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jerrygenser··on Edit is now open source
Zellij is a good example of a tui with shortcuts in the UI. Helped me learn them way better than I would have otherwise
jerrygenser··on The first year of free-threaded Python
Ok so a better example of what you describe might be vscode.
jerrygenser··on Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023)
You can absolutely change the keybindings, vim is programmable.
jerrygenser··on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
The krebs on security detail was published just yesterday. While it's the same event, krebs is an authoritative source which has more detail than the npr source.
jerrygenser··on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
It's not flagged. Is it shadow banned? Is that a thing in hacker news?
jerrygenser··on Google is winning on every AI front
Try aider.chat - it is a cli you can add files for context and it will make edits to the code directly via a commit.
jerrygenser··on Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn
Portfolio diversification
jerrygenser··on Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres
What we did was mock it to make the http request blocking.

Alternatively you can use ngrok(or similar) and a test task queue that is calling your service running on localhost tunneled via ngrok.

jerrygenser··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
This is a regressive tax that hurts low skill and low wage workers proportionately more since basic necessities of life are going to increase in price - it will be a much larger share of wallet than rich. This will not materially change purchasing behavior of very rich (save maybe waiting to buy a car due to increased pricecs)

It would be beneficial to increase taxes on the massive service economy and use the proceeds to subsidize lower wage industries.

In trumps first term after tariffs affected farmers, they had to subisidize them to keep them afloat. It didn't quite work the way it was intended. The trade war relief program in the first term spent $30bn keeping farmers afloat.

jerrygenser··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
trevor milton donated $2mm to trumps re-election campaign. he got pardoned. any bribe is not nothing if $2mm gets you off after doing brazen fraud.
jerrygenser··on BigQuery pricing model cost us $10k in 22 seconds
When I started using bigquery almost 10 years ago, it was obvious from the documentation and running queries in the console that LIMIT does not change the price of the query since it doesn't change the data that needs to be scanned.

The user even highlights numerous places in the documentation and hints in the UI which communicate BQ pricing model... so it's interesting they decide to post that it's hidden or dark pattern.

Bigquery has a feature in pre-release stage which will be useful for a limit-like experience while incurring much lower cost.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/table-sampling

jerrygenser··on Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022)
Nope, i don't think they should or need to be able to.

These exercises are useful for mathematical maturity which results in intuition needed to develop novel algorithms or low level optimizations.

Not needed to use existing train and deploy ML algorithms in general.

jerrygenser··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
Basically give it read access to your cloud account, and it will scan all of the resources to identify potential miss-configurations. Identifying CVE in software is one thing, but it's identifying incorrectly configured resources that would otherwise be secure can dramatically reduce the risk surface.

A lot of cloud providers already have little hints like "hey - did you mean to create this account in God mode?" or "It is recommended not to create this god mode json key file" - Wiz is taking this to the next level of detail

jerrygenser··on uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
I've used uv with pytorch and cuda fine. What problem have you had?

I also use it in docker to build the container.

jerrygenser··on Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
I suppose siglipv2 wasn't out yet when they were training this - I wonder if there will be an update to the multimodal models or pali-gemma which utilizes Siglip2. Aya Vision from Cohere utilized siglip 2 to great effect
jerrygenser··on Canada Retaliates, Puts Tariffs on $107B of US Products
> They have $57T in debt, look at that number, it is 3x their GDP.

Where are you getting this $57T number from? Most sources put it closer to $2.5-$3T max

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202312/29/cont...

jerrygenser··on NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable
Is this page correct, indicating they are undergoing maintenance?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/down/

jerrygenser··on A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
DOGE moving under the presidents executive office instead of as a separate agency seemed to be done for the purpose of shielding DOGE From FOIA and only subject to President Records Act
jerrygenser··on Is Ketamine Neurotoxic?
ketamine has become a very popular party drug in the UK so the stigma might have been significantly less, and therefore the perception of safety
jerrygenser··on RamaLama
122 points 2 hours ago yet this is currently #38 and not on the front page.

Strange. At the same time I see numerous items that are on the front page posted 2 hours or older with fewer points.

I'm willing to take a reputation hit on this meta post. I wonder why this got demoted so quickly from front page despite people clearly voting on it. I wonder if it has anything to do with being backed by YC.

I sincerely hope it's just my miss understanding of hn algorithm though

jerrygenser··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
I like that the paper describes some alternate approaches they tried but which did not yield great results. Often only the successful result is published and explored but unsuccessful alternatives are not.
jerrygenser··on Lines of code that will beat A/B testing every time (2012)
I believe hacker news automatically truncates the number at the beginning of titles
jerrygenser··on Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
In capitalism, that's how it's designed, yes. Everything else is "religion" to distract from this fact.
jerrygenser··on The Nvidia Way
The article says Nvidia stock price was $4 in 2019... However I recall it being higher. I wonder if this number is after multiple stock splits (1:4 and 1:10 since then) looking back?
jerrygenser··on Show HN: Map of YC Startups
they don't have meaning by themselves. they are two dimensions that umap projected the original embeddings down to in order to show a combination of local neighborhood similarity or closenes
jerrygenser··on Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
API is accessible via Vertex AI on Google Cloud in preview. I think it's also available in the consumer Gemini Chat.
jerrygenser··on From where I left
He has stock options in redis labs, so existing financial ties - although he mentions in his blog his comp for coming isn't wild, I wonder what the option package looks like
jerrygenser··on Janet for Mortals (2023)
Off topic - a separate blog post by TFA got me into split mechanical keyboards. It helped me after years of shoulder and wrist pain. Highly recommend exploring other posts by Ian.
jerrygenser··on Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
I didn't know either. I searched has died and limited the search to 24 hours and figured it that way.
jerrygenser··on The Practical Guide to Scaling Django
Seo and marketing to sell their product is the reason it exists.
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