skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does give digits of pi

"What is pi to 30 places" gives 3.141592653589793238462643383279
"What is pi to 100 places" gives 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
"What is pi to 1000 places" also seems to work.

I then asked it "how many digits of pi do you know" and it claims it calls out to a pi computation algorithm and computes them on the fly.

I don't actually have pi memorized to any number of digits. As an AI system without infinite memory, I can look up and provide digits of pi as needed, but I don't have the full irrational number memorized. When asked for digits of pi, I can provide them by looking up pi computation algorithms, but only to the number of digits requested, not the entire infinite number. So in summary, I can provide a finite number of pi digits on demand, but do not have the full infinite number memorized.

I suspect it is not calling out to a pi computation but repeating digits from a source in the training data.
This reminds me, I recently read of this happening in TX [1]. It was ultimately ruled a suicide. A horrible, scarring event for all in the vicinity without a doubt.

1: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184281638/airport-worker-eng...
Some ducks are poisonous, this is why the species needs to be known.
> Ah, matrices! Does * mean dot product, cross product, or the usually less useful matrix multiplication? Ooh, or maybe you should you use . for dot! How clever that would be!

Why the snark? The fact that you're free to make a bad choice does not imply that having a free choice must be bad. Obviously neither dot nor cross product should be *. It should be the Hadamard product or matrix multiplication. You can choose one convention for your code and be perfectly happy for it.

As a follow-up question: How do you feel about languages like Fortran and Matlab then? Is it actually a good thing that mathematics convenience features are relegated to a few math-oriented languages and kept away from all the others? (Or are the linear algebra types in these languages offensive as well?)
I'm not really talking about GDPR here; it's not US-specific and doesn't have the effect of walling off the EU market from the US.

I'm not a huge fan of GDPR FWIW; in particular I think the requirement to have representatives and data protection officers is way too burdensome for smaller companies. They probably thought they'd create a cottage industry of EU representative/DPO service companies, but that's so little of a business it just feels like an invitation to set one up as a front for money laundering. I like the thought of GDPR, but the law as written is actually pretty weird IMO.
It's fun to think how alien these simple behavior models are and to imagine current LLMs and, maybe, future AGI might be equally alien to us as these NPCs.
ICD-10 codes are used for DRG billing which is what most inpatient billing operates on. But aren't included in the data I think.
There is other live with almost 100% certainty in the universe. The number of galaxies, stars and planets across the whole universe is just too large for this not to be true.

The thought that humans might be the only life in the universe to me seems like the 21st century equivalent of believing earth is the center of the universe.
I’d love this for slack
I'm pretty skeptical of stuff like that. To me, it looks like they proxy the download for you, but that doesn't make sense because there's no way they have the revenue to support that, right?

How does it work? Can someone explain it to me?
Regarding the * operator, I think glm got it right: * is element-wise multiplication, making it consistent with the +,-,/ operators; dot-product and cross-product are done with dedicated free functions (glm::dot and glm::cross).
> they happened to fabricate results that showed the effect Ariely needed for a high profile publication

He'd already done lab experiments that showed the effect he thought existed, and it's easy to imagine an associate who actually fabricated the data already knew what he was looking to confirm.

Again, I'm not saying I think he's guilty or not. I'm just saying that from everything I've read so far, it seems plausible it was sloppiness and not checking data for signs of manipulation. That this sloppiness isn't "beyond absurd", but rather more like the classic "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (or by an overworked/overambitious academic).
I don't think there's anything to be offended at here.
They are usually implemented to prevent people from ordering a lot all at once and then not finishing most of it. At all of the places I have been with such rules, you don't get charged if you leave a small amount on the plate, so it's not like you have to shove it in your mouth if you are truly full. The point is just order a reasonable amount at a time.
ProjectSend is a free, clients-oriented, private file sharing web applicatio
You don’t need arbitrary codes to get statistics for something that can be typed in a description field.
> I wasn't even talking about your capacity to force your judgements on others, just that they're morally valueless beyond your own mind.

That, too, is just plainly not true. Moral utterances can and do change people's minds all the time, so by definition they have non-zero value to other people. I've had my mind changed on a lot of things thanks to other people's moral utterances -- haven't you?
Support windows for enough end users and you'll never touch a debloat script. They invariably work fine until some update breaks something, and the hobbiests that promote these hack jobs also promote simply rebuilding your machine which I have zero time for these days.
If we are able to use the 200k context window via API, that's a good use case for us to switch from OpenAI.

We need a large context to answer organization wide questions across a lot of our customer's data.
I think reading the authors' responses is illuminating here.

Mazar's response is basically "oh god, I'm ashamed this happened. I played no role in the data collection, and I don't know who did. But thank you for all the hard work you've done in exposing this fraud, and I should have done better at questioning the data."

Gino's response (for context, she has been implicated in other fabricated data studies) is basically "I'm ashamed. I didn't collect the data, and I trusted the people who did collect it. But thank you for all the hard work you've done in exposing this fraud, I should have done better, and this is what I'm doing in the future to do better."

Ariely's response is "I'm the only one of the authors who had the data. Also, it wasn't me."

Bazerman's response is "Thank you for exposing this fraud. Let me explain how the study came to be, and the history of my own doubts about the quality of this study [which includes two episodes which seem to be red flags]. I should have pushed harder on those doubts [he was in the minority who wanted to retract the paper after nonreplication in the follow up]."

Ariely's response to me feels like raising a preemptive defense against being thrown under the bus. Neither Mazar nor Gino implicate anybody (only disclaim responsibility themselves), whereas Bazerman suggests that it would have had to have been Ariely or Mazar. (There's an interesting bit where Bazerman has an unspecified issue with the [now known to be faked] data prepublication, where one coauthor has unconvincing responses but a later coauthor was able to provide plausible explanations, complete with reference to the underlying data file--but both coauthors are unnamed). Given that, I just don't find the other possibilities all that plausible (and in the case of the middle possibility, it's not exactly exonerative anyways).
I can finally sleep soundly
The city of Berlin rebought its water supply from the private owner. It will also rebuy district heating and gas network. All this can be done, but it is quite expensive. It would have been better to not sell monopolistic infrastructure in the first place.
My hypothesis is that Japanese people just appreciate high-quality products more. In the sense that even poor people, which of course exist in Japan, are willing to save up money and occasionally splurge on upscale items, vs poor people in USA who prefer to "average out" their spending and just buy the best that they can afford daily.

Some evidence:

1) Japan has a higher percentage of iPhone users (65.88%) compared to USA (56.74%), while being poorer than USA on most metrics (GDP, median income, PPP-adjusted income etc.)

2) I don't have quantitative data, but just from experience Japan has so many more high-fashion stores, expensive pastry bakeries, expensive candy makers etc, when compared to USA. And if the stores are there, the customers must exist too.
IGL, a high-performance cross-platform graphics library from Meta
The new Dell 6K has kvm (and PiP) functionality across its inputs, and it does appear from my modest use of this feature so far, that it works as you would want (ie it still thinks the display is connected, even when not showing that input)
I completely agree with your analysis. I'm writing this on a Beelink (running aftermarket Linux) and couldn't be happier about the value proposition. I started my shopping looking for a NUC, but they were all too pricey for what I wanted/needed.
The AI part is local. I believe it's used for coarse image categorization and face recognition.

Providing face recognition sans a cloud seems like a big selling point to me.
The universe is unfathomably big. Some hazy but AFAIU relatively accurate napkin math suggests that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches. But at the same time, there are more molecules in ten drops of water than there are stars in the universe.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/09/17/161096233/w...
FWIW City of Sydney has ample space for pedestrians and along with state governments has done a lot to reduce car traffic, including largely repurposing the central road running down it (George St) for light rail and pedestrians. There are also many large pedestrian only “malls”.
> I don't think counter notices apply to circumvention devices.

Right, because the DMCA takedown notice procedure as a whole doesn't apply to circumvention devices, only to content that is itself copyright infringement.
I was in South America for a year, and tons of Europeans had a nightmare flying to South America because the majority of flights "transited" the US, so they had to get a visa and all that for a 1 hour layover each way.
anecdotal evidence: that’s the exact purpose of all of our mac minis at where I work.

It’s also the exact purpose of my home mac mini
It is a very natural feature, but it makes discovering what you can and can't do with a library really hard. Learning what is and isn't legal with math libraries that use a lot of them can be really tricky. For example, numpy code is really easy to read, which is fantastic, but figuring out how you're intended to do things from the documentation alone is quite difficult.
As a habitual comments skimmer, thanks for selling me on the article. :)
My company purchased a domain name and OneDrive started sending us password reset links and even image thumbnails to the admin@$domain$ address. No way to make it stop, other than blocking onedrive.com. Very creepy.
>I'm not sure these comments help much.

They weren't intended to. That said, I otherwise agree with everything you said.

>But as far as interesting and what is possible, these comments are that.

Yeah, it's just fun to discuss the theoretical. I'm pretty boring, so I don't personally use any exotic tinfoil precautions. Heck, if I were important I'd probably just not use a phone. Much simpler.
> He'd already done lab experiments that showed the effect he thought existed, and it's easy to imagine the associate at the company knew what he was looking to confirm.

Based on Bazerman's response, actually, he hadn't:

> [The fradulent paper] came together in a merger of two prior non-published empirical efforts. Mazar-Ariely independently provided the data for Study 3,
while Shu-Gino-Bazerman had written a paper containing two laboratory experiments (Studies 1 and 2). The Shu-Gino-Bazerman group knew of the Mazar-Ariely data from multiple public presentations by Ariely.
I repeat myself: focus your mind on the value, or the problem the customer is looking to solve. Data locality isn’t a problem, it’s an implementation choice or detail.

The problem is something like: “I need to keep my family photos/files safe” or “I need to store customer orders and data” or “I need a way to protect my data when I drop my phone in the toilet.”

Even giant companies with eye-watering IT budgets see the appeal of having someone else manage their physical hardware and software infrastructure.. I haven’t worked at a company that owned its own servers in nearly a decade.

Apple doesn’t want to sell us a box and coincidentally nobody wants to buy a box.
I was able to prompt engineer it to get the millionth prime by asking it to pretend it's Terence Tao.

I can make some estimations about the 1 millionth prime number based on known properties of the distribution of prime numbers:

The Prime Number Theorem states that the number of primes less than N is asymptotically equal to N/ln(N). This means the Nth prime number is roughly in the vicinity of Nln(N).

Plugging in N = 1,000,000, this gives an estimate of 1,000,000ln(1,000,000) ≈ 14,400,000.

Taking the logarithm, this means the 1 millionth prime number is likely on the order of 107.

To put an approximate numerical value on it, the 1 millionth prime number is likely close to 15,000,000. However, this is just an estimation based on asymptotic properties. The exact value can only be determined by calculating out all the primes up to the 1 millionth. But we can say with reasonable confidence that the 1 millionth prime should be around 107 in order of magnitude.

what is the exact value of the 1 millionth prime number

Unfortunately I do not know the exact value of the 1 millionth prime number. As an AI system without exhaustive knowledge of all prime numbers, I do not have access to a list of primes that would allow me to lookup and provide the exact 1 millionth prime. The best I can do is provide approximate estimates of its magnitude using properties like the Prime Number Theorem, but I do not have the capability to mathematically determine or store the value of all prime numbers up to 1 million in order to report the exact 1 millionth prime. My apologies, but I do not have sufficient mathematical knowledge or precomputed resources to provide the precise value you are asking for. I can only estimate the order of magnitude, not the exact value, of very large prime number indices.
> (Anything that removes terminal support from emacs will be a fork.)

GNU/Emacs already has tons of features that don't work in terminal and it's not a fork. GUI has:

- better fonts and better colors

- childframe support, nice for posframes

- viewing images and pdfs

- SVG support

- icons and emojis

- etc.
Yattee is worth checking out
https://github.com/yattee/yattee
Right, but the government doesn't step in. I've voted for universal healthcare sorry supporting candidates at every local, state, and federal election.

I'm sorry that my illness is "annoying" you, but your anger is misplaced. Not that long ago I used to only have insurance for stitches too.
Yes (I’m a numerical analysis researcher and wrote a handful of ubiquitous mathematical packages)! The implementation of even primitive types can vary considerably! It’s way too much to hide. Nevertheless, I understand I’m biased. :)
> It was probably more of a strong suggestion

I'm now also staggered that we've reached a point where people think it's OK for a corporation to make "strong suggestions" for people to go into back rooms and be grilled about products they've bought, and they use "technicalities" and careful wording to say "oh, it's not that bad".

It's horrific the power corporations have over us.
Sometimes they painted themselves into their work consciously and in revenge.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/11/durer-p...
https://www.ntlite.com/
Probably for the same reason there are not zero.
I'd be curious how the output of your approach compares to merely classifying based on what keywords are contained in the text (given that AFAICT you're simply categorizing rather than trying to extract precise meaning).
Ford Executive Charged with Assault After Purse-Burning Dispute with Wife
AI won't disrupt the Internet but Google pursuing AI will
If your company requires five days at the office, for work that can be done at home or on a hybrid basis, consider finding another job.
Doing 1 thing 100% > doing 5 things at 20%. Set 1 goal for your day and knock it out (it can be more than one, but don't overload).

Break your day up into time blocks (Cal Newport has a lot of great content regarding the concept of Deep Work).

Get outside.

Make your bed in the morning to start off with a small win.

Allow yourself 15 mins without any technology to sit with and sort your thoughts (this can absolutely suck and be uncomfortable at first).

Remind yourself of the things you're grateful for.

Pay attention to what you're feeding your mind as well as what you're feeding your body. This is growing in importance every day in the information age.

Reduce the friction between yourself and the things you "have" to do to make them as easy as possible.

Remind yourself that you have a finite amount of cognitive ability each day - ask yourself what you want to "spend" it on.

Tell your family & friends that you love them.

Be nice to others, treat people with respect and help people if you're able. It feels good.

Find ways to laugh and don't take things too seriously.
Shoot me an email at govind <at> automorphic <dot> ai
I worked in health insurance. The code is supposed to make it easy to pay. It doesn't.

We could do away with the codes. In addition to having to look up the codes, I read records all day, called and wrote providers for additional info, consulted my technical lead regularly to see if it was covered and once had to print the entire file and get it reviewed by the retired surgeon who came in once a week to read surgical reports on difficult cases.

I'm underwhelmed with the value they provide and I paid claims as my job for 5+ years.
My laptop broke and I had to buy a new one. The new one was intel 12th gen, which was unsupported at the time.
Why haven't I come back to it? I now often use programs that require hardware acceleration for optimal use, which is unsupported by Qubes due it being a potential security issue. If you mainly use your laptop for non-intensive tasks though, I still highly recommend.
How else should they handle the difference in legal frameworks?
https://www.ntlite.com/

It lets you customize the installer to install only the components you want, and to set the settings how you want. You can have a completely automated installation that has all the ads and other garbage turned off from the first time you log in.
Web Browser interoperability 2023 focus
The .NET MAUI Extension for Visual Studio Code
> Europe

definitely not
Funny enough, I predicted this in a previous HZ comment 3 months ago when they cut their server systems business.

> "My guess is that they're cutting the portfolio down to feature only chipsets and add-in cards. Just CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, networking. It makes sense if anything - it really focuses on their core business. No more side-projects with questionable profitability.
In the last 2 years since Pat Gelsinger took over, they've cut RealSense, Movidius, Optane Memory, IPO'd MobileEye, and now exited the Server Systems business. The only odd-ball left are their NUC business."

If any hedge funds are looking for analysts, I'm always open to offers...

It's sad to NUCs go, but it was inevitable. They made products for customers, while simultaneously competing with said customers. It's hard to build any decent partnerships on that premise. I'm currently typing this on a Serpent Canyon NUC though, so it's certainly bittersweet.
> I had some personal projects that I would have liked to, perhaps, do in Lisp. But a requirement was that it be cross platform. I wanted to share my applications with others, and cross platform is a requirement. And I'm lazy, I do not want to "mess with it", I want it to "just work".

Have you looked at racket/gui?
The Mac Minis are a great value compared to the rest of Apple's lineups. The NUC is overpriced, like why would I get that instead of a generic laptop? It was just a poor value for what it offered.
In podcasting this is already a thing, with Podcasting 2.0 [0]. One uses the bitcoin lightning network to send BTC, either with a message (a boost) or you can stream them back as you listen. Podcasting 2.0 has many more interesting features, like chapters, transcripts, LIT (Live Item Tag, your podcast app will show a label when a show is live). Good stuff imho, empowering for independent content creators. I bet it will come to software creators.

[0] https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m...
You can now use those on Linux too:

https://justine.lol/pledge/
California has 5 GW of grid batteries (I think that's 20 GWh of storage).

The peak demand today at CASIO is around 36 GW (interestingly, ERCOT's peak is much higher. Texas should invest in efficiency.)

The "duck curve" looks like it's already partially ameliorated by batteries, and not that much battery capacity will be needed to smooth it out entirely.
The notice [0] says "Kind of Work: Unspecified" and "Original URLs: No copyrighted URLs were submitted" so the safe harbor provisions pertaining to copyright infringement aren't really applicable here.

[0] https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34149383
It's a good question - docker doesn't require a VM on Linux, but Docker Desktop does. I assume it's to make it basically the same experience as on Docker Desktop on Windows and macOS, but I'm not totally sure. You can install docker the same way one would on a server in a qube in QubesOS and it works fine, I think I tried that once just to be sure, I just wanted to be able to have Docker Desktop. I also didn't want to paint myself into a corner in case I should need to run something else that also expects to be able to run a VM.
If namespaces are not enough isolation for you then there is always Firecracker.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624172
IMO the most effective consumer cost control is competition. An actual, non-corrupt, free market where customers are not locked in and there are more than just a handful of providers generally results in low prices.

We do not have this in healthcare. Providers form cartels - at least in Northern California, this is so bad that the state AG is investigating (not very effectually) [0]. Customers generally can't even tell what a provider charges, so there is no price competition. There aren't many insurers, and they compete on so many incomprehensible dimensions that customers can't usefully choose. (And the most useful thing customers can look at is the network, but see the above issue with provider cartels.) Pharmacy benefits are highly corrupt and incomprehensible.

[0] We have Sutter Health, UCSF, Stanford, and Kaiser. There is very little in the way of independent providers left. Sutter Health in particular has aggressively merged with any available competition.
Yes, there is: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/anticipatory_breach

> How do you prove that?

Possibly if one party explicitly says that they are not going to uphold their end of the contract.
That's not true. That's common misinformation, but it's not true. In fact it's not just wrong, but it's the exact opposite of what happens.

You just have to look at pretty much any disaster. Communities come together. They do not become cannibalistic hordes like peppers think. This has been proven again, again, and again. There's entire studies on it.