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by balaji1 3y ago
Engineers tend to perceive other engineers as micromanager? And it’s broadly actually true also? Elon being a micromanager (assuming he is) can not be the only reason a rocket (re)flies each weekend.
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by balaji1 3y ago
There was and is a world where “goods once sold, no returns”. Is it predatory on unsuspecting buyers? many times. Is it worse for a slice of the economy? Yes. But free returns is unsustainable. Hence it eats into quality of products sold. E
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by balaji1 3y ago
Free returns seems like a greedy and arrogant policy. I wish more people were surprised by the free return option; and refuse to buy relying on free returns. My state is that I end up buying very little. I even donate stuff I order without
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by balaji1 3y ago
If there was no free returns, both customers and sellers will ensure better fit before sale occurs.
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by balaji1 3y ago
With search engines and other crawlers, there wasn't easy ways to monetize "copyright theft" at scale. Google, which had the biggest share of eyeballs, was much more equitable in sharing revenue to content producers (who want
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by balaji1 3y ago
If you have free time, you could try to build an (offline) app that you or someone near you might need. It is good fun to find a user and build features for them. Other comments have great pointers for downloading docs/books/resou
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by balaji1 3y ago
Is there a tool that indicates how "popular" a Wiki page is? Something like a Google Trends metric of how often the topic is searched for.
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by balaji1 3y ago
recently, I started getting videos with less than 500 views from tiny channels. I guess YT is trying to be fair and send traffic to those channels. But I felt those videos were just clickbaits. That's one problem with the algorithm. P
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by balaji1 3y ago
Sundar is not coming up with all the product ideas. Nor is he vetting all the ideas. Ideas come up from product leaders under him. Surely he must have vetoed dozens of bad ideas every year. There is latent talent in these giants and experim
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by balaji1 3y ago
That said, it is not easy being Zuck. How do you steer a huge complex company like Facebook? He has had 3 mega mega hits (Fb, WA and Insta) and the company has produced tons of other useful tech and trained professionals.
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by balaji1 3y ago
That is an interesting point. Also those being put at the helm to run many such in-house or acquired projects probably don't have enough skin in the game or passion. Their metrics are always towards near-term progress; not tied to reve
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by balaji1 4y ago
> Everything accrues to OpenAI if it's not. because OpenAI is not open-source? Then a closed source StableLM would accrue value to Stability?
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by balaji1 4y ago
what is the financial incentive to make it open-source?
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by balaji1 4y ago
does it need a title for the task? useful to see after the task is done.
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by balaji1 4y ago
somehow a huge chunk of RAM workforce is forced to build a EV truck that is clearly not a good product in many ways. EVs are great. But not the way they are being built today. Feels like the first movers are making a quick buck.
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by balaji1 4y ago
The Tour de France of hiking
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by balaji1 4y ago
they don't mention why it's ending?
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by balaji1 4y ago
The article is obviously not proposing a strong suggestion. It even seems to create a case against bleach and alcohol which are least risky and probably very cheap.
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by balaji1 4y ago
please be a browser based emulator :fingers_crossed:
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by balaji1 4y ago
The other high ROI activity is writing/re-writing and writing these prompts yourself will make it more effective.
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by balaji1 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35131300 An idea for ambulances shortages ^
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by balaji1 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35131249 I remember an article that some ambulance drivers are doing it as volunteering (they are trained). There could be a rideshare/gig-economy take on deploying more ambulances+
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by balaji1 4y ago
How does the caller know an ambulance is coming? How do we know the call didn't end up in a black hole? We see where the driver is on Doordash. Similarly there should be a text message confirmation with a tracking link to the ambulance
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by balaji1 4y ago
To the long list of keywords, it would have been nice to see "web-based". When do we start seeing web-based games... open a tab and start/continue playing.
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by balaji1 4y ago
Surprising this toy doesn't exist yet. People will use(buy) it. 450$... fine, it is an expensive toy after all.
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by balaji1 4y ago
Oh lol we can handle a few sand-castle building robots. ChatGPT on the other hand...
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by balaji1 4y ago
Consume this content. Consume that content. Stop consuming so much content. Create content... haha... Disclaimer: I only consumed the title on this post's content.
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by balaji1 4y ago
But their marketing worked, I'm going to be signing up sigh... Hope it is better than the rest.
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by balaji1 4y ago
what is containment?
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by balaji1 4y ago
Let's flip it. how good is hired.com's performance? how many jobs they fill per year? how many candidates get a job on there? how long does it take them? I ask because there are many job portals these days and I see a lot of flaki

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