Eridrus

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by Eridrus 8d ago
You just described the benefits of customers being locked in?
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by Eridrus 8d ago
Seeing mathematicians such as Terry Tao being unhappy with open problems being solved makes me sort of question the usefulness of any of this pure mathematics. If we're not happy that the problems are being solved, why care about this
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by Eridrus 11d ago
You can just ask ChatGPT these questions these days, but it was a fun read: fly.io depends on Firecracker microVMs, so you should be concerned if you're running untrusted code, but not concerned about other people interacting with you
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by Eridrus 18d ago
In a world where AI is writing all of the code, the difficulty of the task may no longer be a blocker.
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by Eridrus 19d ago
On one hand, yes, it doesn't make sense to give out subsidized tokens forever. On the other hand, subscriptions create lock-in in a way that API pricing doesn't. I think a more likely end is that subscription value decreases over
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by Eridrus 22d ago
AFAIK You can use WSE/LPU for prefill, it's just less efficient to do so.
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by Eridrus 22d ago
This makes sense for HN as a marketing project for YC. This doesn't make sense for ad supported platforms where the value is the eyeballs on their site.
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by Eridrus 22d ago
Cerebras is targeting a distinctly different point on the cost/latency curve. They are betting that there will be some high value applications where latency and not just throughput is super important.
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by Eridrus 27d ago
This is less relevant for logos & creative works, but things that enable companies to do production will go back to being closely guarded and sharded secrets, which is what the patent system was trying to resolve (though we can certainl
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by Eridrus 29d ago
Yes, but they do not compensate you based on your lost revenue, they compensate you based on how much you spent with them. The best you can get from them is a refund.
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by Eridrus 29d ago
FAISS is no longer close to SoTA: https://ann-benchmarks.com/index.html https://vector-index-bench.github.io/ https://big-ann-benchmarks.com/neurips23.html
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by Eridrus 29d ago
> In the general case, if you enter into a contract and pay for a service, then don't receive that service, you're entitled to sue the service provider for your losses. Do you think this is how companies sell things? With uncap
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by Eridrus 29d ago
Comparing revenue across industries/verticals is not sound. Mercedes has a ~5% profit margin on this revenue. SaaS, even AI SaaS is expected to have much higher profit margins at scale. And on top of that, Mercedes shrunk by 10% revenu
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by Eridrus 1mo ago
This was pressure on the founders and the fact that they have their families effectively hostage, not on Meta.
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by Eridrus 1mo ago
I guess you're looking at consumer hardware then since servers have exactly what you pay for. Can you say more about the application space you're targeting?
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by Eridrus 1mo ago
Given the massive demand for GPUs for LLMs, what sorts of work do you expect to economically benefit from utilizing GPUs more?
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by Eridrus 1mo ago
I think there is a chance that this changes. I think there might be space for "source available" enterprise software where you can use an LLM to modify it in a way that is cheap to continue reintegrating in new releases. It may al
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by Eridrus 1mo ago
Are there many copycats that are meaningfully impacting the revenue of games? You can argue that games are derivative, but I think most revenue still goes to premier titles, not knock offs.
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by Eridrus 1mo ago
I am a fundamental believer that technological efficiency is the reason life is better now than it was hundreds of years ago, and will be the reason that life in hundreds of years is better than it is now. There may be disruption to me as a
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
Managing sampling is itself not totally trivial. Much easier from a DevX perspective to just have a library that can render all the datapoints.
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
This is a problem that will solve itself, people will continue to work on the problems that AI fails at, likely by telling AI the approaches they want AI to take.
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
I'm sure there will be a next generation of jet drones that are cheaper, but the autonomy kit here is probably still cheaper than new jet drones. I think most fully autonomous jet drone programs are also designed to work with a main cr
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
I pulled it out of my ass based on anecdotes of talking to engineers and customers, but actual surveys back this up as well with numbers from 84-91%: https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/ai-coding-adoption-stati...
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
This isn't a perfect survey, but I am a Codex user and most of my employees are pretty stuck in their workflows and were not really interested in trying even when I was saying good things (even pre-Opus 4.8). When we work trial people,
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
I don't think it's that early tbh, agentic coding has ~90% adoption in the US. Claude Code has largely won individual developer mindshare and has been on top ever since it came out. The benchmarks change, but almost nobody opts to
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
I think artists are too attached to solo work and should hire people to crank out variants on their successful vision or license their ideas so that they can continue having new ideas.
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
I strongly disagree. This is just the Politician's Fallacy. I keep harping on about the "virtual staging" that real estate agents have been doing for a decade that is equally deceptive and annoying and already gets labeled, a
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
I agree, we're going to get a little warning label, just like the "virtually staged" labels that are already there and nothing of consequence will actually change. That is why I say this is a nothing burger.
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
I am so certain of this because I was not born yesterday and this is not my first time paying attention to (NYC) politics. Politician makes a grand statement they do not have the authority to meaningfully act on to get headlines, DCWP issue
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by Eridrus 2mo ago
I am honestly so surprised that everyone on HN is so naive that they take political statements like this at face value. Politicians routinely say they will do things they do not have the authority to do, and it's often very important t

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