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At a high level it's possible to alarm on data egress, but at the same time it depends on the type and degree of compromise we're discussing and how the attacker exfiltrates the data. If an intruder isn't detected, they could slowly egress the data to borrowed residential IPs, rather than a giant multi TB transfer that might set off more obvious alarms. For a large enough organization with substantial outbound traffic to start, it can become incredibly hard to distinguish from legitimate activity.

Usually, at large enough corporations, it's one of two things. Some random project gets open sourced, and it ends up on Github(see, for example, Salesforce) - or, more commonly, some subsidiary or acquisition had github and has either refused to migrate to the internal source system or the hassle of migration isn't worth it.

Radar improvements have also propagated to consumer fields. You can buy a mmWave presence sensor for smart home purposes for ~$40 on Amazon, and the raw sensors for $2-4 in bulk from Aliexpress. I remember seeing tech demos of mmWave in college used for imaging humans through tent fabric and dust storms, and now they're cheap enough you could put one in every room of your house.

Someone can likely give you a more technical explanation - but to give an anecdotal example, my parents have German Shepherds which are grazers. They put a few cups of food in their bowl in the morning, and the dogs will eat throughout the day as they're hungry. They like treats, sure, but I wouldn't call them food motivated. My dogs are lab mixes, and if food is out they'll sniff it out and immediately scarf it down. When one was younger, if we left food on the counter or table while he was home alone, he would jump onto the counter and eat it. I would call my dog very food motivated.

Supposedly IQ test have a slight positive correlation with workplace performance. I could see leetcode skills(or, put more broadly, algorithms knowledge) having a slight positive correlation with job performance, but as everyone knows it doesn't guarantee someone is a good or productive developer.

The flaw with the metaphor is that you can study for leetcode, whereas supposedly(can't find a good source on this) you can't really study for an IQ test. I had a weak comp sci background when I started doing leetcode interviews and would struggle with questions. I spent several months studying CLRS, cracking the coding interview, etc., and now I would say I am fine at most problems up to medium complexity.

Plus customer facing employees aren't just the people in the branches, there's a massive volume of phone/email/etc support any large credit card issuer receives on a daily basis.

After 5 years of this law being in effect, will the numbers balance back out to pre section 174? That is, does that deduction from year Y carry over into year Y+1, Y+2, etc.?

I mean, this probably still matters a lot for startups given their shorter lifetimes, but it seems any large company(I'm thinking of, e.g. Apple, who has plenty of cash on hand) that's been around for a while could just wait it out? I am not familiar with corporate tax law and how deals are structured, but could you also defer revenue in the same way to offset(e.g. customers with a 5 year contract paying progressively more but keeping the same total $ amount to sync with your deductions)?

It'd be neat if the software was opensource and you could point this device at your own LLM, then at least you'd have some assurance it won't be e-waste if the company shuts down.

But I don't see a world where you can feasibly support the required infra of providing LLMs for your users with only hardware sales as a revenue stream. Their website specifically calls out that there is no subscription fee, so either they'll introduce one later or something else will need to be the other source of revenue.

Honestly in my experience every company I've worked at has had some kind of explicit cybersecurity policy or training telling us not to use USB drives, so from a CYA perspective I think I'd be very hesitant to plug one in to a work laptop at all. But I have only worked at massive corporations, so my experience is limited

Yeah, you'd think if he had a legitimate need for USB storage then work would issue it to him right? And then in that case, if he was using a work USB storage device with his personal computer for personal data storage, then that's an issue in its own right, regardless of what the data is, but it seems it would be more straightforward to just say that.

Philadelphia metro area has very weak wages compared to most other east coast cities for tech. We don't have much of a FAANG or tech company presence here to bid up market salaries(outside of a couple of satellite offices in the suburbs). I can tell you from my network that with ~6-7+ YoE you can earn about ~180-210k counting base & bonus at most of the banks or financial firms as a new hire at the VP or tech lead level.