jeroenvlek

Huggingface is a lot more than just a tokenizer.

Please don't call Orphx EDM. They make techno and ambient.

Slightly related: Saw them at Labyrinth 2015 in Japan. Amazing performance.

Can confirm that ravers have known this for decades :)

No, this was at a less famous institute in Leiden, The Netherlands

My mom used to work at an institute for Vitality and Aging and the leading professor there liked to say that "the first person that will reach a 1000 years of age has already been born"

Wow, that Bird of Prey plane is gorgeous.

I listen to DJ sets on Soundcloud, then I'll try to Shazam any tracks I like (50% chance in my type of music, underground electronic) or ask in the comments for "ID Please?". Then I usually add it to my YouTube playlist [0] (Premium, of course), which gives recommendations, and I try to buy the record on Discogs if available on vinyl, which also has a recommendation engine.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS9h1UWf2LH5VIR-lqJoM...

Everything in software (and life) is a trade-off and should be balanced and rebalanced. Something we just continuously fail to absorb in our true/false programmer brains, since everyone is always looking for those golden laws that always apply.

"Always give cute names", "Always give descriptive names", "FP is always good, OOP is always bad", "Always test first", "Always test later" etc.

Golden laws don't exist: Pick the best solution for your current situation and accept that your current situation will change. (Which is, again, a trade-off between now and the future!)

Living in The Hague, The Netherlands, my wife and I decided to indefinitely postpone owning a car for our two young kids (4 and 2) and buy a Gazelle Makki [0] and I must say I absolutely love it so far. My oldest can already ride her bike, but not everywhere, so having a car analogue is very convenient. Long distances we do by train or plane.

[0] https://www.gazellebikes.com/en-gb/makki-load

But even if this is true (and I definitely believe there is merit to f2f interactions), it will come down to the labor market in every respective sector. Software engineers, for example, are in short demand, so if they prefer WFH, they will go to a company that offers that to them. Obviously not every job is appropriate for WFH, [insert YMMV disclaimer here]

Agreed, although that is actually my own phrasing, so I'm probably to blame here :)

Interestingly I see some startup founders (e.g. Delian from Varda Space) and some SF VC types on Twitter lobbying against WFH, so I wonder how long startups will be different from BigCo's. At the mean time my current client (a large Dutch insurance company) actually promotes WFH and says they will never go above an average office occupancy of 40%, which translates roughly to 2 mandatory office days per week.

So we're on the road to creating "droplets"? (Dark Forest reference)

Offtopic: Can we please bury the phrase "only time will tell" already?

Ahhh, my first lines of code were BASIC <3

Btw, slightly related, if you want to do some BASIC from a Scala context, check this out: https://github.com/tpolecat/basic-dsl

RIP Martin Kersten. I took his undergraduate course at the University of Amsterdam. MonetDB was his professional baby. Nice guy.

You are unemployed, so I cannot judge your financial means, but I keep seeing this pop up in my feeds and it might be cool for you and your daughter to build together: https://www.kiwico.com/

Yes! Also a legend. Saw him live and it was, of course, amazing

I've loved Legowelt since Discoroute. As other people pointed out he's very prolific. His dj sets are a treat too. Check out his SoundCloud!

As an electronic music fan I never thought I'd discover a new artist on HN. Those first two tracks are massive. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting, I thought some of his articles were well put together. Do you have a source for that gossip? Would love get both sides of the story.

This article details some solutions to programming interrupts in Rust on the Arduino Un

You filled in a lot of gaps in my GIL knowledge. Today I learned something new. Thank you for writing it!

That sounds a lot like Rubber Duck Debugging [0]. I do it all the time and in my first full-time job, my colleagues gave me an actual rubber duck. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

This seems like the brain child of one ambitious smart person that still needs to receive feedback from the outside world.

For sure those are relevant filters, but as a first pass filter consider if someone is proficient in more than one language, especially for more senior positions.

It can be difficult to plan your next development step, or know who to hire. How do you build and recognize the good from the mediocre experience? Consider polyglots: People that can program in multiple languages.

I <3 Discogs. Such a great site. The Marketplace is a drain on my wallet, but hey, everybody needs a hobby :)

Was also rolling my eyes at that one. Furthermore, if you are this concerned with the refactoring limitations of your IDE, then don't use Python, but the Scala or Java API instead.

Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkuLcK2KG4