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ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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192 points beedeebeedee | 5 comments | 21 Oct 24 03:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.632s | source
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[22 Oct 24 01:26 UTC] No.41910287[source]▶
Early in my career, one of the senior engineers in my group had a T-shirt that read:

    Old Age and Treachery Beats Youth and Enthusiasm, Every Time.
Looks like this guy tried the “treachery” part, before he had the “old age” part down.
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1. ugh123 ◴[22 Oct 24 03:27 UTC] No.41910931[source]▶
Does the "old age" part give the ability to better cover tracks?
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2. Dalewyn ◴[22 Oct 24 04:34 UTC] No.41911229[source]▶
For better or worse, when you have more time to learn how the real world works and make the right connections with the right people, you get much more leeway in what you can get away with.

Naturally, older people had more time to do that than younger people. This is why most young people get their shins blasted while older people just get a slap on the wrist, if they're found out.

3. dspillett ◴[22 Oct 24 10:45 UTC] No.41913008[source]▶
It can give you the experience to know how careful you need to be in doing that, if only because you've lived long enough to see many be scuppered because of their failure to do so well enough.
4. datavirtue ◴[22 Oct 24 10:53 UTC] No.41913049[source]▶
You don't leave tracks.
5. DrillShopper ◴[22 Oct 24 14:04 UTC] No.41914408[source]▶
No but it typically gives seniority in the organization which means more credibility which can foreclose anyone looking too carefully.