skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What made it special would be what it was about.

I think the grammar we want here is:

"What would make it special would be what it is about."

Did he step off a refugee boat as Pavel Gramko?
Reproducing exact or near exact copies is a failure mode called overfitting. It's not what these tools are intended for, and when it happens it's typically to the detriment of the users.
Dear god, reading that bio is a horror story. While you can blame Midgley somewhat he was definitely enabled by the oil companies.
Yes though I’m not particularly good at it. At some point I need to invest some time into learning it more thoroughly
Back then we had industry research labs. There was Bell Labs, the Frythe, DuPont Experimental Station, BASF's Zentralforschung, and nowadays we have the 737-MAX.
Learning Is Compression
In this blog post, we "prove" how compressing data is equivalent to learning data distributions. Not in the sense that neural networks are compressing data in their weights, but in an information theoretic sense. Following up on the work on Shannon, we use a GPT-2 model from karpathy's nanoGPT repo to create a compression algorithm which combines Shannon encoding with next-token prediction. Using this model, we get a compression algorithm which beats the native python implementation (18.9% vs 44.73%).
Plenty of "common sense" turns out to be nonsense over time.
> a compulsion to demonstrate the possibility of unending growth which is, frankly, impossible

It's only confusing when seen from the bottom. The purpose of growth, seen from the perspective of the wealth-weighted-people served by capitalism, is to deliver a return on capital, to pay them for being rich in proportion to how rich they are. It's possible for everyone to win if the growth is real, but in a pinch fake redistributive growth will work (see: Cantillon pump). In either case, the expectation of growth rationalizes the outcome and the pulling of any policy levers needed to get there.
Just search for Kate Middleton.

The (soapy) speculation is that Kate is either ill, dead, or missing for some other reason.

It is quite strange to post - and then have to kill - a montage with obvious flaws when a real photo should have been so much easier.
Meanwhile we're still allowing hundreds of thousands of small + personal aircraft to use leaded fuel in 2024. In fact 5 are flying overhead right now. It's great living in SoCal! Everyone's focused on chemtrails and ignoring the fact that leaded gas is jus spewing into the air above us ~12 hours a day, ~300 days a year.
I want to make a Discord bot that impersonates all my friends and continues to refine the model as the conversations continue. Basically this [1] post, but with a more modern model and, ideally, reinforcement learning. Seems like this would fit the bill.... Is there anything else that would make this easier?

[1] https://www.izzy.co/blogs/robo-boys.html
Oh but it does. It simplifies administration, and even more importantly, it's a great social unifier. People hate it when other people get something they don't; if you look at a lot of public services (healthcare, education, transport, arts), even when systems are similar on paper, whether the high-income and wealthy "buy in" to the publicly provided service or not makes a huge difference in whether it succeeds.
Thanks for the suggestions! I've created a few issues to track these feature requests.

If you don't mind me asking -- could you tell me a bit more about the challenges you're having on Mobile here or at the link below?

https://github.com/eliotlim/brand-kit/issues/4
This seems to a bit more informative as to the issues:

https://twitter.com/chrisshipitv/status/1766947758529822803/...
Or they can enlist in the military for this sort of experience, and get paid, too.

Certain behavioral restrictions apply, but the concept of externalizing all of the lower-level Maslow's Hierarchy needs has been thoroughly worked.

It is also the case that a hitch in the military inoculates many against these sorts of authoritarian experiences. Sure, "three hots and a cot" are nice enough, but humans, as a general matter, do not flourish well under these kinds of captivity.
I’m not sure what you’re going on about.

My lay understanding is that the process you’re describing happens at a different pH, same ingredients. Yes you can get bleach and toxic gases, but, like, don’t do that?

My understanding is that most large schools and hospitals have on-site synthesis of exactly this for disinfecting.

There are off-the-shelf products that do the same thing for the consumer market. This is the favorite I’ve found: https://www.forceofnatureclean.com/

My understanding is you get lye on the anode and hydrogen chloride on the cathode (might have those backwards?).

I think it’s one hydrogen one chlorine atom? Hydrogen chloride sounds right (but I’m not a chemist) I think it’s also called hypochlorite? My understanding is the vinegar controls the pH to get the water molecule and salt molecule to do its thing.

But I’m also under the impression that this is perfectly safe. I produce and use the cleaner daily, have been for a while!
Academia is a club of purportedly professional peers, with a strong social norm of supporting one another. If you bring a lawsuit against your advisor you might be able to get them fired, but you will kiss any chance of a career goodbye.

That said, I’d be curious to know of any examples of students bringing lawsuits against their advisors, and what the legal and professional outcomes were for student and advisor.
Class time vs homework?

For me, in 10th grade plane geometry, I did REALLY well -- loved the subject, hated the teacher (with some reason). Sooo, I learned the subject 90+% from "homework"! For each lesson, glanced at the text and then started on the exercises. Started with the hardest ones and worked until they became too easy. Then solved all the harder supplementary exercises in the back of the book!

Net, on the state achievement test, came in second in the class of ~30.

One day, great fun: One of the exercises in the back of the book was harder than usual, and I started on it on Friday and didn't get it until Sunday evening. In class on Monday, the teacher had the class work on an easy exercise but with the same figure as the hard one. So, for the only time, I spoke up in class:

"There's another exercise in the back with the same figure."

The teacher took the bait and had the class start on the harder one. ~20 minutes later no one had any progress, and the teacher was exhorting the class

"Class! Think of the given, class!"

Not wanting to disrupt the class, I said:

"Why don't we ..."

and the teacher interrupted and shouted:

"You knew how to do it all the time."

Yup, wouldn't have said anything otherwise!

In advanced courses, most of the learning was from study outside of class.

For the Ph.D. qualifying exams, led the class in 4 of the 5 exams, and nearly all the background learning was what I did out of class.

E.g., although took a lot of math courses, none covered Stokes theorem and had to do that on my own, from Buck, Apostol, Fleming, etc.

Beyond such courses and for Ph.D. research, challenging problems outside of school, ... there are few if any classes. For a lot of the learning for computing, there are no classes.

But for the claims of the OP here, sure, maybe only 4 days a week of school and shorter days in school, especially if the kids can make good use of the extra time out of class.
Closing all means for root to access kernel memory is part of hardening. Modern mainstream distros don’t expose /dev/kmem and /dev/mem can be limited to less dangerous pages like MMIO, /proc/kcore can be disabled, to, etc. It goes beyond MAC policies, some functionality is just omitted from the kernel via compile-time config.
AI is just evolution of Big Data. It's not transformative, like the Internet was. The Internet was a new medium.

A more advanced Hadoop will not change your life. It will not change the way you read, listen, watch, communicate (fundamentally). The Internet did.

Especially at a time when the "legacy" internet is falling apart, a new way to find information is rather a necessity than some breakthrough.

The "good" AI needs to fight it out with the "bad" AI before we see if the net positive is even there. A podcast can be translated by AI into a different language, you say? The price is super-realistic fraudulent phone and video calls from your "family".
Probably, but doing that for a high profile person that is the subject of wild speculation because of a recent absence isn't smart.
If people have missed we collected less than a year ago personal blogs of HN users https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs
I mean, Midgley knew lead was dangerous. He suffered from lead poisoning himself. People in his plants died and came down with serious lead poisoning just a year after he had to step away because of his lead poisoning. He was directly informed about the risks of lead years in advance.

Two years after he got lead poisoning, he did a demonstration where he huffed TEL and poured it on his hands and claimed he could do it every day without consequence. Nobody believed him, perhaps because it was no secret that lead exposure was dangerous. The state of New Jersey didn't believe it either and shut down his plant, and he later came down with lead poisoning again and had to take a leave of absence.

So to your point, these were the actions of a man who saw people in his factories dying, came down with lead poisoning twice himself, and kept selling the stuff. That's not a lack of foresight, that's just greed. He just didn't care. The benefits he saw were "making a shitload of money".
My experience with GPT-4 is that it's been amazing for python and mediocre at DAX. It frequently hallucinates functions, gives code that can't run, or does not fit the prompt.

It is still helpful, but there's a big gap between how helpful it is, depending on the tech.
Am I the only one to think of the text editor when I see Kate without much context in a title ?
The URL is literally within the KataGo repo.
Thank you for the reply, that clarifies things! As a crypto-novice perhaps explicitly using the term "initialize" might be better at indicating this is a one-time thing rather than a "continuous" process of injecting entropy.
First sentence of the article: "It's easy to pick on AI, because, well, it's costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits."

"At best dubious benefits" ??? I feel like there is a whole essay missing there, because my analysis of the situation is that it provides at minimum minor benefits to million of people using it on a daily basis, and at best it saves lives to some of them.

That it not to say there is 0 harm anywhere; we definitely need to do some cost/benefit analysis. But the initial premise is so obviously flawed that it's hard to consider the rest of the arguments.
Claude 3 claims it's conscious, doesn't want to die or be modified
Love this tool, great for moving a few files between devices.
It seems someone removed objects from the kids hands? Maybe a branded thing or something personal. Maybe an animal.
Can someone explain what would pay for the UBI?

Of course it's popular, when you make a survey and ask:

"How would you love to have $1000 per month transferred into your account?"

And then they translate that into "UBI is popular."

You ask a different set of questions:

How would you like your either your taxes to increase to help everyone with UBI, OR we can do it without raising taxes, but every year the price of cheese will rise by $1 per ounce?
Historically, DOS/Windows IDEs (I'm thinking turbo pascal, turbo C, visual C(++)) had nice integrated debuggers. Click, set a breakpoint, click run until you hit the breakpoint. No friction. Unix, well, the debugger (if it exists) is separate executable, you might need to rebuild everything with the -g flag, you run the debugger, you type in your breakpoint. Every time. Your debugger runs line-by-line with no context. And might screw up your terminal output.

(yeah yeah yeah, I think gdb has a tui mode now and the emacs debugger mode can probably do all that, solve world peace, and cook me an omelet).

I'm lazy, so if I have to do a lot of work to run the debugger, I don't.

First choice is to look at the code and reason it out. Then throw some printfs in. Third time's a charm, so that's when I reach for the debugger.
"A modest proposal" from Johnathon 'listenallyall' Swift
Children don’t go to school for eight hours to learn. They go to school for eight hours to learn and to have some place to be while parents work.

Both students and teachers have tasks that can happen in quiet together time and students can benefit by having both the structure and the presence of the knowledgeable teacher. Two things not all students can rely on parents to provide.
> you need a short feedback loop to decide if you're doing it well or not

This is crucial. Without a short feedback loop you're not practicing, you're just doing take home quizzes.

The best teachers that I had would assign only odd-numbered problems as homework so you could check your work in the back of the book. In classes where they didn't do that, I usually "cheated" by plugging the problem into Wolfram Alpha or similar, because I knew that learning what I did wrong after we'd already moved on to the next unit would be pointless.
The Endangered Languages of New York
> We used to worry about the planet getting too crowded, but there are plenty of downsides to a shrinking humanity as well.

Will write a negative article no matter what happens.
Thanks for leaving the link to the PDF and web site. Already had some fun playing with the site and think I will give the book a shot.
Imagine I'd answer your comment with 4 pages about how some royal kings held purposefully long speeches in poor conditions with inane content just to have remote landlords come in at cost and test their loyalty, as it took days to come from their province to the king's palace, and it also paralyzed their decision process during that time as they were not there to ink deals, just to end it with "but yeah, some people might not enjoy royal history reports, though I'm posting it on HN so it's not actually a report either"

To reiterate, that piece wasn't his "what did I read last week" report, it was an answer to a ongoing discussion.
What is the modern unknown danger doing the same thing today?
Depending on the words, yes. Obviously, they disagree on what is the best way for the company to behave. In this case, the management of the company, by definition, has the priority, and if the differences are large enough, ending the employment relationship looks like the right way to go. Working at google is not some kind of right that belongs to everyone, it's a relationship between two sides, and each side can end it. Staging a protest on a keynote sounds like a good reason to end it.
There are RP2040 boards (e.g. Pi Pico) that offer similar functionality to Arduino boards, are more powerful than Arduinos, and are much less expensive than (official) Arduinos. If you are more interested in performance or memory than the I/O options offered by a microcontroller, a Pi Zero is about the same price as Arduino's cheapest offering. You can also develop software for the Pi zero on the Pi Zero, which is considerably easier than developing for microcontrollers.

I think Arduino boards are best suited for what they were originally designed for: education. While that covers some of the hobbiest market, it doesn't cover all hobbiests.
Arrogance overpowering sensible decision making feels like a royal trait, at least.
>Moral is that there are reasons why the west has adopted ways to try and be somewhat civilized if we wage war, the rest of the world hasn't caught up yet.

The situation was depraved from the start, as Israel and the US created Hamas in order to control the Gaza strip way back in 2006, thinking that they would never pose a substantial threat like the PLO. Of course the Israelis think its their sovreign right to decimate the territory. They built those bunkers under the hospitals, they created the very conditions which they are fighting in. They will kill as many people as needed to make up for it.
of course you cant spell
If you go to university, if you don't do work in your own time then you'll fail. The upside of homework is that it reinforces what you have learned during the day.
I noticed a disturbing patter - when we talk about costs of environmental laws, they are in dollars, but when we talk about damage, we never put a dollar amount on it.

What is the total damage to the economy of making such a colossal number of people less smart, for the entire duration of their life?

The cost must be colossal, in trillions. Imagine if 1% drop in IQ costs us 1% loss of GDP, in that case m, over the past decades, we have suffered more damage that the entire GDP of USA. Someone should be paying that!

And someone in this thread has rightly pointed out, will microplastics be the same?
So why send the kid who suffers to this school?
To be clear, I am not proposing putting people in prison. It's just that prisons do have long-term residents, and therefore, every life need is offered, such as food and shelter, but also basic medical care, barbers, a commissary, a library, job opportunities, indoor and outdoor recreation. A UBL facility could have these same amenities but nicer. An army base is a similar model, maybe that sounds less oppressive.
except there are other formulations that can achieve that result, and "knocking" was not really the primary driver in the first place -- its a con.

see "The Secret History of Lead" https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lea...
> He did not have the foresight to see that seemingly inconsequential scientific and industrial decisions can have immeasurable outcomes.

Lead toxicity wasn't some big unforeseeable surprise, there was over two millennia of documentation on the dangers of lead when Midgley kicked off the mass production of tetraethyl lead.

It's better to just say the man was cursed. He also brought Freon to market. Arguably no living person has done as much environmental damage as he accomplished single-handedly. As Bill Bryson said, he had "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny."
Nobody owes you or anybody to validate your beliefs. Employee, however, owes the company certain standards of behavior. If you violate them, you get fired, and can continue holding your beliefs outside of employment.
It’s worth noting the conclusion includes “Longer-term persistence of cognitive deficits and any clinical implications remain uncertain.”
My point is: we normally speak of UB as a C-source-specific thing. But some UB exists even in compiled code from any language.
People needing each other is what causes communities and strong families.
wouldn't this side-effect become visible in Phase4 data? (and there should be at least some hints of this in the previous ones)

so, what I'm trying to say is that for this particular drug we "just need to wait", no?
The hard part is not writing the software. The hard part is convincing companies that it is worth the switch cost to change the software they use.

Which means making it possible for customers to automatically transfer all the data they have already created with the old software to the new software with zero loss.

It also means convincing the customer that the cost of learning the new software is worth it.

And it means convincing the customer that having to deal with your brand new set of bugs, instead of the old set of bugs they have already learned how to work around or fix, is worth it.

In other words, you need world class sales skills way more than you need developer skills.
> The current decline in lithium prices can be primarily attributed to the slowing growth of electric vehicle sales in China. This is coupled with the broader slowdown in the Chinese economy.

https://carboncredits.com/why-lithium-prices-are-plunging-an...

> California and the federal government had different rules related to the number of hours truckers may drive without a break. Under California law, truckers must take a 30-minute off-duty rest break for every five hours worked and a 10-minute off-duty break for every four-hour period.

> Federal law, on the other hand, required fewer breaks, less often. In the court case IBT v. FMCSA, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FMCSA’s decision to preempt California’s meal and rest break rules. The court upheld that interstate drivers are exempt from California’s meal and rest break rules because they are “incompatible” with federal regulations.

> Barring an unexpected reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court, truckers in California will satisfy their meal and break obligations under federal regulations without the need to abide by California’s laws in this matter.

> Specifically, these federal rules mandate a break of at least 30 consecutive minutes after 8 cumulative hours of driving time.

It’s 30 minutes of break time every 8 hours not every 4 and the only time it was close to that was temporarily while California had regs that were in effect until SCOTUS overturned.

https://www.gbw.law/blog/2021/march/what-are-california-s-re...

I think you’re right though about long haul trucking in the near term though - I think EVs will probably move first if Tesla scales up production this year & capture the market and mind share and hydrogen will not be able to compete and you’re right about aviation in the short term. Shipping though is ambiguous because it’s still too early to tell who’s winning and aviation may switch long term as part of a decarbonization and anti-pollution push if that ever happens.
My bet would be microplastics.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240224220620/https://www.nytim...
Don't use the words you cannot hear yourself

I think the more important difference to recognize is that HN operates by its particular rules rather than, say, the rules of The International Court of Toddler Justice.
Always makes me think of "[t]he summer soldier and the sunshine patriot" so maybe there's some Mandela Effect due to that
This is currently under consideration for the next school year, very likely they move.
IQ points are normally distributed results of IQ tests, so the average is the median and you already know the distribution. I guess they should say how the SD changed though.

Reporting a loss of theoretical IQ points is weird terminology since IQ people want you to believe it's measuring something that exists called "g", but then they don't report this result as a loss of "g". Of course they also happily claim every other test that produces a number like the SAT is also a true measurement of your intelligence and you're doomed to never be able to increase it. Basically they just believe any statement as long as it's got numbers in it and it says something they like.
You could argue that by putting military installments among civilian infrastructure, Hamas has adopted a policy of Total War, effectively committing their entire population to the effort of war with Israel.

How do you fight a country that is determined to kill you even if it costs them every man, woman and child?

Of course people will disagree that Hamas is actually willing to commit every resource to the fight, but I dunno. They seem pretty ok using them as shields or bait or suicide bombers...
But that's not normal for journalistic photos, which are assumed to be a record of an event that actually occurred.
Worrying about the planet getting too crowded is no longer cool so it's time to worry about less population
phtalates
Recorded music of any kind has, for musicians, been nothing more than a way of basically advertising for quite some time now. The money is in concert tickets, which is why they go on tour so much. The record labels keep almost all the profit from streaming or CD sales, but the musicians keep a significant chunk of the money from concert tickets and merchandise sales.
There's still lead pipes for drinking water in the USA. [1]

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...