Hacker News: rinchik

New comment by rinchik in "DoD Hiring announcement for computer scientists"

rinchik — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 01:47:35 +0000

Ah this is so refreshing! I'm glad to see something completely different in the CS job ads sector. And Pentagon, Arlington, VA as a location? Oooff, every single one who grew up with X-Files would be excited about that!

Salary is average at best, completely agree, but the other major bummer I can call out is this:

> This position is subject to pre-employment and random drug testing

This is such an outdated, self-limiting, and practically barbaric requirement modern days! Can you imagine the amount talent they are blindly passing on.?

I would even dare to bring up the Bill Gate's (yes that guy!) alleged talk in Saudi Arabia [1], which goes as something along these lines: "..if you’re not fully utilizing half the talent in the country, you’re not going to get close to the goal you have set for yourself..."

[1] Bill Gate's precedent was about the issue that is an order of magnitude more severe/significant than a drug testing: women's rights, but I find the analogy quite applicable and illustrative here

New comment by rinchik in "Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019"

rinchik — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:44:05 +0000

Of course it's possible. It's also very political and dirty.

Emmy Award would be a lot more relevant. heck, even Oscars would make a lot more sense here

New comment by rinchik in "Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun"

rinchik — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:10:11 +0000

yeah, but you can't be moving forever. When you stop and setup a base, you will need something more than a basic walkie-talkie, right?

New comment by rinchik in "Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun"

rinchik — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:50:07 +0000

> Otherwise the parts can only be sold as a kit and stuff

Yeah. Disaster Radio does not look like a "kit" at all. Not for "an average user" at least. I'd be cautious building and operating hardware that can potentially get me in trouble with authorities.

Still great general idea though, to build a solar-powered kit that's easy to setup and operate, a kit that makes sure there is a "plug-and-play" solution in case of a disaster (natural or not), kit that also delegates legal responsibility to the "creator"/manufacturer.

New comment by rinchik in "Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun"

rinchik — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:31:38 +0000

Interesting, so how is it different from similar projects, e.g nycmesh.net, I mentioned above? Is it a promo for the custom hardware design initiative? hardware that's more modular, cheaper, focused than traditional brands?

New comment by rinchik in "Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun"

rinchik — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:28:39 +0000

was my first thought as well, but after watching the video it looks like it's something you can quickly setup AFTER the incident. To deal with the aftermath I guess?..

New comment by rinchik in "Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun"

rinchik — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:23:41 +0000

Disaster Radio. Does one need an FCC ham license to own/operate an endpoint? What are the frequencies? After some light poking on the website I don't see any info on that. Love the idea though.

there is also this: https://www.nycmesh.net/ , somewhat related and can be used as a back up information/communication source

New comment by rinchik in "Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems (2014)"

rinchik — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:37:04 +0000

> why this is being downvoted

Oh my, important internet points! Such a treasure is being taken away haha

On a more serious note, who cares? Your comment is a valid criticism, there is a multitude of reasons for why some decided to downvote without leaving a comment, but again, why should you care?

Refreshingly, HN is not an echo chamber (not gonna work if you are seeking any sort of validation), there are a lot of people who do not share your views, as well as people who do. whether or not to freak out about it is up to you (I wouldn't)

New comment by rinchik in "An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube"

rinchik — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:28:32 +0000

Got it! Thank you all for clarification, my comment is irrelevant then.

New comment by rinchik in "Five cities account for vast majority of growth in U.S. tech jobs: study"

rinchik — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:15:11 +0000

> one which went away a little bit after after the early 2000s dot-com crash

You have at least 15 years of experience and can't get an offer of 120K in Chicago? I don't believe that it’s plausible. Well, unless it's not a "high-tech" job you are talking about, meaning that your comment is not relevant to the article or discussion at all?

If you are a software developer (or data-scientist, or anything that qualifies as "high-tech"), it is very strange that after 15 years your skills did not appreciate or improved enough to qualify for a 120K offer.

New comment by rinchik in "An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube"

rinchik — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:21:10 +0000

"parts of the main video that are ads" - well, i'm not sure what those are. Is it something that happens when they record a program from a TV and then upload that video to youtube without removing TV ads?

New comment by rinchik in "An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube"

rinchik — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:11:57 +0000

Is this extension even relevant? I haven't ever seen those on youtube. uBlock + pihole do the job.

Smart TV, on the other hand, manages to bypass my pihole (as if adds were burned into the vid), that's where I need to figure something out.

New comment by rinchik in "Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case"

rinchik — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 01:27:33 +0000

There are a lot more comments than upvotes to the story, it's not gonna be a good one, isn't it?.. Sensitive!

New comment by rinchik in "Dilbert's “Salary Theorem”"

rinchik — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:41:28 +0000

"as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity", also to rephrase: as knowledge approaches infinity, money approaches zero, - sounds like industry vs academia salaries?

New comment by rinchik in "We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring"

rinchik — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:59:00 +0000

Ah that's a well written and thoughtful response to my comment. Thank you for that! However I can’t say I agree with the trigger premise though, even if suggestion perceived as personal. Psychological problem suggestions, gentle nudges if you will, are inherently beneficial even if those generate a defensive response. Defensive response is a response! That response is a deliberate thought in itself, an analysis. In modern, developed societies, it seems that the only appropriate time to suggest therapy is when the following sentence includes a suicide hotline phone number, how crazy is that? Therapy or any psychological self-care should be normal, and not in any way different from a regular, scheduled visit to the dentist.

New comment by rinchik in "We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring"

rinchik — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:30:29 +0000

It's not psychiatry, it's psychology. Not even remotely I'm making an attempt to diagnose a psychiatric pathology as in no way I'm qualified to do that. You are giving me more credit than I actually deserve.

New comment by rinchik in "We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring"

rinchik — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:44:09 +0000

I’m not sure I follow, I don’t think that if a white guy is present during your interview, he is automatically racist? What I got from your post is that you are having problems during interviews because you are not comfortable with white people conducting your interviews. It’s sounds like you are automatically assume that white interviewers are racist? You are broadly generalizing people who happened to be white which does not sound good any way you look at it.

New comment by rinchik in "Firefox Full-device VPN"

rinchik — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:52:31 +0000

I might be paranoid a bit - I'm skeptical about "you can pick your location" feature. And generally I have a very little trust in US-based VPN service providers.

No matter the location, they'll keep logs forever for the gov or some other equally unreliable entity.

New comment by rinchik in "Show HN: Fuck Black Friday"

rinchik — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 14:41:42 +0000

Childish website. Flack Friday is crucial for retail, economic growth and beneficial for the consumers as with larger movement of goods, margins are dropping. As a matter of fact it also carriers a sentimental vibe with a hint of a tradition.

I only see some straw man anti-arguments that don't really explain why black Friday or consumer driven economies are bad (hint: they are not)

EDIT: looks like I overreacted by taking the OPs intent seriously. It turns out to be just a landing page for referrals? Oh the irony.

New comment by rinchik in "Facebook, Instagram and Messenger were down"

rinchik — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:31:54 +0000

Also curious if FB outages affect global internet traffic? Are there any relative stats? (E.g. if google to go down, it would have an economic cost comparable to a natural disaster)