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It's very sad how illiberal hackernews gets when it comes to H-1B visas and immigration in general. People will say that they are concerned about the welfare of H-1B holders because they can't leave their jobs but I've literally never heard anyone suggest an improvement (better portability, etc). Instead all anyone talks about is how bad it is that they have to compete against people from around the world. I think people are just afraid of a true meritocracy and maybe that's a bearish signal for the industry overall.

Are there types of disability insurance you can buy that would cover you as a software engineer in case something like this happens and you're not able to go back to work or not work as effectively in this field? Does anyone have experiences with this?

What are some good ways to participate if you don't have an HF radio? (Alternatively, what's a good way to get into HF if you live in a small apartment)?

(I already have my license)

I was hit by this while working on a project for class and it was the most frustrating thing ever. The bot would completely hallucinate functions and docs and it confused everyone. I found one post where someone did the simple prompt injection of "ignore previous instructions and x" and it worked but I think it's delted now. Swore off ultralytics after that.

Static linker supporter here, not to start a flame war but I like static linking because it means I don't have to worry about version mismatches of shared libraries between what I ship and what the user gets.

It's been a while since I took electrostatics, but I don't understand the theory behind this. If the rolls become charged and you are presumably neutral, wouldn't they attract you rather than repel you? That's what makes me think this story is apocryphal.

I agree with some of the other comments here that the prompt is limiting. The model can't do any computation without emitting tokens and limiting the numbers of tokens it can emit is going to limit the skill of the model. It's surprising that any model at all is capable of performing well with this prompt in fact.

GPUs Go Brrr 2 years ago

AI models are not all matrix multiplications, and they tend to involve other operations. Also, they change super fast, much faster than hardware cycles, so if your hardware isn't general-purpose enough, the field will move past you and obsolete your hardware before it comes out.

[dead] 2 years ago

Given the detrimental health impacts of heat, I think governments should establish a "right to cool," similar to the right to drinking water. Humans have adapted to their environments so this may not have been necessary in the past, but as climate change occurs, those environments may get warmer faster than people can adapt, and we may see large numbers of deaths and illnesses unless we do something.

What they mean is code review prior to merging into what you'd call main or trunk or master or release, not for committing your WIP changes or whatever (unless you want those merged at that stage).

Oscilloscope Music 3 years ago

I have an oscilloscope at home and want to see these, what's the best way that doesn't involve stripping and soldering wires? The best solution I've come up with is stereo aux -> RCA adapter, then two RCA -> BNC adapters. Is there a better way of viewing these?