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New comment by buckhx in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

buckhx — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:37:18 +0000

well this did just happen to me. laid off while taking care of my father in laws estate and my personal belongings were thrown away. 7 years at the company as an EM ftr.

New comment by buckhx in "Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road"

buckhx — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:26:55 +0000

lol at liberate New Yorkers? This has been a godsend as a car owning New Yorker who takes public transit 10+ times a week as well. Less traffic and all the externalities associated.

New comment by buckhx in "The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history"

buckhx — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:25:51 +0000

What are you talking about? The admins current net approval rating is -6.9% https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... Biden was at a +5% net rating at this point in his term

New comment by buckhx in "Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend"

buckhx — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:44:09 +0000

Team Shark Brand here. It's sweeter and spicier, though I do wish it came in a bottle smaller than 750ml...

New comment by buckhx in "Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard"

buckhx — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:19:07 +0000

More RAM and USB-C and will 100% purchase

New comment by buckhx in "Show HN: A tool to scrape senators' stock transactions for your own analysis"

buckhx — Fri, 15 May 2020 15:49:17 +0000

I've always wondered if some hedge fund uses senator's transactions as input in their model

New comment by buckhx in "Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters"

buckhx — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:42:09 +0000

The filters are more efficient in space and query time at the cost of being immutable after being constructed. There is no Add() operation as there is with the others.

New comment by buckhx in "Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation"

buckhx — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 20:26:13 +0000

Multipass was the only way I could get a local k8s install that didn't shred my laptop. Albeit I/O perf was bad, but would build containers on the host and put them in a spot containerd could pick them up in the VM. Worked pretty well, but a bit hairy to set up.

New comment by buckhx in "The Intoxicating History of Gin"

buckhx — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:14:58 +0000

I thought just a glance towards France was enough for the ol' British Bulldog

New comment by buckhx in "The Intoxicating History of Gin"

buckhx — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 13:59:09 +0000

A negroni is equal parts Campari, Vermouth and Gin. Varying the brand of Vermouth or Gin has the biggest impact. Subbing out Campari makes it another cocktail. Should be swapped out for another Amaro (Herbally Bitter Liquer) such as Cynar, Gran Clasico or Brut Americano (never Aperol, too sweet). I'm partial to using Cynar (pronounced chee-nahr) which I've heard be called a Sin-Cyn (sin-chin).

You can also try swapping the gin for whiskey to make a boulvadier and see if that more to your liking as well.

New comment by buckhx in "How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)"

buckhx — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:50:40 +0000

Thanks for the shout out. If anyone has questions or comments feel free to reach out.

Also I'm looking for work so if anyone is interested snag my email from my profile.

New comment by buckhx in "How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)"

buckhx — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:34:56 +0000

As some other posts have pointed out, their algorithm was holding them back not the language.

New comment by buckhx in "How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)"

buckhx — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:32:25 +0000

That'd be nice. For real though I did meet with them after, but it was basically the same as getting a referral so the same interview process which I chose to forgo.

New comment by buckhx in "How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)"

buckhx — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:30:12 +0000

np ;)

New comment by buckhx in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (October 2019)"

buckhx — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:30:47 +0000

SEEKING WORK - NYC or Remote

Engineering Leader and Systems Design Consultant

Stack:

- Go & Python

- gRPC & protobuf

- Postgres & Redis

- Kubernetes (AWS, GCP)

Links:

- github.com/buckhx

- https://buckhx.com

- https://uber.buckhx.com

Highlights include:

- Acquiring digital property and media brand from Google

- Site speed optimization leading to 20% increase in MAU

- Modeling Fortune 50 network via 1TB Spark cluster

About: I have experience running software teams and designing systems oriented around the Go programming language. Recently have been interested in applied machine learning and have been working on a project that brings the state of the art BERT NLP model to the Go programming language. I take pride in pragmatic technical leadership and project management.

Seeking: System design consultation in cloud native environments such as Kubernetes, Tech lead or Golang project contributor

Contact: hello -at- buckhx.com

New comment by buckhx in "The Rise of the Electric Scooter"

buckhx — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:47:10 +0000

To each their own. IDGAF.

New comment by buckhx in "The Rise of the Electric Scooter"

buckhx — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:46:24 +0000

I take mine over the Williamsburg bridge (3-4% grade) to work every day. I can generally get two commutes on one battery charge, but the speed degrades with lower battery levels so I try to keep charged. If you're on lower battery over a hill, kick-pushing a bit helps a lot.

New comment by buckhx in "Why do we use word embeddings in NLP?"

buckhx — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:31:02 +0000

BERT & GPT-2 are state of the art, pre-trained models with transfer learning in mind.

New comment by buckhx in "Ask HN: How do you annotate your data?"

buckhx — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:28:22 +0000

Is there a reason you chose to build your own instead of using an off the shelf solution?

Ask HN: How do you annotate your data?

buckhx — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:21:19 +0000

Hey HN,

I'm curious how folks annotate their data to be used in ML pipelines (NLP/Vision) and what their experiences have been. Production/applied examples with teams of annotators would be great.

From folks I've spoken with these seem to be the most common ways:

* Custom Solution * Prodigy * Dataturks * Lighttag

I'm curious if there are more latent examples leveraging your users such as Google's image captcha.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583865

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