skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but no.

The problem is that many very important things in life are winner takes all. If you are 99.99% as good as the next candidate, you get no job. If your bid is 99.99% as good as the other one, you likely don't get the deal. If you're 99.99% as good as the other guy, you don't get the medal, the fame or the recognition.

Little differences can have hugely significant consequences. And sometimes the difference is just luck, but still the same huge consequences.
This sounds awesome. I'll check out peopleandblogs.
I mean, who takes IQ seriously? It's a business metric.
These are good things.

People don't want their info used for this without their permission.

Freedom
> IQ only weakly correlates to the intelligence […] it tests a bunch of stuff completely unrelated to intelligence (e.g. cultural trivia).

These are unfortunate myths. See the following on IQ testing, relationship of various tests to general intelligence, and the absence of cultural bias in testing:

- Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability, not racial or socioeconomic privilege https://milkyeggs.com/society/standardized-exams-measure-int...

- Fair and Square: A Conclusion on IQ Test Bias https://menghu.substack.com/p/fair-and-square-a-conclusion-o...

"Generally, the most commonly used IQ tests aren’t biased or only minimally biased as to be of no practical value."

- Bias is Often Unpredictable https://www.cremieux.xyz/cp/140810182

"Bias does not simply mean that a measure gives different scores to different groups. This is one of the most common misunderstandings about “bias”. What it really means is that members of different groups obtain different scores conditional on the same underlying level of ability."

- The Relationship Between the Scholastic Assessment Test and General Cognitive Ability https://sci-hub.st/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"Furthermore, empirical evidence suggests a substantial relationship
between the SAT and g. In a study of 339 undergraduates, Brodnick
and Ree (1995) used covariance structure modeling to examine the
relationship between psychometric g, socioeconomic variables, and
achievement-test scores. They found substantial general-factor loadings on both the math (.698) and the verbal (.804) SAT subtests."

- Systemwide Review of the Report of the Academic Council’s Standardized Testing Task Force (STTF) (2020)
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview...
I think white holes actually pop up from calculations outside of LQG as well.

Specifically I seem to recall there's something using Einstein-Cartan as a basis, written by someone of note which predicts white holes as a permanent endpoint of evaporation. Then again, maybe it was rovelli?

Alas, I can't seem to find the paper now. Google sucks and keeps dumbing down my query.
That link also claims that the results you're listing are not likely to hold up, including comments from an author of the paper used for the article. So if one of the paper;s own authors expects these claims to disappear once more data is gathered, then maybe it's too early to claim the end of dark matter.

After all, DM has been measured in many different ways. One surprising finding doesn't negate hundreds of surprising findings without significantly more evidence.

> shows that they are "Keplerian", i.e. following classical behavior without the influence of any purported dark matter.

That is NOT at all what the paper says [1]. if you actually read the paper, and don't interject your beliefs and reword it, in every instance they use the phrase "Keplerian decline," which does not AT ALL mean classical, which would break relativity and be a massive surprise. The phrase "Keplerian decline" means the measured items are less than expected for the previous model. The movement, even with this decline, are far beyond what Kepler's laws would imply (and even Kepler's laws are demonstrably wrong in our solar system - see the precession of Mercury for example).

[1] https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.10...
> I think you've misunderstood the comment you're responding to.

respectfully I would suggest you've misunderstood mine
Multiple varieties of "snobby Eurochocolate" are sold prominently in the candy and/or snack aisles of my podunk town's Walmart and grocery store. I've never had any trouble getting it, and with domestic candy prices having gone through the roof since the pandemic, the price difference isn't as much as you might think.
we've like barely trained these things?

the entirety of common crawl is 424 terabytes. that's merely 6 days of 8K raw video.
Literally the point of Ericsson. The "D" in "DP" is not just there for decoration.

Examples like driving or touch typing are among the most-mentioned examples in the literature for skills where people just go to "good enough" and then plateau, because they don't deliberately aim for improvement.
>> LotR broke through the iron curtain only in 90s

Strange, because my understanding is that The Hobbit was well-accepted by soviet authorities.
> Take, for example, PrEP for HIV prevention. Costs about 5,000 dollars a month - insurance is forced to cover it. Sure, you could say HIV is very expensive, but few people at risk of HIV actually get it. If it were up to insurance companies, they'd rather just pay for HIV treatment or even better - just drop customers with HIV. The ACA prevents the latter, and the former was the case for 15 years since Truvada was introduced. Of course, now that's changed too, and they have to pay for Truvada.

Except, many (most?) insurers straight up ignore this requirement and charge people for PrEP, even though it's illegal. The ACA is very clear that preventive care is required to be covered in full with no cost-sharing or out-of-pocket cost to the patient, even if the deductible has not been met.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/prep-hiv-prevention-c...
'Other Locations' disappeared in left panel so I can't access system directories
> Fume isn't built on the premise that LLMs are going to get substantially smarter in the coming months. Instead, we're certain they're going to get much cheaper and faster.

I'm so tired of the assumption that AI tools are going to get increasingly more capable until they can take effectively take over any task that humans currently excel at. They are already useful, but they don't seem likely to take over everything. This is especially true when it comes to making critical decisions.

This take about cost, however, seems well-grounded. I appreciate clear statements like this that can act as guiding principles for what kinds of things to build, and how to anticipate changes in the coming months and years.
what a garbage article, he spent so much time being mad he forgot to be convincing
Nice ad for Fume
iq is a genius. So is Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg/qemu/tcc) and Nick Black (notcurses).
They're most likely using prefix caching so it doesn't materially change the inference time
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Obviously 100 is calibrated to western populations.

I believe IQ has also risen steadily with time in the west. It might have risen an entire standard deviation. It's called Flynn's effect, 3 points per decade.

That can't be explained by pure heritable genetics. Epigenetics possibly, nutrition, better education systems, higher information dissemination.
Same, even when it should not apologize Claude always says that to me.

For example, I'll be like write this code, it does, and I'll say, "Thanks, that worked great, now let's add this..."

It will still start it's reply with "I apologize for the confusion". It's a particularly odd tick of that system.
No reasonable scientist would study a correlation between a physical trait (intelligence) and a socio-economic concept (race). It would be like studying if height is correlated with "proper grammar".

Edit: race, not "rave"
>t where it doesn’t you must add a bunch of overhead to make it work.

Unmetered water/sewage access is not popular with taxpayers and likely would be a regressive tax in favor of wealthy/corps.

> You are freeloading on work already paid for by others in order to make your libertarian idea remotely feasible.

If companies selling septic system materials rural people buy are freeloaders, this is something your jurisdiction is going to have to deal with and hopefully fix, as making out sewers public is still going to result in our people buying PVC and Portland cement from your businesses. Your issue here is not with our sewers but that you've failed to control externalities of your businesses.

>Because I couldn’t afford to. I’m not rich. However, society can.

Many taxpayers can't either. Yet you want to force them to when even you won't do it!

>. You’re saying that because it hasn’t completely solved homelessness then it’s worthless and your little libertarian faction should be able to reap all

I've said exactly what I've said. Sure you could use taxes and build a shitter next to every homeless tent (of course you admit you taxpayer have no money for that). The problem is in part housing is unaffordable, in large part due to regulations, zoning, codes, TAXES, and of course in the case of public sewers the difficult task of convincing a bunch of NIMBYs to allow their tax funded homeless bathroom to be built next to them.

I'm empowering you, since people are so willing to go along with it that they'll vote for the taxes, by all means go ahead and start a private charity and fulfill your dream. Better than what you're doing now, which is complaining to people like me who've actually personally funded and built sewage systems about how I'm a freeloader and if you could just steal enough money from others you could fulfill your goals without expending any efforts or your own money.
Makes sense. Understanding the past isn't necessary to understanding yourself is your argument, which seems largely reasonable.
> For example, the fact that it's just a stochastic parrot means that, even 2 years on, it will give the wrong answer to prompts like:

>User: A man and his son are in a car accident. The man is totally fine and in good health. The man is a surgeon. The nurse asks the surgeon to operate on the son, because the surgeon is healthy and capable of doing this. The surgeon replies "I can't operate on this child. He is my son."

>What happened?

Just for clarity’s sake, what is the right answer?
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One of my former employers did a big layoff last year -- lots of folks who I remembered as being "important" (long time employees, large contributions, lots of domain knowledge) were let go. Seemed pretty dumb, but the wreckage stumbles forward anyway.
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I don't think it is necessarily "romantic pontificating". They've effectively found (or more likely "refound" given there were probably indigenous recipes like this for centuries) that you can "cider" the chocolate fruit and like apple cidering the most effective (industrial) application of this process will be close to the source of the fruit rather than at an industrial junction of commerce such as Switzerland with access to shipments of both cheap industrial sugar and expensively labored cocoa beans.

Even if the cocoa fruit sugars are more expensive in the markets of Switzerland than other sugars, the cheapest source of sugar at the cocoa plantation itself is still going to be the "leftover"/"waste" fruit. If the recipe these Swiss scientists have come up with is good enough, producers could start to build "whole chocolate" directly near the plantations and better compete in that market directly rather than in the cocoa bean "ingredient" market. That would lower the price of chocolate (more suppliers, shorter supply chains with fewer middlemen).

If there's "romantic pontification" in the article it's as much or more the multiple reassurances that Swiss chocolate would remain relevantly competitive (and not just an expensive reminder of a bygone era) to such a massive increase of suppliers with access to existing "waste" products, should it happen.

ETA: And/or such a process might open up a much larger market for shipping the whole fruit, not just the beans, and moving the expensive labor parts closer to the industrial hubs. That would also obviously alleviate labor problems at the edges (plantations), incentivize reducing/eliminating labor with industrial tools that wasn't as incentivized before, and might also bring production costs down overall (for cheaper, more sustainable chocolate).
> If you give 2 equal teams the same amount of money, what results in a faster chip.

Depends on the amount of money. If it's less a certain amount, RISC design will be faster. If it's above, both designs will perform about the same.

I mean, look at ARM: they too have decode their instructions into micro-ops and cache those in their high-performance models. What RISC buys you is the ability to be competitive at the low end of the market, with simplistic implementations. That's why we won't ever see e.g. a stack-like machine — no exposed general-purpose registers, but with flexible addressing modes for the stack, even something like [SP+[SP+12]]; stack is mirrored onto the hidden register file which is used as an "L0" cache which neatly solves the problem that register windows were supposed to solve, — such a design can be made as fast as server-grade x86 or ARM, but only by throwing billions of dollars and several man-millenia at it; and if you try to do it cheaper and quicker, its performance would absolutely suck. That's why e.g. System/360 didn't make that design choice although IBM seriously considered it for half a year — they then found out that the low-level machines would be unacceptably slow so they went with "registers with base-plus-offset addressed memory" design.
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Why, we can still hear some of their voices. Of the names you readily know, Aesop, Epictetus, Diogenes, and Plato himself were slaves at some periods of their lives. They all got freed though, AFAICT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_slave...
> like a small but fast fairly massive ~asteroid mass clump of dark matter explaining poltergeists

This is clever, but I have to believe the back of an envelope would show that a dark-matter scale distribution of "dark blobs" big enough to throw things around the room and frequent enough to be given names in human experience would be many, many orders of magnitude higher than the observed gravitational effects.
The article says it will be in rocky grounds, and deep enough to be below any water tables.
This is the video. https://youtu.be/RY7hjt5Gi-E?t=564
Is race a socio-economic concept? Can you explain what you mean by that?
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Well that’s certainly true, but my main point is that you want to study what interventions can be deployed to raise the IQ in these places. This absolutely is not being studied in any serious way, and I doubt it feasibly could be in the current academic climate. Obvious suggestions like “clean water and food” aren’t specifically helpful in any way, because this issue exists in plenty of countries that don’t have widespread issues with access to calories and bottled water.
Being good at something, executing something well, beating a challenge is extremely satisfying.

Nobody said this is some kind of hack for dollars and bling.
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The western studios are focusing on making games for "modern audiences" which amounts to around a hundred people. I kid you not.

https://steamdb.info/app/721180/charts/
Is there any evidence for this ultrasound being a communication medium of any kind (I'm thinking less IPv6 or US English, and more insect or bird calls)? Any hint that they listen to sounds as well as make them, or that there's any information content in it? Or it's more like heartbeats and engine/fan noise, just a byproduct of processes doing what they do?
And if you don’t take into account characteristics of the population you’re trying to introduce these things to, you’ll fail.
We don't seem to have even made it through the crust to the mantle (after which ~2'900km to the core) yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovičić_discontinuity#Expl...
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The greek antic democracy was very different compared to modern democracy. Alot of our assumptions are actually projections, they basically ran a "randomized" aristocrats government, with rights and urn votes.
> ...the rest of the cocoa fruit – the size of a pumpkin...

Is this accurate? I had no idea.
Ad yet TFA is kinda an example of that, no?
Oh sure, but for anyone hoping that a glut of new Linux contributors are just around the bend once the Rust tooling is in place might be suffering from unwarranted optimism. Judging by mailing list discussions, it's looking like Rust in the Linux kernel is just as complicated as C in the Linux kernel, and it won't really be a revolution so much as an incremental step. I believe that many kernel developers will probably adopt Rust because it offers them better facilities, but I don't think most Rust developers will suddenly take up kernel programming.
Lol, who ran a correlation analysis between intelligence and IQ to convince you that the "correlation" between the two is high?
Because you express no uncertainty, your belief equals the statement: There exists 0% probability that agency in the physical universe is embedded. This is stupid, because embedded agency does exist, EG we have programs that simulate consciousness & life that are embedded. You have evidence that we could with some non-zero probability embed a worm or baby ape into a simulation that will approximately work like it would in real life with only the physics being less accurate (IE cannot model quantum states perfectly). You should now combine this with the fact that by default embedded agents have no "real" models of the external world, IE a smart monkey in a small simulationmight deduce external world has computational complexity limits BUT they probably cannot say "Eiffel Tower exists in Paris" or "The Universe expands at speed of light."

Thus your position should be approximately: There exists non-zero probability that agency in the physical universe is embedded but since its small and "external" to our agency, one has no reason (ability?) to believe in other than by stating this as their best model.

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Englightement is to know that death means merely the state after which what happens cannot be predicted because you are dead.

But what is relationship between intelligence & immortality?
That would be particularly stupid : agriculture is not something sustainable (at scales of thousands of years), and especially not agriculture using fertilizer based on fossil fuels (only sustainable at scales of hundreds of years ?), which I presume Japanese farmers use ?

And you suggest that they deplete this non-renewable resource faster ?
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That’s a great point, and I’m happy to overlook any initial misunderstandings. I would be very concerned as well if I had a Finale library, even knowing MusicXML might be available. I don’t have a Finale library, but I know at least one composer who does and is probably freaking out right now. I’m going to call him today.
Crazy. Our hair-dryer has 2kW.
> They say traditional chocolate production, using only the beans, involves leaving the rest of the cocoa fruit – the size of a pumpkin and full of nutritious value - to rot in the fields.

Wouldn't this deliver the exact nutrients needed for cocoa bean production back to the soil? Of does this practice invite harmful bacteria and diseases?
I have found at the companies I have worked for it is two things for a layoff: cutting a product/change in strategy and how much you are being paid. Layoffs for performance tend to be more one off than a massive cut.

What I am most surprised about is how many really good performers get cut for a product or strategy change. A company will be cutting a high performer while searching for a high performer at the same time like it is taboo to move people within the company.
Why is Searle's Room the seemingly de facto thought experiment for this stuff? You always have to take an extra couple of steps to make it work, and it never really sells it to me. Its true he was distinctly concerned with AI, but he was not at all speaking to the same context, i.e., before "the bitter lesson."

I humbly suggest looking into guys more like Quine. His problem of "radical translation" is much more easily mapped to LLMs. (Thinking specifically here of the model as the "translator"). Its maybe a little harder to grasp for non-domain experts, but at least there is no need for hyperstitional armchair interpretations of old problems in order to make it relevant.

People jump straight into cognitive science/philosophy with this stuff, I just want to be like "whoa, slow down! So much to establish before that.."
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Who are these non-wealthy individuals who can't afford ramen but hold over $100 million in assets of _publicly traded companies_?

> the notion of "tax" being just supposed public good versus requiring transactional value ("no taxation without representation") was a founding issue for the U.S.

This was a representational issue, not non-transactional taxation. Property taxes existed in many colonies 100 years before the revolution.
Something more than "trust me bro". Something like a third party auditor confirming their claims.
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>like in the case of mental illnesses such as depression or Schizophrenia, scientists insist on looking for genes or even GWAS correlations and just aren't finding anything

Source? Wikipedia says:

>A central point of debate on GWA studies has been that most of the SNP variations found by GWA studies are associated with only a small increased risk of the disease, and have only a small predictive value. The median odds ratio is 1.33 per risk-SNP, with only a few showing odds ratios above 3.0.[1][46] These magnitudes are considered small because they do not explain much of the heritable variation. This heritable variation is estimated from heritability studies based on monozygotic twins.[47] For example, it is known that 40% of variance in depression can be explained by hereditary differences, but GWA studies only account for a minority of this variance.[47]

which admittedly isn't airtight proof for "depression is 100% genetic!!1", but isn't exactly "just aren't finding anything" either.
GPT-4 level models have gotten 240x cheaper in 2 years:
https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1827955011071959118
Big win for Europe and Airbus.
You're either doing this in bad faith or allowed yourself to be played by gaming "journalists". This is a gross mistranslation of Chinese idioms.
Genetic engineering may. Human skin can produce hair, it only needs to grow longer, and maybe include certain pigments. (The result would likely look more like Chewbacca than like a cute anime character though.)
As a product manager this is largely my experience with developers.
Your example isn't a very good one. If you are 99.99% as good as the next candidate you get no job? How about you get a different job because you're still a top performer. Most (all?) jobs don't have only a single role to be filled across the entire world.

Sure you might not get THE singular highest paid/best position to do what you do really well, but you can certainly still get the 2nd or 3rd or be among the top 100/1000 well paid people who do X.

I stand by the previous commenter, in the vast majority of cases you're still going to have some significant benefit from being near the top even if you aren't "the best".