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axpy906

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axpy906··on Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year
Wow. Just wow. Not going to even unpack the levels of ineptitude this went down.
axpy906··on Things your manager might not know (2021)
This just reaffirms my belief after a decade in industry that middle management is useless. I wish businesses could move to a more decentralized form. You just don’t need these people if they can’t help you in you current or future job.

All managers should know the below. It’s proof the job is not effective.

> Here are the facts your manager might not know about you and your team that we’ll cover in this post:

>What’s slowing the team down

>Exactly what individual people on the team are working on

>Where the technical debt is

>How to help you get better at your job

>What your goals are

>What issues they should be escalating

>What extra work you’re doing

How compensation/promotions work at the company

Edit: It’s by Julia Evans too. Awesome.

axpy906··on Ask HN: HNers with multiple sclerosis, can we get in touch?
I don’t have MS but suffer from autoimmune disease due to low platelets. People have mentioned stress management and I want to echo that with pointing out tools to help. Starting a daily mindfulness practice, even if for 5 minutes, will help greatly. Journaling - wether it’s a gratitude one or simply writing your feelings down - helps too.
axpy906··on Ask HN: HNers with multiple sclerosis, can we get in touch?
Would love to hear more about the clinic. I’ve heard they can do more treatments than outside the US. All of interest to me since I’ve got a myeloid condition.
axpy906··on Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
Really convenient how his role as the lead public official pushing AZT during the AIDs epidemic got memory-holed too.

Edit: Adding sources to spite the Dow voter for merely stating a fact.

Him saying: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWwEkBZjhM

An article: “ Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was now pushing to expand prescription.”

https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1...

axpy906··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
Can someone explain to me how corporations are protected by the first in America? I’ve never understood this.
axpy906··on Ask HN: How did you start higher education after 40?
With amount of debt it requires, I would agree with this. If you can get a free ride to school the only thing you are looking at is the time and opportunity cost. Adding monetary cost makes the return more difficult to justify.
axpy906··on Class Action Targets Experian over Account Security
Wow. These comments. I don’t think anyone likes oligopoly credit agencies. What’s an alternative?
axpy906··on Skin exposure to UVB light induces a skin-brain-gonad axis and sexual behavior
Got to watch out with sunscreen too. Many brands have ingredients that can pass the blood brain barrier.
axpy906··on A billion-dollar industry helping students at Australian universities cheat
What country would have students that think it’s okay to cheat?
axpy906··on The case against CS master’s degrees
I have always questioned getting a 2nd masters. I am machine learning engineer and just having the maths degree feels a bit lacking.
axpy906··on How to build a working AI only using synthetic data in just 5 minutes
And… I am still waiting with baited breath for something like this that would work for tabular data.
axpy906··on A cancer trial’s unexpected result: Remission in every patient
What treatments in particular?
axpy906··on Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers
A lot of these rescind offers are popping up on my social feeds. The majority appear to be foreign nationals who require work sponsorship to stay in the US.
axpy906··on Show HN: Fast Deep Reinforcement Learning Course
HF covers Decision Transfomers.

Sutton and Barto is the best start for foundations. Start there.

axpy906··on Lessons learned from the recent job hunt
> For the folks out there, the easiest way to join FAANG is as a new grad.

By this, I would assume you mean the year of prep that goes into being able to pass the interview process at those companies.

axpy906··on Killed by Microsoft
I had no idea Edge got discontinued.
axpy906··on Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
I’m in agreement with much of your post. The Elements of Statistical Learning played its role quite well years ago but a fresher take is needed. Thanks for the response.
axpy906··on Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
After opening the link.

> by Kevin Patrick Murphy

This is the advanced version of Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective

axpy906··on Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
Why should I read this as opposed to Murphy or Bishop?
axpy906··on Caltech's CS interview prep course
Thanks could not get main site to load. This should be at top.
axpy906··on Ask HN: Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?
Matcha has both of these.
axpy906··on Matrix Multiplication
I like the visual look of the sliding window.
axpy906··on US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
That will most likely include their religion…
axpy906··on US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
> it's a law to identify individuals who are claiming such

Which means that they are now traceable and can be cross referenced against other databases.

axpy906··on US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
I agree. I don’t see how a government keeping a religious registry of its citizens is going to lead to anything good.
axpy906··on The Illustrated Retrieval Transformer
Thanks for you and all that you do Jay.

Any plans to do one on MOE for LM?

axpy906··on Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in
Small children. It can actually work for older ones I think.

Many places were shut on and off due restrictions during our time. Definitely makes thing harder.

axpy906··on Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in
For context I am comparing it to the suburban United States.

Boarding public transit is definitely an issue. Going anywhere with small children is a bit difficult to be honest as their are quite a lot of rules. For example, no toys in the pool.

Constrained and limited places to play outside. Outside of the park everything is concrete and many types of play are banned. When out, I had to watch them like a hawk. Here they go over to a neighbors yard to play and have no such worries.

Childcare is also expensive to get if both parents do not work (in that case it’s free).

That said I knew plenty of expats from population dense areas that were of different opinion. They had cars too :)

axpy906··on Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in
One more drawback to mention (Having lived in Tokyo a few years) it’s worth pointing out its not exactly kid friendly. I really don’t think most big cities are tbh.
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