Stackoverflow should build a GPT style interface into its considerable knowledge-base, and if an answer is not found in existing data, pose it to the forum.
Readit Newsphenkdo commented on Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT · Posted by u/brindidrip
phenkdo commented on Paid Search Engines Are Dead on Arrival len.falken.directory/web/... · Posted by u/zdw
we need a paradigm shift away from search, just as google engineered a shift away from portals in the late 90s. idk what form that would take but I suspect some kid in a garage is going to come up with something...
phenkdo commented on The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021) qz.com/2012965/the-us-lab... · Posted by u/webmobdev
> comical assumption they are scrooge mcducks sitting on piles of cash
Strawmanning my arguments with insulting remarks does not change the reality of income and wealth inequality in the US.
> You assume every business is a FAANG and sitting on piles of cash
I never said that. The article is about labor shortage in general, not in tech only.
Big players drive market salaries. That includes baristas at starbucks, truck drivers and so on. This is a well known fact.
You can also look at how many restaurant/cafe' owners complain that they cannot hire employees at wages that would require the employee to work 40 hours a week only to pay for rent.
I wonder if you have an axe to grind here.
> I'm a business owner myself
Ah, there you go.
>> I'm a business owner myself
>Ah, there you go.
Ah, there you go to you as well.
phenkdo commented on The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021) qz.com/2012965/the-us-lab... · Posted by u/webmobdev
Wrong. The "if you pay enough" is related to the available resources.
There is real housing shortage when people on minimum income cannot afford a house.
There is real health care shortage when people on minimum income cannot afford health care.
There NO labor shortage when many big companies belong to billionaires that get wealthier every day (even during Covid). Small companies might survive or die but large companies are the ones driving salary expectations the most.
Those big companies obviously CAN pay more. The owners are not going to sleep under a bridge anytime soon.
>There NO labor shortage when many big companies belong to billionaires that get wealthier every day (even during Covid).Those companies obviously CAN pay more. The owners are not going to sleep under a bridge anytime soon.
It's this manichaean view - business bad, me good - that's the crux of the issue. You assume every business is a FAANG and sitting on piles of cash. Most businesses (50-60%?) - even in tech - are small biz and biz owners are in the same boat. Very very few companies even come close to the level of your straw-man.
And you are very wrong with the (rather comical) assumption business-owners are scrooge mcducks sitting on piles of cash. In tech, programmer salaries are hyper-inflated (compared to most other professions) and already out of reach of many SMEs and we are scraping the bottom-of-the-barrel for talent. I'm a business owner myself and I have seen this first-hand, so don't tell me there's no labor shortage.
phenkdo commented on The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021) qz.com/2012965/the-us-lab... · Posted by u/webmobdev
The same is true of almost any shortage. You can almost always get what you want, for a price. Whether that price makes economic sense for a business to pay is a different question.
Absolutely! The "no shortage if you pay enough" slogan is a double-edged sword.
- Is there a housing shortage if you pay enough? or
- is there a health-care shortage if you pay enough?
: : on & on.
phenkdo commented on Show HN: PostgresML, now with analytics and project management postgresml.org... · Posted by u/levkk
Can this be used to deploy an "active learning" model that learns from fresh data and model auto-updates?
In psychology there is a phenomenon called "the missing missing reasons." Usually this refers to parents whose children no longer have a relationship with them. The parents claim the child never gave any reason. Except the children always gave them plenty of reasons. The parents just weren't willing to accept those reasons.
I suspect you are in the same position here. I think you know exactly why you aren't getting interviews but you just aren't ready to accept it yet.
Also, you posted your Linkedin. We know where you work. And you just publicly called them "shitty." If I were your boss I'd fire you. And if I were a potential boss I'd never hire someone who did that.
>Also, you posted your Linkedin. We know where you work. And you just publicly called them "shitty." If I were your boss I'd fire you. And if I were a potential boss I'd never hire someone who did that.
I think it's a bit harsh on the OP. This is an ex-work network and we are all allowed to vent. Having said that, however I feel the OPs frustration is probably unwarranted, the market is as seller-friendly as I have ever seen ( and I have been doing this for more than 2 decades).
I don't have a simple answer for you OP, other than to keep pushing and networking. It's just a matter of time...if you are determined enough.
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> Musk... said during a recent earnings call ...
"My personal guess is that we’ll achieve Full Self-Driving this year at a safety level significantly greater than a person..."
Does this guy ever get tired of saying "this year" and "next year" every year and being wrong every single time? Do his investors?
The non-sinner line starts over there, and goes round the block.
I think you are referring to Eckhart Tolle's mindfulness. I have one of his quotes that I have clipped into my notes as:
“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.” -Eckhart Tolle
HTH.