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mstaoru commented on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me grell.dev/blog/ai_rejecti... · Posted by u/serhack_

vdupras · 24 days ago

Aren't they an AI company? Couldn't they sort it out? If Anthropic, of all companies, can't sort out incoming job applications, what exactly are their tools for?

mstaoru · 24 days ago

> what exactly are their tools for?

Obviously, for writing and sending said job applications.

mstaoru commented on Ask HN: Whats Your Observability Setup? · Posted by u/okapi_creator

mstaoru · a month ago

https://docs.victoriametrics.com/helm/victoriametrics-k8s-st...

It's pretty nice, lightweight to get started with and scalable enough to take it fairly far.

It doesn't do traces yet though, however a few beta release of VictoriaTraces is out https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaTraces/releases

mstaoru commented on Tell HN: Google Maps reviews in Germany are basically dead · Posted by u/tahaygun

mstaoru · a month ago

That's the truth, there are whole agencies specializing in removing bad reviews in Germany. The laws are really skewed against consumers in this respect.

I was looking for a gym and went to several, multiple times, paying outrageous amounts for single visits. Then I reviewed them on Google. None of my reviews survived the "defamation" steamroller.

I guess soon we'll be like Chinese people, inventing parables to say the truth without getting censored. "This was an amazing gym for a relaxing afternoon of crowd watching", or "I very thoroughly enjoyed the company of my friends while waiting for food in this restaurant, it also left me with an overrwhelming lightness in both my stomach and my wallet"...

mstaoru commented on Ask HN: People who work different timezones than your company. How sched? · Posted by u/tetris11

mstaoru · 2 months ago

You need to work with people who value async communications and uninterrupted work time (or cultivate this culture). I recently moved to EU and it's very very difficult for me to adapt to people insisting on having a call or a meeting for everything. It's such a waste of time and the knowledge is completely lost unless you make notes... in text. Before that I worked in SEA, with teams from across the time zones but in a very "Asian" context. Perhaps since not everybody spoke perfect English, the teams actually preferred typing.

For a while I worked on a 1pm-9pm schedule which gave me a decent overlap with the "let's have a quick call" folks. Having the whole morning to myself was nice.

mstaoru commented on Ask HN: New RevOps guy wants to switch us from M365 to GSuite+Slack · Posted by u/9dev

mstaoru · 2 months ago

> that would be a great idea since everyone hates using Teams, nobody knows where to find files in Sharepoint

Summarizes my experience in my new company, which is a Microsoft shop.

Though RevOps side, I don't see how this would make much difference. If cost cutting got so far, he can also propose switching to Mattermost+Jitsi+Nextcloud, hosted on Hetzner.

mstaoru commented on Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI apps.apple.com/us/app/idl... · Posted by u/rafram

Zenbit_UX · 2 months ago

I’ll never understand how people believe bike and pedestrian “infractions” to be the same as that of motor vehicles.

Members of this “get off my sidewalk!” group often fail to realize this: Did you study to become a pedestrian? Did you go to a bicycle driving school to acquire a permit to operate one? Was an exam at all given in order to use public foot or bike paths?

If the answer is no, then you aren’t held to the same standards as cars, which are heavily regulated and require licenses to operate.

Obeying road signs for bicycle and pedestrians are suggestions, rarely enforced, and the worst case scenario is usually you hurt yourself. Your ability to hurt others has an upper bound that society deems acceptable.

mstaoru · 2 months ago

I'm a bicycle "driver" myself. I cannot even drive a car, and don't intend to learn. But you should come to China and see how bikes behave.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3X9BGMPM8Us (electric scooters are classified same as bicycles there)

mstaoru commented on Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI apps.apple.com/us/app/idl... · Posted by u/rafram

mstaoru · 2 months ago

I lived in China for many many years and this is not a good example. Parking, and driving in general, is chaotic and unregulated. Yes, you have cameras everywhere that detect running on red or taking a wrong lane, but that's about makes it. Speeding, haphazard parking, everything is allowed. Scooters go anywhere. Bikes go anywhere. People go anywhere. Red, green, anything in between, it's a free for all. Like a policeman smoking under "no smoking" signs is totally normal. I'd say, you can get away with mostly anything in China, nobody would care (unless you're non-Chinese, then dutiful neighbors will report your every sneeze).

PS: Yet I do find OP's idea reminding me of China. Having a society that polices itself (just in China it's more about thought, not behavior) is definitely not a thing I would enjoy.

mstaoru commented on Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025? · Posted by u/enether

mstaoru · 3 months ago

Redis Streams is a "go-to" for me, mostly because of operational simplicity and performance. It's also dead simple to write consumers in any language. If I had more stringent durability requirements, I would probably pick Redpanda, but Kafka-esque (!) processing semantics can be daunting sometimes.

I didn't have anything but bad experiences with RabbitMQ, maybe I cannot "cook" it, but it would always go split-brain, or last issue I had, a part of clients connected to certain clustered nodes just stopped receiving messages. Cluster restart helped, but all logs and all metrics were green and clean. I try to avoid it if I can.

ZeroMQ is more like a building block for your applications. If you need something very special, it could be a good fit, but for a typical EDA-ish bus architecture Redis or Kafka/Redpanda are both very good.

mstaoru commented on Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week cnbc.com/2025/04/29/port-... · Posted by u/perihelions

bluGill · 4 months ago

The Suez canal is very much affecting anyone in the EU and has for a lot longer than Trump has been in office. Almost no ships have been going that way since early/mid last year, preferring to go the more expensive/long way around Africa instead.

mstaoru · 4 months ago

Well, I had two quotes: one right before the tariffs at 22 rmb/kg door to door, and one end of April, at 58 rmb/kg door to door. We shopped around quite a bit, everybody say it's crazy right now.

mstaoru commented on Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week cnbc.com/2025/04/29/port-... · Posted by u/perihelions

tim333 · 4 months ago

The 2.5-3x higher is probably temporary while people rush to ship stuff before the tariffs. It may get much cheaper shortly.

mstaoru · 4 months ago

Good point, but several Chinese freight forwarders say, on the contrary, the shipping lanes are empty. The "ship" costs a fixed amount, if you can make a full load, the cost is shared between parties. With LCL (less-than-container-load), I'm very dependent on the volume.

I've also seen pictures of empty roads to Yantian port circulating on LinkedIn (usually it would be completely jammed during May holidays).