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Re:When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:23AM (#43124301)
You posted first, so you are 1 here
:facepalm: :)
It's not just the funding but the jobs themselves. Universities and even the funding bodies want to show shiny easy-to-digest numbers to their stakeholders to justify tuition and government funds. Which means these institutions in turn expect those numbers from their researchers, who then are happy to comply and build their paper mills and citation cartels, solving no real problems at best and producing fake data at worst.
Re:Most AI startups are doomed on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @02:58PM (#38450408)
Something that gets overlooked here is that most people will associate the early players for a particular kind of AI (OpenAI) with being at the forefront. Even if there are 100 competitors offering the same service with similar quality, sticking to the best-known provider gives confidence to enterprise buyers, especially when they have to explain the purchase to their bosses or shareholders. This, and the ability to attract and retain top talent, will continue to be an advantage of the early winners as long as they also continue to focus on pushing the boundaries and don't fall too far behind when competitors come up with new advances. Heck, they can even relax and cash out after a while and continue to reap the benefits, like IBM continues to do for enterprise computing even to this day despite (shamefully) not caring to be at the forefront anymore.
Re:GitHub 404 errors on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:06PM (#38133515)
Is everyone laid off???
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:19PM (#38122446)
How did the other FTX kids get away with it so easy? It feels like prosecutors gave them deals too generous just to get SBF convicted more easily.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:15PM (#38122406)
Is there any place in the world where it isn't that way? Honest question.

How could SBF pay his victims back fully if he doesn't have enough assets?

Click on the top link to understand what's going on. The point is that ChatGPT purportedly generated that nonsensical answer to a human prompt and Google somehow picked it up as the top search result for that query.
Re:Publishing my first game using pico-8 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @07:54PM (#37732255)
An alternative open source fantasy console is TIC 80: https://tic80.com
No built-in regulation perhaps, but many jurisdictions are starting to regulate it, for good reason.
Re:Ask HN: What are some communities like HN? on Friday September 22, 2023 @05:17PM (#37617903)
Not quite, it seems...
Re:Ask HN: What are some communities like HN? on Friday September 22, 2023 @04:47PM (#37617559)
Pouët (https://pouet.net) from the demoscene. Yes, it's programming, but at the intersection with art and retro culture.
Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:19PM (#36557210)
In this job market, it's hard. And many engineers are on H1B visas so it's even harder to jump ship.
Re:HashiCorp just let go 8% on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:06AM (#36242102)
More like 10% in voluntary attrition afterward, if not more. And those will be the best people. Incredibly damaging to the company.
Re:Brazil judge orders temporary suspension of Telegram on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:19PM (#35722925)
So they can talk to the representatives. They cannot make them remove the app.
Re:Incompetent but Nice on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:27PM (#35366006)
Never ever hire incompetent people who are beyond help, no matter how nice. What's the point? You are running a team that needs to perform. It's not a charity or a social club. By keeping incompetent people you send a horrible sign to the rest of the team and the team will crack under the stress.

Reject the notion that you can only find jerks to get the competency you need. Just be sure they are willing to work for the team. Some will be real nice, the rest will learn to get along. Make expectations very clear up front and be willing to fire for bad behavior.

This CNN article is about recovery fund fraud, not money laundering, and more importantly it highlights that only middle to small bank executives, and only lower level executives at too-big-to-fail banks, were punished.
Re:SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities on Monday December 12, 2022 @08:28PM (#33963370)
She must have known where the bailout money was coming from (FTX customer funds). Yet she accepted it. That makes her appear as complicit.
Re:Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:02PM (#33859516)
That's usually the problem. There is virtually no competition within a state university system. Even in open markets, incumbents are bloated with bureaucracy and politics but succeed by digging trenches around them to keep new players out.
Re:A sleuth’s guide to the coming wave of corporate fraud on Sunday November 13, 2022 @04:12PM (#33587390)
I don't think he is chasing the spotlight more than necessary to promote his business. Besides, chasing the spotlight does not imply honesty. Just look at SBF.
Re:Crypto.com Halts Solana USDC and USDT Withdrawals on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:51PM (#33541112)
Binance already knew that there was a hole there. They had just triggered the bank run by calling it out. The attempt to bail out FTX later was only for saving face and maybe also because they freaked out but couldn't stop it at that point.
Re:We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:47PM (#33538377)
Storing wealth means that you can get your wealth out later. In this case, people are just giving it away.
Re:California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:18AM (#33190568)
Ability to flash an eink middle finger to the guy honking madly behind you?
Re:Dear Chess World on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:39PM (#32989535)
What was Carlsen's blunder in his game against Niemann? If he had blundered badly in that game, it would be a very different story.

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