axg11

19 ms·

151.
by axg11 4y ago
Toronto is a no-brainer for most US tech companies. Cheaper to hire, abundant talent, similar (enough) culture, accessible time zone and very permissive immigration laws if you want to bring in more talent. Salaries are increasing as a resu
152.
by axg11 4y ago
High trust society, as in: there is a high degree of trust between any two random people that they are likely to act in each other’s benefit when it comes to societal issues. That is fundamentally how I view taxes. We’re contributing to a c
153.
by axg11 4y ago
Crypto.com 24h trading volume is ~$400m, so they're doing $175B in trading volume every ~450 days. By those metrics, the sponsorship deal doesn't seem unreasonable? Clearly they're not getting $400m in incremental volume as a
154.
by axg11 4y ago
There's a general reaction that big government is bad, more tracking is bad. Norway ranks highly in most metrics of development and quality of life. Perhaps in a high trust society this type of data collection is a positive.
155.
by axg11 4y ago
The people in society who need help the most often have the least trust in government and don't have the means to understand and navigate programmes that could help them.
156.
by axg11 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer. From a little research I understand that insider trading laws apply to securities, so I can only conclude that NFTs are being defined as securities here. It's always been a grey area.
157.
by axg11 4y ago
I agree they're probably here to stay. It's interesting to think about how the hardware-software feedback loop affects architecture choice and research directions. I'm almost certain there is an even more impressive architect
158.
by axg11 4y ago
Exactly this. At a high level, DALL-E is mapping text to a (continuous) matrix and then mapping that matrix to an image (another a matrix). All text inputs will map to _something_. DALL-E doesn't care if that mapping makes sense, it ha
159.
by axg11 4y ago
Companies that advertise roles on HN are not representative of the economy.
160.
by axg11 4y ago
Whichever side of the remote vs. in-person debate you fall on, I think this is a net positive for the industry. More companies are starting to become strongly opinionated on the topic and that leads to a wider spectrum of options when searc
161.
by axg11 4y ago
In general the biggest breakthrough in that space has been machine learning powered relevance scoring and NLP. PageRank worked by using high level metadata (links between pages). We now have methods that can incorporate metadata information
162.
by axg11 4y ago
Indeed, this is an expected outcome from the way that DALL-E is trained. It’s still an interesting finding and sometimes affirming the expected can lay the groundwork for future interesting discoveries. This is an example of an application
163.
by axg11 4y ago
FYI the site is quite broken on mobile (iOS) - it’s difficult to read.
164.
by axg11 4y ago
I like the concept of async work but I’m also scared of how transactional that would make work. Most companies that preach async now have a very strong, “friendly” culture. If async catches on more widely I’m worried it would be the final p
165.
by axg11 4y ago
Starlink is such a brilliant move by SpaceX, both financially and how it has demonstrated excellence in areas that are nothing to do with rocket development. How many other similar companies could successfully spin up a direct to consumer s
166.
by axg11 4y ago
This thread is just describing how journalism works: you develop relationships with companies and people, and if they like your reporting they give you more access to do more of the same reporting. It's also describing a downside to th
167.
by axg11 4y ago
This is an unrealistic take. There are many other differences that you need to consider. For example, what is the nature of that 1% difference in tragedies? Perhaps there's a 1% improvement in overall fatalities but also an increase in
168.
by axg11 4y ago
This would be a cool idea for a service - I would pay for it. Privacy issues aside, it's a shame that transaction data doesn't include itemized information (e.g. grocery bills only show up as one large charge). I'm sure there
169.
by axg11 4y ago
Then you probably don’t understand the value of any big tech company? All of them are premised on ideas that are trivial on the surface but involve difficult engineering challenges at scale.
170.
by axg11 4y ago
The most important mental model of all: recognizing the boundaries of these models. It's just as important to know when a mental model is not appropriate or applicable as it is to apply the mental model.
171.
by axg11 4y ago
A hosted self-hosted note taking tool - recursion error. In all seriousness, there is a version of the internet I imagined where instead of subscription SaaS, all apps/tools were standalone pieces of software that you could choose to d
172.
by axg11 4y ago
You would be doing a public good if you post (publicly) the terms of that loan and any associated (anonymous) documents. Please consider it.
173.
by axg11 4y ago
That’s a strange false dichotomy. These NFTs aren’t in lieu of compensation. They are for recognition and verification of achievements. Compensation is separate.
174.
by axg11 4y ago
Isn't this a matter of someone developing a browser that implements this? There are a few privacy focused browsers out there. As long as the most popular browser is developed by the company that benefits the most from tracking, there w
175.
by axg11 4y ago
No-code and low-code platforms are incredible. I don't think you'll receive a fair answer to the question here. These platforms are most valuable for non-technical people, particularly founders who are looking to build an MVP. The
176.
by axg11 4y ago
It's all voluntary. Many of your critiques could also be applied to LinkedIn and/or resumes, but the difference here is that it's verifiable :) I see from your profile that you work for one of the big 4 consulting firms. It&#
177.
by axg11 4y ago
I understand your skepticism and I'll be the first to admit there are plenty of dubious uses of crypto/NFTs. For Ribbon, the NFTs act as verifiable proof of an achievement. Lying on LinkedIn profiles and resumes is rampant. The NF
178.
Show HN: Ribbon – Long lasting employee recognition(ribbon.cool)
1 points by axg11 4y ago|7 comments
179.
by axg11 4y ago
It's interesting to see the self-reinforcing aspect of this recession/downturn. Many companies have yet to see a material impact to their revenue or market conditions, but are tightening their belts in anticipation. I'm not s
180.
by axg11 4y ago
I firmly believe that ~20-40% of the machine learning community will say that all ML models are dumb statistical interpolators all the way until a few years after we achieve AGI. Roughly the same groups will also claim that human intelligen

More ›