rileyphone (u/rileyphone)

rileyphone commented on Show HN: Prom.dev – Prompts that simulate Hacker News (and a tool to share them) prom.dev/u/hjack/l/hn... · Posted by u/hjack_

rileyphone · 3 months ago

Pretty neat! Really like the design and minimalism. Oh, and the free hosted models :-) (but I assume that's just for the demo). Kind of confused by the open in cursor button but otherwise clean.

It seems like there's a lot of stuff out there that's similar, but it's all either focused on art/roleplay on the one hand, or enterprise teams on the other. Most prompts I see are shared as raw text on twitter or something, to be lost in my bookmarks...

Anyways, here's a prompt. Next time I see an actually useful one out there I'll hopefully remember to save it on Prom.

https://prom.dev/p/where-is-mama

rileyphone commented on An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf] courses.cs.washington.edu... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

cmrdporcupine · 4 months ago

JavaScript's form of prototype OO is remarkably awful and confusing.

rileyphone · 4 months ago

Yes but it's really good for building better object systems, especially with newer features like proxies. In the SELF days they implemented Smalltalk with prototypes and found that it was faster than normal Smalltalk implementations.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario-Wolczko/publicati...

rileyphone commented on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus

blix · 6 months ago

Fukuoka's desalination plant treats about 16400 m^3 of water per day. Assuming 3kWh per m^3 of water, this works out to a time-averaged power consuption of ~2000kW.

The osmotic power plant generates about 100kW, so it's about 5% of the total desalination energy requirement.

rileyphone · 6 months ago

According to this delightful overview [1] of the desalination plant, the capacity overall is 12000kW so that's definitely close enough.

1. https://www.niph.go.jp/soshiki/suido/pdf/h21JPUS/abstract/r9...

rileyphone commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

rileyphone · 8 months ago

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript (Node/Web/Bun), Linux, Python, SQL (SQL Server/MySQL/Postgres/Sqlite), Azure, k8s/docker, React, Typescript, and many more

Resume: https://rileystew.art/files/resume.pdf

Email: me @ the above domain

Website: https://rileystew.art/

I'm a generalist with a focus on backend and infrastructure -- in my career that's meant a lot of diving into logs, probing systems, and solving distributed bugs. In my own time I am working on an object-oriented Javascript framework and a custom autoencoder for visualizing latent states of LLMs. Looking for the opportunity to build something great and solve interesting problems.

rileyphone commented on Evolving OpenAI's Structure openai.com/index/evolving... · Posted by u/rohitpaulk

no_wizard · 9 months ago

Facebook had immense network effects working for it back then.

What network effect does OpenAI have? Far as I can tell, moving from OpenAI to Gemini or something else is easy. It’s not sticky at all. There’s no “my friends are primarily using OpenAI so I am too” or anything like that.

So again, I ask, what makes it sticky?

rileyphone · 9 months ago

From talking to people, the average user relies on memories and chat history, which is not easy to migrate. I imagine that's the part of the strategy to keep people from hopping model providers.

rileyphone commented on Design for 3D-Printing blog.rahix.de/design-for-... · Posted by u/q3k

Gerardox · 9 months ago

What are some alternatives? Ty in advance for any hint!

rileyphone · 9 months ago

I got a Sovol SV06 ACE a few months ago as it seemed to have most of the nice features of the Bambu (like auto bed leveling) without the closedness. The printer runs Klipper and you can ssh into it. So far there's been one issue where I had to replace a fan but otherwise it's been great. Much cheaper than a new Prusa too.

rileyphone commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

delqn · 10 months ago

OpenAI | Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure | San Francisco, Seattle | ONSITE

Join the Cloud Infrastructure team at OpenAI Applied and build the foundational platform for ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We are looking for Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio, and Networking engineers.

Let's talk: delyan@openai.com

Apply: https://openai.com/careers/software-engineer-infrastructure/

rileyphone · 10 months ago

Page for the role doesn't have Seattle, only SF.

rileyphone commented on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood supernuclear.substack.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

throwway120385 · a year ago

Do they actually do that here, or are you just saying that?

rileyphone · a year ago

It's baked in to the process as part of design review, after getting pass the first wall of zoning.

https://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/public-participation/e...

rileyphone commented on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/redm

throwaway2037 · a year ago

You raise some very important points.

Specifically, this one:

    > browsers aren't really a self funding product

I feel the same. I also feel the same about a modern C library and C compiler (and C++, if you like). They are essential to build any modern system and applications. Yet, those are also (mostly) no longer self-funding products.

What do you think will happen if Google is forced to divest Chrome?

rileyphone · a year ago

Firefox has made Mozilla billions over its lifetime by selling the default search engine rights to Yahoo and Google. Chrome, having a much greater user base, would demand a correspondingly higher fee (probably around $10b a year). Now, the other problem is there is no other search engine to compete with Google at that level, but that might change with independence of Chrome.

rileyphone commented on We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too theregister.com/2024/09/1... · Posted by u/Bender

habitue · a year ago

This is where the lack of imagination comes in (not you in particular, this is everyone right now). I'm postulating something non-obvious and pretty contentious, but I think compute should always be more valuable than the cost of the power it consumes.

rileyphone · a year ago

If you spend 1000W on 1 gigaflops, but could have gotten 1 teraflops instead on newer hardware, you are mostly just throwing money away. Unless fab capacity is severely limited in the future or energy becomes too cheap to meter, the opportunity cost is just too great for your statement to be true.

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