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by lacker 2y ago
I suppose this comment is inspired by the recent "Legends & Lattes", a fantasy novel winning various awards, starring a barista Orc... https://www.amazon.com/Legends-Lattes-Novel-Fantasy-Stakes-e... I haven&#x
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by lacker 2y ago
Many companies start like this. All of them have to dial it back at some point if they expand and are successful. The question is just when to dial it back. If the founders are working 7 days a week, the first employees are excited about
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by lacker 2y ago
Maybe the New York Times will end up both with a unionized tech workforce, and a lower-paid one. Personally, I would never want to join a union or work as management at a company with a union, but I am still kind of curious to see what the
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by lacker 2y ago
This doesn't seem like a purely economical strike. It's not a coincidence that the most unionized tech workforce in the country is the New York Times, an organization that is fundamentally pro-union in its politics. When the organ
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by lacker 2y ago
I would not call that the Y combinator. As traditionally defined the Y combinator is Y = lambda f: (lambda x: f(x(x)))(lambda x: f(x(x))) so it involves applying x to x. So clearly as shown here you can express in Python. The languag
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by lacker 2y ago
I think counteroffers in your typical high-quality tech company are generally bad for three reasons. First, you should be giving people pretty good compensation packages. If you're underpaying massively in the first place, then you&#x2
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by lacker 2y ago
The Y combinator is not really a "lisp thing", it's more of a "functional programming" thing. In Lisp, symbols and binding values to a symbol are basic elements of the language, so it usually wouldn't be natura
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by lacker 2y ago
It's a shame that I like Y Combinator the organization so much, because I find the y combinator as a programming concept to be aesthetically displeasing. It only makes sense in the untyped lambda calculus, where types are all conflated
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by lacker 2y ago
TLDR: You pay for the benefits of being a mortgage holder, when you make the down payment. Think of it from the bank's point of view. A bank can afford to be patient with mortgage holders because there's an underlying asset. There
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by lacker 2y ago
This seems really neat! DeepMind and AlphaFold are clearly moving in a closed-source direction, since they created Isomorphic Labs as a division of Alphabet essentially focused on doing this stuff closed source. In theory it seems nice for
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by lacker 2y ago
That depends on the type of tree. An old growth redwood forest, for example, will often have large areas with no trees except redwoods. The bottom ten feet of the forest, where you walk around, can be nothing except smooth vertical trunks,
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by lacker 2y ago
This does seem like exactly the sort of thing that would trigger false positives. The product is fundamentally a list of a bunch of text found in malware, so any sort of malware detector that's based on the textual content seems likely
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by lacker 2y ago
They aren't a company at all, they are a 501c3 nonprofit. https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/440397957941...
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by lacker 2y ago
I think one day we will look back on this era, and think it is crazy that so much crime was committed in public and caught on video, and yet the government would usually not be able to take any action. They wouldn't be able to figure o
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by lacker 2y ago
Her Substack is pretty good too: https://www.eatingpolicy.com/
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by lacker 2y ago
Yeah. You can tell riding in them and watching the little screen, that the Waymo has a superhuman ability to detect pedestrians and cyclists around it. I would much rather my children bike on a street where every car was a Waymo, than a str
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by lacker 2y ago
Yikes. I don't want to use this product myself. Still, it's worrisome to judge based on anecdotes. I'd really like to see some sort of overall statistics that compare Tesla FSD to other cars. Tesla claims their FSD system, ov
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by lacker 2y ago
It's gotta be tough running the "EU Alternative App Store" team, when the best thing for Apple overall would be if the alternative app store was a complete product failure, while technically satisfying all laws and regulation
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by lacker 2y ago
This is not true. Many companies want a CLA because their lawyers are worried about unclear patent law. They don't want someone to contribute some code, and then later claim the contributed code violates their patents. Good examples ar
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by lacker 2y ago
One day I told my son, "You should check out this video game I loved when I was your age. You adventure through a huge underground empire, collecting magical treasures and weapons." He got excited, and then I loaded up Zork. &quot
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by lacker 2y ago
I agree. The inaccuracies listed are like, once every few pages the author makes a statement like "P implies Q" without mentioning some minor condition, like, "only if you assume the axiom of choice". Yes, this is annoyi
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by lacker 2y ago
I think MIT has been specifically trying to recruit IMO winners - if you look at the Putnam winners recently MIT has been dominating. This wasn't the case until the past few years though. For example see: https://news.mit.ed
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by lacker 2y ago
AlphaGeometry is not an LLM
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by lacker 2y ago
The training loop was also applied during the contest, reinforcing proofs of self-generated variations of the contest problems until a full solution could be found. So they had three days to keep training the model, on synthetic variation
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by lacker 2y ago
If they're really safer than human drivers, like the Google-funded studies claim they are, then this seems like a positive rather than a negative. Perhaps we humans should be slowing down and driving more carefully? But I'm not su
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by lacker 2y ago
I wonder if they have "two-word sentences", sequences of calls that mean something particular in context. Like "Bob, eat!" or "Mom, help!".
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by lacker 2y ago
They are pretty similar as languages. In general I would recommend Lean because the open source community is very active and helpful and you can easily get help with whatever you're doing on Zulip. (Zulip is a Slack/Discord altern
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by lacker 2y ago
I really like the idea of ARC. But to me the problems seem like they require a lot of spatial world knowledge, more than they require abstract reasoning. Shapes overlapping each other, containing each other, slicing up and reassembling piec
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by lacker 2y ago
It sounds like the core problem is that companies don't really have trouble screening large amounts of incoming low quality resumes. It's annoying and time-consuming for the software engineers, but it's a well-known process a
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by lacker 2y ago
I think pulling the voice right away is the right strategy. Even if they fight and lose a court case, losing the rights to the Sky voice, will there really be a lot of damages just for including it in a demo video? Probably not. And what&#x

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