For those unaware there's currently a bubble of startup space companies going after similar contracts and while a part of me wants them all to be successful, it's nice to know at least some of these contracts are going to established companies who will do a good job. A space-based wireless network for the DoW will basically be a more secure starlink and it's good in my mind that a company with experience got the contract.
Especially in recent graduate positions. I maybe won't make sense if the interviewee was 35 but if they're 21 there's just nothing else to talk about. That said, at least in software, the right answer still includes something about coding or building things.
There's a difference between weather and climate. Weather is something that happens and has great variability, climate is an expected weather pattern. Measuring the average temperature change from 2023->2024 or similar would be weather, looking at the temperature over ~100+ years would be more akin to climate. There are plenty of years where it's colder than the previous year, and many where it's markably warmer. Famously the continental US experienced no warming, possibly some cooling from 2000 to 2012, not because we solved global warming but because of random variations in the data.
But broadly speaking, yoy change isn't representative of climate, and any time a politician tells you this is the last election to stop climate change you can ignore him. Even fast pace warming takes decades
I bought a book on C++20 last year when we started a project on it and I read it.
I don't think programming books are going anywhere, because they still contain a concise directory full of information on different languages or frameworks. If I try to learn a language piecemeal through chatgpt or blogs I risk missing important details or platform-specific knowledge. I'd believe books on vim are going away but books on languages or other job-essential tools have a use in the market and I can't imagine they'll go away.
For context, the planet has warmed ~2*F since ~1850. While global warming is surly a thing I certainly wouldn't rank it on a top 10 list of reasons diseases and microbes are created.
I don't want every square inch of my country to be city; and if you look on google maps, most of the land in the US is already either used for farming, cities, or not suitable for either.
This is my thought too. The intent of the law is for it to be temporary, and creating the citizenship loophole has caused a lot of issues. I think the expectation H1B may lead to citizenship causes a lot of disress and forces people into roles that take advantage of them, and closing the loophole seems strictly good.
I think it's more of a systemic issue than top-down manipulation. Like, as a hypothetical, they're disregarding some people as being extremist when in reality they have reasonable, representative views. This produces biased results, and people who agree with the results share them because it supports their world view. The shares and new revenue reinforce the companies decision to produce biased reports, and the effect is politicians read these popular reports thinking they're accurate and make policy decisions around them, when in reality they're just a political wish-list.
To be fair it's in early beta, I wouldn't be surprised if they open it up to more people as time goes on. The real question is if they'll open source it or follow Anthropic's lead in keeping everything closed-source
Unrelated story but when guests would come over, my mom would go to the store and buy the fanciest meat (usually filet mignon) and put it in a stew/soup (she liked making soups). To this day the only way I've had filet mignon was in soup
I have never pushed incorrect code that results in catastrophic failure due to AI, are you sure you're using the tool correctly? If you didn't know what you were doing with CAD software, you could absolutely generate incorrect designs.
> Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations.
> Managers are discouraged from using token use to measure performance, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Like CAD and architects, if you're not using LLM's while coding it's an issue, but Amazon is very clear that this isn't an official metric. I would believe managers know how many tokens you're using, but it sounds like they just interviewed a disgruntled employee who didn't like AI and published it.
This reads more like it's a single employees gripe than a real thing that's happening. They're not using the metrics in performance reviews, and it's a new AI tool that AWS probably wants legitimate usage data out of.
That said, if you can't figure out how to use AI in a software job you should look into it. Not using AI at this point is a lot like not using CAD as an architect.
I think he's right, and everyone is reading into the title too much. He's not replacing all coding with hand-written, artisan code, he's just doing the architecture himself, which is the same conclusion I've come to. AI will sometimes put everything in one file or one struct and that's obviously not what we want, we need to tell it to be more modular or do it ourselves. I think it's fun to write code by myself, but if you're not using AI at work you're wasting your managers time.
Yeah it's interesting hearing their engineering logic, that fewer sensor types means less sensor collision and faster iteration, where iteration speed is really what matters. I also think people overhyped lidar because they don't understand it, and human behavior is to associate things we don't understand to magic. It's not magic, it performs poorly in inclination weather and can have issues with resolution over range and data processing (although lidar does do a lot of things well).
All of this said, once Karpathy left they have slowly looked at adding new sensors (recently radar), so who knows what the future for Tesla's sensor suite holds.
They lied about the horizon battery life as well, reviewers put it at ~3 hours down from I think an "estimated" 12. Really nice laptops, I might still get one, but this sort of lying irks me.
Yeah starlabs uses a lot of glass trackpads in their products and are known for good builds; certainly this will be better than a thinkpad or something. The common complaints for their laptops are usually battery life (I know the horizon battery life was famously abysmal, roughly 3 hours of use), although I'm not sure how long this battery will last.
It's funny how Paul is recommending people use PR firms, while in more recent videos michael seibel and others have strongly recommended against using them. It's interesting how things shift in ~20 years
This is my thought too. The eggheads in accounting set budgets, and we produce products within that budget. I could be twice as productive with twice as many people, and maybe 50% more productive with good AI, but if it's not budgeted for it's an issue (especially short-term before the product is released).
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, you're right. We were large enough that we could find the talent, and the country was free enough so that private industry could drive innovation. Low taxes let companies reinvest. We know this is what happened because the success of free markets isn't a mystery, it's well studied and documented.
I feel like floor mattresses, trash, and peeling paint were also at play. They're all sort of unsafe rooms people wouldn't want to go to unless they felt like they had to (i.e. doing drugs)
I would not blame this on republicans; they don't hold a majority in the state senate, house, both senators and most house reps are democrats, and there isn't anywhere they hold meaningful power. Further they're opposed to doubling payroll taxes, the taxes are not raised yet.
Oregon, and Portland in particular, suffered a lot economically after covid due to overprotective laws banning operations. A lot of companies went out of business, people moved, and tax revenue plummeted. Growth since has been slow due to hostile laws. TriMet cuts are due to poor city and state management, which frankly doubling payroll tax would exacerbate.
I will say, to their credit, there has been a ~25% yoy commit increase since the introduction of AI. That's a pretty significant jump on an already popular site, at the same time they're supposed to be training models for search and other features. I think most sites that see that sort of increase will experience increased downtime
There is nothing more dismal than going through an application process when they've already decided not to hire you. I've seen managers do this, and I've been interviewed and realized partway through they've already decided who they're actually going to hire (and it's not me).
I like the idea of being able to do interview calls at 8pm, but I'm scared they will just spam these to everyone and I'll spend countless evenings "interviewing" for jobs I'll never get instead of meeting with people I care about.
It depends what you mean by self-driving. The car drives itself without any input; I would argue that fits the definition of self driving. Legally you must be supervising it, which is a valid criticism, but the car drives itself well enough that I can provide basically no input on 20+ hour cross-country trips, which allows me to do things like not stop to sleep.
I, independently, made almost exactly the same comment before seeing yours lol. I already do 20+ hour cross-country trips in my Y without a break to sleep, which is only possible because I'm not meaningfully fatigued driving. it's still technically supervised but I think that's beyond the point OP is making