Hacker News: sebgr

New comment by sebgr in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

sebgr — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:11:37 +0000

this makes sense, in 2018-2022, I would get tons of emails from recruiters at meta, doordash, snap, stripe etc now I barely see any (maybe they've given up )

My friends who are still at Google also say that most job postings will end up going to someone internally - in fact people say they don't do that many external interviews anymore.

Finally the interview cycle seems to take a lot longer than I remember with quite a few added rounds.

New comment by sebgr in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

sebgr — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:51:48 +0000

the sponsored results looks like you are in an ads experiment since this really isn't how it typically displays

New comment by sebgr in "Adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia on the Tibetan Plateau"

sebgr — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:14:21 +0000

Everytime I see the word delve in an article I can't help but assume it was written by an LLM which this probably was?

New comment by sebgr in "Claude 2.1"

sebgr — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:49:37 +0000

For coding it is still 10x worse than gpt4. I asked it to write a simple database sync function and it gives me tons of pseudocode like `//sync object with best practices`. When I ask it to give me real code it forgets tons of key aspects.

New comment by sebgr in "11.8M CHF for clinical trials of novel arthritis repair"

sebgr — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:38:56 +0000

In case this is useful - I had end stage arthritis in one of my ankles and ended up getting a bipolar ankle allograft in San Diego at Scripps. I barely think about it nowadays except that sometimes after a long hike or strenuous workout it will feel a bit stuff. Considering I could barely walk before it was a night and day difference.

You essentially get a completely new joint surface from a donor and have to be in crutches for 3 months but it was 100% worth it for me. I refused to do fusion and avoided any doctor that said nothing could be done.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31045670/

Another solution for end stage ankle arthritis is distraction surgery but I didn't look into it much but it could be useful too: https://www.hss.edu/conditions_ankle-distraction-arthroplast...

What's the Difference Between Being Rich and Being Wealthy?

sebgr — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 06:11:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-you-know-the-difference-between-being-rich-and-being-wealthy-11596808802

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24089486

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sebgr in "Things Unexpectedly Named After People"

sebgr — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:22:54 +0000

America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who was pretty sure America was a separate continent - pretty random !

https://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/aug03/america.html

ICOs and Economics of Lemon Markets

sebgr — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:52:56 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@avtarsehra/icos-and-economics-of-lemon-markets-96638e86b3b2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15102900

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by sebgr in "Switzerland government raises investment funds to support Swiss startups"

sebgr — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 10:15:40 +0000

I can confirm. Just moved from Zurich to San Francisco. Pretty much everything except rent is cheaper in San Francisco (food can be up to half price of what I paid in Zurich) but rent being such a major expense, it ends up being similar. Salaries are a bit higher in Switzerland though so one would save more on average there.

Yahoo to Change Name to Altaba

sebgr — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 23:20:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-sale-marissa-mayer-to-leave-yahoo-board-yahoo-to-change-name-to-altaba-1484002787

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13360852

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by sebgr in "Swiss endorse new surveillance powers"

sebgr — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:50:42 +0000

Only some cantons require voting on citizenship, the others have a more formal process.

The Unicorn Hedge

sebgr — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:06:41 +0000

Article URL: https://500hats.com/welcome-to-the-unicorn-hedge-2fd3c6b50f89#.sxnkxvkx0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12353980

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Facebook Messenger reaches 1B MAU

sebgr — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:05:31 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/07/thank-you-messenger/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12136889

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sebgr in "Brexit: Berlin eyes Britain’s tech talent"

sebgr — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:07:48 +0000

They democratically elected to basically jump off a cliff so you can't blame the media for having the time of it's life.

And referendums aren't always a good idea, prop 8 in CA was overturned because we eventually realised its a bad idea.

Twitter Buys Magic Pony Technology for $150m

sebgr — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:56:53 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/20/twitter-is-buying-magic-pony-technology-which-uses-neural-networks-to-improve-images/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938026

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

KPCB 2016 Internet Trends Report

sebgr — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:59:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.kpcb.com/blog/2016-internet-trends-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11816664

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sebgr in "Why the Media Fixation on “Transit Is Failing” Stories?"

sebgr — Sun, 08 May 2016 19:04:52 +0000

This is very much an American thing to hate public transport though. Places in Europe, especially Switzerland for example, have much better infrastructure and taking a car can be a pain compared to a train which is faster and a lot more comfortable.

Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing

sebgr — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 19:14:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/january/jobs-involving-routine-tasks-arent-growing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11299928

Points: 133

# Comments: 111

Election Betting Odds

sebgr — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:16:02 +0000

Article URL: https://electionbettingodds.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11194600

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Indonesia bans gay emoji and stickers from messaging apps

sebgr — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:02:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/indonesia-bans-gay-emoji-and-stickers-from-messaging-apps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085871

Points: 2

# Comments: 0