Hacker News: sloreti

New comment by sloreti in "TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months"

sloreti — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:53:06 +0000

Read Chip Wars [1]. The cost to stand up an advanced chip fab has reached tens of billions of dollars. It’s so capital intensive that even the US Department of Defense has exited the game.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_...

New comment by sloreti in "Impending Collapse: Our System Is on the Cusp of Failure"

sloreti — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:50:59 +0000

Whenever someone cites the fact that there are millions of vacant homes across the US as evidence of either oversupply or an inequitable distribution, they're almost always misunderstanding that real estate has a "natural vacancy rate" of ~6%.

With real estate, there is inherently time in which it lays empty between tenants moving in and out or being sold. When a place like California has over a million of vacant homes, that still makes for a vacancy rate below the "natural vacancy rate"!

The other big category of vacant housing is in places that are depopulating due to lack of jobs. We could be giving decaying homes in the Rust Belt, but they'd be more of a liability to the new owner than anything else.

New comment by sloreti in "ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web"

sloreti — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:13:53 +0000

> Google offers quotes

Today it almost exclusively offers quotes from content marketing intended to sell you something. It's like trying to learn by reading the ads in a catalog.

New comment by sloreti in "Sergey Brin’s $100B Private Fiefdom (2022)"

sloreti — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 01:41:51 +0000

The last sentence of the second paragraph literally reads, "The organization at the center of one of the industry’s most epic feuds and divorces is cloaked in secrecy ... which is, by design, the central value proposition of the entire family-office industry."

New comment by sloreti in "Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says"

sloreti — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:01:07 +0000

> Producing meat in the lab “will never be done with anything remotely like the economics you need for food,” Pat Brown, founder of the plant-based meat company Impossible Foods, told the Post last year.

Whether correct or not, this kind of reporting always seems silly to me. You're not interviewing an impartial expert on the subject, you're getting a quote from a direct competitor. Of course, they're going to say something along these lines. This important nuance will be lost on most readers.

Twitter Will Allow Users to Buy and Sell NFTs Through Tweets

sloreti — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:32:45 +0000

Article URL: https://decrypt.co/113007/twitter-buy-sell-nfts-tweets-magic-eden-dapper-rarible

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33363631

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sloreti in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)"

sloreti — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:59:27 +0000

Exponent (https://www.tryexponent.com/) | Full-stack Software Engineer | Full-Time | Remote

Exponent is a fast-growing education platform and expert coaching marketplace. We're helping 500K+ people practice for tech interviews and advance their careers through courses, mentorship, and networking. We're looking for a talented software engineer to join our remote-first team and help us scale Exponent to the next level. You would: • Work directly with our CTO and team to envision and launch new products

• Experiment with new features, monitor releases, run A/B tests to optimize metrics

• Architect complex systems, like our peer-to-peer video interview platform

• Work cross-functionally with our content and operations teams to streamline processes

• Work with a React, Javascript, Node.js, Postgres, and Kubernetes tech stack

Benefits and Perks include:

• 4-day week and flexible hours

• Meaningful equity compensation

• Health, dental, vision insurance

• Work-from-home desk budget and optional WeWork membership

• Unlimited PTO and sick leave

To apply visit https://angel.co/l/2tG1S5

New comment by sloreti in "A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV"

sloreti — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:18:41 +0000

Disappointing that an article like this wouldn’t mention one of the main reasons children are given less autonomy in the US: our built environment. The vast majority of our children grow up in neighborhoods in which one can’t easily be a pedestrian at any age. Low density communities, in which almost all trips have to be taken in cars, are of course not friendly to non-drivers.

Japan builds dense, mixed use neighborhoods. As a result, children are empowered to walk to the store or a friend’s house.

New comment by sloreti in "[dead]"

sloreti — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:00:48 +0000

Except unsurprisingly it did take the status page a few minutes to catch up to Twitter and HN.

Supporting the Future of React at Vercel

sloreti — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:18:26 +0000

Article URL: https://vercel.com/blog/supporting-the-future-of-react

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29557933

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by sloreti in "Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air"

sloreti — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:41:27 +0000

Unfortunately, moving from ICE to EV isn't a silver bullet. Look up non-exhaust emissions (NEE). When car tires and brakes wear down, they spit out particulate matter pollution. The OECD estimates NEE will constitute the majority of road emissions by 2035 [1], and it already constitutes the majority of particulate matter emissions on the road today [2]. EVs even make the problem a bit harder to solve, by being heavier than similar sized ICE vehicles.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/environment/non-exhaust-particulate-emi...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...

Coding interview platform Pramp joins Exponent

sloreti — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:36:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tryexponent.com/pramp-joining-exponent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29268821

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by sloreti in "My 10 Year Side Project Story"

sloreti — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:15:49 +0000

As someone with a couple side projects kicking around, enjoy posts like this. Would you be willing to share what kind of ad revenue a tool like this can generate with 1M views per month?

New comment by sloreti in "Compass S-1"

sloreti — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 05:49:53 +0000

StreetEasy is far and away my favorite real estate platform and it’s a shame they only serve NYC.

New comment by sloreti in "Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models"

sloreti — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:22:57 +0000

Or you take the view that if a city is investing in transportation infrastructure, it should focus on public transportation instead of building infrastructure for private vehicles that degrade the urban experience.

New comment by sloreti in "Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown"

sloreti — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:33:49 +0000

Road wear scales n^4 with vehicle weight [1]. If tire wear is anything similar, it makes an additional strong argument that we should be using fewer (mass transit) and lighter (bicycles) vehicles.

[1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/tswstudy/Vol3-Chapter5.pdf

New comment by sloreti in "Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?"

sloreti — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:52:09 +0000

Frustrating that it no longer shows the latest commit message at the top by default.

New comment by sloreti in "Show HN: Random Roads"

sloreti — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 17:59:06 +0000

Generative Phoenix suburbs

Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated

sloreti — Fri, 22 May 2020 13:49:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/22/microplastic-pollution-in-oceans-vastly-underestimated-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23272027

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by sloreti in "Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto"

sloreti — Fri, 08 May 2020 14:29:08 +0000

Have you read Bertaud? His central thesis is how urban economics, as measured by data collection, must inform urban planning. Sidewalk Lab’s plans were very congruent with his ideas.