Hacker News: gautamdivgi

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Java 21: First Release Candidate"

gautamdivgi — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:55:12 +0000

Any system that requires scale and performance and in-depth monitoring. The one thing about Java that most people miss is the javaagent based instrumentation that is exemplary. So when you’re in trouble you always have jconsole . There’s an excellent APM that we use called glowroot which is open source.

Also what all others have mentioned below.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity"

gautamdivgi — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:18:55 +0000

It’s basically the government “strongly nudging” companies to start their RTO. I don’t think every company suddenly discovered they were unproductive

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)"

gautamdivgi — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:53:53 +0000

I’ve had the opposite situation. I’m a PE that works with a director. Problem is he’s been a lot more keen on the “shiny” than I am. After more than 25 yrs being an IC I’m definitely over the shiny. I can smell shiny tech debt miles away. Problem is trying to get the managers out of the technical path.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock"

gautamdivgi — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:46:54 +0000

I don’t think she is the best trader. I think it’s her husband that’s the best trader.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock"

gautamdivgi — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:27:10 +0000

The problem with this is that now you will have their spouses or children own the stock and not have similar reporting requirements. I don’t believe this ban will accomplish much.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Attention Caplanites: School Is Less Wasteful Than You Think"

gautamdivgi — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 02:20:41 +0000

Isn’t proliferation and ease of availability of student loans making college more expensive?

I’d hate to have college only be for people with means to pay. But I think tuition fee increases have far outpaced inflation.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Ban on recording without consent is unconstitutional, US court rules"

gautamdivgi — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 02:54:03 +0000

Does this apply to private citizens or even government officials?

New comment by gautamdivgi in "When wealthy adventurers take risks,who foots the bill for rescue attempts?"

gautamdivgi — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:34:05 +0000

I think world navies and coast guard collaborate on high seas rescue and recovery [0].

0. https://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Unsinkable-A-Young-Woma...

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT"

gautamdivgi — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:01:14 +0000

That’s why diving into research will not help general practitioners. Because research isn’t fact. You need a body of research along with oversight of statistical methods and its data collection to claim fact and that too with specific constraints.

So they do learn fundamentals but fundamentals do not come out of research papers.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT"

gautamdivgi — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:22:24 +0000

I think a lot of your general practitioners are bound to follow protocol set forth by various medical organizations. So in that sense a lot of diving into research won’t help them. They need to understand and diagnose without having to worry about every little research paper. A lot of research papers aren’t truth - they are peer reviewed opinions.

Once you get to medical research groups that formulate those protocols, that’s where research becomes important.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Meta's plan to offer free commercial AI models puts pressure on Google, OpenAI"

gautamdivgi — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:18:01 +0000

Meta has always been a big open source contributor. We use their prophet model for forecasting extensively.

Their quality of open source has always been good for the things I’ve used.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Why Does Google Kill So Many Products?"

gautamdivgi — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:10:13 +0000

For any large company I think you overestimate the amount of control that CEO’s and HR heads have. I mean they make broad policy decisions based on some cost & growth numbers.

I think the whole project killing long precedes Sundar or Ruth. In fact chrome (which Sundar handled product for I believe) is something that has endured.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development"

gautamdivgi — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:04:39 +0000

Activity diagrams do a decent job too. But yes, sequence and activity diagrams are all I have used.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted"

gautamdivgi — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:44:04 +0000

Isn’t this cause for defamation? Or is it protected under article 230?

Even if it’s not yelp doing it the fact that they are publicly advertising the reviews should make them culpable.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)"

gautamdivgi — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:37:49 +0000

Won’t heap compaction and pthreads be a c++ skill set and not a python/django one?

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks"

gautamdivgi — Mon, 29 May 2023 16:48:54 +0000

Cheaper how? Don’t you need a battery change at a certain mileage or age of the vehicle that will eliminate any cost advantage of not using diesel? At least for cars it does. It may be better for trucks considering they do put in a lot of mileage

New comment by gautamdivgi in "The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review"

gautamdivgi — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:55:51 +0000

Yes, but if you stay where you are and don’t push the managers you work with to take execution responsibility you will damage your career.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents"

gautamdivgi — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:58:39 +0000

I use a system76 for personal use and an iPhone. My Apple accounts for personal and work are separate. I also use a vpn on all personal devices and use Firefox for browsing.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI"

gautamdivgi — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:47:56 +0000

Remember the paper where they admitted to having no "moat". This is basically them trying to build a "moat" through regulation. Since big-co are probably the only ones that can do any sort of license testing right now. It's essentially trying to have an "FDA" for AI and crowd out competitors before they emerge.

New comment by gautamdivgi in "JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents"

gautamdivgi — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:17:08 +0000

Just keep work devices separate from personal. I think there may be some regulatory aspect to recording conversations in banks.

Either way workplace isn’t personal space. What exactly are folks planning at work that shouldn’t be recorded? Some may say have unions. But only Union activity would be covered under that. I don’t think you’ll ever get a Union that can negotiate for not tracking time and activity while on the clock.