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yywwbbn commented on Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers proton.me/blog/apple-laws... · Posted by u/moose44

bitpush · 8 months ago

Isnt that how the system is supposed to work, unless you think Apple would be always benevolent? I think HNers make a mistake (and believe Apple's marketing) that Apple always stands for users, cares about design, pushing the boundary, "think different" etc.

It is painfully obvious, but Apple's singular goal is to make money (profit for shareholders) and THAT IS A GOOD THING. They'll cut corners, test the boundaries in pursuit of that, and sometimes cross over it.

Suing them is the right way to fix those behaviors.

yywwbbn · 8 months ago

And what if you lose? Or your lawsuit has no real impact?

yywwbbn commented on No More Tax-Free Lunch for Billionaires: Closing the Borrowing Loophole taxnotes.com/special-repo... · Posted by u/tortilla

hedora · a year ago

You have $1B in stock, and it represents 1% of your brokerage’s assets under management.

You periodically borrow $10M from the brokerage using the stock as collateral. They charge 0.25% (i.e., a few percent below inflation) and no minimum payments with the understanding that you will not move your assets.

yywwbbn · a year ago

> charge 0.25%

Do they? I wouldn’t be surprised if their margin was 0.25% but they‘d still be charging it on top of the benchmark rate (~4.8% now) otherwise they’d be losing a lot of money overtime

yywwbbn commented on No More Tax-Free Lunch for Billionaires: Closing the Borrowing Loophole taxnotes.com/special-repo... · Posted by u/tortilla

bko · a year ago

I never understood the issue. You borrow money against your equity, but have to pay it back, with post tax dollars. Plus you pay interest on it anyway. So where it the loophole.

Simplified example, I have $100 worth of stock, I borrow $10 and pay 10% interest. I eventually have to come up with the $10 to pay it back, which will be post tax. And I'm paying interest on it anyway, which may or may not be tax deductible.

It would be the equivalent of me getting a home equity loan and having to pay taxes on the gains of my property when I took out the home equity loan.

What am I missing?

yywwbbn · a year ago

> I eventually have to come up with the $10

Or you never do that. When you die the cost basis is adjusted and you children don’t have to pay any taxes even if they sell.

But, yeah since it’s not actual income taxing it makes no sense. IMHO a wealth tax above a certain (high) threshold would be far more reasonable

yywwbbn commented on Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/loganfrederick

achow · 2 years ago

What I'm not able to comprehend is why people are not seeing the answer as brilliant!

Any ordinary mortal (like me) would have jumped to the conclusion that answer is "Father" and would have walked away patting on my back, without realising that I was biased by statistics.

Whereas o1, at the very outset smelled out that it is a riddle - why would anyone out of blue ask such question. So, it started its chain of thought with "Interpreting the riddle" (smart!).

In my book that is the difference between me and people who are very smart and are generally able to navigate the world better (cracking interviews or navigating internal politics in a corporate).

yywwbbn · 2 years ago

> why would anyone out of blue ask such question

I would certainly expect any person to have the same reaction.

> So, it started its chain of thought with "Interpreting the riddle" (smart!).

How is that smarter than intuitively arriving at the correct answer without having to explicitly list the intermediate step? Being able to reasonably accurately judge the complexity of a problem with minimal effort seems “smarter” to me.

yywwbbn commented on Show HN: How much is 13B euros? howmuchis13billioneuros.c... · Posted by u/dndn1

postcynical · 2 years ago

13bln$ gets you a 35 mile tunnel thru the swiss alps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

yywwbbn · 2 years ago

I’d assume that drilling a tunnel under a mountain would be significantly cheaper than digging one in a densely inhabited city (in a seismically active area).

yywwbbn commented on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source phoronix.com/review/radeo... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

izacus · 2 years ago

One of the most important decisions a company can do, is to decide which markets they'll focus in and which they won't. This is even true for megacorps (see: Google and their parade of messups). There's just not enough time to be in all markets all at once.

So, again, it's not at all clear that AMD being in the compute GPU game is the automatic win for them in the future. There's plenty of companies that killed themselves trying to run after big profitable new fad markets (see: Nokia and Windows Phone, and many other cases).

So let's examine that - does AMD actually have a good shot of taking a significant chunk of market that will offset them not investing in some other market?

yywwbbn · 2 years ago

> So, again, it's not at all clear that AMD being in the compute GPU game is the automatic win for them in the future. There's

You’re right about that but it seems that it’s pretty clear that not being in the compute GPU game is an automatic loss for them (look at their recent revenue growth in the past quarter and two by in each sector)

yywwbbn commented on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source phoronix.com/review/radeo... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

izacus · 2 years ago

Why do you think running after nVidia for this submarket is a good idea for them? The AMD GPU team isn't especially big and the development investment is massive. Moreover, they'll have the opportunity cost for projects they're now dominating in (all game consoles for example).

Do you expect them to be able to capitalize on the AI fad so much (and quickly enough!) that it's worth dropping the ball on projects they're now doing well in? Or perhaps continue investing into the part of the market where they're doing much better than nVidia?

yywwbbn · 2 years ago

Because their current market valuation was massively inflated because of the AI/GPU boom and/or bubble?

In rational world their stock price would collapse if they don’t focus on it and are unable to deliver anything competitive in the upcoming year or two

> of the market where they're doing much better than nVidia?

So the market that’s hardly growing, Nvidia is not competing in and Intel still has bigger market share and is catching up performance wise? AMD’s valuation is this highly only because they are seen as the only company that could directly compete with Nvidia in the data center GPU market.

yywwbbn commented on Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical twitter.com/garrynewman/s... · Posted by u/jsheard

teitoklien · 2 years ago

Same could be said about Moore’s Law and progression of silicon based processor advancements. Yet it has held true.

Same applies for AI, plus even now, with custom tools, one can already churn out high quality output with custom models, it’s just accuracy of it is still an uncracked part. But I think we’ll get there soon too.

Ofcourse this is why I said “soon” and not “now”.

yywwbbn · 2 years ago

> Same could be said about Moore’s Law and progression of silicon based processor advancements. Yet it has held true.

Not an argument. Plenty of things seemed like they will progress/grow exponentially when they were invented yet they didn’t.

> Same applies for AI

Perhaps, but why?

yywwbbn commented on Dutch Police intelligence services unlawfully spied on whole population groups nltimes.nl/2024/02/08/pol... · Posted by u/belter

refurb · 2 years ago

This is such a lazy reply. Even 10 seconds Googling would tell you Americans don't need to provide ID to the police (unlike other countries) unless you are operating a motor vehicle.

yywwbbn · 2 years ago

> unlike other countries

Unlike many other countries. I live in Europe and certainly don’t need provide an ID without a cause or even carry one with myself

yywwbbn commented on AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU phoronix.com/review/amd-r... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

hajile · 2 years ago

PC laptops with similar build quality cost the same or more.

x86 machines only compete when you don’t consider power consumption (which really matters for laptops). It’s so bad that most top end x86 machines won’t even try to hit those peak numbers unless the machine is plugged in and then only for short periods of time.

My M1 beats most x86 machines even after it throttles and it’s over three years old now. My M3 Max machine blows away the x86 machines I run into and it does it while still having good battery life.

yywwbbn · 2 years ago

> My M1 beats most x86 machines even after it throttles and it’s over three years old now

I doubt that. Last gen Intel/AMD cpus are pretty fast these days.