Hacker News: AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AyyWSHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:49:36 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"]]>What society or culture survived by taking the high road? I'm reminded of Princess Leia's quote: No! Alderaan is peaceful, we have no weapons.

]]>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:18:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787941AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787941https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787941<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"]]>My wife and I used various warmers and threw them all out for microwaving water. 8oz is 30 seconds. 6oz is 22 seconds. It's easy, fast and reliable every time.

]]>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:39:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34276947AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34276947https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34276947<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "TensorFlow Datasets"]]>Kaggle is what they talk about in my industry.

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

]]>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:29:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34082787AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34082787https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34082787<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public services online"]]>We were contracted because the agency lost lawsuits and had to payout and change policies. The contractor was never successfully sued, but I had to compile lawsuit discovery documents 6 times in 2 years.

]]>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 17:20:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819364AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819364<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public services online"]]>I worked for a private company contracted to provide a portion of a public service and later got employed by the the government agency.

- The contractor had no budget. Our servers were out of date and we were running out of date OSes and software. We were all paid below standard and overworked.

- We had a tiny budget at the agency to buy things at the very end of the year. We ran up to date software and OSes, except for a few large complicated systems that were setup with grant money. We were all paid well below standard. I was no longer on call at all times of the day and night.

Contract awards go to the lowest bidder.

]]>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:04:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805860AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805860<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides"]]>Yeah. The HIPAA data needs to be encrypted and you have to report everyone who has access and you need patient permission to share. HIPAA is bad, but ITAR violations put you in jail!

]]>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:53:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33508420AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33508420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33508420<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies"]]>I wasn't very clear. She had a mac laptop around 1998 or so.

]]>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:46:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180438AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180438<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love"]]>1. His kid was finishing high school and didn't want to move out of a small metro with limited jobs.

2. Company health insurance + family member with chronic disease.

3. He was personal friends with the VP which made his firing potentially career ending for the new manager.

There are people you meet in your career that are a privilege to work with like this guy.

]]>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:41:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180386AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180386https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180386<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love"]]>> fear of being replaced

I saw the most extreme example of low competence bullying. A manager with less than 1 year of experience fired a contractor project manager who was a previous energy company CEO, turn-around CEO, and company board member/advisor. The guy was fixing some of the tangled bureaucratic work flows (which made everyone's lives better) when he got the axe.

]]>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:55:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177876AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177876<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies"]]>iPhone SE, iPad, and the MacBook Air all disagree with you. I feel like this is the cheapest Apple products have ever been. My grandma had a colorful $2000 Apple laptop in early 2000s and you can get a MacBook Air now for $1000. That's a heck of a price decline without figuring inflation.

]]>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:43:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177713AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177713https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177713<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story"]]>1. They grew up.

2a. Got a job and had kids/got hobbies. Stopped caring and just subscribed to Netflix like everyone else.

--or--

2b. Created copyrightable works. Joined the protectionists.

]]>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:56:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33166569AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33166569https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33166569<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Never pay for online dating (2010)"]]>Article from 2010. Instagram was created on October 6, 2010. I bet it's related.

]]>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:26:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164480AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164480<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing"]]>Do you have disaster recovery / high availability requirements? SQL server on a desktop has a lot of single points of failure.

]]>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:42:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124576AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124576<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Google picks South Africa for its first cloud region in Africa"]]>I think we're doing pretty good:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-1990-vs-201...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-across-wes...

]]>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:57:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096394AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096394https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096394<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Building a Startup on Clojure"]]>last 6 months job listings from itjobswatch.co.uk

Python - 23,146

Java - 19,800

Scala - 2,274

Clojure - 291

]]>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 19:24:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085434AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085434https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085434<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "How fateful?"]]>Dystopio is signing off. Find your favorite features in the new Apocalypse Wow!

]]>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:14:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33080688AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33080688https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33080688<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer"]]>Thank you for the context. Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio.

]]>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:00:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035808AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035808https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035808<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Someone is pretending to be me"]]>He was a long time employee with a legacy job title "wintel engineer." A transformational ex-IBM director was finally brave enough to PIP and fire him. I think he was mostly retired while putting in 8 hours of work a quarter.

]]>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:45:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33000869AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33000869https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33000869<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Someone is pretending to be me"]]>At a big telecom we had an employee that maybe closed 10 tickets in two years. He was the highest paid team member (as reported by our director) and worked remotely from an RV in Oklahoma. When he was finally discovered by our director, he was fired and his immediate manager was fired.

]]>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:15:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32999807AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32999807https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32999807<![CDATA[New comment by AyyWS in "Be critical or be corrupted"]]>My family member who runs a company in China avoids bribes by pretending to be a dumb American.

]]>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:30:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32954072AyyWShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32954072https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32954072