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>This will make hiring much harder and increase 5 rounds to like 10

Not sure if I agree with this...
Is hiring in European countries with stronger labor laws harder? AFAIK the number of rounds is the same.
In European countries they have the concept of probation period to protect against an employee who isn't the right fit. We do as well in America, it's just called "at-will employment", so it's pretty much your entire tenure.
Something similar almost happened to me. Took months to interview, matched with a team that was working on a very interesting product and passed the hiring committee. Apparently the whole product was axed before they sent me an offer, so no hire this time. Probably a good thing in this climate, as this was just at the time the hiring freezes began.

I wouldn't have relocated at least, but would have of course quit my current job and probably had a bad time in the present job market.
SF's favorite game is to send ambulances out to a guy sitting on the street, screaming insane things, covered in his own feces and trying to punch people. Ambulance shows, guy says "No!" and so everyone says "Oh, this person is doing just fine, leave them alone." And everyone leaves, and the guy goes back to covering himself in his own filth and shouting at people. Definitely a great outcome for all involved.

If the people advocating for the homeless and mentally ill have a better solution than leaving them on the streets to rot, then I would like ot hear it. Because 100% of the solutions proposed in SF amount to "Leave them alone, they are fine." So fucking sick of it. It is VERY clear when someone needs help, but our society would rather let them suffer in the streets than do anything. Anyone who tries to help or suggests getting them off the streets is a fascist.

Homeless advocacy in the Bay Area amounts to "Maintain the status quo, do nothing to help. Punish those who try to take back their own homes and streets from people covered in filth and perpetually addicted to drugs and violence." SFFD former captain who was beaten senseless this past week in SF is literally in the hospital while 2 of the 3 people who beat him with a crowbar remain on the streets. Even when these people are violent, we do nothing. KRON4 interviewed one of his attackers on TV! Guy's still in his camp on the streets, still angry and dangerous. Attack is even on camera!

We live in a society where those who follow the laws are constantly punished for minor infractions like parking tickets and zoning violations, while people who do not participate in society AND completely flout the laws in every way are not only allowed to do so, there is a huge section of our population that encourages and protects their right to do so.

It is supremely infuriating to watch the Bay Area be so completely backwards and so utterly dogmatic as to ignore problems and constantly attack people for not being progressive enough. We literally have conservatives disassembling democracy across this nation, and the Left's favorite game to play is "Can we castigate more progressives for not passing the acid test."
You likely wouldn't respond to that question with "lemons are yellow" without being in a specific context, such as being told to answer the question in an absurd way. GPT-* can definitely do the same thing in the same context, so this isn't really a gotcha.

Literal first try with GPT-4:

Me: I will ask you a question, and you will give me a completely non-sequitur response. Does that make sense?

GPT-4: Pineapples enjoy a day at the beach.

Me: How much is two plus two?

GPT-4: The moon is made of green cheese.
After the workpocalypse, the only remaining work will be sex work.
Nowhere did the author imply they would put that. The author is talking about the strange situation of being fired before they had started.

The person you're replying to is being downvoted because it adds zero value to the conversation here. Or perhaps, aptly... negative value.
Somewhat counterintuitively, I personally found that the quality of instruction at community college vastly exceeded that at a university.

Most cc teachers were not tenured - they were often experienced industry professionals who taught as a hobby. And the ones that were prized and retained were the ones who had exceptional teaching/lecture ability.

At a university so many professors are basically just the middle-management of academia - hired because of their research or experience managing grad students.
> There’s no great solution to this apart from the economy and company doing well so that this doesnt happen.

I'm absolutely not interesting in arguing for any great solution but I do think people would serve their own interests better applying for jobs that fill needs and not that fill seats. I recognize it's easier said than done, but I really despise the livestock-based personnel management approach that infests most of big corporate.
A sponsored Skilled Worker Visa becomes invalid 60 days after employment ends.
UK work visas are linked to the specific employer so they become invalid if the offer is withdrawn.
i love writing and i was miserable writing for pay
Cities will need more resilient electricity network to cope with extreme weather
I don't think it matters if AI is a better writer. From the post:

"[...] although he knows AI’s work isn’t nearly as good as mine, he can’t ignore the profit margin."

So yeah if we consumers of content are lucky we won't see much of a difference, but the web has been in a break-neck race to the bottom for over a decade now. Companies that pay for the creation of content have and will continue to pay as little as they can as long as the content generates clicks. Given that 27.7% of those clicks come from bot farms[1] (and that number is rising) we already see a huge market that's just bots writing content and monetizing it for other bots. We humans will get to sift through that to try to find real content.

[1] https://www.imperva.com/resources/resource-library/reports/b...
The term "social media" appears nowhere in that article.
Sadly, yes. I have all the sympathy, but it stops the moment it gets too close to my nose ( or that of my family ). Anecdotally, my wife works in an environment that sees severe mental cases in a relatively well to do area and the numbers and stories make me mildly uncomfortable ( mostly because I think those are much worse in poverty stricken areas ). And then you have to remember people may be hesitant to just have their name added to the system ( and general distrust and lack of understanding of the rules governing it ); not to mention the social stigma that goes along with it.
The pgtk branch is really nice, I've had way less trouble with that than any other UI option.
At least for AI image generators it is a giant liability. As of two years ago AI-generated CSAM that is indistinguishable from original photographic CSAM is considered equally criminal. If users can spawn severely illegal content at will using your product you will find yourself in a boiling cauldron 30 seconds after going live.

Stable diffusion no longer uses even adult NSFW material for the training dataset because the model is too good at extrapolating. There are very few pictures of iguanas wearing army uniforms, but it has seen lots of iguanas and lots of uniforms and is able to skillfully combine them. Unfortunately the same is true for NSFW pictures of adults and SFW pictures of children.
Seems Google treats its employees like they treat their customers. My experience with Google as a customer is just as frustrating (have had corporate accounts locked out with no avenue for recourse except sending emails over weeks, to simply be denied again because their bots think I'm doing something strange, and products my company was relying on and using simply stop being supported one day).

I stopped using or supporting Google related products, and declined moving forwards on an interview offer as a result. This story just reinforces this view.
I've had a similar story happen in the past.

I was living in Japan looking for remote jobs and came across Couchbase. Interviewed well with the team who all seemed excited to get someone with my experience on board, however, the hiring manager said he wasn't sure he wanted to manage someone in my timezone. He pulled me into a separate call at the end of the rounds and asked some weird questions, which in hindsight were documentation.

When the HR person handling me called to congratulate me and sent the offer letter I was pretty excited. It seemed the timezone thing wasn't a problem then. I put my notice in with my other job, and then waited for a week. Two weeks. Three. HR person didn't know what was going on when I called them back.

Then I got any email from Couchbase's lawyers with a document stating they would hire me for 10 days total and no longer. Fuck you very much, hiring manager Larry. If you didn't want to hire me so bad why the dog and pony show?

I scrambled to see if my old position was open, but the CEO said he had closed it because, well, I put my notice in right at the end of the budget year and he moved that money.

I went unemployed for 5 months as I hunted for jobs, both local and remote. It put a massive amount of strain on my marriage, my mental health, and everything in between. Thankfully it didn't include a move as it sounds like the blog author did.
Spatial energy density of large-scale electricity generation from power sources
Clapton was not the writer.
Right, but The Sims didn’t use a LLM to power their agents.

The point here is they are strapping a supposedly non-agentic LLM into a new test rig and are able to observe agentic behaviors.

It’s very obviously not claiming that this is impressive from a gaming SOTA perspective. It’s just surprising that ChatGPT can do this sort of thing.
> How can any team get anything done if it takes that long to bring additional resources in?

You're misunderstanding the timing. Google doesn't hire for a specific team -- it determines you pass the bar for hiring, then they have to match you to a team.

If a team inside of Google needs a new employee, it often only takes a couple of weeks, whether it's an internal transfer, or whether it's a new hire who's been waiting around to be matched with a team.

Obviously it can take a little longer if a team decides the candidate they want is in another city/country because of relocation and visas, but that's nothing to do with Google.
I think it's more that Apple implements power saving behavior into the JS engine on desktop much like they do on mobile. For example, pausing background scripts on inactive tabs and disallowing autoplay on videos even on desktop.
My new Chat GPT AI integration for Shopify product reviews and brand replies
They prob do since they have GKE, you know... eat your own food and stuff.
I love that people said "oh but art will never be replaced because the human touch!!" and now look lmaoooooooooo get rekt
There's been pretty much one major factor that made wind turbines more efficient: They got bigger. And it doesn't look like this trend is going to stop any time soon.

Nobody wants your tiny wind turbine blades from 20 years ago, because when you put up new wind turbines you want the big, new, more efficient ones.
AI-Proofing Your Career Starts in College
https://archive.is/aFkXm
Hahaha I hadn't read that one.

This made my day too

codeWrangler42 32 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

This is getting out of hand. GPT-10 generating entire startups now? What's next? GPT-20 generating entire planets?
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devRambler 12 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

I can't wait for GPT-30, it'll solve world hunger by generating perfectly optimized food distribution systems.
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quantumLeap2023 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

GPT-40 will probably just generate an entirely new universe for us to live in.
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Works. Thanks.
For sure > https://github.com/supabase/supavisor/issues/69
Electric cars were invented to save the motor industry, not the planet.

What we need to do is to get as many people using active travel as possible, and recognise that electric bikes and electric scooters solve almost all the issues with EVs. They're much lighter than ICE vehhicles, don't cause congestion and with removable batteries, don't have any problem with finding charging points. Also, with removable batteries, it's possible to just swap in a fully charged battery - makes sense for delivery companies that have a fleet of riders on e-scooters.
Yes. And it doesn't help you if you get laid off after two weeks which is probably just as likely if the company is pulling back extended offers.
True, all vehicles (ICE or EV) are fairly noisy at highway speeds outside, though a pickup truck with highway tires isn’t much noisier than say Corolla or a Nissan Leaf moving at the same speed. Off road tires, particularly mud terrain tires, can get noisy though, as those tires were optimized for grip in mud rather than noise or highway fuel efficiency.
In places that aren't America, it's often a legal requirement (whether by statute or by customary contractual clauses) to give a minimum notice period, and employees who resign without notice can be penalised an amount of money that may be non-trivial for many workers.
That's not the right way to think about it. It is an empirical question whether there are significant heritable IQ differences between populations with similar ancestry. If such differences exist, then this is a very important fact to know about the world. We always want to believe the truth, whatever it may be. Labelling possibly true hypotheses as racist doesn't help. Ethical questions are different from empirical ones.
Looks handy. When you're writing certain types of programs going the opposite way can be useful.

For ex I recently added a /debug/:map_id endpoint to a server I'm writing that just returns format! ("{:#?}", state.maps.get(id)).

Obviously that'd be completely inappropriate in many cases, but for this one polling the current state via curl was quite handy.
Worth Noting: The story is about 1960's-era parking structures in the UK. Which were designed & built for typical-in-the-UK-in-the-1960's-weight vehicles. Not American vehicles of either the 1960's, or of today. It mentions that the average UK car weight, back then, was "well under 3000 pounds". And that oft-neglected maintenance in the >1/2 century since construction has not improved the load-bearing capacity of many of those old parking structures.
Anything compliance related is going to come under the largest amount of scrutiny, I’d expect that to be the last thing ChatGPT takes over completely, even if it is involved.

It’s one thing to hallucinate while writing shitty copy, it’s another to get sued to oblivion over a small error that your LLM made up. Not to mention those voltage rating, hazard warnings are fairly straightforward and standardized, they are much more suited to the automation we already had, ie, reference a template and fill in the relevant data.
I updated my post. I meant with "deploy as VPS" "deploy as a (virtual private) server with a service like render, heroku".

I agree the sys admin stuff, no thanks. the appeal of "serverless edge", at least to me, is ease of deployment. but, that ease of deployment is tooling / git integration rather than the underlying architecture.

the benefit of "your functions are globally distributed" has yet to appeal to me. for large ecommerce maybe. but then again, just deploy your servers in a distributed fashion which is "easy" if no state persistent is involved and tooling like fly.io is emerging.
I haven't heard of that being tried (though I don't read everything.) Someone could do the experiment and write it up, and maybe get it published. The main ML conferences rarely publish anything that's not an improvement on the SOTA, which is why it's so hard to find anything about ideas that don't quite work.
> Let’s say we pass a law that prevents offers from being revoked. This will make hiring much harder and increase 5 rounds to like 10 and involve many more committees and even then most candidates other than sureshots getting rejected.

I don't see what one has to do with the other. You only extend an offer after you've vetted the candidate, and afterwards there is no more screening, so sudden revocation doesn't have anything to do with candidate quality and everything to do with economic conditions. One might imagine that strict laws against early termination of a contract would lead to less hiring when the company fears that they might be affected by a downturn... but that would then pretty much be the intended purpose, to think twice before you can afford someone before hiring them?
Office-chair-stealing Tim Eyman and his supporters would likely get an initiative passed that disallows any limits or weight-based fees. It's not a winning strategy, unfortunately.
In this case the employment never even started. The 60 days is for people already in the country to either move out or find another visa sponsor.
Currently using GPT-4 to do a lot of heavy lifting for me for new app. Would love to see your approach!
Remember in the hot 2021 hiring market when Coinbase revoked offers because of a layoff? I remember deciding they were on my blacklist after that. I thought their leadership and recruiting were too disorganized to trust with my career.

Of course you can lose your job at any time, but letting a candidate quit their old job and relocate and then get laid off is not something that should ever happen.

And now it's layoff season, and every big company has recently done this to huge numbers of people.

So as a labor force, what do we do about this? How to we protect ourselves now that the deal between employers and employees has broken down even further?
That's a big assumption to make.
I remember walking out of the movie Her, by Spike Jonze, thinking it was a nice sensible film, but definitively pushing it in the plausibility sense.

I rewatched it a couple of weeks ago and it felt like a documentary. The movie is 10 years old.

Many of you have probably watched/rewatched it recently, but if you haven’t, I highly recommend it.

The wooden frame on computers, valuing things “written by humans” hit close to home.
No, but I'd be okay with them writing software for me if they had shown an aptitude to do so. What an incredibly weird tangent to go on.
I've never understood this.

If AI is so smart, why do we have to craft our prompts so carefully?

Why don't we work on an AI that can understand what we want without such special prompting?

Instead of spending all this effort on crafting these magical prompts, how about we just work on the problem of making AI understand our regular prompts better?

This feels like a short term problem to me that we even need to spend this much effort in crafting the perfect prompt. I'd rather just wait until the AI can understand my normal prompts.
On the other hand, if the birth rate decline results in a significant population decline (i.e. not corrected by migration) then there are various balancing economic factors that should counteract it on the scale of a generation or so.

A major component in the affordability to raise a family is the cost housing in desirable locations, which is mostly driven by a population increase there, and would fall during a population decrease; and a decrease in work-aged people combined with an aging population obviously pushes salaries up, if other things in the job market stay equal.

And if we're speaking about the world as a whole, we're so far from a population crisis - the current trends of global birth rates still imply a population growth until something like 10 billion; while even a halving of population from the current number to 4 billion wouldn't be something to be terrified, I mean, the world had 4 billion people during 1970s.
> A core assumption is that his client will succeed with this change.

Only if you focus on long-term macroeconomics, and ignore the impact of microeconomics on real people. Today, this writer is out of a major chunk of their income.
Entities with massive wealth, such as Google, should always use money to soften the blow of their mistakes.

Giving this person a small chunk of cash would make me respect Google so much more than just screwing this person's life up and saying "Whoops, you're fired, lol!"

But it's been a long time since Google was a cool company.
That custom micro TIG setup is really nice. That articulated arm is really neat, but that scope head must be very light. I'd like to know the brand as it looks plenty solid.

Pulsed welding is super useful for filling and repair operations on thin sheet where you can "shoot" a tiny blob of filler wire into the joint/hole/gap and fill it in. Or perform small butt-seam welds without filler. I've worked with fiber and yag lasers and the welds are really clean and solid. You can even weld larger parts together with decent strength or tack fo larger welding operations. Even some of the electron beam welders there had a pulse welding mode.

"Won't fit in a laser cabinet" - You just need a better laser setup instead of a fixed optics machine. Buy a fiber laser, like an IPG QCW 450/4500 get a small D30 head, 125mm lens, coax nozzle with a camera tube (don't buy the camera from them as they just resell a Sentech for double the $) and build another station like your TIG setup but mount the laser head instead. You'll have one hell of a fiber welder. You might even be able to move work over from your TIG setup. They might offer a binocular setup for the head or have one fabricated if you don't want the camera/monitor setup.
Or companies will simply use the trial period to terminate.
Painful as it is it's much better to get a revocation of offer than for the company to go through the motions just to arrive at the "clear" moment of trial period and terminate you position after 1 month.
You don't need to just take one source. OpenAI authored their own paper [1] on the economic impacts of just LLMs: "Our findings reveal that around 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of LLMs, while approximately 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks impacted."

Goldman Sachs Research just pushlished their own analysis as well. [2] Their conclusions are "As tools using advances in natural language processing work their way into businesses and society, they could drive a 7% (or almost $7 trillion) increase in global GDP and lift productivity growth by 1.5 percentage points over a 10-year period." and "Analyzing databases detailing the task content of over 900 occupations, our economists estimate that roughly two-thirds of U.S. occupations are exposed to some degree of automation by AI. They further estimate that, of those occupations that are exposed, roughly a quarter to as much as half of their workload could be replaced."

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10130.pdf

[2] https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/generative-ai-co...
The only reason there's a possibility Brexit isn't the worst thing is the large pool of competitively bad things.
This is not a fully-complete clause, yes, getting rid of stuff hurts and might not be coverable, but at least in this Case Google would have guaranteed to pay for the relocation. Other clauses could be that in the event of a redundancy before employment start, the signing bonus stays with the employee, etc. In his case, it still covers the financial blow to a degree, and he would have probably enough time to find a replacement job. Relocation costs are also money spent on Realtors, etc.
> wonder if it was a mistake not to find the right Product Manager (sic) early so that they can be inoculated with the culture as we grow.

That's an interesting thought. We do have some techies "acting" as PMs across the team, but i can see how we might one a dedicated person at some point.

always open to chatting to other founders - feel free to reach out.