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by axg11 5y ago
I work for a FAANG and I've noticed there's a very different social media culture for each FAANG and other big tech companies. - Stripe: extremely active on HN, somewhat active on Twitter - Shopify: many levels of employees are ac
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I don't know how important this is to you. Assuming it's very important, I would do the following: - Find Instagram PMs on Twitter, DM as many as possible - DM Adam Mosseri (head of Instagram) on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook (from
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As the other commenter mentioned, fuel is limitless and the waste product doesn’t need special disposal. This isn’t just a technical advantage over fission, but also a political one. In its current form though, the CapEx for fusion projects
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> runs the company Schmidt doesn’t run Google by any definition of the word run. He also has a great track record of funding basic science (Schmidt Science Fellows).
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I tried and failed to launch a startup in this space. The privacy concerns are huge. Most of the companies in this space (Fireflies, Otter, Vowel, ~Chorus, ~Gong) use external APIs for speech-to-text. That means unencrypted audio and plain
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For those in the field, the progress of model performance feels just as rapid. Language models today are incredibly powerful compared to language models in the early 2010s. I think the advent of retrieval models (retrieval transformers) wil
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I don't follow this line of reasoning. Google pays Mozilla for the search traffic. If Firefox overtook Chrome in market share, Mozilla's position would become even _more_ favourable and they could command a larger sum from Google.
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You need to shift your attitude towards the job search: 1) You're clearly very talented, the record you describe speaks for itself. 2) Use your past to your advantage. Larger more corporate companies might be afraid to employ someone l
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> Title is nothing subjective. In fact, titles and levels can be matched between two companies easily. There is zero truth to this statement. Perhaps job families can be matched (engineering vs sales, manager vs IC). Other than that, it’
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Very difficult, and frankly pointless. I have seen employees take problems to the board in the past _if_ they already have a working relationship with board members. Otherwise, you are signalling yourself as an employee that cannot successf
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Ask HN: Is there a way to decompile iOS and search variable names?
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Apple May Be Working on RealityOS(github.com)
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Questions about how effective this would be aside. What is there to really lose? If we inflate the economy via current means or inflate the economy via employing scientists and engineers ineffectively, it’s inflation nonetheless.
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What is stopping one of the major western governments from printing $50B of their own currency and investing it all in an intensive fusion programme? There doesn’t seem to be much to lose (these economies are already unreasonably inflated)
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Stripe might lower their rates for Tap to Pay. I also think you underestimate the friction of getting extra hardware for a small business and the advantage of using hardware you already have (iPhone).
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> No software company wants to sell hardware outside of Apple. You're right, but it's a strategic mistake. Hardware comes with more loyalty and brand awareness. How many consumers are aware of Square (cute little hardware squir
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Three interesting implications from this press release: - Stripe as the first user of the SDK vs Square: For any small business starting this spring, I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't use and iPhone+Stripe to start off.
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This is a great point - the non-tech scaling aspect and intense customer focus contributes to the different culture.
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N.B. I have a strong conflict of interest in this conversation, will leave the reason as an exercise for the reader to figure out. Amazon have launched more successful non-core businesses than any other big tech company. I suspect there&#
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Pure monetary value: targeted ads (Google, Facebook) Human attention: recommendation systems (TikTok) Health/biology: protein structure prediction (AlphaFold/DeepMind) Manufacturing: computer vision (no single company dominates he
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Compilers didn't replace any jobs, they created more. Similarly, this type of AI-assisted programming will allow more people to program and make existing programmers more productive.
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When you're on that curve, it's indistinguishable until you hit the plateau. We're in an era where AI is continuing to improve and has already surpassed a level that many people doubted was achievable. Nobody knows when that
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I believe here they’re referring to the half-life of free DNA. In cells (plant or human) the DNA will be bound by a range of different proteins, wrapped up and packaged (e.g histones, but there are many other types too). Presumably the half
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Whether you’re comfortable with it or not - it’s already happened and in production. Look up Subtle Medical and GE AIR Recon.
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Looking at the share price for Amazon and other big tech companies over the last year, that vesting schedule has been a positive for new starters.
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There are parallels to the pandemic here. Society is underprepared for this rare event. The key difference is that there's not much we can do about a mega-eruption. We can setup early warning systems, we can create shelters. Other than
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Organ-specific is the most promising in my opinion. It’s also more likely to be actionable. Different organs will “peak” at different ages.
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I think epigenetic age _does_ make sense for very specific systems. For example, just focused on the optic nerve. Good luck getting an optic nerve sample in a live human though!
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I used to work in genomics. I think the quest to have a universal epigenetic measure of ageing will end up in a dead end. Ageing is relative to a starting point and the variability between people in terms of phenotype is huge. By way of ana
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