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I'm a Software Engineer and Web Developer from California. I also enjoy surfing and creating music.

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www.congress.gov 2y ago

HR 7024 – Bill to fix R&D amortization

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Why is it so hard to stop prompts from leaking?

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snappartnersummit.com 4y ago

Snap Partner Summit

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downdetector.com 4y ago

Everything Is Down

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www.latimes.com 4y ago

To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Snap Says It Will No Longer Promote Trump’s Account

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snappartnersummit.com 7y ago

Snapchat Partner Summit

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Bitmoji Party

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Snapchat vs. Facebook: Business Philosophy and Product Ethics

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Artist Makes Music Out of Snapchat Public Stories

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What are engineering solutions to preserve Net Neutrality?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: How do you deal with performance anxiety during interviews?

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Why whiteboard interviews are a terrible way to judge people

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: What kind of jobs only work 40 hours a week?

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blogs.kqed.org 12y ago

Silicon Valley Billionaire Battles Surfers Over Beach Access

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Can the NSA influence electronic voting?

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bitcoincharts.com 12y ago

Bitcoin is back near its all time peak price

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Startup School Videos?

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www.wired.com 13y ago

Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers

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build.windowsstore.com 13y ago

Microsoft will pay you $100 to publish an app in their app store

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www.suntimes.com 13y ago

Aaron Swartz was ‘killed by government,’ father says at funeral

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

How do we stop America from being afraid of hackers?

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www.thisamericanlife.org 13y ago

Tales from the Net, June 5th 1997 (This American Life)

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scores.espn.go.com 13y ago

Giants Win The World Series

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This would be a great thing for all of the AI companies to devote some energy towards. Especially with their reputations in decline. Surely there must be some patterns the AIs could find if we had enough data about the people who died from cancer.

The main goal isn't to reduce the amount of overall plastic created its to reduce the amount of plastic trash that ends up on the streets, beaches, rivers, etc.

Teaching with AI 3 years ago

The elephant in the room here is that these LLM's still have problems with hallucinations. Even its only 1% or even 0.1% of the time thats still a huge problem. You could have someone go their whole lives believing something they were confidently taught by an AI which is completely wrong.

Teachers should be very careful using a vanilla LLM for education without some kinds of extra guardrails or extra verification.

With help from gpt4:

"As a concerned citizen and advocate for the technology sector in our great nation, I am writing to express my strong support for S.866, the American Innovation and Jobs Act. I believe this legislation is crucial for fixing the unfair tax treatment faced by startups, technology companies, and software engineers, which together form the backbone of innovation and economic growth in the United States.

The bill will make it easier for startups and small businesses to thrive, create jobs, and compete in the global market. Additionally, the legislation will also make it more attractive for talented software engineers to choose careers in this vital industry.

Our nation's ability to maintain its competitive edge in the global market depends heavily on the health and vibrancy of our technology sector. By passing S.866, we can ensure that our startups and tech companies have the resources they need to innovate, create jobs, and contribute to the economy. Furthermore, this legislation will help attract and retain top-tier talent in software engineering, an essential component of our country's continued success in the tech industry.

As your constituent, I kindly urge you to support and vote in favor of the American Innovation and Jobs Act, S.866. This bill is a vital investment in our nation's future, and its passage will undoubtedly lead to continued growth and prosperity for the United States in the competitive global market.

Thank you for your attention to this important issue, and I appreciate your dedication to representing the best interests of our community and the nation as a whole."

Because of the pandemic which caused people to desire more space. Maybe they were living with their parents or roommates and want their own place, maybe they had kids during the pandemic, maybe they need a home office.

Sure if you raise rates enough to cause a recession and massive job loss that would eventually push home prices down but it seems like building more housing would be a simpler, kinder solution.

My understanding is that a large portion of this "CPI index that excludes food and energy" is housing. Which might explain the seasonality mentioned in this blog post (people tend to move more in the warmer months).

I don't see how raising interest rates will help when the core issue with housing is the lack of supply. If anything higher rates will make it harder to add more supply.

"their mere interest in something doesn’t disqualify it" - It certainly raises suspicions though. It really feels like certain groups have gotten good at turning particular news events or ideas into memes and sharing them as widely as possible in order to push a narrative that manipulates the markets. Which is probably why this story is now on the front page of HN. We certainly saw this with crypto and now it feels to me at least like those same tactics are being applied more and more to the larger stock market.

Why does this 10x meme exist about software engineers and no other profession? It's because the CEOs and VCs who spread this are preying on tech bro macho-ness so they can squeeze as much labor and "productivity" out of us as possible.

Let's stop with this juvenile dick measuring contest. We are not machines that have a speed that can be so easily measured like a new CPU in the bosses computer.

There's still the selection bias of who volunteers to do these mock interviews. Probably its the people who want practice interviewing and at dropbox those are the top performers who want to "move up" to a Google, while at Google it's the people who aren't cutting it and know they are going to have to find another job soon.