Hacker News: SnorkelTan

New comment by SnorkelTan in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

SnorkelTan — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:27:44 +0000

My thought is they got on the phone with someone and got their IP ranges white listed with the major captcha providers.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome"

SnorkelTan — Fri, 02 May 2025 20:53:25 +0000

Were you Senior? I look at those situations as eat what you kill. Like I would ask my manager to put me in touch with arch or up level engineers to tell me where the focus is and find tickets to work on myself.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

SnorkelTan — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:17:39 +0000

I'm not a webdev, but I suspect an overwhelming majority of their traffic is on mobile devices. So that's where a majority of eng time is probably spent. Not that it shouldn't be fixed.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "A single line of code cost $8000"

SnorkelTan — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:40:37 +0000

Why not just use http retry-after? then you can use middleware/proxy to control this behavior. Downside here is that system operation becomes more opauqe and fragmented across systems.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow"

SnorkelTan — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:32:12 +0000

I can’t imagine getting Medicaid to cover the biologic that I take that costs $5,000 a month without a prescription to be anything other than a nightmare.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow"

SnorkelTan — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:29:55 +0000

I take a biologic that costs $5,000 a month without a prescription. $1k a month is honestly easier and I can afford it. I enjoy the luxury of being able to afford to not have to navigate the stupid “oh, so you’re poor” patchwork bullshit that exists. My roommate is not such a person.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)"

SnorkelTan — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:26:45 +0000

What would you recommend for a backend developer looking to make the switch from rest crud apps to ml platforms?

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow"

SnorkelTan — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:39:05 +0000

I quit my job as a dev to care for my father who has dementia. Using COBRA and paying for the identical health insurance I had from my employer is $1,000/mo. I have no dependents. California minimum wage annual income is ~$32k. Almost half the income of someone who works a shit job. I'd say that almost 50% of minimum wage just for the privilege of going to a doctor when I have a problem is rightfully a pretty big deal.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow"

SnorkelTan — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:41:28 +0000

Stack overflow was an invaluable resource for me as a developer. I got a wealth of knowledge about a bunch of thorny problems I was encountering with out paying anything. The people who answered the questions I had were able to help far more people than they ever could have individually without SO. I’m having a hard time being upset about his financial windfall. It’s really only a bait and switch for people who answered questions with some other unstated expectation than helping others or receiving help.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: 'We don't care about professional coders anymore"

SnorkelTan — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:46:47 +0000

Are there any command line tools that will help me with the drudgery of diving into an existing Java project using gradle and say something like “please update the dependencies of this package to this version using the existing project conventions in the entire project”? And give a changeset I can start validating and reviewing?

Most of my experiments have been IntelliJ plugins. I like what they have to offer but feel like they are quite far away from the unified understanding of the specific very complicated codebase I have to work in.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew"

SnorkelTan — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 05:00:30 +0000

His first name is Brian. That’s his picture at the top. I can’t think of any other groups or organizations that have the persona of a single person. Can anyone point to an example? Genuinely curious about this.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading"

SnorkelTan — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:02:55 +0000

Is it execution or price? Iirc the broker cannot give you a worse price if it knows of a better one... But is the regulation that the price must actually result in an executed trade?

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading"

SnorkelTan — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:36:48 +0000

What your suggestions is front running. This is illegal for stocks and most assets (not FX!). This will get a broker in hot water.

The more nuanced practice that brokers use to monetize is payment for order flow. They sell your security order flow to algorithmic trading shops that buy and sell the securities you want to trade.

You’re correct in that most retail orders never make it to a regulated exchange, but that may not always be a bad thing. There’s been studies showing that HFTs often match retail trades even when the market moves against them since they are better able to predict market changes and can still profit off the trades.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "South Korea's population faces point of no return"

SnorkelTan — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:01 +0000

From what I've read the discrimination women face in their careers is a huge contributor to the problem... Which was not discussed at all.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month"

SnorkelTan — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:44:17 +0000

Could also have been inserting commercials from video ad companies? Wonder if anyone pays for pirate streams directly

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers"

SnorkelTan — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:59:44 +0000

Looking at the order messages sent to and received from another trading system was not uncommon when I worked in that neck of the woods

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now"

SnorkelTan — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 01:57:44 +0000

The chips are improving. They are adding dedicated AI co-processors/cores. Every major chip developer is moving towards providing functionality that supports running AI models locally on chip. Eventually all of these use cases will be run locally, fast, and power efficiently w/o network hops. Waiting until that happens to develop these features puts you ages behind everyone else. It's just another iteration of the thin-client to fat client product cycle, and for AI, it's very early.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Japan's declining births on track to fall below 700k"

SnorkelTan — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 05:02:05 +0000

I don’t think any native English speaker would use this word choice. Probably not a native English speaker… user name implies Indian.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Bitcoin ATM scams are soaring – and older adults are increasingly the victims"

SnorkelTan — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 05:28:05 +0000

The bitcoin atms follow kyc. You have to have an account with a verified identity. Examining the exchange rates offered by these ATMs and the fact that the customers are insensitive to the rates offered by these services will illuminate why these have proliferated.

New comment by SnorkelTan in "Meta and Google staff are getting jealous of wealthy Nvidia peers"

SnorkelTan — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:16:21 +0000

I read somewhere, maybe a job ad, it was an all cash compensation? Has this changed recently?