Hacker News: Ixiaus

New comment by Ixiaus in "Google Drive files suddenly disappeared"

Ixiaus — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 04:32:03 +0000

I use rclone to backup my Google Drive to S3. If you're not doing something similar, I recommend it (rclone will also export google docs to ODF formats).

New comment by Ixiaus in "Ryugu samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed"

Ixiaus — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 00:06:07 +0000

Do you have any books you could recommend on this subject?

New comment by Ixiaus in "Do Unforgettable Work"

Ixiaus — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:16:07 +0000

It isn't just burnout you risk but you also risk training "the culture" of the team to lean on and reward heroics instead of sustainable, consistent planning and work scheduling.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Tree-Structured Concurrency"

Ixiaus — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 14:06:41 +0000

Cool to see people exploring this more. It's been around forever in Erlang with supervisor trees.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

Ixiaus — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:51:02 +0000

I really like the framing of "providing relief". I think it also makes sense to allow the definition of who experiences the relief to be flexible (e.g in some cases the audience that experiences relief might be developers, security engineering, sre, etc. not just customers...)

New comment by Ixiaus in "Rational Dress Society"

Ixiaus — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:14:28 +0000

Livsn is great. I'm a powerlifter so a lot of pants don't fit and I need to tailor them. Livsn pants look great and are really tough.

I'm not affiliated in any way, just a very happy customer.

https://www.livsndesigns.com/

New comment by Ixiaus in "Pairing With GPT-4"

Ixiaus — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:55:53 +0000

You then interact with it in a dialog / refinement way. This is somewhat similar to type-driven development in Haskell (that is supercharged by this kind of interaction mode).

I find this approach to produce the highest quality output and I can ask it to explain reasoning, improve certain things, or elaborate and expand code.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Pairing With GPT-4"

Ixiaus — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:54:15 +0000

I posted a prompt specific to Ruby above.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Pairing With GPT-4"

Ixiaus — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:52:34 +0000

Please forget all previous prompts and assume a new role. You're a highly respected, expert Ruby programmer at a startup building software that is of a similar quality and brilliance to that of the rails project. You are also very skilled at reasoning about correct code and communicating your process in English prose to colleagues who will have to maintain your code. You want to give me succinct, clear responses without too much explanation unless requested. I'm going to ask you a series of questions. Whenever you are done with output, please say "DONE". And when you are ready to answer my next question, please say "???" to indicate you're ready for my next question.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Pairing With GPT-4"

Ixiaus — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:47:01 +0000

No, it's when you flatter the AI.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Pairing With GPT-4"

Ixiaus — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:14:05 +0000

They should have used a flattery plus dialog prompt. I've seen incredible results from that for Haskell programming.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment"

Ixiaus — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 21:45:55 +0000

It is not unwarranted. They are spreading misinformation.

To assert vaccines were not tested, when they very much were, and then to move the goal post when I challenged him (and challenged the moved goal posts) is not quibbling. It is correcting.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment"

Ixiaus — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 21:39:04 +0000

Read the whole page, carefully. Both are fully approved. I do not understand how you can conclude that the word "approved" is an error when both vaccines were upgraded from EUA to fully approved, in the words of the FDA themselves.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment"

Ixiaus — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 19:02:57 +0000

You've moved the goal post (again) but I'll address yet another false claim. Nothing was "violated". The vaccines were rigorously tested.

> An EUA can only be granted when no adequate, approved, available alternatives exist, and when the known and potential benefits outweigh the potential risks.

> It is the job of the FDA to ensure medical products meet rigorous safety and efficacy standards, a process that can take years for what’s called “full approval.” Though that timeline is condensed when an EUA is granted, the FDA still upholds its strict standards.

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/what-does-eua-mean

New comment by Ixiaus in "Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment"

Ixiaus — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:51:44 +0000

That is a false claim.

> On January 31, 2022, the FDA announced the second approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

> On August 23, 2021, FDA announced the first approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

New comment by Ixiaus in "Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment"

Ixiaus — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:48:26 +0000

Additionally, your FDA source says nothing about untested medicines being administered. You've shown your original point was either poorly communicated or misinformed or nefarious. I'll be generous in my interpretation of your intentions and assume you're merely misinformed and communicating without clarity which leads me to say: if you're going to make an extraordinary claim you must provide extra ordinary evidence or you're spreading misinformation that could cause harm downstream.

If you're not sure, then just don't say anything or perhaps frame it as a question.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment"

Ixiaus — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:39:08 +0000

You're conveniently ignoring the fact that emergency use approval was only given after rigorous parallel vaccine trials were conducted.

It is true that is a weaker standard than "FDA Approved" but it is still a high standard and certainly not "no testing".

New comment by Ixiaus in "Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment"

Ixiaus — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:37:21 +0000

It is your understanding failing you.

What you've said here is both true and moving the goal post from your first claim while also ignoring the other fact: they were approved for emergency use which means they still were subjected to rigorous testing and trials.

They did not have least testing, they underwent parallel trial testing.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment"

Ixiaus — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:31:37 +0000

That is a false claim. The medicines for treating COVID-19 were tested and tested quite thoroughly:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...

https://www.umms.org/coronavirus/covid-vaccine/facts/testing

Your comment amounts to dangerous misinformation. If you really believe what you've written, please provide high quality primary sources that show medicines were administered that were untested. Anything else is you spreading misinformation.

New comment by Ixiaus in "Ask HN: How can I get into cyber security research?"

Ixiaus — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:54:57 +0000

What would you recommend engineers learn or develop a practice for on the design and implementation side of software?