Hacker News: rankam

New comment by rankam in "Is GitHub Down?"

rankam — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:45:40 +0000

Yes - experiencing issues with the site and github actions for the past ~10 minutes

New comment by rankam in "Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends"

rankam — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:54:55 +0000

To me, it sounds like you need professional experience on your resume so that should be your goal. However, professional experience != a full time software engineer role. Can you find something really small that pays from a freelance site? Maybe it's just a python script that takes 4 hours and pays $10 - but with that you are a professional software engineer. Do you anyone who owns a website for a business? Ask them if you can do some really basic work for $1 - because if you do that, you're a professional software engineer.

Once you have some professional experience on your resume, it should get a little easier - it's still going to take some time and grit, but it should work out.

New comment by rankam in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

rankam — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:03:00 +0000

I have access to the model via the web client and it does show the thought process along the way. It shows a little icon that says things like "Examining parser logic", "Understanding data structures"...

However, once the answer is complete the chain of thought is lost

New comment by rankam in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

rankam — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:38:05 +0000

I do - I now have a "More models" option where I can select 01-preview

New comment by rankam in "C-Macs – a pure C macOS application"

rankam — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:26:01 +0000

Does this mean that, theoretically, this could lead to the ability to build MacOS apps in higher languages that interoperate well with C such as Python? I know you can build MacOS apps with Python now, but does this potentially improve the experience?

New comment by rankam in "Show HN: Debut – a retro terminal PowerPoint clone"

rankam — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:25:32 +0000

You should add screenshots/gifs so that people can see what it does

New comment by rankam in "Drogon – C++14/17-based rapid HTTP and web application framework"

rankam — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:36:38 +0000

What is the use case for a C++ web framework? Would higher level languages/frameworks make use of this to do some of the heavy lifting? Would a company migrate to something like this once at scale? Or, are there just some people/companies who prefer to use C++?

New comment by rankam in "Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts"

rankam — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:32:55 +0000

Ok I feel like an idiot, but where is the code in the repo that produces the GUI - ie where is the Suitcase code?

New comment by rankam in "R 4.0"

rankam — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:50:05 +0000

Has the R core team publicly stated that they disagree with direction Wickham's Tidyverse is going? Genuinely asking as I love the Tidyverse, but would be interested to hear arguments against it.

New comment by rankam in "WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7"

rankam — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 22:57:08 +0000

Based on what? Nothing points to a higher mortality rate - but some countries are admittedly not testing a lot. Even if you quadruple the estimated mortality rate, the UK numbers would still be under-represented.

New comment by rankam in "WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7"

rankam — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 21:58:45 +0000

Or those places aren't testing? The UK has ~62,000 confirmed cases and ~7,100 deaths - that implies a > 10% mortality rate which is definitely not true. Why is the mortality rate so high? Because they only test those with severe symptoms - the actual number of cases is much higher than 62,000.

New comment by rankam in "Macy’s to Furlough 100k Employees"

rankam — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:59:43 +0000

Sure, technically COBRA covers you, but have you have seen how much it costs? It is unaffordable for most. US healthcare is a joke.

New comment by rankam in "Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class"

rankam — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:20:56 +0000

Online isn't the evening news or a 24 hour news station - I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. HN doesn't only moderate so that the "best" content makes it to the top, they also moderate (censor) certain topics - you don't see a lot about politics on HN because they don't want those subjects discussed on the HN platform.

New comment by rankam in "Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class"

rankam — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:11:40 +0000

> Here's what a healthy online community has: respect for other members, maturity, empathy, self-awareness, strong moderation, and a diverse enough set of views from participants to make conversations well-rounded and thought provoking.

How do you know this? What data verifies that this is what a healthy online community looks like? Why is strong moderation part of a healthy online community, where strong moderation in a real life would be a signal of unhealthiness (it's censorship)? If an online community is mature, empathetic, and self-aware - why would it require strong moderation?

New comment by rankam in "Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets"

rankam — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:59:33 +0000

Counterfeiting is creating something that is fake, but presenting as real. Counterfeiting has nothing to do with quantitative easing and you shouldn't conflate them.

New comment by rankam in "Show HN: Django Installer – Setup your Django project in one minute"

rankam — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:22:15 +0000

What's the advantage of this over just using pip (other than this is has a GUI which I don't see as an advantage, but understand others might)? How do you handle updates to packages? I'm just really struggling to see why this would be useful.

New comment by rankam in "Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)"

rankam — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:03:03 +0000

Just FYI Python is strongly typed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11328920/is-python-stron...

New comment by rankam in "Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2019) [pdf]"

rankam — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:13:44 +0000

There's no other way to say this without sounding rude, but you weren't unable to learn R because you couldn't understand what a dataframe was - you were unable to learn R because you gave up. Blaming a data structure for the failure seems like a bit of a stretch.

New comment by rankam in "Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications"

rankam — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:06:02 +0000

Got it - thanks!

New comment by rankam in "Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications"

rankam — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:45:14 +0000

What does the next keyword do? I see it in examples, but couldn't find anything about in the docs (or maybe I overlooked it)