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"Up to" $180k for expertise in a field that is as technical and in as much demand as AI is low. For experts in AI, I wouldn't be surprised if their total comp in larger tech companies is around $500k-$1M.

You can expect to find some experts with a stronger sense of civic duty willing to take a pay cut to work for the government, but when you're talking about multiple multiples of your salary, you're going to be left with people who are not top talent or those who are already so wealthy from other jobs that they're willing to work for much less.

I've seen this attribution of RTO to "managers" before but it doesn't ring true in my experience. Managers is too broad of a group of people. Every manager I've had since the beginning of the pandemic has loved working from home and said they don't want to go back.

If this [1] story from a few weeks ago is to be believed these directives are coming from the people at the top: executives, high level management, and investors. That story is about Microsoft specifically, but I don't see anything in there that would indicate the same couldn't have happened at other tech companies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37643608

I don't think the parent comment is referring to PS5's success, but rather things like their recent significant price increases[0] to their PS Plus service, which is required for multiplayer for a lot of their games.

[0] https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-raises-price-of-playstatio...

Ah yes. It reminds me of the tech libertarians that I’d so often come across in the Bay Area. Those who adopted Lord Farquaad’s philosophy that other people getting screwed over was a sacrifice they were willing to make. It doesn’t surprise me they are one of the blue checkmark people.

> Even if they have the worst intentions we will end up better off (and so will they). We’re just that damned good.

This reads like sarcasm and flies in the face of what’s been going on in the world for the last few years.

You’re making predictions very confidently as if they’re a done deal, but it’s all based on what you think should happen. It’s been several years since social media use has spread to a good chunk of the world’s population. We should be able to see the start of our post truth world’s effects and they’re not trending in a positive direction. Like, have you seen what’s happening? Here’s one recent example off the top of my head https://apnews.com/article/germany-extremism-far-right-russi...

This is off topic, but it’s crazy to me that the current incarnation of Twitter still seems to be the communication platform of choice for a good portion of the tech community. Presumably Jared still considers it to be the best way to share this information despite the fact that the app is so user hostile. Even using nitter to bypass these restrictions, we’re still breaking a paragraph into separate posts, as if sharing text longer than a sentence on the intent is a something we need to handle in a piecemeal fashion.

At a time when I can use ML algorithms to create beautiful images from a simple description, Twitter feels positively prehistoric. And yet the people investing in the bleeding edge continue using smoke signals to reach their audience. It’s remarkable.

> I tend to blame the low interest rate "easy money" environment more than companies like Unity being reckless.

As if the founders had no other options in life than to start companies relying on business models where you capture the market with investor money and then once you’re customers are locked in, you squeeze them as much as possible. Unreal is in the same market. They also took in investor money. They’re not in the same situation.

The people behind Unity chose to play the game. The c-suite is handsomely rewarded, and we praise their business acumen when things go right, but if things go wrong suddenly they’re victims of circumstance.

They can take ownership of their decisions.

Sorry for the cynicism, but part of me wonders that if the market opportunities the tool finds are so valuable, why isn’t the person behind this pursuing them instead of selling this data?

The funny thing is the reason Apple is switching to usb c is that they were forced to by EU regulators.

Their fall from grace, at least when it comes to the tech community, has been quite a sight. Has any other big tech company seen such a change in opinion? I’m not sure Microsoft was ever beloved and even though Apple might have lost some of its sheen, there are definitely a lot of fans left.

With the last couple of election cycles in the US really emphasizing the “anyone” aspect.

> I started coding professionally in the age of AI.

What does this mean?

Copilot was released in March of this year. ChatGPT 4, which the community considers to be the only version of ChatGPT to be competent enough at coding tasks, was also released in March.

My guess is that you didn't mean that statement to be a fancy way of saying "I've been coding professionally for around 6 months", but I don't know what else you mean by the "age of AI".

It's comments like these that make me wish I could stand behind the chair of the people who get these results because I feel like there's something lost in translation. I don't know if I'm taking your comment too literally but this part confuses me:

> It writes lots of code before I even think about what I was going to do in that file.

If you haven't even thought of what you want to do in the file, how are you prompting Copilot to write the code you need? Am I understanding correctly that Copilot not only generates the correct code, but it's also able to deduce what code you meant to ask for without any input from you? I don't see how this is possible except in the uncommon case where you are bringing a file to be more in line with other files in your code base that have a similar structure.

I do think Copilot can be useful, but I'm confused at how different my experience is from what others are getting out of the tool.

Another use case that I've seen talked about when it comes to eye-tracking technology is as it relates to the ad industry (it's always the freakin ad industry...). Eye-tracking is another way to detect what you're paying attention to. Currently, a lot of the ad business depends on measuring impressions, but they do so with heuristics. Eye-tracking can actually tell you if a user is looking at something vs pretending they do.

You mentioned freecodecamp, which although I haven't gone through myself I've seen recommended many times. Is there a specific reason why you're looking for more resources?

The reason I ask is that a common newbie mistake I've noticed with people who want to learn to code is bouncing around from learning resource to learning resource without going deep with any one of them. Nothing wrong with getting different perspectives, but at some point, it's going to get hard because you're learning something hard.

It's a little hard to give specific suggestions without more information. If you've tried freecodecamp, was there something about it that didn't work for you? That would help in giving you more actionable advice.

Nothing says “we’re doing great” like having to remind people about every small thing you managed to shove out to production in the last few months. I’m surprised she didn’t include that they successfully managed to replace the toilet paper in the bathrooms.

This is the cooperate equivalent of padding your resume with skills like “Microsoft Word”.

Yeah their messaging is a bit strange. Perhaps someone with more info on Arc can clarify, but their landing page makes a strong point about them being privacy-conscious, and their summary of their own terms of service is "TLDR: we won't spy on you", but at the same time you must log in to use the browser. What is their monetization strategy? If something is VC-backed and free, it's hard to believe that they aren't ad supported in some way, which almost always relies on some amount of tracking.

I'm not even sure why the OP submitted this tweet. It has barely any information other than directing you to a different link.

> He's clearly not motivated by appearing intelligent

Musk has spent and continues to spend an inordinate amount of effort cultivating a particular image/brand of himself, one which has gained him a large following.

A lot of the companies you mentioned have non trivial investments in ads. I recently was surprised to find how big of an ad business Adobe has for example. Not sure that these companies would cease to exist if it weren’t for advertising but ads do influence these companies’ products.

I get what you're saying, and I do think we should start preparing for a future where images are not something we can trust because I think we'll inevitably get there, but images are different than text. They are information dense and can elicit an emotional reaction much faster than text can. Think of the fake images that showed Trump being violently arrested. Something like that can become viral much more easily than text.

As for a world where we all learn to distrust images, I don't think we will fully get there. You still have people falling for email scams that by now are very clearly documented. Even a small percentage of people who are living in a different reality can be problematic for the rest of us.

Outer Wilds (not to be confused with Outer Worlds) is a fantastic game. It's one of those games that makes me wish I could erase my knowledge of the game to experience it again. I won't say more to avoid spoilers and not to over hype it, but if you like story-heavy and exploratory game play you should check it out.

I don't understand why ethics in engineering has to be framed as a political discussion.

> The saving grace here might be that Firefox won't implement the proposal.

As others have said, FF doesn't have a lot of leverage left to influence those type of decisions, but Safari might. Not sure what their position is on this proposal.

The one pager has a section on stakeholder feedback [0], but doesn't name them for some reason.

[0] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

We could also all go back to 800x600 monitors. That way, no one would have to be subjected to writing the 10 lines of css to make text heavy sites more readable ;)

I thought maybe they had opened up account creation, but it’s still behind a waitlist. I put my name down several weeks ago. Unless I missed the invite, they seem to be stingy about giving them out. If this is still mostly unavailable to the public why post it on HN again?

As far as being an attractive employer they pay really well. Not sure about other dimensions. This is anecdotal but a couple of people in my network had bad things to say about the work life balance and culture there.

The cynic in me thinks they do get it and that their statement is an excuse to save face. It’s easier to blame technology instead of admit they wanted to cut corners.

Can we please keep the responses relevant to OP’s request? It’s pretty clear that OP is looking for a curated list of newsletters to check out but some people are seeing this as an invitation to get on a soapbox about how they don’t like email/newsletters/whatever.