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Huh? That’s quite the assertion. They provide the infrastructure for Anthropic, so if that’s not large scale idk what is.

That’s far from the truth..

I’d argue it’s the opposite. Good documents are far more important when everyone can generate garbage.

Reading comments from the appropriate VPs will illuminate the situation.. Swami is looking to democratise AI, and the company is geared towards that more than anything else.

Disclaimer; I work for amzn, opinions my own.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/aws-and-mistra...

At least in Europe I have a lot of trouble finding companies paying me as much as Amzn does, and it’s not even close.

Perhaps working for American companies remotely will change that view, but it’s too much a hassle for me at the moment.

Immigration is not the problem. The problem lies on the kind of people we allow in and who gets to get welfare.

My grandfather looked in his 50s and had more mobility than 50 year old men well into his 80s it’s only when cancer got to him that he started looking his age.

I’d sign up for that.

> I'll enjoy your aesthetic traditions and take your free social welfare, but I'll keep my own culture and values, thank you very much.

And I have every right to want you out of country and my taxes not to be wasted on the likes of you.

I am not critiquing the engineers… we are all rational agents looking at the data that we have in front of us and try to make sensible decisions about our lives.

I am just blaming society in that it doesn’t seem to prioritise “good” and “useful” things.

I can't say that about my job; I am providing tools for engineers to use and making things better. As part of my job I am expected to contribute to CPython, and rustc among other things.

Exercise for the reader; stay a while, and listen.

Once you start noticing things changing, try to identify how you could profit off of it. If it's a change, then there's profit to be made somehow.

Any anecdote is a potential lead.

Reality is far more sad.

Companies like JaneStreet, 2Sigma, etc employ some of the best software engineers, mathematicians, physicists and what not just so they can

    - have better weather forecasts to identify whether a 1 degree delta in South CA can increase oil costs cents on the barrel,   
    - run pandemic simulations to identify how the spread might happen and where inflation will rise so they move faster,   
    - track occupancy rates for pharmacies, hotels, casinos, etc via satellite imaging to identify spikes in usage,
    - track the tiniest of things like butterfly populations to identify increase in earnings for certain brands of hotels,   
    - build some of the most efficient software and write their own compilers

all so that they can move money around [and do so quickly].

Finance is not alone either. A non-trivial amount of big tech is on tracking users and serving ads better.

Do I blame the engineers? No.

I am just lamenting the state of society since this is how we have the brightest among us function and work.

That’s a very tired position… the irony of it all is that this view is also simplistic and unworthy of HN.

How about we do better and say trying to steel man the claim and then refute? Of course one has to understand the claims before they can steelman the argument.

In a group, you’d usually let the freshest handle splitting the bill because everyone else forgot arithmetic.

Peeking*

I’d caution against taking simplistic views and recommend peaking behind the veil.

Id start by looking into the deportees, people like Abreco Garcia — working men and women who contributed to their society, and all those who received pardons — between rapists, violent criminals, and abusers, you’d have a hard time replacing many of the deportees.

That’s fair criticism. I only corrected the hardware aspect of it all.

I don’t think that’s true. AMD’s ****X3D chips are evidence that’s not true, with lots of benchmarks supporting this.

Not sure what you are talking about re amzn.

I have a pretty high end MacBook Pro, and that pales in comparison to the compute I have access to.

Performative or outright extortion.

Leadership is looking to provide infrastructure for anyone to just pick a model and get on doing things without the hassle of setting things up.

At amzn a decision from atop was made that nobody would ever write in shared dynamo db tables. A team would own and provide APIs. That massively improved reliability and velocity.

I use protonpass and it’s great, carried across all my devices and browsers.

I am not critical of them, I am critical of the state of society, that we value ads and moving money around more than anything else.

The brightest minds are often paid to optimize ad revenue and move money around.

Launching wars to quell internal conflict is a common tactic.

On init lambda funcs run a full core, but on invoke the 128MB run at 1/20 core.

There's been a spike in news articles on the invasion the last couple of weeks. Given that the US appears to not hold on to any alliances or assurances, and ~~incontinent~~ incompetent in chief is on the helm, it seems that they've the perfect opportunity. Europe's busy with Russia, US is busy with itself, so honestly, why not?

It’s worth reading 0 to 1, it outlines Thiel’s views on startups, which can be illuminating on his broader views.

He emphasizes that sales and distribution are just as important as the product itself, and he is particularly blunt about the need to convince people to become customers, even if your product is truly superior.

> “If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business — no matter how good the product.”

Thiel argues that great products don’t sell themselves, contrary to the romanticized idea many founders have. Even if your product is objectively better, people won’t automatically understand or adopt it. You must persuade them, market effectively, and create distribution channels — either through salespeople, viral growth loops, partnerships, or targeted marketing — to bridge the gap between product and user adoption.

I am interested; could you provide some links, articles, etc?