Hacker News: ialyos

New comment by ialyos in "ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova"

ialyos — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:58:00 +0000

I don’t think that’s true! IIUC the protections from that act only apply to a subset of humans, including us military and nato military members. It’s in the article you linked! So if you see Putin at your local Safeway go ahead and citizens arrest him :)

New comment by ialyos in "Ask HN: How did you become one of the first 50 at a major tech company?"

ialyos — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:53:14 +0000

Is the goal here to make money? Engineer #25 will get at most .3% equity. At a billion dollar valuation that's 3 million, which sounds like a lot, but if you see that exit after 5 years, that's more like 600k a year. Senior eng at Fang makes 400k+, and is much more attainable than first 50 at big company. You'll have a much better chance climbing FAANG ladder if you want to make a bunch of money

New comment by ialyos in "Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail"

ialyos — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:59:57 +0000

Thanks for the nuance. I completely agree with how you've framed the situation.

New comment by ialyos in "Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail"

ialyos — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:41:29 +0000

The article is simply wrong.

I know this because I worked as an ML engineer at an extremely successful company that automated medical coding using deep learning.

The confusion stems from conflating a "perfect solution" with a "human augmented" one.

90% of coding cases are trivial, have low value and can be done by a model. 10% are really subtle and need human expertise.

That's fine. You can make a billion dollar company on low hanging fruit. I think it's best not to conflate the perfect solution with a very good solution.

New comment by ialyos in "Why is California wasting millions on hydrogen fuel pumps?"

ialyos — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:19:12 +0000

Did you watch the video you linked?

New comment by ialyos in "Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed"

ialyos — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:27:28 +0000

Become a machine learning swe. It's an amazing blend of stats / match and raw engineering. It's a ton of fun

New comment by ialyos in "Competitive Programming with AlphaCode"

ialyos — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:56:34 +0000

The phrase "in practice" doesn't really work when you're referring to highly finicky strategies like RL and adversarial training

New comment by ialyos in "Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube"

ialyos — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:00:10 +0000

I don't have a nuanced thought to add. I think it sucks these videos were demonetized and I agree there's something weird going on when 3d bust test prints abound. Sorry you have to fit so hard to get people on the same page

New comment by ialyos in "There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)"

ialyos — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:17:24 +0000

This comment is underrated

New comment by ialyos in "We killed our end-to-end test suite"

ialyos — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:15:32 +0000

Isn't this what protos are for?

New comment by ialyos in "Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional"

ialyos — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 20:58:50 +0000

I don't think that's true. As a consumer I pay Uber, that internally splits its revenue between unionized and non unionized labor. Both parties want money, and the both charge me for it.

New comment by ialyos in "Ask HN: Desktop Robotic Arm?"

ialyos — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:50:23 +0000

I've built one and so has someone else, it's a journey, but gets you a reasonably competent arm at a reasonable price.

New comment by ialyos in "Ask HN: Desktop Robotic Arm?"

ialyos — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:49:00 +0000

Annin AR3 https://www.anninrobotics.com/

Original software for it is a bit hard to work with, improvements in https://github.com/ongdexter/ar3_core

New comment by ialyos in "Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimization methods in Python"

ialyos — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:43:45 +0000

This is at a high level how one of our Google internal black box optimizers behaves. The term used is "infeasible region" but it's the same idea as using a nan.

I would caution against using nan to always mean infeasible. Instead users should catch experiments outside the feasibility region and return a special infeasible value. This will increase visibility into the behavior of the optimizer, because it leaves nan to be used for values inside the region of constraint that are still problematic (due to bugs, numerical instability, etc)

New comment by ialyos in "Ask HN: What is your low stress, high paid job?"

ialyos — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:46:08 +0000

Work for Google. Work on the same feature for a year. Deadlines are fungible and no one cares if you aren't killing it

New comment by ialyos in "Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics"

ialyos — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:36:41 +0000

Agreed.

Robots are very hard, and Boston Dynamics has been around for almost 40 years and still isn't anywhere close to making a lot of money.

Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.

Fwiw I interviewed with BD a few years ago, and am focusing on robotics, so I'd like the opposite to be true

New comment by ialyos in "Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account"

ialyos — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:56:06 +0000

Was looking at buying the quest 2 today and decided to wait until the weekend to see how the launch would go and then I saw this. I won't buy a quest 2 unless the account requirement is removed

New comment by ialyos in "Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce"

ialyos — Tue, 05 May 2020 21:30:47 +0000

But most people are capped to how much they'll spend on leisure by their vacation time. So there probably isn't much headroom to be gained for people who are regular travellers post this pandemic.

New comment by ialyos in "Transformers Are Graph Neural Networks"

ialyos — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:48:28 +0000

Does the use of positional embeddings mess with the gnn for formulation? I'm not familiar with the requirements for something to be a gnn, but positional embeddings mean the graphs have to capture order of occurrence, and the graph in the shared page doesn't seem to do that.

New comment by ialyos in "Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay"

ialyos — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 07:58:10 +0000

That isn't true. Downtown Toronto has multiple Google engineers. I know one in brain and one in cloud. One has been in TO for ~2.5 years, the other for 1 year. As far as I know the only way to get into the office is by special permission. One of them only got their role because they said they were quitting due to the waterloo commute.

Fwiw I'm a Canadian that just signed a Google offer to work out of downtown SF because I hate the winter too. I think people care more or less about the weather based on their hobbies / interests.