Lots of people are sceptical but I cannot imagine a use for entry level positions anymore. At my work everybody got to calling AI "the intern", which is not confusing because we do not have and have no use for interns.
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Hah, you remind me of how I basically had to learn to ignore the "wellness instructor ASMR" voice used in audio guides to yoga, mindfulness, and so on. And of my sister who did her biology PhD on breathwork as an intervention method for pregnant women, which also involved selecting and sending out mindfullness audio-guides of that kind to pregnant women who were part of the research. By the end of it she swore that if she ever had to listen to someone using that kind of voice again she'd lose her mind.
On that note, you might find the Medlife Crisis' video where he investigates the genre of "people roleplaying as doctors giving you a check-up using an ASMR voice" entertaining, and also enlightening on why some people do like it[0]. Don't worry, it doesn't feature too many actual clips of that.
What did your sister study specifically? It was not hyperemesis gravidarum by chance, was it?
vvpan commented on Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology blog.google/technology/sa... · Posted by u/doomroot13
im in the background of that talk
Lagrangodamus!
vvpan commented on Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology blog.google/technology/sa... · Posted by u/doomroot13
A cool technology that builds on ZK is zkTLS that can prove that you have access to some data on the internet, for example that you have an account with some service without revealing your username. So more private oauth I suppose?
vvpan commented on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry? · Posted by u/MongooseStudios
I'm over the industry cause it over-promised an under-delivered and the way it "changed" the world is largely through monopolies, extractive middlemen and manipulation.
Sure, taxes, AI, etc. matter. But my intuition is that the narrative that has driven the software industry "we are changing the world" has run out of steam and it would have without all those other things. The wild Silicon Valley success stories turned into despised monopolies, extractive middlemen, uprooters of local culture, job destroyers and hijackers of attention. I can name very few large software companies that I would not be ashamed of working for. From talking to more politically minded programmers it seems to be on a lot of people's minds, that glory days of SV/VC are over.
This is not to say that software's story is over, just that the incentive mechanisms in place have failed. We could have created protocols, interoperability, local-first apps and novel funding mechanisms but the poisoned VC/shareholder money ensured that we do not.
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vvpan commented on Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/reynaldi
Free tier that let you hide your server IPs, cheap domain registry (with no margin) and even some also tunnels for zero trust. Like I used them for a lot of personal and tbh even commercial projects for years paying them $0. Also they have bandidth alliance with Backblaze so you can serve 100s of TBs for free.
So there a lot of convinience and free stuff. It's quite obviously that when I had commercial customers where for whatever reason free tier wasn't anough I juse used them as well. Why not? There are horror stories about their corporate pricing, but for smaller company paying $20-200 for CDN is no brainer.
Also huge massive advantage of CloudFlare is that majority of their services are not metered so it's hard to wake up to $100,000 bill like it can happen with AWS and almost any other CDN provider.
I still believe this kind of centralized MiTM is bad for us all, but honestly I'd rather it be CloudFlare than Amazon, Microsoft or some other "evil corp".
Thanks for the thorough write-up. I am also conflicted that somebody has so much power in the market but at least they are not AWS/GCP.
vvpan commented on Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/reynaldi
I am somehow out of the loop about why Cloudflare is as big as it is? There are many other CDNs, why them?