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Big Paychecks Can't Woo Enough Sailors for America's Commercial Fleet(wsj.com)
10 points by andrewrn 10mo ago|10 comments
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by andrewrn 10mo ago
Here's a link to a reddit post where someone commented the article's full text: https://www.reddit.com/r/maritime/comments/1panh11/thoughts_...
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by andrewrn 10mo ago
To try and add in some anecdotes without injecting too much baggage: I am an older gen-z and launching my career has felt nigh on impossible. At my first job, the allergy toward mentorship this article mentions was incredibly palpable. None
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by andrewrn 10mo ago
I will keep this in mind. I wonder if this culture could be broken somehow.
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by andrewrn 10mo ago
It's widely used here state-side, yeah.
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by andrewrn 10mo ago
Wow. Fascinating article. I am an engineer in a family that is otherwise purely medical (mom nurse, dad pediatrician, sister veterinarian). Over the years I hear a lot of their pain points, and EMR's are consistently very painful for m
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
A properly bizarre and interesting blogpost. Wow.
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
Something to note here that annoys me about the title is that the LLMs aren't taking in the raw data (LLM's are for text, after all). The raw data is fed through audio and motion models that then produce natural language descripti
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New Apple Study Shows LLMs Can Tell What You're Doing from Audio and Motion Data(9to5mac.com)
81 points by andrewrn 11mo ago|33 comments
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
This is pretty fun!
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
How in the world did you get back into work after that gap? I have a gap after getting laid off from my first job and a career is, apparently per my extended and futile job hunt, unrecoverable.
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
Fair. I suppose the question, then, is whether companies will give opportunities to those left out in the cold during this downswing, even though they'll essentially be starting their careers in their late 20's-early 30's. Or
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
Do you think AI prices will rise to levels where human counterparts become competitive again? I’m doubtful.
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
Your take is from the angle of people who got into the job market to begin with. The article is about people who get locked out before even getting a shot. The pivots you describe are real and necessary, but they’re facilitated by career fo
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
But do any of the anecdotes in the article seem particularly outlandish? I've also heard the skepticism about actual gains with AI, but some narrow capabilities are undeniable. Made a React UI recently? It's not specialized, sure,
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There's Just No Reason to Deal with Young Employees(nymag.com)
14 points by andrewrn 11mo ago|11 comments
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
Ah so its just that way everywhere huh. Very frustrating because as the article says, its genuinely less productive to engage in the grind. This feels true to me.
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
I think they've just built a ton of momentum around that kind of culture here and its hard to reverse. They just set up some new committee to troubleshoot suicides on campus. If I tried to compare it to other schools with similar prest
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
Not to be that guy but PG has a great one on this: https://paulgraham.com/love.html And here's another great one about how ease, and not grind, arguably led to some of the biggest discoveries ever, like General Relativ
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
Woah, this brought back memories. Like that one flash game where you played a stickman hitman.
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by andrewrn 11mo ago
This aligns fairly closely with one of the main theses of “The Technological Republic,” Alex Karp’s new book. Basically, our abandonment of shared identities (national, religious, cultural) has allowed status and market forces to rush in to
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I mean I agree, and folks my age (gen z) do police one another on phone usage at dinner, for example. I just wish there was an easier or better way to expedite this cultural shift. It kinda reminds me of cigarettes. A similarly addicting th
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by andrewrn 1y ago
If you didn’t have that rule would you go past page 2? Frankly I just don’t find HN articles as cheaply and quickly mentally palatable as other sites. The content here is usually more cognitively demanding, so I don’t end up scrolling.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
For me, absolutely. And the fact that it’s text-only helps enormously too. The way I interact with HN is fine to me. I skim the posts once a day and read maybe one or two. I’ve never scrolled hours away on HN.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
The problem of algorithmic feeds gets a modest amount of attention, but I still think its not nearly enough. Addicting feeds are evil. If we ever manage to make it beyond them, we'll reflect on them with the same regret as slavery. A q
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Holy shit this website is insanely helpful. Many thanks!
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Okay good point… I still think common usage examples would be nice because I don’t even know what some commands are capable of
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I might get lit on fire for this, but I don't find manpages very easy to use. If want to quickly remember an option or argument order, I am met with a wall of text. Does anyone have tips for how to make it more useful? Maybe I could gr
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Super awesome and fun project! I'm jealous
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by andrewrn 1y ago
This vaguely reminds me of when I briefly worked at an oil company as a drafter. All their P&ID's are drawn in AutoCAD .dwg files, which isn't searchable at all or intelligible to the computer. AutoCAD sucks and has a strangle

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