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by lacker 4y ago
If stock-based compensation information is made public to investors, what's the problem with it? I don't see why compensating people in stock rather than cash makes it a "systemically dysfunctional culture".
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by lacker 4y ago
I used to work on Google search but it was a long time ago so hopefully I am not too biased here. I think it would really help the UI to have better snippets. Ie, the text that appears below the blue link for a set of search results. In Goo
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by lacker 4y ago
I dropped out of my CS PhD program after two and a half years to "go into industry". It was the perfect amount of time to spend in grad school - just enough time to meet my future wife.
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by lacker 4y ago
American-owned farms do the same thing. They get water for far cheaper than a residential household gets water, and so they are incentivized to waste it. Alfalfa is a uniquely bad crop to grow in dry areas. It uses up a lot of water, and th
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by lacker 4y ago
I don't really have any opinion about that, since I don't know much about vehicle emissions. I know a lot more about cookie warning banners, enough to say that they are dumb.
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by lacker 4y ago
Yeah, I took my last iPhone to an Apple Store when this happened to it, and that's what they advised. Sometimes this helps, but usually it doesn't. Maybe I'll try a Q-tip.
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by lacker 4y ago
Yeah, surveying my friends I found one other person with this problem, but it isn't the majority case. It doesn't seem to be a problem with the cable, it's really a problem with the connector on the iPhone itself. All my iPad
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by lacker 4y ago
I'm generally not a fan of the EU mandating technical decisions, but for me personally, Lightning connections have always been really low quality. Since my iPhone was about a year old, it often won't recognize a new Lightning cabl
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by lacker 4y ago
The bug here was more mundane, that the registration process went like: 1. Choose your individual classes, which reserves a spot for you 2. Click the overall "Finalize your class selection" 3. All validations run, including both t
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by lacker 4y ago
I have many fond memories of Mindstorms... In college I started out a math major. The first CS class I took was a robotics class based on Mindstorms, as a sophomore. I remember it was restricted to only juniors and seniors, but it sounded c
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by lacker 4y ago
I'm bullish on this because my children prefer phones and iPads for almost everything that I would prefer a computer for. They have ten times more experience with computing devices than I did when I was their age, and almost all of tha
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by lacker 4y ago
Most fascinating to me is when someone discovers or imagines that some natural phenomenon that you thought was a discovery, turns out to be a really subtle effect of the noise in the instrument? This happens a lot in radio astronomy, too
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by lacker 4y ago
That is correct, if I understand you correctly, but that doesn't solve the entire optimization problem. You still have to figure out how exactly to handle tiles and transfers to shared memory. This might be a good page for answering th
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by lacker 4y ago
I think there is interesting discussion on the technological crypto stories. Those just aren't the big stories in crypto right now! On HN right now the top crypto stories are: * Possible fraud from Celsius execs * Celsius leaked data *
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by lacker 4y ago
Is Strassen's algorithm actually used in practice? Oddly enough I find myself doing a lot of matrix multiplication recently. But I am just using cublasCgemm3mStridedBatched from Nvidia's cuBLAS library, and it doesn't appear
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by lacker 4y ago
These bots have some sort of long-term memory worked out that seems better than any I've interacted with before. I tried the roleplaying adventure bot, summoned an earth elemental that the bot decided was named Rocky, and kept Rocky by
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by lacker 4y ago
Pay ranges are often not helpful because there's no standard for which jobs are a "single role". For example tech companies are often mandated to post ranges for H1B positions, but they can get away posting unhelpful things l
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by lacker 4y ago
Well, the line got laughs on Letterman so I'm pretty sure there were a number of people who believed it for real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNoJ2BzSRU No dog in this fight I just enjoy Googling things
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by lacker 4y ago
None of these make much sense. It does make sense. The pipelines were already shut down. So the tactical impact of blowing holes in the pipelines is to prevent them from being turned back on. Previously, it was possible that the EU would
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by lacker 4y ago
Yeah, they make devices like this for stage magicians, that you can simply buy online. For example: https://illuminati-magic.com/products/thumper Some of them seem small enough that they won't trigger a metal dete
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by lacker 4y ago
Anecdotally I tend to agree with the author. But this really isn't a great way of comparing cloud services. The fundamental problem with cloud reliability is that it depends on a lot of stuff that's out of your control, that you h
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by lacker 4y ago
I have been skeptical for a long time that the transition to proof of stake would actually happen. It just seemed like the project was delayed and delayed, and there are so many fundamental development problems with this sort of decentraliz
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by lacker 4y ago
The connection between Gödel and AI made more sense back in the 60's, when people thought AI would look like a formal system proving theorems. Nowadays modern AI techniques are more like a black box of matrix math streaming out sentenc
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by lacker 4y ago
It's pretty rare that patent law makes a big difference in slowing down a field of software innovation. The main examples I can think of are eFax suing fax machine software companies, and Blackboard suing education companies. In partic
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by lacker 4y ago
Same reason that self driving cars have plateaued. But they haven't plateaued. I can go take a trip in a self-driving Cruise in San Francisco right now. I couldn't do that last year. There's certainly a lot of room for them
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by lacker 4y ago
It just isn't outrageous to jump into a high paying tech job. I know several people who did not finish high school but managed to get a $100k+ job in the tech industry, without taking any boot camp at all. Just teaching themselves to p
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by lacker 4y ago
I have bad news for you. Cofounders are like any other employee. You don't automatically get a say in every decision just because you were one of the company founders. Often, the CEO has the power to simply fire you. The CEO certainl
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by lacker 4y ago
Facebook used to be organized at a high level into different groups named after different company goals. Like Engagement, Growth, Utility. Facebook should be engaging, Facebook should grow, Facebook should be useful to people. Eventually th
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by lacker 4y ago
I'm rooting for you, Boom. The world needs supersonic planes and you're so close. Good luck.
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by lacker 4y ago
I was surprised to see the author refer to Elon Musk as "everybody's least favourite eccentric billionaire asshole". As far as I can tell, survey data indicates that Elon Musk is one of the most popular business figures in th

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