Ask HN: 2023 lookback retrospective what are your takeaways from this year?
personal, work, meta (uh, not the corp), relationships, family, technological, scientific, sociological. whatever you're thinking about
We get along great, have a lot in common, similar values, and FAANG salaries. She's so thoughtful and caring I'm not sure if I deserve this. I'm still working through feelings on the freedom you lose in a relationship, and how this especially hard after 15 years of flying solo. I've also been seeing a sex therapist. Not that anything is wrong, but this is still new to me, and having this outlet is really helpful.
As much as I've achieved personally and professionally, when I put myself outside of my comfort zone and into the public arena of judging eyes, I still face doubt.
As much as I can steel myself mentally, remind myself of my accomplishments, analyze my situation, etc. there is a part of me, perhaps as a self-protection mechanism, that creates doubt. That doubt colors my entire experience, influencing my thoughts and actions. Overall it acts as a limiter. I can feel the difference in my body.
I can be aware of all of this, and counteract it to some extent, but it has its own gravity. It's all very impressive in the most literal sense of the word.
So I am learning more about how doubt shows up, and how to work with it beyond simple motivational tricks. For example: Letting go of the need to control it, getting very familiar with the nature of it, and reorienting myself even as I fail to accomplish my goals again and again.
Happy New Year HN. May you find the resilience to overcome whatever doubts are holding you back from living the life you want.
- Scripts over systems.
- Relationships and mutual support are incredibly valuable in business. Setting up a group chat for my small industry was a brilliant idea. I can't keep working alone in a bubble.
- I should have better awareness of the correlation between my actions and my well-being. It's crazy how much hydration, sleep and other little things affect my mood. Maybe carbs and fat for lunch, or tea after 2PM are a bad idea.
England used 0 coal and 7% natgas last night. Rest of their grid was wind and a bit of nukes.
Not some little Carribean island. England.
I mean, Isn't that just an expression of how much the progressives have protected themselves against countermeasures? Apparently the claim "for humanity" is enough to allow yourself to do anything...
Ai is really neat for summarizing, used it most for pre Dr visit diagnosis - less likely than WebMD to feel like you have a severe disease.
Had some quality time with my dad with a fishing trip and car projects, now maybe some house projects.
Interesting. Didn't realize people were already using it for previsit diagnosis. Fwiw, it could completely be hallucinating. I wouldn't use it for anything more than entertainment purposes.
AI has high source count. I'd trust it, with some grains of salt. It's mostly right, and where it's not, i can pick up the slack. and if i don't, well, it's not like i could trust what's on the internet, or the news, anyway.
i need to live with my own ignorance, ultimately improving that is my responsibility.
you have to make your own judgements. i don't think people should be uncomfortable with that. but it's understandable that after a long era of 'authoritative information programming' people might be. yet, that attitude to me seems decidedly pre-postmodern, anachronistic, tv-era.
not the done thing for the internet age. anywho...merry christmas to you! :)
Another is think carefully every time your feet leave the ground. I fell off a ladder and was ok, but I could have broken my neck.
As long as we're aware of the limitations of AI and don't blindly trust it for critical applications, we can benefit greatly from using AI.
It’s about the pesky Unknown Unknowns and systemic failure.
“ Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.”
"Unknown unknowns" is a bit of a cliche at this point, but people across the political spectrum widely acknowledge it as an insightful aphorism. No need to apologize.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Do you really find no value from LLMs? Consider that real people genuinely do. Consider that the people who do extract value from LLMs may beat you to promotions, business ideas, insights, test-passing-code.
Nasty surprises, they’re called.
Yes, some of it is impressive. Jamming LLMs into every little thing to pump the stock price is not.
The majority of GPT wrapper startups will be dead by this time next year.
Something you couldn't say about crypto with a straight face, so it's an improvement.
See this comment section from earlier this week, no major anger at the idea DEI is flawed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38726911