zer8k

6 ms·

1.
by zer8k 1y ago
> And perhaps worst of all, trust is being lost. Users are tired of bait-and-switch, surprise deprecations, and data lock-ins. There's a feeling that too many SaaS businesses are more concerned with growth-at-all-costs than product
2.
by zer8k 1y ago
This is decidedly not true on almost every account. Europe has its own opioid crisis, and we absolutely can blame other countries who play host to the primary runners of heroin and synthesizers of fent. The pain industry is just the first b
3.
by zer8k 1y ago
You missed the sarcasm. HN articles all follow a formula, almost predictably so, where they’re lazy thought pieces by a self important blogger.
4.
by zer8k 1y ago
This might shock your worldview but cheating is absolutely rampant in STEM programs in person too. I still remember the corrupt graduate students who would circulate exam answers and/or take money to get copies of exams. Tutoring servi
5.
by zer8k 1y ago
Remote and correspondence (the same thing really) have existed forever. There is zero basis for your statement it’s worse, and there is zero basis for your statement that there is compromise. Remote schooling allows people who wouldn’t have
6.
by zer8k 1y ago
I don't really believe the bent on this article that the hospital was at fault. There's an implication that Lawrence Livermore was in some sort of cover up and I don't really buy that line of BS either. Its a tragedy someone
7.
by zer8k 1y ago
While I agree code like this shouldn't be released fail-deadly it's also patently obvious it's not to be used. There is sufficient notice in the README. If someone uses this, it's at their own peril. Would you make the s
8.
by zer8k 1y ago
Looking back at what my best managers (I have two) had in common: * Cared deeply about my personal progress. Not just at work but in life. Am I feeling okay? How are things going? What are your interests? Are you doing what is interesting
9.
by zer8k 1y ago
> Assuming they are akin to grad students, these "fresh graduates" likely have more intersectional knowledge than long-time deep domain experts. I've worked in grant funding landscape, and one of the biggest challenges is
10.
by zer8k 1y ago
Not an exaggeration, I can confirm OPs story at my own university. When I was in school (2010) the first year had a drop out rate of over 80%. The first class took out over 50%. Many people didn’t have any idea how to use a computer at all.
11.
by zer8k 1y ago
XXY was not on his card. It was YXX. Some idiot on a rumor mill website speculated it was due to this that he must have the disease. It’s debunked. Further he would be an incredible case study given his stature and appearance. For calling M
12.
by zer8k 1y ago
> Choosing the wrong partner is one of the biggest risks you take in your life, especially for a woman. This is one of those things that can easily lead to you being bankrupt with nothing. This can lead to you being abused or raped. You
13.
by zer8k 1y ago
This is a function of limited risk pooling. Health insurance companies are state-locked. In the limit they function as options sellers in a stock market. If they can’t hedge off volatility with a larger risk pooling strategy they do somethi
14.
by zer8k 1y ago
Denying life saving treatment to bolster your bottom line for shareholders is also murder by any other name. If you consider murder as requiring malice aforethought then it certainly fits the bill. Just because someone hides behind legaleas
15.
by zer8k 1y ago
You act like software engineering is a respected field. Most of our job is fixing slop. Previously this was slop produced by low quality cut rate developers in countries known for outsourcing. Now it’s just fixing AI slop and foreign outsou
16.
by zer8k 1y ago
AI is the only reason I’ve been able to keep up with the constant death marches. Since the job market went to shit employers are piling on as much work as they can knowing they have indentured servants. The code quality isn’t great but it’s
17.
by zer8k 1y ago
> Online - This is an option. However for engineering degrees you'll be missing out on all the hands-on work. If you're an unusually dedicated student (this is more common with older students though), you can get some of this w
18.
by zer8k 2y ago
The silliest.
19.
by zer8k 2y ago
It's upsetting to the progressives but Biden and Obama both deported far more than Trump did. Thankfully we have archives and youtube, entirely searchable, where from 2008-2012 the democrats were strongly for sending people back home.
20.
by zer8k 2y ago
On the contrary with cheap LLMs this practice will be more prevalent. If you lift the cost barrier the McKinseys will be attaching all sorts of AI to everything. All the AI bust means is that for engineers working at companies that invested
21.
by zer8k 2y ago
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-rules-warrantless-... https://epic.org/dhs-disregards-internal-policies-and-avoids... https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
22.
by zer8k 2y ago
People are gonna stay upset for quite a while. The billion dollar election manipulation campaign spanning Reddit/Tiktok/Youtube/Television was extremely effective. It convinced a very, very specific kind of person that the by
23.
by zer8k 2y ago
We truly do live a post-scarcity land of milk-and-honey when we can spend time bikeshedding over whether "cargo cult" is offensive or not. Like most of the insane (oops thats a bad word too now) language policing its mostly done b
24.
by zer8k 2y ago
> And no, I'm not missing the joke. I first was online in 1998. I saw this stuff in games and forums. It wasn't funny then either. Do you know what also wasn't funny? The invasion of people wanting to make everything about
25.
by zer8k 2y ago
If you imagine therapy as a way to condition some sort of gradient descent on emotions and awareness you can already see the problem. The implication of your statement is you eventually reach some global optima. The reality is you become ov
26.
by zer8k 2y ago
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/wet-market-sources-co... Here's one place I found. But searching "COVID wet market" and "Pangolin COVID" will yield a treasure trove of articles talk
27.
by zer8k 2y ago
The pangolin soup theory of COVIDs origin was touted by fact checkers as true. This was despite real concern from actual scientists. Fact checkers fall into three possibly overlapping categories: 1. Government censorship units designed expl
28.
by zer8k 2y ago
On the contrary it's relatively simple to understand how it got there trivially. Most modern cars, especially ones that fit into more "luxury" brands have an app. That app gives you telemetry and location data for a price. It
29.
by zer8k 2y ago
> This is extraordinarily racist if you spend more than 5 seconds thinking about it, and honestly you should question every one of your choices that have led to this point. It is time for you to re-examine your entire worldview. No. Amer
30.
by zer8k 2y ago
I've been a grown adult for a long time and still use boyfriend/girlfriend. This obsession with absolute correctness is probably why we are so miserable all the time. To me it's simple 1. Married -> Husband/Wife 2. Da

More ›