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I don’t consider myself politically correct but this headline is outright racist
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024) on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:53PM (#39565328)
What makes you say it's spam? Genuinely curious. If the job openings haven't changed, is it spam to post the same message in multiple threads a month or so apart? Or is there something else I'm missing?
Re:DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:30PM (#38522619)
Interested in how they count hours - are the only hours counted the hours where you are actively picking up / delivering an order? Or are employees also compensated for time spent waiting/looking for orders?
In rats, not humans. Interesting nonetheless

Ask HN: What publicly traded companies benefit most from AI replacing engineers?

A disproportionately large portion of this site is engineers / software engineers. A natural idea for engineers anxious about becoming less in demand due to AI is to hedge against that possibility by investing in companies that would benefit from that shift. What publicly traded companies would benefit most from AI reducing the amount they have to spend on engineers?

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Re:A currently maintained fork of SSHFS on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:49AM (#37392430)
sshfs is no longer maintained? That's sad, I used sshfs in school to be able to use my zillion vim plugins to edit code without having to install them all on the remote server we used for compute. I was surprised with how smooth of a system it was.
my friend, CO2 is a natural part of the atmosphere and is emitted from your mouth with every breath you take. Carbon monoxide (CO) is the dangerous gas that you are thinking of.
Re:Will AI obliterate the rule of law? on Saturday April 22, 2023 @10:46AM (#35667079)
The term you are looking for is modus operandi (not operandus).

Modus operandi literally means "manner of working," so you want the genitive of operandus (operandi) because the genitive in Latin corresponds (roughly) to the english preposition "of."

CIT has two options:

Savings Connect [1]: 4.50% APY, no minimum balance, no fees

Platinum Savings [2]: 4.75% APY, min. $5000 balance to qualify for APY, but once you qualify 4.75% APY on whole balance (not just balance above $5000)

I use the savings connect personally and am considering whether or not I want to open a platinum savings account.

[1]: https://www.cit.com/cit-bank/savings-connect

[2]: https://www.cit.com/cit-bank/platinum-savings

Decent but there are plenty of higher yield savings accounts out there
"Open source tool powered by closed source API" Is it really open source then?
It's difficult to trust self-published, non-peer reviewed papers on arxiv. You can just as easily find papers claiming P=/=NP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09269

consider polar coordinates. reject cartesian dogma.
Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes on Thursday July 21, 2022 @03:51PM (#32184063)
Another factor is that people are more afraid of scary things when they feel like they can’t control them. Driving makes people feel like they are in control, which makes drivers underestimate their chances of crashing. This is the same reason that airplane crashes and autonomous vehicle crashes are also huge news events: if people feel like crashes are being caused by something they can’t control, that scares them.
I think most people use an adblocker to avoid seeing ads, not privacy. Most people (myself included) care more about saving time on YouTube videos and making webpages not have pop ups all over the place than privacy.
It says 99 lines, and it theoretically is, but is it really 99 lines if it has 119 semicolons?

In the main function,

   nil = box(NIL,0); err = atom("ERR"); tru = atom("#t"); env = pair(tru,tru,nil);
This should probably be 4 lines of code, but it all appears on one line in the source code. '99 lines' of code is technically true, but using number of lines as a measure of code complexity becomes less useful once you start packing multiple distinct things into one line like this.
Re:Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:44PM (#32061556)
I think there’s something to be said for the interaction involved in getting a recommendation from a human. An AI might recommend movies just as well as Dave did, but you presumably like Dave and enjoy talking to him about the movies you’ve seen. You don’t get that part of the experience with an AI recommendation.
Re:A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021) on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:05AM (#31821866)
What are these search engines that focus on sites without advertising and trackers?