TimPC

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by TimPC 2y ago
This is actually the reason lower fee cards exist. If every card had a 5% transaction cost no merchant would sign up for that card brand. If the merchant is convinced their average transaction cost will be lower because some of the cards wi
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by TimPC 2y ago
I think 804k is the number of new temporary residents and 550k is the number of net temporary residents. I think it's reasonable to care about the net change in population from immigration because people are going to strain services i
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by TimPC 2y ago
Your data source has Canada's net migration at 249,000 which is absurdly small compared to Canada's own data. Canada's own data has migration out of the country at 94,576 people but for the 249,000 number to make sense that n
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by TimPC 2y ago
Strange title. My first read of the title thought the author was arguing the model is now faster on CPU than GPU. Would be much nicer if they titled this something closer to "Performance Improvement for LLaMa on CPU".
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by TimPC 2y ago
The relevant number is not so much how many people are born outside the country which can include 90 year olds who came to the country in WW2. But rather the YoY population growth from immigration, which is a more accurate measure of recent
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by TimPC 2y ago
If Canada took in half the number of immigrants it does it would still have one of the largest rates in the world. We are massive outlier for how many we are taking in and all sorts of things aren't keeping up with the demand. The bigg
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by TimPC 2y ago
Sure but humans do a lot more with vision than just convolutions. So maybe we need to wait for AI to invent new techniques equally revolutionary and equally impactful to convolutions to the point where it's believable that AI models ca
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by TimPC 2y ago
I think the school board has pointed out they are on the hook for additional costs for services related to supporting the increase in these problems in their student population. That's financial damages which is usually enough for stan
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by TimPC 2y ago
Eby's NDP government boosted housing starts by 11%. Rental prices still went up in Vancouver and the surrounding area because an 11% increase is a pittance compared to the insane demand from current immigration policy. Assuming that&
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by TimPC 2y ago
It seems to be getting better. When I posted jobs in November I was getting roughly 100 applicants a day with maybe 10-20 of decent quality. Now I'm getting roughly half that, but that still means 50 applicants a day, out of which I&#x
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by TimPC 2y ago
Do the young even have someone to vote for in Canada though? Only the PPC wants to stop immigration and build housing but they are a fringe party unlikely to get a single seat rather than run the country. The BQ is a decent option in Quebe
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by TimPC 2y ago
My issue is less with what we call the individual markets in the experiment. It's more with looking at healthcare across a large data set of countries and finding a general trend that more regulations lead to better cost structures and
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by TimPC 2y ago
I think we've found repeatedly in self-driving that it's not enough to solve the problem in the normal case. You need an AI model that has good behaviors in the edge cases. For the most part it won't matter how good the vis
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by TimPC 2y ago
Ah yes, the old libertarian cop-out. The most free market healthcare system in the world is too highly regulated and if we just take the regulations away it will perform better because ideology. This is despite the fact that if you look at
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by TimPC 2y ago
Yes if you support 40,000 units and your demand is much higher you're going to have problems. That tells you the system is underfunded. Central planning hasn't universally failed in every aspect and every application. Central pl
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by TimPC 2y ago
I think it's totally fair that a program designed to support people of a certain income living in Paris requires those people to live in Paris. If you want autonomy you can have it, just don't take the money/apartment. This
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by TimPC 2y ago
If you agree the city dies without people of all ages backgrounds and income levels what is your alternative proposal to subsidized housing. It's just a fact that some income levels are being priced out of the city and certain occupati
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by TimPC 2y ago
Several nations have legalized prostitution in ways where you can be a prostitute in business for yourself, but can't have someone above you taking a cut. This has the downside of preventing prostitutes from banding together to share
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by TimPC 2y ago
I think the big issue is it's a lot harder to start social housing in 2024 when you have extremely limited historical action on it. But in general a city buying real estate is a hedge on real estate prices increasing in that city, whi
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by TimPC 3y ago
If you have a great team going to YC helps lower your downside. The most successful companies in your cohort are likely to acquihire you when they need to grow quickly.
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by TimPC 3y ago
The other thing is most employers of surgeon's are highly reputable and held to regulatory standards. You kind of know what the minimum quality bar is for someone's employment. Compare that to a random tech company and realize th
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by TimPC 3y ago
Historically there has been some of both. Even in the west there have been substantial social factors that have delayed adoption and the labor force participation rate for women is much lower than that for men. Doubling is an exaggeration,
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think it's pretty uncontroversial that roughly doubling your labor force will result in substantial growth to the economy. For less extreme gender gaps than not being allowed to work the growth is obviously less, but I think the same
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by TimPC 3y ago
You can kill someone and pay a max of $50k. That doesn't even cover 1 years salary for the person you killed in most cases. The insurance is mispriced because the liability is artificially low.
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by TimPC 3y ago
Are tech job interviews really such a nightmare? Compared to other professions with similar pay? Leetcode can be a bit annoying and unrealistic, but it's not the end of the world, it just means putting in some study time before interv
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by TimPC 3y ago
I'd support fines for the whole business revenue if you can prove that's what the business is doing. Here it's pretty clear the app store is behaving anti-competitively to increase app store revenue. Apple doesn't sell
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by TimPC 3y ago
Multiple parts of the iPhone stack run DL models locally on your phone. They even added hardware acceleration to the camera because most of the picture quality upgrades is software rather than hardware.
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think there are certain types of tabular data that lend themselves naturally to tree models. But when you're talking about tabular data for finance I guarantee you very few hedge funds are running tree models for trading strategies.
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by TimPC 3y ago
It's insane that they think the deterrant to a single line of business should be based on the revenue of the business as a whole instead of that line of business. 0.5% of app store revenue would be far more reasonable than 0.5% of Appl
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by TimPC 3y ago
The fact that the most popular option in a demographic where someone else pays for the phone is the most expensive option says almost nothing about what those users will do when they have to spend their own money on an option. I highly doub

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