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haffi112··on DbDiagram – Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly
It would be nice to be able to export to Prisma.
haffi112··on Explaining the LGBT Explosion
What about survivor bias here? Many gay men died of AIDS in the late 20th century, which might affect the numbers significantly.

In any case, I think the right interpretation is that more people are comfortable with reporting their sexuality truthfully and people are more open towards exploring their sexuality.

haffi112··on Ask HN: Why Blog at All?
I particularly like blogs where people write detailed tutorials about how they achieved something. This creates a lot of value for others trying to learn and achieve similar things.

If there was only some way to aggregate such blogs and rate them with respect to quality and expertise level... that would be a platform I would use. Sites like dev.to go a step in that direction but there is also so much bad content on there.

haffi112··on RedwoodJS 1.0
Thanks, I'll check it out! ^^
haffi112··on RedwoodJS 1.0
But why Redwood rather than some other framework? (I'm just interested in learning what opinions people have on here)
haffi112··on RedwoodJS 1.0
When should I use RedwoodJS and why?
haffi112··on RPG Paper Maker
This video helped me understand what RPG Paper Maker is about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27B25ZXgG4

haffi112··on Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
The number of potential links in a graph of n vertices scales like O(n^2). That does not mean that the actual number of links in the knowledge base should scale like O(n^2). However, it could mean that the overhead work to maintaining and building the connections in the knowledge base becomes unbearable. That is, the solution is not saving time anymore. Solutions like these need, imo, really good link prediction solutions to make it easier to manage them.

Are any of these personal knowledge base solutions offering link prediction as a feature to alleviate this problem?

haffi112··on Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
For me, it would be great if the tutorial can focus on minimising the amount of work required to maintain or update the site while still retaining flexibility.
haffi112··on Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks
In table 3 you compare your result with other publications. Reference 44 has a larger accuracy than you with fewer hidden neurons. What is the difference between your method and theirs?

Also, will you release your method as code?

haffi112··on Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
We read it cover to cover (this was a mistake as the book is just way too long). We usually covered a chapter in each meeting. I recommend picking one or two chapters that you need to focus on. They also have a shorter version that was released a couple of years ago you might want to look at first.

Every meeting started with five minutes of writing on post-it notes how the contents of the chapter related to us (6-10 people in each meeting). Each person then put their post-it notes on a whiteboard. We had several categories to put the notes into (like "good"/"bad"/"how to apply"). This encourages people to read as they need to actively participate and contribute in the discussion. However, this book is not for everyone, some will definitely find it boring and dry. I think it is more fun the deeper you are involved in data related issues.

The end of the meeting consisted of us summarizing the results to see if people were experiencing the topic similarly. We had several stakeholders in the reading group and they were from different siloes in the enterprise. It was nice to see that a lot of the experience was shared and there was general agreement regarding feedback.

One memorable takeaway was the realization that we needed a data dictionary. That eventually led to a pilot project.

haffi112··on Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
I started reading DMBOK, it's quite detailed as you describe. It's more of a reference in my opinion though.

It can be a nice exercise to read through it with a group at your company. Have people relate to what is stated in the book to create actionable goals.

haffi112··on Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore
That's a nice plan. I hope you succeed.

I would love personalized recommendations as well (something that a person working at a book store could perform). That is, you've read and liked A, B and C, have you also read D? Or something like: "You've read many books by author X, he just released a new book".

In that regard, I would also like to know the sequences of books that people read to get involved in a given topic. What are the books to enter a field? What books should you read after you've dipped your toes in?

I'm developing algorithms for these kind of tasks. Get in touch if you want to discuss it.

haffi112··on Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore
The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss is a good start to get hooked on fantasy stories.
haffi112··on Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?
A bank transaction would not reveal what product you bought whereas a receipt would.

If prices were unique you could deduce something from a few items bought together though.

In the business of advertisements the user pays for clicks. However, it would be much more reliable for the user to pay for ads that led to actual transactions instead of just clicks.

Is there some reason for why this hasn't happened so far? (Or has it already happened?)

haffi112··on Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines (2004)
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-8MP7g8XOE
haffi112··on Laser: Learning a Latent Action Space for Efficient Reinforcement Learning
They used a variational autoencoder where the latent space representation is disentangled.

That approach is a promising way to make it easier to navigate the latent space as changes in one dimension will have a reduced or no influence on other aspects of the data encoded.

Here is a nice overview on disentanglement with further references: https://paperswithcode.com/method/beta-vae

haffi112··on Video games 'good for well-being'
It's an overly general statement given that only two games were studied (Animal crossing and Plants vs. Zombies).

I hypothesise that many games make people feel miserable in the long term. Especially games that include addictive elements or mind-numbing grinds.

haffi112··on CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses
Are there any examples courses that give a glimpse of how a finalised course looks like on this platform?
haffi112··on Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (2014)
It's getting really tired how unreliably scientific results are reported in the mainstream media.

Is anyone building a (crowdsourced) fact checker to validate these kinds of claims that I could install as a browser extension?

haffi112··on Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
Do you recommend any tutorials online to get such a setup?
haffi112··on Ask HN: How do you filter the content you consume?
That's very useful, thanks!
haffi112··on Ask HN: How do you filter the content you consume?
Thanks for the suggestion. RSS is a bit limiting but sounds quite promising.
haffi112··on Mothers of children with autism have ‘significantly different’ metabolite levels
This should not be a headline until reproduced.
haffi112··on Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization
Do these methods provide any guarantees or is it assumed that a human reviews the output to verify that it was properly anonymized?
haffi112··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)
Nordverse | Full stack engineer | Reykjavík, Iceland | ONSITE/REMOTE | Part-time / Full time

We're a team of medical doctors and software engineers building solutions for healthcare.

We are currently located in Iceland and we are looking for world class developers to join our team.

More information here: https://www.tvinna.is/jobs/full-stack-developer-6/

Get in touch (contact@nordverse.com).

haffi112··on [dead]
Are any phones produced today that are not based on work under conditions like those mentioned in the article?
haffi112··on Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?
Did you consider becoming a solutions architect?
haffi112··on Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook
You're right, it was wishful thinking of me to assume that a competitor would be morally responsible and more profitable than Facebook.
haffi112··on Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook
Yes, I do not think so. I expect Facebook's goal to be to maximize shareholder value within the bounds of regulations.

I do not expect an entity such as Facebook to behave in any other way.

From Facebook's perspective, the current value system is possibly distorted, for example, because of a lack of competition. Suppose another social platform would enter the picture, and users would flock to that platform because it has a greater social responsibility. In that case, it might become Facebook's best interest to be more socially responsible as well.

However, that has not happened yet. It is making me believe that the burden to solve this issue is with regulators, not Facebook.

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