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by shoo 8mo ago
Yeah, having a layer of human experts to sanity check and weed out hallucinated false positive issues seems like an important part of this process: > To ensure that Claude hadn’t hallucinated bugs (i.e., invented problems that don’t exis
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by shoo 8mo ago
incremental steps like reducing or eliminating beef consumption by substituting less water intensive meat (e.g. chicken / turkey) are also helpful
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by shoo 8mo ago
Crypto -- gold -- these are both assets classes where the price is primarily driven by speculation. Sometimes speculation causes prices to fluctuate up, other times speculation causes prices to fluctuate down. There's inherently no sta
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by shoo 8mo ago
> What’s worked best for me so far is treating the code as sort of a confidence score, plus some layering in limited runtime info (e.g. what actually executed during tests) instead of relying on 100% static analysis. > Curious how oth
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by shoo 8mo ago
For big organisations with larger software teams, they may put value on considerations like security (automatic container image scanning, limiting which networks their container imagines are transferred through, ability to centrally manage
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by shoo 8mo ago
https://www.keanu.codes/
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by shoo 9mo ago
How do you know this is happening?
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by shoo 9mo ago
Interesting idea, but it seems likely that the data this collects may not be very useful as a way to estimate the effectiveness of landing pages. If I don't belong to one of the markets that the landing page is trying to sell products
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by shoo 9mo ago
There are some interesting examples in the "The Book of Why" [y] by Pearl and Mackenzie. This book is all about causal inference & has examples from things like drug trials where the analysis and inferences drawn from analysi
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by shoo 9mo ago
re: SKIP LOCKED, introduced in postgres 9.5, here's an an archived copy [†] of the excellent 2016 2ndquadrant post discussing it https://web.archive.org/web/20240309030618/https://www.2ndqu... corre
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by shoo 9mo ago
Your story reminded me of Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner's book "How Big Things Get Done". It's a pop science book communicating the research of Flyvbjerg & collaborators who collected data of actual schedule & b
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by shoo 9mo ago
There's often a tension between efficiency (say maximising throughput, or minimising latency) and robustness (being able to cope with shortages of inputs, demand shocks, work around failures). The world got to experience a bunch of lo
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by shoo 9mo ago
great idea -- for sufficiently lumbering enterprisey clients you may discover that it is impossible for a mere dev to "push" a change into production without the right part of the org tree pulling, let alone for that to happen on
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by shoo 9mo ago
Fun to see a write up applying multi-armed bandits. I had a bit of trouble following the article as I don't understand the problem space well enough. When framing this problem, the authors wrote: Answering "Can user X access r
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by shoo 9mo ago
> i get the same feeling reading mathematical notations, so there is that the natural habitat for encountering novel mathematical notation is while furiously handwriting your own lecture notes, trying to keep up with whatever never befor
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by shoo 9mo ago
If you are comfortable with a hand grinder, Porlex grinders [1] [2] are excellent. I use one to make a coarse grind for the french press. It's gotten used 4-7 times per week for the last 5+ years and still going strong. On topic of be
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by shoo 10mo ago
see also: Odd Lots interviewed Jetson Leder-Luis about medicare and medicaid fraud (nov 2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-fraudsters-are-bil...
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by shoo 10mo ago
I'm not an accountant either, that also makes sense. If instead the exchange had been of real world money for N months of prepaid subscription, that was consumed after N months had passed, that'd be a little different but also pre
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by shoo 10mo ago
yes. see also this thread from 4 months ago discussing accounting for credits, in the context of 1 year expiry for anthropic credits https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793827
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by shoo 10mo ago
Great writeup. Much of this is more about testing, how package dependencies are expressed and many-repo/singlerepo tradeoffs than "microservices"! Maintaining and testing a codebase containing many external integrations (&quo
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by shoo 10mo ago
Suppose we were critiquing an article that was advocating the health benefits of black coffee consumption, say, we might raise eyebrows or immediately close the tab without further comment if a claim was not backed up by any supporting evid
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by shoo 10mo ago
It'd also have been interesting to see some overall profiling data of the initial program & some discussion of which optimisations to investigate based on that profiling data. When investigating performance issues its often very he
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Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques(tratt.net)
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by shoo 10mo ago
> Rather than getting stuck in front-end minutiae, the tutorial goes straight to generating working assembly code, from very early on Good summary. I had no background in compilers or related theory but read Jack Crenshaw's Let&#x27
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by shoo 10mo ago
i'd also recommend uthermal -- former pro sc2 player, he's got a really good attitude & makes a lot of entertaining videos
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by shoo 10mo ago
hypothesis: expected upvotes = views of comment thread * probability your comment is read given someone reads the comment thread * probability of upvote given someone read your comment If you make a "great" comment but the comment
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by shoo 10mo ago
"Using LLMs at Oxide" [0], as seen on the HN frontpage yesterday, had a bit to say about LLMs as writers > LLM-generated prose undermines a social contract of sorts: absent LLMs, it is presumed that of the reader and the writer
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by shoo 10mo ago
Separately from this study, here's an interesting opinion piece by John Ioannidis titled "The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research", published in JAMA 2018: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.e
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by shoo 10mo ago
I wondered how much of this is inflation -- after adjusting for CPI inflation, $160 in 2020 is worth $200 in today's dollars [$], so the price of that ddr4 kit is 10% higher in real terms. [$] https://www.usinflationcalculat
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by shoo 10mo ago
> Useless fake ones where if you accept you get a reminder of the rules. Like phishing training, but for meeting attendance. Fail the test and accept a decoy meeting and you must complete a round of mandatory training in how to distingui

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