alooPotato (u/alooPotato)

alooPotato commented on Deno Sandbox deno.com/blog/introducing... · Posted by u/johnspurlock

nihakue · 9 days ago

See also Sprites (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825) which I've been using and really enjoying. There are some key architecture differences between the two, but very similar surface area. It'll be interesting to see if ephemeral + snapshots can be as convenient as stateful with cloning/forking (which hasn't actually dropped yet, although the fly team say it's coming).

Will give these a try. These are exciting times, it's never been a better time to build side projects :)

alooPotato · 9 days ago

what are the key architectural differences?

alooPotato commented on Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

UebVar · 10 days ago

"Tech" was incredible light on CapExp compared with everything else (until AI hit, that is). That is what allowed its explosive growth. On the one hand alphabet is not used to that. On the other hand it is turning into a more normal business with more CapExp, and like other more "normal" business it uses more external investment. As a general rule of thumb: The more capex, the more leverage; for example commodity extraction, infrastructure or power generation are very capex heavy, and heavily leveraged.

alooPotato · 10 days ago

Right but thats usually debt, not equity financing.

alooPotato commented on Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

dotBen · 10 days ago

It's a very capital intensive operation given the amount of vehicles that need to be carried on the balance sheet.

There are many reasons why a conglomerate like Alphabet doesn't want to hold all of that directly on the balance sheet, which is why Waymo is run as a subsidiary with its own sources of capital.

When I was at Uber 10 plus years ago and we were ideating autonomous vehicles. The general consensus was that we would run the technology platform and private equity would own fleets of cars built and operated to our specification.

Waymo has concluded either we are too early in the journey to decouple the tight vertical integration or they want to go very big and own all of the capital expenditure for what will presumably be a global rollout ultimately.

For anyone like me with a finance and technology crossover interest I actually think this is as interesting, maybe more interesting, than the private equity play around data centers at the moment because all of that is constrained against chip delivery and power constraints.

alooPotato · 10 days ago

> There are many reasons why a conglomerate like Alphabet doesn't want to hold all of that directly on the balance sheet

Can you tell us those reasons? I think this is basically _the_ question.

alooPotato commented on Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes compyle.ai/blog/nobody-li... · Posted by u/mnazzaro

alooPotato · 20 days ago

@mnazzaro have you seen fly.io's new sprites.dev offering?

alooPotato commented on The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains sderosiaux.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/chtefi

jennyholzer3 · a month ago

not at all, I think these are valuable tools

would you agree that LLMs make developer stupider?

edit: answer my question

alooPotato · a month ago

So what about Cursor's tab autocomplete? Seems like there is a spectrum of tooling between raw assembly all the way to vibe coding and I'm trying to see where you draw the line. Is it "if it uses AI, its bad" or are you more against the "hey build me something and I'm not even gonna check the results."

alooPotato commented on The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains sderosiaux.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/chtefi

jennyholzer3 · a month ago

I think you'd have to be stupid to expect productivity gains from your software developers using LLMs

edit: a lot of articles like this have been popping up recently to say "LLMs aren't as good as we hyped them up to be, but they still increase developer productivity by 10-15%".

I think that is a big lie.

I do not think LLMs have been shown to increase developer productivity in any capacity.

Frankly, I think LLMs drastically degrade developer performance.

LLMs make people stupider.

alooPotato · a month ago

Do you think IDE's, type checking, refactoring tools and autocomplete make developers stupider too? Serious question.

alooPotato commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

alooPotato · 2 months ago

I have a latency sensitive application - anyone know if any tools that let you compare time to first token and total latency for a bunch of models at once given a prompt. Ideally, run close to the DCs that serve the various models so we can take out network latency from the benchmark.

alooPotato commented on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle... · Posted by u/NullHypothesist

throwaway48476 · 3 months ago

I suspect it's limited by what the request was for. Waymo has to create the high res map before they can offer service.

alooPotato · 3 months ago

Right but what does that have to do with the DMV. Waymo should apply for certain weather conditions and then the DMV says yes or no, then they stay the hell out of the way. Let waymo operate whereever they want and expand however they see fit and whenever they feel ready.

Like the DMV is actually checking Waymos map of a new area is good to go or not. Its just administrative burden.

alooPotato commented on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle... · Posted by u/NullHypothesist

dragonwriter · 3 months ago

There's an approved map because the approval process requires the manufacturer to specify both areas and conditions they are applying for, and documents supporting that the vehicle is ready to be operated autonomously in those areas and conditions (which doesn't just include technical readiness, but also administrative readiness in the form of things like a law enforcement interaction plan, etc.)

> like i get having a pilot somewhere but once that goes well (and we're way past that point), why isn't it just blanket approval everywhere.

Because “everywhere” isn't a uniform domain (Waymo is kind of way out in one tail of the distribution in terms of both the geographical range and range of conditions they have applied for and been approved to operate in, other AV manufacturers are in much tinier zones, and narrow road/weather conditions.) And because for some AV manufacturers (if there is one that can demonstrate they don't need this, they'd probably have an easier lift getting broader approvals) part of readiness to deploy (or test) in an area is detailed, manufacturer specific mapping/surveying of the roads.

alooPotato · 3 months ago

My question is why they even have to apply for specific areas to begin with? Just approve the manufacturer for certain conditions and let them operate wherever they want.

alooPotato commented on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle... · Posted by u/NullHypothesist

JumpCrisscross · 3 months ago

Whoah, Waymo would be able to take one from Mountain View to Napa. (I get why Cupertino is excluded. But. Oof. Come on.)

alooPotato · 3 months ago

why?`