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by lumost 2y ago
The OPs complaint is not that the risk is high, the OPs complaint is that the risk relative to their market rate is not balanced. Often you can end up working for junior founders and would be better off as a founder yourself. If the founder
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by lumost 2y ago
A pitch deck in ppt does not make a company. It really wouldn’t/couldn’t have been an employee type of relationship.
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by lumost 2y ago
I recall a discussion where a founder kept insisting that a 10% offer for a pre-funding startup was beyond standard and that I should be lucky to get such an offer.. the experience left a bad taste in my mouth. Ultimately, this individual n
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by lumost 2y ago
It depends on the role and company, if you want to get paid 200k per year for the opportunity to do X - then sure. In practice, you may end up doing basic work at a lower quality than a large firm. Such experience doesn't translate the
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by lumost 2y ago
Most early stage companies turn out to be poor companies for employees. Long hours, toxic leadership, unclear roadmaps etc. Working at a small firm doesn't guarantee high quality.
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by lumost 2y ago
This is the model, you can see a lot of early stage founders looking for a "founding engineer" which is really just an excuse to pay founder salaries for 1% of the company rather than 50%. If the founding engineer quits without bu
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by lumost 2y ago
There is an interesting dynamic right now. NVidia is selling cards at somewhere around 98% margin, they are then investing money into these startups - who will then spend some fraction back on NVidia hardware. It's a smart strategy by
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by lumost 2y ago
Library versions with slightly different numeric rounding errors, alternative implementation, runtimes, and hardware variation could all lead to reproduction challenges. There is no obligation for tf’s sigmoid implementation to exactly matc
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by lumost 2y ago
In Civil court, all that is needed is a preponderonce of evidence as I recall. There would certainly be enough evidence to get discovery kicked off and have lawyers reviewing internal OpenAI docs.
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by lumost 2y ago
Unless they can point to a voice actor that they did copy. It will be very difficult for them to prove that it wasn't trained to replicate Scarlett Johansen. Was the model trained on movies? were annotators instructed to compare to t
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by lumost 2y ago
This is where a diversified portfolio makes sense. It's completely fine to take a "big bet" on what would amount to a years worth of returns/cash investment every now and then. But many great opportunities have already b
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by lumost 2y ago
The bearish case would be that companies are now putting tens of billions into compute/data to beat GPT-4 - but aren't. However I think the initial ~6 month gap between ChatGPT and GPT-4 set unrealistic expectations on the people
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by lumost 2y ago
Related to this, many rural farms in the developing world grow heirloom crops of one kind or another. Classic examples of this are Peru's 30k varieties of Potato. Saying that Golden Rice is superior to all of the varieties of rice grow
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by lumost 2y ago
Early stage vcs are successful when other vcs think the outcome is a good investment. Taking a bet that other VCs have already rejected will usually lead to a mixed payout.
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by lumost 2y ago
Not all investors are looking for the business to be profitable. NVidia investing in AI companies drives up demand for AI chips. NVidia is simply seeking to create a prisoner's dilemma around AI compute spending. If Nvidia is successfu
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by lumost 2y ago
Back of the envelope math would suggest that 8-10 JWTs could be launched in a single starship flight making for an impressive telescope array.
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by lumost 2y ago
It's necessary to penalize this behavior, if Fidelity or other fiduciary engaged in similar behavior - the losses could be catastrophic.
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by lumost 2y ago
As economies develop, goods become cheaper and services become more expensive. If you visit rural Peru, a massage is roughly the same price as two gatorades - or 3 liters of clean drinking water. Shoe shining is 1/10th the price of a 1
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by lumost 2y ago
The paper explores this, mass burning of hydrocarbons tends to create ocean anoxic events which sequester carbon. They cite a few papers which suggest the PETM and similar events were due to volcanic intrusion on hydrocarbon deposits.
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by lumost 2y ago
barring rational regulation, we are likely to observe irrational actions in the future. Cost Disease is progressing to the point where prices are non-sensical. How does the median house appreciate more than the median income every year? Car
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by lumost 2y ago
The concept of prior industrial civilizations was explored in a 2018 paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748 . If you exclude industry, it could be exceedingly improbable that we would find fossil evidence of such creatu
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by lumost 2y ago
if the producers went bust, wouldn't their equipment/assets be bought for cheap? Particularly if the price of oil and profitability of those assets is rising?
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by lumost 2y ago
TBH - this sounds like a very weak counter-point. The pertinent information is that oil production declined in the US during the 2021 inflationary period. A point in time where under classic money theory - either investments should have bee
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by lumost 3y ago
Quiet adoption often means that a couple people in a company chose to invest in at least a small effort. It's unknown if those people would do it again, and they are unlikely to invest 2-3 devs to improve the rust library and language
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by lumost 3y ago
I sometimes wonder if the problem with rust is that we have not yet had a major set of projects which drive solutions to common dev problems. Go had google driving adoption, which in turn drove open source efforts. The language had to remai
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by lumost 3y ago
This is exactly so. At the edge, the go community will debate whether the language should be used for a project at all . Whereas the rust community will ship something that only kinda sorta works - or takes performance above all as the pri
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by lumost 3y ago
Having worked in many languages including Go and Rust, I commonly see the following. 1. Team uses some interpreted language. This language is fine for most of their work, but causes performance problems and/or the team needs to do some
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by lumost 3y ago
The company is much larger and incentivized to make it look like an employee issue. Unless there are active mechanisms to prevent this, it will be the default outcome.
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by lumost 3y ago
If an employee is pressured to deliver faster, and the employer looks the other way when chatgpt comes out - then there is little for the regulator to do. If you penalize the employee, another will just do the same.
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by lumost 3y ago
llama2 was kinda weird. I work on postgres internals for a living, I asked it information about a postgres internal function - it responded that it was unethical to ask about private/internal postgres functions. It then proceeded to ex

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