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Re:Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @12:02AM (#39366700)
I will keep that in mind, sorry.
Re:Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @09:00PM (#39365446)
That site is straight out a hostile asshole design.
Re:OpenTTD on Saturday February 10, 2024 @07:33PM (#39331631)
Retirement goals.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT has become terrible for academic research on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:54PM (#39159730)
Have you seen Consensus? It has access to 200M papers.
Re:Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech? on Saturday January 27, 2024 @07:29AM (#39154984)
It's wildly insulting, defamatory, and detached from all reality on several levels, to classify Rust as snake oil.
Re:Induce Lucid Dreaming on Friday January 26, 2024 @06:26AM (#39141422)
Do you drink black or green tea? L-Theanine can make you have vivid dreams.
Re:Induce Lucid Dreaming on Friday January 26, 2024 @06:19AM (#39141369)
Melatonin also comes as a supplement.
Re:Induce Lucid Dreaming on Friday January 26, 2024 @06:10AM (#39141312)
What do you think makes you have these vivid dreams?

What "Behind-the-Scenes" technologies are you most excited about?

Hey HN,My ears always perk up when I hear about some interesting technologies. For example, I'm fascinated by real-time facial action analysis, DNA digital data storage, nuclear phone batteries, SS7, brain-computer interfaces, power analysis, and so on. These technologies may not make the headlines as often as artificial intelligence, but I still think they are very interesting.I'm curious to...

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Re:Ask HN: Good Books on Philosophy of Engineering on Friday January 19, 2024 @05:59PM (#39062534)
I'm curious as to how you feel about this[1]?

[1]: https://qntm.org/clean

Re:The Hacker News Top books of 2023 on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:25PM (#39046374)
Understood. Enjoy your break, you deserved it.
Re:The Hacker News Top books of 2023 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:29PM (#39036305)
Great job, loved the book. Is there a plan for another one, perhaps this time focusing on compilers?
Why do you think these books are interesting?
Re:Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking? on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:40AM (#38937013)
To clarify, the praiseful comment made me curious and I wanted to know what's so good about the book, so I went through the Table of Contents and noticed that the physical layer is missing. I was just trying to point out that this layer is equally important as others for someone looking to gain a good grasp of networking.
Re:Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking? on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:18AM (#38936869)
No. Why would I? I was merely commenting on the "best textbook out there to learn modern networking."
Re:Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking? on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:00PM (#38934163)
Just skimmed through the Table of Contents. There doesn't seem to be even a word on the physical layer.
Re:Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking? on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:03PM (#38921294)
When it comes to the networking theory, you can't go wrong with Andy Tanenbaum's book.
Re:Ask HN: Skills that give you the edge? on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:52PM (#38845390)
If you want to go deeper into this, there is the Manual that describes the action units and how to measure them, but you'll also want to read about how specific emotions manifest in humans. For that, some other Ekman's books are useful, in no particular order:

- Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security by Christopher Hadnagy, Paul Kelly F. & Paul Ekman (2014)

- Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions From Facial Expressions by Paul Ekman & Wallace V. Friesen (2003)

- Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life by Paul Ekman (2003)

- Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman (1992)

- Emotion in the Human Face: Guidelines for Research and an Integration of Findings by Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen, Phoebe Ellsworth, Arnold P. Goldstein & Leonard Krasner (1972)

- What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (2nd Edition) by Paul Ekman, Erika L. Rosenberg (2005)

- Why Kids Lie by Paul Ekman (1989)

Re:Ask HN: Skills that give you the edge? on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:24PM (#38844985)
Facial Action Coding System.

Ask HN: Skills that give you the edge?

Hey HN,I'm trying to think of some skills that give you the edge over others, either in a professional setting, or everyday life. In my eyes, those would be multilingualism, FACS, and having a thorough understanding of cognitive biases and logical fallacies.

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I'm leaning towards having a mastery-oriented (as opposed to performance-oriented) goal orientation. As such, I'm always focused on working to improve myself in a wide variety of things. There are no big goals for me, only directions. That said, I'm satisfied with the delta of where I'm at now minus where I had been this time last year. And, the direction I'm headed looks promising.
Re:Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders? on Saturday December 30, 2023 @04:59AM (#38814012)
Building git

https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

Build a blockchain from scratch in go

https://web3coach.gumroad.com/l/build-a-blockchain-from-scra...

Compiling to assembly from scratch

https://keleshev.com/compiling-to-assembly-from-scratch/

If anyone knows of similar books, don't hesitate to comment below.

Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? on Saturday December 30, 2023 @03:07AM (#38813584)
As the sibling comment says: my VPS is always on, and I can SSH into it from any of my machines, reattach to the screen session, and talk under the same nickname. Besides this, I'm never offline (barring things like netsplits). I'm not doing it for security reasons, although it does provide a level of indirection if your goal is to not expose your home IP address to everyone (getting a cloak is also useful when it comes to this).
Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:36PM (#38790096)
I can wholeheartedly recommend a terminal IRC client (e.g. irssi) in a screen session running on a VPS.
Re:Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024? on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:54AM (#38783848)
Proper profiling.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite tools? on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @06:32AM (#38781021)
I use Obsidian Sync.

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