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Does this mean a huge hiring uptick in the US/layoff reversal? I do think this law caused some of the bad market. Will undoing it get us back to where we were?

Can you clarify this? You saying non H1B's would not pay the crazy high rents of SV's housing?

Curious where you sourced the parts? In Canada, shipping kills it for me. When I priced out the robot + electronics + $100 in shipping, I am around $700 - far cry from the $100 on …

My taste buds have become extremely muted after covid bouts and other sinus issues. Wonder if this would be helpful.

In the US? I don't think what you are saying is supported by real data. My understanding is that US works did see an improvement in incomes in the last decade but Canadian workers …

In the limit, this is like arguing against the use of wheels. Automation improves labor productivity. Economies that have not invested in capital, have seen labor productivity and …

GGUF files seems to be proliferating. I think some folks (like myself) make an incorrect assumption that the format has more portability/generalizability than it appears to have. H…

I've also been trying to figure out GGUF and the other model formats going around. I'm horrified to see there is no model architecture details in the file! As you say, it seems the…

This is neat to know. On Ollama, I see mistral and mixtral. Is the latter one the MoE model?

I assume you are referring to Llama 2? Is there a way to compare models? e.g. what is Llama-7b equivalent to in OpenAI land? Perplexity scores? Also, does ChatGPT use GPT 4 under t…

I am not good at investing (lost money every single time I've tried). Liquid cash gets spent. I am paying off my 5 year fixed mortgage as fast as I can, as I will be up for renewal…

Immigrants. 95% (made up stat) may be poor but the 5% who are not, can afford to. In Canada, there is a recent narrative which I think is correct that immigrants are driving our in…

This was actually a very nice article! Thanks! I liked the last line the most .. I think we've all gotten accustomed to zero interests, and this has changed our behavior. My father…

US mortgages are unique I believe. Canada does 5 year fixed and you refinance at the current rate. I believe the US mortgages work because of Fannie Mae/Mac and a market in mortgag…

Hi HN, I used to be a hard-core, passionate builder/hacker. Would build stuff all the time. Post a PhD and many years of corporate life, I don't build directly myself. I have a tea…

I work at an industry research lab. Key challenge for LLMs is the legality and massive resources needed to train. I have research colleagues that are convinced that even OpenAI may…

I'm a hobbyist in this area, and think the field is somewhat early in its development. MCUs and cyber-physical systems was like this until the Arduino happened. Arduino may not hav…

Very insightful!! A 175B parameter model with 2 bytes per weight, and say 2 bytes per gradient (not sure if single precision gradients makes sense?) comes in at 700GB, which is bey…

If you want simple data, lets look at the price of bottled water or soda at an airport (I usually bring an empty with me but not the point). It is priced the freakin same across ev…

I'm convinced some people have a special gift in terms of # of hours of sleep required. Some famous people like Churchill and Thatcher just needed 4 or 5 hours of sleep. I envy suc…

I only see one solution to right the wrongs of the past (with respect to the housing bubble). Tax wealth annually. Tax home sales the way the US does it. As a society, we need to a…

I would have gladly had more kids if I could have afforded a place to put them. Do you know what a 3 bed condo costs in Toronto? It is financial suicide.

I'm an immigrant and got really burned during the Harper admin (Kenny's handling of immigration destroyed my life). That basically meant my options are Liberal or NDP. NDP policies…