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by polishTar 9d ago
I heard someone use the analogy of "If Magnus Carlson played me at chess, I wouldn't be able to predict the moves he'd play since if I could I'd be at his level. He'll consider things I didn't and even though I
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by polishTar 2mo ago
Influencing change is more complicated than that. We live in a society that has systems of market competition between companies and economic/military competition between countries. There's not just one country working on frontier
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by polishTar 3mo ago
The people of hacker news seem to really want this to be some sort of conspiracy. It's quite interesting to see. "It's deliberate sabotage by Amazon", "It's retribution by Hegseth for embarrassing the DoW&quo
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by polishTar 3mo ago
Look - it's WAY more fun to just call Dario a goober than engage with the actual substance of the essay. Duh! Sure, this may be the most important invention ever with near certainty to reshape society over the next few years, but meh.
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by polishTar 4mo ago
Or, slightly more direct: .1kW*h/GB * .125GB/s * 3600s/h = 45kW Those are some goofy numbers. Obviously incorrect.
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by polishTar 5mo ago
That’s an internet argument. The legal issue being debated in actual courts has never been “does Facebook have the technical capability to remove content”.
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by polishTar 8mo ago
But Google is willing to host their content in search, right? They're just not willing to pay since there's no revenue benefit to search hosting it. It seems like Danish media doesn't like this and has chosen to withhold th
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by polishTar 10mo ago
That's a bit revisionist. Network effects were obvious when Google acquired Youtube. Google Video had the edge technically, but it didn't matter because Youtube had the users/content and Google saw that very clearly in their
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by polishTar 10mo ago
Municipalities are generally preempted from regulating matters of statewide concern. In CA, the state decided to have the CA DMV regulate operational safety and the CPUC regulate the commercial service. Individual cities are prevented from
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by polishTar 2y ago
Oracle Chrome, Ha! I wouldn't even be surprised if that's exactly how it plays out.
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by polishTar 2y ago
Ah, you're right. I was wrong to say "public domain". It would be more correct to say Quake III Arena was released to the public as free software under the GPLv2 license.
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by polishTar 2y ago
Fast inverse square root is now part of the public domain. Also, even if this weren’t the case you can’t sue for damages to other people (they’d need to bring their own suit)
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by polishTar 3y ago
For enterprise, Google has something called Vertex AI which has a strict privacy policy but you have to pay just like any other typical cloud service. Presumably Gemini 1.5 will be available there soon.
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by polishTar 3y ago
what do you mean? If you've ever used a VR headset you'll know the weight is extremely important when it comes to comfort. This isn't just a random marketing metric.
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by polishTar 3y ago
A lot of patent trolls are very small companies though
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by polishTar 3y ago
I got something totally different when I asked: https://g.co/bard/share/d5830c43d539
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by polishTar 3y ago
Gatik has yet to remove safety drivers as I understand it.
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by polishTar 3y ago
Eh, it depends. I don't know if this is the case, but if these images were released to press & public as part of a media resource pack with a permissive license used to market the movie (which I believe is commonly done in this i
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by polishTar 3y ago
Other ridehail products like uber or lyft have 100% human intervention all the time. I think that's what the parent comment is referring to.
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by polishTar 3y ago
I was referring to the graphic they showed during the announcement that verbatim said the CPU was "up to 20% faster than M1 Pro". https://images.macrumors.com/t/wMtonfH5PZT9yjQhYNv0uHbpIlM=/...
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by polishTar 3y ago
You're not considering the difference in performance between the p and e cores. The math should be something more like: M2 pro = 8*3 + 4 =28 (the *3 representing that the performance cores contribute ~3x more to total system perfor
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by polishTar 3y ago
I guess we'll have to wait for benchmarks but I did find this interesting: Apple's PR release for M2 pro: "up to 20 percent greater performance over M1 Pro" Apple's announcement for M3 pro: "up to 20 percent fa
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by polishTar 3y ago
I love Apple's E cores. It just sucks that the M3 pro gains so few given the reduction in P cores. Apple's E cores take up ~1/4 the die space of their P core. If the M3 pro lost 2 performance cores but gained 4-8 efficiency c
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by polishTar 3y ago
In addition to the reduced memory bandwidth, the M3 pro also loses 2 performance cores for only 2 more efficiency cores. M2 pro: 8 performance cores + 4 efficiency cores. M3 pro: 6 performance cores + 6 efficiency cores. Not a great trade..
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by polishTar 3y ago
Precisely. If you chose your product/company name to be a common word in the english language you should expect it to be more difficult to exclude others from using it too. I don't think there's anything wrong with this, it&#
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by polishTar 3y ago
I'm not convinced it's a bad thing for hiring or compensation committees to consider relevant experience/education. Agreed on gender/race/age. That should be made as blind as feasibly possible.
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by polishTar 3y ago
Interesting read. I wonder what went into the decision on the ratio of P to E cores. Naively it seems like more of the die space should be dedicated to E cores since they're so killer for workloads where efficiency or throughput matter
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by polishTar 4y ago
Strongly agree. It's not moving the goalposts when the metric is useless. TDP means nothing nowadays because CPUs can significantly exceed them when turboing if they've got thermal headroom. IMO, real power consumption in joules o
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by polishTar 4y ago
This seems a bit revisionist. Nobody got upset at people getting excited, everyone was excited about its potential initially. The annoyance came specifically about certain politicians endorsing its use, without any disclaimers, without evid
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by polishTar 4y ago
Speaking as a complete non-expert, I don't find that a satisfactory/comforting answer. Just a quick google search shows prosecutors in the US also selectively choose which cases to prosecute (it appears there are around 4x as many

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