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by _jab 1y ago
The company should have been worth at least the cash it had on hand, which has been reported as ~$100M. It's also been reported that all vested equity and VC shares were bought out (although apparently perhaps with a few exceptions for
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by _jab 1y ago
The details here remain unclear to me, and even this tweet is somewhat vague. > I was given an offer that would explode same day. I had to forfeit all of my vested shares earned over my 3.5+ years at Windsurf. I was ultimately given a pa
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by _jab 1y ago
Three is already a lot of tools to be doing more or less the same thing. Not many people are going to have informed, experience-driven opinions on Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code, let alone the other tools you mention. As boring an answer
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by _jab 1y ago
Let this be a learning lesson in judging these deals based on partial information. Kudos to the Google, Windsurf, and Cognition teams for keeping all of these deals under wraps until announcement (OpenAI could learn something...), but even
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by _jab 1y ago
On the flipside, I’m pretty sure the investors got screwed.
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by _jab 1y ago
Beavers are only endemic to North America and parts of Europe. So why does the rest of the world not overwhelmingly resemble the American southwest?
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by _jab 1y ago
> How will you store my data and who can access it? > The content covered by the court order is stored separately in a secure system. It’s protected under legal hold, meaning it can’t be accessed or used for purposes other than meetin
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by _jab 1y ago
I once had a Go function that, unusually, was _expecting_ an error to be returned from an inner function, and so had to return an error (and do some other processing) if none was returned by the inner function, and return nil if the inner f
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by _jab 1y ago
I think the reason the goalposts keep shifting is really that these AI labs are illustrating Goodhart's law in action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law We're at a point where AI labs are fairly
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by _jab 1y ago
Is fathering 28 offspring your idea of a better life?
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by _jab 1y ago
A few thoughts: 1) I agree that the moat for these companies is thin. AFAICT, auto-complete, as opposed to agentic flows, is Cursor's primary feature that attracts users. This is probably harder than the author gives it credit for; fig
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by _jab 2y ago
Binary search is the obvious example. What it and your example have in common is that a significant constraint exists on the input. I can't imagine how a deterministic algorithm with unconstrained input can process that input in sublin
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by _jab 2y ago
My guess is that the car is looking for a place to pull over (perhaps because the rider pressed the "pull over" button. In this mode, the car hugs the right side of the road until it can find a spot to stop, which would normally w
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by _jab 2y ago
> One recent idea I've had is that many online subscription services should automatically pause if you stop using it. Cool idea, but probably tough to enforce what “using it” means. I could see companies start sending newsletters to
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by _jab 2y ago
No serious operator would choose a provider with your implementation of that feature.
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by _jab 2y ago
I wonder about OpenAI's moat. Thanks to advances in hardware and rapidly improving open-source ML frameworks, it's getting significantly easier and cheaper to replicate what they've built over time. That's not the case f
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by _jab 2y ago
I think your comment is emblematic of the very divide between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world that leads to frustration like what the artists here are expressing. No one becomes an artist except because of passion for the work. It
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by _jab 2y ago
Glad to see this development. The amount of FUD around AVs is too high, and allowing each individual municipality to set their own regulations for AVs would have been a ridiculous amount of red tape for these companies to deal with. Just to
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by _jab 2y ago
When you strip away some of the more pretentious language, this article isn't really saying anything that extraordinary. If you just swap the phrase "information" with "content", i.e. "addiction to useless cont
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by _jab 2y ago
It shouldn't take a Vox article to ensure employees basic security over their compensation. The fact that this provision existed at all is exceptionally anti-employee.
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by _jab 2y ago
OpenAI's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month only continues to worsen. It's pretty established now that they had some exceptionally anti-employee provisions in their exit policies to protect their fragile reputation. Sam A
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by _jab 3y ago
I'm increasingly of the opinion that publicly available models should be required to disclose the data they are trained on. Perhaps not necessarily the raw data itself, but at least a description of what the datasets are. I get the sen
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by _jab 3y ago
The argument may be that having very large models that everyone uses is a bad idea, and that companies and even individuals should instead be empowered to create their own smaller models, trained on data they trust. This will only become mo
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by _jab 3y ago
Sam and Greg don't appear to be getting their board seats back.
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by _jab 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that these companies always try to give you at least one notification a day, so that you never log on to see nothing new. Agreed that it's user-hostile, but it's presumably effective as a retention tactic.
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by _jab 3y ago
There isn't even a number. It's been generally regarded as just flatly impossible using current technologies. Even a partial step towards reliable earthquake prediction would be a massive advancement. See https://en.wik
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by _jab 3y ago
Comparing the entire company's revenue to the fine is a bit misleading. Arguably, the more relevant comparison is to consider how much marginal revenue the violating feature actually produced. Granted, probably no one besides Google kn
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by _jab 3y ago
Because it's all just types, there's nothing _to_ run. Instead, you'll want to hover your cursor over the `PGunX` types at the end of the file in the playground; this will cause the TS editor to compute that type and it shoul
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by _jab 3y ago
“all conversations are encrypted … at rest” - why do conversations even need to _exist_ at rest? Seems sus to me
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by _jab 3y ago
Small startups these days regularly train cutting edge LLMs. I don't think Figma is that far out-of-reach.

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