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by pyb 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzlHucbD76U
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by pyb 6y ago
Do you observe any correlation between CEO compensation and their skills at the above?
573.
by pyb 6y ago
The context of this kind of question is usually "I want to pass a systems design interview"
574.
by pyb 6y ago
It would be initially problematic, but I do not believe that an Oracle win would be that disruptive in the long run. What would happen is that API providers would from now on have to provide standardized legal assurances that users are allo
575.
by pyb 6y ago
Are there any examples of a company recovering from what you describe ? I don't know of any.
576.
by pyb 6y ago
It's true that a lot of software jobs are in fact BS jobs. But is this a conversation that the industry is ready to have? Probably not.
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by pyb 6y ago
I have not heard of any of these wealthy FAANG engineers ever starting a great startup. Are there any examples we should be aware of ?
578.
by pyb 6y ago
Archive.is bypasses paywalls and does not honor takedown requests. Copyright infringement is what it's designed for. As you said, bona fide archiving happens on archive.org
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by pyb 6y ago
Not everybody likes to hear it, but archive.is is an illegal operation. In some countries, posting archive.is links may even be illegal as well (it might be interpreted by a court as "Aiding and Abetting Criminal Copyright Infringement
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by pyb 6y ago
This is touched upon in the text : "the Haskell community itself has simply become a tool to buy legitimacy and pump token values."
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London’s Silicon Roundabout dream turned into a nightmare(wired.co.uk)
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by pyb 6y ago
The Recurse Center is a retreat that you attend with other like-minded programmers. I recommend it if you are interested deepening your experience as a programmer, by working on personal projects as part of a helpful community. There is a
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by pyb 6y ago
It's best to assume that Google et al. Are not hiding anything "huge". What you see publicly is what there is. Deepmind used to be years ahead, but now they appear to have been, in some very important respects at least, leap
584.
by pyb 6y ago
The global arms race for AI has definitely started. Unfortunately, most states don't appear to be aware of this.
585.
by pyb 6y ago
What you are trying to say sounds interesting, but not entirely clear. Was the FB exec complaining that when they hire, they are getting what they asked for ? Ie people who are very good at tests.
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by pyb 6y ago
It does, in so far as you are more likely to be successful if your batchmates are a source of inspiration and motivation.
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by pyb 6y ago
You raise a good point. The Internet has trained us to skim any text that seems pointless or just unsufficiently insightful. So it turns out we have already built up some "mental defences" against GPT-3.
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by pyb 6y ago
"So, why don't these openings get filled quickly? " What made him think that ? Not sure I agree with this premise. OpenAI, Deepmind, etc have no difficulty hiring.
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by pyb 6y ago
It's true that the 2nd half of the post (which I should have read before commenting) is a retort to my objection. If I understand well, the response is that I am blessed (?) with "orthodox privilege".
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by pyb 6y ago
It's not the first time that pg alludes to "what you can't say". It would be nice if he could at least outline what it is that he believes he's not allowed to say. Otherwise the discussion remains exceedingly abstra
591.
by pyb 6y ago
That's because some managers do express their instructions like this, by dropping "hints".
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by pyb 6y ago
"Some of those who texted Tucker said Musk himself provided the number to them. When NPR asked Musk whether he gave out that number to people he was trying to dodge, he did not respond."
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by pyb 6y ago
I've heard of people who did this and went on to retire. OTOH I don't know of any engineer who left Big Tech to take advantage of their financial security to do something _highly impactful_. In other words, the "Google mafia&
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by pyb 7y ago
Leaded solder is much more forgiving, which is important when most hobbyists don't have all of 1, 2 and 3.
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by pyb 7y ago
With this crisis, we see that governments do not always make rational decisions.
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by pyb 7y ago
I am also concerned that Draeger refusing to share crucial IP might be an unspoken bottleneck. Of course, if that's the case, the right solution is for the government to acquire said IP for a large amount of money, but it may fail to h
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by pyb 7y ago
For that reason, additional production capacity should be subsidized by the government, but I don't see that it is going to happen in this case.
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by pyb 7y ago
The second option, of course. The industrialists I mention are not just in automotive, but oil and gas, etc
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by pyb 7y ago
Of course, but that's surely not what Daimler's CEO was suggesting. What he might have been offering may be assembly workers, or factory space, or privileged contacts with Daimler's supplier base, or something else. My point
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by pyb 7y ago
"I spoke with Daimler over the weekend. They would also like to help. But it’s unfortunately not so simple..." It would be interesting to hear more precisely why. We've heard more than a few well-respected industrialists esse

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