Hacker News: MrKristopher

New comment by MrKristopher in "Sora is here"

MrKristopher — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:21:51 +0000

A lot has changed since ChatGPT was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act wasn't in effect back then. Microsoft hadn't made their big investment yet either. OpenAi is a growing target, and the laws are becoming more strict, so they need to be more cautious from a legal perspective, and they need to consider that compliance with EU laws will slow down their product development.

New comment by MrKristopher in "ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web"

MrKristopher — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:59:55 +0000

The references seem wrong though. I'm looking at the response to a demo Bing query, "What cars should I consider buying that are AWD, go 0-60 in less than 6 seconds, seat 6 or more and have decent reviews?"

> The 2022 Kia Telluride is a midsize SUV that can seat up to eight passengers and has an AWD option. It has a 3.8-liter V6 engine that produces 291 hp and 262 lb-ft of torque. It can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 7.1 seconds [10] and has a combined fuel economy of 21 mpg. It also has excellent reviews from critics and owners, and won several awards, including the 2020 World Car of the Year [7].

[10] https://www.topspeed.com/cars/guides/best-awd-cars-for-2022/

[7] https://www.hotcars.com/best-6-seater-suvs-2022/

The references don't back up the 7.1 seconds or World Car of the Year claims.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?"

MrKristopher — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:29:38 +0000

On monetization it's not even close afaik. Some YouTubers make seven figures, and I don't know that blogging can get there. Although if some bloggers are making seven figures I'd be intrigued. Several YouTubers voluntarily discuss their numbers.

New comment by MrKristopher in "You can't lure employees back to the office"

MrKristopher — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 22:15:33 +0000

In other words, megacorps should buy up / produce all the housing so that the employees can't become home owners?

New comment by MrKristopher in "Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt"

MrKristopher — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 20:03:53 +0000

In California this would be framed as a repeal of Prop 13. Not sure why you think that is easy to legislate away.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system"

MrKristopher — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:42:58 +0000

Is facial recognition so good that it can distinguish you from a billion other people? I assumed the photo recognition relied on the social graph i.e. to look for your friends or friends of friends in your pictures.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt"

MrKristopher — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:37:28 +0000

What would you ban?

New comment by MrKristopher in "Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California"

MrKristopher — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:05:50 +0000

Not sure if Signal is doing this, but they could send a notification with title "New message" and encrypted payload. The payload can be processed by a client-side notification extension which decrypts the payload and chooses what notification text the user will see.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Tech compensation in 2021"

MrKristopher — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 23:45:10 +0000

It would be hard to find a job that pays $400k cash (yes I'm aware of Netflix) so there isn't much need to put a specific cash value on the RSU component for comparison. You're typically comparing two job offers which both have an RSU component.

RSUs have a volatility component (so discount the value for that, depending on the value of the grant vs your net worth), but also RSUs generally appreciate over the vest (it's not too common for a stock to be down over a 4-year period) which is a plus.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Kid Pix as a JavaScript App"

MrKristopher — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:30:36 +0000

I like it. I think it's missing the option to increase the stamp sizes though?

What I really liked about Kid Pix was the ability to make animations through the slideshow mode. You could put together up to 100 pictures in a slideshow and set the time per slide to < 1 second to create animations.

New comment by MrKristopher in "“Great resignation” wave coming for companies"

MrKristopher — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:19:48 +0000

I feel you, and I spent most of my time at non-FANG earning much less.

New comment by MrKristopher in "“Great resignation” wave coming for companies"

MrKristopher — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:16:58 +0000

At https://www.levels.fyi/addcomp.html I see someone could upload an offer letter, or a W2.

New comment by MrKristopher in "“Great resignation” wave coming for companies"

MrKristopher — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:32:13 +0000

Base + bonus + annual refresher should be in the 700s annually. Likely the way this gets to $1M is with stocks going up and stacked refreshers (getting a couple annual refreshers while the initial grant is still vesting).

New comment by MrKristopher in "“Great resignation” wave coming for companies"

MrKristopher — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:29:12 +0000

Wouldn't checking for remote jobs around your area sort of defeat the purpose?

New comment by MrKristopher in "“Great resignation” wave coming for companies"

MrKristopher — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:21:27 +0000

Stocks (and therefore RSUs) are up. I joined a FANG in 2019 with $500k RSUs. Now I have $740k in unvested RSUs, including $600k remaining from the initial grant.

New comment by MrKristopher in "The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)"

MrKristopher — Mon, 31 May 2021 05:35:11 +0000

The PDF doesn't mention trading rules. You can refer to tournament rules or Monopoly computer games for what is or is not allowed -- and these types of trades are not allowed.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)"

MrKristopher — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:38:36 +0000

If your object IDs are 1, 2, 3... then attacker can check all the IDs. If instead each object ID is a 256-bit UUID, then the attacker can't make a query for every possible object ID.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)"

MrKristopher — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 15:58:06 +0000

I'm not sure I understand the concern here. Typically there is a logged-in user, and server asks Zanzibar if the user can or cannot access some document. Whether a certain document exists or not isn't typically a secret i.e. you might get HTTP 403 (forbidden) or 404 depending on whether or not the document exists.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone"

MrKristopher — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:43:25 +0000

Even though FANG and startups are giving similar whiteboard interviews, they are evaluating on different dimensions to select candidates that fit their respective companies and the specific position. Reducing the Leetcode skill to a single number would not work well for this reason.

New comment by MrKristopher in "Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone"

MrKristopher — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:33:49 +0000

The difference is that what you can learn on StackOverflow might actually be useful on the job.