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> ChatGPT is not going to eat all the jobs.

Of course. My comment was about 'less programmers' getting hired. Not the extreme of 'All programmers' getting replaced by ChatGPT as you read incorrectly.

Believing that programmers don't need to adapt and that managers won't need to reduce or do layoffs especially with programmers, is quite frankly a denial and delusion of what is going on with cutting costs in hiring too many of them in the first place.

Denial is the first step to acceptance and as I said before, less programmers will be hired with juniors and some seniors impacted.
Maybe start with a Show HN to get some independent feedback?
> I wonder if there's something useful to do with that range.

Non-directional beacons! In Nth America NDBs are 190–535 kHz, but elsewhere they are 190–1750 kHz, overlapping the AM radio band. Keep decommissioning the more expensive VOR stations in favour of satnav (and release the spectrum), but keep NDB transmitters as a low-tech/low-cost backup.
I feel a bit like Dune 2 may have been one of the last games that everybody played.

Where? I was a pretty active gamer at that time and not only never played it, but I don't even recall people really talking about it. I recall C&C being a much bigger deal for example.
Amen. In 2011 I watched a really good anime, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and it helped me realize I'm transgender, and now that I've transitioned I love my body and myself more.
A bit of an obscure example, but: Capoeira was forbidden in Brazil for a very long time, mostly because of a moral panic(for brevity I'll leave the complexities of this situation out of this comment), then when it was legalised, and the stigma around it began to disappear, it quickly became very popular, both in Brazil and internationally!
Left-handed people.
And what is it that you want to do remotely? Sell nuts and bolts? It’s unlikely someone would read your post and think “oh yeah, you’d be great for our company working remotely”. You didn’t outline a single capability other than selling nuts and bolts.
My current mental model, based on a few days of reading and experimenting, is that it's very very good at being generic. Given how it works, this makes a lot of sense.

It can even do a good job of being generic in a variety of substyles (e.g. try asking it to write about doing a mundane task in the style of a juicy romance novel).

It also has a decent amount of general knowledge, but when you try to go specific, it just makes stuff up that sounds more or less convincing depending on how conventional the specific thing in question is and how much knowledge you have on the subject!

E.g. I bet it could say a lot of accurate stuff about gas stations in general. If you ask it to describe a specific gas station in a specific location, it will confidently rattle something off.

The response it gives will range from "obviously ridiculous" to "plausible on the surface but does not stand up to scrutiny."
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A lot of these questions are infuriating.

"Offshoring and outsourcing are necessary evils to improve production."

This one can be took to imply that offshoring is evil regardless of whether you agree that it's necessary or not.

"A language is defined by its users, not by scholars."

This shouldn't even be considered a political question.

EDIT: Don't bother with that quiz, it's clueless.
May I ask how much does an assistant like that cost? If you cannot (don't want to) tell the price in absolute terms, then maybe in relatives one? (e.g., 5% of your monthly net income?)
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A lot of people aren't aware of this but Win10 is in maintenance mode and has been for quite some time. Not only do they not backport new features but they also don't always backport important bug fixes either (except for security obviously).

Win11 is probably an opt-in upgrade due to the UI changes. The idea of Win10 being the last version ever was nice, but if all upgrades happen automatically you can't make any serious UI changes because people hate stuff just suddenly changing on them when they don't expect it. Note that Apple never made any move as bold as removing versions, and they were able to continue making UI changes as a consequence in each version. People moan, the people who don't like it don't upgrade, and eventually have to pick between support or upgrading but they're never forced so the blowback is minimal.

The idea of Win10 being the last version seems to have come from web apps which aren't visibly versioned. But the same problem crops up there, hence why big UI changes on sites like Gmail, Reddit etc have to fork the frontend codebase - sometimes for years.
it's not the parents, it's everyone around us. i can buy gender neutral toys, clothing and encourage the children to explore everything and not just gender conform activities as much as i want.

but when almost every other friend, relative, other kindergarten/school parents teachers push their own ideas of what is appropriate for girls or boys, my influence ends up being rather small.

i can't push my own ideas here. i can only encourage and protect the diverse interests that my kids develop on their own.
Does "heard back from 3" include even acknowledgments that you made contact?
I've seen this linked many times but only just now got around to reading it and... this is really embarrassing for the author. Never mind that the guy who he says will be a trillionaire one day turned out to be a fraud. The writing itself is awful. He starts by breathlessly describing how "risk neutral" SBF is and then not long after describes SBFs need for "extreme risk" when looking for his next venture (which led to FTX). He comes off as obsequious and uninformed. It's bizarre.

He's also somewhat self aggrandizing. Like he knows something others don't. "I don't know how I know, I just do. SBF is a winner." My guy, SBF was allegedly worth 20+ billion already and you're predicting that he'll be a winner? It's like predicting that Brazil, up 4 goals at the half, will win the game.
> The assumption that this is inherently sex related is where the issue starts. This is why the discussion shifted from talking about sexuality to talking about gender nearly 20 years ago.

Well it was the parent comment that was linking this to sexuality - Hetronormativity is inherently about sexuality (i.e. Hetro-Normativity - Hetro -> Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person).
“nobody wants to confront the idea that we can _learn_ to want to be another gender.”

It’s impossible to have the idea that you want to be another “gender” unless you have learned to want it. The ideas of “gender” and that you can switch yours have to come from somewhere; you have to learn them. Just as: you can’t want to be a doctor unless you’ve learned that there is such a thing as a doctor and that it’s something you can be.
There is a bunch of great stories over at Indiehackers, most of which are SaaS.
https://www.indiehackers.com/products?sorting=highest-revenu...
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I think Sony is a bit over reacting and seem a bit stubborn. What stops them from creating the next Call of Duty game? Do the studios that Sony bought make the games available for the XBox?

Also ten years seems a long time. Now I have to admit I wouldn't understand why Microsoft wouldn't make these games available to future Playstation consoles. Better to sell games for both platforms than only one? Isn't it already normal to have exclusive games for a short period of time?
Good luck with your search.

I think I will be soon in the same boat and happy to hear that your time was (at least partially) rewarding.

I have 13 years of non-stop work for big tech and I cannot wait for the day I resign. Hopefully, sometime in the next 3-4 months. :-D

It is better to be unemployed if you can afford it.
Yeah that's wrong. There is also a Dune 2 apk for Android floating around. Had tons of fun with it.

How to win:

- Two refineries minimum

And

- Maximize actions per minute destroy the AI
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I get it that this stuff is confusing and can be hard to make sense of at first, but gender identity and sexuality are completely different things.

Also I'm not accusing anyone of pushing this on their kids, rather, our society does it in massive doses. Watch most children's TV shows or movies and heteronormativity is abundant.

For a pretty clean example of this check out the movie Up by Pixar. The first 10 minutes of the movie are devoted to Carl & Ellie's relationship and the loss of that relationship serves as a major driver for the movie.

Also there's nothing wrong with showing children this kind of content. It helps them make sense of the world. However, there is an issue with representation. When it's all they see then it constrains their minds as to what is possible.
How do I revoke a FIDO / WebAuthN token from every service?
It's always this way. Personality quizzes, voting guides, all of it. I don't know why people can't either phrase them better or take this whole labeling/polarising business less seriously.
I bring this one up every time someone brings up Chesterton's Fence arguments about stuff like this.

Why was left handedness considered taboo and evil? Do we need to figure out a legitimate reason for this before we can remove the fence? Could there possibly be a legitimate reason for something that clearly absurd?
So Shifu does the pre-job for brokers?
This is an issue I'm somewhat concerned about.

Let's first be clear that gender dysphoria is a real thing, and transitioning has been a very real solution for many people, and has helped people from depression, possibly suicidal, to a much happier state, and that's great. It's vital we don't lose that.

At the same time, it's been politicised; there's a lot of conservative pushback claiming this isn't real, leading to resistance against this pushback, where I wonder if some people may sympathise with transgender people to the point that they also identify as transgender despite a lack of gender dysphoria, and that might create a fad that might cause more people to transition and later regret it.

Gender dysphoria is a serious medical issue, and should not be a fad or a cultural or political issue. Transitioning is effective treatment, and not some fun thing to do like getting a tattoo, nor should it be considered an assault on anyone's cultural, religious or political beliefs.

And if it really is happening more to girls than boys, maybe consider if cultural sexism might cause some women to not want to identify as such anymore. Especially in the face of issues like rape, bodily autonomy, but also acceptable jobs and behaviours. Maybe we should be more tolerant of cross-dressing.
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It's not commonly discussed, but suicide seems to be a "sociogenic illness" in that reporting on suicides as such can cause more suicides. You may have noticed this in the reporting on celebrity deaths; a young person who "dies suddenly" may be suicide, but news reports will tend to avoid saying that out of concern for the sociogenic effects.
> Appeals to “the potential for innovation” are always amorphous and hand-wavy rhetorical gestures towards the potential for some tech that could exist but which we don’t fully understand the implications of. However bitcoin is a technology which did not arise out of an engineering effort directed towards a specific problem or market inefficiency, but instead out of a anarchist political narrative that views democratic control of the money supply and law enforcement as the problem.

(from https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/non-innovation.html)
This idea is like telling the absolutist kings to try a bit of democracy for a while; it's contrary to all the social policies in the last 20 years and contrary to the central tenets of equity. It won't happen for the same reason orchestra auditions aren't blind anymore.
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It would be so cool to release AM back to the public. Maybe a longer range, low bandwidth Wi-Fi like protocol.
No one wants to have kids anymore
Make attacking not worth the effort
Indeed. It seems pretty obvious to anyone that has ever witnessed a high school hall that teenagers mimic far more than just clothes. Fashion goes way beyond that.
Fine for me in firefox, at least gives me a white page with menu items.
I also wanted to chime in as this list might be helpful: https://shepherd.com/best-books/power-and-wonder-mathematics

Amir Alexander loves math and shared five books about the power and wonder of math. They can be fun as they both teach it and inspire through it.

Lara Alcock shared the best books for studying undergraduate mathematics: https://shepherd.com/best-books/studying-undergraduate-mathe...
*She wrote a book on mathematics as a major and has amazing exp.
It's not sinister in the slightest, but people should understand the larger picture.

Where do those preferences come from? I've seen first hand the impact that media, advertising, and social pressures at school have had on my children's preferences.
> “But when it comes to impromptu talks, giving opinions or asking just questions… I generally fumble. […] i feel i am being judged, or I make wrong statement.”

Take this how you will, but maybe your impromptu answers are ‘wrong’ in some sense.

When I was younger I was very free with my opinions. As I’ve become older I’ve met more people and suffering off-the-cuff responses from others has opened my mind to my own B.S.

In part I’ve improved my speech, writing and thinking following my growing interests in philosophy and linguistics.

If nothing else, I’ve learned the phrase “word salad”.
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Many unions soon get corrupted and get in bed with the government (or atleast one side of it).

Here in slovenia, many worker unions were against the lowering the taxes on paychecks (higher net with same gross pay), because their political parties were against those, even if the workers themselves would benefit from those.

We also have some areas (eg. a government rail company), where you cannot even get a job, if you don't get approved by one of the two unions, which mostly means that you have to pay off someone in the union to get an approval (for a very cozy job).
I primarily write Elixir these days. At first I was worried that there wouldn't be a lot of Elixir jobs, but the ones I did apply to have mostly gotten back to me and I've been interviewing. I have 5 years of experience with the language, FWIW.
Won’t happen. If we get massive productivity boosts from software AI like this, it will generate a lot of wealth and help society overall.

We have never been more productive and had lower unemployment.
Very confident to assert that this act of imagination is impossible, that nobody in history has ever spontaneously had the idea of trying on another gender's gender-marker clothing and worked from there.
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Michael Levine shared the best books about leading great software teams, this might be right up your alley: https://shepherd.com/best-books/if-you-want-to-lead-great-so...

And, John Sonmez wrote about great books for software developers on the soft skill size - https://shepherd.com/best-books/fun-for-software-developers
Hell no it's not. Gender non-conforming people have been a staple throughout human history, with examples dating back to at least the 2nd century AD [1], and not just in Europe but in South Asia as well [2].

The thing is, many societies didn't care for a long time, and only in the 20th century repression really took off with the rise of ultra-fundamentalist religions. Now we're seeing the backlash against that and people obviously are way more free to be who they are once again - so neither a surprise nor an epidemic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)
I don't think that happens too often. The problem is that there are at least two different and often opposing currents in pro-trans movements.

One is from the "gender is a social construct" post-modernist side, which views the very idea that people are either men or women with some suspicion, and leads to concepts such as gender fluidity, non-binary identities, and the idea that maybe young kids should not be gendered at all unless and until they chose to assume some gender.

The other current is much more conservative, and starts with the simple observation that some people experience extreme gender dysphoria that has only successfully been cured (or at least alleviated) by gender-affirming care (from gender expression to hormone treatments to top/bottom surgery to facial feminization/masculinization surgery and beyond). This current considers it much more clear that humans are generally either men or women, with relatively clear associated characteristics, and simply considers that some people happen to have the "wrong" characteristics. Rather than investigating the philosophical reasoning of why this might be happening and what it means for the concepts woman/man, it is much more concerned with the practical problem of how to make life better for people who feel like this.

My impression is that the second group is much much more prevalent, but also seen as problematic by the first group. The first group is much more extreme, and has much more "interesting" talking points, so it is significantly over-represented in online discussions and media.
My take is kids play with whatever is around.

If your dad has acetylene torches around and your mom has axes around the house you’re going to play with them.

It does not mean or imply or predict that you want to burn the house down or you want to become a butcher or axe murderer. You’re not exploring being a pyromaniac or a murderer. You’re just playing, that’s it.

Same with high heels, smoking pipes, hunting rifles or lipstick. Kids don’t know their meaning yet (context of usage).
Unless you sign a real contract in the real world moving the ownership of said gold bar from you to me, all your NFT is is a very expensive piece of paper that says "pinky promise it's yours" while the bank holding it has it filed under "Mattereum", and it's all that matters. I can't go there and pull it out of the vault, without you being there.

NFTs are worthless, unless you have official ownership of the thing. And if that's the case, then why the hell would I use an NFT ?
I think a lot of journalists, experts, and politicians arrived at the same conclusion around the same time, which is that credibility isn't worth bothering with because there's a base level of people who will unquestioningly believe them if they make them feel the right way. If you're angry at the right people and causes, and you "stand with" and support the correct things, then truth and reason is not relevant. Actually it's something dangerous to be feared, because it could cause uncomfortable emotions.
> and every additional bit of education pushes you, on average, further left.

That's a big statement with nothing to back it up with.
You're touching on my primary long-term concern with AI and automation here.

One of the issues with the argument that we'll all be able to live great work-free lives on welfare is that AI fundamentally changes the dynamic between labourer and government. Historically the power nations, governments, business and individuals have is really just product of the labourers below them.

Or put another way, the US is only as powerful as the total output of its labourers. This means historically the greatest threat to the US government (and governments generally) is unhappy labours - US revolution being the obvious example here. The same is true for companies though, just on a smaller scale. If you're in a position of power, historically your power has depended on ensuring those below you don't revolt.

So for that reason historically we have always been able to protest for workers rights, higher wages, welfare, etc. But as soon as our labour is worthless we have very little bargaining power. In fact in the extreme it's possible we might all just become waste of resources and space to those at the top.

And this gets even more concerning when you consider how AI could be used to prevent protests or to financially punish those involved in them. It seems to me wherever we like it or not civilization will depend entirely on those with power being charitable because as workers we will eventually have no power to influence anything.

I'm not saying anything is certain, but these are outcomes I think we at least need to be thinking about today because the cost of getting this wrong is so high.
I like the guy, he seems like a genuine technologist / hacker. I wish him well.

None of the things he has worked on are any good so far. Objectively nobody actually uses this stuff. My definition: nobody would choose this stuff at arms length from a financial interest in pretending it is the correct technological + business choice.
For instance, I am a straight man, but when I was a child I sometimes stole my mother's lipstick and tried to put it on, or I would play with Barbie dolls.

I wouldn't see trying on lipstick or playing with Barbie dolls as "exploring a gender identity" as neither of those are exclusive to one gender, even in a heteronormative world.
I was just in university around that time, and I remember almost everybody there playing it. But it's possible that this was just a local thing.
The only real use I'd see would be some new iteration of Loran-C, to have something harder to jamm and spoof then current GNSS systems.
But the local noise from car and other electronics would likely make it less useful.
Or as they say: Welcome to Norway! [1]

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/13/norway-becomes...
> transfer time goes down from around 4 months in the UK to a couple of days

I've got no idea what the fuck they are doing in the UK, but when I bought a house in the US my deed transfer was processed by the county in about six hours.
Terms like “heteronormativity” and “cisgender” are just ways they attempt to marginalize normal people and their normal sexual development. These people who use these terms are objectively and statistically outliers in society. And since they can’t convince anyone to accept their abnormality, they instead try to change language to remove the idea of there being a standard/normal baseline.

They think that because you’re not trying to make them “explore their gender identity” while teaching them ABCs that you are pushing something. It’s absolute projection. I support all people to live their lives how they see fit, but I refuse to use their newspeak or pretend like there is not a natural normal.
I suspect this is a far more complicated problem then signing things.

All the traditional problems still exist, if I want to say something and deny it, I can choose not to sign something, or if I loose my signing keys, how does my audience learn the valid new keys without getting tricked into following someone else. Or a false sense of security, where because it's signed from my key, it must actually be written and published by me when it may not be.

And of course, that a majority of people are not the HN crowd who understand these implications.

To the original stated problem though, of a service like chatgpt producing essays, could be to produce a public log of interactions. This wouldn't necessarily need to be raw interactions, could be some sort of signature that would allow searches. I'd expect this to be a stopgap though, as running these models locally becomes more feasible.
> For the last several decades society put massive pressure on kids to conform to heteronormativity

This is patently untrue. Since the 60s, western society has been increasingly accomodating to the non-gender-conforming. Especially with the rise of the internet, people who once felt isolated with whatever made them different were able to find others like themselves.