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mcast commented on Cluely - a desktop application to let you cheat on anything cluely.com/... · Posted by u/hakaneskici

mcast · 4 months ago

There might be a future market for proctored classrooms for adults taking interviews.

Or maybe companies will ship a special “interview video kit” that will include having a candidate setup a tripod and camera recording their screen.

mcast commented on OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B nytimes.com/2024/10/02/te... · Posted by u/gmaster1440

Workaccount2 · a year ago

>You'll need it!

If they can IPO, they will easily hit a $1.5T valuation. All Altman would have to do is follow what Elon did with Tesla. Lots of massive promises marinated in trending hype that tickles the hearts of dumb money. No need to deliver, just keep promising. He is already doing it.

mcast · a year ago

The difference is Tesla had a moat with the electric car market, there were no affordable and practical EVs 10 years ago. OpenAI is surrounded by competition and Meta is constantly releasing Llama weights to break up any closed source monopolies.

mcast commented on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI twitter.com/miramurati/st... · Posted by u/brianjking

aresant · a year ago

It is unsuprising that Murati is leaving, she was reported to be one of the principal advocates for pushing Sam out (1)

Of course everybody was quick to play nice once OpenAI insiders got the reality check from Satya that he'd just crush them by building an internal competing group, cut funding, and instantly destroy lots of paper millionaires.

I'd imagine that Mira and others had 6 - 12 month agreeements in place to let the dust settle and finish their latest round of funding without further drama

The OpenAI soap opera is going to be a great book or movie someday

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executi...?

mcast · a year ago

Trent Reznor and David Fincher need to team up again to make a movie about this.

mcast commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains

some_random · a year ago

We can't really do much more than speculate right now, but it seems like the most likely answer is that a shipment of pagers was intercepted and implanted with explosives. Israel has done this before to assassinate a prominent bomb maker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash#Assassination

mcast · a year ago

It's pretty insane to see remote detonation technology used and implemented in 1996, considering cell phones looked like Nokia bricks and the RF hardware needed to implement this needs to fit in a pretty tight space in the phone.

mcast commented on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazo... · Posted by u/jbredeche

valbaca · a year ago

only to have all of them talk to each other on Chime*

Amazon doesn't get to use anything that isn't Amazon-built

mcast · a year ago

I will gladly use anything that isn’t Zoom!

mcast commented on Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon fortune.com/2024/07/31/am... · Posted by u/ecliptik

codingwagie · a year ago

I'm a long time Amazonian. The big problem is legacy employees run every part of the company. Almost any manager of managers has been at Amazon a long time, in that same job for a long time. There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. In Alexa, the people running the core ML teams have been in Alexa since it started. Most people in decision making positions just got there first (10-15 years ago)

The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.

The engineers themselves are not students of computer science, but just crunch out tickets.

If Amazon wants to change they need to remove a significant amount of tenured employees, and actually promote young engineers into decision making positions.

AWS hasnt released an innovative product in a really long time

mcast · a year ago

I've always liked the SRE approach, where you can alleviate software engineers to build new features without burdening the team with 24/7 on call duties.

mcast commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR

michelevr · a year ago

Husband is a deputy in California. His department and many others here are down as well (including PDs, jails, ambulance companies, etc.)

mcast · a year ago

This seems like a pretty severe point of failure.

mcast commented on AI's $600B Question sequoiacap.com/article/ai... · Posted by u/fh973

wmf · a year ago

The secret sauce in the cloud is not hardware but control plane, networking, and storage software.

mcast · a year ago

And IP space.

mcast commented on Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency github.com/Modos-Labs/Gli... · Posted by u/mistercheph

dools · a year ago

> Does anyone know why the Kindle is such a bad product?

Because it’s made by Amazon

mcast · a year ago

To be fair, the Kindle is primarily used for reading books and doesn't require a fast refresh rate. It also lasts for weeks (months?) without charging.