stefano

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Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter(theregister.com)
105 points by stefano 11mo ago|30 comments
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by stefano 2y ago
Those are some very big claims with respect to performance. Has anyone outside of the author been able to reproduce the claims, considering you need to pay 100k/month just to do it? I also wonder if the commercial version has anti-benc
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by stefano 4y ago
> three to seven transactions per second, but with a centralized trusted entity The byzantine generals problem doesn't apply when you have trusted entities.
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by stefano 5y ago
Depending on your age and how much you can deduct, the switch over can come as "low" as 90k. At 100k you should always be ahead in any case. And that's without counting the social security contributions. Depending on how you
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by stefano 5y ago
Taxes at that income level are around 50%, including ~20k worth of social security contributions. You're probably mixing up VAT, advance payments and final balance payments to get to that 76%, which is NOT what you're really payin
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by stefano 5y ago
Fourth option: don't introduce this change at all. It's a debatable stylistic improvement in exchange for a big breaking change that will force your users to go through, update and re-test every single query. Not worth it.
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by stefano 5y ago
How do you guarantee it doesn't copy a GPL-ed function line-by-line?
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by stefano 5y ago
Maybe if it comes with clauses for a substantial transfer of technology to EU partners. But I doubt Intel would agree to that.
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by stefano 6y ago
As an alternative to SPID you can also use your national electronic ID card, which is issued by the state without the involvement of private companies.
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by stefano 6y ago
Same. The only issue I had with virtualenv was when I copied one to a different directory and it didn't work. It turns out you can't do that. Everything else has always worked fine, and I've been using it professionally for 1
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by stefano 6y ago
Sanofi will be producing the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, but it takes a lot of time to set up a new production line. Last estimate I saw was saying July.
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by stefano 6y ago
This is very true. Just importing Django + Django Rest Framework + some other minor libraries in Google App Engine (standard) leads to painfully slow response times when a new instance spins up. Like, more than 10s to spin up an instance. A
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by stefano 6y ago
Having implemented a threaded Forth with WASM, the most annoying problem is that WASM doesn't support jumps to arbitrary memory locations. You can either call functions (and you don't have access to the call stack), jump backward
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by stefano 6y ago
The premium is actually higher than that. For $100, the developer gets $70. Which means the premium is $30 on a $70 base price, i.e. a ~42% higher price. That's a very steep price for easier payment cancellation.
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by stefano 6y ago
It was a problem only because somehow they decided that type annotations should evaluate to something meaningful at runtime, instead of being a compile-time only construct like in every other language.
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by stefano 6y ago
Because it's as far as you can go from being a "Hacker".
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by stefano 6y ago
By default yes, but you can configure queries fetching behavior using select_related/prefetch_related to avoid the N+1 queries problem.
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by stefano 6y ago
That depends on what that request is doing. It could be fetching a single record from the database and serializing it, or it could be running a complex analysis.
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by stefano 6y ago
You can have a nicely organized JS project without using a framework, albeit you can expect a bit more boilerplate. There are many approaches you can take. The following is an MVC approach I'm trying out in a personal project. It'
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by stefano 6y ago
In the EU, before opening a trading account you are forced by law to compile a standard questionnaire to assess your financial knowledge and risk tolerance. Depending on the results, you might not be able to trade certain instruments.
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by stefano 6y ago
It's pretty hard to set a bar lower than that.
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by stefano 6y ago
The EU has temporarily removed state aid rules.
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by stefano 6y ago
No one in Italy has ever been denied an ICU bed yet.
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by stefano 6y ago
I guess the idea is to keep companies solvent so they'll still be there when the quarantine restrictions are lifted.
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by stefano 7y ago
Italy is doing all of those things.
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by stefano 7y ago
One region of Italy is close to their ICU beds limit, despite a full lockdown. And they have more beds per person than the UK. Without a full lockdown, won't they run out of beds very quickly, thus increasing the death rate a lot?
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by stefano 7y ago
I don't see how that has to do with Germany paying italian debt, since Italy participated in the bailout of Greek banks.
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by stefano 7y ago
That has never happened in history and I don't see why you think it will this time.
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by stefano 7y ago
> I don't think US and other countries will be able to quarantine entire cities. Italy quarantined entire towns.
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by stefano 7y ago
If the data fits in RAM, you could try loading it into an in-memory sqlite database, and run SQL queries there.

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