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Statecraft | Forward Deployed Engineer (Sr/Staff) | REMOTE (US) | $160-220k + equity At Statecraft, we are building an inorganic workforce to help keep the US Government running. O…

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Fireworks is an inference provider that specializes in running open source models very fast and makes almost all of their margin on chinese models So the economic incentive is lite…

This is essentially the point of the visa, it feels wrong especially as YC drops standards and increases cohort sizes, but the same power laws that keep them winning also apply her…

This admin and its policies on immigrant visas have been around for 1 year and Biden was famously pro immigration

This makes even less sense, Trump admin has been here for 1 year, the implication here is a university grad on H1-B in January would become a world class researcher capable of buil…

The visa that would correlate to this is the O-1 visa 20k O-1 visas were issued last FY which was mostly under the Trump admin, up from 19.5k the previous FY under the Biden admin

I sold my company ~2 years ago for a very decent 8-figure exit where we cleared multiples, everybody got paid, fat bonuses all around, etc. just real pipedream founder stuff. Was i…

Am I reading this right? They surpassed SOTA (Qwen 3.7) by finetuning an older model (Qwen 3.5)?

Not missing the forest for the trees, this effectively means in 3-5 months China will drop open source models that are every bit as capable and dangerous as current day Mythos exce…

if you're in Gmail this filter works really well for me: ("list-unsubscribe" OR "unsubscribe" OR "list-id")

I'll disagree because the primary issues with gun control in the US are: [1] Guns are a core part of culture for much of America, very deeply so outside coastal cities. Most of the…

Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the company

I hear this a lot but their fleet is valued upwards of a billion, they own most of their fleet it was just financed with debt (it's not like a house where the bank has equity in th…

The company is not forced to sell immediately to whoever offers it money, they can sell themselves off for parts. I heavily doubt PE firms are interested here as there is no potent…

This isn't really a scam because no money moves and this is non-binding. Here are a list of glaring issues I see here: 1) Pledges being non-binding means there is no proof of funds…

No longer rumored as they filed for IPO! This is actually an amazing sweetheart deal for Cursor. Many times with these high profile acquisitions, most stock is tied to LPA's and em…

I'd argue Meta is much worse: Palantir builds these systems for the US government which is (hopefully) something you can hold accountable / can reasonably trust. Meta builds these …

What are they buying with this money? If you're the rich 1% and have replaced the 99% with AI there is no longer an economy for you to participate in. We don't have to imagine this…

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Top 1% and top 20% are entirely different numbers, and majority does not mean all. If the bottom 99% or even 80% of people were unable to meaningfully engage in the economy it woul…

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I can usually defend what appears to be federal incompetence with nuance and vice versa but even I can't say anything about this. Whoever fulfilled this contract gets a stop work o…

I am, CMMC 2.0 requires and is essentially satisfied by FedRAMP Moderate, and NIST 800-171 is a subset of FedRAMP. Notably both CMMC and FedRAMP were met with immense criticism fro…

Palantir FedStart is a new program, and a quick look at the FedRAMP marketplace will show you there are literally 0 tech startups listed that are there without jumping on Palantir’…