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Re:15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test on Saturday June 20, 2026 @09:55PM (#48614947)
And it's relatively easy to get a prescription for since it's a PEP drug for high -er risk sexual activities.
Re: on Thursday February 26, 2026 @08:16PM (#47174996)
We'll be running an Apache Spark community sprint centered on helping folks get their first PRs into the Apache Spark project on March 13th (Friday) from 12:00-7:00 PM at the Snowflake Bellevue Office :)
Admittedly just one part of the insurance paperwork but we're working on automating appeals at Fight Health Insurance / Fight Paperwork :) ( https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ / https://www.fightpaperwork.com/ )
I created a new AI tool ( https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ ) to generate health insurance appeals. The code & model are both open ( https://github.com/orgs/totallylegitco/repositories & https://huggingface.co/TotallyLegitCo )
Re:Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors on Monday January 01, 2024 @07:28PM (#38836653)
I think a world without any form of meaningful protection or regulation sounds very dystopian and not like one I would choose to live in under our current capitalist society.

Even the author of the “theorem” you cite indicated that he didn’t believe it to be practical.

Re:My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:41PM (#34746300)
Only the flipside, QSBS shares have some great tax advantages if you think you might have a traditional "exit" at some point.
Re:How to store your app's entire state in the url on Monday January 09, 2023 @03:50PM (#34315835)
I did something similar using Racket's (nee PLT scheme) web programming module ( https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/hosc07-sk-mf.pdf ) back with an app that got on slashdot -- https://github.com/holdenk/web2.0collage

The theory was wonderful (yay! stateless load balancer etc.) but in practice browsers at the time were less than happy with trying to store that much state in the URL.

Re:Musk’s Twitter Purchase Was a Leveraged Buyout on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:24PM (#33470397)
This matches the "cut infra cost by 1` billion" demand he made as well - https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-i...
Re:New OSS Satellite Communication Device on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:25PM (#32827432)
If you've wanted to add satellite communication to your IoT project but traditional pricing has turned you off, we're kickstarting a new device (using an existing LEO constellation).
Re:Ask HN: Why are distributed systems so polarizing? on Friday August 12, 2022 @01:34PM (#32441640)
This is so true. Hire a bunch of senior engineers to solve junior level problems and they'll turn the junior level problems into senior level problems :p
Re:Intel's “Cripple AMD” Function (2019) on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:49PM (#30935282)
Huh I had wondered why I saw so many Python packages blacklist MKL now I know why.
Re:USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) on Monday April 04, 2022 @05:15PM (#30912024)
I like the tear-down approach, I wish it was more common for these devices to say what chips they used.
If anyone wants to chat about Spark or related stuff I would totally do that for money.
As an author I _love_ feedback especially things where I can fix it / improve it.
Re:Resources to encourage children to learn to code on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:07PM (#30275914)
I've been working on a book to teach kids data parallel distributed computing with Python and PySpark (Distributed Computing 4 Kids), if anyone wants an early review copy let me know :)

or give your e-mail at https://www.distributedcomputing4kids.com/ :)

Re:Why and How I Got My Own ASN on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:29PM (#30184315)
So they don't do dedicated boxes (sadly), they rent by the rack (including 1gb of transit + 15A power). https://he.net/colocation.html has the info. If you just want a dedicated box that isn't drawing a lot of power I've probably got some room in my rack and we can chat (and I imagine some of the other BGP for fun group folks are in similar positions).
Re:Why and How I Got My Own ASN on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:54AM (#30180160)
If anyone is in the bay area and wants to run physical hardware and peer with folks, FCIX down in the HE facility in Fremont is very welcoming to small networks and doesn't have port fees (although you do need to be in the HE facility).
Re:Daddy isn’t coming back on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @05:07PM (#29259493)
My partner and I talked about our health (and mental health) in the context of deciding if we wanted to be parents to a kid. I like to think that's a normal enough conversation to have.
Re:“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.” on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:01PM (#28449163)
Apache Beam _can be_ but this person is talking about using it inside of Google (e.g. as the Dataflow API) and with a Google service. I think the comparison is on the money. That being said I think the best way forward would be both google cloud support & a JIRA ticket.

Although, to a degree, I think the authors complaint about Google's mentality towards open source is on the money, a lot of the OSS work is understaffed with the theory that the community will pick up the slack, even when the primary users of the OSS project would be Google customers.

(Full disclosure: I work on Apache Spark for my day job, have previously worked on Apache Beam for my day job, and have friends who work on Bigquery so my world view is maybe skewed).

So one of the things to remember about Google is the desire to increase attrition of senior employees (e.g. those with the most flexibility to move elsewhere). It's.... weird, but it would totally match.
Re:Airflow 2.0 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @02:11PM (#25459095)
Congratulations on the release :)
I've worked at small companies while on an H1B, if you look at the who's hiring posts on HN I think you will see many places willing to sponsor H1s, so it's not just big companies.
Re:AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:00PM (#23480759)
So serious answer:

I worked for Amazon because they recruited from my University and it was my first after graduation job. I'd had some internships, but I didn't have a large network or a lot of options.

Except in places like San Francisco with rent-controlled housing.
Re:Crypto Fund II on Thursday April 30, 2020 @08:11PM (#23037774)
It was my understanding that in the current system merchants tend to eat the cost of fraud under our current system (see charge backs, rolling reserves, etc.)

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