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Wow I’m sure someone that paid some money for an MBA and then stopped at the gate of an entry level position has expertise in this matter.

You could also use your common sense when these results were mentioned and realise anyone believing them was intellectually challenged

Sorry, but (especially in engineering) old tech depreciates and becomes irrelevant.

Can we stop using expressions such as “SPA monstrosity” when this “unbloated HMTL” website breaks copying links, the back button, the address bar, don’t cache ressources properly, etc etc

What planet? There’s billions out there too

Because there’s very little competitive advantages in programming languages (from a technical perspective)

> it's happened multiple times already. What happens is not immediate apocalypse where people riot and society breaks down; it's mass protests, shows of solidarity, people help each other out, etc

What a bizarre interpretation.

To this date more than 20% of Venezuelans left the country.

What happens over and over is that fiat currency becomes worthless and that people who have the means to leave leave.

Obviously if you own some gold you have a better chance of being able to escape to another country.

I’d guess threat model is less “there is a zombie apocalypse” and more “you need to flee to another country”.

I hope Harari appreciators will one day realise that social constructs are real too

Ok but this very strong statement has literally nothing backing it

Like what’s your point really

This fallacious talking point is getting annoying.

this is the book that made me realise programmers are losers

Carmack is actually overhyped, didn’t contribute to AI, and is likely to never to.

"It’s profitable if you ignore cost of capital"

I implore devs to watch any of the business 101 class they think they’re too smart for

And by tank a business you mean trying to increase revenues to stop losing 500 millions a year I guess

Yes they threw it all away when they could just have continued subsidising video games and losing millions every year

> Anthropic’s main mission is ethical.

Strong FTX vibes.

Also why aren’t they a little bit more transparent about the deal? Are they worried GPT-7 from the future is gonna travel back in time to stop them?

They are basically the only direct competitor to OA.

A new closed source programming language sounds like such a losing strategy.

Looking at the Mojo examples it seems like some kind of a superset of Python with lower language features. So you get C like performances if you’re willing to manipulate C like concepts. Truly revolutionary.

I don’t get why this story is so popular here. None of the technical details adds up.

Multiple back and forth due to protocol handshakes and router delays would add enough latency to prevent any connection from happening at all if the timeout was set to 0 as stated.

I guess people just like the “it was the time light took to travel” vibe.

Name one success on the scale of Shopify using Rust

Inflation manifests itself as margin increases.

There’s too little goods being produced for too much people having money. Therefore the people selling goods can raise prices.

For some reason people assume that workers can’t be left worse off with inflation bc they assume wages have to increase to follow it. It doesn’t have to be the case. In Europe, workers are becoming poorer.

They literally stated it would not affect reinstalls.

Absolutely. Remember last summer when everyone fled Reddit because of the API price hike and they shutdown?

Companies also have to pay for Microsoft Excel. Does it mean they don’t own their businesses?

Maybe you’d change your mind about affordability if you actually had to pay the externalities of your childlessness and didn’t hope to be subsidised by others

It’s interesting because while this is an extreme case of performance improvement, the ROI doesn’t seem amazing.

"rewriting in another language reduced the number of servers by 95%" is hard to beat, but at the same time, this saves "only" 2m a year, or about 0.3% of FY22 cost of revenue (per another post)

Pinterest per employee revenue seems to be around 1m, which basically suggest that this could even be a worse than average allocation of resources.

My takeaway would be "don’t bother with this kind of optimisation before you reach a scale where you can afford to do marginal improvements"

In the generic case:

Longing == buying a share

Shorting == selling a share

1/ both shorting and arbitrage can and will happen as soon as you let people more or less freely buy and sell things

2/ people do it for their own (expected) personal profit

3/ at the market level, these transactions contribute to price discovery

You could imagine banning currency arbitrage, but then you’d have to at the same time enforce somehow consistent prices on all markets (I.e. literally do the same thing as arbitragers do)