SilverBirch

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by SilverBirch 9mo ago
This is fascinating . Whenever I heard about matrix management it always seemed a bit weird that you have essentially two organisational structures in tension with each other - the function group lead is always going to be in tension with
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by SilverBirch 9mo ago
Well isn't it interesting that at the same time that these social media platforms were getting off the ground, the VC class decided founder control was super important and now essentially all of the biggest companies in the world are i
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by SilverBirch 9mo ago
No, they also access information through Facebook owned by Trump ally Zuckerberg, X owned by Trump doner and DOGE former official Musk, or via media organisations like CBS who have recently had their editorial standards changed to be more f
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by SilverBirch 9mo ago
It's quite a simple story, wall street likes companies that make profits - and by that I mean that they receive more in revenue than they spend. Now there's really a few ways of making more profits. You can invest (spend more) and
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by SilverBirch 9mo ago
That article is from 1 week before xAI merged with X at a valuation that essentially just bailed out the original investors but because the companies are private there’s no legal reason the deal had to be economical.
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by SilverBirch 9mo ago
When you look at Musk's portfolio there was a point where things were looking shaky. He'd massively overpaid for X, Tesla performance was struggling and had huge head winds partly because he had needed to come up with money for th
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by SilverBirch 10mo ago
I couldn't disagree more with this description of why technical debt exists and it's a dangerous line of reasoning. Sure, maybe requirements weren't clarified. But often it's impossible to clarify them and you have to bu
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by SilverBirch 10mo ago
I think these sorts of criticisms boil down to "Why didn't you make a different movie". She's wondering how much he cares about uplifting marginalized voices. That's not what the movie is about! It's just not,
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by SilverBirch 10mo ago
I think one of the underdiscussed things is how in the last couple of decades industries like car manufacturing have become steadily more state controlled. Today, to be a successful car company you need to be producing cars whose safety fea
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by SilverBirch 10mo ago
You've just been presented evidence that your law makers are doing something immoral, something that should be illegal, and your idea is to pay them more. Do you also advocate putting a little pot of cash at the front of every walmart
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by SilverBirch 10mo ago
So the video starts by introducing an isochrone map, and then goes on to do a lot of work to do with warping based on spring between points. This is actually doing something subtly different than the original idea. The original isochrone ha
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by SilverBirch 11mo ago
It is. The problem is latency. All these fields are moving very fast, and so it doesn't sound bad spending 6 months tuning something, but in reality what is happening is that during those 6 months the guy who built the thing you'r
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
If I don't want my child doing something, it's up to me to enforce that. I don't want my kid eating snacks before dinner, have I called upon the UK government to shut down the biscuit aisle at Tesco from 3pm-5pm? The core of
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
>Who are you going to trust, these Washington insiders, “people who matter”, or an actual hacker like myself? To be honest, with the contents of the post, probably neither. It's fine if you want to point at different sources and go
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
Tesla said the data recorded during the crash had been lost or deleted. The hacker produced the data. The data was used in court. The verification is the data. What's your suggestion? That they fabricated the data recovered from the ca
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
Not just such a guy exists. The business model of these games almost totally rely on these people to be profitable. When you spend any time thinking about this at all it's totally unethical. It would be trivial for them to put a simple
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
Sorry what? You couldn't have picked a better example of someone who is going get bored, walk off and leave customers screwed. Tesla customers bought a full self-driving car about a decade ago. Where is it? Oh yes, that's right. E
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
The way product segmentation works in this market it’s practically certain they’re physically identical to the board that supports 5 and the only difference is firmware locks and marketing.
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
Many years ago now I remember chatting with my senior manager at Intel - he had been getting showered with resources because his team were "the future". At one point he was literally offered a deal of "You can have 10 more pe
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by Tesla's EV fantasy being a bust? In the last decade they've got from delivering 75k cars a year to delivering 1.8m cars a year. It's not a fantasy, it happened. Now, the stock price isn&#x27
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
I'm incredibly skeptical of this idea that AI is creating such efficiencies that employers can hire fewer engineers. Firstly, there's the massive confounding factor of Covid, the stock market went crazy, companies went on crazy hi
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
How much do you think Musk values X being a viable independent business vs using it accelerate X AI? I would expect Musk values the first as approximately 0 value, and the second as being 100% of the value. So it makes total sense to exploi
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
Absolutely agree with this, I use ChatGPT to ask about how best to do something, if I say "I'm not sure about that" in response to some proposal the tool will basically always back down and change something even if it was tot
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
Only if you're raw dogging git from your home directory...
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
Two things I wonder about: first are these fines actually going to happen or is the sort of thing where it gets appealed indefinitely. And second, where do the fines go? It sounds a lot like since Ireland is where Tiktok is getting fined th
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
What is the netiquette of downloading HN? Do you ping Dang and ask him before you blow up his servers? Or do you just assume at this point that every billion dollar tech company is doing this many times over so you probably won't even
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
I don't think this post really understands what Elon Musk was saying in the context he was saying it. He was responding to a graph showing the Altanta Fed predicting a recession. There was nothing more to his tweet than "I guess t
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by SilverBirch 1y ago
It's thoroughly satisfying to see how quickly Amazon have had to go hostile on Trump after Bezos immolating the WSJ to satisfy Trump. This is a massive attack on the Trump administration you've to wonder if Bezos regrets playing a
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
The claims of fraud are a pretext for going into the agencies and making the partisan changes they wanted to make anyway. There's no point asking for a detailed discussion because the whole plan is to use the discussion of fraud as cov
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
You can list lots of people who haven't suffered his wrath. But that's not evidence, that's lack of evidence. I can provide you with someone who does have his phone number and does know him and says something quite different[

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