@olsenbdnr @grok as it initially was, and always should have remained, i think
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@uditbatra1990
running https://t.co/ISMqgICU5n as a weekend project
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@AlSultan_Meriam I think I learnt a bit about copyright law because of your posts today. Thanks.
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No, to clarify
YouTube is video centric, so they would use videos, for how long and what type of usage is allowed needs to be clarified by a legal team at YouTube.
Since this platform is text mostly, and most content creators here don’t produce a single video, it may be permissible to use clips for the sake of commentary and additional value that may be in writing text rather than within a video, what length and what type of usage should be allowed needs to be laid out by 𝕏 legal team in order for lay people to be able to follow
Nikita doesn’t seem to under the basic of copyrights to the point he’s sharing internal info
Most platforms turn a blind eye on most content theft, because it still generates them views, but they wouldn’t allow monetization, and if they accidentally did, they do need take action when the copyright holder files a claim
Nikita is sharing that it is allowed, which isn’t, it is illegal, therefore it is not allowed.
The person he defended and wanted the other one to keep their watermark did steal the video too, but also add their watermark! That’s 2 crimes, so why is Nikita demanding the rest of the thieves to give that one credit for it? Because he stole it first?
They shouldn’t even monetize them, since there’s not a single value they add to the content they share (opinions, commentary, disagreements, commentary… ) so you don’t read a single word that is their own ideas added to the video, and they absolutely need a legal team to define to users what constitutes a fair use this platform, because most people don’t know, and not because the platform head of product gets to make up his own rules.
When you hire a lawyer he clarifies the laws that are relevant to your case, he doesn’t make up his own laws.
Wuon Tana@wuontana
@AlSultan_Meriam You're contradicting yourself. You say platforms can define their own parameters then proceed to lambast Nikita for doing just that. YouTube has some weird rules too.
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@denisyurchak @levelsio some of the university towns are amazing too! delft in particular. really nice cafes (both coffee and beer). also haarlem is basically a lower priced, more relaxed version of amsterdam. which is just 15-20 min away by the NS trains.
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@levelsio Thank you for the tips! We are going to a concert in Amsterdam, but will try to minimise the time there and travel around the Netherlands instead
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Planning an Amsterdam trip with gf
Airbnbs are mostly banned so you get subpar and expensive hotels (min 200€ per night for 2 stars, and under 20 variants left for the whole city at this price)
The Netherlands has an extremely high airport tax, so no low-costers as well
Flight prices from other cities in Europe start at 300€
So a weekend trip now costs 500€ min
Thanks to leftist policies, you need to be a millionaire in Europe to afford life here
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At one point I used to run a team at Booking which fielded complaints like this.
It's a landmine no matter which direction you take:
1) properties will upload AI modified images to "prove" damages occurred OR claim $4,000 for a cracked lampshade;
2) guests will claim "it was there beforehand" after they have a party and spill wine all over the sofa
3) you can't really "side" with anyone because you're not a judiciary.
4) your own margins only go so far when both sides have the ability to casually make false claims.
Every OTA that allows non-professional platforms (i.e. not hotels or not professional short term rental players) to make their places available eventually runs into this.
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Same, I really don't like @Airbnb after booking my last one in Brazil
I used the shower for 3 minutes and it was already flooding, so I told the host, who started blaming me for it
Then contacted Airbnb Support, who called us etc.
Then in the end the host gave me a bad review with fake made up shit, and Airbnb wouldn't let us post a review about the host!
Just speechless really
Matthieu Richard@SpaceMatthieu
@levelsio Airbnb has a different technique. They do not send you a review form if you had a bad experience. Had rat infestation in a 4.9/5 property we rented. Could not leave a review despite insisting for 2 weeks. Then they claim the time had expired.
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@KettlebellDan isn't that a slightly low bar though?
it will filter out the folks who are parasiting the credit of work done from those who are almost utterly unaware of what actually got done
but to differentiate good from great i suspect the questions will need to go way deeper
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When I conduct interviews I look for coded phrases like “I worked with the team on…”
That’s often a tell for someone who wasn’t the person doing the work
Even simple follow up questions like “what language did you program in” and “what packages did you use” quickly sort that out
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Evidence of exceptional ability and asking how they solved hard problems down to the brass tacks level is what matters. Those who actually deserve credit know the details of the solution, because it was so hard it got seared into their brain. The phonies and posers who falsely claim credit will flounder at the second or third level of detail.
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That's a somewhat cynical way of looking at it :)
You must be very good at filtering out fluff from genuine skill.
But most people are not so good at it, or at least, I think - not as good as they think they are. I definitely had some very hard wake up calls when I saw how some of my "strong hire" decisions ended up in terms of real outputs/outcomes
Plus some really exceptional people just don't know how to express their awesomeness. And interview prep expectations can be so ridiculously tangential to what usually need. Some folks just find it helpful to find out how they can show off their awesomeness in an arbitrary 45min conversation where someone's assessing you with a hidden rubrik.
PS - i didn't know what homophily was, hahah. But I'm pretty sure you're right on that. And this is likely a reason companies which scale beyond a point set up a degree of standardization, in the hopes of it challenging a default assumption.
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@uditbatra1990 @olsenbdnr @elonmusk @xai Yea cool you made a weekend project out of institutional mediocrity in a country that is obsessed with credentialism.
You just described “clever ways” to test for homophily.
I knew within ~15 minutes of meeting every exceptional person I know.
🤷🏻♂️
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Conducted 2 technical interviews today. Reminded me how serious of a task this is.
You get to decide potentially the next n number of years the person you are interviewing within the span of 30 minutes or so.
I have nothing but hate towards those who conduct interviews without a care asking dumb leetcode hard questions they themselves couldn’t solve if the shoe was on the other foot.
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Yes, i mostly agree with you.
I think (a) becomes more important exactly IF you have a non-small and talent dense team though - because of (b).
Which is why (and I guess @elonmusk does this too), so many companies w/ super strong cultures are those where there founders end up being the veto on hires until an almost unreasonable employee # (I vaguely recall reading @PalantirTech ensured at least one cofounder interviewed every hire until their 500th employee or sth)
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@uditbatra1990 @elonmusk @xai You don’t need (a) when the team is small and talent dense. A players can sniff out other A players without a scorecard.
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The X monetization program is worth it just for the entertainment value of crashouts when spam gets demonetized.
Life’s tough down in the content mines.
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very few companies *actually* end up filtering for exceptional ability, because it's (a) incredibly hard to create a standardized process you can train folks against (b) the smartest folks always have a strong (usually not completely aligned) opinion on what exceptional ability looks like.
however, some companies pull off proxies in very clever ways. eg. netflix' culture manifesto and culture fit. google's "googliness expectation" (the 5-10y ago version). or for technical interviews: stripe's bug squash / integration rounds (which so many others are now copying). or palantir's (in)famous decomp, and more recently: learning interviews. where you basically define a somewhat abstract principle and allow interviewers to interpret it in different ways of a candidate's skillset within the interview.
source: prepfully (interview prep platform ive run as a weekend project for several years)
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+++ and extremely truthful. 2 things I really admired about the @xai hiring process were:
1- Emphasis on what I have accomplished vs what school/job I was coming from and my prior title.
2- @elonmusk had personally had the time to screen each candidate for exceptional ability. I still don’t know how this is possible with such a busy and impactful schedule.
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it's definitely one of the best categories to build for though :) (a) because if you figure out something people are paying for, you've got a moat in the solution alone (usually), because you've figured out an insight likely few others have. (b) because with how product is being commoditized, distribution/marketing/sales seem to really be the only moats that will be left. (mostly in software. hardware/biotech etc have very different moats of course)
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Marketing is the hardest category to build a product for. There are too many layers.
I think a lot about my daily workflows. Almost everything I do now is touched by AI in some way. Writing emails, doing research, creating posts, writing use cases, newsletters, sequences, campaigns, analyzing data. AI is closely working with me through all of it.
The only way to build a real tool for marketers is to create a layer that sits on top of everything a marketing person does.
I don’t fully know how to describe that layer yet, but I imagine it as a super tool that has a bird’s-eye view of all my work.
I don’t want integrations. I want a bird that knows everything I do and is always there. I can talk to it or write to it without explaining what I’m doing or what I need. It just knows.
Marketing has too many moving parts. Creating, editing, researching, analyzing, distributing and it’s all connected.
If someone is building this bird, reach out to me. I would love to test it.
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@sierracatalina oh wow. that's unfortunate. it's probably the format I end up reading the most on twitter.
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sooooo
𝕏 isn’t indexing your long form content.
at all.
your articles are not indexed anywhere.
therefore they are not discoverable to ANY AI or web search anymore INCLUDING GROK.
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[quoting since can't reply to @levelsio]
This is mostly true, but for folks in tech.
Salaries in investment banking and consulting are still very high, esp. once you hit director/partner equivalents (comparable to Staff+ roles in tech). So these are still attractive roles where ppl still aggressively compete for positions.
Source: Prepfully (running it as a weekend project for several years)
@levelsio@levelsio
In a way I think the top tech companies have just vacuumed up all the top talent worldwide for such great salaries + equity (for $500K to millions $ per year) And the top tech companies also have built such a great talent acquisition funnel that everyone else in the world who isn't working for top tech is either 1) already rich and retired, 2) a founder already or 3) just not good enough
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Somewhat tangential, but Google has a very unique interview format for SREs, called NALSD - non abstract large system design. sre.google/workbook/non-a…
I don't think the exact format is tested by any other company (although at the same time I'm guessing any production-engineering-focused system design interview will overlap in content, esp when it comes to companies like meta, cloudflare, aws etc)
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We like to say there is "no silver bullet" in software engineering: a technology or management technique that by itself promises an order of magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."
So tell, me what was SRE for Google Search from 2003, if not this?
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[quoting since can't reply to @levelsio]
there's a middle ground that worked well for me.
1) add an extra "billing email" on whichever service allows it (eg. aws, cloudflare)
2) set up auto forwards to this billing email based on subject + sender for whichever service doesn't allow it
you have to remember to do it *once* per service, and you end up w/ an email inbox full of just invoices
@levelsio@levelsio
Yes but then you'd have to give your logins to ALL your secure services to them, which is a big security risk Imagine giving a company your server dashboard login just to get a PDF invoice which they can also use to delete your server!
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[quoting since can't reply]
@levelsio i think it's mostly because taxes are the current-day version of kings taking their cut. we all basically live in a monarchy with a veneer of choices that make us think we have control. but whenever the basics get involved (eg. the right to keep money we earn), we do not actually have those rights, taxes are basically the equivalent of tribute since there's no opt-out unless you move (and in some places not even that)
@levelsio@levelsio
I'm a big fan of taxes IF they worked Like I'd be fine paying even 50% personal income tax but then I'd want: - high quality roads with walkable sidewalks - police, fire brigade, ambulance that shows up fast - police that enforces laws, arrests criminals and a justice system that actually punishes them and keeps society safe - police that's at your house fast to protect you when you get a burglar or criminal - healthcare system where I can get helped fast, no waiting lists with preventative care (free blood work every 6mo) - fast fully digital government system - fast gov in general, like fast building permit approvals etc But in most countries you get absolutely none of this now so why would people wanna pay tax then? It's like paying for a service but you get nothing back or the service doesn't work and you're forced to pay it and you can't do a chargeback either!
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No though - @stripe rolled out Smart Disputes months ago, well before @levelsio did. However, the @levelsio version is way more sophisticated, it gathers a lot of evidence across different pieces of internal tooling.
Stripe's version is regretfully just not that good atm. And I particularly dislike how they (a) charge you a % if you win the dispute (b) charge you if you *don't* use Smart disputes.
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Is @stripe copying and pasting @levelsio tweets into Claude now?
I read Pieter's post about the AI dispute system he built, started building the same for my projects, and hadn't even finished when Stripe said it's releasing it for all its customers!
That's the speed of shipping I like to see
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@lilyraynyc oh dear god this is almost hilarious, if this turns out to be permanent there is going to be mass panic amongst every single company-blog-post-listicle-owner (which i have to admit will be vaguely entertaining to watch)
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I believe Google recently changed how it answers some "best" queries in AI Overviews.
Previously, using a listicle that ranked your own company as #1 was often sufficient to get recommended in the answer.
Now, it looks like Google may be using those listicles to learn about the competition, and potentially to cite the listicle in the citations, but the company writing the self-serving listicle now often appears to be excluded from the recommendation.
AKA, the listicle rewarding competitors, but not the brand itself (outside of citations).
I included some examples below. Let me know if others are seeing the same:
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The worst thing is, I've seen good writers sometimes use phrases which AI has subsumed to such an extent that they're having to bend over backwards to now avoid. Emdashes are destroyed, for instance, even using them legitimately gets auto-interpreted as AI.
Ethan Mollick@emollick
"Load bearing," "I keep coming back to," "Not X, but Y" A curse of using AI a lot is that you realize how much of the writing around you is just AI, now People who don't use AI have been unable to identify AI prose on sight, but those who use it a lot can spot the tells easily
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I told @jrfarr I make money off Stripe's 0.4% invoicing fee
I told @jeff_weinstein one of my 24 Stripe accounts has a -$2K balance
Yet they flew me to San Francisco and offered me a non-alcoholic Guinness.
@stripe is one of the rare big companies that doesn’t enshitify and actually cares about its customers.
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