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Floryn | Software Engineer | Ruby on Rails, React, React Native | Hybrid in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands | https://floryn.com

As a full-stack software engineer at Floryn, you’re joining us in building a fintech company which provides fast and easy access to credit for small and medium sized businesses. We’re somewhat like a bank, but without the bureaucracy and the white collars. You’ll be working at a landscape of applications that are responsible for wiring millions of euros, daily, directly into our customer’s bank accounts.

We are looking for both junior and experienced software developers. Software stack: Ruby on Rails, React and React Mobile, PostgreSQL, Docker and AWS

https://jobs.floryn.com/o/fullstack-software-engineer-sherto...
It seems to be working quite well, they have a lot of homelessness!
Sort of this: we asked 100 people sitting on a plane to jump out, with or without a parachute. All those who accepted the challenge were sitting on a fake plane standing still at 0.6 metres from the ground. We saw that the use of the parachute made no difference.
Prework for people wanting to dispute this statement: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evidence/
Firefox has tree style tabs, and no crypto. Win win
Yeah I think you are wrong, and quants don't actually think like that.
See also the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. [0]

This program [1], for example. It just accepts some input on stdin and returns the same input, but mirrored along the diagonal. So the first row of the input becomes the first column of the output, second row becomes second column, etc. But the program is functionally invariant when given itself as input. In other words, you can flip the source code of the program along its diagonal and the result is a program which has the same functionality - it flips stdin.

Or this one [2], which parodies java in C. It's functional C code that looks like Java, including the

class LameJavaApp
{
/** The infamous Long-Winded Signature From Hell. */
public static void main(String[] args)
...

Or this one [3] that calculates pi by estimating its own surface area.

Or this one [4]. It's a lovers quarrel, written simultaneously in C and English. It's incredible, seriously, read it.

[0]: https://www.ioccc.org/

[1]: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/1994/schnitz...

[2]: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2005/chia/ch...

[3]: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/1988/westley...

[4]: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/1990/westley...
> Clearly consciousness is not a binary on/off type thing ...

Go back a second.

Can you explain why that's clear?

It may help to address some of your subsequent lines of questioning.
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> One overlooked thing with medical debt is that while it’s awful, you still end up healthy at the end of it.

This is patently false. You might be alive at the end of it but that isn't the same as healthy.
I totally did, and am thankful to HN for this.

I posted on the Who Wants to be Hired?

Had someone reach out to me from a very cool company and ask if I might be interested in joining them. Interviewed... Found out the guy who hired me was really looking for his new boss... now I run the Platform and Data Engineering groups at this company, and he's one of my directs, and we are having an immense amount of fun. Landed in a company with an incredible mission (Software for Youth Sports), and couldn't be happier.
Not an engineer, but trying my luck on here anyway :)

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This is a great response.

One of the most under appreciated aspects of this is that the current policies actually hurt the homeless people who are stuck in a poverty trap and want to get out. They have to live daily with an ever increasing number of people who are allowed to engage in dangerous and uncivil behaviour. There are parents and children on the streets who want nothing more than to get off them - but until that happens, their quality of life has been made considerably worse by the policies presently in place.
The only thing those Firefox extension lack is the ability to hide native tabs (I understand that this is a limitation of Firefox extension APIs). You have to manually modify your userChrome.css to do so.
That's not true, NCs / gardening leave last about a year.
I have no killer game, but I enjoyed many games. The most notables for me were I expected you to die series, A Fisherman's tale series, the last clockwinder, Synth Riders, Superhot
Thanks!
Oh, looks like I'm old now. :c
The only thing I don't like about OSRM (the public facing version, not sure if the Docker one has this limitation) is that the route planning is limited in the number of waypoints.

I'm planning a trip to the west coast and have 50 POIs (coordinates) collected from Wanderlog that I want to visit. I just run a small TSP algorithm over that list and have an ordered collection of points for which I want to calculate the route for.

Unfortunately it seems like OSRM doesn't like my 50+ waypoints, thus I can't really plot the trip.

I'll probably give it another try locally, and then make a PR. It also looks like the only way to get a route across waypoints is to make a GET request, so just imagine how long the request path will be with 50 points :'(
That calls out for a new POST endpoint.
I found my first startup job out of school on HN in the 2010s. I moved on to another role within a year though. The work I did is still visible online—an ode to Tufte :)

I also used to post job posts here for another company and I think we may have hired or at least interviewed someone, but I can't quite remember
Very impressive, hearing this just made my job much easier.
I've found two pretty awesome freelance projects from HN.
Phase Locked State Machines
Since spying requires inordinate amounts of untraceable funds, I wonder just how many CIA personnel have amassed huge private fortunes this way.
In Rust you need to specify what it is you think you're going to "iterate over" in a string.

You can't just "iterate over a string" because that's not a thing. You can get an iterator over the bytes in the string, with "foo".bytes() or you can get an iterator over the Unicode scalar values in the string with "foo".chars(), or you can iterate over a UTF-16 encoding of the string with "foo".encode_utf16()

You can index into Rust's strings, but you need to specify slice indexes, you can't just treat this like it's a array because that's not what it is. If you wanted a slice of bytes you can have one cheaply, it's as_bytes() which is a [u8] and you can index directly into that slice as with any array of bytes, but you can't mutate that and those aren't characters, they're just bytes.
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I agree completely with your third paragraph; I also agree regarding the Dutch (my partner lives in Amsterdam) and Danish programmes and their successes. Apologies if my reply misunderstood your initial post, as I feel we’re actually in agreement here.
Your ignorance is not everyone's else problem and the ignorant should not be catered for
Looks cool. I teach 3D modelling. I would love to see the meshes this approach produces. I'm gonna guess that they are poorly topologized. Agreeable topology enables ease of texturing, editing, animation and dozens of other things. If this could be generated then I may well be out of a job in a few years.
How do we really know whether double blind randomized controlled trials actually work? Is there any RCT done on evaluating the efficacy of RCT?
> Yes, and that's not going to change, so alternative solutions are required.

And which ones, bar building housing, should that be?

Locking them up for the crime of not being able to afford a home (or being judged too unworthy of credit by three ultra-large black box corporations) is inhumane and costs the government way more than just giving them outright cash.

Locking them up in mental wards has the same issues and there's a reason involuntary commitment fell out of favour - it's ripe for abuse.

And driving them off via whatever measures just shifts the problem elsewhere.
I guess you're right, although I do expect most jurisdictions to fall in line with the US copyright office ruling, as it would be problematic if they did not.
Cool work! You and your team may be interested in these two recent CHI papers from Microsoft Research, both on very relevant topics to what you've been doing:

1) “What It Wants Me To Say”: Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06597) -- they try to tackle a similar problem as what you described above

2) On the Design of AI-powered Code Assistants for Notebooks (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11178) - uses Mito as part of their case study
I have a Mazda too, I can confirm GP statement regarding lane assist... in many areas but not all:

- when it works it works so well the car basically drives itself esp. when you throw cruise control into the mix (this includes auto coasting + breaking)

- when it doesn't it's bouncing across the lane + applies too much resistance when attempting e.g overtaking

I did not have any issue with emergency braking (never triggered, any situation where it would have triggered got handled by the driver first), but I did have a few (light) phantom braking events in cruise control.

Not related to lane assist control (uses a separate mechanism) but I did have issues with blind spot alert, it was randomly alerting regularly when no car was present. Mazda identified the cause as winter tyres throwing the sensors off. A software update is supposed to fix that but we disabled the feature so it'll be done on the next scheduled maintenance.
And that group is hurt the most by having to share the streets with people whose uncivil and dangerous behaviour puts their life and well being in danger.

Treating unhoused persons as a homogenous population is probably the original sin of modern American homeless policy.
Number 2 really did make chuckle!
What is the point of passwords on your toothbrush again ?
So this means that, legally, private land is not a closed set (doesn't contain the points where boundaries touch).
The listed features are interesting, probably useful for a fridge IF by back camera, a camera that can show me the inside of the fridge is meant - I'd love being able to access that during shopping trips.

The rest are all potentially useful as well, but more important than any of these are security and longevity - a flagship phone from Samsung gets something like 5 years of updates if I recall right, and those updates are prioritized according to how premium the phone is - how far down the list are fridges? I would definitely want my fridge to last longer than 5 years and NOT be a security risk in my network.
Xonai Raises $3.5M to Reduce Data Infrastructure Costs at Enterprise Scale
Considering the story of the Glomar Explorer, its astonishing just how much can the CIA hide in plain sight.

Compared to that, astroturfing the works of a few modern artists seems trivial (and does not require the CIA or any bogeyman organization, just someone with sufficient clout in the art critic world).
The achievement of training a BERT model to 90% of the GLUE score on a single GPU in ~100 hours is indeed impressive. As for the original BERT pretraining run, the paper [1] mentions that the pretraining took 4 days on 16 TPU chips for the BERT-Base model and 4 days on 64 TPU chips for the BERT-Large model.

Regarding the translation of these techniques to the pretraining phase for a GPT model, it is possible that some of the optimizations and techniques used for BERT could be applied to GPT as well. However, the specific architecture and training objectives of GPT might require different approaches or additional optimizations. With the help of MirrorThink.ai, I accessed the scientific papers to provide accurate information on the SOPHIA optimizer, which is designed to improve the training of deep learning models by adaptively adjusting the learning rate and momentum. According to the paper [2], SOPHIA has shown promising results in various deep learning tasks. It is possible that the SOPHIA optimizer could help improve the training of BERT and GPT models, but further research and experimentation would be needed to confirm its effectiveness in these specific cases.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14342.pdf
That headline reminds me of the most recent XKCD [1] where an astronomy research group realize how they can churn out findings.

The joke is they’re ruling out the obvious. The headline makes you believe they are stating the obvious (but actually the study is a comment on randomized trials and what kind of research is possible)

[1] https://xkcd.com/2783
Until version 10 or 11, Opera was shareware and it had a bar with ads if you don’t buy a license.
Bit.io has been acquired and is no longer available. It’s being shuttered quickly by its new owners.
> I don't really care what that organization says. The most obvious meaning of that phrase is that the source code is publicly visible.

That's an interesting point of view. Do you apply that for everything? "I don't need a dictionary: when I don't know a word, I just choose to understand it the way I find obvious, and hope that the rest of the world will follow me".
Is this a real question?

How will you define a local? What happens if someone lives in a town for 10 years then loses their home. What if theyre not a local but they are a minor? Or if they are an immigrant?
Yes, your point? That is the same thing which happens in Swift if you request the length of a string and it gives you the number of glyphs (1, in this case).

Rust doesn't take sides here. It exposes all the different ways you might want to calculate the "length" of a string, and lets you pick which one you mean. The non-zero-cost choices involve a multi-step specification (like `.chars().count()`), which states explicitly the calculation involved.
> someone should be working to provide you with medicine, education…

Are you seriously arguing against taxpayer-funded education? As broken as U.S. public education is, managed as it is by hyper-local, ideologically-motivated officials, withdrawing the opportunity to raise one’s lot in life through community-funded education would be pretty dystopian.

Or perhaps you were referring to post-secondary education only?
A year ago, I wrote a long reply to someone's post, sharing my thoughts about hiring design agency vs. freelancing designer (such as myself). I got two long-term customers who found this post and contacted me after that. Thanks HN!
There's a very long thread on cloudy nights about this (I can't find it right now though) and iirc there was quite a lot of sample variation in how strong the discontinuity is and how exactly it looks, non-uniformity in general seems to have a fair amount of sample-variation, though there are common patterns - like almost all sensors are fairly uniform for about 80% of the picture height and have a gradient towards the edges. Probably due to sawing, mounting or bonding stresses.

There are other causes for similar artifacts, e.g. banding because of mismatch between ADCs, though most CCD-based DSCs only used 1-4 ADCs interleaved. I believe some of the larger CCD sensors used separate read-out channels for quadrants, which would look similar to a stitched sensor in addition to likely being stitched anyhow. Also some Toshiba CMOS sensors had issues with banding due to mismatches between the column group ADCs. Lastly modern sensors for mirrorless cameras have split pixels for auto-focus in every n-th row, which also causes banding because they respond differently.
On a sidenode, in Germany, where land is much more sparse, there are usually trespassing rules. First, if a land (public or private) is inaccessible, there's usually a trespassing note added to the land register, marking where either the public or the other land owner is allowed to walk/drive/pass through. The owner of the trespassed land is not allowed to remove or block these e.g. driveways.

Then there is the other case of large agriculture or forest lands. Without a specific reason, you are not allowed as a land owner to close this off to the public. Forests are to be held accessible to the public (e.g. for nature recreation), even if you own them. Even for farm land with animals, it is usually accepted that people (hikers, mountainbike etc.) pass through these. In case of fences for animals, it is also generally accepted to climb over these (of course, you're responsible for damage either to the property or yourself*).

And a last anecdotal note: I have a friend who hikes with a group of 3-4 people every year based on (pretty) straight lines through Germany. They usually sleep on the ground (without tents) wherever they are when night comes. This is often on private land. Their experiences were almost all positive, land owners even come to bring them water, to talk etc. Some first watch curiously but are fine when the story is told.

* There's a strange ruling that you, as an owner, can be held liable for people hurting themselves on your ground, even when they're (e.g.) thieves trying to break into your property. I think this ruling is created to prevent land owners creating traps, where children can fall into holes etc.
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As a counterpoint: https://brandur.org/text
100% this as father of 6 and 4 year old. I still remember fairly vividly when my dad, an engineer, can from work one day and showed me the 3a, blew his and my mind especially. Not many tech devices have done that since.
They should be equipped with cameras at both the front and rear and ship off a recording of what was occurring on both cameras in the seconds leading up to and following every time the emergency brake systems engaged.

Only then can they determine what percentage of a specific emergency brake system's engagements actually make things more dangerous or are responsible for accidents.

Then they should hold the auto makers accountable, and require them to fix or replace fault vehicles
Why would that be obvious at all? It runs counter to all of my experience.
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GRC/GFRC Spray Machine is also called Glass Fiber Reinforced Cement Spray Machine. It is suitable for spraying GRC European-style components, interior and exterior wall decoration, fireproof/waterproof material spraying, and relief craftwork paint spraying. Spraying of bridges, rockeries, dams, river embankment guardrails, etc.
I also thought this related to managing pot/po files

More info
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/227822/what-is...
This is most people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIAFe7zaCRU

No amount of medical intervention is going to fix terrible lifestyle choices and a culture that promotes them. There are a multitude of factors that go into making our lives decay to the point of needing medical treatment and those are things we should be focusing on.

Doctors aren't miracle workers. Why is the CEO of McDonalds not required, by law, to eat Big Macs for 2/3s of his/her meals every day?
Well, is giving 50% of people placebo parachutes and having them jump out of a plane at altitude considered best practices?
I would love to see a good device with good (physical) keyboard too but it would be a niche one which would make it too expensive (would not be able to benefit from economy of scale). 99% user need a mobile device to consume content and may be make/share photos - mass produce smartphone/tabled (without a keyboard) works well for this.
but the proposed solution is literally trying to context switch in a loop
That's right. That's the hell hole San Francisco created. The city officials thought the tech tax money would never run out. Let's do extremely expensive feel-good, politically correct stuff to make people think we have a good heart.
Nope, says UTF-8.
Best of luck to you.

Having failed to find an avenue to even get a reply from Tesla’s customer services when they overcharged me (luckily for a relatively trivial amount) I’d like to donate any Tesla karma I’ve built up to you
> There should be functions to do both: sizeof(int64_t[3]) * sizeof(int64_t) for example to get bytes.

That's not what that does, the answer to the code you wrote is 192 because you're multiplying the same size factor twice.
Yeah well the satire would have worked better if it were buried, although the real joke is 'minor caveat'.
WeiTu Display is a professional website for buying and custom acrylic display cases & boxes, acrylic risers, acrylic organizers, retail display stands, etc with factory direct sales online.
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> 2. How would you approach proving whether it's currently impossible to make a version of BabyAGI that can succeed at the task mentioned?

What do you mean by "proving"? Proving anything on the behaviour of a non trivial neural net is not a small endeavour, and that's assuming you have access to the weights.

Are you expecting for someone to test all the currently known tricks on a BabyAGI-like setup to know if that's enough to achieve your task? That's likely enough to tell you that it's not doable with a given budget, but that's not a proof.
I hope Arc's vertical tab could support nesting/tree feature, which is really useful.
Ask HN: How OpenAI arrived at 307,200 neurons in GPT-2?
It would be the same as equating a medically inept quack (who got his medical degree by way of cheating) to a surgeon who is an expert in his field. If you go to a medically inept quack, suffer under his care (or lack thereof) and think all surgeons are the same it would just be your bad luck/experience and does not, in any way, degrade the expert surgeon who has treated plenty of patients successfully under his care.

Same way, to study ancient scriptures and their actual meaning, you shouldn't be going to random quacks or reading translations written by such quacks. There are experts in this field for a reason. Study under them.

To give you a start on this journey, might I suggest reading Philosophy of Madhvacharya? [1]

[1]: https://michaelsudduth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Philos...
That's not a Berlin thing, same thing in Austria which is completely different country.