Hacker News: Push_to_master

New comment by Push_to_master in "China Says It Cracked Apple AirDrop to Identify Message Sources"

Push_to_master — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:53:06 +0000

To make people nervous about doing it, whether they are somewhere that they are somewhere they are being heavily monitored like a parade, or out with friends some night on a side street. Telling people there is a chance they could get caught goes a lot farther than catching a few in secret.

New comment by Push_to_master in "Show HN: Manabi Reader – Learn Japanese by Reading on iOS and macOS (SwiftUI)"

Push_to_master — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 23:19:21 +0000

Dang, looks really cool and I would give it a shot, but no ios or mac device. Keep it up though, it looks sweet.

New comment by Push_to_master in "Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning"

Push_to_master — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:15:43 +0000

If the person doing the calculation knows how timed races work, the math is very very straightforward. In this one GPT-4 did not seem to understand how racing worked in that context, where bard understood and also applied safety margin.

Although understand is an odd word to use for LLM

New comment by Push_to_master in "Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning"

Push_to_master — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 21:44:17 +0000

YMMV but I just asked the same question to both and GPT-4 calculated 9.64 laps, and mentioned how you cannot complete a fraction of a lap, so it rounded down and then calculated 24.5L.

Bard mentioned something similar but oddly rounded up to 10.5 laps and added a 10% safety margin for 30.8L.

In this case bard would finish the race and GPT-4 would hit fuel exhaustion. Thats kind of the big issue with LLMs in general. Inconsistent.

In general I think gpt-4 is better overall but it shows both make mistakes, and both can be right.

New comment by Push_to_master in "Google lowering promised severance in layoffs"

Push_to_master — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:33:53 +0000

I think it would be more accurate to link to something as a better source than blind. All I can find about this is a gizmodo article, which does not provide any source other than this statement from Google: "A Google spokesperson said in a statement to Gizmodo that the payments given to laid-off employees were “100% accurate” and has corrected the stock calculation. Meanwhile, former employees expressed confusion to Business Insider, and one source said, “They did not outline it well in the first emails to us all so tons of people were confused.”

The Google spokesperson said, “We have followed up and corrected the calculation—and this doesn’t change the fact that all departing employees will still be eligible to receive salary and stock units for both the notice period and the severance payment, as well as their 2022 bonus, unused vacation, six months of healthcare and additional support.”"

It does not sound like they are lowering it as much as confusing wording? I would want to see the OG email and the correction email, but I can't find anyone actually sharing out what their email to laid off employees actually was.

If this is actually a walk back on severance rather than clarification then they should honor the original statement.

New comment by Push_to_master in "Coinbase Lays Off 950 Staff, Cuts Operational Costs by 25%"

Push_to_master — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:44:00 +0000

The amount of bloat they acquired over the pandemic is pretty insane.

I was interviewing for a position at coinbase in 2021 and man, it was the worst interview process I have ever gone through. All technical interviews seemed to be extremely specific around knowledge for tools outside of what I was interviewing for. (Senior/Staff level IAM) I am not sure why an IAM engineer needs to be asked tons of questions about specific big data and ML libraries but that level of bad interviewing made me tell them no before finishing all of them.

The real red flag though was that not 1 interviewer had been at CB for longer than 3-9 months. It sounded like in 2021 alone the company 2-3x'd headcount. I can only imagine the absolute shit show that must've been on the inside.

I still think CB seems like one of the better companies in their sector, but compared to the larger tech industry, I think it still has some maturing to do.

New comment by Push_to_master in "Nothing Phone (1)"

Push_to_master — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:35:45 +0000

I want one just to get a notification LED back. Thats up there with the headphone jack as something that shouldnt have been removed from basically all phones in my book.

New comment by Push_to_master in "Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unusable for you too?"

Push_to_master — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 20:50:56 +0000

I feel that, I find that when I want the answer to something I add "reddit" to the end of the question or query. I dont use a lot of reddit but I have found that usually you get much better / non-paid answers on there. So much of todays internet are just advertising in disguise. Usually when it comes to questions or comparisons with products, at least with reddit its more likely to be akin to a customer review than some random article that who knows who paid them to tell you x is better than y.

New comment by Push_to_master in "Vanced has been discontinued"

Push_to_master — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:48:11 +0000

I can confirm that vanced had Google/YT eyes on it for many years now, or at least that someone I know on the Ad abuse team at Google was talking about them finding ways to stop vanced for years now.