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He was an addict and got sober, but otherwise yeah the image is fitting.

Nowadays every webpage downloads 2 megabytes of framework JS and css preprocessors and analytics trackers and then pegs the CPU for a few milliseconds to display a paragraph of text.

If the page actually does anything on top of that the problem grows quickly.

I think most web developers have been very wary of Google and Chrome since 2010 or so.

Maybe you shouldn't frame your compensation in terms of a "COLA adjustment" although I'm quite sure your employer would prefer that meek mindset.

We already have troops stationed in 146 countries around the world, the thought of adding killer AI drone capabilities to the mix isn't exactly comforting.

Then of course, if gets sold to everyone labeled an "ally" by whatever administration in five years time.

I don't know why every massive corporation is trying to rebrand as "the friendly AI conglomerate!" but I'm not buying it for Microsoft or anyone else.

You're pretending like 90% of people don't interface with the network by just using google. The few people who don't do that just search social networks instead.

I'm old enough to type in a URL, I rarely see anyone else who does that anymore.

Most of these articles have the same narrative, summarized as: We have seen how dangerous and important technology is with elections, now it's more important than ever we educate everyone about AI.

As if the two concepts follow or are related at all, it seems more like a extremely convenient way to pivot the conversation to this new area of hype in technology while not actually owning up to anything.

How about we talk about anti-trust law, privacy, and busting up Facebook and Google instead?

So ssh private keys are stored in plain base64 encoding in the windows registry? How is that even possible?

I love how the default way to get an actual human to respond to a real problem at google is now:

1. Be famous

2. Make a stink on social media

I feel like I'm back in high school.

So because there is no advertising revenue it makes sense to disable comments for advertising? huh?

Why can't users comment on ads? I can see obvious reasons why corporate partners buying the ads would want to disable comments, but is it actually good for the site?

HN is one of the few places where there is honest discourse calling out much of the bullshit in startup culture, seems odd to limit the most compelling aspect of this community.

The problem is not everyone on the world stage is a rational game theory nerd that links to papers like we want them to be. Also 60 years of treating every other country as a box in a threat model to be manipulated against other boxes has been a completely unmitigated disaster, so maybe we should stop that.

I may be late to the game but this is the first time I've looked at something and thought "yeah well The Terminator is about to happen"

Consumers are wising up to this and just turning the tables on companies, exploiting them for the first reduced month or whatever the unit of service is and then jumping ship immediately.

Hey if you want to lose money on the transaction I'm happy to help you out.

Do you have other examples? I haven't heard much about him.

Oh no they just threatened to "end my career" if I ever talked about the interview or the company two days after I walked out. There are a lot of dirtbags in tech.

You can call it "catfishing" like you just captured a criminal mastermind, but people of color generally don't have the reference game down and are forced into doing stuff like this in order to avoid having their application thrown in the garbage.

References are more of a "how many connected white people do you know" check than anything else. If you always had references to call on before you even finished school than you probably won't even understand the world of people who did not, and the people who didn't get that first internship and have no way to break in short of fraud.

I once applied for a job that I thought was doing security engineering type stuff, and that's what the posting certainly described, but in the interview it quickly became a bait and switch, and they started explaining in detail about how their product monitors employees network usage in detail and the lengths they go through to make sure it is hidden on phones and workstations so employees don't know.

Nobody who worked there seemed to have a problem with it. I ended the interview early which apparently infuriated much of the company. Threats were made, but thankfully I never heard from them again.

You can say no to making bad things. Even if you work at Google, you can say no.

Thanks I guess my new hosts file is working after all

We don't live in the world of the 1970s anymore, anything that might slow down or impede corporate profits can be rejected out of hand as feasible solution. It's just not even worth the time to talk about it.

At least until we have a new constitutional amendment getting money out of politics.

Every theater chain already has passes, and has for a couple years now.

None of them are halfway as good of a deal as moviepass is.

"There are not a lot of options to deploy performance marketing dollars for movies"

This is 100% false in every conceivable way possible, in fact marketing something like a movie is probably the easiest example you walk through then you first start learning how to market.

It's not exactly a secret that Elon is tough to work for. Think pointy haired boss who also happens to be a celebrity.

If this is the sort of experiment that is getting space on a rocket then I kind of wonder if NASA is out of ideas.

In other news, Hepatitis C is making a big comeback here in Denver. It's the sort of disease we used to laugh about being a "third world" problem back in the day. We don't use the term "third world" anymore, but we are becoming one nonetheless.

I can't stop thinking about what archaeologists will think about us in a thousand years, they will struggle so much to even come up with plausible theories, much less agree on them.

You mean like google and facebook?

Anyone else think it's a bit bizarre that of all the stories in the "new" tab on HN, the only ones with any points upvoted are the two fawning over Google?

This is a pretty regular occurrence if you check the new tab.

Headline is almost as meaningless as COMPANY IPOS AT $20/SHARE

The current generation of youngsters seem to be really good at tapping things quickly to get what they want on a phone, but if anything they are less technically literate than previous generations.

My niece dropped a programming adjacent class in college because they required them to use real computers "like with keyboards for old people" and she didn't want to learn how to do that.

They're also really good at optimizing for likes on insta, I would argue that is not technical literacy either.

I tried to fill out the NCTUE freeze page several times, it keeps claiming there is a reCAPTCHA error despite me clicking it out correctly and getting the green check.

Seems to be intentionally broken to avoid people freezing.