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by abtinf 4y ago
Seriously, no knows anything about parenting. Properly considered, it is the most difficult and intellectually challenging task conceivable. “Here, take this tabula rasa child and, over the course of many years, with virtually no timely fee
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by abtinf 4y ago
You must be a merciless judge of what you hold has knowledge (that is, have certainty beyond a reasonable doubt). Misstating as a manager is vastly more damaging than as an IC. Even if you know something, it is often valuable to defer to yo
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by abtinf 4y ago
FWIW, I've been told I'm an exceptionally effective cross-functional communicator and that I outperform given my ability leverage my resources to recruit and align support for initiatives across orgs. Imagine how wealthy our socie
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by abtinf 4y ago
A manager should have a view about the business, and they must work to give their team the evidence and method of thinking to grasp why that view is correct. Only then will the team properly focus on the goal and execute effectively. This i
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by abtinf 4y ago
"With the storehouse of skills and knowledge contained in its millions of unemployed, and with the even more appalling underuse, misuse, and abuse of skills and knowledge in the army of employed people in all ranks in all industries, t
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by abtinf 4y ago
> Maybe I'd be fine as a manager. Speaking as someone who has held senior management roles: judging strictly from this comment, you would make for an excellent management candidate. Assuming you survive the disillusionment upon se
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by abtinf 4y ago
> You have to own the company’s message to your reports (and others) even if you disagree with it or don’t know how it came to be. Why?
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by abtinf 4y ago
The biggest thing most managers give up is their mind. You start using corporate jargon. You become more authoritarian. You embrace careerism (a term I invented to describe people who erroneously conflate rising in corporate rank with happi
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by abtinf 4y ago
As a hiring manager, I’ve noticed most peer hiring managers vastly overestimate their ability to hire. What I’ve seen happen is that there are two narratives they flip on: I hired this great person and they are doing amazing so I am amazing
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by abtinf 4y ago
Excellent point. The only way to evaluate if this is a good or bad solution is the actual operational context. If you had a service that had to do millions of these matches per second with low latency, then this might be a reasonable soluti
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by abtinf 4y ago
You only need to do that if the length of words is unbound, which would be nonsensical. The maximum number of iterations is length of the largest word in the dictionary.
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by abtinf 4y ago
There are a finite number of words in the dictionary, which implies there is an upper bound in the length of words. The maximum number of iterations is the length of the longest word in the dictionary. This means that part 1 of the problem
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by abtinf 4y ago
> This client is my main source of income, he’s a marketer who outsources the majority of his copy and content writing to me. Today he emailed saying that although he knows AI’s work isn’t nearly as good as mine, he can’t ignore the prof
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A wild example of this is from a paper published ~10 years ago: researchers wrote a program that would display an image, then slowly change the color of a significant object in the image. It was an unmistakable change, like turning a big ob
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by abtinf 4y ago
Americans are already forced to do so through taxation.
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by abtinf 4y ago
> legacy-but-still-officially-supported-in-std implementation There is massive value in this.
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by abtinf 4y ago
Many large enterprises already store almost everything on 365 and azure. Other than budget, the only thing they need to turn on copilot is for it to adopt the same data privacy guarantees already available in 365.
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by abtinf 4y ago
It’s an unfortunate decision. Makes things like thoughtfully written Launch HNs painful (literally, for me anyway) to read.
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by abtinf 4y ago
Individuals have a right to privacy. This right is not contingent on there being no bad actors on the planet. If anything, the existence of bad actors reinforces the right to privacy of good actors.
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by abtinf 4y ago
This was essentially the intent behind the .tel tld—using dns as an identity metadata database. Circa 2008, they did a bunch of podcasts and interviews about uses for the domains, like encryptions schemes for secure messages using keys post
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by abtinf 4y ago
Shouldn’t an article like this include a definition of “computer”?
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Hello GPT.
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Death by thesaurus: switching “relevant” to “pertinent” is incoherent in this context. If you are going to use a cliche or idiom, then use it without modification .
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by abtinf 4y ago
Whatever else dollars might be, they are not money. They are debt instruments. They say so right on themselves, in big all-caps letters, right at the top: "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE". A "note" is a security that obligates rep
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by abtinf 4y ago
If “it all keeps changing”, which thwarts their attempts to “model an insanely complex system”, then wouldn’t that mean any claim about “global warming” is actually a claim to possessing a priori knowledge?
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by abtinf 4y ago
Isn’t the logical conclusion of this view the end of web browsers, replacing them with executable software distribution?
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by abtinf 4y ago
Does this work in Preview (on Mac) or Notability (on iOS)?
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Ask HN: Has AI ended the “low background radiation” era of the internet?
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by abtinf 4y ago
Wishlist: A way to truely, honestly, for the love of god, please, I beg you for mercy, force all pivot tables to fully refresh everything about themselves — their data, caches, retained items, etc. Better pivot table value formatting: use t
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“Simplistically elegant…” sigh

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