> All the crying about piracy is greed: nothing more, nothing less
You mean the crying and the greed of the people that don’t want to pay to see movies right
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You mean the crying and the greed of the people that don’t want to pay to see movies right
20k a month is… what make an average senior SWE in the USA?
It’s ridiculous to think you’d have only 1% chance of making it to that level of revenue.
However, the returns over increased capabilities vastly overwhelm the costs of running larger models.
It doesn’t matter that a model requires $100,000 worth of hardware if it can automate the work of several information worker paid $200k annually.
Are we supposed to be mad about this?
If anything it vindicates even more their initial thesis about pursuing AGI as a business goal.
As a falloff expect decades of engineers lamenting overly engineered, overly verbose, overly complex TS legacy apps.
Even in professional settings, responding with a “no” often leads to unwanted further communication.
In a perfect world people would take a no for an answer and not cross boundaries but it’s not the case (you can call me an oversensitive zoomer)
To sum it up: work is a long endless grind that will alienate you, therefore therefore left-libertarian flavoured YOLO.
Without downplaying the existing structures of social oppression, you may be lucky to live in a country and a time where you have rights.
In that case, you need to decide for yourself what you want in life (economically).
You need to decide how much money you want, how many hours a week you want to work, how many sabbatical to take and when to retire (these choices can always be made within what the economic environment allows).
You can refuse to think about these questions, this how you’ll get trapped working for someone else’s dream.
def embed_documents(self, texts: List[str]) -> List[List[float]]:
texts = list(map(lambda x: x.replace("\n", " "), texts))
embeddings = self.client.encode(texts, \*self.encode_kwargs)
return embeddings.tolist()
It makes a lot of sense to offer a service for free (as a customer acquisition tactic) to a VC funded company because the 2 options are either they go bankrupt or they can be charged 100 times more revenue in 2 years.
On the other hand what is the point of subsidising a bootstrapped business potentially forever?
2/ python is type safe, actually
3/ if you need python for leetcode you can’t really look down on anyone
People have been saying that over here on HN too.
It’s what they WANT to happen, but not at all what will happen.
It’s a feel good narrative based on the fact that engineers want to believe they are “top talent”, that their skills alone will be enough for them to do well economically, that in the end the people that don’t respect the tech will suffer consequences.
Sorry, “top talent” isn’t that scarce or NEEDED at all in software engineering. Even FAANG is more than happy to churn on 20 something college grads with no deep expertise. In fact, engineers with deep expertise who wants to work on challenging technical problems often have to take pay CUTS to be able to do so.
With no unions and no solidarity between workers, the future is clear: come back to the office or take a pay cut.