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by dbish 2y ago
It is very annoying at most big techs to go through launch approval for something all new and adding yet another approved or checklist for the EU is not worth the tradeoff of time for something experimental/early.
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by dbish 2y ago
For an experimental project every extra requirement is annoying/slows down release. It’s completely reasonable that they don’t one to add more work before releasing to a large customer base that doesn’t need the extra work.
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by dbish 2y ago
It’s probably not nefarious and just generally not worth the headache of an EU release and going through the checks/requirements for an experiment or early beta. The many rules of the EU stifle speed and change the math for releasing s
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by dbish 2y ago
You’re close. It’s not the humans in the loop in standard tasks you need though, it’s human surrogates for AI agents to do jobs they can’t for a variety of reasons (like missing a body or requiring an internet connection). I have a request
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by dbish 2y ago
They are 5 companies that have the most engineers. And a 50k difference is a difference, which is what we’re talking about lol to any in office startup being doomed. That’s a large percentage of YC startups and currently doing quite well st
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by dbish 2y ago
It’s not that straight forward. It’s not the ICs job to know everything that is happening nor is it their job to make decisions based on pass through data, especially not a junior/mid career engineer. Transparency and keeping people in
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by dbish 2y ago
This. I’ve known many an engineer who thinks their manager is bad because they don’t do what this IC (who has never been a manager or knows that is happening at the company above them) would do. The kind of people who think Elon is a bad CE
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by dbish 2y ago
Pretty much all the FAANGs adjust for location so not what I would call rare. In addition it’s not about adjusting, many jobs just aren’t offered remote for better or worse (look at many Bay Area YC startup location expectations for the la
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by dbish 2y ago
I’m willing to bet this isn’t true for the average dev and you haven’t compared to in person pay from to companies, but there are definitely exceptions and sure it can be true for a particular person.
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by dbish 2y ago
I mean, yeah, that’s the answer. More reports. More senior folks don’t need a million 1:1s and a bunch of micromanaging. Plus if you’ve ever looked at the org chart at Meta before flattening started there were quite a few M2s/Directors
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by dbish 2y ago
Because the point is you can’t make the same money working from home elsewhere. So you have to make a tradeoff
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by dbish 2y ago
We’re talking about trade offs here right? Not saying you get everything. But no I wouldn’t live in rural Arizona over the Bay Area or most cities unless there was a very strong extra reason to live there (like a manhattan project) and defi
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by dbish 2y ago
Sure and that’s still not the majority of your income over a 10+ yr period if you’re getting paid good bay area wages as a senior+ engineer. Not to mention that buying a house isn’t a requirement of living in a location (and isn’t the right
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by dbish 2y ago
It works fine for tech and most white collar jobs. You can indeed vote with your feet unless you make very poor financial decisions (or have too high of needs) for most of these careers.
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by dbish 2y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s friendly, but that’s not really the point. The commenter was saying smart people didn’t work there which is really hard to say when talking about the AI groups. I would say you can get a lot done if you’re not in a few p
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by dbish 2y ago
But that’s exactly how it works. If you are willing to make the trade off for what you value more then go for it. Many do not want to make the pay or job tradeoff and come into office, and many others (myself included for many cases) think
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by dbish 2y ago
Don’t paper over everyone with the new Day 2 Amazon. There are still great things happening at Meta for example where the founder is still driving culture. They’re some of the biggest players in open source AI and you better believe Meta AI
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by dbish 2y ago
That only matters if you spend the majority of your income. For many high paying tech workers the amount you save matters more and doesn’t change enough comparatively if your rent doubles for example.
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by dbish 2y ago
Doesn’t really seem like that in most cases. As a moderate and independent I’d say the left seems to want to control a lot, create very little. The right has an anti-science problem so not a ton better
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by dbish 2y ago
Well as a human the human species is what matters. Pretty simple
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by dbish 2y ago
Sorry what? What’s leftist about it?
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by dbish 2y ago
Charisma wins elections and she was not terribly charismatic https://paulgraham.com/charisma.html
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by dbish 2y ago
Kids are great and the world is less doomed than some will have you believe. We can improve, create, and make things better and that doesn’t happen if humanity dies out.
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by dbish 2y ago
The problem is accessibility data and apis are very bad across the board.
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by dbish 2y ago
Not to mention that they’ve cut out alcohol but added vapes and what seems to be a healthy amount of marijuana. I don’t think that makes them healthier overall.
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by dbish 2y ago
Well the current CEO is an MBA. Post founder, MBA days morph into this
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by dbish 2y ago
Doesn’t work well for screen based content in general. One of the authors of SAM2 talked about this explicitly as not being a focus of theirs as it’s not foundational in the research space in the most recent latent space pod
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by dbish 2y ago
Fair enough. I just loved learning it as a boyscout and applying it to HAM and always think of it as this last ditch backup option
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by dbish 2y ago
Agreed. Good point
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by dbish 2y ago
Kind of wish they had kept the Morse code requirement for the radio license. Felt like more of a connection to the old ham requirements and history

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