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by sireat 3y ago
This is one which was fantastic but yet was hard to solve before the end. Yet the clues were there.
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by sireat 3y ago
Vast majority of Agatha Christie mysteries (in book form) can be solved by clues up to the big reveal at the end. She is the master of whoddunit for a good reason. Sometimes she wrote the clues in after the story was written, but the clues
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by sireat 3y ago
Those super optimized solutions are fun to read about. However, in real life I would never assume a millions rows of text all have all valid data in a specific format, much less a billion rows. Thus a slower but more robust solution would b
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by sireat 3y ago
Frankly this is very upsetting. Guess everyone has their price. Mistral was a forerunner for LLM recommendation for a large European organization. Part of the reason was that Mistral had promised not only open weights but eventually open ar
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by sireat 3y ago
Complete Removal of handcrafted evaluation (HCE) is a pretty big milestone. Original strength of Stockfish was closer to Type B strategy (per Shannon) as opposed to Type A(brute force) of Deep Blue. That is Stockfish was evaluating relative
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by sireat 3y ago
I really enjoyed Fluent Python a while back as an intermediate book. Python official docs are not completely horrible, but compared to most other popular languages (Kotlin, Scala, Rust, Go at least), the Python official docs are kind of meh
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by sireat 3y ago
For tables my favorite jQuery plug-in is: https://datatables.net/ Have a page with some tables? A few lines of jQuery and you have search sorting etc. It can be customized but defaults are fine. This is how abstractions and
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by sireat 3y ago
Same problem with Netflix absolutely no local subtitles/dubs available. Meanwhile one local streamer telecom has regional content + Disney for 7 Euros a month with dubs/subs. Another local telecom streamer has regional content + H
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by sireat 3y ago
For some reason this does not seem as exploitative as most of the interview circuit elsewhere. Over the years I've read/heard plenty of stories (here on HN and elsewhere) of people getting hired for their open source contributions
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by sireat 3y ago
Indeed it shows that the author is a hack and would flunk out of an academic program but taking phrases from other authors is inevitable. Writers are allowed to write "It was a dark and a stormy night" over again. Maybe the author
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by sireat 3y ago
Does Atuin offer ability to save current path (with timestamp as a bonus) for the command as well? Looking at OP it looks like it does " recording additional command context" Often (meaning once every few months) I have to SSH to
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by sireat 3y ago
Similarly, Doug DeMuro quirks videos have saved me millions (which I do not have) on 80s and 90s dream cars. That Porsche 928 or Lamborghini Countach or the ultimate teenage dream Vector W8? Fun to look at the videos but realistically it wo
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by sireat 3y ago
For some 10+ years I did not use favorites (or was even aware that it existed). Delicious then pinboard seemed enough. With pinboard often being sluggish these days, I've been using HN favorites more and more.
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by sireat 3y ago
I would say at least 95% of university students are using ChatGPT on their programming assignments. Src: I teach at a University
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by sireat 3y ago
Superb library! However why are all the examples using the antipattern? : from manimlib import * The community version continues the same practice: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/tutorials/quick
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by sireat 3y ago
Overall LFS feels a very hacky tacked on solution with warts. Git LFS is horrible if you mistakenly add some file(s) to LFS. Restoring to LFS-less state is supposed to be easy but it is always very painful. There should be a way to tell rep
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by sireat 3y ago
Every money transmitter/service/bank/financial institution/western facing crypto exchange/auction house/betting place at some point in time(at certain transcational threshold (ask a black box for the threshold)
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by sireat 3y ago
As a non-native English speaker I just took that line to be a hilarious version of form letter response. "Your business is important to us" replies have been around forever. If you want to stretch it a bit there could be a pun inv
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by sireat 3y ago
I was "forced" to take 5 consecutive weeks of paid vacation this summer, because I had too many unused days from previous years. The HR lady practically begged me to take the vacation. This is in Eastern Europe.
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by sireat 3y ago
"Diet, exercise, natural compounds, or a combination of the three, may be able to stimulate mitochondrial function, but whether or not they are effective for patients with long COVID is yet to be known." What are those natural com
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by sireat 3y ago
Oh Flip was dead in the long run no question about it. It was not only iPhone but Android phones that finally got good enough video quality. It is just that Cisco cut their losses extremely early. There were still 2-5 years left where Flip
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by sireat 3y ago
All the anecdotal indications is that polyphasic sleep is simply acquiring significant deep sleep debt. That is: polyphasic sleep is not sustainable over a multi year period. Humans can still do it while sailing in an ocean, on space ships
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by sireat 3y ago
I am still amazed how quickly Cisco destroyed Flip from 2009 to 2011 - basically 590Million down the drain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Video Sure you could argue that by 2011 Flip was on the way out as phones w
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by sireat 3y ago
So again SV was based on real life: https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Runaway_Devaluation
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by sireat 3y ago
Thank you kjksf for such an amazing tool! I've been using Sumatra for past 10+ years. It is usually the first thing on my ninite.com checklist that I use when installing fresh Windows on friends and relative's computers. PS As a b
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by sireat 3y ago
I asked this question about a year ago. Paul Le Roux had the motivation, the knowledge, the multitude of projects, the ability/drive to take on different persona. Plus Le Roux coded crypto projects in C++ on Windows unlike most of his
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by sireat 3y ago
I tried to create a simple family tree, Dall-E on ChatGPT Plus failed spectacularly in the 8 attempts. That is I wanted a simple binary tree in three levels.. Regular ChatGPT Plus got to the point quickly: [Child] /
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by sireat 3y ago
I routinely use 64GB on one of my laptops. Load a "largish" dataframe you will wish for even more RAM. Even on smallish dataframes with say 20-30GB usage it can be convenient to have a copy near by.
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by sireat 3y ago
One should be able to run Mistral 7B locally on something as low as 1070 8GB would they not? That is assuming 8bit weights. I have not kept up with local LLM news. I assume the steps needed would be somewhat similar to https://fo
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by sireat 3y ago
Over the years I've heard that Ballmer really is like that quite often. Notice how he is at Clippers games. Sure it is part stunt, part performance but it also personality.

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