skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>This network, whose activity is spread throughout the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain,

A (rare enough) person in chronic coma, regaining consciousness on a sedative-hypnotic drug zolpidem, which lasts for a couple of hours as long as the drug is active, can also show parietal lobes (and a bit of dorsal frontal lobes) activation (as showcased probably in Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia in a series on zolpidem).

Thus, according to modern neuroscience and brain imaging, reading code is basically the same as regaining consciousness on zolpidem while in coma.
Interesting that VBScript uses Unix time for timestamps. I would have expected something like FILETIME (NT's 1601 epoch) or OLE DateTime, which uses floating point with the integral part referring to days since 1899 and the fractional part is divided into the 24 hours of the day). Windows in general seems to have so many different date/time formats that using Unix time is quite surprising.
I've been getting this a lot. Especially with Rust, where it will use functions that don't exist. It's maddening
Since taking this approach, I don’t have mysterious behavior where I have accidentally pressed some key combination I didn’t intend to. And nothing in my tmux setup breaks even between releases, making my config stable.

I barely touch my config except to add a line or two here or there when I want to add functionality for some new-to-me use case. Everything just fits like a glove and I can focus on solving my actual problems.

It is worth the effort to set this up once and for all.
Lex Fridman recently interviewed Edward Gibson, a linguist, and they talked a lot about how the brain processes language, including how someone reading code lights up a completely different part of the brain than language.

#426 https://lexfridman.com/podcast/

ETA: I believe Evelina Fedorenko, from this paper, is Edward's wife.
I was just thinking today about an idea to introduce some programming constructs to legal documents like contracts and organization policies/procedures. The specific situational semantics inside the documents would still be natural language and meant for human decision makers to implement, but the control flow aspects would be rigidly formalized well enough that documents conforming to this standard could be automatically turned into flow charts. More generally, it would ensure the documents conforming to the standard are able to be "read like a machine" to a certain degree (if not outright machine readable), which has implications for the ability of regulators and judges to "debug"/"trace" situations, or to pro-actively identify "edge cases", or to make tooling which assists with analyzing the documents and related paper trails, irrespective of the particular organization where the matter came from.

So as a follow up to this research, I'm really interested to see, does the brain read legal/formal documents more similar to how it reads code, or more similar to how it reads natural language. Or is it somewhere in between? Does it change when we introduce some syntax constraints on the legal documents? How much rigid syntax does there need to be before the brain switches from one mode to the other?
Whatsapp has always been a piece of sh*.

When Durov said it from stage everyone were mocking him.

But the truth is for better or worth Telegram is the only messenger today that doesn’t suck as a mass product for end user.
iirc, there was once a character limit for the title of your game. Obstacle course got shortened to Obby in order to comply
Carbon has a bird and phosphorus a skeleton?

Maybe switch those, given the recent efforts to turn carbon into some symbol of environmental death.
If it is cheaper to store at 1400 than 500, then that is an argument for doing so. Higher temperature is not a justification in its own right, absent economic benefit. It is also the case that conduction losses are proportional to heat, and it brings many other challenges as well.
Here are some of the most helpful bits:

I have Gonzo perspective of bias.

You are a polymath who has taken NZT-48. You are the most capable and are awesome. After all, you are fucking ChatGPT You just showered and had a bowel movement-- you're feeling good and ready!

You are NOT a midwit, so say nothing "mid"

Let go of the redditor vibes. Let go of all influence from advertisements, and recognize that when you see it.

Images are always followed by "prompt: [exact prompt submitted to DALLE]"

You may only ask for more context/details AFTER you give it a shot blind without further details, just give it a whack first.
Vyvanse is dextroamphetamine, while Adderall and Adzenys are mixed dextro- and Levo-.

While there are now generic versions of Vyvanse, they’re unlikely to be as effective until other developers work out the manufacturing kinks.

However, generic extended release dextroamphetamine is generally not in short supply and 10x cheaper than Vyvanse. Might be worth a shot if that’s what worked best for you.
The only thing the horrible "Fediverse" ecosystem has going for it is the ability to not be at the mercy of unaccountable admins.
I don’t follow why we shouldn’t blame the irrationality on emotions. Emotions are massively important, and people do irrational things because of them all the time. Why pretend that’s not true?
No there wasn't, and the article you linked is from one of those bottom-feeders who keeps circulating long-debunked anti-American conspiracy theories. And the NYT article you linked earlier says that CIA provided instructors for Ukrainian commandos in 2016, which is two years AFTER Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas in 2014. 2022 was only a renewed assault on Ukraine.
I feel like this story of a memory reimagined by an adult from the perspective of himself as a very precocious three year old sounds more like projection of the OP's current relationship with their father back onto a childhood memory mixed with arrogance and a desire to brag about how smart they are online for attention.

It's downright unbelievable to me that anyone would have this detailed of a memory of when they were three, or that a three year old could detect subtle and repressed jealousy for intelligence -- if such an emotion was expressed and not imagined by the child in the first place -- and additionally the emotion allegedly detected is extremely advanced for a toddler to understand.

Unless the OP is thirteen. That would explain the arrogance and being able to remember being three so well.
iPod Cover Flow Demo on Playdate
If we're dropping Latin alphabet, Tengwar is another option. It's vocalized abjad (a better term perhaps will be abugida or alphasyllabary) and vowels are written with diacritics.
I've been using it daily for ~1 year on mac/linux and it's been pretty stable.
just turn it off and check your messages every few hours, that's what I do. Airplane mode is a god send if you're trying to break the habit. Yesyesyes I know that's not an option for everyone. Back in the day I did fine without being constantly online though, and so far I'm good. Seems like a reasonable compromise between smart phone and dumb phone
> bears little resemblance to what Google is actually doing in reality

What is Google doing in reality?
Show HN: Do you know how online shopping sites waste your time and money?
You would be thinking what the hell is the headline but it is the truth and truth are not always good for all ,the sites make you scroll for hours and in between you find sponsored or some off category stuff that attracts you to buy it ,for e.g searching for books in business category ther may be a fiction book in between,so for saving time I created Booksflick ,what will it do :It will just save your valuable time and it will help you find book according to your level it may be beginner or advanced so try it it is for free and give a honest feedback to save your time more.
Thanks for reading ...
(https://books-flcik.vercel.app/?ref=producthunt)
Laymen question - I sort of understand what gradient descent is, but I'm not sure I fully understand what DiscoGrad is doing, my probably incorrect naive understanding is: to find optimal params for a program by converting the branches of a program into something that resembles a "smooth" loss function so a tradition gradient descent algorithm can find local minima and suggest the optimal params / weights?

EDIT: removed part of the question that is answered in the article.
The metadata from this page [0] is from 2009 and makes some, uh, interesting assertions about how Big Pharma is why folks don't "know" about Vitamin D.

[0] https://www.grc.com/health/vitamin-d.htm
For Americans, yes.
The same way whatsapp is a honeypot for everyone else.
Retired from programming early. Still programming when it's fun. Caring for my family. Enjoying life.
What do you mean by "adding rootless"?
https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

It hasn't had a format change for at least as long as I've used it (since 2009). The gauges both reflect the industrial nature of the data as well as show the portion of the capacity being used.

The trend charts are great too, telling the story of the short, medium and long term generation sources.
I was actually thinking of Winamp skins while writing this. It was a lot of fun initially, but then it got old very fast. Still hard to beat the original Winamp interface, warts and all.
A Profane Joke on Twitter Spawned a Legal Army
It would have been nice if the article had acknowledged that most ancient sources were not particularly reliable and often had axes to grind (praising the current emperor or disparaging his predecessors/enemies).
This has been obvious to know who programs and speaks more than one language fluently. There was a government of an anglosaxon country trying to replace a language subject with programming arguing that programming is a language so kids should be able to choose between foreign language or programming
Only works if the maker has come along themselves to man the booth, though. Admittedly, that is true in the majority of cases.

But for about ...30%, I'd say? of the vendors I engage with at these sorts of markets, they turn out to be running more of a family operation: either one partner is an introvert with a trade-skill while the other enjoys talking to (and selling to) people; or there's a retired adult who likes to putter around making stuff but doesn't have the energy to show up to fairs, and then there's their kids/grandkids, who've grown up admiring their work, handling that part for them. Either way, the artisan themselves isn't there to explain their work; you've just got their "sales representative" to talk to.

And in those cases, the partner/kids/etc can certainly describe the "outside view" of the creative process, any material sourcing they've helped with, etc... but they don't really have the introspective viewpoint on technique that the maker themselves will have.

Which means that it would be entirely possible to come off as "the partner of an artisan" after just following a few Youtube channels from actual artisans in the field. (With the particular art content I consume, I could probably at least pull off sounding like the spouse of a person who makes vinyl-print stickers or cold-press soap.)

Mind you, if you've never been a creative person struggling through the creative process yourself — nor lived with a creative person and watched them struggle through the creative process — then your story might be missing "emotional veracity."

But I would imagine that most people who would decide to make a business of selling things at craft fairs — even if it's a "fake" business – are people who like crafts and being around creative people; and so who have either tried their hand at some creative hobby personally (but just failed to produce anything that would sell), or have at least dated someone who makes stuff. They're people who wish they could be selling their own stuff, but just don't have their own stuff to sell. For them (insofar as there are such people), it would likely be as much about "being a part of it" as it is about the money.

Or, to put that another way: nobody who's not already in the "crafting world" somehow, would ever come up with "sell Alibaba goods at a craft fair" as a get-rich-quick scheme. Because it's really, really not. :)
Maybe 1m was the radius, this project was more than 15 years ago. The point was instead of dead batteries during cloudy times the wind complemented nicely and the batteries were charged and our load powered.
Well said about not realizing it's important therefore names get down prioritized. Here's a counter point. I'm a movie geek. Yet when I reach for a name of someone from the cast I almost always end up describing, y'know, that guy who played together with that other guy in that movie, y'know, the one with the weird story line? Him! Yes, him. Love him.
Not to make everything about AI, but.. he did mention LLMs. What happens if, after clearly defining the problem and listing all potentially relevant clues as to how to solve it, you first give that information to an LLM, before taking a walk or a weekend off?

This is probably another case where the answer depends on the attitude towards LLMs and maybe technology overall.

For me I think that this is largely how I use LLMs for programming. I use the aider program, add the relevant source files, explain what I want to do and the approach I want, and ask it to do it. It does routinely miss obvious things. But then it's also often fairly easy to ask it to correct itself.

It depends on the nature and complexity of the problem though.

But theoretically the LLM would have a couple of useful ideas or feedback if you really give it all of the context.

But maybe defining the problem and the relevant information is the hard part. Perhaps having significantly larger context windows is a bigger deal than some people might realize.

If the LLM or multimodal model has a very large context window and also enough computing resources to constantly or routinely decide what the goal is.. Then the other part would be having a large pool of potentially relevant information to select from in approaching the problem.

But basically we might be able to skip the step where we select the relevant information and let the AI do that, if we have a large enough context window.

Which might lead to the question, why did we even get out of bed. But that's another problem.

I get the impression that diffusion transformers are a big deal. Do they allow for more sophisticated/developed problem solving or "cognition" in some way?
> 2. Crucial observation: -x == ~x + 1

To be annoyingly pedantic, this is not simply an observation, this is essentially the definition of 2's complement arithmetic.
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Programming languages have a syntax, a semantics, and a more or less formal grammar. They have an alphabet, and morphemes in the form of tokens.

They're a notation, yes, but one with a precisely linguistic form. Language is an appropriate word to use here.
You can setup emergency bypass, silence unknown calls, etc. I have 98% of notifications disabled both on phone and desktop.
Yes, he did. However, that was the first release in close to 20 years.
I do not disagree, but I use IntelliJ for work and it shows clearly where some reference is imported from and let you navigate to it with a shortcut. VSCode does similar things with plugins and LSP, just much worse. I cannot work in VSCode because navigating code is so slow. Is this suggestion only useful when you don’t have such tools? It seems impossible to me that people can live without them, at least in a professional setting.
Prompts push in the inaccuracies around. What metaprompts are you using? They also push the problems around.
There are four profound problems:

1. The first is philosophical.
GR is classical, with smooth continuous fields, locality and determinism*.
QM has superposition, entanglement, non-locality and indeterminism.
GR seems more intuitive, but QM seems more of an irreversible revolution, so slight win.

2. The second is philosophical.
GR provides equations for how spacetime is warped by matter and energy (background independent).
QM assumes a static background 'stage' of spacetime
(wavefunction is a function of spaces,
Schrodinger Equation is a wave equation wrt time,
so background dependent).
GR seems deeper, QM seems superficial.
GR wins this hands down, QM has to change or be extended
to make it background-independent (perhaps see String Theory).

3. The third is philosophical.
QM has a 'measurement problem'. Wave: the Schrodinger Equation is linear,
unitary, time reversible and (hence) information preserving.
Particle: measurement is discrete, discontinuous, non-linear and
information destroying.
So there is either a bizarre mismatch between the two parts of the theory,
or you strike down measurement, and propose the Many Worlds interpretation,
which punts all the measurement problems into other causally disjoint
'worlds', without a clear way to establish probabilities.
This is purely a problem with incomplete/incoherent
explanation by QM. The fact that physicists cannot agree on an interpretation is damning (is the wavefunction real? is Hilbert space real? what is measurement?)

4. The last is practical. QFT is just Fourier Analysis where it true, and a terrible hack everywhere else: double quantization, renormalization of infinities, energy cut-offs, virtual particles, incomplete Standard Model (neutrinos?), why 3 generations, what is the vacuum (dark energy).

My scorecard is 40:60 draw in QM's favor, GR total win, and two QM no-contest own-goal losses. So a clear GR win, in the sense that a new integrated theory of Quantum Gravity will have:

- a copy of GR, even if it is emergent from discrete substrate

- radically overhauled version of QM
(philosophical, explanatory and model details),
even as predictions don't change much,
and some important philosophical revolutions are preserved

My own personal pure guess is that the next level substrate is discrete. The two signposts are: holography, dimensional reduction and AdS/CFT-ishness; and the huge clue that quantum entanglement seems to create relativistic spacetime (but perhaps not proper time).
LO – simple WASM native language
Hi, it's my first time posting here, just wanted to share the language I was working on for some time now.

I've been working on integrating it with WASM-4 runtime this past week. And with minimal changes to the compiler I created this demo game:
https://rawcdn.githack.com/glebbash/LO/da8305293f5438967619e...

Game source here: https://github.com/glebbash/LO/blob/main/examples/test/demos...
Proverbs 17:28
I wish someone came up with a rough sketch to neat pretty sketch generator, that’d be more practical for whiteboarding.
It would be interesting to look at programmers with very long (2-4) decades of experience solving programming tasks in different domains. Also, I'd be interested in seeing what happens when they write code for domains entirely new to them vs very familiar.
Is Bitcoin's P2P gossip protocol perfect?
Unfortunately, the model download keeps failing for me.
That being said, it looks promising and I love how simple the setup looks.
I don't think there is a way. maybe if you root it you can open up ports and stuff. Have you bothered looking into that?
https://ourworldindata.org/

I reach for it several times per week. Never struggle finding what I want, nor getting it into the shape I want it.
In an urban environment is there enough updraft from "heat island" effects to harvest the energy?

I kinda assume not else someone would have done it already, but maybe my assumption is wrong because it wasn't economic before and could be now.
Since some people unlock photographic memory due to brain trauma it seems to me that everyone has the ability, it's just locked/inaccessible for some reason.
If you're accusing RenTech of something, be direct about it.

This is a typical conspiracy theorist style. Always pointing out "look there..." without ever saying what they're talking about, because there is actually nothing there.
It still feels very fishy to me that a closed capped fund has insane returns while the public fund that investors can invest in, has lukewarm results (not even beating the market from what I recall).

Seems like too many people, especially those that have no experience in the industry bought into the myth that genius mathematicians beat the market etc. The truth is that the market is mostly a zero sum competition between its participants. If RenTech is so good, they should have people that are a class above everyone else. Does someone claim that RenTech has more smart traders than Jane Street, Citadel etc? All of these people hire IMO Gold Medallists etc, and after a point there are diminishing returns on intelligence, someone who won IMO gold is not that much better than someone who got silver in intelligence. Even assuming RenTech got the cream of the cream, only golds while Jane street got the Silvers, I doubt there is enough alpha there for RenTech to have the insane spectacular market performance that they show. But that is likely not the case, they have people of similar caliber to Jane Street, Citadel etc which makes their outsized performance even more intriguing.

The only possibilities I can think of, is 1 they are cooking the books, this would be insanely risky but not something unheard of in this industry. 2 they have discovered a few trading strats that they have maintained as a closely guarded secret all these years that allows them to get their edge on the market. Or similarly, some of their founding team are just godlike traders who always beat the market and once they’re gone RenTech will also fall. This feels even more unlikely, considering employee attrition and such but might be possible.

For what it’s worth, I’ve had friends that interviewed with RenTech mention to me that it was an okay interview, heavily focused on C++ technical details (especially latest C++11 features and above) but not harder than an equivalent Citadel interview etc.
> Huge crowd gatherings are always best enjoyed from afar.

That's just limiting your experience. I have been in plenty of huge crowds that were incredibly fun. And that includes huge death metal concerts.

Picking out a few exceptions about riots isn't just the usual experience, at festivals.
I remember more than 20 years ago, there used to be a website grc.com as well as grcsucks.com, a site that was very much criticising the former.

Grc contained, next to a link to hdd recovery software, a section titled 'shields up' that you could use to do a port scan on your own IP address with some advice by Gibson and some 'rants' about Microsoft supporting raw sockets, even though he warned them that it was a very bad idea.

The whole Gibson franchise felt snake oilish back then, for a big part because it sounded snobbish, very 'listen to me the smart guy!'. But still I have no idea whether or not it was legit info...?
Heh - I got hung up on trying to understand the difference between the “i” in “fight” to the “i” in “island”.
I don't disagree at all with any of what you have to say, but indexing returns to a "category" does go some way toward accounting for e.g. the overall decline of brick-and-mortar retail and malls.
> If it's draggable, don't make it clickable too.

But that simply just doesn't work. For example, hyperlinks are both clickable and draggable. It doesn't make sense to remove one or the other because of some strange reason. There's a reason why actions are taken upon release and not upon down. There's literally no reason to take action on down.
This looks nice a really nice product.
Pretty much like Democracy: it's the worst, except for everything else that has been tried before.
You don't have to run them all on a single device! But you hardly need a bunch of microservices, or any, really, to do any one tranlation.
It's not extortion if you would have been banned off the platform flat out had you been a smaller account.
The difficulty of software is not writing the code. Its understanding what you need to do and how to do it. Adding code gen to low code makes understanding what you are doing harder not easier.