skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That actually sounds like a great business idea.

Bug Hunters

Extremely valuable service. I bet there'd be a lot of demand.
Life in the time of superintelligence
Whatever meaning you have in mind, I’m pretty sure there’s already a term for it. What is the meaning that you want to express?
Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study
> because they seem to come from a place of... very high expectations

You can see housing prices for whatever areas people are talking about and how much the monthly mortgage comes out to be to get baseline on cost of living.
This is very nice.

For language I've always used the sentence in target language (the one i want to learn) in the front of the card and the translated sentence in the back of the card but I've always wondered if it should actually be the other way around.

Your suggestion with the cloze is another good approach
>> pretending any of the aforementioned religions are on the stage of forced conversion is laughable

You literally said:

> there is no contradiction between aiming to be unifying, and believing this greater goal justifies bloodshed - in fact it's at the core of it

No one mentioned forced conversions btw.
In your other comment you said:

> What I really dislike about this JEP is not only that it tries to solve the educational problem in a worst possible manner (my opinion), but it also risks creating a generation of students who don't really understand the fundamental concepts that allow us to write reliable code.

How would your special IDE/forked Java-lite prevent creating a generation of students who don't really understand the fundamental concepts that allow us to write reliable code?
In 2018, I read James M. Tabor's Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth (pub. 2010), which particularly focused on Bill Stone's and ALexander Klimchouk's respective explorations. (Contrary to perhaps popular understanding, as evidenced by an answer I saw on Quora that asserted that the temperature got hotter and hotter the farther Klimchouk's team descended in "their" cave, Stone's and Klimchouk's teams started out high in the mountains and temperatures were freezing throughout the descents; furthermore, Stone's and Klimchouk's deepest descents still ended above sea level. [The Quora question had something to do with digging deep into the earth.])

Anyway, this was the first I'd read much about caving and, in browsing around the web, I discovered that Palm Pilots were(/are?) used by serious cavers for mapping caves. Auriga (https://auriga.top/) was the most frequently referenced Palm app I saw; its latest update was in December 2022. Obvious advantages as I understand them are: (1) long battery life coupled with replaceable AAA batteries; (2) a display that can be read in low light without battery-draining backlighting. Phone and wi-fi are useless underground. (I vaguely recall reading somewhere that ~80Khz radios for use in caves were being developed; equally vague memory: I believe initial prototypes were based around audio amplifiers that happened to reach up into that frequency. Okay, a 2018 Hackaday has links to more information, although not about what I [mis]remembered: https://hackaday.com/2018/07/11/ham-designed-gear-used-in-th...)

Also, sometime I saw an article about automotive performance afficianados using a Palm App to interact with their engines' onboard computers -- in the PalmOS Emulator (POSE) on Windows laptops. Obviously they liked the app and I imagine they had a considerable intellectual investment (e.g., historical experimental settings and performance results, etc.) that made them loathe to switch to more modern apps.

But yeah. I cleaned the battery crud out of my Palm M105 last month, put fresh batteries in, and the digitizer is shot. So, back to my phone ... :)
How We Make Games at the Times
Tolled roads and market parking are likely to come, just with different names. Bay Area terms are "demand-responsive parking pricing" and HOT.
Twin studies are hard to explain through any means other than genetics I've seen an analysis of them as recently as 2015, not just in the 70s and 80s.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/

>Your anecdotal evidence of high IQ parents (ugh!) having high IQ children is the same anecdotal evidence that sociologists have been describing for decades that high SES parents have high SES children

No, I've seen people who grew up with low SES but had parents/grandparents who were consistently A students or were employed in prestigious intellectual jobs, and lo and behold, they ended up doing better in things like school than you would expect for somebody of their SES.

>Bias, racism

I'm just going to turn this around on you. Why should I not believe you're bias and racist and simply want to disprove IQ testing so as to undermine the social position and access to societal resources certain groups have as a result of IQ testing and things like it such as standardised testing? There's plenty of profit in painting certain groups as oppressors whose success is actually just robbery, and not an accident of genetic difference, since this consequently justifies racist measures to correct this inequity. People can benefit from such notions both directly and socially through association with a popular movement.

I'm pretty sympathetic to the idea of IQ lacking validity because I can't make strongly convincing arguments that IQ predicts anything besides academic success and it's hard to then argue our measures of academic success aren't themselves arbitrary and disconnected from practical utility. It's arguably too hard and too arbitrary to distill "intelligence" down to a few standardised tests and prove those tests have cross-domain validity.

I don't have much sympathy to the idea that IQ is not heritable based on nothing but ad hominem and the idea this position is anti-racist because it's not what I read from the evidence.
WiFi arduino + disconnect relay on the battery.

Completely disconnect battery when not in use.
Humans are incredibly adaptive. Is there much reason to have an expansive vocabulary nowadays? We are taught to speak and write as concisely and understandably as possible. We can look up the definition of any word at our fingertips. "[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books." - Einstein.

Maybe these tests are declining because they are measuring skills that are decreasingly relevant? I'm not certain I believe this myself but it's an interesting thought.
This is bad. This should result in more EU fines, and the Consent Decree is obviously in play. SMH.
Bodies needing to go anywhere might become an antique idea very soon… the only reason roads exist is so you can go do work and pay taxes and make wealthy people more wealthy.

After that isn’t important, let’s see how much priority roads will get.
Thanks for the feedback and for checking it out!
I agree it may be 90% as fun to drive (which is subjective), but you're comparing FWD to RWD.
I'd much rather have a 80's-90's Nissan or Subaru, especially built, than a modern BMW, though. Much more soul in vintage cars imo.
Some vintage BMWs were pretty reliable, a lot of modern Nissans have awful reliability.
That's the point. Penrose's ideas are worth taking seriously because they are directly in line with his field of expertise, and there are means supplied in his papers to rule the ideas out (predictions that should hold true on data we are able to measure). This was a contrast, not an analogy.
Similar for professional kitchens. They use cheap pots, pans, knives, etc. then replace them when needed. No special Damascus steel knives and copper ply pans, just functional cost effective easy to replace stuff.
Additional evidence against the second hypothesis: almost nothing in LLM-land is double precision anyway, weights are generally half-precision (or something like bfloat16 with more range by less precision than IEEE float16).
The limits of the context window become much less important (but can still be a problem I agree) when crucial context can be dynamically inserted only when relevant.

Gpt-3.5 doesn't need the algorithm prompt for every single query. It just needs it for every query that requires arithmetic. Much more feasible.
> If they don’t make high six/low seven figures, who will? Bankers? Lawyers!?

Employees and contractors, and founders contingent on equity. Also some who don't agree that founder salaries funded by investment should be modest.
Yeah idk if that's the same, psychedelics are getting mainstream attention as helping depression. And like you said real research is being done. Research used to be done before the governments got in the way.

I think the stuff people are talking about are like when Steve Jobs did the fruit diet thing to cure cancer
> The world has evolved such that you need less of it to get by.

Not so sure about that. Do you need more intelligence for "working the fields with basic tools" or for an average job in your country?

This might change when AI becomes economically relevant and the "value of intelligence" plummets.
I'm trying to learn welding/metal working so I can combine it with woodworking for furniture making. Meaning I know shit about tools compared to a professional.

But I've bought two grinders and have an ancient cheap one from father in-law. My cheap Metabo is relatively quiet and smooth. Cheap Lidl one is loud and jerky. Ancient one I've just thrown away at how bad it was to use. Recently I had to grind some tubing for > hour and my wrists felt it even with the Metabo entry level. Supposedly the pro versions have antivibration, better balanced, speed control, etc.

My point being if I was using this 5 days a week for >1h I'd invest in ease of use/comfort/safety - no ? I'd probably have a few throwaway ones for backup.
I am quite certain that I'm not engaging in anything that violates the law. I'm not even engaging in anything slightly dubious. There's no tax avoidance or evasion going on here at all (this practice in no way reduces my tax bill).
Sounds like grounds for a duel (or a cage match).
BART has a capacity of 200 passengers per car in their legacy fleet, 241-256 for their new fleet, and regularly has 10 cars per train during peak hours [1] and travels 80mph.

[1] https://wbcapp.oaklandnet.com/cs/groups/public/documents/pro...
> Anyway, I don't think it's bad to just admit that people intelligence is declining.

I think that couldn’t be more serious or important. I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
Show HN: Using ChatGPT to compose instrumental music
If you ask ChatGPT to produce a melody, it will give you a list of notes. I made a Python notebook (linked in the walkthrough) that takes those notes and generates a MIDI file and audio output. This post walks through 3 sample scenarios: a simple melody, a blues melody, and a drum loop.
Passive dissipation is enough to keep up since it runs cool. There is throttling that kicks in if you max the CPU for several minutes in a row.
Or, your car parks in the spot you yourself would park in, the ones building codes require the restaurant to provide.

No one wants their $60k+ self driving car casually risking accidents. And I certainly don't want to end my date night with drunk/messy Uber patron roulette for like $10 profit. Not hating if you do.. just not for me.
Sorry. I had missed configured a field.

You can try it again: https://forms.gle/VgNjoJqF2LYt25Xz7
Agreed. There is a huge difference learning to solder SMDs with a Metcal or Thermaltronics system vs a Weller or Hakko system.

I cry for all the time I wasted soldering before finally sucking it up and getting a Metcal.
You can get around these limitations with jailbreak prompts: https://www.jailbreakchat.com/
I did this with an old vehicle taht was pretty basic without a lot of electronics.

the actual problem was sort of electronic-releated - leave lights on, drain battery to zero.

I put on a battery-cutout-monitor-thing. If battery drained to x%, it would disconnect the battery. to start the car, I think you had to stand on the brake pedal (add a load - like brake lights?) and it would reset and reconnect the battery - then you could start it.
If I go into the city for a customer visit (not frequent/not rare), I'm 2 hours going in whether mostly train or mostly car. And about the same going home by train and maybe more like an hour+ by car.

I did have a job that was about 90 minutes door-to-door each way (train schedules were a bit better then) but even then "only" had to do it about 50% of the time. Wouldn't have been long-term sustainable.
One of the first European world powers after the dark ages, Portugal, was not more advanced than many of the areas it attacked except for in weaponry since Europe had been infighting while other math and science was being pursued in eastern parts of the world. Regardless of what percentage of motivation you ascribe to "we want their shit" vs "we want them to take our religion," I don't think you can say it was an advantage or motivation driven by intelligence.

("The rich outbred the poor" also seems very dubious, labor was still very manual, so you gotta have someone to do it.)
It’s the claim I’m making.

As to the error—I don’t think anything is “trivial” here. In the EIP study, there were 181 tickets, with almost 6 million tweets “directly referenced in a ticket.”

If you flag a tweet and it’s removed, what happens to the associated tweets? I believe retweets and replies are removed too, right? If so, I don’t see how Hassan’s characterization is accurate either. EIP is shooting at the roots of information trees that branch out. They don’t need to shoot at all the leaves.
I’m not sure why the idea that the cars will talk to each other is so “moonshot”. We have much more impressive pieces of infrastructure in place already. What might be moonshot is my proposal that it should be run by the US Postal Service.
Have these heritability studies been done in other countries where some of these biases might not exist?
As someone who bootstrapped 8 years ago (and has taken nothing but rent+ramen since then), working _only_ double time sounds like a dream.

Side-note: $130k being competitive obviously depends on your area/market, but that's far above average rate for senior devs, let alone C-suite, in many areas of the US (and especially outside of the US), so I can see why it might be a baseline for others. Seems like you should adjust this number for you. :)
It's addressed near the end:

> Eliminating the main method altogether may seem like the natural next step, but it would work against the goal of gracefully evolving a first Java program to a larger one and would impose some non-obvious restrictions (see below):

The "see below" boils down to there being a number of differences between how class-level and method-level code units (fields vs. variables) work, and blurring the line there isn't worth the minor additional effort of writing a main() method.
As far as I've been there was some effort in .NET for BSD

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537 700 comments

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/workflow/re...

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/71338

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/workflow/bu...
Now you have. Adjust accordingly. I'm not telling you how to adjust, only that you're likely to want to.
>It is a valid hypothesis to say solubility and foldability are necessary criteria.

Necessary criteria for life, yes. Is it neccesary for evolution? The article's argument is that amino acids 'evolved'. Evolution needs a selection mechanism, and the article does not explain why evolution would favour solubility and foldability, so the article* doesn't come close to proving evolution happened much less explaining its details. Perhaps some other unexplained chemical process favoured these acids, or it was an accident.

It's like looking at current status of biosphere, and concluding that life optimizes for insectoids because insects have the largest biomass. It's just an argument that assumes the result.

* Perhaps the article is bad reporting and the reported study had an actual argument for this.
Love it.

Don't forget to support shebang. So we can finally use Java as a system scripting language.

Maybe something like:

#!/usr/bin/env java

And maybe also allow specifying the runtime version:

#!/usr/bin/env java-12.0.*
It has a half life of 31 minutes which means that whatever amount of it gets made in a supernova is reduced by a factor of 100 trillion every day.
Intelligence can't be generalised.
Thats insane... To consistently not close the door like that
I guess you have experienced something different, as I got an email saying this:

> GPT4 will have a dynamically adjusted usage cap. We expect to be severely capacity constrained, so the usage cap will depend on demand and system performance. API access will still be through the waitlist.

And then the actual 'sign-up' or marketing page before subscription didn't even say anything about getting GPT-4 (just about getting priority access to the standard chatgpt product).

Then at the bottom of each page above the box when you open GPT-4 as long as I remember it has always said something like "Current limit is this, capacity limits for GPT4 will be changed as we adjust for demand."
> 3. However, from the past experience with physics, we know that mathematical infinities or singularities are often just an evidence of the theory breaking down. So perhaps it's the case here, and a more complete theory will allow to work around the infinity somehow.

Then it won't take infinite amount of energy, just (infinity minus one). Also, how do you stop? need another near-infinite energy?

But also also, due to time dilation and length contraction, wouldn't you end up in a 2d universe where time doesn't pass for you?
> If I own a robot car and I know I'm going to be at dinner for 2 hours, I will send the robot car to do a few Uber rides while I'm eating.

I mean assuming I don’t want to leave my sunglasses in the car, or anything else.
> Same thing happened when I learned bass.

I didn't enjoy playing until I swapped out the strings on my Ibanez with some Rotosounds. The tonal change was significant.
You say last-mile services are trivial, but they absolutely are not trivial in the slightest, and assuming they are demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of how change gets made in a democratic, even republican, manner.

Changing the primary transportation mode of a population requires a cultural shift to adopt the new mode. The population must be willing to forgo what they already have in favor of something new. You are saying that automated "people movers" (which is an emotional sketch rather than an defined policy item) will work well in car-ubiquitous US suburbia, but these folks live in suburbia specifically because of low population density and general quality-of-life. They explicitly enjoy being around people they know and not being around people they don't know. Any solution you're proposing must respect their existing values while providing an alternative option.

Your examples of last-mile services aren't really last-mile services, save for the final one:

>trams

Since it seems infeasible to allow anyone to board a tram at any point on its journey, tram stops will be necessary. Perhaps you now face a last-quarter-mile problem, which is better but still may not be good enough for that specific population. Track maintenance may be significantly lessened by using a "trackless tram", but such would have severe challenges in a snowy climate. Trams only work in dense urban environments.

>buses

Buses have been used in cities for many decades, so our understanding of them is that they work generally well. Buses are common in suburban environments with many low-income residents. The benefit of buses is their limited amount of supporting infrastructure and route adaptability. However, similar to the tram situation, a bus still does not get you directly to your home.

>actually usable bike lanes

Bike lanes in dense urban environments are almost always a net positive. What constitutes an "actually usable" bike lane depends on an individual's risk tolerance. As a last-mile problem, not all people are physically able to bike from a train station, though ebikes do help. Again, weather can impact people being willing to bike, let alone leave the house.

>automated "people movers"

This service is more conceptual, but I imagine you're thinking of a Waymo-style service, where you can summon an autonomous vehicle which will pick you up at home and take you to-and-from the station. The main issues here are availability and reliability. If addressed, you'll likely crack the suburban transportation nut, but such individualized transportation in cities isn't sustainable.
Most importantly, you need a bank that will let you submit any DD requests.
Yup. 100% agree :)
> 8 hours (4+4) spent in commuting, driving or not, is an entire life. This isn't a realistic concern, but something pulled out of a cyberpunk novel.

You poor innocent child. Spent a couple of years of my life doing pretty much that, in crowded trains with a thousand others doing the same. Some did it for many, many years. It's a thing. (OK, I was lucky about where I worked and only had a 3-hr commute each way.)

Related data point... my commuting choices were

a) drive all or most of the way (saving 45 minutes to an hour each way);

b) drive 15 minutes to a park-and-ride, take a commuter bus;

c) drive 45 minutes to train station, take train in (extra 30 to 45 minutes each way, exta $$/mo).

Often did (b) for practical reasons, much preferred (c) for comfort. Didn't do (a) too often. (d) "black car" (private driver) was an idle astronomically expensive dream. But if it was only a relatively small premium over normal car ownership? I and 100's of thousands of my fellow commuters would have given our left kidneys.
Such an environment already exists, and the JEP rejects it as an option:

> Evolving a batch of working declarations in JShell into a real Java program leads to a non-idiomatic style of code because it declares each method, class, and variable as static... it is not the on-ramp programming model we are looking for.
It doesn't seem like you'd need an "industry standard" beyond the actual rules of the road. In the same way that normal human-operated cars with better visibility can change lanes on the highway more safely and efficiently, any improvements in sensor ability, reaction times, etc. in self-driving cars (and even automatic safety features for human-operated cars) should make traffic safer and more efficient.
There are many ways to refute The Bell Curve. In addition to the Flynn effect, the science in it are plain bad, the policy proposals they enlist don’t necessarily follow their scientifically flawed results, it repeatedly cites a disgraced eugenicist as source, it was never peer reviewed etc. At this point, nothing in this book should be accepted as nothing more than a poor attempt at scientific racism. Let alone should anyone take any sort of scientific consensus. Other than the fact that it was wrong.

This YouTube video[1] does a fair job of summarizing the bulk of what is wrong with this book. But IMO very fact that the book is an apologia for eugenicists should be enough of a critique, you shouldn’t need any more.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo

PS. Regarding the naming of the Flynn effect:

> Flynn stated that, if asked, he would have named the effect after Read D. Tuddenham who "was the first to present convincing evidence of massive gains on mental tests using a nationwide sample" in a 1948 article
From the article, they actually get most of their waste material from battery factories, which is interesting.

> "That’s not to say there are enough old batteries coming in to fill the factory. Currently, 80 to 90 percent of what’s going into Ascend’s Covington facility is scrap materials from battery factories, including SK Battery America’s plant in Commerce, Georgia."

Eventually we'll have a lot more end-of-life batteries, but for now most of the EV battery packs that have ever been made are still in the middle of their respective bathtub curves.