Viewing profile — jh00ker

>They started it all. Actually box.com was first (launched as box.net in 2005), and Dropbox was founded in 2007.

At Disneyland, there are separate park entrance lanes that don't use facial recognition software. I like that I can opt-out passively there. At TSA checkpoints at the airport, you …

Honestly, I think on LinkedIn, I'm usually in doom-scrolling mode, whereas on HN, I'm more likely to read a post in-depth. I think it was smart to come here to reach out on multipl…

I'm glad you're doing this. I am aware of _Incorruptible_ from seeing posts on LinkedIn, but from your description here, I now realize I'm going to love this book! I wasn't going t…

>I suspect it's not seen as a problem by providers because more lines generated means more tokens used and hence more billing put out on customers. I have also grown skeptical of t…

Connections is one of the greatest shows in television. The pilot episode is amazing, highlighting the problem with dependence on technology that we don't understand. "Never have s…

Please, say more! >I always look to staff up a project at the beginning as much as possible, looking for doing as much in parallel up-front as we can. Ah, maybe this is what you th…

As a software engineering manager, I always look to staff up a project at the beginning as much as possible, looking for doing as much in parallel up-front as we can. If some thing…

A similar story from the always hilarious Dave Barry! https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai Note: Dave Barry is not dead. He is, in fact, alive.

Kind of crazy this is so successful, considering it's hosted in a country where it's the norm for (so many, but not all) people to leave their bags of popcorn and cups of soda at t…

>If it can't provide the service, it should stop selling until it can. You literally cannot buy GitHub Copilot right now [1]. 1: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans

How many people in congress made the exact same bet on the exact same information, and for them it's "legal?"

I always loved the 5x6 Pixel font in this classic 90s PC game: https://covertaction.fandom.com/wiki/Cryptography_(Mini-Game... The extra 1 pixel of height for the text in green, in…

"The term [meat] is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to mean the flesh of mammalian species (pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) raised and prepared for human consumption, …

Great article to read as I sit down at my work computer on a Sunday to do pre-work and prep to make the rest of the week go more smoothly.

It's kind of like at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when some in the US were saying that the US government should just forgive mortgage payments so the landlords could forg…

> We can choose to be the last generation that spent its best hours under fluorescent lights, pretending this was the height of civilization. Well, if the work under the fluorescen…

Taking a break from studying for my interview in two days at a FANG company, I checked Hacker News and this article was at the top. I've been studying for this interview harder tha…

Everyone's sensitivity to caffeine is different. For example, if I miss my one 8 oz. cup each morning, I have a massive headache by 1:15pm. When work picks up, like a big project, …

Reminds me of a shuttlecock.

>What could have been if instead of spending so much energy and resources on developing “AI features” we focused on making our existing technology better? I think we'd still be tal…

> Physical cues are wonderful! You would love this project! https://littlesignals.withgoogle.com/ "Little Signals considers new patterns for technology in our daily lives. The six …

> I have a book of CD-ROMs of backed up data >There's a close to 0% chance that I'm never going to bother look at their contents. More likely scenario, your children, grandchildren…

I'm interested how the answer will change once his article gets indexed. "Dave Barry died in 2016, but he continues to dispute this fact to this day."

Yes, and it's tracked, so I've started shifting personal AI use to company-provide accounts to "get credit" for using AI more.