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It would be better if the “replaceable” part was determined on the federal level and not on the team level. That would get rid of all the ghost jobs
I wish it wasn’t this way but in the vast majority of interviews, the sponsor required person is the best one
As a people manager it’s a heartbreaking conversation to have - to tell a report their dream of staying beyond their visa is gone
The law says every line manager needs to do their own industry pulse check every time an i-140 is submitted. And this is the only legal way to pulse check (advertise a ghost job). It would be much easier if the federal government did the pulse check one time for everyone and decided if engineers are or aren’t missing in the industry
If I find a good citizen, I don’t file the application, that’s the law. But the employee does have h1b or OPT and is still allowed to work in the US, nothing wrong with that. If the government wants to stop giving those out workplaces will adapt
If my superiors would give me extra unexpected budget I’d be happy to. But if I find a citizen that is just as good as my opt employee, my only path forward is to either fire the opt or let them continue on the team but not submit their GC application (because I have to swear I couldn’t find a citizen that is just as good)
The main problem is: even if the interviewee knocks it out of the park, is an amazing engineer, I still am not interested in firing my OPT/h1b team member who can still legally work for 2-3 years. So while I will deny their green card application and not submit it, I also won’t hire the interviewee
My big question is, how much % of their engineers are participating in this? I can't find a single clear answer. For all we know there are another 400 engineers not part of this activity
As far as I can tell this isn't a Boeing situation where a decision is made and all employees are part of it. the NYT building is still full of workers today
In the US this is pretty simply covered by Computer Misuse Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, both federal laws
Im not claiming you're liable, just surprised no lawyer pointed this out at YC
They are great at signing CIO/CTOs up, but come migration and operations time they were an empty box of promises
it kept writing scripts, i would paste the output, and it would keep going, until it was able to create its own working discount code on an actual retail website
The only issue with these kinds of things is breaking robots.txt rules and the possibility things will break without notice, and often
The use of unofficial APIs can be legally questionable [1]
[1] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/93831/legality-of-us...
As the authors of essentially a hacking tool, I would expect at least some legal boilerplate language about not being liable
The losses will just get bigger and bigger, and eventually there will be an appetite for retail investors to pick up the tab
There were months worth of articles on how strawberry is considered almost dangerous internally its so smart. I know we only got -mini and -preview but...this doesn't feel like AGI
It makes us feel understood in the same ways John Edward used to in daytime tv, its all about how language makes us feel
true AGI...unfortunately we're not even close
While there should be more incentives to cooperate, like the type of prison, allowed visits, etc. claiming someone should serve less time because they described so much of their own crimes is kind of silly
Amazon is the no.2 in h1bs in the US, and no. 1 in i-140.
1) Layoffs mean they have to pause both of those. Amazon even had to stop all I-140s in February until 2025. So instead of more layoffs just RTO 5 days a week. If everyone stays, great.
2) If people leave / no one applies to new jobs - now you have a case to bring to the US govt. that Americans with the required skills aren't applying
I started seeing the trickle of bootcamp grads coming in maybe 7-8 years ago. Many of them were just as good as the CS grads. They have no issue finding new jobs today, some are even at FAANG
Someone who went from bootcamp to coding 6 years ago shouldn't have any issue finding a coding job today, if they're actually good and progressed over those 6 years and have worked a year or 2 as a senior engineer at a good/known company. My guess is they aren't
Companies today want people who can hit the ground running. Less jobs for juniors, less jobs for ramping up within 3-4 months.
* a lot of what they're posting about the batteries and manufacturing (not coming in hours) was published by the new york times, coming directly from Israeli intelligence officers this morning. So no news to break there
* What does 8200 affiliated even mean. everyone goes to the army, if that means they have ex-8200 soldiers, 8200 is a big unit with thousands of soldiers and some dozens of the geniuses that can find 0-click 0-days in iphones. Practically every company that has an israeli office is "8200 affiliated" in that way
* The idea the mossad has some pen they click right before going through the xrays, that causes the machine to not show explosives is pretty rediculous. Its much easier to just ask a friendly country to allow you to pass through. Orban and Netanyahu are EXTREMELY friendly.
Its almost like saying CIA black sites other countries are hidden from local authorities. Does anyone think Poland didn't know of the CIA blacksite post 09/11? of course they knew and helped the US create and maintain it
And on a more serious note. Hizbolla is a blacklisted terrorist org, they can’t just order stuff from regular factories. Buying from an anonymous white label factory in Hungary with no address and little information is probably pretty normal from them - because anyone doing business with them in the EU will go to jail
As long as you’re not buying electronics from shady factories with no known owners you’ll be fine
People are stuck in the 80s and 90s that a logo defines how something was made, which isn’t true at all these days. Calvin Klein is a great example where most of their income comes from licensing, not selling their own clothes. They might review designs but have no say on if the resulting garment can be sold with their logo. As long as they get get the licensing fee. Unfortunately I know people who will spend more on their items than the same garment made by the same manufacturer but with a different license on jt
Same for Toshiba TVs and many others
And good luck finding a Fortune 1000 company that isn’t using Monday or Akeyless or Zscaler or jfrog and I can keep going
Oh and remember Ilya sutskevers new AI company SSI? In their initial announcement they talked about opening with 2 offices, SFBA and Tel Aviv . You really can’t succeed without Israeli talent
You can like or dislike the government, but Israeli techs income and importance constantly grows YoY
They were purchased by a known terrorist organizations that any westerner would go to jail for having a financial relationship with .
The types of people they deal with to buy anything at all - including black market weapons and machinery - are dubious
The US does these exact same things to infiltrate Mexican cartels
Even if he would have lost his position if 10/07 never happened, history has shown he always ends up back in leadership due to a million+ voters for his own party, and millions of votes for other religious and right wing parties.
People can rightfully hate them all they want, but he has the votes, and Israel doesn't have a limit on the number of times you can be prime minister
This is only half joking but the only "solution" to the Netanyahu problem is to replace the voters
much of the work of a CIA or Mossad agent isn't breaking in to this house or murdering that person. It's working as an executive in a shell company
No one is going to sell a terrorist organization thousands of new beepers. The hizbolla probably also created shell companies. Israel knew their cover and approached them as a foreign seller. Everyone is lying to everyone
In reality the supply chain space is probably full of shell companies from all different terrorist organizations and western countries
https://observer.com/2024/07/openai-employees-concerns-straw...
And I’m ignoring the hundreds of Reddit articles speculating every time someone at OAI leaves
And of course that $2000 article was spread by every other media outlet like wildfire
I know I’m partially to blame for believing the hype, this is pretty obviously no better at stating facts or good code than what we’ve known for the past year
I’m in the “probabilistic token generators aren’t intelligence” camp so I don’t actually believe in AGI, but I’ll be honest the never ending rumors / chatter almost got to me
Remember, this is the model some media outlet reported recently that is so powerful OAI is considering charging $2k/month for