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by itake 4mo ago
My understanding is people don't like the PE / LBO with a single investor, because it loads the company with debt that it pays back via cutting quality and service offerings. My assumption is publicly traded company would have acc
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by itake 4mo ago
If not PE / LBO, what is the alternative?
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by itake 4mo ago
I'm trying to be generous here... but prisoner's dilemma says the people in a community are probably better to park their money outside of the community in order to protect (and grow) their retirement investments. Yes, it would be
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by itake 4mo ago
I don't get for the sellers, what is the alternative? It feels like their only choice is LBO PE deal.
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by itake 4mo ago
One thing I don't see is the other side of this story: the sellers. I don't get why sellers are selling to PE. Can these services not "IPO"? Why do these companies need to sell? When PE takes over medical practices, my u
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by itake 5mo ago
I don't know about gitlab, but tech companies (Meta and Grab) tend to hack off the bottom of the management chain, instead of cutting off the top (aka as the people that created the 8 layer system). bottom level teams are merged to for
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by itake 5mo ago
At the end of the blog post, it says the charges were eventually dropped. 23 days of her life gone over dropped charges.
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by itake 5mo ago
I think the puck should stop with the first adult. The front line adults at school have this policy now, which covers 30 hours of the student's week. Parents need to be responsible for the remaining 183 hours they have with their kid.
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by itake 5mo ago
I (think) many bullies have bad home lives. I wish parents would be held accountable instead of taking it out on the kids that are struggling to process their emotions / hormones in a healthy manner.
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by itake 5mo ago
yeah, my bad. I typo'd on purpose to prove I'm not AI :P :'(
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by itake 5mo ago
This feels like it sounds nice on paper, but there isn't really any much data justify it... Yes, incomes and inflation aren't lining up. But that has been true for a couple generations now. When you're in your 20s, none of yo
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by itake 5mo ago
At my last job, within our org, the director had 3 staff engineers building the same, but competing AI tool. At the last all hands other teams announced their own similar AI engineer productivity tools. I low-key regret now sticking around
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by itake 5mo ago
Muslim/Islamic extremist recruiters used Adobe's Express platform for terrorist / extremist recruitment. No idea if if LinkedIn has the same issue though.
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by itake 5mo ago
I have the same issue with sales tax. I moved to asia about 1.5 years ago. But b/c my credit card's billing address is still in the state of WA, Apple and other subscriptions think they should still charge me a sales tax. To remov
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by itake 5mo ago
The media projects that gay conversion initiatives fail at steering the ship the other direction. Governments (and society) expect personal repression and do not allow for outlets or replacements. (for the record, these ideas I'm writi
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by itake 5mo ago
I think its just to mitigate spam apps. The window's app store is kinda garbage. Apple doesn't want to spend their QA resources on apps that only 10 people can use.
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by itake 6mo ago
Dick's Drive in Seattle (IMHO an expensive city) charges $5.75 for their deluxe burger on Doordash. https://www.doordash.com/store/dick's-drive-in-seattle-77050...
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by itake 6mo ago
> helps in managing sexual needs There are plenty of "sexual needs" that society says "no, you can't satisfy them." (for example, Nguyễn Xuân Đạt). I don't think sexual needs are needs that can't be man
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by itake 6mo ago
This is the same thinking that governments are justify the age verification and ID tracking: the system makes an opportunity for old people to get scammed, so everyone needs to give up their privacy.
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by itake 6mo ago
I don't know who, but there are a lot of news articles about high volume oil trading activities shortly before publicly military action.
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by itake 6mo ago
while not the main reason, I definitely cited it as a reason for departure in my exit interview.
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by itake 6mo ago
My ex-employer (non-FANGA, but still over $10b mkt cap) started using similar software.
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by itake 6mo ago
Not really true. Remember the prompt engineering craze a few years ago with crazy complex prompt composers (langchain) that don’t need to exist any more because the underlying model got so much better at understanding what the humans are ac
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by itake 6mo ago
"artistically interesting" is IMHO both a subjective and 'solved' problem. These models are trained with an "artistically interesting" reward model that tries to guide the model towards higher quality photos. I
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by itake 6mo ago
I think this is the same as using a cloudflared tunnel? to access my home desktop machine, I run: ``` $ ssh itake@ssh.domain.me -o ProxyCommand="cloudflared access ssh --hostname %h" ``` and I setup all the cloudflare access tunne
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by itake 6mo ago
Maybe it depends on the use case, but my opinion is, if you do need to apply compression, it should be done via a tool call real time instead of in a pipeline. For example, if you’re trying to summarize the status of a project, instead of f
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by itake 6mo ago
People new to cities look for community.
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by itake 6mo ago
> The human creating the files needs it why? The human would just talk to the AI agent. Why would they need to scroll through that many files? I made a similar system with 232k files (1 file might be a slack message, gitlab comment, etc)
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by itake 6mo ago
I'm wonder though: 1. Why does AI need that folder structure? Why not a flat list of files and let the AI agent explore with BM25 / grep, etc. 2. pre-compute compression vs compute at query time. Kaparthy (and you) are recommendin
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by itake 6mo ago
> the open source Chinese models accessible via open-router And? They aren't as good as SOTA models. Even the SOTA model provider's small models aren't worth using for many of my coding tasks.

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