yifanl

1,853 karmajoined 8 năm trước

Not-so-recent graduate, novice developer.

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6 ngày trướcdiscuss

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.

6 ngày trướcdiscuss

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!).

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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.

20 ngày trướcdiscuss

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.

20 ngày trướcdiscuss

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.

21 ngày trướcdiscuss

> 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.

26 ngày trướcdiscuss

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.

26 ngày trướcdiscuss

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

27 ngày trướcdiscuss

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?

28 ngày trướcdiscuss

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

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

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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!

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

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An automated job is not a job at all.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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