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aiisjustanif··on A structured note-taking app for personal use
Weird that people find Obsidian before Joplin
aiisjustanif··on Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs
Atlanta and Dallas are two poor examples compared to say Houston and LA. Atlanta and Dallas both have multiple forms of public transportation and extensive bike trails, you actually could extend the existing capabilities in both cities easier than others.
aiisjustanif··on 95%-ile isn't that good (2020)
That’s wild to me, many high schools across the country have people that can do 370lb DL at 185lb.

I can understand the struggle at an older age, but age matters a lot here.

aiisjustanif··on Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety?
I’ve dealt with it by never being just a developer.

IT infrastructure, cloud, cyber security, privacy and risk, customer success, QA, SRE.

Add a dash of doing stuff that not everyone else wants to do and that gets me or has kept me with a high paying job in IT.

aiisjustanif··on Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety?
> Someone needed to know you well enough to make the referral.

Not true, many companies give incentives to employees if they hire their referral. Why would I need that employee need to know them.

aiisjustanif··on Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night
Faster for me to get outside and walk while working from home than the office.
aiisjustanif··on Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night
It is legal in the US to utilize solitary confinement methods that are implemented 24 hours a day. [1] There are facilities without windows and some keep the lights on all day and night in their solitary confinement units. [2]

In a recent story, D3f4ult discussed that this happened to him for a year and he was given 24/7 isolation for one year. [2]

[1]: https://solitarywatch.org/facts/faq/ [2]: https://journalistsresource.org/home/solitary-confinement-re... [3]: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/139/

aiisjustanif··on Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare: Password or a Dead Patient? (2015)
We did that for years and got more breaches and vulnerabilities…
aiisjustanif··on Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare: Password or a Dead Patient? (2015)
> with their jobs potentially on the line

That would be a bit much and not accomplish improvements.

aiisjustanif··on AI.gov
How come? I would value a Stanford degree and working at Google on a resume. I wouldn’t know what to think about The White House or Air Force (like many posting on their site) on a resume.
aiisjustanif··on Common mistakes in salary negotiation
18k on a 600k house. Not anything to shrug at.
aiisjustanif··on Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
Meta Apple Microsoft Alphabet Amazon

MAMAA

aiisjustanif··on Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
Zoom is still used without remote work. Businesses talk to other businesses and talk to other offices that are not in the same location. Pretty common for a Fortune 500 to have more than one office location.
aiisjustanif··on Beaver Notes: A Privacy-Focused Open-Source Note-Taking App
I wish everyone who builds their own note taking app would take that time and effort to contribute to Joplin [1].

I use Joplin for personal and Obsidian for work.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joplin_(software)

aiisjustanif··on Uber posts first quarterly net profit
I still find uber very cheap, they beat out the price of a cab in NYC half of the time for me.
aiisjustanif··on Uber posts first quarterly net profit
Uber is still used quite often in London and outside of London proper, bolt is a bit unreliable. I used Uber a few times this month.
aiisjustanif··on Rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in Southeastern United States
Armadillos are just as common in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and especially Texas compared to Florida. I don’t feel like that tells the full story.
aiisjustanif··on Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
Read the methods section of the study.

> The issue with this is that the amount of vitamin D someone might take is correlated with how much sun exposure is available. And the amount of available sun exposure can impact what is considered a little / a lot to each person.

That could be case but not necessarily in this study.

aiisjustanif··on Waymo puts the brakes on self-driving trucks program
> Waymo is an US company and public transport is not really a thing in the US, so they'd probably struggle to find funding for that.

I think that is the point, we should be doing better by the citizens.

aiisjustanif··on Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
Please elaborate.
aiisjustanif··on Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API
While a developer might like that, but an end user expecting a notification that gets nothing now will be asking, “Why do I not get notifications?”.
aiisjustanif··on Interfaces all the way down
Just to note simple does not mean less complicated [1], easy is an enemy more often.

[1]: https://youtu.be/LKtk3HCgTa8

aiisjustanif··on How Will Language Modelers Like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries?
Not to be rude, but the purposes of political sciences is easy to grasp and important. From structuring aid and refugee program, to making policies that affect our every day lives, to researching and working on issues related to economic competitiveness, treaties, and resources. you can read latest articles to get some ideas. [1]

Plus Economics, Law, and Political Science are strictly separate sciences just like chemistry and physics are not strictly separated sciences. I think the figuring out what a mathematician does is more difficult, but also still understandable and important. [1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-re...

aiisjustanif··on Plane – Open-source Jira alternative
I mean sometimes waterfall is required depending on the industry, especially industrial or space and some of government and medical.
aiisjustanif··on Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
Why anymore they already have a copy of everything my work, brokerages, and banks have.
aiisjustanif··on GPT-Prompt-Engineer
I feel like many places have tried this and didn’t like it or molded it into a Frankenstein.

The idea of an engineer that researches, designs, tests, and measures and a programmer that implements seemed to cost too much (not just monetarily) for the industry that employees them and there isn’t the sufficient need to regulate all sun-groups of the industries that employ software programmers / engineers.

aiisjustanif··on Dashcam images reveal where police are deployed
Let’s also quote why

“We report racial and socioeconomic disparities without attempting to control for other covariates. First, if New York City residents of different races face different levels of police deployments, that disparate impact is itself important; it can also bias algorithms trained on downstream policing data irrespective of the true causal mechanism. Second, controlling for other factors in policing data can be difficult to interpret, introducing concerns about omitted variable bias and model misspecification which make it difficult to identify which factor is truly the “cause” of higher police deployments. For the sake of transparency and simplicity, therefore, we report results by stratifying each variable separately, noting that these disparities are themselves important but that multiple causal mechanisms may underlie them.”

aiisjustanif··on ServiceNow Insecure Access Control to Full Admin Takeover
You should try out Cherwell, it’s so bad it’ll make you love ServiceNow.
aiisjustanif··on Threads, an Instagram app
Snapchat is steadily growing and increasing revenue. [1]

[1]: https://investor.snap.com/overview/default.aspx

aiisjustanif··on Macron floats social media cuts during riots
That’s a bit of unfair thinking.
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