Hacker News: larubbio

New comment by larubbio in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

larubbio — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:55:30 +0000

'production' doesn't equal 'multi-user concurrent access'. There are production uses where sqlite is a valid choice even if it may not be the best choice for multi-user production use cases.

Netflix acquires Ben Affleck's AI company

larubbio — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:24:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-s1-5739370/netflix-ben-affleck-ai-interpositive-deal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283388

Points: 3

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New comment by larubbio in "Show HN: A "bank of my parents" for my young kids"

larubbio — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:41:28 +0000

I do something similar for my kids, but offline using GNUCash. It's from a book called "The Bank of Dad."

I track their funds, and provide a generous monthly interest rate. The idea was both to teach them how to manage money, and demonstrate compounding interest.

This looks really interesting, and if you could add different interest calculations that would be a nice addition.

New comment by larubbio in "DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing"

larubbio — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:37:28 +0000

Here is the study, the link is not clickable if you have an account, you have to view source to get at it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140/https://www.ojp.g...

How a computer that 'drunk dials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets

larubbio — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250213-youtube-at-20-a-computer-that-drunk-dials-online-videos-reveals-statistics-that-google-doesnt-want-you-to-know

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041538

Points: 33

# Comments: 2

New comment by larubbio in "Pelicans on a bicycle"

larubbio — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:27:12 +0000

This is the the artist you are thinking of.

https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

Building a transaction data lake using Amazon Athena, Apache Iceberg and dbt

larubbio — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:01:49 +0000

Article URL: https://ministryofjustice.github.io/data-and-analytics-engineering/blog/posts/building-a-transaction-data-lake-using-amazon-athena-apache-iceberg-and-dbt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42239090

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by larubbio in "What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy"

larubbio — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:19:41 +0000

I left Amazon back when the 3-day RTO was announced. Their recruiters periodically ping and ask if I'd be interested in returning. So leaving on good terms will give you options to return if you want.

I haven't seen a recent who's hiring post, but searching for the most recent one can help you find jobs that are hybrid or remote friendly.

Also the startup I went to after I left is fully remote and hiring, my email is in my profile.

New comment by larubbio in "Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones"

larubbio — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:15:23 +0000

I remember this article from 2017 about the google snippet for how long it takes to caramelize an onion.

https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-...

The gist of the story is the author wrote an article debunking the recipe myth that you only need 5 minutes. In their tests it was 25 - 45. Google snippet would report "about 5 minutes" and link to the article as a reference.

I think the information summaries at the top of searches have been wrong for a while.

New comment by larubbio in "Beeper Mini users find Macs banned from iMessage network"

larubbio — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 22:15:04 +0000

> It works with SMS as well, and I just don't have to think about it.

I have a mac laptop and an android phone. My son has an iphone. Half of his responses to my text messages go to my phone, the other half go to my laptop and I miss them. This is a major problem, imessage shouldn't be greedy about grabbing messages, especially when replying to an SMS. I've missed picking him up from places because I didn't get the reply.

New comment by larubbio in "McDonald's to retire self-service soda fountains by 2032"

larubbio — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 23:18:18 +0000

Essentially yes. Distribution, instead of funding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle

"The Freestyle's beverage dispensing technology was designed by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, in return for Coca-Cola distributing his Slingshot water purification system."

New comment by larubbio in "Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings"

larubbio — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:05:58 +0000

I think there are limits on both. Floor area ratio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_area_ratio) is how it is coded into regulations. The lot size and the height restrictions create a bounding box that the building needs to fit within.

New comment by larubbio in "Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?"

larubbio — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:02:59 +0000

An Italian town did build a mirror to do that.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnvzn/viganella-italy-fake-...

[edit] Looks like a town in Norway did it as well, and theirs tracks the sun.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/10/using-giant-mirror...

New comment by larubbio in "Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?"

larubbio — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:22:08 +0000

I love this goal, best of luck with it. I would like to build (or buy) a robot to protect my chickens from air and ground predators during the day so they can happily free range all day.

New comment by larubbio in "Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection"

larubbio — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:37:53 +0000

I think that stat came from a chart in this article https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-quick-note-...

New comment by larubbio in "Italy’s famous dome is cracking, and muon imaging may help"

larubbio — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:49:36 +0000

Everything I know about this comes from the children's book "Pippo the Fool."

Rivals refers to people competing against him in a competition to build the dome. For him to win and get to build his design it was important for him to both prove it could be built and not allow other builders to also solve the design challenge.

I assume for him getting to build the dome was more important than his design ideas being forgotten.

New comment by larubbio in "Atlantic salmon swim far and wide after fish farm collapse"

larubbio — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:27:05 +0000

A caught fish could be wild, or from a hatchery. You can tell the difference since hatchery fish have a fin removed but I imagine it's easier to not differentiate when labelling.

Lyft strikes self-driving deal with Google's Waymo

larubbio — Mon, 15 May 2017 16:23:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39920219

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14342807

Points: 1

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New comment by larubbio in "How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories?"

larubbio — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:35:40 +0000

I had a similar idea, but wanted to build it outside of a single news organisation. Basically a news aggregator, but it would detect when different articles are about the same topic and try to tell if the newer article added anything to the story. This aggregation system would then track public interest in a story over time (based on clicks) along with media interest (based on new stories)

I also wanted to add in user, publication and reporter 'leanings' by having a mechanism where users could say that they thought a story was left/right/neutral. The act of voting would count as a push having the affect of slightly moving the publication and reporter in one direction and the voter in another. I would then use an ELO type metric so a user who was very far in one direction wouldn't have the same impact as a user more in the center.

New comment by larubbio in "Ask HN: Anyone interested in building tools for showing bias in news?"

larubbio — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:15:55 +0000

I had thought about something like this a couple of years ago. My idea wasn't really about tracking bias, but providing reputation for authors and news outlets. Users (via a browser plugin or some other mechanism) could declare an article or statement as biased in a certain direction. That vote would give me information about the article, the news outlet and the reader. I could then present that information back to users. In this way I could learn just how biased I am (and maybe even the areas of my bias) and the bias of authors and organizations. Perhaps you could see how an author's bias changes when they write for different sites.

However I don't think just pointing out bias will really help. People like their bubbles, and moving out of them is painful and potentially with real world consequences for them. I also think if you show a user an articles bias ahead of time, it will just be used as a filter or a way to reinforce their bubble. I thought this article was interesting.

http://www.vox.com/2014/4/6/5556462/brain-dead-how-politics-...