MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jajko | 2025-04-03 10:36:01+00:00
Marrying purely for "love" and ignoring core values, mindset compatibility, what they want in life and so on is a recipe for disaster, or at least some deep regrets down the line. I haven't seen nor heard about a single success story a decade or two down the line. Whom to marry is probably the most important decision in our lives. One of reasons why marrying early is too risky - people still massively change till at least 25-30, it cal still work but chances are smaller.

Its a typical junior mistake to marry for love/lust and not think a bit on top of that, in this case I blame parents who don't have some hard talks with their kids explaining them not-so-rosy parts of adult existence. Like initial enormous physical attraction wanes over time, kids crush most of remaining, and what still remains are 2 people and how they treat relationship and each other with that lust tuned down eventually to 0, under various, often not so nice situations. But our parent's generation didn't figure it all out, in contrary the amount of actually nice relationships in higher ages ain't that high.

I didn't have such prep talk neither, nor do I know anybody who had, and had to figure it all on my own via rough trials and failures till finally figuring myself and women out, and then happy marriage (so far, hard knock on the wood). Its like expecting everybody to be sophisticated engineer, learning them to count on fingers and throwing them out and good luck, I am sure you'll figure it out eventually. Some do, some don't. Most don't I'd say.
by bregma | 2025-04-03 10:36:31+00:00
Not one single job was moved offshore by a foreign country. Every single one was moved offshore by an American business looking to reduce costs and increase the quarterly bottom line.

Now they're run out of jobs to move offshore and they're looking to the government for the next handout. This time, it's by adding a new tax on Americans on what they buy from overseas.

The people to blame for the economic problems are rich Americans, and the solution is to increase taxes on poor Americans, but the story is that the problem is foreign devils and the solution is to make them pay. The misdirection is working and the magic trick is successful.
by ctm92 | 2025-04-03 10:36:38+00:00
The name is ironic, as there is a german TV show called Fernsehgarten (basically television garden). It's broadcasted live every sunday morning during summer season on ZDF, basically it's a outdoor studio with music and other things around a topic every week.

Mostly targeted to elderly people, but funny to watch every once in a while. You can even go there in person for quite cheap
by ozmodiar | 2025-04-03 10:37:04+00:00
With Brexit and now this I've been thinking that if someone out there is intentionally trying to dismantle the 5 Eyes they're doing a bang up job of it. Step 1 appeal to their nationalistic or even imperial senses to make sure they piss everyone else off, step 2 stoke some internal grievance politics, step 3 get them to unload an entire AR15 magazine into their leg (to paraphrase Dril).
by ourmandave | 2025-04-03 10:37:16+00:00
It's like they pulled a list "All Countries the US Trades With" off wikipedia and used that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

Same clowns who made blanket cuts to every Federal dept and then had to walk a bunch of them back. There's no nuance or forethought, or realization of the long term damage they're doing.
by drpixie | 2025-04-03 10:37:33+00:00
> Do you find the resulting natural language description is easier to reason about?

An example from an different field - aviation weather forecasts and notices are published in a strongly abbreviated and codified form. For example, the weather at Sydney Australia now is:

METAR YSSY 031000Z 08005KT CAVOK 22/13 Q1012 RMK RF00.0/000.0

It's almost universal that new pilots ask "why isn't this in words?". And, indeed, most flight planning apps will convert the code to prose.

But professional pilots (and ATC, etc) universally prefer the coded format. Is is compact (one line instead of a whole paragraph), the format well defined (I know exactly where to look for the one piece I need), and it's unambiguous and well defined.

Same for maths and coding - once you reach a certain level of expertise, the complexity and redundancy of natural language is a greater cost than benefit. This seems to apply to all fields of expertise.
by jasode | 2025-04-03 10:37:41+00:00
>It's from the idea in your head into natural language. Getting that step right in a way that a computer could hope to turn into a useful thing is hard.

The "inside the head" conversion step would be more relevant in the reply to the gp if the hypothetical AI computer would be hooked up directly to brain implants like neuralink, functional MRI scans, etc to translate brain activity to natural language or programming language code.

But today, human developers who are paid to code for business people are not translating brain implant output signals. (E.g. Javascript programmers are not translating raw electrical waveforms[1] into React code.)

Instead, they translate from "natural language" specifications of businesspeople to computer code. This layer of translation is more tractable for future AI computers even though natural language is more fuzzy and ambiguous. The language ambiguity in business requirements is unavoidable but it still hasn't stopped developers from somehow converting it into concrete non-ambiguous code.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/06/844908/a-new-imp...
by mandmandam | 2025-04-03 10:38:09+00:00
Empirical evidence from UBI pilots shows most recipients continue working. This invalidates your entire analogy and comment.

However there are still some other points worth making:

1. No, pensions and UBI are different things. Asserting that 18 year olds will react the same as 70 year olds to receiving enough money to live on isn't just against the actual evidence, but against really basic common sense.

2. Without getting too into the weeds, UBI doesn't mean that no one works. It changes the bargaining power of the poorest and most taken advantage of. The carrots will still get grown, but it won't be by abused laborers in de facto slavery.

3. "The data tells us that the qualification age for retirement pensions is heading upwards, due to a lack of productivity gains to support it" - False. Productivity has risen for 50 years. Wages have not risen to match.

> Somebody has to do the work to grow the carrots. If you aren't doing anything meaningful in return, (which means what the carrot grower wants you to do, not what you want to do)

You seem very confused. The person who does the work to grow carrots is the carrot grower. The person who owns the land and imports seasonal workers 10 to a cabin is an exploiter.
by dxuh | 2025-04-03 10:38:14+00:00
There was a time where Nintendo clearly made consoles and games for children. I think the price of the console and the game (80€ by now) is just too high for most children. When I was a child I was always a console generation behind and bought games off the flea market or borrowed them from video rental stores. With physical copies going away or being discouraged heavily by higher prices, I feel like Nintendo is not even competing in financially accessible gaming anymore and it's sad to see. And since they are so expensive now, you might as well buy a Steam Deck. The only reason to buy Nintendo now really is just Zelda and Mario Kart. Also how many years ago was it that publishers released announcements about 60€ games not being sustainable anymore? Three maybe? The physical copy of Mario Kart World will be 90€! They got by without an increase for almost 10 years and now they increase it by 50% in just three years. I hate that we live in a time, where allowing someone to raise a price by 10€ will just lead to them doing it as many times as they can as quickly as they can.
by gambiting | 2025-04-03 10:38:28+00:00
>> seems to be quite common in your society

I'm not American and I don't know why you'd assume I am - to me the fact that americans don't have ID requirements to vote is insane.

>>as the article states, this 9% do not have ready access to documents proving their citizenship

Again, do they simply not have them because they never bothered to get them, or are they unable to obtain them? That's quite a big difference.

I also hope we're not saying that if someone turned 18 and just simply never bothered to obtain any kind of acceptable ID(and there are usually many) then it's somehow unfair to not let them vote - because I really struggle to see how that would be true.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-03 10:38:45+00:00
>In other words, a politically thoughtful and independent person probably has a basket of opinions that don’t fit into neat left or right, liberal or conservative, etc. categories.

That doesn't stop them from voting a straight red or blue ticket every time if that's what they've been indoctrinated to do.

We've all encountered some old man who by all accounts should be a republican. They own a small business, have conservative social views, like their guns, minimize taxes, etc, etc. But they vote a straight blue ticket because that's what they learned to do back in the 1960s. And on the other side is the stereotypical southern white woman who believes in every social thing the democratic party has but still votes red because she was raised in a religious household and came of age during the peak of the right's lean toward peddling to christians.
by fedeb95 | 2025-04-03 10:38:54+00:00
thanks for the information. In light of this, it seems pretty silly: economy on a world scale isn't a line, it's more like a ring (country A has a deficit with country B, which has a deficit with country ... N which has a deficit with country A) at best. Isn't it like saying everyone should trade everything at the same price with everyone?
by noduerme | 2025-04-03 10:38:56+00:00
Ok. Name a country 249 years ago that wasn't a conquering power, that didn't commit atrocities and that didn't have slavery.

You can't. They didn't exist.

Name one that opened its doors to immigrants, has the most diverse population in the world, progressively enhanced civil rights and enshrined freedom of speech, built a rule of law into its practices, and most importantly, name a single country that has had a peaceful democratic transition of power for more than half that time.
by Fraterkes | 2025-04-03 10:39:01+00:00
I you want a really accessible diy synth project: I recently did an m8 headless build inside of an anbernic r33s. It's basically lego, though you can do a little soldering if you want to, to connect the teensy directly to the r33s board (I used an external cable). And the m8 is one of the best portable synths out there. Cost me like 60€ total.
by iNic | 2025-04-03 10:39:22+00:00
> We propose two new metrics: the Written In Latex (WIL) metric measures the proportion of a machine learning library that is written in pure LATEX, while the Source Code Of Method in Source Code of Paper (SCOMISCOP) metric measures the proportion of a paper’s implementation that is contained within the paper source. We are state-of-the-art for both metrics [...]

I've seen legit ML papers propose worse metrics :)
by HPsquared | 2025-04-03 10:39:25+00:00
It could also be the opposite causality. Because people aren't getting into intimate relationships as much (looking out for each other, caring deeply about an individual of the opposite gender), the two groups are naturally diverging into preferring "what's best for ME".

I think the political split between genders is MUCH stronger for singles. It's kind of a trap actually.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-03 10:39:39+00:00
> As soon as Malaysia gets anywhere near a significant capacity of semiconductor manufacturing

You mean since 1971 when Intel opened their OSAT in Penang?

Malaysia was THE hub for electronics manufacturing until 20 years ago when China became cheaper.

In fact, it was the same businessmen in the Penang electronics industry who largely invested in China's electronics industry.

Also, semiconductors are exempted so my whole thread is moot about that. Electronics manufacturing though will return (and already started due to most companies China+1 strategy).
by Timshel | 2025-04-03 10:40:33+00:00
For AR they are linking an article which describe a way it could be beneficial: https://eyewiki.org/AR_Computers_To_Terminate_Eyestrain_And_... But I don’t believe it exists in any device ...

Cf >So by using a modified augmented reality glasses, humans can read at close range with both the ciliary and medial rectus muscles relaxed, and the eyes will never get tired.

As for VR no source ...
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 10:41:52+00:00
It's more likely to be related to culture and political structure than education is my guess. Unless, maybe, we want to use a different definition for education than just degree attainment. For example, Finland has lower attainment rates for bachelor degree equivalents than the US. This would seem to disprove your point.

The real issue is the two party split and urbanized distribution. The way the voting works and the structure of the houses means that once you reach about 85% urbanization the rural areas won't matter. We can see this at many state levels that mimic national political structure. We have multiple nations within our county, with the biggest divide probably being between urban and rural. So all you have you have to do is promise the rural group who feels they are increasingly marginalized a candidate who will look out for their interest. The specifics of those promises don't really matter because in the 2 party system it's us vs them more than actual policy positions. You will find a much bigger difference looking at the urbanization based metrics than you will at the roughly 10pt difference in who people with bachelor degrees voted for.

Edit: why disagree?
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-03 10:41:53+00:00
What you're describing is decontextualization. A sufficiently powerful transformer would theoretically be able recontextualize a sufficiently descriptive natural language specification. Likewise, the same or an equivalently powerful transformer should be able to fully capture the logic of a complicated program. We just don't have sufficient transformers yet.

I don't see why a complete description of the program's design philosophy as well as complete descriptions of each system and module and interface wouldn't be enough. We already produce code according to project specification and logically fill in the gaps by using context.
by bawolff | 2025-04-03 10:42:45+00:00
If you follow the logic of it, at least to the first order - fighting a two front war is bad, forcing europe to deal with russia frees up USA to focus on china. America's withdrawl from europe has made european states panic and re-arm, and you could argue that a well-armed europe that grudgingly helps america with a common enemy would be better than a poorly armed europe that uselessly helps willingly.

The second order effects of what he's doing are pretty obviously terrible for usa, but quite frankly i dont think trump is smart enough to see that.

[To be clear i think trump is stupid, but i don't think his actions are entirely random. There is a chain of reasoning here, it just misses the forest for the trees]
by grey-area | 2025-04-03 10:43:00+00:00
Does every country in the world maliciously connive to keep their currency low vs the dollar? Currency valuations are not tariffs and it is absurd to compare them to a tariff.

These tariffs are a huge mistake according to almost every mainstream economist, I hope instead of parroting the party line you’ll be able to admit their failure in a few years.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-04-03 10:43:34+00:00
I would bet that most of these tarrifs won't exist in <6 months. This reeks negotiation tactics from Trump.

He's been playing this game for 2 months now with Canada and Mexico, and so far he's loosing. US & business are loosing even more.

Keeping this kind of tarrifs, would be absolutely moronic even by Trump standards. That would be economic and financial suicide for the US.
by pydry | 2025-04-03 10:44:10+00:00
Domestic industries DO compete - both with each other AND with foreign companies which are levied with tariffs.

One of the reason why China's import substitution was almost unreasonably effective was because domestic companies were driven to compete fiercely with each other.

(In America there is a drive to do the opposition- wall street likes consolidation and oligopolies)

And yeah, once your national industrial ecosystem is sufficiently powerful most countries suddenly get religion about removing all tarriffs everywhere. This is what America was like in the 90s - and they were just as obnoxious about that as they are about this - the exact opposite.
by Frenzyk | 2025-04-03 10:44:18+00:00
Latest studies i've read link these types of vision impairment to the lack of proper lighting, that reduce the release of dopamine (that is released also when we are exposed to sun) and that lack of dopamine can play a role in lens elongation thus causing vision problems. It is possible that studies, that concluded that computer and phone use (so always reading up close) are the cause, are just seeing correlation betwen this usage and staying indoor more (which closely correlates with computer/phone usage)
by pembrook | 2025-04-03 10:44:26+00:00
Doesn't matter how intelligent or educated or homogenous culturally the Finns are...if Russia were to decide to invade.

Domestic political antifragility means nothing if you're not anti-fragile in terms of the outside world.

It's called the anarchic global system for a reason. The only thing enforcing norms is power and the fear of it.

Antifragility would be the EU finally forming a real union. As someone living in Finland, I'm not holding my breath that happens in our lifetimes. If you take a sample of average, non-cosmopolitan Europeans, they can barely even communicate with each other in the same language. Let alone come to agreements on who's going to pay for each others bloated social welfare expectations.

The EU is the very definition of Fragility. While Finland has made far more rational decisions than its EU neighbors (having correctly prioritized energy security, military, and technology), it doesn't matter because size is more important.
by antonvs | 2025-04-03 10:45:31+00:00
Research on LLMs suggest that's probably not the case. See the work on reasoning in latent space, and on shared concepts between languages being represented independently of the individual language.

Of course one might argue that even if LLMs are capable of ideation and conceptualisation without natural language, doesn't mean humans are.

But the fact that up to 50% of people have no inner monologue seems to refute that.
by mariusor | 2025-04-03 10:45:42+00:00
If you look at some famous(ish) projects that do this, there are two main ways:

* write a piece of software that can be commodized (the SourceHut route)

* become a consultant specializing in the software you're developing (the cURL route)

None of these things are guaranteed to work though. You need a good product for the first or your project needs to be the linchpin for many other things for the second.
by kmacdough | 2025-04-03 10:45:52+00:00
Computers can and should help along the way, but Dijkstra's argument is that a) much of the challenge of human ideas is discovered in the act of converting from natural to formal language and b) that this act, in and of itself, is what trains our formal logical selves.

So he's contesting not only the idea that programs should be specified in natural language, but also the idea that removing our need to understand the formal language would increase our ability to build complex systems.

It's worth noting that much of the "translation" is not translation, but fixing the logical ambiguities, inconsistencies and improper assumptions. Much of it can happen in natural language, if we take Dijkstra seriously, precisely because programmers at the table who have spent their lives formalizing.

There are other professions which require significant formal thinking, such as math. But also, the conversion of old proofs into computer proofs has lead us to discover holes and gaps in many well accepted proofs. Not that much has been overturned, but we still do t have a complete proof for Fermats last theorem [1].

[1] https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/fermats-last-th...
by mandmandam | 2025-04-03 10:45:53+00:00
> Everyone is focused on how the rich are getting richer. This is inevitable in liberal societies. The goal should instead be to stop the poor getting poorer

These things are fundamentally connected. When the wealthy have too much power, they squeeze the middle and the poor too hard.

Unlike much else in life, the pool of money is a zero-sum game (though this is addressed in the paper, notably). When 3 Americans hold more wealth than 50% of the rest of us, that's a real problem. This historic and rising inequality leads nowhere good, and we are in existential crises which require that this be properly addressed.
by pasc1878 | 2025-04-03 10:45:59+00:00
The UK Labour government was opposed to Photo ID it was the right wing that introduced it.

It is an Anglo-American thing not to have PhotoID probably related to never been invaded in the last two hundred years.

The issue is that to get back in power the Democrats need votes top overturn Republicans and so the IDs in Republican states matter those in Democrat states do not. So better top show full disapproval as they won't lose any seats over that and can keep some pressure up.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-03 10:46:08+00:00
The UK has a monarchy with severely curtailed official powers. But it's a front. The UK is effectively run by the Crown, and the aristocrats have huge land, property, and investment/financial empires, own all the main media outlets, and set policy through their clients in the political system.

The aristocrats are narcissistic, shockingly racist, and often rather stupid - good at tactics like manipulating elections and news cycles, but contemptuous of most of the population, and clueless about how to build an economy based on growth and invention instead of rent-seeking and extraction.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-04-03 10:46:15+00:00
> Advertising made smoking cool Nicotine is incredibly addictive, so one would suspect that that addiction made the change stick better.

> it made diamonds valuable

This one is interesting, in that diamonds are valuable for a one off high value purchase (i.e. wedding rings). I'd need to think about this a bit more, but on the face of it is a good counter-argument.

> Long term behaviour change is difficult. Short term behaviour change; not so much.

Can you provide some evidence for this?

Context: I have a PhD in psychology, and have read so many behaviour change meta-analyses that show really, really small effects so my prior is pretty strongly against this.

Additionally, I worked at a big tech on ads, and while one could definitely see changes in conversion rates due to ads, the incremental changes (i.e. measured by experiments) were much, much lower such that a good model of Google/Facebook etc is that they show ads preferentially to people who were probably going to convert anyway (it seems to work well in situations where there is no awareness of the business, but for larger businesses it's all about taking your competitors customers).

So my thesis is more that advertising re-allocates the dollars spend between (mostly) interchangeable products, which is consistent with the psychological research.