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magedon Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

We have a small team that includes a few MIT grads. We're adding a few more new grads. Feel free to reach out at hey@{my site} with a resume, can interview today

magedon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)

We are an early stage startup building AI software for the biopharma industry. Our first offering sources and extracts critical information for our customers using a document processing data infra.

Our ambition is to significantly increase society’s capacity to bring new drugs to market. We have a small founding team that brings together a mix of top life science and tech talent. We are well capitalized, with the backing of great investors. We work together everyday from a cozy office in South San Francisco.

If this sounds interesting - reach out in the email listed at convoke.bio/joinus and mention HN!

magedon Prompt Caching

Why not? It's caching the state of the model after the cached prefix, so that inference workload doesn't need to be run again.

magedon Beeper acquired by Automattic

Where is the $175M number from?

magedon Economic Effects of State Bans on Direct Manufacturer Sales to Car Buyers [pdf]

TIL Tesla opens their service centers on Native American land to get around these rules in New Mexico. New Mexico doesn't allow dealerships or service centers that are manufacturer owned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namb%C3%A9_Pueblo,_New_Mexico#...

magedon Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors

FYI, kept hitting this stacktrace in the demo:

    in a
    in a
    in a
    in div
    in Styled(div)
    in div
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magedon Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives

Lyft is a 15B+ company. Neither Ford, nor any other auto company, has the cash to acquire them.

magedon Show HN: CoinMarketBook – CoinMarketCap, but with a different metric

There is $1.5T of outstanding buy orders for BTC right now? That seems inflated.

magedon Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

workflowy for quick organized notes.

magedon Show HN: Stacks – A bookshelf for your online courses

So many:

> Udemy has not yet provided a link for this course

Is it a scraping limitation?

magedon How I got my first thousand users

That's irrelevant to above point. That they could pay themselves a salary out of earnings means there is more money going in that just what is cycling around between these sites.

magedon How I got my first thousand users

That can't be true when so many of these small businesses have such massive margins. They're not spending the earnings on other small online businesses.

magedon Larry Page’s Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mode

Uber X, or 4 Caltrain tickets gets us close to 100.

magedon Larry Page’s Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mode

It already costs me 100+ an hour to transport 4 people from San Jose to San Francisco. This would be cheaper and faster.

magedon Poverty-Fighting Startups

Are you accepting/looking for volunteers?

magedon Google for India: Building India-first products and features

Literally every other Google product is America-first, just no need to market it as such.

magedon Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off from the internet

Is it not a coding competition?

magedon [dead]

I lean towards assuming the known liar is again lying.

magedon Engineers of Jihad: Connection between Violent Extremism and Education

I think more than what we are taught in engineering, the field itself tends to attract more conservative minded people (maybe because it's a safe field?). There's also correlations shown between religiosity, conservatism and studying engineering.

magedon Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (2014)

> A needle of length L is dropped at random onto a sheet of paper ruled with parallel lines a distance L apart. What is the probability that the needle will cross a line?

Thickness of line is needed right? Otherwise P approaches 100% as thickness approaches 0?

magedon Belief in Evolution versus National Wealth

How were countries selected? The obvious exceptions (other than the states) are left out (i.e. Arab gulf states).

magedon GiveDirectly Gives Poor People a Year's Income

I read a comparison of the Liberia to Uganda, Kenya examples before that said its because Liberia('s slums) are at a worse of starting point. For the programs to be effective it needs to target extreme poor who still at least have access to infrastructure and resources to develop. If that isn't there then charity would be more effective in developing those things.

magedon EU Formally Accuses Google of Antitrust Violations

Its not about the default search engine on top of a browser, but the internet services on top of a search engine.

magedon The Cuban Money Crisis

I wonder if tourist places will be able to keep overcharging in CUPs. I think it's a lot easier to sell a drink at 5 CUCs than at 100 CUPs.

magedon The decline of Vancouver

Which party is this?

magedon Ellen Pao Owns the Room

Nazre isn't being criticized for his consensual relationship with Pao. Its for his reaction to her ending it, as well as non consensual harrassment of other employees.

magedon Apple Gears Up to Challenge Tesla in Electric Cars

Apple has ~200 billion in cash. Tesla's market cap is 25 billion. It definitely could be.

magedon Twitter Reaches Deal to Show Tweets in Google Search Results

The giants of the web continue to profit themselves at the cost of an open internet.

magedon Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad

> censorship

China wanted to censor inconvenient history. Turkey wants to censor offensive (to them) religious images. I think that's the important comparison, not the size of the market.

magedon Show HN: The Kyn Project – Accessible Philanthropy – Feedback Appreciated

You might want to checkout givewell.org, which does a very quantitative charity analysis.