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Ask HN: Viable career pivots for a Senior Director
I am currently a senior director in the security industry, managing both an offensive and defensive security team. For a decade before moving into this position, I worked almost exclusively in offensive security, red teaming, LOTS of exploit development etc. and also did some malware forensics work to help out various teams during IR engagements (also taught a course on this at a college as a guest lecturer of sorts). The issue I am having, is I am currently in this position for a small company (50ish people), and I feel as though I am spread too thin. I run the business side of things, including designing services, pricing, budgeting, managing, hiring etc. but because I have such a small team, I also do a lot of the technical work including a lot of the engineering. I regularly help out on red team engagements and pentests (when not in meetings etc.), I design and architect MDR solutions, and I write most of the code for our shop. The problem is, this is burning me out in a serious way, as I am pulling 60-80 hour weeks all the time. I am everything to all the teams at all the times, and am constantly bombarded by everyone. Sales, senior leadership, juniors, intermediates, seniors, clients, etc. I wear all the hats. I don't have the budget to hire people to fill a lot of these roles at the moment because we are a boot strapped company, and our CEO won't take outside investors despite interest from several places. I am therefore thinking of leaving and finding another job, but I feel like because I have spent the last two years wearing all the hats, I may not be an expert in any one thing anymore. Has anyone found success pivoting from this sort of jack-of-all-trades role, and what did you pivot into? Lately I am having some serious imposter syndrome because I can't stay an expert in any one discipline, and worry if I went to market, I wouldn't have the MBA level knowledge for a strictly director/business role, the pure technical knowledge (at the moment) for a purely technical role, and may not even have parties interested in me for those roles because of the title. How do people pivot and handle this sort of thing? Are there larger companies that hire these types of profiles for director roles expecting a jack-of-all-trades sort of profile or are they looking for strictly focused profiles? My previous roles were often with larger international companies, but I was doing extremely focused work. Any advice is welcome.
IA has tons of stuff. Scroll down past the Wayback search on https://archive.org/ to the more advanced search and you can see more categories. You can play a lot of the audio, video, and even some software right in the browser. Their physical archive is also huge. Here are some pictures from 2012 https://scldigital.wordpress.com/internet-archive-gallery/
I'm skeptical that multimodal input can help with programming or logic problems - or even most scientific problems.
The use of the term “RINO” is common among conservatives and has been for decades. You think that the mere use of this word makes someone “alt-right”? And having uttered this single word, any AI they want to make is necessarily an alt-right AI? Is this a serious argument?

An article link (which hardly even supports your position) is no substitute for an argument.
He’s laid out five stages where he says specific changes will occur. He’s extrapolating this all based on evidence from just the past few months. This is nonsense. I’m not saying I know we’re not going to be replaced, but neither does he.

For example, he links to an article that he says shows “OpenAI has openly stated its intent to replace developers”, but when you read that article, it’s actually about a report by another company (not OpenAI itself) saying that “OpenAI is pursuing an avenue to make basic coding practices essentially obsolete”. That’s _very_ different than making _programmers_ obsolete.

Listen, if all you do is plug shit together and don’t contribute at a higher level than that, yeah your job might be at risk. But if you use this as a tool to release you from the drudgery of “basic coding”, this could be an incredible tool to make you far more effective.

Almost every time there’s a new tool that gives us new capabilities, instead of firing programmers (except for this one period of COVID hangover layoffs), companies make the choice to do _more_ with the same number of people. (If we don’t, the the competition will!) And so the level of complexity ratchets up higher. And who are the people that can manage that complexity? The CEO? The product managers? No. Software engineers.

Unless they actually create AGI. It which case, everyone is fucked, regardless of the industry. At that point, we all have to become massage therapists or waiters.
In places with reliable supply of potable water - most of the developed world - the business provides no real value. And plenty of harm in the form of plastic pollution.

Bottled water should be a niche business. In the same category as surplus MREs or heavy-duty construction radios.
Euro 2024: put football back in spotlight and boost a continent’s self-belief
> music, movies and arts will outlive us.

Will they? Who watches old movies?
Why do progressives always resort to oblique arguments like this? Are you capable of engaging without resorting to innuendo or broad accusations of bad faith?
Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax
Well that’s embarrassing. You’re right, and I completely misread earlier. I think the core of my argument stands even with that, but thanks for pointing that out. Cheers!
People have loud mouths that ruin the fun for themselves, and others. Today, people just can't help but show off.
It's based on refusing to adapt to a society with digital objects.
> So long as China continues to ban US social media companies and search engines

Its just bizzare to know that China bans those companies yet US allows Chinese social media companies to run in US.
I work on a 17.5 million line code base across 4 different languages that I know will not be something chatGPT has trained on and it won’t be due to commercial interests. Not worried about it.
Example output: https://github.com/context-labs/autodoc/blob/master/.autodoc...
It’s so short-sighted to say that inflation is “tolerable”.

Since 2008, the real inflation has been in asset prices - housing, equities, startup valuations have been up massively across the board.

This has societal consequences. The divide between the asset owning class and the non-asset owning class has never been greater. Stretch that out and you get populists getting elected all over the world.

Donald Trump didn’t get elected in a vacuum.
The need for “tools” is a bit of a red flag too.
Use https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
This is basically the same way that courts have always ruled on this point.

Redbox tried this theory several years ago when they were trying to launch their film streaming service, and failed for the same reasons.
RIP. As an ex-Intel employee, this one stings. He was a godly figure internally and even during Intel's deteriorating years, engineers and technologists looked up to him as a constant north star of inspiration and engineering culture. Hope his demise gives a long pause to Intel's leadership and bring back some of good parts of the engineering culture from the 80's and 90's.
I'm so glad to see something accessible from ARM that is vaguely performant & somewhat affordable. I bought one, pre-ordered it! Still untouched, still not running Debian, but delighted to see, excited to have this. Phones have sick incredible ARM cores but general availability of ARM chips is crazy shit, A72 (2015) or A73 processors have been the best one could hope for on a reasonable priced SBC, and the RK3588 here's A76 (2018) is vastly more modern, albeit still half a decade old.

Still. This is not a fair comparison, but the used/refurb/old-stock PC market is just so ridiculously more capable. A HP EliteDesk G2 has i5-6500T (2015), 8GB ram, and 250GB SATA drive is $140 on amazon. It's a higher powered machine, 9W versus ~3W idle (shame on this review for having no power consumption figures at all), and much higher full-open power (I think my last kernel compile was <35W which is the TDP of the chip alone). And the OrangePi is significantly smaller form factor. There's cases where the OrangePi is a better fit. But for most general use, the x86 market has far far better value, does so much more, has so much more bandwidth (often 8x USB3.0 hosts, plus significant internal pcie).

There's periodic articles on repurposing thin-client computer hardware. But again there's just such a mismatched value proposition. Not the same shakeout: they have hot, old, low-end chips, but sometimes very cheap on secondary markets. But there's typically much better mini-PCs with vastly more performance for not that much more, that will idle at least as well if not greatly better. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33791069

It's just so weird how few ARM chips are available. There had been a little more variety in who one could buy an SBC from. But now... Rockchip is the main company making purchaseable chips. Allwinner had some pretty fine offerings but has gotten sparse. MediaTek is doing excellent things in many spaces, but has almost no presence in accessible SBCs. There's tons of other chips but most of the market is invisible, is utterly uninterested in selling SBC type boards. There's a parallel x86 market, but Ryzen embedded systems tend to start at $400 for very sparse models. It's frustrating how deliberately unserved the low end is. That commodity x86 hardware dominates so savagely, by so many country-miles keeps feeling unfortunate. That ARM has such small niches it plays competitively in, and everywhere else it's broadly unavailable & unaffordable is a weird market dynamic, while these normally very expensive x86 cpus become available & affordable systems is such a strong & visible counter-trend.

Also see: "Unpopular Opinion: Don't use an RPI for that" on these mini-PCs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260322
Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
With GPT so hot in the news right now, and seeing lots of impressive demos, I'm curious to know, how are you actively using GPT to be productive in your daily workflow? And what tools are you using in tandem with GPT to make it more effective? Have you written your own tools, or do you use it in tandem with third party tools?

I'd be particularly interested to hear how you use GPT to write or correct code beyond Copilot or asking ChatGPT about code in chat format.

But I'm also interested in hearing about useful prompts that you use to increase your productivity.
Better yet, US courts have found that the government or agencies involved in searches are explicitly not liable for any damage as long as the warrant is "valid". "cool".
Upvoted this story so people who know more than will see it and comment.

Don’t let me down, HN!
> Still don’t see the problem

China can access some target in the US who is on tictok and get their realtime location.
6502 also had some "little things". E.g., it's jump indirect didn't work across page boundaries:
http://www.6502.org/tutorials/6502opcodes.html#JMP
Is this that piece where really smart people are swayed by the perspective of someone that was psychologically tortured to the point of rationalizing murder?
Can't you do that with the Google Assistant?
Not everyone has the privilege of working for free
Worse is Better is Worse [pdf]
Does the cage allow escalation phonecalls?
What's the number of a good one to look up?
I just watched Some Like It Hot (1959) a few weeks ago. Great comedy, looks phenomenal in 4K
If you weren't planning on switching because of the for-cost team plan, you really should switch now. If Docker can't charge for their software at all without having so many people migrate away that they have to reverse the decision, then they are not a viable commercial entity and will randomly disappear in 1 or 3 or 5 years, probably when it is very inconvenient and you haven't prepared for it.
The perfect reasoner is upon us ?
Just one thing to note, I'm sure among many: if I lived in a place they got bombed so much by outsiders, I'd probably become insular and hostile to outsiders.

Not saying I think they should stay that way, but maybe just adding one perspective on why they might feel that way.
"The latest language model, GPT-4, has 1 trillion parameters."

What?
Geom_smooth actually interpolates 80 points along the range of your data and then fits a Loess regression on that. It is incredibly slow to train on significant numbers of data points, hence the workaround.

Edit: I misremembered, it evaluates 80 predictions to draw the line, which is why you can't retrieve the formula from the plot object anymore, but it does in fact fit on the whole dataset.

Loess regression does have n^2 memory complexity, but the cutoff it uses to decide to go for a different model family is n >= 1000.
It is hard because one of the parties has become completely disconnected from reality. I mean, they had the choices of either airing propaganda or just not airing any statements from the previous administration. Hard time to be a reported I guess.
seems to me that once something is out of print for a lengthy period of time, publishers shouldn't be able to make the fair use argument that electronic copies interfere with the commercial market for the book.
Desalination technology? More efficient use of water for agriculture? New technology for water purification and waste water treatment?

There are a ton of ways private investment can help make water use more efficient. But if water prices are artificially low, that investment will never happen.

Israel has 10M people and gets 50% of its water from desalination - 75% of drinking water. It also reclaims 90% of agricultural waste water.

It's absolutely possible for countries to solve many of their water issues with new technology.
Black holes may be swallowing invisible matter that slows the movement of stars
> particular

And of course I would make a typo. That should say "particularly". :)
The account is free, but this link will work for the next 4 hours.
https://access.cdn.redhat.com/developers/Podman-in-Action-eb...
They own search, they own ads, and any disruption from chat-style agents disrupts those hard. So, as long as no one else had it in a compelling, public-facing product, stalling was in their interests.

(Not quite sure why their hair on fire wasn’t until the Bing/GPT-4 release; ChatGPT should have been enough.)
Here is how you stop free service without betraying trust:

First, lock creation of new free accounts. Then announce that:

- After a long time (at least a year), newer images won't be accepted on free plan and after even longer time, existing images would be deleted.

- After a long time (at least a year), free plan images would be deleted, starting with least used first.

- Downloads from free accounts are heavily throttled. Speed becomes even slower the more stuff that IP downloads. The full speed is restored if either account owner or downloader have paid accounts

- In a few months, accounts get a quota, and you only get 10 downloads/hour for free. Everyone else gets an error message and have to try again in an hour.

... see? So many way to wind it down without having everyone freak out. Docker has really flubbed that decision.
Parts make it more profitable compared to a bike.
Japan and Germany were both bombed flat in WW2. Their recovery was based on turning to free markets.
Not an expert but one of the datasets used to train OpenAI GPT is Common Crawl and they use Harmonic Centrality not PageRank.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/harmonic-centrality-page...
Car talk is gone, with the death of Tom in 2014. That show is missed, kinda about cars, really funny. They still remix old ones but it’s not the same.

The daily “Boston Public Radio” talk show is pretty fun, but more Boston based.
Is the pissy-fight back and forth between two world powers worth the 150M people that have gotten more useful news than we have in years; *and* the millions of small businesses that have been able to get off the ground due to TikTok's algorithm helping them find the right audience?
There’s been a lot of claims of GPT-4 being at or around a 1 trillion parameters, but I don’t see any clear sourcing.
> Sorry, it won’t. This might even be peak GPT. Training data comes from human content, and currently there is decades worth of pure human content available.

This assumes that GPT4 is trained on all currently-available training data.

Is that true?
Just because we shouldn’t doesn’t mean people won’t pay for the service.

My “Well done” was not meant sarcastically!
I have asked ChatGPT tax questions, some of which I knew the answers to and others not. I think it’s a great summarizer if the spammy blogs out there.

It’s great for bash one-liners with flags and OS-specific nuances.

Haven’t really been able to use it for really advanced things. But maybe someday.
With the understanding that it's only trained up to Sep 2021, I'm using it to spot check for any libraries that have flown under my radar, or any other methods of doing work that I usually do, but in a different fashion.

Do I always get stuff that I can apply? No, not really. But given that discoverability can be low for things like that, it's usually helpful at finding me things to, at the very least, look into.
Quick question: does it feed in the entire html inside the GPT prompt and get results from there?
So..., does hacker news have to comply with this?
the implication here is that GPT is just brute force memorizing stuff and that it can't actually work from first principles to solve new problems that are just extensions/variations of concepts it should know from training data it has already seen

on the other hand, even if that's true GPT is still extremely useful because 90%+ of coding and other tasks are just grunge work that it can handle. GPT is fantastic for data processing, interacting with APIs, etc.
What happened to Google Books?

I would argue the artist still deserves to retain value, regardless of the size of it unless they give it up. If it expires, sure it's public domain.
Another common prediction is that articles like these will be trivial for ChatGPT to author.

Will tears flow at the loss of tech bloggers? How about SEO content writers? In the latter case, copy-paste drivel writers will be the first to lose their jobs.

Programmers may be under the pump in many circumstances. But their skills often require human decisions beyond valid code. Decisions taking into account technical debt, business reasons, UI concerns, or making calculated compromises such as not pissing off the existing codebase, people, or legacy systems that can't be moved easily.

ChatGPT literally doesn't care if it gets those decisions wrong. If your Ai software engineer turns out to be a Shatbot, where is the accountability?
I've been adding C# code completion functionality to my REPL tool, and ended up reverting to the text-davinci model.

The codex (discontinued?) and text-davinci models gave much better results than GPT3.5-turbo, specifically for code completion scenarios. The latest models seem to produce invalid code, mostly having trouble at the boundaries where they start the completion.

My suspicion is that these latter models focus more on conversation semantics than code completion, and completing code "conversationally" vs completing code in a syntactically valid way has differences.

For example, if the last line of code to be completed is a comment, the model will happily continue to write code on the same line as the comment. Not an issue in a conversation model as there is a natural break in a conversation, but when integrating with tooling it's challenging.

Most likely the issue is that I'm not yet effective at prompt engineering, but I had no issues iterating on prompts for the earlier models. I'm loving the DaVinci model and it's working really well -- I just hope it's not discontinued too soon in favor of later models.
Do they strip them for parts?

Can someone confirm if that is viable?

Certainly I'd imagine all smart-phone parts ranging from the camera modules, batteries, screens and cases are all worth money!

The logic boards might be tied to some sort of security?

I say this, as I use a small back-street phone repair guy who has drawers of various genuine and non-official parts for iPhones, and I've used him to replace smashed screens and camera modules!
Regular (obnoxious) ebook lending is done under license of the publisher, presumably with the approval of the rightsholders. It may or may not be distribution, but it's approved, so it's ok.
You can get a Beeb with 64k. The Master even comes with 128k standard, if I’m not mistaken.
They said they're not using GPS; and, my iPhone hasn't revealed TikTok asking for my GPS location, so this means if they're tracking location, it's based on preferences, watching times, IP address or something else not GPS-related, all of which are wholely accessible to every single website on the internet, those hosted in China and any other country.

Know anyone that uses AliExpress? Or plays Genshin Impact?
Result will be rampant piracy and theft of creator works (which posters seem to be a proponent of here)
It's definitely not just copying verbatim. If you mean it's emulating the reasoning pattern it sees in the training data well...don't humans do that as well to get answers to novel problems?
Yet expecting some harsh top-down measure to deal with it is often as useless as expecting the drug addiction epidemic to end if only drugs were illegal. Ultimately we need to not only put effort into hard limits tech-wise for those in exploitative/extreme situations but most importantly developing social awareness and strategies to deal with the issue.

Not having a phone at the dinner table (with family, with friends, etc), for example, could easily become a social norm/taboo, and it already is for most people I know already. The benefit of these rules (vs more aggressive top-down rules like no phones in the venue period) are there can be exceptional exceptions when you really need to be on-call.

While I'm sympathetic to the motivations behind stuff like gov/venue controls for stuff like this, in practice it's usually a much tougher social issue that needs to be nurtured rationally/carefully, with respect towards those tangibly victim to the downsides. We all are inclined to seek cheap boogie men to blame for social issues but we also tend to disregard the downsides of the utility of hard/aggressive rules while simultaneously being fully aware of the natural inclination to bypass such rules when it matters.
I would prefer to say that we've seen a glimpse of what a future world with a perfect reasoner will be like
Mostly just asking stuff directly on https://chat.openai.com/chat. Last 8 requests were (all successful):

- Asked it to improve a HN comment I wrote.

- Asked about an idiom I couldn't remember, by saying it in other words.

- Asked it to dumb down some things about options (finance) I didn't understand.

- Asked it if I could use the eBay API to list my purchase history (you can, and it knew how).

- Asked it to generate pretty standard Terms of Service for an app I'm working on.

- Asked it to generate a moderately complex Prisma (ORM) query that I described in natural language.

- Described what I wanted Nginx to do in natural language (e.g. "the index file will be served whenever no file is found") and asked it to output a configuration file.

- Asked it what the "XDG" in "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" stood for.

Also, occasionally ask it to generate shell commands using a CLI I wrote[0].

[0] https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli
The actions of the masses is the economy.
Put those questions to ChatGPT.
I doubt an LLM is more efficient than previous documentation generators.