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by dougmwne 3y ago
Almost all of them and in every industry. It is as standard in HR as having a PTO policy.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Yup, and age discrimination is rampant as well. I’d say 50 is where it starts being a serious drag on an IC candidate. People use terms like “fit” and “team dynamics.”
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It’s just a possible signal. When you have 30 equally qualified candidates, you will take any signal you can get. Homelessness could indicate drug addiction, mental health issues, poor history of financial decisions, lack of social support
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by dougmwne 3y ago
You should not be loyal to an employer unless they are extremely special (and probably privately controlled). And yes, the right amount of financial dependence keeps the average employee in the seat and taking the work seriously.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Did you filter through the giant pile of raw resumes? If they were pre-filtered then you already were talking to qualified candidates and a determination was made that the gap was not indicative of bigger issues with that candidate.
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Yes, because the Model 3 incorporates quite a bit of aluminum in the body. This is good for weight savings, but more difficult to work with. The root cause is that batteries are too heavy so other components must be made lighter.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
No, the Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. It’s a paper vehicle for their activities not permitted under their 501(c)(3) status. Many nonprofits run a 501(c)(4) in a similar way to separate their non
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by dougmwne 3y ago
A for-profit corporation would also pay taxes on profits. A 501(c)(3) is a special class of org exempt from taxes due to the benefit it presumably provides to the public.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
That’s exactly what a 501(c)(3) is. While nonprofits do not receive actual funding from the US government, unless in the form of grants, there is a revenue cost to the government due to lost tax revenues. We have given these orgs tax exempt
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I think it’s a weak argument anyway. A pencil can be used to recreate copyrighted works. Why should a LLM be different? The legal responsibility always has been and should continue to be on the person publishing or making available the wo
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Been on Google Voice as my primary number for about 7 years. Mostly smooth sailing. I spend a few months a year out of the US and it makes it seamless. I also switched between cell carriers as I find deals or need different service and have
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Wow, nearly 7 million. That’s incredible for a nonprofit CEO. Much, much large orgs have CEOs that get paid 10-15x less. This should be criminal. The taxpayers are being stolen from.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
If you open the door wide enough, salaries will drop. It’s an economic reality. It may be a very good thing for the wider economy and stock market though. Right now critical roles that enable high productivity work are behind a tall wall of
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by dougmwne 3y ago
But really, it’s much easier to enter the EU. You have dozens of countries with their own rules so there are many more options. Plus immigration rules tend to be much easier than the US with its famously strict legal immigration with low ca
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This affects very few immigrants of extraordinary ability. Such people are likely to be job creators with the companies and products they build. I agree that if we were to lift the cap on H-1b visas it could easily destroy tech salaries. Th
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by dougmwne 3y ago
The patent office is always spammed with low quality “inventions”. The US patent system is in pretty desperate need of reform. The conversation with a few extra crappy patents is basically zero.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Great writing, and a nice start to an original idea. But just like the shiny gadgets at the store, this article only lasts long enough for us to drive it home, then falls apart. So it’s all worthless trash, all junk, all a bit depressing, a
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by dougmwne 3y ago
The Victor Hugo quote in the article was from 1839. Biologically speaking, this must have always been an issue. The iodine had washed away from the area long before human settlement. Before modern medicine, it would have been difficult to c
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Total human extinction. That’s how you break it down to a binary outcome. There are so many levels of survival and civilization above that.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
They literally do take their car with them when they ride. Lots of BART stations have huge parking decks because they service areas that are not walkable or dense so you “Park & Ride” to get into the city.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I came here looking for the full text and found none. Maybe our fellow commenters are LLMs fine tuned on pre-2023 HN comments?
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I’ve slowly lost my innocence when it comes to public transportation in the US. At this point I can see that 95% of the country is absolutely locked into low-density single occupancy transportation at least till we invent sky cars. We have
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This was a hoot to read. Thanks for sharing it and popping into the comments. I was laughing all throughout because you have so much space but are still stuck with a difficult optimization problem. My partner and I are semi-Digital Nomads a
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by dougmwne 3y ago
The US has so much sunk cost in car centric urban design that all discussion of self driving cars taking investment away from public transit is all wasted words. It’s not just the roads and the number of people absolutely committed to drivi
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And that not only created a human interpretable method, but beat out 20 years of mathematicians working on a high profile open question. Who’s to say our brains themselves aren’t brute force solution searchers?
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I said “WOW!” out loud. An LLM can discover a new solution in high dimensional geometry that hasn’t advanced in 20 years!? That goes way beyond glueing little bits of plagiarized training data together in a plausible way. This suggest that
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by dougmwne 3y ago
But isn’t that what we are doing right now? We don’t want deflation, but the fed is trying to create low inflation numbers so that the economy can get over the high inflation hangover. It’s widely accepted that there’s a Goldilocks zone of
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Do you need position data to go along with the photos or just the photos? For VR, there’s going to be some very weird depth data from those reflections, but maybe they would not be so bad when you are in headset.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
You can look at Japan as an example of deflationary spiral. People buy far, far more than they need to survive. A small decrease in consumer spending can set off a major recession. Inflation benefits anyone carrying any kind of debt. It’s g
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Deflation is poison to an economy. It causes everyone to sit on unproductive cash and make no investments or purchases. With the inflation rate just about 3%, that is close to the Fed’s target rate for a healthy economy where people are pus

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