skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I was looking for a job way back in 2016, instead of just making a résumé, I made a free résumé builder. It got on the front page of HN and ProductHunt and got a decent amount of usage.

It's no longer live but here's the archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305001753/https://makerslat...

I considered trying to take it further but didn't really see a clear path to any kind of investment or monetization at the time, so I ended up just using it as my résumé. I interviewed at one company and got the job, so I guess it helped! It did get a good reaction in the few interviews I did at that company.
Nothing happens when I enter something to search on.
System includes are generally well-behaved though, so it doesn't matter if they add new things.
VSCode LLVM Compiler Explorer
No ones said it yet - youtu e shorts.

There is an enooormous sphere of cooking influencers on youtube and they are extremely popular.
Can you link the source? I've never heard before that the average rate was much higher then the average rate in the US.
Me too. I had a 26 hour schedule for like a month once. It seems fine til it isn’t.
That's the pint isn't it? Social media is relatively recent however I'd say all those countries you tried to discount essentially had real life bubbles of various sorts.
Well, non of them in particular. But without side projects i would have lost interest long ago.

Here they are: https://github.com/mosermichael
I meant the Kiwix dump (https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all_nopic.zim – careful, 60GB!).

At a first glance, the Wikimedia XML dump does not look substantially different from what Kiwix/ZIM does with compressed HTML: They're both compressed (bz2 for the Wikimedia dump, zstd or LZMA for Kiwix/ZIM), and both compress multiple files at once, so inter-file redundancy should hopefully be significantly reduced.

HTML seems a bit more verbose than the Mediawiki syntax (plus the XML header for each article), but I'd be surprised if that actually accounted for a 3x difference in size.

Then again, Kiwix seems to have experimented with shared dictionary brotli compression, which supposedly yields an >2x improvement: https://github.com/openzim/libzim/issues/144

I wonder if their current zstd implementation also uses shared dictionaries. If not, that might just be the reason: If ZIM compression chunks are much smaller than the bz2 streams of the Wikimedia dumps, there would still be a lot of redundancy between chunks.
I stopped considering CMake when I reported a bug (that worked in all major alternatives) and they actively refused to patch it (because it was based on a traditionally-UNIX API, and they refused to use it ... even though it was available on Windows too!).
ditto this...
"100 years ago" just seem to imply a lot of missing data points (and/or anecdata with lots of mislabeled data)
Results from Field Expedition of UAPx to Study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
Lots of people here disagreeing with you that Firefox is worse, but I'm with you. I'm on an M1 MacBook Air, been a Chrome user forever, but when they started getting aggressive with adblocking on YouTube, I switched over to Firefox, both on macOS and iOS.

Boy, it is...worse. I really gave it the old college try. Brought over all my extensions, dove into the really good ones (some of which really are incredible), even customized the Firefox interface, etc. I went hard.

But eventually I ended up back on Chrome, purely due to performance. Firefox is simply very slow and choppy. It's not a good experience.

I'd love to go Safari full time, but I use so many Linux and Windows machines in addition to my Macs that I really need something cross-platform, and so Chrome has always been the best solution for me. It's a bummer but I think I'm on Chrome for the foreseeable future.
I did something similar a year ago where I wanted to try out Rust as a webapp engine (compile to wasm -> host on rust webserver): https://blomma.lorentz.app. Although yours is miles better on the productification station, cudos!
The real selling point is the nodegraph editor, blends really well to the workflow and brings it down from a debugging tool to a product which may be used by anyone.

Only improvement mine has is bezier curves, for both the leaf shape and stem shape. It was (to me) quite a challenge to get both the topology and triangulization right, but a great intro to quaternions and nice refresher on trigonometry. I'd recommend giving a bezier curve node a go.
Might be the javascript on the page
Global variables usually hinder performance on modern hardware. Harder to use multithreading and (sometimes) higher probability for false sharing.
Actual a "beefy instance" on Hetzner not clear it's dedicated
As much as I like Muratori, making sweeping statements about performance overlooks that vast majority of people prefer performance penalties over feature penalties.

How software is used and maintained should dictate how you develop it.

Is it some software that thrives on features being delivered fast (office suite, image editors)? Perf can suffer, bugs are acceptable.

Is it something that needs to be safe at all cost (critical car safety, medical software)? Perf must be tolerable but bugs are no go.

Is it something that has no hard perf requirements but will be maintained for decades. Make code clean, treat performance as non-issue.
well you can read the study directly, the Guardian summary seems to be pretty poor if it's giving you the sense that differences narrow rapidly each generation — the study found social status is as heritable as height and can persist for 20 generation or more: https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/54515/1/WP181%20revised.pdf
None of it was fiction. Is vim your editor of choice? Or emacs? If so, then take a deep look at yourself. You're a walking cliche.

There are negatives for using macOS there's no denying that. Everything you said was true and obvious. Everyone knows about it. The problem here isn't about that. The problem is you.

You don't understand why people use macOS despite being 100% aware of all the negatives you mentioned. Instead you have to view through the lens of superiority. You think you're better. This is not a fiction. You actually do think you're better, just read what you wrote.

The cold reality is, there are developers who use macs, who joined the field for the money, who are more effective, more skilled, more knowledgeable and done greater things than you/I ever have and ever will do. That's just reality. There's no point in attacking everyone who doesn't follow your stringent philosophy and wishing you're superior. Everyone has their own reason for doing software it's not invalid if someone joined for money.
I focus on 4 or fewer categories of tasks, rather than a set number of tasks. Any more categories and I feel like I’m not focused enough.

Examples of an ideal day’s categories would be: hiring, 1:1s/meetings, leadership, and perhaps 1 significant project or problem I’m working on.

I’ve been doing a daily to do list since September 2021 and it’s funny to look back on how chaotic and disorganized those early lists were. I’ve definitely put work into simplifying my work since then. It’s something that’s so effective, I’m surprised more people don’t do it.
Nothing is illegal until someone is punished for doing it.
Capturing DNA in snow tracks of polar bear, Eurasian lynx and snow leopard
That's Far-Out, Man
Presumably they can compare the message body against recent text messages they've given you.

(also, this works in the US too)
Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD
The Month over Month inflation may be low, but since 2020 it's been 20%, and suffice to say a majority of the working population has not gotten a 20% wage increase since then
I wrote a generic kernel driver overlay for error correction for block devices on Linux (Winter 2017-18) for a student org at my university. Interned at NVIDIA on their Linux graphics driver in Summer 2019
That matches the name of default model selected in the right pane, "nano-gpt". I missed the "bigger picture" at first before I noticed the other models in the right pane header.
Speculative Sampling on LLM
Wow, I love the interactive wizzing around and the animation, very neat! Way more explanations should work like this.

I've recently finished an unorthodox kind of visualization / explanation of transformers. It's sadly not interactive, but it does have some maybe unique strengths.

First, it gives array axis semantic names, represented in the diagrams as colors (which this post also uses). So sequence axis is red, key feature dimension is green, multihead axis is orange, etc. This helps you show quite complicated array circuits and get an immediate feeling for what is going on and how different arrays are being combined with each-other. Here's a pic of the the full multihead self-attention step for example:

https://math.tali.link/raster/052n01bav6yvz_1smxhkus2qrik_07...

It also uses a kind of generalization tensor network diagrammatic notation -- if anyone remembers Penrose's tensor notation, it's like that but enriched with colors and some other ideas. Underneath these diagrams are string diagrams in a particular category, though you don't need to know (nor do I even explain that!).

Here's the main blog post introducing the formalism: https://math.tali.link/rainbow-array-algebra

Here's the section on perceptrons: https://math.tali.link/rainbow-array-algebra/#neural-network...

Here's the section on transformers: https://math.tali.link/rainbow-array-algebra/#transformers
"Gig Harbor resident, Erden Eruç (pronounced 'Air-den Air-rooch') completed the first solo circumnavigation by human power in 5 years and 11 days between 2007 and 2012. What started as a simple idea in 1997, had become a quiet obsession. A tragic accident which claimed the life of Göran Kropp while rock climbing together in September of 2002, finally put him in motion. Life was too short." Man this is a next version
> sometimes it's just people not wanting to hang out with guys who drop the N-word "as a joke" or overtly support authoritarianism or whatever.

When they exit, the remainders are going to more and more normalize these, as more and more of the moderates exit. Eventually it could even become the default norm.
Sorry, but no. The null hypothesis is that there is no relation between two variables. You have to do experiments to estimate the probabilities of the null and alternative hypotheses. You don't get to label the one with the higher prior as the null hypothesis; that's simply not what that term means. It does indeed mean "it's not true [that A affects B]".

> If my wife said "I'm going to the shops" I wouldn't assume she was lying until proven otherwise.

I certainly hope you wouldn't! But the null hypothesis would indeed be that the words she speaks have no bearing on whether she is going shopping. I don't know your wife, but I find it easy to believe that your prior probability of that hypothesis is quite low.

(At least, until it becomes a pattern where she's regularly staying out all night with more and more flimsy excuses....)
How should regulators think about "AI"? [video]
Same issue. Build timy habits I guess. It’s actually a really hard problem to solve.
If you like alt history, Turtledove does this in one of his 4 or 5 "alternate Civil War" stories. Not the one with the time-traveling Appartheidists, nor the fantasy version where the slaves are all magic-less blond people. The other one. Well, one of the other ones.

In it, Lee manages a string of early victories, gets within striking distance of DC before Lincoln can flee, and takes it. The US capitulates. It's not a 1-in-a-billion thing, but it certainly does read like a 1-in-5,000 thing.
The control pilot PWM signal at maximum duty only gets you 32A (~7kW). It doesn't matter how much the circuit breaker is rated for; the car isn't going to draw appreciably more than 32A. Higher charging currents are instead handled by distributing it across multiple phases. For example, a 3-phase 230V EVSE will give you ~22kW.

EDIT: Even-higher-still vehicle charging is handled by having a charger outside of the vehicle and feeding the vehicle with DC, which is what e.g. Tesla Superchargers do.
> I'll pay any amount of money that will make me sit down and do things.

That's almost exactly what I said to myself that prompted me to realize I needed to go to a doctor. Not because I planned on actually spending any amount of money, but because that level of sheer desperation is what finally convinced me I had something wrong with me.

Turns out I had undiagnosed and untreated ADHD the whole time. I'd seek a second opinion because I have no idea why your doctor would say you "definitely don't have ADHD" unless he is one of those doctors that just doesn't believe in ADHD, which is unfortunately common. If you weren't rigorously tested then that doctor's opinion doesn't mean anything, so try again.
It's definitely worth people considering getting local storage. Personally I like the combo of onboard storage, sync to cloud storage, and routine backup to external storage.
For the record, I took everything very seriously; I wore masks everywhere and I was fortunate enough to work at home, have groceries/alcohol delivered, etc. We have different sources of anecdotal evidence, sure, but from my anecdotal evidence, I think everyone was very spooked for 1-3 months, and then by the end of 2020 most people were back to "YOLO, whatever". Especially in Texas, I worked a lot there during that time.

> The folks who didn't believe are not a small number, I'll admit - around 15% of the country

I think this is a lot closer to 25%, or higher. I don't know how to explain it, but a stupid number of people just did not give a shit. I guess because at it's peak Covid-19 was 10x more fatal than flu, but still not fatal enough for everyone to care about? I took it seriously, but I learned that a lot of people would literally rather take a chance dying, than wear a mask for an extended period of time.
Why do you think homoiconicity is a gimmick? Have you seen languages that offer metaprogramming capabilities as simple & powerful as Lisp without homoiconicity?
They integrated in-repo configuration, self-hosted runners, composable workflow definitions, a robust API, and container building and registries for the first time in a CI tool.

Of course GitHub came and blew that out of the water with a composable social actions ecosystem. Which was brilliant and remains the killer feature that puts GitHub far beyond reach of other CI platforms, especially now that they've improved in-repo composability a few months ago.
Would strongly recommend watching the SICP video lectures: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati...
>sometimes it's just people not wanting to hang out with guys who drop the N-word "as a joke" or overtly support authoritarianism or whatever.

those people were formed due to and in part of a bubble; and denying them the opportunity to have their bubble popped as it causes you discomfort is the exact opposite of being able to express oneself at all - it always comes with the chance of making someone uncomfortable.

"In order to be able to think, you must risk being offended."
-JP, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BW9haau6Hw
Hertz Misses Profit Estimate as Tesla Price Cuts Hit Fleet Value
It was a toy interpreter
https://github.com/Shafin098/pakhi-bhasha
The token system used by large language models like GPT-4 is designed to be comprehensive enough to represent virtually any text, including every possible word that could exist in a language. This is separate from the training the neural net and is chosen deliberately.

The training process teaches LLMs how to compose these tokens to form replies to our queries. The training data used in the training process does not have obscured words or sentences with strange spacing. The LLM is still able compose the tokens correctly from varied input that never existed in the training data.

It is intelligence.
Big tobacco: "there is no science that cigarettes cause cancer"
I think the thing that matters is how people perceive it now. If the US went through another epidemic with a similar mortality rate, I think that there would be greater resistance to masking. I think that people would compare it to Covid-19, say "we already did this once," and just skip it.
Same. Sample of 1 anecdata reporting for duty: can confirm 100%.
You have to define "win" here a little better. Especially in a war.

Win as in conquer the rest of the US? lol, no. That wasn't going to happen. The industrial base just wasn't there.

Win as in make it so costly to re-take the South that the rest of the US doesn't want to devote the resources? That was probably possible at certain points in the war.
Unless the ATIS specifically stated that you should expect a visual approach, the controller violated FARs and is part of a criminal conspiracy. Also, phrases and specific words that controllers are allowed and required to use are well documented. The transcript revealed the use of non-standard terms; which is very dangerous when a controller does not precisely communicate with a pilot using English as a non-primary language.

I am a licensed (private) pilot with an instrument rating. I fly a GA airplane aprox 150 hr/yr, mostly for business. Within the previous two years, FAA controllers have given me incorrect instructions in three seperate instances, twice while I was deep in the soup. The controllers failed to correct their errors even after my readback, then yelled at me when I wasn't going where they wanted me to go. Each time, I had a camera on the panel and the camera's audio connected to the ICS and radios.

The latest incident, the controller told me to call them after landing. I refused to talk to them without legal counsel, so they forwarded the incident to an Air Safety Investigator. My lawyer listened to the controller's many falsehoods, then listened to the investigator ask me questions. Then my lawyer talked to the investigator as follows:

lawyer - have you pulled the tapes?

FAA - yes, but I have not listened to them.

lawyer - do you think that the controller could have given him an incorrect vector?

FAA - not possible.

lawyer - please listen to this. [plays video on computer]

FAA - [after playing video] we cannot further discuss this. We will need [controller] to bring a union rep.

me - Why don't we send the video to the FBI. Isn't it a felony to lie to a federal investigator?

FAA - [quickly exits room]

Most enroute controllers are working six days a week. I do not care, so am I. Many, perhaps most, experienced controllers are making north of $200k. I am not.

Final note. When dealing with any level of authority, record everything. Put cameras in your home, in your vehicles, and on your body. The authorities, whether it be the local police or the feds, are not there to help. You will lose money and time and freedom if you cannot document their incompetence and malfeasance; and even then you may still go to jail.
Because he tends to speak about topics on which he is very well informed, like vaccines, climate change and malaria.
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> Each server caches copies of all incoming posts to serve them directly to their local users. There are downsides to this approach, but the positive is that it crudely balances server load across the network.

https://mastodon.social/@jwz/109411593248255294 (safe to link to - and its following page via mastodon)

> Every time I do a new blog post, within a second I have over a thousand simultaneous hits of that URL on my web server from unique IPs. Load goes over 100, and mariadb stops responding.

> The server is basically unusable for 30 to 60 seconds until the stampede of Mastodons slows down.

> Presumably each of those IPs is an instance, none of which share any caching infrastructure with each other, and this problem is going to scale with my number of followers (followers' instances).
I'm just a random person, but for me motivation has always beaten the living snot out of any big ideas. I haven't found a magic technique. As long as I've feared an outcome and still been able to react to fear with effort, I've been fine even when it seemed hopeless. Negative emotions are vital in this way.

I also found that too many layers of abstraction (aka "overthinking") can work against discipline. It's too easy to want to defer to a system. That's where we may be comfortable, but it's important to remember it might as well be a board of bureaucrats in your head you appointed whether by hook or crook. Give up and just work. It's highly unlikely anything you're facing is new to you or that exacting precision and order is required.
Cases when you might prefer a garbage collected programming language rather than Rust:

- When garbage collection is the optimal or near optimal memory allocation pattern for your program.

- When you care less about minimizing memory usage than minimizing implementation complexity, development speed, and compile time speed.

- When your program deals with cyclic data structures.

- When you want green threads (like Goroutines)

I can say that I would rather use Lisp to write any program that manipulates tree or graph structures simply because it has a garbage collector.
I posted a really stupid trading bot that made stupid non-sense trades that wouldn't have worked in real life like buying a stock and selling it for a penny higher minutes later like a market maker. It got me an interview and I got the job.
> These kind of live translations while impressive require the full pipeline to work, speech recognition and then proper translation.

That's a good point. Machine translation of text input by LLMs is pretty good for the languages I speak--English and Japanese--but it can get much worse with spoken input if the speech recognition isn't very good.

That said, OpenAI's Whisper is able to transcribe my spoken English nearly perfectly, and GPT-4's translation of that transcription into Japanese is usually very good. The main failures are with proper names.
The bullet train is obviously an exception .. or is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt92-ZDm-HM

Cleaned end to end in seven minutes at every turn around.

https://www.japanlivingguide.com/living-in-japan/culture/jap...

How Japanese Clean Train Stations & Public Toilets https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BM2I1OrGAvM