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by nrmitchi 1y ago
This isn’t a great look for OpenAI, but acquisitions fall through all the time. The issue isn’t an acquisition not working out, it’s that the founding/exec team felt it appropriate to arrange their own exits and abandon their team befo
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
This whole situation feels shockingly close to the Meta/Scale situation, where founders and specific employees were plucked out, and effectively gutted any future prospects for the company. At least in the Scale case there seemed to be
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Non competes can definitely be enforceable in California for executives and those with fiduciary responsibilities to a company. They’re just not enforceable against “rank and file” employees.
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Honestly if this acts as a liquidity event for a whole bunch of current employees, while at the same time giving off "Meta hand picked the CEO and whoever they felt were the best AI engineers and jumped ship" energy, I wouldn&#x27
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Wang has, seemingly, spent just as much time and energy over the last couple of years on PR stunts and publicity than on Scale itself. Between testifying to congress about how China is an AI risk (duh) and how AI is important (obviously), p
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Yes, we agree that the answer is "no".
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
I dont think the math works out in a way such that individual employees are not interchangable. It's based on engineer labor cost as a whole; there is no difference if the 3yr year employee was Jack or Jane. The net result here seems t
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
How about actors? They produce a thing (content) that is sold for a prolonged period of time. Copyright is what, 20 years? How would Disney feel if the salary paid to the cast of the Avengers was no longer an expense in that year, but amort
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
To be clear, I meant "unexpected delays (to work legally)". As in, waiting a year to submit, and hope for, an H1B to be issued, vs waiting 2 weeks for a TN to be approved. No portion of my initial comment should have been interpre
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Also not a lawyer, but wanted to second what jsbg said. I've been through this process many times, and I would always say yes and then mention with the recruiter (even if I had to explain that the process was basically "asking p
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Hey Peter! I'm going to pose a question that I think is tangential, but still related. With genAI and LLMs making way into every profession, how much of an impact have you seen on the immigration law side? Have these style of tools mad
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
> As you say though, I don't know how many people would be comfortable having screenshots of their computer sent arbitrarily to a non-local LLM. Of the technical, hang-out-on-HN crowd? Ya, probably not many. Of the other 99.99% of c
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Not going to say it's right , but for a vehicle that is occassionally used to drive between your home and the hardware store, I'm sure that a ton of these types of vehicles are just not registered. Even if you get caught without
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
> Japan and the rest of the world figured this out decades ago. And it's great that the US is (seemingly, somewhat) catching up.
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Completely agree. It has to end up cheap enough to be a "tool", rather than a "vehicle". If there isn't a clear price-based market segmentation between the two, this will get crushed.
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
I see this and I don't see it as an every day, driving-on-my-commute style vehicle. As someone who (previously) drove a 2014 honda civic, cheaper cars leave a lot of comfort for longer drives. I can't imagine this barebones vehi
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
Email you too; thanks for the heads on the bounce. Should be fixed now.
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
> When you say "custom value-based" are you referring to a "contact us for pricing" tier? Ya. Not saying that it's applicable to everyone (or even most people), but really once a team gets above maybe 20+ peopl
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
> Interested in anyone’s opinion Okay, I'll bite. My issue w/ statements like "building something an LLM will do in the future" is a constant goal-post moving argument. It seems to equate to "how is this getting
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by nrmitchi 1y ago
I don't normally comment on these things, but I gave it a quick shot for a project I'm working on (fairly generic dashboard-style prompt, but that's fine). I'm actually pretty impressed. A couple things though: 1. It too
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by nrmitchi 2y ago
My understanding is that a large part of endowments comes from large (really, huge ) donations. If I was to donate 9 (or 10) figures to an institution, I would want to make sure it is used to support what I want it to support (cancer res
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by nrmitchi 2y ago
In the past this at-cost dealing would have been considered monopolistic enough to force divestment (ie, almost exactly the same as Boeing and United Airlines divestment due to the Air Mail Act). > Air Mail Act of 1934: > This legisla
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by nrmitchi 2y ago
I don't know what your monthly spend is, but there are income levels where you'll see 0% capital gains at both the state and federal level. Also remember that you'll only pay the tax on the _gains_ (ie, taking your cost basis
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by nrmitchi 2y ago
An actual answer aside, why are you focusing (it seems) on either WA or NV? I'm sure you have your reasons, but if it's a state-tax-rate based reason, it would be a poor choice to optimize for this based on the fact that you will,
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by nrmitchi 2y ago
> One important thing to know is that the venues/artists often get a kickback of part of the Ticketmaster fees Ya, sure, but you also have to remember that Live Nation often owns the venues, and manages the artists. So what you&#x27
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by nrmitchi 3y ago
What you are describing is 1) fraud, 2) conspiracy, and 3) not a policy that a reasonable person would take at face value. It is very different than if an employee were to, in writing, make a statement that a reasonable person would find re
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by nrmitchi 3y ago
That seems like a stretch based on this specific case, given that the only award was explicit damages (ie, a refund of funds already spent). No one ended up “ahead” here.
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by nrmitchi 3y ago
My umbrella policy is ~240/year (either 1M or 2M coverage; can’t quite remember which). It also scaled fairly linearly.
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by nrmitchi 3y ago
It’s because the positions that talent may not exist for (but is needed) isn’t necessarily as profitable (and can’t pay as much) as other industries under the same program. Basing on salary alone would mean ~100% of visas go to tech talent
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by nrmitchi 3y ago
This is the kind of failure of expectations that Star Trek’s universal translator has set us up for. As far as I know you’re right, a number of things either don’t translate, or are too contextual for real time translation. I’d love to be p

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