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by pptr 3mo ago
You can only make money if you produce value. If you stop producing value because your old industries decline/collapse and you miss out on new industries, your wealth will trend towards that of a third world country.
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by pptr 6mo ago
Right, but that negative externality is on emissions. For emissions it doesn't really matter who is producing the oil.
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by pptr 6mo ago
Let's say an agent needs to do 10 brain surgeries on a human to remove a tumor and a human doctor can do it in a single surgery. I would prefer the human. "steps" are important to optimize if they have negative externalities.
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by pptr 6mo ago
(Based on AI research) fossile fuel production takes a few years to recoup investment. Only refineries seem quite long term (15-20 years). I'm sure the companies have projections about future demand to decide which projects are worth p
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by pptr 6mo ago
Voters in the US have the ability to actually change the course of their country. Voters can say they want Obama or Trump in charge and the government has to obey that choice. In Europe you only have the same parties/"uniparty&qu
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by pptr 6mo ago
This really seems like a nothing burger. The $1B were a refund. Net exchange ~$0. Building out fossile fuel production shifts oil revenue from various dictatorships around the world to the US in this case. That's a good thing. I wish w
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by pptr 9mo ago
They only had to comply with EU laws when they were already a big player in China. EU manufacturers need their new vehicles to be compliant on day one. That is, if they want to launch in the EU market first. Audi recently launched a China-o
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by pptr 2y ago
What is different about Deepseek's use of MoE vs all the other MoE models that makes training more efficient? FP8 training and GRPO make sense to me, but that only gets you a 4x improvement total, right?
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by pptr 2y ago
If you don't, your geopolitical adversary might be the first to build AGI. So in this scenario I could see it become necessary from a military perspective.
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by pptr 2y ago
Right, and that regulation has a cost. I hope it's worth it.
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by pptr 2y ago
The mere existence of regulation is part of the problem. Without precise understanding of the law, you don't know if your use cases are fine/excempted. The safe default assumption is that your site is not compliant with regulation
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by pptr 2y ago
Once you have a technological breakthrough that requires lots of exploration to figure out which products will succeed, regulation is a competitive disadvantage. For established industries regulation just increases prices. ... Until a new t
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by pptr 2y ago
If you declare using an invalidated iterator as UB, the compiler can optimize as if the container was effectively immutable during the loop.
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by pptr 2y ago
Ignoring it means you need to get explicit consent, which is what the websites are already doing.
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by pptr 2y ago
But then you don't have a company that can afford to build a 100b training cluster for example. If that becomes the new sota you are again left behind.
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by pptr 2y ago
When I do a Google search for the example query "postgresql query analysis" on mobile chrome (no ad block), I get 0 ads. Same thing if I select the "Example" filter as shown in the demo image.
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by pptr 2y ago
Ideally you can only retry error codes where it is guaranteed that no backend logic has executed yet. This prevents retry amplification. It also has the benefit that you can retry all types of RPCs, including non-idempotent ones. One examp
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by pptr 2y ago
It's 6% shorter wire length. Hardly an infinite compute glitch.
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by pptr 2y ago
App store subscriptions are pretty easy to cancel.
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by pptr 2y ago
The loop itself is claimed to be the problem. It doesn't matter whether you use an AR or non-AR model. They both have a certain error probability that gets amplified in each iteration.
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by pptr 2y ago
The incognito icon seems like a great analogy to me. A person that hides the face with glasses and hat can still be tracked via CCTV, etc., but the data can't easily be associated to the public persona.
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by pptr 2y ago
One argument I heard is that junior team members benefit from others being in the office. So there might be a long term benefit to the team, even if individual productivity of high performers goes down slightly.
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by pptr 2y ago
I think the key difference is that in a loop body you can return from the outer function. In a function passed to m.Range you can't.
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by pptr 2y ago
App stores solved this problem long ago without any help from the government.
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by pptr 2y ago
Just because the EU wants to ban gas cars in the future doesn't mean there is demand for EVs today. It's called an unpopular decision.
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by pptr 2y ago
The data is stored in people's brains for a lifetime. The data is worthless afterwards, so this is indefinite storage for all intents and purposes. Law enforcement can retrieve the information by asking for it.
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by pptr 2y ago
That's pretty impressive, but it also has me worried. Does this mean you could eavesdrop all Bluetooth connections from a single satellite?
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by pptr 2y ago
How do you share config files, protobuf schema, etc. between frontend and backend if you have different repos for each? I have only worked in large codebases with monorepo, so I'm curious.
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by pptr 2y ago
I assume there will be revenue sharing between Tesla and the car owner. Tesla can't force people to give them electricity for free.
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by pptr 2y ago
What is worth solving in your opinion? Should they not make their service more efficient? I assume this helps reduce their server and electricity costs. At a certain scale these things pay off.

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