laluser

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by laluser 22d ago
Yet, it is full of AI slop one-liners like: "The contest ahead is not over who stores the most data; it is over who manages context the best".
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by laluser 1mo ago
What has been your experience with HPTS? It will be my first time presenting.
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by laluser 2mo ago
That’s almost always prohibited.
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by laluser 2mo ago
Just curious, do you have children? Do you socialize pretty freely during all seasons indoors?
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by laluser 3mo ago
Obviously the mirror gets the job done, but I use Garmin Varia radar hooked up to my bike computer and you can see cars behind you and their velocity is displayed as different colors. It’s way more expensive, but amazing for road biking.
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Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store(dropbox.tech)
60 points by laluser 6mo ago|21 comments
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by laluser 7mo ago
I think that moment happened when Trump said, "drop to your knees and beg, and he would have done it,” to Elon. [1]. Once Trump assumed the presidency, it was game over for tech. [1] https://www.the-independent.com/news
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by laluser 7mo ago
I have been attempting to write a lot more with AI, but it's so gimmicky. It's always spitting lines like this: " it's not just about x – it's about y." like in this post. I find it so frustrating that no matte
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by laluser 8mo ago
It also increases profits for multi-national US companies since they get paid in other currencies, which they then convert to dollars locally. Basically, they have favorable FX tailwinds.
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by laluser 8mo ago
It’s likely citizen children on Medicaid with potentially undocumented parents that they are targeting, which is pretty sad to think about.
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by laluser 8mo ago
It's such a small country and an even smaller amount are coming to the U.S. that this would have no material impact. Strange to see them there, but not Argentina (in much worse financial situation).
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by laluser 10mo ago
That will be less of a problem since OAI can spill out to other providers as needed if their own capacity is under high utilization. They already use coreweave, aws, azure, etc. Google doesn't do that as far as I know and don't se
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by laluser 10mo ago
OAI is already working on shipping their own chips.
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by laluser 11mo ago
Sam A is pretty well connected and knows the game well. No doubt there will be some risks where the whole thing goes right down to zero, but I personally wouldn't bet against them.
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by laluser 11mo ago
Look at all the companies that have 'burned cash' with no viable path to profitability over the last 20 years. The good ones outlive that criticism, easily. Think Uber, etc. They clearly see a path to profitability and they have p
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by laluser 11mo ago
The reason for not keeping them too much longer than a few years is that at the end of that timespan you can purchase GPUs with > 2x performance, but for the same amount of power. At some point, even though the fleet has been depreciated
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by laluser 1y ago
Not a great comparison, but agree that it just takes passing some goofy interviews. That guy lied his way through all of his interviews.
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by laluser 1y ago
Isn't that the case with every hobby?
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by laluser 1y ago
The majority of data is rarely accessed after the first week. However, that data represents 99% of the costs. If storing data is not your primary business, then why keep it around? This is what most of the large companies are realizing now
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by laluser 2y ago
Yep! There’s a lot of checksum verification, carefully orchestrated deployments, hardware diversity, erasure code selection, the list goes on and on. I help run a multi-exabyte storage system - I’ve seen a few things.
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by laluser 2y ago
It’s designed for that level of durability, but it’s only as good as a single change or correlated set of hardware failures that can quickly change the theoretical durability model. Or even corrupting data is possible too.
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by laluser 2y ago
It's integrated into X, but they are separate companies.
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by laluser 2y ago
I think they both want a future without each other. OpenAI will eventually want to vertically integrate up towards applications (Microsoft's space) and Microsoft wants to do the opposite in order to have more control over what is prior
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by laluser 2y ago
Exactly. China has held this position for a long time. Chip plant manufacturing is a recent development. China will eventually catch up with their own manufacturing in a decade or so. They don't care about the immediate short-term - th
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by laluser 2y ago
That's actually the whole company.
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by laluser 2y ago
Why? Just look at the last year for how cheap inference and almost all models have gone down in price. OpenAI has 100s of millions of daily active users, with huge revenues. They already know there will be big jumps like this as there have
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by laluser 2y ago
Waymo was able to do this with less miles. How much data does Tesla really need at this point? Assume you have all the data in the world that you could ever possibly want. How much of that can you really compress into a car for real FSD?
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by laluser 2y ago
Absolutely. Every country, state, city, county can enact their own regulations as they see fit. This is Uber rollout on steroids, imo. There are some many hurdles to making this happen even if the tech exists.
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by laluser 2y ago
Looks like Waymo will be the first Alphabet moonshot that will reach 100B valuation in the not too distant future. Just need to hit the most profitable cities and Uber will have to compete at lower prices, while they're a public compan
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by laluser 2y ago
Copper. The lead joints were enough to considerably contaminate the water with lead.

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