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alch-on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

Called djfjkfkffkkf? Not really.

> It can be trained to say it feels like a bat and insist upon it vigorously.

So can you.

Could it be that both noise _and_ flash are in your head, and like me you have Exploding Head Syndrome? https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/exploding-head-sy...

alch-on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

I don't think Anthropic is turning a profit ;)

alch-on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

Ah yes, The Country.

alch-on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

Man, how did I get by for so long without this. Brilliant. I'd like to have the whole web in this tone please, thanks in advance!

alch-on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)

Unfortunately that depends on the level you would be hired at, because of immigration law intricacies. I would just apply and see how it goes!

alch-on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)

Channable | Utrecht, Netherlands | HYBRID / ONSITE | https://jobs.channable.com/working-at-channable

Join one of the fastest growing scale-ups in the Netherlands. We have several open engineering positions to join our team in Utrecht. We are a young company with a strong engineering culture and some unique data problems, which we are solving for our customers.

You can read more about our work on our tech blog: https://www.channable.com/tech

Our stack includes: Python, Haskell, Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nix, Terraform, Nomad, Ansible

We process over 100 billion products per day and offer technically interesting and challenging work. We are looking for highly motivated and skilled engineers to join our team.

Open positions:

- Python Software Engineer, team Marketplaces: develop our API and integrations with marketplaces - https://jobs.channable.com/o/python-software-engineer-market...

- Haskell Software Engineer: develop highly scalable backend services - https://jobs.channable.com/o/haskell-software-engineer-5

alch-on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

Channable | Utrecht, Netherlands | HYBRID / ONSITE | https://jobs.channable.com/working-at-channable

You can read more about our work on our tech blog: https://www.channable.com/tech

Our stack includes: Python, Haskell, Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nix, Terraform, Nomad, Ansible

We process over 100 billion products per day and offer technically interesting and challenging work. We are looking for highly motivated and skilled engineers to join our team.

Open positions:

- Python Software Engineer, team Marketplaces: develop our API and integrations with marketplaces - https://jobs.channable.com/o/python-software-engineer-market...

- Haskell Software Engineer: develop highly scalable backend services - https://jobs.channable.com/o/haskell-software-engineer-5

alch-on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)

Channable | Utrecht, Netherlands | HYBRID / ONSITE | https://jobs.channable.com/working-at-channable

You can read more about our work on our tech blog: https://www.channable.com/tech

Our stack includes: Python, Haskell, Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nix, Terraform, Nomad, Ansible

We process over 100 billion products per day and offer technically interesting and challenging work. We are looking for highly motivated and skilled engineers to join our team.

Open positions:

- Python Software Engineer, team Infra: improve our codebase's maintainability, performance and robustness - https://jobs.channable.com/o/python-software-engineer-python...

- Python Software Engineer, team Marketplaces: develop our integrations with marketplace platforms - https://jobs.channable.com/o/python-software-engineer-market...

- Full-stack Software Engineer, team Growth: improve user activation and retantion - https://jobs.channable.com/o/full-stack-software-engineer

- Haskell Software Engineer: develop highly scalable backend services - https://jobs.channable.com/o/haskell-software-engineer-2-3

- DevOps Engineer, team DevEx: make our software engineering frictionless - https://jobs.channable.com/o/devopsdevex-engineer

alch-on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

I was able to check now, and indeed we can make exceptions for candidates who would earn enough to be qualified as a "highly skilled migrant". So I would definitely just apply and see how it goes.

alch-on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

I'm afraid I don't have a clueful answer to this right now because the people who know are on vacation this week. In general we require candidates to have a work permit, but we may we able to make exceptions for what the immigration office calls "highly skilled migrants", i.e. if your salary would be above a certain threshold: https://ind.nl/en/required-amounts-income-requirements#reduc...

If you're interested, I would suggest filling out the application form and we'll get back to you asap with a proper answer.

alch-on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

Sorry, no, we work hybrid / on-site (at the office for at least 2 days a week).

alch-on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

Channable | Utrecht, Netherlands | HYBRID / ONSITE | https://jobs.channable.com/working-at-channable

You can read more about our work on our tech blog: https://www.channable.com/tech

Our stack includes: Python, Haskell, Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nix, Terraform, Nomad, Ansible

We process over 100 billion products per day and offer technically interesting and challenging work. We are looking for highly motivated and skilled engineers to join our team.

Open positions:

- Python Software Engineer, team Infra: improve our codebase's maintainability, performance and robustness - https://jobs.channable.com/o/python-software-engineer-python...

- Python Software Engineer, team Marketplaces: develop our integrations with marketplace platforms - https://jobs.channable.com/o/python-software-engineer-market...

- Haskell Software Engineer: develop highly scalable backend services - https://jobs.channable.com/o/haskell-software-engineer-2-3

- DevOps Engineer, team DevEx: make our software engineering frictionless - https://jobs.channable.com/o/devopsdevex-engineer

alch-on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

I mean, Boeing is still around...

alch-on Where does my computer get the time from?

Oooooh decades later I finally get the name Slashdot! Thank you!

alch-on I don't need to clean up my desktop and downloads folders in macOS (2021)

I'm very happy with my system: I have ~/tmp/ with subdirs `hour`, `day`, `week`, `month`, `6months`, `2years`. Files in each of these get removed by a cronjob x time after they were created/modified (i.e. after an hour; a day; etc).

  */10 * * * * /usr/bin/find ~/tmp/hour/ -mindepth 1 -mmin +60 -cmin +60 -delete
  0    * * * * /usr/bin/find ~/tmp/day/ -mindepth 1 -mmin +1440 -cmin +1440 -delete
  # etc

Files in ~/Downloads/ are deleted in the same way, after 2 hours. If I download something that I want to keep "forever", I move it to where it belongs. Anything that is not "forever" goes into one of the ~/tmp/ subdirs (with a useful filename so I can trivially find it when I need it). You get into the habit of moving things out of ~/Downloads/ very quickly, and it's not very painful: downloaded things can almost always be re-downloaded if you forgot to move them.

I used to have another (crude) cronjob to warn me before deleting files:

  0 21 * * * (/usr/bin/find /Users/me/tmp/week/ -mindepth 1 -mtime +5 -ctime +5; /usr/bin/find /Users/me/tmp/month/ -mindepth 1 -mtime +28 -ctime +28; /usr/bin/find /Users/me/tmp/6months/ -mindepth 1 -mtime +183 -ctime +183) | /usr/bin/sed 's/^.Users.me.tmp.//g' | /usr/bin/mail -E -s "will delete some ~/tmp files soon" me@domain

... but I found it unnecessary. In practice, I just take some margin in deciding where to put things. If I think I'll need it for max a week, I'll put it in tmp/month to be on the safe side, etc. And worst case, I can just retrieve it from my backups.

I can't recommend a system like this enough. It feels like "inbox zero" for your filesystem; very liberating.

alch-on Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”

> I'd use it

I think you mean "leverage".

alch-on Why I'm still using Python

If you like `python3 -c ...`, you'll love Bash ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

alch-on Why I'm still using Python

Off the top of my head, it lacks decent support for functional programming (like multi-line lambdas - pretty basic functionality even for a non-functional-oriented language!), properly supported static typing, proper multithreading, decent performance (in the main implementation)...

alch-on Just use Postgres for everything

YAGNI!

alch-on Tell HN: Copying and pasting from ChatGPT unsolicited sucks

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

alch-on Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

I'm not GP, but my company's experience[0] is the same, and we're definitely hiring. Seeing Nix in the tech stack was one of my reasons for applying :)

[0] https://www.channable.com/tech/nix-is-the-ultimate-devops-to...

alch-on Applying “make invalid states unrepresentable”

Lol, nice one.

alch-on Applying “make invalid states unrepresentable”

It was a joke, son.

alch-on One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble

And will always work well!

alch-on The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about

Let me get this straight, you're criticizing the parent for mentioning him/herself in a request for personal advice? Or... just... for asking for advice?

> One might suggest

I see what you did there ;)

alch-on Show HN: We built a bot to welcome new team members on slack

Thanks for the feedback! Our idea is to help newbies get in touch with the right people to help them along, not just automatically shout impersonal words ;-) But clearly that still needs work. May I ask, did you install it or only look at the site? Thanks again!

alch-on Why You Should Try tmux Instead of screen

Woah, tiling window management for the console! That is so awsesome. Thank you, good sir.

alch-on 500 Internal error at YouTube

They're working on getting this fixed as soon as they can, though ;-)