skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real issue "modern" societies are starting to have is that everything is based on a pyramid scheme (more young people than old people) that is beginning to unravel everywhere. That is something nobody is ready for.

Keep an eye out on South Korea to see what happens when the pyramid scheme unravels. Our birthrate has fallen to 0.75 and we are in for a huge shock in 10 years. Yet our politicians are just fighting each other :))
I think you are way overblowing this whole idea.

Sure, peers matter, and yes, probably competitive people may tend to aggregate in some places but that does not lead to the implications and numbers you drive. It's mostly about bias and network.

> people who went to MIT were in a culture that pushed them the entire time, so they’ll have maximized their talent

It's funny you mention a university which publishes their own tests. I'd like to see a comparison with similar tests from less prestigious university. Calculus/analysis tests seem quite standard, where's the unusual push?

You seem to regurgitate university ads.

It's also funny how the article points how prestige...is much less of a factor for STEM than economics or law...maybe because stem needs results besides prestige?
When there's no explanation, it's almost always because of 2 reasons:

1. Sanctions.

2. Financial crimes. Think "funding terrorist-equivalent groups" or "money laundering". Now a terrorist-equivalent group is open to an interpretation by PayPal itself.. the same way we yell at facebook/twitter to be the decider of truth.

For these 2 reasons, employees are not allowed to notify the company what the reason is. Doing so would result in jail time for the employees. This rule is imposed by US government.

It's no surprise employees "overdo" the ban. Employees get paid the same whether they decide to ban a company or not. If they ban a company wrongly, big deal.. nothing happens (of course, unless they ban 100000 companies wrongly, but nobody would reach that number). If they make a mistake and don't ban a bad company, they (the employees themselves) could go to jail. Guess which side the employee would be biased toward.
Fear and group think have not gone anywhere.

Society is “group think”. Try paying rent in bottle caps, and telling your boss to go fuck themselves when they ask for something. Fear of unemployment and homelessness make that unlikely.

City to city, coast to coast, group think and fear keep us from having serious conversations about consumerisms impact on the environment; don’t touch my capitalism click clack

The difference is that’s group think you’ve been conditioned since birth to believe is as immutable as the orbit of the planets.

If we all “group thought” more bicycles and fewer cars were more appropriate that’s what we’d produce. It’s unjustifiable belief to make it sound as if you’re a truly free agent unaffected by group think and fear of alternatives.
You mean like Parler? Oh wait, some of the biggest tech companies, for all intents and purposes, killed it.

You can have a free market with monopolies/duopolies.
A CD that returns almost 10%. You'd be crazy to pass that up.
Political prisoners are people imprisoned for their speech and influence. A Jan 6 person could very well be a political prisoner, and since I'm not a Democrat I can't be sure of their collective guilt without actually reading about their cases.
I understand why it might seem that way, but it's really not. We've just put a premium on learning efficiency, and most math classes are highly inefficient - whether K-12 or university.

Just imagine how much more quickly a student could progress through a course if they were to work one-on-one with an expert tutor 5 days per week. Quite a bit more quickly in most cases. Well, our system effectively serves as an expert AI tutor and based on our calculations is on the order of 4 times more efficient than a traditional math class.

But I get the skepticism. I'd probably be skeptical myself.
Yeah, let’s just keep smoking cigarettes, using leaded gasoline, and spewing carbon into the air until we know for sure how bad it is.
There are books public schools or public libraries may not carry, not bans..

Germany making pro Nazi rhetoric illegal no matter where is a ban (one I can agree with)

Florida making sure their Public money is not spent on this is not a ban. You can still own and publish these books in Florida. Or have them in a privately owned library or at a private university or school.

Let's stop hyperbolizing. It is actually totally reasonable to censor books in libraries targeted towards children. Not doing so is unreasonable.
While the "Dream analyst" said plausible things about the author's dream, I have no idea how they (the analysts) know it. So I tend not to believe that easy explanation.

The only consistent thing I can say is that if the dream situation occurs in real life, then my feelings and emotional response to the situation will likely be the same. That's been the sole valid anchor for me.

Anxiety about "authority figure" is a little odd, for example, relating to my school dream of having to vacate my hostel room and realising I lost the key..a friend comes up with "I think I have it" and upon checking the keybunch, it doesn't have my room's key. I'm not panicking but don't want the room door to be smashed down when I'm not around. I have something old and precious inside I need to grab.
For me: time for finals and, oops, I didn’t attend a single class and I have no idea what the final will be about.

Maybe this dream is due to the fact that I missed at least half of all my classes because of basketball at the rec center.
VS Code is an IDE.
> They don't have an engine for a plane that they have yet to fly

To really be Theranos-tier, they'd have lied about having the engine already. They didn't go that far, they never claimed to have the engine already. Nor is the engine they desire one that's actually impossible, as Therano's vision was.
4000 cap is not even to get my true point across... Sorry, but this platform isn't for me..
The entire point is that your plausibility generator generates things that seem plausible to you. Disagreeing with this basic human brain function is at least ironic in context.
> So in that case, why not let the government just take over any company it sees fit?

Well, seizing is rather different than regulating, for one thing, and for another, because most of the time I'd probably think it was a bad idea. I do think it's an option that should be on the table in some circumstances. Just that it's probably wises rarely to use it.

I didn't write that I thought the government ought to interfere with businesses constantly, to extremes, in all sorts of ways. I just think the justification for their ability to do so, if they want, falls out how incorporation works, and what a corporation is.

> If you’re okay with the government controlling any legal organization do yoh feel the same way about government controlling churches? Advocacy groups?

I'd rather they didn't take them over, if that's what your suggesting, but they in fact regulate tons of things about these organizations, including, specifically, speech.
I read the original poster as saying “we should look carefully here, because the law is written by people who I think do not appear to share our values, and may have different effects because of those differences” which is a fine position to have, and not incompatible with debate. I don’t think we need to immediately jump to civil war.
Six digits easily
Amazing work great stuff !!!!!
So, whose speech are we prioritizing, and why?
Agreed. When there’s active attempts to expose young kids to overtly sexual behavior, it’s the people yelling “over reaction” who I’m most suspicious of.

There are lines you don’t cross with kids. When people try to erase those lines it has to be called out.
> There's definitely something going on here that needs to be addressed.

I'm glad you agree that transphobia should be addressed!

> People aren't just making this connection for no reason.

Indeed, this rhetoric is being used for fear-mongering and scape-goating in order to distract from certain problems and/or manipulate people into voting for fascists.
Good question. All the generations in the dataset were generated with version 1.3.
I had a quick scan through the actual linked article [1] but couldn't find the actual SPU protocol? It seems like there are two variations but no details of the regimen (reps / sets / duration). Admittedly, it was a quick look through -- but I'd be really interested to know the protocol. From the YT video in OP it looks like an easy enough motion to learn.

[1] https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)01141-5...
Over 50.

Walking into class for the last course I need to graduate. Oh, didn't remember the final exam was today. I didn't even study for it. In fact, I don't think I even ever picked up the textbook. I get handed the test and I don't understand a single question. I'm going to fail and have to stay in school for another semester. Plus, apparently, I forgot to put on clothes when I left the house. I'm in class completely naked. Not again!

One of my regular dreams, along with the one where I get fired and go back to the manual labor job.
I think that's draw of the luck with 0xdeadbeef vs 0x0. I had a case once were it would have made no difference, and I discovered it when there was no initialization in another platform, and all of a sudden we got random results for some old benchmark.

"Not accidentally correct" seems difficult in the generic case (think a 1 bit flag; of course for an int 0 is likely "more expected" than any other value); NaN for floats however is a nice variant that should work pretty well. Is it signaling or quiet?
The C++ Language book. I enjoyed it up to the first half, but then was deer in headlights for the rest. Maybe it felt like all the rules were too big to fit in my head, but it personally felt like an overwhelming language.
Since when did "one in eight" qualify for "most"?
Is GabPay associated with Gab, cause if so then no they don't. They blocked me for posting liberal viewpoints. They care about protecting right-wing racism and promoting domestic terrorism.
Any recommendations for magazines? I wouldn't mind subscribing to one or two so I have something to casually browse when I'm tired of staring at a monitor. It seems like when I buy magazine at a store though, it's 60% ads, 30% sponsored articles, and 10% interesting content. I'm usually left wondering why I just spent $10 to look at advertising. Do good ones actually exist?
Pre-emptively characterizing certain sorts of communication as totalitarian without any exploration of its content or merits is one kind of rhetorical strategy.
I dont think government should be in the business of regulated interpersonal relationships at all, for the finances it should be covered by contract law, for everything else it is none of the government's business
If you can develop any kind of non-trivial scientific fields with 100% accuracy and plausible evidence, that finding alone would be qualified for the Nobel prize. Even abstract fields like Math are prone to human errors.
https://archive.ph/oC2Vv
“Tesla issues software update to a specific set of vehicles” seems like a better headline

So sick of all these terrible clickbait Tesla doomsday titles. We get it, some people have it out for Tesla to fail, or hate Elon - but stop weaponizing public safety notices with fear titles
Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster
This is not true. You need a Facebook account to interact with a lot of businesses.

Many businesses don't have normal websites for better or worse.

Many government agencies announce things through Twitter and Facebook for better or worse (worse in my opinion).
Answering myself: there's also an ARM opcode for zero'ing memory. That's another reason to use 0x0.
Now I'm not in the USA or familiar with this case, but if anybody wants to reply with even a brief explanation of why there appears to be no criminal charges regarding the forged documents, I'd appreciate it.
>From "hug a chinese" to "masks don't help" one day, and "mandatory masks" the next.

The fact that people keep citing this ridiculous claim is evidence of why this "contradiction" was necessary. People are too selfish and panicky to respond rationally to "although masks are useful, we need current masks for healthcare workers, so please don't go buy any". That message is 4 times as long as the attention span of the average American. As such, it got consolidated into the much more brief (but not strictly accurate) "you don't need to wear masks" until such time as the supply chain could cope.

This was a rational and intentional decision, not a contradiction.
> In video calls, encoding and decoding is actually a significant cost of video calls, not just networking. Right now the peak is Zoom's 30 video streams onscreen, but with 1000x CPUS you can have 100s of high quality streams with advanced face detection and superscaling[1]. Advanced computer vision models could analyze each face creating a face mesh of vectors, then send those vector changes across the wire instead of a video frame. The receiving computers could then reconstruct the face for each frame. This could completely turn video calling into a CPU restricted task.

Interesting, how do you see this different from deep learning based video coding recently demonstrated? [1]

[1]https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3368405
I've been coming to HN for the better part of a decade now, and this is already in my pantheon of Greatest Threads
Young says:

> I suspect it’s because it often publishes sceptical pieces about the five sacred nostrums you’re not allowed to dissent from: the view that sex, like gender, is a social construct and therefore not binary and immutable; that the lockdown policy and associated Covid restrictions were a prudent response to the pandemic; the mRNA vaccines are safe and efficacious; we’re in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’ and the only solution is to achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050 (preferably earlier); and the West should continue to supply arms and aid to Ukraine.

How did these five things end up being part of the same tribe? How is it that, like, "don't take the Moderna vaccine" is on the same page as "stop helping Ukraine?"
> politicians using social media to continuously publish blatant lies is also not a mechanism for stable government.

The solution being proposed is to allow administrations to keep pushing narratives that support the regime. You can't consider yourself a defender of the population against politicians while also granting them the power to suppress speech through proxies. When you find yourself favorably referring to mainstream media in the past for their ability to control the speech of elected officials, you're spiraling towards Zimbabwe.
"Randomly", after a woman died after being taken into custody by the moral police. But sure, it's "equally likely" that Israel somehow sprinkled the rebellion-seeds over Iran and now the women are rising up. Totally just as likely.
To truly believe in free speech you need to defend speech you disagree with. That's the ultimate prioritization.
I’ve learned to try to hedge against this kind of thing with language like “I’m no expert here, so let me know if you have any ideas on a better way” or the like. But yeah it is a good reminder not to make those assumptions when speaking with others.
that's their point, and why they don't think it's useful.
> In contrast, there is no evidence that large technology companies, such as Facebook and Google, experienced any reductions in either sales or profits.

I'd say they might need to revise that. I think Google just saw a 4 billion euro reduction in profit.
This exemplifies why regulation is necessary to protect the whole from this mindset and philosophy. Most people don’t want to work harder or more for the same pay, and instead work to live and pay their bills; they shouldn’t get dragged by a vocal minority.

If you can arrange to work more, and get paid more for that work, I support that! Just don’t drag others down who want to live their life outside of work by advocating for workism policy, especially if you’re not getting paid more just to make someone wealthy more wealthy. What’s the point of massive multi decade productivity gains if they’re not going to the people who perform the work by way of a reduction in workweek hours?
Having dipped into the humanities and social sciences (but ultimately graduated with a Math degree), I'd say that the potential difficulties are different rather than absolute.

You often have to do a TON of reading and synthesis in H or SS fields. Mind-boggling reading lists aren't uncommon. If you're lucky the prose is a friendly style. If not... well, you know that feeling of trying to take in a math text quickly? It's not quite that bad, but it's related, lots of unfamiliar phrasing and terminology that you have to work out the connections between and condense semantics from. And then... you may not have well-defined problems. Essay questions/assignments amount to "come up with some thesis and supporting arguments that show familiarity with the material and the ability to generate interesting insight." Do "interesting" and "shows familiarity with the material" sound like uncomfortably subjective assessments? Why yes. Yes they are. Good luck! Also measuring things and experiments are hard. You can be reasonably dull in the natural sciences and still gather a useful amount of empirical observation; in the social sciences or humanities you're going to have to be pretty clever to get good empirical observations at all.

OTOH I would agree that CS and Math often have an additional level of conceptual difficulty, especially the more abstract the corner of the field you're working with, from "you'll definitely need some well-chosen concrete examples as introductory points and probably a bunch of graduated problem sets leading to the eventual brain-twisting revelation" to "you don't understand this, you just get used to it."

I'm considering a grad program that blends the two, so maybe I'll change my mind when I'm done.
Who are you quoting, and why aren't you replying to them?
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Can be.

But what should be is not the same as what is.

While my personal opinion of the FSU's founder is so negative as to be unrepeatable in polite society, I regard certain categories of business (loosely speaking "infrastructure", but the boundary is vague even in my head) as being the kind of thing that must be available to everyone by default and only allowed to reject customers/users in very limited and well defined cases (think "court order" not "T&C says we can do it for any reason").

I regard the larger payment provision services, PayPal included, to be infrastructure.
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I've been working with Mathematica and PyTorch on it, and I played Stray, Cyberpunk and Ghost Recon all on max graphics with 120fps. It's insane and definitely moving the goalpost for me in terms of expectations.
> I suppose there's an argument that twitter etc are effectively "common carriers" ... I'm not sure I buy it though.

On one side of the spectrum we have your private home. Obviously your having the ability to infringe on my freedom to speak in that very specific and limited venue doesn't seem to lead to any great societal ills.

On the other side of the spectrum we have a government owned public square. I think it's clear enough that any regulation of speech there including informal coercion not to speak is quite likely to lead to significant political and social problems. Limitations on government power mitigate a lot of this but certainly not all of it.

And then we have large corporate owned properties, both online and in the physical world, where the public is more or less permitted to gather but the regular protections don't apply. Presumably the problems caused by regulating speech are related to scale. So at what point should regulation apply?

The concept of a common carrier isn't new. Twitter hosts prominent politicians from multiple large countries. It seems obvious to me that they crossed that line some point even if I don't know precisely where it lies.
>Would you prefer that they report publicly and drag people into the court of public opinion without an investigation instead?

Yes thats exactly what free speech is about. It's the public that decides what it thinks about it and not some secret council.
Ahh so you think it’s ok for the government to encourage the censorship of speech it doesn’t like by companies it is actively investigating (threatening)…as long as they don’t make a law to that effect?