Imagine this; ~40% of public websites run wordpress. (based on some AI-gen summary, even if fewer it is still an important percentage).
So you might be spinning up a new instance with 40% probability. It makes sense in mass vulnerability explotation and detection to aim for highest success rate first.
Especially when the IPv4 space is so easy to scan nowadays. And you have services like Shodan that do just that daily.
"US employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA."
4 months basic severance pay + 1 month for 2 years emploument is nice? so total 5 months severance after 2 years of working for them or only 6 months after 4 years
let me guess you are from US if you think this is nice, as European I would say this is fairly standard, nothing to brag about, 3 months should be bare minimum by law
As an American, I’d point out that there are structural reasons the U.S. often outpaces Europe in certain areas of innovation and business, tech and otherwise. Labor regulations in many European countries make it harder to reallocate talent quickly, which can slow down company formation and scaling.
That doesn’t make one model universally better. There are clear tradeoffs on both sides. But it is part of the equation worth considering in response to your point.
ofc a lot of the "innovation" in our tech industry is pointless at best and actively harmful at worst (adtech surveillance, crypto bullshit, prediction markets, outright gambling, etc. etc. etc.), so maybe the euros have the right idea? then again, their model doesn't make the Line go Up as much
Sure, I agree, not sure why you are downvoted for stating the facts, both have benefits, Europe in general is less flexible but employees are more protected with more benefits.
All I wanted to say was I don't find 4 months something particularly "nice" as European, though I am sure there are even some Europeans who would find it nice since they work for crappy companies in countries with less protection, so they are in lose lose situation, no US benefits (salary/taxes), no Europe benefits (severance pay/notice period).
I'm not from the US, but from eastern europe. I have not been in collectives where what you're saying was true. At most I've seen 2-3 months of pay for someone to sign their own resignation.
you should always add salary during notice period if you are not expected to work anymore, it's essentially severance pay as well, though technically it's salary for no work
well, everyone has different experiences, but just to make it clear, I was calculating ordinary salary during notice period into severance pay since in many companies it's essentially severance pay:
1. you get fired with 2 months notice period and they will tell you, you don't need to bother to come anymore = 2 months of severance, you can sit at home, look for job for 2 months with full salary
2. on top of this you will get also extra 2 months severance pay
so in total de facto 4 months of severance pay , but I understand shitty companies will expect you to work even during notice period (especially if they are firing you) and somehow expect you will be delivering same results, smarter companies know the reality when they are firing someone and just tell him not bother coming anymore, this was my case in last 1-2 jobs I've had more than 10 years ago when I was still employee (plus they wanted to give me 1 month severance pay, but I argued about years I worked there and certain operation practices which could be published, so got 2 months, unlike my less assertive colleagues), I'm nowadays contractor/freelance for companies outside Europe so no law protection for me
my wife is always employed as employee and got fired this winter under conditions I mentioned in point 1&2 and got 2+2 months after 1 year of work, two jobs ago she was fired without severance but didnt need to work during notice period
plus I've found funny mention of the 6 months COBRA as some benefit, you are covered by insurance in Europe regardless of your job status whether employed or unemployed you are always covered by universal healthcare
The European model will never be better than the U.S. one for productive workers like in tech. Tech workers in the U.S. have the same benefits as EU ones for three times the salary.
European model can be better for employees, maybe not so much for employers, in US vice versa, everyone has different preferences
sure you can earn more, but there are plenty of benefits coming from Europe, for instance how many days of vacation you have by law in US? what's the point of the more money in US if employer will work you to death with no work/life balance
I found amusing mention of COBRA for 6 months, that's in most of the EU permanent benefit of all citizens not given by employer, your stuff is just paid from the universal healthcare and doesn't matter whether you are employed or unemployed, in US you can end up in situation you don't earn enough to have good health insurance, but you earn enough to not be covered by insurance for low income people, no such thing possible in EU (thought his doesn't really affect IT field)
"If you've worked for us for 24 months and we fire you, we'll pay you for 29 months and give you your next equity and pay for your insurance for 6 months" and "if we fire you we'll pay you an extra ~21% (plus your next equity and another month of insurance too) of whatever you earned" does indeed sound quite nice considering that a vast majority people who are terminated get nothing or next to nothing.
It'd be looking a gift horse in the mouth to whine about "well they get 22+% at XYZ"
If you're making 2x or more what a European developer makes, you're responsible for your own emergency fund. You ignore that at your own risk. I'll take that trade.
> GPT 5.5 is the first model good enough for me to just let rip.
You know this is the exact same thing said during Opus 4.6, right?
That makes it hard to believe because it's the same "last week's model was so much behind you can't even comprehend" meme that's been going on throughout last year.
More info dumped into tickets and projects is great for understanding for both people and LLM. But hopefully not LLM generated.
It's just cope. I'm so close to just never coming back to HN because the quality of thought has just gone through the floor. Anything whatsoever to hedge one's way to fellating a phallusless chatbot
There wasn't any personal mention in my post. A snark remark at the fact that this cycle keeps continuing and every new release is game changer except in the banchmarks where there is mostly a slight couple percent change, generally.
You're missing the point that it's (conceivably, and probably) different people making the comments. Each model release has a few new converts, which is expected if the models are in fact getting better at agentic coding.
You're implying it's a hype train when in fact it's an adoption curve.
> which is expected if the models are in fact getting better at agentic coding
Is it? Or is it also explainable that the models are not getting better but people are still adopting it.
If the models were getting we’d be seeing mobile apps with new features at 10x the rate previously, or websites with 4 times the number of features. But we’re not.
I also don't understand what principle they have behind the GDPR claim. On LinkedIn you have some control on the visibility of your profile, and most infomation can be hidden if you want to (?!)
Buy when others see your profile, feels to me not different from a public addressbook lookup.
Sounds similar to what Mistral has been doing, apparently shifting some focus to integration contract work.
Scary thing that they aim healthcare and financial services, where you would want AI involvement the least. I'm sure the contracts in those services are "big bucks" at the expense of any eventual end-user.
Softbank doubling down yet again to do something with OpenAI, can't ever be not funny.
I think AI can be useful in any kind of context interpretation, but not make a decision.
Could be running in the background on patient data and message the doctor "I see X in the diagnostic, have you ruled out Y, as it fits for reasons a, b, c?"
I like my coding agents the same way, inform me during review on things that I've missed. Instead of having me comb through what it generates on a first pass.
Interesting, I didn't know minutes where free before.
Stopped my recurring subscription at the end of last year when it started spinning up actions for review. Which as a side effect doubled the time (or so) to do a review. Whereas before that I would open a PR, wait at most a minute or two and the review was already done.
So you might be spinning up a new instance with 40% probability. It makes sense in mass vulnerability explotation and detection to aim for highest success rate first.
Especially when the IPv4 space is so easy to scan nowadays. And you have services like Shodan that do just that daily.
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