formercoder

Joined 7 years ago

Karma
1,188
Submissions
481
Member since
Apr 15
Googler but my opinions are my own
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 1 year ago
Because utilities are commodities and natural monopolies. CSPs are neither.
Comment · 1 year ago
You’re correct. MCP is just a defined way of mapping string descriptions to functions.
Comment · 1 year ago
Humans drive without LIDAR. Why can’t robots?
Comment · 1 year ago
Wouldn’t this make the $200k drop below EBIT and thus increase accrual accounting profitability? Sure it could be less cash efficient but generally capitalizing expenses is net favorable.
Comment · 1 year ago
I work at Google but not on this. We do offer Gemini with Google Search grounding which is similar to a search API.
Comment · 1 year ago
Pretty much the Reserved Instance Marketplace
Comment · 2 years ago
Think the massive increase in demand is due to mass inference of open source LLMs? Or is the transformer architecture driving mass inference of other models too?
Comment · 2 years ago
“Own” is likely a very simplistic term for the complex agreement in place between SpaceX and NASA. I’m sure SpaceX retains all of the developed IP, but NASA can “do whatever they want” with the actual ship.
Comment · 2 years ago
Third try always
Comment · 2 years ago
Corporate finance theory says that when a dividend is issued, the price of the stock goes down by an equivalent amount.
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m a Googler who doesn’t do anything remotely close to setting capital return policy. Just remember Alphabet has been buying back 10s of billions for a while. Dividends are just a different capital return mechanism.
Comment · 2 years ago
Googler here, if you haven’t looked at TPUs in a while check out the v5. They support PyTorch/JAX now, makes them much easier to use than TF only.
Comment · 2 years ago
Let’s compare. I’ve interviewed for and been offered both high paying tech jobs and investment banking jobs. My interviews for tech really required me to have a deep understanding of the technology and how to solve problems with it. They tested my critical thinking skills. For banking, sure there were some technical questions but a lot of it came down to what school I went to, how I acted, who I knew. I suppose either one could be a “nightmare” depending on who you are. I do think the tech interview process was much better at hiring generally competent people. There’s also consulting which I have not directly interviewed for but the interview style is more similar to tech with more of a focus on mental math, those can be very difficult if you don’t have that skill.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton