skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waiting for a blogpost titled "You could have invented transformers".
Ummm feeling empathy for fictional characters is something that should be considered normal. If you find yourself not able to do that, you should understand that you may not be neurotypical and should get a diagnosis to understand what other blindspots you have in life that you should be aware of.
You know what’s common for metro Hamburg and Norway? Each has a population of 5.4 million.

You know what’s not common? Hamburg doesn’t sit on massive natgas and oil reserves.
People running for their lives likely will increase the time to get everybody out.

Two people might try to get out of an exit door simultaneously, or someone might push over another passenger to get to the exit door, making those behind them trip over the fallen passenger, etc.
If you want to defend giving nazis a platform, be my guest.
> A typical royalty is 10% of the retail price.

For WHO?
What publisher is offering 10%??

The best I've ever heard is a fraction of a cent per book, and you don't get a single cent until AFTER all the expenses have been earned back (advance, editing, promotion of the book, flying you all over the place, hotels, staff).
Let’s not, maybe. This person is cramming a 4d tesseract into a 2D circle hole. There is very little to praise about this ethos, it’s simply more consumerism, not environmentalism.
In no particular order: 100r.co, OpenBSD (& its many individual contributors such as tedu or JCS), Suckless/9front, sr.ht, Alpine, Gemini (&gopher) & all the people you can find there, Low Tech Magazine, antirez, Fabrice Bellard, Virgil Dupras (CollapseOS), & many other people, communities, and projects - sorry I don't have a single comprehensive list, that's just off the top of my head ;)
Assuming only the humans have certain traits or level of intelligence/knowledge in some areas of life becomes a more foolish act as we discover what other living things are capable of.

I, for one, welcome our ant overlords.
I went in a slightly different direction and got myself a 49 key midi MPE keyboard. Made a huge positive impact on my mood and life.

I have the Osmose wiggly-key synth and it is an absolute blast - and this is spoken as someone who spends 50% of keyboard time playing classical-ish stuff in Pianoteq.
I'm having a hard time putting this into words but your viewpoint really feels like, to phrase it as a software engineering analogy, a new developer that comes into a 20 year old project, looks at what currently exists, calls it all trash, says the people that came before you were dumb and didn't know what they were doing, and you just start rewriting all the code.

Do you really think all the states and people that decided these things in the past were all stupid, or not following "the science" back then, or just picked start times at random? Do you really think you know better than all those states and people? Did the science change since then? Did the reasons to start school early/late change since then? Maybe they did. But if they did, you could maybe elaborate on that rather than just saying "the science is so clear" and dictating the way things should be.
I really don't understand people posting Twitter threads like this with no context and no explanation of what it is they find disagreeable. Presumably OP thinks something about this reminiscence from 2002 is inaccurate, but I have no idea what, or why it matters. Like, I think gmail is older than 2002, but this is a personal story, not an academic paper. Misremembering unimportant details seems...unimportant.
> Librem 14

While I understand that this isn’t the only way to achieve a great linux experience on a laptop, using an example with a nearly 4.5 year old CPU, a 1080p screen, and no GPU at a substantially higher cost than any other comparable hardware isn’t exactly a strong sales pitch for me.

> People who like tweaking, do it. It’s definitely easier on Linux anyway.

No, it isn’t. They’re both “tweakable” in different ways, but setting some group policy objects or registry setting is not inherently more challenging than tweaking a config file.

> Many people are unaware that subjecting all their life and security to a for-profit, huge corporation is a bad idea for many well-known reasons.

Nothing digital is “all my life.” If Microsoft turned my access off and remotely wiped my hard drives today, and made it impossible for me to recover from backups, I’d be inconvenienced, but absolutely fine. But they won’t, because they like my money. I’m okay with that clear, transactional relationship.

Microsoft is nowhere near the top of the “outside entities that could wreck my life” list.

> especially when there are harmful myths about it like those you are propagating.

Desktop Linux is worse at out of the box hardware support than Windows, especially new hardware and laptops. I don’t even think this is controversial. Even laptops like frame.work that explicitly support Linux have year long threads in their forums with people trying to get the behaviors consistently right.

Probably more controversial in this audience, but I feel strongly is true, is that the computing “upper middle class” - those who do more than surf the web, check email, or edit documents but don’t feel comfortable dropping into a console without explicit directions - are almost always better served by MacOS or Windows for their desktop.
It was just bizarre to get that as feedback from the hiring rep since I was a referral. The hiring rep knew I was experienced, the rest of the interviewers had nothing but good things to say. The hiring team has a weird “if one person votes no then it’s over for you” but no one could defend the logic of it: “most of us think the candidate is qualified except this junior dev”

That tells me the hiring team just votes on a candidate with 0 discussion. Indeed not a healthy work environment.
If I'm right, it'll be hard to measure. Maybe it'll manifest as more people using VK in those countries.
Sweat smile it is supposed to be…
They are rare, but I see some from times to times. I am in switzerland, where legislation might be slightly different from EU. But they could also be illegal or just not yet modified.
It was, according to Sean Parent (Adobe employee) in an interview about Pascal (around 8:03): https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/12/29/Episode-162.html
> If everyone is doing this, there will be a expectation of you to do it

Most people don't go to low- and no-connectivity areas to recreate. If you're bucking the trend by doing that now, it isn't much different to turn your phone off (or leave it at home).
Spent three years as an AirBnB nomad with my wife. We are back in our house between tenants getting ready to start out as van life nomads. We’ve also spent months at a time overseas and will again but don’t want to do that full time. This article has very little depth but it does give a decent high level view.
Your employer being properly disincentivized from illegally mistreating you would be better.
I full time'd for nearly a year with just three cell devices and the Open Signal app. The only time I had issues was when we watched some shows and used our bandwidth "cap" on our unlimited plan and it throttled me the next morning. I picked up the third device (an att mifi type thing) after that and haven't had a problem since. The only restriction was that we check cell coverage where we were planning to stay before booking if I was going to be working and without easy access to a coffee shop or RV park WIFI.
I totally agree with you, this is not designed for hardware...
and as others mentioned RRIP might be better for set-associative caches
In general if you’re traveling, you’re not bringing much in the way of non-essential physical gear like retro computing equipment. Maybe it’s more than a couple of bags especially if you’re camping but you’re probably not carrying a home lab with you unless you have a trailer dedicated to that purpose.
If literally everyone stopped going to work for even a month things would drastically change. The workers hold a lot more power than they realize, if only they would organize and untie in the common goal.
Can LLMs find knowledge gaps in the Internet?
Right. Continue is a bit more hands on, conversational. I've used Llama Coder for code completions and generation right on the editor to some success.

A sibling comment suggested Wingman but I haven't tried it.
I used to move 20-inch CRTs around in the office and have to degauss them. But stationary ones also needed this and the built-in coil was great.
Yes to both, the "neuron" would basically be a weighted parameter.
A parameter is an expression, it's a mathematical representation of a token and it's probabilistic weighting (theyre translated from input or to output token lists entering and exiting the model).
Usually tokens are pre-set small groups of character combinations like "if " or "cha" that make up a word/sentence.
The recorded path your value takes down the chain of probabilities would be the "neural pathway" within the wider "neural network".

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong or my terminology is wrong.
Transformers can be considered a kind of neural network.

It’s mainly fancy math. With tools like PyTorch or tensorflow, you use python to describe a graph of computations which gets compiled down into optimized instructions.

There are some examples of people making transformers and other NN architectures in about 100 lines of code. I’d google for those to see what these things look like in code.

The training loop, data, and resulting weights are where the magic is.

The code is disappointingly simple.
> Not the same but I was sacked during a probation period because I refused to give my proof of ID details a 5th time to the HR, the same 3 pieces requested multiple times or lost. I told them to reuse those I uploaded a day or two earlier.

That's no way to survive a career (as you found out). That's the kind of thing you use to build team camaraderie, after the 3rd time or so start posting about it in the team chat, if you're in an office put up a little sign saying "it has been ## days since I was asked for my ID", play along with any jokes about it, that sort of thing. And also politely ask your manager what's going on, and if that's normal, and send a polite email to the HR manager.

I get that it's a nuisance, but surely it couldn't have been more than a few minutes out of your day every time (and getting faster with repetition, right?).

> (yes they were average developers there at best)

Sour grapes?
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Misdemeanor is still a criminal record.
> I can't imagine what it is like now growing up with access to all the world's information in your pocket.

"All the world's information" isn't really the problem; it's having all the world's bullshit, vitriol, manipulation, and general madness in your pocket.
Fight with HR? No, they are breaking the law.

You should talk to an employment lawyer. You could potentially get a cash settlement, force them to consider your application, or an injunction that would force them to treat future applicants better. Could also file a complaint with the state and they will investigate on your behalf. Good lawyer can advise you of options though.
Notably absent my two favorites: "polysyndeton" (Cormac McCarthy: "Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it") and "chiasmus" (Churchill: "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us")
> Due to the clear lack of malicious intent I didn't serve any time, but did get shackled with: 12 months suspended for 12 months; 10 years on the sex offenders register; 7 years sexual harm prevention order; and 5 years of something else I can't remember.

What did you actually do, and what did they get you for?

> 5 years of something else I can't remember.

Just speaking for myself, I feel like I'd remember something significant like that.
1. The 'swipe-based' dating app model (Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, etc) begins to implode. Driven on one hand by the rise of AI partners, and on the other hand by a resurgence of IRL in-person events.

2. The US sees its first domestic terrorist attack by consumer drone

3. A major tech company (Microsoft?) announces an enterprise competitor to the Vision Pro that only functions while tethered to a desktop PC. We see VR devices bifurcate into recreational wireless headsets and tethered enterprise models.

4. Tiktok loses market share
Just math, and not even that fancy.

Let's say you want to predict if you'll pass an exam based on how many hours you studied (x1) and how many exercises you did (x2). A neuron will learn a weight for each variable (w1 and w2). If the model learns w1=0.5 and w2=1, the model will provide more importance to the # of exercises.

So if you study for 10 hours and only do 2 exercises, the model will do x1w1 + x2w2=10x0.5 + 2x1 = 7. The neuron then outputs that. This is a bit (but not much) simplified - we also have a bias term and an activation to process the output.

Congrats! We built our first neuron together! Have thousands of these neurons in connected layers, and you suddenly have a deep neural network. Have billions or trillions of them, you have an LLM :)
Can you provide any specific recommendations?
> Transformer tutorials might be the new monad tutorial. A hard concept to get,

A hard concept?

But a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, so what's the problem?
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New Company, Quintauris, to Drive RISC-V Ecosystem Forward
If the longer wavelengths are useful because they aren't impeded by obstacles like masses of forest leaves, then the same properties probably mean ear-flaps aren't really effective to shape/concentrate them either. (Although they could be used as a filter to block out higher frequencies.)
Not being sarcastic at all - if you think China would be a better world leader than America, that's just clearly wrong.
Heaven forbid individuals use the right tool for the right job.

Meanwhile we fund governments and corporations to be careless about any ethos except profits.
> 8 T$ or $8e12 feel both shorter and less ambiguous.

To be honest, I wrote it out longhand because I think it's important not to make it feel shorter or somehow less significant. It is an enormous sum of money that humans are not equipped to comprehend, so anything we can do to covey the scale more clearly is important.

A single trillion is an absurd amount. Now make eight of these: https://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/what-does-one-trillion-d...
Clicked on this expecting the guy who repeatedly flashed his dick at teenage girls, got caught, prosecuted and jailed, twice, several years apart, and now posts on HN begging for employment help every few months, while trying to hide what he did.

I was relieved to see your charges are basically nothing compared to his. You'll be fine but be up front with recruiters about your felony. For the right candidate, they'll work around it.
Anyone telling you it does is a fraud.
Glassdoor is in the same category as Yelp: less than useless because of all the lying.
I remember in high school I was confused by pointers because it did not make sense to allocate something and return a pointer instead of just returning the thing itself.

Then in senior year of high school I discovered Haskell and realized that it really didn't make sense and I was right to be confused :)
Good read, I enjoyed it. I'm a cyclist, but was interested to see my training time is 1:1 with the author. I spent 255 hours on the bike in 2023, but got over 5k miles and a half-million feet of elevation thanks to rolling.
That's about Quaise Energy, which have been on HN many times in the recent past.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It's appealing to authority without having to even do the absolute bare minimum of mentioning what the authority you're appealing to is. Is the authority some person's blogpost? Is the authority the FDA? Who knows. "The science" is the authority, whoever that might be, which doesn't mean squat.
Six paragraphs in, and I already have questions.

> Hello -> [1,2,3,4] World -> [2,3,4,5]

The vectors are random, but they look like they have a pattern here. Does the 2 in both vector mean something? Or, is it the entire set that makes it unique?
> Does piping rg output to wc -l affect time(1) output?

Oh yes absolutely! If `rg` is printing to a tty, it will automatically enable showing line numbers and printing with colors. Both of those have costs (over and beyond just printing matches and their byte offsets) that appear irrelevant to your use case. Neither of those things are done by ired. It's not about `wc -l` specifically, but about piping into anything. And of course, with `wc -l`, you avoid the time needed to actually render the results. But I used `wc -l` with ired too, so I "normalized" the benchmarking model and simplified it.

But either way, my most recent comment before this one capitulated to your demands and avoided the use of piping results into anything. It was for this reason that I showed commands with `--color=never -N`.

And yes, `grep -Eo` gets slower with more `.`. ripgrep does too, but is a bit more robust than GNU grep. I already demonstrated this in my most recent previous comment and even wrote some words about it explicitly and that regex engines can't typically do as well with increasing window sizes like this when compared to a purpose built tool like ired. Nevertheless, ired is still slower than ripgrep in most of the tests I showed in my previous comment.

But optimally speaking, could something even faster than both ired and ripgrep be built? I believe so, yes. But only for some workloads, I suspect, with high match frequency. And ain't nobody going to build such a thing just to save a few milliseconds. Lol. The key is really to implement the windowing explicitly instead of relying on the regex engine to do it for you. Alternatively, one could add a special optimization pass to the regex engine that recognizes "windowing" patterns and does something clever. I have a ticket open for something similar[1].

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/issues/802
Unless you really want to learn WebGL (in which case you probably should rather learn WebGPU) - I would recommend learning a framework making use of it, so ThreeJS or BabylonJS are probably the best choice, to get results fast (unless you have prior GPU programming experience).
I'm reminded of an old project called Entity that sadly disappeared (I may have an old snapshot from before their site went down somewhere), where someone had built a GUI designer where you linked GUI events to code live. One of the supported languages was C, in which case on change the code was passed to GCC and compiled into an .so and swapped into the process the same way as here (it also supported Perl and JS, I think; it was an odd beast... And you could edit the code of the GUI designer from within the GUI designer itself)
i think you are right on point with expectations being the problem.

i grew up without friends for various reasons, and i spent a lot of time alone and isolated, but, at the same time i also grew up without anyone ever putting any kind of undue expectations on me. of course i was expected to help at home with some housework, but when it didn't happen i was never made to feel guilty about it.

i believe for me this freedom from expectations counteracted the negative effects of not having friends. it allowed me to pursue my interests only limited by financial resources.

when i saw as a young adult how many people had expectations on others, i did what you suggest, and reject the whole idea. i had no desire to fit in. it's one reason why i left europe at the time.

i realized one of the problems europe has with immigrants is that expectation to assimilate and fit in. that particular problem is less strong in the US due to the less homogeneous society there, but it does exist there too. it's just a bit easier there to find your tribe as it were which lessens the difficulty of needing to fit in.

this is at the macro level, on the other hand at the individual level the problem remains. again for me that meant that since i grew up alone, it was a lot easier to stay away from people who had expectations that i didn't want to fulfill. if you weren't able to accept me as the person i was, you were not going to gain my friendship. i expect many others are not able to do that so easily. for them, losing a friend, or having trouble finding friends hurts a lot more.

i have a few friends. and i do want more friends, but not to the degree that i would give up my individuality as a human being in order to get those friends. in fact the worst experiences in my life were when people confronted me with specific expectations that i could not fulfill. my reaction was to protect myself by disconnecting from them.
And being a victim of bullying.
The number of skilled programmers making the leap to US/EU/UAE/etc. only has to change a little bit to make a big difference in the top-end quality of the Indian tech scene.
You write as if there is any alternative to capitalism that isn't far, far worse. It is truly the height of luxury to throw stones at the system that enabled the current wealth of the world.
It’s like Big Tobacco doing safety research into their cigarettes, cannot be trusted. Google is untrustworthy and has been for a long time.
A practical tracing journey with OpenTelemetry on Node.js
Thats not really true about nukes. Some of the simple first ones (namely the 'gun model') were simple enough that you can just do it if you had the uranium (because the gun model is literally just slap a bunch of uranium into itself), but the efficiently & yield is low.

If you want a real nuke today - the thermonuclear fusion bombs - you're going to be missing a lot of parts that aren't in the public documents.
I love how stubbornly plain and lacking in magic Go is. There is almost no hidden control flow, there's no aspect oriented programming, or operator overloading, etc., etc. - pretty much everything the code actually does is in front of you.

I think this means you have a bigger upfront cost in writing code the first time, with the benefit of easier debugging and easy maintenance later (which is a tradeoff I'm very happy to take).
Hello, would be interested to learn more and apply for this position.. do you have an email address to reach out? Thanks.
I'm not sure it's "blaming" unrequited love on Cathar ideology as much as it is holding up how the "tragic love story" was used to continue to transmit Cathar ideas while these days the "tragic love story" exists for itself alone. To me, it's a commentary on the emptiness of something that used to have meaning because, essentially, everything in modern society seems to be about stripping away traditional meaning and inserting your own.
Its massive: 3.05%

"Average monthly interest rates on United States total interest-bearing debt from October 2018 to October 2023" - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1382455/monthly-interest...
The bed in the cyber truck is not big enough for one of those.
This is why I'm not doing those, at least not until I pay a professional to teach me how to do it properly :P
> You can easily demonstrate to yourself that they do.

How?
You're ignoring emergent alternate modes of travel. Two big ones - electric bikes and app-based ride-sharing (Uber) would greatly benefit from a reduced sea of parking while also allowing transport.

This code change will pretty much be focused on malls / shopping centers that currently have more parking space than store space. So new malls or changes to existing will result in a more rational balance than the ocean of tarmac we have now.
> The code is disappointingly simple.

I absolutely adore this sentence, it made me laugh to imagine coders or other folks looking at the code and thinking "That's it?!? But that's simple!"

Although it feels a little similar to some of the basic reactions that go to make up DNA: start with simple units that work together to form something much more complex.

(apologies for poor metaphors, I'm still trying to grasp some of the concepts involved with this)