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New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

basiccalendar74 — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:03:53 +0000

it is only "right" statistically as in conforming to the same distribution. but there is no guarantee of exact same output.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Tesla shareholders approve $1T pay package for Elon Musk"

basiccalendar74 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:22:35 +0000

A large cap stock increasing by 6x is not "unlikely to be achievable".

Apple went from 1T to 4T valuation in just 6 years. why did Apple not award 500 billion to Tim Cook for this achievement?

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia"

basiccalendar74 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:37:10 +0000

by 'allocated', I mean allocated during the purchase decision. not that money is sent to respective company.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia"

basiccalendar74 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:43:56 +0000

Passive investing is not an issue, but the default bias towards large cap equities like SP500, Nasdaq100. Passive investing through total market ETFs (like VTI) maintains the status quo.

For example, if they are only two companies, say with 1T and 4T market cap. If one invests 5M into a total market ETF, 1M is allocated to company A and 4M to company B. But since company B is 4x bigger than company A, the upward price pressure is the same for both companies.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022"

basiccalendar74 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:37:13 +0000

Yes, the renewals are included

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022"

basiccalendar74 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:00:04 +0000

curious how much of the growth is solely due to renewals since the cap on first time H1-Bs has stayed the same at 85k per year.

the green card queue is severely backlogged for India (and to some extent China, Mexico). this causes people who would usually get a green card after 3-5 years be on a continuous H1-B renewal cycle every 3 years.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "How Kerala got rich"

basiccalendar74 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:10:34 +0000

This is normal for most state border in India. They mostly inspect commercial trucks

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Nvidia Shares Resume Fall"

basiccalendar74 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:39:30 +0000

yes, it was in the 90s last August.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Nvidia Shares Resume Fall"

basiccalendar74 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:38:44 +0000

Deepseek v3 needs 16 H100s or 8 H200 GPUs for inference.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected"

basiccalendar74 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 07:43:32 +0000

it is 23% of total energy. if you consider only acceleration energy, it will be much larger percentage, probably 80% (as in electric cars).

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?"

basiccalendar74 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:03:21 +0000

you can add an '/s' at the end next time to avoid ambiguity. :)

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Updates to H-1B"

basiccalendar74 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:31:07 +0000

this is a well-studied tradeoff with immigration. high-skilled immigration helps US economy and innovation but low-skilled immigration depresses wages for citizens. you are making this distinction for a narrow case i.e. tech.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Updates to H-1B"

basiccalendar74 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:27:51 +0000

yes

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company"

basiccalendar74 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:46:03 +0000

you invest in companies that would be biggest market cap in future.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Intel might be too big to fail"

basiccalendar74 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 17:24:29 +0000

RSUs are treated as cash income at vest and taxed at same rates.

Stock buybacks benefit general shareholders (i.e. beyond employees) since they push up stock value without causing a taxable event. The alternative is dividends which are immediately taxed.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel"

basiccalendar74 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:46:26 +0000

Nvidia was a $750B company in 2021 (pre-ChatGPT). Cause of gaming and all of pre-LLM machine learning using nvidia gpus.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time"

basiccalendar74 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:11:04 +0000

you are comparing a sedan and suv though. byd seal is a better comparison to model 3

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

basiccalendar74 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:05:54 +0000

you can sell index funds and buy stuff. you will mostly be ahead of inflation.

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Strava was used to locate the most powerful people"

basiccalendar74 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:09:07 +0000

not a data breach

New comment by basiccalendar74 in "Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year"

basiccalendar74 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:39:08 +0000

one is a public company whose stock can be pumped up with "bullshit", other is not.