dchftcs

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by dchftcs 2y ago
>True for all systems, but AV updates are exempt from such policies. When there is a 0day you want those updates landing everywhere asap. This is irrational. The risk of waiting for a few hours to test in a small environment before deplo
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by dchftcs 2y ago
There's always a queue somewhere at some level of resilience. Sometimes it's as mundane as the TCP buffer, some other times the other end points may become unresponsive for a while, including the time series DB you seem to want to
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by dchftcs 2y ago
I think people have a unique edge here to counter your argument because most of the work that goes into fandom wikis are from unpaid volunteers, and they have every right to move somewhere esle.
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by dchftcs 2y ago
This has been happening for a while. I've heard about it before (vaguely remember before sanctions), and I can find a news article mentioning this back in 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr&
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by dchftcs 2y ago
Total comp needs to be market rate, not just salary. And non-preferred shares should be valued lower than preferred stock. Lumping non-preferred shares with prefereed shares is one of the bigger lies startups tell employees.
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by dchftcs 2y ago
This is so oddly relatable to scaling an internet business. At least it leaves some space for niche players.
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by dchftcs 2y ago
There's a physical limit as to how well one can fight, but competition and growth is just as limitless in the business world as in anime. The top people in early Dragonball make six figures, late Dragonball if you don't have 100 b
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by dchftcs 2y ago
230 may have helped Google grow big, but it also helps small operators from being liable for something they can't have resources to police. The fallacy in your argument is this: https://www.dhmo.org/
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by dchftcs 2y ago
This is really twisting it, I don't find pairwise indepedence to be more advanced than applying a Chernoff bound. In this problem it'd mostly be the difference of using a Cherbyshev type bound or Chernoff bound. Pairwise independe
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by dchftcs 2y ago
They manufactured things people wanted, but shouldn't have wanted...
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by dchftcs 2y ago
Equity holders are probably forever, and the incentive problems are a hard thing to solve. But you won't be a founder or early joiner if you're not allowed to keep your equity anyway. Fortunately it doesn't take that much to
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by dchftcs 2y ago
It probably includes the founding partners, so it might be that ~0.15% hold more than half.
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by dchftcs 2y ago
To be fair, they are not mutually exclusive. Businesses are incentivized to fight penalties as long as they think the legal costs are small enough compared to the fines themselves, regardless whether the activity their fine on was still pro
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by dchftcs 2y ago
In a relatively efficient market, you can reason about the average M&A profit. The typical PE/VC fund has 15% annual return (which is not really compounded) and a 5-10 year horizon. So let's say the average profit over 5 years
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by dchftcs 2y ago
I think the difference in cooking oil is in how the oil is used. What I hear abour Chinese households in US is that their kitchens tend to become more greasy, because their cooking style tends to produce more oil fumes, and fume extractors
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by dchftcs 2y ago
The subcontracting situation reminds me of a news article about someone in China hiring a hitman, the hitman then subcontracted to another hitman, who then subcontracted to another, then another, then another. Each hitman was offered half t
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by dchftcs 2y ago
What you're trying to eliminate is just a small part of the infra arms race. But it's not even effective at that. You say one of the goals is to not have to squeeze many racks into a building, but your proposal assumes the servers
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by dchftcs 2y ago
You mean enabling arbitrary code execution from a third party when you can lose billions of people's money in half a second? Also if two people want to make the same trade, who gets it? Exchanges do provide very limited special conditi
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by dchftcs 2y ago
It's trivial in an era where the concept of algorithms is established but less so back in the 1940s. You really had to be at the forefront to know that sorting algorithms are meaningful things to think about. But indeed mergesort is re
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Maybe you can also tell the business owner to like his damn job of managing the company more than the sweet profits coming from underpaying senior engineers?
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by dchftcs 3y ago
It seems obvious when you don't need to write things down when you don't feel you have anything to say, but growing up I was always annoyed at how essay-type homework and exams were structured, which values form over substance, be
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Do you know of any shop that is running deep learning profitably?
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by dchftcs 3y ago
I think the social norms are such that doing that while not specifically in a socializing event is low-class. Probably it's fine between peers in a blue-collar environment, or in high school.
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by dchftcs 3y ago
The calculation is the power method, but the main gist is modelling internet browsing behaviour as a Markov chain, wandering through randomly clicking links. The equilibrium probabilities of being at any page is the vector "r". I&
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by dchftcs 3y ago
There's a lot of progress that can be made in cross-disciplinary areas, but if it's done by one person it tends to be someone who specializes in one thing and stumble upon a low hanging fruit elsewhere. Much more often, in case of
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. I guess at 35 times latest earnings it's more reasonably valued. Nvidia's growth in just the past year was stronger than I expected. At this level we need more nuanced arguments. The next thing to explai
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by dchftcs 3y ago
The catch is that there are >10 startups and big-tech teams trying to do what OpenAIs is doing, and at least a few of them appear to be competitive. One or two of them may emerge as a winner. But there's only one Nvidia. With that s
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by dchftcs 3y ago
> The ladder isn’t really taller. Most EMs end up clustered at the equivalent of L6/staff engineer. Promotions to senior manager and beyond are situational and rare. Meanwhile, my peers on the engineering ladder get promoted when re
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by dchftcs 3y ago
My guess is that more than half of the world's scientific resources are spent on projects in bad faith, so I'm actually ok with legitimate scientists spending 100% more to justify their papers, if the extra work can be covered by
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by dchftcs 3y ago
>What hurts the most: I deleted my account. At some point it became undeleted. I don't have the ability, as far as I'm aware, to kill it. My profile lives on to enrich the people who betrayed the writers. Kind of sad, but it wa

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