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It’s not crazy money, it’s just workers getting a fairer compensation

Google doesn’t pay very well, actually

The whole benefits of kidney donation to a stranger comes down to an effective donation of $10,000 using the same logic.

How is it effective when he could have probably raised 2 times that amount by working in place

Or maybe it’s just a dumb drug that stinks and makes you into a schizo?

I mean they’ve been shipping the same game every year for all this time too

Yes, when I think small not at all overrated game studio producing very original gameplays I really think Nintendo

There’s a bunch of fake studies that won’t replicate in 20 years when we’ll try to understand why we started frying peoples brain

1/ please stop deterring people from undertaking the medical treatment recommended by professionals

2/ there is increasing evidence that psychedelic therapies for mental illness were all based on hype and don’t actually perform any better or at all

The whole cringe around the name of the thing is enough to know it’s probably not real in any practical sense

Any other recommendation with the same focus?

In my experience diagrams that are pedestrian enough to be automatically generated from the codebase don’t add much value

This doesn’t make any sense.

This is insane, people are really unwilling to let go the idea that illegal psychoactive drugs may have any beneficial effects for depression.

I don’t get why people always hate on leetcodes.

Anyone can train and get good at it, it makes interviews short and not time consuming, it’s a standard accros industry so you can focus on studying it and not have to read one book for each company you apply to.

What would be a better alternative? Hiring based on connections? Take home assignments that takes 15 hours to complete? Domain specific knowledge grilling?

meetings, design doc reviews, capacity plannings and allocations and alignments are not supposed to be used as ways to hide mediocrity

Google, Meta, Apple, OpenAI, Citadel are incompetent organisations. Wow lads

It’s just a proxy measure for IQ really. They could have handed out Ravens matrices and got better outcomes prediction.

Funny how the top comment on "hacker" news is an *unsubstantial* comment about how, actually, TFA is wrong.

Even worse, adding a comment on how actually you shouldn’t be curious and understand how things really work.

I mean when you pick a job based on the language you’ll use and it’s the same language crypto companies love you have to ask yourself some questions (esp if you hate crypto)

Wages in the USA have not stagnated, actually

1/ each additional employee comes with additional costs: management, communication, onboarding, HR, office space, etc..

2/ People in a 40 hours contract usually work more than that. Employers can try to seek out employees that don’t mind working more than paid for.

3/ People who’d look for 80% jobs are (from employers perspective adversely) selected to be people that will monitor their hours worked and not give away their time for free.

I wish euros could explain to me why they speak of "their data" as if that was their souls

Please explain how enforcing their right to be paid for what they sell is destroying the internet

> ‘I was recently able to charge around twelve thousand pounds to write a two-page report for a pharmaceutical client to present during a global strategy meeting,’ he said. ‘The report wasn’t used in the end because they didn’t manage to get to that agenda point.

12k is approximately nothing to a multinational firm.

The feeling of bullshitness and alienation from corporate workers stems from the difference between what their time is worth to themselves (subjectively a lot, you only live once, etc) and what it’s worth to their employer (in $, nearly nothing to a multinational).

1.5% chance of becoming a billionaire per try is good odds, actually. Also doesn’t take into account all the outcomes you become merely a millionaire (likely over 5% in the case of YC?)

Im pretty sure the 500k employee at Google is vastly vastly more free to leave his desk than the small business owner making that much.

The "FAANG bubble" itself employs like 100k engineers and many many more startups and Fortune 500 companies pay >90% as much.

Yes yes I’m a plowing ox, put a collar on me and let me pull the heavy heavy weights for my masters.

Tankies getting mad when someone spends 0.1% of the annual public education budget to try something out.

What's the point of this comment seriously.

Making universal function approximators is trivial. It's not where the value lies.