rueynshard | 4 years ago | on: Samsara S-1
Samsara's founders also previously started and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion. Pretty rare to have founded 2 unicorns in ~15 years.
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rueynshard | 5 years ago | on: Hire people who give a shit
Criticism of the company's product seems pretty tangential to the blog post. Either way, the value provided comes not from the labeling alone, but from the platform it provides to be able to do so. If it were so easy, why don't these labellers bypass Scale AI entirely and make more money themselves?
rueynshard | 5 years ago | on: Hire people who give a shit
There are plenty of jobs that pay better and don't require you to devote your lives to the company (incidentally, one of them is mentioned in the article). If a firm wants people who are obsessed with work, then that's their choice. However, I hope they recognize that they would also drive away plenty of talent with better options, so it's up to them to weigh the trade offs.
rueynshard | 6 years ago | on: Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19
Except a lot of governments have indeed enacted policies that protect tenants and employees during this period.
rueynshard | 6 years ago | on: Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19
Columbia, UC Berkeley and Dartmouth too. I think this move is gaining traction.
rueynshard | 6 years ago | on: How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
Sure, but even among the remaining 2/3rds, meat consumption is much lower, compared to other regions where they typically eat meat every meal.
rueynshard | 6 years ago | on: Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
$9 an hour works out to about 100,000 rupees a month, which allows one to live relatively comfortably in India.
rueynshard | 6 years ago | on: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
Works for me (FF on Ubuntu)
rueynshard | 7 years ago | on: The staggering rise of India’s super-rich
Singapore might be a flawed democracy, but it still is one. The ruling party does fear losing vote share in elections and adapts its policies to win public support (e.g. in the 2011 elections when the opposition won 40% of the vote).
rueynshard | 7 years ago | on: Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential
Wouldn't the user's speech data need to be sent to Apple to convert to text, or identify the intent first?
rueynshard | 7 years ago | on: Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential
I don't see why this could not be possible on Android. All Google needs to do is build an API for Assistant that other apps can use to 'donate' frequently used actions/intents. Assistant can then make suggestions to users based on its own analysis of users' activities in the same way Siri does.
rueynshard | 7 years ago | on: Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps
While I agree that Ivy League admissions could be more transparent, I certainly hope they don't move to the Oxbridge style of purely focusing on academics.
University admissions are not just a means of selecting people - they are also important behavioral incentives for teenagers. I'd much rather encourage high schoolers to focus on a wide variety of interests (for some that might be academics, for others, the arts) rather than coerce everyone into caring about grades at the expense of everything else.
rueynshard | 7 years ago | on: Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps
I doubt it would make much of a dent in their reputation. It is already widely perceived (whether true or not) that children of important donors, legacies and other groups get preferential treatment.
rueynshard | 7 years ago | on: GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged
The key difference is that designers are free to show the work they've done in their current jobs or internships. Programmers usually aren't at liberty to do the same.
rueynshard | 7 years ago | on: America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
I daresay sharing memes is arguably the most commonplace use of Facebook among teens nowadays.
rueynshard | 8 years ago | on: Lessons of an MIT Education
Students in elite American universities (ivy-plus) come from the top 1% of all American students in their cohort, not to mention other countries. However dismal American performances in PISA/TIMSS and other tests have been, the top 1% of roughly 3 million students every year are still bound to be generally smarter and more motivated than the average Singaporean or Japanese student.
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