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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Slightly off topic, but I like what they have done with the site design. Would look more homogenic across platforms when viewed in the browser. Of course there is more space on desktops to display more stuff which should be utilised. This, imo, is a good balance.
I think what we should understand is corporate tries really hard to be socially acceptable (some of the ways are marketing themselves as champions of women rights, equal opportunities, LGBT community supporters). It is up to them as to what stand they want to take on a matter. It would be even more courageous if they take the opposite stand on this particular matter precisely because people would howl, cry and do what not.
Did you switch over to insertion sort once the stack became more manageable?
Personally, I would have used radix sort, while keeping the stack size manageable. This would mean less comparisons, manageable desk space and less effort. Plus selection sort (which is very intuitive when you aren't bound by array/list constraints) becomes really easy.
real world example:
Before we could set down for a game of poker; more often than not, my friends and I would have to form a complete deck from the many mixed up together. While quick/merge are the fastest comparison sorts, we would prefer doing a radix sort on the suite and then selection sort until cards of the color are sorted out.
I think similar strategies would work here as well!
Agreed, with people at twitter, facebook and all other places constantly coming up with more and more JS libraries, there is enough evidence that the existing ones are insufficient at some level. And even if they weren't, having choices is good to have in an open source (very loosely used) community.
The cool quotient, in this case, is not governed by the amount of money you make later but by the satisfaction, excitement and thrill of risk associated with working in a startup. Not to forget, more often than not you also tend to learn a lot more in a startup than the usual big corp job.
Even this becomes annoying when you have to wait for the page to load to see it's content and is heavy but not media content heavy. Something like Google+ or coursera pages.