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by bfung 3y ago
Being in the zone def is a thing. The longest lasting and easiest to extend software I’ve cobbled together (and some still running in production after 20yrs) were me designing for 18+hrs straight, share general idea w/team, then furiou
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by bfung 3y ago
Looks like he addresses this about 2mo ago: https://youtu.be/0tB3t7xGWjk?si=qkP7R-8pOP-hrm9n
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by bfung 3y ago
100%
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by bfung 3y ago
Advertisements masquerading as science ~2016 (2023 for sure)
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by bfung 3y ago
I watched the YouTube presentation afterwards (linked elsewhere in this post), and it makes more sense what they’re trying to do. The guise of the academic paper def throws things off and it’s poorly communicated in the paper what the model
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by bfung 3y ago
“Some popular models like Prophet [Taylor and Letham, 2018] and ARIMA were excluded from the analysis due to their prohibitive computational requirements and extensive training times.” Anyone who work a lot in time series forecasting can ex
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by bfung 3y ago
Popular outdoor equipment store in Bay Area/Silicon Valley. Chances are startup people in the valley have been to those stores.
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by bfung 3y ago
If chickens were people, 2/3 of the US population would get slaughtered everyday. crazy.
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by bfung 3y ago
> Should an enterprise created for profit consider other values than profit? Should an AI created to make paper clips consider other values than making paper clips? https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/squiggle-maximizer-fo
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by bfung 3y ago
But if it wasn’t “regulated”(ie: criminalized) in the first place, it wouldn’t need to be de criminalized and regulated.
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by bfung 3y ago
There's an older term for "local-first", aka, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_client The thin/thick client cycle starts again...
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by bfung 3y ago
> Vigorous exercise ... threshold routine ... change clothes Do something that takes a good amount of concentration/coordination physically, so there's no way to think about work. Ex: go to the gym, change, circuit train and fo
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by bfung 3y ago
Not too surprised, there was a CEO handoff (news this past Wed, it's Friday..), so time for "new" CEO to clean house, and I guess this is what he found. Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410812
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by bfung 3y ago
combo 1 & 2, can substitute AMZN w/other large corps… I see & hear you. ;)
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by bfung 3y ago
Agree - by the time I need more than grep and reach for json parsing, it’s already complicated enough for a Python script. stdin pipped to json.loads ain’t that bad. Def. seen jq thrown into sed/awk scripts where a readable programming
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by bfung 3y ago
> there is a startup hidden in the midst of all of this There are already some companies that do this, but obviously adds to the cost to making these iot devices. Ex: balena.io, and even AWS iot management does this. Maybe there’s somewa
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by bfung 3y ago
Not that impressive. The post has flight # (you can lookup seat map, direction of flight), and wing photo. Ask anyone who’s been in consulting (like big4) and they’ll all have a good chance of getting it right.
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by bfung 3y ago
Ditto. Though I had the chance to live in Austin for 2 weeks for work in the early 2000s to know what to expect. Being employed in tech AND Bay Area (therefore California) leaves one pretty spoiled for pay, perks, diversity, activities, etc
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by bfung 3y ago
:)
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by bfung 3y ago
objects are a poor man’s closures…
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by bfung 3y ago
closures are a poor man's objects…
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by bfung 3y ago
Lol nice. Reminds me of that one HN post a few years ago… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31840331 > grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although
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by bfung 3y ago
So fun! Seems like it’d be way easier to parse/AST Tokki Pona than many natural languages we have. Is there some translation website built for it? (I see some chatgpt attempts at this in this thread) Very cool!
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by bfung 3y ago
Looks like this post is related to another high ranked front page post atm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36837273 In the other post & comments, they mention hosting things in Kosovo after the person who ran a to
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by bfung 3y ago
I think the mindmap drawn can be simplified further down into a couple of networking concepts, then most of the relationships and arrows go away, and the AWS concepts can be mapped to other clouds, and even your own home network. https:&#x
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by bfung 3y ago
Python 5000, why not.
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by bfung 3y ago
Yep, some google cloud server: SERVER_URL = "http://34.135.112.197:8000"
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by bfung 3y ago
Let’s hope someone doesn’t put the backup/replica in different region, the one big instance gonna be tough to restore!
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by bfung 3y ago
Stateless compute is relatively simple to be region-less, but even fly’s homepage has a map of regions. When state is introduced, then CAP/PACELC distributed systems issues arise, and figuring out approaches to deal with them are a mus
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by bfung 3y ago
Your other comment about “accidents and deaths per mile driven.” is likely the right metric of the idea I was trying to convey!

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