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by esafak 5mo ago
Trying not to hire them is dealing with it. What are you suggesting?
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by esafak 5mo ago
I don't see a problem as long as Chinese companies are not banned; expensive providers like Anthropic will prove that value is being provided, encouraging competition, which will take care of problems.
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by esafak 5mo ago
Big companies already have standardized tests; test banks that get rotated with grading rubrics. Examiners (employees) will ask their favorite questions over and over to calibrate where a given candidate stands.
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by esafak 5mo ago
Provisional employment only makes sense if you work remotely and have full benefits (esp. healthcare). Moving is costly.
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by esafak 5mo ago
As long as you are talking to them face to face; over the phone they will use AI with speech recognition and parrot its response, erasing all signal. Then the interview becomes all about AI detection.
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by esafak 5mo ago
I remember how groundbreaking Comanche was. Now I learned that it was a result of the programmer's experience in the medical industry (CT/MRI scanning): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel_Space
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by esafak 5mo ago
The proposal does not make sense. Candidates do not benefit from accumulating and parading rejections until they reach a company that accepts them. If they have offers, they can and already do tell recruiters. Furthermore, this practice of
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by esafak 5mo ago
So you have to manually enable/disable every MCP? What fun...
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by esafak 5mo ago
Usually with secrets in environment variables or headers.
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by esafak 5mo ago
Some Jews do! I've been asked to turn lights off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbos_goy
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by esafak 5mo ago
We all see the incipient decoupling of labor from capital, while still having bills to pay. We are at the stage where we need to trial solutions, like a Pigouvian tax.
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by esafak 5mo ago
It matters on consumer hardware since barely any model runs at reasonable speed.
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by esafak 5mo ago
You can and should run your reviews beforehand but the same reviews should run in CI too (just like with commit hooks) because reviews are nondeterministic and for verification (even if they were deterministic).
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by esafak 5mo ago
That's what product management is for.
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by esafak 5mo ago
Welcome to the club, but remember: you break it, you own it. You will be expected to take part in incident response and explain why it broke and how to remediate it in the post-mortem.
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by esafak 5mo ago
They do, though, through rising salaries.
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by esafak 5mo ago
> we can give people meaning, community, culture, growth, without relying on employment and money What's your proposal if not traditional work? The realistic outcome I see is shifting labor to unautomatable sectors like hospitality.
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by esafak 5mo ago
> And yet, OpenAI, Anthropic, and many top companies continue to compete fiercely for junior talent. Are they? I would imagine they have the luxury to pick the brightest candidates, and set them to work on jobs for which their models d
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by esafak 5mo ago
Personalization would solve that.
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by esafak 5mo ago
AI exerts pressure to flatten roles; everybody feels the false confidence to do everything, so companies need to ensure expert oversight, and that shipping means assuming responsibility. If the latter can't be realistically accomplishe
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by esafak 5mo ago
Different teams could already step on each others' toes before AI. If there is confusion over which team ought to develop something it might indicate an organizational problem. Crucially, if you ship something you must be willing to ma
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by esafak 5mo ago
Can these clouds be predicted from physics?
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by esafak 5mo ago
Garnix was one of the interesting, declarative ones. We need more of these.
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by esafak 5mo ago
cargo-binstall support would be nice. https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/blob/main/SUPPO...
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by esafak 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration_(statistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule
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by esafak 5mo ago
Riddles are IQ tests; not actual problems that you need to solve.
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by esafak 5mo ago
Not gonna lie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYC6O_kH-s
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by esafak 5mo ago
And we're just cells, water, bones and organic compounds.
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by esafak 5mo ago
Turkey's population is around ninety million.
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by esafak 5mo ago
You can set up a job to pester owners of old flags.

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