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by boulos 1y ago
Nicely done. Since many folks may not know the original song: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(song) (And TIL, this wasn't original to Kenny Rogers!)
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by boulos 1y ago
"Post surrender" is misleading. https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2022/05/06/did-the-japanese-... has good coverage of what's known here. There were definitely factions within Japan that wanted t
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by boulos 1y ago
In practice, you pay out the commission over time. So if someone was extremely deceptive, or the customer churns nearly immediately, you don't just keep getting the commission. At Oxide's scale, it would likely be hard to hide out
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by boulos 1y ago
Oh, I failed to say annual bonuses. Actual, true bonuses make more sense that way.
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by boulos 1y ago
Our safety research team is interested in this topic, too! In a previous study, they've tried to model it: > Building on that, the Collision Avoidance Benchmarking paper presents a novel methodology to evaluate how well autonomous d
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by boulos 1y ago
For those that are interested, our Safety Research team also makes the underlying data available for download: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/#downloads (I don't work on that team, but I've noticed a fe
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by boulos 1y ago
Also reasonable! A little annoying though, since I find most people are better served by uniform paychecks, but I understand the celebratory aspect.
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by boulos 1y ago
As others have said, the sales compensation model is fundamentally a low base and then a percentage of the sale. I think Ben Horowitz had an early blog post about not trying to innovate on sales compensation models, and having seen a few at
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by boulos 1y ago
Apparently, I'm one of the people that would have given feedback on the original proposal :). > Some will say that we should be talking about equity, not cash compensation. I think of compensation as total compensation. It would be
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by boulos 1y ago
(Disclosure: I work for Waymo) While there is plenty of classical robotics code in our planner, I wouldn't want people to assume that we don't use neural networks for planning. Just because we don't deploy end-to-end models (
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by boulos 1y ago
Thanks for replying! That's a good reason. Reporting is always hard, and of course, many things appear obvious in hindsight!
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by boulos 1y ago
The latest GPUs and TPUs support fp8. It's a big part of the efficiency gain in the latest systems. Blackwell also supports fp4.
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by boulos 1y ago
The percentages and methodology changed over time though (this was the big argument between Benioff and Dorsey, since gross receipts ignoring business model and margins hit very differently). Same thing the large transfer tax changes, vacan
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by boulos 1y ago
Most discussion of employment is for the San Francisco metro area , but I think the county level statistics at https://data.census.gov/profile/San_Francisco_County,_Califo... are actually specific to people who live i
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by boulos 1y ago
> Did tech companies decide to start paying more taxes? Did the city start spending more? No, the actual cause is boring and simple, but makes anti-establishment folks very uncomfortable. We did pass gross receipts taxes and do tax payro
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by boulos 1y ago
What a weird investigation though. Sounds like they could have solved it by asking the photographer first, which they eventually did: > Finally, Spark contacted Murray Close, the photographer who took the picture of Jack Nicholson that w
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by boulos 2y ago
I was surprised not to see a Kunlun P800 there.
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by boulos 2y ago
Or that SoftBank owns Arm... and has very publicly said it wants to get into the full chip business, not just reference architecture.
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by boulos 2y ago
Just a nit, but it's not "for SXSW" (i.e., temporary). Access via the Uber app is now the mechanism by which we're offering rides in Austin (and next, Atlanta). https://waymo.com/blog/2024/09&#x
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by boulos 2y ago
That's a reasonable path! You probably learned to appreciate and value the complexity, but you wouldn't have from the start. Which service do you use?
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by boulos 2y ago
> presumably to Mexico. Also to Belize and other parts of Central and South America. They don't all stop in Mexico.
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by boulos 2y ago
50% vested monthly for 4 years until August is only about 6%.
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Mr. Espresso founder, a Bay Area coffee pioneer, dies at 90(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by boulos 2y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 2y ago
The real point of this article is how busted the PG&E rate plans are. The author says: > Do we really need 106 different rate plans in California? Why don’t utilities automatically put people on the cheapest rate plan for them, and r
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by boulos 2y ago
See my sibling comment :).
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by boulos 2y ago
You're correct, there are multiple flavors of Google Cloud Locations. The "Google concrete" ones are listed at google.com/datacenters and London isn't on that list, today. cloud.google.com/about/locations
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by boulos 2y ago
Amy Gooch's Color2Gray and various follow-on work has better coverage of the OP's actual goal: > evaluate relative brightnesses between art assets, and improve overall game readability The method in Color2Gray is trying to e
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Supreme Court Backs Law Requiring TikTok to Be Sold or Banned(nytimes.com)
6 points by boulos 2y ago|3 comments
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by boulos 2y ago
The Seattle / UW related branch of MSR definitely had a few wins in the graphics department. As https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/meteoric-rise-... reminded me, they were on like 20% of the S
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by boulos 2y ago
I doubt their preferences are >1x since they've always had high demand. In that case, the preference stack would just be the total raised over time (~$10B).

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