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by tqi 3y ago
> A month ago, I didn’t know. Now, after my interviews with people in China and Korea, the answer is very obvious. I don't know if I think a month is sufficient time to make such concrete and definitive statements. In my experience,
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by tqi 3y ago
Mercer is an 80 year old, 25K employee "consulting" firm that makes over $2B per year primarily by providing human resources consulting, ie helping firms set salaries. Why is that not considered price fixing, under the same collus
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by tqi 3y ago
> But the thinking around needing a car that does-it-all is a problem that needs to be resolved! Actually rather than a car that does it all, I think of a car primarily for filling in the long tail of trips while public transportation ha
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by tqi 3y ago
> The law of averages says there are between just 1.2 and 1.6 people sitting in most cars daily, with the average distance covered hovering around the 20-mile mark. Sure but two days a week I need to transport 3-4 people at once, once a
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by tqi 3y ago
I'm tired of this particular brand of Think Piece that seems to be en vogue right now, which attempts to attribute all manner of ills to external forces. I doubt most people fail at personal transformation because movie montages and &q
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by tqi 3y ago
Yeah, the consensus here seems to be that this is a good move because the car was a bad idea... but it doesn't follow that AI is a therefore a better idea? Apple's poor reputation in ML related areas not withstanding (I've he
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by tqi 3y ago
I think it was a pretty healthy mix of both. Look at these two articles from the same day in 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/article/sat-act-test-optional-colleg... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05&#x
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by tqi 3y ago
National security considerations and second order economic stimulus effects aside, rounding 9000 construction jobs down to 0 is also doing a lot of work here. If you assume the average duration of those jobs is just 5 years, that doubles th
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by tqi 3y ago
> which isn't actually a good thing Maybe not for competitors but seems like a pretty good thing for the country doing the subsidizing?
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by tqi 3y ago
Where is the wall to wall 24x7 coverage of this? I guess if it's not a company that is competing for eyeballs and clicks then it's not a big deal...
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by tqi 3y ago
My read from the article was that because the chatbot is a third party company, they were liable for the error. Which I assume is the same argument they would have made if chat support was outsourced to some outside firm. Of course, either
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by tqi 3y ago
I don't see why AI is particularly germane to this case- if a human support rep from a third party contractor made the same statement I assume AC would have tried the same nonsense?
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by tqi 3y ago
The media seems to have decided that ai generated stuff is bad, but can't seem to decide if it's because the outputs are so good it will destroy creative jobs or if it's because the outputs are so bad and unappealing.
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by tqi 3y ago
Are military drones not flying autonomously for at least part of the time already? I wonder how much incremental value there is for end to end autonomous vs remote operated flights where a human is involved just for tricky parts.
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by tqi 3y ago
> Mr. Cassidy could face $250,000 worth of penalty (excluding fines) for $1,500 worth of crime. To state that the reason the maximum is 5 years is because the item was religious in nature, then ignore that fact when calculating the cost
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by tqi 3y ago
> what was the average rent in Los Angeles in May 2023? This is actually an example of why I don't think LLM SQL generators are actually going to be that valuable to most companies. The biggest hurdle for people to get "value&q
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by tqi 3y ago
Reflecting on this, I kind of feel like the opposite has actually been true for the last 10+ years? Early in my career, I saw many examples of homegrown AB test frameworks, event tracking frameworks, alerting tools, monitoring tools, etc. N
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by tqi 3y ago
Yeah the media loves to have it both ways because at the end of the day, they'recompetitors in the same attention business.
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by tqi 3y ago
I'm familiar with the idiom and origins. The idea that people are opposed to unions because they are all concerned for the day they're gonna be rich ("tech thinks of itself as inherently white collar and closer to upper manag
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by tqi 3y ago
Thanks for the measured response, and I do appreciate the perspective. I personally think that unions are a solution to many problems, but come with a set of tradeoffs and genuine issues. There I think it is unhelpful (and why I used the wo
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by tqi 3y ago
That is a pretty dismissive and patronizing view of the very people you'd like to form a union with...
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by tqi 3y ago
It's interesting that 10 years ago there was a media driven panic about "filter bubbles", and now we are at a point where the abilitiy to choose your own filter bubble is considered a feature.
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Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible?
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by tqi 3y ago
TBH I'm not 100% sure what lesson to take from this. If in 2022, you thought that a) DAU across the entire family of apps was as high as it ever was going to be and b) that the broader economy was about to enter a recession, causing ma
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by tqi 3y ago
Why would investors want to put money into a company that moved out of Delaware because they didn't want to have to properly disclose conflicts of interest?
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by tqi 3y ago
That's definitely fair, and I assuming in a classroom setting you'd be very consistent and precise about what that means. But this is a twitter poll, and I doubt people are that consistent. Ultimately I'm just pushing back on
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I think this is less about Bayesian thinking and more about misinterpreting the question, as another poster mentions: https://twitter.com/farrwill/status/1751788706355392639 ie i think many of the More Likely to b
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by tqi 3y ago
I think successful AI companies in 2030 will get there through a combination being above some minimum threshold of technical competence and execution and luck (right place, right time, right professional network). I think the former is prob
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by tqi 3y ago
I don't think people can predict what will happen to the products they buy in the future. But I do think people can choose to use or not use the products they buy based on new information. And my point is not that this is a good or bad
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by tqi 3y ago
Oh nice, thanks for the tips. I'm actually asking out of curiosity, born of working in and around SV companies over the last 10+ years, rather than anything practical.

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