skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who arent aware, this entire field is largely pseudoscience; though this paper goes out of its way to be fairly sincere in its modelling, it's still just nonesense methodologically.

The correlation coefficient is not a measure of correlation, but of co-linearity, and coefficients < 0.5 are typically bunk, and the entire system of computing correlation coefficients is bunk if the data is nonlinear. Almost all interesting phenomena outside are non-linear, esp. biology and higher, where nonlinearities arise from the mutual interaction of parts of the system. Here, the correlation coefficients are in the ~0.2 range. You might as well be staring at monkey entrials.

Methodologically, you cannot construct explanatory models of weak-effect non-linear phenomena from observational data. Basically, you can fit any explanatory model you like, since you can make any parts of the system interact with any strength, and since they are non-linear, this will reproduce any distribution you so wish.

You can entirely reproduce any heritability distribution, genetic covariance, "shared" parent-child, "unshared" child-child, etc. you want by changing this model. Observational data here is basically useless at discriminating. ie., i can make a model where genes are 100% irrelevant, or 100% determinative, entirely consistent with the observational data.

The only method which can distinguish here is interventional, ie., you have to actually control the causes of the system. However, since we cannot breed different groups with different genes; nor take the same person and run their life with differnet parents, friends, etc. you're basically out of luck.

I'd prefer we closed this whole field down, and any person mentioning "heritability" outside of a wheat breeding lab, shuffled off to some discipline less catastrophically detrimental to social policy.
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Intentionally vague so people can be fired at whim. Because the real test is "loyal, loyal, and really loyal".

And if any of these people sneeze in Musk's direction, they'll be fired along with the executive for not "following direction".
Colorblind person here. This debunking video is piling on more BS, like oh, colorblind people learned to be amazing at detecting slight color changes! No, we are not. We learned what names are attached to what color, but we see them differently, much poorer (save for blues). Enchroma apparently helps with separation, as parent comment suggests. That being said, the fake dramatic videos are definitely shameful scam, agreed.
The link to the anomaly detection use case is broken https://docs.nixtla.io/docs/tutorials-anomaly_detection
I doubt this really has anything to do with who is president, and more to do with American local, state, and national bureaucracy not being very nimble. Even Trump couldn't make projects rain from the sky.
Has the author ever spoken to a resident of Palo Alto? This article is completely bizarre.

Yes if a God himself came down to Earth and gave every Palo Alto homeowner 30 million dollars, sure they would be completely irrational to take it. But if you could guarantee me that over X years, I could double my money, by simply raising a fund to pay 10x over market for every homeowner, then why is this a substack article? Go out and do it.

If you think through the logistics you would find, in our current regulatory framework, that Palo Alto homeowners are acting rationally. If you build a ton of midrise apartments in a suburb, the homeowner has to guess when to exit at the right time to sell their home. For every new apartment that goes up, the marginal cost of their home decreases. In other words that "30 million dollars" of value that is created isn't guaranteed to the marginal home owner. Some will get more, and a lot will get less.
> which is equally as dumb

What’s dumb about it? As someone who heard about 5 minutes ago, and did 5 minutes of research, it doesn’t look that dumb
NIMBY = property values is almost certainly wrong.

NIMBYs use property values as one of the arguments, but if you countered it (for example, with a dedicated buy offer at some fraction above expected appreciation) they would just find another argument.

They're literally conservative, in that they are rejecting change.
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The book is actually pretty different from the film, in a good way – although both book and film are great. It plays more with the idea that telling the difference between a human and replicant is difficult and/or impossible without specialized tools.

I'll avoid spoilers, but the cop scene is really great – Decker discovers the existence of a secret separate police department operating in San Francisco, which is staffed entirely with replicants.

If you've seen the movie but haven't read the book, I definitely recommend it. It's considerably different.
It’s the trap of the weekly science/academic podcast. There isn’t enough science, they eventually run through their expertise, their friends’ expertise, but they gotta keep cranking podcasts out. Quality inevitably goes downhill. Most of them become part of the book-promotional podcast circuit. Just look at EconTalk.
It's both. Attempting to reduce the complexity to just one or the other is a grave error.

Here is a good starting point for getting educated on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...
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I think command line tools is going to be fine if all you do is process one row at a time. Or if your data has a known order.

But if you want to do some kind of grouping or for example pivoting rows to columns, I think you will still benefit from a distributed tool like Spark or Trino. That can do the map/reduce job for you in a distributed way.
Tesla is circling the drain.
> Presentations are not “decks”

Obviously they are, given how common the usage is. But out of curiosity, why do you feel strongly about this?
Distributing the work across machines essentially comes for free with the ability to replay workflows from any step. You could run all of your worker processes on a single machine if it had enough capacity, but resuming a workflow on a different machine is transparent to your workloads assuming there's no local state.
Andrew provides citations for all of his claims from scientific journals, very often clarifies when there isn't enough good science to make certain claims, and also provides a mechanism for other researchers to reach out to him when they feel that his claims are inaccurate.

I don't know whether he is right or wrong in this specific instance, but he deserves some amount of credit and this Rolling Stone article (and this thread) are mostly full of dismissive invective.
Does presentation "deck" not come from when presentations were piles of slide cards? A "deck" of slide cards? Resembling a deck of cards?

Do you also go into skateboard shops with this rant when they refer to their boards as decks?

Edit: Actually I don't care, this is just normal (and wrong) Internet Pedantry™ but I'm just taken aback by how out of place and violent it is!
Do they have a simulator besides risking Voyager 2?
How did you arrive at this conclusion? 'Deck' seems to be a widely used and accepted term: "Collectively, a group of slides may be known as a slide deck." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_slide
> he advocates for nicotine use to prevent Alzheimer's

Could you source this?
And plenty of companies do exactly this in an attempt to prevent a market reaction or tipping off employees.
I would argue that many people outside of Palo Alto would absolutely be fine living there even if it was substantially different. The primary benefit of Palo Alto is its location, which is close to many jobs and to San Francisco/San Jose more generally. This is doubly the case if the new Palo Alto also has lower costs of housing, which would be likely with more density.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301045
> Born in India and raised in Texas, Prabhakar has a PhD in applied physics from Caltech and previously ran two US agencies: the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. She also spent 15 years in Silicon Valley as a venture capitalist, including as president of Interval Research, Paul Allen’s legendary tech incubator, and has served as vice president or chief technology officer at several companies.
How about by paying for the work of the WSJ team?
Is there a good book on the subject? I am curious about the evidence and theorisarion of this for interests related to myself. As an anecdote, I have a loved adopted cousin that even adopted (unconsciously, of course) all our familiar psycho-somatic pains.
This is pretty much how I feel about electronic view finders on modern digital cameras. I love my xSLR type cameras where I'm seeing the photons directly from the lens and not some digital version of them. I was not even aware of the telescope system that you mentioned actually being a thing, and I'm holding back my involuntarily gag reflex that kicked in just from the description.
Well the problem with the Bay Area in general and the peninsula in particular is that more people want to work there than can live there. So those than can pay extremely high prices for housing and those that can’t commute very long distances or live in a van on the side of the road. So there truly is a lack of adequate supply, and all the people who already have their idyllic little houses don’t want things to change. So I think it’s a real issue. But pretending we can just rebuild it all isn’t really gonna get us anywhere.
Sorry. They hired me and realized that I can do the job of 140,000 people. Both technical and non-technical.
Sometimes job listings don’t get updated right away after they’re filled.
>Soy protein isolate is most definitely something that can be home made. Assuming you have a high rev centrifuge.

My wife is still angry that I wrecked our kitchen high rev centrifuge with Uranium dust.
I think the Conventional PR Wisdom is that releasing a statement when you do things like this will be better than not doing it. So yes, most companies would make some sized press release and have a statement ready to go before doing something like this.
Well, I do not know in the US, but here in EU the main problem with renewables is the absurd price they have: I've built some years ago a small domestic p.v. system myself since here is legal (France, certifications is done by energy grid operator body) spending 11.500€ for 5kWp/8kWh LFP (used as a big home UPS in case of grid failure, not anything else) the decision to made it myself was made after I collect quotes from some local companies, the cheapest was ~30.000€ the most expensive ~50.000€ for essentially the same system. A low-cost usable BEV (meaning at least 400km WLTP range, should be something like 250 miles EPA range) is no less than 30.000€ and in this range there are only some Chinese brands witch have no incentives as an "anti-dumping" (effectively an anti-free-trade) measure. To get something just a little more it's ~45-50.000€.

Seeing p.v., BEV etc prices in China well... That's why EU lag behind, I imaging a similar situation happen in the USA as well.

Our industries led by managers has ceased any substantial research and development since SOME DECADES, so even if we was the best in the world now we are just a little bit more advanced than China in some areas, even a bit behind in some other areas. Trying to compete pushing measures against free trade and keep pushing up prices to try keeping up industry margins will not last longer. Actual devastating management culture should be removed with whatever it takes to annihilate it, and be prepared for a decade at least of recovery, otherwise the "lag behind renewables" will became "lag behind" in general.
yeah I'd be pretty surprised if your brain didn't figure it out in a week.
> read the stoics, lift weights

I mean, these are generally true so kind of good they are part of hive mind.
`exit()` absolutely works in a script assuming that the `site` module was not bypassed at startup via `python -S`. I understand that `sys.exit()` and others are preferred.
Its in the nature of the beast, the boomer generation, being in the retreat-defeat of retirement, wants things stable, conservative, collapsing inwards at a snails pace. Your point of view has no party running
If the libraries worked, we wouldn't have had to play code archaeologist and find out that half our dependencies had been abandoned since 2017. Even something as simple as a JSON encoder--which is rock-solid in every other language I've used--had a number of bugs (this was four years ago, so memory is hazy, but it had something to do with ambiguity between arrays, lists, or tuples) Erlang is stable, but Elixir sure as hell isn't. Back in 2019, it seemed as though every point release brought a slew of breakages--and usually over the most trivial and pointless things, like adding an underscore to a built-in for "consistency". I've been developing for over 20 years, have used all of the mainstream languages, and Elixir was the absolute worst.
I said python doesn't scale well and you say "it does if you use an escape hatch to a faster language"

Sure. Writing C++ that utilises your resources effectively then writing bindings so you can use that in python is great. But with elixir, if I've got 8 cores and 8 processes, those 8 processes run in parallel.

If I want raw cpu speed I can write something in rust, c, cpp or zig and then call it still using elixir semantics.

Not to mention that with Nx you can write elixir code that compiles to run on the GPU. Without writing any bindings.
Good luck! Remember that the only real acceptance criteria in coffee brewing is “do I like it?” =)
Here's Tesla's drug testing policy.[1]

[1] https://www.drugtestpanels.com/blogs/articles/does-tesla-dru...
Pivot to ~~video~~ AI
A suggestion for analysis:

Compare topics/sentiment etc. by number of users and by number of posts.

Are some topics dominated by a few prolific posters? Positively or negatively.

Also, How does one seperate negative/positive sentiment to criticism/advocacy?

How hard is it to detect positive criticism, or enthusiastic endorsement of an acknowledged bad thing?
"AI winter" was a political phenomenon that happened because the AI applications didn't hold water to the hype, and all of the gullible people that invested on them got burned out by the disparity.

We are very clearly on that same path again. What leads to the conclusion that another winter is coming. But even the fact that people are talking about it is evidence it's not here yet, and as always with political phenomena, there's no guarantee history will repeat.

Anyway, none of it means people will stop applying their knowledge or studying AI. The entire thing happens on funding and PR, and the world is not entirely controlled by those two.
Discretion, clearly. If you didn’t suck up to the right bosses, your head is on the chopping block at Tesla.
I agree. I've noticed that people tend to think they are average in comparison to someone else in their family with a slightly stronger expression of a trait. "You think I'm frugal! You should meet my mother! She always ..."
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Looks very interesting. The chat feature almost looks like a good slack alternative.

I can imagine this being useful to organization where your chats and your work are in the same window.
I think they are just struggling. Go drive by a tesla dealership. The lots are full. Remember, corporations have real time data on performance. What we see in public disclosures can be over 3 months old by the time it's officially reported.
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Anyone considering using this should be strongly looking at using Swift or Rust instead. You can build almost any given language idea using the C macro preprocessor, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to ship production code using it.

The worst codebases to inherit as a maintenance programmer are the ones where people got clever with the C preprocessor. Impossible to debug and impossible to maintain.
Because I watched him progress from a respected professor at Stanford to a self-promoter who sits on Twitter looking for mentions of his name, not that there's anything wrong with that. It's a personal experience for me, so it may not be generally true. I found his lecture on depression in the mid 2010's and it helped me a lot. By 2023, I mentioned on Twitter that I didn't buy his idea that we didn't have free will and a minute later he liked my tweet. I hope he's making good money with his no free will idea. He's out there promoting it enough.
It's always TCP_NODELAY
A lot of enterprise software requires so much customizing by design. I call it the "army of consultants problem"
How would the model know what zebra was if it had never seen it? Same is true for humans.
what about a double ended queue?
Wim hof, no exercise. (but will do so later, after my normal workout routine)

As others in the thread have said, this may not be any better for my health than N2O, but it's still interesting nonetheless. Probably not something for every day.
Exactly >:3c
The analogy differs in the extent to which the populace may reasonably assume a level of privacy.

The relation between employer and employee is usually less anonymous than that between a tech platform and some random visitor.
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With a $20 HDMI grabber you get 4K HDR video with full Dolby Vision or HDR10 metadata, without any tonemapping applied, én masse.

Combine that with some software mods to hide the UI at all times and you've got a perfect recording.

Re-encoding is the slowest and most annoying part of this process, but release groups re-encode everything anyway, so that's not an issue either.

DRM only hurts the legitimate customers, no one else.

I'm subscribed to the highest tiers of Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Paramount+, YouTube Premium, CuriosityStream, Nebula and Zattoo.

Yet often enough, I have to rip media from bluray because the streaming version only has audio or subtitles available in the local language or the quality is subpar.
I do a manual test strip test from time to time.
1. Spatial canvas based browser (we called it Sail). Had people who loved it but their team refused to learn it. Spatial tools are just incredibly niche and difficult to get started (besides Google Maps).

2. Auto updating across Mac and Windows (in 2024!!). Google Omaha is hard to setup, Sparkle is jank on Windows. Throw in binary delta support and it's an oof.

3. Our team builds Muddy on Muddy and ditched Slack when product got stable. Few other beta users and their companies as well. Slack is super sticky and has some terrific workflows, but more "quality" conversations today happen natively in apps and almost all apps have commenting functionality. Just easier to talk next to the context. So a lot of Slack convo's become "where is X" and we think Muddy will stop the need for those questions all-together.
> Er, V3.5 is "the very first iteration"?

Yes. ChatGPT-3.5 was the very first LLM-based chat assistant that was announced on Nov 30, 2022 [0]. It hasn't gotten better since then, just more censored and faster.

It followed GPT-1 (which was only interesting to people who were already in the know), GPT-2 (which was neat but widely recognized as pretty useless and again, not something normal people noticed) and GPT-3 (which was cool, but didn't provide a chat interface, it could only complete texts, so it made a decent base for the early versions of Copilot).

[0] "ChatGPT is fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 series, which finished training in early 2022." https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/
Breast augmentation could be one case.
>Michio Kaku

I read one of his books when I was a teenager and it’s probably why I chose to do physics.

However, I follow a very outspoken and accomplished IBM quantum information leader on LinkedIn and she has had harsh words on his recent comments on QIP and just his later career in general.

Not sure if many contemporary practitioners take him seriously anymore.
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Why not just do this to East Palo Alto, Palo Alto's less attractive sibling right across the highway?
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Every time I hear about a new medical discovery or treatment, I think "yeah right, maybe in 15 years".

Well, here we finally are.

Our ancestors, and I mean great-grandparents and grandparents, would call us gods.
Sure but if housing density also increases then you'll just keep the existing equilibrium. NYC has the best public transit in the US with less than half the households even owning a car. Yes car traffic is famously bad.
Ah ok thanks for the clarification. So this does not impact the end-users at all (i.e. their price is fixed?)

In France the price is regulated, you can have higher/lower prices throughout the day but this is described in the contract (you know when the hour is "high" and know the price and same for the "low" hours)
> When if you want the trees saved then pay them to keep them and hold them to it. Like that’s the actual goal no? And easier than completely retooling society as a backwards way to cause that change.

REDD+ programs (which is what you are describing) are massive failures at preventing deforestation or carbon decreases.

> There’s limitless profitable reasons to chop it down.

No, there are costs and profits and if you decrease the profits and increase the costs it changes peoples behavior at the margin. The Amazon rainforest isn't the one thing that is exempt from basic economics.
If massive surveillance is so necessary for our safety, why isn’t there any reporting on all the threats to society they’ve been averting, or criminals caught? I get that they can’t reveal everything, but as it stands now it’s all hush hush, and many naive people will think they’re catching terrorists every day. Generally, if someone refuses to tell you how they protect you “for your own good”, it is because they would look malicious, incompetent or both.
Hah, true enough/fair.

Even in a business where it's routine to rest/vest, no 'crabs in a bucket' mentality required, these contests seem likely to appear.

One could simply exist/accrue an empire, yet... that's not enough. I suppose it's boredom.

Many reasons why we can't have nice things. Agh.
The data is a treasure. It was just as available to others, before and after.
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This is correct. To give more synthetic data examples:

1. Generate inverted problems which are easier to produce than solve. For instance, create an integration math exercise by differentiating a hairy function and reversing the steps.

2. Create (simulated) environmental data.

3. Use adversarial model competition, e.g. self-playing chess or training an artificial image generator/detector model pair.

There's evidently a commonplace myth that information quality starts pristine and exclusively gets degraded by systems thereafter. That's just easily, demonstrably false in myriad ways. That's why it's absurd to conclude that LLM output being in internet training data will cause model collapse.

Information-rich synthetic data can be created without humans, and it works. (Check out Phi, for instance.)
I seriously doubt seeing porn before 18 (which, by the way, is and will always be inevitable, no matter how hard we try, every interested teenager will find a way) these things сan cause any of these. And even if it could, lack of interest in real world sexuality sounds almost as great as lack of need to eat: a whole new world of possibility, autonomy, spare time and other resources instead of depending to another thing the world can use as a button to subdue you and drag you into wasteful consumption and playing unnecessary non-ergodic gambles people in sober state of mind would prefer to avoid.