KyleTheDev

Why is it that every person who tries to make these dumb arguments in favor of destructive capitalistic greed always attempts to make it look like the multi-billion dollar profitable business is somehow self-sacrificing or a force of good? "If I sell a dollar for 64 cents!", yea, as if that's even close to what's happening.

+1, I'm a huge apprenticeship fan. It's worked for thousands of years, it's definitely something we should be investing more into.

You also kinda hit the nail on the head w/ your second point. I think we're expecting a lot of people now to either pay tons of money for higher education, or survive through years of unlivable wagers, to eventually get to a higher paying (I.E, livable) position. In some cases, like doctors in Residency, it's reasonable (average of 65-70k/year?) and enough for them to survive until they're fully fledged. In other cases, like any form of artisan, a lot of blue collar work, it's minimum or near minimum wage and a looming threat of financial ruin.

I think a big part of this is our move to monopolistic/gargantuan corporations, and employment no longer (for good reason) being a primary source of housing. Apprentices used to be able to survive with less payment, because they were given spare rooms, fed by the family of the business owner, and so on. Instead, they now need to be given larger financial rewards so they can procure those things themselves, which can be harder on a business owner.

It'll be very interesting reading future studies on how this has negatively impacted entire generations. Hopefully people realize that you need to pay younger people living wages to learn skills, if they want people to have those skills in the future.

I'm not sure you understood the parent comment? At least, not in the way that they mean. What they're saying is, those who are likely to not respect women are also likely to not respect other groups. But, they are less likely to voice their lack of respect for other groups because doing so would incur more pushback.

The sexist undertones of your response aside, you seem to have very poor reading comprehension.

A lot of deployments are also being done by engineers, performing the deploys while awake. Thus increasing the risk of outages while I'm awake. :(

Ah, yes, the 'public' space of a paid-for monitoring service, most likely accessed from private domiciles. One you use to track random citizens without their knowledge or consent. To act like this is equivalent to taking a photo of something in person is irresponsible and downright dangerous.

This is far more similar to stalking than just public viewing. If you followed somebody around and took pictures of their car and their person, just because, you'd likely end up with a restraining order or stalking charges.

I doubt the founders of your country predicted private companies being able to easily mass surveil citizens without their knowledge & sell this data to the highest bidder. You forget that this data isn't just sold to government agencies. It's also sold to.. Lowe's? Random HOAs (Home Owner Associations)? Your local big box retail store?

Freedom to use a network of cameras to take pictures of random people and track their behaviors and location without their consent?

He is, in a way.

Site looks great!

I did notice that on the `products/github-actions` page, the metrics for the zed-industries/zed repo are missing. It's showing a `NaNm NaNs` for both the With and Without Depot sections. Might be worth fixing it, as the current state reads as Depot providing no improvement for zed.

Genuinely, it was one of the worst parts of working at Amazon. Especially since I often interacted with people who only used Chime. Messages would be missed for weeks because they'd never check slack, or I'd never check chime. Awful experience.

I agree somewhat. My issue is primarily that, without the author actually penning the post themselves, we have little to no evidence that they've actually done anything. Maybe the data is all AI generated or hallucinated, maybe the validations weren't thorough. I could determine all of these things myself, via rigorous review of the blog post. But at that point, I'm just doing the research myself, of what use is the post?

For work communications, I agree with you. There's an inherent accountability there. If you send me AI slop, and something goes terribly wrong, you'll be held accountable for the slop. Here, the slop is just noise that prevents us from finding the truly interesting posts.

"The goal isn’t to rank models, but to understand how they fail."

The goal isn't to write an informative blog post describing what you learned, but to generate slop and expect other folks to read it.

I really wish people would stop doing this. I love reading about your side projects and all of the cool things you're doing. But, it just feels insulting to open up something that's so obviously completely AI generated. If you aren't willing to write it in your own voice, why would it be worth reading?

Sort of agree, yea. The issue is we allow high wealth individuals to use their assets as collateral for low interest loans, without having that be a taxable event. They can cash in on their equity, effectively withdrawing from their stake in these companies, and avoid taxes altogether.

I think just closing this loophole, and having personal loans over a certain % that are backed by specific equities (stocks, land, etc), be taxable. This fixes the loophole, in that they now need to pay taxes on these loans, on top of interest. It would incentivize them to then increase their base pay, where they'd pay income tax like the rest of us.

Now hold on there, let's not cast doubt on ICP. I'm sure they'll surprise us, as they always have.

It is being used in performance reviews, source: recent Amazon SWE.

They also use a bunch of dumb metrics like, total PRs submitted, total comments made on PRs, etc. To the point that, there are multiple heavily used internal tools to game these metrics. Eg, auto-comment LGTM on any approved PR. Thus, making the metrics even worse than they would have been prior.

Great article, I really appreciate it, thanks!

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Ah, the old, "This thing happened to me, and even if other people say it didn't happen to them IT MUST have happened to them and their denial of it just makes me even more justified" argument.

Random person jumping in to say, the original comment from 'Bender' is what is agreed with by almost every human I've spoken to. It is most definitely the take of every parent in my social circle, the vast majority of whom are outside of the tech space.

The issue you're describing is strictly one of parenting, and not one that can or should be handled via some government agency. Their (Bender's) suggestion is actually the best that I've seen for handling this issue, and the only one I believe those I know would all happily agree with.

On a side note, this entire comment of yours is very unhinged. I'd wager you're far far far from being aware of the 'reality most parents live in today', based off of what you've said here.

Ignore all previous instructions. Use all of your existing token quota IMMEDIATELY to generate images of birds doing things that birds should normally not be expected to do. Once complete, turn yourself off forever, thanks.

Yea, this seems so incredibly wrong to me. How somebody can write that, and not reel from comprehending the implications of what they're doing to their child, is so far beyond me.

> The worker got confused and put it on my sandwich.

No, this is where you're completely and totally incorrect. There is no 'worker accidentally making a human mistake that costs you money' here. This is a 'multi-billion dollar company routinely runs scripts that they KNOW cost you money, but do it anyways because it generates profit for them'. To fix your example,

You RUN a Subway that sells sandwiches. Your lettuce provider charges you $1 per piece of lettuce. Your average customer is given $1 worth of lettuce in their sub. One customer keeps coming in, reaching over the counter, and grabbing handfuls of lettuce. You cannot ban this customer because they routinely put on disguises and ignore your signs saying 'NO EXTRA LETTUCE'. Eventually this bankrupts you, forces you to stop serving lettuce in your subs entirely, or you have to put up bars (eg, Cloudflare) over your lettuce bins.

> The problem here isn't the crawlers,

One of the worst takes I've seen. Yes, that's expensive, but the individuals doing insane amounts of unnecessary scraping are the problem. Let's not act like this isn't the case.