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New comment by loftyal in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

loftyal — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:58:15 +0000

Have you actually done a proper bulk/cut cycle? Gaining fat is normal when bulking, then you cut (lose the fat while maintaining the muscle).

Sky News investigated X's algorithm for political bias

loftyal — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:03:08 +0000

Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/how-sky-news-investigated-xs-algorithm-for-political-bias-13463916

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838209

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by loftyal in "Should JavaScript be split into two languages?"

loftyal — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 06:05:52 +0000

Did you read the article? The sugared JS would be a superset of the target JS. So you would only need to learn the sugared.

New comment by loftyal in "Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?"

loftyal — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:20:51 +0000

...and people criticise node's node_modules. At least you don't spend hours doing this

New comment by loftyal in "No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data"

loftyal — Fri, 10 May 2024 09:25:25 +0000

So were the developments before the last AI winter..

New comment by loftyal in "Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?"

loftyal — Wed, 08 May 2024 08:51:03 +0000

Wait until you see China. There are multiple cities bigger than NYC or London that most people have never heard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...

The Sam Altman Playbook: Fear, the Denial of Uncertainties, and Hype

loftyal — Sun, 05 May 2024 23:11:54 +0000

Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-sam-altman-playbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40269480

Points: 98

# Comments: 73

DeepMind’s AI predicts almost when and where it’s going to rain

loftyal — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:36:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/29/1036331/deepminds-ai-predicts-almost-exactly-when-and-where-its-going-to-rain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704561

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by loftyal in "My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit"

loftyal — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:23:16 +0000

Not everyone here is American, "they" is more ambigous in the UK and Australia.

New comment by loftyal in "Ask HN: How Do You Learn?"

loftyal — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:21:18 +0000

^ This is the real answer that actually reliability works

New comment by loftyal in "Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate"

loftyal — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 08:30:26 +0000

They're trying to buy enough time to get enough people vaccinated before they "let it rip". Delta has an extremely high R value and will come back in force. This way we eliminate many more unnecessary deaths. Not hard to understand.

New comment by loftyal in "Media trust hits new low"

loftyal — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:22:46 +0000

Let's be honest, the media is just giving the people what they want, people subconsciously want bias news, its not pleasent to read news that disagrees with your own views. Why do you think facebook modified their algorithms for this? This applies to both on the left and the right politically.

New comment by loftyal in "Extreme Ironing"

loftyal — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:16:29 +0000

I can't think of a witty response. I fold.

New comment by loftyal in "If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?"

loftyal — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:30:49 +0000

Grinding leetcode != software engineering. That is my entire point, not sure why you're confused.

New comment by loftyal in "Burning out and quitting"

loftyal — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:17:05 +0000

I'm in London, can you name these companies? I'm earning 150k GBP a year at the moment (average senior/lead as I understand is about 80 or 90?), and have interviewed at a bunch of other companies with the same level. Interviews I get are all about experience, and coding problems that are related to software engineering and not computer science.

New comment by loftyal in "If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?"

loftyal — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:56:52 +0000

This is definitely not true. I've been contracting for 6 years in London, and am currently in an inside IR35 role, and have quite a few friends in the same space but in frontend/devops and its all the same. The differnce is atleast 2x for senior/lead engineers in golang or python.

New comment by loftyal in "If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?"

loftyal — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:49:30 +0000

While I agree with you that theres a few like that, you have forgotten about the candidates that genuinely don't want to spend their spare time grinding leetcode.

I worked at facebook, when I started looking for a new job, I had to start grinding leetcode again to prepare for a new job. Take a step back and realise how ridiculous this is.

Big companies that have prestiege and pay alot of money use it to eliminate false positives, not to actually recognise true positives. If your at a big company that can afford to throw away many true postives, sure use leetcode, but the rest are hurting themselfs by blinding following the mantra of FANG.

New comment by loftyal in "If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?"

loftyal — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:28:33 +0000

Isn't contract work looked down upon in the US? Here in the UK, its the opposite, contractors make atleast 2x the money, and most wouldn't dream of going back to salary position because no company wants to pay that for a permanent employee (apart from american companies and qaunt finance with nice bonuses)

New comment by loftyal in "Burning out and quitting"

loftyal — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:05:55 +0000

Isn't it pretty much everywhere doesn't require leetcode, except the US?

UK, Aus, and NZ definitely don't unless its with some American company.

New comment by loftyal in "My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs"

loftyal — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 07:40:54 +0000

This. I have a 4 year old MBP with a screen issue that's obviously not my fault. Apple refuses to fix it.