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by shmatt 2y ago
Exactly, and I don’t understand the fraud comments because this is exactly how US lawmakers intended the system the work. Easy to come for 3-6 years, hard to stay forever It would be better if the “replaceable” part was determined on the fe
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by shmatt 2y ago
You explained it perfectly. I’d never lie, if I interviewed someone comparable the process ends immediately internally. But the employee (who is still an amazing employee, exceeds, promotions, Etc) is not fired
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by shmatt 2y ago
We interview without knowing sponsorship status. If someone requires sponsorship that happens after we decide they were the best interviewee I wish it wasn’t this way but in the vast majority of interviews, the sponsor required person is th
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by shmatt 2y ago
The law says I can’t submit the I-140 application, which I follow the law and I don’t submit it. As a people manager it’s a heartbreaking conversation to have - to tell a report their dream of staying beyond their visa is gone The law says
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by shmatt 2y ago
The requirement you mention is for filing a green card application. If I find a good citizen, I don’t file the application, that’s the law. But the employee does have h1b or OPT and is still allowed to work in the US, nothing wrong with tha
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by shmatt 2y ago
You have to prove you tried interviewing and couldn’t find anyone to replace them. My company isn’t a super popular employer so we don’t get the best candidates. This might be a bigger problem at Google, Meta, etc
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by shmatt 2y ago
In this example the amazing engineer is a citizen or permanent resident already If my superiors would give me extra unexpected budget I’d be happy to. But if I find a citizen that is just as good as my opt employee, my only path forward is
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by shmatt 2y ago
I have to put out a ghost job req and interview every person applying within reason for every green card a direct report is applying for. I have to show there are or aren’t any residents or citizens that can fill the job The main problem is
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by shmatt 2y ago
everything is as usual, including the needle. I asked one of the guild leaders myself. My big question is, how much % of their engineers are participating in this? I can't find a single clear answer. For all we know there are another 4
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by shmatt 2y ago
Just throw it into o1
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by shmatt 2y ago
I have to disagree, it is definitely not legal in the US to use unauthorized access points to access authorized data. Thats like saying you're allowed to get into your apartment through breaking your neighbors door and climbing between
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by shmatt 2y ago
I had the pleasure of leading a project of migration from an old commerce stack to Salesforce Open Commerce. Terrible experience filled with empty promises, non-existant features, and suggestions to write complex hacks to create features th
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by shmatt 2y ago
I just noticed over the weekend new Claude agreed to reverse engineer a graphql server with introspection turned off, something Im pretty sure it would have refused for ethical reasons before the new version it kept writing scripts, i would
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by shmatt 2y ago
The pay is for the office location, not home location. And as a tech corp employee in NYC I have multiple coworkers commuting 2h each way 2-3 times a week (including from the Pike County area). Rural PA has become pretty popular for the 4br
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by shmatt 2y ago
The bigger the raise, the more news and hype, the easier it will be to offload the stock to retail investors. Theres definitely a sweet spot here where I assume the large funds will want retail investors to start picking up the losses inste
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by shmatt 2y ago
I would say the strawberry/o1 hype was even worse than the GPT-5 hype There were months worth of articles on how strawberry is considered almost dangerous internally its so smart. I know we only got -mini and -preview but...this doesn&
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by shmatt 2y ago
I feel like this is stating the obvious - but i guess not to many - but a probabilistic syllable generator is not intelligence, it does not understand us, it cannot reason, it can only generate the next syllable It makes us feel understood
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by shmatt 2y ago
So all diddy needs to do is get on the stand and describe every single party of his and he’ll get a slap on the wrist? While there should be more incentives to cooperate, like the type of prison, allowed visits, etc. claiming someone should
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by shmatt 2y ago
My hot take on the whole Amazon RTO thing is they are trying to ramp up visa workers Amazon is the no.2 in h1bs in the US, and no. 1 in i-140. 1) Layoffs mean they have to pause both of those. Amazon even had to stop all I-140s in February
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by shmatt 2y ago
its more like, if you know what you're doing. I started seeing the trickle of bootcamp grads coming in maybe 7-8 years ago. Many of them were just as good as the CS grads. They have no issue finding new jobs today, some are even at FAA
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by shmatt 2y ago
I mean theyre promising everything "within hours" so id say 12 hours from now we'll know they're lying, but additionally: * a lot of what they're posting about the batteries and manufacturing (not coming in hours) w
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by shmatt 2y ago
As long as it doesn’t say “made in Hungary” And on a more serious note. Hizbolla is a blacklisted terrorist org, they can’t just order stuff from regular factories. Buying from an anonymous white label factory in Hungary with no address and
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Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say(reuters.com)
301 points by shmatt 2y ago|982 comments
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by shmatt 2y ago
Unfortunately I’ve been trying to tell this to friends and family for almost a decade in regards to clothing and home goods. People are stuck in the 80s and 90s that a logo defines how something was made, which isn’t true at all these days.
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by shmatt 2y ago
In the toilet? They practically run the world tech industry. Practically every GPU, laptop, and phone have a chip or sensor designed in Israel. FAANG companies keep growing their offices. Startup exits are at an all time high even as the wa
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by shmatt 2y ago
These weren’t sold at a Best Buy. They were purchased by a known terrorist organizations that any westerner would go to jail for having a financial relationship with . The types of people they deal with to buy anything at all - including bl
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by shmatt 2y ago
Unfortunately Netanyahu has gained and lost the prime minister position multiple times without wars. He's just somewhat popular. Between his first government in 1995 and today, people forget there were prime ministers Sharon, Olmert, B
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by shmatt 2y ago
israel wasn't identified as israel, and hizbolla weren't identified of hizbolla much of the work of a CIA or Mossad agent isn't breaking in to this house or murdering that person. It's working as an executive in a shell
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by shmatt 2y ago
Elon Musk and Ilya Sutskever Have Warned About OpenAI’s ‘Strawberry’ Jul 15, 2024 — Sutskever himself had reportedly begun to worry about the project's technology, as did OpenAI employees working on A.I. safety at the time. https:&#x2
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by shmatt 2y ago
I honestly can’t believe this is the hyped up “strawberry” everyone was claiming is pretty much AGI. Senior employees leaving due to its powers being so extreme I’m in the “probabilistic token generators aren’t intelligence” camp so I don’t

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