skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could just use the latex source code of the paper in the context window if you want it to be aware of the math. You can download latex source for any paper or arxiv.

If you have many papers, perhaps upload the latex source code of all of them into some vector database like pinecone and use them with LangChain for retrieval.
> almost like they just didn't keep track of how much R&D they did for each item.

That’s often almost the whole point!

Tracking the R&D effort for each item in the repair kit would add an enormous amount of overhead and accomplish essentially nothing. The numbers will be wild guesses and you’re going to have to make tons of ad hoc decisions about allocation anyway. Suppose you tweak the design so it a part can be attached with a special pin rather than a screw and spend an hour testing it. What’s the “right” allocation of time to the pin, hammer, part, and screw (that you’ve eliminated)?
It has been discussed before

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32064324 (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756602 (2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11038059 (2016)
You are right, I was wrong. I didn't read the menu items closely. Holding the button down while pressing and releasing Option makes the toggle obvious. Thanks.
The same you get with ChatGPT - no guarantees. It's BYOB (Bring Your Own Brain), so don't trust it more than you would anything else you read on the Internet.

I get that people have an objection to how LLMs invent things, but so do people. You should always verify things.
Henry Kissinger explains how to avoid world war three (The Economist)
AIUI, the Book of Matthew was not written by that Matthew, or indeed by anyone whose identity we know, right?
Look at the wiki for Mica. The goal was for a whole implementation of Ultrix alongside of VMS.

It fell apart in trying to allow both sets of system calls to be used by a single process. This failure is likely a huge reason for Windows NT, as it led to cancelation.

I used Utrix on a Decstation 240 in college.

"However, it proved to be impossible to provide both full ULTRIX and full VMS compatibility to the same application at the same time, and Digital scrapped this plan in favour of having a separate Unix operating system based on OSF/1 (this was variously referred to as PRISM ULTRIX or OZIX)."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_MICA
I am not sure what kind of background that you have, but with a bit of basic linear algebra you might enjoy this classic:

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
I have bought multiple Logitech G102s, because they're super cheap and it's my go-to mouse. Good DPI, good hand-feel, good price. SUPER precise and reliable.

I spent a LOT of money on a high-end Corsair mouse, bought the same model twice, and every time I had issues with "double clicking when should be single clicking" or "not clicking at all".

I HATE Razer for forcing you to register with your email address if you want to even customize your RGB colors. Never again. I spent time trying to write a driver for OpenRGB, but that was just too much for me at the time. And why should I be expected to do that? I wasn't even using Linux at the time, this was on Windows/MacOS!
I think these GPT wrapper apps are not too unlike Dropbox. They face a good amount of (fair) criticism as too simple of a solution for any technically minded person. But if you wrap some of the annoying parts into a nice app, you could have a very successful business for non technical people. Even technical enterprises can benefit from enterprise level security features that they themselves may not want to deal with.
Spike is a pure interpreter -- no JIT or anything like that. It is written to be very portable, very easy to add new instructions to, and easy to reason about whether you have done it correctly. Essentially no effort is made to get high performance. Spike was the "Golden Standard" for RISC-V semantics until some academics said "that's not good enough, you should use Sail because formal this, proof that".

The only time the RISC-V instruction set should be changing is when new instructions are being added, and during the extension development process the set of instructions and meaning or especially the binary encoding of individual instructions can change.

I have been the person doing the modifications to Spike during development of RISC-V extensions, and in particular during a quite fluid stage of the development of the Vector extension. I know how easy it is to do this. Just as easy as Sail, I would say.

Here's one example of why.

Most RISC-V emulators decode instructions using a series of nested switch statements. Zeroth, switch on non-C vs which page of C (if C is implemented) bits 1:0. First switch on the "opcode" field bits 6:2 e.g. OP-IMM or LOAD or BRANCH. Second, typically, switch on the "funct3" field bits 14:12 which distinguishes e.g. ADD / SLT / SLTU / AND / OR / XOR / SLL / SRL for arithmetic instructions or BEQ / BNE / BLT / BLTU / BGE / BGEU for conditional branches, or operand size for loads and stores. Third, for some instructions switch on the "funct7" field bits 31:25 to distinguish between e.g. ADD / SUB or SRL / SRA.

This is pretty fast and efficient and makes compact code/tables, but it is high maintenance.

Spike decodes instructions with a loop searching a linear list of MASK and MATCH values until it finds the correct instruction. So, by the way, does my simple "trv" emulator.

Here is my own complete executable C definition of RV32I:

https://github.com/brucehoult/trv/blob/main/instructions.inc

The 3rd and 4th values (the hex ones) are the MATCH and MASK values. The logic is "if ((instruction & MASK) == MATCH)" for example:

if ((instruction & 0xfe00707f) == 0x40000033) rd = rs1 - rs2; // sub

These linear comparisons are of course slow, but very easy to maintain.

Spike makes two concessions to speed:

1) the more frequently-executed instructions gradually sift their way to the start of the list

2) there is a hash table using the entire 32 bits of each instruction (i.e. including any register fields and literals) as key, mapping to a struct with the already-decoded instruction. The last few thousand instructions are kept in the hash table. So dynamically most instructions can avoid the linear search.

(There are other aspects to ISA emulation, such as memory address protection and translation and caching the results of that, but the principles are the same)
Specialize
I definitely understand how someone using a rollator is concerned with working conditions. I think the notable aspect is a stripper using a rollator. But good point that it may just be temporary and in use during the celebration/protest event photographed rather than a permanent device that would also be used during performances.
I'm surprised you're the only one saying this. Being locked into a good mortgage or rental situation requires a significant increase in pay (with some job security) to offset the risk of moving.
The article has a nice example of this in the B2 bomber. The first 21 planes cost $2B each. The next one costs $700M.

If, for some reason, we were to make a hundred or a thousand of them, the cost per plane would be even lower.
I certainly agree that reading these books won't make you have the skills needed to be a Staff engineer but I think the rest of your point seems highly biased by your individual personal experience.

Btw, Will Larson was at Etsy in a very senior role for a while, so he definitely knows how engineering orgs work.

The reason I see for these books existing is because engineering orgs have evolved and grown to a scale where a new role came up: of an individual contributor that exercises cross team influence. This only makes sense in massive (1k+ engineers), highly organisationally flexible companies. It doesn't make sense in small ones and it doesn't make sense in inflexible ones. Those sorts of companies have not existed for too long.

BTW Will Larson's book is a synthesis based on the collection of anecdotes from people actually employed with such titles across companies, so you can read it and see if those things make sense.
> the screen will fade after 30 seconds (unlike epaper)

So what? I see that as a positive!

> you'll forget to turn off the switch

Uh, if I don't see the screen fading in 30 seconds, I'll conclude I forgot.

> once or twice an hour

I intend to only turn on the device when I need it.

> and you'll corrupt the flash

I don't think so, I use industrial SDs + journaling filesystems, and I do `sync` before turning off my devices.
Yeah apparently it's free, my bad, I remembered it incorrectly
Then they aren’t deleting all information associated with the account if they know it existed. I wonder how much data they retain or if it is precisely only that the account name once existed.
well, i think an autonomous computer can be pretty useful. i mean, i used computers for 12 years before i got internet access; the closest i got to networking was dialing up bbses

maybe if you had a speaker you could do ultrasonic communication with ble-like range; there are several megahertz of spectrum there that can propagate through air for a few meters, and milliwatts might be adequate. similarly with infrared; historically it's suffered a lot from highly directional interfaces that assume stupid, fragile encoding schemes, but we have enough compute now to do better

but yeah a low-power radio would open up a world of possibilities
semi-direct link as there's some tomfoolery going on with this:
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/b937345cd81d96654cb2d2bb43d...
If we legalized building massive amounts of housing in California cities, this would be one of many problems that mostly disappeared.
I think the problems is essentially that we had most of our worst minds working on crypto for a long time. Folks though there were incentives to do X, so almost everyone went out & got busy making cryptocoins.

We saw people put their bitshovel in the bitground and mine up bitgold. And suddenly unsurprisingly everyone wants to go bitmining.

Now that the bad incentive are much ameliorated, we can begin to see what real enduring uses might be. The bad systems aren't stealing all the oxygen.

I'd also say that I think platform evolves at a slower timebase than languages. Posix has been around for omg long now. We were almost a on SysV or very alike until very recent mass migrations off. Http3 is fancy as heck but it does very very nearly what http 0.9 did. Programming languages come and go much faster than these sort of things change. And the next jumps we keep looking to make, most involve pretty significant increases in scope (one counter example might be the Zircon microkernel, https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel, but it has a sizable platform atop it again).
Wait a second. They were able to pay that mortgage before they refinanced, right? And the rates 5 years ago were close to 5% (according to your chart). Suddenly rate get close to what was normal just five years ago and we are talking about most people not able to move.
So, what's the story with the friend tag -- it's a paywall bypass for everyone who happens to see this submission on HN but Medium gives the finger to anyone who would otherwise discover that link organically?

"My blog but secret" is a very, very strange promotion strategy IMHO
Without animated visuals, I don't think any non-math/non-ML person can ever get a good understanding of transformers.

You will need to watch videos.

Watch this playlist and you will understand: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaJCKi8Nk1hwaMUYxJMiM3jTB...

Then watch this and you will understand even more: https://youtu.be/g2BRIuln4uc

Finally, watch this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL86uXYUJ7999zE8u2-97i4KG_...
Just put LV on it
How can you know if the fake data is sufficiently similar to real data? I wonder what Google's use case for this is.
It was actually prokaryotes that were dying in their own waste.
Metaphor is a common and delightful way to use language - you should try it sometime. It helps avoid the delusion that language has some inherent amount of rigor or correctness. Or that grammatical rules actually exist unchanging rather than being rules written by people making them up from the types of language and speaker that they approve of.
That’s completely different though as they are scraping private info that’s proprietary to Facebook.

I think there’s no grey area for whether scraping publicly available data is legal as it is legal.
Human invention can also have its problems too. While it might not be finite, the risks can be infinite.

For example Nuclear energy and weapons, bio-engineering, AI, genetic modification, fossil fuel based power generation, factory farming and more.

I’d argue they nearly all the technologies on that list are economically driven, or have a an economically driven component. This is dangerous because it means someone will invent potentially harmful shit to keep riding the wave of economics.
I used this Windows version of Blackbox many years ago. Perhaps time try again.

https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/
Very high, there are a lot of these. It's not too far from a hello world project.
It's terribly sad that whoever wrote these posts stopped a decade ago, but at least the links are still active - always relevant when someone complains about quora:

https://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/post/489620...

I'm finding that in the past couple of years, more of my google searches are pointing me to quora (but also to reddit, so some swings and roundabouts there). I don't know if they're getting qualitatively better, or just more adept at SEO.

Even with good adblockers in place, the bait-and-switch just after landing is hugely frustrating (if you want to read more, you must sign up, etc).
That'll be great. One wart I'm tired of dealing with in LESS is having to escape every use of calc() or else the preprocessor tries to do it itself.
> * Prostitution was legal.

As it is in Aotearoa New Zealand, where lately we also have constant news about shortages of workers in hospitality, tourism, agriculture, etc.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-08-2018/its-as-legal-as-...
As usual, the most helpful answer is burried among desperate platitudes full of inaccuracies trying to pander to the absurd reddit-esque ELI5 notion you've dismantled.
Could you pass on the results of your research? I don't think I found a dashcam at that price range, and I was actually looking to use an old smartphone as my dashcam, but it didn't seem like a good solution as 1. I would have to start the app manually whenever the phone powers up, and 2. I wouldn't want to leave the phone in a holder in the car all the time as it could invite thieves.
Not going into YC, but I've done similar practice for behavioral interview questions. I've always wished, but rarely have seen, tools like this that give examples of good or bad responses.

I'm not sure why this is, but it always makes me worried that I'm answering them "wrongly."
> I've found this to be a never-ending rabbit hole because installing a better narrative requires constant work.

Yes. And because our brains are naturally recursive and meta-cognitive, it's so easy to fall into the trap of painting that work itself with the same toxic self narrative: "Ugh, I better keep working on improving my psychology because mine is so screwed up and I'm such a mess."

Short-circuiting that spiral can be really hard.

On good days, I try to just observe myself interpreting things through an unfortunate lens, acknowledge that doing that is part of who I am, and try to accept that as part of being me but that I am still a worthy person even so.
BTW are they more sensible to X rays? I've had one die early.
> "Great heavens, what poor specimens of humanity the men were! Their entire bodies formed a pattern of livid bruises. Their backs, which bore the marks of the whip, were not so much covered as shaded by torn shirts of patchwork cloth... They had letters branded on their foreheads, half-shaved heads, and chains round their ankles. Their faces were a ghastly yellow, and their eyes had contracted in the smoke-filled gloom of that steaming, dank atmosphere, making them half-blind. They resembled boxers who coat themselves with dust when they fight, for their bodies were a dirty white from the oven-baked flour."

> Apuleius, The Golden Ass

Being sent to become a mill slave was considered one of the worst punishments available for Roman slaves. Essentially a slow death sentence where you turn a millstone in an unlit chamber until your lungs give out from breathing flour and stone dust.

Mining held a similar status.
Similar to hospital pricing

Her screenshots, taken earlier this year, speak for themselves.

What they show are price hikes ranging from 575% to 675% being automatically generated by the hospital’s software.

The eye-popping increases are so routine, apparently, the software even displays the formula it uses to convert reasonable medical costs to billed amounts that are much, much higher.

For example, one screenshot is for sutures — that is, medical thread, a.k.a. stitches. Scripps’ system put the basic “cost per unit” at $19.30.

But the system said the “computed charge per unit” was $149.58. This is how much the patient and his or her insurer would be billed.

The system helpfully included a formula for reaching this amount: “$149.58 = $19.30 + ($19.30 x 675%).”

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-hea...
Why is it implausible sorry ?
Why consume less on the absolute scale? Instead, I suppose, the global South should consume more and more, so that the global North would consume relatively less.

What we should consume less of on the absolute scale is non-renewable and non-recyclable resources, like oil, or land (agricultural and otherwise), or hard-to-recycle plastics. Consuming more electricity is fine if we produce it from sunlight or even uranium and the current stockpile of "nuclear waste". Consuming more steel and aluminum is fine since they are about 100% recyclable. Consuming more wood is also relatively fine, as long as we grow even more trees (and we do).
High. Everybody, myself included, had this idea . There's also been (at least 2) posts in the past about similar products. I stopped from testing these out as they all "cheat", or at least in my opinion they cheat, by creating embeddings and vector search before hitting up GPT with the context/answer.
This is being done in the name of Solaris compatibility (why?) so you don't even get to use POSIX shell since it isn't in /bin/sh on that OS.
Hasbro (who are actually the Comcast of table top games) bought WotC in 1999, initially operating it as a legal subsidiary. I only followed MtG from 2001 to 2005; at that time it seemed pretty clear to me that Hasbro was taking a fairly hands-off approach. I don’t know what has happened in the interim but recent news indicated WotC was something like 70% of Hasbro’s entire revenue, so I imagine what happened was, as WotC grew and Hasbro shrank, Hasbro started exercising more of the power of WotC that they have long held but rarely used - basically, becoming more hands-on as the profits grew (unsurprisingly).

There seems to have been several reshuffles of just how legally independent WotC is from Hasbro over the years, although I’m not sure those legal reshuffles are indicative of how much actual power Hasbro was exercising.

My general impression is that WotC had found a point on the Pareto curve of “greedy” vs “respectful” where they were quite greedy but also quite respectful, and Hasbro’s more recent influence has pushed them into “very greedy”, not realizing the Pareto curve was extremely steep and so this caused a corresponding move all the way from “quite respectful” to “very disrespectful”.
You can pour water straight from the kettle into the trays and cover it.

https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-ice-cubes-image179488...

In that photo I see a few gas bubbles, but it is dominated by radial expansion fractures and cloudy high pressure ice in the center. That ice will crack when put in water. Clear ice does not crack.
My point was that paying 6.5% on a $300K mortgage was a normal thing just 15 years ago. In fact it did not stop anyone from buying in the run to the great recession (aka "subprime mortgage crisis").

I don't have mortgage now, so no, I am not leaving money on the table.
Do you have a site that does this for regular interview questions? I'm thankfully not job-hunting atm, but it seems like something that would be good to do like 10 minutes of practice every week (or even month) with, regardless of status, and then a lot more practice when you're actively looking.
However you want to justify it, the result is the same: luxury toys are subsidized by people who don't buy them. Every expensive car sold makes everyone's insurance premiums go up. This is a transfer of wealth from the poor and the prudent to the rich and the vain. Any legal principle that supports that is wrong.
Carbon dioxide was breathable fuel for cyanobacteria prokaryotes.

The oxygen was their waste product, and it poisoned them when the concentration grew too high.

They had to wait for natural weathering to take the oxygen out of the atmosphere before they had another cycle of flourishing.

"Cyanobacteria are a very large and diverse phylum of photoautotrophic prokaryotes... cyanobacteria are thought to have converted the early oxygen-poor, reducing atmosphere into an oxidizing one, causing the Great Oxidation Event and the "rusting of the Earth", which dramatically changed the composition of life forms on Earth."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
Agree, not sure why software engineers believe that engineering ethics is about doing what's in the users interest and what's morally correct. In most of the traditional engineering professions, the ethics course is mostly about building bridges that don't fail, and weapons that work as expected. If engineering ethics is about doing what morally right, then aerospace and mechanical engineers are the greatest sinners in the world. Engineering codes of conduct with legally binding power usually involve building things to specifications and things that won't fail (based on the specification). They don't make any prescriptions about the ethics of building a hypersonic missile or a tracking users en masse.

Beware what you wish for, these rules exist to bind and regulate engineers. They are exist so capital holders can feel secure about their return on investment. Unless you want this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970283 to become reality, better push back attempts to regulate software engineering.
My guess is that Havana Syndrome is a lot like Lyme disease. At first people thought it was just people complaining but then it became supported by science.
What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?
It is a lot harder to take the black out of the cat than it is to take the mat out from under it.
In Independence Day (1996), as President Thomas Whitemore and company are being led into the secret government alien lab, he wonders aloud where the funding for the lab came from, to which Julius Levinson (the father of Jeff Goldblum's character) quips, "You didn't think they actually paid $5000 for a hammer, or $30,000 for a toilet seat, did you?" Indicating those sums were actually being secretly diverted to fund black-budget initiatives like the alien lab.

Nice to see truth is not that far off from Independence Day.
> Life began in that alien environment, and at some point between 3.2 and 2.8 billion years ago, cyanobacteria began to use sunlight to split hydrogen from water, discarding oxygen as waste.

Think this is wrong. The discarded oxygen during photosynthesis comes only from splitting CO2.
Funnily enough, the author of this book started out as a systems admin.