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by lumost 10mo ago
The printing of dollars by the Fed comes with a secondary effect - the dollars are not evenly distributed amongst the population. They are printed via market action, and the ones who are closest to the market action are free to capture as l
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by lumost 10mo ago
My understanding is that European Air and Ground forces have been able to deter or destroy Soviet/Russian Naval operations in the North and Baltic Seas since the start of the cold war. Land based anti-ship missiles have more than enoug
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by lumost 10mo ago
Wouldn't this imply that the founder's don't get paid either? The acquirer would simply need to have buy-in from the investors to make the deal happen, and the founder would need an offer that is bigger than any other possibl
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by lumost 10mo ago
they are likely referring to their hardware deployment. Which can be done in days. The datacenter is owned and operated by someone else and they just bring in the racks.
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by lumost 10mo ago
Doesn’t this depend on how the ip was structured? If it was kept as a separate entity, or the firm named ownership of the ip in nonstandard terms, then they could pay investors but not employees. Unfortunately, we could likely find thousand
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by lumost 10mo ago
That just means you’re pulling from the lower end of the talent pool. There is nothing wrong with this, but usually talent is correlated with outcome. Most hot startups which are going places are near impossible to get into even for folks w
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by lumost 10mo ago
I suppose the firm could simply roll the 20 billion into a long term asset. It’s not a big deal to anyone except employees if the asset never pays out. Departed employees would not be privy to how the money is eventually exited from the now
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by lumost 10mo ago
I recall having to sit through many trainings on how to value employee equity. My experience is that most startup employers try to BS what it means to convince people to value their equity at a significantly higher price than they otherwise
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by lumost 10mo ago
Startups typically offer employees, particularly early employees, substantial equity compensation. If the employer is offering this compensation in bad faith, or otherwise preferring one equity holder over another without an explicit contra
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by lumost 10mo ago
I wonder if such deals will create employee lawsuits. I'd certainly be looking at legal options if I was one of the founding employees.
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by lumost 10mo ago
Curious what people see in these frameworks in 202(6). My experience has been that an agent is a simple while loop over tools/instructions/dialog. More complex integrations generally lie in the tools/context retrieval - but
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by lumost 10mo ago
This model is much stronger than 3.5 sonnet, 3.5 sonnet scored 49% on swe-bench verified vs. 72% here. This model is about 4 points ahead of sonnet4, but behind sonnet 4.5 by 4 points. If I were to guess, we will see a convergence on measur
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by lumost 10mo ago
It does make one wonder if our gdp is as high as we think. Maybe our PPP estimates are overstated due to the reserve currency status.
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by lumost 10mo ago
We're at a funny stage where some careers are becoming "post-LLM". For example, SWE is either rapidly approaching, or surpassing the point where LLMs can do most of what we traditionally viewed as day to day SWE work. However
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by lumost 10mo ago
A big challenge is that the LLM cannot selectively sample it's training set. You don't forget what a coffee cup looks like just because you only drank water for a week. LLMs on the other hand will catastrophically forget anything
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by lumost 10mo ago
There is a long tail of engineers working on mature/stable code bases where there are fewer extremely large diffs, or the review burden is extremely high. If you work on core software - then you can never say that a line of code was wr
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by lumost 10mo ago
It could be a bias in the roles I was looking at - but coming in with physics undergrad for computer science roles, that was the standard set of roles in the Boston area for defense roles. Granted, these were mostly with private contractors
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by lumost 10mo ago
At least in 2010, it was common for new grads to get GS-14/GS-15 pay for in-demand tech skills. It's a bit odd that early career folks would start out at the max of the pay band, but it is what it is. These were for roles which re
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by lumost 10mo ago
There are core features of the state that we have collectively agreed must be provided - social safety (including police and safety nets), infrastructure, defense, core research funding and more. The cost of providing the basic obligations
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by lumost 10mo ago
I remember the "upgrade for pets" option, which... didn't work. After buying the maxed out version I realized that the product simply had a long, long way to go - but iRobot did nothing with it other than launch new segments
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by lumost 10mo ago
It’s more complex than that. When universities want to give raises to admin, they simply raise prices. The ability of the university to raise prices depends on many factors.
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by lumost 11mo ago
They may be viewing this as an inevitable outcome with open models/fly-by-night providers/providers in more liberal copy-right jurisdictions. They can either invest in mass classification and enforcement operations or gain some re
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by lumost 11mo ago
IMO the wrapper products all suffer from the same problem. The LLM is trained to do a specific set of tasks such as Chat, Coding, Image understanding, and image/video generation, and tool use in support of the above. If you suddenly as
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by lumost 11mo ago
Companies with strong distribution have an option to be the "last" player in a market and simply force their way in. If Apply makes a "default" LLM which is as good or better than all premium LLM options... then you woul
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by lumost 11mo ago
Why not use a co-working space? I found it was the best of all worlds when your "coworkers" have no relationship with your "boss".
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by lumost 11mo ago
The ability of OMSCS to scale paper writing, review, and grading with real human TAs is nothing short of astounding. While it's a ton of work (I'm just completing class #5) it's a great resource for both learning the material
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by lumost 11mo ago
It’s not universal - but it’s a compelling rhetorical device /s It just sounds like slop as it’s everywhere now. The pattern invites questions on the authenticity of the writer, and whether they’ve fallen victim to AI hallucinations an
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by lumost 11mo ago
I’m quickly becoming convinced that humans adapt to ai content and quickly find it boring. It’s the same effect as walking through the renaissance section of an art museum or watching 10 action movies. You quickly become accustomed to the f
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by lumost 11mo ago
I went to university at a time that Adderall was commonplace, and am now old enough to see how it turned out for the individuals. At college, it was common for students to illicitly purchase Adderall to use as a stimulate to cram for a test
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by lumost 11mo ago
They lead with the headline that most of these students have a mental health disability - particularly ADHD. Is it surprising that legalized Amphetamines drive teenagers to higher performance for a short period in their lives? Adderall and

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