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New comment by _diyar in "RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb"

_diyar — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:20:27 +0000

This is such a boneheaded comparison.

It’s akin to saying “the new iPhone costs $2.5k, it weighs 250 g, I can get a piece of scrap aluminium for $30, checkmate liberals.”

New comment by _diyar in "Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500"

_diyar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 22:36:33 +0000

Yea thanks, but I know. The question is whether the online store revenue is mainly from consumers or businesses.

New comment by _diyar in "Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500"

_diyar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 22:36:04 +0000

Source?

New comment by _diyar in "Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500"

_diyar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 22:05:59 +0000

60% is online stores. Is that known as B2C?

New comment by _diyar in "Genie 4"

_diyar — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:52:05 +0000

Is this from the original trilogy?

New comment by _diyar in "A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting"

_diyar — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:46:38 +0000

> It would make no sense for an intelligent person to work on an economics problem which doesn't model reality.

So Newton was wasting everybody’s time with the gravity malarky after all?!

New comment by _diyar in "Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part"

_diyar — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:39:59 +0000

Yes, but note the central claim of your original comment:

> ... search space grows so big that any non-expert will become lost in it.

And I am saying that's a fallacious argument: chess has an enormous search space too, and that does not imply AI can't beat humans.

Also

> You would beat anyone if you could calculate a few thousands moves per second, even more so if you had a neural network that discards suboptimal moves early.

So like the AI can? Your argument's dont add up.

New comment by _diyar in "Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part"

_diyar — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:33:43 +0000

There are ~10^140 chess positions and Stockfish beats my ass in every single one.

New comment by _diyar in "I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it"

_diyar — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:21:10 +0000

He hit (killed?) his father on the head with a baseball bat.

New comment by _diyar in "OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud"

_diyar — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:02:55 +0000

However, consider this:

> Enterprises with Google Cloud spend commitments will be able to draw down their GCP commitments for these purchases.

New comment by _diyar in "US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions"

_diyar — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:45:37 +0000

Source? Quick search did not reveal any internal cost per tonne to orbit numbers.

Either way, if they did outsource these launches, they would not be paying the cost, but the price (meaning cost + margin). And that is much more expensive then just buying it from SpX.

New comment by _diyar in "US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions"

_diyar — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:25:06 +0000

The internal cost per tonne to low Earth orbit differs vastly between SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Ariane’s best offer:

  Vehicle                       Cost / tonne
  Falcon 9 (booster recovery)   ~$2 million
  Ariane 64                     ~$5 million
  Starship (projected)          <$500,000

To meaningfully compete, European launch providers must try to match these costs, then spend a decade putting these vehicles into orbit. That’s no easy task.

New comment by _diyar in "US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions"

_diyar — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:14:37 +0000

Note that the comment you’re replying to does not claim Iran is winning.

New comment by _diyar in "Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June"

_diyar — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:21:31 +0000

No, the title is poorly phrased, I think you misunderstood.

All ratings agencies have their own scales, but broadly all ratings fall into one of two overarching categories, investment grade vs. junk.

The article explains that the rating ANT received was the highest within the junk range. So “highest junk rating” means within the junk category, it’s in the best sub-area. In other words, it’s just scratching below the investment grade rating.

This is important for institutional investors who can only buy investment grade, meaning if they can improve even one single grade up, they get access to a lot more debt.

New comment by _diyar in "Show HN: How random are you?"

_diyar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:11:20 +0000

Why would they when there are thousands of hours of radio and podcasts do train on?

New comment by _diyar in "Muse Wonder"

_diyar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:48 +0000

First, there are plenty of auto-verifiable problems like ML benchmarks datasets, benchmarks on hardware / software performance for coding tasks, and lean certificates for math, e.g.

Second, I think RSI will not be used like N -> N+1 where N is the frontier, since doing those experiments at scale is too expensive. My guess is they are doing N -> m_{1,…,99} where m << N, and then taking the insights from that and trying it at successively larger scales.

New comment by _diyar in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

_diyar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:03:03 +0000

All those kids who spent their youth breaking plywood kung-fu style might just save us.

New comment by _diyar in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

_diyar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:06:29 +0000

Investment != loss.

IIRC investments are any transactions which increase the assets in the balance sheet. Losses are outflows net of inflows.

In abstract terms, one is about stock and the other about flow of spend.

New comment by _diyar in "The Legend of von Neumann [pdf]"

_diyar — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:42:19 +0000

If I remember correctly he converted on his death bed due to his read on Pascal’s wager.

New comment by _diyar in "SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]"

_diyar — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:02:36 +0000

I assume NBC has distribution deals with a handful of channels who air SNL in their respective countries.

And most of the countries on this list probably fall under some French channel’s domain since they are dependencies (edit: or former colonies).