Hacker News: ahalbert4

It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

ahalbert4 — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:59:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175140

Points: 314

# Comments: 763

Earth Live Data

ahalbert4 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:14:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.earthlivedata.com/earth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546990

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

If You Write a Series of Blog Posts, Please Link Them at the Beginning

ahalbert4 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:01:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ahalbert.com/blog/2026/03/19/series.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453389

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

ahalbert4 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:03:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ahalbert.com/reviews/2026/03/18/the_body_snatchers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431418

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Vim-gramaculate: Vim grammar checker, powered by AI

ahalbert4 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:36:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ahalbert/vim-gramaculate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376541

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting

ahalbert4 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:19:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ahalbert.com/reviews/2026/02/26/cribsheet.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165069

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahalbert4 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)"

ahalbert4 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:39:07 +0000

  Location: Chicago, IL
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: SQL, Python, Java, Golang, Kafka, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift
  Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6l07cbd0gfzeefbjhvlbk/armand_halbert_resume.pdf?rlkey=3gqw4uw0krr6wq522h5epk6j9&st=icuaqeic&dl=0
  Email: armand [dot] halbert [at] gmail.com

I am a Software Engineer/Data Engineer with 10 years of experience in industry building APIs and ETL Pipelines in the pharmaceutical, retail and finance industry. I think of myself as some who bridges the gap between data and code, able to build a service that enables you to generate critical insights for your business. If you need a petabyte scale ETL pipeline built (real-time or batch), or debug why a dashboard or critical report is failing under time pressure, I'm your person.

Side projects: I develop small programming languages for text editing in my spare time.

https://www.ahalbert.com/projects/ted/ted.html

https://ahalbert.github.io/strawk/demo/strawk.html

New comment by ahalbert4 in "The Art of the Critic"

ahalbert4 — Fri, 30 May 2025 16:24:47 +0000

Vladimir Nabokov's opinions on various writers, culled from Strong Opinions. (http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations)

* James, Henry. Dislike him rather intensely, but now and then his wording causes a kind of electric tingle. Certainly not a genius.

New comment by ahalbert4 in "Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services"

ahalbert4 — Fri, 30 May 2025 14:54:02 +0000

Just curious, has anyone used FIS in their own distributed services? I'm considering using it but don't have any real word experience handling those kind of experiments.