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New comment by treyfitty in "US Job Market Visualizer"

treyfitty — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:01:19 +0000

Data is coming from BLS. Their data lags the true state of affairs, and their growth projections are never reliable. Remember when they touted from 2000-2010 that Actuaries are the hottest growing field with the best forward looking outlook?

BLS forward looking guidance means nothing when technology revolutionizes the nature of work.

New comment by treyfitty in "America's Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers–and Misery"

treyfitty — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:03:03 +0000

I’m glad someone pointed this out about the case study/brain teaser interviews:

> “Many wealthier students have a sense of this, he says, from parents or networks, but to low-income students—save the handful who receive coaching—it’s utterly counterintuitive. “This is one of the major ways that consulting firms—and, really, investment banking firms—block low-income students,” Portela said. For all practical purposes, the case study “is in another fucking language.”

Being raised on welfare and paying for college on my own, I hated the post-grad interview cycle because it seemed so asinine. Almost 20 years later, I’m somewhat better at knowing how to answer these questions, but I can’t help but to acknowledge the cynical side of these questions in finding surreptitious ways (either intentionally or unintentionally) discriminate against low-income candidates.

New comment by treyfitty in "After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus"

treyfitty — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:02:59 +0000

I’ve been thinking a lot about a similar concept, but orthogonal application of that concept: when immediate/short-term incentives are not there, how do you reward workers in the trenches (scientists and engineers in this case) to push forward and make the best decision for science, even if it’s not the best decision for the business/entity?

New comment by treyfitty in "Interview with Geoffrey Hinton"

treyfitty — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:52:06 +0000

Eh, idk who Hinton is, but I’d cut him some slack for making both statements- I could imagine a case where “creatives” can semantically be understood as “new blue collar.” Musicians, dancers, photographers… are not blue color manufacturing employees, but they are fiscally more similar than their white collar counterparts. It’s possible he used inconsistent terms because he really means “low-wage employees who are far away from the monetary benefit creation decisions,” but that’s a mouthful

Ask HN: Job market for Staff/Director tech roles barren?

treyfitty — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:21:59 +0000

I’ve been through internship recruiting in 2007,2008, changed jobs just before Covid, and periodically submitted my resume from time to time. I have a job, and I’m not desperate, but the past 6 months have been 0% conversion to initial screen. Literal 0. Maybe 10 resume submissions per month, a few tweaks to my resume each month… but nothing. Is it just me?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058951

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

Ask HN: Just tried voice ChatGPT- why so many inflections between words?

treyfitty — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:21:35 +0000

I just tried ChatGPT voice and noticed that it inflects many words and especially the last word of a sentence. For Example? this is an example of the inflection? that I noticed in chatGPTs voice?

I asked ChatGPT why it does this so often. I also told ChatGPT to update its memory to eliminate the inflection, but it persists and refuses to stop. Is this a cultural thing or is this what millennials and GenZ believe to be normal? I inquired ChatGPT about this, and the response merely affirmed my hypothesis that it is a regional and cultural thing, especially amongst younger speakers

It’s interesting because I haven’t noticed how often this inflection happens in real life until I Noticed the “natural” tone of ChatGPT, and I immediately realized that I hate that speech pattern.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44924226

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by treyfitty in "Ask HN: Why is Gmail so incompetent at basic search?"

treyfitty — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:39:16 +0000

idk… I for one like the fact that Gmail sucks at search to be honest because I (naively?) believe they don’t profile everything in your inbox. For example, if I subscribe to a newsletter about “healthy lifestyle,” it won’t return that newsletter, but return string matches where “healthy” or “home” are relevant. If they profiled the emails for contextual awareness to know what I meant by “healthy living,” I’d be concerned.

New comment by treyfitty in "The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI"

treyfitty — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:00:12 +0000

Well, if I want to first understand the basics, such as “what do the letters OSINT mean,” I’d think the homepage (https://osintframework.com/) would tell me. But alas, it does not, and a simple chatgpt query would have told me the answer without the wasted effort.

New comment by treyfitty in "Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization"

treyfitty — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:43:09 +0000

I just tried reading the documentation and I have no idea what I’m supposed to do. I have a bunch of keyboards that won’t let me use the F keys as standard f keys (only lets me use them as multimedia keys) unless I hold the keyboards fn key. Karabiner is set to “use f keys as standard f keys” and it still doesn’t work. Anyone know how I might use kanata to use F1, F2…etc without holding the keyboards fn key?

New comment by treyfitty in "Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021"

treyfitty — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:11:51 +0000

I can’t scroll on iOS safari.

New comment by treyfitty in "The race for "AI Supremacy" is over – at least for now"

treyfitty — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:26:15 +0000

Isn’t Deepseek’s advantage that they didn’t actually start from scratch and that embeddings & training was already supplied? To say that Deepseek is comparable in performance to OpenAI is like saying Kirkland brands is comparable to {insert non white labeled good here}- they’re created off the same inputs. To say that Deepseek is a threat to AI supremacy is hyperbolic. As long as OpenAI innovates at the rate that it’s been innovating, their value is undeniable. Sure, Deepseek may tick after OpenAI’s tock, but the premium is in that tock.

New comment by treyfitty in ""First Team" Principle: Leaders' loyalty to their peers over their reports"

treyfitty — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:48:24 +0000

when I asked for his support around difficult prioritization discussions, his response was “I believe in the Team First mentality, and our success is not necessarily putting my team nor our customer first- it’s in putting my peers’ needs first. Do whatever it takes to make them successful.”

On one hand I could see how this can theoretically lead to good outcomes all around… on the other, is this a joke? I hope to god this mantra doesn’t catch on, because what is a boss if he is not there to support you.

"First Team" Principle: Leaders' loyalty to their peers over their reports

treyfitty — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:44:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.primary.vc/firstedition/posts/so-you-made-it-to-the-saas-c-suite-here-s-how-to-keep-the-job/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42760141

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by treyfitty in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

treyfitty — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:23:59 +0000

I for one would love to try.

New comment by treyfitty in "Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow"

treyfitty — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:06:24 +0000

This must have been a helluva company to work for.

New comment by treyfitty in "Self-driving Tesla steers Calif. tech founder onto train tracks"

treyfitty — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:56:02 +0000

He states numerous times he excessively relies on full self driving. Driving is a privilege, not a right, and if anyone puts this must trust on AI for such a dangerous activity, I can’t feel sorry for them. At the end of the day, this driver was responsible.

New comment by treyfitty in "A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events"

treyfitty — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:39:02 +0000

That doesn’t really give an objective definition of what wide events are, just an opinion and example in this one persons life.

I had to lookup wide events in the middle of the article, and I can’t say I can viscerally see and feel the benefits the OP was espousing. Just felt like an adderall-fueled dump of information being thrown at me.

New comment by treyfitty in "Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job"

treyfitty — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:19:31 +0000

> After knowing myself as someone who has always been good with words for years, seeing that I can’t choose the right word when speaking, or that I can’t convey the message or information I want to give more clearly and simply when writing, naturally bothers me

Wow. I’ve been dealing with this for a while and it never occurred to me that it may be correlated (or caused by) by my incessant hunt for information and media at all times. I’ve always thought that if I wasn’t learning, and staying up to date on the latest frameworks, I’m not growing.

I had a profound connection with this article, so much so that I’m willing to say it’s the most important information I’ve consumed in the last 5 years… but herein lies the conundrum… now I feel FOMO creeping in, perpetuating this incessant need to find others like it… sigh

New comment by treyfitty in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

treyfitty — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 16:38:21 +0000

No, I understood clearly.

New comment by treyfitty in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

treyfitty — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 12:39:41 +0000

What? Why are you shoehorning LGBTQ into this... the intent of “…no men left” is well understood, and the vast majority of soldiers in Ukraine are male. The colloquialism is the same as your username rrr_oh_man. Man, and men is used are used in the same vain.

And what does this have to do with your male cousin?