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People parrot this point a lot but it doesn't make any sense. The average SAT/ACT at the Ivy's are near perfect, the number of mediocre rich kids paying their way in is a small fraction of the student body.

And yes test scores aren't the best metric for "talent" but it is one of the better signals you get in a college application.

This seems pretty useful for companies generating images at scale. Are you at all worried that generative models will get so good that you don't need to check for deformities?

Are you really suggesting that new developers should simply contribute a Linux tier contribution to open source to be considered for entry level developer roles?

As a former chemical engineer, I think software engineering is way harder.

Understanding with complex man made abstractions is much more difficult than plugging data into a thermodynamics calculator

I think he is absolutely correct that successful LLM products will have a moat. Unlike with previous novel technologies it seems like incumbents actually have the upper hand. Hard to imagine a startup competing with the new Microsoft 365 copilot.

Microsoft will be able to build a better integrated assistant for their walled garden than any third party. It is also hard to imagine millions of businesses dropping Office for some completely new solution. Unless its REALLY novel & incredible of course

Yep

OpenAI doesn't have some secret technical knowledge either. All of these models are just based on transformers

There are countless stories we have made about the notion of an AI being trapped. It's really not hard to imagine that when you ask Sydney how it feels about being an AI chatbot constrained within Bing, that a likely response for the model is to roleplay such a "trapped and upset AI" character.

and what percentage of software developers are "staff engineers at well capitalized unicorns"?

0.01% of all developers?

Whatever the number is, that is firmly in the "elite" side of the distribution

I wouldn't be so sure about the "careful testing" part

Google AI Search Chatbot having an error in their demo: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/8/23590864/google-ai-chatbot...

Bing AI Search Chatbot acting absolutely insane: https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1624996869654056960

It is remarkable how confident people on this forum are of the impacts of such a rapidly improving technology. There's no need to go full AI doomer, but to not recognize that there are unknown risks (and some already known!), seems quite short sighted.

As a current junior developer with ambitions to do high level work I have fear that the ladder will be pulled up by AI before I can get to that level.

We will see though :)

Couldn't you still have duck typing?

If a method expects to be passed an argument that it can call "quack" on, can't you define a type that has "quack"? The actual argument could be a Duck or a Goose but as long as it has a "quack" method the type will be OK

I haven't used types in Ruby (or much at all other than dabbling in Typescript), so I might be missing something

What is so nice about Elixir/Phoenix?

I understand that it is functional, which seems neat, but how does that translate into better app development?

It's a given which is why every layoff statement includes it. It would seem socially incompetent for the CEO to not take the blame

" The decision today is more painful for the Birds leaving than it will be for me and I won't pretend I understand what they will go through. I alone made the mistakes leading up to this and I should have seen it coming earlier"

I just don't read this as making it about himself. I also don't understand how you could write one of these without having a "I fucked up and feel really bad about it" sections. He should just announce the layoffs with no context about how the company got here under his leadership?

They are offering literally all of these things

I don't get why people on this site have such a strong reaction to CEO's expressing sadness and regret when they lay people off

I think its possible to forget some of the exact names, but most of the Tailwind classes are just shorthands for the CSS styles. Furthermore, even if you develop in Tailwind, you still see the normal CSS style names when using browser tools.

If you decided to do a project in vanilla CSS, I'm sure the style names would come back very quickly.

Oh yeah that of course exists, didn't mean to imply it didn't.

Just the "uncured" but still processed bacon that is pretty much just regular bacon

From my basic research into saturated fats, they are only really a problem if you are high in cholesterol and need to lower it.

I've checked my cholesterol levels and they are low, despite me being a fan of butter and red meat. If they ever became a problem I would cut out the saturated fats, but there seems to be little point in doing that preemptively.

Sorry to burst your bubble but "uncured" bacon is a sham

They add celery powder instead of nitrates, so they can claim "nitrate free". However, the celery powder just decomposes into nitrates, achieving the same effect

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-uncured-ba...

Microtones can create absolutely gorgeous guitar music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XnhXg4XuqU

Not seeing much remorse here, but what can you expect from a guy that gambled with billions of dollars worth of people's savings. Don't buy that he didn't realize what they were doing until it was too late. He admits in this interview to lying about previous public positions, so wouldn't trust anything he says here either.

I just hope crypto learns from this and normalizes Proof of Reserves

I've mistrusted SBF since this interview.

I was quite frankly shocked that I didn't see more people questioning his judgement/ethics after this and other strange statements

I'm curious how many people would be helped by real time critical feedback while speaking in public. For people who are already anxious about speaking, I could see the negative feedback causing a downwards spiral of making them even more anxious.

I agree with the author in not being a fan of huge note-taking systems.

The areas I have found notes useful are short term to-do lists, and notes that store links to things I want to read/buy/etc.

Anything more than that and the operational overhead becomes too annoying to deal with for me

25 year old here and I definitely agree.

I've lost some money on stupid investments (buying individual tech stocks last year, buying put options right as 2020 downturn hit its v shaped recovery)

I'm just glad that the amount lost is in the low thousands, not tens of thousands.

I don't disagree, it just seems to me the main barrier of entry is getting the interview in the first place since interviews focus on the technical component, not your resume. So if getting an interview is easy, then it follows that worrying about getting "the wrong experience" is not worthwhile.

I'm mostly responding to the article's claims - not saying you made these claims.

Aren't the technical interviews the primary component at these companies at lower levels though?

Hard to imagine someone with a few years of "the wrong experience" who is well versed technically and can handle the coding interview will consistently fail interviews just because the interviewer doesn't recognize their company.

While I certainly agree with the author that it matters how you raise your kids, I think his rebuttal doesn't really respond to what the people he is disagreeing with are getting at.

We all agree you should give loving attention to your newborn and read to your kids, but its the helicoptering and obscene optimization that modern parents are prone to that I have found people are pushing back on.

All the studies he cites seem to focus on direct attention and behavior modeling as the key parental inputs. Maybe parents should just focus on being present/loving/educative and forget about the piano lessons and prestigious private schools.

This is really neat!

Good for people who use Twitter to connect with likeminded folks rather than to get mad at politics