This is why I cook at home a vast majority of the time. It also depends where in the country you are. You could easily eat healthy in LA, NYC, SF, Chicago, etc. but if you’re outside the major cities you can find it a lot harder.
Are you a time traveler? Tobacco addiction hasn’t been rampant since the 90s and it was dying out then. It is certainly not a staple of American culture. Agreed that it’s not genetics. That’s just silly.
Yes. The cheesy “disruption is always good” is cutthroat SV capitalist kool-aid. It CAN be good, but just assuming it is good because disruption is dogmatic at best. Especially in a country with near to zero safety net. The consumer always wins is a fairy tale.
I’ve found engineers, those that care about front end design anyway, to be better UX designers than supposed UX designers. Which makes sense as you’re integrating the design into an overall system and need to understand the implications in a deep way. Most UX designers can’t seem to think past the screen in front of them or even visualize anything but the narrow happy path. Unfortunately we’re training new engineers into this stupid corporate hierarchy where all decision making is taken away from engineers. I had to push junior engineers to speak up when they saw something as every signal to them is to stay on your lane.
I had been very lucky in having a lot of say in design in my career. I worked with great designers who listened and could adapt their designs from feedback. That is until the last five years working at a larger tech company, especially the last three with this BS corporate layoff pressure. This is when I started getting side eye for pushing back on the design team for ignoring standard HID guidelines. I’ve seen some of the worst design output out of these folks. Like they gave zero thought to the general navigation or anything but the happy path. Issues one can identify in seconds from reviewing the design. And the politics are strong where people think you have no right to step outside your little engineering bubble and question these things. Of course that didn’t stop product owners and designers from stepping into your engineering bubble and trashing the place.
The one country that seems to do housing right and not consider it an investment vehicle. Unlike our depressing situation that is tearing society apart.
Until we find an economic system that isn’t hellbent on individual greed and political and state groups hellbent on spreading propaganda, this is what we’ll have. The only thing that made the internet great in the before times was these groups didn’t take it seriously or know how to control it.
The only good outcome of LLM content generation for society so far it seems. I remember some recipe site folks were here on HN complaining about ad blockers and it was hilarious following their reasoning. It’s ok to manipulate the entire internet if you’re a business but you’re not allowed any control individually as a consumer I guess. I’m sorry, but filling the internet with 90% fluff garbage doesn’t entitle you to any sympathy.
I think we’re going to have to deal with the stories of shareholders wetting themselves over more layoffs more than we’re going to see higher quality software produced. Everyone is claiming huge productivity gains but generally software quality and new products being created seem at best unchanged. Where is all this new amazing software? It’s time to stop all the talk and show something. I don’t care that your SQL query was handled for you, thats not the bigger picture, that’s just talk.
That’s not the problem. The way you’re modeling it as an accuracy issue is partly solved by peer reviewed journals but that’s not what people are asking for. People are asking for authenticity and not the output of automated information generators for hire.
They turned it into Facebook for self congratulating executives and wanna be temporarily embarrassed millionaire “thought leaders”. It’s insufferable and fuels capitalist cynicism like nothing else.
It does suck that everyone’s solution to the web being absolutely trashed by profit seekers was to go to Discord. They are also just profit seekers and do sketchy things that all these companies end up doing in the end. You can’t turn off their scanning if programs you’re running on the Desktop app for instance. There still just data mining like everyone else.
I love the idea of bringing back human vetted directories. As long as the vetters stay human and sites are readily removed for grifting/SEO optimizing/AI click farming. I think that means they need to stay niche though. I really miss people making content because they wanted no and not because they want to make a living from it.
That’s just PR that serves these companies. I’ve never seen them that way. The stupid avoidable bugs and terrible UX in a lot of their products tells you enough at the surface level. What’s true is these companies do hire some amazing specialists but that doesn’t make them the pinnacle of engineering overall.
I think people are falling all over themselves to tell their now and future bosses that they’re using AI so don’t fire me thanks or be some low rent influencer.
Or saying they’re close to AGI because LLM behavior is indistinguishable from thinking to them. Especially here on HN I see “what’s the difference?” arguments all the time. It looks like it to me so it must be it. QED.
“Doesn’t he owe this particular audience some kind of apology after a judge put him on blast for choosing the worst option for developers at every turn?”
I mean perhaps, but this comes off as entirely naive. Does the author really think this would happen?
Leaving at 5pm seems entirely reasonable to a non workaholic. When is a reasonable time that you think people should leave to prove their worth I wonder. At some point it’s a performative race to the bottom. And yes I know the game industry loves to abuse peoples passion by demanding crunch and burning out young engineers for crap pay.