Karrot_Kream

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by Karrot_Kream 12d ago
As a silver lining, it seems like we're hitting a huge compute limit everywhere we go due to TSMC's reluctance to scale. If demand for intelligence continues to stay high, an opportunity opens up to challenge Nvidia and Nvidia run
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by Karrot_Kream 12d ago
Makes sense. If you have the resources, trialing out various models to find the pareto optimal point is worth it.
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by Karrot_Kream 12d ago
ChatGPT or ChatGPT Work or Codex? Are folks at your company still just using a chatbot to do work? (If so, this is quite surprising, as I find harness-based agent usage to be much much better than chatbotbot agent usage.)
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by Karrot_Kream 12d ago
I generally operate with the understanding that HN today has lots of groups, with an overall "left" lean (as much as anyone can flatten politics into a single axis.) Libertarians, leftists, liberals, nationalists, everyone is he
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by Karrot_Kream 13d ago
I think this forum has a lot of values and don't think it's been libertarian in outlook in a long time based on what gets upvoted here so appealing to that is a bit silly but anyway I don't think this is a fruitful conversati
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by Karrot_Kream 13d ago
It's hard for me to read '"Regulations bad" is a pretty common platitude around here but you've stated your main thesis, here, without a hint of support to back it.' as anything more than that.
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by Karrot_Kream 13d ago
There's no strong consensus, but there's weak consensus that post-GFC regulation is a factor behind but is not causal in any way, for the decrease in IPOs. Here's a paper [1] (well it's the paper author discussing his pa
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by Karrot_Kream 13d ago
There is something like this with crowdfunding called Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) but it comes with many limitations. Ultimately the worry is that less wealthy people will invest their life savings in a scam and be rugpulled. Groups of
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by Karrot_Kream 13d ago
Yes this is something I think a lot about. The issues raised in this article are very real but even aside from that, you end up enabling a class of zombie companies that have no pressure to succeed. Their founders raise and end up as adviso
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Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation (for Reddit) (2024)(papers.ssrn.com)
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by Karrot_Kream 14d ago
I wouldn't say it's a "really good AI community". There's not really much discussion that happens on new papers, techniques, new GPU kernels, topologies, etc etc. There's a few folks whose content I enjoy that
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by Karrot_Kream 15d ago
Doesn't this ultimately boil down to: other people are spending their money on things I don't want them to? Which I mean, yeah I feel like this about tons of things all the time. I'm human too. But I know this is a petty part
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by Karrot_Kream 15d ago
> Open to ideas, propose where. I have...looked extensively for work with meaning and am coming up short. FWIW I've decided to view sites like HN and Reddit as "intellectual junk food." There's a feeling that one is e
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by Karrot_Kream 15d ago
FWIW I think you spend too long on this site. I'm not trying to be mean but I see you much too often here having strong opinions thinly sourced and think that perhaps your time would be better spent elsewhere. I, too, spend more time t
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by Karrot_Kream 20d ago
(I don't really respond to these kind of threads, but I'll respond to you because I respect you and am a Zerotier customer and have been for years. Thanks for your work!) > My deeper point is: there’s a lot of discontent out th
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by Karrot_Kream 20d ago
I keep coming back to this: why do I need to run a local model on my own GPU? Open models can run in dedicated clouds and while, yeah, they may be more expensive per token than my own GPU, when accounting for depreciation, energy usage, and
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by Karrot_Kream 20d ago
I have a lot of Sinosphere friends and I strongly disagree with this. Much like the US I think there is a very nuanced view of Chinese authorities, but there's plenty of overreach there as well. The zero covid policy was not that lon
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by Karrot_Kream 20d ago
It's cathartic to feel that your views are correct but simply suppressed by the establishment. You don't simply have a political opinion, you are ultimately correct, and the true absolution of revolution will make your opinion man
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by Karrot_Kream 20d ago
Ugh no. You and the sibling commenter pushed me to do some searching but it looks like that class isn't offered anymore. It was a special class anyway (which is kinda common in grad schools.) I'll see if I can dig up some lecture
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by Karrot_Kream 21d ago
Statistical reasoning isn't really motivated when it's taught, at least in the US. My schooling (I did jump around a bunch) assumed the student to have picked it up through vague balls-and-bins style problems taught in various uni
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by Karrot_Kream 28d ago
It's a mostly equity offer. Private capital is always more risky than publicly traded shares so probably less than $7bn risk adjusted, which makes sense for Stripe.
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by Karrot_Kream 28d ago
For me at least the value was never the web UX (which there were always many OSS versions of floating around, and wasn't very hard to build pre-AI.) It was always the universal standards around GH Actions, Runners, checks, etc. The nic
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by Karrot_Kream 29d ago
> and i honestly would rather have a reddit lite site like hacker news where there appears to be at least a diversity of opinion Why? Isn't that available on literally every single other tech comment section on the Internet? Like wh
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by Karrot_Kream 1mo ago
> In general, I don't favor regulation of loan products, on the notion that people should be free to get loans that fit their circumstances. But I wouldn't be opposed to limiting BNPL loans so they are not available for purchas
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by Karrot_Kream 1mo ago
Right, so why did this site revert to the mean then? Just because every noodle place is mediocre doesn't mean I want my noodle place to become mediocre.
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by Karrot_Kream 1mo ago
LW stayed selective as a forum, HN became the home of refugees from Reddit. HN reads more like yet-another-subreddit these days than an independent forum. FWIW I think this is an artifact of site design more than anything else. A commentary
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by Karrot_Kream 1mo ago
No I'm a long time Bay Area tech person also and what alephnerd is saying tracks with the interest profile of my circle as well. Predictably I was not on HN during a great weather day with plenty going on. This weekend was also Oakland
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by Karrot_Kream 1mo ago
I struggled with the same in academia. I found genuine beauty and value in improving something implemented. But I also felt a bit "stuck", as if I was just stuck in a groove unable to pedal up. I wasn't the only PhD that felt
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by Karrot_Kream 1mo ago
I thought Grothendieck's "example" was a good one. It's not that the academic environment stymied him, it's that he built up a practice of solitary creativity that helped him take inputs from his surroundings and fo
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by Karrot_Kream 1mo ago
It would be nice if you could put some screenshots, a demo video, or even an actual demo on the page. There's a lot of news readers out there so I'd like to see what I'd potentially be getting if I do actually use Downread.

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