Hacker News: jurynulifcation

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Finding a new software developer job"

jurynulifcation — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:45:01 +0000

Junior engineer. Hundreds of applications across 3 months. Nothing but silence and automated rejections. It's got me feeling so down that I'm just going to leave the private sector for military. Get some training, have some job security, benefits, and hopefully wait out the horrible market.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Walmart, Delta, and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages"

jurynulifcation — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 01:34:03 +0000

And in the ideal world, that's fine, but again- hopelessly naive in the real world. Taken to the extreme, why should we not record all audio? And if someone receives an urgent phone call from home, something extremely personal, should that stay in the company's records? No, for fear that the company will use their power disparity to exert undue control over the employee's life from them attending to the actually important matters in their life. That's why privacy matters.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Walmart, Delta, and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages"

jurynulifcation — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 19:28:05 +0000

Privacy matters at work because the interests of the employee and the employer are in tension. Do you expect an employee to leave every personal item out of work? Should employees expect to not speak of their personal lives, or to have artifacts of their personal life leak into the workplace? To say that the boundary should be absolute is hopelessly naive. Privacy matters because it is a leaky barrier, and the employer should not be capable of retaining personal information they can use to emotionally extort or legally strong-arm their employee when it's useful for them.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)"

jurynulifcation — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 23:11:57 +0000

I don't consider "there is value in not always having a point, but meandering" to be itself a point, mainly because you don't give a reason to suppose that that is the case or a reasonable case to consider. It seems itself to be rather meandering, circling a value and a raison d'etre without specifying either. It's the specification that makes it worth considering, as adults do know.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

jurynulifcation — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:45:11 +0000

25 year odl here, I prefer phone calls as my primary method of communication, and often place calls as my first method of contact with previously-uncontacted entities. Please check your assumptions :)

New comment by jurynulifcation in "A seafood firm wants to farm octopus. Activists say they're too smart for that"

jurynulifcation — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:31:49 +0000

That's pretty sickening, I hope you keep away from polite society for the rest of our sakes, and hopefully you won't have too much longer to pursue your bucket list.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)"

jurynulifcation — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:30:35 +0000

So you're deadset on not making a point

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?"

jurynulifcation — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:34:38 +0000

I'm technically self employed because I got into a toxic contractorship as my first gig, when I didn't have the knowledge to avoid getting taken advantage of. But it's really just a software shop refusing to hire employees and using "contractors" for everything (we're actually employees)

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)"

jurynulifcation — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:11:13 +0000

Sometimes enlightenment is about knowing when to be impolite.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowment"

jurynulifcation — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:53:22 +0000

There's also probably plenty of space if we force these institutions to pay taxes on their land usage ;p

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowment"

jurynulifcation — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:39:59 +0000

Or let people retain the housing they want and tax the encroaching multibillion dollar institutions lmao

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews"

jurynulifcation — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:36:10 +0000

"Can" or "can't"?

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews"

jurynulifcation — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:35:04 +0000

Where do you interview for? I'm sure people who don't want to compete with GPT script kiddies would love to know steer clear, while this is a strong positive signal that there's a jobs program for GPT meat copiers.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews"

jurynulifcation — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:30:12 +0000

That job could have gone to someone who like actually knew what they were doing and was honest lol not sure why you want to defend professional and intellectual dishonesty?

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews"

jurynulifcation — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:29:21 +0000

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews"

jurynulifcation — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:26:39 +0000

why wouldn't a cheater just pipe a generative audio model through a small earbud? like that one villain from season 3 of westworld

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission"

jurynulifcation — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:55:06 +0000

Collecting the passwords is already an egregious overstep, which renders any usage a DAMNING misuse. Microsoft does not have the comfort or benefit of their users in mind, or they wouldn't do this. What a senseless notion. This is further aggression from a company attempting to take choice away from people using their software. It's not even vaguely serious argumentation, it's outright disingenuous and ridiculous.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research"

jurynulifcation — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:25:23 +0000

That's not how ethical disclosure works.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research"

jurynulifcation — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 02:35:32 +0000

If this is true then not disclosing that is extremely unethical of @abidlabs, damn near intellectual malfeasance, and reflects very poorly on the rest of their work.

New comment by jurynulifcation in "Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays"

jurynulifcation — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:37:14 +0000

Microsoft Syndrome