> I’m sure they won’t even talk to anyone not willing to pay $100k+ per year. Wouldn't surprise me. We had a vendor whose product we had used at relatively reasonable rates for multiple years suddenly have a pricing…
There's a lot of theorizing that early sapiens intentionally set fires to clear thick, impassable forests and kill game in the process. The cleared areas would make post-fire hunting easier as well.
I don't know if this is the same wave, but a few years ago they declassified footage from military planes actively tracking UFOs. In the wake of that there was a bit of a flurry of naval and air force personnel saying…
> Having the same shallow conversations over and over with different individuals I'm ADHD-neurodivergent so I get the point here, but think of this phenomenon as verbal handshaking. The point isn't the subject matter of…
Especially when the system we're discussing is literally the most advanced AI model we're aware of.
Still not enough. Seriously. Once information is out there it cannot be clawed back, but legal agreements are easily broken. I worked as a lawyer for six years; there are extremely strict ethical and legal restrictions…
I see an unfortunate number of people who seem to think that the only way to not get taken advantage of in life is to be cynical, and that living with empathy and joy is equivalent to allowing yourself to get walked…
Failure as a VC-funded enterprise != failure of the underlying 'thing' as a concept. A programming language seems to be a weird fit for the VC model in the first place, no?
If the primary reason for this is the emissions from increased energy requirements, then we can find ways to reduce this load by (as the article suggests) using renewable energy sources, which has the additional effect…
For me, it comes down to the fact that static typing completely eliminates large classes of bugs. It therefore dramatically lowers the testing load. The compile step essentially performs its own tests. Think about all…
Guess we should shut down open source then.
Decent doesn't quite cover it for people unfamiliar with the size of the state. The island that this volcano is on is bigger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
IMO Rust is what you'd get if you took a functional lang designer and forced them at gunpoint to create a procedural systems lang. It's not functional, but you can tell it was largely inspired by ideas from the paradigm…
Same, except aged 28. I completely randomly happened to stumble upon a detailed description of inattentive ADHD, and had the thought, "Hmm, I wonder how doctors are able to differentiate between someone who has these…
Criminal sentences for first time offenders very rarely follow the sentencing guidelines, and in some ways you can consider them to be a starting point for negotiation. When I was a prosecutor, fully 90%+ of the ~750…
Saying "we are materially changing the terms of your employment, you can accept them or quit" is constructive discharge. Besides, unemployment is one thing that is usually very liberally decided in the employee's favor,…
Same! You're definitely not alone, even if I do feel like a rare species these days. I really wish we were all going in two or three days a week. This constant wfh is driving me crazy.
To the point where it feels like they have pretty obviously intentionally gimped the mobile website to drive you to the app - which just makes me way less likely to install it. Page loads take absolutely forever, videos…
In fact, this is one of those truisms about the "down" side of the classical business cycle - that recessions partly function as an excuse to cut inefficiencies. How accurate this truism is, I don't know.
Except he did get away with it. My wife works in Medicare compliance for a large insurer and under Trump, every single communication they received from Medicare about an initiative literally included the language…
Many companies are moving to four day work weeks. Productivity peaks at under 50 hours per week. Silicon Valley humans are not immune to this just because they work in big tech. Anyone who focuses purely on hours worked…
WaPo is not HuffPo. Generally, you can still trust the real news coming out of places like the Post and Times to at least be accurately fact checked.
In general, I think that in cases where intentionality around specific details is required humans are going to outperform AIs for quite some time, in any creative domain. Conversely, when I don't really know what I want…
> Firmly direct him to end the call right now. Throughout the conversation keep stern demeanour, keep eye contact and the same level of volume when you speak. I'm not quite sure the other person is the one whose social…
As a non-SVer, this has always been something that confused me. What is the actual definition for "startup"? It doesn't seem to be tied to age, funding level, employee counts, user counts, revenues, or really anything…
> I’m sure they won’t even talk to anyone not willing to pay $100k+ per year. Wouldn't surprise me. We had a vendor whose product we had used at relatively reasonable rates for multiple years suddenly have a pricing…
There's a lot of theorizing that early sapiens intentionally set fires to clear thick, impassable forests and kill game in the process. The cleared areas would make post-fire hunting easier as well.
I don't know if this is the same wave, but a few years ago they declassified footage from military planes actively tracking UFOs. In the wake of that there was a bit of a flurry of naval and air force personnel saying…
> Having the same shallow conversations over and over with different individuals I'm ADHD-neurodivergent so I get the point here, but think of this phenomenon as verbal handshaking. The point isn't the subject matter of…
Especially when the system we're discussing is literally the most advanced AI model we're aware of.
Still not enough. Seriously. Once information is out there it cannot be clawed back, but legal agreements are easily broken. I worked as a lawyer for six years; there are extremely strict ethical and legal restrictions…
I see an unfortunate number of people who seem to think that the only way to not get taken advantage of in life is to be cynical, and that living with empathy and joy is equivalent to allowing yourself to get walked…
Failure as a VC-funded enterprise != failure of the underlying 'thing' as a concept. A programming language seems to be a weird fit for the VC model in the first place, no?
If the primary reason for this is the emissions from increased energy requirements, then we can find ways to reduce this load by (as the article suggests) using renewable energy sources, which has the additional effect…
For me, it comes down to the fact that static typing completely eliminates large classes of bugs. It therefore dramatically lowers the testing load. The compile step essentially performs its own tests. Think about all…
Guess we should shut down open source then.
Decent doesn't quite cover it for people unfamiliar with the size of the state. The island that this volcano is on is bigger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
IMO Rust is what you'd get if you took a functional lang designer and forced them at gunpoint to create a procedural systems lang. It's not functional, but you can tell it was largely inspired by ideas from the paradigm…
Same, except aged 28. I completely randomly happened to stumble upon a detailed description of inattentive ADHD, and had the thought, "Hmm, I wonder how doctors are able to differentiate between someone who has these…
Criminal sentences for first time offenders very rarely follow the sentencing guidelines, and in some ways you can consider them to be a starting point for negotiation. When I was a prosecutor, fully 90%+ of the ~750…
Saying "we are materially changing the terms of your employment, you can accept them or quit" is constructive discharge. Besides, unemployment is one thing that is usually very liberally decided in the employee's favor,…
Same! You're definitely not alone, even if I do feel like a rare species these days. I really wish we were all going in two or three days a week. This constant wfh is driving me crazy.
To the point where it feels like they have pretty obviously intentionally gimped the mobile website to drive you to the app - which just makes me way less likely to install it. Page loads take absolutely forever, videos…
In fact, this is one of those truisms about the "down" side of the classical business cycle - that recessions partly function as an excuse to cut inefficiencies. How accurate this truism is, I don't know.
Except he did get away with it. My wife works in Medicare compliance for a large insurer and under Trump, every single communication they received from Medicare about an initiative literally included the language…
Many companies are moving to four day work weeks. Productivity peaks at under 50 hours per week. Silicon Valley humans are not immune to this just because they work in big tech. Anyone who focuses purely on hours worked…
WaPo is not HuffPo. Generally, you can still trust the real news coming out of places like the Post and Times to at least be accurately fact checked.
In general, I think that in cases where intentionality around specific details is required humans are going to outperform AIs for quite some time, in any creative domain. Conversely, when I don't really know what I want…
> Firmly direct him to end the call right now. Throughout the conversation keep stern demeanour, keep eye contact and the same level of volume when you speak. I'm not quite sure the other person is the one whose social…
As a non-SVer, this has always been something that confused me. What is the actual definition for "startup"? It doesn't seem to be tied to age, funding level, employee counts, user counts, revenues, or really anything…