rafiki6

9 ms·

31.
by rafiki6 4y ago
Yes, but even if they take him to court, it's highly likely that Musk and his legal team drag this out. It's not going to be a simple case. No contract law case ever is. And at that point, Twitter's business might keep suffer
32.
by rafiki6 4y ago
This is mostly from the perspective of software companies, but I've noticed it applying more and more to non-software companies. (Notice I didn't say "tech" companies, because that's a meaningless term). The only li
33.
by rafiki6 4y ago
This is why, as much as people love to complain about it, the big tech companies might actually be doing hiring right. Hire for the core competence and skills and not for the frameworks/languages. The thing that is missing in the proce
34.
by rafiki6 4y ago
Yes, but then this takes away the idea of one private key to rule them all for identifying someone. The moment you've lost that key, you've lost access to all the services relying on it. Each might have their own backup mechanism
35.
by rafiki6 4y ago
You're confusing a highly optimized loss function with AGI. Robots will continue being better at doing rote things humans do, and we will continue building them predictable environments to do them in. But AGI is another beast. We don&#
36.
by rafiki6 4y ago
Avoid consumer cyclical companies.
37.
by rafiki6 4y ago
My guess is you haven't worked anywhere where ML is a part of the core product. think e.g. search and recommendations.
38.
by rafiki6 4y ago
We keep going through this cycle of attempting decentralization. Since the dawn of the internet. I wonder if it will stick. The most successful version of it when broadband really took off was torrents. Then we got git. Now we got cryptocur
39.
by rafiki6 4y ago
not a bad idea, try to add a feature to allow for some real time user generated data like availability of seats, loudness etc.
40.
by rafiki6 4y ago
Another important thing to consider is most of the time in addition to what others have said is that the best price for any given product will usually be at some large retailer (online or otherwise). The key here is MOST of the time. Smalle
41.
by rafiki6 4y ago
May I ask what was your background and how you managed the move? Also did you need to take a paycut? I was once in embedded (around a decade ago) and jobs were scarce and not interesting. Shifted to SWE simply due to massive wage difference
42.
by rafiki6 4y ago
A lot of the comments make great points but honestly I think the biggest problem no one has addressed is the massive expansion in population since the 70s. This has lead to much larger "towns" and suburbs where the sense of commun
43.
by rafiki6 4y ago
The reason the skills matrix seems overwhelming is because there is no true singular "data scientist" role. It's a title that's been abused. So my answer is, it depends a lot on the TYPE of data scientist you want to bec
44.
by rafiki6 5y ago
Too many people got into this industry, and too many people were able to easily switch between companies and boost their salaries absurd amounts. The big boys decided to use interview grinds to reduce turnover (that's why they all more
45.
by rafiki6 5y ago
I think there are certain points/periods in one's career where remote work is incredibly beneficial, whereas there are some other points where remote work is not. IMO, when you've reached a point in your career where you are
46.
by rafiki6 5y ago
Twitter, but you really need to spend your time crafting your feed and figuring out how to get around the algorithm pigeonholing you.
47.
by rafiki6 5y ago
I think there was less to be divided about. Back then, the best the evangelist could do was create a blog and try to game SEO to get noticed. They could post on a few popular forums, but discoverability was limited and algorithms designed t
48.
by rafiki6 5y ago
I feel you might be conflating decentralization with location dependency. I actually expect things to centralize and concentrate further in a fully location independent world.
49.
by rafiki6 5y ago
Ever noticed how you're given 5-10 minutes in a 1 hour interview to ask questions whereas they use the 50 minutes to ask you questions? Ever wondered why that is? Because that period of "asking questions" isn't truly for
50.
by rafiki6 5y ago
It's much more simple than that. It's meant to prevent job mobility. Eng salaries are already absurdly high. Ever noticed how almost all the big tech companies do more or less the same ritual? It's entirely design to prevent
51.
by rafiki6 5y ago
They've become the defacto document signing platform with wide acceptance across industries and are treated as legally binding in many jurisdictions. They've essentially become the Google of document signing.
52.
by rafiki6 5y ago
Sounds like you were spared an awful employment experience. If their recruiting process is this disorganized, imagine what your day to day will be like. In my career I've learned two lessons: - verbal anything is worth less than 0 - Do
53.
by rafiki6 5y ago
> "To be honest, I don't get why some people go out of their way to cheerlead for their employers. It's quite sad to see such naïve fealty. I have a good life outside of work and prefer the mercenary state of mind when it
54.
Ask HN: Any tips on finding remote ML Eng roles from Canada by US companies?
1 points by rafiki6 5y ago|0 comments
55.
by rafiki6 5y ago
Yes.
56.
by rafiki6 5y ago
Ignoring the value of the tokens which are all over inflated right now due to crypto bull market and strong correlation between tokens and popular cryptocurrencies like BTC/ETH, I'm not entirely sure Solana is directly comparable
57.
by rafiki6 5y ago
I did this type of research last year. I came to the conclusion that you're likely over paying for the portability premium of a laptop with gimped hardware that generally does quite poorly on ventilation. That means your hardware is ge
58.
by rafiki6 5y ago
There is a simple solution to this. Proactively offer them raises that will encourage them to stay instead of taking off for an immediate 20-40% pay bump.
59.
by rafiki6 5y ago
What is it that you hate about the job? A lot of times, I find that hating your job is really a symptom of something deeper. I think this might be true for you because you also mentioned that you wouldn't be satisfied working for Googl
60.
by rafiki6 5y ago
You would likely earn double and have same/similar quality of life right across the border.

More ›