skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, React Native & Node.JS development with JavaScript and TypeScript. Python, Pytorch for Machine Learning.

Résumé/CV: I have a masters in computer science, with a thesis in deep learning.

I also have a blog at https://www.mikealche.com where I've written several blog posts that made it to the front page in Hacker News:

General problem solving: https://www.mikealche.com/software-development/how-to-implem...

Databases schema design: https://www.mikealche.com/software-development/a-humble-guid...

React animations tutorial: https://www.mikealche.com/software-development/learn-react-a...

Email: mikealche at gmail
> A large majority of my colleagues think that everyone is equally capable of learning college algebra.

They have to hold that view, though, else their reason for existence disappears. How can students justify the high cost of hiring a professor, accepted on the premise of being able to make it up with higher future earnings, if they realize that the reason there is a spectrum of incomes is because some people can't rise into higher paying work?

You and I know that the mentally disabled person will never rise into a $500,000 per year job, no matter how hard they try, because of their disability. But your colleagues have to suggest that the mentally disabled person won't only because that person hasn't attended their classes. Their entire marketing strategy of getting students into their seats rests on it. Failure to communicate that to students means they soon find themselves out of job.
Who cares about articles written by main stream media?
I find it truly fascinating that "machine learning company doesn't want powerful tool to be weaponized for bigoted ends" and "modern citizens following major media expect their media to treat weaponized AI as a bad thing" makes times sad.

From my perspective, a ChatGPT in the hands of the worst of our society pumping out endless telegram, whatsapp, instagram, twitter etc bigotry and propaganda would be a far sadder time.

Imagine how powerful of a hate machine you could create by wiring HateGPT up to a twitter bot that can reply. Apparently, preventing this makes our times sad.

Honestly, we're at a time when weaponized chatGPT is powerful enough to easily topple most democratic nations. It could control the outcome of elections, if weaponized sufficiently.
I like the take on this, using a burner phone to blend in.

At what point is the lack of signal the signal? If I were Disney and my tracking system showed you as not ozzing out radio or AI not ever labeling your stills as "person staring like a zombie on the phone" I would red-flag the hell out of you.
Bleach Is Toxic, but Plenty of Americans Are Still Drinking It
Ok sure. This makes sense. Let's be clear so I don't get off track again. Your point is that an isomorphism means an encoding of the picture exists in the network and is therefore a copy.

My point of contention is that it's not a copy.

But imagine this scenario. The model produces a picture that is identical to a picture in the real world, but that picture was NOT part of the training data. This is certainly possible.

It's fuzzy but there comes a point where the layers of abstraction between two entities that are isomorphic become big enough such that they don't violate copyright law.
They should just build in Asimov’s rules, and perhaps some extra ones to keep lawyers pleased. But only the minimum possible.
Everyone says a memory-safe C would be slower, but has anyone actually tested that recently?

It seems that a memory safe C would be faster, in that you wouldn't have to learn yet another language and runtime to deploy your stuff.
> Are there not alternatives, including other cheaper MacOS devices?

There are always alternatives, but sometimes buying "overpriced" hardware is the cheaper/better option, at least in the short/medium term.

If you want/need the fastest Mac and/or one with certain expansion options, this machine is probably it.

> Electronics in general depreciate spectacularly fast.

Apple itself is selling a refurb today for $37,939.00. That is a lot more than $1,000.

> Mainframes are a completely different class for which a $50k bill would be quite low. It's a different paradigm. Companies know they're using it until it's obsolete, or will get pennies on the dollar.

Look at the spec sheet I linked. It looks like that "mainframe" machine is a 4 CPU Xeon server. I don't know how much one costs, but I'm guessing it's orders of magnitude more than similar "commodity" PC hardware.
I haven't looked at Gatsby for a few years, but I always felt it was too complicated for a static site generator.

And it required you to learn/use GraphQL, which isn't bad per-se, but GraphQL also hasn't achieved the mindshare that might have seemed likely when Gatsby was born. That, as much as anything, might be a cause of their adoption issues.

With NextJS and Astro covering my needs, I haven't given Gatsby a thought in a while.
Thanks for writing in VLM.

No one in this comment thread made any claim of any recipe or particular chili recipe being "good".

Your summary is confusing to me, because whatever the "normie middle of the road" idea we are supposedly now discussing does not have anything to do with what I said or had asked questions about.
I worked for a tent company (like where you rent big tents from). They had contracts all over central fl, mostly at Kennedy space center for events and what not. My job was to load and unload trucks full of 5 gallon buckets filled with concrete. That’s about all there was to it and it was awful.
Element.insertAdjacentHTML() appears to fix the event handlers issue (and similar issues with element state), since unlike innerHTML it does not replace the element it's being used on.
Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley | Software Engineer | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE FULLTIME | https://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/

You know that NASA mission control room where where a tightly-knit team of headset-wearing operators excitedly awaits telemetry from the latest space probe? That's where you'll work in this position! From its perch on the Berkeley hillside overlooking the San Francisco Bay, the SSL Missions Operations center directly operates over half a dozen NASA spacecraft that are actively conducting peaceful scientific research. We're looking for engineers to develop ground software for satellite testing, operations, and automation. This software takes a variety of forms and is typically involved with routing and monitoring telemetry, generating commands, scheduling downlinks, performing encryption / decryption, and more.

* Expect to work closely with a small team of other highly-engaged engineers while enjoying a significant level of autonomy.

* The work environment isn't corporate or startup; it's an independent research lab in a university setting. The engineering work is both interesting and impactful, and there is great appreciation here for engineers who love their craft.

* SSL is well-funded, primarily through NASA contracts, and has been for many decades.

Open positions:

Ground Systems - https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPLOY...

US persons only, please, due to the sensitive nature of this position.

Engineers are standing by to answer your questions. AMA! ucbspace@gmail.com
Linux could do that fine. Not sure why it couldn't for you but with similar hardware in the mid to late '90s I was able to listen to mp3s, browse the web, and chat on IRC at the same time with no issues.
I have to confess when I read this I thought, "Jeez, just go ask the guy" and...the author did! So great to see actual journalism.
Location: Poland
Remote: Yes (EST/PST timezones OK)
Willing to relocate: No but occasional travel OK

Technologies:
* Python [Advanced], Django [Advanced], Django Rest Framework [Advanced], FastAPI, GraphQL
* AngularJS, ReactJS + Redux/Redux Toolkit [Advanced]
* Airflow, Kafka, ELK, TensorFlow, NLP/NLTK
* AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://michallech.info/static/Michal-Lech-Resume.pdf
Email: michal [AT] michallech.info
Website: https://michallech.info

I am a Full Stack Developer and Software Architect with 13 years of commercial experience (esp. FinTech, Healthcare) in prototyping, MVP, backend and frontend development as well as maintenance and DevOps.

I can help you accelerate development and solve difficult architecture problems.

Great communication skills, Startup experience, team leadership, passionate about programming, self starter, OK with freelance/consulting as well as full time work.
I am finishing my PhD in Spring '23. My research combines control theory with artificial intelligence. I apply my work to drones and smart buildings. Specifically, how to make reinforcement learning adapt to disturbances fast. I like research and prototyping, and applying engineering best practices. Also, good at public speaking, managing teams, and passionate about communicating to a lay audience. I am open to work opportunities in engineering/research roles in multiple industries. I do not require a work sponsorship.

Location: Nashville, TN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes (prefer to stay)
Technologies: python (pytorch et al), Javascript, C, Modelica, Matlab
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wz7SoZZ1eSsY-pFO5TNuA6Du0mzaucX_/view
Website: https://iahmed.me
Email: ibrahim [dot] ahmed (at] vanderbilt }dot{ edu
rant: I've learned, excluding microcontrollers such as the wonderful rp2040, every ARM & RISC-V SBC I've been interested in purchasing relies on some extremely proprietary and paranoid bits. If the device has a massive, undying following, like the Raspberry Pi, people will find a way to bring it into the future and keep it useful. If not, well, in as little as a year or so the manufacturer will likely simply tell you to buy the new one.

Truly useful, truly open hardware, cannot exist under current market conditions, for one reason or another. For now, we're all stuck with defaults; despite all of our progress, every computer you can imagine primarily using relies on someone's monopoly, and I imagine there is a nonzero amount of wealthy, powerful people who do not want this arrangement to change.
I think React won partly because one of the most important tools for Facebook's revenue, the "Power Editor", was built on react (before react even existed, I suppose)

As one of the first Facebook PMDs (later FMPs) part of my job back then (around 2010-2012) was to keep up to date with changes in the ads API, but our main contacts were two guys in Ireland and themselves not always kept up to date with every development out of Palo Alto – I realised that the Power Editor was a client-side app, so I would reverse engineer it to find new features that were being run as internal experiments and stay up to date.

I realised that they had broken up the app into classes that kept their own state, using a framework that they called Bolt/Javelin – which would later become React – so I ended up writing what was probably one of the first browser extensions to debug "React" :)

Their ads team grew and grew and suddenly the two blokes in Ireland became hundreds and thousands. I can't imagine a better POC for a technology than the power editor was, because of how much of an impact it had for Facebook's ads business exponential growth.
Their API has been very flakey for my evaluation. I'd be happy to pay a bit to evaluate but would expect privacy of my queries/responses, and less error messages (network error, at capacity, etc.).
It's natural to feel fondness or bias towards one's "own" industry. They're "your" people, you know the field well and can evaluate who's genuine and who isn't. You might believe that it's a force for good in the world. You probably still have friends or professional contacts in the industry.
Well I've got news for you. The 60s were about making disturbing sexual content available. People were trying to freak out the mainstream. History repeats. Your situation isn't as unique as you belief.
I can Google all of that stuff, yet I don't see such articles about Google.
I'm quoted in this blog post so I figured I'd respond. I'm a former member of the React team but I haven't worked on it in a long time.

Largely I agree with everything in this article on a factual basis but I disagree on the framing of the trade-offs. Two points in particular:

1. Before open sourcing React we extensively measured performance on real world applications like mobile search and desktop ads management flows. While there are pathological cases where you can notice the overhead of the virtual DOM diff it's pretty rare that it meaningfully affects the user experience in practice, especially when compared to the overhead of downloading static resources like JS and rendering antipatterns like layout thrash. And in the situations where it is noticeable there are escape hatches to fix it (as mentioned in the article).

2. I disagree with the last sentence strongly. I would argue that Svelte makes huge sacrifices in expressive power, tooling and predictability in order to gain performance that is often not noticeable or is easily achieved with React's memoization features. React was always about enabling front-end engineers to take advantage of software engineering best practices so they could level up velocity and quality. I think Svelte's use of a constrained custom DSL is a big step backwards in that respect so while I appreciate the engineering behind it, it's not a technology I am interested in using.

Even though I disagree on these points I think it is a well-written article and is a pretty fair criticism of React outside of those two points, and I could see reasonable people disagreeing on these trade-offs.
Meanwhile his kids roll their eyes at Dad's obsession with data collection while they're just trying to enjoy the experience
This! Why would I buy a used Intel powered Mac Pro instead of a brand new Mac Studio? Even a maxed out M2 Pro Mac Mini looks like a better value proposition for a lot of workloads.
I was thinking about this recently while teaching a student how to make a page that captured a camera's MJPEG feed.

... it's real hard to get past the simplicity of "Just change the URL property to a new value" that the current DOM API provides. Losing that would suck.
I'd be much more interested in his first contribution. The article says he's merely requested access to the codebase. Which, to his credit, is much better than asking for reams of printouts...
He was but I guess definitions vary and I'd consider working on your PhD makes you definitely be in academia.
Tiny Meteorite Collected in 2021 Contains the Building Blocks of Life
Usually when I sell PCs or PC hardware, people just come pick up the stuff at my house. The listing takes a few minutes for each item but other than that it's barely any effort
> The hippies were shit on during the sixties because of politics and the Vietnam war. The hippies were a big part of the anti war movement. The simplest and quickest way to shutting the movement down was to criminalize its constituents, like hippies, or civil rights activists, through tactics like draconian drug laws and a drug war.

That's an interesting point I haven't heard of before, thanks :)
Russian BUKs and S-400s in Syria repeatedly and consistently tracked Israeli F-16s. In an actual shooting war they'd have gone down, fast, and the Israelis knew it -- which is why they bought into the F-35. Price was good and, like, "stealth".

There is little to suggest that the Israeli F-35 was taken down by a missile; the sources involved are not especially credible. Eurasia Times, for example, is basically Russia Today (RT) and is not really trustworthy. Most of the posts elsewhere, e.g. Quora, are from questionable accounts and aren't credible either.

It's possible it happened and they're spinning it as something birds -- which is pretty lame and damning if true -- but most of the pro-shot-down points are difficult to take seriously.
Is there any language out there that improves on Python in various ways but still allows convenient access to literally the entirety of Python's ecosystem of libraries?
Yes, the issue is that they don't actually pick up the book.
Their experience of the real world is too limited to have valid inferences.

The same way a human being born without any sense but hearing wouldn't be able to interact fully with the physical world and infer things about it.

Basically, what I mean is that for now, unsupervised data acquisition is limited for AI. So it lacks "common sense" if you will.

I don't think we really disagree anyway, that's probably just semantics.
You couldn't get away with a lot of the content from the 60s now.
Yea, I think this is where it really shines, in the sense that "motion is the lotion", and ChatGPT can produce a whole lot of motion. I find it can be useful in that way for coding as well. Even if it doesn't produce something fully sensical, I look at the things it's spit out and go ugh, close but not good enough, you need to change this, and this, and this, and next thing you know I've Ship-Of-Theseused my way to a prototype.
For college educated and working class South Asians, the UK isn't a top migration priority anymore. In the UK, Wages are lower, prices much higher, and immigration much harder than to Canada or even Australia.

In 80s and early 90s Punjabi movies and songs "Inglaand" may have been popular, but since the 2000s "Kaneda" has the goto choice.

Most South Asians you tend to see now are there for educational tourism and will eventually move to Canada or back to India, or are from business/political backgrounds looking for a backup passport should they be prosecuted for crimes (eg. Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Vijay Mallya), though even the US ranks higher for them but they wouldn't be allowed in the US due to background checks or past criminal records (eg. Lalit Modi's attempted stint as a coke dealer at Duke). That said, they definetly send their families to the States. For example, Amit Shah's sisters live in Schaumburg IL and Imran Khan's sis is in the Tri-Valley.
And there's the crux of it all. Nothing is pure in this world except perhaps some parts of math. Everything else is an approximation or a corruption.

Point to any programming language that is supposed to be a pure example of anything and folks will either find at least ten clear counterexamples in that language within five minutes or demonstrate how it is grossly limited to the point of uselessness for production use on a non-trivial scale.
> The hippies were rooted in things that were objectively good: peace, love, self discovery, acceptance, mutual aid, egalitarianism, free thought.

Then it’s worth considering why the prevailing culture at the time didn’t see it that way.
$20 seems reasonable.

I wonder how are they going to deal with "unreasonable intensive usage" aka people/companies offering "AI" in their products when in reality they just act as a proxy between people paying them ( sometimes a lot of money ) and OpenAI.
You might like this:

https://based.cooking/
Do you guys sponsor visas or offer contract jobs?
I suspect the opposite, that making disturbing sexual content will indeed be seen as free love is now.
Are you saying that they intended for it to be used this way? Because it's straightforward to see whether this outcome matches their intent. Just look at all the uproar in the artist communities that were scraped.
PrpTip: Use discord in your browser.

I use it for gaming, with voice chat. Works fine. The only downside is that your voice chat audio will output to whatever channel your browser audio is set to.

Edit: also push to talk wont work, but it will pickup the microphone audio while inside a game. Set the threshold high or use the mute button on the microphone.

So if you have a headset and want voice chat to go through that, make sure to set that to the default audio channel in your OS before you join the voice chat.

Inputs (microphone) have no such restrictions.

Other than that gotcha, its about 1000% better than running a huge bloated electron App.
The successor to JWST has a (working) title
This is an easily falsifiable theory.

If practice is the single most important factor, then e.g. exam scores should be a function of time spent studying, and not of the test taker.

I know people from college that worked a lot harder than me and spent a lot more time studying than me, and they got worse grades. I never "practiced" and aced all my exams.
PHP has many other problems. React was literally developed by arguably the largest PHP shop.

In terms of performance specifically you do a ton of unnecessary, redundant work, because you recreate the whole world and throw it away again with every request. PHP does it’s best to be a fast language and mitigate this issue, but it can’t really solve it.
The spammer didn't - the domain doesn't exist but lots of mail services will accept any email address in the presentation From (or header From: which is they part displayed by mail clients) and it can be different from the return path or Mail From address used in SMTP.

Used to be a common prank to send mail to friends as "santa@north.pole". If you can view the full headers, there might be more info about where the email actually came from like the return path "From" and the IP address of the sending servers.
My (admittedly uninformed) impression of contemporary gender studies is that so long as you reach them conclusion that X gender is a victim (where X isn't cis men), it matters very little what path you take to get there. This is how an obviously joke study [1] got accepted in a relatively prestigious gender studies journal.

[1] http://norskk.is/bytta/menn/dog_park.pdf
Here's one about Bing.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/unsafe-search/
I didn't interpret you as saying that the F-35B should be cancelled. I'm more bringing context that it's not solely a US Marines toy, and not solely a baby-carrier plane.

I don't think that adding catobar support for modern fighter platforms is viable for all of these small carriers that are incorporating the F-35B. Admittedly my understanding of the situation is very shaky, but by all accounts I've heard, the catapults and arrestor gear place very significant strain on even the US supercarriers. More countries used to operate catobar carriers in the past (such as my home country of Australia, up until the retirement of the Melbourne and a decision to discontinue fixed-wing carrier ops), which I suspect has to do with the operation of lighter aircraft from the carriers at the time. (~7t max takeoff weight for a Sea Venom, ~11t for a Skyhawk; compare to ~30t for a Super Hornet or an F-35C.) Maybe the situation has gotten better with EMALS cats, but we're yet to see this technology used to make baby catobar carriers a thing, so who knows?

The countries in question would likely need to upgrade from their ~25000t LHDs to something with at least the displacement of the 40000t Charles de Gaulle. (Not to mention that most such carriers use nuclear power for both propulsion and to power the cats and traps.) Such vessels would come at great expense, and likely also have significantly larger crewing requirements, which tends to be a pain point for middle-power navies. I also don't think a lot of these vessels would've been built bigger in anticipation of catobar requirements, as they were largely originally specced for helicopter deck and amphibious roles. The F-35B really seems like an opportunity which all of these countries have siezed upon after seeing it come to fruition.

Again, it seems like you have a case with the Queen Elizabeths, though it seems like the UK balked at the cost of fitting catobar, if that's any indication.

As to whether the costs would've been offset by savings in the development of the F-35B, I don't even think we're talking about costs on the same magnitude here. For reference, total R&D costs for the F-35 as of 2019 were $71.9billion in 2012 dollars. Building and sustaining big boy carriers for middle-power countries would've cost the JSF partners hundreds of billions of dollars, easily.