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Their shareholder meeting is later today. Maybe we'll find out.

What are the odds this is actually due to overhiring during the pandemic? From what I know, that was the principle reason for the Amazon layoffs. Would love to be corrected if I'm misremembering.

Except the concensus around the Amazon layoffs is that it's a shift in free cashflow to capex spent towards ram/gpus.

Could be also both...

People keep saying it’s pandemic over hiring, but it should be called ZIRP hiring. With the cost of money almost 4x what it used to be, companies have to deliver now, not just coast on promises of growth and success that may never materialize. Have to sing for that supper.

https://paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html


I miss those days. It may have been economically silly but there was so much optimism, especially in the tech world.

Now we're just economically silly without optimism (except for one pocket of the tech world).

Optimism without the ZIRP bubble is the 1990s

That is called a bubble.

Now some here are about to experience a repeat of the years 2000 and 2008 put together.


Pre-paid optimism that we've been paying for now with high inflation due to overstimulated economy through printed money.

They're really struggling to keep their last 9 of uptime.


Does redundancy even matter if the end result is still poorer uptime?


Exactly! Also operating "at scale" is only impressive if you can do it with comparable speed and uptime, it doesn't mean much if every page takes seconds to load and it falls over multiple times a day lol


Frankly, it's insulting enough when someone sends me copypasta from ChatGPT in the form of an email. It's even more so when it's a whole book.



A genuinely impressive effort, but alas, still missing some pretty critical features (const, floating point, bools, inline, anonymous structs in function args).



My bad! I didn't see that. Thanks!


Anyone know how to get past the paywall?


The New Yorker is available via Libby electronically if your library subscribes. In Santa Clara county I get it this way. So we pay library taxes and get access, not technically free. In plus side, a lot more content and the cartoons, on minus side, have to filter a lot of New York only culture and other articles for your interests.


Archive link in the post body?

(Apologies if that's been edited in after your comment)


Lynx works well.


Pay for the work they did?


Out the window with you!


I believe they do, but the author seems to focus on OpenAI since they're more of a household name.


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