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New comment by p0rkbelly in "Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:09:02 +0000

There is the problem of literal style though. The aesthetics of say clothes do evolve overtime, not year to year big changes, but every 3-5? Sure. Just laughing at the thought of the model where any image generated is say stuck in 1990s grunge attire.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 02:07:58 +0000

The second paragraph discusses that BDT is an internal team at Amazon Retail. They used AWS and Ray to do this.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

p0rkbelly — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:11:28 +0000

Any insight of when the final action date when F2B -family sponsored Visas may move? Been stagnant for years and I'm one month off...

New comment by p0rkbelly in "NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 22:11:35 +0000

8 figures. easily.

Apple itself pays $1-million for bug bounties of this type.

https://security.apple.com/bounty/categories/

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Laying myself off from Amazon"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:38:39 +0000

It would be nice if things only broke during "business" hours and didn't have real world impact. Nevermind impact millions of people around the world. But if you look at the customers of say code that is running cloud infrastructure it is running airlines reservations/checkins, government workloads, banks, hospitals, critical infrastructure, netflix, gaming services. That's a lot of things that can't typically wait for morning.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Laying myself off from Amazon"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 04:48:19 +0000

yeah...different story now. The target comp numbers ) assume 15% stock growth per year from when it's allocated to you. That model is now broke for the first time in a decade+. How it gets fixed... I'm not sure, but, there is history of cash payments to compensate.

Point being, if you're not making more in year 3 than year 2 -- something is broke and/or your manager wasn't supporting you appropriately, or not hitting high enough on the performance ladder.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Laying myself off from Amazon"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:53:49 +0000

It's all about the RSUs. That all kicks in after year 2. If you're a lower level maybe you don't feel it as much. But for a high performing L6+ RSUs typically are -- or at least were designed to be -- the majority of your income compared to base pay.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Laying myself off from Amazon"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:49:47 +0000

If your code breaks something, you should fix that code. Who else should?

If your system/product/service is down because you have a dependency on something that broke -- well it's up to that team to fix their code.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Laying myself off from Amazon"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:11:16 +0000

If you write code at Amazon you also are responsible for the availability of your service. So, you rotate in as an on-call.

There is no central SRE teams, SysAdmins, etc. There is no throwing it over the fence.

There is nobody better to fix a production issue than the person who wrote the code which broke. Plus, you are more motivated to write better code.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Laying myself off from Amazon"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:07:50 +0000

OLR is employee performance reviews.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:37:29 +0000

PSA: In exposures like this, Contact the cloud provider too. They tend to have the right contacts for customers. And I'm guessing there are actions they can take as well.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:36:18 +0000

You assume they have a security team :)

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year"

p0rkbelly — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:35:32 +0000

They could have been doing this on behalf of a paying customer. They will sell anything with our without having any expertise. "Pay us, bring your data, and we will do the AI for you and help you".

They have case studies on it I suppose: https://www.infosys.com/industries/financial-services/case-s...

New comment by p0rkbelly in "AWS Private 5G"

p0rkbelly — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:35:03 +0000

I think that is the same as AWS Wavelength which launched in 2019.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcin...

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II"

p0rkbelly — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:18:54 +0000

This has nothing to do with MSFT or AMZN. A good CTO is at any company provides an example of what to aspire to become. They are mentors and teachers to the technical community as a whole.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II"

p0rkbelly — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:13:53 +0000

exactly. Everyone has "one job". E.g. Engineers write code -- they also make mistakes and write bad code.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II"

p0rkbelly — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:11:10 +0000

razzing from a lateral co-worker on your team is one thing. That's typically good natured (though I'm sure technically an HR Issue). Publicly called out from a CTO at your biggest rival, is not apples to oranges.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II"

p0rkbelly — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:09:37 +0000

I think there would be less harm if the possibly identifying information about the recruiter was left out. Everyone in Amazon recruiting is going to be made aware of this now, and this individual is being called out. Usually performance coaching is done privately, but, now the entire org will know "NN" is this person and I'm sure it's embarrassing.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II"

p0rkbelly — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:03:23 +0000

all recruiters for the most part.

New comment by p0rkbelly in "Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II"

p0rkbelly — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:02:58 +0000

maybe they had multiple windows open, scrolled too far, saw a previous job history? Or an automated script gone wrong?

Nobody is saying the recruiter did a good job here, when someone messes up code in Azure, you didn't see the CTO go "OMG my intern wrote the worst code! Let me post it on Twitter so everyone laughs".

This is a teachable moment -- not a shaming moment.