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by mjr00 4y ago
There are significant differences between the cases; in that Netflix case, img2img was used to generate more details from scenes that were already fairly fleshed out and drawn. That process seems more analogous to running a picture through
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I have come to the conclusion that that almost every work created by an AI tool should be copyrightable, even without the iterative refinement and post-processing that Kris performed. The more I search, the more I see similarities with
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by mjr00 4y ago
> That is the opening question leading to "why hire anyone in USA or Western Europe when Asia exists?" Because good software engineering is 20% good programming and 80% good communication. We, as an industry, already tried the
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by mjr00 4y ago
401K is unambiguously a benefit to every employee. Remote-first or remote-only is not unambiguously a benefit; some people actually prefer to be in the office and interact with people face-to-face. Yes, even some talented ones. If remote
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Sounds like you need to learn to be more adaptable. I've had no problem meeting with friends to walk outdoors, maintaining friendships throughout the pandemic, all without ever catching COVID. Let this be a lesson: this is what
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by mjr00 4y ago
Are you completely sure that's due to Long COVID? Because that sounds like an extremely common story of drug addiction: someone turns their normal life, complete with career and family and a white picket fence, into homelessness and re
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by mjr00 4y ago
Agreed with all this. The absolute best thing you can do as an engineer at a smaller company is not write code at all. Figure out how to solve problems using existing tools and processes. If you do have to write code, write the absolute sim
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by mjr00 4y ago
The actual news on Fox News, i.e. not Tucker and the rest of the talk shows, is not fake news, even remotely. Absolutely has a conservative bias, but not to the extent it would qualify as fake news. It's even listed on Wikipedia a re
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by mjr00 4y ago
> But I’ve already used GPT to write thank you note and create a blog post, and I’ve used midjourney to create stock photos. Neither of those are searching for information , though, which is a very different use case. If 95% of the time
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by mjr00 4y ago
Ok, I'll ask: Can ChatGPT possibly kill us? I'll also answer: No, it cannot. Now that that's out of the way, we can get to discussing more interesting topics, like why an advanced language model is so bad at basic arithmetic.
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by mjr00 4y ago
Projections are just projections and subject to change. Check out the projections the Fed made in 2020: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomcprojtabl20... In 2020 they were projecting that 2022 inflation w
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by mjr00 4y ago
Nobody has a crystal ball. The last time inflation was this big of a problem in the west (~1980) rates touched over 20% and stayed above 10% for multiple years. What makes you so sure that 5% is the limit, or that there will be cuts after 6
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by mjr00 4y ago
99% chance the board was also pushing for massive hiring to focus on growth during the pandemic and the zero-interest rate era, and 99% chance they're pushing for layoffs and focus on operating profits now that we're in the expens
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by mjr00 4y ago
The point, I think, is that a lot of the speculation about what ChatGPT will do is operating under the assumption that it's fully autonomous, not highly autonomous. Which is quite a gulf. A highly autonomous LLM used to generate code c
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by mjr00 4y ago
Sure, but ChatGPT isn't infallible; we've seen tons of posts on HN about various jailbreaking methods to bypass the ChatGPT censorship, and the censorship itself has only done so well because OpenAI is constantly playing whack-a-m
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by mjr00 4y ago
It's wild what a difference 8 years makes. I remember at the time of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, it was universally condemned across the political spectrum as an attack on journalism and freedom of speech. Only those on the fri
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by mjr00 4y ago
I realize this wasn't ChatGPT, and in fact the self-censorship is a big selling point of ChatGPT/OpenAI (to the chagrin of quite a few people), but this does throw a wrench into people claiming that it's not a big deal if an
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by mjr00 4y ago
There isn't a curve at all. It's discrete steps. Which is why so many people freak out when there's a step change, because they extrapolate the existence of a curve where there isn't one.
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by mjr00 4y ago
You're either lying or have the dumbest CTO known to humanity.
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by mjr00 4y ago
> If you don't adapt, you'll be out of a job in ten years. Maybe sooner. Or maybe your salary will drop to $50k/yr because anyone will be able to glue together engineering modules. [...] The economy will learn to leverage
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by mjr00 4y ago
> The old system was _riddled_ with unit tests that could easily be replicated in any language. All of the bugs and/or minor issues over the last 30 years had been documented and had unit tests covering them. This was what saved the
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by mjr00 4y ago
That's because your type is Optional[TypeOfVar] though; if you try using that variable in a place that expects just TypeOfVar before it's set, you should get an error.
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by mjr00 4y ago
They'll never admit it now, but a lot of investors genuinely bought into crypto and blockchain bullshit. That doesn't change that their plan was to bail at the top (isn't that what VCs do normally?), but many of them really
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by mjr00 4y ago
I'm sure counterexamples exist (and I'd be interested in hearing what kind of software this happened with specifically), but in the 99% case the cloud hosting costs for most startups is going to be tiny compared to, say, salaries.
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by mjr00 4y ago
You're incorrectly assuming 4% are let go, which is untrue as many are provided coaching/guidance to fix performance issues, and not accounting for additional headcount.
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by mjr00 4y ago
I mean I've never seen any performance "measurement" system that isn't just subjective review with another name. Objective metrics can be useful, and certainly could be a part of a manager's evaluation of an employm
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by mjr00 4y ago
Largely you're still ranking your performers from top to bottom, so it's a matter of placing the line at the bottom in the right place to get the desired percentage. Even then there was still a lot of debate among department manag
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by mjr00 4y ago
The way it was done at amzn was to get all managers for the department together in a room and provide information about each of their team members and why they were ranked the way they were. If an employee was doing a small number of hard t
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by mjr00 4y ago
If you have a hiring process that results in only a 4% bad hire rate, create a business right now because every business in the world will want to pay you massive sums of money for the secret to such an amazing process. from my own experi
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by mjr00 4y ago
The problem with the 2000s-era Microsoft method, as I understand it, was that the population sizes they used were too small. Stack ranking was done at the individual team level, and that did indeed lead to people sabotaging each other, beca

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