some_guy_nobel

Nice - anything to offer up other than name calling? Do you have any ideas of your own related to the displayed data and narrative?

Right? As a former founder, I laugh every time I get a 'Founding Engineer' recruit email...

Great article, must be the inspiration for the recent Illustrated Evo 2: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/blog/illustrated-evo2/

In what other professional industry can a partner just be openly racist, hostile, and spread Alex Jones like propaganda? It's so bizarre to watch.

What do you expect? a16z-funded and they love to talk about how much they've raised, thought-leader style co-founders, etc.

Yes, why would you bother not exercising power you possess?

By that logic, I suppose well-funded police should respond to every call with a SWAT team, or at the least guns drawn?

(I guess Uncle Ben's quote in Spiderman actually wasn't redundant!)

SVG has been transforming web-experiences (particularly for viz) for quite some time now, see:

- https://mlu-explain.github.io/neural-networks/

- https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/graphics

- https://pudding.cool/

I agree with the author when they write:

""" In my idealistic vision of how scientific publishing should work, each paper would be accompanied by a fully interactive environment where the reader could explore the data, rerun the experiments, tweak the parameters, and see how the results changed. """

I do like seeing larger labs/companies releasing research full of SVGs. In recent memory, I quite liked this from NVIDIA:

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/blog/illustrated-evo2/

What are you responding to?

How much of the current burden is shouldered by the middle class? How much by the 1%? How does that compare to other Western nations? What measurable effect would raising this on the 1% be? What about the middle class?

Of course you did, his PR team knew exactly who to market it to.

Laughable that you believe this. Do you still after seeing all the counter evidence? Do you sit back and ask yourself, "I wonder if the world's richest man has a PR firm, one so effective it has me working for it part time spreading the lies."?

README could use more work. Zero images, demos, etc. - why put all the effort into a tool just to market it so poorly...

Wow, a shockingly argumentative tone for someone who is just flat out wrong.

Beyond the response someone else commented explaining exactly where the comparison was mentioned, the anecdote itself is useful in offering an experience of someone who's life has been changed by the drug.

In any case, the study mentioned in the article is a meta-analysis about children, not adults, so there is no onus on OP to qualify anything about placebo or not.

Probably because this was made in 2014 :D

You claim OP's interpretation is inaccurate, while it tracks perfectly with many of EA's most notorious supporters.

Given that contrast, I'd ask what evidence do you have for why OP's interpretation is incorrect, and what evidence do you have that your interpretation is correct?

a16z has become a badge of honor for the worst people in tech (the ones who chase Forbes 30u30), and a stain to everyone else.

This thread is about the FBI, yet you're referencing strawman arguments about DUI checkpoints from local police. Do you have any experience with crimes against children?

What makes you say that? Sad how easy it is for someone to dismiss writing these days as, "must be AI written!" (I'd wager the average LLM blog post takes more effort than your dismissive response, though I wish I didn't have to read either).

I'm not a fan of the author's writing, but you can look at their other articles and see the same (non-AI feeling) style of writing and general theme of content (airport-book style motivation).

The one word answer is cost.

But, if you'd like to instead read the article, you'll see that they qualify the reasoning in the first section of the article, titled, "Rethinking the Old Trade-Off: Cost, Complexity, and Access".

There's an edit button...

OpenAI applies the same strategy, but they’re using their equity to buy compute that is critical to improving their core technology. It’s circular, but more like a flywheel and less like a merry-go-round. I have some faith it could go another way.

I'm commenting here in case a large crash occurs, to have a nice relic of the zeitgeist of the time.

In what way? Demanding that people who are being paid $200k-400k TC need to execute and show that they can execute is something which needed to be done in the tech industry.

Where does this come from? Maybe if you're drinking whatever (toxic) koolaid Amazon gave you, but Amazon has a lower profit-per-employee than Docusign: https://www.trueup.io/revenue-per-employee

Not exactly the steward of execution you think it is.

From the outside looking in, if your "last resort" comment truly was a guess to their reasoning, then I'm rather shocked. We're both on HN, so I have to assume we both work in tech and have access to the same information regarding why Amazon has earned its awful reputation.

Beyond that, I agree with your larger point, with an asterisk on "overpaying", as I do think an American company should have an incentive to prevent laying off workers just to refill them with offshoring and hiring H1Bs, especially at Amazon's scale of profitability.

Ah, my favorite time of year, the wave of low-effort README and library version update PRs.

Never new ctrl+l, that's great, thanks!

These are great, and I have a few matching myself.

Here are some super simple ones I didn't see that I use almost every day:

cl="clear"

g="git"

h="history"

ll="ls -al"

path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}'

lv="live-server"

And for common navigation:

dl="cd ~/Downloads"

dt="cd ~/Desktop"

Would you consider yourself a supporter of free speech?

Do you think it should apply only to citizens?

We can default to the Supreme Court's ruling in Bridges vs Wixon: "Freedom of speech and of press is accorded to aliens residing in this country.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=107220981080384...

Sure thing.

"When I’m 33, I’ll quit – I don’t want to be a rock star all my life.” - Mick Jagger

Also, I've never seen a hypen used in 'planning ahead' before.

You first!

In any honest conversation, the person presenting the numbers will provide this, but I'll bite:

How many years are cumulative negative in this table?

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=ne...

(I guess the correct way to model this would be as the difference of Poissons between hires and separations, but a student-t should do just fine since we don't have separations)

Yes, I agree there is a funding requirement for academic science. Hell, even attending a conference you've been accepted to is prohibitively expensive if out of your own pocket.

But your original statement was far too broad:

there is not a scientist, artist, researcher or writer who is not driven by funding.

There are absolutely members from every one of those subsets driven by curiousity.

(In my own life, I have reached out to labs in completely different fields than my own to help publish out of nothing more than pure curiosity.)