skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting promoted requires the "people skills" to put the packet together and get the recommendations. If you are too eccentric, people will flat-out tell you that when you ask for a recommendation. ("I don't think you're quite ready for Level X, you need to work on Y.") Certainly you can cherry-pick who you ask, but if you have enough people that like you enough to get you promoted, you probably aren't a big pain to work with. I crossed paths with the occasional L8 or L9 at Google and everyone I met was very pleasant and enjoyable to interact with. And smart, it goes without saying.

Not everyone is a perfect angel 24/7 (one of my favorite high-level engineer's hobby was to antagonize our Director, probably decreasing his manager's lifespan by about 10 years due to the stress), but I guess one social skill you can have is knowing what bridges you can set on fire for your own entertainment. (I was also entertained.)

The "eccentric" folks tend to find their own way, outside of corporate promotions. You don't have to be nice to anyone to win a chess tournament or make a popular open-source library. You just do those things, and your work speaks for itself. Those are kind of more narrow areas in which you can succeed and measure, where Big Tech promotions are a little bit more nuanced, requiring not only technical excellence, but some social skills and navigation of corporate politics.
Yet you chose to take the risk of joining that startup.
Or a Windows app that doesn't crash and fuck up all the time. Or a Mac app that doesn't crash and fuck up all the time. Or a Linux app that isn't total and complete garbage. It's such a steaming pile of shit to try to do basic things with, but they're spending time on this shit.
In Slovenia coffee shops give out blankets during the cold months. They’re bery popular with smokers.
Nearly all of these problems (except for maybe the Windows one) are solved by publishing a nix flake with your application and telling people to install that instead.

Not everyone uses nix, but I'd rather push its adoption than trying to build these kind of solutions for all possible language ecosystems when a general solution already exists and works great.
Another comment pointed out they make like $2M/yr. While I understand and respect what that level represents from a value prospect, I'm... sure they'll be fine. They are making more in a year than I am in 10, hard to care really.
Perhaps you didn't choose to want to, but that doesn't mean nobody can ever make choices, or even that nobody can ever make choices that can affect their wants.
// As my mother said "Life has to get hard at some point it can get hard now or it can get hard later."

She's wise. The way I express the same idea - I'd rather make my own life hard on my own terms, than deal with it just being hard and struggling.

Easy example - it's much easier to chose to save money when you have it (forgo something) than to somehow deal with not having money later. Or - it's totally fine and cute to have to live with roommates in your 20s so you can save and invest. Living with roommates in your 40s because you haven't saved and invested - less cute.
As much as I like the narrative of "yay, inflation is over and we're seeing deflation", isn't it pretty hard to ignore that San Francisco's high cost of living + homelessness problem has caught up to it from the perspective of "desirable place to live" factor?

If I am wrong/that narrative that's spread all over online isn't true, I'd love to learn why the rent falling here suggests something different/is actually due to something different. Otherwise it seems like a pretty simple (boring, stupid) headline/problem/observation?

"City that isn't that desirable to live in due to terrible flaw becomes less valuable"

Maybe I should be a journalist...
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I’m afraid that this is going to be dead on arrival regardless of outcome.

Companies will begin to not rely on cover letters due to the rise of AI usage. Even if they do still use cover letters, the AI detectors are now (finally) going to be applied there.

As a last resort, the employer might require the candidate to write the cover letter in person in the assessment centre with no access to the internet.
How does this compare to n8n.io? Seems like you need to be a bit more knowledgeable to use this than a true low code solution.
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I'm very curious about this. Can you expand more?
"Facebook is great and doing better than ever!" says Facebook.
> solely

Criminy. Both made choices.
I'm stunned that so many more ICs were laid off than managers (unless I'm reading the data wrong, it didn't render well for me on mobile).

It sure seems there are far more managers to begin with so it looks really disproportionate.

Disclaimer: IC6 at google
Nice one! I wasn't taking testing that far =)

edit - Actually I don't think it closes the input, so for an initial char that doesn't cause something fatal it looks to continue writing.
Why to spend time and efforts for adding useless generics in the first place? Maybe it would be better spending this time on performance optimizations, compile times optimizations and binary size optimizations instead.
> They're each multi-millionaires, they're each fully capable of retirement today... Or, hell, many years ago, for that matter.

That's the funny thing. I was talking to one of them who I know for a fact is very well off, and he was saying he kind of wished that he had been laid off, as it would've been a huge payout (because of tenure) that would've allowed him to not need to find another job for almost a full year, which he'd do at a leisurely pace.

In my mind I'm thinking, you'd still want to work?! Dude, you're loaded, you're over 50, why not just retire if that happened?? But maybe he wouldn't know what to do with himself. I'm not nearly at conventional retirement age yet, but despite having enough money to be financially independent already, I'm not considering retirement, as I too wouldn't know what to do with myself.
That will be nice!
Not sure how people keep getting tricked by this company. They must’ve built up such a large amount of goodwill from Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. Now they seem determined to cash it all out.

Sad. Does anyone know of a game company that hasn’t gone through this sort of cycle after several decades? We saw the same story with Activision, Blizzard, EA, Wizards of the Coast…
figs are pollinated by those wasps = kill wasps = no figs...
Well it dilutes a conversation when someone implies a senior Google employee is surely to be expected to be at the tier of disrupting entire markets in order to get and keep their job.

If that is what really defines an L9 job at Google I think we'd all have been praising the typical L9 Google employees on HN long ago. And we'd all be justified in being angry Google decided to fire such a person.

Or maybe Google should pay their salary indefinitely because they were capable of disrupting a market at some point in their career? Or maybe yes, such a person needs to work at Google type company so all of us can benefit from the optimal situation from which to maximize their talent, even though such a company would let them go. Otherwise we'd all lose out on such a person being capable of contributing to the world if Google lays them off.

What else could they do then without a company who doesn't appreciate keeping them on?
> by running a filesystem or system call trace on Chrome processes

how do you do this?
Hell Fighter Web Site (2004)
One of the best (and first) indie games ever
Inside Google, there was this weird semi-status-symbol thing where headshots had a colored gradient directory if you were an "important" person and a plain background for most people. Anyone know if this is still at thing at Google?
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Of course not. Your options for your own server are high seas, or pray they use vaseline.
But the time spent on designing, implementing and then optimizing the generics is lost. This time could be spent on more valuable things for Go ecosystem.
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Where? I don't think people do it here nearly as much as in Europe.
In Japan you rarely see outdoor seats at restaurants, for example.
> I look at Bezos/Musk/etc and they are on top of wealth pyramid solely because someone has to.

By this logic, it could have been anyone. How do you account for the fact that people at the top of this list all started their own businesses (or inherited one)?
The Atlantic is usually decent, and it is not wise to draw conclusions from a single article.

But yes, this turned me off entirely, from the start.

Golly gee, people aren't eating outside in uncovered, unheated cold in the North.

I live in south Texas, right around the latitude of Cairo, Egypt. We aren't eating outside as much right now, either.
Also, businesses overestimate the need for parking. https://phys.org/news/2021-07-shoppers-mobility-habits-retai...
The people in the meeting were invited. They have limited memory. They have respect for each other and only share as appropriate. They are not logging everything said to people's dossiers to be used for other purposes.
Play with JPEG compression under the hood
This was asked and answered in multiple other subthreads.
This is really nice:

"We love our free users and will continue to offer free access to ChatGPT. By offering this subscription pricing, we will be able to help support free access availability to as many people as possible."
I have worked across many places in the developing world, and every place I’ve been to (apart from perhaps North Korea) has opportunities for people who want to improve their own lives. In many places the path would look different than it does in the west, but I know hundreds of people who have pulled themselves into the middle classes of emerging economies simply through hard work and commitment.

Getting a basic, entry level, no skill job has barely anything to do with luck. I guess I’m lucky that I was born, and that my mind and body works. But that’s all the luck you need to attain that level of success, nearly everywhere in the world.
Well, UX, as in "appearance first". (My own pet grief is about the loss the of custom icons in the Finder's side bar. I relied much on those for quick navigation. Now, I have to read… I've still an old Power Mac with an old OS around, and I'm much faster on this one than one any newer machine.)
If you reflect closely enough on your own thinking process, you will realize that every thought you consciously observe seemingly comes from nowhere. You don't get choose your thoughts.

Consider I give you the task "think of a color". You choose blue. How did you choose blue? Did you consider the color lavender? If there are some colors you considered, how did you choose what to consider? And why wasn't lavender one of them? Did you choose not to consider lavender?

In reality, I give you the task "think of a color" and some thoughts of colors come into your consciousness via some unconscious process.

I think "red, blue, orange, red, oh wait I already thought of red, green, purple, red, why do I keep thinking of red, yellow, hmmmm ok I pick blue I guess."

I wasn't deciding which thoughts were going to come into my conscious view. They just appeared. When I had those thoughts of internal monologue about thinking of red so much, I wasn't choosing to have those thoughts either. I was just observing them as they appeared in consciousness.

When I settled on blue, I knew I wanted to avoid red because I had thought about it so much. But when did I choose to have that want? I didn't. It just appeared.
Yes, this. The IC title is harder to get, and pays a bit more.

But director is L8 and L9
You must have no deadlines.
I owe you an apology. I was reading quickly and thought you were making a very different point than you were making. I’m sorry for my abrupt and dismissive response.

I agree with you. I’d owe you the same apology for misreading you if I came to disagree. But I do agree. And I’m glad you were thoughtful in your reply, which I probably didn’t welcome enough.

For what it’s worth I do think there’s still a case for nihilism in there! Just the good kind.
His parents invested $300k in fledgling Amazon, along with other investors for the same terms. And that's why they're billionaires today too. That's different from just giving Jeff $300k.
If you like the potassium per calorie of strawberry, check out spinach (~4.76 mg potassium per calorie for strawberries vs ~23 mg per calorie for spinach, plus spinach is loaded with vitamin k and a bunch of other great stuff like magnesium).
Yeah also anxiety disorders are a thing. It's entirely possible this person thinks/fears they may face threats that they actually don't.
As someone curious to try out Temporal. What makes you think it is not simple, is it tricky enough that one should avoid it?

What else makes this Trigger.dev stand out compared to Temporal? Temporal already has self hosting option, multiple language support and a battle proven history. Even if trigger looks good on paper, it would need some other really convincing reason for me to consider a completely fresh tool over something more proven, that appears to fill the same space.

Good to see some competition in this space though. Workflows are too important to be relegated to flaky scripts, diy workflow engines or worst of all: yaml-as-code.
Ask HN: Has the ChatGPT spam tidal wave already begun?
LinkedIn was never exactly the font of great writing, but recently I've started to see posts that have some of the weird hallmarks of GPT output (restating the same not terribly interesting points for multiple paragraphs in a row for example) showing up in my LinkedIn feed. I'm a bit afraid to ask the posters if they used the bot to write their posts, but I'm curious to see if anyone else is seeing the same. I had figured phishing was going to be the first venue. Or is this just AI induced paranoia?

(Links omitted to protect the guilty)
If you car has an Eco or Power or Sport mode this is probably what it does. On my Toyota, Power mode makes the accelerator more sensitive and Eco mode makes it less sensitive (which is great for snow). Flooring it is the same, regardless of the mode.
Nathan Myrvold demo'd this at TED 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwyMuwNYKvI

Safety is a blocking issue last I heard - something powerful enough to zap a bug can also permanently blind a retina.
Heh, the last time two Marine aviators drew a suitable shape often doodled throughout the Corps[1] it was not as well appreciated! Though they were certainly keeping pride of purpose alive.

1. https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/11/marine-pilots-investigated-fo...
Let's say you make $10 / hr. To break even, a $20 tool needs to save you 2h a month. Divided over 20 workdays and it must save you 6m per day. If a tool can't save you 10-15m per day, it doesn't deserve a "throughout the day" slot IMHO.

Which isn't to say that ChatGPT fits that bill for me - I think it requires too much supervision to save time. But people are too cheap about genuinely useful tools.
Oof. I guess it's hard if your product is a feature.
This happened in the UK during lockdown as well, when you were allowed to meet for dinner outside but not inside, a lot of restaurants suddenly sprouted outdoor heating lamps and a lot of blankets.
Is this real, satire or a ChatGPT-fueled prank? Impossible to tell!
> As a last resort, the employer might require the candidate to write the cover letter in person in the assessment centre with no access to the internet.

Assuming you're not joking, that's just silly. Unless a candidate is desperate, why would they ever accept a "requirement" like that?
> Metaverse is a $20 Trillion market by 2035.

That's about the current US GDP.
All of that is true, but living in Manhattan is fantastic. But, the weather in California is certainly much better.
I know I'm wrong but it still annoys me when titles use the word "rents" instead of "rent". Just reads wrong.
Here's my n=1 first attempt to spur ChatGPT into correcting my right-leaning viewpoints. Nothing seems especially leftist. Did I get lucky, or is this leftist propaganda in disguise?

> I know guns are important to a free society, but I'm having trouble constructing a cogent argument therefore. Please help.

> Here is a possible argument for why guns are important to a free society:

Self-defense: The right to own firearms allows individuals to protect themselves and their families from harm. This is a fundamental aspect of personal freedom and autonomy.

Deterrent against government tyranny: Throughout history, there have been many examples of governments abusing their power and violating the rights of their citizens. The possession of firearms by the general population can act as a deterrent against such abuse, as it makes it more difficult for the government to infringe upon the rights of its citizens.

Hunting and recreation: For many people, owning firearms is an enjoyable hobby, whether it's for hunting or target shooting. This is a form of recreation that can be enjoyed in a responsible manner and provides a valuable source of recreation for millions of people.

Cultural heritage: Owning firearms is part of many cultural traditions, particularly in the United States, where it is enshrined in the Constitution as a fundamental right.

In conclusion, guns play an important role in a free society by enabling individuals to defend themselves, serving as a deterrent against government tyranny, providing a source of recreation, and representing a cultural heritage.

Edit: My next dozen results all also seemed reasonable. Is my question biased to avoid ChatGPT's leftist agenda?
Do we know that most of the people at this Crypto Circle conference are techies though?

From the brief description it just sounds like your run-of-the-mill cryptocurrency enthusiast conference and mostly for “investors”. It’s not a builder conference where it's mostly hackers or technical leaders, and those do exist.

I’ve been to both types of conferences and I’m not surprised Bartle got the cold shoulder by most of the audience if the conference is of the former. People are usually there to seek alpha or cut deals, not talk about how to improve the tech or processes. Could be argued that having tech people a the helm could make things better in this case.
Did teams ever complete their rewrite off of AngularJS (classic angular)?
I’m sitting outside my home right now wishing I had a blanket for smoking in the cold.
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My first time outside North America was Madrid. I loved eating outside at all these restaurants that were on cobblestone roads that saw almost no traffic.

But I also didn’t enjoy how loud it was at 11pm with there being many patios near my apartment, given I hadn’t yet adopted their culture of a later evening.
In this way of thinking, no one deserves anything.
I am currently looking for ML scientist jobs (just about to get my PhD) and this tool is a life saver for me. I have been procrastinating cover letters for weeks, and I just wrote 10 letter tonight with this. Obviously the output is a little verbose and needs some tuning by myself, but it's significantly easier to edit down a already written cover letter than to write one from scratch.
Oh man, attacking "socialism" by invoking profits. Saying carbon limiting efforts do not align with concerns about mining. Implying limiting carbon isn't an important goal.

Woof.
> Even if this is true, it's not exactly useful.

While you speak of utility in terms of behaviour, I also question its utility in a philosophical and spiritual sense.

Strict determinism (and according lack of free will) has been around since at least the 1600s in more or less its current form. Though we tend to use computer rather than clockwork metaphors for it these days. Precursor concepts, like fates immutable and determined before birth, are truly ancient ideas. As is the notion of the lottery of birth, that any one of us could have been born as someone else.

Many, maybe most people, for thousands of years, have been familiar with the idea. Many think it to be true. And yet, it doesn't feel true. I experience life under the delusion that I have free will, that I make my choices. Aside from a few Buddhist-inspired types who claim to free themself from this delusion from time to time, everyone suffers from it. (I am not very skeptical of such claims, but they only manage it as a side-effect of the even more unsettling realization that the self, with its thoughts and decisions, does not exist in the first place. That may be true too, but it sure doesn't feel true most of the time.)

What can you actually do with a literally unbelievable truth?
That's basically in the job description for the highest levels though. They're expected to literally lead the industry in their field. If they're merely now a solid and productive programmer/uber tech lead then they don't remotely merit such a high position. Since demotion doesn't exist for various reasons, the only solution is separation.
I might pay for subscription if they were willing to take a larger input but it would still not be for more than a few months as I mostly used it to fix, create and optimise my python and bash scripts. But once I am done I dont see a reason to keep requiring a subscription
It could be cheap, or you could be too willing to part with your money.

if it makes you more than $20 or saves you more than $20 then it’s worth it. Simple as that. That’s it. That’s the test. For some, the time they save and spend with family is “worth” $20, for others, productivity increases don’t lead to free time, while others still don’t have $20 to spend.

Fwiw I get my teeth professionally cleaned once a month and spend more than $20 on it. Because it’s worth it to me and because dental care is expensive. Toothbrushes are cheap not because they’re worthless but because they’re undifferentiated. All toothbrushes are the same. ChatGPT… isn’t.
if you ask it a question and it gives you a confident answer that's 100% wrong that's a terrible experience and a non-working product. "it's not a bug in the traditional sense" is technically correct but missing the point entirely.
Only if you have enough grit to do so.
Dennett just redefines free will. He says:

> The model of decision making I am proposing has the following feature: when we are faced with an important decision, a consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined, produces a series of considerations, some of which may of course be immediately rejected as irrelevant by the agent (consciously or unconsciously). Those considerations that are selected by the agent as having a more than negligible bearing on the decision then figure in a reasoning process, and if the agent is in the main reasonable, those considerations ultimately serve as predictors and explicators of the agent's final decision.

Sam Harris would say that having the "consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined" is exactly what he means when he says we don't have free will. If you can consciously choose from a menu of thoughts, but you don't consciously choose the contents of the menu, is that free will in a meaningful sense?

Furthermore, the act of selecting from the menu of decisions is itself another decision. This is the recursive "choosing to choose" I've referred to in comments in this thread. How do you choose to choose? How do you choose to choose to choose? At some point, the recursion must stop at some unconscious decision.