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this is a super non-popular take on HN.

but the entry-level job market has always been tough.

with AI, outside the big tech world, it is hard to justify hiring entry level engineers as the time to train them ( 1 year+ ) to be productive enough is such a drag on the seniors, when the agents deliver things more care and more edge cases.

it was an example of a correlation != causation

the parent comment was basically creating a causational logic for why vegetarians are more likely to be "smart"-er. which is not true.

> Vegetarianism selects for openness and analytical/reflective thinking but the extra step to veganism selects for absolutism/purity

I don't follow how you conclude this at all. there is nothing to indicate this is the case.

I didn't suggest sourcing a non-meat diet.

I'm suggesting the opposite.

by design eating meat is morally questionable. (as do so many things with our modern society.) all meat is fair game, because all animal dependent diet is questionable anyway.

> Compared with meat-eaters, vegetarians were more likely to have a higher educational level, whereas vegans had a lower education level

this is such a... wrong conclusion to make from the study. the study has found a correlation and by no means is it a causation. there are so many cultural, societal reasons for this to be the case. (eg. in india, upper caste people are usually vegetarians who generally have more access to education.)

eating any meat is morally questionable. (I say this as a person who does eat a lot of meat).

octopus passing a intelligence test does not keep it above the fold, neither does cattle go below the fold because they don't clear the bar (surprise, cattle are equally emotional, smart, curious etc.).

sounds wrong when I type it out but that is just the truth. milk is actually more ethically wrong when you think about it (isolating a calf from its mom to steal its food.)

doing one or the other does not absolve us. because one is more commonly accepted than the other

claude code uses bun written rust. and it has been in prod for a month or so. I am finding it hard not to celebrate because it was quite literally a +1M -4K line change that is touching people today.

> irrespective of the political turmoil.

I was mostly concerned with the technical perspective of firing 80% of people by stack ranking. the consensus in HN at the time was that twitter had months left before all production systems burn down, because all the organizational knowledge has left. but seems like firing 80% went just fine for them. which I find fascinating.

I really am curious about the issues that I'm ignoring

twitter was a dumpster fire before and now it is (to me) less of a dumpster fire.

so far it seems like the bun rewrite is going quite well. I haven't found any major issues since the merge despite, robobun being the top committer in the repo.

bun has lesser memory issues, more bug fixes shipped than ever before. same happening across the board with chrome, mozilla etc.

twitter has (irrespective of the political turmoil etc.) purely as a technical product added more users, more features etc.

to me that seems like it worked out fine.

This is awesome.

slightly aside, but I find it worrying that our industry treats a lot of cannon events in stride and don't organize around that idea or to mitigate the risks around that idea.

things that everybody basically just complained but ended up working out fine,

- Bun rust rewrite. - Elon Musk firing 80% of twitter by stack ranking employees by code committed - autocompletion basically just taking over everyone

maybe I'm just taking extremely outlier outcomes. but it is still fascinating to see people complain about how LLMs don't think

Maybe I just suck at accounting or productivity

but having a child actually rejuvenates me to do more. yes I probably staring at the screen less number of hours per day, becuase I have children. But I wouldn't say I was doing 10X as much as when I was a bachelor. there is only so much effective work you can get done in a day before you're out of ideas and need sleep or break. playing for 2 hours with my kid gets me fresh and kicking no matter how badly my day sucked.

The whole startup ecosystem encourages go all in, crash and burn, go big or go home style actions from all actors involved.

It is fascinating to watch, now that I have a closer view of the table. You're encouraged to take pot shots at each other, get attention at all cost and win big.

it is so easy to lose all humanity in the doubling down on each other and thinking it is all one big frat party. all of us should be guilty to be part of the perversion, but since everybody is involved none of us are.

Zuckerberg's reasoning on AI/ML seemed very justifiable to me in the Dwarkesh podcast

IIRC,

- Having a better model is a competitive advantage in fighting against spam - Better models enables facebook itself to understand their code vulnerabilities, better employee productivity etc. - Being in the frontier of open source, keeps them at an advantage in terms of updates from community

I understand you're trying to simplify every other job out there in a crass way. But,

- How many companies out there are tripling revenue? If a majority of the companies are tripling their revenue YoY is it healthy or cancerous to the economy?

- How many times does an industry "reinvent" itself.

- What use are all other software, without CRUD apps pulling money from the "other" economy into software?

famously, computing got its foothold, __because__ lotus 123 was utilitarian. What I mean by that is, ultimate utility for all software products come from software interacting with the real world somewhere down the line.

it might not be hip or world breaking. But, it is the most important part.

kahneman was such a fascinating personality. Other than "Thinking fast and slow", I highly recommend "The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis about Kahneman and Tversky's incredible journey changing the standard economic theory.

Some interesting talks with Daniel Kahneman

- https://www.edge.org/adversarial-collaboration-daniel-kahnem...

- https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-... Kahneman himself reponds in the comment sections to a very critical piece about his work.

I'm a person who hates lists and plans for personal tasks. But, am learning to love them. Because as I often realize, things get missed in the myriad of things to remember.

The plan to me is just a way of reminding my future self what I thought of as ideal output in the past. Instead of infinitely changing my plans and chasing fireflies

Au, is also the chemical symbol for Gold. It's the short form of the latin word Aurum. This is probably, what the authors intentended as shown in the yellow tint in the website. I might be wrong though

I think, in simpler terms. There's always a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). But, there's rarely a Chief Productivity Officer. It's usually the CTO et al fighting for dev productivity if any, else nobody just cares and you get impenetrable tarball software

I'm not supporting the parent comment. But don't you think we as humans have a penchant for conflating the reel and the real and ending up reinforcing the stereotypes present in the world? If anything, we need less stereotypes. A caricature is fine, But after a certain point it just feels tiresomely pigeonholing into an idea.

The bloomberg article seems to have been taken down and is now going to 404. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-07/google...

I think it is Space Repetition Software/System

The repository https://github.com/stephen/airsonos has the code and is surprisingly accessible.

  Location: US
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Rust, Golang, Python, K8s, Docker, Terraform, MLOps etc
  Résumé/CV: https://suriya.cc/resume.pdf
  Email: [email protected]

I've previously worked at early and late stage startups and have worked on scaling services from 100 rpm to 1M rpm. I'm looking for Summer internship 2024 (May - August). Multiple times in my career I've on converting research papers into deployable productionized systems.

apart from the things that my sibling comments are saying. OP just said

>so people put up with his foolishness.

about Ilya. OP just implied, having ideals == being foolish. it is as close to calling a non-profit, wacky.

I guess, then the question is how real time was the website. Was it as real time as supporting, instant messaging, voice/video calls etc

I might have a different take. But, is it not the case that anything more than wiring up high level APIs together, requires understanding a fair amount of DSA? I'm preparing for interviews and I kinda see the value in them.

It'll be much more interesting to know how long the "behavior assessment" that you get sent immediately after applying. Having just attended one mind numbing assessment from Citibank, which took more than an hour

You'd be interested in the other interactions jobs had with, Other CEOs on the same vein

https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1443263744906305543

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1422603572814962692

Because he clearly is trying to suppress wages. There seems to have been a lawsuit on it as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...