Hacker News: bmh100

New comment by bmh100 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)"

bmh100 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:43:54 +0000

  Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, SQL, Qlik Sense / Tableau / PowerBI, Clojure, Fortran, JavaScript, data science, machine learning, business intelligence, analytics
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19o8YcY-fPJuzJO1UjJ1YO8jz445iqByf/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109552050695294239547&rtpof=true&sd=true
  Email: hn [at] qwerty0 [dot] mozmail [dotcom]

New comment by bmh100 in "Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate"

bmh100 — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:07:38 +0000

Meta has committed to embracing remote. They are even shutting down some office buildings. Too many employees don't even live near an office.

New comment by bmh100 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)"

bmh100 — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:30:48 +0000

Location: New York, NY

Remote: Yes (only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, SQL/Presto/Spark, Hive, Qlik Sense, JavaScript, Clojure, Fortran, Ruby

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XLVz0fREYTGu6bOi1xW1bd0ofBJ...

Email: bryanhimes at gmail dot com

I have 12 years of experience, including working at Meta, and I'm looking for full-time and part-time roles.

New comment by bmh100 in "AI models that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest"

bmh100 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:35:09 +0000

The issue with data leakage can be handled through k-fold cross-validation, in which all of the data takes turns as either training data or test data.

Lumafield CT Shows How iPods Put 1k Songs in Your Pocket

bmh100 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:07:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/ipod-evolution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33290435

Points: 2

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New comment by bmh100 in "Competitive Programming with AlphaCode"

bmh100 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:59:23 +0000

On the other hand, as the value of an hour of programming increases, the quantity demanded may also increase.

New comment by bmh100 in "Competitive Programming with AlphaCode"

bmh100 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:57:04 +0000

Not necessarily. Demand may be much higher than available supply right now. Tech companies will continue to compete, requiring spending on developers to remain competitive. Software is unlike manufacturing, in that the output is a service, not a widget. Worker productivity in general has not decreased the demand for full work weeks, despite projections in the early 20th century to the contrary. Of course, it is possible that fewer developers would be needed, but I don't think it's likely, yet.

New comment by bmh100 in "No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption"

bmh100 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:48:03 +0000

Consider the manager of a fast-food restaurant.

New comment by bmh100 in "No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption"

bmh100 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:34:41 +0000

A third way would be to use a neural network to analyze a message before encryption, or to duplicate the message for receipt by the service provider.

New comment by bmh100 in "A delightful quirk of relativity theory"

bmh100 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:36:28 +0000

In science, when testing the existence of something, the burden of proof is generally on the one hypothesizing the existence. The existence is generally accepted if experiments fail to reject the hypothesis.

New comment by bmh100 in "Dear sir, you have built a compiler"

bmh100 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:37:29 +0000

The nerve and brain concept sounds fascinating, but I don't have enough background in sensors to quite grasp what you mean. Could you please provide a specific example?

New comment by bmh100 in "When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost"

bmh100 — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:48:19 +0000

The entire subgenre of military scifi or military space opera is full of stories that would translate well into a visual medium, with plenty of action. I've read many but haven't seen any adapted yet.

New comment by bmh100 in "When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost"

bmh100 — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:46:26 +0000

They are written in a childish manner: the white knight, the highly assertive love interest, the sociopath who wishes he could be a good guy, and the cowboy. Their personalities are unrealistic in ways that I would attribute to a young teenager. That said, the quirks of these trope-like characters is sometimes amusing. I enjoy the series mainly for the protomolecule plot, despite the characters.

New comment by bmh100 in "Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test"

bmh100 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:01:27 +0000

The quote from John Wheeler is, “Matter tells Spacetime how to curve, and Spacetime tells matter how to move.”

New comment by bmh100 in "Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel"

bmh100 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 21:37:17 +0000

If the student ID is from a public university, is that not state-issued?

New comment by bmh100 in "Psychonetics: A nerd's toolset to work with mind and perception"

bmh100 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:59:40 +0000

No one owns any religion, not even the Pope or the Dalai Lama. There is no "territory" to "colonize", and I haven't seen any evidence of racial superiority being a motivation. People develop their own belief systems over time. Did Gautama Buddha erase traditional Hindu voices when he spread his new religion in India? Was Gautama Buddha motivated by a feeling that his Nepal race was superior to the Hindu Indo-Aryans? Did Gautama Buddha seek to "colonize" the Indian subcontinent somehow?

New comment by bmh100 in "Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks"

bmh100 — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:34:58 +0000

9.2 million parameters per neuron. There an estimated 86 billion neurons in the human brain [0] and 19 billion in the neocortex [1]. That means that, for this strategy to emulate a human brain or neocortex would require 791 quadrillion parameters or 175 quadrillion parameters, respectively. The largest ANN built so far, GPT-3, has 175 billion parameters [2]. We are 6 orders of magnitude from being able to pull it off.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9215725/

[2]: https://siliconangle.com/2021/08/04/microsoft-researchers-re...

New comment by bmh100 in "New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN"

bmh100 — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 22:45:59 +0000

The aliens specifically wanted Earth because of its life. A nuclear war would damage the planet's ecosystem too much.

New comment by bmh100 in "A URL Lengthener"

bmh100 — Fri, 14 May 2021 20:19:17 +0000

Slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a good, self-hosted URL shortener?

New comment by bmh100 in "Screw it, I’ll host it myself"

bmh100 — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:07:43 +0000

I'd be willing to pay for a little consulting time about how to set up everything.