skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different conventions exist. Personally, I put the unit after the quantity without exception.
Celtic Fields - Finding prehistoric agricultural sites in public Lidar data
Review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild in 2022
Someone mentionned in the Mastodon thread that they have an Android phone with nothing-from-google on it. I speculate his installation is even more responsive than whatever default the product came with and I'd like to do that.

I have a terrible Vankyo Z1 table that is very slow. Where do I start?
Carmack talked about how they released those first games on the Lex Friedman podcast. Having a previous framework and pipeline seemed to help get them out really quick.

https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4
Leveraging Inputs Binding with NgComponentOutlet in Angular
Please man, use your brain at least a little bit.

$235k and 2 engineers is completely different to $4M and 15 employees. Not to mention that it was 5-7yrs before Figma had any revenue.

"While Figma was founded in 2011, the first five years were spent trying to get to product. The company printed its first dollar in revenue in 2017 and will hit $400 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2022"

https://futurumgroup.com/insights/adobes-stock-got-slammed-f...

Figma is an outlier. "it's clearly doable to take on Adobe with far less money", he says about one of the fastest growing decacorn startups in history.
Search Central Live Tokyo and Jakarta: It's a Wrap
Jeremy, if we want to roll up our sleeves on this, I'm pretty sure we can trace this even further.

I'm pretty sure the earliest deep learning work from Bengio and Hinton (maybe even the unpublished circulating TRs from 2007) were basically:

* Let's pretrain autoencoders, layer by layer, to a large depth.

* Let's learn task specific fine-tuning through full backprop.

* (Oh btw this is better than learning a task-specific head on the whole network (And this is briefly noted since it's obvious to us since we work with this stuff so much).)

It was just that the entire deep learning approach was so radical overall that whole the fine-tuning vs. frozen features thing was buried in a ton a other new insights. And I mean radical. NeurIPS (then NIPS) wouldn't give Hinton, Bengion, and LeCun a workshop, so they organized a fucking satellite conference co-located at the same hotel as NIPS during the same time, on the topic of deep learning. And managed to dazzle everyone and steal the whole show.

With that said, I agree with your assessment that these 2018 works very squarely and in a laser-focused way put the idea of fine-tuning. There is totally huge value and impact for correctly packaging and rigorously assessing a specific approach known to be good but that was sort of an after-thought in published work. by expert practitioners.

With that said, I'll self-cite here and acknowledge (take the blame for ?) turning the NLP community on to using large-pretrained models and NOT fine-tuning them at all in 2010. Since the existing practice of designing features using expert knowledge hadn't gotten the community very far, I noticed Collobert + Weston doing large-scale pretraining of features in their amazing early NLP work that everyone slept on, and was like: "Hmmm, maybe NLP people would actually try deep nets if they could just use the features on their existing models and NOT worry about learning how to fine tune a net."

Anyway, greetings from Berlin.
Off topic but tangential with a stretch but not really: Donald Knuth is fanatic about pipe organs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBO613Q8hAw&t=36s
If you scroll far enough he says he can't purchase Red Phosphorus without a DEA license or waiting weeks for a permit
Wholeheartedly agree. It’s not a question of how many people can live, but a question of what kind of existence is possible for those that do.
Because you're fucking with the OS in whys it's not designed to be fucked with anymore.
It's easier to pay lip service to caring about something when it's politically convenient than to actually be a good person.
If you don't mind my asking, what do you sell with your side venture that let you reach those numbers fairly soon?
Don’t things like BigQuery always allow duplicates?
You can diff indices but it doesn't make economic sense to do so.

The whole point of using Bing as the base is so that you don't have to make and keep an index of everything yourself, so DDG wouldn't have another exhaustive index to compare to (and if they would, they wouldn't need Bing). They index some things to add onto Bing, but they don't try to capture everything.

Furthermore, any specific site missing from the index does not necessarily mean a flaw - okay, you would diff some indices, and find out a long list of what Bing has excluded... and then what? For every 'fixable censorship' case (accidental or intentional) there will be thousands of spam or malicious sites which should be excluded, as nowadays the key part of search is not finding everything but throwing out the results which want to be found but shouldn't. Again, DDG wants to piggyback on the effort that Bing is doing to filter the index, and if they want to second-guess all Bing's filtering (as opposed to just making a fix for this specific case) then they have to replicate and improve on all of the (huge and expensive!) Bing's filtering effort; which goes counter to the reason for using Bing which is to avoid all this expense.
Microservices was at its core a good idea. I think Fowler was just overawed with how well it worked for him in his organizational context and was unaware of how critical that context was to making it work.

Most of my nightmares with microservices comes from where there has been > 1 per team. That came from people who read his "microservices are great!" blog post and just thought that they should build as many as possible. I used to hate him because of that - because it was a logical response to his blog post and people would use it to justify their technical decisions - with argument-from-authority.

In another company I worked at each team maintained ONE microservice and it worked really well.

Because it was a corporate environment with all the usual power politics, control freakery and lack of effective inter-team communication, even though it was more work overall and definitely a technically inferior solution, it did a neat end run around those systemic corporate issues by giving teams relative freedom of development, freedom of deployment and a deliberately simple, loosely coupled, standardized JSON interface to microservices run by other teams whom they didn't talk to much.

So, I get it, but I lost a lot of respect for him over his inability to parameterize his suggestions and the fact that he didn't seem to initially really understand why microservices worked so well for him.
I have seen platform teams work extremely well. I have also seen them fail spectacularly. The main reasons? The organization's ability to identify, or hire, the kind of developers that do great on platform teams. At the very least, the senior members need to have a mix of empathy and technical excellence that is often hard to find, and when you only have one of the two (or at worst, neither!), the platform fails to gain any traction, or is mandated, and ends up being a noose to productivity instead of a boon.

Sometimes the platform team is staffed by people that have been there forever, as a sort of semi-promotion. But when they know everything, it's easy to have little interest in the difficulties of learning internal concepts: After all, the learning has already been done. This makes the tools be technically capable, and intractable. Other times, the team is easy to get along with, but what they deliver isn't very good at all, and the lack of quality is papered with social skills.

You need people capable of understanding the problem other teams have, and their architectural constraints, and deliver something that will save them time, and they'll prefer to use over some open sourced hodgepodge. They need to think of upgrade paths, or live in a low-repo environment where the platform team can upgrade things for everyone. The customer service attitude should be immaculate, as to make people be happy to ask for help, yet be so good at documentation, or at simple enough architecture, as to make that customer service load be light. Many places can't hire people that meet those kinds of profiles at all, as someone like that will basically excel in most roles in most companies. So yes, you end up with the technically capable, yet gruff guys that nobody wants to talk to: The equivalent of Seinfeld's Soup Nazi... and that's if at least they are very good.

Most team topologies will work if your company is full of empathetic heroes though, so platform teams might not even be needed if you really are that good at hiring.
Growing list of partners accelerate sustainability use cases
While I'm not a Buddhist, I'm fairly certain that the Buddha is the last guy to want to be the center of anyone's attention. Weird.

Buddhist contemplative traditions predate Christianity, and arose in distinct geographic locations, so nobody's de-Buddhizing anything here. Authentic understanding of the practices doesn't need to be a sectarian monopoly.

The uniquely indifferent, secular practice of "cafeteria Mindfulness" is the only novelty. It's exactly the M.O. of science: dissect a living thing and run tests until you think you know what substance makes it tick, then you isolate it, independently synthesize that substance, patent it, mass produce it, and then you wonder why you've got such shitty results in practice, and then you cover that up along with the adverse side effects, and charge the insurance companies triple profits.
the wording is important. 70% of all respondents, already or planning. quite different from 70% of developers “adopting.”

from the so source:
> 70% of all respondents are using or are planning to use AI tools in their development process this year.

and splitting that by using and planning, it comes down to closer to 45% of respondents already using it. roughly 25% are planning to.

tl;dr the article uses a clickbait headline and does not improve upon the source.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#sentiment-and-usage-ai...
Yes you are not social enough to understand this, I regularly get mails or messages from past colleagues who I've never talked to in years suddenly ask me that they are looking for a job and if I know an open position. I absolutely understand their quandary and go out of my way to help them out, cuz we're humans.
The secret messages behind the lab-leak cover-up
Needing to pay the mortgage is a HUGE motivation, but it doesn’t necessarily correlate with job performance.

What I would say I look for in software developers is people who are genuinely interested in software development. You don’t need to be a committer on 4 open source projects, but show me that you actually like the work (the fun parts at least.) If you’re also interested in the business domain that’s not necessarily required, but a huge plus.
Ruby 3.2 has `Data.define`, which is an even better way of doing this: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.2/Data.html
Don’t you think if there was an intentional conspiracy to do this they would make it a little less obvious by not activating battery self destruct the day after the warranty ended? I’d have made it wait at least a month afterwards…
Yeah, I always found this to be an utterly strange convention. Do you say, "that'll be dollars one hundred", when you tell someone a price? Would you write, "I'm lbs200"?

I suppose it does give away the cultural difference, but this is one where the Indians (and a lot of others) get it right.
> Flagged for that reason.

The submission, of course. :)
What I'm wondering is, I had data on Tarsnap, why am I only hearing about this now?
> no entry ring first

That's not for the prevention of zoonotic diseases; it's to prevent the public from knowing the conditions in which the animals are living and how they're being handled.

> Vaccinating workers and avoiding Influenza A risk seems like cheap wins

Sure, there will be some countries doing that. Some won't.
Good point, have not used it before but looks like you have to add a unique ID if you want one
Use SVG Sprites in React
Flipper Zero firmware source code
the theme is "Cheesecake Factory". very weird postmodern mix of different ornamental elements from world civilizations throughout history.
Meh. You can get a good developer for 50-150k without lobster. You can't force them to all live in san francisco but I could hire two devs and have some marketing money left over with 235k with a year and a half ramp.
One should definitely have outgrown a junior title after say 3 years of relevant experience, as that is more than sufficient time to be trained into a normal (non-senior) status.

It could last longer if your company does not have a normal title (i.e., they consider junior == !senior), but someone with 10 years of relevant experience should have earned a seniority title of some sort.
Carbon tax in the west doesn't matter when china and India keep pumping out CO2.

I agree that carbon tax would be good, but unless it's a worldwide implementation it just won't have the desired effect - all it will achieve is disadvantage those who implement it relative to those who don't.
The high five thing is a little weird, like how they’re finding joy in it… but yeah, it’s not a fixable issue so it would just be a waste…
> And I think you would find, if you are lucky, that a competent European junior-ish developer would not get out of bed for less than 60k Euros (65k USD), a more senior developer would demand more.

That's a very much extreme statement I think you confabulated. Take this developer median data from back in 2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1222324/developers-media... and reanalyze your statement.

And also compared to https://www.reinisfischer.com/average-monthly-salary-europea... where 60k euros a year tends to be above the average monthly salary in many EU countries. And if a junior doesn't get out of bed for less than that, well I have some bad news for them and their expectations.
Lots of recruiters are scum, but some are great, and it's not always easy to tell the difference. I get all my work through recruiters who find me on LinkedIn, and they've found me some great projects. I may hate LinkedIn, but it really works for me. (Mind you, I'm a freelance contractor, not an employee.)
> Truth is there's no good alternative other than pfSense but if you want Linux (hw support etc) I don't know if you can do better than vyos for routers.

OpenWRT comes to mind, I've been using it for decades on first dedicated hardware, the last 6 years running in a container on a ProxMox box (DL380 G7). It has no problems whatsoever routing at (gigabit) line speed using a few megabytes of RAM and a few cores. Configuration is mostly declarative using UCI although it also offers the freedom (which comes with responsibility) to use scripts. I use the latter to deal with edge cases which lie outside of the purview of normal routing operations, e.g. triggered actions related to the use of Timelimit [1] on my daughter's phone, IoShit things with special needs, etc.

[1] https://codeberg.org/timelimit/timelimit-server
Show HN: Digital and Analog Notetaking Together
Hey HN folks.

I know how much you like taking notes. :)

I do too. And I thought I'd share my journey with you in figuring out what to do with my two hands, pen, paper and laptop. I included some pictures too. :)

Cheers!
I had one gap I thought could be a problem(a couple years). I definitely lost ~50%-75% of the offers because of it, but I found what I was looking for in the end. However in my case during the gap I was working on my own projects that are at least tangentially related to my work.

If you haven't and your gap is for other reasons I'd write a "skills based cv" and definitely spend at least 2 weeks reminding yourself everything you need to know before you go for technical interview. There is no worse feeling than getting a technical question you knew an answer for, but you can't quite remember what is was.

I also found it's easier to apply directly rather than through recruiters if you have a big gap in your work.
In my experience, the market is a lot worse than a year ago.
Yes, I am completely with you. I always hated these arbitrary algorithm tasks that have nothing to do with the actual job. With the experience of hosting multiple job interviews I prefer to do a task that is close to the job, but keep it open enough for the applicant to do it their way. And making sure to the applicant that asking questions is desired. If they go in a wrong direction without asking questions, it's a good sign. If they ask good questions it's a strong plus point. Also I can see if they can apply learned knowledge quickly.

Why should I do algorithm or math related tasks as a frontend developer for example. Soft skills are way more important than preparing for potential interview questions.
I miss the old Pizza Hut. In some markets overseas, Pizza Hut was positioned as an upscale pizza experience and that isn't too far from what it used to be in the 90s. It was great, but nowadays it's just another random pizza delivery place.
Different ways to take advantage of AI to build your products
8 different ways to take advantage of AI to build your products.

1. Backend: use GPT-3.5/4 as the application backend core. Large language model AI works with an astrology algorithm like a charming, you should try it yourself after we launch!

2. Product name: You can create good quality product names with the help of ChatGPT. e.g. StarGPT, GPTStar, etc.

3. App logo: Use Midjourny to generate a product logo. Isn’t it cool?

4. Product images: Use Midjourney to create tons of images for your app, your app can have extensive cool images about stars, and signs, which you can’t do without AIGC tools!

5. Website and images: Use Midjourney to generate all the images your website needs, and use AIKit backed PagesKit tool to build the whole website! There are several AI website tools there, none of them are perfect so far, but it saved more than 50% time.

6. Some front-end code: Use new Bing with GPT-4 which will help you to generate some code for the web front end. Your engineers will be thrilled with the outcome even though now it can only help less than 10% of the work.

7. All the copywriting: Use ChatGPT, Jasper, and a number of other AI writing tools to help you write.

8. AppStore and Google Play email conversations: To get the app review passed on Google Play and especially iOS AppStore is no joke! You can hit several issues and need to go back and forth communicating with them, so use ChatGPT to help you draft several emails and the result will be good!
Figure out what you want to do. Find someone who has done that, often 3-5 years ahead of you. Ask them to mentor you. Probably not "do you want to mentor me" but rather "how did you do x?"

You should be pretty clear on what you want to do. The mentor tells you how they did it.

They could be wrong. Find someone who is right. I once asked someone more junior to mentor me. He was like "bro you got it the wrong way around" He gave good advice nonetheless and we're still good friends. It's not a perfect process, but like dating, it's a two way market and the disadvantaged side has to move first.

The mentor usually need someone a little more junior doing the same thing or they're connected to someone who asks them if they "know someone".
In other words, you agree with my original point.

> And why fake it in the first place? I don't see the benefit.
In Davenport, Iowa, the fine for a building collapse is $300.

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/owner-of-davenport-apartment...
> And I think you would find, if you are lucky, that a competent European junior-ish developer would not get out of bed for less than 60k Euros (65k USD), a more senior developer would demand more.

Let me tell you that you are far off the reality. I live in Paris and junior developers don't get near as much as €60k/year. The 35-40k range is more realistic for juniors, and senior ones can get what, 90k? That's alread considered really good for an engineer here.

Of course you can make six figures, but that implies working for a silicon valley company that hires remotely in europe. And those that have offices in europe adjust their compensation accordingly.

Just for demonstration I looked at Datadog on levels.fyi for the three they accept to show me:

- Paris, $77k-$94k (so €70k-€85k)

- New York $180k (for level 1 SE, senior is through the roof)
>but it doesn't seem normal to spend six months applying and only get _one_ interview.

At this point in time, it's completely normal for people breaking into the industry.
By my calculations, under some reasonable assumptions, the 'demon core' at the time was still a ~16.9 GBq alpha and gamma emitter when not undergoing a chain reaction (maybe more since its earlier criticality accident may have meant it had a higher proportion of shorter half-life elements).

Calculation: Assuming 7% Pu240, 93% Pu239, (-(log 0.5 / (6560 * 365.25 * 24 * 3600)) * 6.02214076E23 / 240 * 0.07 -(log 0.5 / (24100 * 365.25 * 24 * 3600)) * 6.02214076E23 / 239 * 0.93) * 6.2 / 1E9 = 16.89 GBq.

Admittedly, in the scheme of things, that's not that high, but criticality aside, handling it unshielded on a regular basis is not something that would be considered acceptable these days, especially not for a 'demonstration'. In 2023, when a 19 GBq sealed source (i.e. only slightly more activity) was lost in Western Australia when it fell from a truck, it sparked a massive search of a vast region, and the public were warned to keep a distance of 5 m. Obviously, they were worried someone would put it in a pocket or something for an extended period of time, and brief exposures wouldn't be that significant - but industrial radiographers working with similar sources, for example, would not get close to the source while it is unshielded and open.
DeepMind RT-2, a transformer based robotic control model
> I feel we have a good and thorough understanding of where the legal line is and an ability to get as close to that as possible without overstepping it

Honestly, that statement doesn't sit well with me.

Most sensible business people like to have a generous buffer between themselves and the legal line.

If you make it your business model that you constantly try to test the boundaries legal line, then one day it is going to come back and bite you in the backside. The history books are littered with examples.

It also means in practical terms that most of your $235k is going to disappear on lawyers fees.
Not a single mention of memory safety either.
>I love eating meat. Pork

As omnivores it's difficult to understate how tasty animal meats and fats are compared to their vegetarian alternatives.
Wow the naming is rough for dyslexic people.
I honestly think, cars in general will need either new Tyre technology, learn to hover or we need to get them off the road in favor of something which doesn't spew microplastics all over the place. It's good we have battery powered cars, but we haven't solved tire and break dust.
Smart gun: a look at these new guns that carry biometric identifiers
goddammit it's free stuff who turns down free stuff.

Your opinion is wide spread, but it erks me. "There's no such thing as a free lunch" is an adage millennia old, and true.

The rule is, nothing is free. Nothing. There are exceptions the rule, but that is exceedingly rare, and if you think you're onto one, it's probably a scam.

"strings attached" is another adage, and often you get "free", by having the strings attached to you.
AMD plans to invest $400M in India by 2028
At least Europeans put the currency sign after the number.

If a dev cannot be United States centric and condescending, I'm not sure of their worth as an engineer.
Show HN: Speak to AI Characters YC W21
> Why does anyone work there?

Ask them. They are choosing to work there. They have options.

Also why is McDonalds an example of an exploitative company?