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buckhx··on Behold the pawpaw
I really want to try a pawpaw, but have had trouble tracking them down in NYC. I went to the farmers market in late August trying to find some to no avail. I did see a fruiting pawpaw tree at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
buckhx··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
Infinite Jest. Enjoying it so far, but the length keeps on killing me. I'm like 5% of the way in after a couple of weeks...
buckhx··on Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle
Clever hacker needs to look up a Bloom Filter
buckhx··on At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
Not to try to grab any pity, but I have pretty deep experience in the GPU optimization space and have not been able to even get an engineering screen even with referrals.
buckhx··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
well this did just happen to me. laid off while taking care of my father in laws estate and my personal belongings were thrown away. 7 years at the company as an EM ftr.
buckhx··on Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road
lol at liberate New Yorkers? This has been a godsend as a car owning New Yorker who takes public transit 10+ times a week as well. Less traffic and all the externalities associated.
buckhx··on The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history
What are you talking about? The admins current net approval rating is -6.9% https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... Biden was at a +5% net rating at this point in his term
buckhx··on Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend
Team Shark Brand here. It's sweeter and spicier, though I do wish it came in a bottle smaller than 750ml...
buckhx··on Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard
More RAM and USB-C and will 100% purchase
buckhx··on Show HN: A tool to scrape senators' stock transactions for your own analysis
I've always wondered if some hedge fund uses senator's transactions as input in their model
buckhx··on Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters
The filters are more efficient in space and query time at the cost of being immutable after being constructed. There is no Add() operation as there is with the others.
buckhx··on Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation
Multipass was the only way I could get a local k8s install that didn't shred my laptop. Albeit I/O perf was bad, but would build containers on the host and put them in a spot containerd could pick them up in the VM. Worked pretty well, but a bit hairy to set up.
buckhx··on The Intoxicating History of Gin
I thought just a glance towards France was enough for the ol' British Bulldog
buckhx··on The Intoxicating History of Gin
A negroni is equal parts Campari, Vermouth and Gin. Varying the brand of Vermouth or Gin has the biggest impact. Subbing out Campari makes it another cocktail. Should be swapped out for another Amaro (Herbally Bitter Liquer) such as Cynar, Gran Clasico or Brut Americano (never Aperol, too sweet). I'm partial to using Cynar (pronounced chee-nahr) which I've heard be called a Sin-Cyn (sin-chin).

You can also try swapping the gin for whiskey to make a boulvadier and see if that more to your liking as well.

buckhx··on How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)
Thanks for the shout out. If anyone has questions or comments feel free to reach out.

Also I'm looking for work so if anyone is interested snag my email from my profile.

buckhx··on How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)
As some other posts have pointed out, their algorithm was holding them back not the language.
buckhx··on How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)
That'd be nice. For real though I did meet with them after, but it was basically the same as getting a referral so the same interview process which I chose to forgo.
buckhx··on How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)
np ;)
buckhx··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (October 2019)
SEEKING WORK - NYC or Remote

Engineering Leader and Systems Design Consultant

Stack:

- Go & Python

- gRPC & protobuf

- Postgres & Redis

- Kubernetes (AWS, GCP)

Links:

- github.com/buckhx

- https://buckhx.com

- https://uber.buckhx.com

Highlights include:

- Acquiring digital property and media brand from Google

- Site speed optimization leading to 20% increase in MAU

- Modeling Fortune 50 network via 1TB Spark cluster

About: I have experience running software teams and designing systems oriented around the Go programming language. Recently have been interested in applied machine learning and have been working on a project that brings the state of the art BERT NLP model to the Go programming language. I take pride in pragmatic technical leadership and project management.

Seeking: System design consultation in cloud native environments such as Kubernetes, Tech lead or Golang project contributor

Contact: hello -at- buckhx.com

buckhx··on The Rise of the Electric Scooter
To each their own. IDGAF.
buckhx··on The Rise of the Electric Scooter
I take mine over the Williamsburg bridge (3-4% grade) to work every day. I can generally get two commutes on one battery charge, but the speed degrades with lower battery levels so I try to keep charged. If you're on lower battery over a hill, kick-pushing a bit helps a lot.
buckhx··on Why do we use word embeddings in NLP?
BERT & GPT-2 are state of the art, pre-trained models with transfer learning in mind.
buckhx··on Ask HN: How do you annotate your data?
Is there a reason you chose to build your own instead of using an off the shelf solution?
buckhx··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
The Infatuation & Zagat | Lead Product Engineer | Full-time | On-Site NYC | https://theinfatuation.com | https://zagat.com

We recently acquired Zagat from Google and are on our way to building the world's greatest restaurant discovery platform. We want to build a community driven content platform on Zagat and make it a direct competitor with crowd-sourced incumbents.

We're looking to build a unified platform with client applications tuned to their use-cases while leveraging concepts like Progressive Web Apps to provide our users with rich experiences. React Native experience would bring a lot to the table as well. There's a ton of exciting work ahead of us and we're building a great team to match it.

Other openings on our careers page include Platform Engineers well-versed in Go and mobile engineers.

https://theinfatuation.com/careers

buckhx··on Why We’re Switching to gRPC
I am by no means arguing with your general point, but some of these and may be language specific.

For example in Go, the service definitions are generated as interfaces and come with an "Unimplemented" concrete client. We have a codegen package that builds mock concrete implementations of services for use in tests.

Zero values are also the standard in Go and fit most use cases. We have "optional" types defined as messages that wrap primitives such as floats for times when a true null is needed (has been mostly used for update type methods).

The web clients work, but generate ALOT of code. We're using the improbable package so we can provide different transports for broswer vs server JS clients btw.

The big win we've seen from grpc is being able to reason about the entire system end to end and have a central language for conversation and contracts across teams. Sure there are other ways to accomplish that, but grpc has served that purpose for us.

buckhx··on How to Ace the Google Interview: Ultimate Guide
Course numbers or it didn't happen
buckhx··on Using Go Modules
Preach, gorename doesn't work either and seems to be in a pretty uncertain state.

This issue is tracking compatibility of common tools https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24661

buckhx··on K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
Would love this or something similar for local development. Currently using the Docker for Mac k8s and it shreds my machine and end up with an hour of battery life. Had similar experience with minikube.
buckhx··on OnSen UI – Develop HTML5 hybrid and mobile web apps
The carousel is pretty garbage overall, we dropped it fairly quickly.
buckhx··on OnSen UI – Develop HTML5 hybrid and mobile web apps
We leveraged this for an internal product trying to see how far we could push a PWA with a native feel. Biggest pain was that it doesn't play nice with the Vue router and history API and really wants to function as a single page app. Happy to ping one of our product engineers to elaborate if folks are curious on more specifics.
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