glorpsicle (u/glorpsicle)

glorpsicle commented on Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels lithub.com/how-big-agricu... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

unanonymousanon · a month ago

I think this takes too much responsibility off the politicians swayed by lobbyists and the corporations paying lobbyists. Don’t get me wrong, lobbyists have been middlemen in a lot of disastrous policy, but they’re not really the source of the problem.

glorpsicle · a month ago

The problem is a system which allows politicians to be influenced in this way, and the group of politicians that accept said influence. The lobbyists–while not very admirable in their own right–are simply acting in their own self-interest. Someone–those in charge–needs to deny them.

glorpsicle commented on Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price fortune.com/2025/07/16/de... · Posted by u/toss1

drawnwren · a month ago

AI may actually be the death of capitalism. Markets are no longer efficient when pricing models are opaque and personalized.

glorpsicle · a month ago

This is Delta's choice, though. There are still quite a few other airlines, for the "average" flight, and fliers still reserve the right to vote with their wallets if they perceive better value elsewhere, meaning Delta may have to adjust to that (depending on the risk they're willing to take/how accurate their personalized pricing models are).

glorpsicle commented on I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now carolinecrampton.com/im-d... · Posted by u/anarbadalov

TechDebtDevin · 2 months ago

Moderation has basically gone away... Don't you think there's a extra bit of ML that goes into the first reel I'm seeing after not opening the app for 10 hours also? I'm making assumptions here, but this was the first reel. These videos have thousands of likes.

glorpsicle · 2 months ago

Yep. Just see YouTube comment sections with clear pornographic images in certain users' profiles–accounts which have existed for enough time for the dumbest of moderation campaigns to have identified as inappropriate.

glorpsicle commented on You need 4 colors iamsajid.com/colors/... · Posted by u/s4i

cloud-oak · 9 months ago

I thought it was only me! This "inverse question phrasing" is something I see popping up more and more in forums and such, especially phrases starting with "How it <verb>?" or "Why it <verb>?".

glorpsicle · 9 months ago

I often see this with non-native English speakers, for better or worse, when looking at other comments from folks who write like that. With that in mind, issues like these bother me less.

glorpsicle commented on Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data github.com/DocumindHQ/doc... · Posted by u/Tammilore

danbruc · 9 months ago

With such a system, how do you ensure that the extracted data matches the data in the source document? Run the process several times and check that the results are identical? Can it reject inputs for manual processing? Or is it intended to be always checked manually? How good is it, how many errors does it make, say per million extracted values?

glorpsicle · 9 months ago

Perhaps there's still value in the documents being transformed by this tool and someone reviewing them manually, but obviously the real value would be in reducing manual review. I don't think there's a world–for now–in which this manual review can be completely eliminated.

However, if you process, say, 1 million documents, you could sample and review a small percentage of them manually (a power calculation would help here). Assuming your random sample models the "distribution" (which may be tough to define/summarize) of the 1 million documents, you could then extrapolate your accuracy onto the larger set of documents without having to review each and every one.

glorpsicle commented on The decline of the working musician newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/tintinnabula

treflop · 10 months ago

I live in a small suburban US town and I’ve seen live music 6 times in the past 2 weeks?

I go dancing regularly??

I have three tickets next week to see <$30 bands.

I can’t relate to any of this.

glorpsicle · 10 months ago

I'm happy to see this, but you are but one person, and probably an outlier. GP was clearly talking about society in general.

glorpsicle commented on Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations github.com/Skyvern-AI/Sky... · Posted by u/suchintan

glorpsicle · 10 months ago

Congrats on the launch! I've been keeping up with you folks since you last posted (a few months ago, I believe). How does Anthropic's recent announcement of Claude's "computer use" abilities grab you? What key differentiators does Skyvern have, at this point in time ("computer use" with Claude being relatively new)?

glorpsicle commented on Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad? · Posted by u/warkanlock

datavirtue · a year ago

Why is everyone searching for these FTE spots? That paradigm is dying.

glorpsicle · a year ago

Could you elaborate?

glorpsicle commented on LangChain Is a Black Box · Posted by u/valianter

glorpsicle · a year ago

Ugh, I feel exactly the same way. In fact, I've spent the last 2 weeks refactoring our entire LLM pipeline to completely root out LangChain. I'm just implementing basic RAG from scratch, which 1) has me learning a lot more quickly and 2) feeling much more in control of the entire pipeline.

glorpsicle commented on Ask HN: Widespread Apathy? · Posted by u/throw_that_away

glorpsicle · a year ago

My observations parallel those of many in this thread. Another thing I've noticed, but wasn't able to properly "name" until someone I work with did so, is the idea of a "pocket veto." [1]

There are two people on my team who have become extremely disengaged of late–and I think one has good reason–and one way this manifests is in their agreement to do or fix something, but those changes never actually being implemented. I find myself having to follow up many times to ensure things don't get lost in the shuffle. But I don't directly manage one of the people, and it seems like they just DGAF what I say–no matter how I approach them. "Strong suggestions" really don't go anywhere. Pretty apathetic, if you ask me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_veto

edit: fixed typos