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by shmatt 3y ago
An Israeli 8200 engineer makes $350/month for 24/7 availability. Must be the Americans making all the money
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by shmatt 3y ago
Knowing the average SV interview loop too well, I can't imagine how many bad (for corporate type work) hires growing that fast brings in. A bunch of leetcode-hard optimized engineers being thrown into an organization that just grew fro
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by shmatt 3y ago
>We grew quickly and expanded our workforce even faster, increasing by 5x since 2020 Am i reading this right? Once the pandemic hit headcount went 200 -> 1000 -> 830 What is different in the user experience since 2020? I can unders
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by shmatt 3y ago
Discord isn't profitable
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by shmatt 3y ago
I thought this was common knowledge? I often see posts in technical groups im in from people asking for help re-opening their hacked instagram or facebook accounts. Apparently there is an internal-only form for Meta employees to speed up th
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by shmatt 3y ago
Is there OpSec better than my local doctor or hospital? I feel like I hear about ransomware attacks on hospitals every week. My DNA was also scanned[1] and saved by a hospital before having my first child - as most people with my heritage d
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by shmatt 3y ago
It cost me about $99 to get my DNA mapped by them a decade ago. I used a 3rd party service to sync my results with SNPedia which returned a pretty cool report, at the top of the report was a very dangerous gene I was the first in my family
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by shmatt 3y ago
Bolt can't fast charge, at some point we need to look beyond the single family home consumer
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by shmatt 3y ago
EVs aren't cheap either, in 2 years one will get better battery tech and a new connector, plus whatever deprecation the battery will go through if you buy one today. 2023-4 and earlier EVs will lose a huge chunk of their worth once NAC
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by shmatt 3y ago
Its much better trying to appease 15 VCs than the entire trading world. Literally anyone rich enough can create a meaningful stake in your company and start disparaging you in public if they wanted to. Im sure there would be an army of shor
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by shmatt 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Abandoned_military_pr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancelled_military_pro... F35 Survived but there are like 50 other planes that didnt in that s
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by shmatt 3y ago
(White) Teslas are just more common, but EV acceleration is dangerous in the wrong hands. My family friendly electric Volvo CUV does 0-60 as fast as a Porsche 911. The EX-30 is going to be about 25% faster. Mass adoption is going to be pret
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by shmatt 3y ago
Every consumer facing tech company with a paid product (physical or digital) I've worked at had Android as <10% of conversions. This includes just retail browsing from their phone shopping. Android users make no one money Unless the
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by shmatt 3y ago
Iraq never attacked anyone. A better comparison is the war in Afghanistan. If we compare # of people in each country. 10/07 for Israel was like 15 9/11s (this is a quote from a President Biden speech). So not only is it worth aski
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by shmatt 3y ago
While true this would lead to thousands of people being online without demand. If one really wants their food in 45 minutes, or an uber driver always 3 minutes away, they need a lot of people doing nothing staring at their screens for long
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by shmatt 3y ago
Top 10 summer movies 1982-1989 - 25% are sequels. In the 2010's that ticked to over 50%[1] This is way beyond AI. Culture just repeats itself, from movies to fashion to music. In case anyone was wondering - in the never ending loop bet
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by shmatt 3y ago
He’s a white male replacing a female board member. Which is probably what they wanted all along
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by shmatt 3y ago
> OpenAI's employee attrition rate between January 2018 and July 2020 was in the order of 50%. and > Those who questioned this practice were dismissed as "bad culture fits" and even terminated, some just before Thanksgi
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by shmatt 3y ago
crushes? sarcasm? Free Vicuna is 90% as good as the 100 Billion Dollar company made one. This makes my point. And between Vicuna and GPT4-Turbo There are the Claude Models and WizardML. This is as even playing field as i've ever seen f
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by shmatt 3y ago
Well, I did say they are willing to burn money more than others - making their commercial availability better. Better yet ask yourself - will hollowed out Open AI and/or Satya be willing to lose money on every API call? Are you willing
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by shmatt 3y ago
OpenAI won the current state of the adoption war because they focused on commercial availability and being willing to lose money on every API call more than others. There is no groundbreaking tech behind it. >Microsoft take the code, mod
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by shmatt 3y ago
Remember all those Apple and Amazon employees who signed a letter that they're not going back to the office? Last I heard Apple was at 100% compliance Make no mistake, if Microsoft is matching $10M PPU's with $10M Microsoft RSUs v
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by shmatt 3y ago
0% raise and lower bonus pool in 2023 for Satyas engineers then the $1M-$2M/year OpenAI folks who never built a profitable product enter the building
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by shmatt 3y ago
This makes the most sense, people would actually get paid for their PIU's. Im confident otherwise they are going to cry looking at what a level 63 data scientist makes at MS
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by shmatt 3y ago
truly a Win-Win-Win-Win-Win situation for MSFT
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by shmatt 3y ago
There was so little drama around Continua and Mistral AI - which had actual researches and not product managers create a new company
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by shmatt 3y ago
A few things come to mind: * Emmett Shear should have put in a strong golden parachute in his contract, easy money if so * Yesterday we had Satya the genius forcing the board to quit. This morning it was Satya the genius who acquired OpenAI
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by shmatt 3y ago
Im far from a Musk fan but Xitter is still online Big difference between how do we develop GPT-5 and can we keep our current model online
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by shmatt 3y ago
People are haluscinating that this could go through easily in a $3T mega corp. Level 68 at MS makes about $700k TC, and is equivalent in level to a Google L8. You think they're just going to bring in hundreds of people all at L10 or so
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by shmatt 3y ago
AGI will be created by engineers and researchers. Don’t worry about millionaire non technical CEOs Even in the most positive posts about Sam, it was about the researchers following him to NewCo, following him to Microsoft. He needs the actu

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