Hacker News: Rainymood

New comment by Rainymood in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

Rainymood — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 07:46:40 +0000

As a machine learning platform engineer these sound like technology choices as opposed to infrastructure decisions. I would love to read this post but really with the infrastructure trade-offs that were made. But thanks for the post.

Side node: There is a small typo repeated twice "Kuberentes"

New comment by Rainymood in "Business advice plagued by survivor bias (2009)"

Rainymood — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:38:27 +0000

A shower thought I had recently is that we should start referring to "Business cases" as "Survival cases" and "Business books" as "Survival books" and that makes the inherent bias so much clearer.

New comment by Rainymood in "Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees"

Rainymood — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 06:39:32 +0000

So, effectively, there was... no rule.

New comment by Rainymood in "List one task, do it, cross it out"

Rainymood — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 16:55:04 +0000

I have one notebook that I carry around where I list tasks just in order to cross them out. There is something so viscerally satisfying in crossing out a task that just provides so much momentum to whatever I'm doing. There's just something beautiful about making the implicit explicit and then striking it through.

New comment by Rainymood in "Lessons learned building an ML trading system that turned $5k into $200k (2019)"

Rainymood — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 06:58:00 +0000

Very interesting post and I read it in full. The article is definitely interesting but I found it a shame that the author didn't talk more about his system that brought him from 5k to 200k as the title implies :)

New comment by Rainymood in "Ask HN: How Is Plaid Legal?"

Rainymood — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 04:58:59 +0000

I asked this question 5 years ago in an AMA the CEO did once here, but they plainly ignored me and are a unicorn 5 years later. The trick here is to move so fast that the law has trouble keeping up (same with Uber/AirBNB).

New comment by Rainymood in "Freezing Requirements with Pip-Tools"

Rainymood — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 08:59:34 +0000

Did you ever try poetry[1]?

It is a great tool that I use in all my projects. It effectively solves dependency management for me in a very easy to use way.

Dependency management using requirements.txt used to give me such a headache, now I just have a pyproject.toml that I know works.

    [tool.poetry.dependencies]
    python = ">=3.8,<3.9"
    pandas = "^1.4.3"

This basically means: Use the version of python between 3.8 and 3.9 and use any version higher than 1.4.3 for pandas.

What I like about poetry is that it makes sure that the whole dependency graph of the packages that you add is correct. If it can not solve the graph, then it fails fast and it fails hard, which is a good thing.

This is probably a very bad explainer of what poetry does, but be sure to check it out! :)

[1] https://python-poetry.org/

New comment by Rainymood in "Decentral Bank fixes bug that let one user mint 10T USN for just $10"

Rainymood — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 08:05:58 +0000

Very decentralized, until we don't like it anymore, then very centralized.

New comment by Rainymood in "A drug that cures alcoholism may be the next anti-anxiety medication"

Rainymood — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:46:15 +0000

I'm half asian and I get the "Asian flush" [0] which for all intents and purposes induces the same effect as this drug (DSF)

>Individuals who experience the alcohol flushing reaction may be less prone to alcoholism. Disulfiram, a drug sometimes given as treatment for alcoholism, works by inhibiting acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, causing a five to tenfold increase in the concentration of acetaldehyde in the body. The resulting irritating flushing reaction tends to discourage affected individuals from drinking.[9][10]

I literally have a negative feedback loop from drinking alcohol, it makes me feel really bad, my skin flushes, I feel my heartbeat in my chest/neck/head, and I literally feel miserable.

Honestly, it kind of sucks, because when you can't drink you notice how much socialising is based around alcohol. I've found ways to cope with this and am on good terms with myself now but it really took me a long time. Especially to get around the social/peer pressure of having to drink.

On the bright side, I'll likely never become an alcoholic.

New comment by Rainymood in "Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson"

Rainymood — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:52:58 +0000

Very happy that Brandon Sanderson is looking more and more healthy as time goes on :) love his writing

New comment by Rainymood in "'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed"

Rainymood — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:47:16 +0000

As a Dutch person, I was never taught this, I can see it is good practice but we just don't do it. All we do is check over our shoulders before we open the door because we know there can be a cyclist. Why? Because we are all cyclists so we know it can happen...

New comment by Rainymood in "The Power of Defaults"

Rainymood — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:59:01 +0000

I liked the post a lot, but I am furiously sceptical about this claim:

>This is why Apple Maps has higher market share than Google Maps

Do you have any (recent) source for this or is this just a wild guess? I literally know no one that prefers Apple Maps over Google Maps.

New comment by Rainymood in "An Honest Comparison of VS Code vs. JetBrains – 5 Points"

Rainymood — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 08:20:37 +0000

I use PyCharm JetBrains for most of my development work, the testing/debugging setup just works too good out of the box.

I just wish PyCharm 100% copied the way search/find works in VS Code. PyCharm search and find is so awkward, and VS Code's is so good.

New comment by Rainymood in "Health care is turning into a consumer product"

Rainymood — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:06:16 +0000

>In NL, you pay ~€110/month annually, with a max out-of-pocket cost of €385 per year. So, maximum €1600 cost annually.

My provider, CZ, charges ~€150/month with max-out-of-pocket ~€385. If you get the full ~€850 out of pocket then your monthly payment drops to ~€110/month.

New comment by Rainymood in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell"

Rainymood — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 10:46:11 +0000

I love this so much. No frills, just software solving (boring) problems in a scalable way. All the best :)

New comment by Rainymood in "Step Away from Stack Overflow"

Rainymood — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:35:54 +0000

This solution is really bad, read it in as a dataframe and use a groupby...

New comment by Rainymood in "How a Kalman filter works, in pictures"

Rainymood — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 13:22:44 +0000

I remember this blog post from ~3 years ago when I had to write my MPhil thesis :) thanks for this, it really helped me understand it!

New comment by Rainymood in "Googling for Software Development: What Developers Search for and What They Find"

Rainymood — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 07:56:24 +0000

Yesterday, I wrote a short blog post titled "Don't mistake the internet's intelligence for your own" [0] which is very closely related to this blog post here. I wrote it it to shine some light on the fact that knowledge on the internet (Google, SO) is not ~your~ knowledge. This fact often gets painfully exposed during interviews. Funny timing.

[0] https://www.janmeppe.com/blog/dont-confuse-intelligence/

New comment by Rainymood in "How to learn mathematics: the asterisk method"

Rainymood — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:43:06 +0000

This is the so-called "Illusion of competence/learning" [1] and I have become fascinated with this topic (and learning in general). The only way out of this trap is to self-test.

[1] https://staciechoice1010.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/illusions-...

New comment by Rainymood in "Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity"

Rainymood — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 07:58:35 +0000

Is there any version of Dan Luu's website with just a hint of css? Plain HTML is unreadable imho, content is usually great but I struggle to get through it because it's so damn hard on the eyes.