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Just the Gemma models are open.
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You can debate the quality of the jobs, but just Uber has created millions of jobs. Amazon too. Even Google which is very hesitant to enter businesses that require lots of labor employs hundreds of thousands of contractors.
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I've started something new at every company I've worked for, except the startup, which was already a new thing. My current employer, Google, seems particularly amenable to internal entrepreneurship. After all, they're essent
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The important point is that the patients are almost always not the customers. Health insurance in the US is like a twisted version of the stilted app that corporate IT forces on employees, only different in that if it breaks it could kill o
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Sure, orthogonal to the top 3 characteristics of housing value (location, location, and location), there is plenty of housing. Even cheaper than Detroit and Baltimore, there's plenty of mostly empty apartment towers across China's
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I don't think that "can be reduced to a questionnaire" is an effective indicator of simplicity. The IRS forms themselves are essentially word problems. The DeepMind personality cloner just asks questions. It is definitely no
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Amazon is not a "leading model provider".
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It isn't always clear which is "source" and which is "destination" and now you need a bunch of new conventions about these things. Accounting already has these (admittedly arbitrary) conventions so we might as well
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The "liabilities" aren't subtracted from the deposit amount when counted as M1 supply. (Actually loans are accounted for as assets and deposits are liabilities, but that's beside the point). If customer A deposits $100 i
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Both
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At Google, HR has dictated to our team "no Bay-area hiring" for over a year now. It seems at least one company agrees with "There’s no surplus value in hiring in the Bay Area".
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I so desperately wanted this game as a kid. Man I'm getting old.
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Did you read the link? Top notch comedy writing.
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He seems to be doing a better job running a newspaper than Bezos.
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Ear wax can vary a lot from hard to sticky depending on your genetic makeup. For the folks with extra sticky wax, softeners don't help.
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I struggled for a long time with ear wax problems before I found the solution. I was a <$10 plastic ear curette from Ototek. I just use it after I shower and everything is great.
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"What if we create a language where all object references are explicitly specified to be either request-scoped or application-scoped." I've done this in both C and C++. The downside of automatic memory management is you have
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I think you have to give the author a little credit. Sometimes developers pick a non-cryptographic hash and they don't realize they actually need collision resistance, e.g. because an attacker-controlled input can cause an O(1) hash ta
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by jnwatson 2y ago
"Attackers don't provide SQL queries to SQLite systems -- the developers do." Yet SQL injection is still a thing. Any vuln that can promote an SQL injection to an RCE is very bad.
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The original offer was about 50% above my current comp. Sure I was underpaid, but that's life working for a startup run by a friend. After this situation, I heard of several situations where this company generally starts low and can go
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by jnwatson 2y ago
I got three FAANG offers at once 3 years ago. I stalled the first one and used it as leverage to speed up the laggards.
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HR really likes folks like you, because you're selling your services at a discount. I got one FAANG to increase their offer to 2.5 times the original amount. I'm fine with taking a bit of heat from the team if I get paid that much
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Even if he still wants to work, restructuring a second tier post-growth tech company wouldn't be my first choice.
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Cloud provides the CIO the same opportunities for advancement that COOs have had for years. Staff costs too high? Outsource. Opex too high? Insource. You can spend a career jumping among companies swinging the pendulum back and forth.
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Most enterprises have abysmal documentation on internal processes and standards. There's a good reason that an early use case for LLMs is source code generation, because there's a large quantity of mostly good examples. If you tra
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Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are responsibly scaling their models by confusing their customers into using the wrong ones. When AGI finally is launched, adoption will be responsibly slowed because it is called something like "new new G
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I don't take the day off, but I spend at least an hour per candidate reviewing their work and preparing for the interview. This is normal and expected at Google at least.
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I think the poster child of going full OOP (that one can look at) is ACE/TAO [1], an implementation of CORBA. It had deep inheritance trees and abstractions piled on abstractions. Similar to Mach and microkernels, folks ran ACE/T
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There are several Factorio dependency trackers and calculators already. Importantly, there are several mods that make the vanilla game's graph look like child's play. The real innovation was just teased at the end. Balancers (syst
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The next question is what percent of jobs can be performed by such p-zombies? The answer is probably pretty high.

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