skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a job I took. But when I launched https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover I got offered a high level position in a a photo company via my email which at the time was on my GitHub profile.
Still it's a notation that had meaning, about the behavior as n goes to infinity. If you take out n, or if you don't have an n, just don't use it.
get an android and use "screen my call"
Well, most folk and jazz and blues and indie shows as well, including indie electronic acts.
Amazing work! Just tried it out on a couple of my repos and it works great. Thank you, starred on Github ;)

I would like to request a feature --> Can you allow the output produced by GQL to be in different serializable formats, like JSON?

I see a lot of potential to this if the GQL output could be piped to C# LINQ queries.
Yup. You can’t effectively fight an enemy by his rules.

Instead of writing new browsers - and getting them easily broken by Google again - we need to focus on stuff like providing an open YouTube mirror, or helping users jam AdSense with fictional data, or flooding YouTube with autogenerated videos… Lots of possibilities really.
What is most striking to me about this article is the level of fallacy in reasoning that's exhibited throughout this entire scientific debate:

- Well they had small brains, so there's no way they were the toolmakers

- We found lots of remains of Australopithecus here, and usually there are very few remains of the toolmaking species, so obviously, Australopithecus is not the toolmaker

It seems remarkable how much of the whole scientific edifice described in the article is pure conjecture with little in the way of "actual discoverable/provable truth". I can see how this field must be so fascinating and keep someone's fascination going for a lifetime.
No, it runs SteamOS. Else Pop_OS! is Ubuntu and Nobara is Fedora.
I guess because it is procedurally based, likely using an L-system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

We use things like this in 3D art and animation. For example the paint system in Maya. This was used to create the forests in Shrek.

Question to OP… have you considered making this available as a Blender plugin?
Maureen Dowd
I have always thought of it as (using people for easier understanding): dividing something to nobody means nothing was divided. Eg. I have to give away 8 apples to 0 people, so no action was taken due to there being no recipients, the whole action was a NOP.
Does any one know the amount of data that is passed between layers? specifically the data size as this information determines the viability of distributed inference.
I'm in a Fight with Substack
I'd recommend researching more to see what the underlying mechanics to the "word generators" they created are.
Any chance you have a link you could share? I skimmed the Wikipedia pages for Nord 1 & 2 but don't have time to dig deeper at the moment

I know I had seen claims that it was a Ukrainian special forces colonel (or captian?) that called the attack, but those claims I've seen all leaned on released intelligence documents and sources without any mention of an actual investigation of the attack site.

Those claims sounded circumstantial to me as they were only based on intel reports before/after the attack and didn't get to my point that no investigation of the site occurred immediately after the pipes where hit.
I think they meant https://jmp.chat/
This is surprisingly common, SonicWall devices are kind of market segmented by how much they can process with security services enabled. We installed 50/50 fiber at a customer location and their SonicWall had a gig WAN, but with the device set to "Maximum Security" it only got about 30-35 meg download speed. "Performance Optimized" let it hit the 50/50 lmao
AI doomerism is a politically+class neutral virtue signaling topic that carries the benefit of both being extremely current, and is seen as slightly sophisticated as far as everyday topics of discussion go.

When it comes to these matters, reality is a secondary concern.

It is thus reassuring that given the superficial attractiveness of this trend it is not that popular among the average populace.
Somewhere there's probably something that already does that though, and it probably also does 5 other things currently done by a custom script.
As a prerequisite to the attention paper? One to check out is:

A Survey on Contextual Embeddings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07278

Embeddings are sort of what all this stuff is built on so it should help demystify the newer papers (it’s actually newer than the attention paper but a better overview than starting with the older word2vec paper).

Then after the attention paper an important one is:

Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

I’m intentionally trying to not give a big list because they’re so time-consuming. I’m sure you’ll quickly branch out based on your interests.
Marques Brownlee – Driving Tesla Cybertruck: Everything You Need to Know
Answering your other question, yes you are shadow banned. I vouched for this one to revive it.
Why aren't interfaces fun anymore?
> For someone who owns their own house and makes £10,000 a month, it’s meaningless. Their inflexible goods are already covered

I disagree. Competitive middle classers would often climb up the property ladder and spend the £1,000 more on their mortgage.
Mortgage payments are often a large percentage of middle class costs that constrains disposable spending (certainly true for me).

I generally agree that say rent might rise to take up any extra income from renters. But a similar dynamic occurs for owners. Especially when you look at the group level where house prices are indirectly set by householder incomes. House buyers compete with each other for how much they can pay in mortgage repayments, similarly to how renters compete with each other.
Scientists turn to genetic modification to fight fungus that endangers bananas
This already happened with Canal content on the PlayStation video store a few years back (and that unquestionably affected orders of magnitudes more customers).

Nothing will change about this legally, nor the vast majority of customers seemingly care very much.
It has 3 stars on github.
> "There is only one formula for healthy and refreshing sleep: Go to sleep only when you are very tired. Not earlier. Not later. Wake up naturally without an alarm clock."

I did that for years when I was younger. For me that meant a longer-than-24-hour day which quickly led to being completely nocturnal. Those were dark days, literally and figuratively. I can distinctly remember my first "day" without daylight. It wasn't a nice feeling. I would usually try to correct it when that happened which was like having a 12 hour jet lag.
so ironically, still guilty.
I had the GI symptoms after I switched to a very, very stressful management role. Head of engineering at an early stage startup with short runway.

We raised and I went back to IC. My health is slowly recovering, including the GI issues.
Haha that explains a lot :-)
They mostly get in by cheating. A lot of people, even before ChatGPT cheated in college, cheated on their FAANg interview, and then still get promoted later since none of that shit matters and their promotion criteria is on if the button is moved 3CM correctly or not in some app that will be killed in 5 months anyway
More like a DIY arson investigation. You might not only burn down your house, but also get in trouble with the law and not receive compensation from your property insurance company. This is a horrendous idea. Just do basically anything else DIY besides high current/voltage electronics.
I want people who are afraid of themselves and of the corruption of power. Forgive the cheesy reference, but Gandalf both feared the Ring and also refused to touch it.
Honestly reading the pytorch implementation of minGTP is a lot more informative than an inscrutable 3d rendering. It's a well commended and pedagogical implementation. I applaud the intention, and it looks slick, but I'm not sure it really conveys information in an efficient way.
AKA "Companies have to lower prices because consumers aren't buying, because the companies jacked up the prices because they felt they could"
> But a big problem is that dark patterns drive measurable benefits but are associated with unmeasurable costs.

Beautifully put, thank you!
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Well, more efficient to verify, because it is more restrictive

Meaning some control flows are unrepresentable and certainly less compact; since they must be 'interpreted'

I think that's probably the best decision for quick webpage loading, but given that WASM is generally used for code heavy webpages -- not quick jquery replacements, I'm not convinced it was the best decision overall

-- I love a lot of wasm, I just wish it was a better target for open ended computation; which is something gotos and coroutines are better suited for

That said; WASM is a clever trade off; but the trade-off is hidden within compilers (ref Go's wasm for instance)
What exactly are you getting at?
It is not original (but does not claim so either), the source seems to be here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/ai-sam-altman-ope...
Wearable biosensor measures fertility hormones in sweat
Even that is not what I meant. The top comment on that thread consists of a complaint that self-promotion rules appear inconsistently enforced. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't; I don't know. But that doesn't contradict what I said about Lobsters moderation. This is just another example of the tired message board trope of blowing any complaint about anything into a blanket condemnation. Nuance is boring to write, strident declamation isn't. Unfortunately, for the reader, it's the opposite.
Show HN: A conversation with Mary Rose Cook
I had a conversation with Mary Rose Cook about her recent work in prototyping, and prototyping in general.
The ghost town link in the readme is gold: https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1399935275057389571
Autechre goes complete lights out. Maybe not completely - depending on venue rules, but they try to go as dark as possible.
Metro in Minneapolis 2005 was the literal darkest show I've ever been to, barely could see in front of me. Just sound and the presence of others... Amazing show.
ChatGPT one year on: who is using it, how and why?
Not a side project, per say, but I answered questions on my local Linux User Group almost daily. After applying for a job and not hearing back, I got a request to come in for an interview weeks afterwards. Long story short, the boss told me he saw my responses on the mailing list and it turns out I knew more than the RHCEs and CCNAs walking into his interviews.

That landed me my first job ever in IT as a Junior NetEng and eventually a Linux SysAd.
This isn't new. Textbooks exist for the same reason, so we don't need to duplicate effort creating teaching materials and can have a kind of accepted core cirriculum.
Most of them cheated, they didn’t actually memorize all that leetcode. Ive personally witnessed candidates at my own university successfully cheat on FAANg interviews which later landed them successful jobs/internehips
Probably depends on how online the car is. The always-online, always able to receive manufacturer firmware updates aspect of Teslas is probably the most risky part. I don't worry about anyone hijacking my Civic remotely.
This game I made and released on iPhone way back in the day directly led to me getting my first full-time job making mobile apps for a startup as the Lead Developer. I showed it during my interview.

It's no longer on the App Store as there's just been too many big changes I couldn't keep up with on that codebase. I'm working on a followup right now for Steam that I'd like to port to mobile afterwards.

Gameplay video: https://youtu.be/uy08ohBLGhE
I’ve learned an unbelievable amount trying to systematically invest on my own.

All of what I have learned is levered in my career and I’ve utilized that knowledge during all interviews.
Btw, that link isn't working for me, this is though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5JqUvTdZts

Hogwild is a really cool routine. There's a lot of work going into FDSP, parallelism, and all kinds of things at the low level for optimizing communication, maximizing parallelization, writing cuda kernels, and so on. I think there's a lot of unsung heros of ML working in these areas that people never even see (including researchers). So many people quote Sutton's Bitter Lesson but these are the people that made that landscape even possible. Without these people working at the low level we wouldn't be able to process large models or large datasets.

The fame issue is always a bit weird to me. Like I think more people know of Vaswani (AIAYN) or Dosovitskiy (ViT paper) than those that know Kingma, who wrote the Adam optimizer. Both these works use Adam as well as Rombach's LDM (Stable Diffusion). I'm only mentioning Kingma because I'm more aware of that work but am certain there's tons of work that could be better highlighted (actually illustrating this point).
'you vill ovn nothing' went from being a conspiracy theory to reality remarkably quickly.
Raptors right now look very nightmarish if used for landing crew on anything - the Earth or the Moon alike. The most advanced liquid fuel engine with tons of feedback loops looks suspiciously like a catastrophe waiting to happen at a worst possible moment.

Landing on the Moon is supposed to use some other engines as well at the time, so that may help. As soon as we'll know more about design, we can say things more confidently.
IMHO. The article makes a wrong call to action.
It calls for dev ethics when the problem is biz ethics.
Instead of licensure wouldn’t it make more sense to have more rules and oversight for the companies?
Looks like an interesting tool. I use jq for any JSON related task, but it can often be finicky and complex when I just need to get at a value or search for something.

Looks like gron would be a nice addition to my workflow with JSON tasks.
Oh, sure you can develop it - same as with every other open license, including public domain. But it prevents you from replicating the original business model.
It was my half hearted attempt at factorio with Clojure: https://github.com/pyrrhic/learning-clojure-factorio-clone

It mostly just showed that I had a genuine interest in programming, and served as a talking point (why Clojure, my experience with it, etc). The project wasn't related to the job at all.
https://audiodiary.ai is a flutter app i’m building atm and it’s helped me get a few contracts. not really a side project and tbh i think it turns some people off
Another marketing piece by IBM aimed at impressing inexperienced managers and developers. If they wanted to come up with a tool to rewrite Cobol they’d have come up with a standard transpiler.
Glad I found your comment cause I just ran a test with the same model and it worked first shot. What a great model.
Your excerpts make them sound like Trekkies, lost in a delusional sci-fi reality, but unfortunately for the rest of us they have real power and everyone suffers.
Ultra mega cope. Many FAANG engineers are testing and vesting, doing almost no work while taking that money in
I love higher power DIY stuff in general, but yea this project really doesnt thrill me. It does sound like the author did adequate research, which is good, but the soldering joints dont inspire a ton of confidence in overall quality.

Stuff like this is absolutely what I would consider "worth" paying a professional to do. Especially since buying a retail unit/paying a professional to install it will come with warranties.
He won the lottery-lottery with a lottery win - sized ticket.
Both of my main computers are over a decade old. 3rd gen i5, and my laptop runs an Nvidia NVS5400m. Absolutely prehistoric hardware.

Arch is the only distro I've tried that just works out of the box. It's the only distro where Optimus/Prime/Bumblebee actually works and doesn't just run the GPU at full bore all the time.

All of my games work as well as you could hope with this hardware, with no configuration or tinkering up front.

Arch has been the absolute most stable and fast OS I have ever used, bar none. My current installation is the longest I've ever gone without reinstalling the OS, including windows. It's definitely not the most ergonomic OS, but it just works, and it works every time.

Specifically, I use the Garuda flavor. It's advertised as being specifically for games, but I don't know what's special about it other than the garish "gamer" RGB default desktop theme. I'm gonna try Cinnamon next.
Um, you do know that the word "can" indicates a personal preference and has no effect on functionality, so there is no need to be passive aggressive?
> It's not just "grit" - it's the entire field of "TED-Talk-headlining applied psychology [allegedly] based in research."

I see, I know what you are getting at here. I stay away from TED talks specifically because I know those lack substance.

Thanks for the guidance, I will read more about this.
Can someone explain these scheme and lisp languages to me?
Every time I look at these languages, I can't grasp what you can use them for.
And why one would use them.

I always feel like I'm missing something.
In the example scripts and code snippets, I can see that you can define functions, that you can use lists, mathematical operations, you can build some algorithms, you can print text, but it never goes further than that.

I've only used languages like Python, Rust, C, Java, JavaScript, and they all have a very similar vibe, you have a std lib, which can interact with many things, you can build UIs, networking libraries and all that. And I could probably start using any language that is "similar" to these.

But I could never use one of these scheme/lisp languages, as I can't really grasp them.

Sorry, this comment is all over the place, because I can't really explain what's going on in my head when I see languages like this.
I'd call myself a proficient programmer, but every time I look at these languages, it feels like as I've never seen code once in my lifetime.

Any help or hint at what I'm missing, is appreciated.
It is definitely overkill.

RouterOS can be managed using a GUI, with an app called Winbox. It is windows application, but runs fine under wine, arm macs included. You still need to know the concepts, but in a nice clicky way.
The answer to this question is always use Redis or memcached. Nothing you whip up on your own is ever going to be a good as a well tested cache implementation that has seen every edge case.

This is the difference between a mid-level and a senior engineer during an interview. The latter will explain to you the pitfalls of what you are asking for before even considering writing a line of code.
That's a funny example, because once in an interview I had exactly that question and the week before I saw tortoise and hair.

But that wasn't FAANG that's pretty exceptional.... Most stuff is DFS, memorization, etc... Things that are good principles and don't have "this one weird trick"
Thanks for sharing. Nice read, the ending warmed my heart, and put a small tear in my eye.
> For the reason that it was the only reasonably available language for a while

Weren't there other popular, cross-platform programming languages in the 1990s and late 1980s? Like Pascal, and Basic? Those both seem like simpler languages, and easier to teach as first programming languages than C++.
You can make your health in older age worse by not exercising. But no amount of exercising can fight aging.
It might be risky in theory, but hasn’t firmware signing on Apple Devices and other such devices basically shown that we can do this safely?
I've been working on a pdf bank statement converter. The work itself isn't inherently interesting. It's the full ownership of a thing I made, combined with actually helping people, that makes it really satisfying to work on.

https://bankstatement2csv.com/
This is brilliant, I can't wait to have a json problem to try it out.
>Pop_OS! is Ubuntu and Nobara is Fedora.

Correct.
> oh, we were resource constraint at that one second, retry and it'll probably work

Had the same issues with (self-managed) gitlab CI. This is not jenkins-specific and usually something you can fix much easier in jenkins (other than just retrying)

> oh, we can't replicate that error message from a tool that you have no visibility over, retry and it'll probably work

This could maybe be better in other, more declarative CIs but honestly, its pretty much the same. The only thing some of them have is a local runner.

> oh, we have no idea why something timed out, retry and it will probably work

Jenkins has this, yes. But use another CI with docker and you can get the same and much worse.

But in essence, yes, at our company too, jenkins is a pet. But this means that someone knows it from the inside and outside and knows which things to fix in your pipeline. Good luck with trying to extend gitlab CI (or others) to fix things you need and/or opening an issue with them.

Gitlab has quite some high-profile issues sitting around for years with customer requests piling up. In jenkins, you'll find an extension that will do exactly what you want, or you could roll your own.
Social determinants/clinicians' expectations affect autism diagnoses in girls
I started https://github.com/thbar/kiba#kiba-etl to scratch my own itch & be able to write properly structured ETL jobs in Ruby. It was a blank-slate rewrite of something larger (activewarehouse-etl) which I could not maintain anymore.

This landed me not strictly a job, but long term consulting gigs with a number of companies in EU, UK & US.

The job was directly related to the project: companies wanted the expertise of data engineering & ETL, often with Kiba directly, but also in general.

This "side project" was totally worth it :-)
Just to add on, a good way to learn these terms is to look at the history of neural networks rather than looking at transformer architecture in a vacuum

This [1] post from 2021 goes over attention mechanisms as applied to RNN / LSTM networks. It's visual and goes into a bit more detail, and I've personally found RNN / LSTM networks easier to understand intuitively.

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/a-simple-overview-of-rnn-lstm-and-at...
> Then they're probably not a good candidate for a high-paying, high-expectations job.

[Citation needed]

Memorization isn't the one variable we should be solving for. God forbid people take notes in meetings as opposed to remembering every word that was said
The terms will have said the license was perpetual for downloads made but only five years for redownload or streaming, as do the terms for iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, YouTube's store, Vudu and every significant player in the market.
Why can't we reverse the flow? A phone number that is spam, what if we throw it right back at them? Especially text spam. A lot of times it's not even a phone number, and that's just wrong. But if it is a phone number, it would be nice to put that into a website and have that phone number up voted by other people who have gotten spam. If it reaches a certain vote total, then it can be confirmed as a spam number, and the software starts overwhelming it with messages and calls.
What really bothered me in this story is that the crazy used a 1-10 scale. Everybody knows the best scale is 1-5.
In the same cart now. Not sure how you can stay functional as a human with a 2 year old who won't sleep past 6am. Going to bed super early doesn't seem to help either. I can force myself to go to sleep before 10pm so in theory I get a full restorative 8 hours of sleep, but I don't feel anywhere near as rested as I was doing 2am-10am.
This should get even better with the new Wayland WINE stuff (freshly stable apparently, I haven't tried it yet).