irl_zebra

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Comment · 20 days ago
As we saw after the hero Zelenskyy took down Yandex data centers, user count seems to be vaporware in many cases.
Comment · 21 days ago
Fines to the non-compliant businesses and forcing them to refund are two major ways he will enforce this.
Comment · 21 days ago
This is a very bad thing and very, very scary. Very anti-capitalist. My KPIs that go into my annual review are going to be thrashed, and without the raise I was expecting, I am unlikely to be able to continue to afford my second family. This is literally going to take food out of their mouths. I do not deserve this.
Comment · 23 days ago
This is just stellar. My favorite HN submission this year. Excellent.
Comment · 26 days ago
Yes broad consensus had developed in the ten minutes between announcement and you asking if consensus had developed, and I'm excited to report that it consensed in the affirmative -- it IS Space Bunny Alpha!
Comment · 1 month ago
Near as I can parse it, as a very, very anti-woo person, is as follows:

In a healthy individual with a balanced diet and no deficiencies, there are essentially zero supplements that do anything whatsoever to a measurable degree. Essentially the entire supplement aisle at Whole Foods or whatever is completely woo and useless, and any advertisements are someone trying to make money from you, or some mindless viral craze with no evidence. The exception to this general rule is omega 3s (fish oil is great for this, algae oil is even better given potential heavy metals in fish), protein supplementation if you're weightlifting, and creatine. GLP-1s are a wonder drug that are great if you are not a healthy individual and wish to be.

Comment · 1 month ago
I am not an SME and I oneshotted this in just 60 seconds by Googleing it.
Comment · 1 month ago
The great thing is that you did not have to be that guy or even spend time making this comment unless you really wanted to. It wasn't necessary.
Comment · 1 month ago
I have multiple Senior AI Engineer roles posted (really, senior / staff SWE who has reps and sets using AI for development, perhaps working with AI infra) right now. Right now it's a lot of getting Claude working well, model routing working well, and getting us off of commercial LLMs. Trying desperately to hire, but get a lot of "AI-pilled" non-developers in the same way I would open SWE roles ten years ago and get constant "Software Bootcamp" grads. These roles exist, in my anecdotal experience of having multiple of these roles open on my team lol. Perhaps this is just 1/100 ads, or 1/1000.
Comment · 1 month ago
This was not an error:

> He then also told his employees that if they didn't agree with his actions, they could leave with a severance package, which then had 10% of his employees quit.

It was actually a pretty nice offer. iirc it was a pretty decent severance, no questions asked.

Comment · 2 months ago
This is an ad. Flagged.
Comment · 2 months ago
{ "ok": false, "model": "wouter-1", "wouter": "Nee.", "reason": "Wouter is on holiday. He told you about this in March.", "wouter_status": "on_holiday", "tokens_read": 0 }

This is just fantastic.

Comment · 6 months ago
This should not have happened. But I have a hard time finding any sympathy for cryptocurrency folks. The quote from the article:

"I lost my retirement fund in a hack/Scam when I switched my Ledger over to my new computer and by accident downloaded a malicious ledger app from the Apple store. All my BTC gone in an instant."

Leaves me really shaking my head. If someone has the knowledge to even buy bitcoin or cryptocurrency, I imagine they have enough knowledge to know how utterly crime-ridden and risky of a speculation it is. It's like if someone decides to put their retirement fund into buying bulk illegal drugs and then selling them at a massive markup. Pretty risky, potential high upside, but given they assessed and then accepted the risk, hard to feel bad when they get robbed of all their drugs and lose their retirement funds.

Comment · 6 months ago
I know, but given the subject of the OP it was an irrelevant garbage comment from a jilted user trying to smear the company. It deserves an equally obtuse response.
Comment · 6 months ago
No it's design files. Like CAD stuff.

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