bmh100
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)
on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @06:43PM (#45444494)
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, SQL, Qlik Sense / Tableau / PowerBI, Clojure, Fortran, JavaScript, data science, machine learning, business intelligence, analytics
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19o8YcY-fPJuzJO1UjJ1YO8jz445iqByf/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109552050695294239547&rtpof=true&sd=true
Email: hn [at] qwerty0 [dot] mozmail [dotcom]
Re:Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate
on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:07PM (#34889640)
Meta has committed to embracing remote. They are even shutting down some office buildings. Too many employees don't even live near an office.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)
on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:30PM (#34225240)
Location: New York, NY
Remote: Yes (only)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, SQL/Presto/Spark, Hive, Qlik Sense, JavaScript, Clojure, Fortran, Ruby
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XLVz0fREYTGu6bOi1xW1bd0ofBJ...
Email: bryanhimes at gmail dot com
I have 12 years of experience, including working at Meta, and I'm looking for full-time and part-time roles.
Re:AI models that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might...
on Friday October 21, 2022 @05:35PM (#33293292)
The issue with data leakage can be handled through k-fold cross-validation, in which all of the data takes turns as either training data or test data.
Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:59PM (#30183995)
On the other hand, as the value of an hour of programming increases, the quantity demanded may also increase.
Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:57PM (#30181245)
Not necessarily. Demand may be much higher than available supply right now. Tech companies will continue to compete, requiring spending on developers to remain competitive. Software is unlike manufacturing, in that the output is a service, not a widget. Worker productivity in general has not decreased the demand for full work weeks, despite projections in the early 20th century to the contrary. Of course, it is possible that fewer developers would be needed, but I don't think it's likely, yet.
Re:No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption
on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:48PM (#29986434)
Consider the manager of a fast-food restaurant.
Re:No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption
on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:34PM (#29986236)
A third way would be to use a neural network to analyze a message before encryption, or to duplicate the message for receipt by the service provider.
Re:A delightful quirk of relativity theory
on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:36PM (#29985368)
In science, when testing the existence of something, the burden of proof is generally on the one hypothesizing the existence. The existence is generally accepted if experiments fail to reject the hypothesis.
Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler
on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:37PM (#29927225)
The nerve and brain concept sounds fascinating, but I don't have enough background in sensors to quite grasp what you mean. Could you please provide a specific example?
Re:When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision G...
on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:48PM (#29084796)
The entire subgenre of military scifi or military space opera is full of stories that would translate well into a visual medium, with plenty of action. I've read many but haven't seen any adapted yet.
Re:When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision G...
on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:46PM (#29084771)
They are written in a childish manner: the white knight, the highly assertive love interest, the sociopath who wishes he could be a good guy, and the cowboy. Their personalities are unrealistic in ways that I would attribute to a young teenager. That said, the quirks of these trope-like characters is sometimes amusing. I enjoy the series mainly for the protomolecule plot, despite the characters.
Re:Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test
on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @07:01PM (#28924811)
The quote from John Wheeler is, “Matter tells Spacetime how to curve, and Spacetime tells matter how to move.”
Re:Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide P...
on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:37PM (#28870498)
If the student ID is from a public university, is that not state-issued?
Re:Psychonetics: A nerd's toolset to work with mind and perception
on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:59PM (#28866845)
No one owns any religion, not even the Pope or the Dalai Lama. There is no "territory" to "colonize", and I haven't seen any evidence of racial superiority being a motivation. People develop their own belief systems over time. Did Gautama Buddha erase traditional Hindu voices when he spread his new religion in India? Was Gautama Buddha motivated by a feeling that his Nepal race was superior to the Hindu Indo-Aryans? Did Gautama Buddha seek to "colonize" the Indian subcontinent somehow?
Re:Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks
on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:34AM (#28157632)
9.2 million parameters per neuron. There an estimated 86 billion neurons in the human brain [0] and 19 billion in the neocortex [1]. That means that, for this strategy to emulate a human brain or neocortex would require 791 quadrillion parameters or 175 quadrillion parameters, respectively. The largest ANN built so far, GPT-3, has 175 billion parameters [2]. We are 6 orders of magnitude from being able to pull it off.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain
[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9215725/
[2]: https://siliconangle.com/2021/08/04/microsoft-researchers-re...
Re:New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN
on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:45PM (#28013344)
The aliens specifically wanted Earth because of its life. A nuclear war would damage the planet's ecosystem too much.
Re:A URL Lengthener
on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:19PM (#27159250)
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a good, self-hosted URL shortener?
Re:Screw it, I’ll host it myself
on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:07PM (#26740482)
I'd be willing to pay for a little consulting time about how to set up everything.
Re:Screw it, I’ll host it myself
on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:07PM (#26740477)
I'd be willing to pay for a little consulting time about how to set up everything.
Re:Don’t use environment variables for configuration
on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:19PM (#26666177)
What do you mean about Active Directory?
Re:Launch HN: Axle Health (YC W21) – In-Home Healthcare as a Service
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:21PM (#25934110)
I work in the healthcare advertising space. Let me know if you need some help in that area. My email is in my profile.
Re:UV B LEDs More Effective in Producing Vitamin D3 in Human Skin (2017)
on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:50PM (#24921038)
Vitamin D is extremely important, affecting many areas of life. People don't realize how important until they become extremely deficient.
Re:How We Institutionalized Incompetence
on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:17PM (#24802888)
What is your definition of "government adjacent industries"?
Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:12PM (#24779681)
If you don't my asking, what do you consider to be the best VR headset for sitting?
Re:Six Figures in 6 days
on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:08PM (#24645151)
Some do, yes. I think this is especially true for independent content creators, as one example.
Re:Six Figures in 6 days
on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:23PM (#24642636)
I have to disagree that a major component of success in business is luck, generally speaking. A successful business relies on having repeatable processes that generate profit. If one wants to talk about becoming a billionaire or growing a social media company to the level of IPO, then I concede that an above-average degree of luck is involved.
Re:Six Figures in 6 days
on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:49PM (#24641459)
The problem is that the article does not describe a repeatable process. Maybe the author's experience is repeatable, but that is not part of the content. The most critical component was the marketing, i.e. "going viral" on Twitter. Some marketing firms specialize in doing so and seem to have skill, yet I see no indication of where the author intentionally took steps to achieve that effect. Therefore, yes, it does seem like the author "got lucky".
Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers
on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:49AM (#24640017)
Does anyone have recommendations for a privacy-conscious alternative to the Aria scale and mobile app?