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by neilv 1y ago
If this is an economist idea of fair, where is the market? If someone breaks into my house and steals my valuables, without my consent, then giving me stock in their burglary business isn't much of a deterrent to them and other burglar
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by neilv 1y ago
$1.5B is a nothing but a handslap for the big gold rush companies. It's less than 1% Anthropic's valuation -- a valuation utterly dependent on all the hoovering up of others' copyrighted works. AFAICT, if this settlement sign
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by neilv 1y ago
They should've called it "riding the lightning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_dialogue
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by neilv 1y ago
> One former executive noted that maintaining Amazon's famed memo-writing culture was especially challenging for new hires more accustomed to PowerPoint presentations. Did they ignore the directive, and do slides instead? Or did t
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Amazon's Hardcore Culture Reset(businessinsider.com)
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by neilv 1y ago
Interesting. I wonder whether investors and M&A care. (I'm thinking "data room" due diligence over whether you own the IP.) Maybe investors will care, but for now they stand to make more money from "AI" gold r
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by neilv 1y ago
https://github.com/orgs/etoile/repositories
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by neilv 1y ago
Incidentally, those defects would be good for censorship with deniability. (Occam says deficit of institutional capability is the most likely cause. But that could also turn into a feature.)
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by neilv 1y ago
Buried. Remember to upvote if you comment. 124. Not Paying with Cash (rubenerd.com) 20 points by mikece 1 hour ago | flag | hide | 40 comments
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by neilv 1y ago
Though one recent related scandal was: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/y-combinator-is-being-crit...
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by neilv 1y ago
The festival of pillaging open source is suddenly so ubiquitous, and protected by deep-pocketed exploiters selling pillaging shovels, that everyone else is just going to try to get their share of the loot? You might be right, but the point
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by neilv 1y ago
There's also the questionable copyright/IP angle. As an analogy, can you imagine being a startup that hired a developer, and months later finding out the bulk of the new Web app they "coded" for you was actually copy&amp
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by neilv 1y ago
> You don't need to be perfect on stage. Yes. Focus on giving a talk of value, and reasonably engaging, but don't be afraid to be humble and authentic, and don't try to be a TED-grade smooth salesperson. See my TED talk
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by neilv 1y ago
But the same kind of self-congratulatory exclusionary clique thinking behind frat pledging, and the same thinking behind the historical attendant hazing, could still be at play? Not necessarily because company leadership and random intervie
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by neilv 1y ago
Recent HN thread on the fork of CoMaps from Organic Maps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994927
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by neilv 1y ago
> This isn't malicious. It's structural, driven by several interconnected forces: An additional reason is religion. People were told that these are the interview rituals you should do, they spent a lot of time rehearsing for
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by neilv 1y ago
Who added the peppy dramatic musical score, to the video of a boat being destroyed, and people killed? WSJ?
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by neilv 1y ago
I think it turned out a lot more complicated than the author expected, but that their solution they kindly wrote up will be pragmatic for someone . (For example, imagine a big home GPU server that is needed only intermittently, and you wan
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by neilv 1y ago
The solution might be easy: recognize liability. When a human cajoles someone into killing themselves, they probably get a criminal trial, as well as a civil lawsuit from the family. Imagine a company set up an advice telephone line, and st
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by neilv 1y ago
It would be interesting if the de facto hierarchies arose entirely by bottom-up merit (not, say, approval from above), and were flexible and ephemeral, not self-perpetuating. People could self-organize, on-demand, for a task, and structure
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by neilv 1y ago
Can someone explain? (Are all the reds failures? Is it all physical damage to cables, or some other cause?)
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by neilv 1y ago
So far, the majority of the "AI" adoption we're seeing since ChatGPT is reflecting some of those undesirable human motivations. (It's actually worse than I thought the baseline human motivations/intention were.)
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by neilv 1y ago
> All in all, once an organization gets big enough, power does what power wants, and power wants what is good for them in the short term, regardless of what is good for the organization. This has the ring of truth. Has anyone solved th
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by neilv 1y ago
One downside to not having much text on your slides is that the slides alone are then not as useful as a reference to attendees later. When I do low-text slides anyway, sometimes I've used the "notes" field of the presentatio
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by neilv 1y ago
I think the workplace concern is worth trying to improve. (Certainly, I've been in tech companies that encourage snacks consumption. Many people end up eating a lot more than they would otherwise, as they sit at their keyboards, with
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by neilv 1y ago
I like AWS overall. (Though I'm pretty familiar with some of the concepts, I know some things to avoid (e.g., "push this button to set up a very expensive global enterprise scale observability platform of numerous complicated serv
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by neilv 1y ago
I've bumped into a lot of execs who say they don't want to hire ICs or managers (usually only one or the other) coming from specific big-name companies, and will instruct external and internal recruiters/HR and hiring manager
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by neilv 1y ago
> The company has flagged its unique pay structure, lagging AI reputation, and rigid return-to-office rules as major hurdles. No mention of reputation for harsh/ruthless/backstabby management practices towards employees (incl
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by neilv 1y ago
For the distractions, one thing that helps me is removing easy access to them. Just like having junk food in the house means that I will tend to eat junk food (but I won't go buy junk food on impulse)... * Remove the time-wasting capab
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by neilv 1y ago
I just said how it helps them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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