Hacker News: wheaties

New comment by wheaties in "Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna"

wheaties — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:10:15 +0000

So a perfectly good plane that someone could enjoy and fly sits languishing at an airport because the owner, who now can't fly or doesn't want to, won't sell it? I get the attachment and all. However, if you know there's a finite number of these things then please sell it to someone who would use it.

That's a golden age plane and it should be flown. Too bad many people would rather let something rot.

Also, I don't support stealing a plane.

New comment by wheaties in "Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff"

wheaties — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:49:29 +0000

Why would they remove Habeus Corpus?

"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

New comment by wheaties in "Multiple Claude Code Sessions in an Easy UI: Crystal"

wheaties — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:28:22 +0000

I love all the innovation we're starting to see here. AI can't write everything but it can do so many tedious tasks.

New comment by wheaties in "Why Moderna Merged Its Tech and HR Departments"

wheaties — Sat, 17 May 2025 15:31:15 +0000

You just defined the role of COO at most companies. CEO has always been about sales, brand, vision, (capital raises,) etc. It's the COO who keeps the company moving.

New comment by wheaties in "No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)"

wheaties — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:04:28 +0000

TL;DR - We think it's essentially gambling and not fit for a long term portfolio.

I agree.

New comment by wheaties in "TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case"

wheaties — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:40:15 +0000

National security has always beaten First Amendment (and many other rights.) I love watching TikTok but even i know how this will shake out.

Now the question will be, who will rush to fill in this void? Will Bliesky release short form videos, too?

New comment by wheaties in "Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?"

wheaties — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:15:26 +0000

I've been told there are two places which value experience:

1. A large organization where they have enough people with decades of knowledge to recognize what that is worth.

2. A small startup as head or lead on some domain where they need your knowledge to build their products.

It used to be that you could consult but I can tell you from direct experience with this market that it has been flooded with folks who've never consulted but neednwork, e.g. they are charging way too little. The flip side, it's a great time to hire "cheap" contract talent.

New comment by wheaties in "Google Ad Tech Antitrust Suit Will Go to Trial, Judge Rules"

wheaties — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 01:08:57 +0000

Good to see this happening.

I remember sitting down with a Google engineer who told us that even though our ad code looked suspiciously like we had copied it from Google itself (we had) that one part of it would only work for Google on Google. That is, the wall between their sell side and buy side had special things no one else could use. This was ~10 years ago and it left us with such a sour taste.

Nothing like market dominance in an "open" market.

New comment by wheaties in "Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired"

wheaties — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:34:46 +0000

I feel this. I got the "you look older than your profile pic" comment during an interview last year. That one was fun. Dude wanted to know if I could even code anymore.

New comment by wheaties in "Car insurance in America is too cheap"

wheaties — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 01:09:22 +0000

This is a regulatory issue. There are far better lighting used in EU and from the same auto manufacturers. They have pushed for these in the US but the regulations are slow.

New comment by wheaties in "Tell HN: WARN Act may provide prior notice of layoffs"

wheaties — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:26:26 +0000

No, you might not and here's why. I worked at a place that told us we'd be PiP'ing people on our teams that had been selected for us. The condition was some would be on a 2 week, some 4 week, and some 6 week so it all wouldn't be at once. Essentially dragged out over more than 30 days. It tiptoed right around the WARN act, following the letter but not the spirit of the law.

New comment by wheaties in "Ask HN: How can my mom downshift as a SQL developer?"

wheaties — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:14:08 +0000

Hedge fund, data analysis/BI, any marketing department of any DTC company (soap, food, etc.) or any research group located in and/or around DC. Tons upon tons of jobs are basically SQL.

For those that don't know, you can ingest damn near any file format with columnar data via SQL. You don't have to write some Python script (although it helps.)

New comment by wheaties in "Operating on a minimal two-core Postgres instance: Query optimization insights"

wheaties — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:28:02 +0000

I/O, backups, and such. Just having the instances cost money. Using them costs even more!

New comment by wheaties in "I have gained admin access to numerous GCloud Organizations by accident"

wheaties — Tue, 30 May 2023 15:08:41 +0000

You are prompted to confirm an external group being added as admin. Someone purposefully ignored it.

Good luck. You're trying to do the right thing but if they lawyer you, remind them they added you not you added them.

New comment by wheaties in "Google Translate “Get well [Swedish firstname]” translates to “fuck you”"

wheaties — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:28:49 +0000

Why you should never use any translation automation blindly, reason #6153671...

New comment by wheaties in "A mirror that reverses how light travels in time"

wheaties — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:55:26 +0000

This is how the effects of Magnetorheological fluids work with sound and vibrational damping. Glad to see they have figured out a corrolary with EM waves.

New comment by wheaties in "ElonJet – Account Suspended"

wheaties — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:09:24 +0000

...and people believed him! Hopefully this goes on FB, Reddit, and every other social media thing it can.

New comment by wheaties in "Crimes with Python's pattern matching"

wheaties — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 03:04:43 +0000

This is why adding language features needs to be carefully thought out and explored to great lengths. Sadly C++ never got that memo. Here's hoping Python remains "simple."

New comment by wheaties in "Principles of Engineering Management"

wheaties — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:59:51 +0000

Alan, nice to see you on the front cover of HN. Life has been good for you post-Arena, eh?

Most of those critical of what you wrote haven't had an article like this happen. Don't sweat it.

New comment by wheaties in "Turing Oversold?"

wheaties — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:52:26 +0000

Mathematicians? No. Computer Science? Yes.

If you want to group to math, you're going to have to compete with the likes of Euclid, Reiman, Bayes, Newton, Gauss, Cantor, Erdos, Fermat, Pascal, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Fourier, Cauchy, Jacobi, Hamilton, Galois, Weierstrass, Cayley, Dedekind, Klein, Hilbert, Brouwer, Godel...