Hacker News: tl_donson

New comment by tl_donson in "Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them"

tl_donson — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 21:21:24 +0000

400 μg per dose is still probably overestimating by quite a bit.

New comment by tl_donson in "Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buyers Leave"

tl_donson — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:14:11 +0000

same. i also did this with twitter when elon took over. i haven’t been tempted at all to log in to either despite spending probably the majority of my time online between the two for years. and it’s weirdly fine.

New comment by tl_donson in "CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library"

tl_donson — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 03:07:12 +0000

this one use case justified copilot as an expense for me.

New comment by tl_donson in "Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls"

tl_donson — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:39:19 +0000

so, 2 related questions for people with product experience on something with this sort of scale and potential downsides.

- would this not be one of the best examples of when to use small, incremental canary releases with the emergency feature enabled?

- if you did do a canary release, i would think that one of your first contacts be EMS in the area that you were planning on rolling out the feature to, so that you’d get good feedback directly rather than through news reports. do apple and google just not do this?

New comment by tl_donson in "Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering"

tl_donson — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:01:05 +0000

there’s a logitech bluetooth silent mouse i really like and would carry it on my laptop at work from meeting room to meeting room. i had 3 in 2 years, dropped each once, they were all broken on the first fall.

kinda wish they were able to withstand falls onto hard surfaces but it’s also a) my fault, and b) not an expectation i have of a mouse in general.

but it’s also a good reason to not just take any consumer device onto a sub, because functioning after a drop would absolutely be a requirement.

New comment by tl_donson in "Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in the past week"

tl_donson — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 01:12:43 +0000

who leases a lambo

New comment by tl_donson in "Ask HN: What do you use to communicate data analysis?"

tl_donson — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:49:13 +0000

entirely depends on the requirements. however having said that, if your customer requests a quick one-off report you can guarantee they’ll ping you in a month asking for an update by 930am when they need to present updated results. if your customer requests a real time dashboard that requires bespoke data integrations there’s about a 50% chance they’ll look at it a couple times per month and then after a couple quarters just stop using it entirely.

New comment by tl_donson in "Books recommended by profitable founders"

tl_donson — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:35:38 +0000

if everyone read more books, took career development seriously, etc i do agree that some qualities or skills would lose a bit of market value, but the overall take that no one would be better off seems like way too much if a zero sum perspective.

i think a higher standard of professional competency in general would benefit everyone, and i can’t imagine some sort of equilibrium of skillsets in the labour market where there would be no opportunity to set yourself apart in your field.

New comment by tl_donson in "Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency"

tl_donson — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:01:25 +0000

it’s really just an observation about what the market conditions are for a specialised technical position compared to a general project/program manager. i have nothing against my manager specifically or managers in general.

New comment by tl_donson in "Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency"

tl_donson — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 12:54:13 +0000

if i found out i made less than my manager i’d rage quit.

New comment by tl_donson in "FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall"

tl_donson — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:25:55 +0000

> On a DEX you can't even know if the person on the other end is a real person or not without going outside the chain.

why does it matter if the counterparty is a human?

New comment by tl_donson in "Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment"

tl_donson — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:01:52 +0000

installed a zip hydro tap a couple years ago and i’ve never once regretted it

New comment by tl_donson in "Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?"

tl_donson — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 10:15:43 +0000

good, i hate how many devices and applications make me turn off capitalisation.

New comment by tl_donson in "How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports"

tl_donson — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:47:22 +0000

his mention of the disintegration loops is the first time i’ve thought about them in like 15 years probably but i used to listen to them a lot before bed. can’t wait to listen again and see what memories come up.

New comment by tl_donson in "One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”"

tl_donson — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:32:43 +0000

> After the 3rd attempt, last being a nexus 5, I gave up.

coincidentally i think the nexus 5 was also my 3rd and final android. i actually really liked that phone. then i took an international flight and after landing it was suddenly bricked. wouldn’t turn on at all. so strange.

New comment by tl_donson in "Using machine learning to predict the leads that close"

tl_donson — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:24:48 +0000

“Working with the medium group gave the biggest uplift.”

Anecdotally, I’ve seen the same thing in a B2C context. The uplift in the highest probability group was so bad that we would leave those leads alone completely, even though the marginal cost of an email or sms is basically 0 as a % of revenue from a successful conversion.

New comment by tl_donson in "AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different"

tl_donson — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:51:13 +0000

“ AWS vs. GCP on-demand provisioning of GPU resources performance is wildly different”

yeah i guess it does make sense that one didn’t win the a/b test

New comment by tl_donson in "Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?"

tl_donson — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 02:19:50 +0000

open rates are inaccurate but still somewhat useful because they’re generally consistently inaccurate month to month unless there’s been a change that would affect a lot of subscribers (eg iOS recently).

click rates are probably a better proxy for this.

New comment by tl_donson in "I posted my project on Reddit and received 9 job offers"

tl_donson — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 03:36:11 +0000

even if you are employed and can’t make your work public, just a few small projects will improve your chances. i’ve spent the last 6 or so months interviewing applicants for senior programmer/analyst roles and the number of otherwise qualified candidates who have _literally zero_ public repos or projects or code samples is astounding.

New comment by tl_donson in "Ask HN: Anyone ever consider bringing a coding exercise for the interviewers"

tl_donson — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 21:01:10 +0000

I’ve been this developer in a lot of interviews. We don’t typically do in-interview coding questions so it would be a little weird if someone just threw one at me — although I guess it would depend on the context of the question.

My style of interviewing is to have a as casual a conversation as possible with someone about their experience, ask them to do a deep dive into a solution they’ve delivered, what they could have optimised better, what they learned in the process (technical or otherwise), what were the pain points, etc etc.

I find the best applicants get me talking quite a bit about related projects we’ve worked on. It fits the flow of the interview, which is important. Asking me to whiteboard a random algorithm would be bizarrely out of place, but i’ve 100% whiteboarded hypothetical architectures while responding to questions from applicants. If we’re to that step then it’s usually a pretty good sign.