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by ryandvm 1y ago
Lol. You'll have exactly 1/1,500,000 the authority and responsibility. They don't mean empowering their workforce. "We want to act more like a startup" is code for we want less accountability for bad decisions.
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100% Finding out that one of the world's largest economic forces aspires to burn out their workforce and spend more time shooting from the hip is depressing.
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Google has the resources to win AI, but I still don't see a way to resolve the tension between good AI and ad revenue. A useful AI tells me what I need to know, but Google's cash cow is selling users to advertisers. Those are fund
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I think my only complaint about Kafka is the widespread misunderstanding that it is a suitable replacement for a work queue. I should not be having to explain to an enterprise architect the distinction between a distributed work queue and e
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I know that some Motorola devices don't support Live Wallpapers. I'm guessing that's the problem because otherwise the permissions we use are pretty basic (coarse location, network access).
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Part of the reason this is possible for us is because the National Weather Service currently provides a free feed of raw (Level 2) radar data from their NEXRAD network ( https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/ ). Assu
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Show HN: Live weather radar wallpaper for Android(play.google.com)
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Man, I did not have "AWS us-east-1 will only have TWO 9s this year" on my bingo card.
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I regretted someone getting me an Alexa screen as a gift almost immediately. There's something viscerally annoying about being shown a fucking ad in my own kitchen. It's like a disgusting little highway billboard right next next t
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Obviously this makes sense from a dog-fooding perspective because the cloud provider (Microsoft) owns the product (Github), but I'm always surprised when very capable tech companies decide they aren't capable of running bare metal
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I feel like this would be a good use of "provocative compliance". 1. Create an open network of off-the-shelf cameras watching public roadways 2. Load up the database with license plate numbers of local politicians and/or law
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:shrug: Academia has always leaned left - make of that what you will. Are you suggesting DEI?
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He's probably alive and has just lost the keys to his wallet. I too would retreat to the farthest corners of the earth never to be seen again if I had misplaced 100 billion dollars.
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Bingo. You don't get to be a billionaire by being chill, live and let live kind of guy. You take whenever you get the chance.
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The irony of priests being concerned with people developing emotional attachments to beings that don't consciously exist...
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Actual "0-trust scenarios" are incredibly elusive in the real world. It pretty much comes down to illegal or "extra-legal" transactions. Almost nobody in the real world has a practical interest in carrying out transactio
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I don't like agreeing with the Cato institute, but the reality is that the FCC has long enjoyed excessive power to override the 1st amendment. https://www.cato.org/blog/jimmy-kimmel-fcc-why-broadcasters-... Fortun
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Correlation versus causation and all that, but an increase in bowel cancers and a decrease in sun exposure are both well documented trends over the last few decades.
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That's kind of always the secret to mega-success. You have to have 2 out of 3 of the following traits: 1. Exceptional skill 2. Luck 3. Lack of scruples
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Ask HN: Is software dev consulting market better than the salary market?
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"Music is math for people that don't like numbers" -- some movie I don't recall
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I'm not an AI booster as much as I am an AI fatalist. Assuming that AI has short term profit potential for the entrenched ruling class, this genie is not going back in the bottle. You might as well get used to it.
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> and maybe reached out to people or met current employees Networking has always been the best way to get another job. Sadly, like most success in this world, it usually comes down to "who you know".
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It is wild to me that people put so much trust in this company. Even if Tesla hadn't squandered it's EV lead and was instead positioned to be a robotics and AI superpower, is this really the corporate behavior you would want? This
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The problem is that it isn't corruption - at least, not legally speaking. The Citizen United decision made it possible for corporations to donate unspeakably large amounts of money to political candidates. This allows them to hand pick
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Honestly, just let him go nuts with Executive Orders. Legislatively, they are the Fisher Price steering wheel controls of government - they don't change the law in any way. He feels like he's doing something, his base is satiated
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I'm certain it wasn't in this particular case, but yeah, that's definitely going to happen as we all become more annoyed by people shoveling AI-generated crap in our faces and asking us to think about it for them.
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I had an experience earlier this week that was kind of surreal. I'm working with a fairly arcane technical spec that I don't really understand so well so I ask Claude to evaluate one of our internal proposals on this spec for conf
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I prefer to use the term NIMBY for folks that are pushing back on a greater societal good in preference to their personal benefit. Fighting low cost housing, or nuclear power, or solar farms. I'm not sure protecting your water or power
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> I don't know how that could have health benefits. Well, it doesn't seem so far fetched. Moderate alcohol use could definitely have a stress reducing effect and stress has well documented health impacts. And social drinking co

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