HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

llaolleh

664 karma · joined January 11, 2017

submissionscomments
llaolleh··on LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor
It's a built in mode that you can navigate to with the single button on the monitor.
llaolleh··on LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor
There's a 35 inch ultra wide that goes on Sale on Costco often. I'd recommend that one.
llaolleh··on LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor
Unrelated but I've cycled through monitors and found LG monitors to be the best. They have a reading mode which takes care of most eye strain.

That reading most had stopped 95% of my eye strain attacks.

llaolleh··on Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers
Can you give an example of using the context of a previous query?

I applaud you for trying to make a new search engine - it's not something sane people would try to do because of a certain behemoth eating everyone's lunch. It's going to take extraordinary insight and out of the box thinking to get something really good.

llaolleh··on A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity
I'm in this camp. All employees should be sent a laptop, or work with a remote environment that is isolated from your personal computer.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: I'm feeling lost and don't know what route to take on my career/life
Be more aggressive and reach out to people to give you a chance. Alumni also have a soft spot for new grads and know the pain of securing a new job. We've all been there.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
Coders at Work was also very good.
llaolleh··on Unity is laying off hundreds of employees
This. The correct answer is yes we're really sorry there will be layoffs.

If there is one thing I've learned in life is that once you've betrayed someone's trust it can never be regained to the original state.

llaolleh··on Next-generation AI models
Has anyone used both Tabnine and Copilot recently? Would like to know if compares to Copilot now.

Last time I checked(end of last year) Tabnine was a far inferior product.

llaolleh··on Meta Scrutinizing Sheryl Sandberg’s Use of Facebook Resources over Several Years
There's adversity in option B.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: New job at BigCo. Everything has friction
The startups and small companies are playing offense - they are trying to get their foot in the door and hunting.

BigCos are playing defense - they want to maintain the status quo and not kill the golden goose. They've built a castle to protect it. It's only natural that they will add friction everywhere for the fear of killing the damn bird.

Relax and coast for a bit, and jump to a small company. But like others have said, you will work more hours, and they can be insanely high cognitive load for other reasons.

llaolleh··on EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
They can make both. One for the standard and the other for their own. Or engineer their new port and ship an adapter/extra cable.
llaolleh··on Talent Cooling (2020)
I agree with you. This is a really low quality blog post. All the author did was add a fancy graph and some words to something that everybody knows - if a 1-2 good engineers leave, then everyone else bounces out of there.
llaolleh··on Is Everything an MLM? (2019)
Desktop computers were released in the 1980s(Apple II, MS-DOS). If you think about it, that's only 40 years at most where the gates of software programming has been opened.

Considering that everyone in the 1st world country has access to a computer, and given that much of our lives are entangled by software, it's just a demand problem. The demand for software completely outstrips the number of software engineers available. Given people's short attention spans, and the incredible number of concentration and patience the discipline requires, I expect the shortage to continue for the foreseeable future.

llaolleh··on How to make decisions like a poker player
Glad to see a fellow Bayesian in here lol.
llaolleh··on CogVideo: Large-Scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers
Is the time ripe for a porn startup?
llaolleh··on DuckDuckGo faces widespread backlash over tracking deal with Microsoft
Exactly. It's been such a long time since they've launched. You can't just say M$ and Goog are the only players with a large index so our hands are tied up.

Have to start working towards a long time solution or you'll be at their mercy.

llaolleh··on “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
Your story was inspirational. It's really cool to run this project to help others without expecting any payment.
llaolleh··on My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
It's not a Turing test if you don't tell them that it's a test.
llaolleh··on The future of search is boutique
*Google is an ad search engine.
llaolleh··on The future of search is boutique
That's one of the biggest problems. You have to build something that is better than Google, at least to a certain subset of users that makes them ecstatic about the alternative.

So far all I've seen is shittier versions with terrible UI(you.com), or exact low-risk copycats going at it with the privacy angle.

llaolleh··on Shaquille Zuckerberg
He learned everything except for shooting free throws. Xd.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: Any other self taught devs terrified of interviewing these days?
It's especially hard for people who like me who choke during interviews and freeze like a deer. :(.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: Are there any tech companies throwing $$ at candidates these days?
Miner Extractable Value?
llaolleh··on Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
It's the hedonic dopamine treadmill. It's not the content that drives this endless dopatrain, it's the nice UI and interactivity of the spinning window and flashing pages.
llaolleh··on Master’s Degree in Computer Science
The only time I did group work was for the Deep Learning class (2-4 people) and my group members were excellent. Other than that one, no group work for me.

The key is to pick classes that are hard, and form groups early. People that reach out earlier usually have their shit together.

llaolleh··on Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Also did OMSCS. Highly recommend it. The problem with self-learning is that sometimes you convince yourself that you understand something when you really don't.

Only when you get smacked by an exam or an assignment you realize that you've been fooling yourself.

The ML and Systems track is pretty hardcore. If you survive those you have pretty good foundational knowledge.

Fair warning though - the program is not a joke. Georgia Tech always leans towards application. You will spend a lot of time writing code and tinkering, but it's worth it if you want to learn a ton.

llaolleh··on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
My take on these BigCos is that there is so much middle management and hierarchy that the frontline workers are blocked from the actual performance of the company.

My proposed fix is entire product groups and their members should be held accountable and directly take profit of what they earn. If the product does well that quarter, engineers should be rewarded. Something to keep them working on a great product rather than catastrophically forgetting.

llaolleh··on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
That is hilarious. It's a real life example of catastrophic forgetting.
llaolleh··on Show HN: Balloons – A clicker game generated by OpenAI Codex
I guess we will all have to learn how to drive trucks then!
← PreviousPage 3 of 7Next →