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by lumost 3y ago
Meh, my experience returning in person is that we’ve returned to a culture where the inputs of decision makers are bound by conference room size. The winning decision has returned to the one of the loudest voice, or most conventionally attr
782.
by lumost 3y ago
There is a valid question on how valuable streaming is long term. The theory that we would make content once and lock in profits forever seems dubious if everyone competes on last weeks content. Non zero interest rates also pull in profitab
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by lumost 3y ago
The pertinent takeaway is that a professional career would yield a much higher percentage of total equity ownership in prior decades. I worked at a shop where the pay scale worked out like the following. - Eng2: 140k - Eng Manager: 180k - E
784.
by lumost 3y ago
I wonder if embedding this as a header for 30k tiny chars would actually work :)
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by lumost 3y ago
That's fair, the company spending real engineering time to interview you indicates that it is actually a real job and not a fake job. On the other side, I find live coding interviews terrifying. I only got over it in the last year or s
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by lumost 3y ago
Unfortunately, this is the type of interview you get when you don’t do the god awful LC kind. I personally like the untimed take home + a conversation about the job. It’s not difficult to come up with a take home which can’t be “cheated” ea
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by lumost 3y ago
I like roads, and indoor plumbing. I like living in urban environments that are well thought out and enjoy the ability to efficiently travel to natural destinations. I also enjoy safety nets of the social and judicial varieties, and the inn
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by lumost 3y ago
Assuming that in The long term individuals get below market rate housing presumes that A) individuals will eventually be able to afford home ownership B) the local economy is stable enough for them to purchase a house C) interest rates&#x2
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by lumost 3y ago
Folks have been Pointing out issues with US economic metrics for some time. Core inflation only works if you don’t buy food or pay market rate housing. On its face, the Fed logic makes sense - most people do not pay market rates for housing
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by lumost 3y ago
The author may be thinking that in a peer conflict, some number of ships would be taken as “acceptable” losses. This could be a useful role for a cheap forward deployed “drone” ship, but I’d expect alternate platforms would be more effectiv
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by lumost 3y ago
The DCS game provide interesting simulations of how different combat styles and doctrines play out. An early take away is that CIWIS and other close range air defense are broadly ineffective in a major engagement. They provide a necessary s
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by lumost 3y ago
Is the attrition rate still high? When schools charged a summer’s wage I could see this - but are students really dropping out after spending 50k+? My experience has been that most schools have eased their grading and created easy out major
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by lumost 3y ago
Yes, three or four times now. Although not with the ones mentioned in this clock. Most senior managers can coast for protracted periods as it's rare to replace the CEO in an upswing, and the CEO mainly has to not piss off those they wo
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by lumost 3y ago
It's a question of extremes. With the exception of Zuckerburg, these are professional managers. If they stopped doing anything day to day, their companies would remain successful and they'd keep getting paid. If they delegated t
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by lumost 3y ago
I'd always go with NaN. In dataprocessing, it's common to encounter NaNs due to bad data - these records can be filtered out to allow the process to continue. The records which resulted in NaN can be flagged for follow-up. As a pr
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by lumost 3y ago
Hot Take: Rust Panic's are about as bad as Sig11s from the C world. I don't get good debug information in the typical case - and library authors get to decide when my program crashes (which I disagree with).
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by lumost 3y ago
Isn't egypt somewhat of an outlier on this topic as there are numerous dry sites? I can't imagine that a bronze tool would survive if made in a wet climate such as East Asia, Northern Europe, or most South American sites.
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by lumost 3y ago
Apologies if this question is out of ignorance. But with a stone tool made out of something such as granite, isn't it correct that the only requirement is that the tool is not unduly compressed/crushed for it to survive 10s of tho
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by lumost 3y ago
Isn't the caveat here that we would need an archeological site which was last used within the >5k years ago? how many burn pits of any type have been detected on this time scale?
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by lumost 3y ago
ChatGPTs birth as a research preview may have been an attempt to avoid these issues. It would have been unlikely to trigger legal anger for a free product which few use. When usage exploded, the natural inclination would be to hope for the
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by lumost 3y ago
Do we even know when the metal eras arrived? It seems like most bronze/iron artifacts would have been destroyed by time if they existed prior to 2-4K BC. In particular, iron /steel artifacts tend towards rust on short timescales.
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by lumost 3y ago
It depends on the goal, epicycles don't tell you about the nature of heavenly bodies - but they do let you keep an accurate calendar for a reasonable definition of accurate. I'm not sure whether I need deep understanding of intell
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by lumost 3y ago
The Phi paper and various approaches to distilling from GPT-4 demonstrate that the training data and plausibly order of presentation matter. The challenge is that we both do not understand which set of data is most beneficial for training,
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by lumost 3y ago
An LLM is simply a model which given a sequence, predicts the rest of the sequence. You can accurately describe any AGI or reasoning problem as an open domain sequence modeling problem. It is not an unreasonable hypothesis that brains evolv
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by lumost 3y ago
That’s probably related to the decline in swinger culture following no-fault divorce. I have to wonder if the recent resurgence is related to some social or economic effect driving couples to stick it out when they otherwise wouldn’t.
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by lumost 3y ago
As a parent, the described schedules seem impractical. It would be possible to hold the 8-10pm schedule in my early twenties, and truth be told I did for bursts of time. But this doesn't sound tractable at a mass scale, when do kids ge
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by lumost 3y ago
With 300 million people, 72 billion/yr would be their revenue. That would likely leave openAI with more revenue than Apple.
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by lumost 3y ago
If I’m doing the math correctly, growing their existing end-user offering at 20/month to a billion users would make their revenue 240 billion/year. As we don’t have good insight into the long term cost trajectory of GPUs - it’s un
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by lumost 3y ago
TL;DR this is a complex topic - however at the edge, you can always raise interest rates to the point there is a recession/depression. People will stop buying homes, businesses will stop investing, companies will go bankrupt. Once this
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by lumost 3y ago
This is likely a testament to the need for large tech companies to choose core differentiated competencies, and consistently invest in those competencies over long periods of time. It's so tempting for the finance minded to take a larg

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