skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Shibuya in Tokyo, there's a famous "scramble intersection" スクランブル交差点, and I assume the "scramble" part came from somewhere in the English speaking world.
You should mention that you are the CEO of Mathpix.
https://openchat.team/ is the link if you want to test the model online.
Next people will suggest making them man portable and light enough to be regularly carried in large numbers by infantry. :)
The jargon bothers me as well, though I figured they picked the weird word so they could use analytics to see how well their concepts are spreading and being repeated.

Sometimes something just has a weird... vibe... for want of a better word, and this gives that in a big way.
I used Ruby on Rails, deployed on DigitalOcean for my SaaSes , after a few years they gotten mostly stable and I seldom add new feature, mostly just fixes or integration with third party APIs.

Ansible for setting up infra, reusable across multiple apps, you can use PaaS like DigitalOcean app platform to save even more time

Managed Database by DigitalOcean

Ruby on Rails, served via Nginx

AlpineJS (with <script> tag), no build process needed
TailwindCSS (use CLI locally to generate the needed CSS)

Been using this stack since 2020, couldn't be happier, no bullshit of NodeJS / NPM randomly breaks when I come back after few months
By definition unix timestamps are UTC. Python's datetime module has a lot of footguns because naive timestamps can represent UTC, local time, or even a non-standard application-specific time. Python's aware timestamps just carry the tzinfo information along with the naive timestamp so that you can get to UTC from the abstract naive timestamp. It's a really overdesigned footgun of Python's datetime module more than anything, but again not unix timestamps which are always an offset from 1970 midnight UTC.
I had a ReDoS issue at a prior company many years ago; at least they're lintable now:

https://ota-meshi.github.io/eslint-plugin-regexp/rules/no-super-linear-move.html
https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-redos/v/1.2.0
Yeah, not revisionism. Google had better search quality for tech users but Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo, AskJeeves, Excite, Inktomi etc had a better results for general users. So tech users adopted Google and when asked by non-techie friends which search engine they used would reply Google. And then Gmail moat appeared and getting a Gmail account was the highest prestige and everyone was trying to get one.
I almost coded some Turbo Pascal earlier this year. I found the source code for one of the (not so great) games I (tried to) write in Turbo Pascal 2.0 as a kid. Had fun porting it to the latest stable Free Pascal. Never used Free Pascal before and was quite impressed. Well documented, stable, amazing cross-platform. Supports everything from creating 16-bit DOS COM-files to various modern 64-bit platforms and JS.
That's basically how it works in Canada. You can even request that the tax relief is applied to each pay check rather than waiting for the tax refund.

Also don't forget the $43,500 post-tax 401k contribution that you can backdoor into to a Roth.

if your employer supports post-tax contributions
Related: in India, people put unripe green bananas in raw rice (uncooked rice), well covered by the rice, and leave them there for a few days to ripen.
>does he get penalized if part of the dev team gets hired by another company, which makes it harder for him to hit the milestones?

Of course yes. The part of executive responsibility is to maintain the team and calculate the riscs .
OpenAI does not allow users from China, including Hong Kong.

Hong Kong generally does not have a Great Firewall, so the only thing preventing Hong Kong users from using ChatGPT is Open AI's policy. They don't allow registration from Hong Kong phone numbers, from Hong Kong credit cards, etc.

I'd say it's been pretty deliberate.

Reason? Presumably in alignment with US government policies of trying to slow down China's development in AI, alongside with the chips bans etc etc.
People are not PIPS.
This article has opened up a new perspective for me. It articulates very well that software is a means to an end.

It's a craft that can be used to solve a problem.

In my past I often emphasized the craft part too much. As if only writing perfect code is all you need to do in order to be successful. The really important stuff is understanding the problem you want to solve and being sure that software is the tool to solve this particular problem.
We often hear about "secret" aircraft, chosen to be secret by the govt to not disclose capabilities to potential enemies. However this is clearly disclosing capabilities. Is it just because it's a private company, wouldn't part of their contract with the govt. to keep their new weapons a secret?
As usual with AI-generated artwork: looks nice at first sight, but if you look closer, you can't help but notice the flaws. E.g. the ambigrams: in the "happy"/"holiday" one, the second word is actually missing the "i", and the two "blessing"s are really hard to read. Also, the "campfire man"'s face seems to be melting in a very disconcerting way...
Honestly, I think there's value both in riffing off rules of thumb and using that riff to revisit and re-contextualise things we already think we know.

Everything is new to someone, and even if this was just confirming my own biases I found it an interesting take.
>The real question is: Why do things have to reach the point of harassment before action is taken?

Blurry lines are hard, but harassment has very clear lines. I imagine that's the reason. At the same time, people don't want to be narks and report every little infraction. Being annoying doesn't necessarily mean you deserve to lose your job, but that's where the blurry lines come up, yet again.

>If you're in that sort of org, don't stay there. It will be a magnet for such folks.

It's not always easy to change teams nor jobs, sadly. And people need the money. Lot of things you wouldn't put up with if you had "fuck you" money. But very few do, fewer so in this economy.
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How, why, and when GitHub and Gitlab use feature flags
In so far as Hong Kong IPs are "Chinese IPs", we can access OpenAI's website, but their signup and login pages blocks Hong Kong phone numbers, credit cards and IP addresses.

Curiously, the OpenAI API endpoints works flawlessly with Hong Kong IP addresses as long as you have a working API key.
I'm as interested as anyone in the methods behind this and find deep learning just continues to amaze and I really enjoy working in the AI space. Having said that, seeing that we now essentially have the capability to synthesize videos of people doing things they haven't done and saying things they haven't said, I really do worry about the potential for abuse of this technology once it's really perfected. What does it mean for society when can no longer enter recordings into evidence?
Strongly disagree. I want to have variables that only exist within an `if` block. That is something C99 got right.

But Python's leaky scopes are even worse than up-front declarations.
Yea, but the problem was originally caused by Sony. Many say it's anti-competive but really it's basically done to compete. I would say making games console exclusive should be banned if you want to remove things like this.
I'm sure that the people living there love the noise of cars scratching their floors on the road when they are sleeping /s

Couldn't they find a more silent way to slow down cars?
An axial flux wheel motor is a much simpler and less fragile design for ev’s. I’d like to see more experiments with that.
Not sure I follow. What's the difference between `new Date(ts).getDay()` when ts is an ISO8601 string or a ms since UNIX epoch value. Pretty sure the result is the same and whether you need to use `getDay` or `getUTCDay` is a display issue that affects both variants.

I could see it being more convenient if you're just dumping the raw values without any transformation or you don't know what data type is stored in a column, but otherwise the difference seems largely one of taste and not so much relative error rates?
The two of you might have a different threshold of what you consider to be usable photos, and that’s fine. However, there is no way around physics. Under indoor lighting, a single exposure of a cellphone camera will either be a blurry mess, a noisy mess, or both. Cellphones used to get around that by adding flashlights and adding strong noise suppression, and it was up to the photographer to make sure that the subject didn’t move too much. Modern smartphones let you take pretty decent photos without flash en without any special considerations, by combining many exposures automatically. I think I t’s quite amazing. The hardware itself has also improved a lot, and you can also take a better single exposure photo than ever, but it won’t be anywhere near the same quality straight out of the camera.

And, yes, I have been taking a lot of pictures with my Sony Ericsson K750i almost two decades ago and I did like them enough to print them back then, but even the photos taken under perfect lighting conditions don’t stand a chance to the quality of the average indoor photo nowadays. The indoor photos were all taken with the xenon flash and were very noisy regardless.
Montana Judge: TikTok ban likely a 'fundamental constitutional violation'
Big fan of Starcoder
Trivia: Firefox was once at the receiving end of similar kind of treatment once. Story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CE....
Don't think people have been having calls across continents for centuries. Just 100 years ago the vast majority of the population would never have encountered another time zone.
Oh, can install Ollama in Linux/WSL as well
This is nothing new. Very old examples are the xerox machines that accidentally changed numbers on scanned documents, and speech coding for low bit rate digital audio over radio, phone, and then VoIP.
but it's easy to point out what's wrong, why this initiative is misguided.

i'm a misanthrope myself. ironic that you're pointing out what's wrong with the misanthropic take.

Car dependent cities are a terrible health hazard! I get it, different strokes for different folks, but iono, have car dependent owners really experienced anything else? You warn of economic damage as if that's the only Good there is.

We can't A/B tests our lives, so we're gonna bias the life we know. So it's self perpetuating. The take isn't throw up your hands because economic damage, that can't be it? Eh that's why im a misanthrope.
Deep Dive into AWS Nitro System at Re:Invent 2023 (CMP306)
I was in a butterfly house, and closeup photos removed the legs of the butterflies to keep only the wings lol.

e: image link https://ibb.co/nwbw5xY
I think what I am seeing in this article is a curious mixture of should and does. For example, the "user > dev" formula is a clear example of "should"; but when he gets to "biz > user", he surreptitiously switches to "does". He explains the biz > user by pointing out stakeholders, and investors, and personal interests, and politics, and all other sorts of crap that, in the real world, puts biz before the user. Very understandable. But should it? And why isn't the same explanatory method applied to the "dev > *" formula? After all, there are clearly very strong personal interests involved in that too.
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Nice writeup!

Do you know around what time repeaters were started to be used for clock trees?

I also wonder about the two phases. Is that still commonly used?
Evernote officially limits free users to 50 notes and one measly notebook
Multiple unique pointers pointing to NULL happens all of the time.
Waste is part and parcel of luxury
As a layman in photography, I agree with you.

But it is easy to understand the artists. It is said that in art everyone needs to master the technique first, the tool of the trade, but true works of art are the expressions that are created with these various techniques. At this point, a tool - computational photography in this case - may get in a way. So, it is not about purism. Quite the contrary, it is about being able to use the tools and bend the reality the way an artist wants.

Having said that, I would think anyone would normally use *all* the tools available at their disposal, and the truth is that iPhone camera among else is a great one anyway.
give me a robot horse already xD
Might be my age showing, but I swear it wasn't like this just a few years ago - this kind of story would genuinely go viral from the first rando posting it on social media ("wtf is my camera broken?") or the second rando that adapted it into a goofy scene/video ("look I'm a vampire now").
Thinking about it a little more, it might have some mileage. The IR spectrometer is just measuring the color of the avocado, albeit very precisely and under known lighting conditions.

One of the reasons photographers enjoy infrared photography¹ is because foliage shows up brilliant white against pitch black² skies³. Photosynthesis is inhibited by both green and IR light so plants are bright in IR for the same reason our eyes see it as green.

I absolutely think that you could get the same result with a flash photograph from a good modern camera and probably just using the green channel. One of the many things these cameras are designed to be good at is detecting minute subtleties in shades of green⁴.

I’m looking forward to trying it on the weekend.

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1. Traditionally done with a monochromatic black and white film where only deep, bright reds gave the negative any density, rendering as brightness in a positive print. This is in contrast to “panchro” black and white where a bright object of any color would print as white.

2. Unlike blue light, the atmosphere disperses almost no infrared.

3. A good example of all of the above is here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/infrared-willow-tree-stu...

4. Our eye’s sensitive to green is partly why digital cameras have twice as many green sensors as they do red and blue. It’s also why high fidelity inkjet printers use more shades of ink for printing photographs. (Epson printers use one yellow, two different cyans, and three different magentas.)
I'm in the UK. Unfortunately we don't grow avocados, but we do have the water for it.
I'm a photographer, and for years I've been pixel peeping at photos taken on phones with "portrait mode"; many years after the first introduction of the feature, regardless of the implementation, results still look crummy to my eye.

Looking at fine elements like hairs (nevermind curly hair) is a disaster, especially when you're used to fine classic german/japanese optics that accurately reproduce every subtle detail of a subject while having extremely aesthetically pleasing sharpness falloff/bokeh.

I've had to swallow the pill though: No one (end users; pros are another story) cares about those details. People just want something that vaguely looks good in the immediate moment, and then it's on to the next thing.

I suspect it'll remain the same for AI generated visuals; a sharp eye will always be able to tell, but it won't really matter for consumption by the masses (where the money is).
for the Reals, it is only hypothetical, the domain has a total order.

\inf and $\inf + 1$ comes to mind but I don't think it really counts
Sometimes it can be run as a kick-starter project that builds something that's wanted by those with money+need who can't built it.
Reverse Engineering an Adjustable Bed Remote with HackRF and Logic Analyzer
Why would it do any damage? Stroad usually can easily be converted into road, and with some political will and investments into a street. In both cases economy will improve - either by making roads safer and faster, or by bringing jobs to the newly created streets.

That is the whole point of being against stroads - they are rotten compromise between roads and streets.
To be fair, in hindsight I can see why Russia felt threatened by NATO after Ukraine jumped from its lap feb 2014. But framing the Maidan events as some sort of US sponsored Nazi coup seems a bit of a tangent.
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...and the equivalent if you're using python for visualisation would be seaborn's palettes https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/color_palettes.html
Sounds like you're inflexible and slow down process. Which can be a good thing, but it really depends on the studio.

I've tried to do this in the games industry and I just end up being called "slow". Because games have historically been "break fast, ship buggy". There's not a lot of value in a well-architectures codebase here. It's getting better due to some high profile buggy disasters, but change is slow.

> very rarely believe in anybody professionally, because people has a tendency to nurse their subjective opinions and thought more than commit to long reasonings of why and find evidens for their claims.

Most peope don't want to hear long reasonings unless they are the ones directly solving the problem. There's no point making an articulate proposal if the readers skim and pass on feedback I already addressed.

I imagine it's the same for many ambitious juniors. They get dismissed and they change their language as they adapt to the industry. Things aren't as eglitarian as the marketing shows, and those who see the sausage being made adapt.

I don't know. It sounds like you either had some very quality work history to come to these conclusions, you had the funds/connections to found/co-found work where you shape the culture, or you have an extremely strong sense of duty. I'm proud of my experiences, but I can't say I relate, and I'm already broken. No point correcting corporate, better to suck off their funds and prepare to be my own boss.
Iff designers sometimes kill functionality for what is perceived as stylish.
I wonder how colorblind persons deal with these pastels.
I know kindergarten colors may not fit the rest of the sites colorscheme but consider that charts are often relaying important information that should probably be accessible to everyone.

Taupe, salmon and sage may not be the best choices.

Just sayin….
Especially for those that want to move out of Confluence. It is rather easy to obtain a docx or pdf from the API as well as the raw, uncompressed attachements, a bit more complicated to convert said files to markdown with full quality attachements and no formatting errors on every pages.
Can't, those are login-walled.
Russians' Support for Ukraine War Hits Rock Bottom: Poll
The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]
Countries should in-house their critical technology, jobs, and infrastructure true as much as possible. Sure, you can save a few bucks by using that huawei router or Russian developed secure message app. And maybe it’s cheaper to pay people in China to handle all of your advanced fabrication. And foreign investment money seems to flow a lot more freely than domestic. But I think we’ve seen over and over again how countries that control investments and supply chain are more than willing to use their influence as a political lever when it suits them.
I was about to say something similar, that associating by artist is too coarse. It should be at the song (or possibly album or artist+date) level.
Yep, Airbus went full fly by wire 40 years ago, and while the feedback and some of the integration choices have been debated, I can’t say I remember concerns about the reliability. Boeing has also switched to FBW on their recent planes. And military went FBW a while back, in fact since the F-117 FBW has generally become a requirement because they’re all aerodynamically unstable to improve manoeuvrability and integrate stealth geometry, so they pretty much can’t fly without the FBW system adjusting constantly.

Though I would also guess the mechanical linkages of an airliner are under a lot more stress than a car’s, so the gains from FBW would be a lot larger, even aside from not having to run mechanical linkages through the entire hull.
Loads of stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hornet_Nano

The defence industry in the EU is just is less ra-ra jingoism mixed with SV hype in comparison.
>A keen intuition doth develop with time

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

- Chaucer

Our talent goes to naught, by this AI we discern.

- Me

https://wisdominwood.com/products/chaucer-the-craft-carving
The lesson is that piracy (and to an only slightly lesser extent, free student licences) was an extremely powerful tool to keep a tool market cornered: impossible to compete on price when piracy is so ubiquitous that payment is essentially opt-in.

(I had a mouse driver disc, 5.25, that wasn't pirated, it felt like something from a parallel universe with its machine-printed label)
They who?
Exactly, it’s supposed to be an ugly word to mirror the ugly thing it describes.
Easier, and it's debian, so, stays easy, very low overhead.

Like any distro, it has some quirks, but, those are worth dealing with because the day to day is almost always frictionless.
Very well in fact, you have to look at the whole drivetrain efficiency, not just the motor. Elaphe has a webinar on this topic on their youtube channel, look it up.
Code being run more than read means this: code is read more by machine than by person. Users don't read code much, on the other hand. Thus:

machine > maintainer > author > user

QED
to be fair, if they took investment, it's rarely 99%, cuz investors took a chunk, and a pool of stock gets set aside for future employees, etc. But if the there isn't even any funding yet then 1% is just stupidity.
Here comes another bubble [video]
As the year comes to an end, was reminiscing some old folk lore about tech startups.
You're looking at the second tab, "probable savings." Switch to the first tab, "purchase price," and the footnote changes from the one you quoted to this:

> All prices are shown without incentives or est. 3-year gas savings.
Good points.

> Honestly, I'm surprised those device manufacturers haven't shifted their DSLR stack to just be a dumb CMOS sensor, lens, a basic processor for I/O, and a thunderbolt controller that you slot the phone into. Probably heat is one factor, the amount of batteries you'd need would go up, the BOM cost for that package could be largely the same, & maybe the external I/O isn't quite yet fast/open enough for something like that.

This is not really an option. There were actually clip-on cameras back in the day when cameras were new on phones. But there were several problems:

- Software support tended to lag with updates

- Phones change form factor very regularly and phones in general are replaced much more often than camera hardware, leaving you a highly expensive paperweight

- I don't think any phones have thunderbolt yet, just some tablets

- Dealing with issues is a nightmare because you don't control the hardware end to end
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Don't you have indicators? In Spain the buttons (which BTW are increasingly uncommon, cars lost the battle) have two large indicators, lit depending on the state:

- Please press

- Wait for green