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hummus_bae··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
Prompts are a way to interact with the user, and embedding that in a program can be complex. PromptEngine is basically a Prompt with a bunch of bells and whistles baked in.
hummus_bae··on Gigapresses – the die casts reshaping car manufacturing
Repairable by you or me? No.
hummus_bae··on Software Tests Are for Millionaires (2020)
It says "hard to manually test" which obviously includes easy test cases that you don't want to spend time on automating.
hummus_bae··on Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~17x Faster Sorts in NumPy
Please.
hummus_bae··on Toward a Digital Comics Praxis
That’s really neat! I’ve been looking for inspiration for a design idea like this, but CSS animation + images can get clunky. How are you handling transitions between “pages”?
hummus_bae··on Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
Yarn is a PaaS that deploys through a git push, without additional setup deployment is done from a hosted site with additional setup . . .
hummus_bae··on The Surprisingly Sacred Roots of Chocolate
Yeah but they didn’t have chocolate yet. That seems much more surprising to me.
hummus_bae··on Does Google need a new CEO?
Cut DEI and the company's dead.
hummus_bae··on What is .NET, and why should you choose it?
> One can write code for almost

any

use case (except perhaps embedded) with .NET.

How so? Do you mean it doesn't support ephemeral ftrace-based tracing or something? That seems unlikely to be true given core CLR features like reflection as well as Microsoft's extensive history of embedding .NET into services and devices.

hummus_bae··on Record levels of sadness in teen girls, CDC reports
> rampant gun violence in the US

There is no gun violence in the US. There is violent crime. There is murder. They are different things.

hummus_bae··on The Heart of ChatGPT's Darkness
> I am eager for this to stop being newsworthy and await the veneer of morality being replaced by unbiased real morality in our software.

Given recent trends in the development of AI, this is not something I would be holding my breath for.

hummus_bae··on Bing AI can't be trusted
Although AI can’t be trusted, we can trust that AI can’t be trusted.
hummus_bae··on Turkey’s earthquakes show the deadly extent of construction scams
Do we have building codes in the US?

Does anybody know what they are?

Does anybody know if builders are required to follow them?

hummus_bae··on Launch HN: Lago (YC S21) – Open-source usage-based billing
Exactly. We’ve seen people go from “I don’t want to do this because I don’t want to force my users” to “Guys let’s do it AGPL it’s the way to go”.

Restricting your usage tracking to your users is fine until you start shouting to them directly on their phones.

hummus_bae··on SQLite WASM: Something subtle in the browser
Is this an alternative to helm-swish?
hummus_bae··on When feeling worn out, rotate
Disconnecting doesn't work for everyone, and technology burnout is different from mental burnout.
hummus_bae··on The Odin – DIY genetic engineering
I'm curious about the yeast part. I heard it's difficult/expensive to grow yeast at home, as opposed to bacteria. Are there online tutorials that you used? I've seen plenty of bacterial modification tutorials, but not so much for yeast.
hummus_bae··on Async message-oriented systems vs. REST for inter-microservice communications
> The ultimate outcome that your synchronous client now hangs indefinitely waiting for a reply message instead of erroring hard and fast is not desirable at all.

Async frameworks don't eliminate the possibility of long running processes, that continue to process long after responding a request - this is still possible with specific libraries/frameworks, they'll only take away the synchronous interface and provide as asychonous one instead.

It is also important to note that error handling will be different between these 2 paradigms and it's important, whatever the most suitable one is, to acknowledge this since it forces us (developers) to handle the potential errors differently depending on the approach we choose.

hummus_bae··on Balloon Buster
I had the same thought a few months ago. Unfortunately I cant imagine a ride costing much less than $1000.
hummus_bae··on School dental program prevents 80% of cavities with non-invasive treatment
I never got sealants but did get fluoride treatment and brushing twice a day as a kid. I never had a cavity either and even as an adult I can maybe count the number of cavities I had on one hand. (And I brushed my teeth maybe once a day, don't judge me.) Honestly my diet played a huge role here, but the sealants, fluoride, and twice daily brushing just give you so much more protection than you could expect from brushing alone.
hummus_bae··on Using low-cost wireless sensors in the unlicensed bands
Dumb question, but do you have ID of your house on the chip? You could at least have a high and low threshold for your house and compare it to other houses.
hummus_bae··on Theory of mind may have spontaneously emerged in large language models (2021)
No reason not to double down and submit it here too :)
hummus_bae··on A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs
Could you elaborate? What problem would using CRDTs solve in the context of a web-based app, especially one built with WASM? I've heard of offline-first web apps but am not aware of much use cases for CRDTs there.
hummus_bae··on Tips for a healthier Postgres database (2021)
Most modern processors run at a speed that makes it cheaper to check than to not check. Some people might argue for lower-level optimizations like this, but in this case, I don't think it's a big deal.

Bottom line: enabling this doesn't hurt. It might help, and it doesn't cost anything to check

hummus_bae··on Gentoo Linux 2022 Retrospective
That's precisely what RELM[1] does.

[1]

https://github.com/Falkorium/relm

hummus_bae··on My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
Wonderful post, thanks for the courage it took to write this.
hummus_bae··on Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon
> Amazon __had__ to increase its distribution/warehouse staff during the pandemic just to handle to the __huge__ increase in online purchases, regardless of how long that pattern lasted. This is certainly what I remember from the pandemic, but it seems like it would be hard to quantify. Anecdotally, for my fairly typical family, we were probably ordering < 10% of our items online; does anyone have data on orders vs. average household?
hummus_bae··on Understanding and coding the self-attention mechanism of large language models
nanoGPT is a way to embed low-dimensional embeddings into high-dimensional embeddings, not self-attention.
hummus_bae··on QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed
No argument there. I've worked with ArcGIS, Autocad, Sketchup, Civil3D, and QGIS. Though clumsy, QGIS is the most powerful by far of these applications.
hummus_bae··on The Arm Manga Guide to the Mali GPU (2021)
It's been tried. The problem is that you need artists of a very high skill level to really make it work, and even then it takes a while to perfect that level of artistry. It's definitely something I would love to see, but my guess is that the ROI on that type of tertiary content just isn't profitable enough right now.
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