skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, in the abstract an absolute reference frame eliminates paradoxes, sure, but isn't it the case that in the real universe, every version of the experiment in your blog that has been carried out has found no evidence of such a frame? Because if we're making claims about the real universe as Hossenfelder is doing, that means you can't actually lean on an absolute reference frame. The CMBR might kind of look like one if you squint, but the CMBR comes from matter that is in the end subject to the same relativity we are. Unless some version of the Mach principle turns out be real, with teeth.
A few years ago I did a pretty thorough reading of one of these Norwegian studies and the methodology was... abysmal. I don't remember which direction the reported effect was in, but I do remember that the way they computed it meant that it was the reverse direction of what the true effect should have been. Kind of an impressive mistake.

Made me pretty skeptical of the FE literature.
FFT's inputs are discrete to begin with (evenly spaced samples in the time domain), so I kind of see what you're trying to say... but I don't fully understand the work yet. I'm slowly making my way, starting with getting acquainted with classic state-space models.

That said, my sense is there's a significant difference between (a) learning to approximate the matrix of n×n interactions with more run-of-the-mill methods, such as some kind of linear decomposition with learned fixed coefficients, versus (b) learning to approximate the matrix of n×n interactions with dynamic methods that "find the most suitable decomposition for each sample on-the-fly," which is what these class of models appears to be doing.

Apologies if all this sounds very hand-wavy; it's the best I can do at the moment.
It would be surprising if something as limited as the human mind could comprehend the entirety of the universe.

That it understands any part of it at all is already more than can be expected from mere matter.

And that something does not make sense to the human mind doesn't mean that it can not be.
Despite the cold war ending in 1989, there's no shortage of people declaring random things are about communism.
Plus the focus on teaching for the test and the move away from critical thinking in schools. I had to teach critical thinking myself to my kids and also how to research and cross reference. I have two sets of encyclopedias and a pile of other reference books and showed them how to use them. What they teach in schools now is vastly different from when I went to school. Public education has gone from teaching critical thinking and problem solving to group thinking, homogenizing and memorizing the 'correct' answers, no understanding required.
Looking at the paper here [1], it appears there was stability, then a rise up to 2011 followed by a global drop in 2012/2013, and then more stability (Fig 1). It is implausible that things could change so quickly for everyone. A spurious effect related to methodology is surely the most likely answer? I haven't read the text in detail. Fitting a linear relationship to the above as they do in the paper seems a bit crazy to me, but I'm not a psychologist.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962...
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> Examples include universal preschool and the like. Accepting the reality of IQ would assist in eliminating ineffective programs and allocating capital more effectively.

This assertion is rather indicative of the social attitudes that are paired with IQ-obsessed worldviews. Western societies might attempt to equalize opportunity based on the belief in the equality of outcomes now, but these sorts of programs were effected long ago on the basis of egalitarian ideals that sprang from the Enlightenment. Even if IQ revealed any such "biotruths" (which would be debated to the end of time anyway), it would not reverse centuries of Western thought which is based on equal opportunity.

In short, this view completely misunderstands how Western society actually responds to differing abilities between people. It's akin to supposing that society would tear down wheelchair ramps in order to allocate resources to those who can walk unassisted.

It's not even how many non-Western societies handle inequality among populations. China has had preferential treatment to ethnic minorities even back in imperial times:

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

And India, even back to the days of the Raj:

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

> incorrect understanding of the causes behind achievement gaps provides onramps to corrupt political participants who take advantage of the basic logical fallacy that "false statements can imply anything" to redirect funding and attention away from pressing issues.

It's quite naive of you to suppose that any pseudoscientific evidence to the contrary wouldn't still be used to support those positions. If anything, in the hypothetical world where differences were shown to be immutable from birth, it would only strengthen the call to allocate resources to those who are less fortunate. It might normalize such a position in perpetuity, as it would then become a problem born not only of recent centuries of exploitation, but evolutionary timescales. Beware your faith in biotruths, for they can be just as easily weaponized against you.

> AI research will ultimately force us to accept IQ as largely genetic.

A non sequitur as confidently stated as it is vapid. One could say an AI wrote it, but ChatGPT is at least smart enough to hedge its bets.
From the title I was expecting a search engine that actually works the way many of us would want search engines to, and not the "arbitrarily remove/rewrite your query to make it find what we want you to" that mainstream ones have become. Unfortunately, by the comments here and the description on the page itself, that seems to have been too optimistic.
I wrote about this same exact thing (on a throwaway so my other employees don't see this) from the perspective of the employer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484643

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I'm writing on a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I run a mid sized software company that does a mix of software consulting and saas. Quite common these days.
I want to share a real story about how chatgpt eliminated a marketing job. I have a full time marketing person who writes content (case studies, blog posts, client testimonials etc) and does SEO optimization for our website. He's not technical, but understands the problem we are solving and knows how to talk to customers.

Writing a case study, blog post or a marketing tweet took a bit of work. I'd brainstorm with him what topics to write about, he'd run some drafts by me and then after 2 - 3 revisions we'd publish it. With chatgpt I'd just write what I wanted in point form and get back a polished product in a few seconds. It gives you exactly what you wanted but puts it across in a way that's much better quality than what what the marketing person could do. Most importantly, none of the key points I wanted to make get lost in translation.

I decided last week to lay off the marketing person (2 months full pay severance) because I did not see the value in paying for a full time marketer when I can do a better/faster job with AI. I think this is the new reality that a lot of sales/marketing jobs will face.
Yup, same here. Was under the impression that it was free. I don't see any option to delete my account now either, awesome. :|
Now students will need to learn the pain of versioning on their first day of class.

Bob: I get this weird error when I run this example from class.

Sally: Works for me! Hey can you try running this?

Bob: oh that works, lots of extra stuff in it. I guess I have to copy all of these things along for an app to work anywhere.

Sally: I guess so - it's weird the simple example works on my laptop and not yours.

Bob: must be a compiler bug, I hear about those alot in the compsci lab.

Personally I think that the compiler should generate a synthetic main entry point when it encounters code that matches the new "launch protocol". It provides a degree of portability and repeatability over relying on the runtime to select the entry point. There are probably downsides here too.
I feel like this could/should be a metaphor for airport security...
You can use imperfect information. It’s the difference between heuristics and logical arguments.

Aka there’s a 1 in 500 million chance this is a winning lottery ticket is useful even if it doesn’t guarantee things one way or the other.
The main anecdote- where the issue is that busses are not allowed to backup without a supervisor- seems to be an equal indictment of bus rules as it is about a driverless car that won't back up without a supervisor.
It's going to get worse - on most cars the CAN bus is not encrypted and the messages are not signed. There was a comment here recently where a tech in the auto industry claimed that one manufacturer was planning to start signing the CAN bus packets. That will mean it likely becomes impossible to do things like re-code the PCM for a motor with a different VIN so you can re-use the PCM in another vehicle.

That will be quite hard to overcome.
As a society, we spend tons of effort on demanding people not commit suicide, but very little effort trying to make people not want to commit suicide.
If I had to guess, it's that Apple refuses to implement very CPU-heavy JS features they don't think add much value in Safari.

I recall some feature I was using that ran in an inferior way to save power on Safari, so much so that I had to kill that feature and use a different API
That's partially true but mostly an excuse people, who think they're smart and deserve to get funded, make for not being able to get funding.

Hustlers get funded regardless of their background.
I'm saying that to avoid asking a stupid question, you need to know the meaning of your own question. Stringing words together at random isn't going to get you there.

Compare the famous anecdote from Charles Babbage:

On two occasions I have been asked, -- "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" [...] I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Is it necessary to have perfect knowledge of the workings of the Difference Engine to avoid asking that question? Of course not. Any knowledge at all would do the trick. If you put gravel into a water mill instead of grain, will you still get flour out of it?
Almost anywhere in the world a one way 110+ miles commute one way is a personal choice that maybe makes sense to that person.

It is certainly not because of economics of rent or house ownership or any other reasonable criteria so not sure what point such personal outliers prove in this discussion
Why postgres is running as privileged?
Good news! Nobody is around to give you a hard time for chucking a brick through an unoccupied car's window.

(Group parking spots are typically better monitored than streets.)
Oh this is super cool, thanks for sharing. I have strong (admittedly mostly irrational) inclinations against determinism, seeing something like this is exciting. Definitely going to have to give it a read.

Sapolski's take on determinism was really a low blow for me, and I've since seen several other intellectuals I respect very highly espouse similar views, and there was a point where I would have agreed in my adolescence, but I've since then developed away from that course of thinking. I often wonder if it's a rationalization which is necessary for the framework of the theory of everything to be coherent.
Wouldn't that apply to the bus in the article as well?
It's hard to sue when you ordered four narrow body Gates and then have buyers remorse later. This is the case that the Builder is making
Similarly, when I think of ChatGPT as a really cool and advanced search engine frontend, its behavior - including its limitations and its failures - make the most sense to me.
Huh interesting concept. I like the way six degrees of separation from sources is shown under each result. That feels like pretty valuable information
or just link directly to the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zSU2kLLXQY
don’t need the hackaday fluff
This is very, very neat. I've seen a lot of cool looking learn math sites that stop after (best case) freshman college math. I have a BS in math but there were some courses I never felt I got or it's been so long (>10 years) that I've forgotten more than I'd like and it'd be really nice to brush up on the interesting stuff.

I'm very interested in your methods of proofs and abstract algebra courses and I'm excited for them to be released!
I miss the ability to use some kind of GitOps with Keycloak. There's Terraform plugin, but I hate it (because of state). I wish there was some kind of config file which Keycloak would read at startup and create/update/delete its resources according to it. I know that I can initialize realm with JSON (with unreadable structure), but I can't maintain realm with config file.
Because many train platforms were older and didn't leave as much room for the train. Given the cost I wonder if they could have just done remedial work on all those platforms as the trains came online. After all, track and bridge maintenance has to happen quite regularly.
Corporate personhood really has nothing to do with the idea that scarce resources should be allocated via prices.
"Given the acrimony it would seem rather difficult to know as an onlooker what transpired and why."

It's very plausible that the people writing the requirements took the cheap/ignorant route and it's very plausible that Clark knew it was a mistake but it would be a worse mistake to fight.
Only works if this was a constant drain for everyone, though? If it only saves 100 watts once a month, from a quarter of users, things change. A lot.
Could it not instead be more akin to knowledge passing across human generations, where one understanding is passed on and refined to better fit/explain the current reality (or thrown away wholesale for a better model)? Instead of a crutch, it might be a stepping stone. Presumptuous of us that we might know the way, but nonetheless.
Is there solid documentation or tutorial on deploying hydra + kratos? That's what stopped me last year. I've found some subtle pointers in some buried github issues, but nothing definitive. Which surprised me because one would thought that's the main use-case for many people and should be documented well.
Everyman's Right
All people whether residing in Finland or just visiting have the right to enjoy nature anywhere in the Finnish countryside regardless of land ownership.
I totally get it but if they're valuing it below investors they're definitely valuing it below market.
> artisans, even digital ones, make society better

The word "content," when applied to digital media, usually carries some implications of artlessness. Content is something that fills a container.

Music that moves you and changes you is art, and is unlikely to be automated any time soon. Music that plays in an elevator (or fills the silence in an elevator) is Content, and is highly likely to be automated soon.
> Shortly after we get self-driving cars widely available, most municipalities will have trolly busses that run the grid so that the most you need to wait is like 2 minutes.

On what are you basing this?

I grew up in NYC which had the most frequent buses I've seen anywhere in the US, and 10+ minutes on a route was common, far far more on off hours. Plus, that route would only get me so far, so I'd have to change buses.

My ~2 mile trip from my apartment to my elementary school required at least two buses, often three.

> a substantial amount of people aren't going to pay $20 to get from A to B when you can get there slightly slower for $2.

NYC MTA trip fare is $2.75. Atlanta is $2.50.

Are you Chuck Wollery? How are you doing 2 and 2?
https://archive.ph/BnUhm
Irrational decisions still occur occasionally.

https://www.energy-storage.news/no-longer-economically-ratio...

https://www.energy-storage.news/battery-storage-30-cheaper-t...

https://www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au/resources/resources-hu...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For writing, maybe I'd be scared... I can't really think of much of anything I have done in the past 20 years of software development that a manager or client could use AI for and get the results they expect.
Which is one of the things one must absolutely do to ensure all modules go to sleep.
One thing I find particularly interesting here: The general technique they describe for automatically generating the memory stream and derived embeddings (as well as higher-level inferences about that they call "reflections"), then querying against that in a way that's not dependent on the LLM's limited context window, looks like it would be pretty easily generalizable to almost anything using LLMs. Even SQLite has an extension for vector embedding search now [1], so it should be possible to implement this technique in an entirely client-side manner that doesn't actually depend on the service (or local LLM) you're using.

[1]: https://observablehq.com/@asg017/introducing-sqlite-vss
> But the internet seems a very biased sample.

It also seems to me (acknowledging my lack of expertise) that LLMs trained from online resources are likely to weight text that is frequent vs text that represents "truth". Or perhaps I should say repetition should not be considered evidence of truth. I have no idea how to drive LLM models or other ML models to incorporate truth -- humans have a hard time agreeing on this and ML researchers providing guided reinforcement learning don't have any special ability to discern truth.
What will really happen is that ownership of vehicles will dramatically drop, as it's cheaper to simply rent an automated vehicle to get to your destination. This means a lot less waste, as you have far less vehicles sitting around being utilized maybe one or two hours a day. Folks aren't going to be interested in daily 8 hour drives if the wear and tear on the vehicle is going to force them to buy a new car every 3-5 years, on top of the fuel cost (even electricity). Same goes for if you're renting, since you won't want to pay a small fortune on your daily commute.
Thanks for good pointers
>replaced with a relentless driving machine that never tires or gets frustrated and has no fear of death.

Listen, and understand. That car is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶a̶d̶ reach your destination.
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> a really cool and advanced search engine frontend

This is the saddest version of ChatGPT I can imagine. I found that as search engines emulated natural language, their results got steadily worse.

I just want the Google results and interface from a long time ago.
Same pain here. I've tried terraform and it works, but I just hate it because of state management. We're doing things manually, like someone changes stuff on test server, writes everything down and then at deploy hour repeats those changes on production server. This is not nice.
Interesting approach, but that would be messy when multiple instances of an application all try to prepare the same query with the same name on the same server connection. Clients would need to know that an "prepared statement with that name already exists" error is ok and they should go ahead and execute it.

Should we take this discussion into a GitHub issue?
Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods Closing a Year After Opening
Name complaints are generally covered by these guidelines from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I got your back! The mobile version of the site seems to be messed up, so it's probably a good idea to fix that. Just thought I'd give you a heads up!
Every comment you make provides more information for the bots to train on. The internet has been tricking us into encoding our lives in a form it can understand for decades now.
You’re limiting your view of feature flags to a subset of their potential. Also, authorization schemes like attribute based access control (ABAC) can use any arbitrarily dynamic values from the current context. The two concepts overlap immensely.
Debugging spider sense is definitely an upside of spending years working with terrible code.

I once moved into a place that was great, except the shower would start out hot, quickly drop to warm, and then stay warm for as long as we cared to try it. I hated this, so every time I showered I'd spend some time trying to debug it, despite knowing nothing about plumbing.

Eventually I asked myself: why do normal hot water heaters work the other way, where they stay hot a long time and then get pretty cold? Clearly, there's some way of keeping the incoming cold water separate from the already-heated hot water, like by putting the output pipe at the top and the input pipe at the bottom. But if you reverse them, you might get what we had.

I leapt out of the shower and felt the hot water heater pipes and sure enough, reversed. My landlord came over shortly thereafter and fixed it, and I felt very smug when I had my first properly hot shower.
For sure. (Though in our case the investors only had preference and moderate anti dilution rights vut had less control than common) We raised over a year ago and have grown revenue 300% YoY, and only had .5 arr in preferred. And they didn't value it as highly as the investors a year before. They preferred cash.
I noticed that you didn't have anything to say about da Vinci.
> It's not cheating for people so asserting that it's cheating for machines just seems like goal post shifting more than anything.

I genuinely appreciate this argument, and was considering it myself. In which case, I’d almost argue that we “have” already achieved AGI, and maybe it’s just not that thrilling.
All: please let's focus on something more interesting than the name collision. This is in the site guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lol. This sounds like my house. My spouse and my nephew (who lives with us) cannot for the life of them ever close any kitchen cabinet doors. They both always leave them ajar, never leaving them fully opening but never fully closing them. It drives me nuts.
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> There's hundreds of thousands of people currently having success with low carb diets

There's hundreds of thousands of people currently having success with no-shellfish diets to manage their shellfish allergy; yet these people don't go around using words like "reversed" or "cured" in reference to their allergy, the way keto people do with insulin resistance. And most of those keto people having apparent success would fail an OGTT (a test that actually measures insulin sensitivity, unlike fasting BG/insulin or HbA1c) if they took one.
This isn't even necessary; between fuel and wear & tear on the vehicle, you'll be paying a small fortune for those daily 8 hour commutes.
No, even expert tutors know how to say “I don’t know” in the face of uncertainty, instead of remorselessly spitting up nonsense as language models do.