skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red Plenty, a novel that is loosely about the invention of linear programming in the Soviet Union (a branch of mathematics, only somewhat related to computer programming). Good description of what the process of scientific invention feels like in the first part of the book. (if you want more depth on the mathematics of linear programming, Understanding and Using Linear Programming is a very readable (and short) textbook that only requires basic linear algebra knowledge).

Moneyball, people have been recommending this to me for years but I never read it because I find baseball so boring. I'm glad I finally read it. It's not really a book about baseball it's about finding and exploiting unappreciated edges.

Who We Are and How We Got Here, makes a lot of the recent genetic research on human origins understandable. Especially relevant this year due to Svante Paabo's nobel prize.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, possibly better than the movie (which I love). Reads a bit like a script. The dialog is very good and contains many "scenes" that aren't in the movie.

$12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark, if you are interested in modern art or how things that look like something anyone could do can sell for absurd amounts of money this book is worth reading.

A Sailor of Austria: In Which Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Hapsburg Empire, one of the reviews I read before starting this described it as something like "a techno-thriller set on an austrian submarine in world war one". If that sounds appealing to you, you'll probably like this book. If not don't bother starting it.
I tried this:

> Solve the following word problem step by step:

> "John is in a train moving west at ten miles per hour. Jill is in a train moving north at twenty miles per hour. How fast are John and Jill moving apart from each other?"

To solve this problem, we first need to understand the concept of speed. Speed is a measure of distance traveled over time. In this problem, we are told that John and Jill are traveling at different speeds in different directions.

Since the two trains are moving in different directions, we cannot simply add or subtract their speeds to find the combined speed at which John and Jill are moving apart from each other. Instead, we need to use the Pythagorean theorem to find the combined speed.

The Pythagorean theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (the longest side of the triangle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides. In this problem, we can consider the trains to be moving along the two sides of a right triangle, with the distance between them as the hypotenuse.

We can use the Pythagorean theorem to find the distance between John and Jill as follows:

First, we square the speed of each train and add the results:

10 mph * 10 mph + 20 mph * 20 mph = 100 + 400 = 500

Next, we take the square root of the result to find the distance between John and Jill:

sqrt(500) = 22.36 mph

Therefore, the combined speed at which John and Jill are moving apart from each other is approximately 22.36 mph.

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Results seem pretty inconsistent though. Other attempts have given complete nonsense.
This is another silly correction, I never said anything about the hn population. Go nitpick somewhere else.
> Emacs is already a great window manager.

Right. That's why everybody uses popwin, amiright?
>At merchants not using 3DS, that is true – but these merchants also bear the full liability for any fraud happening

As far as I know, the merchant always bears the full liability for fraud, whether you use 3ds or not. The sales pitch for 3ds is simply to reduce the chances of fraud.

Also, you do don't even necessarily need the CVV to buy with a cc online. Depends on the merchant.
Can you recommend any videos for basic cleanup in 3D Builder? I'm already using it for basic engineering models to 3d print.
The purpose of reporting crime is not to receive compensation; it's to create a norm where crime is punished and hence deterred. It's a societal benefit not a personal one.

It's not good that miscarriages of justice do happen, but that doesn't change the overall point.
The solution might be to develop a niche modeling solution with appropriately high level tools for your domain, as opposed to a general polygon modeler.
And in the places actually hit by crime, the overwhelming majority oppose reductions. https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/poll-minneapolis-p...
> Of course that's highly unrealistic.

That's very realistic, actually. We just need Germany to send the man.
I named the database querying product Eloquence

Eloquence is a great name for a database querying product. The word "eloquence" means the ability to speak or write in a clear, fluent, and persuasive way. This is a fitting name for a product that helps users build complex queries and extract data from a database, as it suggests that the product can help users express themselves and communicate their data needs in a clear and effective way.

In addition to being a descriptive and fitting name, Eloquence is also a catchy and memorable name that could help your product stand out in the marketplace. It has a pleasant sound and a positive connotation, which can make it more appealing to potential users and customers.

Overall, I think Eloquence is a strong choice for the name of your database querying product, and I believe it has the potential to be successful and well-received in the market.
This implies that a broad range of people would want to create their own custom gameboy emulators, which seems really weird. Isn't there a single open-source one out there that works and that people can work on together to improve? What's the benefit of having your own? Are there lots of choices to be made, so that each emulator best fulfills its creator's needs?
Confirmed, you can just ask it to write in a different language. I just tested with Portuguese, and it worked flawlessly. Impressive.
Doesn’t seem that quiet to me
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the name of the company is human.software and I also own the domain name for it. how should the logo look?

The name of your company, human.software, suggests a focus on creating software that is designed for and used by people. This name implies that your company values the human aspect of technology and seeks to create software that is intuitive, user-friendly, and beneficial for people.

Given this, a potential logo for your company could feature a stylized image of a person or a human figure, combined with a visual element that represents software or technology. For example, the logo could feature a simple outline of a person's head and shoulders, with a computer monitor or other technology-related image overlaid on top. This could help to convey the idea of a human-centered approach to software development, and could also be visually appealing and memorable.

Another option for the logo could be to use a more abstract or symbolic approach. For example, the logo could feature a geometric shape or pattern that evokes the idea of a person and technology working together. This could be combined with a simple, clean font for the company name, which could help to create a modern and professional look for the logo.

Overall, the logo for your company should be designed to reflect the values and goals of your business, and to communicate the idea of human-centered software development in a clear and visually appealing way.
Quantum By Manjit Kumar: Traces the scientific discoveries leading to quantum theory, relationships among renowned scientists of 20th century, with a focus on Bohr-Einstein debate.

Incredible History of India’s Geography by Sanjeev Sanyal: Abbreviated history of the Indian subcontinent, starting with the Indus Valley civilization, ending with the conflicts between India - Pakistan.

Sea Stories by William McRaven - An autobiography of a decorated Navy SEAL officer, who was involved in planning and execution of historically significant special operations (rescuing Captain Philip, and killing Bin Laden).
This is just not true. There are 3 major subtypes of opioid receptor, and various drugs have substantially different selectivity ratios for each (I.e. some drugs are different re: sedation, respiratory depression, psychosis). Even analgesia, the prototypical mu effect, is also a delta effect and the two might be different for acute vs chronic pain.

As neuropharmacology and biology remain fields of active investigation, there are several other putative opioid receptors which aren't characterized very well at all but probably have some relevance. Diverse multiple-receptor heteromers are beginning to demonstrate pharmacological relevance (e.g. different binding profiles at mu-delta heteromers) and also at other protein-protein interaction sites (e.g. some drugs inhibit arrestin recruitment and activity dependent receptor internalization).

Also the pharmacokinetics/dynamics matter, things like the central/peripheral availability (e.g. how much constipation) and speed of availability to CNS. Metabolites may be psychoactive or may affect metabolism of the primary drug.

Off-target activity is present in everything and may be meaningful especially in some analogues (e.g. pethidine has significant dopamine transporter inhibiton) or in plant-derived morphine/heroin which comprise a complex mixture of compounds with diverse activities).

All of these things color the subjective experience of a drug. There is not much study made of subjective qualia because the models to describe this sort of thing are not very nuanced or descriptive, but more because it is not very relevant to clinical clinical practice. However, people who use tons of these drugs all the time do report subjective differences along dimensions such as "speediness", sedation, euphoria, "rushiness", malaise, therapeutic index, timecourse, etc. For example a user might report "Compared to heroin, oxycodone feels more energetic, while fentanyl has a nice initial rush but is much more sedating and wears off quicker", stuff like that.

TL;DR in vitro mu-opioid activity is not sufficient to explain objective or subjective variance between opioid drugs, and like much other biology there is much work to be done for all the nuance to be well understood.
> they co-mingled the contents of all the boxes such that the boxes original contents could not be determined.

This is solid evidence to support the idea that the FBI was simply looting US Vault, since confusing the contents without documenting what came from each box would blow up any evidentiary value of the items seized, and prevent the evidence from being used in any criminal prosecution, or even civil asset forfeiture proceedings against the items themselves.

It is my opinion the FBI was expecting to keep everything they stole and auction it off for a profit.
I'm fond of cash. And it's a handy way of directing the tip at the person who deserves it, in the amount they deserve. How they handle that internally is NOMB.
Definitely have an in depth read of iTerm2's documentation (<https://iterm2.com/documentation.html>), at the very least one of the feature page (<https://iterm2.com/features.html>) - I know it sounds weird, but it's so far ahead of other terminals that it's hard to imagine, and expectations are blown. The trigger feature for example is fantastic too.
Write an enigmatic but hilarious joke about Slavoj Žižek and Pee Wee Herman.

Why did Slavoj Žižek and Pee Wee Herman go to the cinema?

To see "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology"!

Explain.

"The Pervert's Guide to Ideology" is a 2012 documentary film that features Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek discussing the relationship between ideology and popular culture. Pee Wee Herman, on the other hand, is a fictional character played by American actor Paul Reubens, known for his childlike behavior and eccentric personality.

The joke implies that both Slavoj Žižek and Pee Wee Herman are interested in exploring the deeper meanings behind cultural phenomena, and that they would both enjoy watching a film that delves into these complex philosophical ideas. The punchline of the joke is the unexpected pairing of these two seemingly unrelated individuals, adding a humorous and enigmatic twist to the joke.
How did you select those 40 accounts?
To be fair he also created The Terminator, Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgement Day—all of these films were blockbusters and arguably excellent films.

Avatar and Titanic presumably aspired to be excellent films as well. The visual effects that went into each were nuts, and Titanic's production values were quite good.

Why legendary directors sometimes end up making progressively worse films later in life is a rather complex question.
I tip because most people who work service jobs are poor. Candidly I won’t notice the difference but the person receiving the tip definitely will.

I don’t work at a FAANG (or whatever the term is now) and I don’t make anywhere close to SV money. But I also don’t make $15/hr and I believe in “love your neighbor as yourself.”
Here you go: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE
Loading a page is easier than installing software.

Whether the sacrifices make it worth it, depends on circumstances.
Siri is mostly following a different model of being an interface to installed applications or devices recognized by HomeKit that offer specific functionality.

Alexa, Google, and Cortana are interfaces to cloud computing that relays commands out to another service.

This different focus changes the "what is it good for" and "what does it cost to run" and "how is it being monetized?"

If you are using the cloud and trying to monetize compute in the cloud... that can get expensive. You have something that you want to be a profit center that is not making a profit at all.

On the other hand, if you are trying to provide an easier interface to already monetized it is a cost center that you may like to make smaller (e.g. on device speech to text) but its seen as a value added to the existing devices and ecosystem.

And so my prediction is "Siri is just fine but will only get 'smarter' as local devices get more powerful." I don't use enough google services to have a feel for how the voice on their system is used (I have a google home device that has been turned off for several years since all it would do its read back to be the top result of a search and... well... that's boring).
That tweet was a joke...
So - my Win11 journey has been spotty.

I'll spare you the details of my work machines.

But, I bought an Aya Neo as a mobile gaming PC, which never worked right with Win10. Like, really fucking weird shit that should never happen. External keyboards and mice not being able to load a driver kind of weird shit. I considered doing a fresh install of Win10, but decided, hey, Maybe I'll upgrade it to Win10 Pro via my ample MSDN licenses I get through work, and then do the Win11 upgrade.

Worked like a charm. Fixed every issue I had. Who knows why!

Anyways.

Win11 isn't bad after a year+. The stuff that gets in the way is the dumb shit they do with Windows Explorer to move options out of the way for power users. Think: All the cool shit you have set up when you right-click on something in Explorer.

I have also turned off all the telemetry options using WPD. No ads anywhere, and some of the stuff which is built in is pretty great: Windows Terminal, Tabs in Windows Explorer.

I find it to be a mixed bag. I don't hate it. I still prefer Win10 so far, but far less so than a year ago when compatibility issues were there.
Centroid Based Clustering
> So the idea that there is a "maximum" number of things a product should do, that can be known in advance, is sheer rubbish

I disagree, I think the Unix philosiphy solves the problem. You build simple tools that do one thing, and do that one thing well, but you make it easy for the tools to work together and then you can have pieces that do one simple thing while still serving needs.

When new needs come up that aren't addressed by current tools you simply put together another simple tool that does that.
For a moment, I thought this would take me to a LinkedIn post, where I see people are "humbled", "blessed", "thrilled", and "honoured" on a regular basis.
Awesome idea to make this a standalone program! When I was developing an NES emulator, I basically had to do this entire process manually with another NES emulator that produced tick by tick logs, then compare it to mine with a diff. Having the last executed opcode right there is helpful too. Next time I revisit that code I may have to take a crack at making an NES Doctor.
Honestly, everything you said about it can describe the majority of people on the majority of topics.
My best advice: take a break, follow your heart.
Only decades ago, it seems the user of the device was the master. Now it seems the other way around. If the user does not explicitly request something, don't do it. If I turn my device off, I expect it to be doing absolutely nothing.

It's a little disconcerting, and I wonder what hope there is for user empowerment in the future? There's just so many layers in the stack, and users have high expectations about what capabilities they want from devices.

I often envision a low-tech alternative, where everything is as simple as required. Where devices are tools, and not distractions. And we can still do everything which is necessary with them.

The walled-garden effect makes it impractical to even design an alternative, because homebrew devices aren't supported by our institutions. The APIs aren't open.

The solution is increasingly to remove devices from life, and incrementally introduce only those that are necessary. But complex and user-hostile devices are becoming the standard for what is required to interact with banks, government, and other important institutions.

Does anyone see a possible out here?
part of the development of the IFB, the earpiece in common use on every tv news show: The turboencabulator skit was originally intended to demonstrate the usefulness of earpiece radios as a replacement for cue cards when actors are delivering lines for a video. Bud Haggart wanted to show that you could use the earpiece effectively even when the lines get ridiculously difficult to follow, so he used the turboencabulator as a subject because it'd been a running gag in the engineering community ever since its first technical description was published by John Hellins Quick in 1944.
> A dumb machine that emits one word at a time with no concept of meaning

Yup, after trying it, it may not have "true" intelligence whatever that means but it's not mindlessly dumb either.

For example, you can tell it to write a story.

You can ask it to put constraints on the story and it will do more or less fine as long as it doesn't involve counting (which it doesn't do particularly well). For example "Bob must do X before Y happens"

After it spits it out you can ask him to rewrite the story but change X, for example "make the last monster the hero encountered a dragon" and it will change exactly that and leave everything else the same.

You can ask it to make X section longer and it will obey (if only nominally, in my tests it made it only a little longer, and since it doesn't count well it doesn't work either if you tell it to make it X words longer.

In short it's not perfect but it clearly can identify concepts in language and obey commands more or less correctly. It's a hell of a lot scarier than a "dumb machine". I've talked to dumber people than this thing.
People who go on this specific angry rant always seem to have Android devices instead, which are worse in every metric. More data collection, worse privacy, worse security, shorter longevity and hence more e-waste.

I once worked out that Apple's annual AirPod production would fill approximately a couple of shipping containers. Meanwhile if AirPods were made by an independent company, that company would be bigger than Twitter, Spotify and Square combined. Or about the same size as NetFlix.
Fun! I've been implenting my own to toy around and learn some rust, and has been a very enjoyable journey, specially the debugging part, running test roms, and trying to get all the "bugs" implemented correctly
This should be the highest priority for Microsoft and Intel. It's a deal breaking problem for any non-Apple laptop. It doesn't matter if the laptop looks sleek and has windows hello and has gaming specs if the damn sleep function is broken. The frustrating thing is that I don't even want any of the features it provides. When I shut the lid, the machine should sleep, halt all processing, until I reopen it. It's not a hard-to-understand concept. I don't need updates in the background. I'll install them when I can. I don't need notifications; I'll use my phone for that.

Modern standby is absolutely useless in the best case. And devastating to usability in the worst. Just nuke it, go back to normal sleep. Or at least give an option to users!
What I do on my work Thinkpad is disabling standby altogether. I just let it hibernate. Windows 10 and 11 are very quick at restoring. Not instant but good enough.
Ok, sure.

…but people are getting the mistaken impression that this is an actual system, running actual commands.

I can also emulate a docker container. I’ll just write down the commands you send me and respond with some believable crap.

…but no one is going to run their web server on me, because that’s stupid. I can respond hundreds of times a second and maintain the internal state required for that.

Neither can this model.

It’s good, and interesting, but it’s not running code, it’s predicting sentences and when you’re running software it was to be accurate, fast, consistent and have a large internal data state.

Trying to run docker in gpt is fun. Trying to use docker in gpt to do work is stupid.

It’s never going to work as well as actually running docker.

It’s just for fun.

Models that write code and the execute that code will be in every way superior to models that try to memorise the cli api of applications.

It’s an almost pointless use of the technology.

Gpt may have “learnt” python; that’s actually interesting!

Docker is not interesting.

If I want to use the docker api, I can type `docker` on my computer and use it.

It's pretty sad that the thing that excites people the most about an amazing new language model is that it can do trivial command line actions, that you can do without the model.

Spending millions of dollars to produce a model that can do what you can already trivially do is very seriously not what openai just did.
Meet Fred – A person living inside ChatGPT
Buy a Windows computer and then put Linux on it. If you need Windows stuff just boot up a VM. It's the only way to own your hardware and your OS.
Nope, that’s just what “they” (ask Yeezy he know who), WANT you to think. The truth is JFK Jr is the night manager at an Arby’s in South Dakota.
Shockingly, it may still be a dial up internet service.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/msn-dial-up-internet-acces...
Sure, but intersections are straightforward to write with Go maps:

for key, _ := range first {
if _, found2 := second[key]; found2 {
if _, found3 := third[key]; found3 {
// This is the intersection of 3 sets
}
}
}
The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin

It’s a recent Hugo award winner. Generally speaking if you like SiFi/Fantasy novels, you can find a trove of excellent books by looking at the list of past Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees. The Fifth Season is more fantasy, but has aspects that I consider SiFi’ish. Superbly written, and wonderful world building.