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tshibleyon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)

Aurelian | Multiple roles | Seattle, WA | Full time | https://www.aurelian.com/

Aurelian is automating non-emergency calls for dispatch centers around the US! We free up dispatcher time so they can focus on emergencies, and provide better service to the public, who don't have to wait on hold for simple requests. Series A, 11 engineers today, growing quite fast and looking for engineers/engineering leaders/product managers/anyone who can build and solve problems to join us

All our open positions are listed here: https://www.aurelian.com/careers

In person only for eng/product roles

You can also shoot me an email - trevor at our domain

tshibleyon Californians may tax the rich more to subsidise electric cars

https://archive.ph/5NQWH

tshibleyon 'Big Short' investor says white-collar jobs bubble is 'bursting'

https://archive.ph/eqRpg

tshibleyon Things You're Allowed to Do

I mean, fair if you are already a millionaire, but otherwise it seems good to at least be aware of how powerful saving $20 a day in the long run can be before making this choice

tshibleyon Bottle of Lies

Thanks, fixed

tshibleyon Bottle of Lies

I wonder if this becomes a cycle - otherwise I'm not sure how it explains the problems at Boeing.

I assume there was a point where the FAA was reasonably thorough (although if anyone knows the contrary to be true correct me), but then a general lack of perceived risk led to a leaner FAA with lower regulatory resources, which then contributed to the problems at Boeing. Maybe this will lead to an increase of regulatory oversight, and then the cycle continues.

tshibleyon Bottle of Lies

>"Unlike American plants, which matured in an environment where constant oversight made shortcuts risky, the Indian industry evolved in a culture in which outwitting inefficient bureaucracies was an essential skill."

There is an interesting parallel here with the deterioration of regulatory oversight at Boeing that seems likely to have contributed to recent issues with the 737 Max. Similar to how the FDA was only visiting these foreign drug manufacturing operations once ever 11 years on average, the FAA was also resource constrained, to the point that Boeing was responsible for most of it's own oversight.

Maybe the story is just that at a certain point every company becomes rotten in the pursuit of profits (although that seems a contrived conclusion). A better analysis would maybe be what made these companies act in similar ways, skirting regulation at the cost of safety.

tshibleyon Dad, Are We Rich?

They could be going off of per capita income rather than household income - US per capita income is closer to $32k a year[0], so 60k a year would put you quite high on that distribution.

0. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/SEX255217

tshibleyon Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand

This hasn't been my experience at all. I've been interviewing for internships back in the US while studying abroad this winter/spring, and basically everything has been done over hangouts (since I don't have international calling).

tshibleyon North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war

It will be fascinating to watch the modernization of North Korea if we end up heading in that direction. I'm particularity interested to see if it is possible for a leader/party with a brutal a reputation as that of Kim Jong Un to retain power as the country opens up (although to be fair we are a _long_ way from any real change).

tshibleyon A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash

As a 20 something reading articles like these it is incredible to even imagine having enough trust in institutions to basically turn over my future. I wouldn't trust anyone but myself to control my savings and retirement. This is obviously part of a larger trend that we've seen playing out over the last 50 years, and I'll be interested to see how it continues to play out [0]. It seems difficult to imagine a society that can function cohesively when individuals can't trust the institutions we spend such a huge portion of our lives supporting (through time and tax dollars).

I hope to have the chance to reverse this trend in my career, but I have no illusions that gaining this lost trust will come easily.

[0] http://www.people-press.org/2017/05/03/public-trust-in-gover...

tshibleyon Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trevor

Awesome setup process - wasn't expecting it to be that simple!

tshibleyon Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His Story

How is this any less scary? If a company can just _mistakenly_ cut off my email without warning, and I can't fight through the customer service abyss to get it back, shouldn't I be concerned?

tshibleyon Why Aren’t American Teenagers Working Anymore?

"Parents are pushing kids to volunteer and sign up for extracurricular activities instead of working, to impress college admission counselors."

I think this is one of the reasons I see most often (I graduated from high school 2 years ago). Many students think that taking a minimum wage job for the summer won't do them any good, and their parents push them to believe that "education is their job", so they opt for things outside of working to fill their summers.

tshibleyon Working at Netflix 2017

I totally understand the need for sources in informed discussions, but I also feel like these topics have been so well documented that they have reached a point where asking someone for a source every time they throw out the fact that companies are "Tracking people across the web" is a contrived roadblock at best, and purposely stifling to discussion at worst.

With that said, I don't want to just single you out since this is a common practice, so I went ahead and found sources for you:

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/technology/uber-workplace... [1]https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palanti... [2]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/selling-china-surveill... [3]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/for-sale-your-pr... [4]http://mashable.com/2017/04/30/facebook-leaked-report-advert... [5]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11... [6]https://www.technologyreview.com/s/530741/the-murky-world-of... [7]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor.... [8]https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160920/07021035568/hp-la...

tshibleyon In praise of cash

The biggest reason I can think of is safety. With a good credit card you are not liable for any fraudulent charges, which definitely isn't the case for debit cards.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/credit-card-vs-...

tshibleyon Blue Feed, Red Feed

When clicks drive profit headlines and stories take a noticeable dive in my opinion.

tshibleyon Blue Feed, Red Feed

This is an awesome project, and the type of thing I hope we continue to see more of from high profile media outlets throughout the United States. Using data visualization to break down the issues that divide is an a very concrete way, and help expose our very fractured country to the range of voices yelling in their own echo chambers. Excellent work WSJ.

tshibleyon America has never had so much TV, and even Hollywood is overwhelmed

So much of the history of T.V. shows has been dictated by the cable bundle, which force you to pay a network whether you are interested in it or not. And while I think that ultimately this content bubble will pop (or at least fizz out), in the end the average consumer will be left with a much leaner media offering that is more targeted to what they actually want to pay for.

tshibleyon Google – My Activity

I mean from Google's perspective this sorta makes sense. It's a lot safer to turn literally any tracking/storage off than to get people accusing you of violating your user agreement.