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Agree but topping out is similar to saying that the slope changes. Maybe after hitting 75k, it takes another $400k to make an appreciable difference. It may take a another $40mm to make a difference at $750k (100x for a 10x change)

It must be non-linear. Surely the 20th billion isn’t as good as the 5th

People don’t want to give up their info and create an account to try it out.

The pro is that chatGPT would probably quickly surface many okrs the user would not have thought of, and could answer questions about the pros and cons. It could also answer questions about how many wild be suitable and sub okr that may feed into the main okr and so forth

I assume someone cracks a “waiting for” joke every time there are is any update from them.

That could just be part of the secular trend of re-assessing the records of "conquerors" across the world. Some people consider Napoleon, Alexander and so on to be glorified warlords who happened to win but are essentially mass murderers like non-western conquerors (Attila the Hun and so on).

What’s their source of lithium? Can’t read the article.

New Yorker but also digital

If that’s what prompted this I can see why you recommend videos. It’s the #1 recommendation for any startup advice source.

But … you must have come across it before. What made you not pursue it? ie why was it a blind spot?

The issue I have here is that it’s not clear how to identify the mini games to improve.

This is an article of where blind spots might be but not about how to find them.

One of the suggestions is to find a coach — for instance online videos (not exactly a live coach) — but if you don’t know the mini games you should want to improve , how do you know which coach/video to invest in?

Yeah but it seems strange: make a law that you cannot speak against the government and of course we politely obey and keep quiet. Ask us to remove something and we will debate it, fight it and expose it.

I think the second approach is right even if the request were “innocuous”.

The myth of the myth of the myth of the 10x programmers.

This is just argument by assertion. You would still hope someone would demonstrate the existence of 10x programmers. A lot of these one-off anecdotes in the comments are closer to 1.3x to be honest.

"Every damn body" knows this in retrospect. At the time -- when we were washing our groceries and we weren't sure if the IFR was 1% or 10%, and if it was airborne or if it was morphing into something worse -- our new reality might have been very different.

Because then your boss would just give you 99% of your salary as a gift.

Doesn’t it seem that if there were an online marketplace or app for slavers we could easily find it, see screenshots etc?

I doubt it exists but subservience — or near slavery — is everywhere.

I see Mexicans working in very subservient conditions with all kinds of legal constraints.

I don’t think we treat our undocumented immigrants better than the Saudis — or anyone else.

This is frustrating:

Consider this:

LeCun, 2022: Today's AI approaches will never lead to true intelligence (reported in the headline, not a verbatim quote); Marcus, 2018: “deep learning must be supplemented by other techniques if we are to reach artificial general intelligence.”

How can that be something that LeCun did not give Marcus credit for? It is borderline self evident, and people have been saying similar things since neural networks were invented. This would only be news if LeCun had said that "neural nets are all you need" (literally, not as a reference to the title of the transformers paper).

And furthermore, if LeCun had said that, there are literally dozens of people who have also said that you need to combine the approaches.

He cites a single line:'LeCun spent part of his career bashing symbols; his collaborator Geoff Hinton even more so, Their jointly written 2015 review of deep learning ends by saying that they “new paradigms are needed to replace rule-based manipulation of symbolic expressions.”'

Well, sure because symbol processing alone is not the answer either. We need to replace it with some hybrid. How is this a contradiction?

To summarize: people have been looking for a productive way to combine symbolic and statistical systems -- there are in fact many such systems proposed with varying degrees of success. LeCun agrees with this approach (no one has anything to lose by endorsing adding things to any model), but Marcus insists he came up with it and he should be cited.

Ugh.

By any chance, were you informing Natalie about a discount at Dick's sporting goods?

I have a lot to say about this sort of X was done in 5 minutes, but I am going to refer to the person who said it best:

https://youtu.be/Qdplq4cj76I

(Steve Jobs on how ideas change when you actually do it)

The title of this has Tailwind alternative in it. At this point around 100% of the comments are about the comparison to tailwind.

However, open-props never mentions tailwind. That simple mis-title has hijacked the convo.

See for yourself.

Propublica plotted a "cancer map" of elevated cancer risks, and you can see how it drops off as you go away from certain points.

https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/

Consider this set of ideas -- made up right now, on the spot -- as potential answers to the question "How to be a great developer?":

-- Practice code

-- Read code

-- Read ideas about what makes good code

-- Write about what makes code good, try to practice the principles

-- Try different languages, especially ones that are different from the ones you first learn (i.e. functional if you learned procedural, object oriented, and of course Prolog)

What is wrong with these suggestions? Do you believe they will make you a great programmer?

Well, yes, these are great suggestions but the problem is:

1. They are self evident

2. They take a lot of time

What is missing is the tradeoff. If you just tell people all the ways to practice, then you aren't really giving them information. Its not false, and I don't have to be a great programmer to render this simple advice.

Whom does he hire to help build those cars, rockets and tunnels? Graduates of universities or Oompa Loompas?

Love these ads. There were almost as many computer companies back then as there are crypto currencies now.

For a mere $1595, you got a 16k computer with microsoft basic but the best part is that it comes with 2 Z80 chips. Not sure how much a Z80 chip cost but surely the user would prefer an extra 8k or whatever. Best part is that you get to learn how the computer works by building it.

You can see why user testing is so important.

I was trying to destroy my own innocence around then, but sadly I was less successful than I would have hoped.

I did think about going to Woodstock to get it destroyed, but thought it might be too corporate for said innocence destruction.

Turned out, I was wrong.

Not sure why people thing Google does not have a help function. I think it is obvious at this point that reddit and hacker news are Google's help desks but people do need to vote up the relevant tickets to get priority attention.

My biggest mistake: years ago I ended pushing personal credentials to GitHub at night and waking up to a several thousand dollar bill in the morning.

Changed credentials and cancelled all the running instances only to find that I’d missed some.

It was resolved by the afternoon.

Sigh. That was Maverick in the (we prefer the term) inverted dive. Goose was just along for the ride.

I feel for the rather confused and well meaning non-subcontinent related people who have waded into a culture war.

In South Asia - especially India — the moghuls are a loaded topic at the moment. There is an extreme right wing government that is focused on a Hindu resurgence (fine) at the expense of non Hindus (not fine), and the central justification is look how badly we were treated in the past. All the moghuls have gone through a lot of revisionism and reassessment (also fine) but it’s all politically motivated to interpret current events (sad).

Good thing that in the US we hold capitalism in high regard so no ISP would ever make it hard to cancel.

Wait, when people disagree with you on an issue then they downvote you.

However, when you are talking about the same government, when they agree with you, will upvote you?

This, right here, is a broken system. People should only be able to upvote or downvote another person, but not both, whenever they are talking about the same government!