neilc

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by neilc 8mo ago
Does the task description influence the blocking behavior? That wasn’t clear to me— it might be that you manually configure the allow/block list and the task description is just for the user.
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by neilc 8mo ago
I don’t remember Amazon claiming “near-full automation” by AI. They said that you can checkout automatically and that AI/computer vision is somehow involved.
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by neilc 1y ago
Maybe but that is also not within Apple's control.
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by neilc 2y ago
They absolutely understood the terms of the loan. I think they do it anyway because: (1) everyone else is doing it and they don’t have a good alternative (2) career optimism. If you end up becoming a lawyer/consultant/accountant o
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by neilc 2y ago
I suppose we’ll have to agree to disagree. I know lots of liberal arts majors who still have a lot of student loan debt in their late 20s and 30s. They knew what they were doing when they enrolled in college and chose their major, it wasn’t
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by neilc 2y ago
Basically all college-bound 18-year olds understand what debt is — you’re infantilizing them to a ridiculous degree if you think otherwise. A lot of them choose to proceed with college due to career optimism and following the herd, not beca
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by neilc 2y ago
It wasn't "good" when Google hired a ton of people during Covid, and it isn't "evil" when they have subsequently let some people go. The people who are being laid off are generally given very generous severance
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by neilc 2y ago
Google makes a very small percentage of their revenue from government contracts.
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by neilc 2y ago
Cycling is good. I've also found boswellia and curcumin supplements to be surprisingly effective for the arthritis symptoms.
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by neilc 3y ago
It is definitely a thing that happens: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/former-twitter-employe... Hard to say how often / what fraction of occurrences are never caught, or caught but never publicized.
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by neilc 3y ago
Also relevant are the difference between overall comp for software engineering jobs in the USA vs Europe.
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by neilc 3y ago
> Looking through the documentation, the API looks brittle. Thanks for the feedback! Can you elaborate on the parts of the API you felt were brittle?
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by neilc 4y ago
I’m pretty sure that people like John Carmack, Donald Knuth, or Fabrice Bellard are not spending money on PR firms.
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by neilc 4y ago
You also need to factor in the time value of money: if the winemaker sells you a 2022 release in 2022, they get paid immediately. Also factor in temperature and humidity controlled storage (a kitchen fridge will not do), insurance against d
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by neilc 4y ago
> Alameda is helmed by quants from Jane Street etc., The CEO worked at Jane Street for less than 18 months and appears to have had a fairly junior role there. I'm sure they are smart folks but there's a limit to how much you ca
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by neilc 4y ago
Also not equivalent in terms of tax treatment.
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by neilc 4y ago
The assets of the company are exactly the same, except that $1*num-shares that was previously on the company's balance sheet is no longer there. The company is less valuable and so the stock goes down. Having an attractive dividend pol
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by neilc 4y ago
> Is the right to life no longer a human right? That's not what "the right to life" means. There are lots of policy decisions which have tradeoffs that result in more or less life lost. For example, the government could re
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by neilc 4y ago
I’d love to hear more about your experience working in a professional kitchen.
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by neilc 4y ago
I think the wireless pairing/device switching experience with AirPods is a big reason (not the only reason) why they are so popular.
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by neilc 4y ago
Curious if you have any evidence for that claim. Looking at https://www.card.iastate.edu/ag_policy_review/article/?a=107 (Figure 1) suggests that rural vs urban unemployment rates have historically been quite simi
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by neilc 4y ago
I don't think Bezos' ownership of the Washington Post has gone badly so far.
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by neilc 5y ago
> If your TAM and desired market capture implies revenue of less than like $500 million the company is never going to IPO, just for example. The vast majority of tech companies that IPO have revenues of (much) less than $500M.
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by neilc 5y ago
> Furthermore, if you renounce your citizenship, it is you who are choosing not to get this benefit. It is a defined benefit for citizens Individuals who renounce their US citizenship (or were never citizens) are still eligible to receiv
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by neilc 5y ago
You do not need to be a US citizen to be eligible to collect US Social Security benefits. https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-an...
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Horovod v0.21: Optimizing Network Utilization with Local Gradient Aggregation(eng.uber.com)
1 points by neilc 6y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 6y ago
Sure it does -- Apple's effective worldwide tax rate is ~25%. Like every US multinational, Apple structure themselves to optimize their tax burden, but it's not like they "have a history of not paying taxes".
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by neilc 6y ago
Apple's effective worldwide tax rate is ~25%, which is actually slightly higher than other US multinationals. That is also not counting taxes on income/capital gains paid by California employees, which are obviously pretty sizable
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by neilc 6y ago
> You might have missed that the benchmark was missing Nvidia (or even AMD) graphics cards; The post does include a benchmark for an AMD GPU (Radeon Pro Vega II Duo) on the Mac Pro. Comparing the Mac Pro GPU vs. MBP M1 results, the GPU c
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by neilc 6y ago
Hi William -- we have absolutely not copied any of Lightning's APIs. In fact, our PyTorch API makes some significantly different design choices than Lightning does -- e.g., we require users to step optimizers and run the backward pass

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