The article nitpicks on some of the most pressing issues that were so many times discussed. But I find this bit to be absolutely hilarious:
> In 2018, the city created a pooper scooper team, each member of which received annual compensation of about $211,000 that year. Given the inflation that has occurred since that time, scooper compensation may be close to $250,000 per year today.
> As members of the city's "Poop Patrol," workers are entitled to $71,760 a year, plus an additional $112,918 in benefits, such as healthcare and retirement savings, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
> In August, the city announced that five staffers from the San Francisco Department of Public Works would soon roam the Tenderloin neighborhood — where nearly half of the city's homeless population is — in search of waste. The staffers will begin their efforts each afternoon equipped with a steam cleaner for sanitizing the streets
I'm willing to be that some digging would probably find this to be a gross misrepresentation (remember the McDonalds coffee? Where a cup of coffee was served too hot, in order to reduce costs, and that caused three degree burns to an old women? And that was spun as "the legal system is broken"?)
There is a concentrated effort to make CA, and especially SF, fail, as an excuse to regress. And when SF (and NYC, where there's also a similar effort) regress, the rest will follow. Just see what happened with the DA recall: since then, crime has risen, spend on policing has risen, and we jail more people unnecessarily.
Edit: ha! While I posted that, someone indeed found that number isn't the real comp. The number is $71k.
transplants voting on half baked empathic ideas they'll never be around to experience the consequence of? that's not a concerted effort to make a city fail
Most engineers at FAANGs cost significantly more than 200K in net employer costs, which is what that number actually represents. As noted elsewhere in the thread, the actual take-home for these municipal workers is $71K, pre-tax.
Are these real jobs? Where are they operating and has anyone verified their effectiveness? In the last decade, I haven’t seen the poop problem get any better in the Mission, SoMA, and the Tenderloin…
> Are these real jobs? Where are they operating and has anyone verified their effectiveness? In the last decade, I haven’t seen the poop problem get any better in the Mission, SoMA, and the Tenderloin…
It's interesting to note which jobs get this treatment ("is X doing its job? The problem X supposedly solves isn't getting any better) and which jobs get the opposite treatment ("X is clearly necessary, because without them the problem X solves would be even worse).
I've not been actively looking for a new role, but the number of inquiries in my LinkedIn inbox has dropped from 6–10 per month to 1–2. I think there is an overall slowdown in hiring, especially in FAANG, and given how many open positions they were hiring for, it's a significant drop that can be felt, especially in the Bay Area. I believe that with the recent news coming from Twitter and Facebook (cutting middle managers), there will be significantly fewer open positions in middle management roles.
> believe that with the recent news coming from Twitter and Facebook (cutting middle managers), there will be significantly fewer open positions in middle management roles.
This still hasn't materlized at META though. There have been no middle managment layoffs at meta. Reamins to be seen if mark was just bluffing.
Realtor once told me: "This is a really nice starting home" for a property that costed $1.2M around mid-2019 in Santa Clara area. Like who the heck can afford $1.2M starting house without a well paid tech job?
I make six figures in tech in Silicon Valley, yet the closest places I can afford to purchase a home that isn't in a dangerous neighborhood are in far-flung exurban towns in the Central Valley such as Lathrop, Patterson, and Los Banos (my price range is in the lower $500,000s). Thus I continue to rent my one-bedroom apartment in Santa Cruz County. I'd love to buy in the Monterey Bay Area, but it's too expensive and the situation is exacerbated by the area's very low inventory. Silicon Valley is out the question. It's a difficult situation; I'd like to own a house so I can have more space and to have a place of my own. However, I have many ties in Silicon Valley that make it hard for me to move, though if I get married and start a family, I will have to move anyway unless I change jobs due to the sheer cost of housing.
I am contemplating moving back to my hometown of Sacramento, which is a three hour train ride to San Jose via the Amtrak Capitol Corridor. Sacramento is close enough to my Silicon Valley office to where I could attend my once-per-week in-person meetings (I work a hybrid role), and it's a very diverse metro area with many cultural amenities. I'm admittedly not crazy about returning to Sacramento, but I find it better than the alternatives.
Crack open any of the free local newspapers. Doesn't really matter which, they are all ~75% real estate ads. You'll be hard pressed to find anything for less than 7 digits.
The answer to that is vested interests and a government almost entirely staffed by fifth generation nepo-babies.
But maybe they’ll pull up the ladder if you ask nicely - it would be quite advantageous for them for your children to not receive your wealth, but for them to instead redistribute it amongst themselves and their friends.
And I say this as someone who fundamentally agrees with your point in essence, but can’t see a practical way that doesn’t involve the collapse of nations.
This is how I incorporated ChatGPT into my day-to-day and I gain insane productivity boost. I don’t just blindly c&p everything it generates and it helps me to deliver better results.
I don't get this. Why do you need GPT-3 enrichment of the provided email addresses when you can get far better information from other, more specialized, services?(e.g. Crunchbase, Clearbit)
What is the value proposition that GPT-3 provides in your solution that is so unique?
The point of this is that as a B2B startup you spend a lot of time Googling information about your sign ups.
The enrichment is not done by GPT-3 per se, we use Google and feed the relevant information from Crunchbase, Linkedin etc.. to GPT3. This allows you to not have to Google things and lets GPT-3 figure out what is the most relevant result within the Google search you'd be running manually.
It's been saving a lot of time for out team - so we just packaged it for others to use :)
For smaller startups Crunchbase and Clearbit api are very expensive - and don't allow for custom searches like "Does this company signing up have a security engineer" or things like that :)
I wonder how many of these have been delivered in Bay Area. I see at least two Rivians every single day. I took a ride with a friend of mine in his Rivian and I was very pleasantly surprised. The car had definitely a wow effect on me.
> food delivery (that's going to go great during a recession)
I'm just curious why you think that food delivery will do great during a recession, could you comment on that? I find Uber Eats to be utterly overpriced. I would assume that people will scale down on eating out during a recession or will look for ways to save on it (picking up by themselves, eating more at home, etc.)
> In 2018, the city created a pooper scooper team, each member of which received annual compensation of about $211,000 that year. Given the inflation that has occurred since that time, scooper compensation may be close to $250,000 per year today.