TikTok is adding text posts

Working in tech has always required constantly staying up to date. The rate of progress increases exponentially, meaning this rate of catchup required increases over time. Basically there's no long-term stability in tech. On the bright side, this makes it easier for newcomers and people who have the time + energy to enter the industry (eg. I imagine most who profited off the AI craze didn't have an AI background) 

This phenomenon will start affecting every industry including ones that used to be considered stable like law + medicine. No one is safe.

My advice to anyone in tech is to not get married to any one framework, language, or part of the stack. Assume it will be obsolete in a few years. Learn the 80% needed to be productive, but that extra 20% required for mastering that specific tool is prob not worth it given churn.

I personally think we're going to see the rise of generalists. Jobs will become more managerial, delegating tasks to AI + cheap offshore labor. Companies and especially startups will hire less employees and they'll be expected to be able to handle any task, leveraging AI to learn. LLMs like ChatGPT make it drastically easier to get up to speed on anything, and AI code autocomplete tools like GitHub Copilot lesson the need for knowing specific syntax. Eventually coding will just be writing in plan English (Copilot can already do this, it's just very slow now), as well as everything else (eg. managing infrastructure). Eventually one will just say "create a cron job that scrapes this API every X minutes, filters the results on these keywords, stores the filtered results in a database, and sends me an email notification" and the whole thing will be created. The tech for this is already possible.

Job stability will continue to diminish as tech advances, something tech workers are already familiar with

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Ethereum Daily Active Addresses Briefly Spiked to All-Time High of 1.06M During FOMC Meeting

Hi I'm Jeremy. I'm building this site because I'm not satisfied with other online community type websites and their lack of innovation (see the /about page). The goal is to make a superior, more open, and more decentralized online community.

The site is still in early stages in active development (see the dev masterthread here: https://zsync.xyz/p/zsync-dev-update-masterthread)

Join us if this sounds interesting! Feel free to send me any feedback or reach out directly!

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest sells $75M worth of Coinbase shares due to poor performance

"My supervisor was telling us in stand up today and he said that he spent some time just looking at the first \~100 applicants or so and said that most are people laid off from FAANG, or people at unicorns, and they all have several years of experience. They already shut the post down because they were overwhelmed sorting through all the applicants.

This is for a mid-level position, I am not sure of the TC, it is fully remote.

This is crazy.

I even asked my manager if I could apply to it internally (I'm in DevOps / SRE and desperately trying to get out since my SWE skills are stagnating) but he said I didn't have enough experience which is fair since I am a new grad.

Have you guys seen the same at your companies? I guess I was mostly surprised at the quality of applicants.. usually I hear that maybe 5% would be good but it looks like the majority are actually really good."

Wow my team at Adobe put up a job offer for a SWE position and they received 850 applications in the first day.

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791434>

Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM | Hacker News

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799548>

Anytype – open-source, local-first, P2P Notion alternative

<https://archive.is/2VTtG#selection-1313.0-1313.108>

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781860>

Meta tells managers promotions will be harder to get, less frequent, and won't be based on team size as much

The looming demise of the 10x developer

The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.

"AutoChain takes inspiration from LangChain and AutoGPT and aims to solve both problems by providing a lightweight and extensible framework for developers to build their own agents using LLMs with custom tools and [automatically evaluating](https://github.com/Forethought-Technologies/AutoChain#workflow-evaluation) different user scenarios with simulated conversations. Experienced user of LangChain would find AutoChain is easy to navigate since they share similar but simpler concepts."

AutoChain, lightweight and testable alternative to LangChain

Twitter now blocking all DMs from non-Twitter Blue subscribers by default

Modernized the UI for <http://zsync.xyz> today - card view + 3 column layout (basically copied Discuit + Reddit). I prefer compact layout myself, but thinking maybe the HN UI is too dated for most people.

Some other updates

- Added some communities to the left sidebar (will make that dynamic and customizable, enabling you to subscribe/unsubscribe)
- Slightly tweaked the "hot" ranking algorithm (HN ranking algorithm) to try to give higher score to newer posts, and set this as the default (instead of "newest"). Not satisfied yet with it but will continue to tweak it until it makes sense.
- Show # of registered users on right
- Added some less serious communities

Will finish up some more features, then open source.

Let me know what you think. I'm definitely no designer, but I think it was a pretty productive day.

I enjoy working on this, but it doesn't pay my bills. I'm interviewing at the moment, but definitely reach out if you need a solid senior full stack engineer (my rate is $150/hr)

<https://twitter.com/jeremybernier/status/1681360576642162689>

UI Update - Card View, 3 Column Layout

Love this one. 90s electronic music vibes

MashBit, Alto Moon - Beautiful Mind

The office is a theatre for work (2019)

AI Emerges as a Common Enemy for Actors and Writers in Hollywood

I don't think that Threads in its current form will succeed because it doesn't offer anything interesting. It's just a Twitter clone with less features and no web app. I can see it finding success if they can integrate it with Instagram and Facebook or add some new features that make it stand out, but right now Threads is boring. I checked it once or twice, but have no interest in checking it out again.

Personally I think it's really stupid that they didn't release a web app. I don't understand why they'd stall their momentum by not having a web application. Personally I mostly consume Twitter on desktop, and if I write tweets, then 90%+ of the time it will be from desktop - and 100% of the time if I'm writing anything in depth like a Twitter thread. I hate typing on my phone, so I'll never type an essay on my phone.

Of course Threads was just released recently and this is just the MVP. I'm sure they'll add new features and make it more interesting over time. But in its current form, Threads is extremely boring. It's a hard sell for anyone who's already invested a lot of time in finding people to follow on Twitter (perhaps organized into lists) and/or created a Twitter following

If I were in charge of Threads, this is what I'd do:

- Release a web app
- Integrate it with Instagram and Facebook (the details of that I leave to your imagination)
- Make the feed more interesting. I just looked at my feed and it's just boring crap like pictures, lame quotes, and forgettable internet junk food
- Make it easier to migrate from Twitter, maybe offering a feature that allows one to import their Twitter following

Threads by Meta is Boring

This thread is where new users can introduce themselves.

I'll start:

My name is jsavage. I'm from Alexandria, VA (a suburb of Washington DC in the U.S) and am half-Japanese (spent summers going to school in Japan, but that's a story for another day). Went to Virginia Tech for undergrad where I studied math (after switching out of computer science), then got a Masters at Columbia University in NYC. Lived in NYC for 5 years working as a software engineer until I decided to leave and travel the world. I realized I actually preferred being abroad, so 5 years later I'm still out here having visited 44+ countries and lived in and lived in countries/cities like Japan, South Korea, Italy, Czech Republic, Serbia, Ukraine, Colombia, Bali, etc.

In my free time I like to [write](https://jsavage.xyz/), [make videos](https://www.youtube.com/c/JDiculous1), and travel (obviously)

I started zsync after [over a decade of frustration with similar sites like Reddit and Hacker News](https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-reddit-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/), and after realizing the possibilities that web3/crypto enables. The purpose of this project is to create a superior decentralized community platform and solve a personal problem. Excited to see where this goes.

**EDIT: Updated Introductions thread here: [https://zsync.xyz/p/introductions-k5fcffhx](https://zsync.xyz/p/introductions-k5fcffhx)**

Introductions

Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36641542>