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Are there courses/books on "applied linear algebra"? You are right in some sense, but wrong in some sense. Linear algebra at a 100 level without any really deep understanding is still incredibly useful. Graphics (i guess you sort of call this out), machine learning etc.
Off the top of my head, jQuery has some unique selectors that aren't replicated in vanilla CSS, like :eq()
I hate grindr because I can't filter to introverted geeks like I am.

The geek section has been taken over by self described "nerds" aka jocks who live in the gym but have an xbox to play fifa. Ugh.
Yes, and my only commentary here is that the threshold for academic decision science is a lot higher than the one I have for managing my day-to-day life.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of people read his work, but few understand it. Maybe this is a flaw of the books, I don't know.
Most MDs are just prescription-gates. This is a good thing because we have other reasons why we can't make more people to let you in the gate, so it's best that we just use different non-physician staff.

I can match the performance of many of these people with a modern AI today, for the things I've needed a doctor for.

The things I can't do are effective surgery and emergency care. They're good at that.
I didn’t miss his point. He’s plain wrong.

> Programming requires a lot more formal rigor than mathematical proof writing.

This is is just wrong?

Syntax rigour has almost nothing to do with correctness.
Tbf you can get it for a lot less than 150k
Complaining about the answers gotten is always a surefire way to acquire more quality ones.
The real Blue Ocean strategy that Apple should apply would be to use AI to help analyze our behaviors and then actually change our behaviors to help us be happier and healthier, not just use it to sell us more stuff (as some competitors are doing).
How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis
Another paragraph later he writes something that sounds like "we have to bring on regulatory capture when it's right to, not when it makes us feel good and doesn't damage our profits".
Huh. I went to Philmont in the early 2000's and did not experience pemmican. We did a lot of ramen, squeeze cheese and spam. Maybe it had already gone out of style by the time I went. The only reason I know of its existence, is, like sibling comment, because of Rimworld
I showed up and got an excellent pushback.
I spent a little bit fiddling with the graphics settings for 2880x1600 last night, and settled on 30FPS at max settings and 1280x800 internal rendering, which looks pretty good. This is with a 3080 and a 7800X3D and 64GB of RAM, but wow the game looks really really nice. It’s 30FPS in the forest and 60FPS in town, which is interesting. All that foliage takes a lot, apparently.

I had to take the settings way way down to get to 60FPS and I don’t know as I get older, I prefer things to look nice and smudged vs high frame rates and crummy.

I’m just enjoying the heck out of walking around the forest and staring at necrotizing obese ray traced wieners. The details are astounding!

Also, if you’re looking to upgrade your GPU, it’s a great time. I bought this one off some kid for $400 and 3090s are selling for $650.
> The people who use Vercel don't know anything about how to deploy on AWS

Ehhhh. I’ve been deploying to AWS professionally for years and I’d choose Vercel for a personal project any day of the week.

Life’s too short to play devops/sysadmin/sre without someone paying you the big bucks.
Nope, many women often have multiple men (and vice versa!), and prostitution is very much a thing.

It’s actually remarkably easy to measure ‘market value’ in these situations.
FWIW I think this is the benefit of Strang. If you're in science or engineering or statistics, often you don't need the general picture, and IMO too much generality gets in the way of understanding. Start with a good understanding of the most important cases that appear in applied work, and drill them until you're fluent with them. Then generalizing will be easier.
If you have a viewpoint state it plainly and clearly.
To iterate on mikl's question:
also nice, but I wonder why IBM did this.
> "I'd be happy with an LED bulb that lasted a year. I haven't yet found one that can do that reliably."

I do remember in the early days of LED bulbs, many were quite unreliable, especially dimmable ones. It was probably more the electronics in them failing more than the LEDs themselves?

But now days LED bulbs seem much more reliable and I very rarely have to replace them. In fact the only bulbs I can recall replacing in the past 18 months living in my current house were some old CFL bulbs that hadn't actually completely failed, but had gradually become a bit too dim.

Certainly, now days, I need to replace bulbs far, far less often than in the old incandescent days where it was a regular chore in any house.

(Also, now days I avoid using old-style dimmer switches, and even removed some in one house I lived in. Better to get a smart bulb with it's own built-in dimming if you want it.)
Hmm if they hole point is save memory and smaller sizes, and since they are willing go with Bun (very experimental type of tech), then they should also just tried Deno.
I’m a bit out of the loop but I thought heroku died or is languishing under Salesforce. That’s my current perception of everything and no longer see it recommended in HN threads. Hopefully this does not come off as an attack (it’s not).
Dude here. If you talk to women about their experiences with doctors and -- and this is important! -- actually listen you'll find that they're very different than ours.
> I hate YouTube ads because they're usually worse than the most obnoxious TV ads with blaring audio or just obnoxious content.

It's the absolute bottom of the barrel, too. AI voices pitching scam colon cleanses and scam detox shakes, and yes everything is LOOOOUD and interruptive. At least on network TV, the content has natural pauses for ads, but on YouTube they just shove em in whenever. Nothing quite like listening to quiet ambient or classical piano music and then all of a sudden some giant, roided-out asshole is screaming at me: "LET ME HELP YOU GET RRRRRRRIPPED AT THE GYMMM!!!"

I have no ethical qualms about blocking that shit.
Or you could do the normal thing and PAY for the amazing experience that is HACK with the green computer chip logo
Of course, though the frequency of repeated abuse makes all the difference.
Historically because it was impossible to have everyone vote on everything all the time.

Nowadays you still have the problem in some sense due to trust in voting systems, but theoretically you could run many of the functions of congress via calling a vote to the general population and they could do it on their smart phone or something. Auth would be hard(ish) from a practical perspective. Knowing enough about a topic could be easily resolved via allowing voters to appoint a proxy on certain bills or writ large.
They have this spring thing, where you see them wind up for half a second and then they do something far more agile (accelerate, jump, etc.) than you'd expect... for something that weighs that much.

Will never forget meeting a group on a trail, stepping off behind a (SUV-sized) boulder, then feeling them spook a bit and in 2 seconds go from a leisurely walking to thundering trot. Earth shaking with them just in a mild hurry! Not even full speed!

But they're built to outfight anything smaller than them and outrun anything bigger than them, so I guess they're as strong/fast as they need to be.
Whats the use case for edge computing like Fly.io. I have yet to figure it out the use case where a edge provider is necessary. That is, having a database on the edge.
Nix has two types of derivations (builds). Input addressed, and content addressed.

An input addressed derivation’s hash is based on the the hash of all its input derivations and its own derivation. Therefore trusting the association between the cached binary and the derivation requires trusting the builder and a signature. All non-derivation inputs like source code, must be content-addressed.

A content addressed derivation can then be produced easily by rewriting all the derivations with `nix make-content-addressed`. This doesn’t require trust / signatures as every stage of the build is now content-addressed. The final hash could be confirmed through social consensus of multiple distrusting parties.

There’s nothing in theory stopping you from starting with a content addressed derivation other than it being a pain in the ass as you’d have to know the output hash before you built it, or TOFU (trust on first use) it which is then just the same as using the `nix make-content-addressed` approach.

I’m not sure why you think commit signatures are required. Git is content addressed, you can’t tamper with the derivations without changing the hashes and nixpkgs is primarily developed through GitHub. If someone has access to your SSH keys or GitHub account password it stands to reason they’d have access to your GPG keys too.
Signing bonus.

Any signing bonus stipulates a period of time (often a year) you need to stay in order to keep the bonus.

Firing without cause before that period ends...not sure what the common practice is for that.

tbh it's probably quite rare, as you would only offer hiring bonuses in a tight labor market.
Women weren't even included in medical trials until the 70s[0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/13/the-fem...
How so? photons that don't participate in the reaction?
Chat GPT-4V does this pretty well already, take a full size screenshot in Chrome + paired with a good prompt and you'll get a solid analysis with recommendations. How does your startup differ?
Teams that have very poor work-life balance lose more people than are actually high performance. This means they get more openings, and more people bounce out, continuing the pattern.

Unless there is money and glory in landing in a badly performing team and turning it around, or the cost of managing a team with high attrition that doesn't get better is a pink slip, anyone that is career minded will not do anything to fix the problem areas that give a company a bad reputation. Even more so when said company uses stack ranking.

Thus, almost every bad experience is worse than average, but if you are joining a company, it's much easier to land in those bad teams than in those where nobody ever wants to quit.
I can't help but think of the monty python movie where they ask

"But what have the romans ever done for us?"

I mean the boomers built the roads, and ...
I never had the privilege of tasting Zima.

B5 (a 90s sci-fi show) had a sign for Zima in it (and got no $ for it )
They often advertise as "pocket sized", which I take to mean: "put this in your pocket", but I guess I could be wrong
I think of wavelets and stochastic processes to be a significantly bigger niche than you probably do.
That's the negative behaviour the movements were trying to address but young men interpreted it as women not wanting to be approached by them at all. That's the message social media is giving.
Can you explain what all would be needed to make a similar setup? I see the dongles for ~30 but does it need to be in a location with another piece of hardware or what?
Read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/gaza-hos...

Furthermore, yesterday or 2 days ago, the zionist media released CGI footage of a supposed secret HQ under the hospital. Why now? It seems they are paving the way to justify what may be discovered in the future. The did shell the hospital 3 days before the blast, I wouldn't be surprised if the cause of the blast was another shelling that blew up cars in the parking lot.

The zionist media has been desperately lying through its teeth: https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1718547315764441095
>two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now

Influencers, aka Snake Oil Salesmen.

There definitely are worthwhile content creators out there, to be clear, but the signal-to-noise ratio is so astronomically terrible that it's probably better to throw out the entire bathtub including the stillborn baby.
Why are you making it sound like I shouldn't read the details/context?
You could have your realtime competitive FPS game like Call of Duty host the data and compute necessary to run a match as close to the median location of all the players involved as possible to reduce latency. You could make the same case for something like Zoom or a collaborative editing tool.
What makes this assertion? The literal definition of the term.

Are you the kid who thinks he's edgy by saying in philosophy class: "It depends on the meaning of the word 'X'" every time someone tries to explain X to you?
Part of my role is "security certifier", which means working closely pen testers and Op/DevSec folks to review various systems and applications across subdivisions in a larger org.
This is what happens when you do HN-frontpage-driven development. I mean, they use Bun (which I’m sure will be great in a couple years’ time) and quickly ran into an fd leak in it. Does that sound like a production grade runtime?

However, I suppose it’s good for content marketing. You’re not going to make front page by choosing boring old technology (unless you’re migrating back to boring old technology after failed HN-frontpage-driven development).
>Should it, though? Stress results from abuse and abusive working conditions

It doesn't have to be school, but you should learn how to manage stress. You can have a perfectly fine job and still get stressed out, or have a horrible job and manage fine. Personally I can handle a lot of stress well, and I enjoy the rewards that it brings. Infact, it's fun for me.
PSA: when you renegotiate the most important issue is, mutton or wool.
I would do something similar if I could get a desktop OS running on a tablet, but I would prefer a much smaller tablet than the iPad (like 7in). I need to be able to run either Linux or (preferably) windows. I wonder if there are mini tablets that do what I want...
Assuming someone actually knows it (most non-engineers will likely install an app not finding one called QR), I find the UX to show a small, non-persistent link hover on top of the code difficult to use compared to a normal qr reader (both built-in or 3rd party) which freezes with a large clickable region when it detects a code. Especially when outside and lighting conditions or angles can make scanning a code a challenge, having to actually click to complete a scan would always be a big problem for me, so eventually I installed a third party app. Finding the built-in "app" was nice to allow uninstalling that.

This may be a more important issue in Japan where I think? QR codes are more used than in the US and often require scanning around other people, or other physical challenges. I guess most here get around the problem by using an iPhone though which has a built in and highly obvious QR app.
Linux exclusively - I detest Windows server, via docker.

I feel that it's actually quite rare to run modern .NET apps on Windows Server now.
"Underserved" here means that when they see a provider, they are less likely to be taken seriously; not that they are less likely to see a provider.

For example, while men may be more likely to "tough it out" of their own accord, a black woman describing her symptoms is much less likely to be taken seriously.
Google currently has program managers (and technical program managers). I could not tell you the difference between them and product or project managers.
Personally I’d be happy to see a PA IFF my copay is less.

Why should I pay my standard copay to see a PA for a regular visit, or pay the same much much higher specialist copay if I’m seeing a PA instead of an actual specialist MD.
What I dont understand about Crypto is that its supposed to be good for payments, and for keeping a store of value. Both of those business are pretty low margin uninteresting businesses. How can people make billions out of it.
The first book was written in 1942 - it's mentioned explicitly in LADR.
It doesn't mean the concepts didn't exist - they did, Frobenius even built a brilliant theory around them (representation theory), but the subject was defined quite loosely - apparently no one cared to collect the results in one place.
It doesn't even matter much: I remember taking the course in 1974, and it was totally different from what is being taught today.
Y'all dreams weak af breh
Ironically, by relying on institutions so much, the value of their recognition becomes reduced over time, and we get stuff like credential creep, university bureaucratic bloat, and general mistrust in academia.
I work in consulting the people I know a ring or two up the ladder all have weird ticks or unexplainable random medical issues. I have no desire to do that to myself, even their rewards are not that great. Certainly not worth becoming a messed up freak of a person, incredibly productive and knowledgeable but also an emotional and physical basket case.
As a gay dude myself, idt this is too bad. He's just listing preferences, he's not being offensive about it. If what he listed is wrong, then is it wrong for me to be gay because I'm being sexist by excluding women?

I actually prefer people list their preferences up front, that way that's no disappointment later.

For example, I can think a straight guy is cute, but I'm not personally attracted to straight guys, I find it unattractive, because I know they're not interested (in addition to hetero culture, chest beating etc that is just gross).

Easier for someone to say "not into short guys" up front cause then I just skip over them rather than interact and have awkwardness later on.
"How can people make billions out of it."

Lying
it's sort of amazing how a little visualization helps:

https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
I'm charitable by trying to teach you with examples.

> Or as it is commonly referred to in computer science: function self-application

No, that's recursion, not metaphysics.

Is computer science the same as programming, no. Computer science is the study of programming, not programming. You learn this in your first year of CS.

If you're smart enough to _really_ understand what a Y combinator is, this should be a piece of cake.
I did not know how much "lost continent" conspiracy theory stuff there was on YouTube. Although not really surprised.

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=argoland
This is despicable behavior.
Across all jobs the average tenure is about 4 years. So on that basis they sound like not a great employer but probably not among the worst. But in tech, where some advise changing jobs every year or two to "advance," a three-year tenure might be more typical if not pretty good.

I've left "good" jobs in less time than that, just because a better opportunity came along or outside factors changed.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/tenure.pdf
Seems likely, they are apparently still using the same engine they developed for Quantum Break (Northlight)
This is a pretty rude generalization, though I get it.

As you grow in this career I promise you'll see people with real, serious problems caused/exacerbated by their white-collar jobs.

I don't think the difficulty of other careers means we shouldn't demand fair treatment for ourselves. Is letting ourselves get treated poorly supposed to help them?
I thought about that, but it is indeed getting worse. If a doctor works from 30-70 (not sure what the average retirement age would be), then about 38% should be over 55. Clicking through to the actual statistics:

Percentage of active physicians aged 55 or older: 46.7% for 2021, 44.9% for 2019, 44.1% for 2017, 43.2% for 2015, 42.6% for 2013, 40.3% for 2010, 37.6% in 2007.

So that is a worrying trend, since increasing population should result in at least a steady state, if not decreasing average age.

Also, depends on specialty. 92.4% (!!) of specialists in pulmonary disease are over the age of 55. So I hope the aging population doesn't have any lung problems.

Data is here for 2022, with links to other years: https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/data/2022-physician-specia...
A World Without Babies: Private choices and potent public consequences
Interesting - I remember saturn tried very hard to have plastic panels that would be easy to replace, and was ahead of its time with employee relations. I guess it disappeared.
yep. another use case, specifically for mac minis, is (was?) build servers. buy 20-30 mac minis, lock them in a dedicated room in the office, use them to execute build & test CI jobs for company's ios app. no one is carrying them around, they're used as servers.
What brand of LED bulb do you buy?

I'm consistently replacing one or two bulbs a month around the house. I don't know if it's the electronics or the LEDs; I don't really care either.
Having customers in places around the world. If you site is hosted in North Virginia, and you have customers in Australia, they are going to really suffer from the speed of light.
Interesting, well written and full of data and plots clearly showing the improvement. One important thing to remember, medication works and we should trust doctors and science.
It is weird to anyone who didn't grow up being told to not cite Wikipedia as a source of information in any authoritative capacity, being told to instead dig for and cite the original source instead which a tool like Internet Archive is useful for.

Culture shock stemming from a generation gap, I guess.

(Obviously this distinction is not important for most comments here on Hacker News which are just written in passing, but if this was an academical setting you would, presumably and hopefully, get laughed out of the room.)
Yeah anytime you apply for a job make sure you find out why there’s an opening to begin with. Is a good team expanding or did the last 5 people quit in the first 90 days?
This site perfectly shows why jQuery still rocks.
> Cron is a terrible model for actually solving business problems with. Do you know what happens when a cron job fails to run/errors out?

Do lambdas not fail to run / error out? I’m not following.
That article is such a dumbfounded mess by inexperienced folks that i don’t even know where to start.
> I find it interesting that people seem to be trading short term gains with long term reliability and maintenance costs. This glut of 0-friction deploy services lull people into a nice false sense of security.

I find it interesting as well. I agree that it's a false sense of security, and there is no real long-term gain from avoiding the one time paydown of deploying to a big 3 cloud services provider. Still, I think the impulse reflects something a very real pain, and something I find my team continuing to face as we try to manage a the operationally minimalistic stack we can get away with on AWS -- poor DX.

It does still boggle my mind that AWS still doesn't have a Heroku-esque happy path DX that lets you get started easily and then add in complexity on an as needed basis rather than forcing it to get the most basic thing running. It seems like every minor customization requires in AWS parlance spinning up a Lambda to do something that should be a first class feature in the platform by default. Will I migrate off the platform? No. Would I use a simpler, opinionated interface that let me focus on my application and not arcanae, if AWS made it avaiable? Absolutely.
It makes sense -- reap the efficiencies of centralizing non-core competencies (e.g. HR, etc).

Although it does the EA-style risk of prioritizing return on investment above all else (quality, maintenance, feature additions) from their portfolio.

I'd be curious what the investment and release velocity is for their tools.
Graphics aside, is it a good game? Do you like it? My wife and I enjoy playing through story games, but only if they’re not dumb.

Spiderman 2 is awesome. It was one of the few preorders that have ever worked out for me. So I’m cautiously optimistic about recent mainstream games, and the preview for Alan Wake looks neat.
I think this comment is intended as a compliment to Vercel, but it's hard to tell from the wording.