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Ask HN: Do you see there being a future job role for generating AI prompts?
I wonder sometimes if the tastemakers of the future will be prompt-engineers.

Let's use Netflix as an example: my assumption is right now the majority non-personnel costs for netflix are licensing, production, and network-related costs. In the future, I could see them using the same infrastructure to generate bespoke series and movies for user's prompts. In the ToS it will specify the product of those prompts belongs to Netflix, and the users will trade and show off their prompts with friends on Netflix's social interface. This eliminates a lot of the cost in focus grouping, casting, actors, editors, production, licensing, royalties if any.

In the new AI netflix, new tastemakers emerge, people who are known for having the best prompts, and with 0 cost of licensing or production Netflix has a never ending stream of -exactly- what the users want. Knowledge of what the user wants to see is a big part of what Netflix is concerned about in this current day.

So, with this example in mind, I go between two extremes: 1) this will be a job for talented few, like being an actor now, making prompts will be a niche or a cause-célebre, 2) this will be something everyone does, like taking beautiful photos/videos on your consumer camera.

What do you think, will this be a job some day or will this just be something that everyone 'does' to get a better output from their AI 'helpers'?
The stable distro can run those tools, but how do I keep them up to date? I could mix a stable Debian base with specific tools from unstable, but my experience is that this sometimes results in problems.
Speak for yourself. The recent addition of space-protected rooms eliminated one of the biggest issues preventing my local hackerspace from using it.

(Of course, it did so roughly as we finally qualified for the nonprofit Slack plan, so it was a bit too late to have a real advantage - but it's an option now where it wasn't before.)
It is desktop Windows afaik. Server Windows is not quite publicly available yet (on arm64).
It's not 'touted as an advantage' based on line count alone and the 'feature parity' thing doesn't apply as explained in the comments above.
I don't think any Nio is actually for sale here in The Netherlands. I see that they're about to make the ET5 and the ET5 available for leasing here, though the cheapest price is a monthly €1089. In my opinion, that would put it solidly in the luxury cars; a very nice family EV costs €500 per month (for example, Renault Zoe with a 50 kWh battery).

So it's going to be pretty rare here. I don't think that a swappable battery station will be realized in the lifetime of this car.

When the first affordable (to me, meaning ~ €30k) EVs were introduced here in The Netherlands, I had really high hopes that Chinese brands would introduce offerings with lower prices. That didn't happen.
x86_64 is covered since Windows 11
Not a .NET developer, but even as such, the Bitwarden code was very readable to me https://github.com/bitwarden/server
Let’s add a propane torch in there so we can get an authentic blue color!
lucky optimists get the benefit of being rich.

There's skill involved, I'm not saying otherwise, but lets be honest about what's really going on in the vast majority of cases.
That this has 5 different answers in 30 minutes is the problem I have with the Java/Kotlin ecosystem. There's just so much to figure out before you write a line of code.
Fire loss should be covered by the homeowners/business insurance.
I am not aware of an ATX power supply nor any proposed standard for ATX that will provide more than 12V.
That devkit wasn't intended to be a development but a testing device.

But then they made a big mistake: putting Windows Home on it instead of Pro... so that it didn't have RDP...
Pros:

- Can help negociate salary as a candidate

- Shows which companies really treat their employees well

- Might reduce discrimination (but only in salaries)

- You can brag about it

Cons:

- Salary is one of the only measurable element about a job, so you could be able to easily compare salaries, but not compare ethics, how relevant the job is to you, if the company is committed to protecting the environment, etc., so it might pile up on the unhealthy pursuit of more money that's already terrible for the environment and many other things

- Salaries depend on many things, skill is very hard to measure, so YMMV

- Salaries depend on company budget, not only on candidate skills

- Beyond a certain point, chasing even more money often indirectly leads to depression, and unethical company practices

- People online are extremely judgemental, if you have a high salary, they will bombard you with questions about your lifestyle and if you donate to charity. Even if you do, they'll continue because your choice of charities is not the same as them. Because you made a little commitment to be transparent, you'll feel that you have to answer because not doing so would not be transparent, and eventually they'll delve into personal stuff that's really unconfortable, and your lack of answer will tell them what they wished to know, and that you might have wanted them not to know

There may be all kinds of biases, but in my experience, when salary transparency is available, it's always in tech, and always top 10/20% salaries. The missing data points will paint unrealistic expectations for tech roles, and reinforce imposter syndrome, IMHO.

So it's fine if you do it, but I won't do the same, and I hope nobody pressures me to do it (peer pressure could happen if a significant portion of people did it).
I read it more as they now have kotlin and want to simplify new project decisions to just kotlin.

I find this similar to how rust is being added to the Linux kernel.
A sufficiently smart and malicious AI could wipe out most of our knowledge, now that everything is stored on electronic devices.
I’ve been on both side of the table and I understand the reluctance. It’s a way for employees to retain semblance of control even though it could appear misguided. Truth is, by the time the employee is ready to move on, it’s already too late 90 percent of the time.

The op wants to make sure he or she maximizes probability of succeeding at this company and frankly you don’t do that by announcing to your boss you are suffering burnout a few months into the job unless you have strong internal network and leverage.
Funny, my criticisms of Matrix are that it puts usability (or at least UI/UX) before the technical details.
Minds Turned to Ash: Burnout is more than working too hard (2016)
Explain Paper – A better way to read academic papers
This seems like a nice release. It would be even nicer if they would summarize the major new features with some examples and short summaries instead of linking to PEP's and Github issues. I don't think many people have the time to read all of those to get a gist of the new features and changes.
You snapshot the data in your application's native data format, then you can convert it later to the best match for the consumer.

Taking the Excel example form above: You got to store the cell layout and values. If it's pasted into a different excel sheet you pass that structure over. If it is pasted in a richt text editor it is converted to some richt text table format. If it is pasted to a plain text editor it is made tab separated or something and if pasted into an image editor it is renders into a bmp (well, Excel doesn't do that, but imagine ...) Doing all those conversions beforehand, just due to pressing Ctrl-C, is expensive as most of the time none is needed.
He reminds me of Sean Carroll if Sean didn't care about other people or philosophy or research
Usually applications just delete the clipboard data announcement once it first changes in the application
Here are the 2020 results:

https://emacs-survey.netlify.app/2020/
Rome held on to its land for a while. More like napoleon or Alexander syndrome
Background: I have only worked on small teams, usually in small companies. I have done hiring and firing and had one newly-hired employee dealing with burnout and others with other mental health issues.

I'm assuming the boss/company cannot afford to keep you on indefinitely if you're not productive. As a manager, how I react to you bringing some version of this to me honestly depends a lot on how promising I thought you were and how well you seem to be doing so far.

If you're doing really well and I had no idea you were feeling burnt out until you told me, I want to find ways to accommodate within whatever my constraints are and help you get on your feet. Likewise if your work quality and productivity varies a lot with some excellent and some disappointing, though it's critical that some be excellent, or at least excellent-given-your-level-and-how-long-you've-been-here.

If you haven't given me much reason to believe you're going to be a great asset to the team eventually, I'm sympathetic but it's going to seem like a bad business decision to pay you while you drag down the perceived 'bar' of productivity.
Do you have short term disability? You can get a doctor’s note that will excuse you from work.

Check this out:

https://youtu.be/4oiRLeaxaoI

#notlegaladvice
I envisioned a lycra bodysuit with springs taped all over it, so the kid would bounce up in the event of falling over.
This interview was the final straw for me where I came to the conclusion that calls for Kanye to be de-platformed, at least temporarily are reasonable and necessary. If not for the victims of his comments but for himself. I don't want to go all armchair psychologist on this but I think spiralling is an apt word here.

FYI: I didn't make it through even 50% of the podcast because of the sheer incoherence on Kanye's part.
My advice would be to sit out the other two months and then take sick leave. Look for help already though whilst you're going through these last two months of probation.

I would advice not discussing this with the company until your probationary period is over. As they can let you go for any reason. Once you are through you have a firm ground to take time off and recover.

I'm not sure if you're in EU or not. But at least in Germany if you are let go during probation whilst on sick leave, your health insurer will pay out 70% of your salary until you are better. After that the unemployment office will take over. Id advice talking to a local employment lawyer to know your rights but know there is usually a safety net for these scenarios. Perhaps it makes you feel more secure in calling in sick even if you are still in the probation period.

If you happen to be in Germany and need someone to talk to to figure things out regarding your rights feel free to DM me on Twitter.
> it's pretty easy to tell some generative software to "Female giving a presentation in a well lit office with windows open" and get something pretty decent.

Is it? I tried that exact prompt with dall-e and got 4 images with nightmare fuel faces: https://imgur.com/a/yyt5Tax
I read it last year and I felt like I was actually on a whaling voyage. You have periods of boredom, people telling stories, other people spouting off about their philosophical ideas (God loves whalers!), and then sudden bouts of intense action.
> There's an obscure option to GNU dd to get it to display a progress meter as well. But why bother memorizing that?

Why bother memorizing when you can man dd?

Proud member of the cult! I've used dd for all kinds of things:

- Extract the magic bits from a file
- Copy the disk MBR
- Make a disk image with a specific block size and confirm it wrote correctly
- Create loopback disk images
- Over-format floppy disks for Linux distros that need every extra byte
- "Securely" delete files (overwrite exact file size with random junk)
- Copy data more efficiently by changing block size

Some of dd's useful functions:

- format fixed-length records from newline-separated input
- transform lowercase to uppercase and vice-versa
- create sparse files
- don't truncate data
- don't stop processing on errors
- skip and seek in files, input and output, separately
Yeah, it's hard to call Trump a nutter when it turns out his attitude about people being out to get him isn't completely unfounded. The entire Russian Hoax is a good example of that.
In the netherlands, you can use iDEAL for a lower price.
As for me the greatest appeal of Kotlin is that it doesn't need its own tooling that bad, it feels like just syntactic sugar over Java.

Both Scala and Kotlin can reuse Java tools, but with Scala it's awkward (and some tricky generics simply don't compile with Scala).

E.g. if I need to parse something, I search for "how to parse that in Java", not "... in Kotlin".
If those languages achieve their memory safety at runtime, like C# does with GC, then that becomes relevant to the point of the compile time performance. The C# compiler has to do less as that complexity has been pushed elsewhere with different tradeoffs.
JavaScript has multiple companies with valuations measured in billions of USD competing. Optimizing JavaScript is just as hard but they can throw massive development teams at the problem. Python isn’t without resources but the level of scale is dramatically different.
GPU pricing is kind of all over the place at the moment, but, assuming you are on a budget, I would look for either a RTX 2070 (super if you can) or GTX 1080 Ti as great 'starter' cards for ML. Both should be available second hand for a fairly reasonable price. If you want a 'new' card, I would go for the 3070 or 3060. The 3060 is interesting since while it has few and slower cores than the 3070, it has more VRAM which is important for certain workload.

As for the rest of the components, don't sweat it too much. As to which is actually more important, it depends a lot on exactly what you are doing. 32 GB of RAM, basically any 'mid range' CPU from the past few years and an SSD an you're good to go.

One thing worth considering however is getting a latest gen CPU/motherboard so that you can upgrade the CPU in the future. For example, while you will probably find great deals on AMD AM4 CPUs and Motherboards today, you won't be able to upgrade to the latest AMD CPU in a couple of years since AM4 is end of life. Getting an AM5 CPU/motherboard will cost more up front but you will have the option to upgrade the CPU down the line.

Also as a final point, ask yourself do you really need an ML machine? If you're just 'playing around' consider sites like Colab and others that offer free or cheap GPUs for training ML models. I know lots of people who have done real ML research and publish actual ML papers using only the free tier Colab, so you can get quite far on it.
The way to define options is interesting.
It's hard to see the benefits from the docs in the README tho, given that it's yet another syntax to learn.

I suggest to add a complete example of common use cases like running the unit tests, building targets while setting the correct options depending on the host (linux vs windows vs macos).
> No one is doing this.

Except me, in my first comment, which started this conversation in the first place. Stop trying to convince me of what I'm arguing about, it only makes you look even more like you have no clue about the topic.
The availability of lodash made us dump any ideas our shop had about widespread coffeescript use.
How else would you regulate negative externalities? The goal is to build the externality into the price, which then gives incentive to move to less harmful packaging, etc. Spending any revenue on something useful is a secondary goal here.

The war on drugs is a completely different situation.
Nobody mentioned this yet: Vert.x

It has great Kotlin support, including Coroutines. I've introduced it into our team for a major rewrite and we are very happy about 18 months in.
It is valuable to point out connections with existing work, if only to avoid reinventing the wheel, and properly stand on the shoulders of gigants: אֵין כָּל חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ‎ (there is nothing new under the sun).
“Local man is taller and braver than other men” - says local man
To be honest, I thought long and hard about bringing up what happened at Alexandria, but I thought against it. I wanted the piece to be more solution focused.

The act of preservation in the now, making copies etc. is kind of like a prophylaxis against an adverse event. We are doing the mundane to prepare for the insane.
There are two kinds of “in-office” jobs:

1. We find the cheapest capable workers all over the world, and put them in an office for administrative monitoring, while they work on our ideas in fully-distributed teams through email and remote meetings.

2. We pay to get people together in one place so that we can figure out the best ideas together, without meeting schedules or email. We hope to develop friendships and an environment that they won’t want to leave.

In my first several workplaces, there was maybe one scheduled meeting a month, and email was mostly for long-form discussions. Hierarchies were flat, disagreement was common, and leadership emerged by people choosing which ideas they wanted to contribute to. We joked a lot and told stories. Nothing left the time and place of work. This seemed to be the norm, and it gradually changed everywhere at the same time. “Tech” is a monoculture. Everybody says they’re different, but they all use the same tools for their interactions: outlook, teams, slack, zoom, jira, github, agile, weekly update meetings. Nobody wants this, but they definitely don’t want to go into the office for it, nor do they have time to commute when their entire life is already consumed by all this ‘collaboration’, and every day ends with not enough done to show results at the next morning meeting, so they’ll be working at home anyway. Even if a company did have a real in-person culture, it would immediately revert as soon a they hired someone for their success at another company, which turns out to be mostly a function of working the system as a middle manager with an engineering title. New grads are even worse; it’s all they know. School is now mostly remote, even when you live on campus. This all seems like the long arc of the computing revolution, and everything seems to be pointing in the same direction, e.g. metaverse etc.

My guess is that you’re looking for a certain kind of work, not just a desk to sit and do the same as you’ve been doing remotely. I too would like to learn about places that are truly intentionally present physically, or even experimenting with radically different remote methods. My hypothesis is that everybody eventually reverts to the monoculture because fighting it becomes more effort than any benefit gained. So, I’m not sure I will believe it, but I’d still like to hear it.
I've looked everywhere for this but can't find it. I'm on Brave Desktop v1.44.112
Linux gives new life to old PCs and laptops. I've had great success with Lubuntu and Pop OS.
For those who just don't get PAM, I can recommend PAM Mastery by Michael W Lucas https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#pam. It is readable and has a very specific sysadmin kind of humor I like. It certainly helped me to understand at least something. (His other books are also quite helpful, SSH Mastery, ZFS Mastery and others to name a few.)
Trying this out, this is one of the most impressive demos of AI i've played with yet. I uploaded a medical paper, highlighted a section I didn't understand, and was able to ask questions until it made sense to me. I'm not an expert... so I can't verify if the answers are correct (i'm not enough of an expert to tell if pie=3 is good enough). But it SOUNDED correct, and that was impressive to me.
The London investor community is/was basically non-existant unless you already have significant traction. Idea-level funding doesn't happen, ever. There are much better opportunities elsewhere.
Your user doesn't have permissions to write to any directory that isn't yours. It doesn't mean configs have to be in your "documents" directory, but they do have to be in with your files!
Ask HN: Best WordPress Host in 2022?
Hi HN,

Just building a company website on Wordpress to hit the ground running on a business for my sister who is an influencer and wants a media magazine site, and was considering what wordpress host do you use in 2022?

Which is the one you recommend and why?

Thanks
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My issue with that is since people have to choose how to spend their time, they may opt to do the easy work first, for very little value, then never get to the hard work, because busy/overloaded.

The article oversells the value of this easy work and may lead some astray, lulling them into a false sense of security.
When CoffeeScript came out, I vowed never to write plain Javascript again. I kept to that vow for a couple years, but eventually broke it when ECMA 6 came out. Really the only thing that put real technical justification behind CoffeeScript was the double arrow function, and maybe the neat class syntax. Beyond that CoffeeScript is just prettier. Even though I was in charge of choosing the technologies, you got to skate where the puck is going, and the puck was clearly not staying with CoffeeScript.

ECMA 6 copied all the good parts out of both CoffeeScript and jQuery, effectively obsoleting both. Modern JavaScript is almost unrecognisably different from what it used to be, and that's a very good thing.
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Yes, but as far as I understand, the fight against fingerprinting is
lost anyway.

Having WebRTC enabled can be dangerous for other reasons. You could be
seeding a torrent unknowingly just by visiting a website. This can turn
into a freaking disaster if you live in country like Germany.

It's a shame that browsers don't ask you for WebRTC like they do with
webcams.
> literally

The DNS names WebRTC generates for this purpose are random, and known only to the signaling participants.
I'm 100% sure there's a Dilbert strip with exactly this scenario.
Can you tell us more about other aspects of your life that is causing difficulty?
Also does the new job offer 9 to 5 schedule?
> That said, you also seem to have had bad luck with hotels.

That was not the message I tried to convey, sorry. I did a lot of business travel at one time, stayed in a lot of hotels and have no aversion to them at all. If I am traveling alone, I almost always stay in hotels. Family travel is usually with AirBnB.

I was simply saying that AirBnb should not be seen as universally evil based on a few stories, however horrible, as there are still use cases where it seems to work well. My 2c.
> iMessage intentionally preserves a backdoor in its crypto so that the FBI can read approximately every iMessage sent/received without a warrant, should they so desire.

Would be great if you provide a source for that.
Eli Zaretskii, one of the emacs lead maintainers, develops mostly on a windows platform, if I'm not mistaken. As such it may be worth a shot to report windows-specific issues to their bug tracker.
Multi-Kernel Drifting
Burnout during probationary period is a red flag. I suggest reevaluating your workplace decision.
Sorry I should have said Microsoft Teams.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221024221753/https://www.econo...
> I get a kind of full body lethargy and aches that last for a couple of days.

n=1 but, surprisingly, this 4th one (bivalent pfizer) wasnt that bad, just a bit sleepy the next morning (no fever either this time)
> We'd have none of those had it been written in Rust.

Except for memory issues in JIT-generated code from Javascript? Not all browser vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety issues in the code generated by the Javascript JIT, but several of them are (particularly "type confusion" vulnerabilities). Rust might help avoid vulnerabilities in the code generator, but not in the generated code.
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