Hermitian909

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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I don't think it's that weird. In a boom cycle, it's not a great use of resources to try to really tighten up the manger/report ratios because the size of the org because the slack lets you grow faster. The higher the gr
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> I’m looking for AI that can do things other than make capitalism more efficient at parting people from their money. I think you're really under-estimating the positive, human value that can come out of what I'm describing. If
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I'm working on integrating AI into a product right now: IMO you want to look at what's happening now as more a shift in cost to develop and maintain - which itself is going to create qualitative differences. I can now have 1-2 dev
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
IMO you want to distinguish between advice that is tactical and short term or strategic and long term. The best tactical advice tends to from people who were recently in a very similar position as you, had had approximately the same goal yo
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> I really wanted some hard research on this, but I know it's a hard one. I think we'll have to settle for judgment calls. I tried going through some of the research we have on developer productivity a few years back and it&#x2
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Pre-pandemic, why would you risk testing out an unknown style of work and management that almost no one had experience with? Now there's a significant portion of the labor market that expects WFH, companies need to produce a policy o
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Talking to lots of middle and upper management, the primary complaints I hear are hard to measure - poorer communication, less alignment, less innovation, etc. None of this reduces the number of tasks being done, but reduces the utility o
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> US spending per student is among the highest in the world by a large margin It is high, but not exceptionally high[0]. It is then worth remembering that the US overcounts spending on primary and secondary education relative to peer
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> If I'm looking for a thing, and shown lists of things that match what I'm looking for, it's at least consensual behavior. An argument I find compelling here is as follows: sometimes I will look for something, and the wor
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> then I remember a comparison on HN about how booking.com is O(50) people and Airbnb is O(2000) total One thing to ask yourself - is the company chasing growth? A company like AirBnB or Twitter could absolutely run on a much smaller tea
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> I've never heard of a tariff that is based on embodied carbon, percentage of slave labor that went into production of the good, or so on. The inherent assumption here is that a trusted body can be established for a reasonable pric
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> In this scenario that would drop his TDEE to 2395 calories per day. This is what naive calculations say, this is not what a DEXA scan says. His body is actively reducing calorie expendature well below what you would expect. I have trie
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I think you misunderstand the failure mode. How do you measure calories out? Is that number static? How does it change over time? My father is obese, and has been for many years. At the weight he usually hovers at, his BMR appears to be ~2
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Retail not hiring people like you before the downturn as well. Your resume now signals "white collar upper-middle class" and retail will assume: - You'll still be looking for work when you join - You can't/won'
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
The OP is wrong, log levels are very valuable if you leverage them. Here's a classic problem as an illustration: The storage cost of your logs is really prohibitive. You would like to cut out some of your logs from storage but cannot l
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
This actually touches on one of SV's durable advantages in the software world: the realization that if you want good software your engineers must be involved in the requirements gathering, design, and scoping phases. Critically, the bu
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Very similar in nature yes - we had a few rather spectacular results using only techniques from the 80s and earlier. A lot of the revolution is coming from material scientists doing the work of creating data sets that encode their knowledge
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Previously worked on the intersection of ML and Material Science (specifically batteries). I think the link to osium-ai[0] tells the story pretty well. Material science is plagued by long, expensive, exploration phases - even in places you
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I think this is the parent comment's complaint, no? Go back a decade and the rate of improvement in phones meant there was reason to be buying a new one every year (just like computers in 90s). Now that innovation is slow, it's ju
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Two things have made startups significantly less attractive than they were in the 90s: 1. A substantial fraction of successful exits are now acquisitions. If you have ever been a part of an acquisition you know that unless the acquired comp
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
One of the great UX features of printing is that it is a quick way to have an auditable form of state over time. I look at states 1-n, compare and contrast, which my debuggers don't make as easy. I'd add many people don't wor
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> I'd say only half the parents will actually try to keep their kids safe online Ok, so is our answer then to abandon safety for the remaining 50% of families? Do we think that's fine, or tragic? I'm going with the latter.
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
This is just as lazy a take as the UK government though. Many societal problems would be trivial if you could get perfect compliance from the population. You can't, so if you're interested in solving problems you need to be willin
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Sure, it is entirely possible to get screwed over with no recourse. That said, my lived experience is that most of the time people in high growth orgs think they're being unfairly screwed they're really grappling with their reveal
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I agree with this directionally but think you're a little over-pessimistic. First, IME it suffices to join an organization poised for rapid growth. This can still happen in large tech companies. Second, while luck matters, there&#x27
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Lot of poorly thought out stuff here, I suspect the author is young and lacks real world experience running a business. > If 10x engineers truly exist, why do pay scales intra company not cover a 10x spectrum? The value you produce prese
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Probably not a good idea to judge all of EA but SBF. EA long predates SBF and had some huge wins by seriously asking the question "which charities save the most lives per dollar?" (technically: Quality Adjusted Years of Life, or Q
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> fractions are taught not until FOURTH GRADE. That is almost 3 years too late. Former math educator: This is not the problem at all. Finland has great Math Education and they wait till 5th grade. If you ever try teaching a large number
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Seeing this right now on the product side. I can't give away untuned GPT3.5, much less sell it. GPT4 is the absolute floor for what I can sell without setting up a pipeline.
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
"Perfectionism" ends up being too vague IMO. I'd call myself a perfectionist in that I really want complete and correct solutions to problems and for everything to be "just so". What was crippling in my early career

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