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by sidfthec 3y ago
The weights aren't going to help understand "why we see what we see", which is what non-tech people (and this article) think they'll get from companies releasing "the algorithm"
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> It's state affiliated. Like Tesla. Like any company who received covid relief. Tax breaks etc. So... everyone and everything is state affiliated and should be labeled as such? That's obviously not the case. State affiliated s
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by sidfthec 3y ago
As always, it depends. If I bought the best (or even pretty good) model tool for every hobby I start, I'd be broke. Not every tool needs to be the best.
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by sidfthec 4y ago
> If a lot of people have to die in order to eventually get us cycling lanes, so be it > The problem here is that if people stop biking until it becomes safer, then city planners and elected officials will say "why do we need to
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by sidfthec 4y ago
> after which there is even less of a reason to do something about it Please explain what you meant here. Less of a reason to do something about what ? I don't know what you could mean other than people getting are getting hurt or
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by sidfthec 4y ago
> it will just cause the cyclists to remove themselves from traffic after which there is even less of a reason to do something about it Please re-read this. How are you not advocating for people (including children) to sacrifice their li
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Interestingly, they drive vehicles with a massive amount of technology like crumple zones, and buckle them into specially designed seats so that if they get into an accident they have a good chance of surviving. Bikes are extremely exposed
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by sidfthec 4y ago
> I am fully aware of the risks of riding bicycles with children attached on busy streets. > It is not your place to correct them. So you seem to agree with me, but don't think I should be the one to say it. Who should be the one
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by sidfthec 4y ago
I vote for those who want to limit cars in the city and build protected bike lanes. That's not the current reality, though. The current reality is that biking in SF is extremely dangerous.
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by sidfthec 4y ago
"We should be building more protected bike lanes" is one obvious takeaway that I 100% support and vote for. My comment is another takeaway that isn't discussed enough.
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by sidfthec 4y ago
And yet, I see parents riding bikes on the roads of SF with their small children on board. Makes absolutely no sense to me, and I get scolded every time I bring it up.
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by sidfthec 4y ago
> Every single teenager is now comparing themselves against every other kid in the world instead of just their local peers This is so out of touch. You might as well be using the "It's the video games!" excuse of yore. Tee
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by sidfthec 4y ago
> why are your colleagues disengaged by default? Most people happily do things they find important. Almost nothing is important. The vast vast majority of people work for the paycheck. If you only hire people who truly think that what yo
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Or he didn't realize it would take off the way it did and made a mistake. Now he's getting fluff pieces written to at least try and make the best of the mistake. I don't believe for a second that he essentially donated billio
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by sidfthec 4y ago
It's not necessarily evil. It's probably just to make a shit ton of money. Plenty of ways to do that without directly taking equity in OpenAI. You don't get to his level of wealth without having an innate desire for more of
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Yes that's the solution. How does that help today, as I see parents carry their children on their bikes around dangerous cars?
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Great. But that doesn't help today. And today people are having their kids ride with them on their bikes.
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by sidfthec 4y ago
> Because it should be okay But it isn't. End of story. Happy to support people who want to make biking safer. Happy to support politicians who want to build protected bike lanes. But you can't just make up a fairy tale land an
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Why is no one talking about the safety of hauling kids on a bike? It's incredibly dangerous compared to a car. In my city, it's not if but when you'll get hit by a car on a bike. Yet I see parents increasingly think it's
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Which strengthens my point. Either your org was way too picky, or your hiring pipeline was absolutely awful. There's no real reason to interview 100 people and only hire 0-2 of them.
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by sidfthec 4y ago
That's not what the person I was responding to was saying here, though. They are saying that Google is "overpaying" and that its hurting their small business. They're not saying that they're shareholders wanting mor
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by sidfthec 4y ago
I'm also an interviewer at a FAANG. 2% is extremely low, and would be a massive waste of time. You have to interview 50 people to fill one role? Complete waste of time. Maybe your FAANG experience is different than mine, but 2% means e
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by sidfthec 4y ago
> FANG still has a very low (<1%) success rate. That's misleading. If you're able to get an interview, the success rate is much much higher than 1%. Can you imagine the wasted effort if it was 1%? And I assume if you're
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Why do people say "overpaid" so often? Google is massively profitable. That money has to go somewhere. Why not the workers?
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by sidfthec 4y ago
We went the first time because politics at the time allowed it to have massive, massive funding. We're finally at a point where we can go without massive, massive political backing. I think it's as simple as that. I'm pretty
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Dead cat bounce is a way to describe a pattern after the fact. It's not a way to predict what's to come.
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by sidfthec 4y ago
I think the implication is that the board wouldn't want to continue not paying and would lay people off. As in, how long can the board continue to employ people who they can't pay? (I have no idea what I'm talking about leg
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by sidfthec 4y ago
I don't understand why this sentiment is so prevalent. It's like people watch Silicon Valley the TV show and think it's actually representative of big tech. I don't know anyone who does what I could consider "fake w
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by sidfthec 4y ago
Twitter lost 200mil on 5b in revenue in 2021 and has had a handful of profitable quarters in recent history. Not sure why you think it's "not even remotely profitable and likely never will be". Of course, that's a pre-El
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by sidfthec 4y ago
You can hire to outpace your competitors without having them do "fake work" once hired (whatever that means). It doesn't make much sense to not fully utilize people once hired.

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