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by neilv 1y ago
(Vouched for this comment, which was somehow already dead at 2 minutes old.) Someone will always say "there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public", for whatever reason. So someone always has to respond to that, for th
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by neilv 1y ago
> The smart thing would have been to do #1. [Talk to a lawyer on how to avoid assisting a crime] [...] Here's what Singh did instead: he asked for a personal meeting with Bankman-Fried and confronted him about the missing funds. I
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by neilv 1y ago
> This lawsuit is exactly why people trust walled gardens to keep their data walled off. Because I trusted LinkedIn, not [...] Obviously LinkedIn is also in the business of selling the data about you, and also access to you. LinkedIn j
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by neilv 1y ago
> Writing down the next steps helps to clear your mind after a workday. You write and forget about your work until the next morning. Another reason, which may be obvious, is that the notes help ramp you back up that next day. > tak
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by neilv 1y ago
If you're launching some fragile and finicky AI thing before a crowd like you're Steve Jobs, but you're not Steve Jobs, then, sure, pre-record it. But when the standards are lower, people appreciate the live demo. Videos are
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by neilv 1y ago
Warning: The article is ~18K words. Longer than a long-form journalism article; more like novella length. I started skimming faster when it diverted into an extended YA drama, and eventually gave up.
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It's not available, but I once made a researchy Statechart->Java compiler. For the concurrency, it leaned on Java's green threads. Since then, I sometimes do manual implementations in code. For example, the Swift code of an i
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by neilv 1y ago
As a fan of eBay for homelab gear, I appreciate the can-do scrappiness of doing it for a startup. To adapt the old enterprise information infrastructure saying for startups: "Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying eBay"
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by neilv 1y ago
There was a famous tech company in supercomputing and AI, called "Thinking Machines", worked at by people such as Danny Hillis and even Richard Feynman. Does this new company have some connection to that, such as some of the same
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> I reported the findings to my manager [...] the whole project got shut down and about 200 people working on project lost their jobs. Myself included. Good for you for reporting the threat. But I'm a little surprised that they l
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If this company's guardrails end up sufficiently working well in practice (note phrases like "intended", "take measures", and "preferences...requested", on things they can't do 100%)... there will be
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by neilv 1y ago
> And we're introducing Cameo, giving you the power to step into any world or scene, and letting your friends cast you in theirs. How much are they (and providers of similar tools) going to be able to keep anyone from putting a
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by neilv 1y ago
A couple years ago, when I was interested in working at a huge cloud provider (and, in less-humble moments, imagine myself as one of the people who could've helped build that up from scratch)... I was recruited directly by a manager(!)
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by neilv 1y ago
A bit off-topic to the post, but maybe very relevant to HN techbros seeing this article, and musing about becoming (lower caste) finance bros... You know how there's a boots on the ground truth to what an early tech startup's Ince
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by neilv 1y ago
> Look for passion and curiosity. You want the ones who light up when talking about their projects. They should show real excitement about the problems they've solved. These conversations should be energizing for both of you! Inte
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by neilv 1y ago
> "[...] it’ll take juniors too long to ramp up" I think unsaid about a version of that belief is "... and, after expensive ramp-up including mentoring, they'll probably job-hop for a better salary, or better compan
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by neilv 1y ago
> It may be true that youth confers certain [...] mental benefits I think it would be better if HN didn't tell impressionable 20yo techbros things like this. > massive amount of value older people can still easily bring to soc
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by neilv 1y ago
The trust problem was a concern early on in agents (well before LLMs). Although, at the time, we didn't have the "fox guarding the henhouse" problem of modern tech companies, and they hadn't yet inserted themselves into
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by neilv 1y ago
I'm curious when this was, if you don't mind saying. (I have a small hobby of trying to figure out Google culture over the years.)
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"In hindsight, the ad slogan 'Sunshine on your privacy' was a little too obvious, even for modern consumers. Let's Dazzle them with the next shiny thing instead."
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by neilv 1y ago
> small green sticker Two additional ways to calm an indicator LED are with the modern self-laminating labelmaker tape: * White tape -- Put 1 or more layers over the LED, to dim and diffuse. * Black tape -- Use a pin to poke a hole thr
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You could run this business like a protection racket, to drive demand to your service, where you can then provide unencrypted traffic of much of the Internet to other parties.
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Anyone know whether they already have approval of the current US executive administration? (Which might smooth the regulatory challenges.)
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The name "NET Dollar" matches their ticker symbol, "NET".
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Oh, MIT LL (from your HN bio) seems to be all about top serious engineering and science R&D. Would you say it's probably a pretty different cultural environment than the established company and tech startup environments that most o
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by neilv 1y ago
Maybe. Many people would react very negatively to someone down the org chart from them contradicting them to those below. (Example: CEO says we're doing this thing because bold leadership. Manager tells their people is dumb or wrong.
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> Full-time cofounder(s) should have the right to fire other cofounders, I'd guess there's usually no point in a technical co-founder "firing" their capable business co-founder; it just ends the company. While the t
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by neilv 1y ago
Mostly I agree. But I also think that someone who is very good, and in a very good MBA program, can do their share of contributions, iff they're committed fully to the startup upon graduation. But if the follow-through doesn't
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by neilv 1y ago
If the funding is available immediately (not just an immediate commitment for funding once they start a batch), would it address the following problem I've run into a few times? In the last year alone, I've had to bow out of co-fo
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by neilv 1y ago
It's in the Harvard student newspaper now, so will story now be propagated to the attention of a lot of newly-arrived, often idealistic, students? If so, will how the university responds influence some of the culture for an entire clas

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