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Yeah, I saw the Amber Heard thing. Though I read it was 500k. But this is a single instance. He's not throwing money around to get his way. Saw that elonjet guy on Twitter? Elon asked him to take down the bot. The guy wanted 50k. Elon didn't do it. If he wanted to throw his weight around and get his way, he could have.

And with the Amber Heard thing, we really don't know anything, do we? Not in the trial. And certainly not why Elon did step in with his money. It's easy to speculate that he wanted to buy her affection. And perhaps it's true. He sometimes does foolish things, and he might be especially vulnerable to foolishness when it comes to relationships. But then again, we know nothing.

I don't see Elon as a saint, at all. I just think many people are quite bad at interpreting Elon's actions - and, because of that, terrible at predicting what he will or won't do. For instance, I think Elon is not interested at all about "shaping narratives". I would argue that that's a foreign concept to him. He believes, I think, that in order to change the public's opinion on something, you have to provide "precedents and superlatives". And that's what he's doing: Tesla, SpaceX, Boring, Neuralink... I really think he does believe in free speech. He sees that principle at work in his companies. He has done so many things that, when interpreted based on the assumption that he's motivated by increasing his wealth just for the sake of it, appear terribly foolish, and even reckless. Yet they immediately start making a lot of sense once you refine your mental model of what is really driving him.
> It's a well known 70s era bibliometric algorithm.

Citation needed
> So perfectly reasonable business models that were paying reasonable wages are, suddenly, no longer viable and maybe they collapse.

No longer reasonable. Reasonable isn't a title or award you get to keep forever.

> "Let them fail" seems like a neat free market solution but it also wreaks havoc on the economy with lots of people hurt and contagion spreading to other businesses as more people lose jobs, and a death spiral begins.

You have to have a civil government that plans for this, rather than just making decisions to maximize business outcomes. Take care of people directly instead of propping up businesses to take care of people, which is just an avenue for corruption. UBI is an idea that gets traction due to its complete lack of detail, but a social safety net is what's called for. A federal employment agency to fix HR and guide the unemployed into retraining or extending their education and skills, pipelines into trade apprenticeships?

We don't need a silver bullet, we just need a functioning government, and a reduction of the options for implementing corruption, especially with public funds.

Just govern, instead of panicking when billionaires aren't governing for us, and don't have our best interests at heart.
Rising wages and inflation can't just be dismissed as a problem for the rich, because Billionaires can pay for it all. We all pay for it. In particular this is I think short sighted:

>There NO labor shortage when many big companies belong to billionaires that get wealthier every day (even during Covid). ...

The caveat after that about small companies was added in an edit after I pointed that factor out.
> Solving the same problems over and over

Years ago I was a manager on a (software) test team, and I can definitely relate to this. We were locked into a cycle of ...

"The test pass ran and one of the test cases failed."

"Which test case and what does it mean? Who owns it?"

"Well, Joe wrote it but he went to Amazon two years ago and it's assigned to Bob."

"What does Bob say?"

"He doesn't fucking know, there's no metadata and the test case is called FunctionTest27."

"Maybe we should just delete the test then?"

"But what if it's 'valuable'?"
Scaling a startup from a bunker: founders' story from Ukraine
let them know that congress needs to provide more money for basic research

That won't work. Academia isn't under-funded, especially not in the USA. The NSF budget last year was $7.7 billion so money is there.

The reason salaries are so low is because academia will generally choose to expand the empire by creating new projects and hiring more postdocs over raising salaries of their existing team. And they can, because lots of people have stars in their eyes about science. They see it as more virtuous than mere product building and are willing to put up with a lot for the associated prestige. Also they may have picked their vocation early on in life when their understandings of real market rates was poor, then get stuck in it.
I am not sure it is so easy to make direct comparisons to other countries. What country that has a similar population, economy, etc. are you referring to where increased social programs result in a net-better environment? Even more locally, is there an example of a state within the US where there are indicators of success in this regard?

I will say I have not studied this deeply, but I've also given it much more than just casual thought, so I am genuinely curious to know what your sample examples of successful countries are.
All these people, including me, working from home and yet there is still massive traffic everywhere.
All of my career I prioritized short commutes, which led to living in tiny apartments (as small as 25 sqmt) within a short commute from work. When Covid hit we had just moved to a new 1 bed flat and were paying our highest rent yet, but hey, 15 minutes commute!

When it became evident we were in for the long haul we started looking to move again. We ended up moving to a 3 bed house with garden in a tiny village close to our family paying much less rent, but across the country from the office.

I can't understate the massive increase in quality of life this brought us. Being closer to the family I don't feel the need to socialize with colleagues at work, and I didn't need to meet anyone in office for about 2 years.
If you wouldn't mind sharing a screen if you encounter that bug again, that would be helpful! Trying to reproduce it right now but cannot.

Is it possible that in an earlier word, you had tried using an O in the 4th spot? That should be the only time that error message appears.
Thank you! MLEM already supports Scikit-learn, PyTorch, XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost now. We're going to add fastai, TensorFlow and Huggingface very soon, and then there are many others we'd like to support! Feel free to post an issue in the GH repo for the framework of your choice)
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To me it feels immoral to promote reading what they wrote, because it was used to justify murder, and popularized as a result of said murders. It's a similar reason for not recommending Mein Kampf. It's a similar reason why some countries won't report the names of mass murders in the news.

If this were a unique idea not repeated since by others, I'd be more likely to agree with you... but it's not.

If you were recommending this reading as a cautionary tale about extremism, I'd also be more inclined to agree with you.

But in reality, all of the information found in the unabomber's manifesto can be found from sources that weren't serial murderers... so what does recommending this writing, and not other related writing accomplish? from my perspective it only serves the murderer. The original publication of the manifesto was also forced under the threat of murder.
If you dig into the philosophy a bit, you'll see that there's a distinction between "what we've historically done" or "what we end up doing with a short term, egoistical focus", and "what we wish we would have wanted", "what we would want to do if there were fewer limitations".

And to be sure, we don't understand this question well enough that it would be safe to commit humanity to our current ideas of the best solution for all eternity.

But we are certain that we wouldn't want a future AI governor of Earth to regularly and randomly pick someone to torture to death, just because that is what human drives have led to historically.
Being older requiere adjustments in how you sell yourself, imho.

I think is a losing proposition go to be another "employee", you are a mentor, a consultant, or something alike. Be in the "same" pool than younglings not work because you are not in the range, but playing good the "nice grandpa" can works well, imho.

Also: In the case of small companies is easier to "own" the interview process if is totally pointless or wrong. Take the experience and run with it: If fizbbuzz is on the path, derail the conversation and show something more impressive and how it could be teached to the team (this is by accident something that happened to me in one of my earlier roles long ago: I already bust the first interview and the second time I only remember going for the same company on site (!)... but that time I just sit with one of the developers and talk/code a little about something cool...)
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12 years experience across the above technologies, normally spending around 4 years in each area. Experience leading teams. MBA specialising in entrepreneurialism (in-progress).

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May consider an early stage start up with good equity.

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Stephen Erikson is an anthropologist and archaeologist which explains a lot of the deep historical depth to MBotF. Apparently he went on a dig in Mongolia between books nine and ten and almost died from a stomach bug and then a spider bite!

> And there was even a fear of dying before I could finish it! I remember being struck by a quote I read somewhere, when Robert Jordan was in his last few years, at a signing where he signed a book for an elderly woman who expressed a fear of her dying before he finished the series. And of course the bitter irony being Jordan himself dying before he could finish the series. And the closer I got to it, there was a disastrous decision to do some archaeology in Mongolia between books nine and ten, and then that almost killing me, from a stomach bug, and then a spider bite, it just started getting ridiculous. And then I realised if I keeled over in Mongolia between book nine and ten, wherever my gravestone was in the world people would annually piss on it, so I thought okay, I got to get this thing finished. And came back, I was living in Falmouth at the time, so I came back to Cornwall and just wrote my ass off and got it done.
This doesn't sound at all like a marketable skill :/
> This was my experience last year when I wanted to find a locksmith. EVERY result on GMaps that was shown as being in my city was, in fact, some centralized company that seemed to contract out to guys working out of their cars. Every one took my name and said they'd get back to me (which they did).

I had the same thing happen just last week! The locksmith who came for me gave me his personal phone number though and said if I needed help again, I could call him directly and he could give a better rate due to not needing to pay the centralized company a portion. Despite often having social anxiety with strangers, I've still found that just being friendly and treating people well (in this case still giving a tip alongside the cancellation fee after my super finally arrived just moments before the locksmith) ends up getting me better services than any research I've been able to do online. I ended up making a similar connection with the people we hired to install our curtain rods just after we moved in; I was talking to them about how the movers that brought my girlfriends things over to the apartment ended up damaging her desk in transit, and they said that they also do moving as well as installation/assembly, so next time we end up moving, we also will be able to hire people we know and trust (we ended up hiring them again for a few odd jobs since the first time, and we almost always end up getting one of the same three people we've met and made connections with).
You need to pay for a gym membership to return to office?
BTC is sound money, even if not yet as widely used for transactions yet. We literally have the worst inflation in 40 years with the likes of Janet Yellen admitting they were wrong about 'transitory inflation', and yet we're good with Central Banks being allowed to dilute money. I encourage you to read about why Bitcoin makes sense as the ultimate store of value that fiat is pegged against. The book called The Bitcoin Standard is a great read.
I get that with caffeine and milk. Recently with milk only.
Trying around with alkohol-free beer now. But also feel slightly tired after drinking it
You guys should def check metana.io to hire their students.
The NYC subway is pretty much all cut-and-cover and doesn't have many tunnelled parts like the deep-level Tube lines.
Thank you, this is great information
Thanks for posting this - I'm having this problem, but I've put it down to having small children, the chronic lack of sleep and the rarely having more than 1 hour time in a week where it's quiet and I can focus. That combined with being totally out of shape (covid + terrible two's).
JPM says Meta will become Broadcom's next billion-dollar customer
pretty clear indeed.

Of course we can expect Musk to be lambasted for this policy (and perhaps the way he has gone about stating it!) but at least he is clear in what he wants. Now Tesla employees can clearly choose whether they want to work at Tesla. What is more annoying for me are those employers who are still trying the kick the decision down the road - the 'we're remote for the next 3 months' types. Time for them to choose, so that we can decide
The Finder has been pretty broken since OS9. I'm accustomed to Apple not caring to FTFF, but the least they could do is not break it further.
Yes, that's why it's been so wild. Guy was pretty much solid gold ten years ago, he led a lot of genuinely great stuff. Then he took a long dive down the deep end and now his reputation is in tatters.
Mostly for better responsiveness and configurability, and focus on keyboard rather than mouse interaction.
Yep! Machine Learning should be mlemming :)
These aren’t the infamous basements that flooded during Ida I assume.
It's not usually a problem, but if you're making an app that shows really large amounts of data it can become a bottleneck (I've run into this personally). It also has less to do with number of unique components and more to do with the number of components on the screen at once, and the number that have to be (or end up) re-rendered on each update
Programming Isn’t Hard – But It’s Frustrating
Usually the dangerous folks are people on the payroll, and the end game is selling the property to someone else to be turned into something higher end once the normal tenants are out.

Sometimes it’s just to have tenant churn to allow them to get higher rents. Rent control for long periods of time can cause very large disparities between current market rents and what a tenant is paying (thousands/mo). The dangerous folks aren’t usually obvious when first checking out a unit.

At least in NYC, there is a lot of reputed Mafia involvement in real estate.
Kubernetes may eventually underpin lots of higher level infrastructure, but most stuff currently isn't running atop Kubernetes. None of the higher level container-as-a-service offerings by the major cloud providers run on Kubernetes, for example. Nor does Heroku. And moreover a lot of people are still working with lower-level abstractions (VMs and auto-scaling groups) or no abstractions at all (pet servers).
There were two emails. One to the executive staff, and another company wide email.
Hello!
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No shit.

As far as the Bay goes, it feels like decisions about office placement are made with things like management or prestige in mind, rather than the average worker. For all the growth in the East Bay and Tri-Valley area, it seems like most office buildings continue to be built on the peninsula. Hayward is one of the most central locations in the bay and is largely used for... logistics and distribution?

I miss the office, but there's no way I'd give my current remote lifestyle for the way things were before (average 1.5 hours of commute time per day). Mind you, this is _after_ optimizing my home buying process to shorten my commute as much as possible. I have a neighbor that bought a Tesla mainly for the tag that lets you use it in carpool lanes. Everyone has better things to do than sit in cars (or other transport) for hours a day, and its a sad thing that more effort hasn't been expended to improve this before now.
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I’m the founder at Inc-Query, a ~60-person, fully remote company that’s building a better survey platform. We are looking for a senior full-stack developer to join our small but growing dev team.

Our stack is TypeScript, Node, React, and Postgres primarily, with a smaller Django/PG codebase too. I daydream about rewriting in Rescript or Koka :)

We have a variety of interesting technologies, including a custom programming language interpreter and type checker, a concurrent editing system, a data streaming service, and more. We value LOC not written more than LOC that are, and we try not to break things.

We have been a fully remote company since 2016, spread across over a dozen countries, and therefore tend to work asynchronously and sustainably. We are **profitable** and growing organically, and we have an extremely talented team.

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> If that were true we'd have had fully autonomous FSD 5 years ago

Genuine doesn’t mean what you think it means. FSD is late because Elon underestimated it while working on it as fast as Tesla can, not because he’s a liar who’s walking his dog around the office instead of running the business and rebranding Siemens machines as his own.
Ah, yes, your right.
I think that goes for all violins. I had two years worth of lessons and never managed to get to a point that I felt that it was time well spent. Compared to other instruments which are much more rewarding initially I found the violin to be absolutely beautiful to listen to when played by an accomplished violinist but a total horror to actually master.
> Madrigal Elektromotoren GmbH

Wait, isn't this a fictitious company from breaking bad?
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