skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more that I can't see a philosophy in which people should die at around 40 surviving in a person that nears that age, because it's tantamount at that point to saying "My life isn't worth living, it provides neither myself nor society any value".

This is not something most people think of their own lives, and as a result would be more interesting than someone saying (in effect) "I think it would be better if other people died off".
> Therefore, I think there is reason to believe that the next generation will be able to find a way to make it work. As has every generation before.

It’s worth remembering that many generations lost a significant percentage of their population to war, death, famine, etc. They didn’t always find a way to make it work without significant death and suffering. Many who died probably wouldn’t say “we made it work” for their own lives.
I absolutely agree with this sentiment, directionally, but the “new car premium” in the US is really quite small - it takes way more than two years for cars to half in price, more like five years, and sixty thousand miles.

For example, a brand new Toyota sienna XLE is a little over fifty grand. Carvana have several 21-22 siennas XLE, 40-60k miles, most over forty grand. I do not understand this.
> even the school this year pressured to put my kid in their social media.

Wow
You perhaps want the term "age of majority".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority
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People can deny their mortality all they like; they’re still mortal, and things like lower learning rates are likely to be genetic.
That only makes sense if you think Go is as expressive as written language.

And here I mean that it the act of making a single (plausible) move that must match the expressiveness of language, because otherwise you're not in the domain of Go but the far less interesting "I have a 19x19 pixel grid and two colours".
Do you have sources? I have a hard time believing it, if you use the second hand just for support and not aim with both hands.
In general, ideas spread more easily in communities that speak the same language.
Safari, when using the "iCloud Private Relay", does ignore the hosts file. Not obvious to everyone, but does kinda make sense.
I'm so jealous. Here in my central EU all I hear are rattily diesel cars all day.
Affirmative action is taken when the outcome does not match the expected value assuming all contenders were equal and the mismatch is explained by racism. This assumption however falls apart considering that Asians do face racism and yet their outcomes are better than expected. Affirmative action does play a role in them being effectively disadvantaged even over whites, e.g. for college admissions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429212...
There is absolutely zero scientific, empirical basis for the materialist presupposition that nothing happens after we die. So why does seemingly every commenter here assume this to be the case? With the limitations of the scientific method, we can never discover what happens to a human consciousness after death. A human consciousness is undetectable in the brain, it isn't some loose arbitrarily defined amalgamation of chemicals and electrical signals. We will never develop technology sufficient to look into a human brain and see the neuronal pathways or materia that make up Logic, or Reason, or Ethics, or an individual's Sense of Self, and all the concepts that make up a human mind, because these things are immaterial, universal, and exist transcendent of the material human brain or the scientific method.

So why are so many here running on the assumption that what happens after death is that consciousness (which can't be observed anyway) either disappears, or somehow ends up in a worse state than the here and now? This is a baseless assumption. Perhaps instead of chasing after the arbitrary religion of materialist Scientism, Hacker News readers should study a little philosophy and question their presuppositions.
It's easy to imagine why something could never work.

It's more interesting to imagine what just might work. One thing that has plagued programmers for the past decades is the difficulty of writing correct multi-threaded software. You need fine-grained locking otherwise your threads will waste time waiting for mutexes. But color-coding your program to constrain which parts of your code can touch which data and when is tedious and error-prone. If LLMs can annotate code sufficiently for a SAT solver to prove thread safety that's a huge win. And that's just one example.
Do you mean slidergate, if so, yes thats solved. I still use mine regularly without significant issues.
To the people worried about their data being sent to google or whatever (I'm not sure what they're actually worried about) -- the extraction of your eyes is done client side, using a seemingly very well made ML model running on Tensorflow which fits in under 15mb.

The feed of your camera is transmitted "directly" to the person you're looking at (well, no, not really directly, it uses WebRTC, so your data passes through Neal's TURN server, but do you really think Neal wants to take care of properly storing your data and handing it off to advertisers?)
> It’s literally just the blended average of human knowledge. What’s more democratic than that?

No, it's the 'blended average' of the texts it's been fed with.

To state the obvious: illiterate people did not get a vote. Terminally online people got plenty of votes.

And, GPT is also tuned to be helpful and to not get OpenAI in the news for racism etc, which is far from the 'blended average' of even the input texts.
The thread is here: https://discuss.python.org/t/for-your-consideration-proposed...

The person in question is Tim Peters.

It’s weird to not name them, but not linking to the thread is appropriate.
Basic extrapolation of known facts?
It is a bit dangerous, yes. All the way down at 130th in ranking of the safest countries.

Of course, the USA is 131st.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/safest-co...
China? That seems to concentrate on building infrastructure in countries rather than toppling their governments...
In roughly 15 years every cell in your body is replaced, by your logic there's no reason to live past 15, since you're no longer the same person.
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I’ve looked at several alternatives over the past year and Copilot is the best I’ve seen so far overall when you factor in ease of use, price to performance etc.

There may be services which generates code better, but at the end of the day you still need to review and touch up anything that is generated.

Copilots chat integration in Jetbrain IDE’s has also been great at helping me discover language features/functions, especially when learning new languages.
I remember when I was a kid (a long time ago now...), Dr. Martens shoes were the fashion, that my school forbade them. We had uniforms, but the rule with shoes was just that they had to be black. I think the ban was on the technicality that the stiching was yellow, so they're not black shoes. And a student tried to loophole the loophole by coloring the yellow stitching black.

I wonder if some brands give out free stuff to "child influencers" so other kids would moan to their parents about buying the items...
Very bad look. They ask for discussion but when someone brings them counterpoints they suspend them for three months. I read the discussion and I'm assuming it's about Tim Peters. But his responses seem normal and not at all something that even almost should warrant a ban. This is almost cartoonish level of power abuse.
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I agree that these are issues, and I’m willing to spend millennia struggling with them.
I don't think you understand fear of failure.

Inherently, everyone knows they can lose whatever they do.

People who use equipments and lose would have no excuse why they lose. They are not scared of having no excuse, so they try the hardest.

People who have fear of failure will act like they don't try, so they have an excuse in the case that they lose.
I don’t know what the big deal is, I’m never going to die. The rest of you, however…
A lot of things besides CrowdStrike would not exist in that world, notably Windows and your electric utility. Some people might consider that an improvement, but beware unintended consequences.
> accessing the entire repository of human knowledge

I know this is a common trope, but just think about how far it is from the truth. And not just because of business secrets, classified information, privacy rules and so on—think of the signal to noise ratio, the vast quantities of "fake news", propaganda, misconceptions, not to mention how hard it is to find reliable and detailed information about niche stuff. Information is vastly more accessible than ever before, but we still have a very long way to go.
You say "OF COURSE" but it doesn't take long to encounter the argument that racism is "prejudice plus power." It's a classic motte and bailey.

I know what you're trying to imply with your comment, but again, you can't have it both ways.
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No. Most instances of most NP hard problems are easy to find solutions for. (It's actually really hard to eg construct a hard instance for the knapsack problem. And SAT solvers also tend to be really fast in practice.)

And in any case, there are plenty of problems in NP that are not NP hard, too.

Yes, approximation is also an important aspect of many practical problems.

There's also lots of problems where you can easily specify one direction of processing, but it's hard to figure out how to undo that transformation. So you can get plenty of training data.
I have a learning disability but I like how the article opens mentioning no immediate damage and is followed by a photo of people looking at damage.
Is this just a Variant like VB? (and VB.net)
Sorry in advance if this is "a bit" flamebait-y, but the irony is too strong for me to not point out:

Working around another person’s problematic behavior and having to teach newcomers to the group to do the same is a known psychological antipattern.

When talking about "neurodivergent" people having communication issues, but the now enshrined "use my pronouns or else" thing is conveniently forgotten.
I think the answer is almost certainly no, and is mostly unrelated to how smart LLMs can get. The issue is that any theory of quantum gravity would only be testable with equipment that is much, much more complex than what we have today. So even if the AI came up with some beautifully simple theory, testing that its predictions are correct is still not going to be feasible for a very long time.

Now, it is possible that it could come up with some theory that is radically different from current theories, where quantum gravity arises very naturally, and that fits all of the other predictions of of the current theories that we can measure - so we would have good reasons to believe the new theory and consider quantum gravity probably solved. But it's literally impossible to predict whether such a theory even exists, that is not mathematically equivalent to QM/QFT but still matches all confirmed predictions.

Additionally, nothing in AI tech so far predicts that current approaches should be any good at this type of task. The only tasks where AI has truly excelled at are extremely well defined problems where there is a huge but finite search space; and where partial solutions are easy to grade. Image recognition, game playing, text translation are the great successes of AI. And performance drops sharply with the uncertainty in the space, and with the difficulty of judging a partial solution.

Finding physical theories is nothing like any of these problems. The search space is literally infinite, partial solutions are almost impossible to judge, and even judging whether a complete solution is good or not is extremely difficult. Sure, you can check if it's mathematically coherent, but that tells you nothing about whether it describes the physical world correctly. And there are plenty of good physical theories that aren't fully formally proven, or weren't at the time they were invented - so mathematical rigour isn't even a very strong signal (e.g. Newton's infinitesimal calculus wasn't considerered sound until the 1900s or something, by which time his theories had long since been rewritten in other terms; the Dirac delta wasn't given a precise mathematical definition until much later than it's uses; and I think QFT still uses some iffy math even today).
Or fear of failure.

This is a well studied behaviour in students where they act like they don't focus on studying. When they suck, they can say they didn't really try.
I mentioned this in my reply to another comment,[1] but for reference, this attitude is called Positivism and unfortunately is a common assumption nowadays.

Another useful concept is the immanent frame, which is an idea by the philosopher Charles Taylor in his book A Secular Age. The basic idea is that society is increasingly becoming focused on this world (immanent) and losing interest in things outside the "frame", like the afterlife. And so the default assumption becomes something like, "There is no afterlife and only this life matters," even if there is really no scientific or philosophical justification for that belief.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188210

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism

3. https://ubcgcu.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/taylor-and-imm...
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Edit: was answering to the wrong comment, sorry.
My farmer near-equivalent is, "I hear janitorial work can be rewarding." No, I do enjoy software work, but sometimes I do just want to turn my mind off or not deal with all the politics
“WTF?!” - engineer who has to troubleshoot said programs.
The next step could be to annotate statements with a confidence (1-99%). Currently I see no way to weigh the arguments against each other.
The N64 used a different texture interpolation method than anything else ever has (IIRC three-point instead of four-point) so if you do the equivalent of HLE like that, it'll look bad and blurry. Of course, official rereleases of N64 games haven't emulated it properly either.
My comparison was aimed at your second point. Deaf people not considering it as a disability is a coping mechanism. If there was a cure for deafness, nearly all deaf people would take it and conversely, almost no one intentionally seeks to become deaf (of course, there are exceptions).
Re: confidence

> My mind would be the source.

In the coming flood of AI slop and faked "scientific" studies I'd say
there is no better source. Real science always starts with anecdata of
n=1, so trust what you see. And I'll just add; regardless of the truth
of your observation, regardless of any supporting work, these kind of
observations are worthwhile as discussion in themselves so do
investigate more and write about it, please.

FWIW my interest was piqued by your claim that "learned helplessness"
eclipses humane interpersonal behaviours.

That sounds hard to evaluate, especially in children, but I think you
may be on to something and that ubiquitous AV technology is the cause
of a reward "short circuit". Once kids get AI servants that simulate
their achievements for them I think child mental health will implode.
(which of course is Jonathan Haidt's thesis)
That construct has been called a “record” since, I believe, 1970 in Pascal.
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China is leading the world on this, but they're still a decade behind their own nuclear schedule, but 5+ years ahead on their solar and wind rollouts.

They keep reducing their targets and currently it's 18% nuclear by 2060, but that's likely to be adjusted down as solar/wind rollouts accelerates further.
I believe this comment violates HN's rules to assume the best intent on interlocutors.

> Say GP was 20. So what?

If the GP is 20 then their personal philosophy that humans should die around 40 may be informed by their feelings that 40 is a long way off and that people around 40 years old are 'other' to themselves and their peer group. Further, their philosophy has not at that point been tested while staring down the barrel, and has the luxury of being somewhat abstract.

And if it has been tested by staring down the barrel, then it becomes more interesting, and we may explore why they feel they don't have anything further to contribute to human society. I'm not pre-judging, I'm seeking to understand. Maybe this person would go willingly to carousel, but as that is entirely alien to me, I wanted to establish if that was the case. And if so I want to know more about it.

So regardless of your own extremely rude response, it is pertinent information required to understand the context of the original post and the thinking behind it.
I'm in the process of rolling out an LLM to a user facing feature and it's difficult. The scaling is not obvious, and the quality fluctuates even with Llama-3.1 (8B) when compared to GPT-4o. We're probably going with 4o since the JSON return works much more reliable, it follows instructions for text generation more directly, etc.
In the same vine, people "doing it for the 'Gram": you go to a fancy vacation or restaurant not to enjoy the experience, but to enjoy the validation from the thumbs up, hearts, comments of your friends social media...

I wonder if that's a valid craving after all, a craving for social contact, sadly a craving being answered not by real life interaction, but by a mobile client hitting some API endpoint called something like /post/{$ID}/reaction/heart , ending on your phone pinging with the notification "$friend liked your post"...
There are more than 10. It's the Null Island location @hiergiltdiestfu refers to in another comment. Will add the locations to all of them once I have time to put all the coordinates in.
IMO This initiative is fundamentally not about preserving gaming history or anything so noble or academic; it is born from a temper tantrum and the twisting of French consumer law to serve the interests of a vocal minority at the expense of everyone else. The `#StopKillingGames` initiative claims to advocate for consumer protection and game preservation, but its underlying motivations appear to be rooted in dissatisfaction with the natural lifecycle of live service games and a desire to exert control over creative and business practices in the gaming industry.
Are you really insinuating that the German automotive industry is behind the nuclear ban? Why would they do that?
No - because those aren't limited to just a few specific types.
Nothing will change as long as C-suite roles keep breaking the law and walking away scott free. Also goes for the investors promoting this behavior at startup level.
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I thought Ukraine gave up all their nukes after the dissolution of the USSR.
Life in itself is worthless. The only reason why life is valuable is because it is a canvas, a vessel through which you can find happiness, meaning and so on.

This means that if you have a life that isn't worth living, you are not at risk of losing anything of value, and so the potential loss is still bounded. Sure, there is the potential that life can change in the future, but whether you have 10, 100 or 1000 years left of potential life, you don't really care much about that if your life is an agonizing living hell.

Don't ask me how I know.
Will be interesting to see what comes of some of the things that are being put on their roadmap https://code.kx.com/pykx/2.5/roadmap.html#upcoming-changes seems to be moving in a direction of an API similar to Polars
Sorry - it is precisely a "a loose arbitrarily defined amalgamation of chemicals and electrical signals" - in the same way that data in a computer is just a bunch of voltages and currents. If I load the notes to a song into RAM, those notes are just millions of voltages held by capacitors, and if I shut off the power those voltages break down into heat and the information is diffused into the surrounding air like ink washed off a page into a bathtub. Similarly, a living brain which also holds those same notes experiences a transfer of information to the surrounding environment when it dies.

There is no "woo" here - and to imply that there is woo is purely religious, not philosophical.
Do you also keep a stash of beautiful websites for future inspiration?
I was curious if others also create their own lists or if most people rely on inspiration sites like One Page Love and Awwwards. Personally, I keep my link pile in Notion.
Sounds like one of those "later" problems which no one looks into till much later
Programming has a clear reward function when the problem being solving is well-specified, e.g., "we need a program that grabs data from these three endpoints, combines their data in this manner, and returns it in this JSON format."

The same is true for math. There is a clear reward function when the goal is well-specified, e.g., "we need a sequence of mathematical statements that prove this other important mathematical statement is true."
> There is absolutely zero scientific, empirical basis for the materialist presupposition that nothing happens after we die.

Isn't it more the point that there is a lack of evidence for supposing that something does happen after we die?

Put another way: there is absolutely zero scientific, empirical basis for the materialist presupposition that rocks are not conscious -- other than that rocks give no sign of being conscious, and lack the neurological features that seem, as far as we can tell, to be necessary to support consciousness. Dead people also give no sign of consciousness and also lack those features, at least after a sufficient period of decay.

So if those reasons are insufficient, scientifically speaking, to justify an assumption that post-mortem consciousness does not exist, they are presumably insufficient to justify an assumption that rocks do not possess consciousness.
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