Hacker News: tacosbane

New comment by tacosbane in "Top Problems with LLM App Development"

tacosbane — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:34:33 +0000

1. the model's responses are unreliable 2. to make them reliable, you have to tell the model the answer 3. even though you now have a process to figure out the answer, you still have to use the model because the VP wants you to

New comment by tacosbane in "Covid has broken the social contract between parents and schools"

tacosbane — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 01:59:09 +0000

teachers, as a class, loudly declared they aren't essential workers.

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: Why have real wages been stagnant for most Americans?"

tacosbane — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:26:31 +0000

not getting into specifics (because i'm not an expert), but these conversations usually lack any discussion of individual vs. group. e.g., the 10th decile of wages may stay the same, but the people who were in the 10th decile 30 years ago are not the people in the 10th decile now. i think it's safe to say that many people (not all) start and end their careers at very different quantiles in the distribution.

edited: "most people" may have been too strong.

New comment by tacosbane in "CEO Claims About Office Productivity Seem Backed Up by Data"

tacosbane — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:18:07 +0000

yes, there are absolutely no confounding variables to productivity during a global pandemic

New comment by tacosbane in "Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him (2016)"

tacosbane — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:05:11 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13028522

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: What Happened to TensorFlow Swift?"

tacosbane — Sat, 27 May 2023 20:00:11 +0000

lattner left google and was the primary reason they chose swift, so they lost interest.

if you're asking from an ML perspective, i believe the original motivation was to incorporate automatic differentiation in the swift compiler. enzyme would be the spiritual successor to that.

https://github.com/EnzymeAD/Enzyme

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: How does Apple Offer 4.15% APY?"

tacosbane — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:19:40 +0000

they don't, it's a branded account. wealthfront's cash management account currently pays 4.3% up to 3m.

New comment by tacosbane in "$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot Market"

tacosbane — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:31:59 +0000

Revealing that associating anything AI with money inflates the bubble. This translates to "we need to hire a $335k employee to figure out how to use our product."

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: Was tech always so scammy?"

tacosbane — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:54:06 +0000

I'm not old enough to remember pre-2009 well enough to comment, but since then, yes, it's been scammy.

The SV/SFBay idea of success is what the rest of us would call a pump and dump: burn a bunch of money to drive existing enterprises in the rest out of the country out of business; while providing at best marginal, and usually no, product benefit to consumers; and dumping the money losing venture on institutional and retail investors.

That's success. "Exiting." Not building something new, valuable, or sustainable.

"Oh, but wait, there are sustainable businesses," you might say. With few exceptions, they are advertising companies. Advertising is a fixed pool drawn from the real economy; all they've done is divert it from existing businesses.

Just make sure to pretend you're changing the world.

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: What is your view on MBA product managers?"

tacosbane — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:16:51 +0000

the point of an mba is to be able to insert yourself between the money and the work and take a cut

Ask HN: Adversarial AI for Job Applications

tacosbane — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:16:47 +0000

Is there an adversarial model for resume screeners?

I'm pretty tired of trying to figure out whatever the correct number of keywords is, or what the trendy buzzwords are. I imagine this as like a triplet loss problem for JDs, resumes, and screening passes.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35189586

Points: 1

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New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: Disk-backed NumPy for data analysis?"

tacosbane — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 01:57:35 +0000

you didn't provide any hints why it wouldn't work for you, so i recommend you look at scikit-learn's neighbors module (i.e., construct NearestNeighbors object and query it).

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/neighbors.html#unsup...

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: What is going on in the ad-tech market?"

tacosbane — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:18:18 +0000

ads are essentially noise. some high-nines number of ads have no effect. to counteract this, demand-side providers came up with ways to fake an effect to look valuable. they then discovered clients couldn't tell the difference between real or fake, or didn't care because the clients also want to say their ads worked. then the race to the bottom began: buy the absolute minimum quality for as little as you possibly can. that put pressure on the supply side because their revenues fell.

examples of faking: - the search "companyname" takes credit for "companyname.com" - "we promise we didn't show you the one positive result from running 1000 tests"

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: How to Deal with ChatGPT Anxiety?"

tacosbane — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 03:18:50 +0000

correctness and verification are not close to being solved. it's feasible that AI will increase individual developer productivity and narrow the field. it's also possible, and probably more likely, that increased productivity and capability will just increase the complexity of software; that may be good (more interesting problems and broader real-world applications) or bad (overengineered monstrosities).

New comment by tacosbane in "Why didn't you buy a Tesla?"

tacosbane — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 02:00:10 +0000

they are glued together in a tent, and feel like it

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: Is There a Comments-Only Hacker News RSS Feed?"

tacosbane — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:07:12 +0000

https://hnrss.github.io/

New comment by tacosbane in "AI builds SQL queries for you in seconds"

tacosbane — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:01:11 +0000

`users and their posts, comments, travels` generates an inner combinatorial explosion

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: Upskilling as a Data Engineer"

tacosbane — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 14:48:52 +0000

Learn SQL in depth, not just select and join. I'm tired of writing SQL for DE.

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN:Hey HN what are your favourite RSS feeds?"

tacosbane — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 14:46:26 +0000

https://hnrss.org/newest?count=100&points=2

New comment by tacosbane in "Ask HN: How to get better at writing?"

tacosbane — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:26:19 +0000

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite.