jameslevy

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by jameslevy 6y ago
> the pseudo-quantum stuff of adiabatically cooled circuits Where is the innovation/research in this area happening? This is one of those topics that I find very interesting but any attempt to serious inquiry into it tends to result
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Monthly vesting without a year one cliff is not really done, AFAIK. I also don't think that there is a lot of wiggle room for negotiated severance terms. But sign on bonuses and 200k base pay could certainly be on the table.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Wouldn't you pay income tax on the RSUs based on the notional initial value, and only pay tax on the options if you exercised them?
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by jameslevy 6y ago
It is worth worrying about "AI run amok" with the help of humans with a profit motive, or some other motive.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
You can take both long and short positions. Although it seems that most people (almost everyone) shouldn't try to get too fancy with this.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Whether or not a deepfake is used for a parody is far less important than whether content using deepfakes identifies its artificial nature. Deepfake content masquerading as real content is actually dangerous and should be regulated as such.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Are there startups working on food-specific robotics automation? I've seen things like pizza and burger preparation, but nothing I can think of beyond that.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Are there different tests for antibodies vs. active infections? Or is it just that if you have symptoms and antibodies, that means you have an active infection? For example, many of us who want to see family, etc. at some point may want to
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Very relevant to another article on HN today, "Why we can't build": "The institutions through which Americans build have become biased against action rather than toward it. They’ve become, in political scientist Francis
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Not only is AR/VR not going away, but this time period is likely to be looked back at as a turning point for the technology where it began to slowly leave the "toy" stage out of necessity. Magic Leap spent too much money on t
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by jameslevy 6y ago
In my experience, there is a large range in the effort hosts put in, and low fungibility as a result. There is a bit of signal in the reviews, but not usually enough to be very helpful. Some hosts really do try to make it a hotel quality ex
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by jameslevy 6y ago
It's worth pointing out that the word eliminated isn't in the quoted section, FWIW.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
There's a lot of history to this left hand, right hand protocol. I'm assuming you do it in this tradition, or at least as a nod to it?
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by jameslevy 6y ago
I hope he does, and in the process both increases his ownership of this fiasco and dispels any notions that his party still has any real support for "States' rights".
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Correlation doesn't imply causation. This was around the onset of mass production, electrification, and the first time that cheap credit was a thing.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
KRW (Korean) is interesting, although I'm hardly an expert in currency trading.
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by jameslevy 6y ago
Back in February, there were a handful of cases popping up here and there. And then growing in each hotspot from 5 to 10 to 20, etc. It didn't take long for things to get out of control. Without some major game-changer in the next two
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by jameslevy 6y ago
A ticking time bomb until the wrong people are at the helm of the executive branch? I'm not hearing ticking so much as a loud ringing in my ears.
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by jameslevy 7y ago
This is one reason why it's really not natural for some of us to do whiteboard coding interviews, or even CoderPad, etc. interviews. It's like trying to pee when someone is watching you, although that's not an analogy I would
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by jameslevy 7y ago
Perhaps this is a use case for a secure enclave, where location data is stored, a biometric authenticated authorization can be used for releasing it, and there is provably no backdoor for this feature to be used without the user's appr
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by jameslevy 7y ago
Are tools such as homomorphic encryption, differential privacy, etc. applicable here? There should be a way for users to control their location data, and opt-in to sharing it at times like this, and then opt-out later.
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by jameslevy 7y ago
Does every breath contain a large number of droplets, or is it mostly limited to sneezing and coughing?
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by jameslevy 7y ago
This shouldn't be compared to a war, in terms of death count. We never want to take death lightly, but a large percentage of the deaths happening now are in people that are already very sick or old and likely to be severely affected by
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by jameslevy 7y ago
Do Japanese people living outside of Japan have an unusually low rate of hospitalization? Perhaps there is a genetic component. Or perhaps it involves some differences in diet, or treatment.
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by jameslevy 7y ago
If 50 trillion dollars are "printed", then yes, the economy will appear to be growing purely based on the prices of stocks going up. Whether that represents real growth is another matter entirely
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by jameslevy 7y ago
It's best to assume that as a rule, people don't get meaning from work that can easily (if not inexpensively) be done by a robot.
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by jameslevy 7y ago
This is difficult point to make delicately, but there is a difference between a million young healthy men (or women) dying for their country, and a million people dying who are mostly at a much greater risk of dying from sickness compared t
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by jameslevy 7y ago
Perhaps within the next five years we will see the number of deaths decline, as a pandemic results in people who would die in the next few years instead die earlier.
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by jameslevy 7y ago
It may be best to no longer think about pandemics as a 1/100 year event.
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by jameslevy 7y ago
This probably means, in practical terms, to obey a police officer's request to go home unless you know you are doing something important.

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