Hacker News: nswest23

New comment by nswest23 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

nswest23 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:50:40 +0000

People have had jobs where their entire job function was figuring out how to outsource work overseas. When there's no one left to outsource then it's your turn. Tale as old as time.

New comment by nswest23 in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

nswest23 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:36:17 +0000

What are the important problems today? Do you mean AI? I'm not sure I'd agree or that it's obvious what the "important" problems are.

New comment by nswest23 in "US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces"

nswest23 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:15:54 +0000

i was with you until:

> journalists like Glen Greenwald and outlets like Wikileaks who are reliably independent.

independent from whom?

New comment by nswest23 in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

nswest23 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:59:14 +0000

Why FBI decided to act now is that they probably ripped off the wrong person...

New comment by nswest23 in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

nswest23 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:08:30 +0000

I am pretty sure I've had it my entire life and for a long time I just thought it was the background noise of the universe. Never bothered me till I figured out that wasn't the case.

New comment by nswest23 in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

nswest23 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:26:56 +0000

waiting for details on how "backing Iraq" is materially different from an "alliance" with Iraq...I'm hesitant to throw yet _another_ word into the mix but there's an entire wikipedia page on US "support" for Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq...

New comment by nswest23 in "Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017"

nswest23 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:45:27 +0000

pretty sure they pivoted to robots anyhow.

New comment by nswest23 in "US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief"

nswest23 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:39:11 +0000

Stop infantilizing them and taking away their agency.

New comment by nswest23 in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

nswest23 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:53:20 +0000

How do you know? Maybe jj would be a productivity improvement for you. Maybe it wouldn't. There's only one way to find out and it seems like a pretty painless thing to try. If this is your attitude toward new things do you still pump water out of a well when you're thirsty?

New comment by nswest23 in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

nswest23 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:20:53 +0000

If it were possible for a trained pilot to "brain fart" cut fuel to a 787 as it is taking off that would be a huge design flaw.

New comment by nswest23 in "Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes"

nswest23 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:18:06 +0000

I guess corporations don't write the laws in China?

New comment by nswest23 in "Plain Vanilla Web"

nswest23 — Tue, 13 May 2025 01:13:57 +0000

this is a troll, right?

New comment by nswest23 in "How to win an argument with a toddler"

nswest23 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:43:33 +0000

I think you missed the point of this post. Wildly.

New comment by nswest23 in "Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink"

nswest23 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:17:58 +0000

> Elon needs to take rejections way less personally.

taking things personally is the hallmark of the trump administration. see the press conference with Zelenskyy yesterday.

New comment by nswest23 in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

nswest23 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:33:50 +0000

They seem to be getting muzzled less than they did on the legacy media platforms that they left to go to substack.

New comment by nswest23 in "DOGE as a National Cyberattack"

nswest23 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:41:06 +0000

in case you're wondering the important part is:

> ...without any checks and balances

i.e. what they're doing is completely insecure and exposing incredibly sensitive data.

New comment by nswest23 in "Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment"

nswest23 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:02:49 +0000

> for those who have the means to choose

interesting qualification.

maybe conservation should start with the masters of the universe who fly private jets all over the world etc. and emit more than the rest of us do all year in a matter of hours.

New comment by nswest23 in "US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19"

nswest23 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:46:11 +0000

> power and influence

good observation but it's probably both. The EU is a significant center of power and influence but so far the US hasn't started banning bidets.

New comment by nswest23 in "Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures"

nswest23 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:24:38 +0000

> there must be some reason

b/c it looked to the agent like he had cash in his backpack

New comment by nswest23 in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

nswest23 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:45:59 +0000

that is a screenshot that I can't click on to verify if those community notes at all support what they claim to. this is nonsense.