skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: South Florida / Miami / Ft Lauderdale / West Palm Beach

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Email: brentmcahren@gmail.com

Resume: Available upon request via email.

I've had some great luck finding talent on Hacker News in the past so lets give this a shot for myself for the first time.

For the past 8 years, I've led SKULabs, a WMS/ERP solution for fast-growing ecommerce brands, growing from Senior Developer to Head of Product and driving 10x revenue growth. My contributions span product roadmapping, implementing Amazon Well-Architected Framework, optimizing backend Node.js service durability, designing intuitive front-end experiences, managing support teams, providing enterprise WMS consulting for complex implementations, leading sales efforts, and overseeing operational strategy on a P/L basis.

It is extraordinarily rare that I'm on the market and this is my first public post while I'm in the process with several companies in my network.

I'm open to any of the following:

A. Start something new with a small team focusing heavy on the development side.

B. Help a small, early-stage team scale their product and drive growth through a blend of development, management, product strategy, and operations.

C. Join a larger software startup in a product leadership role.

Key Expertise:

MongoDB (>512GB clusters w/ 1ms doc retrieval and reads), Redis/ElastiCache

React, Next.js, Node.js, Bootstrap, MUI

Extensive AWS EC2 experience (ALB/ASG/ECS/VPC) at scale

GitHub Projects, Actions, Workflows

Recruiting and HR

Sales engineering and KPI measurement

Technical compliance with major platforms (Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, TikTok, etc.)

Customer feedback analysis, product roadmapping, and ticket refinement

CI/CD, automated testing, and technical documentation

Knowledge management and troubleshooting complex systems

Business process consulting
Location: UK
Remote: Yes, but will travel occasionally
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Snowflake, SQL (older experience in Go, Java, Scala, MongoDB, Apache Spark)
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jthickpennyryan
Email: jthickpennyryan@gmail.com

Experienced data platform engineer, interested in roles that span across data and infrastructure but a wildcard with a complex problem would also get my attention. I work best on small multidisciplinary teams with a strong sense of ownership
Was working yesterday too.
i use rpi4 running openwrt with an usb to ethernet adapter. Works well and a powerful cpu too for SQM etc.
It looks like the Facebook feature that transforms your image in "3d".
I tried learning to make sourdough bread by reading the Tartine Bread book.

The problem is, baking bread is such a sensual activity.

You need to understand what it feels like when the texture of the dough is right.
You need to learn how to fold and stretch the dough and shape it in ways that are very difficult to describe.
None of this translates well into English, no matter how good of a writer you are. And photos are of limited utility.

Learning in person from a knowledgeable teacher is ideal. Just as with a board game.

But, since we are talking about media here, what helped me the most with bread baking was Instagram.
I watched videos of bakers doing each stage of the process and talking me through it.
I saw the texture of the dough they were using, and how they worked it.

I learned by example.

And I wonder if board games are similar to bread.

Would I rather read a 70-page rule book, or watch someone play the game for a while or teach it to me in a video?

I'd prefer the video content, and then I'd want rulebook as a reference guide rather than a tutorial.
Tools which are not invented cannot be used for good, there is some logic behind that. It is necessary but not sufficient for good. There is also fundamentally a tension between freedom and good. Since being free to use technology also includes being able to use it for evil. Not to mention the track record of trying to enforce "goodness" has been less than promising historically.

And that is before the inherent fundamentals of dual use. There is nothing we could do to keep fire from being fundamentally capable both of keeping someone alive by preventing freezing to death, and sterilization and is usable as a self-replicating weapon of destruction. Basically you can only control how well our surroundings handle being set on fire, not make arson an impossibility.
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. We considered NAT64 as well and looked at some implementations including eBPF-based ones like Cilium.

Glad to know that IPv6-only is working well for you. "In a perfect world…" :)
https://tradingeconomics.com/norway/stock-market

Norway is more profitable than ever.
I could never figure out how much of the employee directed propaganda was from people who were doing it ironically and how much was from people who were drinking the Flavor Aid.

I don't think I saw any posters about carpooling, but if there were any, reprints of the classic [1] would have fit right in with the rest of the posters.

I'm pretty sure I saw this book, but I don't think I saved a copy I don't think they were still printing it when my employer was acquired.

Unfortunately, the propaganda doesn't work Page 110 talks about building trust, but what has FB done to earn your trust lately?

[1] https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/17472/when-you-ri...
I'm not sure what you're arguing for then. Continue apace, where I get a letter every week about entire reams of my personal info leaked because some imbecile didn't set a password on their MongoDB instance?
It's refreshing to see it said out loud today as an ideal, even if they didn't really believe it then nor today, the idea on page 24:

"But what happens when everyone can put their message in front of a lot of people? When the playing field is level? When everyone has a printing press, the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to, Influence can no longer be owned, It must be earned."

I wish people believe(d) in this still today, but we are in a jaded censorship world, and it seems that those who believe in it are labeled extremists.
These wolves are also notable for being in a good/symbiotic relationship with gelada monkeys living there - they don't prey on gelada babies and the monkey's let them freely roam through their herds. It seems also that sometimes those monkey even kind of "domesticate" the puppies of those wolves.
Are you a real person ? Obviously there is more to it than that. Just because you’ve seen Mickey Mouse and can draw you should get to sell anything you can make with his likeness ? Or record any song you’ve heard ?

Obviously there is some gray area in the training conversation but let’s not pretend that these content owner arguments are baseless just to push progress at all costs ahead.

His point stands.
City of the Big Shoulders: two of the same cube resources, I thought, was exchanged for ANY one cube. Turns out it was whatever was LEFT in the market, which is incredibly constraining and frustrating, especially if your opponent ahead in turn order drains the market. Was a nice game up until that point.

Beyond the Sun: We mixed in all the cards with no bias, so the chance of the final point-scoring tech was NOT guaranteed. Made the game very interesting, and we competed for planets more fiercely.

Brew Crafters: I didn't know players could still brew beers when the tokens ran out, which made the race to brew specific beers more interesting! (Turns out you can, which lowers tension quite a bit.)
Superposition as a Super Datalog
> those susceptible for advertising and group think.

That's everyone, including you, no matter how edgelordy you post about 'normies' and how you are above that. See how quickly your brain hands you "McDonalds" and "Disney" when you need an example.

Yes you just used the first one that came to mind, the one that everyone would recognise, that's because billions of dollars keep McDonalds first in mind and universally recognised. And even if you make your personality "I wouldn't eat at McDonalds" that money is getting you to propagate the name on HN, just to remind people it exists and keep people talking about it.
Most likely those are just the states where they already have a tax presence. For whatever reason they happen to currently employ folks in those states so adding employees is easy. Adding new states means getting lawyers and CPA type folks involved which is a hurdle to hiring in larger organizations.
Maybe they should shop here: https://despair.com/collections/demotivators
This is the most pedantic sort of semantic navel-gazing that can only originate in the bowels of an HN thread. Bravissimo, truly.
US has a really strong control over any businesses, when you consider the amount of regulations that exist. Not that regulations are inherently bad, but you have ITAR, EAR, crypto export laws....etc.

Now consider that electronic goods are export controlled, like semiconductors or HPC.

You need special liscenses and documentation if any of your business deals with the ATF regulations, or department of commerce.

Even scientific equipment requires signing for in certain cases.

Not supprised someone got caught trying to get around the rules, it happens occasionally.
Judge reaffirms ruling that invalidated Tesla pay package for Elon Musk
So the new interim co-CEOs are the CFO and a sales/marketing woman nobody heard of? Intel is beyond saving.
The GOP is the party that says government doesn't work, and when put into power, they make it so.
I know like three people who bought cars they couldn't park near their employees in good conscience, and I think there's a point where obvious disparity starts doing things to your brain.

Almost like a "I don't owe, but I should pay more, but I don't owe..." thought process that leads to moral vapor lock.

I think there used to be more release valves for this pressure. There aren't any tithing billionaires, for example.
HotBits: Genuine random numbers generated by radioactive decay (1996)
I knew it was Scary Interesting before clicking. :)
I suspect this would be feasible if filming was accompanied with a depth sensing camera like the Microsoft Kinect. In post production, you could tell roughly how far each pixel is from the camera which could aid in the reconstruction of a 3d scene.

Maybe this could be done with just the aperture and focal distance, which most modern cinema cameras record as they film.
For training AI MLPs to predict time-series data that's known to have sinusoidal behaviors (which might lead to 'reasoning' like it did in LLMs) I bet it's more efficient to first curve-fit the data onto continuous data points, and then convert to frequency domain (like you said, FFT), and then do all the training using just "Frequency Domain" datasets. So then the way the AI would "predict" (run inference) would be by spitting out Frequency Domain predictions, which have to be converted back to 'time domain' to get the 'real output'.

I'm sure the audio-processing AI systems out there are doing something like this already so it would be interesting to try to leverage that stuff by sending it "audio" that's actually just arbitrary time-series data rather than PCM of sound waves.
I felt like 3GS was the best form-factor. Fits so nicely in the hand and you can reach almost the entire screen with your thumb while holding it (more or less). I wish I could have just kept using that forever.
House Covid Committee Final Covid-19 Most Likely Emerged from Wuhan Lab [pdf]
> You have no idea whether Mars is a dead rock or not.

Sure we do. It's a dead rock. All investigations have turned up nothing.

> you have no idea whether it used to be alive or not.

Scientists have given up on it being alive. They're reduced to looking for evidence of ancient life.
What you need to know about SQLite (for Rails)
Ya this article is terrible.

You can use RAII with arena allocation, and you can also defer RAII cleanup to avoid stalls.

Manually calling cleanup functions also has the exact same potential for stalls.

Also perf wise, the only time huge destructor chains are generally triggered is during shutdown. In my app I run millions of destructors on shutdown and it takes about 1 millisecond, it is hardly a noticeable stall. Most of the time during shutdown is actually spent writing & compressing save/cache files, which is irrespective of RAII.
Right, for arithmetic operations, you must have one of:

1. Might crash.

2. Result may not be what you’d expect from conventional math.

3. Inputs and outputs are different types.

4. Nonlinear control flow i.e. exceptions.

Division isn’t even particularly special here. If you have fixed-width integer types (as most languages seem to) then this is a problem for all the basic operators.

3 and 4 are attractive solutions but can get annoying or cause more bugs. (How many catch blocks out there have zero test coverage?) Between 1 and 2, 1 is usually much better.

For cases where the programmer wants 2, you can provide alternate operators. For example, Swift crashes on overflow or with the standard operators, but has variants like &+ for modular arithmetic.
> The synergy drive needs a multi billion dollar semiconductor industry.

Your machine shop needs a multi billion dollar metallurgy industry as well. The difference is mostly the age of the industries, metal working has been around for much longer and the knowledge is nolonger confined to a small group.
I mean Surrey borders on magical as it is... Love that place
Watch hydrogen and oxygen atoms form water in real time
The fresco in the Prometheus goo chamber showed a Xenomorph creature before David had a chance to work with the goo.

I don't mean to nitpick there, it's more a comment on continuity in multiple movies.

I'm an old school Aliens appreciator; I recognize as canon Alien and Aliens, and the Dark Horse comics of the early 90s (80s?). It's easier on my old brain than juggling plots from 20 different people.
Yes but then you lose safety net, so no banking app and let’s agree that grapheneos isn’t exactly beautiful or easy to use. You have no way to pay with the phone outside of Google, most foss app looks ugly and lacks functionalities, even the grapheneos default app icon for some reason are all in a ugly black and white. It’s like privacy require thing to be ugly and janky.
My point is that explaining d2 raid mechanics gave me the chance to iterate on teaching in a targeted, globally understood (so there's a benchmark to compare against), and immediately actionable setting, which allowed me to practice these teaching essentials:

1. Be Concise! More information is not better, in fact it'll just overwhelm your students

1.a. Some details can be skipped entirely, until they become relevant

2. Repeat The Essentials! Repetition helps memorization, and highlights what's important. Some aspects are more important than others.

3. Visual and practical examples a essential! It's almost entirely useless to explain a subject without context or area to experiment in. Polite nods are your best outcome.

3.a. counter-example, the infamous "sudoers" manpage, so bad there's https://m.xkcd.com/1343/ about it. Start with examples, then generalize, not the opposite!

You may notice some contradiction between points 1 and 2. Yes! Finding the right balance is an art.

The challenge for ADHD geeks like me is to avoid the "train-of-thought" infodumping approach, and filtering for what's really the most relevant.
Register article: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/intel_gelsinger_leave...

"At least he'll have company as he joins 15K colleagues headed for the door"

Heyoo!
Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency?
> Who’s the fastest kid on the block now, MATLAB?

Was MATLAB ever the fastest kid?

What's outlined in the article has, from my PoV at least, been true since 1980 at least (and older coders will likely in with earlier tales): handy implementation and simulation libraries generally work and provide good reference results to check against but almost always you can get a magnitude order faster if you can put the time in.

I put the earlier pre-2008 epoch models for earths gravity and magnetics through a similar workout sometime ago, for our use case we spent some time and money to make a custom TI DSP chip pipeline to get the turn around that made data exploration playful rather than an overnight grind.
Your two major problems would both be solved by paying more, but it sounds like they are paying well, according to you?

Genuine interest is not the only way to get great results. Excellent pay can do so as well.

And lack of talent, again, excellent pay.
Then maybe those developers shouldn't be employed. Most of us can't do brain surgery, and yet society trundles on without a million people running around poking frontal lobes. "But I really wanna!" has never been a qualification for any job in the history of jobs.
I would prefer explicit linear types for locks, I find following Rust code using locks is very confusing - like an compiler-enforced call to `defer drop(lock)` to make it clear how it works. But I'm a noob at Rust.
There are a lot of games that are marked broken on Steam Deck that work fine.

On the flip side, there are some games that are marked verified that aren't... exactly playable. They run fine, but they weren't designed for controllers (which IMO should affect the rating, given that they mark down more trivial issues like small text or needing the on screen keyboard to enter a name once).
One thing I found cool about Murderbot is that there's no implication "it" is of any particular gender.

I'm a man, so I went in with my prejudices and automatically assumed Murderbot is a "he". When reading a review that considered it a "she", I re-read most of it and there's no single indication of its gender, if Murderbot even assumes one.

I found that interesting, kind of like that trick Ursula K. Le Guin pulled when she didn't tell her readers Ged from Earthsea was dark skinned.
The problem is that about half the country still sees him as some sort of hero.
Need to generate environments for simulation and training
For users of Node.js, Java, Python and very soon Go -
Valkey-Glide:
https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide
It will stay out of the hand of Redis, can promise that, and if you use another key-val db and want to contribute to its compatibility with it, we will be happy, come talk to us.
I get his point, intellectual "property" boundaries could be limited to public or common benefit (I guess to extend the current interpretation of "fair use").

If we strictly interpret intellectual property, we couldn't have platforms such as Google Search (and some people actually think like this, like News or Images websites).

For now, I guess the main priority could be to fight patents, and software patents in particular. This system is completely obsolete and prevent innovation.

Imagine if Google patented the LLMs and decided to do nothing with them, or if OpenAI said "ok nobody can create LLMs based on Transformers except us".

Even more when it goes around medicine.

Today they patent the blood oxygen sensor, tomorrow it will be the glucose sensor in the Apple Watch.
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Technologies: Python, Django, Javascript, iOS, ML, LLMs, Distributed Systems
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Previously at Facebook, Dendron (YC W21). Engineering leader with 9+ years of experience at both FAANG scale and at startup intensity. I also still build systems and touch code every day so I can IC as well. Primarily looking for opportunities in NYC or remote US, but there's many cities I love. Currently in some conversations with big tech and considering competitive options :)
I tinkered with Wasabi, but their minimum bucket lifetime made it not work out for me.
The market does whatever makes the market the most money. That is frequently not the best thing for you or your country.
We had a lot of up market burger restaurants opened in the UK a few years ago. That trend seems to have passed now and many are closing.
There’s another massive entrapment in 1925 Floyd Collins. It captured the nation radio side for the duration. Not as well known because of media gaps over time. Floyd also didn’t make it out but the engineering / efforts were large similar to John Jones.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/tragedy-at-sand-cave.htm
I agree that this area is more complicated than simple statements will be able to cover, but at first thought I like the idea of some sort of rule for opening up any device that is not being maintained. That when a company decides a device will no longer receive updates, some amount of source code/documentation needs to be released to allow third parties to take over.
I generally hang out with people who don’t give a crap about my occupation. They wouldn’t care if I was a janitor or a physician. Some of them are friends from middle school, some are newer friends. We generally don’t talk about work, we bond over other things.

I don’t know NYC but I hope that out of 20 million people, not all are obsessed with work.
What nobody tells you about documentation (2017) [video]
MicroStrategy Buys More Bitcoin, Chairman Saylor Urges Microsoft to Do the Same
Casual movie goers are a thing of the past
I am not sure it's obvious that you could continue generating from any key image and it wouldn't deteriorate into mush. If you take that museum scene and look at the vase-like display piece while walking around it as much as you can it already becomes fuzzy and has the beginnings of weird artifacts growing out of it.
fantastic

"None of them would admit this, but I think there’s an industry instinct that misery gets results. I think this is mistaken. Misery is a shitty proxy metric for results" +1000
I've also heard of converting stock data into sound, to try to listen to it as music so you can sort of intuitively use the audio part of your brain to predict where the stock market will go next. It's such an obvious idea I'm sure some large investment institutions have tried this. But I bet it failed, because music tends to lock into certain notes, and jump octaves in ways that markets definitely do not!
Good question. One point is that the chemistry is well known by the right kinds of chemists in every country and... doesn't look like that (just as a for instance, a gel that aerosolizes in the ways you'd want for a chemical weapon would be roughly Nobel Prize quality work). Another is that actually quite a bit was known about the Iraqi chemical weapons programs, and published in the UNSCOM Reports, and the level of research to achieve something like that would show up in other places, other sites, other locations, and other people.

Recall that Iraq was well known to have used significant quantities of chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq War (against Iranian and Iraqi civilians): it was only after UN Security Council Resolutions 686 and 687- ending the Gulf War with the liberation of Kuwait- that Iraqi lost the ability to have Weapons of Mass Destruction. And so UNSCOM tracked down a lot of leads and visited a bunch of places inside Iraq for several years, looking for evidence of these, and the idea that Iraq hid the massive programs necessary to develop state-of-the-art technologies like that, and produce them in significant quantities, while remaining totally covert seems unlikely.

Back in 2002 I was an intern at a non-proliferation group in Washington DC, and spent some time talking to a (now sadly deceased) MITRE expert on chemical weapons about all of this, but I didn't take more than 1 year of college chemistry so I'm not an expert on the chemistry myself.
It's an advent calendar design, one puzzle unlocks each day, the rows in the picture where the number and countdown are. You can click rows 1 and 2 now.
My gut tells me that the gut influences behavior.
what about lawyers?
At some point you have to blame the other people who kept it going for 50 years now.