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never worked somewhere that directors are considered middle management.

I’ve been at places where there was Associate Manager, Manager, Sr Manager, Group Manager, Director, Senior Director, VP, SVP.

That is insane imo. Anyone below director is useless, and the director should just report to the VP or CTO.

My point is that managers should be rare. And teams should be small.

I’m not taking career or technical advice from an associate/manager because they’re usually the worst ICs and overall lowest performers in like 80% or more of the time. This is how they struggle to stay in the game. You have probably heard many people who are the best IC say they don’t want to manage.

They then get managed by the worst people. And they just leave like that when they can’t take their managers BS anymore.

You ever gotten feedback like “you need to speak more in meetings” from one of these low tier managers? All they do is waste everyone’s time in useless meetings. I’m there to work, not pretend I’m smart by making dumb diagrams and writing/sharing 20 page documents on things that have nothing to do with the job. You see these people come out of the woodwork during late stage. And that’s when most of the beat engineers leave and you have commodity tier folks running the show.

It’s just facts. I’m giving my perspective. And it’s frustrating that I have to keep changing jobs because management is always the weak link. People missing deadlines, people putting effort into things that don’t matter, just talking/wasting time.
> I think you're missing some of the perspective. I

Yeah that's why I'm asking. It's genuine curiosity so thanks for your answers.

Yes if you wanted to make the same product as these guys you'd have to spend the same amount or more, so sure, that'd be a poor use of money. No disagreement there. Productization is a lot of work.

But you wouldn't need a full product to solve this for your own use case! I guess what I'm struggling with is the apparent reluctance to fix this problem by just running ordinary computers. We're hackers, we're software developers, this is our bread and butter right? How can we as an industry apparently be forgetting how to set up and run computers? That's the message that seems to be coming through here - it's too hard, too much work, the people who can do it are too expensive. That'd be like chemists forgetting how to use a bunsen burner and needing to outsource it!? Computers are cheap, they're fast, they can basically maintain themselves if told to! To make your Docker builds faster you can just run them on a plain vanilla Linux machine that just sits around running builds in the normal way, the same way a laptop would run them, with permanently connected disk and cache directory and stuff.

I totally get it that maybe a new generation has learned programming with NodeJS on a Mac and AWS, maybe they haven't ever installed Linux before, in the way we all seemed to learn how to run servers a couple of decades ago. Times change, sure, I get that. Still, the results are kind of mind boggling.
Right, my point is that it seems Stephenson seemed to have originally felt that there was intrinsic value to something. And then starts asking why you and friends would care about the trinkets you can sell, when that is irrelevant. Typically, by definition, you sell things that someone will give you more currency for than you currently value it.
ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” is a song about death
Yeah, it’s a shame. IMAP is not a great protocol (to say the least), but jmap is nowhere near critical mass. At present, its not worth the effort to implement for pretty much anyone, so it’s only idealists like Fastmail who’ve done so anyway.
The signatures would have to be rooted to a trust cert model (with a way for devs to verify that the "Microsoft" they're pulling a package from is the real "Microsoft").

Hypothetically, this could be done: put up a public key at a known domain, sign packages via public key, and if the package manager extends to include a "fetch from URL provided by the package and check signature" tool, we end up rooting trust in packages in trust in domain name ownership; not too shabby. We still need devs to actually bother to do the check and, like, read the domain name to make sure they haven't accepted authorization from "micr0soft.com", but the end result is a distributed signing solution that doesn't require any centralized authority (except, indirectly, the SSL cert issuers and DNS providers of the world).
But, is Kombucha Turing-complete?
Not saying I disagree with you, but couldn’t the “economies of scale” argument be used to justify e.g. all cloud providers forming a monopoly, all hardware manufacturers doing the same, etc.? The only reason all tech companies shouldn’t aspire to monopoly status is to avoid regulators stepping in; they should aim as close as possible.
Reminds me of a quote I heard regarding a rapper with a disappointing second album- “he had 19 years to put into that first album”.
No, they don't even agree between engine implementations within the same database server. Generally limits in the database are defined as storage limits for however a character is defined. That usually means bytes or codepoints.
Will AI take away the coding jobs?
Another important thing to consider is the security of your funds https://exolix.com/blog . Many reputable crypto exchanges take significant steps to protect user funds by keeping just as much as is necessary for seamless transactions in a "hot wallet" while locking the rest safely in offline "cold storage." This helps ensure that your coins aren't stolen by hackers.
There's always going to be something of the person in anything created by a person (at bare minimum reflective of the physical properties of the person, such as large or small hands). This is obviously true. Just as any interpretation of art is indicative of mental elements of the person interpreting the art.

The artworks on the linked page are similar enough in style that it's obvious something within the artist dictated them.

The question is whether there is conscious intent, and what that intent is. Lots of people create art just to create something they find beautiful, with no other meaning intended.

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

> The ideomotor phenomenon is a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously.

> The phrase is most commonly used in reference to the process whereby a thought or mental image brings about a seemingly "reflexive" or automatic muscular reaction, often of minuscule degree, and potentially outside of the awareness of the subject. As in responses to pain, the body sometimes reacts reflexively with an ideomotor effect to ideas alone without the person consciously deciding to take action.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507844

> Even humans draw many things that they don't understand. If we draw something that we completely don't understand (such as through random scribbling) we don't even call it a representation. It's a fluke. I used to scribble and then trace images in my scribbling (if possible). Often I ended up tracing things that looked like a child's bad drawing of Donald Duck, but once, without having to trace particular lines at all, my scribbling was a perfect seeming of a rose flower (with some minor additional flourishes). I recognized the rose flower, but I certainly didn't set out to draw it.
GIF is from 1987, even.
I don't feel that is changing my point at all? It is the value others put in that paper that makes it worth trading.
Oh, it never has been; huge pain in the ass.

... we do it anyway because the alternative is to just get 0wnz3d by bad actors.
It seems natural that people living in the mountains would have a robust topographical tradition.
> This post originally just said "injecting ads into web forms,"

> This title implies we are injecting third-party advertising into web forms

You're literally injecting ads for your own products into web forms.

You could argue that people might think that "injecting ads" means "injecting 3rd party ads", and that wouldn't (currently) be true. But if you're not allowed to say that you are injecting ads, when you are injecting ads, that's super gray zone: Don't say we're doing X (we're doing X) because it makes us sound like we're doing X+1!

I switched from DuckDuckGo to https://searx.be/ during the outbreak of the Ukrainian war because DuckDuckGo started censoring Russian sites [1].

Email proxies may be seen as a privacy protection, but it comes with a vendor lock-in: You cannot reset the password for that service without DuckDuckGo now. So those ads have commercial value to DuckDuckGo, you're no goodie two-shoes here.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-p...
Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ, Right in Your Pocket
>They bought their houses at ~ 1M before the housing craziness started.

"Only 1M"

And I mean sure I could have bought a big house in Palo Alto for 50k or whatever in 1950 but that's not really relevant anymore.

Maybe dual tech worker couples can make it work but but there isn't a large pay increase for most other fields in the Bay.
Seems like an obvious root cause for these sorts of things are languages (and developers) who can't or won't differentiate between "byte length" and "string length". Joel warned us all about this 20 years (!!) ago[1], and we're still struggling with it.

1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
Sell the Value, not your Product
When articulating your product’s value proposition, focus on “what value are your customers buying” vs. “what are you selling to them”. Sounds obvious? Reality shows it isn't.
In France, nobody asked for dumbed down versions of books, yet the publishers rewrote many of them removing subjunctive mood and past simple over the last 15years.
Worse, most kid, young teenager books are using a "simplified" grammar and vocabulary.
Unless exception, one needs to reach translated books to get a normal grammar and vocabulary.

All that to say I am actually surprised they went back on their announce.
I'd be interested to hear about your specific use case that made crypto better. What were the alternatives? What were the total costs for what you did versus the alternatives?

But I imagine your specifics are quite rare. We've had a long time for crypto get significant market share for retail money transfer and it hasn't happened yet.
You don't need to be a monopoly to get anti-trusted. You just need to use your market power to stifle competition to consumers detriment.
Can I use an RPG-7 to kill animals like bears that threaten my life on my property?

Yes.

It’s definitely usable for non nefarious activities.

Should I be demonized for having one in my house?

Probably
Why? It has been 15 years. If it were actually useful, it would have been widely adopted by now. Crypto currencies are the Segway of money.
In the US, arbitration is purely a contractual matter between the parties. So, typically, companies (almost all of them these days, it seems) will require the use of arbitration instead of the courts. And they usually get to choose the arbitrator, who derives a great deal of income from that company.

There is a lot of economic incentive for arbitrators to find in favor of the company. There is very little economic incentive for them to find in favor of the person who has an issue with the company.
NPM has namespaces
Well, again, I was not trying to make a defense of crypto. I'm more just not at all clear on what Stephenson was arguing. Trying to come up with intrinsic value reasons on things is doomed to failure. Somewhat obviously so.
> Meaning that we start depending more on China, then Taiwan could become the next Ukraine and western economies will be looking for the next cheap place to invest in.

Well, it's the USA fault that they're more unpredictable now. They reduced one of China's most important trade partners into "just a rebel island near you that only trades with the western world".

China also used to depend on Taiwan for semiconductors and advanced manufacturing. Then the USA cuts them from buying Taiwan semiconductors and advanced manufacturing.

The decision for a future invasion went from "economically undesirable" to "strategically easy" - if I can't have it, and the USA have it, the USA might as well not have and not use it.

"Taiwan could become the next Ukraine" seems to imply that they would want to capture the island with infantry; but no such thing is necessary - for tactic/strategic reasons is would be better to deny the USA (and possibly the inhabitants of Taiwan) from ever using Taiwan again by removing the isle advanced manufaturing instalations, logistic and military infrastructre from the map.
Yep, my day job is working on the Replay time-traveling debugger for JS ( https://replay.io/ ).

Also saw someone post an indie gaming company's TTD development environment yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/11a2meo/tomorr...
Lest we forget, The Great Simoleon Caper

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

In the story, the protagonist is an underemployed mathematician who resides in the house of his brother's family in Chicago. The brother, owner of an advertising agency, has won a large contract to create ads for "Simoleons", a form of non-governmental electronic "currency". To launch the product, they plan to give away 27 million Simoleons to the winners of a contest. The contest is based on the long-used format of "guess the number of jelly beans in the container", with Chicago's Soldier Field and 26 other football stadiums as the containers.

so, 1995 cryptobros, sports stadiums, and damn near NFTs.
It’s about as trustworthy as the average person. You’d want to verify any fact it fed you.

Of course you want to do that with people too. Shouldn’t be too hard to bake in a self check module.
Because it is the artists decision to make, not a committee by force of pressure from a small but aggressive and vocal group. For instance, Dahl changed the Oompa Loompas description in the original book from African Pygmies to what they are today. Regardless of if there was pressure to do so, it was his choice as the artist. He doesn't exist any longer and his will makes no mention of editing his works. So doing so is a crime essentially.
There are a lot of relatively cold plasmas that don’t indicate fusion. Well, sure, maybe a few particles defy the odds and fuse, but really you’re seeing basically none unless the heat and density get high enough.
Written in Go? Awesome!
That's not true at all. Right now there's a tension in ML between hoovering up as much data as possible (since more data, even if it's bad, tends to improve the model in general even if it poisons certain parts of it) and curating/annotating data sets to improve answer quality and consistency.

Data set annotation is expensive and time consuming, and it's a hard sell to shareholders to spend a billion dollars on data set annotation when there's still more data that can be cheaply obtained, and the liability or cost for producing incorrect answers is intangible or low. After Google's massive share hit from Bard's exoplanet flub though, I don't think the costs are quite as intangible as they were, and I expect accuracy will become a new push in models over the next few years.
I’m curious, what countries are you trying to send money between?

I’ve only ever really transacted with big countries’ currencies (EUR, USD, GBP, etc.), and I’ve found that the ordinary banking systems (especially with fintech like Wise) serve me quite well for this use case. I’d love to hear more about the flipside of that.
I did grow up in a religious vegetarian family but my rationale for remaining vegetarian is simple. We derive all our energy from the sun. The more hops between myself and the source, the less efficient the energy transfer. For now plants to me is the most efficient way I know. I still eat dairy and eggs but no meat for that reason.
Should doctors help patients buy drugs overseas?
Most of these package systems being attacked run arbitrary code on your system when you install the package in order to allow native extensions to compile. Maven/Java simply downloads a (relatively) inert zip archive that your IDE might do some static analysis on to provide autocomplete.

Along with all the scanning and what not, I think that’s the biggest reason you see attacks primarily on npm, PyPi, and to an extent Ruby Gems.
> It literally one of the features on the extension's description page.

Yes, but just one of the features, and not one I've been using because I wasn't interested in it at the time. This is a classic "advertising" opportunity that companies do all the time called "upselling," and it's absolutely an ad because the whole point is to get me to start using a feature that I'm not currently using.

I think many of the responses here have been overreactions, and "advertising" is definitely a dirty word on HN and gets some severe and undeserved knee-jerk reactions, but it is what it is.
I’m assuming Full Throttle means as much modern interpretation of older texts and maximum modifications; while Grandma means keeping the book the way it was, why do they always have to change things, in my day we read whatever book we could find and we liked it?

I know no Grandmas that like when things they had on their youth are changed.
It's not very easy to confuse a software library with a fictional gun. You have to try pretty hard.
GPT-451
I think there is a greater tolerance for error here though.

Cars haven't made it yet because the assumption about allowable errors was wrong. Turns out it isn't "good enough" for self-driving cars to be safer than humans.
I could have been more clear I guess. It's not the optimism about the future that bothers me, or even about technology per se. It's the apparent belief that irreverent vision-driven geniuses leading technology-focused companies is a coherent path into a positive future.

To me this view is extremely american, contemporary and unproven, having emerged just in the last few decades and already running into serious issues with its viability as a mechanism for wide spread long term positive change.

It's not that I mind someone exploring this model, or portraying it in fiction. I think it's a backdrop for some genuinely interesting and dynamic conflicts, as demonstrated by the book itself.

My issue is that this system has been taking on an almost religion-like character in some groups, and stephenson seems to be a true believer. Again not necessarily a mortal sin, but it leaves him with some blind spots that are frustrating as a reader and as someone who is also, on a good day, an optimist about technology and the future.
Ask HN: What should companies be doing with all their empty office space?
My employer has a large office building. Ever since the pandemic, 95% percent of the desks are empty. most of the floors have nobody working on them. it's like the backrooms.
i was thinking of indoor gardening. bring in some lights and plant trays of seeds.
what are your ideas?
Also other disheartening ones -

Inside the grand and sometimes slimy plan to turn octopuses into lab animals-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/insid...

Recently read a New Yorker article that was arguing for "free-range" lab mice which may actually be better for the experiments themselves. I hope there's enough oversight for these programs.
They are doing it on bitcoin now by storing the whole image data in a transaction. Someone minted a full block (4MB) NFT yesterday. Since these transactions are considered non-standard and won’t be propagated by nodes they have to go directly to the miner out of band. The 4MB paid no transaction fee put payed the miner $18000 privately
It's been 14 years, billions in investment and roughly speaking zero non-criminal usage and no real-world killer use cases. That's just fact. Time to move on.
I believe this was an experiment to see that they can put a lot of energy into the reactor, and take a lot of energy out of it as well. Both of these are necessary criteria for a power plant.
I would. You think someone's gonna snatch it off my head or something? I wear 300 dollar noise cancelling headphones at stare at my 1000 dollar phone on the bus every day
I think there are use cases in countries that have currency collapses, but that doesn't happen at a high enough rate for it to be commercially viable. At this point it's pure speculation.
You can thank the MTA for knowing that monday.com exists
Ken Thompson’s Trusting Trust is very relevant.
Azure Databricks Pricing Error
The advertised Azure Databricks pricing for NCas_T4_v3 series (NVIDIA T4 GPUs) is incorrect on the website. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/databricks/

The advertised prices are much lower than they should be. The basic formula for Databricks is:

(Total Price) = (VM Price) + (DBU Price)

I am not sure if they are billing less than they should be or billing more than they advertise. If you used this series on Azure Databrick you may want to check your billing.
The research is open, you still need

1) to have a good idea for a product that people want

2) lots of talent and resources to actually build and run everything
It will take coding jobs. It won't take developer jobs(yet). I utilize ChatGPT a lot. As long as i know what I need and it is somewhat simple - the generated code requires sanity and whether it is under O(n^n). So the people whose job is to translate waterfall specs to java can feel threatened.
I think the root cause is misaligned incentives for the involved parties.

IC vendors have a lot of incentive to lock you in their ecosystem.
Embedded developers are paid to produce firmware for widgets- their priority is shipping a firmware binary to manufacturer.

Besides, I don't find Arduino IDE that reliable- I still have to figure out which board definition to use (is this a micro or nano? Perhaps nano pro? Why doesn't this blink code not work on RP2040 board? Oh right, I selected adafruit rp2040 board when I was using pico, which uses board pin numbers vs rp2040 gpio numbers)
Ok, on the risk of sounding exactly like one of the "sentience" guys, but "statistical probabilities of relationships between strings of characters" is a non-answer that makes the whole thing sound simpler than it is without actually providing any explanation how it works. What kind of statistical probabilities exactly?

Right now, research is still ongoing what kind of knowledge is actually captured inside the models, but there are some hints that higher-level, "semantic" knowledge might emerge during training: https://thegradient.pub/othello/
Wow this is cool. I just made a comment on how the aliens in sci-fi movie Arrival were awesome Octopus looking aliens called heptapods.
Projecting our humanity onto these models by assuming they are "lying" is a mistake. These models are not thinking, thus, they cannot lie.
Yes, but unfortunately not the wifi of the esp32
10 years worth
trying new commands with alexa is annoying to the point I just use it for turning lights on/off and playing music, anything else Im 50/50 ending screaming shut up
The value of paper money is in it's utility as a transaction aid. It has currency.
How accurate are these numbers? That's actually more than I expected - respectable and incredibly high, I agree
not just "a man" but Paul Muad'ib. and he doesn't so much gain a wife as take responsibility for looking after her. and he didn't want to kill the guy at all. this is all because he had to fit in with the culture of the fremen tribe he had just joined.