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then authors must pay back that entire advance in sales before they see a dollar of profit from their work. Most never do.

Thats a nice way of saying publishing houses are paying most authors more than they make from the sales

While Apple is incentivized to ship a smaller battery to cut costs, it is also incentivized to make their software efficient as possible to make the best use of the battery they do ship

That’s an actual French man speaking English

Thanks for addressing it. Still sounds like a significant discount if only the search results and not all messages count are input tokens on subsequent iterations!

If you use your own search tool, you would have to pay for input tokens again every time the model decides to search. This would be a big discount if they only charging once for all output as output tokens but seems unclear from the blog post

The Nova family of models were trained on Amazon’s custom Trainium1 (TRN1) chips,10 NVidia A100 (P4d instances), and H100 (P5 instances) accelerators. Working with AWS SageMaker, we stood up NVidia GPU and TRN1 clusters and ran parallel trainings to ensure model performance parity

Does this mean they trained multiple copies of the models?

I wonder why they didn't use AWS wide numbers rather then just EC2. I would have thought EC2 would lag in the transition while AWS services would make the switch quickly

This sounds suspicious. All these transactions are traceable now and it should be much easier for the income tax department to find out. No one in hier right mind would have so many people send money to their bank accounts like this.

This rule applies to both American and foreign suppliers so why does this disproportionately affect American labor costs?

What’s wrong with new supplier contacts going to India?

The apt comparison would be between Apple’s revenue and Indonesia’s GDP, because GDP is not a measure of wealth, it’s a measure of output: the total value of goods and services produced by the country in a year.

Sounds like you want profit and not revenue then? Just like a trade deficit is subtracted from GDP, shouldn’t you subtract the costs from revenues of a company to arrive at a similar metric?

I hope you know San Francisco is an expensive place

I hope you know that Dubai is not in India

No they don't. From your link:

The first draft of the paper, released last month, said the median profit was $3.37 an hour, but the author released a new analysis on Monday following criticism from Uber. In the new analysis, the researcher reported the higher median profit of $8.55 an hour.

Another quote from your link:

Alex Tabarrok, a George Mason University professor who called the paper’s findings “dubious” last week, said he still had concerns about the researcher’s reliance on questionable survey data and that he believed the average hourly profit of Uber drivers was closer to $13 an hour (similar to figures the company has cited).

How is this not going to result in even lower take home pay for drivers? Uber does not have the margins to absorb the cost. They will certainly pass it on the drivers. They could increase pricing, but that dampens demand, which given how many drivers are out there, could be really bad for driver utilization and hourly earnings.

I learned to use my thumb on the trackpad when I am using my laptop. I feel so much more productive, my fingers can stay very close to their home position while my thumb handles minor mouse tasks. I do switch to using my finger for when I need more fine grained pointer control.

This is very cool and I am going to try this!

There are also studies that show there are benefits to your brain when you learn new neuro-muscular skills, like brushing with your left hand.

American companies benefit from access to Chinese capital. Chinese companies are denied access to American capital. Given that investment opportunities in china are no better (or worse) than anywhere else in the world (efficient markets), it seems dumb to try to change the status quo, from the US point of view.

Can someone who understands this tell us what is the catch here?

Anything you say is going to sound dumb with that username

You can still make this argument even after a breakthrough has just been made

Some nice improvements but could have really used a syntax for anonymous functions that makes.

Why did they choose this wierd

{ parameter in doSomething(parameter) }

syntax?

Technically this is true, sadly. Nationalities are not a protected group.

It does make sense to compare them on a USD basis if you trying to figure out what causes a 10x difference in x-ray cost between the U.S. and India (in USD)

How is this helpful if they cannot be outside alone without a male relative?

He shouldn't have to pay taxes on money he hasn't received

No one should have to pay taxes ideally, but the government needs money to provide basic services, keep us safe, etc. I don't think it is better to tax salaried people some of who can barely make ends meet before taxing someone who is sitting on $70 on unrealized capital gains just because he chooses not to sell.

What part of "unrealized" do you not get?

I don't think you understand any part of what "unrealized" means. "unrealized" as it relates to taxation simply means that the asset has not beed sold.

I value your HN username at $10 billion

What you might personally value my username and what the market values AMZN stock at bear no similarity

Besides 40% percent is a insane amount, most wealth tax systems are well under 2%.

Wealth taxes are supposed to be paid in cash not stock so he would have to liquidate of the stock

Bezos doesn't have to pay anything on the 10s of billions worth of unrealized gains in AMZN stock either. Income taxes discourage generation of income and sales taxes discourage consumption. Wealth taxes are harder to dodge this way and should make up more of the tax revenues.

There are many different people on-call for many different things at any given time. This is standard industry practice.