I am not sure references are easily faked. Especially in industries where there aren't a whole lot of references that someone is not going to know. "Hey Bob, I have this excellent candidate for the position you are looking for they have X qualities", much more likely to get an interview than the person from Indeed. That's simply reality.
As for a manager, you may not have their contact information, but seems like relevant information to keep ahold of for professional networking. So yes, it seems like you are making easy excuses that in a competitive hiring environment would quickly get you excluded from the pool of applicants.
Nah, no moral panic here. I don't see the reason to combine stimulants with depressants, you then just mask the underlying issues with both. Hence often the regulation of the combination.
Couple of rack mount batteries and roughly 5kw of solar panels. Feeds into a subpanel so I can flip it when I want a couple rooms of solar on the house, or hook a generator up if needed. Can't power the entire house, but works well for thinks like computers, lighting, etc. And if I want to expand, just throw on more panels, or realistically, just throw on more batteries to store the juice.
Strix Halo for me. If I am running something on my laptop, it's a much smaller usually around 12b model, but those are a bit less functional. I mean I think there is a a ROG FLow Z that has the Strix Halo setup, but that thing was super expensive.
Strix Halo as well. Bought it for $1,800 new on sale and shoved an extra 4tb drive into it. Been amazing for local AI. Maybe not the absolute fastest thing (usually around 30t/s depending on the task) but has been awesome for a local AI box that I can solar power.
Depends on how you are doing it. LM Studio and tool calling models can use the web, or you could go for something like Perplexica, or if you want to go real crazy, something like Hermes or OpenClaw.
Takes even less depending on your system. LM Studio or Lemonade and you are set up in minutes and now they can even tell you what models will fit with the memory you have.
Maybe not '0 investment and 0 commitment', but incredibly little depending on what you have laying around. It takes less than 5 minutes to download say LM Studio and an Open Model and as long as you have the hardware to support it, you start moving along. If you are on AMD in some ways it's even 'easier', you can download Lemonade and it will tell you exactly what will fit and best options based on what you are trying to do.
For me at least the local AI stuff, powered with solar has been pretty great. Would that scale to a large business? Goodness no, but for my tinkering and learning, it works great.
Not OP, but I use it for a ton of smaller things. I have it hooked into Hermes and have been using it to help bulk rename my media folders so they all follow a common format, add titles that sort of thing which wouldn't be easy to 'script'. Another thing I use it for is comparing data sets, looking at my exported Spotify artists and compare to what I have locally, and letting me know where there are missing artists, or albums, and recommendations based on similar artists that I may not have locally.
Sure a lot of this could be done without AI, but it's certainly quicker and easier, and since my AI box is on solar, it's just the power of the sun to keep it going.
Meh, some people’s politics have very little to do with humanity and how society should be. In general, best approach is to avoid GRAPE topics in general.
They were hired at a higher rate than anytime since the 90s. In the US they ballooned by almost 50%. So when you take layoffs in consideration, the US is still has 25% more programmers than it did prior to the pandemic. And looking at the hiring rates and who is getting hired in programming, it looks like companies aren’t hiring entry level basically at all at this point, so shows the market is still over saturated. No wonder coding camps and CS majors are not being pushed any longer because it’s not a great market for them.
Certainly have. Patreon’s CEO isnt taking a salary and his comp package is estimated to be $250k. That’s sure going to save the salary of the almost 100 people, as long as they are making $2000 a year.
Yes, there are outlier companies, but not C-Suite isn’t just taking a massive check home, it’s a compensation of a inflated salary and comp package, which it most companies never would cover the amount of people let go. That’s often the case at every company.
I would agree with that. With so much economic uncertainty, it doesn’t make sense to hire people, and if someone is fired or quits, they aren’t replaced. The biggest change I have seen is lower raises and resets to base pay now that the pandemic is over. It’s not exactly great for most people out there.
I work in research and that’s how we’ve been doing interviews for years. Still difficult to find qualified candidates, but better than doing it all online and hoping for the best.
In my mind it’s simple, at least in tech it was massive over hiring during the pandemic that is being reduced. In many fields though such as science it’s due to the federal government. Anytime there is economic uncertainty there will be less hiring and people holding their jobs without much movement upwards. Fresh grads or those in early or late career are screwed again, similar to 2008.
In tech at least in the US, there already has been a 20% reduction in jobs, because they were overhired by 200% during the pandemic. Plenty of bleed in the industry left and very little is because of AI.
Zero. Like in zero places would rent be less than a mortgage unless somehow the landlord was making 0, and then at that it would be the same price as a mortgage but without the risk of being locked in for 30 years.
Yes and no to both parts. Mortgages often come with things like property taxes and insurance, both which go up over time, and often by significant amounts. These things also apply to rents, but are wrapped in. In many areas rents will rise far above inflation rates. It would in theory be impossible to have a mortgage that is more than rent for the same property unless the landlord is making 0 money.
At least my experience in the professional world, if the provided reference says anything negative about the interviewee it’s a massive red flag.
Maybe you don’t think that way, but for every position I have ever posted you’ll get at least 100 applicants, and each of them take a massive amount of time to interview and get through the system to hire.
That reference is one more thing that helps. Better yet, it’s great when someone knows someone that you do, because then it’s easy to vouch for them.
Like when it comes to dating, are you going to date a random person that you know nothing about, or go out on a date that your best friend recommends who knows you?
This isn’t the first study showing this though. It’s pretty simple, programmers and IT were severely overhired during the pandemic, there are massive job losses now, and it’s easy to blame AI when in reality there are a lot of economic factors and AI isn’t increasing productivity as much as anyone would think.
Maybe the future will change that for very specific things, but I think people should be learning and preparing for that, which isn’t any different than what everyone has been told in every job market since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
As someone who works in research, this isn’t surprising at all. It’s hard to find something that treats (well most often reduces symptoms) of a particular disease. It’s even more difficult to find something that is also safe at the dose level it takes to treat said disease. Are there faster ways to do this? Probably not. AI is only going to help out so much, just like automated drug screening only helped so much since its introduction in the 90s.
Renting isn't 'good' though in many metrics. Ownership is, and that's what the push should be for, rather than promoting basically a monthly subscription to have a roof over your head.
> If both parents work they're also easily spending roughly 30+ grand a year on daycare alone.
Depends on how old the kids are, because at least in most cases, daycare costs are for a very short period of time compared to the the overall life of the child. And the average in most states is wildly all over the place.
We absolutely should be focused on free childcare, or ideally ways that parents don't need childcare to begin with, but I don't think that has a lot to do with household income. Hell, at that point, why as well talk about transportation costs, as it's different in a single household vs a two parent two kid household, and different still depending on where you live.
For FSD, at least in the US they long dropped the hands on the wheel thing, unless the attention monitoring isn't functioning. At least the folks I know that have it, they absolutely love it.
Wouldn't that be the same even if AI wasn't involved? By and large, it's the same books, the same training for students, the same hammered in structure, so the output from students would be reasonably similar. No one is coming up with new allegories out of The Scarlet Letter at this point.
They still exist, along with a bunch of different ones. I don't think it's going to be all that different compared to just writing notes in an e-book or on an iPad though. And for many people who learn in other ways, the iPad or similar is superior because you can copy in pictures, make diagrams, and use other ways of learning all in one spot. For me, honestly, something like OneNote (or especially Obsidian) is awesome, because it's super easy to tie in AI into mark down text.
That's really what it is, or at least what I've noticed.
Any position you have these days is inundated with applications. Most don't meet the qualifications (because in a lot of places say in the US you must apply to jobs to keep with benefits, regardless of what you are applying for), and for the remaining, you'll find that there will always be some that are all similarly qualified. Who do you hire for one position? It sometimes just comes down to luck.
AI doing the job of filtering I can't imagine making the process easier, and more applications are just going to get tossed because of it.