malingo | 11 months ago | on: Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
"when you ask him anything, he never answers 'no' -- he just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough"
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malingo | 1 year ago | on: A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon
No "level set"?? Booo
malingo | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Time Flies
Miles Davis, 1953: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEfofdhwpc
malingo | 1 year ago | on: Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park
Just this morning when I couldn't sleep I was reading the Wikipedia E-M algorithm page with its illustration of clustering the bimodal eruption distribution of Old Faithful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximiza...
malingo | 1 year ago | on: Guide to attending a space launch in person
I've always loved Penn Jilette's account of attending a space shuttle launch:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221026023636/https://www.tumbl...
malingo | 1 year ago | on: Advantages of incompetent management
> Decisions should be made by those with the best information.
Sounds a lot like the Chevron Deference doctrine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949
malingo | 1 year ago | on: Subducting plate structure and megathrust morphology at Cascadia
Obligatory link to "The Really Big One" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
malingo | 1 year ago | on: In Praise of Idleness (1932)
Reminds me a little of hammock-driven development [1]
> the background mind is good at synthesizing things. It's good about strategy
[1] https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
malingo | 1 year ago | on: Prostate cancer cases worldwide likely to double by 2040, analysis finds
PSA tests are easy and cheap enough that any concerning single result should be followed up with several more to see if there's an increasing / accelerating trend. An elevated but flat trend could be BPH, and as others have mentioned, a single elevated result can be caused by many things (prostatitis, etc).
malingo | 2 years ago | on: The Tale of Daniel
The story of Daniel killing the dragon with hair cakes is also pretty good: https://biblehub.com/catholic/daniel/14-26.htm
malingo | 2 years ago | on: Error Handling in Baby Toys
Ha I did the same thing after that apple was on our fridge a few days. I wondered "how does it know which letter tile is inserted?" Looked at the back of a couple of the tiles, sure enough, binary. Good catch on the ASCII values!
malingo | 2 years ago | on: Git as a debugging tool
git diff-tree [1] is also super helpful. I've use it a lot to ensure the codebase after a complex rebase is in an identical state as before.
malingo | 2 years ago | on: Crime rings trafficking sand
"Sand is one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...
malingo | 2 years ago | on: Send Me to Heaven
I had heard of this before..
>Sergey [Brin] wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor.
https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/our-favorite-part-of-...
malingo | 2 years ago | on: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
Still remember seeing the first episode of Æon Flux on late night MTV when I was 13. Good stuff
malingo | 3 years ago | on: Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages
Similar in spirit to the `until` loop.
malingo | 3 years ago | on: Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years
I think it's the certain markets that determine how useful CL is--I'm also in LA. I've mainly dealt in furniture & electronics, and CL in other cities, particularly Minneapolis, was a dream, so good in fact that I didn't know FB marketplace existed until I moved to LA and had to look elsewhere after seeing how bad the CL market for used stuff was.
malingo | 3 years ago | on: Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon
Reliance on the federal government, by state: https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...
malingo | 3 years ago | on: Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
I agree. The same problem (different devs with different settings) is solved by specifying line endings in per-repo .gitattributes files instead of global autocrlf settings. And we all know how much confusion that causes.
malingo | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
GMV | Senior Engineer | Los Angeles / Houston | Hybrid or Full Remote
GMV Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) North America is a small group within GMV and a leading ITS provider across the US, serving public transit agencies, universities, and private operators. Think air traffic control for city bus fleets.
We're looking for a Senior Engineer who is eager to tackle challenging problems in a diverse tech ecosystem: stream processing of telemetry data, web applications and services, on-board vehicle sensors and peripherals, native mobile apps.
Our tech stack: C#, Golang, Kafka, Akka.net, Goka, React, Android, MSSQL, Postgres, Kubernetes
Official job posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2982486975/
Feel free to contact me ([email protected]) with any questions--I've been an engineer at GMV for a few years now and would be happy to answer questions about the engineering team and the company.
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