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Agreed, AI is a convenient excuse. If we had covid level interest rates these graduates would have a lot easier time finding a job. Companies are downsizing their bets and counting pennies to cash flow to invest in AI infra, which they wouldn't need to do in a low interest environment.

It isn't that hard to setup a secure SFTP server to automate the exchange. But then again this is a post about configuring a S3 Bucket with public access for SSNs.

The issue with Gmail is sending to the wrong email, sending to a broad email list, having people download it to their local machines. And the amount of PHI being transmitted in these files is larger than this s3 bucket.

It depends there are some exceptions.[0]

>With persons or organizations (e.g., janitorial service or electrician) whose functions or services do not involve the use or disclosure of protected health information, and where any access to protected health information by such persons would be incidental, if at all.

Based on the context from the article of the PHI uploaded being incidental, it would probably fall under this exception. It sounds like ESHYFT isn't meant to be storing any PHI based on the privacy policy above.

0:https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...

HIPAA applies to patient data not providers data.

> I also saw what appeared to be medical documents uploaded to the app. These files were potentially uploaded as proof for why individual nurses missed shifts or took sick leave. These medical documents included medical reports containing information of diagnosis, prescriptions, or treatments that could potentially fall under the ambit of HIPAA regulations.

It looks like providers accidentally uploaded some PHI.

IANAL so may be wrong, but I worked for a healthcare company. Whether HIPAA applies to them depends on if they are considered a covered entity or a business associate [0].

IMO they aren't bound to HIPAA requirements as a covered entity.

Business associate is a little tricky to determine. But business associates have to sign a BAA (Business Associate Agreement). And I doubt they would have signed one if they have that in their privacy policy.

Also just as a side note, HIPAA is not a ideal standard to begin with for security. Many large companies exchange bulk PHI via gmail since it is HIPAA compliant..

0: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...

Depends on the person. Northwest arkansas is a beautiful place with tons of outdoor activities and the ability to live like a king on a major company CTO salary. I'd rather live there than Seattle or San Francisco.

> Perhaps a better question is - if one can get an offer at other FAANGs and the equivalents... is there a reason to choose Amazon over others?

It kind of depends on the person. I've seen people go from Amazon to Google and they want to go back to Amazon because they are bored. Some people just thrive in high pressure environments. Also everything is pretty team dependent at FAANGs, you could end up at a bad team at any of them.

Idk the ad for the new windows terminal was pretty well received by developers[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE

>If I were put in charge of Alexa, I really think I would lay everyone off and start with a tiny group of really good devs and move as fast as possible to get something approaching the voice version of ChatGPT with all the integrations working

This is literally what they are doing lol.

Really should be up to the government to fine these companies and pay out to those effected to disincentivize lax security standards.

Not entirely convinced the point was to convert the customers to the 8k price today. Seems like the data gained during the demo is the most valuable part long term. They can rinse and repeat offering a demo, gaining data, releasing a new version. As it gets better conversions will increase. All while moving toward their long term goal of fully autonomous driving.

System design isn't coding and reviewing all designs across 40+ people and leading cross team tech initiatives is a full time job.

Looking at their commit history.

Programming is a very small part of the battle of being an effective software engineer.

It leaves out:

- communicating

- teaching

- dealing with ambiguity

- navigating politics

- working cross-functionally

Most high level individual contributors at large tech companies don't even code.

I'm dealing with this right now at another large company. Being asked to write a document for an integration we've done 20+ times because its part of someone else's larger promo project's design.

This post is quite ironic.

https://x.com/paulg/status/1110677737558159360

Personally I feel like the right thing to do is let the engineer closest to the incident lead the response and subsequent action items. If they do well commend them, if they don't take it seriously then it may be time to look for a new job.

Pretty confusing intersection with the light not being above the lane. He himself wasn't sure at the start of the video which light was his. He was a "advanced driver assistance systems test operator" and didn't know that disengaging is how you teach it to do the right thing and that you should disengage if you are about to run a red? Posting it on social media is just the icing on the cake for him being terminated.

I had a gym that I signed up online for, I tried to cancel one day in person and they said I had to fill out a questionnaire and mail it to cancel. Fuck that company.

There are tons of valid criticism for the US intelligence community, but when it isn't agenda driven they can be right about a lot of things, for example knowing that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine.

Exhibit A of the incompetence defense.

Yeah given the context I think it is obvious that he got fired for advertising an extension that makes it easier to download your emails.

> Not to mention that the upside of self-driving cars is capped at the cost of an uber driver

An uber driver that can drive 24/7. Also there are a lot of cars that sit in parking lots 95% of the day that can be used.

>Perhaps you were not the same person, or nor was he.

Man this is really key. relationships is a skill. I don't believe in soul mates, but rather a healthy relationship is developed when two people have honed the skill enough to be able to handle conflict without causing irreparable harm, and enjoy each other out of conflict.

I imagine bikeshedding galore lol.

I imagine this can be manipulated by other accounts to drive traffic. He can say something controversial and then it goes viral on the big platforms. Then he could have a watermark of his website on the clip so people know where to go to see him.

I had always thought Amazon already owned iRobot. It matches Amazon's existing smart home product line and has a lot of advertisements on Amazon. Speaking so confidently about this being some gather as much data from your home possible play feels like a way of getting clicks via perpetuating the "big tech bad" narrative.

These are mostly warehouse jobs because they had to ramp up drastically during the pandemic, but don't need as much capacity now. They are still hiring SWEs.

Not even close to the same thing. One is you giving someone money to do something and they spend it on themselves, the other is you getting paid from your employer who bought a jet with their return on investment.

Weird they would acquire a company similar to what they are already doing with Amazon Care.

Yeah this is really important. To piggy back on this I use to feel like I couldn't do something because it was too hard, but I changed my perspective to I can do anything with enough time and that has done wonders to my career development.