skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my point! A statistical text generator trained a vast majority of the available content on the Internet and is able to understand natural language commands to generate content on any available subject is bloody amazing.

Literally five minutes after this absolutely crazy-ass technology was released to the world, it's already the baseline.
> "If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it."

> Apparently, even writing it down didn't help the author with this flawed deduction.

I think that it can be rescued, at some expense of awkwardness, by grouping not as one would expect ("(fully formed) ideas"), but in a slightly non-standard way:

> "If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully (formed ideas about it)."

That is, if you haven't written about the topic, then you haven't understood it as precisely and completely as you could. While this is obviously exaggeration, I think that it's (1) logically consistent, (2) possibly what pg meant, and (3) a useful slogan, even if intentionally over-stated.
Accept that you're human, accept the ebb and flow. Recognise when you're in your productive mode, use it. When you're not, don't beat yourself up, do the lighter side of what you need to do. Take your foot off the accelerator and just be. When you stop trying to control yourself like a machine, you'll start to win.
"meanwhile a local farm has to hire a local butcher."

That depends. If you're selling the meat openly, it has to go through a USDA inspected facility. Most local butchers are not USDA inspected. The alternative is the sell "the animal". This typically means the customer buys the animal, the farmer takes it to the butcher of your choice, then you pay the butcher.

The butchering is the expensive part no matter what, but the individual farms can't compete with the assembly line style processing of the the giants to sell the meat directly. So they're only competitive on the meat price with the customer using a local butcher. Local butchers don't have the scale to be cheap, so the customer has to do the work if they want to save any money.

All that said, there's still a cost issue. The small producers just don't have the scale. They often treat their animals better too. I can get local pork for $1.80 hanging weight, plus a $30 processing fee on a half or whole hog. That's close to store prices for the raw cuts (shoulder, loin, etc). You really only get into the money savings if you cure your own bacon, corn your own ham, make your own sausage, etc. But most people aren't willing to do that level of work to save almost nothing. I do it because it's usually a superior product, I'm supporting local, and I know how my meat was raised.
The first link was wrong. I updated it to the one I intended to share, about Françafrique.
This description confounds two independent variables: "active vs passive learning" and "direct vs unguided instruction."

The studies you refer to are demonstrating that active/unguided is superior to passive/direct.

But the full picture is that active/direct > active/unguided > passive/direct. (I didn't include passive/unguided here because I'm not sure it's possible to create such a combination.)

Other studies -- that only manipulate one variable at a time -- support this big picture.
Great idea. How can I determine the loop position and length? (Tried this on iOS Safari)
Disclaimer: I'm not OP and I haven't read the full post yet.

But the quote above says "If..." and then makes a statement that isn't true and then having a conclusion based on that false premise. I can tell you it isn't true because I can recall countless times in the last few months alone where writing down my ideas has resulted in a muddier thought; lost ideas while writing them down; confusing me and missing some parts; it does not "always make them more precise and more complete". So the rest of the statement is just silly.

Sure, sometimes writing down ideas helps clear things up. Most times even. But always?! Definitely not.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/inside-out-a-ne...
This is a somewhat standard requirement for “special treatment” in that industry; the deliverability requirements are establishing trust, which is currency in email markets. You could roll out the anonymity/compliance feature after a month of using their service for delivering email to those customers, for other features that don’t require the compliance. And if you end up having a >5% bounce rate, you may have other problems.
ARM will be interested as long as Microsoft Research is interested in putting in the greens.

Please don't waste more of your precious time replying to this.
> The "what" part is difficult to answer, except to note that DOS is in many ways what textbooks on operating systems call a microkernel. DOS provides a small bare minimum of services, on top of which other, more sophisticated, services can be built.

I think I heard Tanenbaum twitch.
The deduction is flawed because the success of one method (thinking with writing) does not necessarily disprove the success of other methods (such as thinking without writing).
I disagree. Every time someone contributes to something, it evolves the ecosystem that in turn molds the social atmosphere around it. And I was more referring to our support of Apple and Google that in turn created the system that supports so many app frameworks.
Built our charts of nivo, initially I tried to port all our charts over bc they looked so nice. But I think it'll be a decent challenge (since we have so much custom random stuff). Curious what your experience will be.
This is as true with products as with locations. For example, the people doing S3 at Amazon get everything they need, because that is a blockbuster product...and the people doing, oh I dont know, Greengrass IoT are waayyy down the totem pole even though it might be a perfectly profitable product.

Large orgs tend to have a Roman Empire feel to them for most of the people, most of the time. You're stuck out on the edge of the empire, minding Hadrian's Wall, proud to be a Roman but also far, far away from any influence over or interest from the Emperor. If you are lucky they leave you alone. Occasionally a missive arrives from Rome that you have to decipher and implement no matter whether it makes sense or not. Fun times.
I've had the McDonalds salad before, it's expensive and tastes like shit. It got discontinued because it was designed to fail.
My experience across several groups has been different, as recently as 2023. Meetup is one of the few platforms that reliably gets random people to show up to your event.

We paid quite a bit more than $50/year for fewer members than OP, too. Their new price is still less than we were paying for a couple of our groups.
Except that some people respond better to people talking rather than reading when it comes to math.
We have lots of sizes of pizza. Though I think the type they mean are the sort ordered from chain places for large groups, so usually 14-16 inches (35-40cm) diameter cut into 8-12 slices.
"Can't happen" comes from the fact that the compiler optimizes for defined behaviour, not undefined behaviour. Making defined behaviour fast at the expense of undefined behaviour looks the same as assuming undefined behaviour can't happen in a number of cases. Eg. if you dereference a pointer then check it for null, naturally the compiler will remove the later check. We can describe that as the compiler making the defined case fast, or we could describe it as the compiler assuming the pointer "can't" be null. The latter description is easy to think about, and generalizes broadly enough, to be a common way of describing it.
Sabine Hossenfelder had video on this exact subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
Nvidia End-to-End Autonomous Driving: A Bird's-Eye View
Masterful
No reason to go that deep. Spending in large bureaucracies (public or private) often works similarly: there’s a lot of hair on fire and throwing money frantically around at the end of a reporting period, because you know if you don’t spend it you’ll get a smaller budget next time. (It was that way at all levels in late Soviet Union, it’s still that way in at least one F100 IT giant.)
The staggering science and art behind Wimbledon's legendary grass courts
isn't a pizza for one ?
> In the face of things like that, a lot of US criticism fell flat.

While the absolute worst part of American society and culture did approach the more casual evils that Communism produced it all pales compared to the scale and pervasiveness of what Russians suffered and perpetrated. American criticisms were frustrated by some hypocrisy but they didn’t fall flat except to the willfully ignorant of what went on during Communism.
> But then I read Imre Lakatos’s Proofs and Refutations. It is not, at first glance, a book about writing. It is a book of mathematical philosophy. By a Hungarian Stalinist, no less.

I don't see what "Hungarian" has to do with it, and, though I do see what "Stalinist" might have to do with it, it probably shouldn't. (Someone's politics don't have to be good for them to make a valuable contribution to knowledge.) But, according to Wikipedia, this isn't true literally as written, unless one takes the view "once a Stalinist, always a Stalinist:"

> After his release, Lakatos returned to academic life .... Still nominally a communist, his political views had shifted markedly, and he was involved with at least one dissident student group in the lead-up to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

> ... He received a PhD in philosophy in 1961 from the University of Cambridge; his doctoral thesis was entitled Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery, and his doctoral advisor was R. B. Braithwaite. The book Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery, published after his death, is based on this work.
I think that's much shorter than real life outcomes.

Just last week, I was looking for some old data. I dug through a small collection of cheap CD-R backups from 30 years ago (hard to believe the tech is that old!). Probably 12 discs in total. No problem physically reading any of them. The only issue is that one of them was recorded in an old pre-OSX Mac format that my Linux laptop struggled with, but I was able to access it on my 2015 MacBook.
I tried to make a model of my own shuffling. Blog post in work, but some interesting bits: https://jacobw.xyz/posts/005_shuffle/#data_exploration
> I know that I could beg our @dang to act as intermediary and contact the user in question on my behalf, but he's too busy and valuable to turn into a glorified phone operator :-)

The response to this bit is a little surprising. It's really not that uncommon for a platform operator to forward the rare message between users - even Github does this (I've requested they forward several messages to users in regards to acquiring particular usernames)
I would pick up a microcontroller dev board that has a mic built in (Eg one of the STM32 discoveries). Also get a "codec" dev board. (Or alternatively, use the MCU's onboarod DAC). Get it to receive audio, process it using DSP, then output it, and/or save to memory. This will really force you to understand it.
I’ll never understand this narrative. What product category has Apple missed or failed to execute well in since Jobs died? Do you think there’s an iPhone level hardware product out there that Apple would be shipping today if only Steve were still around?

Off the top of my head, since Jobs death Apple has launched AirPods, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, Car Play, Home Play, M-series MacBooks, and they’ve greatly expanded their services business.
Recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657626
Education has to be broader than industry, or we'll all end up slaves.
d0mine [0] already mentioned this [1] (and was apparently downvoted to oblivion for saying it), but there's already another Python project named Fabric that's been around quite a while now. [2,3] Downvote me too if you like, but it's not gonna change the fact that there's already a project using that name.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=d0mine

- [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40893147

- [2]: https://pypi.org/project/fabric/

- [3]: https://www.fabfile.org/
Thanks for the response! But your syllogism seems to be different that the one presented in the linked article that attempted to summarize Chalmer's logic.

I don't contest your point 1 at all -- I believe in most of there universe there is no consciousness, and for much of Earth's history there was no consciousness here either.

For point 2 -- perhaps "logically possible" is a term of art that I'm not familiar with, so I am perhaps missing the point. But on a plain reading I can't support this point. Recycling a point I made earlier, I can conceive of a world where the center of the sun is made of chocolate, but it is not logically possible.

Point 3 -- the conclusion you have arrived at isn't contested. Materialists are not claiming consciousness is the cause of the physical processes, rather it is the result of them. As I said in my response to point 1, much of earth's history didn't have any conscious experiencers.

We could say: (1) we can conceive of the physical dynamics of this world occurring without waterfalls. (2) if something is conceivable then it is logically possible (3) It is logically possible that the physical dynamics of this world occur without any associated waterfalls.

I don't see what insight this syllogism is presenting: one can imagine a world where the set of actually realized manifestations of physical laws is different, but it doesn't speak to whether the unmanifested things are not present because they are non-physical (at least in part).
If you're the one making claims its on you to provide sources. If you're just saying things and putting question marks on the end people are going to treat it the same way they treat newspaper headlines, which is to say any headline ending in a question mark probably has an answer of no.
It certainly doesn't portray a typical or common occurrence. It's depicting a traumatic situation akin to an emergency worker having to deal with a loved one as a patient.

This does happen. It is also rare, but mostly unavoidable because it can't be predicted. The best that can be offered is support for traumatized people. The support the article says was offered was clearly insufficient, but after a sensationalized opening such as that, I end up doubting the credibility of the article as a whole.

Worker welfare is an important issue, world-wide. I feel like books like the one this article comes from are just finding a new way to exploit these people.
> I know I’ve transferred google auth across phones in the past - although possibly over iTunes? The new iPhone setup process works differently I guess.

There were a few brief years where an encrypted iTunes backup was a perfect, universally-restorable image of an iOS device. You could back up an iPhone, pop out the SIM card, destroy the original phone, then pop the SIM into a new one, restore the backup, and it would be nearly-impossible to determine that the device was different from a daily UX standpoint. Even MS Exchange email sync would still work.

Then around the time that iCloud K/V store showed up (which may be coincidental), this stopped working. Every app would start up and ask you to log in. Email needs reauthentication. Encrypted iTunes backups aren't terribly useful anymore.
> I would suggest that if people opt to share contact info in their profile, they should use a canary address that can be discarded without causing grief as there are some unhinged lurkers. I see them planning raids on this site from other sites from time to time.

The day I'm afraid of Internet trolls finding my email is the day I leave the Internet forever.
I would agree there are a lot of problems with a lot of education research. Many purported findings do not replicate or are otherwise impossible to replicate.

However, there are also many findings that are actually legit. As you say, they're rare, but there are enough of them to paint a surprisingly complete picture when you pull them together.

Discussed at length a couple months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348986
You're objecting to the premise, not the conclusion*. The deduction is valid for the premise (the part in the 'if'). Well, assuming you accept that an idea that can be "more complete" isn't "fully formed", but I'd say that's definitional.

* Although it's not really right to use this kind of language here (premise, conclusion, deduction). It's a casual statement, so I suppose people can somewhat reasonably argue about it, but the assertion is tautological ('if something is incomplete, it isn't fully formed').
This isn’t a crazy notion. My high school, as well as probably thousands of others, staged a crash and EMS rescue to have us all realize the danger of driving impaired. The difference is it was in a monitored setting - I don’t think young children should be exposed to this on an app that everyone is using, without the comfort of their parents. Even in your example, your father showed it to you. But watching extremely graphically violent videos from a young age with zero healthy avenues to process it is a recipe for disaster.
The keyword is "always". IF writing about something always improves it, that implies it cannot ever reach full potential without writing about it.
Eventually you discover the best way to use Windows is just not to fuck with it. Debloat scripts just create instability and weird errors.
Though it can be blamed on myself, I didn't understand what you were saying. Your vocab and sentence structure is awesome, but your thoughts just aren't comming across.
This isn't really a great suggestion on HN. You don't get notified of replies, it can be tricky to keep track of what you have read, etc.
The deduction is logically sound; it's of the form "if <false statement> then <other false statement that would follow if the first was true>".

This is, of course, even worse than a logical error.
I think it's actually a bad idea to pay much more than that. If you do then local companies can no longer compete for these workers because they could not afford them, and once used to a high salary the workers would not want to work for less.
Have you heard of the California gold rush? The area was picked clean 170 years ago when people were pulling fist sized nuggets out of the Kern river. Finding a little gold embedded in quartz isn’t all that special. We suspect they were left in some mining camp tailings because transporting the rock wouldn’t have been worth the tiny bits of gold embedded in it and naturally reburried a century or more ago.

A public recreational mining area in a historical gold mining region is obviously going to be located where they’ve found gold before. If you want you can go buy mineral rights along the Kern river and do your own searching but as a state we’ve been there, done that, and the football team we named after it has already won a bunch of Superbowls.
It's a different cut and generally cheaper (ymmv depending on the store). Tri tip is generally more expensive. It's a sirloin cut forward of the bottom round.

Edit: here's a chart

https://www.certifiedangusbeef.com/cuts/poster/Beef-Cuts-Pri...
The days of internet trolls turning to physical nuisances or outright danger, happens daily.
The New Jersey Machine-Code Toolkit (1998)
There are amistics - the voluntary non-use of technology once it's available - which all cultures engage in to greater or lesser degrees. All technology has a price and sometimes it's not worth it - see leaded gasoline for an extreme example.

But in the general sense, I think it's tautologically correct to say better models always lead to better predictions, which always give an edge in competitions on an individual or societal level. So long term I do believe learning trumps ignorance, not in all cases but on average.
It's memorization in the same sense as an LLM is a database. You can think like that if you prefer, but I don't find it a useful perspective.
Maccas is nz, maccies is Aus
Can you give any examples of someone whose idea formation was not improved went they undertook the task of writing their thoughts down?
I went on a ride through the internet and saw some figures that lithium production would need to increase by 40X by 2040.

But that's still only 7.2 million tons/year.

I feel like the where are we going to get the lithium and but what about the environmental costs arguments to be kind of weak when you look at actual production numbers and compare the costs with other resources we consume.
I read this as asking questions not making claims.
> The employee would be paid 40% overtime for the sixth day’s wages.

To put this in perspective, it’s worth comparing to the US and Japan, where employees can be forced to come in on Saturday for no overtime at all.
Another difference is that chromates are wildly toxic...
Yeah. Prof Meng talking about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRAJSH_raW8&t=858s
I have a very fond fond memories of codind near the that peak.

Somehow I can't replicate it for the years and I have a couple of projects in a dire need of that spirit insight.

sigh
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> We believe the purpose of technology is to help humans flourish, so when we talk about AI we start with the human problems we want to solve.

This is something missing from the discussion around AI. There is fatalism or skepticism about AI capabilities vs human usefulness but very little positive philosophy about using AI to augment human capabilities rather than replace them. Even if automating everything were possible it doesn’t mean we need to and I’d argue that we should not want to.
As an aside, Betteridge's law of headlines, to the extent that it has been studied, appears to be incorrect. The answer is slightly more likely to be yes.
The problem with Gemini is the guardrails they've built into it which makes it useless for me. Which is a problem that has to do with Google and not any AI smarts.
It was clearly a combative "question", and entirely orthogonal to the topic under discussion, which was the accuracy of the claims about the scarcity of lithium.

It would have been entirely within the guidelines of polite discussion (and the site) to point out that scarcity isn't the only deciding factor, but the OP never made any assertions to that effect.
As the only post of an account created less than an hour ago, I lean towards it being more likely a bad faith attempt at trolling than an honest inquiry.
OpenAI was hacked year-old breach wasn't reported to the public
The downside of teaching using worked examples is that it teaches only one problem solving skill to students: mimicking.

Many students will look only at examples in the textbook and happily ignore definitions, theorems, and proofs. They don't know whether the strategy they picked works, only that it worked on a similar looking problem.

Sure, when (good) teachers explain the example they do go through the effort of referring to the definitions and theorems, but that is not necessarily what the students remember.
Is it because humans are not worth socializing with or isolate them or to train for free their AI ? Or maybe it's to create at the end a social network for AIs only so they can socialize between them ?

I really don't get the point of this.
The Apple et al suit was many years before the post-covid layoffs: which I was referring to in my comment.

That settlement favored Apple, Google and the other conspirators because they only paid out a fraction of what they would have paid in salaries absent the collusion - so the settlement was not exactly a show of force by the engineers. Additionally, this was after a judge had thrown out a lower settlement amount the lawyers representing the class had agreed to.
It's easier when you're working from home. Go for a walk. Clean the house. Read a book. Learning to "pace" your work is key. Nobody cares as long as your Slack/Teams dot is green and you appear to be responsive.