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It’s kind of standard practice at this level. They get a million resumes a week in inbound, of which they hire very little, and they have an army of recruiters who go searching for people in the industry, who for the most part already have a job.

It’s way more profitable to let small startups grow juniors into competent employees and pluck them when they’re ripe, than to take risks on junior profiles. (not that i condone it but it’s a sad truth of recruitment)

Exactly. Mega corps don’t touch entry level work, they do exactly as you say and pay a friend of theirs so that this friend can steal wages from poor people and guarantee them floor-level prices.

Honestly it doesn’t matter if you make 300k a year at Meta or $12 an hour at Walmart

It absolutely does. If you can make 300K at Meta you can make 250K someplace else. Missing out on those extra 50K is nowhere near an existential threat to you.

If you make 12$/h at Walmart i am not blaming you for taking what you can and making a living of it. If you work for a Meta subcontractor in Kenya doing 300$ a month i am not blaming you.

But if you choose to work for an objectively evil company while you have other options (which you definitely have if EvilCorp is even considering your resume), and you make that choice just to maximize your discretionary spending… then you can’t play the solidarity card.

Are you under the impression that only Amazon, Microsoft & Walmart are hiring ? Did every software company suddenly vanish while i was napping ? Sorry but there are a million companies hiring the same kind of profiles as Meta, which are not evil monopolistic mega-corporations.

Also what’s Walmart got to do with this ? You think greeters and cashiers are hired from the same pool as Meta product owners ?

I’ve known people with experience and degrees that have been searching for like 6 months

If that is the case then Meta probably won’t touch their resume with a 10-ft pole.

I mean if I worked for a soul sucking corporation (pick one Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) and another shitty corporation (Meta) offered me a substantial pay raise why wouldn’t I take it?

But that’s not the real scenario. Monstruous companies aren’t the only jobs around. There’s a bajillion smaller and more ethical companies that hire the same kind of profiles as Meta.

Also the mega-corporations tend to not poach small fish from each other. Sure they’ll go after each other’s top performers but there’s a tacit agreement that “normal workers” are not fair game.

meta doesn’t only have high level jobs

The majority of their hires are experienced profiles. “Bog standard” worker in Meta is already a pretty high paying job as entry level work is massively outsourced.

all who work there are some kind of imaginary elite?

That’s not at all what i’m saying. I’m saying if you can land a job at Meta then you can absolutely find a job elsewhere. There is nobody in the world who is stuck between an empty belly and accepting a position at Meta. They’re just stuck between making good money somewhere, and making better money at Meta.

That’s bullshit. Almost all meta hires are poached, and they’re not coming for you if you’re not in a position to make good money.

The vast majority of these people chose to leave an already cushy job to get in there.

You don’t hire interns for productivity

Because it’s unethical. I’ve been in business for 10+ years but i never hired an intern because i don’t find it fair to make someone work for less than minimum wage, and i don’t have the structure required to really teach them anything. I have bad fundamentals and only ever learnt by doing, so having an intern while it may help me wouldn’t really help them and that’s not a deal i’m willing to make. Probably why i’m not super successful lol

That being said, i don’t see any problem with making a GPU cry somewhere in California for my menial tasks. And it’s tremendously effective too, for a hundred bucks a month i get a lot of shit done that would take me ages. I don’t give it access to anything critical so it can’t fuck my shit up and i come out on top as long as the tokens are subsidized by dumb VC money.

Yup it’s one of those examples where the mystery is way better than the contrived answer.

Really interested to see this proof if you have a link handy. Do you have any idea why it doesn’t apply to human cognition ?

I think there’s a misconception about what AGI is. The point of a “smarter” model is not that it knows all the facts, that would be wasteful as it is trivial to look up facts at inference time. The point is that a “smarter” model can generalize solutions to out of distribution problems (meaning problems that are not explicitly stated in its training corpus). So AGI wouldn’t be about a model that knows everything about language and every advancement in every field, but rather a model that is better than humans at finding solutions to problems (and fetching information from outside sources when it doesn’t know enough about a field to operate a solution).

The point about context is kind of irrelevant here as training data is not part of the inference context so you “add intelligence” to a model by re-training a new one, not by cramming the context of an existing one.

Honestly I’m as smooth brained as any other vibe coder but even I know not to give it access to my production infrastructure.

As if a 90$/month intern wasn’t a good deal lol

In my experience I’ve mostly seen it used for a local equivalent of S3 to plop in your dev environment. It’s pretty good if your prod depends on S3 and you don’t want to deal with the cost and latency of using actual S3 buckets during development.

They have the audacity of doing things, that is despicable and definitely reprehensible.

The power of compound interest means that money can only make more money once it reaches a certain threshold. Whatever these guys were at twenty they’re certainly not anymore, but they will never feel the pinch. They can only fail upwards from this point on.

But this is just speculation. The fact is, systemd introduced a new optional field in the local database. They don’t publish an OS so they have no obligation to do anything more, actual implementation would have to happen in other projects.

What this is, is a spite-fork by some random AI researcher and anybody installing that on their system has way larger problems here and now than hypothetical ID verification in the maybe future.

It’s saying that you can invent an infinite number of hypothetical futures but they are not useful for making decisions in the here and now

The significance of Jesus is the movement he spawned. I’m not talking about the Catholic church as it was codified by the Romans a few centuries after his death, but about the movement of Jesus which spread far and wide directly after he died. This movement flourished not by the blade and the authority of oppressive regimes, but because it simply spoke deeply to people, especially the poor and disenfranchised. This kind of thing only happened a handful of times during history.

He was important because he created a blueprint for resistance of the oppressed, in a time where such resistance was a very hard sell because it went so contrary to the norms and cultures.