skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Seattle, USA

Remote: Yes; open to onsite and hybrid as well

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Transformers, LLMs (BERT, GPT-3, T5), ChatGPT, Prompt Engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Hugging Face, LangChain, Weights & Biases, Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Pandas, Keras, Matplotlib, Seaborn, AWS, SQL, Postgres, Git, Docker

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shatabdibhise/

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iZL-iyN_YIK1hH4CBv8CG-X2Bji...

Email: shatabdibhise@gmail.com

I am a graduate with a Master's in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in NLP and ML. I've had the privilege to work as a Graduate Student Researcher at Amazon Alexa and as an NLP Intern at Samsung Research America. My academic engagement extended to the University's BioNLP Lab, where I contributed to research in the NLP field. In the industry, I honed my software engineering skills during my tenure as a Software Engineer.

My work experience has been marked by extensive work with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as BERT, T5, and GPT-3. I've applied these models to various text summarization, generation, and classification tasks, gaining proficiency in leveraging the power of LLMs for real-world applications. Currently, as an ML Intern at a startup, I lead the development of a feature that harnesses advanced prompt engineering techniques with LangChain to enhance the capabilities of ChatGPT. I also have experience with RAG and Chatbots.

I am actively seeking a full-time role in the NLP/ML/Data Science field, and would love to hear from you!
Do you have your own array library that you use in your projects? If so that's pretty cool and it would be interesting to see.

Edit: i looked at your profiles information and have discovered lots of fun stuff
Specifically, investigators have examined how the Apple Watch works better with the iPhone than with other brands

Apple is under no obligation to make sure that the Apple watch works well with an android phone. Unless they have specific evidence that Apple is doing something to explicitly block non-iOS devices, this is weak.
It says "in certain bee species". Are you an expert in the field? You seem very confident here that this doesn't apply to any bee species.
See my sibling response(s). Also this comment criticizing the solution in that link you gave me:

https://gist.github.com/saurabhshri/46e4069164b87a708b39d947...
See my sibling response(s).
>You don't need drugs to have highs and psychedelic experiences

If someone is having psychedelic experiences without drugs they'll usually want drugs to stop that..
I'm pretty sure the free drugs institution is in fact the street, and the drugs are only free in the sense that they're bought with the proceeds of crime. I can't speak for everyone, but the thought of going to live in a more formal institution does not increase the attractiveness of doing drugs for me (and I speak as someone who does like the occasional drug, legal or otherwise, in moderation of course). You could also imagine a path out like halfway houses or that sort of thing, but obviously it's a non-starter in the US.
Are there any doubly (or higher order) nested movies or TV shows? E.g., a movie shown in the background of the Truman Show?
Why stop there? Lets add a quibi key next.
True, if you don't have a garage or other way to charge when parked, it's an issue. Over here we have chargers in many super market/mall parking lots, so you can charge while shopping for groceries, which is very convenient.
At first glance, is this about Keynesian economics for space gear? Sorry if this sounds nuts... but it is the best paraphrasing I could come up with.
Morality changes and is imposed by the times, what is moral today will not be tomorrow, To your great grandchildren you'd probably be the same as a "boomer" today and will be looked at in the same vein (an ageist word used as an insult). It is the way of human culture.
Free software (libre -- free as in freedom) is the antidote to this entire mess. We should always choose free software whenever we can, so that we cannot get used by agents of corporate media in their hunt for more loot.

https://fsf.org

https://gnu.org
i really liked CentOS - it was definitely my goto distro for spinning up a server. Yum is so much saner than what ubuntu is up to. Thankfully now, not something i have to do with as much - i run a website with DB and don't even know what the distro is - a detail i'm glad to leave to abstractions and platforms to manage.
Your analogy doesn't make sense because there is no feasible way to protect a plane from a meteor hit (if it ever happens). So it's either take your chances or don't fly at all. The failure mode we are discussing absolutely can be prevented, it's just a matter of some extra cost.
> But I guarantee my PC will not have a keyboard with this key.

... And 99% of PCs around the world, will, which is indistinguishable from "requiring" it.
requirements.txt is just a list of packages for pip. It doesn't even need to be called requirements.txt, it could be called poopoopeepee.txt. That name is just a convention.

You could do `for line in requirements.txt, pip install <line>`. They are ostensibly the same. It is not a magical lockfile. It is unix. It is just a list if packages. If you are in a virtualenv, you will be fine.

either activate the venv,

source venv_directory/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

or, skip the convenience and use the binary directly:

venv_directory/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

virtualenv activation just sets the $PATH to refer to those binaries. you can use them directly.

the production deployment for my core python app lives in /srv/app, the venv lives in /srv/venv

To update packages on the system, it is as simple as

cd /srv/app
/srv/venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

Then to invoke this with the correct runtime, it is as easy as

/srv/venv/bin/gunicorn ...

In this example I am running the gunicorn application server. This is running the specific gunicorn version installed into my virtualenv.

The name `/srv/venv` is my decision. You can call that whatever you want and put it wherever you want. For instance, if you have two projects called application-foo and application-bar, you can have the following:

/srv/application-foo/app - the codebase (ie, the github repo)
/srv/application-foo/venv - the corresponding virtualenv
/srv/application-bar/app
/srv/application-bar/venv

Some people will even put their venv dir inside of their source tree and exclude it from git (add to .gitignore), but I do not like this approach because my deployments destroy the app dir and unzip the build into that location on each deploy.

I cannot speak for every python-based project (distinction from pip package) out there. A lot of people do not know what they are doing, open source is literally all the rope to hang yourself with. Anything is possible, and people without engineering experience will glue things together without understanding how they work.

If you are installing something via pip, then yes, you can create N virtualenvs and use them however you want. They are 100% isolated environments.

If you are using homebrew, apt-get, dnf/yum, arch etc... then those are going to obviously vary from distro to distro and that is outside the scope of this discussion.

I try to stick to Python's native tools as much as possible. Using a distribution package is going to cause issues, for sure. IE, don't install `apt-get install python-pil`, use a virtual environment and `pip install PIL`
Yes, I'm sure. I'm not counting smartphones in this at all, though, because I don't develop apps for smartphones anymore (it's not a market that interests me). By "average machine", I meant a budget laptop or tower.
Over the years hundreds of variants of RNN, CNN and Transformer have been proposed, but under the same budget of weights and compute, and with the same dataset, they are very close in performance. Models don't matter, gradient descent finds a way. The real hero is the dataset.

And what is in the training set? Language is our best repository for past experience. We have painstakingly collected our lessons, over thousands of years, and transmitted them through culture and books. To recreate them from scratch would take a similarly long time. Our culture is smarter than us, it is the result of our history.

So under these reasons I believe the real secret is in the training set. I don't think the problem was the model, but everything else around it.
Berlin's plan for driverless magnetic trains derided by climate groups
They do have enough weight in the PC market to create some kind of “Made for Windows” program which would stand a good chance of swaying the keyboard manufacturers, who would no doubt love an excuse to get everyone to buy a new keyboard.
ah well, i'm caught ignorant
This happened to me. I wrote an Android app many years ago for my own need and after a month or two it was done. I have nothing to change, it works exactly as I want. But at some point Google decided that it didn't keep up and needed to be removed from the store. I'm not complaining, I can still install it with `adb` but nobody else can anymore. I'm not sure I can still build the binary though, probably not.
I like TUI because it usually works nicely with multiplexer like zellij or tmux.
Open a new pane or tab where you can open a new set of TUI apps.

Like have Helix or Nvim open, but you want to quickly check your database queries code changes. You can just open a new tab run the this sql IDE, fire off some queries check the result if it matches go back to coding new features. If not change the code, check queries again etc etc.
> SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc would really like to see rockets be an alternative to airplanes

Why? Rockets are intrinsically less efficient and less safe than airplanes. Why would they try to compete for use cases where they are at such a disadvantage, and where they have to-date shown no interest in competing with fixed-wing aircraft?

The closest those companies have done to showing interest in pitching rockets against aircraft is Elon Musk saying that his company will offer ultra-high-speed flights via rocket, which is more like a Concorde-killer 25 years after the Concorde got killed by its own costs.
1. fine tune to specific tasks
2. Not subject to OpenAI’s censorshi
3. Can run on local instead of cloud compute (offline)
4. experimentation
China's social credit system was developed decades after they had already established much lower crime rates than the US, and seems at best tangentially related.

At the point that the social credit system was conceived (2000-ish?), China's crime rate was like 2-4x lower than the US's most recent lowest year.

What they did have back then was a population rapidly getting richer (or at least pulling astounding numbers of people out of poverty). In the US we saw major shift in like 1975-ish when wage growth basically stopped, even though productivity continued to go way up.
It's not their standard. It's in wide use on video game consoles and Android phones. The rest of the "PC" industry just hasn't moved so hard away from USB-A as they have, such that it remains the de facto PC standard for peripherals. It's largely displaced micro-usb, but not USB-A (comically, the one place it's dominated in the rest of the electronic-crap industry is where Apple lags, not the area in which they lead on its adoption)
John Truby – The Anatomy of Story Genres (2022) [video]
Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast
> A train is just: get in/get out.

This is changing, at least in France. Enshittification of train travel has begun by SNCF/ouigo. I traveled last month, now (at least for some trains) you must have a ticket at your name to travel, you must register big suitcases.
It is becoming less and less get in / get out, unfortunately :-(
Not even remotely the same with the biggest difference being that MS was telling other business to shut out competitors or lose access to Windows, which at the time was pretty much required for computing. If MS had its own hardware, they would have been free to do what they wanted with it.

In fact, Apple will like argue (and has successfully already in the Epic case) that it's the entire ecosystem that the courts have to look at and not any single feature. And at an ecosystem level there is a huge competitor in Android. Apple forcing webkit for example is Apple's choice as they control the entire platform. If they licensed iOS, then it would become harder to make that claim.
Driverless Truck Companies Plan to Ditch Human Copilots in 2024
Burner numbers are a thing for this reason.
> Your social standing will also take a hit.

I can wrap my head around the usability and interoperability arguments but this idea that "social standing" is contingent on iOS vs Android just seems alien to me.

Are there really people that adjust their social circles based on what type of phone someone is using?
I'm surprised it's not easier to find HYPER key caps to replace CAPS.

I've been binding my caps to escape for a decade. There was a moment there where ChromeOS pointed out the vestigal nature of the caps key, and a blog post went viral in hacker circles about the history of the Hyper key. I ran Karabiner until Apple added ESC binding to Preferences.

I can chord Esc+A and ESC+S to Quick Open and Command Palette (respectively) in my editor, and then I get an easy escape key for the rest of the time.
Homelessness is a Housing Problem
Recently finished this book and felt the need to share! Interested to see discussion on the topic. I believe the author's did a great job examining all of the different narratives surrounding the problem and identifying the root cause: housing.
I've always used slab because it's predictable, unlike the new stuff that could change (for better or worse) at any time. The next two lts releases is going to be interesting.
If you liked that, check out also his newsletter and his fiction writing - both are stellar (his is the only newsletter I read, even though I pay for other ones!)
There ought to be a law (or n ...) about JavaScript frameworks.
Key words being "medieval and later," because it didn't start that way. The wiki on Morgan le Fey begins

> Early appearances of Morgan in Arthurian literature do not elaborate her character beyond her role as a goddess, a fay, a witch, or a sorceress, generally benevolent and connected to Arthur as his magical saviour and protector.

So, migration to amorality was a later development.

> Also Obi-wan and Vader may have supernatural powers but they act more like knights than wizards.

Alright, if you want to say that because of their lightsaber combat. There's also Yoda and the Emperor, neither of whom use "swords" in the original series, they're totally dependent on their magic.
>deploy this tech without plugging it in

you mean because it can also power a wireless transmitter or a large memory array storage? cuz a hologram that's not "plugged into something" might turn out to not be that useful.
Was largely a commuter service. Unfortunate part was that it was built over existing freight rail so mainly suburban stations with big parking lots that can be out of the way (and have to side to let prioritized freight pass, but new tracks have largely eliminated that).

Pre-Covid, often at full capacity during morning/evening rushes and never “sold out”, you could always stand if you couldn’t get a seat. And flexible as no scheduled/reserved tickets.

Credit card tap on/off is very new (last 12 months maybe).

Nice that they have bathrooms on every car (looking at you Paris RER!!!).
On the Commodore 64, you knew your floppy was bad when the drive would reset itself, slamming the read/write head against the stop repeatedly. “tick-tick-tick-tick-BRRRAAAAAAP” ... eventually knocking the head out of alignment, requiring a hardware fix (not a difficult fix, but tedious). Copy protection was notorious for causing drive knocking, so people often used cracked versions of games they purchased just to prevent it (they tended to load much faster too).
I have mixed feelings about it. I like the idea of apps that are fully sandboxed and that I can inspect and modify parts of it easily (stylus & greasemonkey).

On the other hand I like native apps that don't compromise on speed.

Hopefully the desktop wasm runtimes that have been showing up lately will be the solution.
25,000 miles.
I always wondered what VA stood for in VAR given that you must buy from a VAR as the manufacturer/editor will not sell directly anyway.
I think trains amd especially the rails mostly are funded through other ways (government/ taxes) something which americans are not too fond of.
3% rake is amazing. Where's that?
In addition to being confusing for non-Americans, it also confusing for Americans because $100 bills in American slang are "Benjamins," not "Franklins." It's most notable use is in the song "It's All About the Benjamins"
If you turn them on when it's not raining, it explodes.
By definition making it illegal to ingest a given substance is imposing what someone can or cannot do with their body. It is a different conversation entirely than solving the problems with drug use which for the most part comes down to education and fixing broader societal issues that lead to people seeking out hard drugs in the first place. Opiate addiction is a scourge on our society and despite the seeming failures of some recent decriminalization efforts I truly dont believe continued violence and repression is the answer. I believe my stance is supported by the failure of the "war on drugs" to curb the problem despite immense resources being dedicated to it.
The idea that reading a piece of text constitutes copyright infringement is ridiculous. Copyright isn’t some infectious thing. Reading copyrighted text doesn’t give the copyright holder a claim to the future creative work of the reader.

You want to restrict model training, I get it. The debate is still ongoing, but I’m confident when these “copyright” claims work their way through court the AI companies will come out on top.
> SQL Server and Oracle

Alright so first off, for 90% of SQL Server's existence, Microsoft was openly open-source-hostile, so give me a fucking break with this. Microsoft used to be way worse than even Apple about keeping everything in their ecosystem- at least Apple is built on BSD underpinnings and was therefore also always compatible with POSIX stuff.

Oracle... last I checked on that monstrosity it had about 20 different clients all written at different times for different use cases over the long course of Oracle's history. So, which of these 20 different clients should one write a TUI for?
Yeah, they just either killed or tortured you (or a family member in retribution) or booted you from the tribe- sounds like a death sentence in a lot of cases to me …
Unpredictable but Possible Events That Could Throw 2024 into Turmoil
> it was something I got in my mid-20s

I'm past my prime, but would love to know your secret. I remember not wanting to return from Iceland, dreading the inevitable Anxiety Circus™ that was my life in the US. While in Iceland, I felt good about being alive. The way the people just get to the point and aren't afraid to say what they mean instead of this weird communication dance most Americans seem to do. The fact that yeah, danger looms in a variety of ways and the environment can be a bit hostile, but that's fine because we can deal with it together. It is difficult for me to call my experience there anything but refreshing...and yet I was not able to hang on to that.

A fault of my own, to be sure, but seeing as you adopted it in your early years, was there anything in particular that you did to make that happen?
I made a simple CLI wrapper that automates this, like Poetry does, except my wrapper uses pip.

https://github.com/jzombie/pipper
Speaking for myself, it wasn't a "movement against application bloat" so much as a "frustrated response to these darn bloated applications." There wasn't anything ideological about it, I literally ran out of memory a few times when using VSCode. The important thing is that editing plain text works perfectly well in a terminal, whereas you need a modern GUI for most other business-related software.

I switched to emacs during the pandemic because of Zoom and Slack (along with my horrible browser habits). VSCode is pretty reasonable on resources compared to many Electron apps, and I slightly prefer it to emacs in terms of overall experience. But emacs is also good, and there were just too many Zoom calls where my computer ran out of memory, with VSCode having a glaringly high footprint. I think at the time its terminal emulator was either excessively inefficient, or it had a specific resource leak. So maybe things have gotten better, but I've stuck with emacs regardless.

These days I can let a few dozen unread tabs in Firefox fill in the extra ~1GB of memory VSCode was formerly occupying :)
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If visitors to our solar system are on a similar scale of a few grams we're unlikely to detect them soon. If they can fit von Neumann constructors in those and make them to survive planet fall we may be their offspring. If we could reach and seed potentially habitable planets that we wouldn't we? Shouldn't we?
Yeah, if that's really what they are looking at, then it's a very weak case. Next up, why won't my AirPod case charge my Google Buds?
I don't understand your comment about Win/Mac, but I run HA as a VM, so the OS doesn't matter at all. The same is true with Docker containers.

As for "way more" customization or integration, can you give an example or two? HA is scriptable.
> At the end of the call she casually mentioned that they’d send over a link to a build that I could install and play with.

This guy is straight-up idiot. He straight-up installed an executable from a shady sources into his main machine where he keeps all his personal information and paid the ultimate price.
Leaked AMD Ryzen 5000 prices, upcoming launch
You are already accepting a risk of death for airline profitability. These tradeoffs are made all the time.
Trains being late is simply an overrated problem. This is not something that DB should optimize for. It would be easy to make sure every train is punctual by running one Munich-Berlin-Hamburg train a day.

Trains are late because they run a demanding schedule, trying to serve every big city (this is not like France where everything is supposed to go through Paris, this is a country that unified late with many powerful regions who all want direct connections between them).
Unfortunately Firefox has an absolutely dismal mobile usage share to the point it doesn't much matter if the number is for both or just the desktop version since it's still about 4% combined either way. E.g. Statcounter puts Firefox at 7.46% of Desktop browser share and 0.5% on mobile for an overall 3.43% share.

Based on the stats of other browsers on mobile vs desktop it seems there are two drivers for this. One is iOS Safari is extremely popular for users with those devices. On Android Chrom* browsers are extremely popular, even moreso than desktop though. For a long time the Android version of Firefox was held back on a legacy engine vs the desktop version and it'd chew through battery while having bad performance on top of compatibility issues due to the desktop version getting less popular as well. Then when they released the updated version it lacked many of the more niche things like arbitrary extension support for years that would have made it worth switching to. It's better now, but the damage was done and people are happy enough with the other browsers they've installed and been using for years at this point. I'd say Chrome being the default is the main factor and that explains both iOS and Android except it doesn't explain Firefox mobile being lower than so many other non-default browsers as well. Plus Chrome still manages to be decently popular on iOS, even if Safari is king there.
> If Europe could get on Japan's level, that would be a dream.

To be fair Germany could at least reach France's or Italy's level first.