skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I applied recently to a new job, the interviewer(s) didn't even look at my github profile (or if they did, they might have clicked on one repo for 5s, and left). I know this based on the questions they asked me.

Unless you highly curate your online presence for the hiring people (e.g. your blog only contains articles of interest to the interviewers in one place), I think nobody cares. The exception being is if your code/articles are in the top 5% of read articles, then I'd guess that speaks for itself without gaming the presentation.
I think it's worth noting it was the process that sanitised the water, not the alcohol - even raw eggnog with much higher concentrations is considered acceptable for most people but risky for the at-risk, due to eggs being largely but not completely clean.
Ionic with Vue works very well.

I was afraid because of the Angular roots but the docs (and typescript support) are top notch for Angular/React/Vue.

I could basically transfer all my Vue knowledge (and code).
For many it's the opposite. They pick up drugs along with the stress. Not to judge but several famous programmers come to mind. :)
> C# libraries that use the protected attribute can be used transparently in F#.

Only if you don't need to write data types that need to be consumed by said libraries, as to express those types you need C# features.

Another two key examples are the recent trends from .NET team to depend on Roslyn and code generators, both not supported by F#, so the language can't be fully used in such workloads without a little bit of C# glue.

Really, F# might be from Microsoft, but the .NET team handles it as if it was a 3rd party guest language.
Almost sounds like kvas.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass
I would appreciate an invite-- I've been looking for a smaller programming-oriented community. My email is in my profile.
I wouldn't know which channels to hang on on IRC these days. For the past 10 years even populated channels are a ghost town of join and leave notices, and not any discussion.
> you'd still be left having to run a bloated kernel to support a bunch of cruft that you weren't using

Would you? Linux is, in fact, quite modular, and perfectly happy to not load things until asked to (often as a result of hardware being discovered or plugged in).
Interesting how an entire discussion can be hostage of an association to a single analogy. Instead of astrology, alchemy is a better analogy for what is commonly called technical analysis.
Thanks for this comment. It absolutely made my day, and it couldn't be more on the point!!!
They don't have to afford anything.

The garbage collection service cut a deal with the landlord to pay them $X/mo./unit, and helpfully suggested adding it to the lease so they have a 100% subscription rate.

The landlord is the customer, not you.
This hurricane season is going to be awful...
Opengraph Image as a Service
FWIW the beer people used to drink in antiquity had a rather low ABV.

A better contemporary comparison might be be something like kombucha.
Because it is less effort to copy already existing stacks, than be creative in trailing not yet discovered paths.
Even for companies like Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, Mongo, ..., my experience is that a good blog or a good Github doesn't account to anything more than a few pleasant sentences at the beginning of the interview.

Of course, it might happen that they'd hire contributors, as you say. I'd say this is incredibly rare (but does happen). Usually, from my experience, this happens when the company wants to essentially "acquire" the code (and sometimes, the contributor is hired as a contractor for a couple months).
Obviously the author relies on the automatic linking, so they don't have to bother doing the manual work.
Seems to be a better guide here (without the risk curl):

https://www.stacklok.com/post/exploring-llama-2-on-a-apple-m...
> Indeed a 0.5% ABV drink can be branded alcohol free (at least in the UK).

Er, no! Perhaps in Ireland? In the UK the term "alcohol-free" can only be used if the drink has no more than 0.05% alcohol. However apparently it's allowed to use the term "alkoholfrei": take a look at the bottles of "Erdinger alkoholfrei" in UK supermarkets with tiny smallprint explaining that it's not alcohol-free (it's 0.5% and tastes quite good).

The rules may have changed fairly recently. They always used to sell "shandy" with 0.5% alcohol as a soft drink to children but I'm not sure if they still do that.

There's another rule that says you can't sell a drink that has the same brand name as an alcoholic drink to children, so children can't buy alcohol-free Heineken (which has 0.05% alcohol), for example.

(I think I read somewhere that they had to create a special exception for soy sauce in Australia because soy sauce can have up to 2% alcohol but obviously nobody's going to quaff it and if they did the 2% alcohol would probably not be their biggest problem.)
At my last job last year there was many React Native libs (I remember Firebase) our front-end dev couldn't use "because of Expo".

Maybe that's better now?
>protobuf has a serialized file limit of 2gb

I'm not sure if this is a file size limit too or just an object memory representation size limit. For me using a library designed for message passing to save/read your AI models is a bad design decision.

>is your complaint that the whole context/weights needs to be sent through the whole file?

I store large onnx models with "external" weights, but even so many operations fail with the dreaded "ModelProto exceeds maximum protobuf size of 2GB: 3385275542". So the complaint is that you simply can't do a lot of stuff with models over 2gb.

You can create a session to execute the model, you can run the vanilla optimisation over it. But trying to run transformer specific optimisation errors out as well as making any attempts at slicing the model. Additionaly some conversion processes.

It appears the code that does that looks up the model size and just errors out if over 2GB.it doesn't even try loading it
> Salt -> salary is well documented

Is it? At least for Roman soldiers there is no evidence at all that was the case. It just seems to be a myth originating in 18-19th centuries (like a lot of things in popular history).
This is the problem with voting based social media. A demographic can be entirely supplanted by another really quickly. All you need is for the new demographic to upvote themselves, and the pre-existing demographic to not downvote the other demographic. Pre-existing users will start leaving when they see the content they originally came there for being outcompeted by the content the new demographic has introduced, causing a domino effect.

I've seen this happen with multiple subreddits. HN is also at risk for this, but it's a niche corner of the internet, so it would surprise me if there are ever enough non-assimilated individuals coming in at once to truly endanger the community.
GitHub can be faked by taking work of others. When screening there’s no time to investigate each artifact. It’s nice if someone has a github repo, but it’s by no means the deciding factor.
Distillation, but if you are talking about wine/beer:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/yeast-fermentation...

"Most yeast strains can tolerate an alcohol concentration of 10–15% before being killed. This is why the percentage of alcohol in wines and beers is typically in this concentration range."

I assume temperature and other factors play a role in how successful you are at keeping them alive that long though.
Parts made by U.S. companies used to build Russian cruise missiles [video]
Would you send me an invite as well? Email in profile. Thanks in advance :)
Yesterday I, a Brit, hiked 25km with the finish line at the pub. Hiking and drinking is not incompatible at all.
> Route 53 is arguably one of the more obviously named AWS offerings.

Er, then please humor my ignorance: What is it named for? Because the name means nothing to me, and even some light searching just turns up an actual highway and I still don't see what it would have to do with DNS.

Edit: Okay, I do feel a bit foolish for forgetting that DNS is traditionally port 53, so now half of the name makes sense to me. The other half still seems like a more or less random choice to me.
I mean sure, it would not be hard to fake this if it's a total fraud. It will also be discovered almost instantly so I don't find that case interesting. The more interesting question to me is, (1) are there glaring red flags indicating it's a fraud (no), and (2) if it's not a fraud, what are the odds that it's superconductivity? For me, seeing how weak the criticism is, I'm moderately higher on it actually being superconductivity than I was before, since alternative explanations also seem to require materials with novel properties.
How do people game this out, not just for Japan but for South Korea as well? With terminal or near terminal demographic collapse, I'm not sure what kind of nation will be left. I always assumed that international rules and the inertia of current policies would get them into an Alaska like state, where the people and the government have continuity from the current situation, but with not very many people. I think that might be too optimistic though.
No worries. I was going for the first one. Such an outlandish series of sentences describing some kind of hacker conference wonderland. I wanted more explanation and to express my wonderment.
onnx is nice in principle, but pretty limited. core ops like non-max-suppression can't get properly converted. also model deployment is not great, memory consumption and control thereof worse than with tensorflow.
The filesystem is a crappy database. Its purely hierarchical nature requires dirty compromises for things like music libraries, where you want songs to be indexed both by song name and by album. Filesystems are also lacking atomic update mechanisms (transactions). There’s no way to enforce data integrity - files are weakly typed. You need fsync on linux to know that your data has been written at all - but fsync is horribly slow. And even fsync doesn't save you from data corruption due to skewed writes.

You can use a userland database on top of linux. But that has different properties from the OS’s actual filesystem for ecosystem reasons. A Postgres instance will never be a first class citizen on Unix. I can’t “cd” into a sql table in my terminal, or use sql queries to query procfs or /etc. What would it mean to pipe into a table? Does that abstraction even make sense? An operating system built on top of a database would be different from unix because the ecosystem of userland applications would evolve in a different direction. See, for example, HaikuOS.

I’m not saying it’s a good or a bad idea. But simply firing up mongodb on a Linux server isn’t the same thing as building the whole OS with a real database at its core.
Same here - I was recently offered an "interview support" job by one of these body shops in a far away Asian country, which I immediately rejected. The role would've been to help candidates pass interviews using tricks (cheats, really) like the ones that've been brought up in other discussions before.
Do you have iCloud family? Maybe a friend of your wife.
It's the opposite. Many/increasingly old and fewer young. With a strong anti-immigration and persistent anti-foreigner/xenophobic mindset.
Just have a look at Mmm [1] or Kinopio [2] to brighten up your mood.

Gopher and FTP servers were fairly soulless as well, so I guess this is just a bit of a nostalgic perspective issue.

Just ignore the large websites, as you would ignore tabloids or commercial television. It is actually quite easy to learn that if something is massively popular, it will probably be so because of competitive marketing tricks, and not because there is something inherently interesting there.

[1] https://build.mmm.page/

[2] https://kinopio.club/
Yeah current experience is closer to roller coaster than screen.
In Wikipedia, being an encyclopedic work, heavy linking is a good thing, and one I rely heavily on. In regular articles and blog posts, I definitely don't want that many.
cryptocurrency has fixed nothing.
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I've mostly always believed this to be true and had some early confirmation in my past, greatest spike being around 2007.

But for the past 5 years I've been consistently publishing original work and getting absolutely zero feedback and little engagement. My former personal network doesn't respond to my emails anymore, etc.. Might have to do with some defamation that happened in 2016 by an employer, but that shouldn't be surfacing until the reference check after I get an offer--unless I'm on black lists that are decently circulated. Another possibility is my reach is just limited when I post content with depth, as opposed to things that will get more engagement. People used to read my blog directly, which has been shut down for years.

I'm open to the possibility that my presentation is just terrible, that my SEO needs work, stuff like that. Keeping all my web properties up and producing content up to modern standards has been pretty out of reach given my life circumstances... not complaining, just saying.

My temp bosses are always happy with how good I wash dishes, anyway. I'll never stop publishing my tech work online, but I know it takes more than just publishing what I'm doing to stand out as a job candidate. I'd love to get an objective view about what else I'm lacking or penalized on almost as much as I'd like some good old fashioned Agape love, to help me want to check my email and notifications that I'm programmed to dread checking by now (usually due to non-responses to everything I send, if not trolls).

Sorry that this may come off as negative. I've really had some success standing out and just publishing for most of my career, it's been really hard to figure out how to get out of the crater that it has become. I don't even talk like this that much, to anyone who wants to say my negativity pushes everyone away... I get that, too. Hard conversations are different than negativity; negativity is more like being a parasite, whereas I'm genuinely trying to find the issues which actually exist and fix them.

Things I know I can fix:

* Maintain properties and populate search engine/open graph fields for SEO
* Produce thumbnails and editorialize headers
* Increase my engagement in ways that are selected for
And then they try to program on macOS....
To be fair it went both ways.

Also they were mad at the British for not allowing them to steal Native American land in a disorganized way. You had to go the Crown which would negotiate with the tribe on your behalf etc. Washington (especially) of course had other ideas..
Happy and aggresive...
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> Usually, the problem is that companies find out that I'm not good as a cog in a machine

IMO this is the real problem - and it comes through in your blog posts. It's very risky to hire someone who can't be a cog, you need a lot of social proof that they're worth the risk.
I guess flexibility of an open platform versus a more limited API.

That said there’s a billion dollar cosmetics business that’s on Shopify.
Sorry for not looking at your credentials, do you have enough experience to potential land staff+ roles? Would still be a cog but maybe a bit more breathing room depending on the type of role you apply for.

https://staffeng.com/book has a list of different types of staff+ roles that could maybe fit.
For sailors, in one estimate, and sailors are a special case as the article mentions, because strong beer is the only thing that doesn't go off at sea.

Everyone else is the much lower estimate discussed up thread.

> Manageable over the course of a day, but you’re definitely drinking.

Maybe I'm a lightweight, I would be absolutely trollied if I had to drink eight 13% pints over the course of a day. I have never been anywhere where they'd even sell you an entire pint of 13%, you are in 2/3rd or maybe even 1/3rd territory.
> You can't buy another car that can do even 10% of what FSD beta does

That's an odd statement, as "the first self-driving system to be approved for European public roads" and "the first automaker to receive government approval in the US for a Level 3 driving feature" is from Mercedes-Benz.

Tested and approved >> beta hype.

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/mercedes-opens-sales-...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/27/23572942/mercedes-drive-p...
I got a bit this feeling when I tried to run the app locally offline during a flight and couldn't, because the client could not call home.

Turns out the client needs an --offline flag to so so, and I got a bit creeped out to have such a dependency.
It works nicely in your theory, in practice no one does this because you always have a chain in which some dep is not trusted.

Always.

It's a poor ecosystem, dominated by untrustworthy participants. There's no digital identity verification of participants or their packages. anyone can claim to be whoever they want to.

Pointing this out is not pearl clutching, and if it was easy to solve it would have been done so by now.

The only way to trust a package is to verify the authors identity and verify that that identity generated that package.

But tying packages to domain names means that all these low effort two line package authors have to put in non-minimal effort (acquire a domain, maintain the cert) which is not going to happen.
While I understand you, I don't share your pessimism. The golden age you alluded to was elitist. Very few people around the world benefitted from technology, it was a game for privileged and/or rich kids. Now we have literally billions of people talking to each other, banking, working remotely through technology. Sure, it was commoditized, like everything else. But this commoditization helped far more people than any legendary hacker of the 1980s could ever dream of.
"It's called fullstack webdev jobs" /s
> very low ABV between 0.5 and 2.0%

How did they brew such small beers? Nowadays the non-alcoholic beers (basically 0.5%) are mostly made by removing alcohol after brewing, which greatly affects the taste. I think it's a highly desirable skill to be able to brew good small beers. (Or maybe those beers were just not very good by today's standards.)
New warning on Arctic sea ice melt
Aside: Arachnophilia was the first editor I used for web page development in the late 90s as it was installed on every PC in my university's computer rooms. It's amazing to rediscover it now!
Show HN: LlamaIndex.TS
This was mostly a nights and weekends project for the last 6 weeks. Porting LlamaIndex to TS was a lot of fun, and my first real NPM library, so hope people find it useful.
i dont need debug tools in the browser - if the bytes of encoded content are getting transmitted to the socket on my machine, there is no realistic way to prevent me from taking and replicating them, i don't see how some software inside the browser can have any effect on this, because the browser has zero idea where these bytes can go after they hit the socket. A good analogy would be filming your screen manually - computer has no idea of this filming and in no way can prevent it, because it cannot act on a real world around it, the same applies for browser, i can take a document, video or sound from any page without involing the browser
Fascinating. I tried zerogpt.com for testing a text I generated. Got 91% AI generated response. Used gptminus1.com and now zerogpt.com shows 0% AI. These detectors are garbage.
The Global Fusion Industry in 2023 [pdf]
Not the same company, Quantum Energy Co vs Quantum Energy Research Center. Your article is from 2015 and features someone who is not involved in any of the papers or with the company.
I don't know I can't even begin to call negociating on long term health fair just wtf. But let's call it pedantry ...
Really? There are times I find it hard to tell :(
Can you explain your reasoning? I don't get it at all.
I'd say it's arrogance with genuine belief that they have this breakthrough idea about web browser UI/UX - hard to say technology because as others spotted, this thing is based on Chromium. And this belief perhaps justify enough naming themselves in some "we're the ones, the truly original" somewhat hipster fashion.

I don't see anywhere mentioned this browser having access to Chrome extensions so for me, even if I'd be slightly interested in testing this (and it would be still possible on my Intel Macbook) it's a hard miss. Not being able to block ads and tracking elements in 20s is out of the question and no fancy annotation or vertical tabs feature with grouping compensates this. Guess this thing aims at those who don't mind their privacy being violated - perhaps all sorts of influencers.

The only thing they got are Boosts which seem to be kind of user scripts feature
There's a really interesting article with a lot more relevant information here. [1] They (Andersen and Rambaut) describe exactly where they "landed", and how [1]:

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Andersen: “Natural selection and accidental release are both plausible scenarios explaining the data – and a priori should be equally weighed as possible explanations. The presence of a furin [cleavage site] a posteriori” — the furin cleavage site was the characteristic of the virus that the scientists thought was indicative of engineering or other lab origin — “moves me slightly more towards accidental release, but it’s well above my paygrade to call the shots on a final conclusion.”

Rambaut: "Given the shit show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possible distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content to with ascribing it to natural processes."

Andersen: "Yup, I totally agree that’s a very reasonable conclusion. Although I hate when politics is injected into science – but it’s impossible not to, especially given the circumstance. We should be sensitive to that."

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Outside of this, another major issue (which they lied to congress about - these are some really stand up guys...) is that they had a grant for millions of dollars awaiting final approval from Fauci. Fauci is a major advocate for gain of function research, and Andersen was also worried that him digging further into lab leak could leave him being pinned as hostile to gain of function research.

Defacto censoring science is how we destroy science.

[1] - https://theintercept.com/2023/07/21/covid-origin-nih-lab-lea...
But to get a job, at least for most positions, is exactly to be a cog in a machine.
I wonder if this entire "AI cheating" stuff will end up as calculators did when I was growing up. When I was a young child in school calculators were forbidden. You had to learn multiplications in your head. By the time I got to the final exam at the end of our "high school" equivalent we could use "dumb" calculators in math exams. Few years later graphing calculators became accepted in schools (sometimes even required).

It is important humans learn to express themselves in writing. The only way I think this will happen is if kids do their writing at school supervised.
Incorrect. Whiskey requires distillation. High proof beers are made using the same basic process as any other beer, but start with a higher concentration of fermentable sugars and an appropriate, higher alcohol-tolerant yeast. Cryoconcentration can also be use to increase ABV (e.g. Eisbocks)