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t3rmi commented on Waymo now does 50k paid trips per week   twitter.com/Waymo/status/... · Posted by u/ra7
t3rmi · 2 years ago
Recently took a waymo in Phoenix. Its was pretty smooth.

There was an event and several road closures. It managed to reroute using an alternative path.

Some times the waymo was cheaper than uber and at other times was twice as expensive.

t3rmi commented on Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract   nypost.com/2024/04/17/bus... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist
WatchDog · 2 years ago
I doubt it hurts very much.

Are the names of these people even public?

I don't think that many companies really do the kind of due diligence for IC positions that would discover someones involvement in a stunt like this, beyond maybe a couple of employee provided reference checks.

Besides, there are plenty of ideologically sympathetic hiring managers in the industry.

t3rmi · 2 years ago
These people gave an interview thats on YouTube now with their real names.
t3rmi commented on Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract   nypost.com/2024/04/17/bus... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist
ImJamal · 2 years ago
HR was being kind calling it a sit in. From the article: "They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers".

Defacing property is not part of a sit-in.

t3rmi · 2 years ago
From blind apparently most googlers in the building were not aware of this incident until the cops showed up.
t3rmi commented on Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air   seattletimes.com/business... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
t3rmi · 2 years ago
Recently my wife has been checking every flight we taking to ensure that its not Boeing.

I initially thought she was overreacting but based on what I’m seeing from Boeing here I have to thank her for her diligence.

t3rmi commented on Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast   cnbc.com/2023/03/13/gitla... · Posted by u/YourCupOTea
eeasss · 3 years ago
The fully remote approach may have hit its limits.
t3rmi · 3 years ago
I wonder if we can compare remote vs in person companies across industries and see stock price deltas across the last 2 years.
t3rmi commented on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC   home.treasury.gov/news/pr... · Posted by u/FormerBandmate
shippintoboston · 3 years ago
How exactly are they guaranteeing all deposits? They claim to not be bailing them out and they haven't found a seller. I'm smelling bullshit.
t3rmi · 3 years ago
You know what they say, if it looks like shit and smells like shit. It's shit.
t3rmi commented on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC   home.treasury.gov/news/pr... · Posted by u/FormerBandmate
spaceman_2020 · 3 years ago
Can anyone help me understand why would any bank practice proper risk management after this?

SVB took on risk by catering to high risk clients (startups). Growth metrics were great as a result. And stock performed spectacularly (up nearly 6x from April 2020 lows at ath).

More conservative banks like JPM, however, saw modest growth.

If you're a banker and your salary is tied to stock performance, why not just adopt the SVB playbook, take on riskier clients, show strong growth, cash out your stock options, and when it all ends, just walk away without any guilt since the government will bail out your customers anyway?

t3rmi · 3 years ago
This looks like the playbook for small scale banks now. Just gamble and say oops I fkd up, can the govt pretty please make my clients whole?

2 years later bam start the same bank again 2.0.

t3rmi commented on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC   home.treasury.gov/news/pr... · Posted by u/FormerBandmate
travisjungroth · 3 years ago
It’s really amazing the number of people that don’t seem to understand that. It would be like if a dairy farmer overloaded his truck, crashed it and died. The government steps in and makes sure everyone gets milk while they sell off the cows. Then people say “this creates a moral hazard for dairy farmers to overload their trucks without consequences!”. No, dude. He died.
t3rmi · 3 years ago
This is incorrect. The correct analogy would be if I set the speed of my automated truck to 20mph over the speed limit causing me to earn 10% more income for 10 years. Then the truck crashes and burns and my neighbors pay for it.
t3rmi commented on OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down   status.openai.com/#... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera
la64710 · 3 years ago
This is precisely why they should really open source their model so that anyone can download and run it on their own infrastructure. Just like google or others have done and one is free to run it on their own laptop (some even without a GPU) , on premise or on any cloud provider infrastructure. They can continue to provide a hosted service for their model but they should allow it to be downloaded just like BERT.
t3rmi · 3 years ago
Open AI's CEO Sam Altman's take is that they will only ever allow API access to their models to avoid misuse.

I don't get HN's take with wanting everything open sourced. Some things are expensive to create and dangerous in the wrong hands. Not everything can and should be open sourced.

u/t3rmi

KarmaCake day94October 22, 2016View Original