Thank God for social media that the user was able to get attention about this on Reddit which he was then advised there to post this on HN. It must have been stressful to see a six-figure bill and then get told that that, no worries, you’d ‘only’ be charged $5k instead for a static site. It’s just ridiculous to me to be sent a 6-figure bill in the first place.
I hope this is not one of the cases that get simply forgotten and in a week or two their beginner unfriendly platform gets recommended again without a second thought.
With models like this and AWS people will get afraid of success
I mean, social media is pretty much an inevitability once mobile phones/internet became mainstream. Just like the invention of the gun and gunpowder, I think we are still debating if it was good for society right to this day.
I saw an entry for one of the positions there on LinkedIn. The application page wasn’t too bad at first glance since it doesn’t involve registration like Workday or Taleo. But as I began to scroll down, I saw those high school questions and that was enough for me to nope tf out of there.
That seems to be true in my case, the first decade of my career was spent in cube farms and cramped offices. I learned a lot and made a few networks, and now I’m at a fortunate point where most jobs are available to me with a phone call if my current job sucks. Especiallly when I’m asked to RTO.
It depends on the commuting time though. I used to live 15 mins away from my office and I feel the same way as you. But now, having to commute an hour each way is detrimental to me so working from home is far better.
For me, if I spend too much time at home, I rapidly lose interest in everything.
I've had 1.5 hour commutes and they sucked. Far less than WFH does for me, or worse, going into the office to then see people doing Zoom calls from their bedrooms. Literally even just seeing that makes me feel down.
Most of the interesting prompts no longer work though (for e.g 'write a short story about aliens as if J. K. Rowling was writing it). Seems like they've nerfed all the good stuff.
There was a tweet from Sam Altman somewhere saying that a lot of the "As a language model trained by OpenAI ..." responses aren't actually blocks but just the model outputting no confidence in finding a solution. Because the output is random, you can retry the same prompt and might get a result.
I wondering if all this is to train it to avoid going out of bounds. People figure out a way around something they want off limits, and they cut that off and wait for us to get creative and find a new way around.
I still remember using that in order to have WiFi on campus. This was in 2000 so it was quite amazing to have wireless internet and home wifi wasn’t that common since dial-up was still common.
You’re right, it said Orinoco in the label. Lucent Technologies was printed there too.
Reliable stats are hard to come by, but Delhi, Johannesburg, JFK all have bad reputations. For a long time Kuala Lumpur had a gang working with the X-ray guys to tag juicy targets, but they were busted a while back.
Problem is, cling wrap won't stop a determined thief, it'll just make the theft evident -- unless they just grab your whole bag instead.
Is there an insurance company that will pay out if the seal is broken? Probably not, since then the customers would break them themselves to claim theft.
