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nuclearnice1··on Ask HN: Cloud vs. Dedicated Hosting
Maybe that’s a another interesting question. “Hi, I have a big language model I’d like to run on AWS. What’s the best and cheapest way to run it?”
nuclearnice1··on Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke
How about TIPS?

> TIPS principal is adjusted by changes in the consumer price index, either up or down. The interest rate is determined at issue.

https://www.thebalance.com/comparing-tips-to-i-bonds-2388668

Any good?

nuclearnice1··on The other kind of staff software engineer
I didn’t like that the article opened with an insult to all the other articles about salary or interviews.
nuclearnice1··on Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
> In NYC and SF, most existing buildings would be illegal to build under current zoning rules.

The NYC number is 40%, according to the NYT. But close enough and here are some nice maps breaking my down why those buildings couldn’t go up today.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...

nuclearnice1··on Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
Another exception was the housing bubble leading up to 2008

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

nuclearnice1··on The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)
Here’s the same oops in 2001

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1007117680496415760

nuclearnice1··on Learning to think critically about machine learning
> the delusions of the incoming transformer winter will be painful to watch

Meaning?

nuclearnice1··on Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?
Interesting.

What do you mean by quasi optimal?

Genetic algorithms product quasi optimal results but simulated annealing will not?

nuclearnice1··on Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?
Great coverage — simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization.
nuclearnice1··on 27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt
> BTH I just think you (and others) were simply biased towards "positive" comments that you agree to.

What evidence supports this claim?

nuclearnice1··on Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive
Here’s some 2019 and 2013 polling data

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/06/how-highly-...

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/12/30/publics-view...

Catholics seem almost the same as the US population overall to believe in evolution. Evangelicals tend to express the opinion that humans have existed in the same form forever.

nuclearnice1··on 27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt
I don’t know what comment you are referring to as my original comment. I only have one post in the thread.

Regardless, it’s incorrect logic to point out that there are other oversimplified posts in the thread and justification. Just because someone did something bad, doesn’t invite us to do more of the same.

Maybe edge cause is the wrong word. It’s plainly obvious. No one read the OP and thought: I wonder about 3 year olds driving cars!

Of course, safety and exploration exist along a continuum. It’s good to let kids learn. It’s good to protect kids. So far, the thread has shed no light on the nuance. One poster has expressed an unjustified preference for kids learning their own limits and another has added the pointless rejoinder — “not 3 year olds in cars!”

nuclearnice1··on 27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt
FWIW, it didn’t come off as a personal attack to me.

On the other hand, it did seem to oversimplify and intentionally misinterpret the comment for the purpose of a shallow gag or unimportant edge case.

It would be great if HN was a place for deeper commentary. There are other places on the Internet for the caliber of commentary that fits in the duration of a session of potty training. It would probably be better if we worked to maintain some of what made HN different: substantial comments based around ideas without sarcasm or insults.

Just one poster’s opinion…

nuclearnice1··on Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
Great plan.

Additionally, there is a “This is my architecture” series on YouTube where AWS interviews users.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhr1KZpdzukdeX8mQ2qO73bg6...

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/this-is-my-architecture/

nuclearnice1··on The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
Some of the questions of depth vs breadth are explained intuitively in this Bengio Lecun paper from 2007.

http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/bengio-lecun-07.pdf

nuclearnice1··on Am I too old to become a professional programmer?
Let’s not mix up Google and a start-up. Google has 20,000 programmers. Being 40 or having a dog or kids or being unwilling to work more than 40 hours are no barrier to entry.

Startup companies on the other hand can demand more.

nuclearnice1··on Am I too old to become a professional programmer?
I’m no expert, but I don’t think it works like that. It’s not December 1955. No one throws away a resume in a public meeting declaring she’s too old, queer, brown, and Muslim.

But is she a cultural fit? Does he have the energy? A bit too senior?

I imagine it plays out like that too much the same effect.

nuclearnice1··on Frank Oz Says Sesame Street Has Gone Downhill. Is He Right? (2019)
This article extends the OPs critique with a particular focus on Elmo

https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com/how-elmo-ruined-sesa...

nuclearnice1··on Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
If you’re going back 6 million years on evolution, would it make sense to push back the start date for Tesla’s work as well?

It seems the right parallel to evolution might include predecessor inventions in vision, computation, and beyond.

nuclearnice1··on OpenBB wants to be an open source challenger to Bloomberg Terminal
What other provider?
nuclearnice1··on Hackers Leak Lichess Source Code
Lichess should try to make this right.

Maybe offer all users a free month as way of apology?

nuclearnice1··on FinRL: The first open-source project for financial reinforcement learning
What does unresidualized mean?

What do the need to do to the software to “residualize” it? If that’s even the right expression.

nuclearnice1··on Rejection Therapy (2011)
Thanks for your detailed thoughts.

On the ice cream, I was referring to this catchy tune and Apple advertising:

https://youtu.be/h6o51Qr7cPU

Enjoy!

nuclearnice1··on Madeleine Albright has died
You may enjoy the mother jones obit. It highlights the US failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda as her deepest regret from her time in public service.

As for the Iraq sanctions, she was asked and famously replied that it was a hard choice but the price was worth it. People may disagree.

nuclearnice1··on Rejection Therapy (2011)
I prefer this at least because you are performing an act of kindness rather than taking a random favor.

To the extent we do not have enough pro social behavior, injecting random kindness encourages more. Showing up and demanding nonsense favors encourages less.

nuclearnice1··on Rejection Therapy (2011)
I agree with you.

He doesn’t even want these things. May I try on your sunglasses? Can I have a taste of your ice cream?

I guess they set the bar low to encourage the experimenters. “Don’t worry you can ask for anything — ask for a dollar! Borrow their newspaper!”

I would be more open to it if they had done some thinking. What’s something you genuinely need? Go ask for it. But I guess that’s not as simple. This is just street side IRL spam. Can I have those plastic flowers that I don’t want by which I mean can I waste your time with a nonsense game so I fresh content for my blog?

It’s also fundamentally selfish: “ask random strangers to do you favors”

Why not go out into the world and ask if you can do favors? Find a homeless guy or gal. Ask if he wants your shoes. Ask if she needs a dollar. Then you at least anticipate finding people who welcome partition in your psychological experiment.

nuclearnice1··on One Year with R
This is great.

You don't need the curl -- read_csv works with URLs directly.

The lambda can be replaced by passing parse_dates=[“date”]

nuclearnice1··on One Year with R
I think these kind of common task challenges are great for comparison. You see a few approaches to a single task and you can do a more aligned and detailed comparison.

Unfortunately, it’s also a lot of work. In this case, you’ve posted an intermediate stage artifact from R. If one of the many Python programmers reading this want to produce a comparable artifact they need to understand or run that code. That alone reduces your likelihood of getting any substantial replies.

Maybe add a link to an image of the resulting plot?

nuclearnice1··on NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines
Indeed the subtitle of the article: “Some drivers respond with fists.”

For example,

> “I go out thinking I’m going to get assaulted,” said Ernest Welde, 47, an environmental attorney. “I’ve had my bags stolen by truck drivers. I’ve been physically assaulted. I’ve had to call the police a couple of times.”

>Another man, Eric Eisenberg, had a similar experience across town last year. An Amazon driver and two colleagues noticed Mr. Eisenberg pointing his phone’s camera at their idling truck, knocked him to the ground and held him down, according to a lawsuit Mr. Eisenberg filed in January.

nuclearnice1··on Ask HN: I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?
What are the likely consequences of this difference ?
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