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New comment by webel0 in "The only moat left is money?"

webel0 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:47:09 +0000

Welding is coming along. Ever heard of Path Robotics? That's high-mix, high-complexity welds. (There are a lot of other, less-sophisticated welding robots out there.) The biggest moat for a welder right now is special certifications to be able to do welds on submarines, etc.

New comment by webel0 in "Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt"

webel0 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:45:50 +0000

I tried to build this back around 2020. I think my concept was trying to be too cute in several places. But this was the basic idea.

I found that neither side of the market wanted to rethink the market, they just wanted something that worked well for them. Even today, job seekers may be reaching for something like this but employers have no interest; there is a glut in the market.

I’m sure I never quite got the messaging correct. However, I distinctly recall that triplebyte attempted a pivot in this same vein and also failed bad.

New comment by webel0 in "OpenAI acquired AI training monitor Neptune"

webel0 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:31:46 +0000

They are shutting down the product. I haven't received the sunsetting guide. What are people moving to instead?

New comment by webel0 in "Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs"

webel0 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:51:38 +0000

These prompts read a lot like wizards’ spells!

New comment by webel0 in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

webel0 — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:35:34 +0000

Can you provide some examples?

New comment by webel0 in "The 1-HR nurse visits that cost $15B to Medicare"

webel0 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:25:11 +0000

If medicare increases payouts then the payoff to this sort of behavior only increases.

New comment by webel0 in "Polylith"

webel0 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:19:51 +0000

I've been mostly pleased with our use of python-polylith [1] with poetry in a production application. We output a webapp, python sdk, and CLI as separate "projects."

It doesn't _really_ solve python dependency/import issues. Instead, it helps to you keep your project in discrete chunks and well-organized. It also makes it easy to package up the separate projects as artifacts.

I've run into some issues with versioning separate projects but I suspect that is a matter of bandwidth rather than an actual, insoluble issue.

I'd use it again at a startup or on project where you need to ship a bunch of artifacts but don't have a lot of bandwidth.

[1] https://github.com/DavidVujic/python-polylith

New comment by webel0 in "A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

webel0 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:59:23 +0000

Are there any comparisons of weather apps by area? For example, "for the San Francisco bay area, apple weather is most accurate on rain. But for NYC accuweather is better." I suppose you ought to be comparing weather APIs rather than apps but it would be most usable if you just knew which app to download.

New comment by webel0 in "The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)"

webel0 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:37:55 +0000

I wouldn't worry about automated ATS. Their use is way overstated on LinkedIn, by "resume experts," etc.

I'm talking about whether a human can read the document comfortably.

New comment by webel0 in "The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)"

webel0 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:39:48 +0000

I would be careful with LaTeX. I use to have a LaTeX resume generated with LuaTeX. At an old company, I saw my LaTeX resume in the ATS long after I was hired. Apparently, something happened and the PDF displayed as blurred-but-not-unreadable in the ATS. Maybe the ATS did some post-processing or used a limited PDF display engine? Lucky for me, the resume for that job was just a formality. These days, I just use Google Docs and export to PDF.

New comment by webel0 in "How close is AI to replacing product managers?"

webel0 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:16:22 +0000

I would have liked to see them focus on less well-known companies. It seems quite possible that the reference human responses (from exponent) were already present in the training data.

How close is AI to replacing product managers?

webel0 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-close-is-ai-to-replacing-product

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919648

Points: 5

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New comment by webel0 in "How I turned seemingly 'failed' experiments into a successful PhD"

webel0 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:34:01 +0000

It is definitely harder to grow this muscle when you are remote. Be biased towards hopping on a call/zoom rather than messaging on slack, etc.

New comment by webel0 in "How I turned seemingly 'failed' experiments into a successful PhD"

webel0 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:46:23 +0000

I would be interested to hear more about how much they were discussing their failures/challenges with others. It sounds like this might be a case of, "I finally talked to someone about it and they unblocked me in an hour."

When I was in grad school I was very hesitant to ask others for help or feedback. Big mistake! I see similar things with interns: they'll wait until a daily or weekly check-in to raise problems.

My approach now is to set a time budget; if I don't figure it out myself within X hours, then I have to ask someone for help.

New comment by webel0 in "Why Triplebyte Failed"

webel0 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:31:24 +0000

I would love to learn if TripleByte's data was sold off somewhere? I also had this concern (which was probably a bit overblown). One of the main scenarios I was concerned about was a case where the firm was sold off for parts.

New comment by webel0 in "Nonintrussive non-datamining ads platform?"

webel0 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:10:34 +0000

You could check out ethical ads [1]. I have no first-hand experience with them as a publisher. But they are fairly unobtrusive on readthedocs [2] sites.

[1] https://www.ethicalads.io/publishers/

[2] https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#

New comment by webel0 in "How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business"

webel0 — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:24:12 +0000

Waymo's relatively rapid geonet expansion suggests that they have either improved their mapping productivity substantially or gone fully map-less.

I can't speak to their RVA operations.

New comment by webel0 in "How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business"

webel0 — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:25:30 +0000

Waymo is currently under investigation for multiple incidents, not all of which it had previously disclosed to the NHTSA [0]. The recent light pole incident also doesn't help [1].

If they are doing 50k rides a day, then they would appear to have a remarkable safety record.

It will be interesting to see if these investigations lead to a repeat of the Cruise debacle or if this will become the price of doing business.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-saf...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZP-RNSr0s

How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business

webel0 — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:19:56 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2024/05/29/waymo-self-driving-robo-taxi-uber-tesla-alphabet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40516532

Points: 208

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New comment by webel0 in "Amazon's robotaxi co is under investigation after two crashes with motorcyclists"

webel0 — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:22:49 +0000

Full NHSTA document here [1].

[1] https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2024/INOA-PE24015-12348.pdf