<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jamez1</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jamez1</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 01:35:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jamez1" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamez1 in "CEO blasts companies with billions in funding but zero revenue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>....Databricks has no revenue relative to its valuation either</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:01:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383161</link><dc:creator>jamez1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamez1 in "Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be a good engineer you had to be stubborn in the early days of your career, you had to have tenacity and persistence to understand and solve the problems you saw. Unfortunately that filter selects for people who are prone to going too far into the detail, who get a satisfaction from conquering complexity rather than avoiding it. Given the lack of big picture thinking, they readily fall into herd-like behavior. Given the ego payoff for the complexity, it is very difficult for them to accept criticisms about their process or lack of perception.</p>
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<p>Skill loss works both ways. You might miss out on forming early skills in using llms effectively, and end up playing catch up in 3-5 years from now if LLMs mark all the skills you hold to be void.<p>It is also likely LLMs will change programming languages, we will probably move to more formal, type safe languages that the LLM can work with better. You might be good at your language but find the world shifts to a new one that everyone has to use LLMs to be effective for.</p>
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<p>Ontological frameworks have been around for many decades. They have had limited success because it is very difficult to represent knowledge in an object oriented approach. An example is Ologs:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olog" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olog</a><p>It would be interesting to know what you see is different about your approach that would lead to more adoption?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:01:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40871999</link><dc:creator>jamez1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40871999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40871999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamez1 in "Meta Has Had Enough of Australia's Link Tax Shakedown; Will Not Renew Any Deals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure why you are getting the downvotes, this was stated as the main reason that Meta disbanded FB News:<p><a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/02/update-on-facebook-news-us-australia/" rel="nofollow">https://about.fb.com/news/2024/02/update-on-facebook-news-us...</a><p>"The number of people using Facebook News in Australia and the U.S. has dropped by over 80% last year. "</p>
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<p>Interestingly, no acknowledgement has been made on the stock exchange under the ticker (CLBT), despite the two days of public knowledge</p>
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<p>It is logical to assume self driving cars start off in low risk areas, prove their concept, and gradually take on more and more use cases. Things like retirement villages and so on, where this incremental approach has already had success. Skepticism is easy when thinking about the grand scale but this incrementalism will surely win out in the end.</p>
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<p>Given the complexity of the setting, there is far more possible causations than the implied by the finders of this correlation.<p>For example, perhaps better funded hospitals have more females on staff, and that drives the clinical outcomes.<p>Or maybe this relationship was one of thousands of possible relationships, as it is clear they have examined as much, and it's just appeared statistically significant by chance.</p>
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<p>Hornsdale power reserve derives most of it's revenue from selling ancillary services, it does not provide energy. Hornsdale's success is not foreshadowing a battery revolution unfortunately.<p>The reason nuclear costs so much is because we've stopped building plants. There's no industry anymore, let alone economies of scale. It's a fallacious argument to say it costs too much. If we went all in on nuclear to tackle climate change the costs would quickly collapse. After all, they were built in the 70s and dramatically decarbonized the industry at the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 01:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406631</link><dc:creator>jamez1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamez1 in "Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, the enterprise value of the company doesn't change. It was owned by 4b of debt before and is now owned by 5b of equity, and has 1b in cash. It also has an intact business.<p>Under your logic no company would ever raise equity to pay off debt.</p>
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<p>Great example of how difficult statistical concepts are to understand for the layperson, even if that person happens to be a judge or a lawyer.</p>
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<p>This would be far better if the currency was used to pay for connectivity, and the router was reimbursed for routing.<p>Connectivity has a cost, and none of these networks will amount to anything unless the model can incentivize all aspects of the infrastructure necessary</p>
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<p>Subsidized polysilicon produced from coal in Xinjiang is a much larger contributor than the technology improvements.<p><a href="https://www.pv-tech.org/news/wacker-chemie-blames-chinas-polysilicon-support-for-750-million-impairment" rel="nofollow">https://www.pv-tech.org/news/wacker-chemie-blames-chinas-pol...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:37:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25282694</link><dc:creator>jamez1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25282694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25282694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamez1 in "Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They've made a terribly flawed assumption which drives that 90% number. VE is modeled using a beta binomial model with a fixed prior of an infection rate of 1.5% per year. Obviously this number is going to vary a lot depending on the sample. [1]<p>By putting a fixed point vs the appropriate wide ranging distribution as the prior, the model scores the results far higher than otherwise.<p>This is a non-result and it was wildly inappropriate to publish this as proof of any finding.<p>[1] <a href="https://pfe-pfizercom-d8-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-11/C4591001_Clinical_Protocol_Nov2020.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://pfe-pfizercom-d8-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-11/C4591...</a> Page 15</p>
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<p>And funnily enough, 50 years ago the only feasible solution to move off fossil fuels was nuclear. Which was then campaigned against by the green lobby, not the fossil fuel lobby. The irony is that the only reason we haven't de-carbonized is because the same people who are yelling about climate change decided to stop it.</p>
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<p>Uh this is just wrong, institutions use algorithms to trade, <10 contracts isn't confirmation that it's retail money. The algorithms purpose is to hide the flow, and they mimic order size at the very least.</p>
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<p>BayesDB provides a toolset, what you've proposed is where you need knowledge of the underlying process. You've shown some initiative here, but I'd really recommend studying what's out there and doing a true contrast of your solution to see the shortfalls.</p>
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<p>Sorry, this is ludicrous. No analyst is basing their investment view on the 1 day post-IPO movements. Maybe a few months in, as an ancedote about market sentiment, but 5 years in the stock is traded totally differently, by different holders in a basically a different world. When funds make investment decisions we collate a whole bunch of random facts, some relevant, some just general interest. 1 day returns off the IPO can be filed under general interest, just like the gossip magazine articles written about the founders. At best it's attached to the fame of the stock, not the other way around - Facebook's pop is memorable not because of the pop but because of the stock.<p>Maybe because you're from the sell side you're hearing what you want to, it often puzzles me some of the views that you guys have on the market, the role you have just doesn't actually matter that much to the market. A stock is a business, not an investment banking product. The investment banking actions over the life of the business are out-sized, but they also quickly fade to be indiscernible - Facebook would still be the same company today and worth the same amount today even if it was backdoor listed on the pink sheets at first.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2020 12:33:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888904</link><dc:creator>jamez1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamez1 in "Could predictive database queries replace machine learning models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks like a fairly low power monte-carlo system. You just store samples, and the inference is sampling that sample set? That's just bootstrapping and has been far more explored in a much more extensive way by random forests and so forth.<p>You've shoe-horned this logic that usually belongs in linear algebra world into a database table form, there's some initiative there but this has also been heavily explored in the academic field under the topic of Probabilistic Databases. BayesDB is a full implementation of what you've just described, with a much deeper inference engine utilizing joint distributions rather than just distributions that exactly match the sample.</p>
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<p>So effectively, you've added a set of ML/statistics scripts to the query engine? But the query engine is otherwise still relational based?</p>
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