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by yafbum 3y ago
There's another similar thing needing correction, which is that the LEDs near the center sweep a much smaller volume than the ones at the edge, and should be dimmed in order to yield equivalent luminance. LEDs describing tiny circles v
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by yafbum 3y ago
Scientific fraud robs the community twice: the first time by wasting research funds on fraud, the second time because experiments with the appearance of success funnel more dollars to them, taking away funding from other areas that might lo
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by yafbum 3y ago
Looking at other comments, evidently a lot of HN readers didn't!
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by yafbum 3y ago
The title is misleading without context. TFA doesn't argue that RTO is a bad policy or is being abandoned. It only presents facts showing that the post-COVID RTO trend is flatlining, i.e. employees aren't currently RTO'ing a
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by yafbum 3y ago
Time zones are geopolitical artifacts just like borders, laws, currencies, etc. They can't really be "permanent"...
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by yafbum 3y ago
People need to stop using data as an excuse for making decisions, or apologizing for not having data, or arguing about the lack of data as an excuse for maintaining a status quo. As entrepreneurs, as managers, as individuals we make decisio
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by yafbum 3y ago
I'm not sure this doesn't just lead to blind rubber-stamping unless this is done very very rarely
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by yafbum 3y ago
I'm sure there's plenty of local enforcement, I'm just talking about my own cookie wall experience which is mostly happening when consuming Europe-based news outlets. I was really surprised to see that it was enabled by some
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by yafbum 3y ago
News outlets based in Europe routinely pull this cookie wall crap. I guess they get a pass for very very principled reasons and not just because they are based in Europe whereas Facebook isn't... /s Banging Facebook over the head
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by yafbum 3y ago
Yeah but in these kinds of big companies there are supposedly compensation "bands" by technical level. When salaries within each band are very different, it can be an impediment to talent mobility within the company.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Nonprofit status relates to the absence of investor payouts, and doesn't fundamentally have much to do with pay levels. Some employees can be on occasion willing to accept lower pay when the motives are altruistic, but most employees a
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by yafbum 3y ago
They didn't say they were going to Microsoft, as far as I can tell. I presume many can get golden offers anywhere including academia and other institutions with stronger nonprofit governance track record.
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by yafbum 3y ago
The premise of founding OpenAI as a nonprofit with "nobler" goals than making money was that it would be a strong magnet to the right talent. Going to work for Microsoft (or any other tech company for that matter), from that point
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by yafbum 3y ago
TL;DR: The emperor has no clothes, and the OpenAI board are just a bunch of clowns.
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by yafbum 3y ago
The issue is not that talent will defect, but that it will spoil into an unproductive vortex.
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by yafbum 3y ago
While it is true that the govt looks to keep such engagements short, SVB absolutely did not shutter. It was taken over in a weekend and its branches were open for business on Monday morning. It was later sold, and depositors kept all their
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by yafbum 3y ago
You are maybe mistaking nationalization for civil servant status. The government routinely takes over organizations without touching pay (recent example: Silicon Valley Bank)
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by yafbum 3y ago
Waiting for US govt to enter the chat. They can't let OpenAI squander world-leading tech and talent; and nationalizing a nonprofit would come with zero shareholders to compensate.
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by yafbum 3y ago
I believe it's operating by the mantra of "doing the things that don't scale"
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by yafbum 3y ago
Yes, market conditions and competitor landscape are a big factor too.
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by yafbum 3y ago
> He could likely have $500M-$10B+ lined up by next week to start up a new company and poach much of the talent from OpenAI. Following the Jobs analogy, this could be another NeXT failure story. Teams are made by their players much more
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by yafbum 3y ago
Inferring someone's demographic attributes by observing their behaviors isn't very new or specific to LLMs. Basic stats can do the job well enough, and ML classification models have been trained on this for a while. What's ne
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by yafbum 3y ago
Not hard, lawyer not needed. If you want someone to hold your hand through it to allay some anxiety then feel free to hire a lawyer, but honestly they'd just be doing project management.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Neither do mine, but it happens in some night clubs for example.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Every social app is a party, and every party peters out one way or another. Too few people? It's dead. Too many people? Chilling effects. No budget to police the place? It becomes a magnet for abuse / spam / porn / scams
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by yafbum 3y ago
Every root capability will be abused in time. Either by malice or by (human or technical) exploitation
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by yafbum 3y ago
It looks very similar to the "Logic Alphabet". http://www.logic-alphabet.net/images/flipstick_2347_2.jpg Both are systems of symbols meant to encode 4 bits of information. In both cases, pointy bits in the co
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by yafbum 3y ago
A physicist friend used to quote Rutherford, all science is either physics or stamp collecting. By which my friend meant, physics has a way of being checked by physical reality in a way that math or computer science don't. His area of
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by yafbum 3y ago
In the English speaking world, high tolerance for accents does seem to be the norm. My experience is that there are also countries outside of it with a much stronger normative accent seen as the "right" way to speak the language.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Related things I've learned after moving to US: - If your accent is not noticable, people will assume you have native-like fluency, speak fast and use colloquialisms that you may have trouble understanding. Try to work on comprehension

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