Hacker News: mdellabitta

New comment by mdellabitta in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)"

mdellabitta — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:16:31 +0000

Not likely a candidate for your roles, but great to see you growing to the point that you're hiring! Big fan!

New comment by mdellabitta in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)"

mdellabitta — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:44:22 +0000

Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Senior Software Engineer: Backend + Data | Full time | Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule, REMOTE possible)

The Harvard Library Innovation Lab explores the future of libraries by building tools and communities for open knowledge. We build long term services like https://perma.cc, https://opencasebook.org, and https://case.law, and we host fellows like Molly White, creator of Web3 is Going Just Great. We are a creative, experimental place to build open source code that makes a difference.

As part of our new focus on making library materials compatible with new modes of consumption, such as by Large Language Models, LIL is looking for someone skilled at processing large amounts of data with high fidelity. Through their understanding of libraries, this person will help us shape the wealth of data these institutions hold to meet the needs of data and AI engineers.

You can read the job description and apply here: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partner...

New comment by mdellabitta in "The Cambridge Law Corpus: A corpus for legal AI research"

mdellabitta — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:54:54 +0000

I'm really glad you appreciate that!

New comment by mdellabitta in "The Cambridge Law Corpus: A corpus for legal AI research"

mdellabitta — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:15:22 +0000

COLD is bigger than Caselaw Access Project. It's over 8 million cases vs 6.9 on case.law.

Please let me know how you find using the data and if you'd like to see any additions or changes!

New comment by mdellabitta in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)"

mdellabitta — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:18:45 +0000

Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Multiple roles | Full time | Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule, REMOTE possible)

We are hiring for two open roles in software engineering, one with a frontend focus and one with a backend / data engineering focus.

I am the hiring manager. Please feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions at mdellabitta@law.harvard.edu. Thanks!

Frontend: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partner...

Backend / Data: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partner...

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

mdellabitta — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:13:09 +0000

Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Multiple roles | Full time | Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule, REMOTE possible)

We are hiring for two open roles in software engineering, one with a frontend focus and one with a backend / data engineering focus.

Currently, only the frontend position is in Harvard's ATS, but we expect the backend one will list next week. You can apply for the frontend one here: [REDACTED]

I am the hiring manager. Please feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions at mdellabitta@law.harvard.edu. Thanks!

EDIT: looks like HR took the post down to edit the title to reflect the frontend / backend focus. I'll update this post when it goes back up next week. Feel free to check out our site at https://lil.law.harvard.edu/ and reach out with any questions!

EDIT2: Here are the two postings:

Frontend: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreL...

Backend / Data: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreL...

New comment by mdellabitta in "Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design"

mdellabitta — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:48:23 +0000

ARM is not open... You can license the IP.

New comment by mdellabitta in "Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?"

mdellabitta — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:21:21 +0000

But the point is that manufacturing has become commodified. If TSMC doesn't work out, there are other fab companies to use.

New comment by mdellabitta in "Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?"

mdellabitta — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:41:37 +0000

Based on your qualification of who's silicon it is, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, STMicroelectronics, and Qualcomm do not manufacture chips... Even IBM uses TSMC. That's a lot of the CPU silicon shipping right now.

The market has changed, and most CPU vendors don't fab their own chips anymore. The IP is in the chip design. Are you saying TSMC designed the M1?

New comment by mdellabitta in "Amazon One – Palm recognition for Amazon Go"

mdellabitta — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:10:33 +0000

Interesting time to launch a product that involves everybody touching something.

New comment by mdellabitta in "Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template"

mdellabitta — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:29:17 +0000

Premature optimization would be doing things in static HTML even though the rest of your code is in React because static HTML is "lighter" or "faster."

Also, Next.js does static HTML export out of the box if that's your preferred end target.

New comment by mdellabitta in "A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”"

mdellabitta — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:29:14 +0000

Here's a great talk about the real ramifications of this sort of problem:

https://tararobertson.ca/2016/lita-keynote/

New comment by mdellabitta in "Ask HN: What happened to server-side rendering?"

mdellabitta — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:03:30 +0000

It's good for accessibility...

New comment by mdellabitta in "Passive observations of a large DNS service"

mdellabitta — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:18:56 +0000

They could definitely hamper mechanisms that use your location to enforce DRM, like video streaming services.

New comment by mdellabitta in "Seximal: A better way to count [video]"

mdellabitta — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:53:54 +0000

I was taught basic counting, addition, and subtraction using a finger-abacus system called Chisanbop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop

Now I'm plagued by off-by-one errors in my mental math, particularly when it comes to intervals. If you ask me how many days there are between now and Christmas, I will be uncertain about the answer unless I individually count them all off on my fingers.

New comment by mdellabitta in "A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS"

mdellabitta — Thu, 31 May 2018 23:17:59 +0000

DNS over HTTPS is actually a lot slower to resolve than traditional UDP DNS.

New comment by mdellabitta in "Escaping Hell with Monads (2017)"

mdellabitta — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:11:34 +0000

Being able to combine monads like this is part of the point.

New comment by mdellabitta in "Firefox 58"

mdellabitta — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:09:46 +0000

Interesting. Too bad Tracking Protection doesn't apply to Mozilla as well. ;)

New comment by mdellabitta in "Firefox 58"

mdellabitta — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:12:35 +0000

You can't disable telemetry in the Developer Edition for some reason, so I've gone back to Stable.

New comment by mdellabitta in "Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to find them"

mdellabitta — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:02:05 +0000

'"stop using [something useful]" considered harmful' is dying