Acqui-hiring is toxic:
(1) Fewer people will want to join a startup if their hard work only makes the co-founders rich.
(2) Because of this, big corps will worry less about employees leaving to join startups.
It's a double win for big corps doing acquihires and a big loss for innovation.
(1) Fewer people will want to join a startup if their hard work only makes the co-founders rich.
(2) Because of this, big corps will worry less about employees leaving to join startups.
It's a double win for big corps doing acquihires and a big loss for innovation.
August 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Acqui-hiring is toxic:
(1) Fewer people will want to join a startup if their hard work only makes the co-founders rich.
(2) Because of this, big corps will worry less about employees leaving to join startups.
It's a double win for big corps doing acquihires and a big loss for innovation.
(1) Fewer people will want to join a startup if their hard work only makes the co-founders rich.
(2) Because of this, big corps will worry less about employees leaving to join startups.
It's a double win for big corps doing acquihires and a big loss for innovation.
Text-to-text diffusion models with thinking capacity are the future. Transformer models are old news.
May 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Text-to-text diffusion models with thinking capacity are the future. Transformer models are old news.
Swagger/OpenAPI has been there for 15 years. I don't understand the hype around MCP. I guess in the tech world people like new things with bells and whistles? Give LLM a break. "LANGUAGE" is its middle name. It understands YAML & JSON, mkay?
April 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Swagger/OpenAPI has been there for 15 years. I don't understand the hype around MCP. I guess in the tech world people like new things with bells and whistles? Give LLM a break. "LANGUAGE" is its middle name. It understands YAML & JSON, mkay?
That's why thinking models shouldn't be your go-to models for general use cases -- it might "overthink" 🤣
March 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
That's why thinking models shouldn't be your go-to models for general use cases -- it might "overthink" 🤣
Happy Chinese New Year! 🎊
January 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Happy Chinese New Year! 🎊
hell no
fortune.com/2024/11/20/e...
fortune.com/2024/11/20/e...
Elon Musk asked people to upload their medical data to X so his AI company could learn to interpret MRIs and CT scans
Health care experts are worried about Grok’s potential to breach patient privacy.
fortune.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:04 AM
hell no
fortune.com/2024/11/20/e...
fortune.com/2024/11/20/e...
November 10, 2024 at 6:56 AM
"glue code" is probably ~1/4
www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/2...
www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/2...
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
The company had a strong quarter thanks in large part to AI.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM
"glue code" is probably ~1/4
www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/2...
www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/2...
Jeff Bezos has no spine. www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/2...
Bezos reportedly killed the Washington Post’s Kamala Harris endorsement
Democracy dies in darkness!
www.theverge.com
October 25, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Jeff Bezos has no spine. www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/2...
“below $30,000” and “before 2027” you still believe that shit after Model 3 and Cyberfuck? 🤣
Tesla reveals 20 Cybercabs at We, Robot event
Tesla reveals 20 Cybercabs at We, Robot event
Tesla has finally revealed its Cybercab, and it looks like a smaller, sleeker Cybertruck. And while many were expecting there to be at least one prototype of a robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, Tesla CEO Elon Musk delighted his fans with a lineup…
tcrn.ch
October 11, 2024 at 6:11 AM
“below $30,000” and “before 2027” you still believe that shit after Model 3 and Cyberfuck? 🤣
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #513,836!
September 17, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #513,836!
The older I get, the more challenging it is to be an agnostic atheism. I think I'm an agnostic theist now.
September 12, 2024 at 12:53 AM
The older I get, the more challenging it is to be an agnostic atheism. I think I'm an agnostic theist now.
"Thirteen of those cases involved people who live at Westlake Christian Terrace. All of them are Asian women, but police say they are not considering these hate crimes." WTF?!
13 residents of Oakland senior home attacked and robbed
13 residents of Oakland senior home attacked and robbed
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – People who live in a senior living community in Oakland have seen a recent spike in violent robberies. Oakland police confirmed an increase in attacks against the elderly in the last week. The Oakland Police Department says so far 13 elderly people have reported being beaten and robbed off of Broadway [...]
www.kron4.com
July 9, 2024 at 7:10 AM
"Thirteen of those cases involved people who live at Westlake Christian Terrace. All of them are Asian women, but police say they are not considering these hate crimes." WTF?!
Started like a midlife crisis project, ended like a midlife crisis project…
“… reportedly fired a senior software engineer in February for questioning if the pin was ready for launch ... violates a policy restricting employees from talking negatively about Humane.”
www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/241...
“… reportedly fired a senior software engineer in February for questioning if the pin was ready for launch ... violates a policy restricting employees from talking negatively about Humane.”
www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/241...
Humane is reportedly trying to sell itself to HP for $1 billion
The AI Pin is allegedly struggling to meet sales targets.
www.theverge.com
June 8, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Started like a midlife crisis project, ended like a midlife crisis project…
“… reportedly fired a senior software engineer in February for questioning if the pin was ready for launch ... violates a policy restricting employees from talking negatively about Humane.”
www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/241...
“… reportedly fired a senior software engineer in February for questioning if the pin was ready for launch ... violates a policy restricting employees from talking negatively about Humane.”
www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/241...
TikTok should be banned in the United States, not because of the "national security" reason which is purely speculation without any evidence, but because of the fact that Facebook, Twitter, Google and many more are banned in China. Banning TikTok in the US is simply a tit-for-tat action. Period.
April 25, 2024 at 6:31 PM
TikTok should be banned in the United States, not because of the "national security" reason which is purely speculation without any evidence, but because of the fact that Facebook, Twitter, Google and many more are banned in China. Banning TikTok in the US is simply a tit-for-tat action. Period.
Why don't FSD users get it? That 0.000001% error rate is high enough to kill you many many times.
April 15, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Why don't FSD users get it? That 0.000001% error rate is high enough to kill you many many times.
A sunny day in Seattle
January 14, 2024 at 11:31 PM
A sunny day in Seattle
How about catching bad people instead of Pokemons... 🤦♂️
LAPD releases video of officers ignoring robbery calls to play Pokémon Go
LAPD releases video of officers ignoring robbery calls to play Pokémon Go
The Los Angeles Police Department recently released video that captured two on-duty officers talking about the mobile video game Pokémon Go while also ignoring a robbery call in 2017. The video was released on Oct. 5 and sheds light on the incident, which was only described in department records and court records before, the L.A. [...]
www.kron4.com
October 10, 2023 at 4:04 AM
How about catching bad people instead of Pokemons... 🤦♂️
I thought only Apple fans can be very irrationally loyal sometimes, until I talked to some WHOOP fans... 😂
October 8, 2023 at 12:55 AM
I thought only Apple fans can be very irrationally loyal sometimes, until I talked to some WHOOP fans... 😂
My annual system update weekend:
- macOS 👉 14 ("Sonoma")
- tvOS & iPadOS & iOS 👉 17
- Android 👉 14 (U, "Upside Down Cake")
- Wear OS 👉 4
BTW, Xfinity data cap sucks!
- macOS 👉 14 ("Sonoma")
- tvOS & iPadOS & iOS 👉 17
- Android 👉 14 (U, "Upside Down Cake")
- Wear OS 👉 4
BTW, Xfinity data cap sucks!
October 8, 2023 at 12:49 AM
My annual system update weekend:
- macOS 👉 14 ("Sonoma")
- tvOS & iPadOS & iOS 👉 17
- Android 👉 14 (U, "Upside Down Cake")
- Wear OS 👉 4
BTW, Xfinity data cap sucks!
- macOS 👉 14 ("Sonoma")
- tvOS & iPadOS & iOS 👉 17
- Android 👉 14 (U, "Upside Down Cake")
- Wear OS 👉 4
BTW, Xfinity data cap sucks!