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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
I was reading a blog today[1] that was pretty confident that "continual orders-of-magnitude increases in compute usage [by AI] will utterly drown any changes in efficiency" but this is just one of a million ways we can make AI mor
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Raw vote information here: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486 & Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521 This bill prohibits distributing, maintaining, or
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Another article here: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/02/28/how-panera-bread-du... I wonder how successful Subway will be when they inevitably claim that they were selling bread before Sept 15th. I'v
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Having met a bunch of YC companies now, I wouldn't say the Ivies are exactly under-represented but it always seems like there's more Stanford than UPenn and more UWaterloo than Cornell. If school means anything it's the qual
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Based on a day's worth of kicking tires, I'd say no -- once you have a mix that supports your workflow the cool developments will probably be in new models. I just played around with this tool and it works as advertised, which is
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
The improvements in ease of use for locally hosting LLMs over the last few months have been amazing. I was ranting about how easy https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile is just a few hours ago [1]. Now I'm tor
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Seems like a very narrow segment of people who: - want to run custom JS from one tab in another often - Wouldn't write their own extension to do it But credit for OSSing your own tools :)
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
+1 to looking for "wins above replacement" -- there are great players on mediocre teams and weak players on strong teams. The resume tells you what teams they were on but in an interview you need to determine what they really cont
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
It's paywalled, but Noahpinion had a good summary of the situation: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-much-of-modern-academia-is... . The key points are that breaking disciplines into tiny subfields essentially mak
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Back in my days building custom software (in the US/Canada) a lot of the PM work was figuring out how the process overrides worked. Every organization has a set of formal rules... and the way things actually work (and 50% of my job wa
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
I met Jeff back in 2011 when I was considering moving to SF. Although I didn't end up at Twilio, I distinctly remember thinking I'd be happy to work for him. His original Twilio demos were a big part in convincing me to make the
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
It's not a surprising trend, there's been a steady build up of tax reasons that have made California a worse deal: - removing the SALT deduction hurts Californians (and NY most) with their high taxes and high wages - Capping the
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Ah the classic: How do I improve quality in an org 'without any regard for quality'? :) But assuming that everyone cares about quality (I know, a big leap), what has worked for me is: tagging stories as bugs/regressions/
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
This is also a really good summary of "what to think about while implementing webhooks" -- personally I wish we had thought of doing "thin" webhooks in an implementation I was a part of.
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
That would be an interesting production skill for an org to build out. I don't think anyone is really good at it and wind-down seasons are all over the place. Freed from the need to fit into the season templates you could also wind sho
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One of Jeopardy 's favorite player techniques makes for terrible TV(avclub.com)
7 points by ultrasaurus 3y ago|0 comments
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
To find times near you: https://holygrailincinemas.com/ Looks like it's 2 days, Sunday Dec 3rd and Wednesday Dec 6th
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Third-Party JavaScript(benv.ca)
2 points by ultrasaurus 3y ago|0 comments
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Pretty good overlap: What are the ten most recommended books on Hacker News? 1. "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas 2. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari 3. "Clean Co
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Bought our first house with Redfin a few months ago and they did a few things really well: sharing data (you can download their results to CSV and chart hundreds of homes in an area), and they pay people a fee for service -- so there was al
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Elon Musk and the Infinite Rebuy(davekarpf.substack.com)
9 points by ultrasaurus 3y ago|2 comments
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Jira does integrate pretty deeply with source control (and not just Bitbucket) to handle release pipelines. I'm sure it's a pain to set up but it's magical when it works and tickets automatically have the right status as the
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
All startups are leveraged bets on a trend line -- one goal being you see the trend line better and sooner than anyone else. Sometime the fundamentals don't make sense (I don't understand how WeWork planned on software style prof
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
I also got suckered into a business plan competition in College with the same mindset you had but I suspect they are actually recruiting events for consulting firms -- it's not the answer they are looking for, but the ability to make c
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Not the OP but I'd expect the desired answer to be some kind of semi-technical discussion that shows they understand the fundamentals even if they've forgotten all the details and can have a healthy conversation, not that they kno
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
In the US, different states have different rates. At X00,000,000 he's basically all in the top bracket so ~13.3% in California (it's taxed as income), other states have lower, some states have 0%.
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Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (1981)(nytimes.com)
8 points by ultrasaurus 3y ago|0 comments
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
It's amazing how much a rate-limited Twitter isn't Twitter any more: - It makes the "for you" tab even worse, now their discovery mechanism takes away quota from the Tweets you wanted to see - I have no idea how many twe
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
They aren't wrong that there are some companies that feel more comfortable if you have more money in the bank BUT most companies wildly overestimate how much prospects care. Case studies in their industry & Gartner quadrant > $
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
Or even just index it to inflation. $10k in 1970 is $80k today. One of those could be first & last month's rent in a major city or functional 3rd hand car, the other is at least adjacent to an interesting cash transaction.

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