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by oivey 26d ago
Not sure what way you’re trying to land with this rhetorical question, but the Republicans, right? Biden took office in January 2021, and vaccines began to roll out around April.
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by oivey 2mo ago
I guess people doing night school maybe? That’s pretty clearly not what this is.
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by oivey 3mo ago
Will the intelligent agents be plugging the infected USB sticks in?
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by oivey 3mo ago
Bonkers to call college graduates deadbeats. These aren’t addicts or slackers. They had to have some level of achievement their whole lives and managed to finish a degree.
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by oivey 3mo ago
Getting on disability is insanely difficult and pays jack shit. That is not a US equivalent by any measure.
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by oivey 4mo ago
> Excess solar power generated by ordinary consumers is probably being priced correctly Do you have any evidence for this position? Is this just regulations giving you bad vibes? I’m pretty sure everyone was quite aware the sun doesn’t s
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by oivey 5mo ago
No? Christianity, for example, has changed massively over time. You can pick any denomination, and it’s true. You can also look at new religions, denominations, or sects popping up. The purpose of religion is at its core supposed to be spir
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by oivey 5mo ago
At a certain point, grades become arbitrary and won’t necessarily select for the best candidates. Obviously the current system doesn’t, either. The actual solution is to increase the number of slots for training doctors to match the huge nu
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by oivey 5mo ago
It’s free, but it’s not like they’re running Gmail as a charity, either. It has revenue and contributes to their other businesses.
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by oivey 7mo ago
Even that is arguably not lucky, it just followed a non-obvious trajectory. Graphics uses a fair amount of linear algebra, so people with large scale physical modeling needs (among many) became interested. To an extent the deep learning cra
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by oivey 7mo ago
Again, the old car comparison is demonstrably untrue. To put the same example forward, computer modeling has wildly changed and accelerated car design in ways that were impossible for any sum of money in the 70s. I think part of why this is
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by oivey 7mo ago
> You are getting a multi-million dollar truck for $50k. You’re not, though, because that truck never did and never could exist. A modern F-150 isn’t a 70s F1 car made cheap by new tech. This isn’t something you can wave away with an arg
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by oivey 7mo ago
I don’t think this is true. Advancements in technology often make things possible that previously were not at any price. Engines, for example, are better than ever in part due to computer modeling that would have been impossible in the 70s.
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by oivey 7mo ago
That is a low n, but I’m not sure what the alternative is. Surely random anecdotes (n=1) are even less powerful?
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by oivey 7mo ago
That’s a strange comparison to make. Those are entirely different sectors and sorts of engineering projects. In this example, also, SpaceX built all of that on Earth. Why not do the obvious comparison with terrestrial data centers?
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by oivey 7mo ago
Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, Raytheon, and all the others are private companies, too. NASA and others generally go through contractors to build things. SpaceX is on the dole just like them.
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by oivey 7mo ago
The satellite is built on Earth, so I’m not sure how it dodges any of those regulations practically. Why not just build a fully autonomous, solar powered datacenter on Earth? I guess in space Elon might think that no one can ban Grok for di
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by oivey 8mo ago
A truck is sluggish because of its weight and inertia. It’s a law of nature. What law of nature is making Gitlab slow?
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by oivey 8mo ago
Besides what all these other commenters are saying, probably many of the people running these small lunch shops in Japan are the owners, not waged employees. On top of that, that business probably isn’t viable for 8 hours per day.
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by oivey 8mo ago
> If you were open every day of the year and assume no seasonality, that means your first 49 orders every day go just to regulatory fees. This looks crazy because it is incorrect. In your premise, that 9% profit margin includes the regul
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by oivey 9mo ago
$250k per house is an absolutely insane level of mismanagement.
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by oivey 9mo ago
I'm not sure it's common knowledge, but it is general knowledge. Not all HNers are writing web apps. Many may be writing truly compute bound applications. In my experience writing computer vision software, people really struggle w
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by oivey 9mo ago
No one is suggesting “wasting time on non problems.” You’re tilting at windmills.
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by oivey 9mo ago
These are the metrics underneath it all. Profiles tell you what parts are slow relative to others and time your specific implementation. How long should it take to sum together a million integers?
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by oivey 9mo ago
It isn’t what you said. If you want, you can write your own matmul in Numba and it will be roughly as fast as similar C code. You shouldn’t, of course, for the same reason handrolling your own matmuls in C is stupid. Many problems can perfo
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by oivey 9mo ago
How is it not general knowledge? How do you otherwise gauge if your program is taking a reasonable amount of time, and, if not, how do you figure out how to fix it?
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by oivey 9mo ago
People generally aren’t rolling their own matmuls or joins or whatever in production code. There are tons of tools like Numba, Jax, Triton, etc that you can use to write very fast code for new, novel, and unsolved problems. The idea that “i
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by oivey 9mo ago
It’s a nice and productive language. Why is that incomprehensible?
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by oivey 9mo ago
The core libraries to me include all the numerical and other major scientific computing libraries. I’m guessing those were laggards due to things like that string/byte change and probably changed to the CPython API. Did you ever look i
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by oivey 9mo ago
Virtually all the graphics? Modern computers are very fast.

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