Hacker News: null_shift

New comment by null_shift in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

null_shift — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:26:09 +0000

Genuinely curious…is it rare because there are less kidnappers, or because parents are more vigilant and there is less opportunity for them to commit the crime?

New comment by null_shift in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

null_shift — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:20:49 +0000

Jet engines are significantly more complex. You don’t know whah you are talking about.

New comment by null_shift in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

null_shift — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:10:04 +0000

As someone in the industry it is amusing to watch HN do some cursory googling and then make definitive statements with confidence.

New comment by null_shift in "The Art of Risk Management (2017)"

null_shift — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:58:19 +0000

I would argue that testing code is “Risk Mitigation” not “Risk Management”.

It is nuanced, but at least in large Systems Engineering orgs, Risk Management is typically a different thing entirely.

It entails documenting known risks, evaluating the likelihood and potential impacts, defining mitigating actions, tracking the closure of those actions and the resultant reduction in the likelihood of the risk manifesting.

This is both centralized and distributed. The specific SMEs provide most of this input/definition, but it is also useful to have a centralized understanding of all the system risks by someone with a system level purview.

New comment by null_shift in "Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees"

null_shift — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:48:54 +0000

If he already knew how to code in other object oriented languages, and was really just learning C++ syntax over the weekend, it’s not as much of a stretch.

New comment by null_shift in "Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech"

null_shift — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:54:01 +0000

Asking in good faith, what incentives changed exactly?

New comment by null_shift in "Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B"

null_shift — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:42:18 +0000

And once AGI occurs, will the value of the original investment even matter?

New comment by null_shift in "Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft"

null_shift — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 18:27:13 +0000

Based on what?

New comment by null_shift in "Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy"

null_shift — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:43:27 +0000

I would buy one today if I had somewhere to reliably and conveniently charge it.

I live in an apartment complex without charging infrastructure. Don’t want to drive to nearby charging station and wait/coordinate rides to and from. My place of work doesn’t have enough charging infrastructure to support demand.

New comment by null_shift in "Slide to Unlock"

null_shift — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:33:05 +0000

Not sure why, but I found this gave me a lot of anxiety.

I think maybe the focus and fine motor control needed to keep the ball within the lines…

New comment by null_shift in "Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project"

null_shift — Fri, 26 May 2023 14:57:10 +0000

I’m assuming the generative AI functions are not running purely locally and would be sharing your data to Microsoft/OpenAI ?

New comment by null_shift in "Ask HN: Do you work nights/weekends?"

null_shift — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:43:35 +0000

When I was younger I routinely worked late nights (I’d work normal business hours, then go grab a subway and come back to the office and work until 10-12. I enjoy working alone at night, and I wasn’t using that free time productively, so I figured why not. It did help my career trajectory significantly.

As I’ve gotten older and have better uses for my time I find myself working a ~40hr week and checking out. Occasionally if I have a challenging problem that requires deep focus I’ll log on at night, but only because I like the satisfaction of “the grind” every now and then.

New comment by null_shift in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)"

null_shift — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:48:03 +0000

If you are using the OpenAI APIs then are all your user’s emails making it onto their servers?

New comment by null_shift in "Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality"

null_shift — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:24:57 +0000

Any references for this? I would like to read further.

New comment by null_shift in "Ask HN: Happy people, what does a day, week and year in your life look like?"

null_shift — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:19:11 +0000

I agree. I am currently stuck in a rut where everything seems meaningless, and I can’t find the motivation to do much of anything.

I desperately yearn for a meaning/purpose to serve as a source of internal motivation…

Up until now, the only thing that has been a “motivation” for me is a fear of failure, so that’s what I rely on to get anything done.

New comment by null_shift in "I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible"

null_shift — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:15:39 +0000

Yea, ruined the experiment. Not that someone else couldn’t recreate it…

New comment by null_shift in "GPT-4"

null_shift — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:45:21 +0000

Anyone that actually cares about the privacy of their data isn’t going to be satisfied with just a “promise”.

New comment by null_shift in "My best techniques for evaluating character"

null_shift — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:09:03 +0000

Some of the anecdotes seem completely fabricated to provide a convenient example (i.e. the guy’s wife was very observantly watching him play a round of golf with a colleague and caught him cheating?)

New comment by null_shift in "NYC Slice"

null_shift — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:30:28 +0000

The best pizza in NY is in New Haven.

New comment by null_shift in "NYC Slice"

null_shift — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:28:17 +0000

New Haven CT has the best pizza in the US (and arguably the world)