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random42··on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
But… there is no S in MCP
random42··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
How do you define a unit of work for your purposes?
random42··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
It’s not a proxy war. Not every world event is about the US.

Source: I am an Indian.

random42··on DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language
1. Generate a story.

2. Make it available for all (major) languages.

3. Profit!

Also, integrate with captcha + rate limit to prevent abuse. Authentication alone is not strong enough deterrent to a motivated adversary.

random42··on Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library
They are not "ripping" off other's work. The animations are created by the OP. There is nothing wrong in getting inspired by great ideas.

lol, Do you believe every idea you have is entirely original? Also, whats with the hell speak? grow up.

random42··on Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library
It’s such a hateful and mean comment. OP, please ignore this.

If you want to spend time building your own library, like OP has , and release it , god speed — that is if you can. In the meanwhile, OP actually spent energy to build and launch something, which is commendable.

random42··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
I am currently at the same place, with no reasonable place out. How did you solve it?
random42··on Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE
You mean "posterity", not "prosperity" :)
random42··on My Time Working at Stripe
Making high performance teams is part of their job description though, and there is research to indicate that teams with strong social bonds perform better.
random42··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
Oh wow! this is _exactly_ I was looking for (and still am) a couple of days ago. Please let us know once its ready.
random42··on Ask HN: How do I stop being obsessed with software architecture?
Get a job where you are being paid to obsess over software architecture.
random42··on Show HN: A fast HNSW implementation in Rust
Great job shipping. The README / repo however could definitely benefit with a benchmarking report in them.
random42··on Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?
What kind of red flags?
random42··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024)
SEEKING WORK - Remote Django/Python developer

(Major) Skills: Python, ML/NLP/Analytics, Hadoop, Cassandra, Postgres/MySQL, EC2, S3, Django, Bootstrap, jQuery

I specialize in, Backend/Python development — POCs, rapid prototypes, load/performance testing etc.

    Server side/DB performance optimizations & design to scale.

    Big Data consulting — Hadoop Ecosystem + Cassandra. Have evaluated Mongo, Couchbase, Riak, DynamoDB, EMR and redshift as well for client requirements. 

    Devops on Linux servers/EC2


    NLP/ML/Data Science Consulting — Sentiment Analysis, NER, Classification,Clustering,Statistical modelling
Find out more at Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mohitranka

Github: http://www.github.com/mohitranka

Portfolio: http://mohitranka.com/work/

or

Email: mohitranka@gmail.com :)

random42··on IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
funny?
random42··on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
> this is Microsoft porting their LinkedIn service from whatever servers came along with LinkedIn, to their own servers

Nope, LinkedIn executes completely independently.

random42··on Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
I left my job in July, and took a bit of break to introspect, focus on my health, spend time taking care of my family members, did a few investments, read up a lot and figuring out what I want to do next.

I have just started to talk to people wrt to different jobs, although I am not sure I want to take up another job. will figure it out in due time.

random42··on Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
Such an odd 'I told you so' comment in a thread about thousands losing their livelihood.
random42··on Engineering code quality in Firefox
No need to get nasty.

You don't know him at all, apart from a short anecdotal incident, where even OP does not portray him in a bad light.

random42··on Tell HN: Launch HN Test
> That can't be right though.

Unsolicited advice, but please don't have this mindset towards system failure. More things go wrong than you anticipate.

random42··on SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
"fix"
random42··on Tell HN: I used to be homeless and want to work as a software developer
Fair enough. In reality though, its a poor strategy to not volunteer information, if you are looking for a job. It just creates another obstacle.
random42··on Tell HN: I used to be homeless and want to work as a software developer
That is a weird response.

Why can't you post your CV in the 'public domain'? Also, no employer is going to 'hold on to your CV' while you upskill.

random42··on How to play with people who are better than you
He is playing for enjoyment and recreation. Playing and losing to Steph Curry does not give him that. Playing competitively with his friends does it.
random42··on Vice Ventures is investing in taboo industries that other funds won’t touch
> science is about quantitative measurement

Hard sciences may be, but there are quite a soft science domains such as psychology. We do not yet know exact nature of addiction, but psychological, environmental impacts have not been ruled out, by most scientists.

random42··on Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
Calibration is a meeting to discuss the gathered signals and evidences to arrive at a decision.

People are allowed and encouraged to change their individual decision after getting more insights and evidences gathered by other interviewers.

> did your company do predictivity and bias analysis on it?

Recruitment, HR and leadership conducts it to tweak the process, but I am not privy to those studies.

random42··on Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
You seem to have made some (incorrect) assumptions based on very little text. Let me explain the process in somewhat more detail.

In my last company ($100B, publicly traded, extremely data driven), we interview candidates in a group of 2 (or more, but rarely) on clearly defined criteria to look for signals - in either direction.

During interview each of the interviewer looks for evidence to gather the signal - stronger the better and the purpose of the interview process is for all the interviewers to gather signals (preferably all criteria, preferably strong in either direction, but ofcourse bound by the realities of limited availability of time).

Once the interview process is over each interviewer jots down the signal strength and the related evidence on the scorecard independently and suggests the result of interview.

Later during a calibration, the signals and the evidences are presented to the interviewing peer group (recruiter, hiring managers, interviewers from other rounds), and pretty much disallows for any unconscious bias such as "I don't think Alice would be a good team lead (because she is a woman, and woman are not good managers), or "We should not hire Amit (because he is an Indian, and Indians write poor code").

Again the examples are too in-your-face, but unconscious bias is unconscious, and in the absence of having to defend your perspective to external parties with the support of evidences, which does not happen if there is only a single interviewer.

Think of it as the rubber duck for interview and biases, to keep your own unconscious bias as interviewer in check.

random42··on Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
A huge part of it is resulting discussion that happens between different observers which puts the onus to check for biases and map the signals on objective parameters.
random42··on Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
They want to avoid the unconscious bias of a single mind, and non decision due to conflicting opinions of even number of interviewers.
random42··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
I cannot seem to find it on the jobs page. Do you have a link to it?
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