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by time_to_smile 4y ago
The US Government also funded and build the Internet (or at least ARPAnet). The government also benefits from Tor being actually anonymous. It is worth being aware of course, but to my knowledge we have no evidence that Federal law enforcem
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> although it could be condensed quite a bit. I bet I can condense this even more: it's yet another FAANG shibboleth that starts out as a good idea and the evolves into a ritual candidates need to perform until they can identify tha
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
It you really want to model this correctly (more than just, it looks like it's going down) you would need to adjust for seasonal factors as well. At least in this data it looks like February postings are always higher than January, but
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
I appreciate the insight from the other side, and am sorry to hear that the situation remains so stressful there. I guess this situation just universally sucks.
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Their profits and stock price are both up. Seem like they're making fairly sane financial decisions. I'm not one to defend the actions of corporate leadership most times, but it does look like Salesforce is doing what the market i
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
I think it's better to think of JAX as a more general framework for differentiable programming and PyTorch more focused specifically on deep learning/neural networks. The beauty of JAX is that basic usage is basically a single fun
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
This is what I've seen talking to startups. Lots of seed round companies needing to build up a team fast to try to secure a series A before it's too late. Most of them completely insane (with occasional good ones in there) with id
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> everyone knows you can't predict movements of the stock market... That's why you use a distribution to model the distribution of future possible prices given the information you have today. The entire point of modeling the ma
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
The more seriously I see people take the topic of "prompt engineering" the more deeply depressed I become about this field. It feels like tutorials on tailoring the emperor's new clothes. At the same time I feel it's onl
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
It's remarkable to me the consequences of people telling you you're a mega-genius without you realizing they're telling you for their own benefit. It makes perfect sense why everyone, sincere and fraudster alike, would want
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Exactly. Parent's comment is only meaningful if you completely ignore paying workers which seems pretty relevant if you're going to be talking about layoffs. I've found a lot of tech workers (including myself) really need to
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> That's a 60% margin. If you don't count salaries and operations. From the linked statement > Income from operations was $9.4 million and operating margin was 6%. Last quarter was DO first profitable quarter. If sales go do
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> Geography really is destiny. While I generally agree with the importance of geography I think this is glossing over a major part of the history of India and Pakistan. The partition of India [0] by the British upon their exit from the
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Which is based on the famous Don Delillo novel. This reads a bit like describing LotR as "that movie with Viggo Mortensen".
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
"Nope. No layoffs" is to companies about to do layoffs as "It's against the constitution to lie about being a police officer" is to undercover cops doing drug busts. Companies generally try very hard to limit the wa
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
The time to sell to your manager was six months ago or earlier. I recognized that this was going to be happen last year, pulled my manager aside and explained how dire the situation and how we needed more visibility in the company. He thoug
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
It's because the fundamental economics of nearly the entire sector don't make sense. I predicted there would be mass layoffs in tech right like this last year, and more specifically predicted 6 months ago that we'd be seeing
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Thanks for posting that plot. As I've mentioned frequently before, it amazes me how many people looking at tech company financials will only look at Revenue and completely ignore profits. What the revenue/profit plot you showed
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Backprop is just an implementation detail when doing automatic differentiation, basically setting up how you would apply the chain rule to your problem. JAX is able to differentiate arbitrary python code (so long as it uses JAX for the nume
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
If I was laid off I would, unfortunately, avoid startups at all costs. It's not just the comp difference (though I do expect most people with severance are hoping to get something close to their old TC), but startups are notoriously fr
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
just replace the numpy code with jax.numpy as you should have a fully differentiable model ready for training!
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
I'm in ML and I would also like an answer to this question. I've seen a lot of Python people sprinkle imports all over the place in their code. I suspect this is a bad habit learned from too much time working in notebooks where yo
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Companies generally give as little evidence as possible of layoffs before they happen. Morale and productivity take a huge hit as soon as employees start to realize what's coming. If you keep an eye open on who's hiring on linkedi
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
My company is doing the same thing. Layoffs haven't happened yet (but anyone who isn't in denial knows they're coming), but we probably had a record number of promotions. The reason for this is that you want to butter up the
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
I would be very willing to believe this if it wasn't for the fact that so many tech companies have fundamentals that just don't make sense. We've just gotten so used to the idea that "tech companies don't need to ma
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Just because it can be terminated at will doesn't mean people wake up every morning going to work thinking "hmm... wonder if I'll be let go today, or hey maybe I'll quit!" Similarly most non-marriage romantic relati
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
It all came from the industry wide shift to make sure that software engineers were even more just cogs in a machine that could be hot swappable. The growing concept of "IC" goes hand in hand with the increased focus on "level
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Because the entire crypto ecosystem exists to defraud its users and eventually that fraud catches up to you? I'm still shocked that I hear non-tech people claiming they should put their extra cash into crypto. I guess there's stil
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
If it where the case that everyone was like you in their credit card use it would have to imply one month consumer spending also went up dramatically. This is something, at least according to earnings reports coming it, I don't believe
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> we're going to see anything like 08. Right because this time we're in a much larger asset bubble than we were back then. At this point it wouldn't surprise me if we don't go into a recession because the larger t

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