by kurtreed on 12/17/23, 6:45 PM with 33 comments
by lolinder on 12/17/23, 7:22 PM
The post includes a tiny bit of original reporting at the end, but that's mostly a perfunctory nod to to journalistic integrity (gotta at least ask the other party for a statement!). The author has nothing useful to contribute to the discussion, so they instead put their effort into studiously recording the like counts on each of the quoted tweets.
by cavisne on 12/17/23, 7:12 PM
Excluding stock options is underselling the compensation at FANG by a lot, as they vest monthly and are immediately liquid.
by Tactical45 on 12/17/23, 7:17 PM
An engineering manager of a faang type company basically makes more money than most of these executives, so seems under compensated if anything for an organization of that size /importance.
by mike_hearn on 12/17/23, 7:15 PM
From looking at the dumps, it does seem feasible to have a custom browser app that's capable of quickly looking up and navigating around articles either mirrored locally or on a self-hosted Linux VM. Combined with RAG and local LLMs it might be especially interesting.
by silverlake on 12/17/23, 7:12 PM
by avg_dev on 12/17/23, 7:15 PM
This is from September of last year but it definitely changed my mind about this stuff.
> In fact, however, the Wikimedia Foundation is richer than ever. Its assets and reserves (including an Endowment with the Tides Foundation now holding well over $100 million) have increased fivefold since 2015, and stood at an estimated $400 million at the end of March 2022.
by karaterobot on 12/17/23, 7:19 PM
I wish they'd quoted some of that conversation, it sounds interesting. Instead, all they quoted were a bunch of people on Twitter who seem not to have much of an idea how compensation for leadership is derived or negotiated. I love that they also carefully note how many likes each take got, as though that were an important measure of journalistic salience.
by blindriver on 12/17/23, 7:11 PM
It's the exact same thing as Reddit, where the moderators that create the look and feel of each subreddit get the "privilege" of moderating for free, while the engineers and execs of Reddit are going to become millionaires off the free work of the mods and commenters.
Even better, not only will they make money from ads, they will take the content from commenters and then monetize that to AI companies like OpenAI and Google. It's the gift that keeps on giving, and everyone is doing creating content on Reddit for free, and aren't seeing a cent of it.
by el-dude-arino on 12/17/23, 7:16 PM
by orev on 12/17/23, 7:14 PM
by avg_dev on 12/17/23, 7:26 PM
by mkl on 12/17/23, 7:11 PM
by palemoonale on 12/17/23, 7:13 PM
For many moons, am using more and more alternative sites for looking things up, even if there are obvious quality issues. WP shouldn't be trusted, you'll find this out when you are competent in certain areas and cross-reference with them.
by pipes on 12/17/23, 7:08 PM