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by neilv 8mo ago
> About 200,000 people put money into the scheme, which offered a stake in the company, [...] But unlike the Equity for Punks' "ordinary" shareholders, TSG was given "preference shares". Is the UK about to see
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by neilv 8mo ago
Thank you, to you and the rest of the team, for your work on GrapheneOS! If I may make a suggestion: as GrapheneOS becomes more popular, perhaps it's time to better establish users' trust in the control over it. When the project w
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And the US is much richer for them (monetarily, and culturally). But what if home countries had said, "We can give you the resources you need for your work and home life, and it will be for purposes you can believe in and feel good abo
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I liked MIT's "building 20" cluster of wooden shacks, which were featured prominently in the east side of campus. It was said that, when an experiment needed more space, people would casually punch a hole in a wall. https:&
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by neilv 8mo ago
What kind of success are countries having finding technical talent with the right savvy fighter mindset to sever the dependence on an aggressive and culturally-entrenched threat? (Even the ordinary open source world has a lot of intrigue to
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by neilv 8mo ago
Apple PR did what they could with the art they had available and the need to pander to a gov't administration, but weren't inspired to do it more genuinely? "Think Different" -> "Think Indifferent"
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by neilv 8mo ago
Around that age, I wrote a letter to Tandy (Radio Shack), proposing that I write a hobby electronics book. In hindsight, I wasn't knowledgeable enough to write a printed book's worth of material (maybe a few modern blog posts, at
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by neilv 8mo ago
Recent: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras (bloodinthemachine.com) | 456 points by latexr 2 days ago | 293 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095134
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by neilv 8mo ago
Laser safety people: how concerned should we be about city streets full of aggressively cost-engineered Lidar emitters?
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by neilv 8mo ago
> I bet you that if they ban one they ban the other too Related: I've had a suspicion that, if you have an Apple or Google app developer account through a company (in your name and recovery phone number, but company email address)
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This sounds a bit like Feynman. I wonder whether it was more the style of the time.
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> They explained that they switched between multiple models from multiple providers such that no one company had the full picture of what this AI was doing. Saying that is a little bit odd way to possibly let the companies off the hook
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Right now, this standard recruiter question is on the side of the table that's often being especially penny-wise and pound-foolish... A weird thing I'm seeing is early AI startups lowballing both salary and equity for AI startup
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And the legal person on whose behalf the agent was acting is responsible to you. (It's even in the word, "agent".)
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Three problems with this: 1. Removes the pain of age verification, encouraging some people to stay in the proprietary walled garden when everyone would be better served by open platforms (and network effects). 2. Provides a pretext for more
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by neilv 8mo ago
Yay for GitLab and Forgejo/Gitea. My previous two startups used GitLab successfully. The smaller startup used paid-tier hosted by gitlab.com. The bigger startup (with strategic cutting-edge IP, and multinational security sensitivity)
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by neilv 8mo ago
I'm happy for Guile to be getting more attention, but wouldn't write off Racket. A few quick thoughts... * The recent Guile work on WASM is promising. (Note also Jens Axel Soegaard's recent work on WASM with a Racket-relate
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by neilv 9mo ago
> Any news content created using generative AI must also be reviewed by a human employee “with editorial control” before publication. To emphasize this: it's important that the organization assume responsibility, just as they woul
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by neilv 9mo ago
40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness, to be tempted by VC? I heard about a guy who didn't take the deal, and it didn't go well for him. That time, eventually there was a Hail Mary miracle rebound and exit, but you can't pl
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by neilv 9mo ago
I was told I could redeem these points for a seed round?
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by neilv 9mo ago
Yes, I remember that period of conscious choice, and the fence-sitting or rationalizing. The thing about "Don't Be Evil" at the time, is that (my impression was) everyone thought they knew what that meant, because it was a po
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by neilv 9mo ago
> There are many things wrong with Canada. It has a go for bronze mentality, the smartest of us keep going to the US because there is not enough opportunity here, much of its public infrastructure is crumbling and the housing prices are
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That questionable-sounding stunt by the media outlet wasn't comparable: Google/Alphabet knows much more about individuals than addresses, salary, and political donations. Google/Alphabet knows quite a lot about your sentime
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PSA for any grad student in this situation: get a lawyer, ASAP, to protect your own career. Universities care about money and reputation. Individuals at universities care about their careers. With exceptions of some saintly individual facu
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by neilv 9mo ago
Will this be deployed mostly by those with the worst judgment? For example, that video is implied to be of some open source self-driving project, run on an active public road, at 42mph. A lot of sensible people would say that's irresp
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Whilst gaining better fashion and haircuts.
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If that's true, when a startup is making you an offer for ISOs of common shares, and explaining it... how likely are they to know that, in event of a successful exit for the startup, your shares would be diluted and preferenced to 0 va
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by neilv 9mo ago
> Typically just enough goes towards the share purchase to make investors happy, and the rest is structured as incentives for founders and key execs with milestone payouts. So they're getting the employees' shares without com
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by neilv 9mo ago
> Clearly, the authors in NeurIPS don't agree that using an LLM to help write is "plagiarism", Or they didn't consider that it arguably fell within academia's definition of plagiarism. Or they thought they coul

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