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Re:Practical Foundations of Mathematics on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:50PM (#43196659)
For folks looking - The pdf you can find/buy has the math correctly rendered

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Foundations-Mathematics-Cam...

nit: this code snippet has a typo (dbWrite wasn't defined)

``` dbRead, _ := connectSqliteDb("dbname.db") defer dbRead.Close() dbRead.SetMaxOpenConns(runtime.NumCPU())

dbRead, _ := connectSqliteDb("dbname.db") defer dbWrite.Close() dbWrite.SetMaxOpenConns(1)

```

Re:Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016) on Sunday January 05, 2025 @09:43PM (#42607091)
Ah 2015 .... I was wondering where on earth he was finding chicken thighs for $0.88/lb
Re:MicroMac, a Macintosh for Under £5 on Sunday June 16, 2024 @04:53PM (#40700013)
mirror as it looks like the blog is getting overloaded: https://archive.ph/NXWOm
If this technology is generalizable to more LLM architectures, y'all can start messaging venture capitalists with a demo and they can help on the rest (pricing models, customers, etc).
Re:Every engineer should do a stint in consulting on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @11:53PM (#28547788)
different teams are very different but I also can say McK Analytics was +10 -- lots of invested and interesting people.

Though I do see that only 1/6 of my interview panel is still there 4 years later?

Re:On the destruction of America’s best high school on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:00PM (#24694099)
TJ Grad from '14. The school when i entered was mostly white kids + indians/east asians who spend a lot of time studying.
Integration with medical systems would be amazing; my friends at top tier universities (e.g. Berkeley) want mental care but aren't sure if it's covered

from my experience there has been a constant refrain about CAPS (Counseling and Psych - usually called CAPS in school systems) departments everywhere being

1) hard to access 2) underfunded 3) unresponsive

super excited for this product :)

Re:Triplebyte leaking PII on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:31PM (#23547064)
I don't understand how we can continually leak PII in the era of GDPR

Triplebyte leaking PII

To top off hidden public profile ramps last week, this week Triplebyte leaked PII by sending emails with all recipients in the "to" field, exposing a number of users and continuing it's cavalier attitude towards privacy.https://i.imgur.com/RrHZWZ8.png

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Which college if I may ask :) - I'm sure we have alumni here
1/2 of the triplebyte recruiters that reach out to me don't even reply
oo if i may ask -- where?
Stupid q: how is this different than all of the other neural network adversarial attack papers that have come out recently?

Why would 3d not be a subcase of that work?

Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe on Sunday September 15, 2019 @07:29PM (#20980084)
there's still quite a bit of different on the interconnect side + replaceability side
Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe on Sunday September 15, 2019 @07:28PM (#20980080)
not a typo; when you design for the typical x86 cluster it's a cluster - you expect components to die and you can throw away whole machines (i.e. expect failure). mainframes on the other hand keep chugging along no matter what.

the usual comparison is a cluster of cheap nodes vs a mainframe

Re:Streaming Cassandra at WePay on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:15AM (#20432520)
While that may be the case, this is not how Kafka is used within LI.
+1 ^ or if you (as you have here) have identified this as a important point, find a manager who agrees and work with them.

I have had the good luck to work for managers who handle the bureaucracy and I talk to other devs as needed and submit code

Re:Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:46AM (#18902557)
perhaps occluded since this is focused on introductory computer science students?
Re:Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:45AM (#18902555)
no background needed

Ask HN: Is it ethical for companies to commoditize open source projects?

Is it ethical for companies to commoditize open source projects (without giving back!) ?Is it the case that Sagemaker Notebooks (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/gs-setup-working-env.html) are just commoditzed Jupyter?As far as I know, Jupyter went through a very rough process evolving from ipython notebooks essentially /w giant amount of effort from Fernando Perez and...

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So in CMU it's quite easy to get into grad classes and you can start doing it as a freshman - there are generally a number of juniors+ in masters/phd classes
Re:Stephen Hawking has died on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @11:53PM (#16582155)
RIP one of the greatest physicists in human history
Re:CMU 15-721 Advanced Database Systems [video] on Sunday January 14, 2018 @04:43PM (#16146666)
+1 Pavlo is wonderful (in person as well)
Re:How to test a random number generator (2010) on Saturday December 30, 2017 @04:45PM (#16037796)
2/10 would not recommend for technical merit.

8/10 is nice if you want a handwavy human explanation of some rudimentary expectations in crypto

- author spends a few pages thinking about randomness - we have formal definitions of a RNG/PRNG.

- author does basic statistical tests, these seem very unconcerned with actual randomness - i'm not sure what the point is

- author really shouldn't be writing about crypto randomness if they don't do crypto

+1 to higher comment saying reading TAOCP instead.

Re:How Wi-Fi Works on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:06AM (#14836899)
I think he means people-who-work-with-routers basics :)
hehe hi :^) isn't this the slide show kayvon showed us at the research symposium?
Is there more comprehensive docs anywhere? I want to know what options to pass, and more detailed descriptions of what things do. The initial docs page looks like but after clicking through it seems like they all link to each other... so in summary I cant find anything I want :/

That currently would be the primary barrier to usage -- the docs arent very helpful.

Re:Ask HN: Underemployed and anxious. What would you do? on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:38AM (#13892450)
thank you for one of the most positive and helpful posts I've read on HN

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