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Anyone have a take on which ecosystem does package management the best?

Elon should have done what Mark did. Create a parent org called X and put Twitter into it. Twitter is a great brand, I hope they revert it.

Recover. However you can.

It only gets worse if you don’t take action. If you can, quit and find a distraction unrelated to your career. Sometimes it takes years for people to bounce back, sometimes only months.

You won’t be your full self until you recover.

This is the answer. Even now, agency is a nebulous thing, just like intelligence.

My theory is that, years from now, we’ll look back and laugh at how far away we are from AGI.

I really wish there was a Level 5-type categories like they have in autonomous driving that break down the path to AGI. Is anyone working on this?

Can you imagine Palo Alto HS running this experiment today? Parents and students would be enraged. The teacher would be fired.

The point was to show how easy it is to get caught up in such movements (all of us are susceptible). There’s a good book that shares this story from an ordinary german citizen:

https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Soluti...

All this brings us to the project I run: Enquo. It takes application-layer encryption to a new level, by providing a language- and framework-agnostic cryptosystem that also enables encrypted data to be efficiently queried by the database.

If you want people to use this, don't bury the lede.

Is this a problem worth solving? How does aws/gcp/azure solve for this?

Noticed this as well. I've gotten so frustrated with poor results for things I need, I've been using "Verbatim" mode to force Google to stop interpreting my terms. This was a pain, so ended up installing an extension that forces verbatim on every search.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/verbatim-search/oc...

Rob gave a talk at the All In Conf if you're rather watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck7Krz7QcxU

My luxury belief is that AI Safety is a joke, but it's a dangerous belief as the benefits of AI will not be equally distributed and biasing towards caution could reduce future suffering. So...

Be cautious reading comments here as many of us are in the socioeconomic class that luxury beliefs appeal to.

Can we get an AI Force as well? If AI is a threat, only option is escalation.

Businesses are leaving because twitter is increasingly about culture wars and the risk of brand damage is too high.

Twitter will soon have multiple pricing tiers and I suspect they will get more aggressive by limiting functionality for non-paying users.

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Thanks for this.

How much are regulations to blame for this mess? ie if we cut regulation, would that lead to lower cost and better outcomes?

What is the path to fix this?

this is just the landing page for someone's blog. flagged

culture wars are flame bait. just flag and move on.

if the distribution is significantly unlike the general distribution of the population, see that as an indicator that something is wrong.

most technical roles are >80% men (e.g., google) but companies don't provide breakdowns by functional roles to avoid conversation with people who think like this.

are you ageist if 12% of your talent isn't above the age of 60? once you open a debate about available talent, it ceases to be a useful metric.

Uh, I'm pretty sure the best employees in any field are worth 10x what the worst employees are, whether you're writing code, assembling a car or gutting fish.

This is a big misconception. The difference is whether 10x talent is more valuable than 1x talent. You could be the worlds best fish gutter, but if you can't gut 10x more fish than the next guy, then your salary is capped and you're wasting your talent. In software, you can be 10x more productive than the next guy.

Love this article.

  1. Developing beliefs and acting on them is a key part of leadership.
  2. Without it, you limit career advancement.
  3. It's a skill that can be learned.

It applies to anyone in a leadership position. Staff/principle engineers fit that role.

Though you're right, the parent comment suggests they're not in leadership.

... the deliberate abdication of decision-making

However unpopular, I strongly disagree with this take. Looking at the world like this is not productive.

Assuming others are acting maliciously obfuscates what's actually going on (decades of misaligned incentives in the case of FSA) and it removes personal agency.

Typescript is currently the best way to avoid the myriad of issues writing JS. It's an amazing hold over until we get native types. ECMAScript proposals take a long time, but it will eventually come.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

Wow I'm going to get downvoted for saying this, but Typescript lets me write, scale and maintain apps without writing tests.

It's enough knowing client/server types move together, avoids null/undefined/[]/0/falsy edge case bugs, param/return mismatches, etc.

This is great advice, but getting to a place where this works doesn’t always happen.

There’s a natural incentive to not need help. The more help you need to get things done the less valuable you are.

Conversely, great leaders are giving tasks that challenge people and can often include complexity beyond someone’s ability.

As a general rule, leaders expect people to:

  - make a good effort (~90%) to solve problems (don’t kill yourself or your team)
  - understand the solution space when problems don’t yield 
  - escalate with options for moving forward (the more fleshed out the better)
  - clear communication around important changes

wifi access could help people

This type of thinking is tone deaf and its the reason we're here. If all the homeless needed was wifi, this would have been solved long ago.

It's unquestionably clear the city gov is forcing a wedge between it's residents and the crime, homelessness and business closures by failing to respond.

Did you know the prostitution on Capp St is alive as ever? It's just less visible now that's it's walled off using concrete barriers.

SF already tolerate too much. If residents don't act, nobody will.

It's really easy to argue against a thing that nobody actually believes.

Are you sure nobody believes critical theory?

I’m not sure this is a good metric.

look around you and count how many products or services you use regularly that you wish are better digitized or “software-ized.” Unless and until that number is 0, there will be more developers, not less.

Even before LLMs, fully digitized markets are regularly disrupted by better iterations of software.

More developers will be needed because AI is increasing the addressable market of software.

My grandma will be thrilled.

AIs fighting AIs is the dystopian future I'm here for.

For historical purposes, this submission was shadow banned ~30m after submission.

This is untrue. Anyone can verify this by hitting the API using their key:

    curl https://api.openai.com/v1/models \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN" | \
      jq '.data[].id'

How long will it be before it becomes unfair in your view? What if they never open it up and the only way to get access is through YC or knowing the right person.

What if you had to give away 10% of your company to get access to AWS (or any cloud provider)?