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Salary isn’t really coupled to skill at all beyond meeting some basic bar to get the job. You’re not gonna have a great career if you think the leetcode problems you can solve are how you ladder up.

> The CEO is in his position because he has the "right" pedigree and the "right" network, went to the "right" school, talks the "right" way, has the "right" ivy league mannerisms, goes to the "right" polo clubs.

None of this is true. The CEO is either significantly compensated because it’s her company (majority ownership) or because the board likes the direction the ship is being steered and wants to make sure she doesn’t leave to steer another ship.

> You and I and probably half of HN could do the job of "CEO of a mid-size tech company." We don't, not because of lack of ability, but because we don't tick those culture/personality/background checkboxes.

What is it you think the CEO does? Half of HN absolutely could not run a 2000 employee firm they are intimately familiar with, let alone an arbitrary one.

> You're not going to leetcode-grind or PhD

Leetcode no, phd yes. The fact that you put them side by side pretty strongly indicates you don’t know what compensation is tied to.Leetcode skills provide limited value to a company. A PhD with a track record of leading ML publications absolutely can put you up there.

Compensation is about what value they think they can get out of you and how much competition there is for you.

Don’t sit around telling yourself execs have trivial jobs. It just makes you look ignorant. Spend some time looking at what each brings to the table for that specific company. Barring nepotism or corruption, there is usually something significant there.
What do you hedge your 100 year financial vehicle with? AFAIK there just isn’t anything that allows you to hedge against interest rates 50 years in the future.

So while this probably works out (especially if there is high inflation or high interest rates for some of the 100 years), I think the upside as a borrower is very limited, especially if this ends up being popular (if interest rates fall to 1% next year and stay there for 100 years, you didn’t get a great deal…you most likely just have a CD in a bancrupt institution).
> Sounds to me like he might also be "hiding from himself what he doesn't wish to see".

He tells exactly this. You and him are looking from different sets of axioms, so you come to a different language, but it is just outside appearance.

Tolstoy uses axioms like Freud's: human is an animal inside and human needs to work hard to subside his/her animal nature and to become a Human. So human is inherently bad, but it may become good if tried hard enough.

From other hand you start from different premises (I allow myself a little guessing here, sorry): human is inherently good, but may become bad due to bad experiences. So if one feels the need to become good, they need to dig inside themselves, find out what happens, accept it, and learn how to live with it. Humanistic psychology like that.

But the funny thing, that it doesn't matter much where you begin to think what it means to be a human, the most complicating thing is a communication between people using different sets of axioms about human nature.
That was Fred Brooks, in "The Mythical Man Month".

As relevant today as when it was first published, in 1975.
The US national debt has risen because of extreme tax cuts. It was pretty low until Reagan, who cut a lot of taxes and had the debt start spiralling out of control, yet most social programs started way before Reagan.

The military spending that really added to the debt were primarily the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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As a SAAS founder, do you find it hard to get customers to buy annual or long-term subscriptions?
I have something for you.

Even though annual subscriptions come at a lower monthly cost, most customers do not opt for them as they are not 100% sure if they would need the service, say 6 months later. I am building a tool which allows SAAS companies to allow their customers to sell their unused months or points to a new customer.

How does it help the SAAS business?

- Allowing the option to transfer the unused months - makes it more convincing to the consumer to take up the longer-term plan.
- If at a future date, the customer does not need the service any more, he looks for a replacement customer ( new or existing) and sells him the months or credits, maybe at a discount. This leads to a new customer who values the service and might actually extend the service beyond the months he acquires.
- Selling more annual/long-term plans gives you more money upfront to invest in your company.

How does it work?

- The platform is blockchain-based.
- When someone buys an annual package, under the hood - we issue them 12 tokens, one for each month.
- On consuming a month of service, a token gets burnt.
- The tokens are transferable. If at a point, the customer wants to stop using the service - he can transfer his remaining tokens to another account ( new or existing customer )and ask them to pay at a discounted rate. It's a win-win for everyone.
- Since it's on a public blockchain - the validity and history of the tokens are transparent and can be easily verified.
- The tokens and blockchain part are under-the-hood. There will be a simple interface to verify and transfer unused months or credits.

Is this something that you think will be useful to you for your SAAS product?
Any feedback/questions ?
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Soft prompts for language models are still viable, but the most accessible version of open source soft prompt training was a TPU-based implementation that depended on features of Google Colab that were no longer available.

You can modify it to run locally on a GPU, though it is a bit slow to train. It provides different advantages when compared to a LoRA.
What an idiocy.

SRPMs can be used offline. The GPL requires the complete corresponding sources so you have to include the upstream sources anyway together with the binary RPMs; might as well bundle them in one file so you can share the metadata format between sources and binaries built from them.

What you mention ("upstream URLs, SHA256 hashes" plus the content of the spec file) is exactly what you find on git.centos.org.

Besides the main design of RPMs dates back to 1990. I suspect there was no conspiracy to hide SRPMs from Rocky Linux back then.
From what I've read it is not a straightforward test to order in Europe as an individual person.

Seems easier to convince your huisarts to perform a blood test if you are in an affected region.
Very cool! The speed at which it auto-fills a grid is mesmerizing. Is this done server-side or client-side?

I sometimes build crosswords for fun, and I have tried some native building apps, but I didn't find one that's good for building French rule crosswords. The best I have so far is [this one](https://casevide.fr/creation/outil/), that's basically just a dictionary lookup and it's very slow (pure client-side JS), but still allowed me to build a handful of puzzles.

How hard do you reckon would it be to adapt your solver to work with French rules (no symmetry, 2-letter words allowed, minimizing black squares)? Or any other crossword style (French "arrow-words", British cryptic crosswords, Italian puzzles with no black squares but delimiters between squares...)?

Maybe I'll give it a try myself. What resources did you use for figuring out the algorithm? Is your source code available?
Can we stop calling it "in-context learning" and call it what it is, zero-shot/one-shot/few-shot prompting instead?

Learning implies that the underlying weights of the LLM changed. They didn't.
OKRs are another victim of semantic diffusion by consultants and others cutting corners and missing the philosophy of them.

Done properly they should be the equivalent of "we're gonna slam dunk this thing we think is important to do by smashing these X and Y targets" so everyone high fives and is super pumped and energised making it happen.

Now they've turned into "you should do this because we tell you to and we will track you as you do it" and so everyone feels like they have no autonomy.
> except for very specialized areas [...] science

For that specific example, science publications don't create any content, nor do they have paid staff curating collected content. That kind of helps their bottom line.

These organizations are closer in their model to Google than they are to news organizations (ie they gatekeep a specific type of resource that content producers need).

From what little I know from business press, in my business area they also get a significant share of their content for free, although it is much less predatory than science publications.
Sean Baxter is doing a decent job with his Circle compiler, so I hear. https://www.circle-lang.org/
And if they are wrong (and this sells well) … they might just go bancrupt, leaving you with only a small part of the upside.
I thought Compact Disc, yours is still more relevant.
This is really cool. Do you use any machine learning model behind the scene?
It's kind of similar to finding a trivial security bug in a critical piece of software after a decade of it being introduced into code. You would think it would not be possible because the software is being used everywhere for extremely important stuff, and so many highly-skilled security researchers would have already looked out for it due to incentives. But there are many examples of this happening. I have heard of many instances where a critical security bug was already reported many years ago, but no one bothered to look at it and fix it until someone else rediscovered it.
Chances that creators you like are there are basically zero. These alternatives are potential, not actual. The biggest of them, Vimeo doesn’t even have a user-facing frontpage.
I think his point was clear enough: that almost all the places people lived used to belong to some other group back in time.
Interesting that this is the top comment right now.

My initial reaction is more along the lines of: "What?! Baseball-sized hail?! Can we still let our children play outside?!"
> If its public, I will do what I darn want. Want to stop me, well put it behind a paywall.

The ethics are pretty clear I think: if I navigate with my browser to YouTube, or any site with ads, I'm able to see the content, plus annoying ads. I don't have to watch the ads: I can use an ad-blocker to tell my browser to not render those ads. The site has every right to serve me HTML/JS/video however they wish, but they have no right to tell me what to do with that data. If I want to ignore part of it, that's my right, and if I use automated means to ignore selected parts, that's also my right. If they want to spend massive resources trying to figure out ways to get around my automated means, or to detect my ad-blocker and refuse to send me data, they can do that too, but at what cost?

But if they want to avoid this arms race of ad-blocking, they can just do what Netflix does: require payment and an account to get in.

As for paywalls, those are really the same thing as ads usually: they load the article, then use JS to block it. You can block the JS and read the article.
Preview.app has interestingly become unusable and buggy/crashing for the last couple of macOS releases. Up to about OS X 10.9 it was s great and reliable tool. I wish Apple would publish the source to that old version so we could port it - but I’m afraid that quite a bit of the stability problems are related to PDF and other frameworks provided with the OS, not the app itself.
Here's a radioactive decay chain showing that:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/De...
My skin is thicker than your dick bitch.
GitLab was rather quick to board the AI hype train this year. Fine - they don't want to look like they're behind the curve, have to please investors, and whatever else.

But IMO there are plenty of other places to add real value across the GitLab product with AI/ML features.

Here, it just looks like they saw GitHub do something and felt a need to copy it. But two years late, and worse.

As a longtime GitLab user (and onetime contributor!), I'm a bit disappointed they're spending so much time on this. I think they're just too far behind.
>A first-gen iPad is 13 years old. How many tablets running a 'user-friendly' OS from 13 years ago do you still think are actually out there, being used?

How many first gen iPads do you think are still being used. Those were slow as a sloth from their first year and quickly stopped getting support from Appel. Most users gave up on them and upgraded. So yeah, they're also e-waste.
It seems I need to have a company to sign up for the trial ?

I have a free gitlab account but can't proceed without entering business information as it seems to be tied to the gitlab premium feature set. Am I doing something wrong ?
Thank you very much for your ChatGPT4 opinion. Do you think you can write your opinion about Copilot?
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Cool, you know a lot about Sweden, in which part of Sweden do you live?
That is what your family did to my ancestors.

Feel free to correct this with Bitcoin.

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God I hope your wish never comes true.

I don't understand why a device can't just be for consumption of media. Why is everyone trying to force this to become a computer with an annoyingly complicated navigation UX and the rest of the ceaveats when using a complete OS.

If I ever have to worry about CPU usage or driver issues on my iPad I will be the one leaving. I bought an iPad NOT to work on it. It is my vacation device so work can never call me and ask me to do something quickly
What happens if someone brought their pet? Are they supposed to leave that bag behind too? (Normally, they're kept in cloth carriers under the seat, as your "personal item".)
Get a Fairphone or old Pixel and stick Calyxos on it :-)
Valve may be anticipating that it will become illegal, in which case they would have to pull games from the store and issue refunds. They may be waiting to see which way the wind blows on this before they get their revenue stream mixed up with it.
Same logic as with Machine Learning model: the code can be GPL, the weights can be with any other license. (cf LLaMa)
So far haven't noticed any issues on FreeTube.

https://freetubeapp.io/
yeah still waiting on this so called twitter sudden death as people keep hyping up.

"this isn't an airport you don't need to announce your departure" - aristotle probably
Why would you go on HN and say blatantly wrong information

AI is literally 1-1 equivalent to compression. If you don't believe me, you should check out this demo of GPT-2 as a (for awhile SOTA) text compressor.

Oh its down now, but here's the HN thread to prove this exists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23618465
Project Gutenberg has been fought (censored, blocked, sued) by statal entities, like germany and italy - it may happen because of occasional improper insertions, or because of local legislation inconsistent with that which the Project references, or because of bestiality of the attacker.
You touch on what is effectively the biggest problem I see with ads: how aggressive they are.

Interrupting my watching experience so you can show me 15 seconds of some chips bouncing around on the screen only serves to frustrate me and cause me to despise whatever you're selling. It's reminiscent of the "butt in chair" managerial mindset, and does not convey a solid understanding of how an intelligent person makes purchase decisions or meaningfully interacts with whatever you're peddling.

The most effective advertisements are the ones you don't even realize are advertisements. If you've ever searched reddit for product recommendations, you've likely read covert marketing campaigns disguised as casual suggestions. I'm not saying those are better, they're actually just as bad if not worse, because they are fundamentally dishonest.

In my opinion, a tolerable ad is one that does not aggravate me. Non aggressive, non intrusive, quick, to the point, and at least somewhat relevant without having to spy on me. Showing me ads for travel or hotel bookings during a video about videogames or hobby model making isn't useful to me (or anybody I presume).
So long "Upstream First" principle

https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/open-source-participation-...
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> Simply put, being exposed to a a rich, diverse student body is good for everyone, not just minorities.

Why does the student body need to replace part of its Whites and Asians with minorities to be "rich and diverse"? Can't it be rich and diverse by having different people which are each his own individual not defined by his race?

Also, aren't you worried about how getting denied admission to a college because of your race will have a very negative effect for "society"?
You are correct. I did not know that.

Explained here: https://finance.zacks.com/can-retirement-accounts-used-colla...
>It could be that people ignore it because the rail network is asking you to break the social contract at no benefit to you whatsoever, only an increased risk of a negative encounter (at best getting cursed out and at worst how long until someone gets shoved for blocking the walking half?)

That won't happen. The OP clearly lives in Japan, probably Tokyo. That kind of thing never happens here; it's an American phenomenon, and probably various other not-so-civilized nations. Here, breaking the social contract in this way just makes people annoyed and gets you mean stares at the very worst.

Also, he's mainly talking about people walking up the escalator, not down. Many stations only have one escalator to the platform, and it's usually going up, since it's easy to walk down stairs.

Finally, it's only certain rail companies that have this policy; there's a bunch of different train operators.
> because of their inevitable descent into trivial insults and name calling.

There has been no name calling or insults. But considering you think it's wrong to gatekeep medical conditions to those who have the medical condition, it's understandable why you can't make out the difference from pointing out what a claim that you get PTSD from the stress of running a startup means. It doesn't mean you had a hard time it means you broke in a way that you shouldn't break.

> I wasn’t trying to claim anything. You came along and with your acres of life experience stated (in reference to someone else) not only that you couldn’t see how someone committing to a business above everything else could cause them to lose literally everything and require treatment, but that it was impossible.

No. You can need treatment for stress/fatigue/etc. Startups can be damaging to your mental health. But you don't need treatment for help dealing with traumatic events because you stressed out over your OKRs and how you're making payroll.

> But your absolutist perspective is uninformed, inaccurate and apparently reflective of fairly mundane ignorance.
>
> Your need to have bigger traumas than other people is something I have encountered before and something you’re clearly attached to. I hope you’re able to get free of it.

There has been no trauma talked about. Running a startup is not traumatic. It is stressful. The fact you haven't realised this shows how uninformed you are about a very basic thing such as what is trauma. It's a defined word.

As I said, you just want to act like you can get PTSD so you can act like you did something stupid hard that most people can't. You want to make yourself feel better. And you think anyone telling you that you're talking nonsense is gatekeeping and that you can get a medical condition even though all the medical advice would point to that not being true. But damnit, screw the doctors, you can diganose PTSD in yourself and others because you're a startup founder.
I hope not since I use it as keyword filter in my RSS feed. Why are you bothered?
Not so easy with audio. With any variable bitrate audio codec, there will be sync problems.
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Tweets will still be posted but there'll be an accompanying archive link as with paywalled articles.
SponserBlock will block in-video ads. Also if you use Safari, the Vinegar plug-in replaces the video player with a native one which blocks all ads, allows Picture in Picture, background play, huge improvements overall
Thanks for sharing @iandanforth and @distortionfield, nice project! Are there any additional features, Gorilla can support to make it useful for you folks!
https://archive.is/XCkZD
I've deleted all my social media accounts about 5 years ago. I realized that the more I used social media, the more antisocial I became.
Go out and socialize in person.
I know that this happened. I'm asking: is it right?
So a return to the status quo then?
I'm so tired of people using "processed" as a negative attribute.

First of all, it implies that industrial processes are less healthy than manual processes. But in my opinion, it makes no difference if sodium nitrate is added in a meat processing plant, or by an artisanal butcher on locally sourced hand made organic bacon. The health effects are going to be the same.

Secondly, it implies that there is something bad about "processing" in general, whatever is meant by that. But I think that most people would agree that pasteurizing milk is a good thing for our health, even though it is a form of "processing".
Posting Twitter links anywhere should've been a no-no long time ago with the login popups. Before nitter I just skipped them entirely.
Unfortunately this is the correct answer, almost word for word how I was going to phrase it. Do long as other forms of energy are inexpensive, we will continue to abuse them no matter the damage.
The feature was introduced a couple of months ago. See HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34028346

("Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web", Dec. 17th 2022)

This blog post from today is about technical details.
> like you would

Like many would. Do not take libraries for granted - not even in "rich" countries.
There is clear intellectual interest in comparing and contrasting why certain events receive outsized attention compared to objective outcomes (e.g. number of casualties).
"it's creating a bigger drug addiction pandemic."

And why? Those who want drugs, can get (any) drugs today, just with bad quality and the dark sides of crime involved. Who do stuff like adding other drugs that have a higher addiction potential.

If you legalize it, all the dark sides of cartels and co vanishes and you can spend all the police money on education and therapy to fight the actual bad sides of drugs. And preventing the reasons for people to do (hard) drugs in the first place.
Thanks for the feedback, @dievskly. Will update it in the next release!
Can lenses be shared with other users? And is there some kind of shared repository for them where we could crowdsource for example a lens with the urls of all Python docs of popular packages?
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> Nicotine is unusual in comparison to most drugs, as its profile changes from stimulant to sedative with increasing dosages, a phenomenon known as "Nesbitt's paradox" after the doctor who first described it in 1969.
I’ve found it quite good for a self documenting ssh/bash command delivery system. Most of my homelab is set up that way. Purposefully sticking to shell rather than the specific custom modules.

Anything requiring any sort of finesse especially on timing is yeah…rough as you say