skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Have crystal clear Mathematical foundations, as in why this formula/method the way it is, rather than being able to solve college/HS test problems. Really solid footing in Differential Calculus and Linear Algebra is necessary.

- Know the Statistical language that you learn from a basic college-level Stat 101 course. Be able to translate normal sentences into those using Statistical notation, and be able to read easily. Also, know basic Statistics.

- You already know programming, I assume. Learn Python if you don't know already. It's really easy.

- There are a number of paths you can go from there. Here's what I did.

-- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate (not deep at all, but lays out the landscape well; did it in a week)

-- Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners by Oliver Theobald which you can finish in an evening.

-- Machine Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng on Coursera.

-- Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng on Coursera.

-- fast.ai course.

- Learn PyTorch really well. I suggest Sebastian Raschka's book.

Now from here, you can chart your own path. You can choose NLProc, Vision, RL, or something else.

I went towards Vision. And I do Edge AI as hobby.

I was in the last year of college as a Physics undergrad, when I was hired to do Vision modelling/research for a non-flashy company in 2021. Finishing my CS Master's next month and starting to look for PhD. I worked in the same company for the ~2.5 years.

EDIT: If you want a job in big tech, grind Leetcode, and learn about system design, study Machine Learning systems, and be able to design them. Chip Huyen has a good book as I hear. 6-7 rounds of interview is common in Meta/Google. DL hackathon awards, open source contributions are significantly helpful.
Not really for the interviews. I can definitely recognize some mistakes during most of them, but nothing really common to all them.

If I had to guess, I imagine that in this market, there are just a lot of other people seeking work with much more impressive resumes.
They are both terrible terrible events but one was exceptionally rare and their was chance of rescue. Another similar event was the soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand. It was unusual and there was chance of rescue.
> One tool that I'm really excited to implement and use, but haven't found the time (and I'm sure someone else has already started), is a command that wraps any other command and exposes a global hotkey that, when pressed, shovels the last N lines to an LLM and asks it for advice.

Sounds like a 1-line config in a decent WM doing a curl post. You could probably turn it into a SaaS ;-P
It’s cleaner and conceptually easier to work with than React & hooks, and tends to produce smaller bundles and faster apps.
I still follow many RSS feeds (about 250). Sometimes it's hard to find the feed on a site, because the feeds aren't always advertised and their URLs can be tricky. Based on the URLs I've seen, I created a simple script to check if a site has a feed:

https://github.com/begriffs/findrss
Interesting that both "winners" in their relative spaces, Discord and WhatsApp, both ramped up using BEAM languages.
Yes, this thread feels like stepping into bizarro land. I see a lot of people equating the presence of a CoC with some kind of 1984-newspeak future.

This reminds me of the complaints about seatbelts. Yeah, every once in a while, a seatbelt makes a crash worse. Requiring seatbelts takes away the sense of freedom you have in a car. That sort of thing. Sometimes, a CoC will be abused to harass people. Step back and look at the overall impact of CoCs (and seatbelts). CoCs help moderators make consistent decisions. When decisions are more consistent, people can worry less about whether they are breaking the rules and focus more on getting work done.
> RFK Jr. has 1.5 million followers, and Hotez has 455K.

Lets suppose a leader of a satanic cult debates you, is he giving you legitimacy because he has more followers?

Your local priest has more followers than the electrician, so. his approval more reliable?
It's basically a different flavor of modern web app development. It's key difference is that it doesn't download a full JS library to the client. The saves some ms/s on initial load. For most applications, that is not really an issue but, of course, there are some scenarios that it suits.
A couple things to check out if you haven't already seen them:

* Lago - https://www.getlago.com

* Octane - https://www.getoctane.io

* Metronome - https://metronome.com
why was this article difficult to read? it's cadence/structure is all over the place...
Svelte tries to improve upon the relatively complex/heavyweight runtime of something like React by shifting as much of that complexity to the build step as possible. It also takes a more "batteries-included" approach compared to React by including some opinionated features like state management, animation, transitions and the like.

I haven't dug too deeply into Svelte because last I checked it didn't play particularly nicely with TypeScript but this release may prompt me to give it another look.
Literally all RFK Jr. has to do is throw endless nonsense against the wall, doesn’t have to be consistent with itself, doesn’t have to come from real sources, and just trip up the PhD on one single issue. Then he can spike the football and claim victory. It’s an impossible setup.

https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-kno...

Refute all 30 of these, NOW, and if you can’t then clearly you don’t know anything and RFK Jr. wins.

When you’re done we got 30 more and basically an endless supply. Doesn’t matter if you prove 99 of them wrong. If you can’t prove one wrong during a live debate we claim victory. We don’t care if you show that our arguments are inconsistent with each other, and totally impugn one of our sources. We still expect you to refute endless nonsense from that same source. Because we’re debating in bad faith.

You don’t ever get to grill JFK Jr., because he’s not the scientist, you are. It’s not a debate it’s an interrogation.

Joe Rogan berated a primatologist for telling him that no, there is not a race of 6’ tall chimps who walk upright and sleep on the ground. These are not serious people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CvmS6uw7E
> voiding my warranty and risking bricking

nut up. hacking has never been perfectly safe and has never had a promise of easy. if you want it enough, you can make it happen.
n=44

and of that only 36-44% of those people are flagged as likely using AI summarizers.
an interest free loan, that's why it has "gift" in the name.

It works the same way as lending the money directly to a person, gift cards are simply more convenient to handle and are safer than cash, but other than that it's just a gift in the form of cash, no matter how many intermediaries are between the sender and the receiver, the input and the output will always match exactly.

If, for example, I give my friend Alex $20 to buy something for his little daughter but Alex uses it to bet on a football match and loses it, Alex has to take some money from his pocket and then buy the gift with his own money. Which is not different than saying he spent his money on the bet and bought the gift with the money I gave him.

If otherwise Alex wins, he will still buy the gift, but he will also have increased the initial sum by an x% which he can keep (or maybe try his luck again)

Buying a gift card is the same process, the company holding the money at one point has to give back something of the same exact value, it doesn't matter what they do with the money in between, what matters to the sender and the receiver is that the amount printed on the card is fully available at the check out (which is just lik getting the amount in cash and then paying with that)
You’re trying not to be negative but they’re losers? If you’re going to start a comment like that everything better be bang on. Unfortunately, you seem to be saying that nepotism is wrong..unless you do it then it’s somehow fine because you’re “special”.

What a low quality comment made even worse by the insult in the beginning.
I just rebuilt a web app in Vue (and Vite), and first-class Single File Components are the dream. Is there anything that even approaches that simply joyful DX?
Postgres supports UUIDs natively
As someone who came from a self-taught backend background (Python), Svelte is way easier to learn, read and write than React (to me) due to requiring was less boilerplate. The example in the “Developer Experience” section of this article was all I needed to see to ditch my attempts at learning React and go all-in on Svelte.
All burned out? Just wait....

Until you've been through another 30 years.

You haven't even reached mid-burn yet...
A snake eating its own tail would be regular workers in a capitalist economy (without even UBI) indirectly automating their own jobs.

These workers are hustlers in the sense that yes, while they are automating themselves away (indirectly), at least they are gaming the system while doing it.
If I could spend $1800 each way on a business class upgrade, or get a Vision Pro... I know which one I'm picking.
This is probably true on a micro level but not on a macro level. There are probably a lot of things worth debating in the world of climate science, but the number of people who are allowed to even ask questions, is tiny. Basically, the only people with clearance to debate climate science are climate scientists, which is, all things considered, a pretty small marketplace.

Moreover, scientists debating amongst themselves is one thing for chemistry and quite another for Psychology or Anthropology or Public Health - fields that borrow credibility from the self-evident power of the scientific method to do history or philosophy or policy making.
Time for a very naive question.

As somebody looking for a more effcient (less re-rendering) and nicer DX (template based, stuff like exit animations) alternative to React, what actually makes Svelte measurably better than Vue? On first (and very naive) look the two seem pretty similar, with the biggest difference being that Vue seems to have the much bigger ecosystem and more mature tooling (I keep hearing about Svelte's flavor of JS basically being its own language now and it not playing all that well with Typescript). From what I remember they even once had a virtual DOM-replacing Ahead of Time compiler, so that might not be the biggest moat either.

Both can be fiddled around with to support rendering using JSX, but it seems to easier and better supported for Vue.

Edit: The AOT compilation was called "Reactivity Transform" and dropped due to the aforementioned shift away from "real" JavaScript: https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/reactivity-in-depth.html#runt...

Now I wonder whether the performance benefit is big enough to justify using Svelte, especially since Vue already uses a "compiler informed virtual DOM".

Anecodally all Vue apps I have used felt fast while the React experience was more mixed, but the sample on the Vue side is also just really small.
Chordal editing isn't as popular as modal editing, but I do like it and think it's something uncommon in other editors, at least to the same extant as emacs.

The thing I like about emacs is the integration and consistent experience.
I can do everything in emacs (and use exwm as my window manager), so I have the same keybindings for everything.

As perhaps an extreme example, imagine having
1. A window manager like i3
2. tmux or screen
3. (n)vim or helix sessions with edited files, possibly inside tmux/screen

Each of these need to be configured separately, and each layer needs different keybindings so that uncaught ones can be forwarded from one layer to the next. Each layer is limited to only the subset of things it manages. E.g., i3 can let you switch between firefox and the terminal running tmux, but not the different sessions tmux manages, or views of any of the files in your nvim session.
Etc.

Or I could just use emacs create tiles I can move between, and each of which that is capable of opening any of my x-windows, terminal sessions, or open files.
You can even use the same autocomplete in your shell as when editing files.

I don't know of anything that gives the same simple, unified, workflow of EXWM (+ corfu&consult&...).
It does have issues and could use a serious modernization -- still single threaded in 2023, with some commands blocking IO??? -- but perhaps it's simply much too ambitious for someone to try and make a competitor.
These can have modal editing, tree sitter and lsp integration would be great, etc.
The thing I want is the smooth integration of everything I may do on a computer into one interface that emacs, but no other software I'm aware of, offers.
I think you're confusing public charter schools with private schools. Charter schools can't prioritize removing disruptive students any more than other public schools. Private schools can expel students for almost any reason.
I totally agree and would go so far as to say that the 4k streams look like shit compared to good HD DVDs because they're.

Take an average 4k Stream from YouTube/Netflix/etc and look at the transfer size for the full duration. It's gonna be something around 1-3gb per hour from my observations.

A good 4k Video is usually around 5-10x that size and with good reason, because the resolution demands a lot of bits to make it shine, no matter how well you've encoded it
It strikes me as a bit weird that these time series packages tend to discard the time component of the data and just.. not do anything with it.

Prophet, for example uses dates to create Fourier terms and indicators to holidays for example and that just seems like a more sane approach.
Climate activist dies after setting himself on fire outside Supreme Court (2022)
A single data point cannot establish or refute a correlation.
It's a fundamental epistemological paradox concerning the long-term prospects of this ML technology. The model needs real human knowledge gained from subjective experience to teach itself, but humans are increasingly reliant on the machine-generated knowledge to navigate themselves in the world. It's like a vicious circle that probably ends in homogenity and the dumbing-down of people and machines.
> shovels the last N lines to an LLM and asks it for advice.

Theoretically, you could set this up locally with llama.cpp (and any terminal that runs a command with a hotkey) right now. A 7B or 13B finetune will start up pretty quick.

Or in a company environment, you could keep it loaded on a server for faster responses.

Also, you could stuff previous outputs into a vector DB and get context from you (or colleague's) previous outputs.
I have needed Amazon's return policy twice, and both times, Amazon stiffed me. In fact, that was the last straw that got me to stop using them.

In my personal experience, Amazon has the worst return policy of anywhere I've shopped.
So it's impossible or pointless to convince/communicate ideas without two subject matter experts involved?

And we're supposed to trust politicians, policy makers, Youtube/Reddit moderators, etc to be able to decipher this stuff when enforcing their interpretations? Just "trust the science"?
I don't see how AML prevents people from producing ransomware.

It adds a little bit of friction to everyday users. It's not like the only way to derive benefit from money is to spend it in a regulated manner.
I'd highly recommended John McWhorter's lectures to anyone interested in languages. I've listened to three or four of his popular-linguistics courses. There's a bit of overlap in material but I found all of them to be very informative and highly entertaining. He's such an engaging lecturer.

Edit: I'm referring to his Great Courses series. I've just looked them up and the list prices are silly. I don't know if that's still an option, but I got the audio versions on Audible for very little money.
Yes, good point, I wanted to include the flatness property (which was the third condition mentioned in the article) but simplified a bit too much in the process.
you're assuming that everyone lives in the same shoes as you do - i curse in a professional context very regularly (fuck, shit, etc). i have given technical presentations (that are recorded and made public - youtube) at decently sized venues in the same tone.
I got hit with a "code of conduct violation" once for, in a social chat space with many people, saying that I thought "homeopathy is a load of bullshit", or something to that effect.

It was worded rather sharply and I apologized; probably shouldn't have put it like that. I'm not the "internet atheist" type of person who enjoys challenging other people's beliefs in an attempt to come off as "smarter" or "more rational", but ... it is a load of bullshit innit?

I'm not vehemently against code of conducts; I rarely even notice if there's a CoC and I feel the overall goals are fine. But it left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. No, we shouldn't go around trumping on other people's beliefs and be respectful of them, even when you personally think it's a load of bollocks, but at the same time making any challenge outright forbidden also doesn't quite sit well with me. It's also my belief that pseudoscientific quack medicine is harmful, so, you know...
Being on Joe Rogan's show has nothing to do with a scientific debate. The host and the platform prevent meaningful and deep communication. That requires writing a book or at least a paper.

An online "debate" on youtube is just a ton of shocking oversimplification, if not dishonest misleading stuff.
Like with many things, the devil is in the details. Many people seem to have had some bad experience with a moderator and are blaming it on a CoC. Whether a CoC exists or not, it's down to the moderators to be fair and professional. So don't blame the CoC, when you should instead be blaming individuals.
"According to an article on Vice..." She hasn't even listened to the podcast in question.
With some basic knowledge about how a db stores data, there is nothing really "unexpected" about this behavior. It's weird though how little devs actually know or care about it.
Besides being (mostly) from the same Indo-European family, all European languages have influenced each other over the centuries. I don't know enough about Albanian and Welsh, so I'll take Romanian - which is a Romance language, but also has plenty of Slavic, Greek, Hungarian etc. etc. loan words. That's why the author of the article says he's joking when he calls Albanian and Welsh "almost Romance" - loan words, even a lot of them, may make a language easier to learn, but don't move it to another family.
Last time I tried to index them I found a loop. I don't know what the right abstraction is, but it's not numbers. It's just this one.
The worst is when you are trying to escape the hustle and changing your attitude to take it at your own pace at work but there is that one team member that buys into the hustle culture, sending emails at night, ticking things off their check list like their life depended on it, promoting the race to the bottom.
> They don't care about corporate R/E at all.

Yeah, the meme about an evil conspiracy of corporate CEOs also owning commercial real estate is really, really dumb. Maybe you could theorize that when Andy Jassy and Tim Cook were the only people pushing for RTO, but now more and more companies are doing it, and I assure you that the CEO of (insert random 100-person tech company here) doesn't have deep investments in commercial real estate.

Occam's razor: the simple fact is management thinks that people are more productive when in the office. They may be wrong about that, of course. But if the question is "why is management pushing for RTO," it's simply because they believe their teams will produce more and better output while in the office.
> Abstinence only education, whether for sex or drug consumption doesn't work.

This line gets repeated a lot, with the implied assumption that since X doesn't work the solution must be to invert X.

That's incorrect.

You know how you dramatically reduce teen pregnancy? You increase their socio-economic status.

The fix to drug use is not to teach kids the best way to shoot heroin or how to drug test for fentanyl, anymore than the fix for teen pregnancy is practicing putting condoms on bananas.
Yeah I get what you're saying. What I'm saying is that it's not required for its core functionality. Without all that, it still works by getting the user to click on images. Sure, maybe it's not just about validating the correct squares were clicked on. Maybe it analyses timing, how much the mouse moves around and whatever else. Nothing there requires collection and storage of user data. All it needs is to process it there and then. It can throw it all away as soon as the user clicks the button.
ok but this is about the other 180+ nations I’m not getting anything afforded by

the financial system is based on whitelisting transactions based on what the other countries say is legal or not
What do you find wrong with the text rendering? I'm curious because I'm picky about that and have begrudgingly stuck with the macos terminal because despite its other flaws text looks good. I'm not using warp daily but I have it installed and I don't notice the other text problems terminals tend to have.
Yes, and I would go further and say that most anything said about COVID in the public sphere is going to be far more a political statement than a scientific one.

Even something like "vaccines work" is far more a political statement than a scientific statement.

The domain of each relevant science is narrow. And so many areas of science are relevant to any person wanting to understand enough to know how personally to change their behavior in the face of a pandemic.

An epidemiologist can say some very specific scientifically proved things. A virologist will say some others. A psychology researcher will say another. An education researcher, another - and so on. And then within these disciplines there will be various disagreements.

Go further and science isn't enough. There are moral and ethical questions involved, such as how to balance hurting children and the poor to protect the elderly, etc.

The idea that the public should "follow the science" is patently absurd as it has no meaning other than "follow my suggestions".
Half of us can discern corporate messaging and half of us cannot (let us say).

The cynic, the street smart corporate bilinguist hears those two messages and understands plainly that only the latter is true.

The person who takes things at face value is perplexed: They have been told not to hurt themselves, but also told that if they hurt themselves the company will be pleased. How bizarre, to be told opposing requirements, and that half of people are not also perplexed.
Less code as everyone else mentioned, single file components (CSS is inside your .svelte files too, and isolated automatically), and a general feeling of on railsness that React for me lacked.

State in Svelte goes in stores. State in react seems to go in one of eighteen different mechanisms, which all begin with a 45 minute video of the author’s opinions about the true nature of reactive programming, when all I want to do is store a string.
What you could do is, use both. One sign up from each IP per day before you get a CAPTCHA. Then you're not subjecting 99% of your users to training Google's AI for free but the people at a cafe in Bangladesh can still sign up.
The main problem is probably that you will not find a “regular Engineer” knowing this unless they’ve had to deal with scaling issues on a DB (e.g. high IOPS etc).

The knowledge is definitely out there, but almost all articles will be reaching for UUIDs, so this is understandably what most people end up with :/
quick takes as a react person who crossed over

- https://www.swyx.io/svelte-why

- https://www.swyx.io/svelte-sites-react-apps