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Looks neat!

I wonder how "permissive seeders" would be protected from folks pushing large binary files.

Also, wouldn't storing everything about the repo make it very large? Even when cloning large git projects, it is from time to time necessary to make a "shallow clone" to avoid downloading hundreds of megabytes per repo. I imagine with all discussions it would be worse.

I rerun vimtutor from time to time, because I still don't remember every trick from it. I've recently tried to read the whole embedded "introductory documentation" on a train, learned a lot, but probably need to do it again. Setting every option in the .vimrc seems a nice exercise, will need to do it some time! I like to nuke my config from time to time anyway. (My experience with Vim is about 14 years I think.)

This nerd-sniped me. I think we should separate "chess board" and "chess game state" as two different problems. For "chess board", we don't consider any castling, en-passant or similar. We might store a bit for "who goes next". This is useful for chess puzzles where state shenanigans are rare (I think).

But if we store castling state, I think we are already trying to store the whole game state, and this is representable only by full history because of move repeating rules.

So, I think storing board state as a sequence of moves is more interesting. I would estimate that a number of possible actions on average is closer to 8 than to 16, so it would give as 3 bits for half-move and 6 bits for full move. 24-move game could be represented with 18 bytes, which is considerably lower than 26 bytes!

You can get close to average bit per move, if you reuse "spare" places for the next move. So, for instance, first move have 20 possibilities, which is representable by 5 bits, but you can reuse "spare" 32-20=12 possibilities as a bit for the next move.

This is a representation assuming you use only "move validator" thing that returns a list of possible moves. I think that if you use a chess engine that would output you a probability distribution of possible moves, you can compress noticeably better on average, but decoding would be slow.

Huh, and that works? Sounds a bit… old-fashioned? I’d think people are looking for these services online or in some gig work app. Interesting. Sounds unpleasant both for workers that have to hang around on the street, and customers that are approached (at least that’s how I imagine it) by people offering services even when they don’t need it. (Or do customers approach workers themselves?) From the outside, sounds weird. I wonder what in the US caused it.

I am confused about the situation. Can someone with more context please explain? Is HomeDepot forcing their own workers off the parking lot? Or are there some other workers there? What do they do on a parking lot? Are they in cars or on foot? Why do they stay on the parking lot the whole day, if they are not HomeDepot employees?

It’s good, I like it. I think that it might become easier to use if:

- The whole item is clickable for the pick

- Picked state is indicated clearly, possibly by hovering the item

- You click on the item itself to place, or possibly anywhere on the screen

SEEKING WORK

Remote, located in Armenia

ML Engineer

I worked at largest European tech companies and YC startups. I have ML education from a top uni. I have 8+ years of ML experience.

Working in large companies, I've trained large language models myself, which helps me to understand what makes an LLM tick. I worked on a web-scale RAG system at a major search engine company before this term was popular.

I am a generalist, proficient with Python, but also capable with Rust, C++, Javascript. I can serve as a fractional CTO, capable both as a leader and as a highly efficient individual contributor.

nkruglikov at icloud dot com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolai-kruglikov https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01c8f478cd3c93ab65

Second Primitive Technology (don't forget to turn on the captions). Don't recommend Technology Connections to be honest (a lot of talk to the camera, I prefer videos that show things that can't be conveyed via text).

Here's the channels I like, in no particular order:

- https://www.youtube.com/@TechIngredients Thumbnails and titles are clickbaity, but don't let that fool you. One of the most thorough channels. Polymath like Applied Science.

- https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics Optical Systems and connected topics from a veteran of the field

- https://www.youtube.com/@Borgedesigns Designing 3d-printed tools

- https://www.youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight Like Applied Science, but trying to do stuff with easily acquirable materials

- https://www.youtube.com/@AdvancedTinkering Chemistry and vacuum tech

- https://www.youtube.com/@ExcessiveOverkill Hardware projects, one of the biggest is controlling an industrial robot arm, but others are cool too

- https://www.youtube.com/@SamZeloof Reached home-made semiconductors

- https://www.youtube.com/@projectsinflight Trying to reach home-made semiconductors

- https://www.youtube.com/@christopherhelmke Building industrial 3d-printed parts sorting system

- https://www.youtube.com/@MariusHornberger Most thorough woodworker

- https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingTaps Like Applied Science, but with more free time

- https://www.youtube.com/@benmakeseverything Cool hardware projects

- https://www.youtube.com/@ancientjames Holograms

- https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed More entertaining than educational, but a prominent chemistry channel

- https://www.youtube.com/@BenEater Classic: made computer on a breadboard

- https://www.youtube.com/@theCodyReeder Like Applied Science, but more outdoors type; builds a Martian-like base

- https://www.youtube.com/@colinfurze A welding guy with extremely high energy, builds underground garage

- https://www.youtube.com/tomstantonengineering Hardware projects mostly about flying stuff

- https://www.youtube.com/@mymechanics Machining guy restoring things; currently restores a car by individually handling every nut and bolt (yes)

- https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate Hardware / Chemistry projects, made liquid nitrogen with disassembled AC units in a long-running series of attempts

It takes some sifting to find some really good “making” channels on YT. I’ve watched this video and while I applaud author’s efforts, I don’t consider this type of content “good enough” to be subscribing. It felt overproduced and with too epic tone, while giving too little detail on the process, the experimentation, the actual solution (he said ratios are important, but what ratios did he use) and no thorough explanation of what is happening.

The golden standard is Applied Science channel, of course, but there are some smaller channels with similar vibe.

When I think about problems with Customary Units, I think not about decimality, but that the units are too disconnected. For example, there are BTUs and HPs that mean the same thing (power), but are wildly non-connected both to each other and to other units. While in SI, a Watt is Joule per second, a Joule is Newton times meter, a Newton is kilogram times meters per second squared, and voila, you have arrived at basic units. Your AC, your PC and your electric car have power consumption in the same units, and the same units are on your bill. This is what valuable, and not Greek prefixes.

Don’t see it mentioned in the comments, but the names liblupa and libpupa are based on a penis joke.

The joke is this:

Lupa and Pupa received their paycheques, but the accountant messed up, so Lupa received payment belonging to Pupa, and Pupa — belonging to Lupa.

“To Lupa” sounds like “dick head” when translated to Russian. The ending reads as if Pupa received a dick head, which means that he didn’t receive anything.

I am not sure, but it could that the entire post intent is to get English-speaking folks to discuss “libpupa” and “liblupa”.

See also ArchiveBox, which supports YT saving as well, but can save other content too

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

I like this: https://webdraft.hu/fonts/classic-console/

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590910

Very cool! Your page could do with some screenshots, but even now, I hope I’ll remember about your project next time I break out my Quest 2.

I’ve come to hate Notion with passion because of its abysmal performance, but I still pay for it for my small business. My non-technical employees use it as a database for clients, tasks, payments etc. I tried to research replacements several times, and still haven’t found anything good. Sometimes I wonder if I should build my own.

Love it, I think it's very cool! I am not sold on its "everlasting" promise yet, but as an addition to the family of "fantasy" platforms seems very solid.

Funnily enough, this looks like the same surname with a Persian root for “stone carver” and Armenian and Russian surname suffixes. Given Persian origins, one can speculate that it was russified rather than armenified. So Kardashev’s ancestors might be Kardashians!

I didn’t find this in the article, and am still confused. Do they boil their water? Doesn’t it help with disease? There was one example of the family spending time collecting firewood equal to time collecting water, but boiling was still missing. Also, what about filtering? You can do it with charcoal.

I was raised to both filter and boil tap water before drinking. I don’t understand why these aspects are not mentioned when discussing safe drinking water.

I use pomodoro, and I think it helps with that problem. Every break, I also add a short record in my “log” file. I can still become obsessed, but happens more rarely, and I am more aware of the obsession, because it usually means I start ignoring the timer.

It is not plainly stated in the article, but as far as I understand, the first step of one of the attacks is to take the smartphone off a dead soldier’s body.

I got that feeling because of adjectives like “innovative”. Thought that it might be impolite to imply that in the comments, and was relieved that someone already did.

The premise of the article is still interesting.

I am not sure about using UPPERCASE in prompts for emphasis. I feel intuitively that uppercase is less “understandable” for LLMs because it is more likely to be tokenized as a sequence of characters. I have no data to back this up, though.

What is a pet war?

I don’t think they are shilling, but they look a bit obsessed with the topic. I wanted to point out to them how this looks from the outside.

I thought people stopped using Redis and moved on to a fork because of licensing issues. Is this true?

In contrast with the other commenter in this thread, I don't think of it with relation to "hurting others". I think of it as losing rationality and coherency, and being plagued by delusions [1]

Your product is a good idea. However, the presentation was met with confusion by many readers on this submission. In fact, one person used the phrase "fever dream". This is the thing I am talking about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion

I agree with you. I think the world is built by neuro-divergent people.

However, I read your comments and your writings (for example, [1]), and was left with impression similar to viewing pictures of famous Wain Cats [2].

I wish you and your product success. But it could be difficult to reach success if one is not well.

The essay I linked is from a very prominent developer, Kenneth Reitz. He is the author of the most used Python library, `requests`. In the essay, he describes how it felt to be manic from the inside.

[1] https://if.openages.com/blog [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain#/media/File:Louis_w...

Dear matrixages, I recommended this essay to you because I think you might be going through a dangerous manic episode. It might feel as a productivity and creativity boost, but it is an illusion. I think you should do a quick evaluation with psychiatrist — just in case.

Yes, on digging deeper into the site and reading comments here, I think it’s related.