skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Violent people who have mental health issues need to be in mental asylums. This country doesn't work if lunatics and sociopaths run downtown of our most valuable cities.
It's a simple question. Frederick I of Prussia, father of Frederick the Great, attempted to marry off his soldiers of great stature with tall women, to create generations to fill the ranks of his Potsdam Giants. That endeavor did not result in anything strategically fruitful. One may observe that heritable traits can manifest across generations in different ways.

The previous response did not directly say if those studies suggested high-IQ parents resulted in high-IQ children. So did it?
Yeah, in this case I’m not sure that I’d consider the name “tangential”.
Google Bard adds more search topics to “Google it” button
>However, by approaching arithmetic as an algorithm to be performed and taught similarly to how it's done with people, you can supercharge accuracy to basically 100% for up to 13 digit addition and >90% after.

This is strikingly clear evidence that it is capable of logical reasoning and "knows things", and puts to rest repeated claims that it is just memorization and collaging. You can't memorize every combo of two 13 digit numbers within the file size of the model.
This seems like a common problem not just in construction but in all parts of society. It very likely that plenty of engineers looked at the design of this and said that it doesn't work this way and that they were silenced along the way.

Germany built massive transit hub train terminals in a matter of a year during the Nazi period(I forgot the name, but it was a transit hub for military equipment between Hamburg and Dresden I think), while today, this story here reads exactly like Stuttgart 21, where a decade long construction projects ends up with less capacity than the previous train hub.

My dad was telling me about when he learned construction where there was the same guy responsible for building the stairs and sometimes that person would diverge from the plan because his experience would tell him that the design was wrong.

I managed part of a construction project when I was working in Government in Germany and many of the subcontractors told me exactly the same thing, the guys designing the network, AFA and data center access control(Bosch), as well as the network cabling, and even the carpenter and the elevator company all told me the same thing. The architect sent them wrong specs and these guys said that, were they to change any of the specs they would be liable for any upcoming issue. The elevator company was the only one that looked at the specs and told his worker to change it and then in front of me told his worker that he would take responsibility for the change.

It went beyond that, because the Architecture firm running the construction project actually told these subcontractors not to send us issues that they see, so until I started actively poking around they told me that they were told not to inform us directly.

For all other building services engineering parts I had to get personally involved, finding the issues, then corroborate them with a second contracting firm only to then face an uphill battle to convince leadership of the decades of upcoming problems if we don't change them.

This is the same reason people hire Accenture and EY we read in the other thread. As long as leadership doesn't know they're not going to be liable for all the crap that was installed under their watch. And because the contracting firms know that they will building things EXACTLY according to spec(or this case the construction tender).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21
Exactly, good brand and decent market position making the situation potentially salvageable with better strategy. Look at Apple around ten years earlier, classic MacOS and the beige boxes and a business bleeding cash. Palm has the Pre on the way, that was a really nice device but delivered too late and without a good enough app strategy.
This is great. I've been looking for photos to train a vision detector.

Boats doing hydrographic sounding are required to stay distant from dolphins similar. Currently they need an actual person (persons) to monitor. It would be good to make it easier and less expensive.
I think Tarot is a system meant to look into one's own subconscious through archetypes. Receiving a reading from someone would make more sense if they actually did "read" you rather than using a warm or cold read, or another confidence trick. But even if they can or do read you, or are literally psychic, having someone else read your cards is probably the least effective way to use something like Tarot. Yes you could do this with any arbitrary system. Sometimes people doodle or do other distracting thing as they intuit or think through things. Take for example 'reading the tea leaves.' It can simply be an arbitrary canvas which is a tool to project upon. There may be other levels, I am merely a fellow traveller, but maybe this is something the average person can use.
I get the reference to DS9, however, that isn't really describing a solution to the issues San Francisco is facing at the moment.
I mean you are going to do that anyway to use bunny.
And you are right, they need the domain to be on their nameservers.
U.S. military satellite antennas overdue for upgrades
San Francisco had more rates of violence and crime in the 80s than it has now.
France didn't fail to maintain, those plants were never meant to run longer than 30 years. Here is the EDF president from 1979, translated [1]:

> In the extract that we offer to you at the head of the article, Marcel Boiteux described what could be the probable origin of the appearance of cracks in the conduits leading to the tanks, in particular the differences in temperatures. A risk clearly identified from this time as shown by his words: « these tanks are subjected to thermal cycles. When the factory is in full power, it is hot, when it is in low power, it is cold ». The temperature of the water heated by the fission of the uranium atoms reaching according to him at 350 ° C ( it is in fact 320 ° C ). He continued: « The result is that the steel is diluted by heat and contracted when it is less hot. And it is this thermal respiration that is involved. »

> EDF president wanted to be reassuring, stressing that these risks were minimal, insofar as the power stations have a shorter lifespan than that where corrosion of the steel and the appearance of cracks would appear. The longevity of the steel had been calculated « per 12,000 cycles. According to him, there was no risk that this deadline would be exceeded. It was « totally excluded », he said.

> Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, who was conducting the interview, asked him to specify the effective duration planned for a power plant: « 12,000 days a power plant ? That is to say 40 years ? ». Marcel Boiteux confirmed this estimate, even minimizing it: « Yes, just over 30 years old. »

I don't want to look at UAE, I live in Western Europe. All of the countries comparable to the country I live in are facing exploding costs and incredible time delays. That nuclear builds don't get cheaper as you build more of them is a well documented phenomenon, we have 70 years of proof.

[1] https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/president-edf-risque-fis...
> The aspect of it that irritates me is that those weren't the conditions under which I bought the house

There were no conditions that the surrounding properties wouldn't change over time. You might have thought there were, but it was an illusion. If you want to control your neighborhood, buy it for yourself.

> the reasoning behind the change was a foolish sop toward social justice, and clearly comes from a place of sheer hatred born of jealousy toward anyone living in a single family dwelling.

This is ridiculous. The reason behind the change was likely because residents of your city want cheaper housing, and your government is trying to make that happen. Most Americans grew up in single family homes, but that doesn't necessarily mean they want to keep living there themselves, and any animosity towards single family homes is because these people are forced to live there because nothing else is available in their city, and they would rather spend their money on something else rather than a single family home.

Your suggestion that denser housing options like low-rise (plexes), midrise, or even highrise are "slums" is patently false.
I think its the first time we have seen a platform (or rather a platform owner) work against their users so directly.

That network effect is still too strong for it to fail.
So you think there is a conspiracy by Apple to not allow third parties to be battery efficient and make there hardware look bad?

But you are free to download the source code, compile and run it yourself to see if it is less battery efficient than the official builds.
LLMs are just programs that can produce human-like language output based on human-like language input and that calling them AI of any kind is greatly overstating their capabilities. There is no "reasoning" or "understanding" here, there is just a giant ball of mud full of auto-generated if-then-else like code with calls to random number function peppered around.

The two main problems I see with attributing AI to these programs are:
1. People will assume they are receiving intelligent response they can rely on without sanity checking. This is different than receiving the same response from other people because one learns to know who to trust and when. You can never trust these programs.
2. If/when real AI emerges it will be treated poorly because most people will assume it is the same "brainless" AI they were sold so many times before. In that respect the treatment of real AI will be equivalent to child abuse or slavery and will result in another giant black mark in human history.
This study found a correlation between VO2max and archery performance of 0.68 https://aassjournal.com/browse.php?a_id=897&slc_lang=en&sid=...

As noted in the study, the largest influence they tested for archery performance was height. I'd bet a large sum of money that height is also a strong positive influence on many sports (eg basketball), similar to how G is an influence on many cognitive 'sports' like occupations. We can easily measure height and most would have no trouble believing that (largely genetic) factor greatly influences athletic performance. Why is IQ so different?
I’ve not noticed a difference between safari and brave, so I’d say the former is not blessed.
An IQ test is a relative measure of where you are relative to the population at the point of time where the test was normalized.

That point of time is somewhere in the past. And when tests are renormalized, there is a conversion of "this score on the old test is that score on the new test". This allows for comparisons of IQ over time, across different versions of the same test. This is how the Flynn effect was first discovered.

Tests usually have solid conversions between them, you can can compare across different tests as well. Such conversions allow more verification of the Flynn effect.

If you go back far enough, you will find tests for children measuring mental age vs physical age, taking a ratio, and multiplying by 100. They fell on a distribution that was close enough to normal centered at 100 with a standard deviation of 15 or 16 that adult tests were developed to match them.

Since we don't know all the factors behind the Flynn effect in the first place, we also don't know all the factors behind why it might be reversing now.
Not downtown and in crowded areas. Let the zodiac killer kill in the shadows. From San Francisco to Vancouver this menace is taking over cities.
I have long suspected that it will be necessary to deliberately create a new type of model that is aware of the trivium and then uses logic, grammar and rhetoric to begin to create a closer model of reality than a LLM can.
It made the front page because of the title. Bashing p-values is a formula for upvotes, regardless of the content.

A lot of people associate p-values with p-hacking and replication crisis, which they read about on HN a few times while sitting on the can. Therefore, in their expert opinions, p-values are bad.
Show me the numbers then.
> However, the moment I ask a real question that goes beyond summarizing something which is covered thousands of times online, I am immediately let down.

I'm very sure I said this from the start, against the ridiculous hype. Summarization of existing text is the *only* safe use case for LLMs. Anything else is asking for disappointment.

We have already seen it used as a search engine and it confidently hallucinates incorrect information. We have seen it pretend to be a medical professional or a replacement attorney or lawyer and it has outright regurgitated nonsensical and dangerous advice - making itself completely unreliable for that use-case especially since (deep) neural networks in general are still the same black-boxes, unable to explain and reason about their own decisions; making them unsuitable for high risk applications and use-cases.

As for writing code, despite what the hype-squad tells you both GPT-4 and ChatGPT the ground reality is that it generates broken code from the start and cannot reason why it did that in the first place. Non-programmers wouldn't question its output where as an experienced professional would catch its errors immediately.

Due to its untrustworthiness, it means than now programmers have to check and review the output that has been generated by GPT-4 and ChatGPT every-time in their projects than before.

The AI LLM hype has only further exposed its limitations.
> Who will write the definitive book on how everything went downhill over the past 10 or so years?

I feel like most of that would just be 200 pages of saying "And then, San Francisco didn't allow enough housing to be built." over and over.
I worked at a SaaS company which was just complete shit. They handled a lot of critical B2B data. They frequently went down, together with prod. They had an incompetent lead programmer who would disappear often and take a long time to fix things. They had no processes, they'd store source code in email.

But they have product market fit, in that they operate in a huge market with plenty of suckers. They were good at sales. They could only keep a handful of customers at any one time. Plenty of sales stuff were straight lies - they'd make up clients, used an intern for testimonials, etc.

They're bootstrapped and still around. A VC commented that they were resilient, cockroach like, all the sexy words you use during a recession.

But it's likely they just never grew into a unicorn level because they kept bleeding customers.
Supplication ("please") does sometimes give better responses. Or at least more polite ones.
https://www.governing.com/archive/police-officers-per-capita...

Looks like between 15-20 cops per 10k. 800k would be right around 1500.
the posts keep shifting yes. the new definition of agi is much closer to super intelligence. However, depending on how close to experts the model is, there's room for more.

If the model is basically on par with experts then it's still human fallible. But...suppose a general intelligence that is the level at each task as the chess engines of today is at chess.

Basically the, "Oh you thought that was a mistake ?, no you just didn't understand the program" level of intelligence even for the smartest of humans.
I have very limited understanding of chatGPTs architecture, and neural nets in general.

From what I've read over the last few days, the "attention" mechanism used in chatGPT and similar LLMs does indeed dynamically change weights of a portion of the model.
It's useful. You have to think on the macro scale. The evolution of the entire population rather then individuals.

On the individual level stupider people reproduce more so evolutionary speaking it's more efficient to be stupid. However if a small portion of the population has high IQ they can move society forward via say the discovery of electricity, mathematics, etc, etc. This propels every individual forward as a whole at the detriment of a few individuals who are to nerdy or geeky to get laid that often.

Thus from a high level perspective, there is selection pressure that works on the population of people that makes it so that our genes have the mechanisms in place to produce an occasional genius via specific combinations of traits or via simple on/off switch mutations that easily occur.

For reference this is a short and informative video on the aforementioned topic: https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA
The Tenderloin?
I'm a technical writer at a FAANG and I'm terrified about LLMs taking my job.

I don't worry (yet) that LLMs can produce better docs than I can. A big part of my role is speaking to people to understand what users need to learn, then designing an organization for documentation around that. Writing is of course a big part, but understanding what to write and what not to write is often even more important.

Instead, I worry about a situation like the one in this post, where some exec thinks that AI can get you XX% of the way there for much less money. I think they would be mistaken, but what hurts my case is that it's inherently extremely difficult to demonstrate the value of technical writers quantitatively.
I'm on latest drivers and don't see that registry... Whats the software triggering it?
+1 for this.

Still fondly remember using the venerable freshmeat website to window shopping online for open source software.
I'm just asking questions.
The only side shows in the Mission I can recall happened when I first moved to San Francisco. The streets were closed for the annual street fair though.
The same holds for every big city in the US, in fact. The numbers line up pretty closely with the gradual ban of leaded gasoline starting in 1973.
Obviously, the only solution is to revert to an oral tradition. Stop writing, and instead pass knowledge from generation to generation in the form of poems and stories told by word of mouth.
Yes, but it is the most tame of common chemistries.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/ra/c3ra4574...
Thanks for the clarification.

I do wonder how the wealthy families who bankroll the school would feel about their kids getting punished for shouting down known bigots. I'm sure many would approve, but many also would not. It's likely the school's has incorporated this fact into their response.
90s was all about getting tough on crime. Crime rates dropped a lot. Now it’s soft on crime and rates are raising.
Not everyone here is a super genius
https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/blob/master/cmd/torrent... does exactly that. Install with `go get github.com/anacrolix/torrent/cmd/torrent@latest`, and then run `torrent serve <torrent paths>`.
If by crowded you mean crowded by empty office buildings, sure.
it's neither modern nor great
Have you compared versus Orion, which is also based on WebKit (and can run most Chrome and Firefox extensions)?

IME, Safari is no better than Brave in terms of battery, even when I’ve got hundreds of tabs open.
> Perhaps it would be wise to allow bots to comment if they were able to meet a minimum level of performative insight and/or positive contributions.

There’s an xkcd for this: https://xkcd.com/810/
that's not 24 tracks. you need more tracks at the station since the trains are stopped, but you can probably do that with 4 to 6 tracks for the portions where the trains are up to speed.
Certianly cheaper.
Yes. As a rule of thumb, unless you're making some kind of experiment/poc/artistic work please don't hijack the native browser scroll ever. Hate that this still has to be said in 2023. We like and (maybe) configured the scroll on the OS to our own taste, it's pointless to try and impose an slower, inferior and bug-ridden non-native implementation of the scroll just to add some kind of "smoothness".
Sounds to me more like it's the speaker that shouldn't have been invited in the first place.
Right to jail
Or maybe that Como at will produce twice as much software. Or maybe 1.5x as much and only two will be replaced.
Groupthink is increased when topic is controversial.

On both sides of course. One group will regard it as settled and the other refuted.
I figured it would be 200 pages of “and that’s a result of Reagan’s drive to shut down public mental health”

I very much doubt the visible homeless problem is a result of housing - the iceberg is a result of housing. The visible homeliness wouldn’t be solved if rent were half - that doesn’t treat schizophrenia
WaniKani I found filled my head with meanings that didn't correlate to anything, and knowledge that wasn't actually useful.

I am by no means a Japanese expert learner, but I am having much better luck just memorizing real vocab without that intermediate step.

As someone pointed out about the much famed "Remebering the Kanji", you could remeber all the kanji perfectly and still not be able to read Japanese, because Japanese kanji is not equivelant to vocabulary. Actual words, pronunciation and meaning all change when you combine kanji into words.

It's good tangential knowledge to shore up your learning, but it's not something you should spend your entire focus on before you start learning the actual language of Japanese.
The bug was an accident though, not something intentional!

My intention was to compare the listed things against MicroSoft engineers making mistakes while programming Windows Defender (the quote below), or programmers writing bugs in general.

>Because some Microsoft engineer missed a bug.
Every subject claims to teach critical thinking. If I learned it anywhere, it was from my parents, both scientists. Observing my kids, the high school classes that seemed to teach the most about critical thinking were in English and social studies. Unfortunately, STEM was heavily burdened by test prep.
your reddit style comments
The image is nearly unreadable for me on mobile.
My understanding at a high level is that an IQ test is basically made by generating a bunch of cognitive tasks that putatively test different aspects of cognitive functioning (e.g. verbal reasoning, visuospatial reasoning, attention, working memory, etc.). For most people, performance on one type of cognitive task (e.g. verbal reasoning) is highly correlated with performance on the other types of cognitive tasks.

This allows you to model the test as a hierarchical statistical model with some general intelligence factor (denoted G) at the top and then specific cognitive tasks branch off from there. You can then infer what G is just by statistical inference on the "branches" (the performance on the individual cognitive tasks); similar to how you might infer someone's height if you only had access to their leg and arm lengths, as these are highly correlated with each other and also with height.

I believe IQ scores are always population normed to have a mean of 100 but unnormalized scores are likely available to compare across time.
The governor of California is starting an initiative to go to other states and lecture them about how poorly they are serving their citizens. It boggles the mind.
Roads where drivers and machines share the road give us the worst of both worlds — humans who get drunk, fall asleep, and get distracted, and machines that can’t communicate with other drivers in exceptional circumstances. The issues don’t get better when you mix them together, you just get more types of issues on the same road.

Self driving vehicles which run on their own closed circuits have existed for a half century in production. They work so well that they’re downright boring.
1,537 police in San Fransisco is a bit below average per capita, but not dramatically so. It's goal of 2,100 officers puts it about equal to the nationwide average.

There may be a non-linear relationship. It's 1/2 the ratio as NYC.

Please remember that the legal city of SF is quite small, compared to the area you think of as SF.
> Academics don't scrutinize left wing ideology

I don't know where you got the idea I said that. Universities examine all ideologies.