Good points above about lack of reliability and wasteful spending. I also agree with this comment, although it’s incredibly expensive (imagine what the Valley could do with $1.5 trillion) the data is hard to put a price on and keeps us out in front of potential future enemies.
The Bitcoin project is a great example of the potential for something like this. To this day the creator or creators have never been identified. Key word potential.
It is true, lots of people were harmed, including the rank and file. But “rank and file” usually calls up images of honest, blue collar folks and factory floors. According to Smartest Guys In The Room, the rank and file of Enron were mostly MBAs in thousand dollar suits with a reputation for utter ruthlessness and extravagant pay. The electrical utility employees in that article were not truly Enron employees.
This is a natural outgrowth of 4chan culture for anyone who browsed it years ago. Journalists who haven’t been down those roads will always miss the point. 8chan and sites like it are a symptom, not a cause. The cause is rooted in the isolation and disenfranchisement of men in modern society. Jordan Peterson is one of the only individuals I’ve heard describing the root of this problem in a professional, statistical, research based manner. As long as we continue to destroy everything that has traditionally given men meaning, this will get worse. 20% of men enjoy 80% of female attention in a dating app world. Churches, bowling leagues, etc. are dead and gone, community has collapsed. Patriotism is dead, the government is seen as corrupt and full of fools. Corporations are decried as soul sucking bastions of greed. On the one hand, these are good things. Truths laid bare. We no longer look up at our flags and company brands in reverence. But without mating, community, honor (serving your nation), or mastery (serving your work), what are they going to do? Lash out. They literally just don’t care about society anymore. Why should they? Where’s the buy in? At least that’s the logic as I understand it. It’s not correct. Ethics, morals, and honest self assessment are completely lacking in these people. But it’s a real thing that’s happening.
Or perhaps they actually haven’t spent enough time not using Slack. I know as someone new to the industry, in all my 4 years I haven’t known a time when I wasn’t able to just ping someone on Slack. It’s natural and obvious to me.
Kubernetes uses the Docker daemon as its container runtime. The docker daemon is running on all your hosts, and Kubernetes talks to the daemon api to start up containers.
user_request -> kubernetes api -> docker api on a host
You can drop in other runtimes, like using containerd directly.
For me as occasional observer, the first shot across the bow was the Uber S1. It seems to have made a lot of people pause and question the business models of other companies as well. Nobody jumping ship, but caution in the winds.
The Israeli’s Iron Curtain is an example of a possible defensive model. Computer controlled machine guns running ML models could probably take down a lot of drones.
Thanks for the breakdown. Snowden faces the possibility of lifelong solitary confinement in the US from what I understand, which is a fate worse than death in my opinion.
I would almost think that the higher end of Chinese consumers, educated in other countries and working for international firms, might even prefer non-Chinese brands.
Relax and pick the one that is the most interesting. With your background, the signal these offers sends, and the high demand for ML workers, you’ll be in a good place either way. It may matter what you want to do long term, they’re different tracks. To me one of these is more unique with a much higher compensation ceiling but only directly “transfers” to other financial firms, whereas the other is more generic and so transfers very well. Every FAANG has one or a few groups like that.
Saying tech is winner take all, and investing is like that, seems wrong.
I like the Google search comparison though - a few academics found a novel approach, then hired only the best and brightest and used technological advantage to grow. The comparison is quite apt actually.
Agreed. What got to me was that no matter how hard you kill it, there’s no one to share it with if you’re the “best” on the team. They’re always looking up to you. Also you need to feel like you have some backup.
The NYT I definitely now class with all the rest. In my opinion The Economist stands alone as the only publication I can trust to be nuanced and informative.
I don’t think Facebook wants to control content, it’s hard, expensive, and hurts their reputation. It’s users and governments complaining that forces them into that game.
As a counterpoint to this I use Brave on my iPhone, Windows home PC and Mac work laptop. It blocks all ads, I don’t use the crypto at all and never have, and it works for 99% of the sites I visit including ones for various services around work. I never opted in or out of anything, it just works and because it blocks so much nonsense it’s fast. Frustrated by all that negativity when it works great for me as a “download and forget” drop in replacement for Chrome without all the Google tracking.
Hah, the real world version of an internet argument I see time to time wherein people with engineering certifications are put off by software developers calling themselves engineers.
Agreed, you get more buy in from existing deals as well because it’s no longer just a contract to use X it’s a partnership so you get better support, back channels for feature requests, etc.
Personally being a tech worker in Silicon Valley, I’ve found the big barrier to this now to be cultural and personal. All my companies (large and small) have had incredibly relaxed policies around when to arrive, leave, remote work, time off, bereavement. Even in what have been SRE or Software Eng roles with on-call. I get the sense that if I’m doing my work, I could do whatever I want. But I still feel some pressure, some voice in the back of my head that thinks other people will look down on me or I won’t be deserving my high salary. Like anytime I have downtime I feel guilty, and I see others behave the same way.
Agreed. Yet another entrenched, old way of doing things that has been completely debunked using both evidence and common sense among the educated but will require monumental political will to change.
Does anyone actually go to BI, Forbes, TechCrunch, whatever, directly anymore? The most they get is a headline in someone’s social media feed that generates a click and maybe 10 seconds of eyeball on ad. Proof reading isn’t worth it.
That’s tough because often I’ve had coworkers who give their thumbs up or thumbs down based on “he had it on his resume and I asked him basic question X and he had no idea, terrible”.
But that’s not what they do, try to buy two or whatever reasonable number. A few people literally fill a shopping cart with toilet paper, water bottles, and hand sanitizer, and it’s gone. The problem is one of capacity to match demand within such short time frames.
One anecdote data point; we’re building new bare metal clusters, about 500 new quad chassis servers. I did the performance testing and per performance/price from Dell we went with AMD Epyc CPUs whereas at my job only 2 years ago doing a similar build it never even came up, Intel was the unquestioned default.
Also personally built a gaming PC this year, picked a Ryzen just for fun.
In my opinion very few of the smartest, most successful businesspeople attribute their success to anything they learned at an institution. There are essentially no traditional institutions that can teach you how to be a great entrepreneur, identify those people, or help them be successful.
That 700 billion was Treasury money. The Fed at the time also engaged in trillions of dollars of quantitative easing, similar to what they’re doing now. I would guess the reason the Fed is going all in this time is because there was consensus among the decision makers that last time we were too slow - we did QE but it took years. I assume they think that if we hit it hard now, we can shorten the recession period. Also this time there is more unified and obvious support from “the people”. Rather than bailing out bankers and all the hazards that come with that, everyone is getting a check, so everyone is more on board.
Lately I’ve been thinking about the other side of this, the faith one must have to trust science. Most people will never crack a textbook for real, let alone do the experiments themselves. There are so many people I know who look at an anti-vaxxer and say “how could they be so dumb” but they themselves know nothing except what they parrot. Not to say an anti-vaxxer is correct. It’s just that so many people on the side of science only believe because everyone else does, because it’s just “so obvious” and I can see how someone would lose their way if they didn’t have that faith.
There’s very little downside. Spend some money from wealthy people and institutions, get some engineers paid, get some code written. The only losers are the investors who, per their job description, take the risk. Perhaps simplified but I like companies spending money on this stuff.
Does anyone else remember Occupy Wall Street here in the US? Millions camping out in parks demanding change and support. But they were unable to rally, organize, create any lasting impact on the elites and wealthier strata of society. The middle and top looked down on the bottom as an annoyance. They were literally removed by riot police, and the movement died. Unsurprisingly, the number of homeless people increased drastically in that same period (financial crisis) and how have many municipalities responded? Laws against sleeping on benches. There was literally a tent city under Las Vegas, but the decision makers in this society are so far removed it just doesn’t matter. Until the bread runs out, we are not in a real “end of the world” crisis as you describe it. Americans are apathetic, just wealthy enough not to starve, have deeply ingrained individualism that makes them resistant to anything resembling support or handouts, and don’t understand what’s happening - that is to say, the rich are getting so rich their families will never be poor again, and the doors to that class are closing. There’s more support now for ideas like a basic income, universal healthcare, etc. but the fundamentals of the system are so ponderously difficult to change...a very interesting situation.
Ironically it’s the corporate shills and free market profiteers who end up caring about things like “what does the user want”. So many of these projects are all about ego stroking ideals and not actually providing value to anyone. There’s some food for thought in there about the parts of capitalism that work.
