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by vivegi 4y ago
> I similarly disfavor minimum wage laws I am trying to understand this more. Why would a minimum wage law be unfriendly to a specific class of workers? Doesn't that just establish a right for the worker and an obligation for the em
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by vivegi 4y ago
Reminds me of 37signals' Basecamp. I am keen to see their OpenAI integration within Loop to collaboratively work on document drafts - from concept to tweaking to review/approval and finalization.
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by vivegi 4y ago
While the idea is nice for encoding routes, there is a cognitive overload in trying to decipher/comprehend that. As an example of an alternative, I found the London Tube map much more intuitive to follow for humans. Colored lines with
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by vivegi 4y ago
Publishers (traditional ones like Random House, HarperCollins) would take a Microsoft Word document manuscript. Each publisher has guidelines for their manuscript. They will handle the typesetting themselves. You need to do it all only if y
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by vivegi 4y ago
Hmm.. No. There was a business that our system supported that had a peak transaction day on Mondays (55% of the weekly volume flow) and Fridays had less than 7% of weekly volume flow. The rest of the days had a tapering of volumes between t
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by vivegi 4y ago
You can't blame the depositors or the VCs in this case for SVB's failure. Only SVB was responsible for taking on naked long-term risk and being unable to meet current obligations. At the time the VCs advised their portfolio cos to
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by vivegi 4y ago
How hard is it to build a GPT model truly openly using an approach like SETI / distributed.net using idle times on volunteer computers? Are there any known initiatives of this kind?
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by vivegi 4y ago
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134648
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by vivegi 4y ago
Tried https://nytimes.com/ to see what I get. The output https://web0.cc/a/rLk0Tnn2K- was not what I expected.
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by vivegi 4y ago
The underlying root cause of the SVB failure is mismatch of investment horizons for a bank's assets relative to its liabilities. The groupthink at the moment is phew, the Fed, FDIC and treasury swooped in to save the day (and the depo
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by vivegi 4y ago
That may be true with the human providing the explanation. However, there is at least some hope of being able to reason with the explanation (about the adequacy or lack thereof). With a hallucinating LLM, most bets are off. However, if th
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by vivegi 4y ago
I mentioned this in another thread. Services like Stripe-Atlas that helped founders setup businesses offered SVB as the banking partner since 2017, I think (now they have other options--Mercury and Novo). For a founder trying to bootstrap,
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by vivegi 4y ago
A few years ago, I evaluated launching my startup in the US through Stripe-Atlas. SVB was the banking partner at that time. I did not go through with it. If I recall correctly Stripe-Atlas launched around 2017 or so. So, in the last 5 years
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by vivegi 4y ago
Not all businesses are likely to jump on this bandwagon. For example, take health insurance claim denials (in the US). Among issuers who reported the highest volume of in-network claims in 2021, receiving over 5 million claims, denial rates
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by vivegi 4y ago
Read a stat only 2.7% of SVB’s deposits were under the $250k FDIC insurance threshold. Wasn’t sure if this was in $ or customer accounts terms. If the latter, that’s a good predictor of the probability bank runs at other institutions. When
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by vivegi 4y ago
Apparently, Only 2.7% of SVB deposits are less than $250,000. Meaning, 97.3% aren't FDIC insured. Source: https://twitter.com/GRDecter/status/1634208652595699713
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by vivegi 4y ago
Labor regulations in India are at state-level. Minimum wages, max hours per day, max hours per week/period, duration of breaks, spacing of breaks if overtime is involved, number of consecutive days of work (eg: 7th day must be off, if
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by vivegi 4y ago
From SVB Financial Group's latest 10-K filing (Source: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000719739/f36fc4d... , p12, Jan 31, 2023): > Liquidity Requirements. Category IV organizations with greater than
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by vivegi 4y ago
CO2 emission in the nights is the most commonly cited objection, however it can be managed by placing the potted plants in the living room areas where they can scrub CO2 during the day.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Matheson S, Fleck R, Irga PJ, Torpy FR. Phytoremediation for the indoor environment: a state-of-the-art review. Rev Environ Sci Biotechnol. 2023;22(1):249-280. doi: 10.1007/s11157-023-09644-5. Epub 2023 Feb 27. PMID: 36873270; PMCID: P
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by vivegi 4y ago
Indoor home plants. Edit: except your bedroom during nights, since plants emit CO2 during nights.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Hated the love point. It looked like someone pooped.
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by vivegi 4y ago
So, Google knows when results are duplicate and can elide them from search results but cannot figure out Malvertising Ads that claim to be a real site (like the Audacity example on the linked post)? Sounds like a weak excuse. Let's cal
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by vivegi 4y ago
Shares in the company are about control. Founder teams (ie., founder/co-founders) should decide early on about how much control each cofounder is going to retain through their ownership -- this is anyway part of forming the founding te
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by vivegi 4y ago
Wow. That brought back memories from '95 when I used to telnet to grex.cyberspace.org I had been a user for around 3 years and then moved on to other websites as they caught on. Sad to see it go down permanently.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Well, in a sense there is a spec, at the lowest level. As an example, for a C program you have int main(int argc, char **argv) { ... } From there, it is just conventions on what the arguments mean.
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by vivegi 4y ago
This obsession with locking up model weights behind a gate-keeping application form and calling it open source is weird. I don't know who the high priests are trying to fool. If your model is really that good, unleash it into the
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Portal opened for complaints against decisions of social media platforms(thehindu.com)
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by vivegi 4y ago
The portal will allow users to appeal against decisions taken by social media platforms to take down — or retain — content posted by users.
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by vivegi 4y ago
This is nice. I am going to try it on my RasPi.

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