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by runako 1y ago
> the potential positive result is here for the US The central campaign promises were to reverse the demographic changes of the last few decades, at the costs of making Americans poorer & reducing America's long-term competitive
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by runako 1y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. The data from the decade[1] shows that tech hiring ~doubled over that period of time. The slope was not as steep as the dotcom boom, but the downturn in tech ended in 2009. 1 - https://fred.stlouisfed
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by runako 1y ago
The sibling comments focus on the money side, but the tech drivers were mobile & cloud. The boom kicked off right around 2008 when the App Store launched.
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by runako 1y ago
I hate to lean on credentialism and experience, I really do. But is Karpathy the only one of these who is a) an engineer and also b) over the age of 30? Why are these relevant? Engineer, because we are talking about a set of technologies th
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by runako 1y ago
> I bet they thought full automation was right around the corner I will bet that none of the engineers on the automation team over the age of 35 thought that. Only the young & naive or non-technical people would have believed that.
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by runako 1y ago
> They charge you comparable price for way less functionality. BYD's comparable offering is generally free/included in the car's price. Separately, I can't believe we are still discussing a product called "Full S
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by runako 1y ago
In addition to those listed in sibling comments, new services often roll out in us-east-1 before being made available in other regions. I recently ran into an issue where some Bedrock functionality was available in us-east-1 but not one of
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by runako 1y ago
Even though us-east-1 is the region geographically closest to me, I always choose another region as default due to us-east-1 (seemingly) being more prone to these outages. Obviously, some services are only available in us-east-1, but many a
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by runako 1y ago
This program was called IRS Direct File[1], and DOGE/the current administration killed it. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_Direct_File
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by runako 1y ago
> the Internal Revenue Service could prepare the taxes of most Americans IRS Direct File[1] did exactly this. It apparently worked really well, and people liked using it, netting ~$20 billion in savings to the Americans that used it (rou
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by runako 1y ago
> If SWE doesn't actually require a degree, and I know it doesn't because I don't have one There's a lot embedded in here that for political reasons I'm not going to get into. Back on the subject, I will just saw
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by runako 1y ago
Thank you for adding that color, it is clarifying. I would suggest that your position is a minority position. In particular, that view is out of step with most employers, who generally require college degrees (even non-technical ones) for m
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by runako 1y ago
Great post. I would love to see someone connect the long-term increase in Americans' wealth with our ability to develop and harness new technologies. And conversely, how much poorer we can expect Americans to become if that cycle is sl
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by runako 1y ago
There is no SpaceX without the ability to build on the (public) advancements of NASA and the public willingness to pay SpaceX taxpayer dollars for speculative flights. There is no Ozempic without federal funds for basic research to identify
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by runako 1y ago
Another way of looking at it is: - the current system works for the benefit of US industry, military, and the economy - the current system has delivered real results over many decades - nobody has proposed how an alternate solution would wo
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by runako 1y ago
> The project is making scientific progress as defined by its own milestones (accountability). Not a researcher, but my perception is that this is already part of the process. Is it not?
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by runako 1y ago
National average SAT score is ~995. Georgia average is 1030. The Georgia university system has a set of goals for the advancement of the state of Georgia. It's difficult to make an argument that graduating seniors performing above aver
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by runako 1y ago
Scale matters. From TFA: > pushed the company's market capitalization to $72.13 billion This, on annual revenue of ~$19B. Apple today is closing in on 2x that revenue every month now. Quarterly net profit exceeds annual revenue in
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by runako 1y ago
The thing about that legislation is that since it is the law of the land, it applies whether or not an institution receives a grant.
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by runako 1y ago
Yes, I read that. As you said, the law is still operant. This is not about normal law enforcement, this is about willingness to be more aggressive than the police normally would. > to delay or disrupt class instruction or disrupt librari
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by runako 1y ago
I'll make it simple in a few steps: 1. Many people have an aversion to harming children. This aversion is not universally shared, but it is a very common stance nonetheless. Children, especially, tend to have an aversion to being harme
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by runako 1y ago
Can you imagine the conservatives at MIT (they are there!) being happy that MIT outsourced price-setting and hiring decisions to the White House? This Compact aims to radically reshape the management of higher education. In that, it is anyt
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by runako 1y ago
Unsure what you mean. Obviously MIT is standing on their conviction. That doesn't make it an easy thing to do!
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by runako 1y ago
Highly suggest reading the document[1] if you are interested. The overarching problem is it moves management decisions from the colleges to the White House. But here are a couple of really problematic points: - mandates government price set
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by runako 1y ago
I mean, you're obviously right about this all. Which is why it's an easy decision. MIT chooses independence and so cannot agree to these terms. Separately, there is the question of whether it is in the best interest of the US to p
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by runako 1y ago
I meant it in the sense of heterogeneous. The list includes public & private institutions across a variety of states and size ranges. It singles out particular institutions in state university systems (e.g. University of Texas at Austin
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by runako 1y ago
The text of the Compact: > Signatories commit to using lawful force if necessary to prevent these violations and to swift, serious, and consistent sanctions for those who commit them. Many students enter college as minors, so this is ask
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by runako 1y ago
This is a motley list. I am guessing the criteria for inclusion was an administration staffer (or their offspring) was not able to secure admission.
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by runako 1y ago
In a way, the overreach in the compact made this an obvious (though not easy) decision. Obviously, an independent university cannot agree to government-mandated pricing or censorship of faculty members. Similarly, government intrusion into
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by runako 1y ago
> they have no plans to sell any code licenses Every for-profit is subject to being sold to someone with different plans. If the license is not fully open, it's not smart to expect the licensing terms to get worse.

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