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by xvector 2y ago
It is clear that most HNers aren't reading the article. This has nothing to do with the UFC's "banana republic" atrocities, and seems to be a rather unjust situation: - Chiquita was forced to pay "protection money&q
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by xvector 2y ago
Agreed, punishing someone because they were extorted under threat to life and property makes no sense. If someone threatens to kill your employees and burn everything you own to the ground - and you know they will - you're gonna pay
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by xvector 2y ago
It's incredibly unjust that companies are punished for paying "protection money" (read: "pay us or we burn your property and employees to the ground.")
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by xvector 2y ago
> So we decided to build both: two 24k clusters, one with RoCE and another with InfiniBand. Our intent was to build and learn from the operational experience. I love how they built two completely insane clusters just to learn. That'
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by xvector 2y ago
The disdain with which they treat the open-source community means I have no interest in using their commercial/enterprise offerings.
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by xvector 2y ago
Capitalism has been the most successful economic system we've ever come up with. Contrary to popular opinion, it's accelerated technological development, poverty reduction, and QoL worldwide. However, it requires people buying thi
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by xvector 2y ago
That's fine. I've discovered plenty of cool products through Insta that I wouldn't have found otherwise.
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by xvector 2y ago
You're spot on. Historically, it's always been a few visionaries driving tech forward while the average person resists change or even causes regression. Look at the bike, camera, car, and airplane [1]. Same story with AI today. Pe
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by xvector 2y ago
It is not even worth the brain time to think about this when, if you take the past decade of domestic commercial aviation, you're 150,000x more likely to die on your drive to the airport.
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by xvector 2y ago
> If you enter a car, your chance of dying on that trip is lower vs. when you enter a plane. This is not true, you are still tens of thousands of times more likely to die.
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by xvector 2y ago
Bikeshedding, when you waste brainpower on discussing something irrelevant when there are far more pressing problems to consider. Like worrying about your Boeing flight while you drive to the airport, over 150,000x more likely to die on sai
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by xvector 2y ago
The statistics I reference are not likelihood of accidents but likelihood of death. You are tens of thousands of times more likely to die when you get in a car versus a plane.
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by xvector 2y ago
The likelihood of dying in a car crash is so dramatically higher that even thinking about changing your flight is a classic case of bikeshedding.
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by xvector 2y ago
Will you also avoid ever getting in a car? Because statistically speaking, you're far more likely to die in a car crash than in a Boeing plane. Edit: In the last decade, in the US, about 2 people have been killed from aviation, and 365
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by xvector 2y ago
Most people don't join with the "standard" grant, they negotiate it up quite significantly. Refreshers only being you up to the "standard" target TC (as defined by the company). So after their initial grant fully ve
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by xvector 2y ago
Refreshers at meets are typically 25% of the "standard" grant (so your comp will go down after 4 years unless you have outstanding performance or your director gives you an Additional Equity grant) Vesting cadence is typically qua
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by xvector 2y ago
As a counterpoint, $500k+ is definitely achievable if you're interviewing as an L5 at a FAANG. It has been for a few years, actually. Of course you'll need to negotiate, maybe have a few counteroffers, but it's doable. I get
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by xvector 2y ago
Oh dude, Levels is so out of date! Don't actually use it for serious negotiation. Levels systemically removes "outlier" offers, and people with good offers don't post until they leave 2 years later. So there's a hug
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by xvector 2y ago
It's more like 2-3 years in this industry.
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by xvector 2y ago
> all for the sake of encrypting things that were fine in plaintext What was fine in plaintext?
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by xvector 2y ago
Someone please help me understand - did KrebsOnSecurity perform the detective work here to hone in on the IRL perpetrator? If so, that's amazing!
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by xvector 2y ago
This is a really well written article.
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by xvector 2y ago
iTerm2 has definitely not been designed with security in mind. It has a massive and rapidly growing attack surface and quite a bit of feature bloat (literally hundreds of "features") - I would not recommend using it over Termina
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by xvector 2y ago
That's pretty cool! At the same time, I think I would take the risk if I was on my way out anyways.
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by xvector 2y ago
The physical engineering problems may be overcome with time. Billions of neurons - well, arguably you could replace more than one at a time, up to the largest "functional group" or threshold that doesn't comprise you.
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by xvector 2y ago
I'd be down to help build a service like this.
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by xvector 2y ago
False accusations and convictions ruin people's lives. I'm not sure why these companies are not mandated to pay people's current income and expected income growth over the course of their working lives because it'll prob
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by xvector 2y ago
I think such a society would be chill about suicide. An exploration of this idea is found throughout the "Culture" novels by Banks. It's okay to decide when you want to clock out. It's certainly better than being forcib
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by xvector 2y ago
To be honest, I don't really care if I get a human brain or not as long as I stay conscious. I – and I'd wager most people – would be fine with some level of alteration to their being if it meant they wouldn't literally die
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by xvector 2y ago
Wait, where did I say that immortality would be mandated!? Of course you'd get to choose when you want to shuffle off the mortal coil. For me, personally, I don't see that being the case for many hundreds or even many thousands of

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