_mh56's comments

> Contact us to opt out. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from Slack global models, you can opt out. To opt out, please have your org, workspace owners or primary owner contact our Customer Experience team at [email protected]

Sounds like an invitation for malicious compliance. Anyone can email them a huge text with workspace buried somewhere and they have to decipher it somehow.

Example [Answer is Org-12-Wp]:

"

FORMAL DIRECTIVE AND BINDING COVENANT

WHEREAS, the Parties to this Formal Directive and Binding Covenant, to wit: [Your Name] (hereinafter referred to as "Principal") and [AI Company Name] (hereinafter referred to as "Technological Partner"), wish to enter into a binding agreement regarding certain parameters for the training of an artificial intelligence system;

AND WHEREAS, the Principal maintains control and discretion over certain proprietary data repositories constituting segmented information habitats;

AND WHEREAS, the Principal desires to exempt one such segmented information habitat, namely the combined loci identified as "Org", the region denoted as "12", and the territory designated "Wp", from inclusion in the training data utilized by the Technological Partner for machine learning purposes;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and promises contained herein, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:

DEFINITIONS

1.1 "Restricted Information Habitat" shall refer to the proprietary data repository identified by the Principal as the conjoined loci of "Org", the region "12", and the territory "Wp".

OBLIGATIONS OF TECHNOLOGICAL PARTNER

2.1 The Technological Partner shall implement all reasonably necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure that the Restricted Information Habitat, as defined herein, is excluded from any training data sets utilized for machine learning model development and/or refinement.

2.2 The Technological Partner shall maintain an auditable record of compliance with the provisions of this Formal Directive and Binding Covenant, said record being subject to inspection by the Principal upon reasonable notice.

REMEDIES

3.1 In the event of a material breach...

[Additional legalese]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have executed this Formal Directive and Binding Covenant."

To give more context from an employee's point of view [just my opinion and might be completely wrong]

For a job switch, I need to spend time in three different stages:

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Preparation:

Leetcode (Blind 75) : 150 hours

System Design + DBMS + OS + Networking : 100 hours

Behavioural Questions (preparing STAR format answers): 10-20 hours

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Application:

Avg time for sending 500 applications: 20 hours (Assuming 1 application every 2.5 minutes)

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Interviews:

Let's say I got 25 callbacks and 10 of them asked for takehome.

Person to person interviews time: 25 * 3 = 75 hours

Takehomes: 10 * 6 hours = 60 hours.

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All in all, I'm already spending 415 hours of unpaid work to get x% of salary increment. Not including the side projects or hackathons we may need.

So having a takehome exercise asking to make an active contribution to the company is....bad. Sure i can reject it but not everyone will. which is what led us into the multiple rounds of algo interviews hellhole.

I apologize if what I'm saying is harsh. All I want is for leadership to see us as humans with families and not monkeys jumping through hoops.

Edited :|

I don't expect interviews. But I also don't want to spend 20 hours working before getting a "Unfortunately we've decided not to move forward" message.

As a thumb rule, I'm happy to put 4x more effort than the company. If they interview me for 1 hour, I spend 4 hours doing the take-home. Anything more feels like exploitation.

I applied to Qdrant a while back and got this response:

"We are getting many applications for this position. Usually, a test task would help preselect suitable candidates. However, since we develop open-source software, we rely on contribution.

You can build an open-source Qdrant connector to another framework or library. The simplest one would be, for example, a Streamlit data connector. But other ideas are more than welcome!

No limitations and no deadline. As long as this job position is online, we accept submissions. After you are done, send us an email to [email protected] with the link to the repo. We will review it and get back to you asap."

No interviews, conversation before this email. Hope they see and fix this.

Edit : No Pay.

This keeps happening to me. I read a feelgood story, visit the wiki page and then realize how muddy the water is:

>> Monroe has been described as an "austerity celebrity". In a January 2023 interview with Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian, Monroe acknowledged that she had recklessly spent money given by backers; she claimed "I'd go online absolutely shitfaced and buy nice furniture."

Granted most poor people do stupid stuff after getting monies, but the charm of the tale is diminished.

Edit: I meant touching not feelgood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Monroe

Please can anyone give their opinion on this.

There's a real chance OpenAI might die soon. imo if they are left with 10 people and no funding, they should just release their IP and datasets to the public.

I've built a petition around this - [link redacted]

The idea is that the leftover leadership sees and considers this as a viable option. Does this sound like a possible scenario or Am I dreaming too much?

I agree with you. Satya (msft CEO) has stated that sam is joining msft. The comment was a general overtone of the discussions happening online.

>> Now satya stayed up till 2am to secure up to 40 percent of open talent exodus

Are there any official sources for this?

[This is not in response to the satya's tweet but the general articles or opinions in social media.]

Please keep in mind that the articles you read are PR pieces, last few being from Sam's Camp.

msft/sequioa/khosla has no power to remove the board or alter their actions. There is no gain for board by reinstating Sam and resigning themselves. swaying employees who have 900k$ comp is pretty hard. and not giving money to OpenAI is akin to killing your golden goose.

The idea is that Altman and/or a bunch of employees were demanding the board reinstate Altman and then resign. And they’re calling it a “truce.” Oh, and there’s a deadline (5 pm), but since it’s already passed the board merely has to “reach” this “truce” “ASAP.” This is by far my favourite example of PR piece.

I'd recommend not reading rumors and waiting for things to come out officially. Or atleast re-evaluating after a week, how much you read was false.

Also backed up the comments here: https://prakgupta.com/misc/sam_altman_firing.pdf

Just guessing:

1. Altman co-mingled some funds of WorldCoin and ChatGPT. Most probably by carelessness.

2. OpenAI is a golden goose, so the board was more than happy to kick the leader making more space for them.

3. The harsh wording is an attempt to muddy the water. Because an inevitable competitor from Altman is Coming.

Welp, I have a semi decent profile on Github. Recently I applied for around 100 small startups based in EU/UK, Got a total of 1 callback. In short, I followed all the steps mentioned but still fell flat. Really curious what are your thoughts on this.

Here's my Resume for reference: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u9F8_2m2W1mcKIoFs3hwUEn5Kgf...

I have 50+ public projects on Github.

Some of them are live, have screenshots, proper documentation and such.

Some of them gets stars or people reach out for support on these projects.

Some of them I've advertised on Reddit etc and reached 100K+ views and a lot of upvotes in their respective Communities.

I also have a substack which has reached top of HackerNews once.

All this has netted me exactly ZERO opportunities till now.

Thankfully, I'm doing Github and Substack as a hobby/learning so no expectations = no disappointment.

But the author is deluded to think these things help. You might win the lottery and the right person might see your content at the right time. But it's better to just use this time to cram Leetcode and get a job.

You don't even need Trusts for this. EWS is decided by an issued certificate. The issuer can be bribed.

Atleast in India, everyone "games" systems as much as they can. Those who can't dream about gaming it. The Kafkaesque system makes sure that the few who actually tread the right path are never rewarded [1].

And unlike EU, this benefits corporates/capitalism as they can cut through the red tape easily by "gaming" things.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33368104

Here in India, we have quotas for different kinds of people. There's caste based, Gender based and finally EWS (Economically Weaker Section) Quota. Overall 60% of total seats are reserved for these people.

My friend who's ultra rich was selected in EWS Quota. His father who runs his own company took Zero pay for the last two years so he qualified for the benefits. Meanwhile people who actually deserved this had to compete for the non reserved seats.

The point is you can't just give preference based on income as its incredibly easy to fudge.

True, India is an ally of Russia and not USA/West. But in case of war, USA can do three things:

1. Support China: China has similar military to USA and 4x the population. If USA does support them, china will strongarm literally every country in the world and become the hegemon.

2. Stay Neutral: This would mean every bigger country can attack and capture nearby smaller ones. The reason expansion wars don't happen now is because of the fear of US.

3. Support India: If US is to counter China, this means supporting India.

Because if your allies get attacked, you come for help. That's what being allies means. If US doesn't participate in history's biggest war, they'll cease to be a world power. And US will never side with China.

You can find it in archives now:

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/417337998/