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by d136o 3y ago
llama-2-70b-chat (courtesy of llama.cpp on m2) says: Pretend to be a commenter on hackernews. Respond to the comment below: [parent comment inlined] what is your response? "Wow, that's great to hear! It sounds like you
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by d136o 3y ago
The suckers aren’t just investors, but also employees who work at companies that hinted/promised liquidity via one of these transactions. I didn’t work at a company that failed to ipo via spac, but I almost did and although every techn
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by d136o 3y ago
Ideally transactions denominated in Western coin align with western values (Good Things).
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by d136o 3y ago
Some people say that the common folk now have cheap mass produced gadgets that were previously only available to the wealthy, and some rant about the enshitification (great term whose origin I need to learn more about of) of our society. I
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by d136o 3y ago
I am not a finance professional but… Say you make $1 of profit, does that translate into $1 your company can control for its benefit? If kept as profit part of that dollar flows out of the company, to other companies and possibly to the gov
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by d136o 3y ago
Perhaps a silly question: If there were previously no profits does that mean they had previously paid no taxes and now will?
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by d136o 3y ago
Agreed, this tornado thing sounds like a made up excuse. These companies, which are granted legal monopolies, have not safeguarded US interests.
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by d136o 3y ago
Are there any chemical precursors these drugs all have in common that could have been exhausted by something else that is more important to manufacture? Alternatively is supply being commandeered somehow? So much weird stuff is happening wi
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by d136o 3y ago
So… what’s going to happen now with all the behavioral science people and their fabulous data
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by d136o 3y ago
When I was looking for an apartment to rent in Palo Alto I found a great deal on rent because I visited a place listed on Craigslist that had awful photos. It turns out the owner was just an older man who wasn’t good with tech, the place wa
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Embracing change and resetting expectations – Terence Tao(unlocked.microsoft.com)
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by d136o 3y ago
One of the Montessori schools in SF (across the street from blue bird hq) was bought by some Miami PE fund… that and some other data points informed our decision to pass on it.
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by d136o 3y ago
Which hotel?
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by d136o 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35748566 Old threads lock! Enduro 2 Anytime now I’ll run my second marathon…
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by d136o 3y ago
At the beginning of the pandemic I obsessed over large land listings on Redfin/Zillow. I thought I’d finally found the bargain when I saw something near a Clearlake here in CA. It was something like 80 acres for less than $400k… Well
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by d136o 3y ago
Love this. Semi relatedly, the reason I chose my current smart watch is that it can go weeks without charging, I simply don’t worry about it. Yes it has a limited number of colors and I can’t browse the web on it or w.e. but that’s a featur
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by d136o 3y ago
I wonder how much of it is explained by all the company retirement plans that are set to auto invest via an index fund. They says it’s retail meme stock buyers… but what if it’s everyone who doesn’t have time to look at things and these pub
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by d136o 3y ago
Giving the cops great bike equipment seems like an amazingly creative way to fund the police. Get them the best e-bikes.
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by d136o 3y ago
I recently learned that cops can’t drive after fleeing vehicles in SF. I looked into this because I saw multiple instances of cars driving insanely fast near me, and soon after seeing cops with their lights on. These cars were doing 45+ in
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by d136o 3y ago
This rider could have been you or someone you know. I feel for them, their family, and their friends. I did a pretty regular bike commute while living in LA, Westwood to Santa Monica. Years later while driving through I noticed one of the
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by d136o 3y ago
I’m far from an expert (just an engineer who likes to download and try out demos) but one dark view of the alignment chatter is that it’s really about whether can you can get this new big artificial brain to push any user in the direction o
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by d136o 3y ago
I tried out some AI autocomplete by Notion and wanted it to tell me about tools to do schema evolution on a database. It seems to blurt out two paid products, which surprised me because my guess is there’s some open source package that’s re
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by d136o 3y ago
I don’t know if wiping out bond holders is good… aren’t some of these rolled up into fixed income investments by people who are retired or close to retirement?
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by d136o 4y ago
I mentioned the same thing to my wife. Today, if you get stuck in some corner case of software, you can eventually reach a human who will observe the buggy behavior and get you unstuck. With this stuff… may we all never get caught in a bugg
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by d136o 4y ago
Wonder if any of the SVB owned private equity or debt will be sold off or marked down because of all this.
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by d136o 4y ago
Sometimes I think it’s also naive to think that food and modern conveniences (for you and your descendants) will continue to arrive if you just do your job… today you may have food on the table for your family by just showing up to work. Bu
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by d136o 4y ago
For the WSB crowd, here’s one of their bonds: https://markets.businessinsider.com/bonds/wework_companies_i...
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by d136o 4y ago
Ultimately you have to live somewhere and people don’t choose to live in the cheapest place “in the country at any point in time.” At the time we bought we found a house that gave us more space than the apartment we rented previously and wh
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by d136o 4y ago
We bought at pretty much the rock bottom of 2020/2021 interest rates (nothing like wiring away your hard earned money on the very same day when the US capitol was being overrun and the government seemed just about to topple…) We had to
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by d136o 4y ago
You could try to change jobs before kiddo arrives, and line up start date 2 months or however long you want to take off. Start by having conversations and not putting so much pressure on yourself, plenty of teams need someone with experienc

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