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The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by consp »

blitzar wrote: post #208
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My opinion of geohot definitely dropped after he started tweeting how easy it would be to fix Twitter, and then he started soliciting free work. He obviously underestimated the difficulty of shipping a feature across web and mobile. Hacking a prototype is trivial. Making it work well for all platforms, fully accessible, and across all supported languages is a bigger hurdle. It just gave me the impression that he thou…

> how easy it would be to fix ... obviously underestimated the difficulty of ... If I had a dollar for every job that I didnt get where I estimated the correct degree of difficulty, and they laughed, went with the person who said it would be easy and they could bang it out in a day of sleeping - I would be rich. The loud optimist wins the 5.1 mil every time.

That's because there is no penalty for being late in many projects. As soon as there is, this doesn't happen anymore but in software there hardly ever is any real penalty.

As soon as there is a dead serious one, I've noticed everyone get serious and starts ignoring the rainbows and unicorns people. If it's a slap on the write the rainbows still win.

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Post by [deleted] »

dasil003 wrote: post #113
csense wrote: post #33

I respect Geohot's reputation and this company looks amazing. I might be in the market to work there... except "No Remote." For such a smart guy, locking yourself out of a ton of talent by requiring software developers to be on-site in 2023 seems...out of character, to put it politely. (Rephrased, my original post was a bit too ad hominem and accumulating downvotes rapidly. I wanted to delete this entire comment but…

Let's be honest here: remote and in-person is a major tradeoff with significant pros and cons on both sides. Remote work increases your talent pool by 5 orders of magnitude and removes commute overhead, but in-person work increases your communication bandwidth and team cohesion in similarly dramatic ways. Hybrid solutions put a hard cap on the upside of either path and therefore tend to give you the worst of both wor…

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Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by ohashi »

thesausageking wrote: post #88

For background, "geohot", is George Hotz, who's a known hacker / tech personality[0] This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn't have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale. In 2016, Tesla and s…

Did he fix Twitter yet?

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by mach1ne »

varjag wrote: post #206
mach1ne wrote: post #201

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To be fair, infinity is not a concept that is in any way well understood or defined.

It is quite thoroughly studied in mathematics, and that particular issue has a definitive answer.

It does not. Logical outcomes that use infinity as an intermediary are inherently not reliable. An example of this is the Ramanujan summation where 1+2+3+... results in -1/12, an outcome which is disputed among mathematicians due to the fact that we have not defined the concept of infinity properly.

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Post by pavlov »

gettodachoppa wrote: post #211
pavlov wrote: post #196

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Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people? It seems like they've been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and "neutral" politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable. Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet f…

Well, when Elon Musk took over and gutted half the staff, I distinctly remember HN full out of outrage and predicting (in hindsight, "impotently wishing" would be more accurate) doom and how Twitter will go down any day now. Then nothing happened. At least, nothing that I personally observed as a casual Twitter reader. The goalposts were moved to "it will go down with the New Year's Eve spike", and once again nothing…

Did you see the news about DeSantis yesterday? Musk convinced him to announce his presidential candidacy on Twitter, and the live stream just didn’t work.

I don’t think that qualifies as “nothing happened” when features used in high-profile events fail, with the CEO and a potential future president left on the line. Any other platform wouldn’t have struggled with a stream of this size.

I guess you might say that’s just one thing, and other than the CEO’s live streams not working, everything is fine. But there are numerous other examples of accumulating paper cuts and failures at Twitter. I think this is close to what most of those doomsayers expected would happen.

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Post by Tepix »

When you click on the strip link to preorder the tinybox, it is advertised as a box running LLaMA 65B FP16 for $15000.

To be fair, the previous page has a bit more details on the hardware.

I can run LLaMA 65B GPTQ4b on my $2300 PC (built from used parts, 128GB RAM, Dual RTX 3090 @ PCIe 4.0x8 + NVLink), and according to the GPTQ paper(§) the quality of the model will not suffer much at all by the quantization.

Just saying, open source is squeezing an amazing amount of LLM goodness out of commodity hardware.

(§) https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by currymj »

camdenlock wrote: post #29

I’d love to see this succeed, because I own a 7900 XTX already, but there’s so much already built on top of PyTorch. Why would anyone port it all to tinygrad or whatever? Bummer.

people already ported a lot of stuff from pytorch to jax.

if you're a research scientist or grad student, to a certain extent a lot of projects are "greenfield" so it's easy to jump on a new framework if it is nice to use and offers some advantage.

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Post by YOJ »

thesausageking wrote: post #93
normaldist wrote: post #89

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Comma didn't fizzle out. https://twitter.com/comma_ai/status/1578517666632900608

They're slowing burning through their VC money trying to make a business out of the hobbyist market while Cruise and Waymo have fully autonomous cars deployed in SF and are scaling up.

are you trolling? comma is the only profitable company you mentioned while its the opposite for way and cruise, both of which are not scalable.

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Post by luplex »

lordnacho wrote: post #203
GauntletWizard wrote: post #173

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Isn't that just a trivial misunderstanding of Hilbert's Hotel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...

This got me thinking, is there a scenario where the number of new guests is uncountable? Seems to me that every kind of ferries/buses/guests story is just going to be countable, since a finite number of countables is still countable. Maybe something that pretends to be the real numbers, like a matrioshka doll of infinite containers inside containers.

The easiest analogy I can come up with is an infinite pipe that's completely full with water. When a new amount of water arrives, say 1 Liter, all the water just flows along the pipe a bit further to make space for the new water.

Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M

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Post by FrustratedMonky »

gettodachoppa wrote: post #211
pavlov wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people? It seems like they've been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and "neutral" politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable. Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet f…

Well, when Elon Musk took over and gutted half the staff, I distinctly remember HN full out of outrage and predicting (in hindsight, "impotently wishing" would be more accurate) doom and how Twitter will go down any day now. Then nothing happened. At least, nothing that I personally observed as a casual Twitter reader. The goalposts were moved to "it will go down with the New Year's Eve spike", and once again nothing…

There have been outages, just not as catastrophic as predicted.
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