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what do you mean? amazon maintains a ton of open source projects, including a pure FOSS version of Elasticsearch called Opensearch

well apparently Dario did the same thing with Mythos - ethics for the big AI labs is mainly posturing

this is so rampant but they know they have a captive market (in many places, only uber or lyft are an option) so they abuse their position

are they usually not? is there no industry standard concept of an escalation manager?

> 2.3 SDE could do that, but i don't get 6. a 24/7 operation needs 2FTE and 1 PTE per shift, and there are three shifts.

having the team constantly on call is a recipe for having them quit. sure, you could run this with the bare minimum number of engineers, but your turnover would be so high and given how high hiring costs tend to be, this is a net negative

> so maybe all that "busywork" takes 6 full times?

ktlo in a constantly changing company is not easy. software / host patching to maintain compliance is necessary busywork that requires a bit of babysitting. not to mention keeping up with required migrations to new stuff due to internal deprecations.

That’s how macOS permissions work.

File access for apps is gated behind “special” folder access (like Documents/Downloads/etc, and “full disk access” which is anywhere beyond the common user directories)

> Most places take after hours paging pretty seriously.

LOL i wish

A "tell" in this case is domain-specific terminology to denote a behavior that provides information that the person may have been trying to keep secret. I believe the term comes from poker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_(poker)

I imagine that is to compete with ChatGPT, which began doing the same.

non competes are not enforceable in california and a few other US states iirc, although if there were to ever be an IP lawsuit, it would be a war of attrition (with odds highly stacked against the engineer)

minor nit: there are no dedicated SREs at amazon. but your point stands otherwise

Amazon does this a lot in their “customer obsession” management strategy. In their terms, the mechanism to make this happen is called a “PR/FAQ”[1], and the core idea is that if you can’t express your idea in terms of a customer-focused press release, then it isn’t a good thing to add.

[1]: https://productstrategy.co/working-backwards-the-amazon-prfa...

> If Apple were truly acting in their users best interest, they would want their users to have encrypted and fast communication with all devices, through an open protocol or otherwise.

yeah that protocol exists. it’s called RCS and it is coming to ios soon. imo apple is allowed to gate imessage behind ios-only if RCS support is a thing

this is untrue. located in the bay area and getting dinged hard on most of my devices

Flagship public schools in some states can approach $40k in costs if you don’t qualify for aid:

https://admission.ucla.edu/tuition-aid/tuition-fees

Cool product, but I'm actually concerned about privacy using a tool like FakeSpot. Their privacy policy is extremely broad and includes handing over purchase history and search history on shopping websites to the extension authors:

> Browser Extensions: We collect the following data when you use Fakespot’s Browser Extensions and may link it to your personal identity in order to effectively market our products and services to you and others:

    Contact Info
    Identifiers
    Usage Data
    Application Search History (e.g. not your Google/Bing/other search engine history)
    Purchases
    Diagnostics

https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy

> provably wrong

How so? I don't see any examples of top talent being fired (barring the scuffles at Twitter, but that isn't FAANG). Most people on my LinkedIn feed being let go are new grads or middle management who ostensibly didn't perform to company expectations of perfromance.

I would make the argument that top talent wasn’t the contingent that was laid off.

Just because you don’t understand the knob doesn’t mean it’s voodoo or proprietary. LMs of every kind can incorporate temperature into their next-token inference and it’s a common term when describing models like these:

https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/32477/what-is-the-tem...

Asking to ask[1]. This appears a lot in the communities I’m in (mainly university student groups) and it’s probably the most annoying thing to see in my opinion.

[1]: https://dontasktoask.com/

There is an "Increase Contrast" option in Settings for visually-impaired users.

That's terrifying and I hope this isn't a default.

Any TV is stupid if you don’t connect it to the Internet.

This article has a lot of accusations and little evidence, so I’m not inclined to believe the author just yet.

Reminds me a lot of https://lifeat.io/. No affiliation.

> This is why I use cash as much as possible - to delay that day.

A big thing discouraging me from using cash is how suspicious people are of you when you pay in cash. I've definitely gotten weird looks from cashiers when doing so, especially when you pay in larger bills (like $100).

What if the walk/stand zones are swapped every so often?

It is actually not currently OSS, although the creators have indicated interest in open-sourcing parts of it in the past.