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New comment by weezin in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

weezin — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:28:25 +0000

Agreed, AI is a convenient excuse. If we had covid level interest rates these graduates would have a lot easier time finding a job. Companies are downsizing their bets and counting pennies to cash flow to invest in AI infra, which they wouldn't need to do in a low interest environment.

New comment by weezin in "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket"

weezin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 05:30:44 +0000

It isn't that hard to setup a secure SFTP server to automate the exchange. But then again this is a post about configuring a S3 Bucket with public access for SSNs.

The issue with Gmail is sending to the wrong email, sending to a broad email list, having people download it to their local machines. And the amount of PHI being transmitted in these files is larger than this s3 bucket.

New comment by weezin in "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket"

weezin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:05:53 +0000

It depends there are some exceptions.[0]

>With persons or organizations (e.g., janitorial service or electrician) whose functions or services do not involve the use or disclosure of protected health information, and where any access to protected health information by such persons would be incidental, if at all.

Based on the context from the article of the PHI uploaded being incidental, it would probably fall under this exception. It sounds like ESHYFT isn't meant to be storing any PHI based on the privacy policy above.

0:https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...

New comment by weezin in "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket"

weezin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:58:16 +0000

HIPAA applies to patient data not providers data.

> I also saw what appeared to be medical documents uploaded to the app. These files were potentially uploaded as proof for why individual nurses missed shifts or took sick leave. These medical documents included medical reports containing information of diagnosis, prescriptions, or treatments that could potentially fall under the ambit of HIPAA regulations.

It looks like providers accidentally uploaded some PHI.

IANAL so may be wrong, but I worked for a healthcare company. Whether HIPAA applies to them depends on if they are considered a covered entity or a business associate [0].

IMO they aren't bound to HIPAA requirements as a covered entity.

Business associate is a little tricky to determine. But business associates have to sign a BAA (Business Associate Agreement). And I doubt they would have signed one if they have that in their privacy policy.

Also just as a side note, HIPAA is not a ideal standard to begin with for security. Many large companies exchange bulk PHI via gmail since it is HIPAA compliant..

0: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...

New comment by weezin in "Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy"

weezin — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:14:27 +0000

Depends on the person. Northwest arkansas is a beautiful place with tons of outdoor activities and the ability to live like a king on a major company CTO salary. I'd rather live there than Seattle or San Francisco.

New comment by weezin in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

weezin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:51:41 +0000

> Perhaps a better question is - if one can get an offer at other FAANGs and the equivalents... is there a reason to choose Amazon over others?

It kind of depends on the person. I've seen people go from Amazon to Google and they want to go back to Amazon because they are bored. Some people just thrive in high pressure environments. Also everything is pretty team dependent at FAANGs, you could end up at a bad team at any of them.

New comment by weezin in "Marketing to Engineers (2001)"

weezin — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:50:13 +0000

Idk the ad for the new windows terminal was pretty well received by developers[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE

New comment by weezin in "Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon"

weezin — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:23:43 +0000

>If I were put in charge of Alexa, I really think I would lay everyone off and start with a tiny group of really good devs and move as fast as possible to get something approaching the voice version of ChatGPT with all the integrations working

This is literally what they are doing lol.

New comment by weezin in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

weezin — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:23:35 +0000

Really should be up to the government to fine these companies and pay out to those effected to disincentivize lax security standards.

New comment by weezin in "Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it"

weezin — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:13:36 +0000

Not entirely convinced the point was to convert the customers to the 8k price today. Seems like the data gained during the demo is the most valuable part long term. They can rinse and repeat offering a demo, gaining data, releasing a new version. As it gets better conversions will increase. All while moving toward their long term goal of fully autonomous driving.

New comment by weezin in "Coding interviews are stupid (ish)"

weezin — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:13:43 +0000

System design isn't coding and reviewing all designs across 40+ people and leading cross team tech initiatives is a full time job.

New comment by weezin in "Coding interviews are stupid (ish)"

weezin — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:12:30 +0000

Looking at their commit history.

New comment by weezin in "Coding interviews are stupid (ish)"

weezin — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:24:48 +0000

Programming is a very small part of the battle of being an effective software engineer.

It leaves out:

- communicating

- teaching

- dealing with ambiguity

- navigating politics

- working cross-functionally

Most high level individual contributors at large tech companies don't even code.

New comment by weezin in "Design docs at Google (2020)"

weezin — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:01:14 +0000

I'm dealing with this right now at another large company. Being asked to write a document for an integration we've done 20+ times because its part of someone else's larger promo project's design.

New comment by weezin in "CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred"

weezin — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:57:19 +0000

This post is quite ironic.

https://x.com/paulg/status/1110677737558159360

New comment by weezin in "Why you've never been in a plane crash"

weezin — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:14:32 +0000

Personally I feel like the right thing to do is let the engineer closest to the incident lead the response and subsequent action items. If they do well commend them, if they don't take it seriously then it may be time to look for a new job.

New comment by weezin in "Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light"

weezin — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:52:30 +0000

Pretty confusing intersection with the light not being above the lane. He himself wasn't sure at the start of the video which light was his. He was a "advanced driver assistance systems test operator" and didn't know that disengaging is how you teach it to do the right thing and that you should disengage if you are about to run a red? Posting it on social media is just the icing on the cake for him being terminated.

New comment by weezin in "The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions"

weezin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:30:13 +0000

I had a gym that I signed up online for, I tried to cancel one day in person and they said I had to fill out a questionnaire and mail it to cancel. Fuck that company.

New comment by weezin in "ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location"

weezin — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:35:25 +0000

There are tons of valid criticism for the US intelligence community, but when it isn't agenda driven they can be right about a lot of things, for example knowing that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine.

New comment by weezin in "FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows"

weezin — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:53:45 +0000

Exhibit A of the incompetence defense.