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by alephnerd 1mo ago
Yeah. There's nothing wrong with 1-indexing, but it's interesting to notice it go from being the norm to being something only a handful of us do now. There used to be a time when some HNers used to kvetch over not using 0-indexing
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by alephnerd 1mo ago
If they are so be it. Knuckedraggers and bots act the same way. At with some bots are kinda creative.
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by alephnerd 1mo ago
Exactly. And honestly, most of us in white collar industries and managerial roles are aligned with SEIU organizing Allied Universal - their "security guards" are undertrained, underpaid, and are basically left to fend for themselv
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by alephnerd 1mo ago
The only relation Allied Universial employees and Anthropic has is that Anthropic is temporarily subleasing this specific office in Rincon Hill from another F500 before moving to nicer digs a couple blocks down, and that F500 has a contract
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by alephnerd 1mo ago
Contractually, you cannot depending on the sublease, which is between the original owner (a F500) and I think JLL or CBRE, and even then is specifically veteeen JLL and Allied Universal. Anthropic is anyhow leaving this specific building.
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by alephnerd 1mo ago
You can't in most cases. These buildings are owned by larger conglomerates and are out of scope of landlord-leasee negotiations especially as it's a sublease. Allied United is one of the larger security augmentation firms in the n
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by alephnerd 1mo ago
Ik the building intimately - it's not Anthroptic but the building's security company (which Anthropic does not own and is subleasing). SEIU is working to organize Allied Universal in California. Support SEIU organizing them (their
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
This is a common approach (very close to the norm for the most successful startups and companies I have worked with in my career), but I strongly disagree with this: "go back to university to learn business basics (finance, marketing
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French firms & Rheinmetall AG targeted by Chinese export controls(intelligenceonline.com)
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Because individual EU states now have no choice. The alternative is to accept being a contested beach ball squeezed between the US and China, and with other regional powers taking advantage. The EU had already lost the initial race in HPC a
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
There is a lot of interesting work in the space (I recommend checking out the Wyant College of Optical Sciences) but you will need a deep Physics and Materials Science background. Same with semiconductor fabrication and packaging. Leetcode
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Why pile so much public money into quantum computing where there are (afaik) barely any useful algorithms, while Europe could instead invest in catching up on GPU infrastructure... Because if you do not become competitive on the fronti
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> I never really understood the economics of public restrooms in America. Who pays for them? Local sales, income, and/or property taxes. Municipalities, counties, state, and the federal government all have the power of taxation in t
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> I understand BBC may not have the technical background... This is BBC Future - the BBC's tech clickbait publisher - not BBC News. BBC consists of the non-profit news bureau as well as at least a dozen for-profit clickbait and lis
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Did everyone actually read the law or is this a game of telephone It's HN - everyone did the latter.
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
It isn't a loophole - this was done on purpose. De minimis and the previous packaging regulations were used as a tariff bypass by Chinese platforms like PDD and SHEIN, which led to their crackdown over the past 24 months [0][1] [0] -
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
The bigger issue in OP's case is they are dependent on de minimis . The de minimis crackdown [0] and EPR [1] are both being rolled out because Chinese conglomerates like Pinduoduo (Temu) and SHEIN took undue advantage of that while
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Why is spain suffering from this The same reason Italy, Portugal, and Greece are - they never fully recovered from the Eurozone collapse, and as a result were unable to completely climb up the value chain on time. > has only avoided
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> One thing that stood out to me was how many of them were not really doing that well financially. The stereotype is someone with a $100K per year job living like a king in a place where the median wages are 1/10th of that The thing
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Don't call it that [0] [0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s78adWHXQ8U
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Touched a nerve did I In a way, but mostly because discourse on this platform has gone to shit because no one is restricting throwaways and no one is calling this out. > Imagine thinking 'yonks ago' is 15-20 years in the t
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
What is the timeframe you are using? To me "yonks ago" means 15-20 years ago. And marginal ROIC is just one metric amongst multiple to benchmark against. Also, if you had the Benoit [0] you should use your normal HN account instea
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> What firms are going to do now is probe deeper and disinvest in crappy projects that most likely generated negative returns We've been doing this since 2022. Most layoffs overlap with Sales, Engineering, and Ops associated with co
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
As I've mentioned ad nauseum on HN for years yet no one listened - much of the time we as corporates in the tech industry used "AI" as an excuse for layoffs was for the same reason we used "COVID" as an explanatio
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
A couple of my buddies and I tried that in HS - it didn't go well. Halliday Resnick and Mir publishers was the way to go for USAPhO.
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Depends on your teachers and your school. I've been lucky to have really good teachers despite attending public schools from K-12 (except Spanish - my Spanish teachers sucked. Turns out being fluent Spanish first speakers doesn't
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
I feel like it depends on how the classics are introduced. Being forced to read classics in their original form, while illuminating is unneccesary at the K-12 level where classics, humanities, and arts are meant to spark curiosity and an
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Google strikes $12B AI chip deal with Marvell to develop TPUs(ft.com)
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Marvell gives Google option to buy $12.2B stake in TPU deal(reuters.com)
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Aren't we looking at more like ~2036 for 2C Probably. I'm seeing 2C being baked into capex planning for infra projects that are expected to finish by 2036-2040.

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