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> Science itself would be fine with...

When you say "science", do you include scientists?

If not, how does "science" accomplish anything?

And if so, history is filled with numerous instances of scientists "not being fine with" (to put it nicely) ideas that conflict with their beliefs (which are often perceived as, and asserted as, facts).

> We do not need warm fuzzies or cool satisfaction. And we do not get any particular pleasure from the fact that any god that is not simply a hands-off creator is exceedingly implausible.

In science, are things like omniscience &/or mind reading possible? Because I encounter "scientific thinkers" (daily) and actual practicing scientists (frequently) who make explicit, unironic assertions like this about what their brethren do, and believe, and how they think (perfectly), and numerous other literally unknowable things (the future, for one example, counterfactual reality, for another).

I wonder: could it be possible that subscribing to (or being subscribed to) a relatively high quality (yet flawed) metaphysical system doesn't render one perfectly rational?

I also wonder: could something more powerful than science displace it as King of The Throne, considering the psychological grip it has on people (including government, academia, and the media, three of the most powerful reality synchronizers)? Could something do to science, what science did to religion? And if so: what might that be?
> what do you think might work instead?

That's a good question to which, unfortunately, I don't have a good answer. None of my startups managed to make our edu-focused products long-term successful. Fortunately, we designed our major technology stacks so each could result in products in at least two different markets. While our edu products never did better than break-even for us, our non-edu products usually did much better with several becoming breakout hits. Personally, I'm very passionate about the need for innovation in education, likely due to challenges I had with traditional school. But after spending many years and substantial funds, I eventually stopped trying to do edu-focused spins of my products (despite clear potential of the underlying tech). Although I now understand many of the reasons the edu market is so hard and counter-intuitive, I also learned succeeding there requires vastly different skills and interests than I have (or want to have). K-12 was especially frustrating for me because success there is so untethered from actual product effectiveness, along with being unbelievably bureaucratic, largely opaque, and having a glacially slow sales cycle. As someone who started out so idealistic about making education better, actually trying to build a successful tech startup selling to K-12 can be soul-crushing.

I agree that in terms of increasing actual learning, AI could be revolutionary. I commented here because my experience was specifically being a startup trying to sell products based on revolutionary new disruptive technologies into edu.
... and then they promptly ignored the results.
This is a cool idea for a website/repo for boilerplate scripts. I’ve used LLMs for boilerplate scripts and it’s saved me so much time, but sometimes required more effort (to edit, correct, etc) than I expected. Boilerplate code for the same scripts in multiple languages would be incredibly helpful.
>Is such language the optimal way to express ideas for comprehension by peers, students, and policymakers?

Those are three completely different groups with completely different needs.
Counter nitpick: You can reduce any discrepancy to two orders of magnitude by changing your base :-)
Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
There are four censored comments in that thread that cannot be read along with a few benign downvoted comments. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that at least someone behaved poorly, but this is HN -- the thread is not littered.
> What if, hear me out, micropayments are a bad solution in total?

Micropayments are clearly theoretically better than a patronage model, and there's very little evidence to suggest that they're either bad or good, so no, there's no reason to believe that they're a bad solution.

> I have not seen anyone actually demonstrate that a micropayment based system

This is a fallacious argument. It simply makes no sense - there's a metric ton of historical evidence that good ideas can fail to materialize either because the technology doesn't exist yet, or because of cultural factors immaterial to the validity of the idea.

> Instead it always seems to be driven by hyper-free market woo and ideology, as if that has worked out so far.

This statement is anti-capitalist drivel without any substance or intelligence behind it, meant to manipulate, with very little truth behind even the implication that micropayments are "hyper-free market" constructs, and a repetition of the earlier fallacy that "not currently successful = bad idea".

Micropayments are a pretty clearly better system than patronage. It scales better (smaller creators are more accurately rewarded for what they produce, instead of the largest creators getting a disproportionately large fraction of revenue), it's fairer to the creators (as their work gets directly rewarded, instead of them effectively having to beg for patronage), it's more sustainable (as creators are rewarded for all of the content that they've produced, instead of just the most recent), it's less guilt-inducing for consumers (who don't need to worry about whether or not their $1/month donation is "fair"), it naturally rate-limits consumers and helps them quantify and/or limit their entertainment time and/or spending, and it allows consumers to "own" their media more.
Yes, I LOLed at your comment. K-12 is especially soul crushing for tech startups, which is why I now think of K-12 school district buyers like Obi Wan thinks of Mos Eisley.
> Whether it is causative or not it is still the case that someone who doesn’t know fractions will have a hard time in algebra.

Doubt. Do you have any evidence at all for this claim?

> It would be bizarre to teach someone how to add rational functions before they can add fractions.

Sure, rational functions obviously sit at the intersection of algebra and fractions and require both. But they're hardly some deep foundational piece of algebra; I'm not sure my classes even covered them.
There is no financial incentive to cure cancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25LUF8GmbFU
Well if RNA was a (necessary) precursor to DNA, some experiments that attempt to replicate aspects of a deep alkaline thermal vent have already been conducted - you can get, albeit very short, strings. But the obvious problem is in trying to replicate a chemical soup and structure under high pressure, that doesn't exist any longer, and then run experiments to try to replicate outcomes of a natural experiment that lasted hundreds of thousands of years.

The idea that DNA needs to be spontaneously generated in order for us to be confident that we understand how DNA came to be is misplaced.
I’ve been noodling on how to combine neural networks with evolution for a while. I’ve always thought that to do this, you need some sort of evolvable genetic/functional units, and have had trouble fitting traditional artificial neurons w backprop into that picture.

My current rabbit hole is using Combinatory Logic as the genetic material, and have been trying to evolve combinators, etc (there is some active research in this area).

Only slightly related to the author’s idea, its cool that others are interested in this space as well.
"The truth is that understanding Shakespeare is hard because he doesn’t write in anything that would be considered English."

I just want to record for posterity that you wrote and published this sentence. It's not just factually incorrect; it actually boggles the mind that someone would think it, write it, and post it in public.
Good lord. Get to the point.
If it was at least all in cups, it’d be somewhat more forgivable. I’ve even seen recipes using amounts of flour measured in a combination of cups and tablespoons! Actually, maybe that doesn’t sound as mad to everyone as it does to me…

Anyway, it makes more sense hearing that sticks of butter are labelled in cups. I didn’t know that! In the UK, butter comes in 250g blocks.
> I had a US business professor explain in one of my business classes that making a bit more money might push you over into the next tax bracket and cost you more in taxes than you made.

He's not wrong. You are correct if you consider only income taxes. But there are other tax benefits that lead to discontinuities with respect to income.

As an example, in my state you can deduct up to $5000 of contributions to a 529 plan if your income is under $250K. Go a penny above that threshold, and you can deduct only $2500. That extra penny just reduced your refund by a few hundred dollars.
> easier to read than to watch live.

Obviously there are some benefits to reading like being able to skip around, pause, take notes, look stuff up, sit wherever you feel most comfortable, etc. But in general I'd say this is only true for people with a ton of experience reading old plays. For everyone else, good acting is tremendously helpful at helping the audience to follow the characters' actions, relationships, and intentions.

> language that we don’t speak

It really not that far off, and doesn't take that much practice to get into. It's similar to trying to watch a TV show set somewhere with a strong accent you aren't familiar with (e.g. the Baltimore accents in The Wire). It starts out challenging but human brains are amazing language interpreting machines.
IMO, a lot of that leads to sink or swim. Not that elite institutions are perfect (by a long shot). But largely cater to kids (and families) that can do things on their own with help from qualified people and you almost certainly get better results--and lower costs--for them.

Others, not so much.
He's an AI. He's biased towards sorting algorithms :-)
Yes, and WSJF gives you two units of data: priority and sequencing - because everybody's pet is priority 1. Much better than MoSCoW.
I'm surprised it took this long, given how much beef Musk seems to have with California.

That said, it's not clear from the article whether they're keeping the former-Twitter building as an office in any capacity, or if SF-based employees will simply be asked to relocate to Austin.
Would these novel drugs exist without initial govt research?
Yeah, especially since the density of flour varies. All the home bakers I know either weigh their flour, or eyeball it like I do and live with the imprecision.

I'd just let the flour mound over the top of the cup by a bit to make up for the tablespoons. ;-)
> Confidential IRS data reveals that David Hoeft, chief investment officer of mutual fund giant Dodge & Cox, was one of many investment managers who bought and sold the same stocks their company was trading.
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Liked “You'll be glad to hear that SMS already doesn't have reactions”.

It’s really the most clunky backfill that Apple chose, I suspect on purpose.
Eisenhower. Here's another from the great philosopher Mike Tyson: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."

Point being, have a continuously ready backlog consumed by short iterations with great telemetry - like SpaceX.
If you can't trust a teacher or a textbook, then you are in big trouble. Especially if it is a brand new subject to yourself where you don't have an intuition about what is correct/incorrect. Part of a teacher/student relationship is obviously trust.
Woah, the shell features are super similar.
Honestly was not familiar with this project, looks great (and ambitious). I'll try it out. Thanks for the share.
Awesome post, thanks. I ordered society of mind.

Reminds me of when I took "The Philosophy of Cognitive Science" in college. The entire class was on AI. When I asked the professor why, she explained: "You don't understand something unless you can build it".

It's cool to learn that quote might have been because she's a fan of Minsky.

> In terms of the root idea of the mind being a huge number of concurrent agents, I think he was close to the bullseye and it very much aligns with what you wrote.

I think you're right here and I'd like to add a bit. One common mistake people make when thinking of evolution, is where in the hierarchy it takes place. In other words, they misidentify the agents by an order of magnitude.

For example, in biology I commonly see it taught that the individual is the subject of natural selection (or worse, the population).

Really, it's the gene. The beauty of evolution is that it can take an agent as simple as the gene and shape it into the litany of complex forms and functions we see all around us.

If evolution is at play in the brain, I suspect that Minsky's agents are the individual firing patterns. Like genes, the base of the hierarchy, the fundamental unit. Also like genes, they slowly build increasingly complex behaviors from the ground up. Starting before birth and continuing for most of our lives.
Say no to SAFe. It's a middle-management orgy of mediocrity.
You forgot to add "on bro"
The problem is that LLMs in their current state confidently lie. They will tell you that 38 + 22 = 3822 without a shred of uncertainty.

If you are a 7 year old learning how to do arithmetic with fractions, there is no way that will help you learn more effectively.
So that's what "Señor Tadpoles" was a reference to.
It's opt in for the person with the option to share network credentials.

It's not opt-in for the owner of the network, who should really have a say in the matter.

I do use this feature from time to time, but it's typically on networks where either I'm the owner, or the owner's given me permission to share the creds.

This also opens up an attack surface (which I got to experience firsthand on a burner device at DEF CON 31), where someone spoofs an Apple device requesting network creds. The attack itself involves spamming share requests and catching you off guard, causing you to hit OK, or you just hit OK out of notification fatigue.
> 1. 1567–1667† Discord, contention, tumult; a state of discord; a dispute, quarrel. Frequently in in (a) mutiny, at (a) mutiny. Obsolete.[1]

Mutiny in this case means as defined above. An old grudge is boiling over. Note that it is highly unlikely for the grudge to literally be ancient how I would think of that word today.

“Civil blood” Is a double meaning a reference to the prestige of the families and brings into contrast their incivility in their vendetta. Part of the magic of communication is deliberate double meaning. It is not a well defined API.

As someone with a disability who teaches computer science to students with disabilities (and without), your problems reading Shakespeare do not sound like those of people that come to mind when I read the term “regular person”.

If one is going to attempt to parse every word in the play and believes that it is the only way to follow the plot then one is going to have a bad time. If you could get to the Queen Mab speech reading that way then you’d probably melt at that point.

My suggested way forward is to not attempt to think definitionally about words that are used in a manner you cannot understand. When you arrive at a word like mutiny think that Shakespeare isn’t talking about a literal mutiny (though he might be) but something that is like a mutiny. What are mutinies like, not in cause but in deed. When Shakespeare starts talking about “atomies” he has no knowledge or Bohr or QM, but we know that atoms are really small. When Mercutio mentions Crickets bone… well, Crickets don’t have bones but if they did they would be small.

Shakespeare’s scribes weren’t writing an API for you to extract the plot out of. It’s a lot fuzzier than that.

[1] https://www.oed.com/dictionary/mutiny_n?tab=meaning_and_use
https://archive.ph/Ivva9
I also suspect that a lot of the people who are eating out in restaurants all the time are on planes a lot and at late business dinners, many of which are determined by "safe" customer choices like steakhouses. (Though, without further info, I also suspect to it defaulting to fast food on an absolute basis.)
Only 7%?
No ad, but https://www.synthesis.com/tutor is already did a very good job I think, they merged AI deeply into their online interactives learning guides, very impressive, you can try their tutor class, computer 0 and 1.

Btw, the founder also came out from Tesla, he helped Elon founded the school which taught kids from Telsa employee familys, I am wondering if they know each other lol, I think yes.
I can, right now, go find dedicated servers with 1gbps port that will deliver continuous 800Mbps of traffic 24x7, for $35/month. Bandwidth is not as expensive as people think.
I think that your description is almost excellent, but that you're fundamentally misleading in describing what you are doing as a "30-bit" digit.

It's a 10^9 digit mathematically, occupying 30 bits of storage. You do briefly mention that it's 10^9, but repeatedly say 30-bits.
This article doesn’t speak at all to the fraud potential.

Also the real answer to the question posed in the headline is that the most powerful voting blocks will naturally receive the highest subsidies in a democracy.
I think the trick is the "metro." I've never been to LA, but have lived in NYC proper and now out in the greater "metro" and this does seem plausible to me, depending on how the metro is defined. If you look at a satellite map of LA, everything is squeezed into the valleys, but west and north of NYC city limits at least there's a lot more room to spread out (LI is more constrained) so that even though it's dense compared to, say, Omaha, I can well believe it's less dense than the LA basin and surrounding valleys.

I live about 13 miles west of the city as the crow flies, and its already suburban and not overly dense here, and just get more so west of here, still firmly within the metro.
Aren't emotions just the brain's way of experiencing the pain/pleasure feedback system for non-physical stimuli?
Tldr;

There is a trend of pet humanization. Hamster owners can install cameras and see what nocturnal hamsters are up to at night. The hamster owners anthropomorphize the actions as 'human routines' or a personal hamster reality TV.
It's currently set not to stream (https://github.com/guywaldman/magic-cli/blob/4d4dca034063aa6...).
The performance is something I plan to improve.
> > Feynman, Bill Gates, Socrates, etc.

> One of these doesn't quite belong ;)

I asked GPT to find which one:

"The one that doesn't fit in is Bill Gates.

Richard Feynman and Socrates were primarily known for their contributions to science and philosophy, respectively. Feynman was a renowned theoretical physicist, and Socrates was a foundational philosopher.

Bill Gates, on the other hand, is primarily known as a businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, a leading software corporation. While he also has made contributions to technology and philanthropy, his primary domain is different from the scientific and philosophical realms of Feynman and Socrates."
I hit my limit at 83 mining in Runescape.

The grind sure is relentless!
In the US a lot of people don't even know who their grandparents are. Lots of broken families and the decline of marriage.

>Today, a new survey from Ancestry, the leader in family history, found more than half (53%) of Americans can't name all four grandparents – demonstrating a knowledge gap in key information about more recent family history.
My friend interned at the FAA 20 years ago. He said the norm there was to write "Concur without comment." I thought that was brilliant. Of course, when I use it in conversation, no one gets my reference and thinks I am weird. But that is going to happen anyway.
Wells has said he often dines with multiple people in order to be able to try multiple things on the menu. of course The Times is picking up the tab. I guess being a restaurant reviewer is like owning a boat - it’s tough on you but your friends love it.
What about function points? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_point) They are basically just lines of code, but LOC has a precise definition and is not just "whatever it takes" like a story point.
It's better to be egalitarian. The clientele of hackernews is predominantly people working in high paying industries, who were lucky enough to get the resources and opportunities to get there, in addition to a considerable amount of hard work. I pushed hard to get where I am today and personally benefitted from gifted child programs. What terrifies me is the idea that being born to slightly different parents or in a slightly different area could have had drastic effects on my outcome. I believe we should make policy decisions assuming any one of us could have been born to the poorest and most negligent parents imaginable. Making any other assumption is being dishonest about the benefits afforded to you by your upbringing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723861/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231211031...

Religiosity is a contributing factor, but more influential is societal pressure (or lack thereof).
Heavens forbid elderly people get some more money every month. How much is it going to be for getting to elderly age and fostering successful children who raised their own children in turn?
Babysitting queens
Assuming the user hasn't enabled end-to-end encrypted backups (which is an option, not the default)
Reminds me of Marathon's non-euclidean maps. The engine traversed adjacent portals to determine what polygon-based cells to draw/interact with. Very mind bending in its day. Some of the multiplayer maps make strong, obvious use of this, if memory serves.

In fact, apparently the entire series is open source and free to play: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398450/Classic_Marathon/

Highly recommend checking it out.
I'd also comment that, in general, even though I've had jobs with tenures that many HN readers would consider ridiculously long, I mostly settled into the decade +/- space outside of a couple (of short) "events" outliers. Even with making some changes along the way sometimes, that ended up my been-there/done-that range.

Obviously people are different but that has been my experience.
First you need to get your modified DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour.