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laluser commented on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race   theverge.com/news/836212/... · Posted by u/goplayoutside
eden-u4 · 17 days ago
Also, they have all the infra to actually use all that tpus advantage (as well as actual researchers, contrariwise to OpenAI)
laluser · 17 days ago
That will be less of a problem since OAI can spill out to other providers as needed if their own capacity is under high utilization. They already use coreweave, aws, azure, etc. Google doesn't do that as far as I know and don't see why they would, so they are stuck eating the capacity planning.
laluser commented on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race   theverge.com/news/836212/... · Posted by u/goplayoutside
Andrex · 17 days ago
It feels like (to me) that Google's TPU advantage (speculation is Meta is buying a bunch) will be one of the last things to be commoditized, which gives them a larger moat. Normal chips are hard enough to come by for this stuff.
laluser · 17 days ago
OAI is already working on shipping their own chips.
laluser commented on OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO   wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-p... · Posted by u/badprobe
nmfisher · 2 months ago
I don’t know the exact numbers, but I feel like OpenAI raised far more money than those companies, burned through it far quicker and has much more competition with a much shakier value proposition.

They definitely have a strong consumer brand so it’s not like they’re going to disappear, but I understand the bear case.

laluser · 2 months ago
Sam A is pretty well connected and knows the game well. No doubt there will be some risks where the whole thing goes right down to zero, but I personally wouldn't bet against them.
laluser commented on OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO   wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-p... · Posted by u/badprobe
bazmattaz · 2 months ago
Why do you say so? They’re burning cash and don’t currently have a viable path to profitability. Sure they have millions of MAU but not many paying ones.
laluser · 2 months ago
Look at all the companies that have 'burned cash' with no viable path to profitability over the last 20 years. The good ones outlive that criticism, easily. Think Uber, etc. They clearly see a path to profitability and they have plenty of room to experiment here with what works. With new partnerships and dependencies, they won't run out of cash for a long time.
laluser commented on After the AI boom: what might we be left with?   blog.robbowley.net/2025/1... · Posted by u/imasl42
bitmasher9 · 2 months ago
> GPUs that have a 1-3 year lifespan

In 10 years GPUs will have a lifespan for 5-7 years. The rate of improvement on this front has been slowing down faster then CPU.

laluser · 2 months ago
The reason for not keeping them too much longer than a few years is that at the end of that timespan you can purchase GPUs with > 2x performance, but for the same amount of power. At some point, even though the fleet has been depreciated, they become too expensive to operate vs. what is on the market.

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laluser commented on Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates   ifspp.substack.com/p/data... · Posted by u/haskellandchill
zer00eyz · 5 months ago
Soham got 5 jobs. More than 5 jobs... He kept them for a while too.

We didn't lie to comp sci grads, they have the skills to DO the job, but the interview is a whole other skill that they have to learn. There is a gauntlet to be run of goofy interview questions and qualifiers. I dont know any one in the last few years who hasn't gone back to leetcode and the like to brush up if they needed to look.

Then you get posts like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079183

https://emaggiori.com/employed-in-tech-for-years-but-almost-...

Staff doing nothing or not pulling their weight is far more common than people think. Managers are resistant to firing staff, not because of HR, or emotional reasons. Rather many of them don't want to deal with the judgement of their peers (why did you make the bad hire to start with), and the judgement of their team/group. Office politics at the director level and above in a large organization is BRUTAL.

laluser · 5 months ago
Not a great comparison, but agree that it just takes passing some goofy interviews. That guy lied his way through all of his interviews.

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laluser commented on How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design   onemetre.net/Design/Desig... · Posted by u/stass
jp57 · 8 months ago
I've been getting into sailing, solely for the purpose of cruising and sailing for fun with no interest in racing. As I've started talking to sailors, I've realized that you need to gauge whether you're speaking with a racer or a cruiser. Racers will claim these are not mutually exclusive categories, because of course racers can also cruise. But racers who cruise will ultimately talk to you like racers.

Racers are, as you might expect, fanatical about performance. They will go very deep into details about optimizing sail trim and shape, and using wildly-named specialized foresails (not merely spinnakers, but asymmetric spinnakers, reachers, screachers, code-zeroes, etc). It's a bit like talking to an SCCA racer about your new pickup truck.

In fact, if you have a good grounding in the basics of sail trim ("when in doubt, let it out"), and know how to put a reef in you can have a fine time getting between points A and B in a sloop with a basic mainsail and jib.

laluser · 8 months ago
Isn't that the case with every hobby?
laluser commented on Upcoming changes to how live videos are stored   facebook.com/business/hel... · Posted by u/EGreg
laluser · 9 months ago
The majority of data is rarely accessed after the first week. However, that data represents 99% of the costs. If storing data is not your primary business, then why keep it around? This is what most of the large companies are realizing now that growth is slowing down.

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