methodical (u/methodical)

methodical commented on BYOJS (Bring your own JS) byojs.dev/... · Posted by u/fs_software

leptons · 8 months ago

eh... so far Typescript hasn't saved us from any bugs, but YMMV.

methodical · 8 months ago

Ditto. If anything, trying to add it into an existing codebase via JSDoc has only really been a detriment via being a massive time sink. It might have caught maybe 4-5 bugs in the code but none that presented a large enough issue to warrant the time investment. If you're starting from scratch with TS instead of JSDoc, it might be worth it, but even on the best of days trying to figure out typing oddities from library typings being wrong and such have only really added headache. As always YMMV

methodical commented on OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/lukebennett

ablation · 9 months ago

Breaking: Man says enigmatic thing to sustain hype and flow of money into his business.

methodical · 9 months ago

Ditto- I have a feeling the investors in his latest 2.3 quintillion dollar series Z round wouldn't be as happy if he'd have tweeted "there is a wall"

methodical commented on U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 energy.gov/ne/articles/us... · Posted by u/chickenbig

eru · 9 months ago

> Not when the domestic companies which manufacture the same product wither as a result.

That's not how economics works.

methodical · 9 months ago

A company being unable to compete with another one on price will result in a drop in revenue, as consumers purchase the product with the cheaper price. Revenue going down is bad for a business. How exactly is any of what I've just stated wrong? How exactly is another company selling a similar product at a much lower price point good for the company? Perplexing position that somehow introducing a much cheaper product into the market from company B is good for company A.

methodical commented on U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 energy.gov/ne/articles/us... · Posted by u/chickenbig

eru · 9 months ago

You say it like 'undercutting' is a bad thing.

If consumers have to pay less, that's a Good Thing.

methodical · 9 months ago

Not when the domestic companies which manufacture the same product wither as a result. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in defensive national economic policy as a blanket protection we should do to protect all industries, but in special circumstances such as this one where losing all of our electric vehicle production capability and specialization is at play, I think it certainly is in our strategic interest to avoid that from happening.

methodical commented on U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 energy.gov/ne/articles/us... · Posted by u/chickenbig

eru · 9 months ago

> You can’t just snap your fingers and replace millions of cars, [...]

The Chinese are trying to help, but Americans like tariffs more than they hate climate change. (At least that's the preference that their political system expresses.)

methodical · 9 months ago

Help is an interesting word choice for what is essentially undercutting our entire domestic automotive manufacturers and ensuring, on a pure cost front, that the majority of Americans purchase and rely on maintenance for a product produced in China. Doing so would have major negative consequences for our own strategic interests, hence why there has been such a massive tariff on it for several years now. China isn't being altruistic when they're attempting to sell us their much more affordable EVs. It's not a uniquely US perspective on the threat of Chinese EVs either, as the EU also has lesser but still non-trivial tariffs on Chinese EV brands.

methodical commented on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

sa46 · 10 months ago

Most engineers, including good ones, that I've interviewed have no interesting GitHub contributions. GitHub is also game-able. Bootcamps, in particular, push their graduates to build an interesting GitHub portfolio.

I've found that talking through projects is a weak indicator of competence. It's much easier to memorize talking points than to produce working code.

methodical · 10 months ago

It may be a result of personal preference, but I struggle to see how talking through challenges encountered with a personal project are a poor indicator of competence. If you ask some boilerplate list of questions, sure, but few if any candidates could memorize all of the random in-the-weeds architecture questions one could ask while talking through someone's project. For a junior specifically, even a non-answer to these questions provides valuable insight into their humility and self-awareness. I also think that it'd be pretty easy to visually weed out personal projects created for the sake of saying one has personal projects, like a bootcamp may push to create, versus an actual passion project, and even easier to weed out during any actual discussion. I suppose YMMV, but in my experience, the body language and flow of discussion are vastly different when someone is passionate about a subject versus not.

methodical commented on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

pj_mukh · 10 months ago

Serious question from someone who is regularly tasked with hiring Juniors. What IS a good assessment for entry-level/right out of college positions?

-> GPA can be gamed, as laid out.

-> Take Home assessments can mostly be gamed, I want to assess how you think, now which tools you use.

-> Personality tests favor the outgoing/extroverts

-> On-location tests/leet code are a crapshoot.

What should be best practice here? Ideally something that controls for first-time interviewer jitters.

methodical · 10 months ago

I think the best test for a Junior is to ask them to submit some of their OSS or personal fun projects they've worked on. From my perspective, especially with Juniors who aren't expected to be extremely knowledgeable, displaying a sense of curiosity and a willingness to learn is much more important.

If, hypothetically, there's two candidates, one who is more knowledgeable but has no personal projects versus someone who has less knowledge but has worked on different side projects in various languages/domains, I'm always going to pick the latter candidate since they clearly have a passion, and that passion will drive them to pick up the knowledge more than someone who's just doing it for a paycheck and could care less about expanding their own knowledge.

To go one step forward, you can ask them to go into detail about their side project, interesting problems they faced, how they overcame them, etc. Even introverts who are generally worse at small talk are on a much more balanced playing field when talking about something they're passionate about.

methodical commented on Learning to Reason with LLMs openai.com/index/learning... · Posted by u/fofoz

spaceman_2020 · a year ago

Look where you were 3 years ago, and where you are now.

And then imagine where you will be in 5 more years.

If it can almost get a complex problem right now, I'm dead sure it will get it correct within 5 years

methodical · a year ago

You're dead sure? I wouldn't say anything definite about technology advancements. People seem to underestimate the last 20% of the problem and only focus on the massive 80% improvements up to this point.

methodical commented on Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)? · Posted by u/bschmidt1

methodical · a year ago

Never really understood any company of any size that pushes for this type of workload. Do you really produce high-quality work on hour 100 of the workweek versus hours 0-40? For every startup that succeeds with this type of 996 dystopian work schedule, I'd argue more fail because of high employee churn, low worker motivation, and burnout even in a high-paid tech startup. In my opinion, even for those highly motivated, the human body simply can't do productive work in that type of environment. Some of the best startups I've seen are those with actual work-life balance. Not necessarily saying in and 9 and out at 5 on the dot, but certainly far from 996 or 997.

methodical commented on Ask HN: Google Ads Rejected My SaaS as Compromised Site · Posted by u/madjam002

methodical · a year ago

Ran into the same issue when I purchased a .ml domain (naively not looking into why .ml is such a cheap TLD to buy good names for, it has a super high spam risk). Purchased a different .com domain and haven't had any issues since. I didn't change content or anything, besides changing the domains in all of my links, and the same google ad campaigns and workspace for the new URL were able to be created without issue.