MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-31 03:06:23+00:00
I think have read this before. Wasn’t he trying to find neuroscientific evidence to support IQ via neuron transmission rates and whatnot? Or was it grey matter volume?

Regardless, I am still skeptical of a lot of neuroscience research, as well.

I feel that neuroscience often suffers from the same issues that psychology does —- where correlation apparently equates to causation.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-31 03:08:18+00:00
Your analogy fails to account that after "Friday" bug fixes are still allowed. A file system losing your files sounds like a bug to me.

Edit since you expanded your post:

>The most interesting to me was LWN, about the debian tools, where an actual psychologist got involved.

To me the comment was patronizing implying it was purely due to bad communication from Kent's end and shows how immature people are with running these operating system are. Putting priority on processes over the end user.

>respecting their decisions and moving on.

When this causes real pain for end users. It's validating that the decision was wrong.

> really doesn't matter how "right" you may be... not your circus

It does because it causes reputational damage for bcachefs. Even beyond reputational damage, delivering a good product to end users should be a priority. In my opinion projects as big as Debian causing harm to users should be called out instead of ignored. Else it can lead to practices like replacing dependencies out from underneath programs to become standard practice.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-08-31 03:09:06+00:00
>Almost every animal has solved locomotion, some even with incredibly primitive brains. Evolution knocked this out of the park hundreds of millions of years ago.

>Only a few animals have solved reasoning.

the assumption here seems to be that reasoning will be able to do what evolution did hundreds of millions of years ago (with billions of years of work being put into that doing) much easier than evolution did for.. some reason that is not exactly expressed?

logically also I should note that given the premises laid out by the first quoted paragraph the second quoted paragraph should not be "only a few animals have solved reasoning" it should be "evolution has only solved reasoning a few times"
by bb88 | 2025-08-31 03:09:35+00:00
I'm conflicted on this.

Lax building codes in hurricane prone areas shouldn't exist after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 [0].

And then there was the Trump sharpie incident. [1]

Wind speed is the best metric (that's not corruptible by humans yet) that describes how dangerous a storm is.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/15/nx-s1-5151844/tougher-buildin...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian%E2%80%93Alaba...
by jonah | 2025-08-31 03:09:42+00:00
At the bottom of the article there are links to two related articles from before they started out and when they were halfway through. They answer many of your questions.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-22/scottish-maclean-brot...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/scottish-maclean-brot...
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-31 03:11:23+00:00
Umm socialism works pretty great in most of Europe where it's a much nicer place to live than the US.

All the talk of immorality and corruption is justified when aimed at Soviet style communism. But that's not the only way. When a balance is sought however it works really great. Much better than the unlimited capitalism as in the US. My boss recently asked me if I wouldn't move to the US lol. I wouldn't think about it. What I care about in life is not having the ability to make unlimited amounts of money but having safety, both on the street and in terms of a social and healthcare safety net. We have all this.

We can also call in sick when we're actually sick (no limit to 'sick days'). Can't be fired at will, we get a month of holidays per years plus extras, and our cities are a nicer place to live in with fewer cars and better transport.

This kind of left wing doesn't even exist in the US (even Bernie is more right wing than us). So I can imagine Americans thinking that the only socialism is the way the USSR did things.

I don't really understand how people think the system works so great when so many Americans struggle to pay rent, healthcare bills, student loans etc. I don't pay out of pocket for healthcare at all here. I just gave a government card that allows me treatment when I need it.
by jameshart | 2025-08-31 03:13:13+00:00
Whatever mayor they're 'under threat of' can't be much worse than the one who's currently in place who is under threat of indictment from the federal government over bribery, fraud, and illegal foreign finance contributions, who has has eight of his staff resign in the last year under federal investigations, and lost multiple other staff resigning on principle.

People are already acting like Mamdani is responsible for everything that happens in NYC; they should pay more attention to the guy who's been in charge the past 3 years.
by marc_abonce | 2025-08-31 03:13:53+00:00
The border is a river. But rivers slightly change their course over time.

Croatia claims their original pre-Yugoslavia border, based on the historical course of the river. That's because some of its municipalities follow that old line. Serbia, on the other hand, claims that the current course of the river is the border.

The unclaimed land loophole happens because the curves of the old and new rivers intersect in a zigzag (or DNA-like) manner, so some pieces of land are claimed by both and some pieces are claimed by neither. The lands claimed by both have more value than the lands claimed by neither so neither country takes over those tiny, unpopulated strips of land because doing so would implicitly accept the other country's border claim and therefore serve as a surrender of the better lands to the other country.

Or at least that's my (mis?)understanding, here's more context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia%E2%80%93Serbia_border_...
by LocalH | 2025-08-31 03:14:44+00:00
I largely agree with the sentiment behind the statement you're referring to, but I disagree with its framing.

Piracy has never been stealing, nor theft, in the entire period of time when "piracy" has existed as a term for "copyright infringement". Stealing involves depriving someone of a piece of property, not merely the profit from selling it. I'm not aware of anyone, ever, who has been charged with criminal theft because they duplicated an existing work.

Piracy has never been stealing, but until somewhat recently, buying was always owning (in terms of the physical copy, not in terms of the copyright).

If it were possible to scan an object that is protected by patents/trademarks/copyright and later reproduce it with perfect fidelity from raw materials, should that be considered "stealing"? Of course not. It might violate, in some sense, one or more of the rights often lumped into the colloquial term "intellectual property". But it cannot be theft, as the owner of the original object was not, in any way, deprived of their property.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-31 03:15:32+00:00
That’s just 0.6 and 0.0 written cleverly.

If the 9’s repeat forever then there is no possible number between that and 0.6, so it must be the same…

Put another way, any single digit “n” repeating is just n/9.

Your problem is equivalent to (4/9 + 5/9 - 0.4) + 0/9

(Equivalent to 0.6)
by nomoreofthat | 2025-08-31 03:16:36+00:00
Well, this has affected my friendships with Americans. Most of them I’m still friends with, but being politically ambivalent or worse, supporting the president, is no longer acceptable. I tried to be open minded and have friends from different political backgrounds, but at this point if you are not explicitly on our side, you are an enemy and I am no longer talking talking to you. You either oppose the American government or you are evil. There is no alternative remaining at this point, and I’m not friends with evil people.
by Jensson | 2025-08-31 03:17:33+00:00
> For example, IQ is not a better predictor of chess performance than say a chess tournament.

So we should determine who to give chess lessons to with chess tournaments? That seems pretty dumb.

There are many times where we don't want to select for current ability but for potential ability, and then a direct test like you suggest is a much worse predictor than IQ is.
by mindslight | 2025-08-31 03:18:24+00:00
Chest thumping false bravado will mislead you every time.

If I go to a restaurant, wait an hour for a table, get very hungry, and then see on the menu that the restaurant has tripled prices, is the restaurant "negotiating from a position of power" ? Sure, once.

What exactly do you think happens to our power after Trump squanders it to extract one-time concessions that mostly flow into his own pockets?
by freeopinion | 2025-08-31 03:18:30+00:00
Git is decentralized in exactly the way it was intended to be. I do all my development on my own host. I collaborate with a lot of different remotes. Even when a project insists on using Github, I contribute by forking to my own host, push patches to the forge of my choice, and invite the maintainer to pull from there if they like. A lot of maintainers just mirror to Github and/or Gitlab.

Sure, a lot of people pick one center and stare at it. But there are plenty of centers and that situation is getting better recently. Some even integrate git with ATProto or ActivityPub.
by rayiner | 2025-08-31 03:20:01+00:00
The breadth of predictability is why it’s such an effective measure. Most tasks involve many different skills, so it’s helpful to have a single measure that’s correlated with a bunch of different competencies. That’s why we use what are essentially IQ tests in everything from assigning jobs in the military (ASVAB) to selecting lawyers (LSAT). There’s tremendous social value in a single test that can scaleably sort through millions of people even if it’s not the most predicative test for a specific problem domain or a specific individual.

Also, IQ predicts chess performance as well: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160913124722.h...
by mrstone | 2025-08-31 03:20:47+00:00
This is one of the most surface-level understandings of national economics that I have seen. Sure, all of that would be great, if not for two things a) these tariffs are not targeted and b) your country could produce everything that it is tariffing. What is the plan for cocoa beans? bananas? aluminum and steel?

These thinly veiled pro-trump people are much too common the internet and I'm getting tired of it.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-08-31 03:21:27+00:00
or I just wanted to make sure that you were adamant that the list of those three possibilities were equally probable, to reiterate

> AI might still break down at even a small bit of complexity, or it might be installing air conditioners, or it might be colonizing Mercury and putting humans in zoos.

that each of these things, being logically consistent, have equal chances of being the case 5 years from now?
by kragen | 2025-08-31 03:21:40+00:00
Pretty exciting stuff! I'd also be curious how well CTEs work; Postgres seems to have Turing-complete recursive CTEs, while SQLite and ANSI have some peculiar restrictions presumably to guarantee termination. They might even be the same restrictions, I don't know.

Unfortunate you can't add new operators in Python the way you can in Prolog or OCaml to get a readable infix syntax like the one you chose but without the misleading operators like <= for :-. (I've done worse, though...)
by inkyoto | 2025-08-31 03:21:50+00:00
> It's also why I urge junior engineers to not rely on AI so much because even though it makes writing code so much faster […]

I am afraid, the cat is out the bag, and there is no turning back with GenAI and coding – juniors have got a taste of GenAI assisted coding and will persevere. The best we can do it educate them on how to use it correctly and responsibly.

The approach I have taken involves small group huddles where we talk to each other as equals, and where I emphasise the importance of understanding the problem space, the importance of the depth and breadth of knowledge, i.e. going across the problem domain – as opposed to focusing on a narrow part of it. I do not discourage the junior engineers from using GenAI, but I stress the liability factor and the cost: «if you use GenAI to write code, and the code falls apart in production, you will have a hard time supporting it if you do not understand the generated code, so choose your options wisely». I also highlight the importance of simplicity over complexity of the design and implementation, and that simplicity is hard, although it is something we should strive for as an aspiration and as a delivery target.

I reflect on and adjust the approach based on new observations, feedback loop (commits) and other indirect signs and metrics – this area is still new, and the GenAI assisted coding framework is still fledging.
by danans | 2025-08-31 03:23:51+00:00
> I know several Spaniards who emigrated to the US,

As do I. They all seem to have moved to cosmopolitan places with advanced economies, not Mississippi. I also have friends and relatives that have migrated to Spain. Overall, there is no mass migration in either direction.

> The situation you describe is… one of statistics and not reality

A high speed rail network and universal healthcare are not statistics, they are as real as it gets.

But I definitely agree that Spain is probably not a good place if you want to make an absolute shitload of money.
by timschmidt | 2025-08-31 03:25:28+00:00
I recognize it as a more or less universal optimization process. Everything important ends up in silicon, if it remains important long enough. And there are several stages of that.

Like you, a part of me years for SGML and The Semantic Web, and where it makes sense in Alumina I am using RESTish APIs.

But I do not pine for Javascript. Language or frameworks. 20 years has been enough. And I do not believe that some of the 4mb minified obfuscated js downloads from a CDN I've seen are in any way more accessible than a WASM binary of similar size. At least there is advanced tooling for the WASM representation. Folks who want you to read their code will still make it easy, and folks who don't won't.

To your point about learning, WASM makes some really incredible systems like https://lovr.org/ available in the browser, which I would have loved to have as a kid, but which also aren't javascript. It's related to Turing completeness somehow, once you let a little software into your structured document, it all wants in. Or maybe it's "if you give a mouse a cookie"?

I understand what you're saying about discoverability. But the developer in me really likes having a relatively simple binary interpreter to target for network-delivered cross-platform binary applications. My hope is that offering such a juicy target to the folks who want to develop applications (including myself) gets them out of all the semantic document features, allowing both sets of code to get simpler and more focused. Because I think they're two different, both entirely valid, tasks folks use the web for.
by jonahx | 2025-08-31 03:25:58+00:00
The link back to the real world is money in your bank account. While Coinbase is not the only market player who can provide that (put money in your bank in exchange for bitcoin), it's the biggest, and so there is (to a degree) de facto centralization. More so given that if Coinbase fell (due to government seizure or similar), it's likely sibling services would fall as well.

Ofc, your bitcoin would still be "safe" and still be "yours" on the chain assuming you owned your wallets directly, but those guarantees would now lack meaning or real world consequences. At least until another link to the real world could be established.
by jalapenos | 2025-08-31 03:26:18+00:00
Would say a Bernie Sanders style "free university, free healthcare" program be considered an infrastructure project in the US?

And yes, society only moves forward due to a small number of leaders. In the past this has been more focused on state leaders and conquest, but in the modern day more so industrialists and technologists. It's not controversial that the vast majority of people just want to be provided a comfortable lot in life by others.
by Uehreka | 2025-08-31 03:27:19+00:00
> But when they’re endorsing one religious group to piss off another?

This is a ridiculous take.

The Satanic Temple is about as much of a “real” religious group as The Church of the Sub-Genius or Pastafarians. If you’re equating them with other organized religions… well honestly, they probably find it hilarious that someone is taking them this seriously.

Y’know what, nevermind, carry on. Fight the good fight!
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-31 03:27:46+00:00
I think it’s currently too easy to get drunk on easy success cases for AI.

It’s like asking a college student 4th grade math questions and then being impressed they knew the answer.

I’ve use copilot a lot. Faster then google, gives great results.

Today I asked it for the name of a French restaurant that closed in my area a few years ago. The first answer was a Chinese fusion place… all the others were off too.

Sure, keep questions confined to something it was heavily trained on, answers will be great.

But yeah, AI going to get rid of a lot of low skilled labor.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-31 03:28:22+00:00
Economic, class, social mobility classically means ability for an individual to attain significantly more wealth than they were born with and ability to change their and their family's lifestyle. In which case it's not zero sum.

But yeah, some statistics indeed are just likelihood that the ranking order changes, or even self-reported...

It's like the definition of "middle class". Everyone thinks they're middle class. The OECD calls anyone with 75% to 200% of the average income "middle class". Classically the term means you are above the labour class but not noble.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-08-31 03:29:15+00:00
discuss and email the need of a public or shared signed list of priority evaluations, and recommend bumping up the priority of item X.

but I agree, there is always some excuse.

While those who believe in contract driven accountability may constitute a minority, they could start a mailing list to coordinate and discover companies or startups applying these principles, and putting the rules into legally binding contracts and the company bylaws or whatever.

Nothing would happen until a local critical mass was reached, unless the work could be done remote at first. The first such companies could then spin out branches that do non-remote work (lab work, manufacture, ...).
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-31 03:29:38+00:00
But your position is that you're opposed to evidence based policy. Which means you can't realistically hope to be in favor of an informed populace or democracy.

And you don't understand what the economic consensus is so you don't know what you don't know and aren't in a position to assess the level of rigor.

Plus your other comments, e.g. calling drug users zombies and criminals, make it clear that the anti-democratic impulses shown in this thread aren't just a one-off accident.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-31 03:29:53+00:00
>IQ has a lot of flaws, not the least of which is its usage outside of academic research, as a measure of job aptitude and hiring potential

Isn't IQ one of the best predictors of job training success, across both civilian and military, blue collar and white collar?

It's also one of, if not the single most generalizable predictors that we know of right now, even more so than nationality, race, gender, SES (socioeconomic status), parental SES, you name it. It predicts just about everything - from hard biological measures like reaction time and brain mass to lifetime odds of being in a car accident (distinct from causing a car accident - higher IQ people are statistically less likely to be hit by another driver), divorce rates, lifetime income, longevity, the list goes on and on. IQ is not the strongest predictor for every one of these, but every stronger predictor for any one of those fails to predict as many things as IQ does. Parental SES, controlling for IQ, provides no predictive power for your reaction time, for instance, despite predicting educational attainment better than IQ does.

The critique that IQ is an imperfect proxy for g is totally valid.

The self-assuaging fantasy that g itself doesn't exist is a classic example of a psychological defensive mechanism of rejection, one rooted in a need to defend a worldview that holds all people as inherently equal, when we're measurably, biologically not.
by what-the-grump | 2025-08-31 03:30:06+00:00
Please point to the active money in this economy?

The pension reallocations? Blackrock? Bitcoin?

There is a ton of money being siphoned off with zero place to put it. When sv collapsed why does Roku park half a billion dollars in a bank account. Roku has 8th of Mazda’s net worth parked in a bank account… there is unchecked capitalization for the sake of the share price, this money is doing nothing except buying up competition.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-08-31 03:30:23+00:00
One of the big troubles is that if you join a big org you won’t get to do any architecture until you are at least “senior” or “lead”. Maybe that’s not true everywhere, but I have seen a fair bit of it. You need several iterations of “I built a thing” “oh, the thing evolved in horrible ways”, before the instincts for good architecture are developed.

I think Big Orgs need to develop younger promising talent by letting them build small green fields projects. Essentially fostering startups inside the organisation proper. Let them build and learn from mistakes (while providing the necessary knowledge; you can actually learn most of this from books, but experience is the ultimate teacher). Otherwise you end up with 5 year experienced people who cannot design themselves out of a paper bag.
by koverstreet | 2025-08-31 03:31:17+00:00
bcachefs has had active users, with real data that they want to protect, since before it was merged.

A lot of the bcachefs users are using it explicitly because they've been burned by btrfs and need something more reliable.

I am being much, much more conservative with removing the experimental label than past practice, but I have been very explicit that while it may not be perfect yet and users should expect some hiccups, I support it like any other stable production filesystem.

That's been key to getting it stabilized: setting a high expectations. Users know that if they find a critical bug it's going to be top priority.
by kazinator | 2025-08-31 03:31:55+00:00
From article:

(list (typep "漣" 'simple-array) (typep "漣" 'string) (typep "漣" 'vector) (typep "漣" 'array) (typep "漣" t)) -> (T T T T T)

There you go. The type of "漣" is a subtype of string. Since we know that the type is (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER (1)), it means that this type is a subtype of string. They are therefore related by the supertype-subtype relationship.