Depends on the following the person has and how vocal they are. Consider someone with a million followers calling out a company by name on socials and sharing their experience. Dev rels have done driven bans and caused monetary losses before.
That's a great question, and the thing that comes to mind to me most right now is the fiasco around the no mask mandate at kubecon 2022 in Valencia. Attendees with a following (mostly dev rela) shared their fears on twitter generating awareness, and the new stack had a full webinar about the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbrgYc8CwE
"Not only will a poor candidate experience make someone not want to apply again, but it even has an impact on their purchasing habits. This is seen among 64% of job seekers. Job seekers who don’t feel like they are treated fairly won’t purchase from that company again. This means that companies will both shrink their talent pool and lose money at the same time. Even more so, when job seekers aren’t treated fairly, they are more likely to complain about the company online in review sites like Glassdoor.com. These negative reviews can deter other job seekers from applying for jobs or purchasing products or services from the company."
> but more on things that small businesses consider important topics?
could you elaborate on some of those topics?
there's plenty of subreddits like r/ecommerce and so on for specific niches (see people doing say dropshipping) off the top of my head, I can think of day by day busy work that might not interest the venture capital focused HN audience but highly important for small businesses like discussing the occassional news in regards to accounting software like quickbooks or payrolls, setting up printers, running ad campaigns and so on but I feel like these kind of discussions are counter productive by creating more capable competition among small businesses against each other. It's the information asymmetry that gives a small businesses an edge to remain relevant before big players, an edge that we sometimes see erased when popularized on free open platforms where small business owners advertise some strategy and then hordes of copy cats following that diminish the value of the strategy in the first place and why I don't see a HN equivalent existing today.
I think I agree with Sandwichukulele here on the subreddits. Twitter is another one where niche communities are business focused, so are some Discord servers, however I wouldn't know how you'd reach the relevant servers though.
this is my personal assumption, observing the golden rule like the other commentor mentioned, this most likely isn't something nefarious but most likely a low priority that they will work at a later. They're busy trying to keep the spotlight in this cutthroat hype cycle and I think it's safe to assume they're busy pushing new models like we saw gpt-4o than low hanging fruit QoL features that might even risk breaking things. You mention how they "flat-out" refuse to answer the question but I think it's reasonable to think that after yesterday's announcement they're swamped with messages to focus on this right now.
> "Given AI-based systems are becoming easier to build, there are going to be opportunities for malicious actors to leverage AIs to make a more polarized society," Xiao said. "Creating agents that always present opinions from the other side is the most obvious intervention, but we found they don't work."
While this is focused with researching topics, chatbots are used for more beyond that as we see with the growing popularity of platforms like character.ai. What's the alternative for people who have no one else to talk to? A lot of the people using chatbots in the first place is because they have no friends, this is their last resort but as we see, this might be making the problem worse.
You know how online dating services are never incentivized to actually find you a long-term partner, because then you stop being a customer?
Imagine a company providing a chatbot for lonely people where the company is literally financially incentivized to keep you as lonely as possible so that you never stop paying. Behold, the future! (Or should I say, "Behold, the present!", because this is all that outrage-baiting algorithms like Facebook and Twitter amount to in the end anyway.)
Fortunately, chatbots are low on the hierarchy of AI capabilities such that someone will implement an open source one to run on-device. So I don’t think “chatbot services” is a long-term viable business.
I agree with you! Which is why I ask this, what can stop someone from falling into this loop in the first place? The article talks about agents getting easier to build but is there any solutions to this problem?
The idea of AI companions and their role and effects on society has been on my mind a lot lately, and a frequent topic of discussion within my community - which I think is one of the ways we can help mitigate the negative effects of the rise of this technology: community. We need to build and foster more communities, and more functional, long-lasting relationships.
It seems to me that many people don't know how to build and maintain long-lasting relationships of any sort - so quick to find a new romantic/sexual partner, a new Discord server to join, etc. I think we need to figure out how to teach people (preferably at a very young age) how to have conversations - good ones; ones that aren't just exchanging a bunch of anecdotes about oneself - and how to maintain meaningful relationships.
Perhaps just as importantly, we need to teach people why - it's far more rewarding to grow a relationship (either with a person or community) over time, to help each other better ourselves, etc, than it is to attempt to replicate those interactions with an AI.
I think there's also potential to use the technology itself to help teach these skills, but that's certainly a tricky line.
Besides "career expectations" what else about 30 feels like a deadline? On the other days you feel like "an absolute fucking failure," failure with regards to what? (assumption and guesses: with regards to your timeline progress in building a family? getting married? owning a home? having kids? travelling? perhaps going back to school? is this all exclusively about how many zeroes you are getting in your paycheck?) Please tell us OP!
I get there is a high similarity between things we all want want during comparable ages / phases of life, and I don't want a specific thing at a specific age per se, but I feel like to me it's a general dissatisfaction of the rate of progression, that seems not to go away – I also get that it's subjective, and fomo due to exposure to many things may sometimes get the best of me
I use Apple products because they are complements to my other devices. I have a mac mini as well but that doesn't stop me from having other windows and Linux workstations. I do have an iPhone SE that I like very much and the Air pods Pro gen 2 that I love. Really I use Apple products because I don't want to think about if something will be of good enough quality or not. I'm not picky and don't care for perfection, I sometimes just want something that "just werks" and when it comes to my phone and earbuds and a budget desktop (the base model mac mini), Apple does it wonderfully.
Energy Systems: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Jenkins (2019) Oxford University Press.
I am very interested in figuring out how to reduce the cost of energy and given my background is only in CS and Economics, I frequently have to reference texts like this until I have a better understanding to move beyond
> But translating this knowledge into the clinic will be challenging.
> Don’t expect an elixir of youth any time soon, says Florian — by definition, ageing research takes a long time. “But there is such great potential for translation.”
how long before we might see such treatment in humans?
> here's how
I read the article, I have not read the papers linked, but from just the article, the only applicable "how" listed was
> How long does this take? Longer than you might expect! Each sentence can take several minutes, so one paragraph can take over half an hour. The reason for limiting this to 1–2 paragraphs is to bound the time of the whole activity to 45–60 minutes. Beyond that, everyone is exhausted.
> Yes, working one paragraph at a time is slow progress. You’re better off doing this a while before a deadline rather than at the very end.
so how long does it take to finish one paper in general? how many N hours total?
They’re not writing the whole paper this way, I think they have the student write a complete first draft and then co-edit one paragraph at a time. Hopefully the student improves their editing skills in less than a full papers worth of co-editing sessions
> My ASK HN: Any advice on finding modern resources that keep everything that can serve as an introduction to networking?
The CompTIA Network+ book 8th edition (2022). These books aren't just for preparing for the CompTIA exams (that's a side benefit if you decide you want to get a cert later) but really are great to read on their own and learn everything you didn't know you needed while being curated. Good for those students who don't have a CS degree like you explained why the other books aren't suitable. Your local public library will usually have one on the shelf, check it out! Select the chapters you want to teach and skip the others. If you want something even more introductory, you can look at the CompTIA A+ book 11th edition (2023), skip the IT specific and focus on just Chapters 18-21 (Chapter 18 Essentials of Networking, Ch 19 Local Area Networking, Ch 20 Wireless Networking, Ch 21 The Internet) as reference for something even more basic but still well structured. This book is especially tailored for those just starting out and more than suitable for a highschool audience.
how massive? does that mass have a dollar value and a time frame?