Hacker News: orbz

New comment by orbz in "Ask HN: How many times will this loop run on average?"

orbz — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:32:42 +0000

You’re calculating a random number every time the loop runs. If you want an average of 50 you should call random outside the loop and save the value to be compared each time.

New comment by orbz in "Ask HN: ChatGPT access on Mars given resources required and communication delay?"

orbz — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:18:21 +0000

Big LLMs can run on consumer hardware. It would likely take up less space and weight than getting a person to Mars so it could run locally. Or just eat the 10-40 minute round trip delay.

New comment by orbz in "Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?"

orbz — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:17:36 +0000

No need to get fancy, scp or rsync are the tried and true options here.

New comment by orbz in "3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public"

orbz — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:07:21 +0000

Wouldn’t this reduce the share price, effectively baking in the externality risk?

New comment by orbz in "Why Santa Claus Is Not a God"

orbz — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:15:05 +0000

Might not be a god, but he’s canonically the most powerful mutant in the marvel universe.

New comment by orbz in "23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration"

orbz — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 02:12:51 +0000

“… encourage a prompt resolution of any disputes and to streamline arbitration proceedings where multiple similar claims are filed“

Someone’s getting ready for some fallout from data leaks.

New comment by orbz in "Advice: Co-Founder Disagreements and Equity Challenges in a High-Valued Startup"

orbz — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:07:23 +0000

If you’re in good terms with the board ask for your options to be converted from ISO to NSO 10-year expiry in exchange for an amicable break/severance agreement.

New comment by orbz in "The Knight Capital Disaster"

orbz — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:27:02 +0000

I believe buf’s breaking change detection will pick up on this. It also allows you to specify a git ref to target.

https://buf.build/docs/reference/cli/buf/breaking#against

New comment by orbz in "Google Drive files suddenly disappeared"

orbz — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:02:09 +0000

It’s unlikely they’d cancel an account for a cancelled card. Probably the fastest approach would be to just cancel it and see where you get an “update your payment!” notice.

New comment by orbz in "Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? (November 2023)"

orbz — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 16:33:37 +0000

TLC -> TCL?

Also looks like you might be missing Rust.

New comment by orbz in "Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare: Password or a Dead Patient? (2015)"

orbz — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:30:52 +0000

In this case it’s less fraud and more the fact that it can take months or even years to undo a death certificate during which time one would experience undue hardship. Making it hard to sign is by design.

New comment by orbz in "[dead]"

orbz — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 02:10:40 +0000

I think minor grievance gets upgraded to major grievance when it’s a leader of the company no longer engaging with you, effectively turning you into a pariah and unable to do your work leading to termination.

New comment by orbz in "Boss gives you 3-4 hours to make a "new website" what do you do?"

orbz — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:29:05 +0000

1. Get domain and set up webflow site. Throw in a random template and give access to sales team to add whatever content they want.

2. Spend remaining 3 hours, 45 minutes rehearsing speech about how great it was to work with the sales team and how much you guys can achieve when you put your heads together.

3. Get promoted.

4. Next time a request comes in tell the new guy to throw together a site in 3-4 hours. Don’t worry about the results, they’ll learn.

5. Spend newly free time internally/externally blogging and being a ‘thought leader’

6. Get promoted.

7. Leverage new title to job hop to another company as an ML Engineer so I can learn what ML actually is.

New comment by orbz in "Ask HN: How do you "ping" a modern car keyfob?"

orbz — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:07:46 +0000

Absolutely something you can do with a SDR usb dongle: https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee26n/Assignments/Assignment5...

Realistically though just put an AirTag on your keychain and don’t worry about it. You’ll get the benefit of finding it anywhere like in a jacket you left at a coffee shop.

New comment by orbz in "Startup IDEA:- INVEST IN AI MODELS by tokenizing it and selling parts"

orbz — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 15:53:48 +0000

You’re going to have the same problem that ICO’s and existing AI models have: there’s no moat. It’s technically trivial to copy successful AI models/web3 projects.

New comment by orbz in "Copilot for Docs"

orbz — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:26:07 +0000

That’s an official GitHub website surprisingly.

New comment by orbz in "How one patient found errors in the algorithm making transplant decisions"

orbz — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:09:57 +0000

This feels unfair to say.

People with moral values don’t and shouldn’t avoid this kind of work to make sure that they care about accuracy, edge cases, that they continuously refine how they define utility and try to view it from a place of empathy.

Doctors and first responders make these calls often when they perform mass casualty triage, or when to declare someone’s death to enable collection of life saving organs.

New comment by orbz in "New Resilience – 24*7 Therapy with AI: Looking for feedback"

orbz — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:08:08 +0000

Normally I’m all for rapid validation of ideas, but this is one of the areas in which I think it is not a great idea.

Just because you are validating an idea does not absolve you from being properly licensed to provide mental healthcare. Be aware you are likely putting the therapist’s license in jeopardy, and as you are offering healthcare services you are likely still required to be HIPAA compliant. There are also possibly even further data protections you are expected to comply with given the likelihood you will have information on mental health, substance abuse and sexual history.

New comment by orbz in "Ask HN: How can startups find so many AI-skilled individuals?"

orbz — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 02:36:33 +0000

An insane number of engineers fake it til they make it. They do a 3 hour online class, boom, they’re an ML/DL/AI engineer. They fork AI related repositories so they seem to have street cred for it.

What everyone knows in the industry but doesn’t say out loud is that companies hire engineers who are interested in a technology and can be trained for it and engineers want to find roles in which they can train for new skills they don’t have yet.

New comment by orbz in "Why aren't SW developers working on more important problems?"

orbz — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 12:30:45 +0000

Also relevant: who’s paying, lobbying and actively working to make sure those problems don’t get solved because they’re quite happy with the economic status quo?