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by hintymad 2y ago
Curious why the US does not think this is a big problem. I mean, look at the US 80 years ago. The US easily out produced the Axis. We could produce faster and cheaper. There's really no excuse that the cost of making canon shells is 10
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by hintymad 2y ago
Following this, the next one that "eats the world" could be web novels ( https://www.webnovel.com/ ). If I'm not mistaken, the trend was started by the Chinese authors. Chinese companies created those hyper com
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Nuclear fission is safe, clean, secure, and reliable. I never understood the hysteria of the anti-nuclear people. I mean, the stats are out there for everyone to verify. Even the worst nuclear disaster killed no more than 100 people[1]
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by hintymad 2y ago
Yes, making sound choice is hard, just as our life often hinges on a handful of choices. That said, a coworker of mine mentioned an algorithm that seemed to work: first you pick a company that solves a problem that fascinates you and that h
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by hintymad 2y ago
> That said there are a ton of cons. Like the amazing story where a L7 insisted rewriting a python-based CLI tool in Rust, all in the name of performance even though the majority of the time was spent on HTTP calls? What's more amaz
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by hintymad 2y ago
> How petty are the tyrants. I would consider the relationship between a company and its employees as alliance. If both have the same goal and compatible style, then they work together. Otherwise, they part ways. Tyranny is possible only
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by hintymad 2y ago
That's a different topic. A large number of E8/E9 in Google have been pushed out recently too. The key challenge is continuous growth. High-level ICs tend to become gatekeepers as the growth of their orgs stagnate. What they don&#
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by hintymad 2y ago
Amazon has a flatter structure than Google, and it used to be that L7 was the highest rank (an internal doc cautioned the newly promoted L7s to stay modest even though, and I quote, "people may treat L7s as demigod").
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by hintymad 2y ago
Good news. L8 is now the new 7, thanks to rapid promotion in Amazon in the past few years, so the ratio is probably 3%, give or take. Joke aside, it's a fact of life that resources tend to concentrate to the top of a large company. For
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Managers and executives felt a tiny bit less powerful for a small amount of time due to their workers pushing for remote and having the leverage to do so. I have a contrarian view on this. People will be efficient remotely and the mana
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by hintymad 2y ago
L7+ IC roles are not bad at all. Competitive packages. Tons of responsibility and freedom. I can't stress this enough. an L7+ really has lots of freedom and influence. They get to choose which meetings to go to, how much code they writ
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by hintymad 2y ago
And what's enraging is that he was boasting his so-called culture-building in his book and retried scar free
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by hintymad 2y ago
It looks like the author specifically talks about the infra for an early-stage startup that has not found product-market fit yet. If a startup has product for consumers and does find the product-market fit, then I'd imagine two pieces
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by hintymad 2y ago
> even works in IT, although not in an engineering role. What an accurate profile! I work in an engineering role in IT, and I'm like your girlfriend when it comes to the phone. Like, I don't even know whether my iphone is max
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by hintymad 2y ago
For people who want 256GB, they might as well just buy iphone pro max. It will be just $100 more compared to iphone pro.
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by hintymad 2y ago
And I'd be very happy to see the demise of De Beers. It's amazing that De Beers can thrive for more than 100 years, but still, using clever marketing and tight control of supply to artificially jack up the price of diamond is coun
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by hintymad 2y ago
> It was simply trying to prevent SF from becoming a shitty monoculture that hurt everyone Initially I thought SF means San Francisco, and I thought "Wow, what kind of monoculture can be prevented by Google Code", and then I re
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by hintymad 2y ago
> in general people are very aware of what's going on. But what can people do? It seems to me that the EU government can do whatever they like. Or is it like what people say about the US politics: the politicians do what voters want
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by hintymad 2y ago
A trajectory question: Is there an acceptable solution to federate k8s clusters, or is there a such need? One thing that EC2 was really powerful is that a company can practically create as many clusters (ASGs) of as many nodes as needed, wh
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by hintymad 2y ago
On a personal level, promotion always means I have more freedom to do more interesting stuff (and lose freedom to some other stuff too, so there is a balance). Impact and validation of my ability are some other factors, though not that impo
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by hintymad 2y ago
Amazon used to have an internal Slack channel that allowed employees to share their total compensations anonymously. Thousands of people shared and the numbers were eye opening. Basically, if one was not a star and got consistently promoted
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by hintymad 2y ago
Why is this flagged? I thought the topic was relevant, especially about how compensation may influence a company's culture and performance.
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by hintymad 2y ago
> please tell me how these companies that are being invested in in the AI space are going to make returns on the money invested? What’s the business plan? Not a VC, but I'd assume in this case the investors are not investing in a pl
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Sutskever said his new venture made sense because he "identified a mountain that's a bit different from what I was working on." I guess the "mountain" is the key. "Safe" alone is far from being a prod
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by hintymad 2y ago
A possibility is that they are betting that the current generation of LLM is converging, so they won't worry about the goalpost much. If it's true, then it won't be good news for OpenAI.
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by hintymad 2y ago
I was wondering if real investment into public transportation and the associated infra will help solve this issue. When I travel in some Asian and European countries, I really don't feel the need for a big car (a small one can still he
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by hintymad 2y ago
You’re right, technically VPN is not illegal, as long as the operators abide laws. It is using VPN to get across GFW that is illegal: https://m.sohu.com/a/738815891_800907/?pvid=000115_3w_a#:~:t... So, yeah, it is
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Fining even users is a bit surprising Not really. Using VPN is illegal in China. The police can put you in jail for using VPNs. Of course, there are very few cases like this even though many people use underground VPNs. This is typical
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by hintymad 2y ago
Wow! Day by day, I appreciate more and more how precious the liberty and freedom we have in the US. And shame on Canada and UK!
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by hintymad 2y ago
Could be a defensive move of Elasticsearch to win the mindshare of the community. OpenSearch has been gaining some momentum, albeit far from being comparable to Elasticsearch. See OSS Insight: https://ossinsight.io/analyze&#

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