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I interviewed for an eng role at Coursera back in 2012, not too long after they were founded. Their claimed goal at the time was a re-imagining of education, insisting that current educational institutions were stuck in the past.

Despite that, a large portion of the interview focused on my grades from my time at University, and the specific course-work I had taken. Note that this was for application engineering, and it wasn't my first job out of school. About half of my frontend engineering session was the interviewer focusing on my single sub-B grade (got a C+ in Operating Systems). Mind you, my overall CS BS GPA was a 3.5 from a top-10 engineering school, with a 3.6 in major-specific courses. It seemed like the team was largely Stanford grads, and they really, really, really cared about GPA and school-- basically playing right into the legacy education system.

I knew at that point that there was no way the company was going to "disrupt" anything with regard to education.

What are some examples of linters / static analysis catching hallucinated solutions to problems?

I feel like it would just yield a well-formatted, type safe incorrect solution, which is no better than a tangled mess.

Maybe Rippling?

The sign for me was when the art style was announced. The last thing in the world I want from a modern RTS is Fortnite-style animation targeted towards tweens.

> The spiritual successor of Starcraft is Stormgate

This was their claim, but it did not pan out in reality. It flopped on launch, hard. Peak player count since launch has been less than 100, and is currently hovering around 25.

Kali ruled. I played a modified version of Hellfire (unofficial Diablo expansion that technically didn't support multiplayer) on Kali for the longest time. GTX_Rage, if you're here, I want to talk to you!

> "Trust and safety is a broad practice which includes critical and life-saving work to protect children and stop CSAM [child sexual abuse material], as well as preventing fraud, scams, and sextortion. T&S workers are focused on making the internet a safer and better place, not censoring just for the sake of it"

Definitely weird to be "happy" that the government is cracking down on people who help prevent the propagation of fraud, scams, and CSAM.

A right wing grifter who took $10m in funding from Russia to power his outrage machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation

> check ZeroHedge to get the opposite view

Can you elaborate here? ZeroHedge isn't an opposing viewpoint nor opinion, it's mostly made-up nonsense. Even calling it pseudoscience would be generous.

> There's no point misrepresenting a political stance. Well, there is a point, but it's malicious.

Interesting perspective, considering that you said this only 5 minutes later in this same post:

> There's a communist who's just been elected to Mayer of New York.

Highlighting the lunacy coming from Thiel, Andreesen, Yarvin, Vance, Musk, etc is not being "contrarian."

> I get at least 20 min of sun on my bare skin and in my eyes (not protected from UV by glasses) every other day as recommended by neuroscientist Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman peddles nothing more than pop-science supplement grift. I highly recommend you get your health info from somewhere other than bro-optimization podcasts and "light therapy" hucksters.

That's .. just not true at all.

Agreed. The quote from him in the article reads like a caricature of a comically overzealous SWE.

???

Burmese food is absolutely delicious. Burma Love in SF, Rangoon Bistro or Burma Joy in Portland. They're some of my favorite restaurants.

Interesting title edit. Assuming it's something automatic with how HN deals with titles.

Actual title: "USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths"

Was the order just a poop emoji by chance?

Just off the top of my head:

* Illegally firing federal employees

* Canceling government contracts without authority

* Grossly violating privacy laws by accessing sensitive federal data

Those are just the things they've boasted about. I shudder to think what further crimes they've committed behind closed doors.

Wouldn't it need to actually accomplish something first?

> This sounds like being wilfully uninformed. Russia organized almost a dozen Black Lives Matter protests, one of them attended by Michael Moore. They ran about half of the largest US identity focused Facebook groups (Christian/Black/etc) during the 2020 US election

Maybe it wasn't your intent, but your comment makes it sound like this was an issue with only a single side of the political spectrum. However...

https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-organized-pro-anti-...

> The Russians weaponized social media to organize political rallies, both in support of and against certain candidates, according to the indictment. Although the Russians organized some rallies in opposition to Trump's candidacy, most were supportive.

Not to mention the recent exposure of the funding source of the fine folks over at Tenet Media.

That is beautifully heinous! Nice work.

I've seen the sentiment several times right here on HN that $250k is "basically poverty" in San Francisco. It's unbelievable to me how out of touch and spoiled one would have to be to reach that conclusion.

Considering much of the vile nonsense Musk spews is verifiably false, there's about a 0% chance that Grok will ever rank posts based on actual truth.

So you disagree with the concept of "the paradox of tolerance"?

Hard disagree. That's like saying no books are better or worse than others because they're just made up of words.

The people, the moderators, the customizability, the owners, and the userbase play heavily into the quality of a "platform."

> LLMs, kind of like Bill Bryson's books

I wonder if maybe Malcolm Gladwell would be a more apt comparison?

Has the definition of "vibe coding" changed to represent all LLM-assisted coding? Because from how I understand it, what you're talking about is not "vibe coding."

Salt Lake City is also at risk of this happening with the Great Salt Lake if it continues to shrink and dry up.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/utah-great-salt-lake-dust-...

CMV: HN should just automatically replace x links with xcancel

Using that site as evidence is about as credible as linking to a Ben Shapiro vlog