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Comment by tptacek | Hacker News Reader

This article is basically blogspam of this Reuters piece:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-meta-girds-fier...

That's generally the case for the NY Post, where you'll usually find a better source linked within the first few grafs of their stories.

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Thank you. The Reuters article is much better.

Most of the comments here are debating the heavily editorialized NY Post headline which implies that Zuckerberg said something that he did not say at all ("...so employees will quit" was added by the NY Post).

I mean he did basically say that: “Part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might decide that this place isn't for you, and that self-selection is OK with me," he said.

Obviously he wants underperformers to quit and not his best people.

And also buries one of the most interesting points: they need 5 times their current number of datacenter GPUs just to power their current plans for ML expansion!

because of this comment I actually read the reuters piece lol

I’m surprised that’s just to surface recommended posts and not for some deeper new ambitious products:

“to support the "discovery" push, which requires extra computing power for artificial intelligence to surface popular posts from across Facebook and Instagram in users' feeds.”

Right, and that's already been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31941777

This (NYPost) thread is a dupe

Not to mention the toxic comments at the bottom of the NY Post article.

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