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New comment by salberts in "Elevators"

salberts — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:21:17 +0000

Our elevator (4 cars) displays above each car the planned stops and can change mid-wait the car<>floor allocation and issue sound indication. I’d expect it to be allow optimal allocation.

New comment by salberts in "Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks"

salberts — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:31:33 +0000

Read the preface.

1. It sounds like this book can be summarized in a practical blog post or a series of posts

2. Is using the term crisis so many times really necessary?

How do you manage remote dev workstations in the cloud?

salberts — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:48:27 +0000

We try to balance cloud spend vs developer efficiency in our team. From time to time devs needs stronger instances (CPU/GPU/RAM/extra machine, etc) with their dev environment ready. However, the transitioning is cumbersome, although we added some scripts and automation. Machines tend to be idle a big portion of the time. Are there good solution to reduce devops burden from the devs while reducing wasted resources?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42527177

Points: 1

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Job interview home assignments in LLM era?

salberts — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:39:27 +0000

I’ve been using home coding assignments to assess candidates for SW and ML positions. I use custom assignments that mainly test candidate ability to come up with solutions and and write good software to implement them. As LLMs are everywhere it becomes very easy to come up with ideas, write code, improve code, etc. Personally I see it as a powerful tool to supercharge develop abilities. But as for skills assessment it is unclear to me how to cope with it. Ban? Allow?

WDYT?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34615355

Points: 4

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New comment by salberts in "Vitamin D supplementation reduces autoimmune disease risk in trial findings"

salberts — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:01:27 +0000

Interesting, however statistical significance seems borderline at best

Monday.com completes IPO at $6.8B valuation

salberts — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 02:17:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/monday.com-ipo%3A-what-you-need-to-know-2021-06-08

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468617

Points: 2

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Adasky – This new solid-state thermal vision sensor could improve self-driving

salberts — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 13:56:16 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/this-new-solid-state-thermal-vision-sensor-could-improve-self-driving-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15218495

Points: 2

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New comment by salberts in "Google Acquires Odysee"

salberts — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 21:44:30 +0000

It could be a good solution but for me the overhead is too high and it lacks many of the benefits of having the data in the cloud. + what happens when there is a disaster, the insurance doesn't cover lost memories.

Specifically about Google, I agree that Google+ Photos (or however this is called) is a strange beast. But it shares storage with Google Drive and in fact Google Drive photos are accessible from Photos. So I use only Google Drive folders for backup. I also believe that in case Google (or any other company of that scale) chooses to shut down a major service it will give a fair notice (don't forget it has business users as well). As for Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, Box, MS... it seems like a core product.

New comment by salberts in "Google Acquires Odysee"

salberts — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:21:56 +0000

When I considered starting my own company in the photo sharing/storage I did some research of the field. Ignoring the my business related conclusions, there is one thing I learned as a consumer:

-- You shouldn't trust your photos with these companies --

People store photos to last for long long time while most of these companies' lifespan is much shorter. The best outcome would be spending time, money and nerves on porting data from place to place.

I hate saying this but I'd go with established companies that either have a sustainable business model around photos/storage (Amazon, Dropbox, Apple) or have deep enough pockets to make up for it (Microsoft, Google). I probably forgot some but you get the idea.

You phone is soaked with water, now what?

salberts — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:46:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.printy.pics/#!Your-iPhone-is-soaked-in-water-Now-what/c16sc/737C7493-7F2A-478A-9458-7AC1F0702BB7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8751514

Points: 2

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New comment by salberts in "Show HN: Printify.io – No-hassle canvas prints and posters"

salberts — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:51:20 +0000

There are many APIs out there. To name a few: CanvasPop, QuickPrints by Walgreens, Kodak Alaris, Print.io, Pwinty, Printzel and others.

New comment by salberts in "Show HN: Printify.io – No-hassle canvas prints and posters"

salberts — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:47:04 +0000

I agree, one of the most important factors in buying customized products is getting a feeling of what you're getting. This way the user is more likely to make the purchase and even more likely to be satisfied with the product once it's delivered.

New comment by salberts in "Show HN: Printify.io – No-hassle canvas prints and posters"

salberts — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:42:05 +0000

I'm in the field myself (see profile) and although the website looks nice I don't see how it's different than any of the existing services.

Here are my $0.02:

1. PRICE - The prices are way too high. Especially given that all established print services offer huge discounts these days. Even our Printy.pics iOS app offers lower prices + 40% discount.

2. Registration - I would prefer to register when I need to (before payment) and not when I'm asked to. The common practice for most web print apps is to allow product creation and require registration (if at all) on checkout. I guess you should do some A/B testing to see which approach maximizes LTV.

3. Why .io?

On a general note, it is very hard to compare print products. There can be huge quality differences and for someone who isn't an expert in the domain it would be hard to tell if the price is worth it.

Google Inbox “happy” hour

salberts — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 06:46:19 +0000

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

     inbox@google.com

Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain google.com by aspmx.l.google.com. [2a00:1450:4010:c08::1b].

The error that the other server returned was: 550-5.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that 550-5.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered. For more 550-5.2.1 information, please visit 550 5.2.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6592 j9si8791583lab.13 - gsmtp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566043

Points: 2

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New comment by salberts in "The evidence that shows Iron Dome is not working"

salberts — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:40:13 +0000

Why on earth would they do that? If you can launch 9 dummy rockets and 1 real or 10 juts real rockets, wouldn't you just launch real rockets?!

The effort and risk involved in launching any kind of rocket is about the same...

New comment by salberts in "Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)"

salberts — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:45:52 +0000

It's great to see how photo storage solutions get faster, prettier and cheaper. Now it's time to make them smarter. Most people I know feel swamped with photos as there are no decent tools to clear this photo-mess.

New comment by salberts in "Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)"

salberts — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:39:33 +0000

100%. Photos are here to stay while most startups are not. As much as I hate saying it,being a start-up founder myself, I'd go for Google, Yahoo, Amazon or a more backup-oriented startup.

Google+ Photos update: Finally a decent way to take control of your photos

salberts — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:24:29 +0000

Article URL: http://www.androidheadlines.com/2013/10/google-gets-new-photo-search-backup-options.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640008

Points: 1

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New comment by salberts in "The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery"

salberts — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:34:04 +0000

The gallery layout can be seen in G+ for a while now. But the ambient effect in full-screen mode is awesome!