Hacker News: cbtacy

New comment by cbtacy in "I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing"

cbtacy — Tue, 02 May 2023 21:43:55 +0000

That's it. I'm done.

Been a Hacker News user since this launched, but have been feeling increasingly like I'm not part of this culture and don't want to be part of this culture anymore. So I'm out.

It's sad and kind of tragic to see what was once a thriving, diverse community that embraced all types of marginalized people (nerds, engineers, geeks, and so on) become a cesspool of bigotry and hate speech.

And the real tragedy, of course, is that Hacker News is just a microcosm of the developer culture -- which has become disgusting and hateful.

I hope those of you who are not bigots manage to fix this place. I hope the developer culture becomes healthier and less toxic. But I'm not going to be around to help or see it. Y'all are too exhausting and depressing.

Peace out.

New comment by cbtacy in "I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing"

cbtacy — Tue, 02 May 2023 21:38:56 +0000

Bingo

New comment by cbtacy in "I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing"

cbtacy — Tue, 02 May 2023 01:04:51 +0000

Reforming "flagging" to make it less open to abuse and brigading is obviously overdue.

New comment by cbtacy in "I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing"

cbtacy — Mon, 01 May 2023 23:55:12 +0000

I love that this is being downvoted. Nothing validates my point better.

New comment by cbtacy in "I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing"

cbtacy — Mon, 01 May 2023 23:05:26 +0000

sadly, very common. See: anything critical about Elon Musk. See: anything about LGBTQ+ issues.

New comment by cbtacy in "Presentations and pitch decks by failures and frauds"

cbtacy — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:02:59 +0000

I don't know if anyone has done the deep analysis to determine if fraud is more frequent and severe and agree this seems like a doubtful statement, but I suspect it's likely that corporate collapses have in fact become more common and more frequent -- but due simply to the fact that the global total number of corporations has increased exponentially since the mid 20th century.

New comment by cbtacy in "Why I'm not worried about AI causing mass unemployment"

cbtacy — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:16:00 +0000

1) AI is Software. Marc was just a little off on market timing, and the eating starts for real right now.

2) I worked for a large private equity company on contract for a bit. The team I worked on was doing analysis about what the likely impact of AI, robotics, and automation on true unemployment in the US was likely to be as of 2030. Largely due to the impact on food service, retail, agriculture, customer support, and entry level corporate jobs the conclusion was that we'll see true unemployment in the 40% range at that time.

New comment by cbtacy in "Twitter Circle tweets are not that private anymore"

cbtacy — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:15:56 +0000

This is bad. This should result in more EU fines, and the Consent Decree is obviously in play. SMH.

New comment by cbtacy in "Sam Altman didn’t take any equity in OpenAI, report says"

cbtacy — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 23:17:30 +0000

Investors include Y Combinator, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Microsoft, Amazon, Infosys, Tiger Global, Elevation Capital, Bedrock Capital, Wikus Ventures, Social Discovery Ventures, Pre IPO Club, Matthew Brown Companies, Change.org, and Fenrir.

The Problem with Don Norman

cbtacy — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:45:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90868431/the-problem-with-don-norman

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251511

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

Antisemitic tweets soared on Twitter after Musk took over, study finds

cbtacy — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:38:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/20/antisemitic-tweets-soared-twitter-after-musk-took-over-study-finds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35237415

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

New comment by cbtacy in "Shutdown: Agora (YC S19)"

cbtacy — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:52:45 +0000

I was talking about how their rejection of this post is a bad look for YC, not about how their lack of support for the entrepreneur is a bad look.

New comment by cbtacy in "Shutdown: Agora (YC S19)"

cbtacy — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:40:27 +0000

Definitely not a good look for YC.

Shutdown: Agora (YC S19)

cbtacy — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thecolorinanything.com/post/shutdown-agora-yc-s19

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155149

Points: 65

# Comments: 15

New comment by cbtacy in "Startup Bank Had a Startup Bank Run"

cbtacy — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:24:02 +0000

"But if all of your depositors are startups with the same handful of venture capitalists on their boards, and all those venture capitalists are competing with each other to Add Value and Be Influencers and Do The Current Thing by calling all their portfolio companies to say “hey, did you hear, everyone’s taking money out of Silicon Valley Bank, you should too,” then all of your depositors will take their money out at the same time."

New comment by cbtacy in "[dead]"

cbtacy — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:55:59 +0000

"My guess is that some continue to feel that Musk’s cruelty reflects his ability to see the world as it “really is”, where useless people like designers and disabled people drain energy from the engineers who really build things."

New comment by cbtacy in "A single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday"

cbtacy — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:42:55 +0000

"The one remaining site reliability engineer attached to the project"

A Month Later, Twitter Still Not Sharing Ad Revenue with Creators

cbtacy — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:48:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623927/twitter-blue-ad-revenue-one-month-missing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015491

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by cbtacy in "The reasons developers love open source"

cbtacy — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:09:02 +0000

Would developers love open source if personal visibility in open source was comparable to personal visibility in closed source?

New comment by cbtacy in "Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls"

cbtacy — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 03:29:18 +0000

One boarding school has gone as far as to ban smartphones for students AND teachers due to this issue.

ABC story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSUrE4-zYzg