obscuretone

I'm old enough to remember calculators being banned from the classroom because "you won't always have one in your pocket"

Anecdotal as it may be, an investor in a company I used to work for was from Wuhan. He paid $80k USD to get out of the country in December 2019. They knew it was bad then and anyone who could was fleeing.

I've written safety-critical firmware. You'd be surprised :D

If everyone is a little bit responsible then no one is fully responsible.

It’s like dieselgate. Or the Pornhub chaos.

The VP’s tell the directors to get it done. The directors get it done.

There’s a liability force field and those that protect and serve are elevated.

The sky is in fact black at the moment.

Bit of a green hue towards downtown, regional bank creating the Aurora Desjardins

A lot of sites are moving to OTP instead of passwords now.

Make Auth Gmail’s problem.

It’s not a horrible idea in theory.

The best interview question I've learned to ask.

I used to manage the team that built textual scan tools for PornHub.

12 times a second (out of about 5000 uncached requests per second) we caught this shit.

How slow is this?

I need to get around to making a new pihole.

My last one did it over tor and wasn’t noticeably slow

I don't know where you're at but where I live the cops don't investigate petty theft unless there's violence involved.

Godaddy really should be doing this by default.

Alright I'll admit when I'm hilariously out of my league.

The point of the post was mostly "people are state machines too" and arguing we don't even know what we are, how will we evaluate AI? Google was giving me actual results every time I searched, and my pattern-matching-happy brain went along with it :D

I spent a few hours trying to build a quantum markov chain. Working theory was that directing the phase when words appear in the same sentence meant interference would cancel out different meanings of a word.

Then I loaded a Dr Seuss book and `cirq` tried to allocate 64 Petabytes. It doesn't even matter at that point.

Fair enough. I know guys have that gone there. This was a much smaller amateur track in rural Canada.

It’s nice when it’s busy.

When it’s not the cops spend more time hassling cyclists than people openly using meth because « we asked for more enforcement »

RIP Russian comms

Depends on the track I guess.

Burnout almost single-handedly ruined my life. Do not recommend.

that's $200 that could have paid the internet bill that was cut off for being three months behind.

very much so.

I dealt with tech inspections and people would try to go on the track with worn out brakes and suspension all the time. Which is dumb but. So are people.

Even getting to that point means you've gone through the local amateur licence process, shown up to training days, etc.

You have to prove to a bunch of gatekeeping boomers you deserve to race.

As much as I hate carbs, let alone 4 of them, I always felt like I truly owned my '82 Seca

I used to volunteer at a race track. The amount of bureaucratic shit to even get your car on the track makes it not worth it to most people, myself included.

Used to find back corners of industrial parks to have fun. Cops were cool with it. More than a few were there off duty doing the same.

With the exception of assholes, people drive for conditions. Period.

The flow of traffic is always the safest speed. NHTSA and German authorites have papers on this.

It is possible to physically slow cars down with narrower roads, speed bumps, one lane chicanes, etc. It works. Very well.

Four lane split highway with a 30mph sign next to a police station? That's a speed trap and everyone knows it.

Is it even a distinct field? What unique challenges are there spinning up an LLM vs a DB?

Just make it illegal to go faster.

Prototypes.

Have 100% used arduino to PoC industrial electronics in a startup setting.

I do!

Location: Montréal, Canada

Remote: yes please

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Java, C++, embedded, redis, k8s, etc

Resume/CV: Ex Pornhub. API services and industrial / iot background. See https://www.linkedin.com/in/edentremont

Email: evan+hackernews(â)obscuretone(.)com

oh just that last line is beautiful.

correlation doesn't imply causation, but it doesn't refute it either.

As someone who used to interview for my team as we grew; a lot of candidates can't back up what's on their resume. Even simple questions they fall apart.

I tend to just have a conversation. Tell me what you can do, explain some of the details, tell me about the last time you broke production, it's usually enough. I've never made a bad hire knocks on wood

On the other side, I can't get an interview AT ALL right now. Over the years I've sat through garbage interviews with trick questions and brain teasers from people trying to be google, except google long ago realized that doesn't work...