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Re:CockroachDB License Change on Friday August 16, 2024 @05:25PM (#41270535)
That seems... fine? The terms basically imply that if you publish a benchmark you need to let CRDB reproduce your benchmark and discuss it publicly
It's comical how much of modern startup compensation is gymnastics around taxes.

My understanding is that the most basic problem is if the startup gives you stock that's viewed as income and you will need to pay tax on an illiquid asset, and ISO/NSO/RSU/409a's are resulting from various elaborate schemes to give you stock-like upside tomorrow without having to pay taxes on an illiquid today.

Re:Gemini – Google DeepMind on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:39PM (#38547060)
Bard has a setting to enable something approximating streaming responses (still not quite as nice as GPT)
Seems like it, the parent poster is almost implying there's an element of underwriting the transaction/house for which 2% is not unreasonable (Title insurance is in the 1% (or a bit less) range in the US I believe)
Yeah, it looks like it's pro-rated:

> The Settlement Administrator will assign each Authorized Claimant one point for each month in which the Authorized Claimant had an activated Facebook account during the Class Period.

(#8 on https://www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/#faqs )

This is fascinating, but is focused on the engineering side and not the modeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1e4t2k2KJY
Re:Albuquerque Techzonics on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:19AM (#36630051)
Just be mindful of the "Unauthorized Visitor Fee" --

“Whether or not related to Consumertronics business, any visit to our facilities which is not with our clear, written, prior permission, or so permitted by us based on a fraudulent, erroneous or deceptive representation by the visitor, is an unauthorized visit which automatically results in a non-refundable Unauthorized Visitor Fee (UVF) for each visitor and for each visit for which the visitor assumes total personal liability for paying. The amounts of the UVFs are set by us based on our perception of the real and potential injury to us caused by the visitor and visit, as well as the amount of our time and inconvenience for the unauthorized visit. The UVF amounts may vary between $0 and $1,000,000+ per visitor per visit. UVF fees are independent and separate from all other fees, charges and costs the unauthorized visitor may be required to pay.”

Re:Intel One Mono Typeface on Saturday May 13, 2023 @08:40AM (#35927802)
Jokes aside Comic Mono is surprisingly nice. I thought I'd hate it but it has a fun whimsy to it
Re:Twitter Layoffs Continue into 2023 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @09:09AM (#34299207)
Well structurally taking Twitter private has increased expenses by $1bil (the interest on loans) against last year's ~$6bil in revenue, so that alone is going to change the health of the company.

On top of that Musk has given guidance that he expects revenue to fall from $6b in 2022 to $3b in 2023. (This seems dramatic TBH)

I don't think there were revelations (this is all public info), the transaction just changed the fundamentals.

Re:Artsy Engineering Handbook on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:37AM (#34288320)
Company hackathons are rarely 24hr affairs and more "don't do your normal work during working hours"
Re:Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future? on Friday July 29, 2022 @07:01PM (#32282663)
Argh, thanks for flagging. Looks like I can't edit :(
Re:Organizing and scaling an effective data team on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:34AM (#30710983)
Yeah, I absolutely agree with a common tactic being dangling an ML carrot at recruiting but the work not even being ML related.

I've historically seen the ML team be separate from Data Science/Analytics, I wonder if that helps with this

Re:Why is Snowflake so Valuable? on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:53PM (#24645569)
BQ Slots lets you do essentially that (pre-commit to a particular cluster size)
Re:It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit on Friday January 25, 2019 @02:45PM (#19001728)
Two-phase commit deals with network failure, not change semantics. The message itself (whether "BALANCE=40" or "SUBTRACT 40") isn't something that matters to 2pc.
I've found the Yahoo paper from 2010 to be the best distillation of the general problem of feed following and how to solve it (blending push/pull as you say):http://jeffterrace.com/docs/feeding-frenzy-sigmod10-web.pdf
We tried spinnaker and are now using Weave (https://www.weave.works/). It works pretty well, actually. In particular we like that it stores all state in a git repo which is automatically updated.

We have our own monitoring stack, though, so don't use the additional prometheus integrations

No, for the same reason you don't spend most of your time on your weakest employees or most of your money on your poorest investments. Feed your winners.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018) on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @01:13PM (#16053854)
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Re:Apple should shrink its finance arm before it goes bananas on Saturday October 28, 2017 @05:29PM (#15576814)
Yes, this has been used as a defense against insider trading accusations, sometimes unsuccessfully: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_theory_(investments)
Re:Why Deep Learning surprises me on Saturday August 26, 2017 @02:11PM (#15106600)
Interestingly, you can treat the NN as a black box (ie, not look at individual weights or even the architecture) and still derive adversarial cases:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02697

You can. Tensorflow has a CPU implementation. But, it's not a little longer, it's incredibly longer.
Re:Chatbots Don't Deliver Good Customer Service on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:30AM (#14718581)
I get the same response when I ask "does my insurance work outside of new york state". It doesn't seem any more intelligent than finding keywords.
Re:Bringing back the Somali shilling on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:38PM (#14414952)
This is precisely what is happening in Somalia (as noted in the article), although in the inverse: the value of the money fluctuates (down) with the cost of production.
Most likely you can only breed sufficiently healthy animals.

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