skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been hearing about WASM on here for years now, but it's never about people actually using it. Are there any high-profile cases of it being used?
> Why hire a customer service department when you can just point your customers at an AI?

Because AI doesn’t work and your clients get extremely poor support?

I try to avoid companies that don’t have humans in support like the plague.
Carp as vector control! That's a great counter-intuitive way of dealing with pests...
I used one of the popular resume services, i will not mention their name. Used their template. The service provided five or six evaluation categories, similar to an objective function for each criteria. I received a score for each of the six areas. Say 80-percent. I made my various resume adjustments until the scores were significantly higher. (This is the involvement to improve iCMS ATS scores) Then sat on my resume for a few months. I then retired from my job, shot out the resume to one employer, and received a slightly higher paying position offer within two days. I actually moved form IT Supervisor position to a Machine Learning Engineer, but i have skills.
The feedback engine uses the standardized resume scanning SW that most companies seem to use.
I removed everything from my resume that was not important for a modern day job. Nothing there for my ego. My resume was tuned to the position I was seeking and the position i was applying for.
No linked in, no social media.

Previous to this, I used a $200 service to write a resume for me. i was unhappy with their resume and did not use it. (No sense of ICMS ability) I really liked the service of getting categorical scores for the resume and being able to modify it myself. I think this cost me $50 for a month of access. I probably made 100 versions of my resume for the various "adjustments" in my score evaluation.
They did. But there was a leadership decision to go ahead anyways.
This was probably not true many years ago, or at least was a simplification. Even with some automated routing, there are many subtleties like high frequency electronics; not trying to have your radio equipment routing through your power supply, etc.
Being on call is baked into your salary? I hope you are getting some serious "fuck you" money if you're effectively on call at all times.
1) An object will maintain its momentum forever unless some force acts upon it.

2) In the case of the rocket, it accelerates eastward. Even if parts fall off, and they slow down because of the drag of the atmosphere, and they slow down all the way to the speed of the atmosphere, the atmosphere is more or less moving eastward at the same speed as the earth's rotation, so any part would be unlikely to land any further west than where it detached from the rocket. And if there was no atmosphere on earth any part that fell off a rocket during its ascent to orbit would fall according to a ballistic trajectory and would most certainly land farther east than where it fell.
This leaves out a third way to analyze the situation, which is to look at culture. Culture includes values/valences, which are the core of situation evaluation, which drives all decision making, which is the biggest driving factor behind individual outcomes. This is also used in algorithms such as chess engines. If a group has bad values for some reason, they will undoubtedly do worse. Value systems spread to those around you, which is how you get the effect of becoming like the people you hang out with. The effect of value propogation is increased wrt the values of your parents and other role models.

Many people have an incentive to push for the conclusion "it is because of money" or "it is because of racism" but these both divert away from (what I see as) the root cause of minority groups doing worse, and it also hurts these groups by diverting away from the solution (which can be applied on an individual level to great effect). One example of how this is applied irl is people associating with others who they want to be like. I know someone who was doing ok in school, but when they started to hang out with straight A students, they adopted their values and started to make decisions like them, eventually getting amazing grades and becoming co-validictorian. I assume the values in this case were more positive valences regarding studying hard and working hard and school and long term thinking, among others. I had an extremely difficult period of my life and adopting good values (eventually I became Christian) helped me to completely turn my life around, and now I feel I have an amazing and meaningful life. If not for my different values, leading to my different decisions, I would not be in a different situation.

"People are disadvantaged due to their values" is likely the problem, and seeing it provides a solution that can be applied to fix group issues on an individual level. Racism and poverty are factors that influence success but this is by far the biggest one. If you adopt this mindset and apply it to your life you will do better than the group statistics and so will everyone else you convince. Many people will be incentivized to not listen, or even to be open minded, but those who do will be significantly changed for the rest of their lives. At the end of the day though, it is up to the individual
Ask how long is left on the timer.
What are some FOSS alternatives?
> As to whether "Software engineering" is a real thing, well in one hand most of it isn't very process-oriented,

Part of the reason for that is the cost of iteration is much lower. So software engineers can afford having less rigorous process. And the tooling is getting better, with formal specification languages, type systems and static analyzer.

Rapid prototyping, microcontrollers and simulation tools brought some of the same possibilities in mechanical & electrical engineering. Even the traditionally very conservative space industry is embracing faster iteration cycles (at least, SpaceX is).

"Software on a microcontroller isn't engineering, it's just coding, but replace said software by TTL chips and PROMs and suddenly it's EE".
I think maybe an appropriate term would be anthroform? I feel an argument can be made that whatever form the earth is in, it's terraformed almost by tautology, but the kind of planetary gardening projects we must engage in to keep it in a good shape for /humans/ is to give the earth a particular form for us.
BlueSky just launched an Android client. That was Andre's reason for not using that network.
We passed the point of rational debate a long time ago. Now it's just a part of people's identities that "I believe that academic publishers are leeches"
Antimatter just has the opposite electrical charge. It doesn't do anything weird at all with gravity.
Crime isn’t up.
can you give some examples on how he came off poorly?
LFP is going to be manufactured in north america soon
I’m not saying Apple is perfect, but I strongly dislike companies that stop supporting their operating systems after only a few years.
The Crypto Detectives Are Cleaning Up
> Are you saying that software engineers in Canada are P. Eng licensed?

That's my understanding. They don't have a PE exam like here in the US. To be P. Eng licensed, they have to graduate from an accredited engineering program and register with some board. And they do have Software Engineering programs (I know; I hired folks from these).
Entire ecosystems are regulated by or around them. Hugely influential life beings.

They filter and clean huge amounts of freshwater. Males pollinate plants. They are responsible of massive energy interchanges between vertebrates and invertebrates in all directions and nodes of the trophic chains. Thousands of species of animals depend on them directly or indirectly.
Thanks for this 101 article! The entire LLMOps field is developing so fast and is being defined as we speak.

Somehow, this time feels to me like the early days of computer science, when Don Knuth was barely known and a Turing award was only known to Turing award winners. I met Don Knuth in Palo Alto in March and we talked about LLMs. His take: „Vint Cerf told me he was underwhelmed when he asked the LLM to write a biography on Vinton Cerf.“

There are also tools being built and released for Prompt engineering [1]. Full transparency: I work at W&B

LangChain and other connecting elements will vastly increase the usability and combinations of different tools.

[1]: https://wandb.ai/wandb/wb-announcements/reports/Introducing-...
At least they won't be hungry, getting fed more than they would eat on their own [0]. That seems to be called gavage.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force-feeding
This is a pretty serious misunderstanding of the claim you're responding to. It's not that scientists in general agree about everything in general. It's that certain hot button issues become politicized in such a way that prevents real scientific skepticism / decent on those subjects in particular.
TSMC's fabs are entire cities of manufacturing most of the necessary components right next to each other, along with millions of resident workers. You would have to replicate all of that, not just the assembly line.
I also compared it to right-wing antivaxxers...come on buddy, that's the easier claim to discredit!

Or, you could use the rational side of your brain (the portion that most people develop in their preteens) and apply it to the abstract concept of your singular need/want being less important than another hundred's. Especially if there's a dedicated piece of infrastructure built just for you. Kind of like a bike lane 30ft away, or a restroom six feet away from the pool.

In other words, the literal definition of being entitled.
I was serious when I said you should learn about the population-lag effect. The global population has been steadily declining since 1990 as even a cursory search would have shown you. So that eventual other readers haven’t entirely wasted their time, here is a link to the relevant UN source: https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/MostUsed/

I’m not going to bother answering the rest of your comment.
> 1. Memory map a file

Complex when you want to

> 2. Manage access to it through a server

A database is only "easy" IF:

- Append only

- No real "delete" or "updates" just to reiterate the above.

- Only Sequential scan

- Only need simple iterator-per-row

- No maintain secondary stuff like indexes, so not need to coordinate changes

- No concurrency

- Fit in RAM, and I mean in few MB

- No need to deal with SQL, use his own DSL (sql is so bad! so much weird stuff!, but is ok to have something sql-ish like LINQ)

- No need to deal with recursive data types, only scalars

- Is only embebed

- No need auth or security validations

Ok, after making this list, I sure forgot some other tips to make this easy!
Well I hope you’re right and they get implemented. Unfortunately I think we‘re going to see riots if not civil wars all across the globe in a couple of decades.
I don't know whether you're being genuine or just trolling/flame baiting. If you are serious, maybe start by reading what those emails you're referring to actually said.
It was obvious what I meant. You just hopped in before I could edit it to spew some bullshit.

I have no interest of arguing geopolitics with a moron that approaches this kind of discussion in bad faith.

Suffice to say I think Russia is in the wrong, but there are plenty of economic motivations both for Russia and the US behind all this.

I will not reply to you any further. Feel free to have the last word.
The author has written thousands of car reviews for Car & Driver and Road & Track. I do find a professional automotive journalist citing a source more credible than an HN comment. If you have any better evidence, please share it.
Yes, they did, and yes, it is
How the Dutch Mastered Bike Parking at Train Stations
Just because I have a different opinion than you don't mean I haven't done my research or don't know shit. For you crypto folks the only legitimate research is the one that concludes that it is a magical cure to every problem known to mankind. You guys keep harping about doing your own research but if someone does research and conclude that it's a decentralised ponzi, you dismiss it as bad research.
I live in Georgia, City of Decatur. My house is a 1920 craftsman, 2,800 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 3 bath. We pay ~$1,200 a month in property taxes.
Likewise - I didn't realize Huawei did it a full year earlier. I wonder if it was a power hungry dog like the qcom...
They could become more predisposed to participating in other future actions of corruption against their fellow Kenyans?
I love it! Super cute execution with the styling and scrolling story mode. Did not make it super far because on mobile ... But really fun. Seems way to elaborate for a one off side project did you do something like this before ?
Net tuition is calculated by subtracting the grants and financial assistance, which I assure you, really do exist and most students qualify for at least some. Maybe you personally didn't qualify, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist for "our hypothetical recent graduate."
Most of the “SUVs” in the US market are really just minivans disguised to look masculine. It took a few decades for manufacturers to realize that this is what people wanted- the rugged looks of a 4x4 with the people transporting ability of a minivan, and no wasted expense or weight on offroad ability. The VW Atlas for example is made specifically for the US market, a 3 row front wheel drive minivan that looks SUV like.

It was pretty funny 20 years ago before this was realized- big SUVs had low range transfer cases, skid plates, lockers, air suspension, and tons of other expensive and complicated offroad hardware. The people buying and driving these had no idea what those parts were for, and only found out they had them when they would accidentally activate them on pavement and get an expensive repair bill.
I never understood why people didn’t seem to figure this out…The likes of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Kayne West, AOC, etc, are professional attention seekers.

They always ensure to give their opinions on current things just to remain in the news cycle. Many of this kind don’t even think about or believe what they say…it’s all to get attention, and, boy, do the media give them a lot of it.

The more perceived negative attention they get, the more their reputation is elevated with their base. Trump was the one who perfected this model to an unbelievable point.

The best is to ignore this kind and not give them attention, which is their driving force.
They're literally just plugging in negative numbers for freshman physics equations. I wouldn't think too deeply about it..
In what sense are minivans “better” than SUVs such that this question is relevant? I could imagine some have lower bumper heights (safer for pedestrians) but they’re definitely getting higher. One imagines they are broadly comparable in terms of weight.

(Personally I find minivans have more utility, but I don’t feel like I’m doing something “right” by owning one instead of an SUV).
The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework
Superficially yes. But it's much harder in practise than you think.
My experience as the performance “expert” at the company I work at isn’t necessarily that the a single query gets sped up that much absolutely, but that much relatively is possible when dealing with a query that executes very frequently.

In my experience, if one of our core queries regresses from taking 20ms to taking 600ms (which happened recently although only one certain customer databases with 100m+ rows in the table) that the query will suddenly be taking 5+ seconds.

The problems compounds as the IO and compute resources of the database gets consumed and everything starts getting even slower.

In my recent case the same query before and after was actually taking the same amount of time when the DB wasn’t “on fire”. The query had started using a lot more IO resources which became a bottleneck but you wouldn’t know by query time until suddenly we were IO constrained under load.
Vinary?
> Assume for a second that a study of deep relevance to practitioners is replicated, and its conclusions accepted by the research community. It has large sample sizes, a beautiful research plan, a statistically sound system for controlling for various other explanatory factors; whatever it is that we need to proclaim it to be a good study.

Has there ever been an empirical software study, that would have a beautiful research plan, sound statistical analysis, large sample size, and that would also have been replicated? Even one?
First Linux commands to run if you’re compromised [video]
Agreed, and more solutions should try solving a problem shots way.

It’s a pretty simple formula.

They work to understand something and then experience it repeatedly by reviewing it to move it long term memory.

Maybe this approach lays bare and trivializes some plain truths about learning which some academia would prefer to keep as a mystery of butts in seats for hours to measure competency.

Skills based and competency based learning is not always a strength of many of the naysayers I’m against Duolingo type tools (mobile learning apps).

The proof is in the pudding when it comes to usage. An app doesn’t have to be the best or most efficient or most effective. But if it meets the more in their hand than anything else, it can trend to a large advantage over time. Asking if people can pick something up, keep it up long enough on average to make it stick be a threat to the building of physical campuses.

Self-directed learning is also different to learning the theory of language learning vs the practical learning to swim by learning not to drown, then float, then move.
>I have found GPT incredibly valuable when it comes to spitting out exact syntax and tons of lines that i otherwise would have spent hours and hours to write combing through dodgy forum posts, arrogant SO douchebags, and the questionable word salad that is the "official documentation"; and it just does it instantly. What a godsend!

IMO if you're learning from GPT you have to double check it's answers, and then you have to go through the same song and dance. For problems that are well documented you might as well start with those. If you're struggling with something how do you know it's not bullshitting you ? Especially for learning, I can see "copy paste and test if it works" flying if you need a quick fix but for learning I've seen it give right answers with wrong reasoning and wrong answers with right reasoning.

I'm not disagreeing with you on code part, my no.1 use case right now is bash scripting/short scripts/tedious model translations - where it's easy to provide all the context and easy to verify the solution.

I'd disagree on the fastest tool part, part of the reason I'm not using it more is because it's so slow (and responses are full of pointless fluff that eats tokens even when you ask it to be concise or give code only). Iterating on nontrivial solutions is usually slower than writing them out on my own (depending on the problem).
W&B Prompts
I said it's cooler for encrypted stuff compared to telegram not for features/ux. I use both and I'm fully aware telegram ux and easy of inter device operation is superior(well, they have some minor ux problems because of Premium but still, these are minor)
Lol, at any rate you are saying a bunch of statements that seem pretty shaky, saying they are backed by data, and not linking any sources. I guess the data is in another dimension or something.
I know you are joking but isn't the idea that negative mass works with current models of physics?
Can you recommend an implementation for experimenting with Kernel? I'm unsure about the implications of the wrap/unwrap primitives and how they interact with apply, so more interested in a correct/reference implementation than a high performance one.
The act of peer review is a relevant source of cost because at least at some publishers, the cost of shepherding a paper through peer review (not the actual peer review, but the process of peer review management - the costs of which I've already broken down elsewhere in the thread, and they are measured in hundreds of dollars of employee time) is borne by the publisher, not by the unpaid editors or the unpaid reviewers.
"Journey through genius" by William Dunham. It's not comprehensive, in the sense that it selectively samples the evolution of math from antiquity to about the 20th century, but it fits the bill of a pop-sci book that also shows the real math (at about a high school level) while covering the history and personalities involved. I've read it several times and really enjoy it.

Edit: I clicked though and I see that (for me) William Dunham is actually the author of the first article in the list.
"To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions." — Steve Jobs
Texas Senate approves ban on tenure for university and college professors
Can confirm the young and bored portion. We used to do this when camping as a kid. Also if you're careful you can pinch the skin and hold them in place as well.
Fair enough! Considering the LCD vs CRT comparison video game graphic posted elsewhere in the thread, you're probably right.
Except that I gave a specific example (Washington Blvd) which has a notoriously well maintained and accessible bike lane 30ft away; to give a specific example of the entitlement I was referring to.
If you want to learn a language please give Michel Thomas a try. He is amazing. I would not speak a word of Spanish without his help.

Unlike any other way I’ve found, his method teaches you to form sentences and grammar from the first lesson. If you line to figure out ‘how things work’ which I would guess would be a lot of you guys, it might fit into your way of thinking nicely.

I tried so many language learning apps and audio - and was really bad at languages at school but found his lessons just perfect.

Bonus 1: the BBC made a documentary about him where he teaches the worst pupils at a school French in 2 weeks.

Bonus 2: he was a Nazi hunter in the French resistance.

Bonus 3: he taught Doris day Spanish (Que Será, será)

Bonus 4: despite the lessons seeming like they’ve been planned out, he recorded them in one take towards the end of his life. He refused to let anyone know his ‘method’ before that, having too many trust issues post WW2

BBC doc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O0w_uYPAQic

On Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas

Note - just like duolingo or anything else, this is just a foot in the door (but a really BIG foot). You’ll have to go speak to people in Spanish if you want to be able to speak for real.
there is, but you need to be a resident already (what I mean is the program being opened to people around the globe)
Basically some professors used their tenure to teach critical race theory and now Texas law makers don’t want any owing tenure!
A small nitpick: the rook from the original game was a mythical bird of prey called Rukh/Roc. The chess piece was a bird. It became a tower later. So, the theory is birds were often used as figureheads on boats, that's why it is called a boat in Turkey/Russia.

Also the other, outdated name (but still in use) for a rook in Russian is "Тура"/Tura, which is of course a (siege) tower.
What are some of the safer neighborhoods in SF?
> What we have seen historically is that the pessimistic estimates of scientists have matched reality better than the optimistic estimates.

I wasn't aware of this, but it also sounds hard to prove so I'd be very interested in such a study having been done. Or do you mean for climate change specifically? (That seems much more manageable to meta-analyse)
Since it focuses on electrical charge, would it be worth renaming it to Anti-charged-matter

Are there other types of Antimatter that focus on different properties?