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by belval 3y ago
Not seeking legal advice, just curious. Where is the line drawn with regard to attorney-client privilege in corporation with various communication tools? I was once told by a lawyer that emails were privileged (assuming you are communicatin
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by belval 3y ago
> or people who just like to complain People just like to complain. If you were to ask someone on the street with an iphone when is the last time they manually transfered files to their iphone using a USB cable the overwhelming majority
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by belval 3y ago
> NASA recently said that it is working with the primary contractor of the SLS rocket's main engines, Aerojet, to reduce the cost of each engine by 30 percent, down to $70.5 million by the end of this decade. [...] And even at $70.5
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by belval 3y ago
It's interesting how conflicted I am about this. On one hand having an assistant attend a meeting to report back the distilled ~2 minutes that are useful has a strong value proposition. On the other hand why isn't the meeting lea
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by belval 3y ago
Not sure if joking or not but for better or worse drones are considered aircrafts and under the FAA rules shooting one down can absolutely put you in a lot of trouble.
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by belval 3y ago
Pretty sure that what he's saying is that if we need a 4C increase to trigger mass die-off of tropical forests it's mostly irrelevant since at +4C we enter a lot of other catastrophic scenarios. It's like if you discovered th
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by belval 3y ago
> Yet again, a Canadian (thinks he) knows more about other countries' affairs than his own. On behalf of Canadians I'm sorry about whatever it is that we did to make you feel this way.
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by belval 3y ago
I expect nothing from interns either, but in this case he got a full-time offer after his internship which is the part that I find baffling. He's either very gifted or got a manager/hiring manager that just went "eh he's
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by belval 3y ago
> When he interned at Google prior to his current role, he said he worked "probably under two hours a day," which freed up time to take a weeklong hush trip to Hawaii while on-the-job. This is more messed up than the rest of th
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by belval 3y ago
> what other, better policy could they aspire to Force the universities to get insurance, an on-site monitoring room with food service and pay 24 hours per day for 14 days. This type of research is inherently dangerous, the idea that a l
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by belval 3y ago
I just finished reading the culture map (an HN recommendation!) and it was actually very eye opening. This is not to excuse bad behaviour in the workplace, but it's entirely possible that depending on where he comes from in eastern eur
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by belval 3y ago
Not really though. If you are building a product for a market where a portion of your targeted user base will need that feature then suddenly your MVP needs to include those assessibility features from day 1 because it's part of the mi
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by belval 3y ago
> So you're saying people people with accessibility needs are an afterthought, at best? This is such a comical strawman of what I wrote but I'll try to clarify nonetheless. Say you have a startup that wants to disrupt inventory
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by belval 3y ago
I think you misinterpreted what I meant. Yes I would prefer that my dates are in my preferred format, but if you are building an MVP, a Minimum Viable Product, spending precious time on getting localization implemented instead of your core
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by belval 3y ago
> Comply with all industry security standards relevant to your business such as PCI DSS, HITRUST, ISO27001, and SSAE 18 > Comply with local laws and regulations in jurisdictions applicable to your company and your customers, such as G
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by belval 3y ago
Nice project! I could not find the information in the README.md, can I run this with a GPU? If so what do I need to change? Seems like it's hardcoded to 0 in the run script: https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt&#
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by belval 3y ago
(I work at AWS) I know this is close to whataboutism so I will try to choose my words carefully, but does Amazon really have that much power over the Internet? Realistically Amazon does not have a large advert network, footing in mobile, op
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by belval 3y ago
Because it would cause largely pointless discussions about the content of the list. Maybe you feel like "yourpointofview.com" has really compelling content that you would like to discuss. The HN moderation team thinks it does not
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by belval 3y ago
> “Our research indicates that with the right mix of compelling offerings, customers are willing to spend $135 per month on average for products and services,” said Wexler. Assuming this is not a maintenance contract, who in their right
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by belval 3y ago
Imagine the pleasure in 3-4 years when your 130k car plays an advert on the main screen whenever you start your car, a "feature" that can only be disabled if you pay for the 20$/month premium GM+ package that includes GPS map
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by belval 3y ago
Yes that's my point. AMD has the hardware, but using that hardware with the existing DL ecosystem is much more painful and they haven't been able to bridge that gap.
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by belval 3y ago
To address the article, this will be very interesting because in the market Tensortorrent is targetting the real challenge is software support for PyTorch, TensorFlow, distributed training, etc... and less about the hardware itself. It&#x27
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by belval 3y ago
The cult of personality is always an enticing idea, it's pretty much certain that Jim Keller had a stellar team to work with in all of those places. That being said, even a strong team is still usually only as good as its leadership. Y
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by belval 3y ago
Honestly those calculations are always misleading in nature. There are 28 vacant units per homeless person in America, where are those 28 units, in what state are they? If housing in some abandoned part of Detroit was interesting then homel
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by belval 3y ago
95% means that on average only 1 in 20 keystroke will be wrong. Even if your password is very long (40-60) that means only 2-3 errors. Since more people are not machines their long password will be a combination of words like the famous &qu
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by belval 3y ago
Even the larger V100 instances are still heavily used at AWS/GCP/Azure. The reality is that demand does not disappear if there are no H100/A100, it just finds another way. There's also the fact that if you are not traini
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by belval 3y ago
I like to do virtual desk with Slack, where I will have a channel where I'm always in a huddle and they can drop by when they have questions, just like they would in-office. I have to say as a counter point though that I've had a
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by belval 3y ago
> it doesn't get any more grossly incompetent Unless you are referring to tech in particular, that seems very harsh. The ministry of digital transformation is a shitshow, but the governement itself has not done anything that would w
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by belval 3y ago
> Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson. I don't like how journalists never adjust the salary when doing those conversions. Yes $1.46 in the US sounds like the most abdject poverty, but
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by belval 3y ago
> your organisation is so inefficient Very few organizations are able to stay efficient on the long run as they scale. This is a simple matter of processes being stacked on top of processes and inter-departement frictions. That complexit

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