Hacker News: phenkdo

New comment by phenkdo in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

phenkdo — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:25:39 +0000

I have had an RFE for my Eb5 I -829 petition and my attorney submitted my RFE 3+ months ago but haven't heard anything back. Is it true that USCIS responds to RFE within 3 months or have you seen delays in RFE processing in Eb5 cases?

New comment by phenkdo in "Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT"

phenkdo — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:00:46 +0000

Stackoverflow should build a GPT style interface into its considerable knowledge-base, and if an answer is not found in existing data, pose it to the forum.

New comment by phenkdo in "Paid Search Engines Are Dead on Arrival"

phenkdo — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:12:24 +0000

we need a paradigm shift away from search, just as google engineered a shift away from portals in the late 90s. idk what form that would take but I suspect some kid in a garage is going to come up with something...

New comment by phenkdo in "The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)"

phenkdo — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:38:50 +0000

>> I'm a business owner myself

>Ah, there you go.

Ah, there you go to you as well.

New comment by phenkdo in "The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)"

phenkdo — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:57:39 +0000

>There NO labor shortage when many big companies belong to billionaires that get wealthier every day (even during Covid).Those companies obviously CAN pay more. The owners are not going to sleep under a bridge anytime soon.

It's this manichaean view - business bad, me good - that's the crux of the issue. You assume every business is a FAANG and sitting on piles of cash. Most businesses (50-60%?) - even in tech - are small biz and biz owners are in the same boat. Very very few companies even come close to the level of your straw-man.

And you are very wrong with the (rather comical) assumption business-owners are scrooge mcducks sitting on piles of cash. In tech, programmer salaries are hyper-inflated (compared to most other professions) and already out of reach of many SMEs and we are scraping the bottom-of-the-barrel for talent. I'm a business owner myself and I have seen this first-hand, so don't tell me there's no labor shortage.

New comment by phenkdo in "The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)"

phenkdo — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 11:23:10 +0000

Absolutely! The "no shortage if you pay enough" slogan is a double-edged sword.

- Is there a housing shortage if you pay enough? or

- is there a health-care shortage if you pay enough?

: : on & on.

New comment by phenkdo in "Show HN: PostgresML, now with analytics and project management"

phenkdo — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:21:43 +0000

Can this be used to deploy an "active learning" model that learns from fresh data and model auto-updates?

New comment by phenkdo in "Am I the only person who can’t get a job?"

phenkdo — Mon, 02 May 2022 17:00:03 +0000

>Also, you posted your Linkedin. We know where you work. And you just publicly called them "shitty." If I were your boss I'd fire you. And if I were a potential boss I'd never hire someone who did that.

I think it's a bit harsh on the OP. This is an ex-work network and we are all allowed to vent. Having said that, however I feel the OPs frustration is probably unwarranted, the market is as seller-friendly as I have ever seen ( and I have been doing this for more than 2 decades).

I don't have a simple answer for you OP, other than to keep pushing and networking. It's just a matter of time...if you are determined enough.

New comment by phenkdo in "Tesla Accused of Cutting Corner That Makes Level 3 Self-Driving Impossible"

phenkdo — Sun, 01 May 2022 21:01:57 +0000

The non-sinner line starts over there, and goes round the block.

New comment by phenkdo in "Ask HN: What is this mental technique called?"

phenkdo — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:38:22 +0000

I think you are referring to Eckhart Tolle's mindfulness. I have one of his quotes that I have clipped into my notes as:

“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.” -Eckhart Tolle

HTH.

New comment by phenkdo in "A gentle introduction to vector databases"

phenkdo — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:46:09 +0000

For us the winning feature for qdrant it has the concept of both positive and negative query vectors. Overall they are both very good! It's a matter of individual preference.

Ask HN: Russian and Ukrainians living in the west, how have you gotten along?

phenkdo — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:44:01 +0000

I've worked and work with several Russian & Ukrainian immigrants to US/Canada. In the past, from what I could see, there was bonhomie. Also from an outsider's perspective, they were indistinguishable.

How are you Russian/Ukrainian Americans/Canadians/Britons/Germans getting along in these parlous times? For obvious reasons, I cannot directly ask my work colleagues.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470621

Points: 9

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New comment by phenkdo in "The future is fungi"

phenkdo — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 14:20:19 +0000

fungible programming, FTFY.

New comment by phenkdo in "A gentle introduction to vector databases"

phenkdo — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:20:18 +0000

Nice writeup. Have you looked at qdrant [1] for your comparison? I found it better than Milvus.

[1] https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant

New comment by phenkdo in "Ask HN: How do you produce product/feature demo videos?"

phenkdo — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:42:37 +0000

loom.com

New comment by phenkdo in "Ask HN: What would make a next-gen search engine?"

phenkdo — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 02:17:58 +0000

https://commoncrawl.org/ might be a good place to start.

New comment by phenkdo in "Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much"

phenkdo — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:00:00 +0000

IMO #2 takes the cake (rest is all icing)

Ask HN: Why isn't Seattle(WA) more popular destination for California exiteers?

phenkdo — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:10:16 +0000

The conversation is almost all Austin (TX) and a lesser extent Miami (FL). Why isn't Seattle a more popular destination?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28904583

Points: 1

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New comment by phenkdo in "What the Irish Ate Before Potatoes"

phenkdo — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 12:11:17 +0000

Honest question, not meaning to be offensive or hurtful at all. I know how raw the wounds of the famine are etc.

How do historians objectively - provided there is one - view the British empire's involvement in Ireland over much of the last millennium? Was it particularly repressive vis-a-vis other medieval empires in their dominions/spheres of influence?

New comment by phenkdo in "Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning"

phenkdo — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:20:13 +0000

How Is ML being used to generate more randomness in the PRNGs? Wouldn't the opposite be a more interesting research idea?