Hacker News: drabiega

New comment by drabiega in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

drabiega — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:44:55 +0000

Hah, lately I've had one particular coworker demanding in code reviews that I provide more 'detailed' MR descriptions. (All of his are clearly AI generated.)

New comment by drabiega in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

drabiega — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:01:46 +0000

That very much depends on the workplace. I was let go once for being 'slightly below average', because I kept foolishly spending the time to fix things in ways that didn't result in more bugs.

New comment by drabiega in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)"

drabiega — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:16:10 +0000

Location: Tampa, Florida

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C++, C, Assembly, COBOL, C#, Java, Javascript, Image Processing, Cross Platform Development, SDK Development, Mainframe Development

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQLv89cN536thPuK1DOttAAH...

Email: rabiega.dan AT gmail.com

I have eight years of development experience focused on developing well documented, high performance code, making it accessible to other developers, and debugging difficult issues.

New comment by drabiega in "The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI"

drabiega — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:42:19 +0000

I've seen several varieties of this idea several times, and it always seems pretty straw-mannish to me.

No one is asserting that computers themselves should have rights. But their users certainly do. If it is legal for me, a human person, to do something inside my own brain, why would it not also be legal for me to do a rough approximation of the same thing inside my computer?

New comment by drabiega in "Discord is not documentation"

drabiega — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:46:42 +0000

Discord's text search isn't exact, which can be a big problem sometimes. For instance, I was in a discord for a game mod recently which had questions asked about the terms 'element' and 'elemental', which were two very different topics. You simply can't narrow your search down to just one of those. Even searching for "elemental" brought up every usage of "element".

New comment by drabiega in "America's True Unemployment Rate"

drabiega — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:58:28 +0000

BLS calls U-3 the "official unemployment rate" I guess, but they publish it in a table with 5 other measures that count different things. I'm not entirely sure it's fair to blame them for the fact that most people just focus on that one measurement.

New comment by drabiega in "GPT-3 pricing for API usage announced to beta users to go in effect from October"

drabiega — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 13:24:54 +0000

If I understand the pricing correctly, that seems prohibitive. The models go up to 2k tokens of input, so wouldn't that mean that it costs $.16 per output token?

New comment by drabiega in "GPT-3 pricing for API usage announced to beta users to go in effect from October"

drabiega — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:04:18 +0000

AI Dungeon is a pretty great use case. I'm not sure if it'll survive this pricing, though.

New comment by drabiega in "Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats"

drabiega — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:14:00 +0000

Ah, that's referring to something else. By generation it means the first output string of every scenario.

IIRC I heard someone mention that OpenAI made them do that because people were trying to end-run around the GPT-3 access restrictions?

New comment by drabiega in "Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats"

drabiega — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:53:02 +0000

You get GPT-3 either way now, I believe. Dragon, the one locked to subscribers, is GPT-3 XL or something like that?

Relevant Developer Tweet: https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1284842455188164609

New comment by drabiega in "NextMind is building a real-time brain computer interface"

drabiega — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:50:51 +0000

Maybe not by itself, but maybe useful in conjunction with eye tracking?

New comment by drabiega in "Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Benefits Patients with Metabolic Syndrome"

drabiega — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:19:32 +0000

I don't understand what you are saying here. It seems to me like you would expect hunger to increase over time after eating. Thus putting the part of your fast with the highest hunger intensity into your sleep time seems considerably easier than intentionally being awake for it?

I.E: If I skip dinner earlier I am effectively adding hours of minimal hunger experience but if I skip breakfast I am adding hours of maximal hunger experience.

New comment by drabiega in "Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Benefits Patients with Metabolic Syndrome"

drabiega — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:14:14 +0000

I have not read the study, but when I heard this on the radio the researcher specifically said that the weight loss was because of the reduction in calories.

The part that is interesting is that by instructing people to have their last meal earlier they naturally reduced their caloric intake without being instructed to do so.

IntercalScript: A Systems Programming Language for the Web

drabiega — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:40:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Storyyeller/IntercalScript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742085

Points: 3

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New comment by drabiega in "Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds"

drabiega — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:40:44 +0000

That's a fair point which also occurred to me while reading the article. It is, I think, indicative of a deeper issue with using ML in these sorts of safety contexts. If the only way to really test your safety system is to actually put people in danger your whole concept may be problematic.

New comment by drabiega in "Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy"

drabiega — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:34:55 +0000

My experience was that while the IDE was available and picked up by newer developers, the majority of developers at the mainframe shop where I worked avoided it as much as possible for pretty much the same reasons seasoned UNIX devs prefer working via command line and text editor.

New comment by drabiega in "Weight-Agnostic Neural Networks"

drabiega — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:26:12 +0000

I don't want to be dismissive since this is pretty cool, but from just skimming the page it seems like this is basically a version to neural nets that is roughly equivalent to genetic programming?

New comment by drabiega in "America’s Cities Are Running on Software from the ’80s"

drabiega — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:31:31 +0000

> memory/resource scarcity is the mother of quality code

My experience with Legacy code has been the exact opposite of this. I've seen some really well written and documented legacy code but almost never in resource / performance sensitive areas.

People inevitably seem to accept trade-offs that sacrifice readability and maintainability for efficiency.

The Language Design Meta-Problem

drabiega — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:25:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.adamant-lang.org/2019/the-meta-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106668

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why Are Machine Learning Projects So Hard to Manage?

drabiega — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:43:18 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@l2k/why-are-machine-learning-projects-so-hard-to-manage-8e9b9cf49641

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19056354

Points: 2

# Comments: 0