skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed MurderBot would not look male or female but look androgynous. Additionally the merging of machine and meat would result in thin limbs, likely they are going to have to do a lot of CGI work in post.

Casting a big name actor in the role, especially a male actor who tends to play tough guys, seems like a mistake. ~80% of the murderbot fans I've talked to, decided they weren't watching the series when they heard that casting decision. Generally the take was: "if that is who they cast, they don't understand why the books worked." I reserve my judgement until the series comes out, actors can act and should not be cast based on audiences expectations, but it does not auger well.
The Enclosure of the Human Psyche
I think it works like that in Canada and some other places too, because they pay an extra tax on storage media when they buy it, which essentially authorizes a license for any copyrighted material that might be stored on that media.
A lot of martial arts can teach you how to defend yourself with rope. You’re not going to kill a mammoth or conquer Normandy with it but that’s still a weapon.
I believe it was Knuth who said practice informs theory and theory informs practice. You need both.
Cool, but not as impressive as https://cat-4d.github.io/ to me.
Show HN: LLM tool use schema generator for Kotlin Serializable classes
The real takeaway is that there's such a thing as a 50x developer. Ghosts are 10x less effective than median and superstar remote devs are 5x more effective than median.
True, and that really does constrain where I'm willing to live these days. There's some threshold probably where I could deal with owning one in exchange for some hypothetical benefit of living in the boonies or something, but for the foreseeable future I get too much personal value out of living on the west coast.

It's not always suitable mind you. Extremely short random day trips are the trickiest, which might tip me at some point if I'm making decent money again, but it's so hard to get to a point where I could rationalize that as an occasional leisure luxury instead of a burden.

I wouldn't move to another city though for any reason that would require me to own a car just for getting around. If they ain't investing in viable transit, they won't get my income tax.
Most reasonable explanation I've heard is that black cats typically don't look good on pictures. Or maybe they are just overlooked by people visiting animal shelters?
My nephew and I taught ourselves Netrunner by reading through the rulebook and it was tough. Fortunately we were at Dicetower East and there were plenty of folks who stopped by to ask if we needed help (so many people excited to see Netrunner lol).

Overall if you just run a few games you will pick it up as you think through the implications of rules. My main complaint is that the recommended starter decks hide several mechanics so you end up reading all these rules that dont even apply at first.
There's different varieties of coffee wanker.

1. There's the technical wanker, who has the best tools and might roast their own beans even, but generally still drinks shite coffee.

2+3. There's the Keurig wankers and the anti-Keurig wankers, one of whom thinks they're drinking good coffee and one of whom can't stand that someone is enjoying something they don't.

4. There's the free trade wankers, who want beans from a plantation in Costa Rica owned by someone from Texas.

5. There's the roast alchemy wankers, who believe that you need to overcomplicate the roasting process as much as possible in order to eek out that 2.9% acidic roast flavor profile at exactly 203.4 degrees.

Buy good but cheap beans from a semi-local roaster, and don't let them get too old. Bam, you'll have coffee better than 99% of people.
I kind of like Root's approach, just make three separate rulebooks. One quickstart guide, one "normal" rulebook, and one "law" type rulebook laying out everything in almost procedural style with clear and consistent definitions etc. Many games could benefit from that.
Bobiverse is great but the latest book is too much like the Expeditionary Force books without Skippy.
I've heard a similar formulation of "barracks lawyer" from military folks. The dude who gives terrible advice but can use enough legal jargon to make it sound convincing.
> I've always wondered if anybody ever tried it intentionally to "tan".

I forget where I got it, but as a kid I once had this thing which looked like a glue stick. You could draw on your skin with it and it would make you extra tanned there. I imagine it was this same kind of chemical in the stick.
FYI missing an `h` in Thymine label

looks excellent
https://archive.ph/gAC9R

archive.is seems to be down.
I'm a bit mystified by the hype for murderbot. I read it and thought it was OK but a lot of people rave about it.

Still not every book is for every person, it didn't connect with me but it very obviously has its fans.
It has. If you are born into work camp slave status, doomed to starve to keep the gerontocropolis warm, your motivation to put kids into that labour camp will be below zero.
This style of visualization reminds me of "VIRUS: The Game": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIgpWGVvfjA&list=PLi_KYBWS_E...
Definitely if there’s a future for 3D and immersive video it depends on adding more cues other than just stereo. Lack of parallax one of main reasons causing discomfort for many.
Things I Learned in 2024
Yes, the robot is not described with a gender and it needn't have a gender -- or even the semblance of one -- but for whatever reason my wife and I both ignored that and assigned it as female, and were really really surprised many years later by the casting of a dude. We didn't even talk about it when reading the books. Just came up when we were both surprised by the casting.

Kinda cool when your book-made vision shifts like that. It's one of the funnest parts of reading a book before the movie comes out... that sensation of /mental annexation/ that happens.

Excited to see the show!
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No thanks, I can read faster than they can explain.
Amen.

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How in God's green Earth do you think giving everyone a static IPv6 address guaranteed somehow by the government would help mitigate privacy issues? You literally just handed aggregators yet another primary key for data aggregation.

Nothing about IPv6 even tilts one way or the other on the centralization vs. decentralized axis. In point of fact, your implementation maximizes centralization pretty much by default.
If you want more points downrange, you design your scanner to work on a smaller FOV. Some things change - you need an optical design that scans a small area in front of it somehow (faceted mirrors are popular), and at some point you need a laser source of higher quality, possibly moving away from diode lasers and towards things like fiber laser sources. This isn't conjecture BTW, this is what players like Waymo do and is evident from studying the sensor package if you're curious.
I recall my favorite part of opening up a new Nintendo game was poring over the manual. I didn't actually want it for instructions. It was the lore and the pictures and the dreams of what I could do with the game that made it fun.

Now, people are so media saturated that they're begging to remove as much content as possible in order to just get the clearest bit of information. I can't help we've lost something in society when we're not really enjoying or having fun unless we get immediate and overwhelming pleasure triggers.
It unlocked the memory of me watching this as an adult and remembering what an awful film it was.
Thoughts on Online Addiction
> Can't really make weapons out of silk.

Someone will always find a way, and then everyone will copy them

source: every public internet thing ever
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It's more clear to just say "There's no such thing as a gene for a trait", especially since the title of the article says the opposite, and is wrong. That's why I corrected it.
I'm curious, any specific examples you can remember?
I'm more highlighting that there isn't a single set of rules for Pit. The instructions have three different ways of playing.

You asked for "the rules" so GPT gave you some rules, fitting your preconceptions.

You asked about 'the Pit' and presumably didn't get from the answer that it's simply "Pit", suggesting again that it's fitting to your preconceptions.

I don't use GPT for several reasons, one being that every time I've seen GPT output on any non-trivial topic where I am competent enough to judge it, it's done a poor job, and the more so when you don't know enough to pose the question correctly.

For another example, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483825 I noted how ChatGPT's response used 'Sydney', matching the question posed, while the character's name is actually spelled 'Sidney'.

I don't like systems which re-enforce false preconceptions, no matter how nice the UX.
It's not coming very soon because those populations are going to completely skip the phase where every household has 2 or 3 fossil fuel vehicles.
Learning from Error Is Not the Same as Learning from Experience
The oxygenated atmosphere is created by life, not a cause of it.

It happened 2.4 billion years ago, and wiped out most of the existing life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
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Sounds like Rust did to macros what I wanted long ago in C (and everyone frowned upon me for that). Lisps and sexprs aren’t exclusive to this. You can “load” the code into a var and modify it through regular data processing and then feed it to an executor. You just need language designers to implement that. This entire lisp homoiconicity religion bugged me since forever. It’s just a read-eval part of a loop which never had a requirement for everything to be represented as a Cons.
Sales of Bibles Are Booming, Fueled by First-Time Buyers and New Versions
This use of dimensionality is unfamiliar to me. When I hear "a bunch of discrete points" to me that says most likely 2 or 3 dimensions - if we're talking about cloth, probably 2 unless the cloth is really thick. But they refer to that as 0-dimensional. I'm guessing the dimensions here are referring to the... coordinate space you would use to address locations within it? And when it's just a bunch of discrete points there's no real coordinate space, not until you connect them with some sort of volume or space?
What I've Been Reading
Remember, most people don't care as much as you or I. If they're going to buy a laptop to do taxes or web browsing or something, they will probably be mentally biased towards an Intel-based chip. Because it's been marketed for so long, AMD comparatively seems like a super new brand.
Taste preferences are different too.

Robusta coffees are much more popular across Asia, and there is a preference to mix coffee with milk.

In Europe and the US, there is a preference to drink Arabica coffee neat.

Starbucks had to pivot away from coffee to tea in India for that reason, and Starbucks in Vietnam failed due to their Arabica heavy bias [0] (also, Coffee shops in VN tend to also serve an equally robust Tea menu, which Starbucks fails at)

There are some solid coffee purist shops in D3, but the average consumer prefers Highland, Phuc Long, or Trung Nguyen Legend style shops and mixed coffees.

That said, the same problem mentioned in the blog above are slowly manifesting in VN as well. My in-laws are/were coffee farmers in Gia Lai, but they and their peers have pivoted to nuts like Macadamias instead because margins are better and Coffee is too commoditized

> I've seen a Vietnamese coffee brand from Amazon with fancy branding but my bet is still shitty coffee

Yep.

VN has a good FMCG market now, but they don't really target the US for exports.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66167222
MRS is this week, you can go and join the conversations with people at the metal level. Probably even talk to the authors themselves!
No, because both of these things are true at the same time:

1) I WAS correcting the TITLE.

2) I DID read the article.
I wonder how different African history would be if there were a major river emptying into the Indian Ocean instead of rather small ones. You have some minor rivers and the Red Sea. Not great for making a trading superpower like Egypt.
I had forgotten who "BK" was , so I dove into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel

"On May 2, 2013, Executive Vice President and COO Brian Krzanich was elected as Intel's sixth CEO [...]"

The next paragraph is ominous ...

'As of May 2013, Intel's board of directors consists of Andy Bryant, John Donahoe, Frank Yeary, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, Susan Decker, Reed Hundt, Paul Otellini, James Plummer, David Pottruck, and David Yoffie and Creative director will.i.am. The board was described by former Financial Times journalist Tom Foremski as "an exemplary example of corporate governance of the highest order" and received a rating of ten from GovernanceMetrics International, a form of recognition that has only been awarded to twenty-one other corporate boards worldwide.'
Radon – IDE for React Native
There was a step-change improvement for me when I tried expressing some JS patterns via `underscore.js` instead of procedurally: eg: http://underscorejs.org/#each

Thinking of something as `each | map | filter | sum` is waaay less buggy than writing bespoke procedural code to do the same thing. No doubt there is a "cost" to it as well, but the _abstraction_ is valuable.

Now, if there were a "compiler" which could optimize that whole pipeline down and squeeze out the inefficiencies between steps because it could "see" the whole program at the same time. (oh, I don't know, something like `SELECT * FROM foo WHERE a > 100 AND b < 9000 LEFT JOIN bar ON ...etc...`)

...perhaps you could get both an expressivity gain (by using higher level concepts than "for" and "while"), a reduction in bugs (because you're not re-implementing basic work-a-day procedures), and an improvement in efficiency (because the "compiler" can let you express things "verbosely", while it sorts out the details of efficiency gains that would be tenuous to express and keep up to date by hand).
The rulebooks are the worst part of the hobby. Some are beyond awful. One Deck Dungeon took me several attempts and a few google searches to figure out.

Another bad one was the travel version of Azul, which assumes you have already played the full size version.
This is a really interesting perspective.. it makes the moon look much closer than it is!

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-distance/en/
I'd start with "A foam is a mathematical object..."
Let’s take it a step further and accept some inaccuracy. If we apply the Pareto principle[1], we should get 80% of the accuracy for 20% of the size.

Compounding that four times, we should get .8^4 = 40% of the accuracy for .2^4 = .16% of the size.

That’d be about 1 GB for the current largest model.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Pretty sure this person meant singular as in singularity, not singular as in one.
Nice description; it makes me wonder if there are any languages in which code and data have different serialisations, but these are isomorphic in the sense that code and data can be turned into each other losslessly? (we ought to be able to round trip between the two: code->data->code and data->code->data ought to produce equivalent structures to what they started from)
Putting the I in Team
I felt similarly. Read what I think was the first book. Enjoyed it well enough. But also didn't feel a burning need to snag further books.
> IMHO it is authoritarian to constrain the actions of others on the basis of taste and beauty.

Clearly, a lot of people feel differently in various settings. For example NIMBY groups, HOAs, landscape or monument protection laws. The list never stops, really.
looking at their sept 2024 p&l: the rando probably couldn't have done much worse
https://archive.ph/5nCxM#selection-1389.0-1396.0
Those are very basic math. If you want serious graduate level math, look at Flajolet’s use of the Mellon transform in HyperLogLog proofs.
Yo! I'm on the team at Nous that built this tech, happy to answer any questions :)
It would have been more polite to offer the actual stat. Do the research and come to the table with that in hand.

I would have quoted that if it were easy to find, or quantify. It's not. I encourage you to do so, put the work in, and let us know what you find.

Its not that I don't agree with you, it's that I want you to do the work for yourself.
This has opened my 3rd eye, engaged a critical reassessment of how I choose to engage in this world, and left me asking myself how I can leave my mark on this world commensurate to the truth the pipe strip has enlightened my world
> 1. add a very heavy editor framework (monaco) for a configuration page?

It's a configuration page which requires editing code, so I added a code editor.

> 2. use actual javascript to check partial urls one at a time?

> For 2. this would be better handled by a json or similar that just maps Firefox's approved url match patterns[1]? Using javascript adds potential execution vulnerabilities and possibly parsing complexity that isnt needed.

There are other addons which work like that:

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/containerise/
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/multi-account...

This addon is for more complex use-cases. For example:

return url.searchParams.get("x-SessionName");
Are you really suggesting that the TPU team does not stand behind the graphs in Google's own blog post? And that MediaTek does not stand behind their quoted statement?
Related. Others?

KlongPy: Vectorized port of Klong array language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35400742 - April 2023 (8 comments)

Klong: a Simple Array Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854793 - Dec 2019 (73 comments)

Statistics with the array language Klong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15579024 - Oct 2017 (12 comments)

Klong – a simple array language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10586872 - Nov 2015 (21 comments)
As an avid board gamer, I think one of the biggest factors is page count. A big rule book makes the game feel less approachable. In the example provided at the bottom, the rewritten rulebook is ~50 pages. The original is 24. It doesn't matter how well it's written if it scares people off.

I find that many people are so afraid of reading game rules that they'd rather watch 15-30m how to play videos. It's telling of the industry that these videos are typically better learning resources than the rulebooks themselves.

My favorite rulebooks have 1-page rule references at the back or scannable columns on each page that summarize the main text.

As someone who enjoys technical documentation writing, I think board game rulebook writing would be a rewarding experience. Not exactly sure how to get into that field though...

(I have yet to read this in full, but I'm excited to dig in)
Better: 2025-01-01..2025-01-31: (eg: git-log-ish format)
All I want for Christmas is the ability to redefine the CL scanner.

Seriously; if we could redefine the CL scanner, then e.g. package-local-nicknames could be a library instead of having to have been reimplemented in every single CL implementation.
The idea is good but the result must be better
It is also useful to know all alternative definitions, if any exist (they often do).
Do you have more details or a reference for the VMware activity? The wikipedia VMware article is pretty brief
Can you read the rules and explain them to others faster than a video?
Bitter Lesson: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...
It's all well and good to be buried on the moon, but hopefully the author's descendants are not left with the tab for the funeral.
If I build an ugly house that affects fifty people. If I build an ugly moon base that affects 8 billion people.
A number of things that work for biological systems (humans) work for LLMs too:

- after the answer, ask it "are you sure?" (from the office tv series: "is it a stupid thing to do? if it is, don't do it")
- chain of thought, step-by-step thinking
- different hats (godfather style: piecetime vs. wartime consigliere): looking at the problem from different points of view (at the same time or in stages). For example, first draft: stream of consciousness answer, second iteration: critic/editor/reviewer (produces comments), third (address comments), repeat for some time
- collaborative work of different experts(MoE), delegate specific tasks to specialists
- [deliberate] practice with immediate feedback
Hopefully, people will actually read them.
There is really too much here to summarize. It's a 150 page guide to technical writing, as in the writing of technical manuals, using a variety of board game rulebooks the author wrote as examples. I am only 15 pages in, but so far I have to say the boardgame approach with all its images makes this a much more fun read then any other guide I have seen for writing manuals. It is just about writing though. I don't think you'd gain much if you are just a general boardgame fan looking for a behind-the-scenes look at rulebook creation (if that is even something people look for??)
It's not exactly about personal taste; it's about a kind of spiritual pollution. If we etched a big McDonalds advertisement on the moon, it wouldn't just be in poor taste, but it would irrevocably cheapen (destroy, even) something which has been constant throughout all of humanity's evolution. The moon is particularly important in a cultural sense because it's something shared by everybody. If we bulldozed Mount Fuji to put in some apartments, it would be a loss for humanity in general, but Japan in particular. Changing the moon could potentially redefine us as a species

Developing the near side of moon with cities would literally and figuratively change the way we look at the moon; it would be a cultural Rubicon which cannot be uncrossed, and so we need to be very careful with whatever solution we go with, because we can't go back
i am reading service model right now with our scifi book club. this book needs a trigger warning for programmers. reading it feels like work because i am constantly analyzing what coding faults lead to the choices the robots are making.
Can those users get all the software they need? Many users who want a mac are told no because some weird software they need doesn't run on it. Others only get a mac because some executive demanded IT port that software to mac. So long as companies have any x86 only software they won't let people switch. Often "art" departments get a specific exception and they get to avoid all the jobs that require x86 only software just to run their mac.

Of course these days more and more of that is moving the the cloud and all IT needs to a web browser that works. Thus making their job easier.
This is more like the moving "still" pictures in a Harry Potter movie. Not a 3D world.