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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Even oss has users to satisfy. If you’re building oss with no users, or just for yourself, you’re functionally doing something more like art than coding in terms of how you prioritize and execute.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
so who are the academics raising 1b+ dollars to build and operate GPU farms to work on the frontiers of transformer models?
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
GCP doesn't make money
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Not nearly as many as there are in portland by a factor of about 25
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
In this case the restaurant is the driver
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Tesla does all of this and they do it without dealerships. The problem with dealerships is they’re independent franchised businesses that extract but do not create value, not that they are buildings full of cars.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
If "singing along" is a leading indicator of being in an accident, then amazon should absolutely not employ drivers that sing along. People get injured or killed in accidents, we dont need to observe them if we have sufficently st
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Ive thought about this a bunch, and I design the comp plan for the company I am at, and I haven't seen any specific research on this but my conjecture is this: The comp plans at places like google are designed not to stack superstars,
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Attention in deep learning, Maintenance and development of the Linux kernel, Development of advanced databases, Self driving cars, Image recognition
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Its not a gross ownership model. These things are set up this way because different groups of people will pay different amounts of money for different bundles of things that are taxed at different rates/advantages depending on their us
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
nah, its super normal in RE and the source of a lot of tax advantage
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
they design and produce chips, TSMC produces but does not design, NVIDIA and AMD design but do not produce
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
or option 3: it was a way for senior execs at google to hire their friends from stanford.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
They criticism of x labs is not that they were insufficiently ambitious, its that they don't execute to achieve moonshots, they play the game to lose. Even if they had a good idea, they would not be able to take it to market, it was al
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
google X was basically hiring standford ingroup folks from the D school and other PHD programs and giving them a lot of funding with zero accountability.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
my comment was a response to the comment above, complaining about options and exercise windows offering options, not what you're talking about WRT secondary sales and corporate privacy. The reason we have options and all this weird stu
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
its not done this way because the founders want to screw you, its done this way because of a bunch of arcane tax laws. Its complicated to explain, but the origin of all of these weird "options not equity" and "90 days to expi
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Who is going to get you in trouble for this. The “warehouse police” don’t exist.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
All of these interesting space phenomena on film in the past 10 years and the most recent video of “alien activity” I saw came out in like 2005. I don’t think they’re here.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Multi modal isn't there because "this is an image of a green plant" is viable in a demo, but its not commercially viable. "This is an image of a monstera deliciosa" is commercially viable, but not yet demoable. The
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
"My kids, for instance, love to hammer Alexa with random questions. They would spend a huge amount of time using a better interface, esp. with quick feedback, that provided even deeper insight and responses to them." Great, using
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
gpt4 isn't quite "amazing" in terms of commercial use. Gpt4 is often good, and also often mediocre or bad. Its not going to change the world, it needs to get better.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
If the security angle is the real issue here, how would "divestment" improve security here at all? Tiktok engineering in the US is like 90% chinese H1B holders, they speak mandarin at work broadly across the company including in w
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
Its functionally completely separate. Douyin content for people unter 18 its like educational material, science experiments, and pro social content. Tiktok for under 18 in the US is like bikini girls dancing, robot voices reading reddit thr
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
The CCP does not care about the marketcap of bytedance, they care about the soft power that tiktok allows them to wield. The CEO of bytedance may want to sell, but the CCP won't let them.
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by 0xB31B1B 2y ago
its part of the carraige agreement you "sign" when you buy a ticket
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by 0xB31B1B 3y ago
He is effectively paying for these flights by buying Canoo stock. This whole structure is set up to allow him to maximize the tax efficiency of his compensation. The jet travel is realized as a business expense and offsets future potential
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by 0xB31B1B 3y ago
The article goes in depth on this. Basically gangs exist on a spectrum of “business” vs “honor”. Business gangs (drug cartels, mafia etc) concerned with money and the goal is being rich and use illegal means to do so. Honor gangs are concer
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by 0xB31B1B 3y ago
The ocean warming is well explained. It’s the result of removing sulfur compounds from ship fuels. This change reduces could cover and increases the flux of solar radiation into the ocean causing heating. This is well agreed upon by scienti
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by 0xB31B1B 3y ago
Those amenities are rarely used in North America. The problem is zoning, fire, and building codes make it impractical to build a bunch of 2.2k square foot units instead of the current mix of 500, 700 and 900 square foot units. Double stairw

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