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You’re too kind. That’s how you end up with civil unrest. See: early Covid

No it isn’t. Malaysians commute across the river daily and then return at night, having provided their services in exchange for compensation. Singapore gets the work without many o…

Just as an anecdote, I’m an older Millennial (1982) and since my late 30s I’ve been spending my HDHP cap in health services that my parents wouldn’t have bothered with, such as all…

Singapore is the beneficiary of a neighboring impoverished itinerant workforce to supplement its own collapsing demographics with artificially cheap services. It’s hardly replicabl…

And here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192693

I have two elementary school aged children and I never would have imagined they’d be into the same things as I was at almost the same age, namely the subject of this article. My ch…

Yes, it’s a bit frightening to know what a hidden dependency NIST is on many things. In my industry, all calibrations ultimately derive from physical NIST standards for resistance,…

Facebook IPOd in 2012, after it was already used by hundreds of millions of people, and after it bought Instagram

That says little. Those providers could also be losing money trying to gain marketshare. There is a high amount of speculation in the space and it won’t be apparent for awhile who …

With the serious lapses in governance being made by founders with these special shares, such as Musk and Zuckerberg, I wonder if the shares without these special rights will be sub…

There is no way Deepseek is making money even on inference

No, it’s consistent with what China is doing in other markets, which is dumping product to drive others out of business. I had a shower thought on how to counteract this, specifica…

In my experience, management is mostly pissing away the gains made by AI by either: 1. Pursuing polish and quality beyond previous norms 2. Replacing $100/mo/seat SAAS with somethi…

Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.

Hey just wanted to say I think this fills an extremely common niche in the corporate world. There are a couple of teams at my company who switched to some variant of fancy html/jav…

With Chinese models undercutting on price, I feel like they are pretty much forced to do this to reduce the cost to users.

Stanford researchers studied the second assertion and found no change https://ed.stanford.edu/news/national-study-school-cell-phon...

Maybe your kids. In my corner of the country, parents are actively demanding that schools back off computer usage, much less AI

Yes, this is the story I see playing out at my employer. Software is cheap, but the know-how to host and be accountable for uptime still keeps the actual deployments consolidated a…

Wasn't one of the original intents of the transformer architecture to get rid of RNN because they cannot be parallelized? Not an expert, just read a few papers several years ago.

Exactly. “Involution” will be the 2027 (if not 2026) word of the year.

I don’t think OP made much effort to make the comment accessible to non-experts, and so it should be taken as a gauge of the fundamental difficulty of the topic.

Is that not analogous to putting up a facetuned image on a dating profile?

Qwen will have an aneurysm if you ask that exact question. Don’t know about others as I don’t have access to them at work