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epoxyhockeyon Ask HN: I am a junior CS and math major. I have no hope for SWE or math. Advice?

Can someone show me a thread with US-based CS grads having trouble finding jobs, because I would love to interview them.

The AI-angle of the conversation is that a CS degreed individual, enabled with Claude Code, can accomplish technical tasks and code specific business processes much more efficiently and completely than a typical vibe coder.

epoxyhockeyon Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

This doesn't even work as a metaphor

The whole speech was probably written by AI anyway </sarcasm>

epoxyhockeyon Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

The dotcom boom (it wasn't a crisis) was about putting brick and mortar stores online and making shopping more convenient and price efficient. The younger generation was much more enthusiastic about shopping online, and being initial drivers of it. I remember the $25 off (no minimum order) coupons to basically get free stuff every week. The older generations still preferred to go to a store. It was a much slower progression taking 10-years for the older generations to become comfortable with shopping online.

AI is being driven by the more enthusiastic older generation (in my view) and it's not just about taking a fraction of brick and mortar sales away, it's about systematically replacing the full breadth of white collar jobs, especially the entry level jobs. You know, the jobs that college grads are vying for.

epoxyhockeyon Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens

The store had pre-opening for the past 2 days. I drove by on Wednesday and the parking lot was completely full with folks parking across the street and walking over. I thought I would be able to stroll in and get the free USB drive but ended up not able to visit yet. Talk about pent up demand!

epoxyhockeyon Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians

He is a professional trader and the others are politicians.

epoxyhockeyon Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians

Their staffers are in the discussions and do you know that they leak information like sieves. A "top secret business discussion" in Washington, are you kidding me?

epoxyhockeyon Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians

Inverse Jim Cramer ETF closed 1 year ago due to lack of interest, sheesh.

To follow Pelosi, just look up the public record on the government website. It tells you the date and the product he used. Then just look up the chart for that day and look at the price range.

epoxyhockeyon Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians

I'll save everyone hours of headache. The only politician's disclosures that are worth anything are Pelosi's. And by Pelosi, it is actually her husband that trades but that she has to disclose those trades as a politician. You can also copy Pelosi's trades exactly if you are into speculation and you can experience first hand how many of his trades end up -30% or more, but over the course of the year they have a chance of gaining. They gain not so much because there is any meaningful insider information, but because he holds the position for 1 year and we are still in a bull market (even as of tonight).

I think it's amusing that folks think that politicians have any sort of capability to be able to consistently beat the S&P 500.

epoxyhockeyon $2.4M Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center

Excessive paranoia? The photos and pictures indicate it was a crypto mining facility.

epoxyhockeyon 'The world 9/11 created: What if the U.S. had not invaded Iraq?'

It could also have been as simple as Saddam had once tried to assassinate GW's daddy and GW was ok with anything detrimental to Iraq's leadership.

epoxyhockeyon I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death, so I had AI do it for me

Author using AI as a form of algorithmic MDMA to get in touch with her feelings. I can see how she selects AI passages of deeper reflection and inspection.

Yes, it feels fake from the surface level to pick from words that AI generates. But the same principle applies to a psychologist's suggestive words during a consultation, IMO.

epoxyhockeyon Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse

I think the title is distasteful, but the title tag of the article matches the hn title and is also the first title displayed above the fold (on a mobile browser, at least).

epoxyhockeyon Baltimore prosecutor ends drug, sex prosecutions as violent crime plummets

Stopping prosecution of non violent crime is one part of the equation. We can't overlook the UBI aspect of the stimulus checks, which could have had an impact on lower property crime.

epoxyhockeyon GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff

the layoff includes staff at an engineering team in Padasedna, California, that works on Lidar

epoxyhockeyon Miscarriage can lead to 'long-term post-traumatic stress'

> So we've never celebrated a pregnancy

I’m sorry to hear this and it must make you sad every time you think about it.

I think it is very difficult to go through life, experiencing all of life’s milestones in the way we might wish.

Another example is in those fortunate to celebrate a work retirement party. Others may fall ill, take leave and quietly retire without returning to work and have no retirement party.

Life seems unpredictable, unfair. Knowing that makes celebrations of life, when we can have them, much more special.

epoxyhockeyon Gracefully Restarting a Go Program Without Downtime

Another reference project: https://github.com/facebookgo/grace

epoxyhockeyon Where to Score: Classified Ads from Haight-Ashbury

I’m not saying it is the case here, but there are perfectly legitimate reasons for why someone would want to disappear from their parents, no matter how well written the parents’ classified ad may be.

epoxyhockeyon G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack

I see them a lot along the 3rd St corridor. Recently saw one almost come to a complete stop at a green light on 3rd in Dogpatch, before the driver took over and gunned the gas pedal.

epoxyhockeyon Alphabet's Project Loon says it will run the program with fewer balloons

This article [0] says they expect latency to be between 25 and 35ms with the 4,425 satellite constellation.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/space...

epoxyhockeyon Russian Hacker, Wanted by F.B.I., Is Arrested in Prague, Czechs Say

The arrest happened 2 weeks ago, but is being reported just now? Interesting timing..

epoxyhockeyon Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars

And their actions to be repealed or cut by the next politician in line.

epoxyhockeyon Portland’s Small-House Movement Is Catching On

But, what I think is unfortunate in house design and construction is that houses are built for use < 100 years

We could be building small modern castles that we could hand down

While I see value in structures standing as monuments to be handed down to future generations - mostly large structures built for public use - I can't say that I've met a 100-year-old-house that hasn't had significant shortcomings. Renovations upon renovations to upgrade electrical, plumbing, HVAC have the potential to make building interiors look like a hodgepodge of bolt-on improvements. Then, one still contends with features that fall out of modern building code: that narrow staircase or the low ceiling in the basement or no windows in the bedrooms.

At a certain point, one cannot predict the housing requirements of the future and it would be more economical, and humane, to just start from a pile of dirt once again.

epoxyhockeyon Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee

Get married and have some kids. You will stop caring about what others think pretty quickly.

epoxyhockeyon NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

Aside from [bot] spam, I agree with the statement of Those were your users.

What OP really wants are the good comments, which is more than just spam filtering and also more subjective. If an ill-informed, 13-year-old's comment would be considered low-value noise, website operators would need to engage in something resembling censorship, which has its own set of problems.

epoxyhockeyon The Case for Working in Silicon Valley and Living in the Rust Belt

Many companies will want to adjust your salary downward if you are moving from the Bay Area to a lower cost of living location. This article seems to gloss over that fact.

epoxyhockeyon PewDiePie and other YouTubers took money from Warner Bros

This article (probably intentionally) left out some detail from the official FTC source [1] stating:

Instead, according to the complaint, Warner Bros. instructed influencers to place the disclosures in the description box appearing below the video. Because Warner Bros. also required other information to be placed in that box, the vast majority of sponsorship disclosures appeared “below the fold,” visible only if consumers clicked on the “Show More” button in the description box. In addition, when influencers posted YouTube videos on Facebook or Twitter, the posting did not include the “Show More” button, making it even less likely that consumers would see the sponsorship disclosures.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/07/warne...

epoxyhockeyon Jeff Sandell, creator of police scanner monitoring site, dies of cancer at 39

His father, Michael, died in 2002, also from colon cancer.

This is the most sad part of the story. For cancer that is relatively treatable if caught early enough, please see this as a cautionary tale and be extra diligent in getting checked out for diseases that may be hereditary.

epoxyhockeyon Dallas Police Used Robot with Bomb to Kill Ambush Suspect: Mayor

It's amazing that it's happened first not by the military in a war situation

I would not make that assumption. The military does not publicly disclose a majority of its tactics.

epoxyhockeyon InMobi Settles FTC Charges for Tracking Consumer Locations without Permission

1) geocorder, with a random "r"

2) you don't plug in a BSSID into a geocoder, you would use something like wigle.net to go from BSSID -> lat/long

epoxyhockeyon InMobi Settles FTC Charges for Tracking Consumer Locations without Permission

[...] InMobi collected nearby basic service set identification addresses, which act as unique serial numbers for wireless access points. The company [...] then fed each BSSID into a "geocorder" database to infer the phone user's latitude and longitude

The author of this article might need a new technical advisor.