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Tesla are paying for labellers, aka Data Annotation Specialists:

https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/data-annotation-spe...

But, I would be surprised if they don't also use 3rd party labelled data sets.

Can you imagine working somewhere and then, one day, some guy comes over to "re-interview" you :D Hilariously bad people management.

> I kept freaking out and yelling in chats

> The people could have lacked a kick in the butt

> remote work was to blame — it made it hard for me to use my charisma

Employer of the year award?

> I think the headsets alone will continue to get massively better which will convert most of humanity

How will it get better? The only way it can meaningfully get better is if it disappeared.

The problem with the current state of VR is not the software, the app store or moderation, it is the form factor and the ergonomics.

Very few people want to strap on a giant heated helmet to their face and experience the eye strain associated with watching a very bright light from a point blank distance through lenses that need to be adjusted perfectly every time. It is just too much of a hassle.

A neuralink-type chip, if at all feasible, is a much more promising approach.

It is said rats are the first to flee a sinking ship

I write code and attend meetings

> OVH is definitely a complete joke compared to the worst of them

what leads you to say that? just curious

Sometimes. But it still feels quite cool when I manage to solve a (tough) problem in a neat way.

yet more proof that insurance is a scam

and you can send messages for free by lighting a fire and creating smoke signals, so why bother having the internet? /s

Kind of, but it is done separately from regular indexing, at a much lower volume and it is filled with loads of gotchas [1] that can make Googlebot skip your site.

In practice, what happens is Google spends their JS rendering resources on the top sites and will very rarely render a new site. Generally, assuming you stay clear of all the gotchas, Googlebot can eventually "see" your JS-rendered content but it will certainly take a lot longer to be indexed and, therefore, it will take longer to appear in search results. If you or your clients rely on organic search traffic for your site, then picking client rendering based tech is certainly a bad decision.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/javascrip...

It is definitely not solved for the vast majority of SPAs out there. Where it is solved, it is not solved for free or cheaply, as it would've been if these apps used server-rendering tech.

uBlock Origin, RES, Clear URLs, Edit This Cookie (for work), I don't care about cookies (I live in the EU), LastPass (for work)

No shit, Sherlock. Of course, all of this was obvious to any of us with more than 5 minutes of industry experience, alas this field seems super prone to reinventing the same things over and over again, making the same mistakes and never learning from the past.

Also, this article does not even mention the fact that SPAs are terrible for SEO. Of course, that's not an issue for YouTube, but it might be a huge issue for your clients, unless it's ok to not have any search traffic.

I can also write on my own web site that my email address is linus@linuxfoundation.org. But I can't send or receive messages from it, so how exactly would I be claiming it?

Does GitHub allow you to impersonate Linus via email? No, it does not.

how are they claiming emails?

You seem to be confused that Berkshire is some kind of a mutual fund or an ETF. It is not.

And I got queries that dig through 2TB of data and return aggregations in 30 secs. Good luck doing that with SQLite.

Too much money, you don't know what to do with it.

What would be the practical purpose of "fixing" something like the pyramids? Vs. just preserving them as-is.

I tend to agree. The other drawbacks of a boycott are (obviously) the lost revenue, but also creating a vacuum that will be filled with a powerful, state-backed competitor that may some day operate outside of China as well.

> Whether or not China will clone an app is immaterial to question of whether all companies will fold to Chinese government pressure.

It is very material though. If your business is not special/unique in some important way, then you don't have a lot of bargaining power when the CCP officials come to negotiate the terms. Then your choices boil down to -- accept whatever is offered or exit completely. While some exited completely, I very much doubt they did so on ethical grounds, as you seem to be implying. Rather, the terms were unsatisfiable.

Trying to get some sort of an acceptable to you deal is the only thing that makes sense from a business perspective. The alternative is losing access the world's biggest market and watching the state prop up a powerful new competitor that may well compete outside the borders of China too.

If you want American companies to be able to resist Chinese govt pressure, then you need to have significant intervention from the US government and hope that they will be able to broker some sort of a deal. Failing that, it's a joke to think that any company has any actual bargaining power in a negotiation with the Chinese govt.

You are making a very good point. There's no Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snapchat etc in China. But there are WeChat, Baidu, Weibo, QQ, etc.

China is more than capable to clone and/or make its own version of these companies. And these companies will do as the government says. So, I think that's an excellent example to show that tech "boycotting" China does nothing to change them.

Separately, you should also keep in mind that a bunch of these companies didn't even have a choice, since they were considered a threat to national security by the state.

If you know anything about China, then you know they have more than an abundant supply of mass surveillance tools. If Apple doesn't play ball with the local government, what do you think will happen? They'll ban them and the new market leader will be some Chinese company that probably copied a bunch of their designs and is more than happy to preinstall the govt rootkit.

> Apple has, and will, fold to government pressure faster than a lawn chair.

So will any company, when threatened by China. And, btw, so will most countries.

Yes, Apple has a lot of money, but they're in no position to resist a powerful country. I don't think it's fair to expect that of them.

> investing in public companies and tech is very risky, as valuations are at record highs

> To real estate where valuations are also insanity and at record highs doesn't make any sense.

The difference for me is that I saw what was happening in public markets and I bought real estate in a country where this wasn't yet the case. It is now though, so your point is valid.

Well, maybe, but think of the flip side of this. I've worked very hard to earn X amount of dollars, however the monetary policies of banks around the world have pushed inflation up, essentially eating up my savings, all the while pushing the interest rate on deposits to zero and below. I would like to not lose the purchasing power that I've earned, so my only choice is to invest in something. I also want to invest in something as low risk as possible; if my hand wasn't forced, I'd be happy to keep my money at the bank at 2%.

Right now, investing in public companies and tech is very risky, as valuations are at record highs. Many experts estimate near-zero returns for decades from public markets. And, as a small-time investor, I don't have access to private deals or markets.

So, that leaves real estate. I don't put my money there because I want to drive up the cost of shelter for anyone, I do it because I don't have any other reasonable way to protect my savings.

If you're worried someone might spoof your domain, then use DMARC.

> All of this machinery to filter out candidates

That's because most of the people that graduate with a CS degree can't code and, what is worse, can't be taught how to code.

As an employer, it is also very expensive and time consuming to hire someone like that, since you're not just wasting money by paying someone who's non-productive, but you're also wasting the productive time of the team (or whoever is in charge of mentoring you) in a potentially fruitless attempt to teach you how to code.

Unless you have work experience, there's no quick way to tell if you'll be able to learn or not. Faced with that problem, a lot of big companies just throw all the cognitive tests they can find at you and hope for the best.

I think US devs that work on high IQ projects have nothing to worry about. It's very hard to find high IQ devs outside of the developed countries - trust me, I've tried. Whilst there are some, they're not nearly enough to influence the jobs market (and they usually charge US rates). I think the local environment plays a big role - stuff like early childhood nutrition, healthcare, clean water and air, a good education system that can recognize and develop talent. That's usually missing in developing countries.

I do think there's a decent chance CRUD-related dev work wages will probably be suppressed. I think that's because the work is easier, so lower IQ people can do it well but also (and probably more importantly) a lot of that work is in the process of being automated anyway.

Indeed. I'd only replace MySQL/MariaDB with PostgreSQL.