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I really want to try a pawpaw, but have had trouble tracking them down in NYC. I went to the farmers market in late August trying to find some to no avail. I did see a fruiting pawpaw tree at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:05PM (#49895659)
Infinite Jest. Enjoying it so far, but the length keeps on killing me. I'm like 5% of the way in after a couple of weeks...
Clever hacker needs to look up a Bloom Filter
Re:Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:47AM (#48934530)
Not to try to grab any pity, but I have pretty deep experience in the GPU optimization space and have not been able to even get an engineering screen even with referrals.
well this did just happen to me. laid off while taking care of my father in laws estate and my personal belongings were thrown away. 7 years at the company as an EM ftr.
lol at liberate New Yorkers? This has been a godsend as a car owning New Yorker who takes public transit 10+ times a week as well. Less traffic and all the externalities associated.
What are you talking about? The admins current net approval rating is -6.9% https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... Biden was at a +5% net rating at this point in his term
Team Shark Brand here. It's sweeter and spicier, though I do wish it came in a bottle smaller than 750ml...
More RAM and USB-C and will 100% purchase
I've always wondered if some hedge fund uses senator's transactions as input in their model
The filters are more efficient in space and query time at the cost of being immutable after being constructed. There is no Add() operation as there is with the others.
Re:Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:26PM (#21838881)
Multipass was the only way I could get a local k8s install that didn't shred my laptop. Albeit I/O perf was bad, but would build containers on the host and put them in a spot containerd could pick them up in the VM. Worked pretty well, but a bit hairy to set up.
Re:The Intoxicating History of Gin on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:14PM (#21707072)
I thought just a glance towards France was enough for the ol' British Bulldog
Re:The Intoxicating History of Gin on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:59AM (#21702162)
A negroni is equal parts Campari, Vermouth and Gin. Varying the brand of Vermouth or Gin has the biggest impact. Subbing out Campari makes it another cocktail. Should be swapped out for another Amaro (Herbally Bitter Liquer) such as Cynar, Gran Clasico or Brut Americano (never Aperol, too sweet). I'm partial to using Cynar (pronounced chee-nahr) which I've heard be called a Sin-Cyn (sin-chin).

You can also try swapping the gin for whiskey to make a boulvadier and see if that more to your liking as well.

Thanks for the shout out. If anyone has questions or comments feel free to reach out.

Also I'm looking for work so if anyone is interested snag my email from my profile.

As some other posts have pointed out, their algorithm was holding them back not the language.
That'd be nice. For real though I did meet with them after, but it was basically the same as getting a referral so the same interview process which I chose to forgo.
np ;)
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (October 2019) on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:30PM (#21128939)
SEEKING WORK - NYC or Remote

Engineering Leader and Systems Design Consultant

Stack:

- Go & Python

- gRPC & protobuf

- Postgres & Redis

- Kubernetes (AWS, GCP)

Links:

- github.com/buckhx

- https://buckhx.com

- https://uber.buckhx.com

Highlights include:

- Acquiring digital property and media brand from Google

- Site speed optimization leading to 20% increase in MAU

- Modeling Fortune 50 network via 1TB Spark cluster

About: I have experience running software teams and designing systems oriented around the Go programming language. Recently have been interested in applied machine learning and have been working on a project that brings the state of the art BERT NLP model to the Go programming language. I take pride in pragmatic technical leadership and project management.

Seeking: System design consultation in cloud native environments such as Kubernetes, Tech lead or Golang project contributor

Contact: hello -at- buckhx.com

Re:The Rise of the Electric Scooter on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:47PM (#20954910)
To each their own. IDGAF.
Re:The Rise of the Electric Scooter on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:46PM (#20954904)
I take mine over the Williamsburg bridge (3-4% grade) to work every day. I can generally get two commutes on one battery charge, but the speed degrades with lower battery levels so I try to keep charged. If you're on lower battery over a hill, kick-pushing a bit helps a lot.
Re:Why do we use word embeddings in NLP? on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @10:31AM (#20928616)
BERT & GPT-2 are state of the art, pre-trained models with transfer learning in mind.
Re:Ask HN: How do you annotate your data? on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:28AM (#20625986)
Is there a reason you chose to build your own instead of using an off the shelf solution?

Ask HN: How do you annotate your data?

Hey HN,I'm curious how folks annotate their data to be used in ML pipelines (NLP/Vision) and what their experiences have been. Production/applied examples with teams of annotators would be great.From folks I've spoken with these seem to be the most common ways:* Custom Solution * Prodigy * Dataturks * LighttagI'm curious if there are more latent examples leveraging your users such as Google's...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019) on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:26PM (#20326951)
The Infatuation & Zagat | Lead Product Engineer | Full-time | On-Site NYC | https://theinfatuation.com | https://zagat.com

We recently acquired Zagat from Google and are on our way to building the world's greatest restaurant discovery platform. We want to build a community driven content platform on Zagat and make it a direct competitor with crowd-sourced incumbents.

We're looking to build a unified platform with client applications tuned to their use-cases while leveraging concepts like Progressive Web Apps to provide our users with rich experiences. React Native experience would bring a lot to the table as well. There's a ton of exciting work ahead of us and we're building a great team to match it.

Other openings on our careers page include Platform Engineers well-versed in Go and mobile engineers.

https://theinfatuation.com/careers

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