Hacker News: aivosha

New comment by aivosha in "Why do so many people want us back in the office?"

aivosha — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:56:05 +0000

Lots of this in hinged on the fact that real estate business will inevitably collapse. Dont expect them to take this hit lightly and "pivot" or "adjust". The whole business is based on "location location location" - which will (already has) become more and more irrelevant.

New comment by aivosha in "Grant Imahara Has Died"

aivosha — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:33:22 +0000

go fuck yourself

New comment by aivosha in "OpenAI API"

aivosha — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:44:32 +0000

You replied within an hour and now Im seeing it in 20 hours. We exchange short texts, we both dont have a context, we dont know what each of us feels at that moment and we have absolutely no feedback about each other's mental states. THIS isnt working! The conversational part of the social media is out of sync with reality and timespan. Evolution never had to optimize for this b/c there was never a need for it. We struggle to understand, we just throw words at each other in passing and fill in the dots in our own minds - which is terrible b/c those dots are too far apart.

Signal is a needle in a haystack. Its not worth trying to keep fixing and reshaping the haystack so we dont keep loosing the needle. Lets just admit this tool isnt working and move on to better alternatives.

Edit: Clarifications (Need for post-editing also supports my point btw. )

New comment by aivosha in "OpenAI API"

aivosha — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:21:55 +0000

More fake news and generated AI content there is more people would stop trusting social media. It will saturate to that tipping point that humanity will need to find more genuine ways to communicate. So I say bring it on.

New comment by aivosha in "OpenAI API"

aivosha — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:14:42 +0000

conspiracy hypothesis

New comment by aivosha in "Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn"

aivosha — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:22:58 +0000

All these mechanisms are not 100%. They are averaged around "an average" person as all these things are. I would argue that anybody that realizes the true intention poses enough intuition to stay away from it. Its a tool. Use parts of it you need and dont pay attention to the rest. Its not hard. If it is hard - be thankful it revealed something about you that you want to work on overcoming.

New comment by aivosha in "‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease"

aivosha — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:23:00 +0000

assentication ? (fixed a typo)

New comment by aivosha in "Remote Work Report"

aivosha — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:47:39 +0000

Labeling work remote or non-remote (on-site?) becomes increasingly irrelevant. Need for physical presence in a given geographical location is mitigated by good planing and quality of tools allowing to share information effectively. Why dont we stop calling things remote or not, but focus more on improving the tool sets needed to better plan and share thing between humans.

All of these tools are needed wether the team is physically on the same geo location or spread out. What changed now is that its much harder to justify not having them anymore.

New comment by aivosha in "The Wolfram Physics Project"

aivosha — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:24:10 +0000

I wonder if this is in response to Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity presentation he did on April 1st. Yesterday, on Lex Fridman's podcast, he mentioned how since he revealed his theory there wasnt any feedback from scientific community. BTW, highly recommend watching Eric's Portal.

New comment by aivosha in "State projections for Covid-19"

aivosha — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:13:40 +0000

lots of “reinfections” were debunked as false positives. search on r/COVID19 for details.

New comment by aivosha in "Fixing Scrum (2019)"

aivosha — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:11:31 +0000

could not agree more!

New comment by aivosha in "Ask HN: Does Hire quick Fire quick work?"

aivosha — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:53:20 +0000

But I get your point. Maybe its better not to emphasize too much about the "trusting their words". Thanks.

New comment by aivosha in "Ask HN: Does Hire quick Fire quick work?"

aivosha — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:47:04 +0000

Well if you believe the person you never met, why do an interview at all then ? Basic trust - get on board ! Im sorry but your argument doesnt make sense. Nobody in their right mind expects to be trusted right out of the gate. They come to the interviews to build that trust. To prove they are what the paper says about them.

>Why not just use probationary periods, but not emphasize the reason to the applicants?

Thats effectively what i do, but I want to be upfront about it more so than its conventionally accepted. And the main reason is b/c i chose not to do long interviews, which might convey that "ah, seems like an easy place to slack, nobody gives a shit here"

Updated: added more clarifications.

New comment by aivosha in "Ask HN: Does Hire quick Fire quick work?"

aivosha — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:09:27 +0000

UPDATE: Seems like I somehow managed to confuse the readers. I choose to trust the candidate. Even more so than anybody with traditional approach with technical interviews and endless back and forth. I hire, pay salary after 1 hour of chatting. Only Im direct about my intentions. I specify what is expected of the candidate when hired and Its up to them to live up to what they commit to during the chat.

New comment by aivosha in "Ask HN: Does Hire quick Fire quick work?"

aivosha — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:04:11 +0000

I thought phrase in my post "I choose to believe you" indicates basic trust. I dont see how you got confused and misread my intentions to claim quite the opposite. I choose to trust, yes ! Thats the whole point. I dont trust the interview process itself to be valuable, b/c it does not give you neither the right context or enough time to learn about the person.

Ask HN: Does Hire quick Fire quick work?

aivosha — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:42:12 +0000

I'v been doing this for some time now: I would have a chat, get to know a person. I would try to see on a human level if im dealing with an honest person or not, how close they are to their resume/linkedin profile. And I would tell them that I choose believe them, and I want to hire them. But the "interview" as it were, is not over. You will be tested over a period of time for which you will be paid as per your asking salary. But please know this, you will get fired very quickly if you dont live up to your own "hype". I find this direct/dry honesty scare lot of candidates and I'd like to think its a good thing: they are vetting themselves out, instead of thinking they could get in and "hide out" somehow.

The reason im doing this vs "traditional" way is 2 fold:

1. I dont want to spend endless time on back and forth and technical challenges. Not only I dont have that time, but I would be spending that time (hence money) that I could use to hire them for a probation period. 2. Interviews give lots of false positives. Its like unit tests - you think you covered 100% of your code and you'r done. But shit still hits the fan b/c your integrational/functional coverage sucked. Interviews are only the unit tests !

Do you guys ever try approach ? How does this work out for you ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22318052

Points: 1

# Comments: 7

Ask HN: Are Exit Interviews Honest?

aivosha — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 23:59:35 +0000

I had people leave my team under different circumstances and Im always asked if I did an exit interview. Honestly i don’t even think Entrance interviews are all that useful or telling. Yes you talk. You ask questions you get answers. Most of the time they’re nervous. What do you get out of it that is really useful? Now the exit interview is even weirder. The very existence of it proves the first one was useless. And also what would compel the exiting person to be truthful and objective? What do you guys get out of it realistically and how do you act on that knowledge?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22314101

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by aivosha in "Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’"

aivosha — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 02:01:36 +0000

maybe it could have been much worse if it was colder.

New comment by aivosha in "A billion medical images are exposed online"

aivosha — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:07:11 +0000

how about those health care professionals not logging out of their sessions, writing up their passwords on the stickit notes and just generally leaving their computers unlocked for anybody to just browse through. Its always easy to blame the "maker" and say Im an idiot, make this idiot proof. Do you really want people to treat you, being in a mindset of an idiot ? If there is one field in all of universe that you cant not blame the tools for your own idiocracy is the health care ! I want you, the doctor, bend backwards to be at the top of your game ALWAYS, not just when you are doing a brain surgery. I want you to be the ONE that i can have 100% trust that you have my interests in mind instead of playing blame games.

New comment by aivosha in "PyTorch elastic training"

aivosha — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 14:22:56 +0000

One can always fork python to keep it "general" if it ever comes to that. In fact I would argue both ML and non-ML domains would benefit from that fork. The reason python is used in ML is not because its intrinsically good for it, but because it happened to have a good set of libraries and community at the right time and place. Having specialized subset of python fine-tuned/"compiled" for ML would be a good path for it as a product to evolve towards. I would not mind having all kinds of ML related, algebraic operations as part of the language so the code reads more naturally. And not only that, all frameworks have to support that language and thus become much more interchangeable. Just like you can have CPython and pypy and others that converge into the same language, imagine the same thing with TensorFlow, PyTorch and alike converging to a singe language that support builtin ML-operations.