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by Eridrus 2y ago
I don't think there are any off the shelf drones that would be useful in a long range setting, e.g. the naval settings described in the article.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
The paper is a little dubious. The dataset was not constructed at the point in time of investment, and the missing data is signal because nobody cares to get financial info of smaller failed startups. It's entirely possible VCs are not
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by Eridrus 2y ago
If only these were done on publications, it would be a lot more accurate. English is the lingua franca of science, like it used to be german, because ideas build on each other so you need to be able to communicate your ideas to others. Havi
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that these rankings are bullshit. If you look at, e.g. universities by number of papers at neurips (ok, just one measure, but related to the AI boom), none of the UK universities crack the top 10; Oxford comes in
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by Eridrus 2y ago
This was surprisingly insightful, thank you!
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Monorepo with pants for builds, 4 Engineers.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
> How can you lose when you’re selling an addictive substance? Even the most brain-cell-deprived stoner in your high school class eventually figured out how to deal. Unlike other addictive drugs, selling coffee is not at all regulated, l
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I find it weird that these get released as public records, but otherwise, laws against destroying evidence seem fine. And laws requiring disclosure of documents in a court to determine wrongdoing also seem fine. And laws requiring proper re
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by Eridrus 2y ago
They are definitely doing more of that, but it's not always a get our of jail free card, and may actually put them at legal risk for destroying documents: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141801/
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by Eridrus 2y ago
The discussion about the SSO tax misses the point, it's not about the feature, it's price discrimination so that you can charge enterprise customers more. It's going to stay that way until people find a better way to do that
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I worked at 4 other companies before Google, and Google's source code tooling was the best I'd ever seen and definitely something the rest of the world can work towards. In particular, it fostered a culture where accepting code ch
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Starting with the reversal curse is weird since there is a simple workaround to this, which is to identify entity names to keep them in their proper order, and then train on the reverse of the pretraining corpus: https://arxiv.or
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by Eridrus 2y ago
You can add whatever span attributes you like to otel traces, and then show those attributes in whatever UI you have (I use Grafana).
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by Eridrus 2y ago
It would be great for this to actually explain what sorts of metrics are being computed here beyond what you get for free by instrumenting the requests library. From looking at the screenshots, it looks like it can monitor number of tokens,
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by Eridrus 3y ago
It's important to be aligned with your partners before you start because people rarely change what they want. Many people are happy running a small business without much pressure.
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by Eridrus 3y ago
If we're going to do a cost benefit analysis, we need to be pretty certain that the costs do in fact outweigh the benefits. We have hobbled Nuclear power over safety concerns and it's pretty clear we got that one completely wrong
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by Eridrus 3y ago
I am interested in remote dev environments, but I'm not super excited about managing yet more software in the cloud. There were some headaches around the exact specifics since it wasn't designed for this, but I liked the idea of u
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by Eridrus 3y ago
I think this comes down to whether your better technology is meaningful to customers and how hard your better technology is to replicate, and whether you are any good at sales. In general, I think if you have a better product (on a dimensio
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by Eridrus 3y ago
It sounds like your target customers do not have a problem to solve: they are meeting their compliance requirements with existing software. It sounds like central banks don't have a problem because nobody is embarrassing them into acti
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by Eridrus 3y ago
If the product is being shut down, it is definitely not a big acquisition. The only way to be sure it's worth something is if a secondary market exists for the shares. This is only going to be true for later stage companies, not early
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by Eridrus 3y ago
> Why not hire in a new CEO from the outside? The fact that both founders with the company were done with it points to the business not going well/not being in a position to go well. Clearly all the investor interests were very impo
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by Eridrus 3y ago
Probably 0x for everyone except the last round investors who would get basically all the cash in the bank due to liquidation preferences, which is probably 0.66-0.84x return IMO.
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by Eridrus 3y ago
A few papers I found when trying to actually look into this: Software engineers give substantially less code review feedback when not colocated (either remote or just in different buildings); https://www.nber.org/papers&#x2F
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by Eridrus 3y ago
I think the discourse is converging on A/B testing being a big company thing, where I think it is very useful. Not because it finds new knowledge, but because it keeps your product teams honest. It's really easy to delude yourself
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by Eridrus 3y ago
Because path dependence is real so we're mostly building on top of a tower of shit. And as computers got faster, it became more reasonable to have huge amounts of overhead. Same reason that docker exists at all.
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by Eridrus 3y ago
Microservices almost always increase the amount of partial failures, but if used properly can reduce the amount of critical failures. You can certainly misapply the architecture, but you can also apply it well. It's unsurprising that
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by Eridrus 3y ago
I also found it weird that the author thought being an EM is a good path to being an entrepreneur. Going from zero to one has very little to do with engineering management. Being able to hack out code quickly and being comfortable talking t
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by Eridrus 3y ago
Yeah, storage is much more competitive, but there have been leaks on what hardware they run on, their margins are incredible, which makes sense since they are selling software, not hardware! Anyway, there is an explicit egress charge: http
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by Eridrus 3y ago
You can be obtuse if you like, but the point is that if you try and think of what the most likely interpretation is, you can nail it on the head with no issue.
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by Eridrus 3y ago
Snowflake's margins are like 90%+ on top of the compute they sell, and they pass on all these costs including egress directly to customers.

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