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Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)(benkuhn.net)
5 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Void, the Bluesky bot that remembers everyone(cameron.pfiffer.org)
7 points by venkii 1y ago|3 comments
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What are you getting paid in? (2024)(approachwithalacrity.com)
2 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Reverse-engineering Firestore calls to export your data(venki.dev)
1 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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A Review of Alpha School(astralcodexten.com)
1 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027(dynomight.net)
55 points by venkii 1y ago|11 comments
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Google Gemini has the worst LLM API(venki.dev)
2 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Survey of LLM Finetuning APIs (Apr 2025)(venki.dev)
1 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Love Your Competitors(venki.dev)
1 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Is Claude Down?(isclaudedown.com)
1 points by venkii 2y ago|0 comments
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Unusual $/MTok Numbers(venki.dev)
1 points by venkii 2y ago|0 comments
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How to Use Clerk with Firestore(venki.dev)
1 points by venkii 2y ago|0 comments
43.
Outside Game, Inside Game(venki.dev)
2 points by venkii 2y ago|0 comments
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How to Evaluate Stock Option Offers(venki.dev)
4 points by venkii 2y ago|1 comments
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by venkii 2y ago
Kinda the opposite - Firestore documents don't inherently have a userId of the owner. Rather, they just have arbitrary fields. Making all your documents have a `owner_uid` or `userId` field is just a convention they recommend, because
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by venkii 2y ago
It does at least look like their docs for the equivalent policy are not vulnerable to this attack though https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level... ie: The "Update Policies&quot
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The Firestore vulnerability found in Arc is likely widespread(venki.dev)
42 points by venkii 2y ago|7 comments
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LLM costs per MTok (updated 4/18/2024)(venki.dev)
1 points by venkii 2y ago|0 comments
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Why It's Hard to Innovate in Construction (2021)(construction-physics.com)
3 points by venkii 3y ago|0 comments
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A Brief History of Construction Startups (2022)(construction-physics.com)
2 points by venkii 3y ago|0 comments
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by venkii 3y ago
My 2c: - 8% or higher for a non-cofounder is very unusual. It’s typically 1-3%. Your CEO is flying in the face of conventional wisdom - but that’s not always a bad thing. - re: the sales guy making more - I think you just need to make peace
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by venkii 3y ago
Yes, correct the 100MB is being downloaded on every boot! I tested it initially because it’s the naivest implementation. The right implementation would bundle it in. But I ended up primarily reporting timings that stop counting up as soon a
53.
Replicate vs. Fly GPU cold-start latency(venki.dev)
90 points by venkii 3y ago|35 comments
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Equity comp induces a desirable correlation between stock price and retention(venki.dev)
2 points by venkii 3y ago|2 comments
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by venkii 3y ago
Change my mind - this is my best understanding for why public tech companies do, and ought to do significant equity comp, other than the fact that it's a norm now. I'd love to see any alternate posts / expositions on this. Go
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Proxying LLMs via Vercel is expensive(venki.dev)
1 points by venkii 3y ago|1 comments
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by venkii 3y ago
Huh, I've generally seen smaller referral bonuses (<$5k). I referred someone I knew from college at my last role, and got a $5k bonus. If you're able to consistently source great candidates, you might want to lead a team instea