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Fazel94··on Build a coding agent in 306 lines of Python
This is about demystifying what coding agent would do.
Fazel94··on How to Make Your ML Experiments Reproducible with DVC (Step‑by‑Step) [video]
Here I introduce DVC a neat tool to help with reproducibility of your ml projects.
Fazel94··on CalVer 26.0: 10th Anniversary Edition
Python rejected 3.YY versioning (PEP 2026) on a close vote. we were THIS close to Python versions meaning something.
Fazel94··on Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
Subscribed, Software Engineer, for development.
Fazel94··on Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
Tor exists for that, extend support to it.
Fazel94··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
I didn't get which is which at last.
Fazel94··on Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?
It was a technique of studying in a book, not the content, In "Introduction to the Theory of Computation" Sipser precedes every proof with a "proof idea" basically examining meaning of each statement before the "pencil pushing". You wouldn't miss the forest while watching the trees like this.
Fazel94··on Ask HN: Tech Layoffs, What Are the Effects of Them on the Job Market?
IMO, obvious one is decrease in salary increases(maybe to the usual 2-3 percent).

Next one is job hopping is going to be harder(can't get much more by that).

Foreigners are going to have harder time(maybe even halved, though their lower expectation can play well into the hands of the companies).

Remote work by foreigners are sought after(major increase).

Fazel94··on I am done. I give up
One of the original startup influencers of his time.
Fazel94··on Ask HN: How to break anxiety/fear-avoidance cycle?
Here is a concise way to make it work. https://thrive.kaiserpermanente.org/care-near-you/northern-c...
Fazel94··on Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?
Sipser's book was the point I tried to give up pencile-pushing/parroting, before every proof there is a "Proof Idea" that really fills the gap between the theorems and proof, and the more important ideas you should take away, I suddenly realized every thing I learned had this discontinuity between things you do in problems and proofs, and the general understandings and usefulness and philosophy behind it.
Fazel94··on Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?
Most of its value comes from the hype of 400k electric charging stations promised by the US, i.e. promise of growth, that attract money, and money attracts money, and free money paid as PPP creates even more money.

One quarter it was going negative on profits, so he pump and dumped crypto to keep it positive and the hype going.

It either produce most of the world's cars or it is going to fall out and I hope we wouldn't be the one facing the consequences, but we will :))

Fazel94··on Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?
You realize you have been treated the same as somebody that 2k was all his belongings and now walked without cash to the private security firm :))))

For what history says about such firms, look up Pinkerton agents and London's policing before the current system.

Fazel94··on German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
The "hard to be compatible" is a feature by design. If it was easy MS would have lost its biggest advantage by now.
Fazel94··on German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
The thing that costs 7$/user/month(home version)+119$ for Windows 10 Home is better than the thing that is free, Gee, I wonder why is that? Everyone should use the thing that costs a lot of money for it to just make sense.

Over 15 years you would be paying 1260$(paid 7 per month) for the office. 119$ for windows.

Fazel94··on Restic – Backups Done Right
In my experience, the deduplication on SQL dumps is way inferior to borg, even without the compression.
Fazel94··on Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’
"Tim Cook"(TM) sold one billion dollars worth of iPhones in 2019 :) yet the appstore and all others are blocking Iran.
Fazel94··on Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’
As of today, Iranian Chief of Navy is a Sunni.
Fazel94··on Prince Philip has died
Most men in 1943 didn't took part in govs taking the food in such a scale that cause a famine with 2 million dead. So I would give them a pass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India#Bengal_famine_...
Fazel94··on Prince Philip has died
It is in answer to "spend his life to serve the country" part, thus a totally called for clarification.
Fazel94··on That XOR Trick (2020)
> Arithmetic operators instead of XOR In that case, It uses Python that supports arbitrary long numbers out of the box so overflow of integers wouldn't be an issue(in Python3 default is arbitrary long integers).
Fazel94··on That's not how 2FA works
Is GPG Auth the answer?

It is tied to the site keys and not the address nor even the CAs.

It forces you to check and think before doing your thing.

And It is easier to use than 2FA, since it is one factor, open your key one time, the key auths you as long as you want.

Fazel94··on GitHub is fully available in Iran
As an Iranian who watched a lot of porn back home, it is not true. In 2006 it was limited speed though, and censored, so if I watched porn, I would have to be on VPN or proxy.

The cause: Iran has free government run universities, so education is a big thing here. Go to Stanford EE department, you would be surprised by seeing that many Iranians.

Fazel94··on GitHub is fully available in Iran

  > ... country cannot find a proper job.  
As an Iranian who saw many people back home facing sanctions, those sanctions are enforced based on the country of residence and not origin. So refugees are okay to hire, as are Iranians currently residing in other countries.
Fazel94··on GitHub is fully available in Iran
If only that was possible and sustainable :)
Fazel94··on Ask HN: How did Apple manage to create such a better chip than Intel?
ARM is RISC , Intel and AMD are CISC, One important reason is their new pipelining facility.

Apple M1 has 16 units that can pipeline their instructions.

Meaning, they can reorder sequential instructions that aren't dependent on each other to run in parallel. That is not threads or anything, that can be and is being done in a single threaded program.

AMD and Intel have 4 units for reordering tops, because their architecture is CISC and on instruction can be up to 15 bytes. M1 is RISC and instructions are just 4 byte fixed-length. Thus architecturally it is easier to reorder instructions for RISC than CISC.

CISC were better because of the specific instructions but now Apple has stuffed their CPU with specific hardware for alot of things including machine learning, graphic processor and encryption, instead of specific instructions, Apple has specific hardware, and can do with less instructions.

And since they control hardware, software SDKs and OS they can actually get away with such radical changes. Intel and others can't, without a big change in industry.

Source: https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-32...

Fazel94··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
The best example are Police Unions :)

Though Teachers Unions would a counter example.

Fazel94··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
It is clearly Ray Tomlinson's fault for sending emails. Because anybody else on the list would have an army of defenders to argue for and bring to stall any change to reverse their negative effect.
Fazel94··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
I think the problem with nuclear energy is that it requires prior investment and return on investment is a little bit long(more than 4 years) and doesn't create enough jobs to be a sexy political option.
Fazel94··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
Then a Chernobyl would only bankrupt households and not a bunch of countries. It would be like healthcare in the United States. Families would go bankrupt since their reactor faces problems :)
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