varsketiz

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by varsketiz 7mo ago
Of course netflix is optimising costs, otherwise it would not be a business, I just think they put much more effort elsewhere. They could be using other words, like "financial discipline" :) My point is that even if I get 20 times
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by varsketiz 7mo ago
We run our own infrastructure, sometimes with our own fincing (4), sometimes external (3). The cost is in tens of millions per year. When I used to compare to aws, only egress at list price costs as much as my whole infra hosting. All of i
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by varsketiz 1y ago
From the perspective of China, it probably makes sense to try and train on local chips and try to dethrone Nvidia. I guess this means PRC thinks AGI isnt around the corner and they can catch up on hardware.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
Haha, I wish. Very random that this has happened. One of them was Assembla - Boston based. The other, that I work in now - Vinted - Lithuania based.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
I like companies that do tryouts. In the last 15 years I worked for 3 employers. Two of them did tryouts - a day or two literally working in their environment. One did not. The two that did it both were great, the one that did not turned ou
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by varsketiz 1y ago
I am under the impression that fine tuning is expensive (could anyone put a number on that?) and that each time a new model is released you have to fine tune it again, paying full price every time.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
Probably less than 1%.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
Such a cool question! My perspective as a Lithuanian: I think they will continue to sell both petrol and diesel in 15 years. I think gas (we have some cars running on literally gas) will not be there anymore. There will be more EV chargers,
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by varsketiz 1y ago
Good question. I'm not certain myself why. I am not from the USA, so I don't see how it affects me. Also, probably unfounded, but I am somehow suspicious if this is for the benefit of software developers, or billionaires.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
I guess I understand internet freedom causes better. Also, they are universal worldwide, this is USA specific
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by varsketiz 1y ago
Somehow I'm not a fan of HN using this community for lobbyism purposes.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
Netflix, TikTok
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by varsketiz 1y ago
Yes. Have them work for it.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
As someone from a country neighbouring russia, I wish my country decided to do this as well.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
The goal is defence - to prevent easy russian train logistics deep into Finland.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
One of the main goals of this is to not have the russian gauge available in case russians attack, so that logistics deeper into Finland cant happen easily with the same train, so backwards compatability is not desired.
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by varsketiz 1y ago
Interesting question. Could you elaborate in the definition of "AI is as good as half of the developers"?
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by varsketiz 1y ago
I'm really curious in what problems the codebases of startups of today will have in a few years. The internet is already full of memes about working with legacy code. What will be the legacy codebases where half of the code is generate
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by varsketiz 1y ago
If google is forced to sell... Why would OpenAI be allowed to buy it? Won't this become the same (or worse) problem down the road?
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by varsketiz 1y ago
A google search tells me that around half of people in the USA do not hold a passport. Domestically most people rely on drivers licence as their ID.
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by varsketiz 2y ago
What did you do to get shadow banned?
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by varsketiz 2y ago
The russian threat is why military spending is increasing in europe (look at countries which increased spending and their proximity to russia).
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by varsketiz 2y ago
Wow, this comment section has quite some russian propaganda.
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by varsketiz 2y ago
As a european, I do not consider it peace time. It's an ongoing hybrid war. Also, blaming germans for "degrading profession of war" shows quite some gaps in history knowledge.
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by varsketiz 2y ago
It's good it is not on government servers. It would be a security risk if it was.
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by varsketiz 2y ago
Thanks for explaining some intricacies about taxes, however this does not disprove my point. 1. Scandinavian countries impose higher taxes on their rich VS the US. It does not have to be a wealth tax. Think effective tax rate. 2. Income ine
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by varsketiz 2y ago
That's quite a defeatist attitude you have going for you.
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by varsketiz 2y ago
In this case I mean the players are the sociopatic billionaires. However, in a democracy, all citizens are players.
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by varsketiz 2y ago
Dont hate the player, hate the game :)) The USA system is made this way. There are other systems in the world (namely the scandinavian countries) that don't allow individuals to accumulate that amount of wealth.
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by varsketiz 2y ago
There does not have to be a law for the US government to do something. Remember the NSA spying scandal?

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