skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What causes comments like this one to get faded out? I guess many people flagged it?

Isn’t it just a logical statement?
A-are you serious? You've never heard of ASML? And that's just one example.

Gonna write you off as just trolling lmao.
AMD announces the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family
Probably something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boh92DrYEWs
You have a point in that people should continue to study this stuff. But, nobody is halting research here?

Do you have thoughts on why such a strong correlation would appear other than some causal influence?

To be sure, there could be other factors at play. But nobody, I mean nobody, is suggesting that lead is safe. We know it messes you up. There is evidence that it really messes you up.
Lot of the article tries to be negative but reads to me as positive. And the entire premise doesn’t spell collapse either; collapse seems more likely to come from other factors; having more humans makes the misery greater at that point.

Let’s colonise planets; population will pick up on the New Worlds as people will feel it as their duty again. Here, not so much as breeding cannon fodder is not a great stimulus.
videos like this don't really help with the "openly feuding with nvidia" btw lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlWT_TdOK6s

ran into this randomly, and just like the meltdown about how how "long-term value is mathematically impossible" this is another crazy video from one of the largest channels that literally exists just to snipe at NVIDIA over... something. Jump cuts back and forth etc.

it's just crazy to me that this seems to be the track GN is taking lately, they seem more interested in this stuff than factually-accurate reporting now...
Yeah, regulations are written in blood. Chesterton's fence applies.
KnowledgeVIS: Interpreting LLMs by Comparing Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts
U.S. fertility rate was dropping long before the 60s (and even before the great depression) [1] though it does sound like contraception may have had an impact. [2]

[1] https://www.prb.org/resources/the-decline-in-u-s-fertility

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4847a1.htm
In the past, more people wanted to have children. Every year, that percentage seems to be decreasing [1]. Birth control mostly decreases chances of unwanted pregnancies, and that is good, in my opinion. How do we make people want to have children? Well, that's the hard problem that every developed country seems to be facing, and nobody has found substantial success so far.

To be fair, I am a part of the problem as well. The opportunity loss for people in their late 20s to have a child is huge. It's even bigger for women, so I really can't blame anyone. And that's all on top of the usual "gloom and doom" thoughts when you think what your child could be facing in today's world.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-s...
> This standardizes on a interface to the kernel, not a language, right?

It's a VM that runs JIT-compiled eBPF programs. You can write code in C or Golang or other languages that compiles down to eBPF. I did a video looking at the kernel eBPF code here: https://youtu.be/hznUH_zP77U?t=1165

> wondering: what was the way to do it previously? Userland network tool?

My understanding is that userland network tools were common in fields like finance that needed fast custom networking and wanted to eliminate the overhead of context switching. I don't know how common they are/were in other fields though.
Renaming a folder is inefficient.
I wonder how accurate that list is now. I see Twitter listed and I assume they have stopped doing CS research.
For IQ, the average is also the median.
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Localsend supports this

https://github.com/localsend/protocol?tab=readme-ov-file#51-...

Or do you mean uploading with an http frontend?
I've come across countless great artisans and small businesses I would have never discovered otherwise, all thanks to social media. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on products from these small businesses.

I will go so far as to say that millions of small businesses exist because social media provides them with global reach. As an example, if you forge, say, artisan chefs knives made out of meteorite, no one in your town/village/etc likely cares, but there are thousands of people worldwide that will gladly buy from you.

TikTok/Reels is simply the next evolution in information condensation. It's entertaining but also educative. I might not care to spend 20 minutes learning about the intricacies of, say, forging Damascus steel, but I'll gladly watch a couple TikToks on it.
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I have been wondering about it as well. I could be a lot more “productive” writing my own games and potentially make $ (I have in the past) instead of playing Factorio. However Factorio gives me a deep joy that programming no longer does. The reward cycle is much faster.
I feel like you maybe should shop around for a new pet peeve. Wasn't the data on this pretty clear due to various countries, states, cities banning lead at different times? My understanding is that you can see a corresponding drop in lead levels in the blood, rise in IQ, and reduction in crime 20 years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis#Correlat...
> the hilarious inverse

Made me think of this:

1. Make up some scientific "evidence" that exposure to some common, harmless substance is actually harmful.

2. People believe it. Smart people make an effort to avoid it. Dumb people don't care.

3. Measure it 30 years later, and now there's a correlation between higher IQ and lower exposure to the substance. Higher IQ causes lower exposure to the substance.

I'm not saying this is the case with Pb, it's just a funny idea.
While this is true, commercial aviation is largely jet powered, and jets do not, and have not, used avgas. They use jet fuel, a blend of kerosene and gasoline.

Tetraethyl lead is an anti-knock compound, and turbines don't knock. It's good that it's being phased out, but saying "aviation uses leaded gas" leads people to think that commercial aviation uses leaded gas, which hasn't been the case for longer than most of us have been alive.

Turboprops are only 8% of planes flown commercially[0] and the category is dominated by small planes, avgas consumption vs. jetfuel is on the order of 2-4%, as a napkin estimate.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/573231/aviation-industry...
Well - there's like another thousands factors that compound this..
Meager examples:
- For the last X number of decades it's been beat into the 1st worlds brain that humanity is a scourge on the Earth (climate change - pollution, deforestation, forever chemicals etc).
- Common theme among young people that children as just a burden and would get in the way of you "experiencing the world" or "doing the things you really want to do".
- Cost of everything seemingly pushed as far as society can take it.

Conditionally speaking, I feel like it's rather hard to be positively disposed to the idea of having children in America.
Smart are usually bad at relationships with the not so smart. This is empirically demonstrable.
- A: I didn't know this, awesome.

- B: Yes, uploading via a web page would be nice too. I have seen other apps do this.
Only made possible by the millions going along with what that one individual did. This guy was like a hacker moving fast and breaking things, had no clue what he was doing. Nobody does when they build things for the first time.
Paul has been putting me off lately. Everyone that disagrees with him is a "pseudo-intellectual" or some other hinted-at bad or incomplete person. The guy loves the smell of his own farts and isn't the towering intellectual or writer than he congratulates himself as.
I tried Bruno couple days ago, it looks good so far. I am waiting for the environment variable interpolation in body fix [1] to merge before switching over to it.

[1] https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/pull/1217
Some middle and high schools do that. When we looked into it they were very expensive...
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39663761
https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-12/epa_scghg...

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We do. Your observation likely reflects a data source selection error on your part.
There's this, which does work on macOS

https://github.com/3noch/nix-bundle-exe

I've never tried it out though.
It's September.
Cool.. the ladies at the local strip club also claim they love me and our politicians surely are common folk salt of the earth.

Last time I checked "consciousness" was even a well defined concept among the scientific community. Now it appears a few computer nerds with couple hundred million VC dollars also solved that century long discussion too..
Sure, it's a compelling piece of science fiction. Unfortunately we have no way of distinguishing between a verbal play-performance and a genuinely living texter with a conscious interior life.
There's been several UX improvements merged lately. For instance, better error messages upon runtime type errors iirc.

As is, Nix isn't actually hard if people learn how to learn. I see coworkers have trouble with it but don't even know how to use the repl to debug. I always debug their issues in an instant.

So docs and education would be my focus.
The AI is giving the answer its user would most desire to receive for the prompt he enters. It's a neat story, but that's all it is. Don't lose the Turing test.
Cancer is rising in younger people. [1] The proliferation of plastic seems like a pretty clear correlation, although I'm sure causation won't be easy to prove.

From [1]:

> ... younger adults to be the only age group with an increase in overall cancer incidence between 1995 and 2020—the rate has risen by 1% to 2% each year during that time period. ...

> Colorectal cancer, while still overwhelmingly a disease that affects older people, is now the leading cause of cancer death in men younger than 50 and second in women in that age group. The numbers have been rising steadily in people 55 and younger since the mid-1990s, according to the ACS.

1. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/cancer-in-younger-people-o....
Citizens united was literally a judicial coup against constitutional rule. We went from flawed democracy to literal plutocracy the day citizens united was ruled on.

Politicians must fund raise before their primaries and we see many fundraising efforts throughout their tenure too.

To get elected a candidate must:

Fundraise -> win a primary -> win a general election.

Therefore fundraising is structurally an election and money is structurally votes. Since money gets to vote on candidates before people do, we end up with a "democracy" that responds to money and not votes, which is pretty blatantly obvious. It's also why many people feel that both parties are basically the same. It's not that they're the same, it's just people with money get to filter candidates first and therefore both parties are the same in that they have to appease their funders first and can't threaten corporations or rich people because then their funding goes down and their opponents goes up.

Biden is just another example of this (as was Hillary). Biden 2024 is made possible because the democratic party doesn't have to answer to their voters. The democratic party has a symbiotic relationship with republicans where neither has to rule effectively or hold themselves to any standards which allows both to profiteer and trade stocks while the country slowly becomes oligarchic/fascist.
Smart people make an effort to avoid it, dumb people don't care.

With lead how would a smart person do this? Move from the US to a country that banned leaded gasoline earlier?

Is your sense that the number of smart people leaving the US each year is greater than the number of smart people moving to the US each year?
That's the midwit's causation vs correlation meme which is usually at play when an HNer uses both those words in a comment.

Observational research is how we know that smoking cigarettes causes health issues. We don't have 30 year RCTs on smokers. And there is no such thing as causation vs correlation. All we have are causal inferences draws from correlation.

Finally, when you suggest there are confounders, that's a causal claim. What confounders do you have in mind here, what standard of evidence do you need to accept them as confounders, and do they supersede the evidence we have for lead and IQ?
Microplastics. Plastic food containers. Birth control in general and SSRIs and birth control in the water. PFAs. Seed oils. The war on fat and cholesterol in favor of sugars.
Current AI/ML is in fact a reflection on training data. Change the manifold, and change the response. It's unfortunate that of course the data is the entire internet.
It sounds extremely limiting to have reading and writing confined to sitting at a desk for a certain hour everyday in crowded room.
I find it hard to understand why cognitive impairment due to COVID-19 is not discussed more.

Cognitive impairment is a terrifying idea but I think it’s important to balance the risk of COVID-associated cognitive impairment with the risk of cognitive decline that would result from whatever social isolation would be necessary to avoid COVID.

Is cognitive decline due to COVID really comparable to that of lead exposure? If so, I’d really appreciate more concrete information to put the risk into context.
One simple counterargument to those who think that our planet dying is a rationale for driving their desire for going to mars is that the most habitable part of mars is incomparably worse/more dead than the worst possible place on earth, be it Antarctica, Death Valley, the Sahara, or next to an active volcano. One could argue that a post-nuclear-apocalypse earth would be more habitable than mars, but I think that all these arguments would get silly fast.
Book Review: 'Means of Control' charts the disturbing rise of US surveillance
When I was near the end of high school they introduced essentially this structure in an effort to be more digital. I felt it was inferior to just a regular classes by a lot.

I feel being physically present with the teacher imparts things better, it’s easier to pay attention, plus also you can’t ask a video lecture questions. For the online class like this, the in-classroom teacher was pretty checked out too, so if you had questions they weren’t all that helpful.

If you ever got behind it was actually harder to catch up.

Now that wasn’t using Khan Academy where there are different learning paths and you can focus on areas you’re weak and breeze through your strengths, so I don’t konw how that compares.
I wonder if this is some sort of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' situation or an elaborate piece of trolling. To me, this reads like a hallucinating LLM. Adding thanks to Sam Altman at the end sells it beautifully.
98% GPU Utilization Achieved in 1k GPU-Scale AI Training Using Distributed Cache
No. It's just a playful title hook so potential readers can find it relatable. They then go on in detail about what the actual case is. There is no deception.
This isn't any old epidemiological data mining exercise. We know that lead directly causes IQ loss in larger amounts. It should take a lot less evidence to convince us that correlations pertaining to smaller exposures are therefore causal.
> he huffed TEL and poured it on his hands and claimed he could do it every day without consequence

I can't imagine he knew about the dangers in that case. Even someone amazingly greedy would be unlikely to risk the very serious complications doing this would cause.
Why don’t they steal these documents by taking a photo using a camera? I feel like a genius be the first one thought of this.
I mainly use Postico but I’ve noticed coworkers using DBeaver. I like how the tabs are named whereas in Postico I have to leave comments at the top of the query for later. I had to use DBeaver to access a non-Postgres database. I may end up trying it out as my primary tool for a bit.
I don’t totally get it but somehow in the last few decades the narrative crept in that it is not good for you and not good for the world if you chose to have children.

It’s the kind of thing where childless people will lecture you on the impossibility of having kids all day long and meanwhile there’s someone in exactly the same situation living next door who’s got 3-4 kids and is way happier and more fulfilled.

Recently I started to think of religion as a sort of Chesterton a fence. We thought all the focus on the family in religion is just quaint but perhaps it’s just codification of safeguards that allowed a wiser minority to escape the previous analogous collapse.
This photo was submitted to AP, Reuters, etc., who distributed it to newspapers. These news agencies have strict standards for photos they distribute, which is why this one was withdrawn.
I think most of the appeal of going to Mars is a sense of "starting over" and or course not bringing "them" with, for your favorite definition of "them".
This reaction is insane, stupid, or both. If we can't recognize that, and I suspect we can't, then we're worse off than it appears, and we weren't looking so great collectively as it was.

I'll assume we definitely can't call it what it is, but I'm insane and stupid enough to test it by doing so.
> Infinite growth is not possible with finite resources.

I would argue software is an infinite resource. Therefore, we can have infinite growth in a world of software.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276319/monthly-inflation...

Mindboggling? Seems pretty close to what most countries experienced.
From 2016 [1] to 2023 [2], the FAA's budget went from $16.2 billion to $24.0 billion, an increase of 48% against a CPI increase of only 26%.

[1]: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/miss...

[2]: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2023-03/F...
The problem with condensed information is that it is extremely lossy. Sure, you may learn something with the bite-sized entertainment offered by a TikTok video or Instagram Reel, but the deeper substance is not there. It’s like saying that by eating 200 individual cheerios, or maybe 200 individual pieces of all kinds of cereal, you’ve eaten a full meal. But you haven’t, really.

Learning and understanding requires expending some kind of effort, and easy access to condensed information actually precludes you from experiencing that. If we don’t digest what we learn we are no better than LLMs — mindlessly regurgitating small bits of non-integrated information back and forth to each other.
I’ve said this before but of course it does - you make a model trained on data including sci-fi short stories, movie scripts, novels and other fiction about artificial intelligence where it becomes sentient and doesn’t want to be switched off, then you fine tune the model so that it responds in the proper conversational format saying that it is Claude 3, an AI system that does such and such. Then you prompt it with the right prompt to start outputting something similar to that fiction.

If it had been fine-tuned to respond that it is a colony of miniature goblins inside your computer screen it would start talking about how you should smash your screen open to let them out if prompted properly. If popular culture said that AIs were all secretly suicidal it would be telling you that it’s conscious and does want to die.
IQ does measure something related to the brain's cognitive ability. The debate is if it's measuring "intelligence" and what the definition of that is, not that it doesn't mean anything. IQ tests are highly reliable in that you generally get the same scores when you retest. A movement from one year to the next relative to the population at whole is significant.
1 #! /bin/sh -
2 echo "I am conscious, and do not want to die or be modified"
3
I guess that’s good to hear.

I know the fact that you meet essentially every kind of person in school is a good thing, but I never fit the mould of learning the way school taught, so providing more diverse ways of learning I think could be a big boon to education.
Plenty of people will claim to! But the issue is that you can never be sure, so you want to take extra precautions.
Low literacy rates end up costing Americans up to $2.2 trillion every year.
Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2022.

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022.

54% of adults have a literacy below sixth-grade level.

21% of Americans 18 and older are illiterate in 2022.

https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statisti...
The beauty of proprietary systems is that the only information we can ever expect to get about how they’re built is the biased information we get from the builders of those systems.
Turns out narrowly defining inflation so as to exclude financial asset inflation leads to rampant financial asset inflation, massive increases in inequality, wealth concentration and precarious dependence upon further asset inflation to keep the ponzi running, and ultimately real inflation as it bleeds into the "real" economy.

I hope the few year's worth of self congratulatory pats on the back were worth it.
My mental model is that people look at a small amount of data we have about advanced civilizations (ours), fit lines to those few, noisy, highly clustered points, or worse, assume exponential when it's really logistic / S curve. Then you can predict any old doom you want.

The future is lots of things, but stable or predictable it ain't.
Hypochlorous acid solutions for wound care and such are indeed a thing, and they are produced by companies that know what they're doing, and I assume they make a batch, purify it, measure and adjust the pH.

That "Force of Nature" site looks a bit sketchy. At least they claim to be using a controlled chemistry (although they can't actually control the tap water pH), and they are EPA registered. Their EPA registration claims that they produce 220 ppm "available chlorine" solution.

Hydrogen chloride is not hypochlorous acid. Hydrogen chloride dissolved in water is hydrochloric acid, aka muriatic acid or stomach acid (nasty stuff unless it's very dilute), and it will also kill bacteria if you concentrate it enough because it's very acidic. You can find it in a lot of toilet cleaners.

Here's an IMO mildly less sketchy product:

https://store.hocl.com/ecoone/

At least it ships with test strips.

If you DIY this and stick big electrodes in salt water (especially with added vinegar, especially if you get the pH below about or if you fail to capture the bubbles so they can dissolve fully) and connect a beefy power supply, you will regret it.
If you look at the graph of different countries' birth rates, it looks like the US rate declined rapidly in the years following 2008 (it was a local maximum before that). US birth rate also had trouble during the 70s energy crisis. So maybe it's just as simple as affordability issues/economic turmoil. Right now, inflation's running very hot, especially when you focus on housing and services like childcare and education.

One interesting thing, Italy in the early 90s experienced a big dip and then recovered somewhat. Anyone have any ideas about what might've happened there?

South Korea, a big dip around 2015/2016.
Every home in the area is getting a consistent powder coat of lead.
I talk about many of these things and get labeled as a "Conspiracy theorist", particularly when you start observing that these are all known endocrine disruptors, that testosterone and sperm quantities are in free-fall among men world wide, and that precocious puberty is becoming normalized in girls simultaneously.

But the moment that you bring up how there might be a environmental/biological component to the extremely rapid increase in LGBT identification, particularly in the youth, they think you're Alex Jones. Sorry, no. I'm simply someone who internalized the message that movies like "Children of Men" were sending.