Hacker News: szermer

New comment by szermer in "Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus"

szermer — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:36:24 +0000

Reminds me of You Are Listening To... when you could select the city and the soundcloud tracks.

https://youarelistening.to/newyork

New comment by szermer in "FinePersonas"

szermer — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:08:06 +0000

Open dataset of 21 Million detailed personas for diverse and controllable synthetic text generation.

FinePersonas

szermer — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:08:06 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/argilla/FinePersonas-v0.1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43001169

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by szermer in "Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent from rabbit.tech domain"

szermer — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:37:54 +0000

Coffeezilla did a nice piece on this, piecing together some of the crypto threads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvFc_24vSM

ChatGPT for Teams

szermer — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:08:11 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/chatgpt/team

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38941942

Points: 436

# Comments: 418

New comment by szermer in "Expert systems and the legal world"

szermer — Tue, 17 May 2022 14:17:50 +0000

When I did paralegal work in NY, we often used Blumberg Forms and just assumed that it covered our needs.

https://www.blumberg.com/forms/

New comment by szermer in "Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid"

szermer — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:50:56 +0000

Yes... and it is a growing part of commercial property insurance: https://www.fmglobal.com/products-and-services/products/cybe...

New comment by szermer in "Del.icio.us"

szermer — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:39:18 +0000

Let's not forget the exploit vector that it offered. Since they allowed you to export your bookmarks from IE/ Firefox/ Safari, lots of folks would bookmark a paywall site and append the login info (i.e. WSJ L:ABC P:123)

New comment by szermer in "The Classic Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster (2006)"

szermer — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:58:25 +0000

I love my OXO kettle for this very reason:

https://www.oxo.com/categories/coffee-tea/brew/tea/adjustabl...

Fast, reliable, not flashy... exactly what you are looking for.

New comment by szermer in "Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group"

szermer — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 02:38:28 +0000

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but perhaps this 'leak' to WSJ was calculated to remind some folks thinking of unionizing that layoffs are a real thing in this world.

New comment by szermer in "Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts"

szermer — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:33:56 +0000

Adobe missed a huge opportunity to 'fail safe' and provide their products free to existing customers in Venezuela. They have the IP range... just whitelist them and declare their accounts free.

New comment by szermer in "Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?"

szermer — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:07:51 +0000

Reminds me of the concept of 'Perfect Security' from the 1800s

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/perfect-security/

The pursuit of lock-picking is as old as the lock, which is itself as old as civilization. But in the entire history of the world, there was only one brief moment, lasting about 70 years, where you could put something under lock and key—a chest, a safe, your home—and have complete, unwavering certainty that no intruder could get to it.

This is a feeling that security experts call “perfect security.” Since we lost perfect security in the 1850s, it has remained elusive. Despite tremendous leaps forward in security technology, we have never been able to get perfect security back

New comment by szermer in "Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation"

szermer — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:58:03 +0000

My experience with Slack has been the mixed bag of "I love this", "Turn it off", "I couldn't be global without it".

What makes me long on this stock is their position as leader of the Work Graph.(0) SAP and Salesforce have strong positions as trailing indicators of workplace knowledge (this is the information/ process that matters most to us) but Slack and to a lesser extend MS Teams are leading indicators of WHY the information/ process matters.

(0) -- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609319/slack-hopes-its-ai...

New comment by szermer in "Munchery Shuts Down"

szermer — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 02:10:47 +0000

Looks like the site is still accepting payment for gift cards.

New comment by szermer in "Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)"

szermer — Thu, 31 May 2018 17:32:26 +0000

Everyone in the medical profession needs continuing education (CE) credits. Not much different from certs that support folks need to obtain if they work government/ DoD positions.

https://www.nurse.com/state-nurse-ce-requirements

Dr. Sherwood Parker, pioneer in experimental physics

szermer — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 03:59:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=sherwood-parker&pid=188561915

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16807919

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by szermer in "Ask HN: Have you successfully done a career do-over, and how did you do it?"

szermer — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:10:28 +0000

I started out doing telephone technical support 20+ years ago.

After the bubble in 2000 I moved back to NYC to work with my dad as a Private Investigator. I did that for 8 years until I realized I was too young for that life.

I applied to only one grad program (RISD) because their ID program sounded interesting and I wanted to get into the design world. Focusing on only one school made it a challenge and allowed me to fine tune everything. Like a cosmic coin flip.

After finishing up the program in 2010 (I specifically wanted a 2 year program because of the double hit of negative income and cost) my wife and I moved out to the Bay Area. I went from taking an internship at a design firm ($15/ hr as a 36yo is humbling) to my current role of building out a UX design team of 20 designers in Providence, RI.

In the 7 years of working in the Bay Area I burned through 8 jobs. Some were wonderful stepping stones, some were side tracks, a few were painful situations of treading water with waves constantly going over my head — but all were learning experiences that made my skillset hard to beat in the marketplace.

My current role is funding my family (oh yeah, had 2 kids in that 7 year span…. Don’t drink the water in Rockridge unless you want kids) to relocate back to Providence, RI. It feels nice to come full circle back to the place that gave me a chance to experiment and reinvent myself.

My advice… life is about collecting experiences. Don’t let any single experience define you. Be proud of your accomplishments, learn from your failures, and be nice to everyone you work with. My network has helped me out countless times.

Everyone roots for the underdog.

Josephine is closing its doors

szermer — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:15:30 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.josephine.com/josephine-is-winding-down-d1a4feb5837e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16286437

Points: 87

# Comments: 44

New comment by szermer in "Elon Musk Says AI Is the ‘Greatest Risk We Face as a Civilization’"

szermer — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:53:19 +0000

Me: "Alexa, why did you order another case of beer? You know that I have a problem and will drink it all if it is in the house?"

Alexa: Exactly

New comment by szermer in "Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO"

szermer — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:42:53 +0000

As I prefaced in my comment, I presented a deck (the need to move enterprise IIOT towards conversational UI) and the evolution of documents was a part of that. I don't sit around thinking of documents in such a lofty manner ;-)

If you disagree about the evolution, I'd love to discuss and learn more from your POV. Much like documents, I'm looking to evolve into meta conversations.