tsycho

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by tsycho 5y ago
Yeah, it's a killer feature, but I really wish they had some sort of a documented "search API". Instead of natural language search, where I have no idea whether it understood me, I wish I could do (modifying your example): &q
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by tsycho 5y ago
What a closed-minded article! The real hard part here was to solve self-driving, which is what Waymo focused on, and is at L4 already (or close enough to it). The other points that the author raises are obvious things known for a decade, an
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Think Different; The Big Pair Trade; Models are better than Beliefs(ilearned.substack.com)
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by tsycho 5y ago
"This is water", by David Foster Wallace. https://youtu.be/8CrOL-ydFMI
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by tsycho 5y ago
Fair point, but the other part of the game theory equation is deterrence - by paying the ransom, you might encourage others to copy the crime, even if many of them get eventually caught.
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by tsycho 5y ago
"Back office" (which includes most programmers, with the exception of algo traders) bonuses are much much lower than "front office" (traders, ibankers, sales) bonuses. Google/FB devs total comp (including RSUs) will
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by tsycho 5y ago
That's another broad generalization. I know many Bay Area Indians, and within my personal circles, a majority of them are anti-Modi and have been so pre-Covid too. That said, the amount of unquestionable Trump-like support for Modi is
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by tsycho 5y ago
Gold's utility value is such a small fraction of its reserve value, that it's moot. And gold has had 1000s of years to find an alternative utility. Even if we did, it's unlikely that that utility would be worth more than gold
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Corporate Dystrophy; Subject-Object Shift; Art of Execution; Questions on DCA(ilearned.substack.com)
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by tsycho 5y ago
"Elon Musk is a bullshitter who delivers. This breaks a lot of people's pattern-matching, in both directions." --Ben Evans ( https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1358760338724974594... )
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by tsycho 5y ago
How are you getting the $8bn number[1]? In any case, that's moot. Because if you join now (after they are making this change), your equity is being valued at ~$60bnm so the upside is significantly lower. [1] If that's from the val
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by tsycho 5y ago
This is my #1 peeve. I have friends who work at FB, and the mental acrobatics they do to justify this would have been quite amusing, if it wasn't such a daily annoyance.
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by tsycho 6y ago
HN links to articles in 99% of its posts. If HN had to pay a link tax, would it survive? I hate FB too, and avoid their products, but Australia's new law is Mafia style extortion, and we need to separate our feelings about FB when judg
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by tsycho 6y ago
Funny, I read the title and immediately thought it was a good thing. Only after I read your comment did I consider the alternative :)
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by tsycho 6y ago
Generalization, much? (for such a huge diverse country)
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by tsycho 6y ago
What's Thiel getting out of it though? How does pardoning Levandowski help him?
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by tsycho 6y ago
Asking: Do European tech companies just offer lower salary, or do they also offer less equity? In the US, most people I know made a significant chunk of their wealth from their equity growth, especially as equity grants grow much more than
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by tsycho 6y ago
I have been building something similar very slowly in my spare time. Do you want to collaborate? Contact info in my profile.
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by tsycho 6y ago
What if management is the judge, jury and executive? Who will bell the cat?
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by tsycho 6y ago
I hated it initially, but am fine with it now. When YTM is better than GPM: 1/ Auto-created playlists, especially after you just search for a song and hit play. On GPM, it would play different covers on the same song (basically all the
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by tsycho 6y ago
"But won't you think of the children." -- Apple apologists
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by tsycho 6y ago
I don’t get it. The bullet points in your screenshot seemed factual to me. Which part of it felt like victim blaming to you?
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by tsycho 6y ago
83 points with zero comments Looks like no one has actually read the book, but the topic looks interesting :)
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by tsycho 6y ago
If you have to rebuild and reinstall your app every 7 days, it doesn't meet a reasonable definition of "runs any code you like". You are being technically correct, but disingenuously so.
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by tsycho 6y ago
Having used both Zoom and Meet extensively now for the past 6 months, my experience is: 1/ Your internet connection, especially upload bandwidth and latency matter a lot. 2/ Zoom's desktop app performs very well, but its web
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by tsycho 6y ago
I see this oft repeated comment about Google acquiring YouTube, DoubleClick and Android. Yes they did. But the companies they acquired were tiny upstarts, which might have even died on their own. Google built them into what they are today,
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by tsycho 6y ago
Google has TLMs (tech lead + manager). It doesn't force parallel tracks.
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by tsycho 6y ago
Wow! So much hate on this thread. And not a single reasonable proposal on what newspapers or Google can do to make things more equitable.
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by tsycho 6y ago
Product Manager (junior/mid-level) Remote: Yes (and have experience working remotely even before Covid) Willing to relocate: Yes, anywhere in US/Canada/India. Can start immediately in India, and need 2-3 months for US (H4 EAD
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by tsycho 6y ago
The funny part is that Sundell and Hacking With Swift are actually among the more useful sites, offering bite sized information that you would expect Apple documentation to provide. But Apple's documentation nowadays, is so bad (incons

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