I briefly used Zip drives back in the day. They were amazing, when the only alternative portable media was a 3.5" floppy. And then USB thumb drives came along, and made them obsolete pretty much overnight.
Gods, I can't believe his Nintendo married him. I mean, what a player!
I didn't know that people used to make buggy whips for free and give them away? The thing about FOSS that everyone keeps forgetting is that it sits outside the market economy. We write FOSS code because we love doing…
> that could be: give away solar panels and two way heat pumps to low-income families, tax the profits of oil and gas companies, enforce right to repair, remove tariffs on chinese car makers if they create jobs in…
At least with Zotero Version 6, you could have just selected all your PDFs and drag-n-dropped them into the interface. Like another poster here, trusting an LLM with my reference database -- the ultimate source of truth…
Unlike grepping your BibTeX file, Zotero provides a nice tabbed PDF viewer, useful automatic import options with file renaming, and saved dynamic searches. Those are the main reasons why I still use it -- it's a good…
I suspect "AI 1844" would be more apt for this group.
There are a lot of HN users for whom this song (and its covers) was an integral part of our childhood. The Nikki French cover was one of the very first MP3s I ripped. The song is just part of growing up with the early…
> Use shorter prompts: In internal evaluations, replacing long, explicit system prompts with minimal prompts improved scores by roughly 10–15%, while reducing total tokens by 41–66% and cost by 33–67%. When has this…
> Although it seems youd have to pay a lot to get an accurate one because I have a $250 mechanical Seiko and its time keeping is junk. It was mediocre when I got it and has gotten worse. It was $150 when I bought it so…
I'm currently using >7 year old Android phone. The batteries on these things are child's play to replace (especially after you've done it the first time and removed the pointless adhesive in the battery compartment). I…
As a molecular biologist / genomics PI, these examples read fine to me. It's meant as an introduction, not a compendium of every possible nuance. I had a software engineer do a bioinformatics PhD in my group several…
I'd be extremely surprised if either gender or the propensity to believe in religion are 100% nature or 100% nurture - anything related to the mind is a mix of both.
OsmAnd~ is great for hiking, when you need topographic contour info, 3D relief shading, etc. CoMaps is a much simpler and faster interface, that I use for driving navigation. (I use a 7 year old S10e, though, so it's…
In research science, it's very normal to require zero aids at an interview, and has been for some time. No calculators, no laptops, no phones -- just you. Yes, you'll also give a seminar with slides to present your…
Try intimidating the LLM as it writes your code. That Claude Code regex for curse words? Turns out Anthropic was just looking for the next coding Bobby Fisher ...
If poor Green Boots was staring up at the camera, empty eye sockets and all, I'd understand this. But there is nothing distressing in the image; the out-of-focus fuzziness makes the photo seem if anything substantially…
In this modern world where highly effective birth control is cheap and straightforward, we really need to stop equating fertility rates with levels of sexual activity. You can have plenty of sex and not have a child;…
This is not my field, but are we sure that reality is not quantised at some level? Infinite is a very big claim.
How would you know? You have no external frame of reference; a virtual world of sensory signals would be identical from your perspective. (I agree that "reality" is the most parsimonious explanation by far, btw, but…
Thank you :) All wombats are in some trouble right now (even the bare-nosed or "common" wombat), but the Northern Hairy-nosed is right on the edge of extinction. Wombats never get much attention, so it's awesome to see…
The thing that really scared me about the landing site for Claude Science was this promotional image of the software in action: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6889473510b50328dbb70ae6/... Very depressing. MDPI…
I don't know about you, but I think with words all the time when reasoning through complex ideas. Where do you think the phrase "thinking out loud" comes from?
Have you ever reasoned through a complex coding or maths problem? Tell me, how did you do that without words? You (and TFA) are making a false dichotomy here. Yes, of course we think in images. But we also have an inner…
Should we also have a referendum on reducing the tax rate to zero? It would also be an extremely important decision, directly affecting everybody's life. If asking people about anything, then isn't that what it should…
I briefly used Zip drives back in the day. They were amazing, when the only alternative portable media was a 3.5" floppy. And then USB thumb drives came along, and made them obsolete pretty much overnight.
Gods, I can't believe his Nintendo married him. I mean, what a player!
I didn't know that people used to make buggy whips for free and give them away? The thing about FOSS that everyone keeps forgetting is that it sits outside the market economy. We write FOSS code because we love doing…
> that could be: give away solar panels and two way heat pumps to low-income families, tax the profits of oil and gas companies, enforce right to repair, remove tariffs on chinese car makers if they create jobs in…
At least with Zotero Version 6, you could have just selected all your PDFs and drag-n-dropped them into the interface. Like another poster here, trusting an LLM with my reference database -- the ultimate source of truth…
Unlike grepping your BibTeX file, Zotero provides a nice tabbed PDF viewer, useful automatic import options with file renaming, and saved dynamic searches. Those are the main reasons why I still use it -- it's a good…
I suspect "AI 1844" would be more apt for this group.
There are a lot of HN users for whom this song (and its covers) was an integral part of our childhood. The Nikki French cover was one of the very first MP3s I ripped. The song is just part of growing up with the early…
> Use shorter prompts: In internal evaluations, replacing long, explicit system prompts with minimal prompts improved scores by roughly 10–15%, while reducing total tokens by 41–66% and cost by 33–67%. When has this…
> Although it seems youd have to pay a lot to get an accurate one because I have a $250 mechanical Seiko and its time keeping is junk. It was mediocre when I got it and has gotten worse. It was $150 when I bought it so…
I'm currently using >7 year old Android phone. The batteries on these things are child's play to replace (especially after you've done it the first time and removed the pointless adhesive in the battery compartment). I…
As a molecular biologist / genomics PI, these examples read fine to me. It's meant as an introduction, not a compendium of every possible nuance. I had a software engineer do a bioinformatics PhD in my group several…
I'd be extremely surprised if either gender or the propensity to believe in religion are 100% nature or 100% nurture - anything related to the mind is a mix of both.
OsmAnd~ is great for hiking, when you need topographic contour info, 3D relief shading, etc. CoMaps is a much simpler and faster interface, that I use for driving navigation. (I use a 7 year old S10e, though, so it's…
In research science, it's very normal to require zero aids at an interview, and has been for some time. No calculators, no laptops, no phones -- just you. Yes, you'll also give a seminar with slides to present your…
Try intimidating the LLM as it writes your code. That Claude Code regex for curse words? Turns out Anthropic was just looking for the next coding Bobby Fisher ...
If poor Green Boots was staring up at the camera, empty eye sockets and all, I'd understand this. But there is nothing distressing in the image; the out-of-focus fuzziness makes the photo seem if anything substantially…
In this modern world where highly effective birth control is cheap and straightforward, we really need to stop equating fertility rates with levels of sexual activity. You can have plenty of sex and not have a child;…
This is not my field, but are we sure that reality is not quantised at some level? Infinite is a very big claim.
How would you know? You have no external frame of reference; a virtual world of sensory signals would be identical from your perspective. (I agree that "reality" is the most parsimonious explanation by far, btw, but…
Thank you :) All wombats are in some trouble right now (even the bare-nosed or "common" wombat), but the Northern Hairy-nosed is right on the edge of extinction. Wombats never get much attention, so it's awesome to see…
The thing that really scared me about the landing site for Claude Science was this promotional image of the software in action: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6889473510b50328dbb70ae6/... Very depressing. MDPI…
I don't know about you, but I think with words all the time when reasoning through complex ideas. Where do you think the phrase "thinking out loud" comes from?
Have you ever reasoned through a complex coding or maths problem? Tell me, how did you do that without words? You (and TFA) are making a false dichotomy here. Yes, of course we think in images. But we also have an inner…
Should we also have a referendum on reducing the tax rate to zero? It would also be an extremely important decision, directly affecting everybody's life. If asking people about anything, then isn't that what it should…