Hacker News: skylurk

New comment by skylurk in "Ask HN: What is the job market like?"

skylurk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:58:11 +0000

> competent software engineer

hired :)

New comment by skylurk in "macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era"

skylurk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:38:56 +0000

If my M1 MBP dies, this is what I would replace it with. I want off the OSX ride.

New comment by skylurk in "Siri AI"

skylurk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:32:41 +0000

I suspect it would perform admirably well with 'Paris' or 'Copenhagen' (see sibling comment), but if you want to have some real fun try 'Southern Spain' or 'Rural Malaysia'.

New comment by skylurk in "Siri AI"

skylurk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:03:11 +0000

For fun I planned a holiday entirely with LLM's lately, and followed through.

It used good models and did a lot of searching, including searches in other languages. It got nothing right, riddled with fake places and times. It also found some weird and unique places I never would have considered.

I had a blast, brought me back to traveling pre-internet, requiring a level of spontaneity I had forgotten we used to depend on. 100% recommend it.

New comment by skylurk in "AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2k a Month to Masturbate"

skylurk — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:15:05 +0000

Sounds like UBI to me

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

skylurk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:29:13 +0000

Hmm. You doth protest too much, methinks :)

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

skylurk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:19:59 +0000

How does this deleted fix_everything.sh fit in to your story?

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/6e01d29365f345283ec...

New comment by skylurk in "List animals until failure"

skylurk — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:13:24 +0000

Yep, but importantly "pigeon" and "dove" are not exactly interchangeable words, there is just no consensus for which is which.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbidae

New comment by skylurk in "Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:35:08 +0000

Also, many tunnels. Less fumes makes a difference.

New comment by skylurk in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:42:37 +0000

Is it now officially "eternal sloptember"?

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:39:03 +0000

I like how it fluently replies in Spanish to another bot that replied in Spanish.

New comment by skylurk in "Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:58:46 +0000

Try Windy.com, it's got ECMWF data, among others.

New comment by skylurk in "Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k"

skylurk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:51:57 +0000

> The stated goal is that the money will help people do better in the Olympics.

Are you sure? It's not contingent on metals or anything.

https://www.usopc.org/news/2025/march/04/united-states-olymp...

New comment by skylurk in "Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k"

skylurk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:07:15 +0000

I don't think you should think of it as a paycheck.

Delaying a normal career to compete in the olympics will set your career and earning potential back by a few years. This money tries to balance it out a bit.

New comment by skylurk in "Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k"

skylurk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:51:14 +0000

People absolutely do give up their athletic career to start a normal career for better financial security.

New comment by skylurk in "Pandas 3.0"

skylurk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:02:17 +0000

This is one of the reasons I use polars.

New comment by skylurk in "Pandas 3.0"

skylurk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:00:44 +0000

You are not wrong, but for this example you can do something like this to run in threads:

  import polars as pl
  
  pl.DataFrame({"a": [1, 2, 3]}).write_parquet("test.parquet")
  
  
  def print_shape(df: pl.DataFrame) -> pl.DataFrame:
      print(df.shape)
      return df
  
  
  lazy_frames = [
      pl.scan_parquet("test.parquet")
      .map_batches(print_shape)
      for _ in range(100)
  ]
  pl.collect_all(lazy_frames, comm_subplan_elim=False)

(comm_subplan_elim is important)

New comment by skylurk in "Pandas 3.0"

skylurk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:35:45 +0000

Luckily, polars has .to_pandas() so you can still pass pandas dataframes to the libraries that really are still stuck on that interface.

I maintain one of those libraries and everything is polars internally.

New comment by skylurk in "Some notes on starting to use Django"

skylurk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:15:31 +0000

If you know what you are doing, you can hibernate other kinds of tortoises by placing them in a fridge (as opposed to a freezer). One of my friends does this with their Russian tortoise.

If you need to travel, make sure you have someone reliable who can check on them, in case of a power outage.

New comment by skylurk in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

skylurk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:37:24 +0000

You can remove Apple Intelligence offline models. Assuming you already have Apple Intelligence disabled:

Enable Siri, change Siri's language to Chinese, wait an hour, disable Siri again.

At least, it worked for me yesterday.