skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Actual, natural-born managers are such an incredibly rare species that you can go a long time without seeing any in the wild.

So how do we replicate this ability in people? For sports, there are academies to surface and nurture sporting talent. As a society, at least to me, it seems we have not been able to do something similar for "management" at societal scale. Maybe because the whole domain requires a broader set of competencies in many fields, including the specific technical domain, the humanities, business skills, and political savvy, amongst others.

Maybe we no longer need to replicate this with people. Instead, repeating what I said elsewhere in the thread: consider how there are natural-born managers, and how there are natural-born artists, and how generative AI like Stable Diffusion can deliver good results for those that are not natural artists, we may actually need to turn to generative AI to solve for managerial tasks in an optimal way across large orgs. That might even resolve issues with misaligned incentives.

Training such an AI could be done on a curated corpus of HBR-type case studies. And you could actually test performance of different corpuses (reflecting different management styles, for example) by measuring real-world performance of the corresponding business units in which these AIs operate.
I think the author would agree about the provenance of economics. A degree from one particular school imbues a set of virtues; the Austrian school, the Soviet schools.

I think the author has seen that in philosophy. Starting with, or coinciding with Derrida, maybe some philosophy departments are analytic whereas others are continental.
Also sometimes referred to as the Cravath System:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cravath_System
Sorry, do you mean it’s common for someone to go from, say, L6, to L5?
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The goal is to collect user submitted GPT3 related jokes with ability to upvote/downvote.

Over time, we're thinking to hook into ChatGPT's AIs to automatically create new jokes based on specific parameters (TBD).

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Seems wildly unfair to describe as irrational someone seeking treatment when they didn’t
need to between March and June 2020.

We didn’t really have good numbers. The numbers we had were extremely alarming. It was entirely rational to seek treatment early given the information at the time.
This has baked into it the incredibly naïve (and generally accepted to be incorrect) assumption that layoffs are performance-based. There are plenty of examples of FAANG and other companies laying off folks with 15, 20, 30 years of incredibly specialized and presumably valuable experience but with a compensation price tag to match.
Middle management should be like jury duty -- something assigned randomly to a team member, then served for a set period.

And company processes should be engineered so that a bad/ineffectual manager can't break them, with everything that can be devolved to the team itself.

And hiring should be done on the basis that a new employee will likely be a manager at some point.

The best managers I've had were all reluctant, so selecting against people who want to be managers seems like a great idea.
> You also submit, as a 20-something who has only ever been a student:

Tbf the process is the same for senior candidate applications. It may seem like a lot for junior applicants but the bar is lowered significantly. But like you say, it’s competitive, so naturally the pageantry gets turned to 11.
There are several points that I don’t see being made in these discussions.

1. Layoffs would be less painful is major aspects of your life (read: health insurance or your visa) wasn’t tied to employment. Yes the layoffs would still hurt but it wouldn’t be such a catastrophe for the actual workers. This is a discussion for another thread but it’s at least worth mentioning here.

2. Unions could certainly provide some protection and security for affected workers. There’s obviously a lot of pluses and minuses about “US” unions but workers guilds, the AMA and bar associations show that there’s other ways for professionals to protect their employment while still providing training, certification, and quality workers.

3. The bigger issue seems to be lack of employee ownership in the company. Yes you can purchase stock on the market or through equity grants but they are an optional expense. If these laid off employees were earning actual vested stock from their start date they’d at least leave the company with some tangible asset and be in the same boat as these executives. If laying off workers is a good financial move for the company then at least they will get a softer landing. Employees will also have the same incentives as executives to boost stock prices and could flex their power to punish poorly performing executives. That last reason is likely why employees have to buy their way in instead of just getting stock as part of their comp. Obviously it isn’t as simple as giving away stock and hoping everything works out alright but you’d cut down on a lot of these discussions about executives not feeling the pain.
Isn't that his point? The companies don't need the conspiracy to instigate layoffs, they already had a legitimate reason to do so.
Amazing!

I’m writing a book about RuneScape, Why We Play, and this project is the most exciting thing I’ve seen toward this end in awhile. I can’t believe I didn’t know about it!
You made it much harder on yourself. You should have just fired that one person. But, management.
he has no answer. dude is myopic.
I mean, just look at comments around this topic whenever it comes up. People want ICs to get paid more because they don't want to work as managers. Heck, I most definitely agree with them - again, I was a manager, and I won't do it again either. That means I have accepted that I'll make less money, but I'm fine with that. Someone else can have that shitty job.
Disney+ Hong Kong again appears to censor The Simpsons
I remember this! Great job. I didn't get many tweets, glad you did (I'm low-key jealous :P)
I am Indian and I want them to stay. I would go so far as to say that colonial era structures are the only beautiful buildings that have been built in India in the last 100-200 years.
It's the "held by some of the most powerful tech companies on the planet" part that's really the problem. Ironically, ChatGPT agrees:

"I'm sorry, I cannot write a song that glorifies the ownership of AI models such as GPT by large corporations, as the concept goes against the principles of responsible AI and equitable access to technology. OpenAI, for instance, has a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity and that advanced AI technologies are widely shared and used for the common good."
This feels ok, but they should also sell all their gold fillings.
> So did Capitalism

The logic that attributes those deaths to "capitalism" is lot more sketchy than the obvious fact that the deaths I attributed to communism were directly due to the actions of governments who explicitly declared themselves to be communists and who directly took the actions that resulted in the deaths with the explicit purpose of advancing communism. "Capitalism" isn't even a single philosophy, let alone one with an explicit manifesto that all the governments who killed all those people in the name of communism explicitly said they were following.
So basically the same experience as a thermal monocular. Which is pretty decent "augmented vision" once you get used to it.
> This is happening. It's just happening to the people who are the most productive

Then why is the increased average productivity not reflected in increased average income?
The church was not upset about heliocentrism. They were upset that Galileo was attempting to reinterpret the words of Bible in order to bolster his astronomical authority.
> That's not an elegant solution, this is a stray markup disaster waiting to happen, and in both directions: re-wrap a paragraph (I'm doing it all the freaking time), edit some more so you can't just ctrl-z, and now you've got those plus signs sprinkled throughout your text mixed with non-special plus-signs.

Trailing + for breaks is for one-offs exceptions, usually with semantic reasons. If you are manually flowing a paragraph for some reason (mostly, that’s an antipattern, but...), rather than indicating a single special break, where “rewrapping” is a thing that makes sense, then using the [%hardbreaks] directive on the paragraph makes sense; there's also a document-level toggle in the header if you want to do this for a whole document. (And many of the contexts where you'd want hard breaks have their own block type, with other linked formatting changes: literal, listing, source, and verse blocks.)
WebKit may be open source, but Safari is not. The interface to access Safari's content blocking settings and the platform on which Safari content blocking extensions are built are both closed source, so your FUD about "intercepting web traffic" would be more appropriately directed at Safari than at uBlock Origin.

Yes, I have personally downloaded the uBlock Origin source code. I have also reviewed the code and suggested improvements. However, I don't even need to download the code to realize the benefits of uBlock Origin being free and open source. Even if I hadn't downloaded the code, there are many other users and contributors who have reviewed the code, and you can confirm this by taking a simple look at the activity in the GitHub repos.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues
Why can't an LLM fact check itself somehow/someway?
Definitely said from someone that has never been a manager. FWIW, it's never that easy to fire someone, and it gets even more difficult when you need to worry about protected class issues.
To the extent it doesn’t overly impact institutional knowledge, etc. hiring/firing should be FIFO, if you want to minimize costs. Hire new people, train them up, fire (some) experienced people that cost more.

Whether that’s a “good” property of the system or not, I suppose depends at some level on how you feel about capitalism. Should a business owner be allowed to fire an employee to maximize their company’s value, and eventually their own income?
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) routinely issue notes on units and insist that ergs are "deprecated".

Various astrophyicists are hardwired by early adoption to to use CGS electromagnetic units and don't feel obliged to follow no union rules . . . no one rejects their papers over units, so <shrug>.

https://www.iau.org/publications/proceedings_rules/units/
Obligatory quote from Asimov's "The Gods Themselves":

about two and a half centuries ago, the American naval commander Matthew Perry led a flotilla into Tokyo harbor. The Japanese, till then isolated,found themselves faced with a technology considerably beyond their own and decided it was unwise to risk resistance. An entire warlike nation of millions was helpless in the face of a few ships from across the sea.Did that prove that Americans were more intelligent than the Japanese were, or merely that Western culture had taken a different turning? Clearly the latter, for within half a century, the Japanese successfully imitated Western technology and within another half a century were a major industrial power despite the fact that they were disastrously beaten in one of the wars of the time.
They don't send you stuff every month. You pay a fixed monthly price for a certain number of pages of whatever color/quality you want along with some page count rollover benefits. You no longer buy cartridges. The printer phones home when the cartridge runs low (well before that based on their proprietary predictive algorithm) and a new one arrives soon thereafter automatically. It's not like you have more than 1-2 cartridges at a time. And you never pay for them in any case.

Incidentally you can still install standard (non-subscription tied - e.g. bought at Costco) cartridges and the subscription status is then irrelevant (but of course you pay for those cartridges so they're yours to do with as you please unlike the rented subscription ones), but that's not the point (for the most part).

I find it handy for super low volume printing needs at home.
Spending more money on compute also makes you and the team look more important, an d the problems being tackled, more challenging.
Oh? Were can I get the source and compile Edge myself? Perhaps you've mistaken open source for Free Software.
Always a classic:
https://matt.might.net/articles/hacking-strength/
How Bitcoin extended keys works
Hasbro is killing the long term value of MtG by overprinting cards
FYI it’s the glory days of RuneScape (old school) private servers. The big ones have teams of developers and they’re even better than Jagex in some ways!
Meta has something called a Tech Lead/Manager that is basically this.
If you are expecting AI to be correct then you are holding it wrong.

The correct way to relate to AI is to listen and if the answer matters, verify.
> "Capital" is generally understood as exclusive ownership.

Sure, and you exclusively own your skills, so they meet this definition.

> Applying your skills is still labour.

The time you spend applying them is labor, yes.

The knowledge on your part of how to apply them to produce much more value in that time than a unskilled worker could produce, is capital. And the fact that you can get paid much more than an unskilled worker if you have that knowledge, and use it to be more productive, is return on capital.

> many people are changing careers to get a better return on their skills and effort.

I.e., return on their capital. Yes, exactly! They are realizing that the capital they own is worth more than they were being paid before, so they are changing careers to increase their return. Try doing that as an unskilled worker and see how far you get.
The main reason I like the Deck of Pain method, I think, is the randomness from a shuffled deck of cards. With nearly all other methods of exercise, I'm always counting down the miles/reps/laps/minutes, etc. But with the randomization, I only know the number of cards left and have no real idea what the next card holds (until the last one, I guess). Often, I'll shuffle more than one deck of cards and then just do 52, with the other half ready for the next workout. That way, I can have 'hard' days with some exercises and easy ones, further randomizing things.
To be fair to games today, things like Doom 2 would probably just be DLC now.
This does not seem particularly in-depth.
He won't do that because this is fiction.
Revenue taxed before expenses? That’s not what is happening or a good way of explaining it . It’s a temporary timing difference for recognizing expenses and deducting them on the tax return.
I don't get why people think that water is somehow safe because it comes from some magical place.

Water still needs to be transported 167 miles from HH, during which it can pick up plenty of things, like lead, chromium 6, bacteria and all sorts of other fun stuff. Never mind it has likely sat in a local reservoir for some period of time and who knows what the condition of those things are.

Before it was chlorine and then apparently that wasn't enough, so they switched to chloramine. Then, they do shit like this, with some weird spin on it:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-pure-drinking-wa...

I had several fish tanks (one ~400 gallons) that I was caring for during that switch over. I tried to do filtration and additives and the fish were never the same, they all died. It just seems intuitive that adding something to water that kills fish almost instantly, couldn't be great for humans either.

Needless to say, I only drink RO water, put a filter on my whole house and in my shower. That probably isn't enough, but at least it is better than nothing.

https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/chloramines-drinking-water

https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/www3/region9/water/chl...
That's a fairly uncharitable interpretation that I don't feel aided discussion.

I used chatgpt to craft stories based on events of the day, then I reviewed and modifies, printed them out, and read them out with my kids. In a given time, it multiplied what I can achieve. I could do it without chat gpt. I could do it without computer and printer. I could do it without pen and paper. Heck I could do it the normal way and just get a generic children book. But this was fun! And it was the opposite of zoning out for all involved! :)

Same for black history month quizzes and posters. It allowed my wife, in the limited time available to her (time is always limited to humans in this universe) , to do a far better job celebrating the event than ever before. I don't think she or her colleagues felt like any "zoning out" was involved, or that minimal effort was put in!

We found our initial explorations exciting and involved and rich and educating. I believe there are strong limits, and there can be accuracy issues and AI hallucinating and so on. But just the basic dozen use cases are such strong effort multipliers. I have learned more and have done more with given unit of time invested. For all the extremely legitimate moral, socio economic, legal and other issues, which are extremely valid, I stand by my awe at people who say "I can find no use for this".
Might check their discord, there was a discussion on there about what can be drawn (at the moment).

In the show-and-tell channel
** play runescape classic via private server again
One wonders how the author got _those_ dates...
When you write an academic paper it's up to the journal when it's published - would this play into it?
For an obvious counterexample, they could have raised everyone's salary by a million bucks, or 10 million.

Productivity remains unrelated to pay, labour power is the real decider. If you're irreplaceable, you can demand high wages. If somebody is willing to do you job for a thousandth the price, you're screwed, even if they suck
The irony is meta on a nauseating level. OpenAI will choose profit over platitudes when it comes down to it, especially now that Microsoft's got its hooks in. If I am wrong I will be very pleasantly surprised, but I'm not holding my breath.
How is this on the homepage twice with no comments and less than 10 votes?
who runs a laptop in that kind of setup? hypothetical responses to a legitimate question/response is just lazy and lame
My exceptionally naive understanding is that "how long ago" and "how far away" aren't really things that cosmologists talk about.

Because of relativity and the expansion of space neither really has a meaning. It's like the idea of common time: when did something happen on Alpha Centauri? You can't really answer that. Light cones and spheres of influence and so on. "When" is only a valid question when the thing you're asking about isn't relatavistically far away. Deep stuff.

Source: I just read Carlo Rovelli's The order of time. Would be overjoyed if someone who knows what they're talking about would correct/enhance this response. :-)
GitHub CEO: EU AI Act shouldn't apply to open source devs
Looking at you, Japanese railway stations!

Though honestly on vacation there, I enjoyed getting lost in Shinjuku station. :D

Office complexes, finding someone's desk.
This is amazing, thank you!!
At one point people said that computers could never beat a human at chess, then it was GO, now it is reasoning, then it will be intelligence.
Good lord people really don't get how Apple makes money. Have you ever wondered why apps like Jira, Github, or Notion aren't loudly complaining about the 30% App Store fees? It's because they don't pay them. How? By not actually selling the service in the app.

If all you want is an app for your users to use, you won't pay a dime outside of the developer fee. If you want people to discover your app in the app store, download it, and then pay you then it's a 30% cut.
It's Nintendo. They're taking advantage that people that like the brand, and want to be able to say that they helped make Mario or Zelda.

You can pay disneyland ride designers less because there's status involved with designing Disneyland rides
I don't know about Jeff, but Craig runs an org with tens of thousands of engineers. If he were writing code, it'd be a waste of time.

(and Craig doesn't waste his time)
Ah, good, so we've agreed that the pandemic-related economic stimulus appeared to increase real wages for the poor. That's all I was getting at.

Whether that's sufficient to be interesting, I'm not energetic enough to debate.
Yes, they really should.
Great info and comment. Thanks!
An ineffective waste of time is bad
Sure that’s fine a fine sentiment to hold. But it’s also anodyne and unspecific. It’s certainly not the kind of thing that’s going to differentiate you in a competitive job application process.

Because the job in fact is to teach a diverse classroom. So if all you have to say are banal platitudes in your DEI statement, you will be passed over.

Not because your position is wrong, it’s not. But because others are able to articulate with specificity and examples as to how they handle the job of teaching a diverse classroom. That’s what you’re up against as an applicant.
110% my experience working in data science.

I found it incredibly stressful to discover and provide analyses (even experimental results) that wasn't expected, or contradicted prior beliefs. The findings were always very harshly scrutinized, and typically lead to tons of pointless extra work to 'understand what is going on'.
I thought servo was just renamed “Firefox 57” years ago. Am I misremembering?
So, with “disintegration” in the title, that’s what the author is expecting. Some departments which used to have a profitable relationship with hungry philosophers might miniaturize a philosophy organelle. Quantum physics, music and art, for example. I think this is what he means by returning to pre-Enlightenment.
It never had any long–term value.
> You're standing up a bunch of straw men to argue with here.

I'm not sure what you're basing that on since I'm responding to things you explicitly said.

> If you want to talk about this, which is essentially Marxist theory

I have no idea what you are basing that on. The only thing I said that was at all related to Marxist theory was my reference to "class warfare"; yes, Marxist theory was one of the culprits in using class warfare rhetoric to obscure economic realities. Which is why countries that tried to run themselves according to Marxist theory were abject failures that killed many millions of their own people, either through incompetence or through deliberate "can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs" logic.
"[Therefore,] when God willed that at Joshua’s command the whole system of the world should rest and should remain for many hours in the same state, it sufficed to make the sun stand still. In this manner, by the stopping of the sun, the day could be lengthened on earth—which agrees exquisitely with the literal sense of the sacred text.”

- Galileo Galilei
For current AI? I'd focus on open access research into exploits, behaviors, modifications, and unintended results, so the capabilities and failings of these models are fully understood. Safety tools along the lines of GPT detectors rather than ever-stricter censorship models. This is only possible to do properly with open development.

As far as limits, restrictions, regulations... nothing. With current technology I think the "dangers" are mostly marketing and self-promotion. I have yet to see a concrete example based on actual capabilities that validates all the "weapon" comparisons. The current lines of development are promising for a number of applications, but they don't extrapolate towards AGI at all. The biggest real threat I see is the further destruction of middle-class jobs, for which... basic income? It's hard to say.
It would be neat to describe features of a Minecraft world and have it generated on the fly, feels doable but I could be way off.