VirusNewbie

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by VirusNewbie 7d ago
this is not even remotely true. I have plenty of headphones, Airpod Pros are quite good sound quality.
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by VirusNewbie 10d ago
I don't think outrage porn is new. I grew up in the tail end of evangelical christianity being angry about how corrupt society was getting in the 80s. I think shock news and outrage was a thing since TV... Feeling 'righteously a
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by VirusNewbie 13d ago
If there was no moat, nvidia and meta would have SoTA models too.
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by VirusNewbie 14d ago
>Anthropic admitted last year to losing money on inference, it had negative margins. No they did not. Dario has repeatedly stated if they stopped training new models, they would be very profitable.
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by VirusNewbie 14d ago
Check my profile?
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by VirusNewbie 14d ago
I found 3.5 pro to be much better than 3.5 flash, but 3.7 flash with high reasoning is comparable and way way faster.
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by VirusNewbie 15d ago
yes, we should also point out when he makes silly predictions that don't come true.
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by VirusNewbie 15d ago
He charges people money for a newsletter that reinforces completely detached from reality viewpoints. If he's just making stuff up, that's called grifting, and it's good people call that out.
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by VirusNewbie 18d ago
>I long for a true, in-depth economic MMO Schwab?
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by VirusNewbie 19d ago
non profit hospitals are the norm. Many insurance companies have capped profits. but the profits are capped as a percentage of revenue. So... Hmm...
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by VirusNewbie 19d ago
>The US operates a for-profit health system. I have a non profit insurance and most of the hospitals in my area are non-profit as well. Some of the parts of the system are for profit (maybe the imaging centers?, pharma companies), but m
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by VirusNewbie 21d ago
It looks like gemini 3.7 flash actually beats it in a lot of benchmarks, no? https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2092616204787626030/photo/1
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by VirusNewbie 22d ago
"How can OpenAI produce a LLM at scale more economically than Google, Amazon, and Microsoft which have experience in planet scale software and scale efficiencies unlike them". One answer is they're quite good at poaching tale
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by VirusNewbie 23d ago
I've worked at Verizon and Google, and they were much more interested in having quarter or bi-yearly shipping goals and really didn't give a fuck how the teams hit that goal. Managers may or may not run daily or weekly 'check
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by VirusNewbie 23d ago
Yes, but not at big companies. SCRUM and Sprints are useful when you're a consultant and the client doesn't actually know what they want to build. When you're working at a software company, it's a red flag if product c
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by VirusNewbie 25d ago
yes, it does sound weird to brag about that. 'Swapping out a data center' is something engineers working for AWS or GCP are do practiaclly every week.
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by VirusNewbie 28d ago
> Spend a minute or two thinking about the product journey GitHub would have taken under Google, and then think about how many non-search, non-advertising products have succeeded there. Android Youtube Waymo Chrome Workspace GCP >Whic
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by VirusNewbie 29d ago
>In every case costs have gone down and outcomes have improved. this isn't really true though, if you look at survival rates of many diseases.
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
why do you like normal data centers but not "AI data centers"? What do you think the difference is? When does a normal data center turn into an AI data center?
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
is there any actual truth that real sugar is not as bad as HFCS? If I drink an american coke every day am I really worse off than if I have the cane sugar coke?
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
Google will put one job posting per PA per level regardless of one team hiring or twenty. I have to assume they aren't the only employer to do this, so I think job openings are meaningless here.
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
Right, but deepmind won't do well if they can't get TPUs, if the TPU network doesn't work, if their borg jobs aren't coming up fast enough, etc.
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
Not true, they get paid at least a whole level (or two) above what we make. When I was discussing offers a few years ago, the GDM candidates regularly had six figure differentials even though they were the same level. Maybe this isn't
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
> because even Gemini doesn't understand Google-internal tooling. this is false, it's very good at internal tooling.
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
He means the chief scientist part. Before Demis had no influence on cloud, tpu development, day to day dev tools, etc.
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
What? His influence is going to be larger.
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by VirusNewbie 1mo ago
The reason the 'middle class' is smaller is because more families have become "upper middle class". All the data shows this. You can argue that housing is too much or that inflation hasn't benefited the right thing
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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
Lol what? You think most people on HN who live in america are not millionaires?
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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
Microsoft pays significantly less than most other big tech companies. I'm not sure why they go this route, or if they think having a few super highly paid engineers to manage/lead the lower paid ones is the way to go, but it may
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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
How did they make a killing with post IPO stock if they weren't getting big grants? Their stock went up 50% over a 15 year period. Not great.

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