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> then authors must pay back that entire advance in sales before they see a dollar of profit from their work. Most never do. Thats a nice way of saying publishing houses are paying…

While Apple is incentivized to ship a smaller battery to cut costs, it is also incentivized to make their software efficient as possible to make the best use of the battery they do…

That’s an actual French man speaking English

Thanks for addressing it. Still sounds like a significant discount if only the search results and not all messages count are input tokens on subsequent iterations!

If you use your own search tool, you would have to pay for input tokens again every time the model decides to search. This would be a big discount if they only charging once for al…

> The Nova family of models were trained on Amazon’s custom Trainium1 (TRN1) chips,10 NVidia A100 (P4d instances), and H100 (P5 instances) accelerators. Working with AWS SageMaker,…

I wonder why they didn't use AWS wide numbers rather then just EC2. I would have thought EC2 would lag in the transition while AWS services would make the switch quickly

This sounds suspicious. All these transactions are traceable now and it should be much easier for the income tax department to find out. No one in hier right mind would have so man…

This rule applies to both American and foreign suppliers so why does this disproportionately affect American labor costs?

What’s wrong with new supplier contacts going to India?

> The apt comparison would be between Apple’s revenue and Indonesia’s GDP, because GDP is not a measure of wealth, it’s a measure of output: the total value of goods and services p…

I hope you know San Francisco is an expensive place

I hope you know that Dubai is not in India

No they don't. From your link: > The first draft of the paper, released last month, said the median profit was $3.37 an hour, but the author released a new analysis on Monday follo…

How is this not going to result in even lower take home pay for drivers? Uber does not have the margins to absorb the cost. They will certainly pass it on the drivers. They could i…

I learned to use my thumb on the trackpad when I am using my laptop. I feel so much more productive, my fingers can stay very close to their home position while my thumb handles mi…

This is very cool and I am going to try this! There are also studies that show there are benefits to your brain when you learn new neuro-muscular skills, like brushing with your le…

American companies benefit from access to Chinese capital. Chinese companies are denied access to American capital. Given that investment opportunities in china are no better (or w…

Can someone who understands this tell us what is the catch here?

Anything you say is going to sound dumb with that username

You can still make this argument even after a breakthrough has just been made

Some nice improvements but could have really used a syntax for anonymous functions that makes. Why did they choose this wierd { parameter in doSomething(parameter) } syntax?

Technically this is true, sadly. Nationalities are not a protected group.

It does make sense to compare them on a USD basis if you trying to figure out what causes a 10x difference in x-ray cost between the U.S. and India (in USD)

How is this helpful if they cannot be outside alone without a male relative?