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by tqi 3y ago
I think it's telling that the author's remorse was for being mean to a fellow opinion writer, as opposed to fomenting a culture of guilty until proven innocent
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by tqi 3y ago
Does the frequency / strength of earthquakes leading up to an eruption have any bearing on the explosiveness of the ensuing eruption?
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by tqi 3y ago
This post seems pretty focused on the How of building AI products, but personally I think that whether or not an "AI product" succeeds or fails mostly wont come down to differentiation / cost / speed / model customi
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by tqi 3y ago
I don't see any residential buildings in that maps link, nor am I able to find any news articles indicating anyone being evicted. Do you have a source or are you just spreading rumors?
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by tqi 3y ago
> Advertiser-funded social networks will always have incentives that are misaligned with users. That's fair, and to clarify I am not saying that users have complete control. My point is just that looking back on the last 7(!) years
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by tqi 3y ago
thats awesome. i put a call into our local dealership, and sounds like the wait time for the one i'd like is still >1 year :(
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by tqi 3y ago
"We want people to have choice and agency" I think this fundamentally misdiagnoses the root of the issue, post 2016-election. People have plenty control over what content they see (via follows, blocks, hides, downvotes etc), and
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by tqi 3y ago
ooc, when you charge at home overnight how much range can it refill?
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by tqi 3y ago
Of course an article titled pointing fingers at others for ruining the internet would have an outbrain chumbox at the bottom...
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by tqi 3y ago
thats covered in the vox article. "Outsize control given to corporate executives isn’t unique to Facebook. As Pisani at CNBC pointed out, Rupert Murdoch and his family have all the voting power at News Corp. At Google, there are three
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by tqi 3y ago
"Facebook has what’s called a “dual class” structure of “Class A” shares and “Class B” shares. The Class A shares are what everyday investors on the regular stock market have access to, and they’re one vote per share. The Class B share
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by tqi 3y ago
I think in practice most of these techniques are useless (or worse, confer a false sense of precision) because they require so many nuanced judgement calls that they become little more than a way to launder biases.
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by tqi 3y ago
Oh sorry, I don't mean replacing the documents entirely. what I've seen is loom videos replacing sections of those documents (where in the past you would have expected screenshots + text to explain decisions or a design). To me, t
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by tqi 3y ago
Like I said, there are definitely cases where showing is easier than telling, and bug reports often fall into that category. But as an alternative to more durable documents (design explorations, PRDs, etc), I often find that docs are more t
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by tqi 3y ago
If this[1] is accurate (a big if) 2023 rev is 35M, which would make this a ~30X multiple!? [1] https://getlatka.com/companies/loom
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by tqi 3y ago
I don't feel like it's necessary to take sides on this one - seems like Loom gave you some signal on what company culture looked like on the inside, and you decided it wasn't a good match. Seems like a positive interaction&#x
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by tqi 3y ago
Personally, I'm not 100% sure those videos are a net benefit for teams. It definitely reduces the effort required by the person creating the video, but comes at the expense of requiring more effort from the people consuming the content
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by tqi 3y ago
Definitely agree, but I don't think most of what we see scrolling Twitter is clearly on one side or the other. I also think "doing something" is a spectrum as well, and making a conscious choosing to ignore something is a val
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by tqi 3y ago
That aphorism presumes a world where good/evil and doing something/nothing are both binary.
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by tqi 3y ago
Super interesting, thanks for sharing! Two questions: 1. It looks like ARR dropped significantly when the freemium product launched - was that because existing paid customers were downgrading to Free and continuing to use the product? 2. Wh
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by tqi 3y ago
> Kind of fine, but let’s hope there aren’t any new categories that weren’t there last month! if it does mess up your formulas hopefully it does it in a way that you actually notice! hyperbole aside, I don't think it's entirely
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by tqi 3y ago
The ETL part is not really the problem business users seem to have, but rather needing the ability to use pre-built measures / dimensions natively in Excel.
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by tqi 3y ago
It does, but everything is translated to raw sql then pushed to the database layer, which means anything with a meaningful amount of data runs like dogshit. I haven't touched MDX in a long time, but my recollection is that OLAP cubes m
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by tqi 3y ago
Oh that's cool - does it work for business users on OSX? I feel like the fall of Thinkpads was the final nail in the coffin. We tried running a dedicated windows machine that people could remote into, but it was just too much friction.
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by tqi 3y ago
Pivot tables powered by SSAS cubes may be the best self serve analytics tool I've ever seen (where "best" is measured by how much users actually use it). The ability to meet business users where they are is huge for actual ad
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by tqi 3y ago
They did respond: https://x.com/searchliaison/status/1709726778170786297?s=46&... Google doesn't get to decide what Wired does with content on its site.
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by tqi 3y ago
Is python typically used in production trading systems?
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by tqi 3y ago
Yeah that is fair, but it's mind bogglingly lazy/brazen. How much more effort is it have taken to just take an average of a few RAND calls to get a normal distribution instead of a uniform one? Did they not know the central limit
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by tqi 3y ago
(Not an excuse in any way) This data was so shoddily faked that I have a hard time believing someone did this with an intention to deceive. Uniform distribution with a hard cutoff at 50K??
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by tqi 3y ago
Also important to note that it's not as simple as having a whitelist of domains that are exempt, because at Facebook scale that immediately becomes an avenue for accusations of bias (see all of the noise around the twitter files).

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