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Re:The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:01PM (#44820139)
I definitely think 20% is not that crazy, especially considering the gains those railroad investments are probably still paying to this very moment.
Re:Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP
on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:43PM (#43247186)
I can give you some anecdata on this. Just yesterday I was talking with my Trump-supporter family members, and they literally had no idea he'd been convicted for felony fraud - they thought his only charges were related to the sexual assault accusations from E. Jean Carroll and they hand-waved those away with gusto anyway.
So to answer your question: It's all fine and going on as expected for them, and if you tell them otherwise you're labeled an alarmist crybaby democrat.
Re:Code review antipatterns
on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @04:25PM (#41313914)
I think you're joking but there was a company in my area that famously stuck by their "mob programming" approach where 5+ developers would sit in a room, 1 would drive, and the rest would fill out an adjoining document.
Re:On the Trail of the Denisovans
on Saturday March 02, 2024 @03:06PM (#39575358)
We’re so good at it we’re going to outcompete ourselves in fact
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)
on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:53PM (#39566676)
Location: SLC, Utah, USA
Remote: hybrid or remote
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: go, rust, Kubernetes, Docker, postgresql
Résumé/CV: @dylanlott on github
Email: lott dot dylan at gmail dot com
I’m a distributed systems and protocol engineer of 8 years with a grip of career experience in testing and simulating network protocols. I was laid off and am looking for the next place to contribute my full skills. I can send a full CV upon request.
Re:Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted ...
on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:09PM (#38856533)
Replication is great but it’s not the only way science learns and it would be foolish to put that kind of limit on publishing your work.
Re:I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:49PM (#38844523)
That seems appealing but then as the applicant you’re at the whim of a LLMs biases, which are even harder to discern than humans.
Re:I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:48PM (#38844511)
Except that’s a regular experience I’ve encountered while job hunting this winter. It’s either that or what, don’t apply to a good job that I want? The applicant has no leverage in these situations.
Re:Ask HN: Who Got Hired?
on Friday June 02, 2023 @12:11AM (#36160939)
I got hired off of a HN thread a few years back. Worked on an open source message queue in Go for a year or so before lay offs hit. Overall, I’d do it again, HN is a solid culture fit litmus test apparently.
Re:Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back
on Saturday May 27, 2023 @01:43AM (#36092358)
I think it’s more widespread than you might think. Flat earth and similar conspiracies play on distrust in academia, which is absolutely flourishing right now.
Re:Ask HN: How is the web effected by an AI generated feedback loop?
on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:40PM (#35980206)
Ive seen this referred to as “AI drift” before and I see it being a long term problem of data sets for training. As always, the quality of the data set determines the quality of the results. Models and data sets will be the arms race in the LLM world for a while to come, I think.
Re:Jane Street: How to Build an Exchange
on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:50PM (#34280869)
I wrote an open source one in Go that I'm still working on. It's never meant for production.
The code is at github.com/dylanlott/orderbook and there's an accompanying write up on it at dylanlott.com/orderbook if you're interested.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests
on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:46PM (#33808239)
"Boycotting", "cancelling", both seem to be democracy in action. And non-majority views is too ambiguous a definition. This would put vegans on the same side of the scale as extreme race purists.
Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation
on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:31PM (#33808039)
This is a false premise. Without understanding why each account was banned and what infraction was cited we can't make a clear comparison or judgment about either case. Otherwise it's just more outrage-porn.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests
on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:53PM (#33806648)
I don’t understand the inclusion of cancellation in this argument. How is cancellation different from boycotting, a right long upheld by the Supreme Court with direct legal ties to freedom of speech?
Re:Anti-Woke Bank GloriFi to Shut Down
on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:08PM (#33697950)
> caring only about money
Seems to me this would make them the _most_ political entity.
Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:47PM (#33676307)
Why the sympathy for these white collar criminals that have ruined lives in numbers comparable to crimes that we lock other people up for decades for committing?
Re:Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:26PM (#33674901)
Highly recommend fly.IO. I have stopped reaching for anything else. For go servers, I just copy their Go starter template and deploy it. It is the fastest way I’ve found to get a project up. You can immediately get into an iteration loop and build tests and even staging environments around it inside of a days worth of work.
Re:Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16,...
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @03:56PM (#33674589)
A majority in one company of an overall underrepresented demographic isn’t the oppression that you so desperately want it to be.
Re:Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16,...
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:55PM (#33673358)
> “Here’s a reality check for you with a completely different scenario but a conclusion that reaffirms my bias”
It’s really a terrible argument to compare hiring for a physically intensive job to hiring for technical and administrative roles. it borders on bad faith.
Re:Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16,...
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:17PM (#33672156)
I’m frankly just disappointed. There’s a comment in this thread questioning how much they had to “dumb down” the interviews for women. It’s fucked up in this field and it frustrates me to no end because the women I’ve worked with are far and away some of the best and they constantly deal with this attitude. It’s not okay and the bar should be higher for this orange website.
Re:Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16,...
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:15PM (#33672114)
I don’t think I will, thanks
Re:Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16,...
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:11PM (#33672069)
It’s not identity politics to call out blatantly sexist statements that question the intelligence and capabilities of women in this field.
The men aren’t being “sexually discriminated” against, they’re being competed against and that threatens you. Grow up.
Re:Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16,...
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:07PM (#33672016)
The pool is skewed male because of sexist bullshit. Computers used to be viewed as predominantly clerical and thus women were far more prevalent. And it’s patently false to assume it has to effect hiring quality at all.
Re:Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16,...
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @11:58AM (#33671903)
This is disgustingly sexist. Some of the brightest engineers I know are women. Get that attitude off this forum, it does not belong here.
Re:Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16,...
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @11:55AM (#33671853)
Why is that mind blowing?
Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:47AM (#33668666)
I have friends that have faced longer prison sentences for a couple bags of weed in their backpacks. she, her lawyers, and her “previous trauma” get no sympathy from me.
Re:Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words onlin...
on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:09AM (#33650999)
Is pdf that bad? I personally like it for being one of the more reliable formats for packaging rich text deliverables.
Re:Z-library founders arrested in Argentina
on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:54PM (#33647123)
It's a term that was _coined by_ fiscal conservatives, it's not a "rebranding as a propaganda exercise".
Re:FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows
on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:19AM (#33641100)
I guess I’m not that surprised after seeing that balance sheet from FTX floating around.