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If you research the ways data can be leaked out of an LLM interaction you can see some more subtle cases. What if I ask it to replace every vowel in the secret code with an emoji f…

Points not covered in this piece, but worth noting: (1) If a counterparty is interested in you, it can help accelerate valuable partnerships you care about (2) You may want someone…

It took a long time. I was there.

One reason for these tough requirements is that a very large portion of U.S. passenger rail routes go over track owned (and used) by freight rail companies. Therefore, passenger tr…

Have enjoyed watching Adioso develop and evolve over time, continuing to improve. Good job team. But, for me, the lack of additional airline data renders it completely unusable sti…

Obviously you're going to see a gradient, but I don't think most would contend human action isn't shaped at all by technologies in ways that are often unexpected. Plus, you get a s…

A fun article whose real value will likely be missed by many here who will be rushing, misguided, to defend their ideas of 'technology' or 'progress' from attack. The points that T…

The market problems faced by a phone and a tablet can be pretty distinct. If Microsoft is making a Windows Phone, I hope it serves to drive innovation and platform success, instead…

As lionhearted said, a mix of good points and bitterness, but 甜 and 酸 always go well together, don't they? I think the most poignant section was this: >A deal had been struck. Deng…

It's an interesting proposition, but my intention has always been to find where I can be of greatest leverage. SpaceX is at a place in time / life / hiring that I think I wouldn't …

I am tremendously excited to hear about this project; it's exactly what I want(ed) to do, these billionaires have just gotten the jump on me by a few (dozen) zeroes of net worth. I…

60-65 hrs a week isn't so many :)

Certainly a very interesting program - many props to the Living Social team for setting this up. I'm curious about the logistics involved - both the questions about the commitment …

Here's a question to PG: I can imagine many reasons, but I'd be interested to hear from you why you chose to share these numbers at this time?

The difference is that startups have a much shorter time horizon on which you can measure success, and their success is measured in different ways. While notoriously difficult to p…

Knowing some of the person(s) on here, I'm really excited to see what will come out of their fellowships. While I remain a little skeptical of the project as a whole, for these pro…

Just today I was thinking again about how I wanted to find a watch that would make me happy. I have felt all my life that watches are unfortunate devices which shackle us to schedu…

I think that there is a very strong appeal in the high-tech, vanguard crowd of HN and the like for mechanical things of this nature - this is echoed in the fanbase for steampunk, f…

I think that there is a very strong appeal in the high-tech, vanguard crowd of HN and the like for mechanical things of this nature - this is echoed in the fanbase for steampunk, f…

That sounds pretty unprofessional, but is surprising to me. When I was applying for full-time positions this past fall (for post-graduation) I ended up having a lot of places to re…

In my experience, those fields are often quite extraneous - not too relevant for interns, since many internships aren't really negotiable. This being said, the high end of your ran…

This title is a little bit misleading... A more relevant question is not whether graduates of certain school do or do not make more, but rather, what causes them to do so. And anal…

I think that a large part of your reaction may be that since you are away from home, you only have exposure to the more sensational / noteworthy news, which will tend to not reflec…

"There isn't a right or a wrong way of doing things... there isn't always a correct answer." True, but I think there is a strong consensus that giant Toblerone bars may not offer t…