Hacker News: joshlegs

New comment by joshlegs in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

joshlegs — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:09:35 +0000

would be hilarious if Altman was directly hired by Microsoft to head their AI teams now.

New comment by joshlegs in "France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax"

joshlegs — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:03:30 +0000

I like how OP commenter is essentially arguing that the government should regulate journalism, which fundamentally misunderstands the role of journalists -- that is, it is a direct check and balance on the government, except that it relies on the free market for competitive regulation. A journalism outlet which consistently gets things wrong SHOULD fail. Trying to regulate journalism massively fails not only in its intent to reduce errors, but also in its implementation.

New comment by joshlegs in "Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?"

joshlegs — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:05:40 +0000

I love Tim Dodd! I'm actually really surprised to see him show up on hacker news. I've been watching his youtube videos for quite a while now.

Anybody else interested in space stuff should also check out Scott Manley. I also like Marcus House also has some really great stuff.

These guys focus a lot on SpaceX but they also do a lot of other videos on general space stuff.

Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNHHEoiSF8pcLgqLKVugOw

Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg

New comment by joshlegs in "200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week"

joshlegs — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:31:24 +0000

sure, but what i'm saying, is were all the actual unique positions listed, not were each individual position for each job listed .... make sense?

New comment by joshlegs in "200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week"

joshlegs — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:17:27 +0000

but were all 30k jobs listed? I'm assuming the positions listed were nowhere near close to the positions they need to hire for. As in, they probably havent even listed for a lot of the roles.

That said, I really didn't read the article :o

New comment by joshlegs in "Ask HN: Are you ok?"

joshlegs — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:36:25 +0000

just as an fyi, most people take mortgages for anywhere between 2 and like, 5 times their annual salary. I think my mortgage right now is about 3x my salary. So dont worry about that too much. I used to stress out a lot about ANY debt, but i've learned to cope with it a bit better. You're super early in your career (even pre-career), so you've got plenty of time to work these things out. I'm confident you'll do just fine with all of those things. commute can be tricky, but if youre in an area where housing is that expensive, i'm sure the public transportation is decent quality. Buses and trains work great for morning/afternoon work commute.

New comment by joshlegs in "The End of Moore’s Law and Faster General Purpose Computing, and a Road Forward [pdf]"

joshlegs — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:44:06 +0000

i seem to recall something about some carbon technology recently that is supposedly the next big revolution in semiconductors, and might revive Moore's Law? I wanna say it was about how carbon nanotubes can be used as an excellent semiconductoer, and because their width is at the atomic scale, they can result in even smaller transistors.

or something to that effect. Not sure where I read it tho. Maybe on here

New comment by joshlegs in "Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill"

joshlegs — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:14:08 +0000

I mean, to be fair, everyone thought the soviet union was ironclad, and a lot of people were surprised when it fell.

that said, i'm not optimistic that communist china will reform any time soon.

Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints

joshlegs — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:29:58 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/ceramics-enter-a-new-era-with-laser-welded-joints/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20838955

Points: 149

# Comments: 22

New comment by joshlegs in "An oral history of the AIM away message"

joshlegs — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 20:08:23 +0000

im a little perplexed why the phrase 'oral' was at all used here. It literally means "spread by word of mouth" -- but this is a text format. although this is probably a little bit nitpicky, i guess.

New comment by joshlegs in "15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete"

joshlegs — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:31:38 +0000

you could make a strong argument that the 'winner-takes-all' electoral votes in states that have winner-takes-all systems is essentially already doing what the proposal to effectively eliminate the electoral college is doing -- it's saying that individual votes dont count, only the collective whole.

New comment by joshlegs in "AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans"

joshlegs — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:09:46 +0000

if the company was lying to VC's, is it possible for them to recoup their investments outside of a civil lawsuit? I'm imagining some sort of criminal fraud investigation could happen, but dont really know.

New comment by joshlegs in "Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K"

joshlegs — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:41:46 +0000

hell, or even just good ole 'institutionalism'. "Deep state" sure does imply conspiracies afoot, and it's hardly such a thing. really it's just plain ole bureaucracy

New comment by joshlegs in "Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt"

joshlegs — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:41:18 +0000

also basically any 'balance transfer' option on pretty much every credit card ever.

New comment by joshlegs in "GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles"

joshlegs — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:42:47 +0000

> towing capacity

what? Electric vehicles are vastly superior in towing capacity. The Model X from tesla can TOW a boeing jet -- 230,000 pounds. Now that has some tradeoffs for range, i believe. but in terms of actual towing capacity, it's leaps and bounds ahead of any other vehicle capable of towing. if you'd said 'towing range', i might be willing to accept that.

range itself is also just not really a concern any more. 300+ miles of range on a single charge is more than enough for the vast majority of drivers.

winter performance is possibly somethign to worry about, but when you can charge overnight at your home, you can still leave every morning with a 'full tank', so it's also just not really a concern any more.

New comment by joshlegs in "Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?"

joshlegs — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:35:34 +0000

i have a tesla model 3 and i believe that multiple smaller sessions are better for the longevity of the battery. elon has said that 'a plugged in tesla is a happy tesla.'

you're also only supposed to charge to 80 or 90 percent charge unless youre going on a road trip, since charging to the absloute max (and conversely, discharging to near zero) is worse for the battery.

New comment by joshlegs in "Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye"

joshlegs — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:02:52 +0000

wait, i was literally just reading from something else posted on HN about the 'resurrection' of Linux Journal and how they were bought by some company and had a plan for not repeating their previous mistakes ......

i'm confused af at this point. Is it closed or not ???

New comment by joshlegs in "Let's Build a Video Card"

joshlegs — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:58:03 +0000

This video series singlehandedly inspired me to delve into hardware (i'm a software guy). It's INCREDIBLY well done, and easy to follow.

Fast forward to now, when I've blown several hundred dollars on electronics supplies lol. Plus Ben has a great voice to listen to, so there's also that.

New comment by joshlegs in "Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

joshlegs — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:06:30 +0000

36 yo here. I've found that it is incredibly easy to 'overthink' and therefore overengineer things, and I've seen a LOT of my coworkers fall into that trap. Analysis paralysis is real, and delivering something and then being able to iterate on it is a massive step in overcoming that. Way wayyyy too often I've seen people try to think of all the edge cases before starting work, and that's just not a viable approach to software development in today's world.

Also, disclaimer, I didnt actually read the article :o

New comment by joshlegs in "Dow plunges more than 950 points after China devalues its currency"

joshlegs — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:53:49 +0000

this also means that people in china cant afford products from the US, and China is a major consumer of goods, especially for large sectors of our agribusiness.

Also the fact that their yuan is worth less now is increasing uncertainty in the markets, and stocks dont like uncertainty, hence the sellof.