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>Having Anthropic train the model with my data?

No.

Cheezemansamon How to win an argument with a toddler

>When two incompatible views exist on a subject, at least one of them must be wrong.

There are a lot of things that do not exist on a binary truth spectrum, although I agree with your point about open mindedness.

Cheezemansamon I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened

Well if the employer is suddenly requiring previously remote workers to come back to the office, they are in a sense firing them. Or perhaps more accurately "laying them off" because it isn't an individualized thing.

Cheezemansamon Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

https://imgur.com/a/ssxiS6X

God. GPT is going to fucking ruin online discourse.

Cheezemansamon Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains

>A writer's mistake is abuse

I thought we were talking about companies. Why should the owner of the work care about whether your writer was on too tight of a timeline to properly check whether they were allowed to use the photographer's work for free? Yes, a company stealing people's work is abusive, and I am not sure why we should be sympathetic when some small % of them happen to have aggressive representation.

Cheezemansamon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

Location: Texas

Remote: Only, or in DFW area.

Willing to relocate: For a ludicrous offer.

Technologies: SSIS, SSRS, SQL, TSQL, MSSQL, AWS, Powershell, Python, Linux, Docker.

Email: samuel.armstrong91@gmail.com

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PF6ZVmdmy-IdayYZt166E72Z...

Database Administrator. 5 Years of experience.

Primarily interested in working closely with databases, currently working as a Database Administrator. I have automated a great deal of my job and frankly speaking our Senior DBA is going to work here until he retires. I actually like my currently job but I am mostly interested in a position with more responsibilities and just an overall step forward in my career.

Cheezemansamon Claude 3 model family

Claude.ai web version is beyond useless, it is an actual scam. Like straight up it is not ethical for them to treat their web client as a product they are allowed to charge money for, the filters will actually refuse to do anything. You pay for increased messages and whatever but all you get is "I apologize..." and treats you as if you were about to commit mass genocide with calling 21+ year old individuals minors and any references to any disability as "reinforcing harmful stereotypes". You often cannot get it to summarize a generally innocuous statement.

Claude will only function through the API properly.

Cheezemansamon How to hire low experience, high potential people

>You want to have a picture of their psychology, because the problems you're hiring them for are often psychological in nature.

You are abstracting the issue so far that you are misrepresenting the primary criticisms people are having. You are not a trained psychologist, and trying to get a psychological profile of someone to try to reverse engineer how good of an employee they are going to be is naive and, frankly, nauseating.

Cheezemansamon Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16

>As I mentioned elsewhere, you’re falling for letting perfect be the enemy of good

No, this line of reasoning deserves nothing but absolute contempt when it comes to laws. We are not talking about getting the finnicky API to work at your job. Too often laws have had unintended consequences as a result of loopholes or small peculiarities. If the damn law doesn't even work on a fundamental level then it should be opposed on principle.

Cheezemansamon I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)

>once you have an in in tech, you'll be recognized by your team/manager if you do great work.

It is naive to think every work environment is like this.

Cheezemansamon Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview

>In that case, it's most likely working as intended.

You are very casual in claiming that there is such an intentional correlation between developers who are not willing to spend 90+ minutes on a non-technical prescreen with a 15% success rate and competent developers who can translate business needs into actionable steps. It's reasonable to say you are willing to accept that there are developers who are unwilling to go through this process, but to say you are filtering them out intentionally is needlessly contemptuous.

Cheezemansamon Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers

Yea, but that is not something that should be a common experience. There is no good reason to fire someone day 1 outside of like, bad faith issues like lying about your background or basic capability to do a job (Senior Linux Admin who doesn't know what a command line is etc.).

Cheezemansamon It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

I do think Joel has some awfully insightful things to say but:

>You should always try to have at least six people interview each candidate that gets hired

Eh. I think this mindset gets taken too literally. That is not something that most companies should be putting candidates through unless they are actually willing to pay for top end talent, and are a tech company who absolutely requires it. Especially paired with:

>Each interview should consist of one interviewer and one interviewee, in a room with a door that closes and a whiteboard. I can tell you from extensive experience that if you spend less than one hour on an interview you’re not going to be able to make a decision.

Yea, no. I am not going to spend 6 hours of my time just because your company is so indecisive, especially with this current job search environment where companies will drop you like a fucking brick and ghost you even after having used hours of your time. I can't help but think a lot of the general shittiness around the hiring process is people taking parts of this article and internalizing them religiously.

Cheezemansamon Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics

One of the big things though, is that you can't know exactly what this division looks like. Like you said, at a high, non-technical level that is kind of fundamentally what is going on, with the caveat that the actual "cut" you are making isn't clean like splitting numbers down the middle.

Cheezemansamon Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account

>But what would scammers gain for complaining about Google?

Well, it is probably more what do they have to lose? Plenty of internet hate mobs have formed backing a cause that later came out to be misleading, if not outright fraudulent. Even assuming they are scammers, it is quite possible they think they are in the right (there are cultures that have... different views about business ethics), but they could also just be rolling the dice.

Cheezemansamon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)

What specific purpose does choosing to identify as a candidate from an underrepresented demographic serve? That is, how is the data used? Who involved in the hiring process is provided with this information?

Cheezemansamon The rise of never-ending job interviews

>I've seen the same thing. It makes no sense. I keep telling myself the incentives can't really be such that your hiring process be actively antagonistic...not if we want anything good right?

See, if your test is so difficult that people are failing, then it must mean that you are being selective and only hiring the best!!!!!

Cheezemansamon The rise of never-ending job interviews

A lot of IT positions at Universities. To the point where it can be a problem as in a Junior Position, it can be really hard to be promoted internally unless someone decides to leave, which they rarely do because people in Senior level Uni positions get good pay and they tend to be very chill environments.

Cheezemansamon People Staring at Computers

>It seems apple only asked the pictures be taken down.

Sending law enforcement to confiscate their belongings seems pretty in line with "vehemently condemned". Personally I don't think his art project was entirely ethically in the clear so to speak, but this seems like nitpicky semantics considering they sent him a legal nastygram that referenced a criminal investigation that they themselves initiated.

>"Those violations of the CFAA give rise to a civil cause of action by Apple, and the display of the images and video is causing ongoing harm to Apple. There is also a criminal investigation related to those violations of the CFAA. Furthermore, the images and video may violate the privacy/publicity rights of the individuals pictured therein, including but not limited to Apple employees."

Cheezemansamon Google turned me into a serial killer

>I think you have a decent chance of getting a five figure+ settlement from this.

Against Google? I am more inclined to think the dude is actually a serial killer than that he has a chance of winning a defamation suit.

Cheezemansamon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

Location: Euless(/Dallas/Irving), TX

Remote: Either. Successful in either environment.

Willing to relocate: Not preferable but on the table.

Technologies: SSIS (+BIML), SSRS, SQL, Tableau, Microsoft Office Suite etc., Microsoft SQL Server, ETL Processes.

Email: Samuel.Armstrong91@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-armstrong91/

Summary: Looking for entry level work. 1 year of experience as Database Developer but also experience producing reports using Tableau. Achievements include developing new SSIS package schema focused on consolidating redundant processes, while trimming discrete packages to only contain tasks uniquely required for (sub)client specifications. Resulted in ~60% reduction in discrete package size allowing for changes/maintenance to be preformed with significantly less development time.

Cheezemansamon My Resignation from the Intercept

"You broke your promise that I'd have unlimited publication rights" is a sad story of broken promises but it's not a story of journalistic decline.

Sure, but that isn't the central issue here that Greenwald is claiming.