skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You literally just said that you were using "heritability" as a synonym for "genetic determination". No, you can't do that.

We can ask why there isn't evidence of genetic determinism in intelligence, and you can claim it's because of demonic opposition to the research, and I can claim that it's because studies into those genetic connections haven't been productive, but either way, heritability statistics don't give you an answer. It's one thing to suggest that a paucity of results should motivate more studies, but what you're doing is closer to suggesting that a paucity of results is evidence for the claim. Obviously, no.
That's good with the cohort comparison. Yeah I think I'm lucky with age, but, I don't know, some people have no grey even older! I started noticing I'm "dye detecting" strangers--like, "Hmm, does that guy actually have no grey or is he dying it?" -- haha, I never used to think like that. Your 30% beard is quite gray--but i think it will be quite a shock if my beard goes grey that much.
Hopefully this doesn't come across as off-topic but the "smooth scrolling" or whatever that is that hijacks the normal scroll behavior is throwing off my scrollwheel, making the website nigh impossible to navigate. Only way I can scroll properly is by clicking on the scroll bar and dragging it up and down manually.
While his companions softly keened a dirge to Horvy and Phipps and quietly mopped up their blood, he frowned and shook his head.

"They oughtn't to let old ladies carry magnums," he murmured.

Witherspoon-Hobbs nodded agreement across the front-seat corpse. "They oughtn't to let 'em carry anything. God, how I hate Feet," he muttered, looking down at his shrunken legs. "Wheels forever!" he softly cheered.
Aka "US companies face biggest decline in profits in 2 or 3 years", but that's not a very catchy headline.
shit I'm honored you replied, sorry for being rude about it. Didn't think my comment would even get seen in a days old thread. Didn't account for its appreance in /newcomments or however you found it.

Anyway, I can appreciate the rhetoric, I've used that technique myself. My opinion on the matter is that we do need to debate linguistics before we can properly proceed. I know it does't feel like work or it feels like a waste of time if you're coming at it from the angle of a software engineer, writing code and delivering value every day, but in the humanities, words and diction are paramount.

"ChatGPT gets things wrong" will sink in for people when they personally encounter a wrong bit that trips them up. hopefully before they put their money or reputation on the line, or use the "facts" as load bearing. Because that's the real worry, isn't it. Load bearing facts result in a doctorGPT that will prescribe the wrong medication and kill somebody, that a lawyerGPT will write a contract that hurts someone, that programmerGPT will write the wrong code and hurt somebody, financially or reputationally online.
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So cool! I had never heard of the 'finger' cmd or .plan files. It led me to discover John Carmack's .plan file (https://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_19...).

Does anyone know of any other interesting ones?

Edit: I found this thread from 2021 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29248368)
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That's very cool, like a head not grey at 50! It's weird things happen all at once. Are you preparing? Like different wardrobe color? haha :)
Interesting, my experience with bing has been pretty positive.
Chatgpt would be useless for me because it doesn't have any access to the internet.
When people just ask chatGPT for solutions and there's no community, a la stack overflow, where will it get the answers to future problems?

If chatGPT is too successful and people stop producing content because chatGPT is too successful, it might end up in a local optima that isn't so optimal.
It was jarring. One day out of the blue a couple of securitas guards were walking around with a clipboard and tapping people on the shoulder. About half the building was cleared. At the end of it they gathered everyone left into a standing room only speech and basically told us if we’re still here then we still had jobs. The tension in that room was palpable, especially since they didn’t have any microphones or anything and we had no idea what they were about to say, so some middle manager was standing on a chair yelling to tell us all this. A lot more people left voluntarily right afterwards. Who wants to work at a place that treats people that way?
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Also covered here:

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I’m thinking can just use :erlang.phash2 to pin a client connection process to a db connection process. The only thing is a slow query could block a db connection for others pinned to it.
LLMs won't eat the world-they will just homogenize it
Ah yes, the universally moral acceptance of Barack Obama, the man who made signature strikes a lasting legacy of his presidency.

Bill Gates, the man who totally didn't use shady business practices and false announcements to destroy legit products to the point that people wrote micro$oft for a generation.

And don't even get me started on the new seasons of Picard.
That's an argument for ChatGPT not being able to do anything a la, "ChatGPT cannot create text because it doesn't understand text," or ChatGPT cannot predict the next word because it doesn't know what words are."

The problem is that it's as powerful a statement as "ChatGPT can't do X because ChatGPT can't do X," which is tautological true.

It's fine that it can't but we don't have epistemological access to know if ChatGPT knows something or not.
Unless the train is overly long (an actual problem) passenger rail always gets priority.
The user (me) is not trying to pump anything, just bring another discussion on HN. You don't know me and you can read more about me that my profile.

If you know anything about pumping prices you should know that HN is one of the last places to do this, just the contrary.
I've just updated 4 apps here in Ohio on my iPhone.
Good beginning but what's control over money? Where do you want to draw your line in the sand?
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If only the underlying engine were open source so people could see what “secret APIs” (sic) it was using…
poor girl, hope she at least likes it there
That's cool! I always wondered where they come from. I saw some kids in school with similar. I guess my temple grey areas is sort of hyper-localized too but not as much as a "Skunk stripe". Sounds like you had a long period of "no-extra grey". That's good. Yeah mid-30s was where is started to multiply for me too--haha!
We've reached the maxiumum thread depth, but in brief: Your two comments directly contradict one another. You wrote:

> I don't understand how your logic holds together once you concede that heritability doesn't mean "genetically determined".

And you wrote:

> You literally just said that you were using "heritability" as a synonym for "genetic determination". No, you can't do that.

I'm not sure which sentence I'm supposed to take as you saying what you mean, but yes, I can say I'm using "heritability" as a synonym for "genetic determination."

And, of course there is plenty of evidence that IQ is genetic. That's most of the reason why it's become a taboo area of research. If people were sure it was a waste of time, they'd just tell researchers to go ahead and check. Instead, they taboo it because they're afraid of what it would mean for their view of society if it turned out to be true, which it surely is.

As I mentioned in another thread, your claim that it's not genetic should not be the prior here. That would be like me claiming that people's maximum height being environmental should be the prior. It's just preposterous. Of course physical traits are primarily genetic. The brain is a physical object, therefore its structure is primarily genetic.
> It really isn’t, and the math is quite literally comparable to calculating the coupon of a bond.

There is no math that claims the price of a stock should be some form of discounted future cashflows since at least the 90s.

Since then, all models have been multifactor ones, with fundamentals (quality, value) being only one fragment of the
market, sector and country residualized stock returns.

What `epups` is explaining to you is the basis of behavioral economics, which is the de facto current leading theory since its foundations were Nobel prized 20 years ago...
> The (legitimate) concern is that even low frequency accidents are frequent enough on the timescale of human civlization that they could present semi-permanent damage to the biosphere.

Any such concern, if legitimate, should at least be fleshed out with some basic assumptions and numbers. What is the (rough, estimate) probability distribution of the number of deaths that this will cause? Then we can compare it with the danger of fossil fuels. Otherwise we're left with hand-wavy expressions like "accidents" and "frequent enough". What are we to do with such statements?
Human average can be a misleading statistic, because the average human is useless for almost everything. In almost every job, the average person doing the job is well above the average (in the general population) for that particular job.
I like this one. Wizard transformation! Haha I think we are quite similar--I also will not dye it (except as experiment--I have no desire to hide it), but I am a little "self-conscious" of it.
I bought an ODB bluetooth adapter. Left it in and kinda forgot about it, kept getting flat batteries. I never expected it to draw so much current.
Hahah. Thank you
I mean, you can say it, but (a) you're flatly and obviously wrong, and (b) what you're saying is extremely misleading, because there is a lot of research demonstrating heritability of IQ, and none of it establishes genetic determination of IQ. To redefine such an important term flips the status bit from good faith discussion to something else. I'd like to assume good faith! So: reconsider.

Later

You've extensively edited your comment. In response to those edits: if you look back at my comments, I think you'll see that I haven't made a claim about genetic determinism at all, only that the evidence you've presented doesn't support it.
The full-text journal link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1115...
It’s not you. The state of nutrition science is terrible. I think you’ve got it right: cut out sugar as much as possible. After that, I suspect exercise is much more important than any other diet intervention you could do.
You just push bits around from one place to another all day? Man, better get prepared to be replaced
Southwest Airlines, just this past winter. Multiple factors were involved, but chief among these appears to have been a series of deficiencies in its "outdated" scheduling system (which upper management was well aware of, but it didn't want to foot the bill for a proper fix).

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/27/1145616523/southwest-airlines...

And from the WSJ: https://archive.is/3ujIL

What about a lack of tests, or bad coding standards?

We don't know the particulars, but one can reasonably infer that the root causes were broader and more systemic than that (i.e. a mix of technical and organizational issues).
That's cool. Is it like all over? Or in some places? Just a few or a lot? Pretty interesting.
I disagree. I learned Japanese to a fluent level as an adult and it gave me a whole new world of perspective. Knowing how many thousands of hours that took me, it would have been great to get that perk for free.

Besides, my mom speaks only English anyways. I don't know any bilingual kids I grew up with that ended up having a hard time with English.
There's plenty of "engineers" whose job is to update some trivial frontend code or similar that will be automated away. I think software engineer salaries are about to tank really quick.
Sure, there is this one outlier, but there are quite a few >100s deaths incidents in the West too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure
They also only followed metabolism for 7 days when it takes several weeks to adapt to low or high carb, so you kind of need to see what the markers look like at six weeks plus for this kind of study.
Hmm, I tried it with one query, and it immediately said "Search quota exceeded, please upgrade". I got the impression that there would be at least a few free queries, so it seems like a bug?
France is 40% larger than Califonia in area and population. Made it the biggest country of the EU (in size, not population).
Here’s one for ya. The very first thing ever named in [one biblical version of] history was “apple.”

Unlike other disputes that people claim are ancient… the Apple dispute is still being fought, from Newton to the Beatles to genetically pure Honeycrisp.

Naming things is still the Lord’s most difficult commandment (probably a reference to RMS, I’m not sure anymore).
Obvious fake story.
You're not seeing this the right way. You are saying the equivalent argument of: "Look at how much hand-holding this processor needs. We had to give it step by step instructions on what program to execute. We are still a long way from computers automating any significant aspect of society."

LLMs are a primitive that can be controlled by a variety of higher level algorithms.
Third party developers are free to go here and see what Apple is doing:

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

> Most users wouldn’t even notice that their choice to use Safari is responsible for their great battery life.

Seeing that MacOS has called out which apps are using the most energy for years, users can definitely tell which apps are using the most battery life.
> wouldn't be that hard.

What are you basing that on? They’ve spent a lot of time talking about how optimized the hardware and software are for each other, why are you so sure that getting equivalent performance and efficiency would be easy? Consider how trash MoltenVK is compared to Metal. About the best you can say is that it technically works.

> not giving up anything they currently earn

That’s not how Apple thinks. If they cut someone else in, especially a behemoth like Steam, they’re signing away their ability to do Apple Arcade for MacOS in the future. Look at the whole Kindle vs Apple Books fiasco, they’re never going to let someone else in the pool again. They won’t even let the XCloud game streaming app on.
I moved to MRPeasy about 18 months ago from QB desktop enterprise mfg edition. Overall it’s a big improvement and I recommend it. Their support is very responsive and provides answers within 1 business day generally.
Hello, author here. I did do as you described first---I pulled the ROOM fuse and the draw also went away. But, at the expense of more interior features (e.g. my stereo).
All of this research using GPT to simulate an internal monologue to produce agents reminds me of Julian Jaynes theories about consciousness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...
Why? I think the emphasis was on “marketing noise,” i.e. something no one wants or needs that is forced into peoples’ eyeballs against their will through paid advertising channels.
Because there aren’t any stable arm
Linux boards that are small and documented. data sheets are under NDA. And please don’t mention rPi. I’ve never seen one with uptimes in the years. They randomly kernel panic once a month no matter what they do

Initially when I started I did run it under arm Linux on a Chromebook
> and with no incredible risk attached to it that requires state insurance

I'm with you except for this. Fear mongering about nuclear ("incredible risk") is inaccurate and isn't the way forward. We should save the fear mongering for fossil fuels where it belongs. Renewables are better than nuclear due to the lower cost, and that's mostly it, there aren't other differentiating factors that matter all that much.
I bet this is written by a AI and represents a majority of free pancers
Yep—once a month when an issue came in the mail, it was like a bomb went off
Do not equate "frontend" with "trivial".

Huge mistake.
I guess that we could hook those AIs into a first person GTA 5 and see what happens.
Every second take a screenshot, feed into facebookresearch/segment-anything, describe the scene to chat gpt, receive input, repeat.
I don't think I'd accept anything worse than McDonald's if they paid me to eat it.
Yeah, I gotta take a more chill life. Good idea! Probably, but I don't know...stress? I think it's more some sort of exertion. I really only started going grey when I started working full-time as a software engineer! Maybe I should stop that...hahah
Noticed the same the other day on an audit discussion. Got downvotes. Fine whatever. Thing is I’ve got about a decade experience in it…presumably a bit more than the average hn’er

Makes me wonder what I’m commenting on with strong opinions despite being less than well informed
Agreed, as long as the AI crosses whatever perceived threshold for quality you need.
I don't think "Protein Poisoning" is of serious concern. The dietary guidelines people could find no suitable upper limit for protein. But I agree that it would be better to know more about these diets.

Importantly, I don't think many people would say that <45% carbs qualifies as "Low Carb". 20% or 26% carbs is a more typical threshold. For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537084/
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Supabase developer here. We're big fans of Pocketbase here and love the stuff they're doing. I did some work with it early on and it's great, but since I'm not a Go developer, I found the customization options pretty lacking. I wish they'd develop a way to write custom code in Typescript or some other way to write custom database functions. I'm excited to see what's in store for the future of Pocketbase (as I've always been a fan of Sqlite and it's compactness and simplicity.)
I don't suppose you have a link to that game? It sounds interesting and I'd love to learn more.
And what do all the so-called elites that work at FAANG do?
Nah. It’s not the dietary fat, it’s the excess fat in your body. Lose the extra fat in whatever way works for you.
For coding I've been using it as an assistant, not a replacement. I don't see why writers couldn't do the same, and be more cost effective and produce higher quality output than either alone.
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Isn't that just a manifestation of the old saying that "the more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know"? On health/fitness forums, I'm sure the health/fitness discussions are more nuanced and the technical discussions are clownish.
This wildly overstates the situation.

1. These are seasonally adjusted numbers. The unadjusted numbers are smaller.

2. The article does not account for the $60b in loan sales (unadjusted) to nonbanks the week of 3/22.

Lending definitely tightened up the week ending 3/22, but not to the extent the article suggests
Hey now, not only do I push bits, I fiddle with em too!
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Yeah cool! That sounds like me. I also changed countries, that was when hair started going grey too. Grey hair first, now beard a few hair. A very long time?
Can't wait for the next dwarf fortress to include something like this.
So like, 100% of the ultimate source of income for tech workers.
I signed up, but turns out I couldn't search even once. It, for reason showed that I have already used 10/10 of my searches. Seems like a bug.
the active thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35517649
It may not be, but that's not what's being attacked here. Unless I'm missing the place where tptacek discusses the reliability of this person's arguments?
Sometimes I think about this plague because I have restless leg[1]. It gets really bad sometimes at night to the point that I can't sit still I have to jump around. I take medication for it now and so it's controlled but if I didn't take meds for it it would be a lot harder to deal with.

The reason I think of restless leg in connection with this disease is that, remarkably, modern medicine does not have a definitive answer for the cause of either. I take several pills that doctors have prescribed which I have discovered help with the disease but it is unknown why they do so in some cases.

I get that the disease is complicated, but sometimes I just wonder if these people took an Epsom salt bath if that would have lent some relief.

1: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/restl...
Ford lied to its own dealership when my coworker went to them about a transmission slip with his 2012 Ford Fiesta.

He had the people at the dealership drive the car. They acknowledged the problem and got on a call together with Ford. Ford refused to even entertain the idea there was a flaw but less than a year later they came up with a "software patch".

Pete would bring it up with anyone he met. Do not buy a Ford Focus / Ford Fiesta with automatic transmission.
Seems your comment is getting some disagreement, perhaps because of your follow-up statement.

I happen to agree with you, broadly speaking. Everyone's experiences and preferences vary, so I'd wager that most people don't experience that kind of sex. If one isn't a total schlub, however, it's not out of the realm of possibility.

The idea that people can't have the kind of sex they like reminds me of the idea that women don't like sex that much, which is far from the truth. But maybe I've just gotten lucky (no pun intended).
As a humanities graduate i can confirm there is almost no critical thinking going on in that department outside economics. I wouldn't put too much stock in anything a contemporary humanities academic says.
I started with him at my normal rate of $50/hour which he has voluntarily increased to $80/hour after I’ve been consistently providing good work for him.

So the client paid almost double to keep better talent, just in case, without prompting, then suddenly didn't care about talent? Makes zero sense.
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is Poland located on an island with no neighbours that still have wind?
Hello, author here. I edited the article a bit for brevity. But, yes I started by checking all the fuses and relays. I didn't find any bad relays. Unplugging the ROOM fuse also fixed the problem, but at the expense of other interior features (like my stereo).
The word "noise" is doing important work here. This particular job can be automated because, in many advertising transactions, nobody really cares what marketing copy says. The people writing it don't care; the people reading it certainly don't care. It just needs to give a certain gestalt impression, the same way that AI images can give a certain gestalt impression.

Which is to say, this isn't just something that AI could automate; this is a job that could have been outsourced to much-lower-paid human workers in (English-speaking) developing nations decades ago. There is no reason anybody should have been making $80/hr doing this job in the first place; there wasn't $80/hr of labor going on, nor was there a moat to doing the job that qualified only a rarified number of people that could then demand $80/hr.

Instead, the wage being paid was a path-dependent coincidence of how most companies see marketing as a profit-center, and therefore want to offer "incentive pay" for marketing jobs; and how these same companies happened to consider copywriting — really just marketing-adjacent — as a "marketing job." Coupled with the fact that any given company doesn't usually need very many copywriters, and so doesn't focus on what sort of per-headcount cost-optimizations would be needed to "scale" their copywriting.