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KerryJones

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Engineer and fitness hacker, and Co-Founder of HubHaus.

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dealcred.com 4mo ago

Show HN: DealCred – Verified Reviews for Real Estate Deals

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amazonone.aws.com 5mo ago

Amazon One palm authentication discontinued

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newsroom.spotify.com 3y ago

Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ

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blog.kerryjones.net 3y ago

Investing Fundamentals: Probabilities

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verily.com 3y ago

One Verily Forward (Layoffs)

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How long does it take you to prototype a new tool?

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blog.kerryjones.net 3y ago

The Lens of Asymmetry

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What do you think is the most promising branch of AI?

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playcanv.as 4y ago

After the Flood – WebFest – PlayCanvas

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www.propublica.org 4y ago

Filing taxes could be free & simple. H&R Block & Intuit lobby against it (2017)

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blog.interviewing.io 4y ago

No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback (2020)

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blog.kerryjones.net 4y ago

Writing Unoriginal Content

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www.theatlantic.com 4y ago

Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (2018)

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What is your oncall alarm or ringtone?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: If not Medium, then what?

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demaree.space 5y ago

The Full Coinbase

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Some tough news to share (Patreon layoffs 36)

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: How to prepare for an Engineering Manager interview?

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www.sciencedirect.com 6y ago

Intermittent Fasting Study Shown to Suppress Cancer in Mice and Humans

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www.coindesk.com 6y ago

China’s National Blockchain Will Change the World

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github.com 6y ago

Show HN: I made a Covid-19 Timeline

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What Companies Are Furloughing?

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www.vox.com 6y ago

We know ending social distancing will lead to more deaths, in one chart

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mashable.com 6y ago

Apple shuts all stores around the world – except in China

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www.marketwatch.com 6y ago

The Dow just tumbled into a bear market, here’s how long those last

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Best Resources for WFH? (COVID-19 encouraged)

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Best Approach to transition from Engineer to PM?

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blog.venmo.com 6y ago

Venmo Launches Instant Transfer to Bank Account

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www.wyden.senate.gov 6y ago

Letter to Amazon Re Capital One Hack [pdf]

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www.npr.org 6y ago

T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Finally Wins Justice Department's Blessing

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Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

"GPT 5.5 has already been shown to be as adept as Mythos at finding vulnerabilities."

Do you have any data on this (other than benchmarks)?

Most people would argue that Stadia would have many. Many people loved Google Reader. There are numerous examples of things that were great and were killed, because they hadn't monetized enough or "fast enough", and when you are chasing results on a quarterly basis, you can't always get things that will generate tremendous value with more time.

It seems like a good path forward is to somewhat try to replicate the idea of "once you can do it yourself, feel free to use it going forward" (knowing how various calculator operations work before you let it do it for you).

I'm curious if we instead gave students an AI tool, but one that would intentionally throw in wrong things that the student had to catch. Instead of the student using LLMs, they would have one paid for by the school.

This is more brainstorming then a well thought-out idea, but I generally think "opposing AI" is doomed to fail. If we follow a montessori approach, kids are naturally inclined to want to learn thing, if students are trying to lie/cheat, we've already failed them by turning off their natural curiosity for something else.

I recently interviewed for Anthropic, 6 rounds, recruiter was great, said they were putting together an offer letter. I met one of the managers, then another came back from vacation... and then they decided not to give me an offer.

I asked for feedback, and the recruiter sounded frustrated (about the internal process), because they had a moving bar on what was wanted from the hiring managers. I know I hadn't completely aced one of the interviews (they had me do a second one), and apparently they thought it was good enough on initial review, but when coming back to review it again it was not good enough.

It seems like they are going through growing pains as a company.

Create a two-sided deal review app: https://dealcred.com

I work a lot with smaller investors, in real estate, private money lending, etc. It's sometimes hard to do due diligence on someone, and after having a couple bad deals and realize over 30 people were scammed, I wished there was a simple review site where you could see someone's past reviews.

Site is 80% there, hoping to enter beta in the next month.

I like this idea a lot -- feels like there's a lot of room to grow here. Do you have any sort of historical price tracking/alerting?

And/or also curious if there is a way to enter in a list of items I want and for it to calculate which store - in aggregate - is the cheapest.

For instance, people often tell me Costco is much cheaper than alternatives, and for me to compare I have to compile my shopping cart in multiple stores to compare.

Happy 10k Day 1 year ago

Didn't know about this -- that's cool. I'm excited to see where it goes in the future

I read ~4 books a month via Audible, and tend not to find the time to add to Goodreads (maybe there's an auto connection I'm missing). I love the idea of systems like this (your design is beautiful) but there's no way I'm going to try to reimport all my ratings for 300+ books.

Is there anyway to sync with Audible? Even if it's a hacky chrome extension reading off the audible website?

I complain about this all the time, despite me saying "ask me questions before you code" or all these other instructions to code less, it is SO eager to code. I am hoping their 3.7 reasoning follows these instructions better

Five coding hats 1 year ago

This comes across more as styles than hats. Hat's, typically, refer to a "role description". Put on my "eng manager hat", put on my "product manager hat", not doing the same thing differently.

I'm not sure "style" is the right word, but "hat" feels like the wrong one.

Based on what data? I've found them to be as accurate or more accurate (and the data I've seen says the same) except around sleep tracking, where Garmin is worse. But it's not hard to create a function to correct for that if you really care about it, it is good enough unless you need vanity metrics

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Wow, strong start with an introduction to bolt.new, I'm impressed and might use this in my day-to-day

It seems like you're comparing jobs to other jobs. If you reverse your logic, "Software jobs should have to go to the workplace, not because they need to, are more productive, but just so that other people feel like it's fair."

You stated correctly when you said "most jobs do not have the luxury", and some people have specifically chosen these jobs for this luxury.