I was genuinely afraid of this post hitting HN, but thank you for the kind words.
I was terrified to look up through the comments after reading the article, but HN truly surprised me today.
Readit Newstmearnest commented on I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD
tmearnest commented on The creatives pushing nail art to sculptural new lengths cnn.com/2024/08/19/style/... · Posted by u/mooreds
Worse than that. I mean, let people do what they want to themselves, and function has always been sacrificed for fashion, but this kind of thing is a step on the road to foot binding.
It’s art. Same as all other high fashion. No one is wearing these nails on the subway.
tmearnest commented on Waymo illegal overtake into wrong-way driving old.reddit.com/r/SelfDriv... · Posted by u/stefan_
It’s kinda funny that the Waymo car is so impatient. I’m pretty sure in this situation I would have just waited until the group ride cleared out to ahead of me and then continued. I would not want to crowd or find my way around them. If I wanted to get past such a big group ride I would probably reroute onto another block since they would keep catching me at stop lights.
Once I saw that Waymo rage pass all of those bicyclists, I knew we finally solved self driving cars.
tmearnest commented on MSFT's WizardLM2 models have been taken down huggingface.co/WizardLM/W... · Posted by u/null_point
Toxicity testing? That a self-imposed requirement by Microsoft?
I don’t think they forgot about Tay.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-...
tmearnest commented on A CD Spectrometer (2006) cs.cmu.edu/~zhuxj/astro/h... · Posted by u/wcrossbow
tmearnest commented on Ask HN: Down to $16, had 4 job offers rescinded; in crisis mode, where to turn? · Posted by u/lostrubyist
Callbacks haven't been an issue and this resume has historically served me well. I've made edits to it, though, based on yours and other suggestions. I appreciate it.
ChatGPT is amazing for neurodivergent folk. When I was applying for jobs this summer, I just word vomited a stream of consciousness professional biography into a text document. I then used this as context for chatgpt to help me write cover letters and resumes. If you want to be especially clever you can also include the job posting. Just be very careful to change up some of the language otherwise it’ll smell like AI.
tmearnest commented on GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.... · Posted by u/imdsm
>and parallelism can cause numbers to be added in a different order from execution to execution
Parallelism doesn't magically add non-determinism of this kind unless you intentionally build it to be non deterministic. Nothing prevents you from processing an array in order in parallel.
No. The problem is in a reduction op of some sort (sum or whatever). Since there no guarantee of the order you receive the terms for the reduction, the nondeterminism enters from order of terms reduced. Since float math isn't associative, there will be slight differences depending on the order and these can amplify quickly over a deep net.
You would have to explicitly order the terms prior to reduction but you don't always have that level of control.
tmearnest commented on SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere spaceweatherarchive.com/2... · Posted by u/wawayanda
I applaud the attempt to quantify.
Couple nits: - frequency estimate should be more aggressive, should be looking for an upper bound on all numbers to quantify max potential impact. I would crank that up to once a day or more.
- a hole allowing twice as much sounds like a comolete guess. Could it be 100x, 10,000x? or perhaps less than 10%? Other comments make the ozone layer sound more important. The hole punching effects on that layer are unknown (to me and the article does not mention it). In effect, this could be a light show, or it could be a routine perforation of each layer of the atmosphere (more data needed)
- that extra radiation is not spread out across the area of the earth. Instead how many people and animals are present under that hole. Everyone underneath the hole presumably would get the full blast. Thus, it is simple, those people get twice the radiation, whatever that factor is, it is not averaged across the whole planet because it is a local effect. Thus, the area sizes only matter for determining how many people and animals receive extra exposure.
- starlink donated their services to Ukraine. That one act of donation does not make it a public good. Starlink is a for profit service, not a public good (some services can be quite good, but that is different from "a public good")
Yup, I don’t believe there are any consequences to anyone away from the hole.
I think the right way to approach this is to consider the unshielded radiation flux over the hole and the time that the hole takes to close. This would give a good back of envelope upper bound of the increase in cancer risk. There’s probably other effects, but all I care about is harm to individuals.
tmearnest commented on macOS command-line tools you might not know about saurabhs.org/advanced-mac... · Posted by u/Gadiguibou
I just freaked out my cat using `say`. I'm going to enjoy this too much.
I used to work at a 24 hr end user tech support call center. They didn’t use Macs, but we had a machine for the techs to use to understand what the customer is looking at. I wrote a script to sleep until late at night then start saying weird/creepy stuff to mess with the overnight crew.
tmearnest commented on Conjugate Acids and Bases en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman