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New comment by ajhurliman in "Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?"

ajhurliman — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:02:46 +0000

Making a note of Samsung; I've had the worst time looking for large, dumb monitors. I've returned about 4 now due to the obnoxious boot times, incompatibility, menu trees, ads(!), etc.

New comment by ajhurliman in "It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world"

ajhurliman — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:16:18 +0000

Seems wild right? Would you believe that there’s a male contraceptive that’s been actively used in other countries successfully for over a decade, is easily and painlessly reversible, and non-hormonal?

New comment by ajhurliman in "It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world"

ajhurliman — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:43:04 +0000

GLP1s have been on the market for at least a decade, they’re pretty well studied at this point. Their sudden popularity is due to the FDA allowing it to be prescribed for obesity (instead of diabetes), not the discovery of a new drug.

New comment by ajhurliman in "Boeing to sell at least $10B in shares to plug cash drain"

ajhurliman — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:07:45 +0000

I honestly think their leadership could be replaced with an LLM at this point.

New comment by ajhurliman in "Signal's Meredith Whittaker: 'I see AI as born out of surveillance'"

ajhurliman — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:29:01 +0000

This is just an ad for Signal. There’s nothing really coherent about her take, she just sees the entire world through the lens of surveillance so she’s trying to shoehorn today’s hot topic into that narrative as well.

New comment by ajhurliman in "DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters"

ajhurliman — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:24:07 +0000

This blows my mind that they're actually pursuing this, the two complaints are that they schemed to decrease competition among landlords and that they monopolized commercial revenue management software. Both are completely bogus.

You could say the entire profession of appraising real estate prices "decreases competition" if the first complaint is valid.

And they certainly haven't monopolized the software space, I'd never even heard of RealPage until the lawsuit, I used Rentometer. There are dozens more, predicting rent prices is hardly a novel idea.

I think that was like one of the toy problems in Andrew Ng's online ML course.

New comment by ajhurliman in "X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum"

ajhurliman — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:20:33 +0000

That first article entirely revolves around some random finance bro’s idle speculation in a YouTube comment. It blows my mind that people are so trusting of obvious guess work given that it’s a privately held company that’s not disclosing their financials.

New comment by ajhurliman in "Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon"

ajhurliman — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:47:02 +0000

I’m not making fun of them, I really like them. I also appreciate the shared vocabulary; in conversations with good actors they’re very beneficial.

However, I stand by my statement that they’re abused for propagating one’s own agenda.

Like you said there are adversarial LPs, and sometimes there is a clear winner but the opposing side can masquerade behind the opposing LP and make it seem like they’re in good faith.

They’re a net benefit for sure, but it really works best when you don’t have bad actors (I guess that’s probably true for all paradigms though).

New comment by ajhurliman in "Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon"

ajhurliman — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:39:18 +0000

You get paid cash in lieu of RSUs to bring your early years' TC up to what you signed up for, you could just buy AMZN with you cash if you wanted to.

New comment by ajhurliman in "Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon"

ajhurliman — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:35:47 +0000

I really like Amazon's LPs, but I think they're often stretched to accommodate whatever opinion one has.

New comment by ajhurliman in "Congress Wants to Let Private Companies Own the Law"

ajhurliman — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:07:17 +0000

Every attempt I’ve made to interact with Lexis Nexis has been a nightmare.

Honestly though, what does a publisher of laws do these days? Couldn’t the government just say “actually we’re gonna take over publishing”, throw the PDF in S3 and call it a day?

New comment by ajhurliman in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)"

ajhurliman — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:29:10 +0000

Location: Tempe, AZ Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full stack web developer: React, React Native, Redux, NextJS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, some Go, some python, Postgres, Mongo, AWS, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://ajhurliman-resume.s3.amazonaws.com/Resume+-+James+Hu...

Email: james.hurliman [at] gmail.com

New comment by ajhurliman in "Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries"

ajhurliman — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:36:12 +0000

Maybe they meant the university

New comment by ajhurliman in "Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland"

ajhurliman — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 07:08:19 +0000

How would you handle it? Give them a stern talking-to?

New comment by ajhurliman in "What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)"

ajhurliman — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:49:24 +0000

I always thought Google+ should've ditched the "dislike" button for a "nonplussed" button.

New comment by ajhurliman in "Hawaii moves to ban short-term rentals to address housing crisis"

ajhurliman — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:00:26 +0000

I think you’re operating under the assumption that all people should live in big cities.

I think it’s fine if cities get too expensive; people just need to wake up to the idea of “this place is too expensive for me”.

There are lots of very affordable houses in the Midwest, but everyone seems to want to be a star in Hollywood or a financier in New York (no matter how delusional they are).

New comment by ajhurliman in "FAA Audit of Boeing's 737 MAX Production Found Dozens of Issues"

ajhurliman — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:38:24 +0000

Tbh it’s a fair question, but we haven’t seen a rapid escalation of incidents in planes from those manufacturers. So I’d venture the guess “not as bad as Boeing”

New comment by ajhurliman in "New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search"

ajhurliman — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:40:11 +0000

>20,000

https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

New comment by ajhurliman in "New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search"

ajhurliman — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 04:03:06 +0000

It’s a monthly subscription that apparently a lot of people are willing to pay for, feels like an honest business which is shocking in tech.

New comment by ajhurliman in "New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search"

ajhurliman — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 02:34:50 +0000

Kagi is head and shoulder better at finding things that are useful. Google is going the way of AOL.