Hacker News: posharma

New comment by posharma in "What are transformer models and how do they work?"

posharma — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 02:30:28 +0000

I found the blogs written by Jay Alammar to be much more informative and complete. It appears that companies are rehashing and compressing the same content to advertise their products.

New comment by posharma in "Substack Notes Launched"

posharma — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:23:00 +0000

May be I'm old, but I love long form content and twitter took that away. People write long tweet threads instead of thinking things through and writing it in long form. This gives rise to tons of twitter thread collapsing tools/startups that push the concatenation of these tweets to Notion or whatever. This seems utterly silly to me. It almost looks like tech for the sake of tech. It's unfortunate that substack is going in the same direction. Are there no better problems to solve using tech?

New comment by posharma in "Block loses 20% of value as Hindenburg Research alleges fraud"

posharma — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:21:30 +0000

That doesn’t make him a good, responsible CEO.

New comment by posharma in "Block loses 20% of value as Hindenburg Research alleges fraud"

posharma — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:50:25 +0000

I know this is going to be controversial, but I think it has to be said. Jack ruined Twitter first [1] (by over-hiring and then selling it to Elon) and now it's Block's turn. He still made billions, while thousands got laid off and are still suffering under Elon's questionable so called leadership. Are these the entrepreneurs we should be looking up to? The tech industry is already facing the brunt because of the mistakes CEOs have done by "miscalculating" or "misjudging" the macroeconomic conditions; the same CEOs are enjoying their billions.

[1] https://twitter.com/jack/status/1588913276980633600

Ask HN: Best way to learn Rust for an experienced C++ dev

posharma — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:09:47 +0000

I'm an experienced C++ dev (10+ yrs). What's the best way to learn Rust? Books? Projects?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35213599

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by posharma in "A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview"

posharma — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 23:38:01 +0000

And they pay well like FAANG? Examples?

New comment by posharma in "A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview"

posharma — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:48:54 +0000

I don't know if you work in FAANG or no, but most FAANG interviews just don't work this way. So, as much as I like this style, it's just 1 company and definitely not the norm. The rest of us are stuck with design Uber, Whatsapp, crap...

New comment by posharma in "Generic dynamic array in 60 lines of C"

posharma — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:18:01 +0000

Seriously, in this day and age, why are we still stuck with C? There are battle tested container libraries in C++ for e.g.

New comment by posharma in "Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit"

posharma — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:53:46 +0000

I don't think it attempts to. There are always more than one way to learn the same thing.

New comment by posharma in "Another Round of Layoffs at Meta"

posharma — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 07:50:08 +0000

How credible is this news source?

New comment by posharma in "Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing"

posharma — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:51:25 +0000

Hahha. Sure.

New comment by posharma in "Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing"

posharma — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:36:05 +0000

There were a lot of other good things going that masked these. The recent "PR botch ups" are creating more damage. The most famous e.g. is reacting to ChatGPT's hype and rushing to do a demo and then messing it up. It wasn't so much messing up the demo that caught they eye; it was how Google rushed/reacted to do it esp. when Google is considered to be at the forefront of AI. Again, optics. Besides Sundar hasn't come out with anything impressive in the last few years. It's ok to just keep the lights on, but at least don't create bad optics.

New comment by posharma in "Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing"

posharma — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:11:07 +0000

Internally Google might be just fine, but optics are equally important in this industry. Before Sundar took over Google never went through bad PR. It's just an observation, not a dig at Google's affairs.

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit

posharma — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 02:21:53 +0000

Article URL: http://book.mixu.net/distsys/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34905912

Points: 71

# Comments: 2

New comment by posharma in "Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you"

posharma — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 07:37:40 +0000

The author says meditation is the solution and describes the effects it had on him. However, I didn't quite get the why (even if I ignore the how) - why did it work for him and will it work the same way for others? Besides, meditation itself is a habit and one that is the easiest to ignore as it doesn't bring immediate benefits (lacks instant gratification). This was great writing but for me it lacked the scientific rigor. It's great that it worked for the author. Kudos for that!

New comment by posharma in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down"

posharma — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 22:49:56 +0000

Care to elaborate how I violated the HN guidelines?

New comment by posharma in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down"

posharma — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:03:51 +0000

* There's absolutely nothing we could do to influence YouTube's leadership changes. * There's very little you can do to influence changes in the product YouTube as well. * There's very little we know about the internals of upper C-level leadership changes.

Speculating is an utter waste of time. I don't see a point. For me this news was just another passable piece of information. Meh! Definitely not HN front-page worthy.

New comment by posharma in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down"

posharma — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:44:28 +0000

Curious why this is important enough to be on the front page. Even as a techie I don't find this news interesting, at least not HN front-page worthy. (Instead of down voting it would be nice to hear what others think as valid reasons). How does this affect our day-day lives?

New comment by posharma in "SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (2021)"

posharma — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:54:16 +0000

I love sqlite but can't hold myself from saying: another day, another sqlite post on HN :-)

New comment by posharma in "Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave"

posharma — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:44:38 +0000

I'm not talking about promotions particularly.