yifanl

1,853 karmajoined il y a 8 ans

Not-so-recent graduate, novice developer.

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il y a 6 joursdiscuss

Rule's maybe too strong a word, but knowing that you have all the good ideas and wanting to structure everything to support those good ideas... it's not a bad word for it.

Like, it's certainly easy to point out that there are things that aren't being done efficiently, but finding the balance on how to prioritize the right efficiencies is the why society exists.

il y a 6 joursdiscuss

This is one of the oldest ideas of civilization, wanting society to be ruled by philosopher kings (who happen to be people just like me!).

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

If they gave the engineers appropriate severance packages, then they're at least out that much as a stupidity tax, but that's probably the most we can expect as far as consequences for the exec suite.

il y a 20 joursdiscuss

This is good to keep in mind, but we'd need a substantial proliferation of nuclear before we get into a position where over-standardization is a problem.

il y a 20 joursdiscuss

I don't doubt there are exceptional people working at BigCo at any role you or I can name, but by definition, it isn't possible that _everyone_ working there is exceptional.

il y a 21 joursdiscuss

> Wherever these tens of thousands of qualified ex-Meta, ex-Microsoft engineers willing to work less are, I'm not seeing them.

Two possible reasons:

1. People who are truly in-demand still have an easy time of finding jobs without going through the tedious process you set up.

2. FAANGMANGAMEME never hired that many truly exceptional people in the first place and you've fallen for corporate propaganda.

il y a 26 joursdiscuss

OpenAI is much more eager to jump on board with the administration than Anthropic is, Altman is a lot of things, but he definitely knows which wheels need grease.

il y a 26 joursdiscuss

I just ask it to spellcheck the Webster dictionary about 50 times an hour.

il y a 27 joursdiscuss

Because there's nowhere else for the money to go, the money must go to AI.

There are no growth opportunities in any other industry (except healthcare due to disastrous demographics), where else are people going to invest?

il y a 28 joursdiscuss

The ones who were good at becoming rich became rich. The ones who weren't were punished for not becoming rich.

le mois dernierdiscuss

If I speak up, I'm in big trouble.

le mois dernierdiscuss

You're talking about living in a world where we have to take entirely preventative steps, not reactive because hacking is going to be that much more prevalent.

AI can tell you you're being zero-day'd, but that isn't much comfort - you're already expecting everyone to always be zero-day'd at all times!

le mois dernierdiscuss

AI harnesses were exploited, here's why it's actually good for AI.

le mois dernierdiscuss

An automated job is not a job at all.

le mois dernierdiscuss

We keep saying it, because it's what it is. There's some black box (that can _sometimes_ be reached via dang) that determines what you see on HN's front page, and this place is just as susceptible to trends and rabbit holes as any short form video app, it just doesn't have the funny sound effects.

le mois dernierdiscuss

Some programmers prefer 2 spaces, some programmers prefer 4, why don't we compromise and pick a number between 2 and 4?

le mois dernierdiscuss

Feelings don't care about your facts. It's far cheaper to be vegetarian than not, how many vegetarians do you know?

le mois dernierdiscuss

Between driving a car and driving a forklift, which of them would you like to see regulated more heavily?

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

You need to realize that people generally don't care about the quality of software. Crowdstrike shut down every airport in the world and is still in business today.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Keep in mind, at some point, insurers simply won't pay out.