Hacker News: paulmendoza

New comment by paulmendoza in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract"

paulmendoza — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:36:57 +0000

No one analyzed it most likely. It’s possible on of the college students working for Doge doesn’t understand security because they are a child with no real world experience that Elon brought in to slash costs.

New comment by paulmendoza in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract"

paulmendoza — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:32:40 +0000

Anyone who voted for Trump voted for this type of dumb action. This is a major loss for society and safety.

New comment by paulmendoza in "The Llama 4 herd"

paulmendoza — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:21:18 +0000

How long did they run the training job for? Curious how much it costs to train all of these models?

New comment by paulmendoza in "Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup; Hundreds of Thousands at Risk of Poisoning"

paulmendoza — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:25:33 +0000

Trump is a disaster for the world.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for foreign tech workers"

paulmendoza — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:11:35 +0000

The problem is that a lot of the H1B people being brought in to fill jobs Americans could do aren’t the top 0.1%. Far from it. No one is against bringing the top 0.1% here.

New comment by paulmendoza in "H1B Debacle Discussion"

paulmendoza — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 05:26:26 +0000

Yes, I agree. If these really are amazing engineers then pay them like they are.

New comment by paulmendoza in "H1B Debacle Discussion"

paulmendoza — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 05:25:44 +0000

Those companies can train Americans or pay enough to attract talent.

New comment by paulmendoza in "AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers"

paulmendoza — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:19:10 +0000

CodePipeline is another good example of just horrible user experience. You need a lot of hours of training to figure out all the different permissions required to get it all to work. It is a mess.

I use GitHub Codespaces now for much of my deployment automation.

Codebuild is also a real pain.

New comment by paulmendoza in "How can a time traveler encrypt info so it's only decryptable after a given date"

paulmendoza — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 18:46:03 +0000

Use an encryption key that is a headline from a newspaper for that day. This assumes the time travel works like the Marvel movies and not like Back to the Future.

New comment by paulmendoza in "AI's $600B Question"

paulmendoza — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 02:29:29 +0000

Amazon has a some AI chips they created themselves. Same with Tesla. They are both behind Nvidia and probably won’t catch up BUT raw performance isn’t always the most important part. Often it’s the cost per compute unit and companies are quickly getting close to Nvidia.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Large Language Models are not a search engine"

paulmendoza — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:07:19 +0000

Google has become so horrible that an LLM that is right 80% of the time is better than a search that has links to pages that are 90% spam and ad covered pages.

New comment by paulmendoza in "The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff"

paulmendoza — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:17:20 +0000

Clearly an impulsive decision by Musk.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Leadership is a hell of a drug"

paulmendoza — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:59:37 +0000

“And I've never formally held a position of leadership in an organization.”

It shows. Whoever wrote this is very immature. Management isn’t making a big ask here.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization"

paulmendoza — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:54:35 +0000

Section 174 software changes was designed to punish blue states in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy so their budget would balance.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization"

paulmendoza — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:42:32 +0000

Any software dev that business does will be treated as a capital purchase. Doesn’t matter if you use cash basis or not.

New comment by paulmendoza in ".NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux"

paulmendoza — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 10:27:46 +0000

We have been running all of our .net apps on Linux for years. No problems. Works great.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Twenty: A Modern open-source CRM"

paulmendoza — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 04:14:02 +0000

That’s a tiny number of contacts.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Jetbrains are offering 65% off Rider personal licenses for 65 hours"

paulmendoza — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 13:23:02 +0000

I wish their GitHub Codespaces feature worked for us. We have tried so many times to get it working and it fails every time.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Tesla FSD Beta v12 try to run a red light, forcing Elon Musk to take over"

paulmendoza — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:03:16 +0000

Alpha, not beta.

The video was 50 mins long and there was one intervention. Not bad for an alpha.

New comment by paulmendoza in "Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla"

paulmendoza — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 05:48:22 +0000

He only worked for the company for 13 years!