rubberband

"make me sound more sincere!"

This is eerily similar to the Enron business model... @.@

All of these provide synergy.

I've been having a difficult time explaining why E2E encryption is, well, almost a moral imperative...

Your metaphors, etc.., have made it easier. TYVM <3

There's "topical" chemo for some stuff, but it's uncommon. Most chemo is either in pill form, or (as was for me) delivered intravenously. So it goes through the whole body.

Radiation therapy can target specific areas. It's still used instead of chemo in some cases.

For me, they cut out most of a giant tumor, but couldn't get all of it without risking some vital organs. Then I got chemo for the rest. Interesting process.

Usually the cancer cells are concentrated where the tumor is. One of the first things they may do upon diagnosis of cancer is a PET scan (which shows you where cancerous stuff is throughout your body).

Life advice for all the young folks: don't get cancer.

I check my bank account every week or so. If it's above 0, I consider it a win.

Wish I was kidding :/

I tried YNAB and it was too cumbersome. If I were to try again, I'd go for some low-tech Exel option.

Similar regarding Adobe:

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1680654024578854912?la...

"Peanut Gallery" here... These types of conversations are the reason I'm still addicted to HN.

Thank you both. And /hattip

It's possible OpenAI doesn't get any money; and they just provide whatever "AI service" is being requested of them, and returns the results to Dropbox.

And, well, if OpenAI just happens to gain access to a trove of data by providing the service... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't think this is dystopia at all. Many of your points are valid, and I believe that far too few people consider them.

From their FAQ: "We'll never sell your information to anyone and we don’t use your personal health information to market or advertise other products available on Amazon.com."

If I were... Evil... I would have chosen the word "don't" instead of "won't", so Amazon could change their mind on some arbitrary day, delete the part that says they don't use it for marketing... and just like that... tens of thousands of Alexas are advertising herpes meds at inconvenient times.

Data breaches are also a bit more... concerning... with medical information.

"Your teacher crafted that question?

Look, ignoring obvious problems in the syntax..."

Beyond underrated (the book / movie)

Yes, I used to work at a Fortune 50 company many moons ago. I've downsized 3 times since.

It depends what you want out of your job. Some people take pride in working for a FAANG. I could see this; at the end of the day, you may be able to point to a product people use IRL and be able to say "I was on the team that did that!" Personally, I could give a shit. It's more about the people I work with, and the solutions I come up with to interesting problems.

You definitely deal with less bullshit. Hopefully no more sprint planning or whatever other bureaucratic stuff you hate. Just make sure that you don't give up too much (ex: for me, I need amazing health insurance). Some people value retirement benefits, etc... just make sure it's acceptable.

For me, it's night and day. I'm much happier.

HTH

Your overall understanding is correct. People pay DocuSign to "think" of everything for them (which is not at all bad, it just comes at a cost). Depending on the space, you have to deal with crazy laws that no one in their right mind would know about (nor think to even consider).

Essentially, "no one ever got fired for signing with DocuSign" (play on IBM).

I'm late to the party here, but if the authors want real world examples, please reach out.

Late to the party here, but I deal in this space all day. You are 100% correct.

Disputes over eSignatures come up allllll the time. And if you mention that it was "DocuSigned"... although you have done nothing aside from name-dropping... it will essentially end the dispute. Not saying that it should. Just saying that it does.

Apparently I'm Forbidden (403) from airports... :(

I would have liked it if they worked in "synergistic" and "paradigm" tbh. /s

Cool. Thanks for taking the time. I'll keep an eye on it <3

I kinda have the opposite problem. I have 50-100 people in my phone, and I would only care to use the app for maybe 20ish... Here's the thing... I absolutely don't want to give it cart-blanche access to my contacts (perhaps irrational; I'm being honest). As a super-nerd (as are 94% of us here), I completely understand from a technical perspective why it's that way... But, it just feels creepy and I don't trust it (again, I'm quite sure this is irrational).

That was a long-winded way of saying "this is cool, but I wish I could key in contacts separately."

Hope that made sense.

Agreed on "yikes" for sure...

What I'd be interested in is, if [Evil Company] (not necessarily Apple or Google or whomever) got a hold of all the data that was vacuumed up in the process... how is that going to translate into them being able to do disturbing things?

I'm not saying they can't or won't... they record and store this firehose of arbitrary data in arbitrary formats... how they make sense of it. It's not like when you open Threads, it goes "ooh there's pictures of his dog... INSERT INTO Dog SELECT 12345, 'great-dane', {base64}"... They collect all this data... But it's not well formatted or understood.

Don't get me wrong, there's an ocean of money for whomever figures out the most evil stuff to do. I'm simply curious how.

I guess the HN crowd could... disrupt privacy /s

I'm thinking they are hoping to find exploits that the security researcher(s) are working on, and may not be known to others (use a 0-day to steal other 0-days).

I'd presume that a decent security researcher's laptop would have much more valuable things on it, compared to Bob the Waiter's laptop.

Educated guess. Grain of salt, etc...

I think this post is brilliant (really cool) for more than one reason.

You give hope to the underachievers that they can better themselves (related: my GPA was lower than yours :)).

You give great advice on mental illness (if I may editorialize: seek help if you think you may need it; it changed my life like I think it changed yours).

I see so many posts from FAANG employees... I don't think that I could pass the IQ test for being a janitor at those places. /shrug. So happy to see "regular?" people here.

My "Grass Is Greener" syndrome says that I almost wish I was still bartending...

I try to be different when asking my share of questions in interviews...

My favorite to ask is:

"Tell me about a time you really screwed something up."

This can be a design decision, or may accidentally running "drop table users"...

This is an open ended question. The more experienced interviewees will pivot to how they learned something from it or whatever. I'm just looking for general humility tbh.

If they're nervous or confused, I'll share a few of my stories, like the time I really did drop that users table, or tripped over a power chord in a data center when disaster recovery testing was being done.

My advice would be to get waaaaaaaay more specific about what you want to do, then find a business partner who knows the "ins and outs" of the industry and has a few contacts you folks can use to get your foot in the door.

Forget about going after enterprise level customers. Prove yourself to the small and medium sized businesses first.

Before you do any technical work, be able to answer the question: why on Earth should businesses use what you're offering? There's no right answer here, but your answer should be super convincing. I think the most common is that you are able to beat the competition on price (cuz you're going to have such low overhead, I presume), but you'll need more than that.

Hope that helps. As others have said, I believe I'd be more helpful if you were more specific on what you were trying to accomplish.

Best of luck!

Folks are absolutely going to look at this from an inappropriate angle here (cuz... duh... we're nerds).

The side of the fence you're on is directly proportional to how old you are. Neckbeards who want you to get off their lawns love XML (related: get off my lawn). And the "kids" will give a bajillion reasons why we are "technically" incorrect...

If you split hairs here... You've never lived in a world without XML (truly terrifying TBH).