drunkpotato (u/drunkpotato)

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eastburnn · a month ago

Businesses and peoples’ livelihoods are online nowadays, it’s not just scrolling Twitter for fun.

The internet can’t afford to just “give people mental health breaks.”

drunkpotato · a month ago

Actually, yes, it can. Chill a bit.

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drunkpotato · 10 months ago

I’m sad that you’re being downvoted. It’s clear that you’re correct. However, HN does tend to take extending the courtesy of assuming good faith to the breaking point, whether we like it or not.

It’s blindingly obvious that they are here merely to gum up discussion in endless loops that go nowhere under the guise of politesse and question marks, as if they’re just confused and asking clarifying questions.

The thing about assuming good faith, which I agree with in principle, is that you have to be willing to accept your own judgment of when someone is arguing in bad faith and disengage.

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drunkpotato · 10 months ago

Yes, that was evil. If your point is that both Obama and Trump are criminals who deserve imprisonment rather than full throated defense and endorsement, I am in complete agreement.

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drunkpotato · 10 months ago

Caddy is beautifully simple, a joy to setup, configure & use for a simple home server with a few services. I love it! I used nginx before, and it’s great, but caddy makes things easier. I love how easy it makes SSL certificates & reverse proxies.

drunkpotato commented on "the Zooms don't show up" Jamie Dimon mediaite.com/tv/leaked-au... · Posted by u/deathtrader666

zigglezaggle · 10 months ago

What is your model? That is, how did you measure this? Productivity and the impacts to it are highly multivariate and most analysis thus far has failed to do show convincing effects in either direction from remote work.

Genuinely, there is too much appeal to emotion from both sides of the argument and not enough substance, so if you have something here I'd be interested to read about it.

drunkpotato · 10 months ago

They don’t have anything because they’re lying. Even the sibling comment is a fabrication.

drunkpotato commented on "the Zooms don't show up" Jamie Dimon mediaite.com/tv/leaked-au... · Posted by u/deathtrader666

ArthurStacks · 10 months ago

I issued an ultimatum to staff in 2023 that they either return to the office or would be let go, and we saw a dramatic increase in productivity

drunkpotato · 10 months ago

To anyone else coming across this: this is a lie.

drunkpotato commented on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 404media.co/anyone-can-pu... · Posted by u/mahkeiro

giraffe_lady · 10 months ago

This is so clearly not the case of an underexperienced team trying to accomplish something complicated and failing at it. The goal is to dismantle the government and that's exactly what they're doing.

There is no problem from their point of view, they are succeeding from their perspective, and musk's, and trump's and every other anti-america neo nazi shitlicker who got them there.

drunkpotato · 10 months ago

Exactly. All of this was stated in advance, in Project 2025 and in tech bro interviews about how much democracy sucks. These people are not subtle, smart, or original; however, they are completely amoral sociopaths who think they can destroy the US and own/control what’s left. I don’t think it’s going to work out as well for them as they think, but in the short and medium term Elon and his shitheels will do a lot of damage, and cause a lot of pain and death.

drunkpotato commented on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 404media.co/anyone-can-pu... · Posted by u/mahkeiro

scarab92 · 10 months ago

Two things:

1. To people saying that the government should have a direct way to file taxes. This is an outdated way of thinking. Most ordinary people shouldn't have to file taxes at all. Withholding is sufficient for income taxes and taxes on liquid investments.

2. 18F was an openly partisan organisation. They were likely disbanded not to kill the products they produced, but rather for their inability to remain politically neutral.

drunkpotato · 10 months ago

I, too, was born yesterday.

drunkpotato commented on PostgreSQL Best Practices speakdatascience.com/post... · Posted by u/lemonwaterlime

tfeldmann · a year ago

I’m struggling naming my views. Any recommendations? Same naming as tables?

drunkpotato · a year ago

Ah, naming things. Something about one of the hard problems in computer science...

I think consistency is more important than perfection. If you use something like vw_ as recommended in the sibling comment, that's fine, then try to apply it to all views. (Without being overly strict; sometimes there are good reasons to defy conventions. They're conventions, not laws!)

Just keep in mind that a view is both code and a data contract just like a table definition is. All the usual best practices around versioning, automated deployments, and smooth upgrade paths apply. As soon as an application or downstream view, function, etc relies on that view, changing it risks disruption or breakage. Loud breakage if you're lucky, silent data corruption if you're not!

drunkpotato commented on Classic Data science pipelines built with LLMs github.com/Pravko-Solutio... · Posted by u/galgia

robwwilliams · a year ago

Let me give you a complementary perspective. Same problems all of you have but I work in a small lab team of PhD biologist who generate huge omics data set and even larger lightsheet microscopy and MRI datasets but don’t know how to do a VLOOKUP in Excel. And who do not know the exotic acronyms: LIMS, QA, QC, or SQL. Yes, really.

What do we typically do in academic biomedical research in this situation?

The lead PI looks around the lab and finds a grad student or postdoc who knows how to turn on a computer and if very lucky also has had 6 months of experience noodling around with R or Python. This grad or postdoc is then charged with running some statistical analyses without any training whatsoever in data science. What is an outlier anyway, what do you mean by “normalize”, what is metadata exactly?

You get my drift: It is newbies in data science and programming (often 40-and 50-year-olds) leading novices (20- and 30-year-olds) to the slaughter. Might contribute to some lack of replicability ;-)

And it has been this way in the majority of academic labs since I started using CPM on an Apple 2 in 1980 at UC Davis in an electrophysiology lab in Psychology, to the first Macs I set up at Yale in a developmental neurobiology lab in 1984, and up to the point at which I set up my own lab in neurogenetics at the University of Tennessee with a pair of Mac IIs in 1989 and $150,000 in set-up funds, just enough for me to hire one very inexperience technician to help me do everything.

So in this context I hope all of you can appreciate that ANY help in bringing some real data science into mom-and-pop laboratories would be a huge huge boon.

And please god, let it be FOSS.

drunkpotato · a year ago

I feel you, and LLMs are no doubt a boon in tooling to help in this kind of scenario. I'm not poo-pooing LLMs in general; they are very cool! I wish they were allowed to just be very cool while we incorporate them into our tooling and workflows, rather than over-hyped.