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by jh00ker 4d ago
This post was #1 on HN and I clicked the link, watched the video, and then it was bumped down to #98 within that time. I've never seen that happen on HN before, but maybe I just didn't notice?
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by jh00ker 4d ago
How long after I make an edit will it show up on a Tesla's map? Teslas on FSD speed through my neighborhood. I noticed the speed limit was incorrect on OSM and updated it several months ago. Teslas are still seemingly ignoring the po
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by jh00ker 9d ago
or from your neighbor's open WiFi?
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by jh00ker 9d ago
The NSA enters the chat
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by jh00ker 1mo ago
>They started it all. Actually box.com was first (launched as box.net in 2005), and Dropbox was founded in 2007.
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by jh00ker 3mo ago
At Disneyland, there are separate park entrance lanes that don't use facial recognition software. I like that I can opt-out passively there. At TSA checkpoints at the airport, you have to actively ask to opt-out. I'm always worri
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by jh00ker 3mo ago
Honestly, I think on LinkedIn, I'm usually in doom-scrolling mode, whereas on HN, I'm more likely to read a post in-depth. I think it was smart to come here to reach out on multiple modalities!
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by jh00ker 3mo ago
I'm glad you're doing this. I am aware of _Incorruptible_ from seeing posts on LinkedIn, but from your description here, I now realize I'm going to love this book! I wasn't going to make time to check it out, but I wil
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by jh00ker 3mo ago
>I suspect it's not seen as a problem by providers because more lines generated means more tokens used and hence more billing put out on customers. I have also grown skeptical of token usage in order to run up my bill! But since I
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by jh00ker 4mo ago
Connections is one of the greatest shows in television. The pilot episode is amazing, highlighting the problem with dependence on technology that we don't understand. "Never have so many people understood so little about so much.
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by jh00ker 4mo ago
Please, say more! >I always look to staff up a project at the beginning as much as possible, looking for doing as much in parallel up-front as we can. Ah, maybe this is what you think he would take issue with? Fair enough. Perhaps I sh
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by jh00ker 4mo ago
As a software engineering manager, I always look to staff up a project at the beginning as much as possible, looking for doing as much in parallel up-front as we can. If some things take longer than expected, then I already have a team of
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by jh00ker 4mo ago
A similar story from the always hilarious Dave Barry! https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai Note: Dave Barry is not dead. He is, in fact, alive.
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by jh00ker 4mo ago
Kind of crazy this is so successful, considering it's hosted in a country where it's the norm for (so many, but not all) people to leave their bags of popcorn and cups of soda at their seats when they leave the movie theatre or ba
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by jh00ker 5mo ago
>If it can't provide the service, it should stop selling until it can. You literally cannot buy GitHub Copilot right now [1]. 1: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans
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by jh00ker 5mo ago
How many people in congress made the exact same bet on the exact same information, and for them it's "legal?"
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by jh00ker 5mo ago
I always loved the 5x6 Pixel font in this classic 90s PC game: https://covertaction.fandom.com/wiki/Cryptography_(Mini-Game... The extra 1 pixel of height for the text in green, in particular, allowed for some cool &qu
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by jh00ker 9mo ago
"The term [meat] is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to mean the flesh of mammalian species (pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) raised and prepared for human consumption, to the exclusion of fish, other seafood, insects, poult
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by jh00ker 9mo ago
Great article to read as I sit down at my work computer on a Sunday to do pre-work and prep to make the rest of the week go more smoothly.
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by jh00ker 9mo ago
It's kind of like at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when some in the US were saying that the US government should just forgive mortgage payments so the landlords could forgive everyone's rent. Instead the US government ga
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by jh00ker 9mo ago
> We can choose to be the last generation that spent its best hours under fluorescent lights, pretending this was the height of civilization. Well, if the work under the fluorescent lights is what allowed us to end the era of jobs, then
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by jh00ker 10mo ago
Taking a break from studying for my interview in two days at a FANG company, I checked Hacker News and this article was at the top. I've been studying for this interview harder than any of the others in the past. I feel well-prepared
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by jh00ker 10mo ago
Everyone's sensitivity to caffeine is different. For example, if I miss my one 8 oz. cup each morning, I have a massive headache by 1:15pm. When work picks up, like a big project, I might increase my intake to a larger 12oz or 16 oz co
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by jh00ker 1y ago
Reminds me of a shuttlecock.
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by jh00ker 1y ago
>What could have been if instead of spending so much energy and resources on developing “AI features” we focused on making our existing technology better? I think we'd still be talking about Web 3.0 DeFi.
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by jh00ker 1y ago
> Physical cues are wonderful! You would love this project! https://littlesignals.withgoogle.com/ "Little Signals considers new patterns for technology in our daily lives. The six objects in the series keep us in th
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by jh00ker 1y ago
> I have a book of CD-ROMs of backed up data >There's a close to 0% chance that I'm never going to bother look at their contents. More likely scenario, your children, grandchildren or other family members go through your shi
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by jh00ker 1y ago
I'm interested how the answer will change once his article gets indexed. "Dave Barry died in 2016, but he continues to dispute this fact to this day."
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by jh00ker 1y ago
Yes, and it's tracked, so I've started shifting personal AI use to company-provide accounts to "get credit" for using AI more.
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by jh00ker 1y ago
As a hiring manager, if I was on the fence, knowing someone I'm not thrilled with has an offer makes me try to figure out what I/we missed and I would reexamine potential gaps in our recruiting processes with the candidate, which

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