potatolicious

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by potatolicious 2mo ago
A lot of stuff that underpins planet-scale infra is open source and has been for a long time. The general approaches and architectures for it have also been widely discussed and litigated in the commons so it's not just the code - the
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by potatolicious 8mo ago
> "If you say two different and contradictory things, and do not very explicitly resolve them, and say which one is the final answer, you will get blamed for both things you said, and you will not be entitled to complain about it,
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by potatolicious 9mo ago
Are they actually running the Apple playbook in reverse? It seems to me that they're actually running Apple's playbook pretty squarely, just in another domain. First-gen product that seemed to not know where it's going? Check
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by potatolicious 9mo ago
I share your skepticism. This feels like an attempt to tap the trainloads of money piling into "AI", for a company that is in pretty desperate need of more cash to stay alive. In a vacuum there are potentially some advantages to d
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by potatolicious 10mo ago
You really want to break a task like this down to constituent parts - especially because in this case the "end to end" way of doing it (i.e., raw audio to summary) doesn't actually get you anything. IMO the right way to do th
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by potatolicious 10mo ago
Your 2K monitor occupies something like a 20-degree field of view from a normal sitting position/distance. The 2K resolution in a VR headset covers the entire field of view. So effectively your 1080p monitor has ~6x the pixel density o
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by potatolicious 10mo ago
Yes but that can create major motion sickness issues - motion that does not correspond top the user's actual physical movements create a dissonance that is expressed as motion sickness for a large portion of the population. This is the
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by potatolicious 10mo ago
Oh yeah for sure. Most people seem to accept that 35ppd is "good enough" but not actually at-par with a high quality high-dpi monitor. I agree with you - I would personally consider 35ppd to be the floor for usability for this p
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by potatolicious 10mo ago
There's no precise criteria but the usual measure is ppd (pixels per degree) and it needs to be high enough such that detailed content (such as text) displayed at a reasonable size is clearly legible without eye strain. > "Cou
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by potatolicious 10mo ago
The Verge reports similarly - can't tell foveated streaming. Seems like Valve really cracked the code with this one.
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
Listen, I'm literally just describing basic market dynamics here - my post is not intended as an endorsement of plainly observable phenomena. The depreciation/utility curve has always been aggressive no matter what product you&#
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
> "What part of EVs is "rapidly advancing technologically"?" Battery capacity, motor efficiency (getting more range out of the same battery), charging rate (800V architectures for example that let you charge > 15
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
> and get something way better. The last part of OP's statement is the key. In a field that's rapidly advancing technologically, used prices are depressed because the new product is that much better than the used product. Thi
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
Because there's more to "actual user experience" than peak CPU/GPU/NPU workload. Firstly, the M5 isn't 4-6x more powerful than M4 - the claim is only for GPU, only for one narrow workload, not overall performan
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
Funnily enough prior to this startup I had worked at a rainforest-themed big tech co where we ran all kinds of stuff on MySQL without issue, at scales that dwarfed what this startup was up to by 3-4 orders of magnitude. I feel like that&#
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
Ah yes. I once worked at a startup that insisted on Mongo despite not having anywhere near the data volume for it to make any sense at all. Like, we're talking 5 orders of magnitude off of what one would reasonably expect to need a M
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
This is generally how other devices work as well - for example all Android devices and Android-derivatives (which many of these cars are!) use a similar A/B partition to prevent bricking. It definitely reduces the risk of updates, bu
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
You can measure probabilistic systems that you can't examine! I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater here - before LLMs became the all-encompassing elephant in the room we did this routinely. You absolutely can quan
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
What you're getting at is the heart of the problem with the LLM hype train though, isn't it? "We should have rigorous evaluations of whether or not [thing] works." seems like an incredibly obvious thought. But in the rea
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
Moore's Law has been dead for a long time. The doubling rate of transistors is now drastically below Moore's prediction. We're adding transistors at ~18%/year. That's waaaaay below the ~41% needed to sustain Moore&#
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
> "Why even have employees then? Why not just milk your monopoly, keep the team lean, and let everybody involved have a big share of the profits?" So we're seeing this play out. There are two factors that exist in tensio
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by potatolicious 11mo ago
Yeah I'm kind of puzzled by what Qualcomm is getting out of this. Arduino has so little presence in production devices and is largely an enthusiast and hobbyist product. To be clear, this is good! Having well-supported high-quality ent
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by potatolicious 1y ago
It's also a matter of incentives. Starbucks wants you in their app instead of as a widget in somebody else's - it lets them tell you about new products, cross-sell/up-sell, create habits, etc. This general concept (embedding
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by potatolicious 1y ago
It's a good tool for optimizing around local maxima and is (generally) incapable of propelling you through a major product gap to the next (and hopefully greater) maxima. But IMO the industry dogma is to use it for everything , partic
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by potatolicious 1y ago
Not necessarily? That assumes that the first "good enough" model is a defensible moat - i.e., the first ones to get there becomes the sole purveyors of the Good AI. In practice that hasn't borne out. You can download and run
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by potatolicious 1y ago
Yep, we are (unfortunately) still running on railroad infrastructure built a century ago. The amortization periods on that spending is ridiculously long. Effectively every single H100 in existence now will be e-waste in 5 years or less. Not
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by potatolicious 1y ago
This doesn't remotely begin to compute. Inflation is a measure of prices of goods and services, not of incomes. There is no reason to believe that high inflation results in higher nominal incomes. Heck the opposite is true - it's
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by potatolicious 1y ago
Most recently during COVID, when many a VC exited SF and NYC to Florida with loud caterwauling about how the cities were completely over and Miami is where it's all going to be at going forward. Nearly every single one has quietly
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by potatolicious 1y ago
It's pretty much my #1 example of Google's propensity for shipping its org chart. Workspace accounts come with their own compliance requirements and edge cases that products need to handle, but rather than do that and provide a co
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by potatolicious 1y ago
Consoles are pretty heterogeneous IRL too, though. You have multiple SKUs (regular and Pro, for example), not to mention most games will also target multiple consoles (PlayStation + Xbox + Switch is a common combo). So in reality the opport

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