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Adding this to the huggingface peft library would be amazing. That's the main library that people using LoRA are currently using. https://github.com/huggingface/peft/issues/289
Yeah it is pretty weird. I interviewed last year and got put in hiring committee but told nothing would happen until roles opened up. Then all the layoffs started. And still, last month they interviewed my friend who has a similar skill set to me.

Feels like there is this big hiring machine that keeps churning regardless. No one is there to say, hey maybe we should hold off for a while or check their resume before we subject them to the interview gauntlet.
> "... with many attributing the change to various environmental factors."

How 'bout social factors?
Looks like it's a Youtube feature rather than a Firefox feature?
I guess with Zitadel they don't paywall any features, and with self-hosted option you get essentially the same thing as with hosted. I think you can probably even do multi-instance, however maybe without a management interface for that part of it... When I read Ory language, it says to me "you can try it out locally and itegrate, but we want you in our hosted solution right after" (I could be wrong, I was just glancing casually...)
How accurate are half-life data of radioactive isotopes?
Images-to-Words Tools-Midjourney/Describe, CLIPinterrogator2.1,BLIP2,SceneXplain
Driving is an exercise in line following, until it isn't. This problem isn't solvable until AGI is invented, or we (again) limit automated vehicles to closed circuits where exceptions are less likely to cause cascading faliures.
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> Anyone ever think about what a nightmare driverless cars will be if they actually work?

The scenario you outline was part of Mega-City One's landscape in the 2000AD/Judge Dredd comics: cars on the road all day every day, with people living out of their perpetually moving RVs; something similar was depicted for Termight in the Nemesis the Warlock series.
In this case, I was replying to a speculation that a lot of people won't want to own self-driving cars by saying I'm one of those people, and why. My response was on-topic and relevant.

Replies to comments such as mine saying "you don't matter" strike me as interesting because they come off as overly defensive, is all.
I've always wondered this. In my small town in The Netherlands, plastic and metal go in the same recycling sack. They specifically state that you don't need to obsessively clean the containers, but they should be "empty". I'm sure I've accidentally tossed some paper in there, but I assume that gets burned away at some point.

But how they sort it afterwards? I have no idea. Not all metal is conductive, though I have to assume they do some magnetized sorting. Plastic can probably be blown away for sorting further down the line.

Might need to explore this more in the near future!
The battery's "limited lifetime" is currently longer than the expected lifespan of the car. The vast majority of EV batteries are still in "first use" and that is including more than a decade of Nissan Leafs (the model with the worst issues of battery "degradation" known to the used market). People are still driving the first and only battery of the car into a car's second decade (and likely will into its third, but it is too soon to tell). Statistically speaking, an EV is more likely to be totaled entirely in an accident than to have its battery replaced.
This is an ad hominem attack. The fact that you don't like his politics doesn't imply that he's wrong.
"Comfortably" doesn't refer to comfort zones here, but is used in the "without major difficulty" sense (that is, one's needs are met to the point they're not stressed about food/shelter/medical care/etc.)
Maybe you're the next generation of digital nomads - working from a nice location for a day, then sleeping in your car while it shuttles you to a new nice location for tomorrow.
I didn't mean to imply I didn't appreciate people telling me more about this guy. I apologise if that's how my comment came across.
Your being sparky and you really haven't shown you understand the topic you're talking about. If you think OP is wrong, refute them with facts.
The UI/UX of executeprogram is genuinely amazing and the way lessons are broken down is extremely well-thought out!

Definitely recommended for anyone wanting to learn JS/TS, regex, and SQL (especially in conjunction with Jennifer Widom's Intro to Database lectures).

(Given your background with Ruby, have you thought about doing a Ruby course? I find it relatively easier finding resources for JS, Python, and even Rust. I imagine you could make an amazing Ruby introduction, though perhaps it would require more work than JS/TS than I would expect.)
I honestly thought my monitor or GPU was having issues with weird colour banding around YouTube videos. Turns out it was an intentional choice they made to do that. I don’t know why it’s on by default.
Your vocabulary is tied to your expressive power and your ability to form coherent and compelling arguments. I'd argue that without an expansive vocabulary you would struggle to write with precision let alone brevity.

Not that its wrong to question, I just think you'd need to do more work supporting the idea that language skills are less important today for some reason.
I know, I'm at a loss. The kid slept in there a lot - maybe they were trying to shut it quietly to not disturb him?
Different model. Planes have much greater network effects. Consider a trip between New York and Dallas. A plane can fly a direct route, and will if there is much demand.

A train system can’t do that… in my example you’ll end up either going South along the coast and then west through New Orleans to San Antonio, and then back north to Dallas, or the same but reach Mew Orleans via Chicago.

Trains work well when there is a large central(ish) city that can act as a hub? Like London, Paris, or Berlin. Not so well in the US where the population is heavily biased towards the outer rim, with a relatively a gaunt desert of nothing in the middle.
I like the voice chat option the most <3
My general assessment of mentoring and micromanagement is that they originate from different objectives. The first is about developing the IC for their long-term effectiveness. The latter is about meeting deadlines and promises made by the manager, satisfying their manager/vp, and/or general insecurity because they don't fully understand the development process/cadence, technology, etc. A good manager can certainly also be a good mentor. One typically described as a micromanager, not so much.
Yeah a local engineering company has been to college hiring fairs for years, and never hired a living soul. Because they're not growing.
I don't know how long the author has had this project going, but part of the fun of exploring is how the pop-culture references give a clue as to the maximum age of any particular section. E.g., the shower stalls with the Squid Game characters can't be older than late 2021, while the "Stable Diffusion-powered" surgery robot that's giving the patient ten fingers on a hand must be from the past 6-9 months.
I recall many years ago Jonathan Hall (economist at Uber) describing a "traffic apocalypse" caused by empty self-driving cars flooding city streets. I think the notion was the operational cost of self-driving cars was so low that wasteful (empty car) usage would skyrocket without anyone directly paying the cost of time/road use. Today, the mean number of people per car on the road is at least 1, but with empty AVs that could plummet to <1.

I believe this scenario was discussed as an argument for congestion pricing, serving as a vital solution to the tragedy of the commons exacerbated by self-driving cars.
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My father was a poor fisherman in Italy before he emigrated to Australia. He told us that on the boat they used to use smooth stones to wipe and then drop the stones in the sea. However a rich spoilt cousin used to take silk handkerchiefs with him to wipe with and discard.

I believe they were thrown overboard too, and not taken home to be laundered and re-used, otherwise it wouldn't have been particularly remarkable in a country where most people have bidet cloths.
Well, BART has no problem running 9-car trains. I don't know if that's rush hour or not, but I've seen them. If the rest of the math is right, that still gets you 4.5-to-1 in favor of rail.
Err, I suppose trivially, the higher rank terms include the lower-rank subnets, so they dominate in terms of quality.

But if you have some capacity constraint (e.g., memory, I guess?) then you can imagine dynamic rank allocation helping in the case where the maximum rank across all layers isn't within budget.

It's a bit of a stretch though, I agree
I wouldn't be surprised that most of the population can't indeed understand that sentence, as it's a badly written one, IMHO.

What's the trick?
Oh I wish I had time to train it on one of my old hobbies, Lojban!

https://lojban.io/

https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban
My point is that employers (esp Google/Facebook/Amazon) try to consolidate roles. The term "Full stack developer" encompasses a lot. That's a "10x"/rockstar dev.

Carmack or Cerf probably would not make it through the levelling at Google. They are at a Distingushed engineer level.
The fact that this process leads to the creation of an isotope is the interesting part, not the fact that they managed to do it.
Many shops work by book time, not just dealers, although obviously YMMV based on the shop and the work.

It’s more common for routine maintenance to be charged by book time since it’s a standard procedure, less common for more complicated issues
Negative numbers are sort of imaginary to begin with come to think of it. Actually I think I'm getting flashbacks now to my childhood when my older brother blew my mind with this concept.
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What you describe is basically how my wife and I treat the model Y on road trips, except we speak the destination instead of punch it in.

But you'll still want to wear a seatbelt because although self driving cars don't tend to cause accidents, they very much are the victim of them.

And consider the electricity demand of keeping your big skooli heated and cooled compared to that of a small and tight modern vehicle, you'll likely be forced into charging last thing every night and first thing every morning while on the road, while for us it is about 25% of battery on the worst nights so we can camp anywhere.
My 2¢ is that this will probably do more to confuse than to enlighten students.

Getting your "first" program off the ground quickly is good, but only if it doesn't cripple your understanding of what's going on for months later.

For me the main thing that confuses the crap out of students is how people who introduce java tend to take "shortcuts" and bundle all functionality under the sun into a single class, which then also has a main method at the end. Presumably this is done so that everything is a single file, or can fit in a single presentation slide. But then suddenly your main looks like it's calling its container class to make objects of "itself" that contain new "mains", at which point your student has lost the plot completely.

The simplest thing to keep things clean and self explanatory is to separate everything that isn't "main-related" into its own class (preferably another file if public), and then keep a nice clean public class called "Main" which contains 'only' the main method. Then you get to explain nicely how public classes have their own files, and if you attempt to run this class from the terminal, java will look for the 'main' function, and how this therefore needs to be public, static because you're running it straight from the class, void because you don't depend on it returning a value (which also makes for a nice intermission on how c returns status as an int, but java has a special mechanism instead).

I do agree with the end of the JEP though; if you want to teach simple snippets like System.out.println, jshell is a nice way to do this, if you want to delay talking about classes and their methods.
I understand why it's difficult, but most in-process connection poolers will manage prepared statements for you even as the connection pool grows and shrinks.

I know it's more complicated, but I imagine pgbouncer could detect "prepare foo as..." and "execute foo(...)" and track whether a given session has had "foo" prepared. If not, rerun the "prepare foo as ..." on a session if "execute foo(...)" is received. That's essentially what the in-process version does.

There would be some complications around conflicts for a given named prepared statement, but that could be solved with some requirements on clients (e.g. use source hash in prepared statement names).
Yeah it's pretty good though the UI for hourly forecasts could use a bit of a touch up.
Meh hasn’t happened yet but I’d just buy a new one. That being said, I always also have a windows and Linux machine, they’re just not my daily drivers.
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What is going on with Bell Curve apologists all of a sudden replying to this post. I thought the debate was slowly fading out and than I count 5 different account replying within an hour.
that’s interesting, I’ve always wanted people who were complementary to me, not strictly “better” - I want people I can learn from, and I hope to reciprocate and be someone my partner can learn from in turn.
Interesting ideas, but "from the future" is a rather bold claim since some of the concepts were already present in systems like Lotus Notes or Groove Workspace, and it will be difficult to convince developers to go away from file based development (remember the term "big ball of mud" for Lisp or Smalltalk images).
Blessed or not, I still end up using Safari. The improvement in battery life is too significant to ignore
I tend to agree as I've seen it many times.
It helps only a small minority. But when it does help it is like magic.
I have the same issue, seemingly, with my 2017 Outback. My battery kept dying for which I got a lot of run around from the dealer (gaslighting about keyless entry drains it if the key is too close to the car, etc.) Eventually I found a Reddit post about the DCM (Starlink) module, removed this fuse, and it hasn't died since. It sounds like it wakes up in the middle of the night to do something and thereby drains the battery, so whenever they test at the dealer for extra drain, they find nothing. Having that fuse out kills some speakers and the mic too, so it's a kind of annoying solution. I have not gone back to complain again recently though, so maybe they can do whatever it is they did for you. I saw some posts about wiring it to another circuit that's off when the car is off, but I am not confident doing that myself.
Wow this is pretty nice - are most of these desktop, console or mobile? I am struggling to especially find a good mobile game that has no ads (which destroys the gaming experience)

Last I tried was Royal Match which is actually not bad.
This is false. I have owned many different cars from the last 20 years and none of them did this when you disconnected the battery. A quick google search shows that it's Hondas that do this, not "any car made in the last 20 years".
> He's joking

I think you meant 'she':

about: Just a frog on the internet. she/her
I don't mind the stock Android/Pixel weather app, but I have no idea why it requires pixel perfect accuracy to launch it from the stock home screen. And if there's any sort of traffic alert or reminder that displays adjacent to the weather on the home screen it usually takes me 3-5 attempts to launch the weather app. Have the flashlight on? Can't check the weather! It's been like this for as long as I can remember.
Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
I have an open source CLI tool for provisioning preview environments. I want to get it in front of relevant developers. What are the most effective methods for doing this?
Thank you!
Why can't you just drive like that yourself?
I would pay the same amount for a Linux laptop that worked as easily as a MBP and had similar build quality, performance and battery life.

Howver, whatever crazy-stable and easy to use and well supported hypothetical Linux this is wouldn’t be compatible with my “real” Linux use cases so I would then also install Arch or whatever and live with constantly borked everything and just swap between my Arch “Dev” OS and my “Linux Mac” business/work/consumer OS.

Current Linux cannot be made “MacOS”-stable. But maybe in 5 years.
When IQ tests were invented folks didn't know about tests, at least in the US. They were rural immigrants who could maybe read. So when asked logic questions, they would answer pragmatically and be 'wrong'. That had some impact on perceived early low results.

As folks became better-read and educated they began to understand that IQ test questions were a sort of puzzle, not a real honest question. The answer was expected to solve the puzzle, not be right in any way.

E.g. There are no Elephants in Germany. Munich is in Germany. How many elephants are there in Munich? A) 0 B) 1 C)2

Folks back then might answer B or C, because they figure hey there's probably a zoo in Munich, bet they have an elephant or two there. And be marked wrong.
It's a Weller.

I used to work at a place that had the Weller WXR3003N. $3360 of pure joy. The one I work with now is a Weller WX2021N, which Newark has for $1400.

The tool quality on either is phenomenal, but definitely not necessary for learning on.

Some control over temperature, peak temperature hot enough to melt lead-free solder are really all you need to learn with. I don't want to be a neo-luddite, but you end up learning a lot of tricks with a sub-par iron that I rarely have to use with the high-end tool, but I'm glad I know. For instance, its rare with the high-end tools that I have to glob a bunch of solder onto a joint during rework, but I had to do that all the time with the cheap tool. But now, if I just can't get a joint hot enough to melt, I know that that is an option.
In the Bay Area in particular it is known commutes from Sacramento, Gilroy, and elsewhere happen. To say nothing of traffic and closures (devil's slide is STILL closed between Pacifica and Half Moon Bay) creating 3+ hour commutes from what google maps may indicate as < 2 hour commutes.
No, because physics is not affected.
Only if it's serving a lot of users.

So for those cars, the time on the road per user doesn't change much, but the need for parking greatly decreases.
It’s worth pointing out that processes like meta analyses ought to be able to catch #2. The problem is, GIGO. A lot of poorly designed studies (no real control group, failure to control for other relevant variables, other methodological errors) make meta analysis outcomes unreliable.

An area I follow closely is exercise science and I am amazed that researchers are able to get grants for some of the research they do. For instance, sometimes researchers aim to compare, say, the amount of hypertrophy on one training program versus another. They’ll use a study or maybe 15 individuals. The group on intervention A will experience 50% higher hypertrophy than intervention B, at p=0.08, and they’ll conclude that there’s no difference in hypertrophy between the two protocols rather than suggesting an increase in statistical power.

Another great example is studies whose interventions fail to produce any muscle growth in new trainees. They’ll compare two programs, one with, say, higher training volume, and one with lower training volume. Both fail to produce results for some reason. They conclude that variable is not important, rather than perhaps concluding that their interventions are poorly designed since a population that is begging to gain muscle couldn’t gain anything from it.
Why should anyone spend their time trying to persuade a 20 day old account on here?
Indeed this is how it works. Or, more accurately, man has to use the new technology to keep up with other men, as those who don't get outraced by those to do. The end result is a ratchet of progress.

It's ironic how people in software don't notice it, despite the fact that our industry caused several such shifts, and we're all living with (and whining about) the consequences. Myself I didn't notice it for close to two decades since first learning to code. The realization came to me with age - I'm at the point where I have more disposable income than free time, so all the "wonderful" self-service software enabled now grates and irritates me to no end.
Uhhh… Being taken care of by an older man is not modern sensibility. That’s an outdated gender role thing. Complete independence and hookups is a much more modern aim.
The game Stationeers is basically a variant of space station 13[1]. I had a hard time "getting" stationeers. I was ranting about how the game has very good systems, some of the best systems I have seen in a minecraft-but[2], but the controls are very obtuse almost to the point of being cryptic. Then I watched tex[3] play space station 13. and it clicked. I have never played ss13 and I don't suspect I ever will. but the controls are cryptic the way they are because that is how ss13 controls are. The problem is that nobody is playing it correctly. They are playing it like minecraft where you build a base out of first materials. but ss13 is supposed to be played where you try to survive a shift in an already built, poorly understood, prone to exploding station.

1. A clue is left in the executable name. it's "rocketstation13"

2. it's a genre. you know how rogue-like is a genre. however this one goes. it is like minecraft but...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrs8rMbNM3I
I’m not sure which way the arrow of causation points - one of the body’s reactions to stopping breathing while unconscious is to grind the jaw.
The prevalence of maps in our lifes via handheld devices could also contribute.
Sorry, I think you misunderstood what I meant.

If you only have one index, going from position 11 to 10 increases the value of the stock. But if you have a lot of indices, all these effects should average out to basically zero, since that stock might be in thousands of indices, and a drop out from a single index will only have a marginal effect.
Show HN: Wolverine: Give your Python scripts regenerative healing abilities
Run your scripts with Wolverine and when they crash, GPT-4 edits them and explains what went wrong. Even if you have many bugs it will repeatedly rerun until it's fixed.

Demo video on twitter: https://twitter.com/bio_bootloader/status/163688020830443110...
I'm not seeing the downsides.
Ask HN: How many actual on desktop hours?
I use an app called Rize to track my on desktop activity as well as classify it. I used to use RescueTime but their UI is from 1998 so I made the change and I like it.

I average around 10 hours so far but want to up my game in terms of focused work on desktop. Around 70% of this is full focus work, either design, coding or marketing stuff with my startup. I am curious if people who average more than 12 hours are able to keep it up and have tips to achieve that.
Inline 6 has to be one of the best engines. I got 3 cars with them in 4L, gas injected, gas carbureted and diesel. They go so well.

The only computer in the diesel one is the glow plug timer and there is no computer in the carbureted one (both 1991 Nissan Patrols).

The injected one is a 2005 ford falcon and is starting to get all sorts of interior electrical niggles. Only wiring issues in the patrols is a left headlight short which was easily routed around using relays.