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It sucks when you say it like the title: "6 days to change 1 line of code",

But... The system improved in a few other ways:

1. The setting became configurable via the parameters table instead of being hard coded.

2. Auditing was introduced to track changes to that setting.

I'm not trying to defend bureaucracy, because I truly hate that aspect of large organizations, but just point out that additional value was created during those 6 days beyond what was originally set out to be achieved.

Incidentally, this is why you have to bake in a set amount of overhead into your estimates, and need to take this red tape into consideration if you do story pointing.

Yeah, you're probably right. I guess maybe I read the mood wrong on this.

It's a little sad to see the amount of cynicism and negativity here around quantum computing.

It's so early. To compare this to traditional computers, we are basically in the stage of a mainframe taking up an entire room. Where they are a novelty, not something every business has yet.

I'm sure there was a lot of skepticism from so-called "smart people" back then too.

Sure, maybe some PR people have over-hyped quantum computing for publicity, but that doesn't say anything about the future if the technology itself.

Pertaining to habits, this stuck with me from James Clear's Atomic Habits [1]:

> Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your identity. This is why habits are crucial.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

The author seems to be saying that the reason charter schools are successful is because of self-selection, and that is also why public schools are worse, due to the inverse of self-selection.

While there is certainly self-selection occurring here, it would be a mistake for policy makers to dismiss the problems with public schools as just being due to that. They should introspect instead of seeking excuses.

Is "red team" a verb now? I barely even know what that means. I assume it stems from the "red team" being bad guys in video games, but am not certain. Even with that assumption, I'm not quite sure what "red team into toxicity" really means other than being a scary sounding headline.

EDIT: The title was renamed since I made this comment. My point, I think, is still valid though. The original title was something like "LLMs can be red teamed into toxicity" but I don't recall exactly

> And every two weeks during my 1:1 discussions with each engineer, I would also pull up that individual’s personal velocity chart and use that to guide our performance discussion. If their chart is on an upward trend, I would congratulate them on a job well done. And if their chart is on a downward trend or significantly lagging behind their teammates, I would ask them what I can do to unblock them and help them achieve their full potential

Developers can see through this sort of bullshit.

"What can I do to unblock you and help you achieve your full potential?" is just a passive-aggressive way of saying you are unhappy with their performance.

Instead of this patronizing crap, how about the 1:1 goes like this: "How have you been? How is everything going for you and for the team?" and then just fucking listen?

More and more, I'm starting to root for Zuck in the fight.

I use ORMs to create custom line of business apps, mostly CRUD-ish and it works fine. The ORMs I've worked with have a way to write your own queries if the need arises.

> The proper way to build a data layer is one query at a time, as a string, with string interpolation.

Surely you mean a parameterized query string and not string interpolation, which is susceptible to sql injection.

> MS Teams, makes me wanna stop working all together

I think this is what some people just don't understand, especially executives or managers who are too far removed from individual contributors' day-to-day activities.

The wrong choice of IT tools can suck the life out of your organization.

Sure, on paper two tools can seem equivalent, but in reality, they are not the same.

I am curious based on your opinion of this. Do you work in academia or business?

AI is a new kind of leverage, and you will need to figure out how to adapt and use it. I think you probably have more time to do this than the hype would like you to believe though.

If you've reached the top 5% in your field, I'm sure you will be able to do this.

If AI is giving you anxiety, maybe take a break from reading and thinking about it for a while.

It sounds like you may also need to find meaning outside of work. You mentioned you are burned out and it sounds like a large part of your identity and self worth are tied to you work. This has helped you be successful, but it can be unhealthy for you as a person, a human being who is more than a job title.

Who knows, but we live in a world where some people even consider “view source” to be hacking and attempt to prosecute them.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hacking...

> They're thriving elsewhere.

I'm not so sure, based on my anecdata:

In my Midwest city, out of 8 traditional malls I can think of...

- 3 have totally closed and are being torn down

- 4 are drastically lower quality, lost their anchors, and have much lower traffic

- 1 is still doing about as well as it did 30 years ago.

> Federal bailouts are SF's only hope.

Wouldn't that just enable more of the policies that led to this?

And why would it need to be federal? This sounds more like a California problem from across the country.

It's definitely a gamble building your business on top of another, much larger company's product.

It's called platform risk, and while every company has it to some degree, if your business is solely dependent on a third party especially one that doesn't have (much) skin in the game (your game, not theirs), that risk becomes existential for your business.

I've seen it before where a company builds something cool, only to be shut down by the larger company who for whatever reason doesn't like what the smaller company is doing.

They tend to lock issues frequently.

Presumably it is to prevent people discussing problems at length. I don't know any other reason they would do that.

It seems to go against how most other organizations use GitHub.

Perfect, thank you so much.

That was an interesting read and exactly what I was looking for!

> In February of 1993, the University of Minnesota made an announcement. In specific commercial usage of the protocol, they would be charging licensing fees. Not large fees, and not in all cases. But, in some small way, they would be restricting access.

I remember gopher and thinking it was pretty useful and easy to use.

This decision by them seems to have been a monumental mistake.

I'm curious if anyone here knows who at Minnesota made this decision and why.

That, to me, is another interesting aspect to this story, but it is understandable people are more reluctant to talk about a failure than a success.

Cash is important to preserve freedom.

Otherwise the centralized digital currency road someday leads to a bureaucrat locking your account because you wrongthinked.

You can already catch glimpses of this with payment processors refusing to do business with people they disagree with ideologically.

There are better alternatives UX-wise for both of the examples you gave.

Visual Studio -> Jetbrains.

Windows 11 -> Linux (or Mac)

While VS and Windows have gotten worse in recent years, other software like Jetbrains IDEs and Linux UX have gotten better.

What I find interesting is that something can suddenly get a lot of media attention once it has a catchy name to describe it, like "quiet quitting".

I suspect it's not a recent phenomenon, just that it was recently given a name that is perfect for attention-grabbing headlines.

It just goes to show you the power of naming things.

This is what I was thinking too.

Often when I find a response to be lacking, I try again with a better prompt and get the kind of response I was looking for.

Part of AI's effectiveness is in the human's ability to prompt well.

> I will freely and safely walk anywhere in the City at any time of day or night.

Please don't. This is not safe, even if you have managed not to be a victim so far.

Yes. I am disagreeing with dang.

Everything you say can be true and it doesn't change the fact the HN would be worse because of it.

HN is a place I come to escape the rest of the internet.

I hope it doesn't get ruined by politics, like everything else in the world seems to have been.

Hacker News is better without unrelated political news.

> While Altman’s lack of initial equity reportedly gave investors pause in 2019...

Initial equity.

Doesn't say anything about whether he has an agreement in place to receive future equity.

Does he have any options or warrants?

Is he a member of, or LP in, any organization that invested?

Did the reporter not ask any follow up questions?

Or was this careful phrasing ("initial equity") intentional?

"how can I make this about how I hate the US?"