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811.
by lacker 6y ago
In my experience, when you pay recruiters by the hour you very often end up with recruiters that achieve nothing. When you pay recruiters for each hire you get better recruiters and better candidates.
812.
by lacker 6y ago
MongoDB is valued around 15 billion dollars right now. You can argue that they are not really open source, due to their new license that is not OSI-approved. But it’s pretty close, and it’s something that aspiring open source businesses sho
813.
by lacker 6y ago
I mean, it’s a little better because the danger window is 7 days instead of 14 days. A back of the envelope estimate would be that 2X people with clear coronavirus tests have equivalent risk of someone having coronavirus as X people who hav
814.
by lacker 6y ago
Yes. Near me at least in Oakland CA there are several providers that offer no-appointment, no-referral covid testing.
815.
by lacker 6y ago
Hearthstone is still quite active! World of Warcraft and Hearthstone were both top-20 games streamed on Twitch in the past week, with Overwatch coming in at #33. Even though Hearthstone was released in 2014, it's still the premier digi
816.
by lacker 6y ago
To me, this is the key claim of the article: This is not a genuine partnership, it’s extractive. Is DoorDash extracting money from its users, the restaurants and the delivery drivers? Or is it actually providing something of value? To me,
817.
by lacker 6y ago
This article really buries the lede, that all of these restaurants agreed to pay GrubHub for any leads that GrubHub generated. Sounds like the restaurants should simply stop buying GrubHub’s marketing service, if it isn’t worthwhile for the
818.
by lacker 6y ago
In Oakland there are a lot of Uber drivers who seem like they don’t speak English well enough to get a job like a grocery store checkout clerk. From my time working in retail I have also known many people who couldn’t get enough hours at th
819.
by lacker 6y ago
The referenced tweet is not the main point, the main source is the Financial Times article talking about cases rather than deaths, so I think the main points raised by the post are still valid.
820.
by lacker 6y ago
Marginal Revolution is a lot more mainstream than Gwern or Slate Star Codex. Tyler Cowen is one of the most influential economists today. His Bloomberg column might have more reach than the MR blog though. So the topics are really different
821.
by lacker 6y ago
It still seems like society is throwing far too little money at this problem. It would be worth paying twice as much just to speed up the pace of global vaccination by two months.
822.
by lacker 6y ago
If he really wanted to profit in the stock market, he could have bought call options for the cruise lines, or put options on Zoom, both of which jumped more than Pfizer stock did. And if I understand correctly, that wouldn't have been
823.
by lacker 6y ago
The problem is that some of the people in your random group won’t answer the phone at all, to negotiate with you on whether they’ll answer a survey.
824.
by lacker 6y ago
I think this would just result in extremely crappy open source that would be near impossible to get running.
825.
by lacker 6y ago
It's not like the opposition to the coal industry comes from Appalachia, or the opposition to the tobacco industry comes from North Carolina, or the opposition to gasoline-powered cars comes from Detroit. My mental model is that indust
826.
by lacker 6y ago
I empathize with the sentiment, but if you want to get paid for your open source work, surely it would work better to set up a Patreon and point people to it, rather than write "send me a six figure contract or fork this!" in a Gi
827.
by lacker 6y ago
Glad to see this as an East Bay resident. Here's hoping it helps the already-existing trend of more tech companies moving across the bay ;-) Or, maybe the San Francisco companies will just fire their low-paid workers or shift them to b
828.
by lacker 6y ago
A podcast called "I Don't Speak German" that's all about Nazis? I would hope these people are against racial prejudice, so I'm disappointed that the title of the podcast itself is associating "speaking German
829.
by lacker 6y ago
Things like Alexa or Google Translate already very much exist, use modern AI techniques, and are not vaporware. That's why so many corporate research labs - basically all the FAAMG companies - do AI work.
830.
by lacker 6y ago
I think the term "technical debt" is a really good analogy. Regular financial debt isn't something to be avoided at all costs. Often, it's the right move to take on some debt in order to quickly achieve an important goal
831.
by lacker 6y ago
There are no unusual resumes in tech, just ones you don't understand, and that says more about you than it does me that you think it's unusual. That's silly. There are plenty of unusual resumes. For example, someone whose m
832.
by lacker 6y ago
Well, yes, but the point is that tech recruiters are very willing to look at people who have done 3 low-status things, and 1 high-status thing. The article complains about recruiters who insist that resumes reject any sign of low status. If
833.
by lacker 6y ago
For example, employers have little patience with candidates who didn’t pick the most prestigious possible college or job, but were swayed by other considerations. I don't think this is true, at least in the tech industry. Based on my
834.
by lacker 6y ago
That sounds like such a pain to access, though. Better to just have it in 10 wallets of $100m, plus one wallet with a few mil that you use for actual transactions.
835.
by lacker 6y ago
Otherwise a lot of cars can set their top speed by being dropped from a sky scraper, and the testing would get unreasonably expensive. Dropping a $25,000 Camry from an airplane might actually be cheaper than a single speed run of these hy
836.
by lacker 6y ago
The question is whether it's fair market value. So if there were competent people willing to do the work for $60 an hour, then $70 would no longer be fair market value.
837.
by lacker 6y ago
I love the phrase "Prioritized Load Shedding" as corporate-speak for "dropping the less-important traffic."
838.
by lacker 6y ago
IMO, the real innovation in GPT-3 is that the API plus "playground" setup is far easier to use than sharing a big chunk of Python code and data files in a Jupyter notebook. If the researchers behind other cutting-edge language mod
839.
by lacker 6y ago
It is not fair to call Norvig an idiot. When I was studying AI in grad school, around 2002-2003, just about everyone thought that artificial neural networks were a dead end, compared to approaches like support vector machines. Sometimes the
840.
by lacker 6y ago
I'm not saying it's wrong per se, but I am unable to tell what the title of this link has to do with the content of the page, which reads to me like a boring minor tech support issue. Anyone have an explanation of why this matters

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