Hacker News: heroHACK17

New comment by heroHACK17 in "ChatGPT Cheat Sheet"

heroHACK17 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:38:39 +0000

On a recent episode of the All In podcast, one of the hosts made a remark along the lines of "in the future [when AI has replaced the knowledge worker], insatiable demand will exist for people who are experts in querying NLPs." I think we're seeing that here.

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Confess your love with zero-knowledge"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 23:24:00 +0000

Relationship goals

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Tokay Programming Language"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 13 May 2022 04:24:22 +0000

Totally. I opened the site and thought "Ok this is cool," but didn't get much further.

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal"

heroHACK17 — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:26:24 +0000

This product gives me the same sketchy vibes as Mighty[1]. There's absolutely no way I'm going to give up one of my most sacred tools to a funded company whose going to expose my every click.

[1] mightyapp.com

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal"

heroHACK17 — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:15:58 +0000

I wondered the same. Then I realized it sends out requests to googleapis, segment, and sentry. Imagine having data on every dev's terminal workflow? Ca$h.

New comment by heroHACK17 in "The state of burnout in tech, 2022 edition [pdf]"

heroHACK17 — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:39:09 +0000

Has anyone pivoted out of tech completely? What was your experience like?

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Windy.com"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:11:41 +0000

Very cool

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Your devices and your employer"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:33:04 +0000

Recently joined a FAANG and did this same thing last week. 0 chance I'd install company software on my personal device.

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:07:03 +0000

tl;dr:

Silver: "Shit... I was so close to Gold." Bronze: "Damn, I medaled!"

New comment by heroHACK17 in "5 Habits of Highly Ineffective Remote Workers"

heroHACK17 — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:51:51 +0000

In large-ish meetings (3+ attendees), I usually turn off my camera (and mute my mic) when I'm not the one talking. For less formal meetings I might relax this. But, in general, I've found that keeping cameras and mics on at all times usually derail meetings.

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Must-read psychology books"

heroHACK17 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 14:26:33 +0000

If, like me, you're interested in the subject matter of this book, I recommend reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis instead.

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study"

heroHACK17 — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 17:31:07 +0000

https://maps.org or, more specifically, https://integration.maps.org

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:12:56 +0000

This is my thought as well. I get the "make productive engineers even more productive" angle, but productive engineers' bottleneck isn't coding. Sure, coding up a boilerplate Go web server is tedious, but I have done it so many times that it takes me two seconds now.

On the flip side, coding can be the bottleneck for the worst kind of coder. When I first started coding, coding was hard simply because I had very little reps and was just learning to understand how to code common solutions, data structures, libraries, etc. Fast forward a few years and, if I were still struggling to understand these concepts, Copilot is a lifeline.

New comment by heroHACK17 in "GitHub Copilot"

heroHACK17 — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:01:53 +0000

Remote coding interviews just got 100x easier.

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are"

heroHACK17 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 20:49:45 +0000

I had a similar experience after switching companies (to remote) last year. Work computer has no personal accounts/services. iPhone (and personal Mac) has no work accounts/services. No Slack, calendars, etc. I made it clear up-front that I am not available before 8AM and after 5PM M-F, but very available during work hours. Best decision I ever made!

New comment by heroHACK17 in "What it's like to be cancelled"

heroHACK17 — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:49:41 +0000

We actually do know what, or who, the denominator is. A large majority of tweets come from a small minority of tweeters: roughly 10% of tweeters account for roughly 80% of all tweets on the platform [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair?"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:24:40 +0000

Secretlab.co makes fantastic chairs!

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:13:34 +0000

Did we just become best friends?

New comment by heroHACK17 in "Why Can’t I Sleep?"

heroHACK17 — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:06:34 +0000

For those looking for more info and practical advice on this topic: check out the Huberman Lab podcast. The host, Dr. Andrew Huberman, spends four episodes talking about sleep. He actually draws a lot of research from the folks at UCSF (mentioned in the article).

New comment by heroHACK17 in "iOS 15 Humane"

heroHACK17 — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:59:35 +0000

This was exactly me last night. After four hours I realized I'd had a headache the whole time (from four straight hours of screen-time), and yet, my lizard brain snatched the reigns right back before I could make a decision to put it down or continue scrolling.