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by samvher 4y ago
This seems to be a thing with weather models more generally. Somewhat relatedly, I've spent quite a bit of time evaluating weather models for use in India and Africa, and while predictions are easy to find, validation results for the p
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What makes you interpret it as a risk premium? My sense is it's mostly driven by demand growing ahead of supply, and barriers existing to the supply expanding (which is partly because of the value of experience, which takes time to bui
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by samvher 4y ago
Since we're doing book recommendations :) I thought "The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates" [1] was a fun read as well. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Hook-Hidden-Economics-Pirat...
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As a Dutch person I learned some Swedish and some German (both not very well, but enough to go around) and I found Swedish significantly easier. It feels more similar to Dutch/English in terms of grammar and flow. Just one data point,
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by samvher 4y ago
What a strange post - the name is not right, so it's unlaunched. No indication of a new name? Am I supposed to conclude that the whole product is canceled for now? If that's the case it seems unlikely that the naming error is the
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by samvher 4y ago
Funny to see it rubbed so many people the wrong way. It actually stood out in a positive way to me, I read it as “we want people who bring projects to the finish line, including if they are challenging”. The reason I would see it as a posit
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I recently started experiencing this for the first time, earlier I believed the same you do. It’s funny reading the thread here because it echoes a lot of my experiences - what made the difference was seeing it as “I’m going for a walk but
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by samvher 4y ago
If anything I expect people higher up in the hierarchy to be less sensitive about being interrupted, and more on board with optimizing information flow. On the other hand, with people who are more junior/less confident you are more at
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I’m very curious which culture that is, if you wouldn’t mind sharing. I tend to take some liberties when it comes to interrupting but am aware that it’s not always appreciated. Still I often find it crucial in order to keep information flow
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by samvher 4y ago
You might enjoy this book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/simple-science-flight-revised... (I did, a lot.)
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by samvher 4y ago
Accepted in what sense? Everyone I know who is involved with cryptocurrencies is so for “investment”, not for other kinds of usage.
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What you mention as “the fun part” does sound pretty interesting. Sounds like you’re contracting/consulting? Any advice on finding assignments in the field? (For someone with a DS + non-civil engineering background)
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This would be interesting to get some more context on - were you dishonorably discharged because you were critical of what was going on in your lab? I’m not sure what you’re saying about the masters, you had that already or your experience
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Any keywords or a summary to kick off the readings?
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My impression is that he’s pretty controversial politically but that his contributions to linguistics/theory of grammars are generally seen as very impactful. And I imagine that in this case the reference is more related to the latter
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by samvher 5y ago
On (2), so this part is where I wonder: no-one has "expressive painting of a man shining rays of justice and transparency on a blue bird twitter logo" as their twitter bio. So are the "happy sisyphus" images generated fr
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by samvher 5y ago
Right - I also don’t like the idea of something indiscriminately killing bacteria on my skin and food. Microbiomes in and around our body shouldn’t be messed with unnecessarily IMO.
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by samvher 5y ago
I didn’t mean simple mistakes, but failures at design/architecture level (I was thinking more about technical leadership than management/staffing). This is a good list though!
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Ask HN: What (almost) company sinking engineering mistakes have you witnessed?
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by samvher 5y ago
Why do you think it has so little use? One thing that comes to my mind is portrait background blur - so far computational implementations on smartphones that I’ve seen were not very good, I suspect this can improve effects like that a lot w
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by samvher 5y ago
That honestly sounds fantastic. I just accepted another job so I’m not looking now but I could easily imagine that this would be exactly the kind of thing (and place!) where I’d want to head a few years from now, and I think I would have a
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by samvher 5y ago
Yes. The signal does come with some noise, but I've found HN incredibly valuable for my professional and career development. I spend quite some time here but I think it's worth it. HN pretty frequently has posts from senior engine
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by samvher 5y ago
My guess is it reminds of Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged, but that’s just based on what I’ve picked up from documentaries (I haven’t read this book or anything else by her).
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by samvher 5y ago
Wow! Couldn’t have wished for a better response :)
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This looks like just the kind of game I’m interested in! Do you have other recommendations for unique (/mathy) games?
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That sounds really awful, condolences. It's bizarre to think that high tech services (assuming you spoke to them over the internet) were available while primary needs were not being met. Do you have thoughts on what could have prevente
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by samvher 5y ago
Not sure there is a silver bullet here other than investing everything 18 months ago. Cash is at risk of inflation. Bonds are at risk of interest rate increases. Stocks and real estate are looking like they might be overvalued. Crypto... ye
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by samvher 5y ago
I work Mon-Wed at 60% pay. I built some key infrastructure for the organization I work for, which gives me some leverage. I basically just told them this is how I want things from now on and that was ok. I’m not at MAANG level compensation
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by samvher 5y ago
Honest question: how do you find this? You can spot some from experience in a field but I've often wondered if there is a more systematic way to identify such niches (so that I can mentally compare them and pick one that I'm attra
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I recently read "Learned Optimism" by Martin Seligman and while I can't say that it has turned me into a beacon of hope and positivity, it has given me some useful tools and insights. Basically the book helps you dissect some

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