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by mjr00 3y ago
A worker in country X or country Y are very different for companies' balance sheets. For instance, my company is Canadian, and we are eligible for significant tax credits through SR&ED[0] for software developers. If a software deve
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by mjr00 3y ago
on the other hand the rate of change isn't constant and there isn't a guarantee that the incredible progress in the past ~2 years in the LLM/diffusion/"AI" space will continue. As an example, take computer gami
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by mjr00 3y ago
I'm specifically referring to the "problem" of developers who were getting paid $500-750k+ who may have to settle for a mere $200k working at a non-FAANG company. For non-development roles, getting laid off sucks, there'
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by mjr00 3y ago
> So getting laid off from a FAANG is like twice as bad as getting laid off from <other tech company> Except you've had however long collecting an outrageous salary and stock that dwarfs 95% of people working in tech, much les
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by mjr00 3y ago
YotLD jokes aside, one of the big historical lock-ins for Windows has been gaming, but the work done on Proton for the Steam Deck has made Linux a viable option if the only thing keeping you on Windows is games. It's still not for your
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by mjr00 3y ago
There's no evidence Palworld used AI for anything. The only reason it's come up is that the CEO commented that they liked generative AI on Twitter, and certain groups picked that up to try to build an anti-Palworld campaign by cla
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by mjr00 3y ago
Yeah fair enough on that one, though that was last year and not pre-2016 as the original commenter was saying.
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by mjr00 3y ago
> We know it has somebody with a foot fetish. Look at the footwear of all the female characters (at least the ones made before 2016, I haven't played it since then). ehh?? On the character models or splash arts? I've played for
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by mjr00 3y ago
The fact that they even have an AI mastering service--which, to be blunt, is an exploitative scam to bilk hobbyist/newbie musicians out of their money--just shows how much shit they've been throwing at the wall, hoping it sticks
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by mjr00 3y ago
my understanding is that SoundCloud does have a content ID system similar to YouTube, but most artists and non-major labels don't opt into it. Occasionally copyright strikes do happen, which is why a lot of artists will have second
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by mjr00 3y ago
SoundCloud disappearing would be a shame. There's nothing that currently exists that replaces it. Consumer-oriented streaming platforms are a dime a dozen these days, sure, but there's no real alternative for a musician -oriented
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by mjr00 3y ago
The second one the author had in mind is almost certainly IPO. Your (1) isn't a pot of gold in the colloquial sense of "suddenly finding a life-changing amount of money". Running a profitable business is ideal, especially in
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by mjr00 3y ago
The beauty of it is there's no model training involved: it's quite literally a prompt that reads something like "given the following document, output JSON that contains the following information: a field name `"widget&qu
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by mjr00 3y ago
The point isn't to have users chat with documents, it's to automatically parse unstructured data into structured data and store that somewhere for later use. As a real example, I deal with piles of legal contracts from which I nee
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Unstructured document parsing If I had to invest in any one area of LLM usage, it would be this. There is so much unstructured data in the world, and converting things like legal contracts or chatlogs into structured, queryable data
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by mjr00 3y ago
Of course if a snappier UI came "for free" nobody would be mad about it. But how many people would actually switch chat apps because of it? Discord and Slack are valued at $15b and $27b respectively; if you could get people to swi
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by mjr00 3y ago
But outside of the small percentage of technical people who know how inefficient e.g. Discord and Slack are, and how you could replace these applications that take 800MB of RAM each with something that took less than 50MB if they weren&#x27
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by mjr00 3y ago
Same as looking back 15-20 years ago from now, though. Very few jobs now where you put together basic webpages with HTML and CSS (Frontpage, then Wix/Wordpress etc replaced you). Very few jobs where you spend 100% of your time dealing
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by mjr00 3y ago
That's what I mean, it depends on what the "highest reward" means for each person. $100m is $100m, but what's Tom Brady remembered for, and what's Albert Haynesworth remembered for? One is near-unanimously considere
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by mjr00 3y ago
Looking at the author's resume, they've only been at AWS since 2020. It's unlikely they have a very good understanding of how the culture has changed over time.
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Also, Amazon has its problems (mostly cultural, as of the last few years), but it also has a lot of upsides and fantastic people. yep, working at Amazon (AWS specifically) is like playing for the 2000/10s Patriots. Belicheck will
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by mjr00 3y ago
Someone deleted a publicly accessible file off the internet, and it broke workflows of people with whom they have no existing contract. Good luck proving that was done to deliberately cause harm.
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by mjr00 3y ago
No, they aren't. Even in the most liberal interpretation of the new laws, there's nothing specifying that you need to continue making your open-source package continually and indefinitely available.
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by mjr00 3y ago
I mean... yes? Have you only worked at a company with a single-digit number of engineers? At some point communication is critical and you need to be able to write up a design document before making major changes or additions to code or infr
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by mjr00 3y ago
These systems are made to optimize not making bad hires, not necessarily missing out on good hires. Given that, multiple rounds does help. Per your example, if each interviewer has a 1/5 chance of mistakenly approving a bad hire, then
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by mjr00 3y ago
Taking a moment to think is totally fine. But it's important to be able to explain what you're going to build before you actually build. Writing up clear design docs and architecture is critical in most senior technical position
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by mjr00 3y ago
> I recommend that you make a plan for what you want to learn about the candidate, e.g. “are they good at acquiring new skills?” or “do they share the same values as the team?” and then structure the interview around that. Generally what
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by mjr00 3y ago
Yeah, the problem with the wave of Twitter clones is exactly that: they're clones. You don't make a successful social media site by being the same as an existing site but with different people. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr
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by mjr00 3y ago
The author is conflating a few different things. All code and features are overhead . It requires maintenance when it breaks, or requirements change. It increases complexity when working on other parts of the system, as other new features
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by mjr00 3y ago
> because the entire point is to have unregulated money. For some vanishingly small percentage of crypto-faithful, maybe. For the vast majority, the point is to turn (regulated) fiat money into more (regulated) fiat money. Or lose it all

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