Hacker News: fierro

New comment by fierro in "Thoughts on Seed Oil"

fierro — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:14:19 +0000

I think about it like this - seed oils are in nearly all processed foods. Read the labels of anything in your house that's in a bag, or will not expire in the next week. 95% chance there is sunflower/canola/safflower/sesame seed oil in it.

By avoiding seed oils, you tend to eat more whole foods. It's not an awful cue to pay attention to.

New comment by fierro in "Thoughts on Seed Oil"

fierro — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:07:46 +0000

if the seed oils in Cheetos are not the problem, what is it? the flour?

New comment by fierro in "An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus"

fierro — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:54:04 +0000

anecdote for anyone else reading about Covid related tinnitus - I've had hearing damage related tinnitus for a decade. Got Covid in April '22 which caused my existing tinnitus to 2-3x in severity, lasting a couple months before it either reverted to baseline or I got used to the new normal. Very scary experience. The CEO of Texas Roadhouse famously committed suicide due in part to severe post-Covid tinnitus.

For anyone struggling to cope with Tinnitus out there, one thing that has helped me immensely is Zen meditation. Doesn't make it go away, but builds up a control over attention with which you can cope much better.

New comment by fierro in "U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS"

fierro — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:15:20 +0000

where did you get testing done?

New comment by fierro in "S3 is files, but not a filesystem"

fierro — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:54:03 +0000

it's well known and not debatable that Cinnabon is fire

New comment by fierro in "Thanksgiving 2023 security incident"

fierro — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 07:58:08 +0000

this is more plausible to me

New comment by fierro in "Thanksgiving 2023 security incident"

fierro — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:10:42 +0000

>The one service token and three accounts were not rotated because mistakenly it was believed they were unused.

This odd to me - unused credentials should probably be deleted, not rotated.

New comment by fierro in "Launch HN: Escape (YC W23) – Discover and secure all your APIs"

fierro — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:21:47 +0000

congrats! Really crisp idea, excited to try this out

New comment by fierro in "Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners"

fierro — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:38:21 +0000

didn't see any mention of caching in the docs. This tends to be pretty important for fast build/CI at many different key points of a given workflow (dependency cache, build cache, docker layer cache, image cache, etc). Wondering if I missed something.

New comment by fierro in "LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning"

fierro — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:57:31 +0000

we have no theories of intelligence. We're like people in the 1500s trying to figure out why and how people get sick, with no concept of bacteria, germs, transmission, etc

New comment by fierro in "Ask HN: Are you using SQLite and Litestream in production?"

fierro — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:51:27 +0000

using it for an internal Golinks service

New comment by fierro in "Go Testing by Example [video]"

fierro — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:04:09 +0000

dang. Only thing I've found so far is a `mysqldump --no-data` and then a restore from dump. Not fast at all. Maybe you could pre-provision a few thousand DBs this way in parallel and write a service to hand out DB handles...

New comment by fierro in "Go Testing by Example [video]"

fierro — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:08:41 +0000

pgtestdb looks great. Looks like it leverages Postgres template DBs. We use MySQL more often than Postgres; I may take a stab at creating something similar for MySQL. Nicely done!

New comment by fierro in "Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage"

fierro — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 21:02:48 +0000

what is the neurovascular conflict?

New comment by fierro in "River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres"

fierro — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:54:06 +0000

that's pretty fundamentally different, no? One requires you to build a distributed system with >1 components leveraging GCP tasks APIs. The second is just a library do some book keeping inside your main datastore.

New comment by fierro in "AWS us-east-1 down"

fierro — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 01:03:54 +0000

anyone have a link to the AWS summary / postmortem? Saw it on their status page the other day, but can not find it anywhere now.

New comment by fierro in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)"

fierro — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:00:42 +0000

very cool product :)

New comment by fierro in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)"

fierro — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:55:30 +0000

Column is the first and only nationally chartered bank built from the ground up. We build APIs to create bank accounts, send and receive money (wire/ACH/check/SWIFT), administer loans, etc. In contrast to other software providers in the space who interface with banks, we are the bank, building and owning the full payments stack in-house.

Think of us as the bottom layer of the financial infrastructure stack, offering atomic and flexible building blocks for developing financial products in an efficient and compliant way.

We are a small, tight knit team of engineers supporting complex customers and moving billions of dollars.

Looking for motivated infrastructure/backend engineers who seek a high degree of ownership. Apply at the link above, or email me directly at mitch@column.com

Good luck with your job search :)

New comment by fierro in "Ask HN: Lots of AWS credits expiring soon, ideas?"

fierro — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:27:23 +0000

buy reserved ec2 or rds capacity

New comment by fierro in "Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics"

fierro — Thu, 04 May 2023 18:06:41 +0000

I agree; there many odd writing choices. For example, this is a very confusing end to the first sentence:

> to pay unshared attention to our mission

...unshared attention?