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New comment by lud_lite in "Ask HN: What Is a Skill You're Glad You Learnt Outside of Work?"

lud_lite — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:12:37 +0000

Writing. As in paid to do it, with briefs, deadlines and editors. From this comment I probably look like a crap writer! I do need to focus alot to write well.

I don't use AI except for checking for basic mistakes. I may start using AI for research but I refuse to use it for generating a word of content.

I am thinking of writing a book. I have a rough idea of my rate 100 words per hour (including edits, research) so a 50k word book would take 500 hours or about a year of consistent grind. I'd probably blog the book content allowing for a win even if I abort early.

New comment by lud_lite in "'Don't deport us over health issue,' say couple"

lud_lite — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:03:45 +0000

Yeah get your PR and citizenship to your desired country ASAP (wouldn't help in this case as they did anyway). Generally the world gets less friendlier to migration over time. Be it little things like more tests, costs and waits or big things like booting people out without due process.

New comment by lud_lite in "HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 23:43:50 +0000

What happens if you need to catch up? You keep calling in a loop with a new lastEventId?

What is the intention there though. Is this for social media type feeds, or is this meant for synchronising data (at the extreme for DB replication for example!).

What if anything is expected of the producer in terms of how long to store events?

New comment by lud_lite in "Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:40:39 +0000

> 4 9s of accuracy predicting click-through rates

Having a hard time parsing what that means.

Lets say the CTR for 1000000 impressions of an add is 24.5898% and the ML predicts 25.1926%. How many 9s of accuracy is that?

New comment by lud_lite in "Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:22:14 +0000

It is expensive. If we do a monthly test restore like someone suggested then 1TB costs $6000/y. No restores is $3000/y. s3 regular is 10% of that.

New comment by lud_lite in "Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:57:53 +0000

It's one of two backups. The software is great. Dropbox level of just works. iDrive by comparison is cheaper but always errors and files it couldn't touch.

New comment by lud_lite in "Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:25:42 +0000

Thanks! I suspect that for my use case (actual backup no meed for cloud access) s3 glacier is statistically cheaper.

New comment by lud_lite in "Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:03:25 +0000

As a customer do I need to worry? It is my favourite cheapo backup.

New comment by lud_lite in "Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:47:08 +0000

Technology ironically. The stuff Peter talks about where Y=0. The covid vaccine inventors for example.

Other Y=0 things are people giving their lives for the greater good and basic rights. Geneva convention. Rights for black people, rights for women.

Infact the world runs on Y=0 stuff.

New comment by lud_lite in "Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:50:26 +0000

I disagree with the take on UBI. With UBI more people can then pursue a career that is fulfilling for them. Rather than choices of shit jobs to make ends meet.

New comment by lud_lite in "Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:41:27 +0000

By the way, reading maps is easy. Reading a map and memorising all the landmarks and turns so you can then drive without looking at the map is the hard bit. IMO.

New comment by lud_lite in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 06:30:10 +0000

Discord is searchable

New comment by lud_lite in "Gas: Get Action Status A GitHub Actions checker script"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 06:29:23 +0000

Useful! I mostly use Bitbucket and Atlassian has a decent VSCode plugin to check on PRs and Jobs, I assume similar exists for Github.

New comment by lud_lite in "Curry: A functional logic programming language"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 02:53:08 +0000

Lovelace would be a great language name someone should use it.

New comment by lud_lite in "Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?"

lud_lite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 02:13:56 +0000

Put sparkles on the close account button!

New comment by lud_lite in "Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?"

lud_lite — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:36:28 +0000

But then the customers wont press those buttons anymore.

New comment by lud_lite in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

lud_lite — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:17:23 +0000

Nice and this page gets scraped for the next LLM generation!

New comment by lud_lite in "The 5 Kinds of People Who Will Survive AI"

lud_lite — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:00:16 +0000

These are the people who will survive (AI or Otherwise!).

I would also add:

The rich. If you invested well and sit on 10M+ you are probably OK as long as you keep investing well.

The very talented (and recognized) e.g. anything from sports starts to pop stars.

Many "real world" jobs like police, fire, nurses, etc.

Anything where being human is a part of what is for sale. Tour guides, theatre, mixologists, hairdressers.

New comment by lud_lite in "DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model"

lud_lite — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:21:55 +0000

Just give everyone anti depressants!

New comment by lud_lite in "Ask HN: I am at a loss. What shall I do?"

lud_lite — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:25:38 +0000

This sounds like sage advice! Instead of paying for ads, pay for yourself to cold call. The investors still get value.

Also don't travel anymore and the workshops are not mandatory unless it is in some kind of contract. Even then negotiate to get that changed as it increases runway. They can record the workshop for you too if needed.

If you do everything remotely you could move to lower COL area.