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by e_y_ 4d ago
LLMs needing less compute would actually be a good thing for Nvidia due to Jevons paradox. Right now token costs are an impediment to using AI more broadly, and more efficient models would help adoption in cases where AI has proven to be us
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by e_y_ 8mo ago
It would likely get voided as unconscionable if they just unilaterally demanded it, but it might hold up in specific circumstances (if the user is well-aware of the salary demand when they accepted the contract, and the user gets some propo
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by e_y_ 10mo ago
A lot of big manufacturers have had recalls (for things like laptop batteries, vehicle batteries, the infamous Hoverboards, etc) so I wonder what Anker's batting average is compared to others. It's clearly a hard problem and squee
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by e_y_ 11mo ago
It's not just a theory. It's well documented that Apple has a bunch of APIs and protocols (like AirPods proprietary low latency wireless instead of Bluetooth, NFC was not allowed until years after Apple Pay) that are not available
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by e_y_ 1y ago
Ambulances are expensive enough that people are hesitant to call them, sometimes even in life threatening situations. And if the person is unsure whether the situation is critical, they might try to "sleep it off" rather than driv
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by e_y_ 1y ago
If we're talking about public tracking: package theft
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by e_y_ 1y ago
And Waymo doesn't currently operate on highways for passenger service (I think they have authorization to, but they're only testing on highways right now). They should be able to get to SFO from Millbrae Ave and San Bruno Ave with
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by e_y_ 1y ago
Most likely both agreements had been in negotiations for a while and not something they just pulled together last week in response to SJC, although it's possibly they could have used it as leverage (hey we've talking to SJC ...)
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by e_y_ 1y ago
Most cities don't have the density and wealth of Manhattan. How do we solve the last mile problem for everyone else?
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by e_y_ 1y ago
Taxi services can potentially complement public service by filling in the gaps: last-mile connections (home to train station) and backup service late at night when transit runs less frequently or not at all. There's a risk that robotax
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by e_y_ 1y ago
Could also be a big challenge if you have dozens or hundreds of autonomous cars in the area that need manual intervention to get them out (plus the people who get stuck there)
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by e_y_ 1y ago
This seems unlikely. People are creating libraries and they're getting a lot of downloads because they're genuinely useful. It's a lot of work to write and maintain a library just for resume street cred. I think the ecosystem
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by e_y_ 1y ago
To be nitpicky, React itself does not specify that state management must be global. It was a popular pattern, starting with Facebook's blog post on Flux and made popular by Redux. And certain newer features like hydration/SSR and
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by e_y_ 1y ago
There's quite a few formats that are self-describing already, so having a format that can skip the type and key tagging for that extra little bit of compactness and decoding efficiency is a unique selling point. There's also nothi
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by e_y_ 1y ago
I never went to parties in high school, but based on my experience going to parties in college and as an adult, I imagine your individual experience at the parties would be very different depending on your social groups, social skills, and
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by e_y_ 1y ago
Also depending on how many corners you're willing to cut. Half the cost but a 1% chance that it turns around and targets a friendly? Some countries would take that trade.
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by e_y_ 1y ago
I wonder if Ukraine has been removed from the exclusion list since then. A quick Google search says that the keyboards layouts are different from Russian keyboards.
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by e_y_ 1y ago
The heat load of the ISS is a handful of astronauts and some equipment and whatever it absorbs from the sun. Not an entire data center or a nuclear rocket which is where the radiator discussion comes into play.
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by e_y_ 1y ago
As someone who isn't a Go programmer, on the face of it using strings (struct tags) for field metadata seems pretty backwards compared to Rust macros (which parses the metadata at compile time) or Java annotations (which are processed
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by e_y_ 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster There's also many advantages to being able to lift something large/heavy in one go, rather than smaller payloads that need to be unfolded (like JWST) or assemble
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by e_y_ 1y ago
The Slickdeals comment thread for the HP Touchpad firesale has over 285,000 comments https://slickdeals.net/e/3220862-hp-touchpad-9-7-wifi-tablet...
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by e_y_ 1y ago
Have you seen Adaptation (2002)? It has a wildly meta, fictionalized/comedic portrayal of Susan Orlean's book and the creative process of screenplay writing
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Yes. These people are the rank-and-file, doing good engineering work until the USDS got hijacked by Elon's crew. It's also harder to speak out when you're a US government employee, but now that they've been fired ...
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by e_y_ 2y ago
On desktop, CPU decoding is passable but it's still better to have a graphics card for 4K. On mobile, you definitely want to stick to codecs like H264/HEVC/AVC1 that are supported in your phone's decoder chips. CPU chips
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by e_y_ 2y ago
I would generally agree, but in many cases 1) people don't read the comments/replies, 2) interesting responses get drowned out by low-quality responses, 3) the criteria by which useful responses get highlighted can be skewed by a
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Sometimes it's good to know where people stand when they're shooting themselves in the foot.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Waymo is pretty good (but not perfect) as far as safety, but there's too many ways it can get stuck. Including vandalism from humans like "coning". And if a significant number of them are on the road, it could gum up traffic
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by e_y_ 2y ago
The Information claimed today that ByteDance is renting GPUs in the cloud, although ByteDance denies it (well, they call it "inaccurate" which is not exactly a strong rebuttal). https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-in
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by e_y_ 2y ago
They're industrial robot arms, not humanoids, although the concept of android workers getting paid an hourly fee or "wage" (going to their masters, an android rental corporation) would be fascinating.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
You can be smart and still slip up, especially under pressure (and as we're learning, possibly mental and physical pain). Presumably one of the reasons why professionals are better is that, beyond working experience, they have a lot of

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