the west coast. It's centrally located to be great latency for the east coast and OK latency for west coast and Europe. Plus a friendly regulato
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
If the agent you are running really wanted to it could easily find a way to mount the windows folders and read them all. WSL isn't a security boundary, you are only barely more protected than people running grok in their home directory
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
Wealth is not in fact finite. If you take a piece of lumber and carve it into a dresser you've just generated wealth. Resources kind of are but not really, extraction takes it from unusable to usable and essentially creates it (also, t
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
You are poisoning the context and priming it to say load-bearing. I don't really think there is a good way to actually ban specific phrases other than have it do a second pass, it's something baked into the model from post trainin
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by Anon1096 2mo ago
Within the 1982-2026 span there is an equally negative 3.5 sigmas deviation somewhere (no year labels on the graph). The article doesn't touch on it at all so I have no context as to what it could be. But it definitely suggests 3.5 sig

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