dchftcs

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If the company goes to a billion, you get 10000, and that's without dilution. Sounds like a really bad deal, unless you're already paid a lot of cash.
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Whatsapp is now a key part of many people's communications. A full ban is unacceptable, because false positives can be costly to the user. A ban should be limited in scope, e.g. so that a "banned" / restricted user can s
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I don't think that adds any value over pseudo-random.
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Years ago I came up with the first algorithm to solve a problem in a niche area in polynomial time. It uses some fairly contrived techniques; the power of the polynomial, if we really tried to estimate it, would probably have been >=10,
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Banks had to repay the funds. A few banks went under before the government decided to intervene before it became an even bigger crisis. After that, banks faced a lot more scrutiny and are still not allowed to take many big risks. Archegos w
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Also, a bank with this level of incompetence is going to be roasted by regulators. In fact banks are not allowed to take this much unbounded risk with their deposits to begin with. web3 people are cynical about the traditional system but th
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Grit is required for many roles in competitive businesses. Commonly, it stands for never giving up. Hardship could include not being able complete a project due to reasons in or out of your control, but grit makes you not give up. Many sale
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by dchftcs 4y ago
There are many use cases of raw socket programming in the C++ niche. Anything that requires high and predictable network performance .
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When you're deploying something to the warzone, there are many unknown unknowns that affect the outcome. Things get predictably attacked and the defense can get unpredictably destroyed. Firearms and tactics evolve over time and very fe
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There's a limit to these things. Residential houses are not designed to withstand machine gun fires. Or a novel chemical, or even just an uncommon but nasty one.
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The fund still exists, but it's a failure. Many funds lost far less money than ARKK. ARKK was levered bet on growth stocks, and buys them at high multiples. There's no risk management. Good funds manage risk well so that it's
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2001 was a harsh job market. 2008 was a harsh job market. I think 2022 is still a better job market than most of the past decade.
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If just "slightly" is enough to make people move, there'd be more competitive pressure on Google to improve things, and for Apple to catch up or stay ahead. Don't estimate the power of competition.
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In a sufficiently complex system with a big enough hierarchy, personal OKRs become quite far from the end product due to necessity. If the product objective is to grow an app to 100m users, the objective of a backend distributed systems tea
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by dchftcs 4y ago
That's a strawman, he/ she was asked to raise examples about something and brought up Twitter. That's not the same as having a "world viewthrough the lens of Twitter".
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Then just don't execute both trades... and everyone can quote on the current bid or the ask price, you should do it too if you're afraid of crossing the spread.
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It's not appropriate, because it's a poor generalization to begin with. People just see "frontrunning" and have a vague sense it's fundamentally illegitimate because of vague connections to the illegal practice, and
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L5 or above there's normally a lot more communication and planning, which pulls down the mean significantly. In migrations you typically need to subtract some old code in the end, and it's not uncommon to result in net negative LO
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Yes but the point of contention was whether this can be done without code generation and static data. And probably both you and I agree it's quite difficult for a large organization to get 20k-30k net LOC additions per engineer withou
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That would still be 20-30k additional LOC per person year. Which is difficult to achieve especially in a corporate setting with a mature code base, without code generation, lots of blank lines, or including static data. Even in startup envi
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The trace-producing part of magic-trace is built on top of the more primitive Intel Processing Trace feature, not perfetto. It's still standing on the shoulder of a giant for sure, but few people would be able to effectively utilize In
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The person probably meant they didn't really get to coast and just do the same thing over and over again. Many kinds of mundane-looking corporate work are often hard work.
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Sounds like the person you're replying to worked in the vicinity of her business unit, and was bitter about her as a VP. It's a common situation someone with good external credentials get parachuted into a role that they're u
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You can still enjoy hacking with a consumer FPGA card. For ML one major problem would be memory (for a FPGA that costs the same as a GPU), there's no free lunch. But there are applications where FPGAs of the same price work better.
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If solving systems of linear equations is a stronger priority they'd produce hardware with more precision. Unfortunately this is just an offshoot from a machine-learning driven project. But at least the timings could tell you how much
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To give them to benefit of doubt, perhaps they didn't do much about it because they don't want to ban SEO sites and be accused of outright anticompetitive practices. Then they decided "AI-generated content" is a hammer t
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Universities are truly rotten places.
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Cancer research is hard work where smart people burn themselves out to fight for scraps. Optimizing metrics for bigtech at least easily pays for retirement. I don't know, maybe it's dumb to choose to optimize ads and get paid 500k
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Factories are themselves dense in resource usage, so it's different. It's a matter of scale. A suburban neighborhood that hosts a few dozens of families requires more infrastructure, but can be replaced by a single 10 to 20-story
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>why is the housing crisis still persistent in NYC and Chicago Using Google data, New York has a land area of 783.8 km^2, where as SF has 121.4 km^2. New York has around 10 times the population of SF, with around 5.5 times the area. Yes

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