skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the context of this conversation, if AI can perform those management tasks (not leadership, but management), then I think it's only a matter of time before they will.

To be clear, I'm not saying this is a good thing. I just think it's inevitable. I'd probably consider it a good thing if it wasn't for the loss of all those middle-class jobs.

This is also why I recommend Marshall Brain's "Manna". He nailed it. AI isn't coming for entry-level jobs. Not right away. Because manual labour is actually incredibly complex to replicate with AI. But it's coming for the middle, whether we like it or not.

I say this as someone who has spent most of my career in middle management, for context.
I switched from Yarn (2) to pnpm last year.

Right before I switched, I helped someone with a problem deploying a prisma project to Vercel.

Yarn just worked (or maybe it was vanilla npm?), but pnpm needed a crazy work-around. I think the issue was pnpm was putting files generated by prisma in a weird location that couldn't be accessed after build.

Oh, also with my nodejs setup installing modules globally didn't work. Worked with yarn, but I just install global modules with vanilla npm, now.
Housing is and always has been an investment. I think you are objecting to the rate of return on that investment and incentives.

Even homesteading a log cabin on free land or building a mud hut is an investment. Houses take significant labor and materials to construct and there is no way around this. Add and land which can either be created nor destroyed and this only becomes more obvious.
US banks lost $472B in deposits in the Q1 2023
Sure, if you're planning on applying to a powerful enough position that you'd be able to effect significant change.

But for most jobs, where you aren't going to be able to affect massive change, you'll want the security culture not to bad/nonexistent.
If you don't want to feel like you're lying you can consider the URL now pointing to a gambling site to be damage. It's effectively been defaced.
I think the explanation that adheres to Occam's Razor is that he was just an awful person to work for or with, and he abused his privilege as founder. That's not a difficult thing for me to believe.
I've definitely had a good experience writing Zig in VS Code with the CodeLLDB extension on Linux [0] and the Microsoft C++ [1] one on Windows. It's also got the Zig extension which comes with the Zig language server [2].

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vadimcn....
[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ziglang....
Hallelujah! I felt this exactly when I was a director managing about 40 people. I would say at least half my day was taken up with logistics. The amount of actual mentorship and engineering leadership I did was less than the amount of time I had do to compared with a lot of bureaucratic responsibilities of my job.

At the time, there was an admin assistant who worked for our CTO, and she was fantastic - extremely detail oriented, organized and proactive. I kept thinking "All my training is in software engineering, and yet I'm doing all these tasks that she is much better at." Kept thinking that if my job was "split" down the middle that everyone would be much happier and my company would be getting a much better deal, with people's time largely spent on the stuff they are best at.
Just yesterday there was a thread here, where a random user was added as admin for multiple accounts for GCP accidentally, and he couldn't talk to a human on Google to get it resolved. He was neither actively looking out for nor was not anything other than the average user.
OP is correct PGP, is a hassle, and needs explicit knowledge to use it correctly.
Keybase somewhat solved it then got unpopular, but thinking about it again even Keybase never went mainstream.
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I identify as middle management, for what it's worth.
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This isn't a vague term, it means people who manage managers, but who aren't the very top level. You'd have to be pretty delusional to be actively managing a group of managers/teams and not realize you are middle management.
Use this tool, take the output and put it in this one:

https://hymhub.github.io/css-to-tailwind/
Excuse moi, je suis een baquette.
Indeed, it was the standard plate issued for several years (2010-2016). You could also pay a $20 fee to change from an existing plate to the 1812 commemorative one.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101128031616/http://starspangl...
Both.

The key insight is that the store, is a place that people want to go. Buying something, is an excuse to go there. She likes to have good stuff, quality at a good price, but people don't think "hey I need a t-shirt", and then go there to get one. They think, "hey I want to go to that cool store that has a vibe I like", and once there, they see a t-shirt (or whatever) that they like, and they buy it to support the store, because they want it to be there in the future.

The same thing applies, btw, to independent coffeeshops, bookstores, game stores, etc. The store, the location to go to, is what people want most. Buying stuff there is a way to support it, and you get something for that money as a bonus. You don't donate to the local public radio station in order to get the t-shirt or sticker or CD or whatever they're giving as a bonus; you donate in order to keep the radio station around, and then as a bonus you get a thing. Local independent stores are kind of like that. Which means, that they need to have a welcoming vibe that you enjoy, just being there.
Good luck for GPT or any AI to replace a live-streamer
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> "I learned Zig in a weekend! … Six hours! … 6µs!" say the blissful lizards.

I don’t get it; is this a reference? Could someone explain?
IMO, all that is necessary is the law strongly backing personal liability of C-level in all industries.

Trying to penalize companies never works in practice, regulators CANT let large companies going bankrupt, cascading defaults of creditors, creating unemployment, etc. It never happens. Also, this penalizes the workers the most.

Once psychopaths have certainty of personal consequences they will want to stay away from executive positions.
I agree with what you say, but Nazis didn't conquer Poland. Germany did. Word Nazi was invented in 1980s. There were no Nazi soldiers speaking Nazi language from Nazi country conquering Poland.
Mozilla Composer for today?
> The mind-reading stuff is still a fantasy and will be so also in the future.

Fantasy today, sure — judging by advertising categories I was getting placed in at least a few years back, the AI don't generally have the ability to infer much from revealed preferences, despite the odd headline every so often.

But in the future?

Even ignoring the possibility that the aforementioned advertising-AI get better, there's Neuralink and whatever competition it ends up getting.
Ask HN: How to validate my SaaS product idea?
Hi!
I'm currently at the stage of first pivot and validation of my new idea. I would like to test on as many people as possible the interest in my product.
A few days ago I published posts on FB and IndieHackers asking people to rate my landing page.
Now I would like to validate the idea and ask users how they rate my solution, if they think it makes sense and if they would be interested.
Do you have any ideas on how I can reach out to these users, perhaps you have processed such a problem yourself in the past?
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People wondering what the heck this is about should go listen to episode 167 of Reply All[0]. It's been a couple of years since I heard it, but IIRC, the talk line in question squats on disused phone numbers that were similarly published on long-lasting media. Or that the publishers forgot to get allocated, or similar.

That's the very TL;DR version made hazy by the passage of time. Apologies for no doubt missing any number of salient points.

[0] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/awh2a4
Do you have any source suggestions that come without a side order of insults?
Maybe if someone were to build it. You can't talk to LLMs in natural language either. They have a very precise query language. The natural language component is an additional feature bolted onto the front.

Also the output of LLMs is not novel, it's a derivative work of the training dataset. LLMs can't produce anything not present in the training set. They are operating on parameterized classifications of artwork instead of the artwork itself, which is the new technology; but they can't do anything except combine those existing Legos in new ways.

We also talk to databases in what was considered 'natural language' for that era - SQL. The LLMs are no different, which is why we have prompt engineering same as we have database engineering. Just because the database is processing the dataset and storing it in a proprietary way, approachable via query language, does not change the fact that the original data is still in there, and everything that comes out is derivative.
American perspective: the more affluent European cities that I've visited are full of young people that moved from halfway across the country or even other countries entirely in order to find better jobs. In the less affluent cities, people who are unable to move out often end up stuck and marginally employed. The idea of settling nearby with their high school friends doing mostly the same thing is an idealistic fantasy, not something that really happens much anymore.
Using DevTools, you can extract all styles, even if they're scattered across loads of tailwind utility classes. Made a video on how to do this here: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/261-devtools-copy-all-styles-for-...
Maybe they should have first checked with the other kind of Indians what it is like to live under the rule of Britain? :D
Yeah, that was my first thought as an MS patient. Personal evidence aside, MSers depression and anxiety rates suggests some kind of relationship - as a population I believe we have some of the worst depression rates even controlling for the severity of the disease. We beat out cancer patients, for example.
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Why do HSMs make it harder? Algorithm changes are rare, and when they happen you'd need to upgrade all the clients that are working with the keys or certificates, so at that point it's a question of software rotation rather than key rotation. The HSM shouldn't be your biggest problem at that point.
The modern corporation is literally a dictatorship:

"form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations."

Companies are *governed* by unimpeachable, unelected, all powerful groups that in practice treat employees like literal slaves (you don't have to be chattel or physically abused to be a slave). However because almost all employment agreements are exactly the same, it's the same law firms and laws that these orgs use over and over, essentially all corporations have colluded for this structure and type of employment power dynamic.

After all why wouldn't they, the "American dream" is to become a dictator in the capital class, free from exposure to dirty labor.

How do I know this?

I've been a CEO dictator for a company before and hated the structure. Now I'm trying to create a non-stock cooperative and all I get is head scratching from banks, lawyers etc... who have NO CONCEPT how to organize something that isn't in the boilerplate Delaware equity dictatorship construct.
> they think it’s a coincidence but I know it’s a mitochondrial disorder

Not saying you're wrong, just be very careful assuming you know more than your doctors

> My last episode of depression that landing in the hospital. What did they have to offer me? Electro shock treatment. No new tests, nothing.

Unfortunately there aren't that many tests for depression (I'm aware of none actually). Testing every fringe theory out there (which may well no longer be fringe in x time) is simply not feasible. Saying this as someone currently heavily medicated for depression.
As soon as I saw the title, I remembered this slide by IBM from the 1970s: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/13855657371677245...
> "I'm going to take a wild guess that 90+% of things we describe as 'autoimmune' are in fact initially caused by some bacteria/virus/pollution we haven't yet identified."

Not directly. Autoantibodies are the direct cause of many, if not all, autoimmune diseases.

It's possible that certain environmental factors, combined with genetic factors, kickstart autoantibody production. (i.e. are upstream of autoimmune diseases, and causative.) But nobody knows for certain. And the reverse hypothesis is also quite popular: An environment that's too clean, that leaves too little for the immune system to do, can induce a restless immune system into producing autoantibodies. "Idle hands"...
I remember an old joke, here as mentioned on SNL:

> “It’s hard to make friends when you’re an adult,” Mulaney said. “I think that’s the greatest miracle of Jesus. He has 12 best friends in his thirties, and they weren’t his wife’s best friends’ husbands.”

You're lucky to have some "friendly acquaintances" (which you might call friends, but not speak to for years until you meet up again) - but one or two life-long friends seems to be a relative maximum unless you really set down roots in a small area.
How is it bizarre? It seems the same category as saying friendship is failing, which also is a reasonable claim; see the entire bowling alone thesis.

I'd probably group them all under the umbrella of social connections failing, which I'd consider one of the biggest issues of US society today.
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The 1970s/GenX/latchkey have entered the chat.
And then when they accidentally catch something very mild the whole population is dead because they never developed the means of fighting it.
> .. boards would've started doing this long ago ..

You are assuming here that boards are always acting in the best interest of the share holders. I bet there are many who do, but there are at least as many that act primarily in the interest of themselves.
Board membership is a lucrative job without much supervision, if any at all. So nothing is keeping board members from taking it easy. Why rock the boat if this can make you known as difficult? You might not get that 2nd or 3rd board membership then anymore.

You might remember Credit Suisse, the major bank that had to be taken over recently by UBS to avoid bankruptcy: until then it had gone from scandal to scandal for 15 years in a row. 2 CEO's had been sent away in that period (by shareholders) but the president of the board? He could stay, and with him the rest of the board.
His salary? 7 million a year.
It's not an "engineering challenge" in the big sense, it's more a series of small engineering annoyances that make it a bit more expensive and therefore uneconomic. A thin, sloping jobsite where you have to park on the highway to access it is much less convenient than a big flat one.
There is no reasoning, which is why it will be impossible to move the LLM's past certain kinds of tasks.

They are 'next word prediction models' which elicit some kinds of reasoning embedded in our language, but it's a crude approximation at best.

The AGI metaphors are Ayahuasca Koolaid, like a magician duped by his own magic trick.

There will be no AGI, especially because there will be not 'automaton' aka distinct entity that elicits those behaviours.

Imagine if someone proposed 'Siri' were 'conscious' - well nobody would say that, because we know it's just a voice-based interface onto other things.

Well, Siri is about to appear much smarter thanks to LLMs, and be able to 'pass the bar exam' - but ultimately nothing has fundamentally changed.

Whereas each automaton in the human world had it's own distinct 'context' - the AI world will not have that at all. Context will be as fleeting as memory in RAM, and it will be across various systems that we use daily.

It's just tech, that's it.
> like also a friend on top of everything else

I'm happy you have this, it is the fundamental quality a relationship needs to work IMO. Having a child only needs animal magnetism, falling in love helps too, speaking from experience.
Back when I was looking at Lenovo (ThinkPad) laptops a couple of years ago, I was disappointed that I couldn’t get a ThinkPad that had a “better than 1080p display”, upgradable RAM, Thunderbolt, AMD CPU, and cellular connectivity. I guess the big ask there is “AMD CPU and Thunderbolt”, but Thunderbolt has been open source for how many years now?
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Yeah the tradeoffs here are:

- you're time zone aware but you have to deal with time zones

- you're time zone naive but you can't do anything you need time zones for, like converting between time zones or using time zones (and DST) in time zone math

I think the recommendation is "figure out how to get time zone info and store it, otherwise you foreclose time zone functionality and managing DST", but yeah up to you if you're willing to accept that risk.
> If I use the general purpose allocator then my edge case is PC out of memory

What does PC mean in this context?
Server hardware routinely take longer than 30 seconds to boot up, sometimes just to wait for power to stabilize just in case it matters, sometimes to do a staggered spinup of HDD to avoid current spike overloading something(it sounds cool!)
Interesting... I always thought the term meant any manager who isn't at the absolute top. If that's the case, maybe I'm not middle management anymore.
I broke up with women after being together for years, and we're still pretty close friends. We just realized it wasn't working for us but we still found each other's company pleasurable and stimulating, and we knew so much about each other... why would we give all of that up?

So, I'm sorry if it went horribly wrong in your case, but even assuming you handled everything perfect (behavior, communication), extrapolating to all women is really not reasonable.
Depends how much she misses you.
Hugely agree that if in practice it’s just an extra click by the same person that’s a bad pattern. And you see it a LOT. Hard to justify even using a bespoke workflow when it just adds “digital paperwork.”

OTOH Jira does support a way to force you to build a process you’ll honestly follow — there’s a validator that says the person who transitions from Y to Z must be a different person than from X to Y (or say, that it must be a member of a certain team). :)

As an EM I think it is my job to ensure as little paperwork as possible, so I monitor this to make sure workflows don’t waste people’s time, using automations, context-sensitive paths through the workflow, etc. for instance I have a transition that skips past ALL of the steps and doesn’t even need to prompt the user, for when an issue needs to be resolved as “working as intended.”
I buy/sell physical goods on several large subreddits and I’ve found that chats are the fastest way to get a response and close a deal. The old private message system is clunky by comparison.
The reference is to the Big 5 personality traits, which are well researched [1].

Women also score higher (on average) on Extraversion and Agreeableness.

If you aren't familiar with this research it's worth your time to learn about.

Even in 2023.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21866227/
> It seems like we've failed a whole generation of adults with good examples of what a relationship should be like.

... the good examples are like your relationship I assume?

In some cultures parents are number 1, and the expectation is your elderly parents outrank your wife in terms of the devotion and love you should show them. Is that disrespectful too, or does it only apply to close friends?

Who are you to judge here?
You need to read The Mom Test right now. Literally stop and order it (get it used if this sounds too spammy). You have acres of "politeness" you need to overcome.

https://www.momtestbook.com
There are a lot of critiques here and elsewhere of the statement and the motivations of its signatories. I don't think they are right and I think they take away from the very serious existential risks we face. I've written up my detailed views, see specifically "Signing the statement purely for personal benefit":

https://www.soroushjp.com/2023/06/01/yes-avoiding-extinction...
It's been 50 years of full out, balls to the wall capitalist propaganda that CEOs and "business leaders" are the god kings of modernity
I understand it's typically not so brazen that two people are explicitly setting each other's pay, but an incestuous ecosystem. There's a fair amount of literature examining it and finding things to be concerned about.

For example, Baker, Bivens & Schieder (2019), "Reining in CEO compensation and curbing the rise of inequality", suggests that compensation for CEOs "is more likely to reflect CEOs’ close ties with the corporate board members who set their pay." https://www.epi.org/publication/reining-in-ceo-compensation-...

Bebchuk and Fried (2004), "The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation", is a literal book discussing it all; it suggests (amongst other things) that CEO remuneration is not always closely tied to company performance but can be influenced by peer benchmarking and the interdependence of corporate boards.

An old (1992) article in Management Review (V81, Issue 5) "Can we put the brakes on CEO pay?", contains suggestive ideas such as "Most CEOs have invited these people to be on board," Denton adds. "It's easy [for directors to be relatively generous.", so this is by no means a new situation.

And of course, veteran shareholder activist Rob Monks has been complaining about all this, and a lot more, for decades.
There's an... extension for that :) "Chrome extension source viewer" aka CRX Viewer

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...

Alternatively:

https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/
Also: "work spouse"

https://www.google.com/search?q=work+spouse
Alternative languages are cool, but I struggle to see the point of a systems programming language that doesn't offer static memory safety in 2023. Rust isn't necessarily the best and final answer--it seems like there is a broad design space to explore for memory-safe systems programming languages. But Zig seems to occupy the same local maximum as C--a relatively simple, non-safe systems language--and doesn't have a killer feature that justifies not just using C.
Just plain old PHP with homebrewed MVC.
Reading all these comments in this thread has me adding all the suggestions to a playlist. I wish Apple Music would do for Jazz, what it did for Apple Classical Music.
All very good point, tx. I liked diodes as well as fuses, especially on the inputs of capacitors. Automotive power is never clean.
This is where we would be getting into the ugly background which I don't want to get into here because it's stuff that goes into private conversations and hearsay.

Suffice to say, hlky was absolutely hell-bent on us NOT using the previous AGPL library after we forked it, and used many underhanded means to cause us constant stress and worries. At some point we decided it wasn't worth it.
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Quick way to fix this game to make it actually approximate the test: award a point also if the other human correctly guessed that you were human, and a failure if they guessed you were AI. That would align incentives towards cooperation.
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