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Ask HN: Help me find an article posted on HN about a Silicon Valley copywriter
I thought I'd give this a shot, but there was an article posted around 2016 - 2019 (I'm guessing here), that I've thought about regularly. The reason I've thought about it is because it was probably one of the best pieces of writing I've ever read.

Things I'm fairly certain about:
- The article was about a female silicon valley copywriter, detailing her thoughts over a period of time (I assume, months or years)
- It basically read like a journal, a reflection of her time working in silicon valley
- During the article, she is let go from the company
- The article was relatively long

Things I'm semi-certain about:
- I believe that the author decided to remain anonymous, but I could be wrong about this.
- I think it may have been posted in the Atlantic, or a website with similar content

Any help greatly appreciated.
Jason Fried: Founder and CEO is kinda a BS title
2023 Hackaday Prize: The Assistive Tech Challenge Starts Now
Drug discovery companies are customizing ChatGPT: here’s how
It grew from the scrappy group to the mega-powerhouse by combining a number of things: being the right place at the right time with the right resources and people. They had a great cachet- I was working hard to join Brain in 2012 because it seemed like they were one of the few groups who had access to the necessary CPU and data sets and mental approaches that would transform machine learning. And at that time, they used that cachet to hire a bunch of up and coming researchers (many of them Hinton's students or in his sphere) and wrote up some pretty great papers.

Many people outside of Brain were researchers working on boring other projects who transferred in, bringing their internal experience in software development and deployment, which helped a lot on the infra side.
Samsung is onto this - you can't signup with an email that has the word Samsung in it. So slamsung@ it is.
Warfare changes very fast lately, and it was one of the main pitches of those littoral ships: make them modular, so they can be easily modified for current and future missions.
Wow, that's a pretty cool idea I've never considered. Switching CPU governor based on the virtual desktop.
An Intuitive Explanation of Large Language Models
Was just reading that in Seattle 1/3 go to private schools at this point and many of the parents site this kind of activity as the reason.
Please publish this on its own somewhere! This is fantastic.
They were perfectly profitable till greed didn't breed more walled gardens
> Honestly I'm not too sure how to do that.

Quite simple, I always undervolt AMD hardware as they tend to consistently exxagerate on that, gpus too.

https://youtu.be/1pizvaYiVbk
It's already in there. "How do you do this without introducing them to fascism, outrage fuel, shock content, or other trash?" and "This must include anti-fascism."

If it is in there, it's fair game to respond to.
Today: Adaptive Machine Translation in 200 langs
Have you considered Skydio instead?
No.

"Generalists" usually carries an implication of a higher volume of less developed skills.
GPU.

"Specialists" likewise refers to fewer more developed skills. CPU.

The future belongs to those who can maximize both trees.
A high volume of highly developed skills.

That will likely take the form of a specialized skillset: Leveraging frontier technologies to advance complexity in market niches (presumably via heavy usage of AI).
This aligns more with the "Specialist" than the "Generalist".
https://www.gene.com/scientists/our-scientists/prescient-des...
It says in the first paragraph of your link that it was an Air Force base. There's no "highway" to it, technically or otherwise: they landed at an airport.
Yes. It's actually uncommon for a business not to take loans out. You can see how much a public company owes in the balance sheet: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/balance-sheet/
I wonder if it will extend to generating off-screen content like interviews and paparazzi photos.

I think you're right though, it will happen. Probably in some cheap corner where it makes economic sense, then to the bigger roles. Perhaps you don't want to manage thousands of extras for battle scenes, paying them and feeding them. Just generate them. Then eventually you also end up doing away with minor speaking roles, then the big ones.

The plot can also be generated. If you like fantasy, the AI can generate a new world for you with its own lore.
I believe we've seen issues like this before from motherboard manufacturers, who are pushing more voltage to the CPU to get more performance out them. Recently is was on the Intel side of things.
My blog, which has only a single post (which details why I set up the blog like this), is written in emacs org-mode and deployed using an Emacs Lisp build script to surge.sh.

https://blog.ericlondr.es/

My one suggestion is that however you decide to publish your blog, be sure to include an Atom feed which is kept up-to-date. I don't do this for my blog yet, though I should.
Meta shares jump on upbeat guidance and sales growth
Ask HN: Fear of First Employee
This is a hypothetical scenario that keeps circling in my head and I have not found much information how to deal with this in business related books.

Let's say I have a niche product that I have developed to a MVP stage. The product is bootstrapped and I have enough funds to start a small run and I am banking on the fact that the initial batch will sell, so I could start thinking about expansion and possibly hiring a first employee to help with the development and to free up my time so I can focus on some parts of the business I neglected.

As a neurodivergent person I am struggling to tell apart someone having good intentions from a scammer and I have been a victim many times and many times I have been wrong - accusing someone of trying to scam when in reality they had good intentions and genuinely struggled to deliver something.

What worries me the most is the scenario where I hire someone and that person would take my company IP and publish it. Technically then anyone could make a product using the source files and given that I have limited funds I wouldn't be able to take any legal action. Law enforcement in my country (UK) is non-existent so I wouldn't have support there. So that my business would be over and years of my hard work would probably be gone.

What are the strategies to prevent that from happening? Is there an insurance that could protect the business? (It's probably another can of worms - how do I know the insurance will not pull some small print that I misunderstood and won't help?)
Should I amass a lot of capital so I can afford legal assistance first?

Are there any good resources offering guidance on how to run a business for neurodivergent people (e.g. on autistic spectrum)?

Thank you for any insight!
A trivialization of the subject really.
I did not need math practice. I was just good at it.

My oldest son brought his classroom math work home for a year, lied to me and told me it was homework because he wanted to understand and the teacher couldn't explain it in a way he found helpful. Then he would fight with me for an hour until he was in tears.

Different kids have different strengths and weaknesses.
It's been a nightmare for my org. We have several people with T-Mobile and Verizon home internet and it's always a game of "What shenanigans will I have to use this week to get VPNs to work?" Sometimes it seems like their 6to4 implementation is just broken but I'm not a network engineer.
Is this considered a good deal? 100GB data on SaskTel for $140/month? In the UK you can get that for ~£10/month, $17CAD.

And before everyone starts, no, geography doesn't really make a huge difference in cost of providing the service. In remote rural areas you can get away with putting one tower up with LTE800 or another low frequency carrier, which will probably cover 20km in each direction from the cell site. Dense places are much more expensive to serve, requiring cell sites every <1km with a multitude of high and low frequency carriers.
What waitlist? I got immediate access as soon as I paid.
It's useful to check if you dumped your discs correctly.
Woke is not new, it's around for 40, 50 years? But the way liberals are using it is different from how right-wings are using it today. For them, it's now a plain insult for anything not on their side. And this meaning has spreading like cancer in recent years.
Those who want to tear it down almost always assume that what replaces it will somehow magically be better. Instead, it's almost always worse.

xibalba said it better than me at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29244364
> But because it's written in C, sudo has experienced many vulnerabilities related to memory safety issues.

Or because it's not been developed with enough care?

I for one think that there is no unsafe language, only careless programmers.
There is a similar license clause for the weights[0] as well, so I'm not sure this would apply unless you write the code and train your model from scratch.

[0] https://github.com/deep-floyd/IF/blob/main/LICENSE-MODEL#L54
https://archive.is/26yI3

This explainer is pretty good. Sorry for the archive link, the original seems to be down
You actually have to make an argument, which you didn't.

The argument for why Microsoft would make things better is that we can look how great Microsoft has been handling similar gaming acquisitions, like Minecraft.

Your "argument" though seems to be repeat back someone else statement while saying "Nuh uhh!".

Do have an actual original thought here, as for why you think Microsoft would make things worse, when the evidence we have shows otherwise?

Or is the extent of your argument "Nuh Uhh!" And "I said the opposite of what you just said!"
There's no tax shortfall. Taxing tax havens is fine but you shouldn't expect it to limit inflation very much.
Interesting. The EU already includes aviation emissions in the ETS (cap and trade scheme, current market price about €90/tonne). It's not clear to me why they're
adding this other type of measure.
I'm using substack, but eventually I want to move to something I own.
John Authers, a Bloomberg columnist, discusses this a bit in https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-26/uk-inf... and thinks his friend got a bit of a raw deal here in the public reaction. If you like Matt Levine's columns, you might find Authers's newsletter worth a look.
According to the Wiki that's exactly what it is.

http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Redump.org

I agree that it seems of limited utility. Helpful if you are trying to verify that a disc isn't damaged I guess?
ID4 is also made in america
This is because software developers are too good at automation themselves out of a job.
The UI package appears to use Rollup.

And this looks like the PR for the icons update: https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/pull/1001
And you guarantee in writing that this pricing structure will never change?
LOL citation needed. (Yes, everyone knows about the wife.)
Seems quite expensive. On top you need to add 15 USD / month.

So for 300 USD + 15 USD / month, you can get a Garmin inReach Messenger
I assume they mean API access to GPT4, not the ChatGPT interface.
> According to Netflix, there is an initial wave of cancellations, but over the ensuing months, they end up with more paying subscribers than there were before the password-sharing crackdown.

The question begging to be asked here is whether those are new subscribers or people that were using someone's else password, natural growth, or just a good show landed in meantime and a bunch of people subscribed
I don't think this is primarily about saving money on licensing or bandwidth or whatever. It's more about what percentage of the accounts that are sharing will pay for an extra user, or will have one or more of the ejected users get their own subscription, and whether that added revenue comes out to more than the loss from people just dropping the platform.
They did; the anticipated needs in the environment when it was designed were not the actual needs when it waa delivered.

This is a perennial big-project problem (one of the core things addressed, originally, by Agile in software), but you can’t easily quickly turn out an MVP of a warship and rapidly iterate on it.

A lot of time it doesn’t get noticed because needs move further toward the strengths of the project, or because there is a good opportunity for adaptation. But sometimes, you just get burned.
MATE is a GNOME 2 fork created to continue its development without the radical turn of GNOME 3.

Cinnamon is actually a GNOME 3 fork created to turn it back into a more traditional desktop environment.

XFCE is not a fork of any version of GNOME, although it does have a UI similar to GNOME 2 and is based on GTK.

Personally, I switched to XFCE back when GNOME 3 came out, and have been happy with it.
Are third party clients allowed? One thing that has made me avoid discord and most of these sorts of chat apps is that they really hate users having customized clients. There's a lot of cool features that people have made for unauthorized discord client modifications which are technically forbidden which is not ideal.
If Netflix was struggling to be profitable, I might understand. But they're really just upset that their increase in profit YoY is not doubling fast enough. So I cancelled. Plex is great.
When they are really getting close to physical limits, generational improvements will also be smaller. Then it is probably easier for others to get close TSMC. Currently being (e.g.) two years behind TSMC means being also substantially behind in performance. But when improvements slow down, such a two-year lag may not be so substantial anymore in terms of performance.
Over half the posts on my feed are ads at this point.

I'm not sure[1] why I bother.

[1] Actually, I'm sure that if my mother leaves Facebook, so will I.
Yes, and most never want to acknowledge the real unintended consequences in things like this. There will just be even more oddball stuff enacted to "fix" the new problems.
4090s are only $1600 or so now, for that matter.
> No, interstate highways in the US are not required by regulation to be designed for military use.

I think you mean "military aircraft use", because it's a well-known fact that the U.S. Interstate Highway System was conceived and implemented to facilitate movement of troops and materiel in the event of a war on the home front.
In the short term yes but in the very long term, the old people will die out.
Why does Google X exist?
Wouldn't it be possible to make an IRC client+server that's a perfect clone of Slack? I guess you'd need a SIP plugin for huddles.
Heh. I've read the ruling. Your quote doesn't prove anything.
This was a great show I can't say enough about. It really mad me laugh out loud far more than any other show in recent memory. (And in the end, if I recall, both groups of writers learned that the other was actually pretty decent at their jobs and had a lot of good ideas.) Unfortunately, it didn't do spectacularly in the ratings and was immediately canceled. I seriously hope someone else picks it up, but I don't know how likely that is.
Because most OAuth libraries are very incomplete.

They implement a few happy parths of the standard, but a lot of things are just not there.
> Companies paying for ads don't know any different, because you're paying for impressions, not engagement/convergence (e.g., clicks).

Companies are paying for impressions, but they will reduce their spending if the impressions do not result in conversions. It's trivial to tell if a visitor to your store came from Facebook, Google, or wherever.
I personally don't think Slack is a great product for open communities. While I don't think they're actively hostile to open communities it's certainly not their priority from a feature perspective. In my view, Slack is an enterprise product, and Discord is more of a commercial product. It's very difficult to be both and gain necessary market share.

There's also the tangential fact that open source shouldn't be relying on proprietary communication protocols that are difficult to migrate away from or make it difficult to maintain anonymity.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you're implying here is that PKCE and URI allowlist are the same feature because if you specify URI allowlist while initializing the flow - it somehow helps public clients to prove they're the apps that initialized the flow and are the ones who are finalizing it?

Could you please expand on that thought, I'm genuinely curious if you actually might be right or whether this assumption of yours is how we get security holes.
While the optimization is cool and an interesting read - it's interesting to call this a "Slack alternative" when there are only a couple similarities between the products in that they have people sending text messages to channels.

This is more of an IRC/forum alternative to me (which Slack originally was) until it is possible to use Linen instead of Slack.

Or just as a Slack plugin for the public Google search aspect - but this is absolutely incorrect to call it a Slack alternative for anyone who is using Slack as Slack. Things video/screen sharing/drawing huddles, integrations, SSO and permissions, slackbot, OCR search, notification settings etc aren't just a different of features - it makes it a different platform and tool entirely and solve different problems.
Funny, central bankers advocating for wage price restraints are in effect calling for price controls (on labour). Except when anyone calls for price controls in any other context (goods, commodities, services) they are generally shot down by mainstream economists because they create market distortions which eventually leads to unwanted side effects.

Odd little disparity there.
Yes that makes sense.

Have you considered using Stripe Elements? It has loads of customization options that you can configure using an appearance API
I don't understand why people are in such uproar over netflix pricing. $10 a month is an incredible price for what you get.

There's not alot you can do for $10 these days. You can barely grab lunch in lots of places.

And you're talking about a whole month where many people use it for hours every evening?

Imagine Netflix was $1 or $2 to unlock for 24 hours. I think alot of people would consider that fair. Many would pay the same to tip to someone who took 30 seconds to serve them let alone a couple of hours of entertainment.

But then that can easily escalate to $30-60 a month without batting an eyelid.

If you barely watch Netflix at all, maybe less than 5 times a month, then $10 might seem excessive. But then are those people the ones putting in the effort for a Plex server? Presumably it's not worth the effort either.
It isn't like Stable Diffusion, it's more like Google's Imagen model.
>It may help to remember that current LLMs would require an infinity of RAM to be even computationally complete right now.

Anything that is computationally compute needs an infinite amount of RAM. This is not unique to LLMs or even to machine learning.
Then what you meant to say is that it's a good business, not a good [video game] company. Good video game companies make good video games, of which there are many others. Epic, Activision, and EA have high valuations because their games are filled with micro-transactions, not because their games are superior to others. This is good for investors but not consumers (who your original comment was championing).
Can you explain your claims please?

>Even the current number of humans alive - let alone people yet to be born - can't be maintained without continued growth, innovation, and the paradigm shifts resulting from that innovation and growth.
https://archive.ph/5FTdB
Oh of course. No doubt the techniques have advanced, but all that was possible even 20 years ago.

The question is what do you do when you don't get the answer you want? - when it shows that you are losing audience, though perhaps slowly. It is very difficult/impossible for a manager to say "let's miss this month's revenue goal for the long term benefit of slowing audience loss". And so instead you come with other reasons to explain the audience loss and/or justify keeping the ads. And so the audience loss continues. You are the boiling frog.
The insult that sparked Genghis Khan to destroy an empire
"unqualified"

You can look at the comment history for context. To simplify, it's the amount of in-person socialization.

"So how can anyone, with a straight face, assert that kids are somehow lacking when it's the parents that instill these skills and values into their kids?"

Polemic? Areyou talking about your own comment, as it makes no sense. There are obviously parents who are not promoting social skills, or where their kids are not living up to their expectations. It's not like they say "make it so" and the kids are all perfect. There are also practical limits to their control and influence due to other societal factors (media, school, peers, lack of time/attention due to various factors).

You're going to have to do a lot better than making a comment you thought was clever but had no logical base.
Hey, glad you found information that works for you!

In my experience, Google search results are poor these days, prioritizing esoterica or blogspam instead of useful insights due to decades of SEO battles. I prefer to hear what folks I'm directly interacting with are saying when they make a recommendation instead of jumping to the old "LMGTFY" silliness we all smugly passed to others circa 2008 who forgot to RTFM/RTA.
I've read some studies that suggest that the gut microbiome can influence mood and behavior through the vagus nerve, which connects the gut and the brain. For example, this[1] study showed that mice fed with a probiotic bacteria had lower depressive and anxious behaviors than mice whose vagus nerve was cut. Another study[2] showed that oral treatment with antidepressants altered the gut microbiome and increased vagal activity in rats, and that blocking the vagus nerve abolished the antidepressive effects. These studies imply that the gut-brain axis is more complex than just diet and microbiome diversity. Maybe there are other factors that mediate the effects of fat, protein and carbohydrates on mood and mental health. What do you think?

[1] https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/how-gut-microbes-talk...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50807-8
All that free stuff from the government is expensive.

"the British people need to accept they are poorer instead of seeking to claw back a historic drop in living standards after a jump in inflation."
It doesn't help that their software changes so much from device to device. It's been pleasant to use on phone, PS5, and roku but I haven't tried apple+

Even when you're using the same device they A/B test on us. Netflix recently introduced a weird sound effect as their main ad loads (it plays after their usual intro sound effect) but other's I've spoken to hadn't heard it.
oh! My mistake thanks for letting me know.
> and one needs quite literally 10 minutes to read the RFC

rfc 6749 is 4259 words according to wc -l. You mean that it takes 10 minutes to carelessly skim it.

Never mind that there are several other OAuth RFCs.
Thankfully, most automakers do make diagnostic tools/parts/info available to everyone (due to Massachusetts' 2012 right to repair law). The automakers don't really mind because more users licensing that software is more revenue. If anyone cares in that industry, it's the dealers.
I've written a lot of cloud automation over the past couple of years. I'm utilizing different APIs which of course involve networks but the code itself mainly deals with the management of resources, like deleting / archiving old backups, changing instance attributes etc.
I'm not sure I see a 100GB plan on their website, a link might be useful.

However SaskTel charges $35/month for a 5GB data-only plan while Rogers charges $60. They also have a $90CAD 60GB plan which Rogers would charge checks notes $180 for.

So is it an objectively good deal, no. It is however half the national average.