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zoke commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
Jabbs · 9 months ago
https://www.unlistedjobs.com/

Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search sites and show the company you have taken time/interest to visit their site.

zoke · 9 months ago
I see C++ and C#. Why no C?
zoke commented on The End of Elon Musk   sfgate.com/sf-culture/art... · Posted by u/maximilianburke
zoke · 2 years ago
10,000 A100's
zoke · 2 years ago
sorry

X * 10,000 A100's

zoke commented on The End of Elon Musk   sfgate.com/sf-culture/art... · Posted by u/maximilianburke
zoke · 2 years ago
10,000 A100's
zoke commented on HHKB Studio: The New Happy Hacking Keyboard with TrackPoint   hhkeyboard.us/hhkb-studio... · Posted by u/raskelll
TheRoque · 2 years ago
Sorry for being such a newbie, but I never understood why HHKB was popular, and where it got its fame. I saw my roomate already having it 10 years ago, I find cool the minimalist aspect, but why such keyboard with basic design made it so far ?

Also, on a personal note, having a 65% keyboard now for 3 years, I'll go back to a 75% keyboard. I think functions keys and arrows are used way too frequently to spend your time using shortcuts. Also sometimes it becomes a hell of shortcuts in shortcuts.

zoke · 2 years ago
zoke commented on Ask HN: Systemically, what should be added or removed for a better democracy?    · Posted by u/Separo
zoke · 5 years ago
Vote of no confidence. Has big implications. -Better feedback loop, more real time accountability. -Ability to change pitcher having given up runs without waiting for the next inning. -Ability to respond quicker to administration failures. -More power to the people.
zoke commented on Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions   neuroscientistnews.com/re... · Posted by u/brahmwg
IanCal · 9 years ago
That's not quite true. When catching a ball we constantly adjust as we go so we're not perfectly calculating where it will land. We can train humans to roughly approximate where a ball will land, that's about it.
zoke · 9 years ago
the constant adjustments are also needed for influences of wind, temperature and or weather elements.
zoke commented on Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions   neuroscientistnews.com/re... · Posted by u/brahmwg
haberman · 9 years ago
> Your are assuming rational decision making always leads to "correct" decisions.

I didn't say anything of the sort.

> The reality is that likely they are acting based on very different premises from your own, extracted from their own life experiences and those of their ancestors.

That is true. That doesn't imply however that their beliefs draw solid statistical conclusion from those experiences.

For example, take rituals like rainmaking that are intended to change the weather. These were performed over many years and generations, and yet (we presume) never brought about any actual statistical improvement over not performing them. Those people would have experienced that (lack of) improvement directly. And yet they continued to believe it.

zoke · 9 years ago
Am thinking of wearing your baseball hat backward or upside down when your team is behind. I know this does not actually help them win but it feels good to be part of the group doing it.

So we comply with the ritualistic behavior in a sort of group angst, when we win we feel it worked and when we loose we feel some sort of existential support system.

zoke commented on Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right   nytimes.com/2016/02/12/sc... · Posted by u/intull
antognini · 10 years ago
The predictions for the LIGO detection rate are very poor. They're based on a sample of just a handful of binary pulsars observed in our Galaxy, which would produce NS-NS mergers. The BH-BH merger rate is almost totally unconstrained, although it is generally thought to be less than the NS-NS merger rate. So the fact that a BH-BH merger was the first detection, and the fact that it was detected so soon after the sensitivity increases is evidence that the BH-BH merger rate is probably somewhat higher than expected. But we won't know for sure until LIGO detects more events and the rate can be better constrained. Sometimes you do just get lucky.

I should add that there are lots of selection biases and educated guesses in all of this, too. The signal from BH-BH mergers is louder and easier to detect from larger distances. At the same time, NSs are probably more common than BHs, but it's not really clear whether there are more NS-NS binaries than BH-BH binaries because NSs receive kicks from the supernova when they are born but BHs (probably) do not. This may have the effect of blowing apart many nascent NS-NS binaries but leaving the BH-BH binaries intact.

zoke · 10 years ago
I recall reading some years ago that gravitational wave would be used to prove multiverse theory. How would that scale compared to bh-bh or ns-ns mergers?

Also, have read today that this discovery backs inflationary theory, how so?

It seems highly unlikely that they could say a specific bh-bh merger was the cause. It seems implied they are triangulating the source, with two detectors?

u/zoke

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