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WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 commented on Ask HN: What does an ML Engineer do? · Posted by u/chroem-

sohei · 5 years ago

> I was shocked to learn that my new employer has a very different job definition for ML Engineer than the one I was familiar with.

Job titles do not have consistent meaning across regions or industries. People use buzzwords and hype to recruit funding and talent.

You've learned an important lesson: use interviews to gather information about companies and teams. "Can you describe in broad strokes a typical project for this role?" is a perfectly reasonable question to ask a hiring manager.

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 · 5 years ago

This. I would add that role titles also exist for negotiation purposes. For example, a new employee may prefer to be called "research engineer" instead of "ML DevOps" to open up future career opportunities, even if the work done is the same.

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 commented on Criminals are mailing hacked Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

derivagral · 5 years ago

Consensus appears to be that the mistakes are part of the funnel. You aren't the target!

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are...

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 · 5 years ago

That makes sense but I don't know if you can really draw a parallel between email and these devices:

(1) Sending email is nearly free, creating devices is not. Not sure if the economics match.

(2) False positive filtering matter because spammer need to manually reply to emails, creating more work. But with these devices this is not the case, it's all automated. There is no need to filter out smart people.

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 commented on Criminals are mailing hacked Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 · 5 years ago

What I don't understand about these scams is: It must be quite difficult and expensive to create shrink-wrapped modified devices. But the letter itself is so full of spelling and grammar mistakes that it can't be taken seriously. How is it possible that you can create these devices but you're incapable of having someone proofread the letter!?

> sent you a new device you must switch to a new device

> this *kinda* breach

> there is a manual inside your new box you can read that

Seriously?

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WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 commented on BitClout collapses everything into money newyorker.com/tech/annals... · Posted by u/hhs

jypepin · 5 years ago

I think this is pretty much what FTX.com is doing? It's trading derivative contracts on stocks; so if I understand correctly you can trade stocks (or even not-public companies) without the actual stock ownership.

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 · 5 years ago

Derivatives typically have mechanisms that forces them to stay pegged to the underlying asset. So it's not quite the same, even if you don't own the underlying asset. For example, perpetual futures (like those on FTX) have funding rates that vary based on price difference of the future vs underlying.

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 commented on Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds docker.com/blog/changes-t... · Posted by u/bnr

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 · 5 years ago

Docker, the company, is such a sad story. They have such an impactful technology but completely failed to monetize it and lost multiple revenue streams to competitors. Shows how hard "open source companies" are. Others OSS companies have similar problems. It would be nice to find economic models where impact is correlated with revenue.

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WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 commented on Publish and Perish erikhoel.substack.com/p/p... · Posted by u/walterbell

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 · 5 years ago

> Of late he feels like all the activity of himself and his peers is just playing the Science Game: varying some variable with infinite degrees of freedom and then throwing statistics at it until you get that reportable p-value and write up a narrative short story around it.

Just like ML research, we just skip the p-values.

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 commented on Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? · Posted by u/pier25

CA0DA · 5 years ago

I post stuff on dev.to and am surprised to learn that many people on hn consider the entire site spam.

WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 · 5 years ago

I don't think people consider the entire site spam. It's user-created content after all. But if 99% on a site is spam and your articles are not, you may want to consider posting them somewhere else, ideally your own blog, to avoid suffering from the site's bad reputation.

The same goes for medium.com. There are good articles on Medium, but 95% of it is low-quality or spam, so I generally avoid these links or come in with the expectation that an article is likely spam.

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