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   by laidoffamazon 8mo ago

   I don't think he has an obligation to do anything. I just think he's a hack and your friendship is blinding you to this fact.
2. 32.▲
   by laidoffamazon 8mo ago

   I frequently follow Patrick's tweets. He hasn't said a single goddamn thing about this corrupt administration but keeps talking about Gavin Newsome's vaccine policy that was in effect for 2 months in 2021
3. 33.▲
   by laidoffamazon 8mo ago

   Personally, I’d prefer a slow mode that’s a ton cheaper for a lot of things.
4. 34.▲
   by laidoffamazon 8mo ago

   This is genuinely pathetic, Patrick. You want to say it so bad but can’t! No notes on the fraudsters pardoned by this current admin of course.
5. 35.▲
   by laidoffamazon 8mo ago

   All terms are made up by humans
6. 36.▲
   by laidoffamazon 8mo ago

   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptoracist
7. 37.▲
   by laidoffamazon 8mo ago

   > To the extent that Bits about Money has an editorial line on that controversy, it is this: if you fish in a pond known to have 50% blue fish, and pull out nine fish, you will appear to be a savant-like catcher of blue fish, and people
8. 38.▲
   by laidoffamazon 8mo ago

   I don't recall Brett Favre's scam in MS on HN
9. 39.▲
   by laidoffamazon 9mo ago

   I’m aghast but numb to this now. The biggest question for me now is how the usual defenders of this lawless administration will try to defend this or both sides it.
10. 40.▲
    by laidoffamazon 9mo ago

    I'm reminded of how 720p Plasma TVs had input resolutions of 1024x768 - the pixels themselves were rectangular
11. 41.▲
    by laidoffamazon 9mo ago

    Interestingly I didn’t catch this, I liked it for not looking LLM written!
12. 42.▲
    by laidoffamazon 9mo ago

    This is how it works 99% of the time This is the standard for getting into an elite school. Just getting good grades and generic "activities" hasn't cut it for twenty years or more. They live in a completely different world f
13. 43.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    It's not a conspiracy theory. It's basically a bribe to Chamath, Don Jr. and Sacks.
14. 44.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    At Amazon, level is public. Microsoft, only the title (Senior etc) is visible not the precise level is visible is my impression. At Google, it can be public but apparently can also be hidden. At Facebook it's always hidden. I'm in
15. 45.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    The levels are a real thing, but "navigating the NDA minefield" is not, it's just something Googler's say to make themselves feel more special
16. 46.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    Why does OP's linkedin say Senior then?
17. 47.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    For the record, I was never laid off from Amazon despite what my username says. I've always been employed, I just switched jobs. I work remote and make about 15% more than the average Google E5 SWE and maybe 85% of a FB E5 SWE accordin
18. 48.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    The accept rate of my university was 50% a full tier below UNC The only people getting Yale like outcomes from my undergrad is one person with exposure to the SpaceX ipo, one that’s a principal eng at Broadcom, and one that’s a senior or pe
19. 49.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    I don’t think you need to flash a degree you simply need to get in to get a life of luxury. It’s not like I can go to the Yale club in NYC.
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    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    I guarantee (as I have before and you’re well aware) every Yale 2017/2018 grad in CS (or likely any quantitative degree) out earns me and my public school undergrad from 2018 and likely has a multiple of my net worth if they decided
21. 51.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    As someone too inferior to get into one it sure doesn’t seem that way
22. 52.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    I have some doubts about this, or at least what your definition of dirt poor is. The ability required to get into an ivy is so significant I don’t see how someone could fail to make substantial sums if they wanted to.
23. 53.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    BCG consultants and traders at Five Rings are very much not financially constrained after undergrad (about $100-200k difference between them but either way)
24. 54.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    I want to improve my communication skills so I’d love pointers on this. Where exactly did I imply that it was the cost of the degree that is the constraint? Everyone knows poor kids and even middle class kids don’t pay anything to go to eli
25. 55.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    I don’t understand how someone coming out of Brown or Yale would have constraints coming out. Their degree is basically free, basically any degree can get them an analyst gig on Wall Street if they so choose, and at worst they can go down t
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    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    What about what I said made you think I said everyone there had a trust fund? I have a problem with homeless to Harvard as much as I have a problem with billionaires kids at Yale. Do you not understand this? How can I be more clear?
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    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    I hate everyone involved in this. It’s like a confluence of every type of perma-victim with immense privilege.
28. 58.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    My assumption is most Ivy leaguers (specifically undergrads) generally have no monetary constraints after graduating so this very much reads to me as a bohemian “by choice” decision to be more interesting than an actual tragic story.
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    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    Sure. I had a lot of help from Claude Opus 4.5, but it was roughly: - Using pyscenedetect to split each video on a per scene level - Using the decord library https://github.com/dmlc/decord to pull frames from each scen
30. 60.▲
    by laidoffamazon 10mo ago

    I split per scene using pyscenedetect and sampled from each. Distance is via cosine similarity- I fed it into qdrant