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Re:Is 30% of Microsoft's code AI-generated? on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @05:05PM (#45985948)
What I found in practise is that AI generated code is typically 30% longer than it should be compared to how an experienced senior would write it.

It’s not that it is wrong or anything - it’s just unnecessary verbose.

Which you could argue is not a problem if it won’t be read by humans anyways anymore in the near future.

I agree - and I think having interdisciplinary approach here is going to increase the odds here. There is a ton of useful knowledge in related disciplines - often just named differently - but turns out investigating the same problem from a different angle.
Grant reviews are blind reviews - so you don’t know. Also - and even worse - there is no rebuttal process. It gets rejected without you having a chance to clarify / convince reviewers.

Instead you’d need to resubmit and start the entire process from scratch. What a waste of resources …

It’s the final nail what made me quit pursuing a scientific career path despite having good pubs & PhD /w honours.

Unfortunately it’s what I enjoy the most.

I’ve had written up a proposal for a research grant to basically work exactly on this idea.

It got reviewed by 2 ML scientists and one neuroscientist.

Got totally slammed (and thus rejected) by the ML scientists due to „lack of practical application“ and highly endorsed by the neuroscientist.

There’s so much unused potential in interdisciplinary research but nobody wants to fund it because it doesn’t „fit“ into one of the boxes.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) on Thursday February 01, 2024 @03:31PM (#39221013)
Procurify | Fully Remote, CANADA | FULL-TIME | REMOTE | 150k-230k CAD

- Senior Data Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/procurify/jobs/4352825005)

- Director Data Engineering & Data Science (https://boards.greenhouse.io/procurify/jobs/4352787005) (80% hands on at the beginning)

We’re assembling a small but mighty team to build and own the data platform that’s going to be the backbone of the business' strategic shift towards automation and data-driven products in the procure-to-pay industry. You’ll get the opportunity to work on the largest technology initiative since the company's founding about 10y ago. An opportunity with massive impact, visibility and full buy-in from the senior leadership and executives.

Our mission is to enable our gang of 40+ product engineers to deliver data-driven products and features.

Profile (roughly):

- great personality

- solid engineering skills with Python and pyspark / deltalake

- data architecture and data modelling

- CI/CD, testing and quality tests for data pipelines

- experience with databricks and its recent products highly desired (deltalake, autoloader, unity catalog, structured streaming, DLT, DAB, ...)

Some highlights:

- 4-day work week (every Friday off)

- Well funded as we just raised 50m in series C

- Excellent senior leadership with a human-centric culture

- Great business momentum and growth trajectory

Feel free to DM me your name & email once you have applied and I'll make sure it gets in front of our recruiter and hiring manager.

Re:On Sleeper Agent LLMs on Friday January 12, 2024 @10:48PM (#38977178)
Sounds like LLMs having their SQL injection equivalent moment.

I’d also say this described phenomenon isn’t new - except for it’s applied context: it’s essentially disinformation - a well known technique used by military since decades. Except now we hack LLM agents instead of real people’s minds.

Nonetheless interesting to watch.

Nice and slim - does your cubic spline support clamping and monotonicity as well by any chance ?
Re:How to find a job as Software Developer in Germany on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:02AM (#26902844)
The general assumption you make is wrong - it’s not like in North americas. There are eng jobs in the top bracket, but the big majority isn’t.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020) on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:17PM (#22786874)
Your website has no content as of now, so would you mind sharing one sentence what you’re doing/building - at least roughly? SaaS, product, ML ... ?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020) on Friday April 03, 2020 @04:35AM (#22767302)
Well, I’m not complaining, I’m suggesting an automated reply to notify people that their stuff was submitted. Which is how things usually work when you submit through a recruiting portal.

I’m not complaining about the processing “speed”.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020) on Thursday April 02, 2020 @02:22PM (#22761969)
Sending out responses to applications would actually be nice ... just saying.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now? on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:14PM (#22668242)
I heard similar things, but it also seems to be very specific to Zurich area. Maybe due to the high ratio of expats per locals.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020) on Saturday January 04, 2020 @02:09PM (#21956707)
FYI: your https website is not loading. Plus, neither your post nor the non-https version of your website provides any information on what you're actually looking/recruiting for. Probably not the best way to attract people.
Re:Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:13PM (#13592854)
Can you say something about the software stack you used to build this? Are you using any of the existing libs like zipline or completely from scratch !

Show HN: weekend project – a round-based mail game for the FIFA worldcup

http://worldcup.fanbattle.io

I built a simple round-based email game where you can challenge your friends in a penalty shootout battle.stack used: play scala, mongo, redis on a docker-ized amazon ec2I expect HN to kill the app, so please apologize for any downtime - try my best to keep it up & running though ;-)

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Re:A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @06:54AM (#6590921)
thanks - I was already thinking it's just me not getting it :-)