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Thank you, I'll address it right away!

My friends and I have been working on building our website — https://bigbeans.ai It's leetcode for ML/AI space. We believe that a lot of software engineers are interested in learning about GenAI and like us learn by solving problems. :)

I wonder how many innovations/systems are lost to history due to people changing incentives OR not understanding the depth of how incentives are structured. Without this open letter, it'd be hard to hear the other side. Most likely the changes would have been adopted...

Reading this encouraged me to think critically about things I work on.

At this scale/valuation of the company, it's probably a bad idea but hard to know at the time. My understanding of US tax laws and options is that this sort of behavior is what you want for early stage startups. You allow early exercise, restricted vesting with the upside of paying no income tax now, only LTCG on vesting (+liquidity event), and potentially QSBS tax exemption if you joined early enough and the startup does well.

Their storefront feels dated and retro — probably why it feels something for older tastes. But their lollipops are amazing. I go there just for them. Just today, I bought a box of chocolate-caramel.

I hope that, in addition to, improving their recruiting funnel and brand value; this effort serves to improve diversity in tech. We have talked about tech companies throwing their hands in the air to encourage college admissions rate from under-represented classes. Hopefully, this move to go down the funnel leads to that improvement!

It's interesting to see one of the basis of defense is promises made during offer stage. Anecdotally speaking, and I am not remotely close to Hall's position or responsibilities (an engineer) and in the past, the hiring team has always led me to believe that the non-competes are a standard clause and are not likely to be enforced.

On a separate note, anybody knows if Google would help with legal defense of Hall or ignore this as a private matter?

I can only imagine how much it sucks to be laid off and what a difficult decision it must be for Airbnb executives.

To me, the severance and exit benefits do seem to strike an employee friendly tone. Kudos to the leadership to striking a good balance on keeping the business alive and doing right by their people.

Outline link for non paywall - https://outline.com/Yf3CLV

It might sound like bad fuel efficiency but the engine efficiencies they have managed to achieve are insane. The latest Mercedes and Ferrari engines are able to gain 47% efficiency [1]. Compare that to the road cars which are able to do 25-30% thermal efficiency and Prius which can manage 40%.

In my opinion, the fuel efficiency suffers because it's a sport at the end of the day and burning more fuel at a higher rate (limited to 100 kg/hour) gives you more power.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/turbulent-times-for-for...

This is another. Not sure if raising money in itself is a red flag. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/argo-ai#/entity

There is still a margin if the intended buyer was willing to pay more or would just want to buy the milk at whatever price offered. Of course, the grocers could keep raising the price arbitrarily but there is still a delta that the guy in the Ferrari could overcharge. I think you understand the point we are trying to get across but just trolling it. I'd have appreciated an honest discussion rather than a trolling attitude.

Like I said in the original comment, it is pointless to get bogged down in the analogy because it doesn't reflect the truth accurately. However, you guys are continuing down the path an down-voting a perfectly legit argument. The purpose of an analogy is not to maintain fidelity to the original scenario but to simplify it to convey the point of author (otherwise it ends up getting as complicated as the scenario). The analogy is only a coarse approximation of the actual scenario, a best-effort attempt to drive the point across. I'm disappointed with the unreasonable down-votes and the explanation provided.

The grocers' price is irrelevant to the discussion here.

The guy with the Ferrari would still outrun you and offer you a new price, with a margin just enough for them to be profitable, yet not substantially large as to talk you out of the deal altogether.

Well, there is in a matter of speaking. To take the analogy further, imagine not buying a gallon of milk but 100,000 1 gallon can of milk. The guy with the Ferrari wouldn't be able to get in front of you at the next door target but they'll loot the most convenient Walgreens, Safeway, Walmart, and Amazon Prime. Of course, the analogy no longer holds for numerous reasons (100000 gallons of milk, driving around, buying from the farms directly) but the point is the Flash Boys work on the likelihood of such an event happening which, believe it or not, is fairly common in the stock markets these days. Think, mutual funds, ETF managers, etc. This is now, largely, considered the cost of doing business.

This is amazing. May be the paper has details on the following questions: 1. Is the data being encrypted on the go, meaning it is encrypted as needed probably with the login user's shared key. That would explain the need for running sendfile on every video traffic packet. 2. How would CDN caching work with this?

I have been thinking about doing this for a while now but don't quite know how and where to start. Do you have some pointers? I have seen this posted a bunch of time by various people but never really got up to asking them.

Things I am uncertain about: * Organization/Admin set-up required to get going with me being the only person * Finding programming projects, clients * A good hourly rate to be charged

A little about me: I have been working as a Software Engineer for a few years now with a very good understanding of python, java, C/C++, javascript (learning React these days), databases, bash scripts. Have some experience with elasticsearch, big data (hadooop/hive), scala.

Yeah, that's a very critical information. Thanks, guys!

Could you explain how this works? Er, I mean why only the re-direct to the favicon works?

Amazing product. I started using it a while ago and was truly impressed with the integration [python]. kudos! All the more sweeter since it's only 7 people

As an Indian, I felt a real contrast when visiting Singapore. Everywhere we went around it was clean and beautiful but Little India. There was noise, trash, and what not. That walk was really insightful about us, begged questioning my values.

Problem 1 could be made clearer by specifying that only non-negative integers could be stored on the tape. The example image doesn't help either... :(

GitHub gearing for a Microsoft acquisition OR am I reading too much?

This was covered in Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. It is an awesome book that talks about human behavior in day-to-day life. The best part: it goes on to demonstrate that even the smartest of the folks fall for these tricks in a lot of context.