skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: SF Bay Area and Orange County
Remote: Yes; Remote, On-site or Hybrid, all good
Willing to relocate: within California
Technologies: AWS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL + Front-end
Résumé/CV: pdf https://definite.dev/mibake/resume || https://linkedin.com/in/cleverbaker/
Email: michael.baker@definite.dev

Full-stack Engineer here, hi. I'm looking to join a team dealing with Payments because I'm fascinated and curious about stringing together the complexities of money movement. I'm open to join a team who is working on anything new that's growing, because, even more than legacy payments, scaling out value to the masses gets my passion hyped-up.. which for me is good fuel for good work.

20+ years a web dev, 10+ years in Silicon Valley; startup experience and FAANG experience, sprinkled with experience as a developer at marketing agencies.

My hard skills is why you hire me, my soft skills is why you choose me.
Full cycle software development is what I do--I encourage you to scope out my skills on LinkedIn and test me on them in our interview rounds. What makes me unique is my creative problem solving abilities, my confidence to take a leap with foresight, and how I interact with the team.

The last three years, since leaving my FAANG role, I've done a deep dive on Emotional Intelligence. I thought I had emotional intelligence before, but really I only had the half of it--turns out, emotional management is just as important as empathy.

I'm an individual contributor engineer, through and through. So that you can a sense of where my attention gravitates towards, I'm also interested in Sales Engineering (as an interest, not a career), talent scouting, mentoring, and Bitcoin, non-exclusively.

Email me for work opportunities that are open now.
Also, feel free to email me for possible opportunities to work together in the future.

Thank you. Cheers.
I can't believe it took this long for someone to post this haha
Second step: become proficient at bushcraft, because thats where youll be spending the rest of your life after following step one.
Reflections on switching val.town to remix framework
You could do this entirely client side
This is functionally impossible in much of modern society.
Even if they are not sending data, there will be periodic communication between the access point and the device. Wifi power saving modes are pretty advanced and described here: https://howiwifi.com/2020/06/25/power-save-methods/.
GCD does a lot more.
I do writing on the internet for a living [1] and I have considered how to start writing to put a less filtered, job-driven view of the world online but people close to me who I value both dislike the vanity aspect and ask "what is it you want to say, which demands you be the one to say it" and I reflect on that a lot.

I don't have an answer but I do think "it's cathartic" is part of things. Being able to make a position clear in writing to others is beneficial, it changes a dialogue of unequal capacity face to face, of fast speakers and slow thinkers, into one of more considered writing. And, you can chose to filter or not, you can decide to remove the comments which are intolerable, or even just disagreeable (or not: sometimes, making it plain other people don't agree is the whole point)

I value other people's writing online immensely. I'd like to be part of the community who do it out of core drive, desire, but I am mindful I have people in my life who are very oppositional. To them, it has significantly less value, or even negative value. Primarily, to loss of privacy.

Privacy is a wall it's almost impossible to replace, once breached.

[1: I'm not here to spruik my blog. I am part of a team doing this as well as podcasting. We're reasonably successful in terms of readership, listership and referral/linkage.]
In a rapid fire succession, I can see this happening. I personally call this “I just want to get this over with” bias. In an interview setting, I have never completed more than 1-2 interviews in a single day so this doesn’t apply. Maybe hiring managers or recruiters have this bias more than me.
> We hold the power in that we elect the public officials.

Very optimistic attitude!
>Also weird that BBC is already memory-holing that it was a gunshot wound.

A YT video speculated (wildly one would say) about someone's recent death simply because the cause was not announced by the family as it was under (UK) inquest. In some jurisdictions it is inappropriate (or even illegal) to state or speculate on a cause of death when it is under investigation as a suspected suicide, even just to limit the possibility of copycat or revenge cases: Only since 2016 is it legal (in NZ) to report, broadcast or even post on the internet that a death is a suspected suicide before the coroner releases their findings. AFAIK, posting any details about _the method_ is still not allowed in NZ.

This may sound antiquated (and frustrating) in an age of instant news, but jumping to conclusions can have real consequences, at least legally in some edge cases.
I used to develop apps and websites in the pharma space. It’s a heavily regulated field that requires submitting wireframes and functional specs to the FDA for compliance purposes.

This ended up creating a huge waterfall before any code was written and usually locked in the requirements - but the devs and designers had their guardrails and specifications so they could both go off on their merry way for a couple of months.

I was surprised how alien this process was when getting into start up’s but there’s obviously a middle ground of light wireframes and review before you find out all of the horrible details that weren’t covered by the individual teams.
Even following all of this very closely it's hard to tell where the ceiling is, there are constant improvements, in 1 year or so we've seen at least 3 generations of significant performance upgrades.

I have not read the report, what are the reasons they recommend such drastic measures?
You have a whiff of finding non existent issues in other people’s lives when no one asked for your advice.
You don't know what you're talking about.

LCDs were completely unusable until the mid 2000s, even then they were all 60Hz/75Hz with no black frame insertion, which made any animation what so ever, even text scrolling blurred to crap. It took me years to figure out that this was why I suddenly couldn't read any text scrolling on logs on terminals.

Yes, CRTs, flicker, it's a feature, it prevents motion blur. You're meant to put them up to 85Hz or so and flicker becomes less of an issue. There are two different types of flicker, the flicker fusion threshold, which is when humans still see flicker when looking directly at a flickering light source, and just general perceptible flicker, which can be seen easier at the corner of your eyes and in my experience goes up to 100s of Hz. The latter is an issue for all CRTs, and basically all LCDs up until 2015 or so when they started pushing flicker free. Before 2015, basically all LCDs flickered, typically between 100Hz-300Hz, and it was always visible, and also left artifacts on the screen during image panning (such as in a 3D game or when scrolling a map).

Yes, low end CRTs had lots of blur but by the late 90s any mid ranged model had somewhat acceptable levels of blur, and moreover much less blur than you get the moment an image pans across an LCD. As an experiment, if you simply move an image across the screen at 15pixels per frame on a 60Hz LCD, it will already be blured to hell.

Those Apple monitors have terrible grainy coating which some monitors choose to have for some reason. There's no tradeoff there, since there are plenty of LCDs without it. They also have bad viewing angles like all IPS contrary to marketing. The only advantage they have is high pixel density, and high color gamut which may or may not be functional or desirable but this is another can of worms. Wide gamut on a monitor is not just automatically good.
For anyone deeply familiar with building one: what are the biggest problems you run into 3 months in that you didn't foresee?

Just curious because IME that's the point where the fun problems surface :)
Awesome, always great to see more task/job libraries...

I have used this sort of thing a lot though, and something I often find both essential, and overlooked is you really need something like `cr_task_sync_and_do_work` that isn't just entirely blocking on the current thread. Since as you build systems on this sort of API, you very quickly get bound by threads just stuck waiting on their children jobs.

Having said that, I realize that complicates the implementation quite a bit. The most elegant approach I have seen is one where you put tasks on fibers, and when you sync, instead of entering a sync loop, or waiting on a mutex, you instead suspend the fiber in the awaiting job, and put it back on the task queue. This was detailed by Naughty Dog in their Job System talk at GDC: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naug...
This is exactly why they tell you to do this. Turbulence occurs in all aircraft.
Not an expert but have worked on similar stuff and there’s no specific controls that I know of around specifically verifying that the account owner sees these things, just that they’re made available and the account is notified.
I felt the same, so bought a then 6-month old preowned Pixel 6 in as-new condition.
Right, but most deviations one can think of (like, changes over time to physical "constants") would have an observable effect, so ancient galaxies would look much more different from modern galaxies and spectra wouldn't look the same other than a red shift, which moves all the lines in a uniform way.
Perception is just a horrible thing.

The fact that reality is WILDLY different for two people simply based on how they perceived it is exhausting.

Also it actually sums up why I hate managing people. Everyone is the star of their own show, and managing them is about showing them all the other actors. It's exhausting.
And, in all of them, each copy of me believes the least likely explanation the least.
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I’m confused because there are such things. What you want here is authentication, and there are hashing modes which provide that.
No. NZ law is completely irrelevant to a UK news source's reporting on a U.S. death.

And the source is the man's attorney. https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/boeing-whist...
What would it take for Kotick to actually be the frontman for Elon Musk?

Elon Musk already has Twitter. If he somehow was able to quietly acquire the US TikTok operations, it would make him a very powerful person with massive reach.
I'm confused, if the dishwasher takes 4 hours and the cleaners clean for 5 hours, why do the guests have to start the dishwasher?
That's to make it thread safe without the GIL.

If you only care about single thread there's all kinds of stuff you can do.
And if your guest don’t remove the sheets after they sleep on them?
https://www.cookingissues.com/index.html%3Fp=1464.html
The Roku lawyers seem to be defending specifically against this.

The new terms have language that say that if enough people enter arbitration at the same time, they have to do one big "mass arbitration."
Fake Leather wallet app on Apple App Store is a crypto drainer
The Surprising Impact of 1% Packet Loss
The SQLite docs have a great page on the use case `asa400` describes.

SQLite as an Application File Format, https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
Related, David Chang's chicken soup recipe (he did a video on it on the first season of Mind of a Chef) --- poach the chicken by itself, and make a vegetable stock on the side, then dose the vegetable and chicken stock to taste in the final plated dish.
> In other terms, WPT test failures for Safari means Safari has bugs or unsupported features that both Firefox and Chrome do not have.

Yep! Safari is not the browser for people who need cutting-edge features, especially not for ones still at the proposal stage.
Is it? Just a plain fact. At least in the US
They are an incredibly shitty company.

As late as last year, and possibly even now, they were STILL charging extra if you wanted to use TLS connections for email. Otherwise, they're more than happy to allow connections with passwords over cleartext.

Their failure modes for all sorts of things is to default to pointing everything at their servers.

I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to charge extra for "premium" registrar features like adding glue for nameservers.

Anyone using them should move away as soon as humanly possible, even though they make it incredibly difficult to do so.
> How do we know that galaxies are accelerating away from us and not moving at constant speed?

More precisely, we see that galaxies started accelerating away from us a few billion years ago; before that they were decelerating (moving away from us but with the "speed" decreasing instead of increasing).

> People often point to the observation that the further away a galaxy is, the faster it appears to be moving away from us, implying acceleration.

That observation tells us that the universe is expanding, but by itself it does not tell us whether the expansion is accelerating or decelerating or neither. So you are correct that that observation alone is not sufficient to show that the expansion is accelerating.

What we look at to see how the expansion rate changes with time is a comparison of three pieces of observed data, galaxy by galaxy: redshift, brightness, and angular size. The relationship between these three quantities is what cosmologists use to construct a model of the expansion history of the universe, which in turn tells us things like what I said above, that the expansion has been accelerating for the last few billion years but before that it was decelerating.
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Different one, but in the same vein: https://ambicular.com
Yup, details on stocks go back to Escoffier and

A. Escoffier,
'Le Guide Culinaire:
The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery',
Translated by
H. L. Cracknell and R. J. Kaufmann,
ISBN 0-8317-5478-8,
Mayflower,
New York,
1982.

For beef stock, Escoffier wants bones of old cattle -- so, could use retired bulls and/or dairy cattle.
Apparently retired cattle are a source of beef for the fast food hamburger restaurants.

Instead of vegetable stock I just make vegetable soup. I use a 16 quart stock pot and add onions and red potatoes (both browned in olive oil), canned peas, carrots, corn, beans, 10 pounds of frozen mixed vegetables, garlic, thyme, basil, oregano, canned crushed tomatoes, salt, pepper.

Sooo, that mixture makes its own vegetable stock!

I bring the pot to a simmer to sterilize.

I make a flavor mixture: 1 cup of each of soy sauce, BBQ sauce, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce.

Just before serving, I add some water (don't have much in the 16 quart pot) and some of flavor mixture. It tastes good!
I do this when I get a roast chook (also at some carrot, onion and whatever else is wilting in the fridge), but the resulting stock isn't as flavourful as a dedicated chicken stock. I think since the bones have already been cooked, they've leeched some of their flavour into the meat. Also, there's just not enough quantity of bone from one (small) roast chicken (unless you're making a small amount of stock)
I think we're probably heading toward another AI winter anyway, so this would be like the government covering it up until things thaw again.

But anyway, there's no way to enforce not running certain programs without some kind of Orwellian surveillance baked in to hardware that I would abhor more than Roko's basilisk, and you now make the people at the forefront of the technology criminals and geopolitical adversaries. It would be an ultra-bonehead move. As always, technology and law don't mix well.
This is absolutely glorious.

Days after forcing it's users into mandatory arbitrations this comes out.

Would be awesome if holding someone's TV hostage until they agree to not sue you was illegal.
You're not throwing out flavor, though. It's the same thing with braises: you generally want two sets of veg, one (very roughly chopped, to make it easy to pull) to braise with, and one (presentation cut) to finish with. After a log cook, vegetable matter is just soggy fiber.
We're a bit late for that.

But to some extent it only proves the point. Boeing has been fucking up so badly for so long that the Feds won't give them anything that isn't a fixed price contract.
yeah fair enough :) i am unfortunately not driven enough on diffusion models yet to need to dive into those but i hope a future seeker finds your references here.
I guess it relates to blog articles with lists.
where my list is a product itself and pretty relevant for everyone here.
Am I wrong?
Airbus HQ
Agreed. But then if a parent patent is recalled or otherwise labeled as dangerous, all child patents should need to reapply and cite why they shouldn’t be recalled as well.

Currently there is NO process for that. (As of the last time I watched that documentary, admittedly)
They excel in sucking so much that people are afraid to move away and continue to pay $100 a year or more to just register a domain with "features" that aren't of use to anyone.
The military and intelligence apparatus does not care

You don't need the whole apparatus, just someone who has been trained by it and is morally flexible. Well, you don't even need that, but obviously people with professional experience tend to do a better job.

We do not have evidence yet of this being a murder-for-hire or similar, but you're insisting on the impossibility of such when in reality it's not all that unusual. Excluding it as a possibility is just as much cognitive bias as assuming it to be true.
I don’t see how security cameras impacts the economics of running an Airbnb.
You've earned the owner a new boat after taxes.

If you made it yourself you could direct it in a way that makes an impact.
Create More, Consume Less (2021)
> way to know you are falling is to see something that isn't

What would one of those things be?
Warning for Linux users, it's only available packaged as a flatpak. Otherwise it requires Meson to build.
The world is definitely going to heavily deglobalize. Globalization of general trade piggybacked specifically on the US Navy securing petroleum shipping.

With the bakken shake and alternate energy vastly decreasing the geopolitical significance of oil shipping, and the possible demographic and totalitarian collapse of China, manufacturing will near shore in the coming decades.

If the human race was capable of proactively mitigating global warming effects on the poor, it would be capable of mitigating global warming itself. Since we cannot, the poor are going to be some object to a simpler, cruel calculus.

We saw this in the Syrian crisis which is about 1/100 the scale of probable displacements to come
I am curious if any of these concepts derive somehow from some physics principles? Like the same way neural networks are modeled after biological neural networks? Maybe you have some insights on that conception?
I’d much rather use Hy, to be honest. at least parentheses hark from a more civilized time :)
Is GCD eveb used anymore?
If we can travel faster than light, that would blow up all the theories that say that we cannot. And FTL travel would imply time travel (if in your reference frame, something is traveling faster than light, there's another reference frame where it is going backwards in time). A lot of science fiction just sweeps this under the table and pretends that we have Newtonian absolute time to go along with the FTL travel.
In summary, AI implemented in weapons systems present a tangible threat, along with AI trained past a certain order of magnitude potentially being adversarial to humans by default while not revealing its alignment.
> Conspiracy theorists love conspiracy theories because they allow them to feel smarter than the “sheeple” that believe the official story. [...] Sorry but couldn’t be me, I am not dumb enough to fall for that cognitive hazard.

You're right, you'd have to be a total idiot to structure your worldview around the assertion that you're smarter than everyone else.
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> According to this government-commissioned report

I feel like I can guess their stance on the topic without even knowing what it is.
> potentially affecting 15,363 individuals in the United States, including 76 in the state of Maine.

Odd that Roku singles out the 0.5% of users affected within the state of Maine. Must be related to some sort of Maine data breach law? I didn't dig too deeply, but not seeing anything explicitly called out in their statutes [0].

[0] https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/statutes/10/title10sec13...
> You don't know what you're talking about.

I used CRT for years until 2024 and I've lost count of how many Dell Ultrasharp and Apple LCD screens I've owned.

> LCDs were completely unusable until the mid 2000s

We're talking about monitors today. 2024. I switched to LCD in the mid 2000's when they became usable.

> Yes, CRTs, flicker, it's a feature, it prevents motion blur. You're meant to put them up to 85Hz or so and flicker becomes less of an issue.

It's a feature that I hated and caused a lot of pain. Maximum mine could do was 75 Hz. An 85 Hz screen was very expensive back then. And the flicker would still be crap even at 85 Hz.

> As an experiment, if you simply move an image across the screen at 15pixels per frame on a 60Hz LCD, it will already be blurred to hell.

Talking about the blurry low resolution. LCD is sharp. Not talking about pixel response time. We have 144hz+ LCD screens now. There were no 4k CRT displays BTW. Pixel response time on gaming LCDs is 1ms nowadays.

> Those Apple monitors have terrible grainy coating

Apple displays are glossy, not matte. The matte coating is optional on external XDR displays. Typing this comment now on my Apple 16" XDR display which is glossy, like a CRT. No grainy matte coating on this screen.
CRT black levels compared to LCD are night and day. Even a game like Genshin Impact (shit game I know, but it has good graphics) looks unimaginably better on CRT than any LCD, due to the high contrast as a consequence of the low black level. CRTs generally have less reflection than a glossy LCD due to some different kind of coating or glass treatment hard to find info on it). Last summer I used a CRT that is 99% dead (99% brightness / contrast) with the windows open every day letting sun in on a ~90 degree angle, and there was never an issue, nor with cheaper ones.
The header dictionary for http2 makes large headers like cookies less of an issue:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/hpack-the-silent-killer-feature-...

Which means it's only sent once per connection.
> I think people have been a little ungenerous with your comment.

Eh - I engaged with a fraught topic in a snarky way without clarifying that I meant the unintuitive-but-technically-literally-accurate interpretation of my words. Maybe some people have been less-generous than they could have been, but I don't begrudge it - if I look sufficiently like a troll, I won't complain when I get treated like one. Not everyone has the time and mental fortitude to treat everyone online with infinite patience and kindness - I know I sure don't.

Thank you for the support, though!
So the main question is: if I rewrite it in rust, but use Copilot, should I even bother?
how does one get from the us to france, quickly?
Ah, sorry I meant in test.c. I was nodding off when I wrote that comment