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yeezyseezy··on AI-powered communication coach
I can’t imagine many companies would allow this to be installed on company hardware.
yeezyseezy··on Failing Intro Economics
Funny enough, the source[0] that uses this formatting also points out the quote is a fabrication.

[0]: https://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html

yeezyseezy··on Ex-Google Tech Lead Brags About How He Used to Trash Women's Résumés (2022)
He’s a troll, this isn’t news
yeezyseezy··on Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists
I’m relieved to see the comments here are not as pro “blindly trust the government” as The Guardian is.
yeezyseezy··on Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
There’s something deeply unsettling to me about art like this, as if one of the hidden layers is “colonoscopy”
yeezyseezy··on Why I didn’t apologize for that Yale Law School email
I mean this sincerely, do public apologies ever help in situations like this? Anecdotally, I always seem to see them backfire as insincere or insufficient.
yeezyseezy··on The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
I would love to see the tech support tickets filed at the less technologically inclined agencies after network level ad blocking is launched
yeezyseezy··on Ask HN: How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer?
What makes a huge difference for me is having a progression plan and tracking my progress. With both running and lifting, it’s easy to set short term and long term goals and see yourself reach them week after week. That helps with building the habit, and the habit is all you need.
yeezyseezy··on Norm Macdonald has died
He was so well read, but played the "dumb guy" so well: https://youtu.be/ob3yBb2E-uM
yeezyseezy··on Norm Macdonald has died
Agree with this and the following FTA: 'Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.”'
yeezyseezy··on It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness
Not Gibson, but Snow Crash comes to mind
yeezyseezy··on Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
>FOUR MONTH interview process

Yeah, that’s Google

yeezyseezy··on Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United States
I think this is due to the self-reported nature of Glassdoor, and it exposes how this is a flawed methodology. The original point of salary disparity still stands, but any single datapoint here is likely not reliable.
yeezyseezy··on Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
This is my experience, either the recruiter will want to pay you directly, thus the company can avoid its own HR red-tape, or their deal with the recruiter is deliberately hidden from you, but you still join FTE. Of course, there's a million different ways to do this, but an organization like Triplebyte is upfront about taking 30% of your salary for two years.
yeezyseezy··on Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
This is a great tip. Earlier in my career I was stuck at a mid-point where I didn't have quite enough experience to get hired by a household-name tech company, and working with third-party recruiters made finding a job easy. Knowing what I know now, I never would have even made it past screening at a lot of companies. They will take a cut of your salary, but they'll also work hard to sell you, as that's the only way they get paid. You are to them what a house is to a realtor, and the market is hot right now.
yeezyseezy··on Each Decade That Passes, Fewer People Report Knowing How to Drive Stick Shifts
Modern electric cars don’t even have gears. I drive a manual because I enjoy it but I know I’m doing so anachronistically.
yeezyseezy··on The Exploding Whale remastered: 50th anniversary of legendary Oregon event
In the video, the engineer says that they expect the whale to be vaporized
yeezyseezy··on [dead]
After you read every book on the list, do you gain the ability to make your own Amazon affiliate marketing blog?
yeezyseezy··on Learn from Anyone
I tried the example prompt and I got a copypasta filled with racial slurs. Is this like the tay.ai situation where user input is being added to training data?
yeezyseezy··on The Polymath Playbook
I swear Heinlein reuses this in Stranger in a Strangeland. Maybe he was an anti-specialization specialist.
yeezyseezy··on A mathematical formula that predicts US elections with 87.5% accuracy
In regression and curve fitting, you can add additional, often spurious parameters, and get a closer fit. A better fit does not mean you have a better model, it usually means the opposite, that you've overfitted the model, and that it's completely useless for forecasting and predictive purposes. This is why in machine learning, researchers are careful to separate training and testing data. This is just physicists roasting each other over the same issue.
yeezyseezy··on Why can't I sign in with Facebook anymore?
Where I work, we almost pulled Facebook sign in for the same reason. I'm currently heading the Sign In with Apple integration project, and it was a godsend to get that deadline extended
yeezyseezy··on The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004)
I've fixed this issue at a large company, and it was not intentional, but poorly written regex
yeezyseezy··on A week with Hy
The only real advantage I saw in the article is the addition of macros
yeezyseezy··on IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders
Worth noting that the IRS will not call without having sent a letter first
yeezyseezy··on Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
Have you been able to put any of these techniques into practice? It's been a few years since I tried reading it, but I wasn't able to push through the fluff to make it to the practical advice.
yeezyseezy··on Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
The part that confused me is when they claim to have obtained MethBot source code, but never mention how.
yeezyseezy··on Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
Advertisers already do this, but part of the report claims that Methbot spoofs common domains. They provide a sample here: http://www.whiteops.com/methbot/domains.txt