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by parpfish 1y ago
Or not? If his joy comes from endlessly coding and refactoring and tinkering, just have fun doing that. Not every side project needs to turn into a side product
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by parpfish 1y ago
That’s six words
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by parpfish 1y ago
I hate the fact that every film feels a need for a romantic subplot.
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by parpfish 1y ago
I agree that ftpt sucks, but there’s still a need to determine boundaries for various administrative district to handle geographically dependent issues.
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by parpfish 1y ago
Tangent: I’ve often thought that it would be great to let people design their own political districts to reduce gerrymandering At the polling place you’d get a map with your census tract and then be asked “which two or three adjacent tracts
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by parpfish 1y ago
But why conflate “technical skill assessment” and “ambiguity handling” into one big stressful test? Doing two small tests toy can measure each skill independently A clear coding test to get technical skill and then some in person requiremen
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by parpfish 1y ago
Sure, the work is chaotic. But why would the interview process need to be chaotic? You want to get the best signals of ability that you can, and one thing you can do to help that is to make sure that you’ve given an assignment that will be
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’ve seen a few that let you fork a repo with all that boilerplate set up and you just have a few stubbed methods to fill out, and that seems reasonable. But going from 0->1 on an app is so much grunt work and I doubt the reviewers would
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by parpfish 1y ago
Man, I hate take-homes. When I see instructions that say “This project tests your ability not only to code, but to deal with ambiguity and open-endedness”, it actually means either a) this exercise has been so poorly conceived that we didn’
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by parpfish 1y ago
But what if all 100,000 employees are exact copies of each other because they’re all the same ai chatbot?
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by parpfish 1y ago
But one big difference is that if an employee screws up, the company can prevent subsequent similar damages. Fire/retrain the offender, and it won’t happen again. If the AI screws up, what do you need to fire/retrain? It seems lik
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by parpfish 1y ago
In lots of human studies, you can’t just stop at an arbitrary number of participants because you’ve counterbalanced manipulations to decorrelate potential confounders (e.g., which color stimulus is paired with reward, the order of trials).
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by parpfish 1y ago
I was heavily encouraged to do what would later be called “p-hacking”, but it looked different from what they describe here. This article describes p-hacks for people that aren’t into math/stats. I always ended up p hacking because I
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by parpfish 1y ago
Oh, a nine year old PHONE. I was thinking there was a fourth grader out there deploying models when at that age I was still learning multiplication tables.
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by parpfish 1y ago
That’s a good point about compiled languages being able to bootstrap themselves a bit. But in the case of a young language, I worry that LLMs will induce a sort of convergent evolution either in syntax or just idiomatic best practices
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Ask HN: Do you think language development will be frozen in time?
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by parpfish 1y ago
I remember some people looking forward to the y2k chaos. There was a smug sense of “look at how badly those brainiac computer guys screwed up” I remember a rumor that “if enough people take their phone off the hook before midnight it’ll tak
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’m kind of disappointed that the generative AI hype has overshadowed how many non-generative tasks are basically “solved”, especially in vision. Human level object recognition can easily be trained up for custom use cases. Image segmentati
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’ve been intrigued by recurse for a long time because the alums I’ve met are all very impressive. But when I think about applying, I worry that it’s just tapping into my addiction to external validation and credential-seeking rather than j
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by parpfish 1y ago
The thing that stuck out to me was that they said there were 22 friends nearby. I have no idea how you’d maintain relationships with that many people that would be strong enough to justify “I’ll uproot my living situation to be by this pe
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’d assume that the driving force is just “more people have tattoos”
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’ve read a lot of pros/cons about micro services over the last decade, but don’t have a clear definition for what qualifies. My current job insists that they have a “simple monolith” because all the code is in a single repo. But that
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by parpfish 1y ago
I once had a doctor google webmd in front of me at an appointment. It was funny, but then I remembered how often I look stuff up at work and thought it’s a bit unrealistic to expect them to have EVERYTHING memorized. I’d rather have them do
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by parpfish 1y ago
i'd love a pihole, but networking has always been a bit of a blindspot for me. i never really understand what i'm doing, and when things break it's a game of guess'n'check which stackoverflow/gpt answer will fi
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’m curious if a sortition would work for passing legislation. Instead of wrangling legislators and trading favors to get exactly 50%+1 votes, have the pass/fail determined by a single randomly selected voter. It would encourage much m
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’ve never heard of a company encouraging their employees to participate in a hackathon that they sponsored. Are you thinking of internal “hack week” periods where employees get a chance to build something “for fun” at work?
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by parpfish 1y ago
Not OP, but I use AI tools and sometimes it’s great, sometimes they’ll distractingly lead you in circles, and other times they completely shit the bed. Luckily, I’m using AI tools to do things that I am capable of doing without AI so I can
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by parpfish 1y ago
Over my years in academia, I noticed that the linguistics departments were always the most fiercely ideological. Almost every comment of a talk would be get contested by somebody from the audience. It was annoying, but as a psych guy I was
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by parpfish 1y ago
a guild for software would be interesting. not only would the collective provide benefits to the individual workers, but it would serve as an (optional) form of licensure/credentialing that ensures each member has a baseline level of c
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by parpfish 1y ago
but even if you know a company was under valued, you should only invest in it if you think it'll be 'properly valued' in the future. for that to work, there needs to be a mechanism for price discovery on individual stocks.

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