Contact: summit.medialabs@gmail.com (I don't check this id often)
- From the recruiting side, it has become painfully difficult for us to get connected to top performers. AI submitted CVs are garbage, LinkedIn Recruiter is garbage, online platforms like Indeed and Glassdoor are filled with AI-submitted CVs - it's painful for us.
We've had to resort back to outbound using headhunters we've worked with. It's okay for us since we can afford it, but I doubt many startups pre-Series B can afford the services of headhunters or even inhouse recruiting.
Open to solutions and new ideas tbh.
- Why are all the comments asking for contact info dead?
Ping me on my profile dummy id if you wish. We currently don't have openings in the US, but if there's anything I know in my network, I can push them to take a look.
- > Imagine that in ten thousand years aliens actually invade Earth and try to enslave humanity.
Insert Mr. Bean highway meme
- The UK has a lower (and declining) GDP per capita than most countries in Western Europe.
- > Can we Europeans deal with each others as adults when the big USA stick has disappeared. And can we talk to a partner who seems to have gone mad temporarily but might come back ?
There's always a bigger bully for the EU for it to go back to bickering within itself. USA, Russia, later China, maybe Turkey and the rest of the MENA down the line....
- LinkedIn blocked my account for security reasons and is apparently asking for more information, so I don't care. I simply quit LinkedIn.
And is it just me, or has LinkedIn Recruiter become all the more useless after the LLM age? At least we're not renewing that abomination next year, opting to use more flesh-and-blood headhunters.
- The fact is that Volvo's reputation and prioritization of quality builds and stringent safety measures (I owe my life to a rental Volvo S90) are not shared by its Chinese parent company. When that philosophy trickles top-down, Volvo is affected.
In Apple's case, even as a iOS hater (yet a user), I would still say that Apple prioritizes product quality standards at a very high level. That culture trickles down as imposed requirements from Apple to its suppliers.
- You underestimate Musk too much.
This was years in the making. He basically made a $200 million bet on the USG, one that translated into hundreds of billions. This was all calculated, and the veneer of government inefficiency was good enough to mask his actual objectives.
I can say this confidently because that's what I would have done too, and I'm not half as smart as him (given that I haven't built a Paypal or a SpaceX myself). That's what anyone in such a privileged position would have done. The upside to doing it that way was just that much massive.
- I finally resorted to using Supabase as a Postgres database for Django. In that role, it has worked very nicely.
- So, turn it on? You'll get rid of the constant warnings on Supabase too.
I mean, Supabase strongly emphasizes using RLS in every part of the dashboard. They literally advise you everywhere not to expose the database data anywhere client side.
- Your founding fathers would become feasible perpetual energy sources as they roll in their graves seeing what your country has turned into. Not that you guys are alone - a lot of countries would benefit from such energy sources too.
- Algotrading.
I don't actively write code these days though, as there are better quants working with me, but I do take the time to go through our strats every day and stress test them. Our codebase today is also wildly different from the one I started writing for initially 5 years back, so no point in me staying back and pulling down the rest of the team behind with me. So nowadays I mostly play around with building small toolkits for internal use within the company.
- Put another way, half the country decided that they would be better off being governed by a dimwit who could be outwitted by a dog, whether they voted for him or not.
- > Earlier this month, Cambridge cut ties with Flock Safety. The city said it plans to conduct a thorough evaluation of this type of technology in Cambridge and “looks forward to re-engaging with the City Council and broader community about this technology.”
Plot twist, Flock hired the killer.
> The gray Nissan was a rental from an Alamo Rent-A-Car in downtown Boston, court documents state. It had last been rented by 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente on Dec. 1. Video footage from the Alamo Rent-A-Car showed him wearing clothing matching that of the suspect from the Brown shooting.
EDIT:- Seems like Flock really didn't help find the killer. The suspect's body would have been found eventually anyways, with the clothing matching with the scene at both Brown and MIT.
- Had high expectations for the website, but maybe because it's bugged or likely because you're using a cheap LLM, Kenobi identified my tech company as a yacht-building/sailing/marine company and tailored the content accordingly.
- Well as long as they're just fucking around within their borders, yeah?
Or maybe the US should start with instituting regime change in its allies in the Persian Gulf?
- You jest, but even in the age of modern warfare, countries still actively declare war and formally notify the other country, even if a bit late, with a formal declaration. The notable exceptions being of course the USA and the USSR and Russia, which like to call their wars "police actions" and "special military operations".
- Because everything in the US is inflated thanks to rampant printing of the USD. Healthcare? Inflated. Education? Inflated. Day-to-day stuff? Inflated. Property values? Inflated.
Most of Europe has lower GDP per capita than the poorest states of the US, yet the lifestyle of European citizens in those countries is much better than the lifestyle of the poorest Americans. American growth is built on the backs of piss-poor healthcare, shoddy education and an overinflated perception of the tech sector which holds the rest of the world hostage (but not for long).
- European digital law explicitly allows for a "right to be forgotten". Something which HN vehemently opposes because it breaks the flow of threads or some other BS reason.
As I mentioned elsewhere, companies are hiring. We're in Europe with a US office and we're hiring, in spite of being in a country that's practically in recession mode. But the main issue is connecting the talent to the company. That's what's messing up hiring these days. Inbound is finished and outbound isn't scalable.