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Tinyyy··on I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop
Doesn’t this prevent the GPUs from talking to each other over the high speed link?
Tinyyy··on Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps
There was an inefficient allocation of resources that was disrupted by technology.
Tinyyy··on New York City will charge drivers going downtown
I grew up in a city with insanely high taxes on cars and roads (Singapore). But you could get anywhere easily with the bus or MRT. In a rush? Your Grab taxi can get you there quickly and efficiently. I’m not sure why it’d be better to make everyone’s day worse instead. Does that really make the world a fairer place?
Tinyyy··on New York City will charge drivers going downtown
Yea you’re exactly right, there’s a tragedy of the commons situation right now. You could either decrease the demand or increase the supply to fix this problem, and it seems pretty impossible to increase the supply (build a bridge across the Hudson? That’s crazy). So here we are.
Tinyyy··on New York City will charge drivers going downtown
I’m a fan of charging market efficient rates for shared goods. The congestion situation in the Holland Tunnel is awful and bleeds out into various streets of Manhattan as well. The cost of sitting in crawling traffic with aggressive drivers cutting around is probably much more than an extra $20.
Tinyyy··on Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros
Fully insured by whom?
Tinyyy··on 40% of California's small businesses died in the last two years
That sounds like a crappy business that can benefit from economies of scale.
Tinyyy··on Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
How much do you think Lebron James would be paid in a free market without collective bargaining?
Tinyyy··on Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
They don’t kick out competitors though, merely open up their own stores. To me (the consumer), that seems fine.
Tinyyy··on A top-grossing scam on the App Store
> If I'm literally prevented from using any other kind of spam filter, you bet I'd be complaining.

Actually, you can use another kind of spam filter - your brain.

Tinyyy··on Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
I’ll take the other side of the bet, for $100, that the core product of Stadia (video game streaming) will still be playable 18 months from today.
Tinyyy··on Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production
You’re right, sucks that you’re downvoted.
Tinyyy··on Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production
I make $400k/yr as an immigrant, and boy do I feel exploited :)

Edit: Sorry for being sarcastic and flexing here. I’m friends with many IMO and IOI medalists (per the paper) who are studying/working in the US and I think it’s an amazing opportunity for them. Where I grew up in Singapore, tech salaries are way lower, and as a new grad I think I easily 3xed what I could’ve made back there. I’m not representative of all immigrants but I believe I can represent a class of highly skilled immigrants who appreciate the opportunity. It’s extremely insulting to call people like me exploited, because the next line is - I’m bringing down your wages.

Tinyyy··on Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
TSLA was included into the S&P because they had a profitable business - GME makes net losses so the S&P won’t be bagholding it.
Tinyyy··on Coinbase announces proposed direct listing
This is complete bullshit, you can enter your entire demand curve into the market with various bids.
Tinyyy··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
> Hedge funds do this to each other every day.

Do you have a source for this?

Tinyyy··on Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
Nice! I think you meant if the video is /30/ FPS, then the time between each frame is 33ms.
Tinyyy··on Looks vs. Results: My ugly ad got 150% more clicks than a professional design
I think there can be prior that a professional looking ad can generate more clicks. Your argument shows a lack of statistical understanding - conditional on this data, the Bayesian approach would be to update the prior (whether A is better, or they’re equally as good) with the data collected. With such a small dataset, you might end up with a belief that there’s a 60% probability that B is better than A, but that’s not significant enough to conclude that B is in fact better than A, as you still have a lot of uncertainty.

With a prior that A is superior, you may still end up believing that A > B after updating, because there’s just so little data.

Tinyyy··on Value investing is struggling to remain relevant
Are we really looking at a months worth of returns and trying to draw any conclusions here?
Tinyyy··on Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty
For every loser there’s a winner. I fail to see how developers could ‘lower’ players’ winrates without also improving others’ winrates.
Tinyyy··on RipTable – multi-threaded Python data analytics tools for numpy arrays/datasets
> RipTable has been in development for 3 years and tested by dozens of quants at a large financial firm.

I guess it's Susquehanna.

Tinyyy··on Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition)
That’s not necessarily true.
Tinyyy··on Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
Nobody’s getting a goose laying golden eggs from a covid vaccine. It’s a one time, relatively low-cost vaccine that is going to go out of demand once the population is immunized.

Oh, and now there are multiple competitors in the market.

Tinyyy··on The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
From someone working at Jane Street, Apple definitely does not make 10x per employee what Jane Street does.
Tinyyy··on Tesla can detect aftermarket hacks designed to defeat EV performance paywalls
I wonder if Tesla will limit supercharger usage to unmodified cars.
Tinyyy··on What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition
This is flat out wrong, the market would cross in this case.
Tinyyy··on What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition
I wrote a single blog post before I started working. https://tianyi.io/post/chicago1/
Tinyyy··on Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
Is that illegal?
Tinyyy··on Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
A 2.4m condo in Manhattan is hardly uncommon.
Tinyyy··on Target’s gig workers will strike to protest switch to algorithmic pay model
I guess the algorithm will just increase the pay for workers not on strike then, due to the decreased supply.
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