skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, if you observe your thinking, you might notice that your thought process often takes on different roles and personas.

I don't think it's possible to actually observe one's own thinking. A lot of the "eureka" moments one has in the shower, for example, were probably being thought about somewhere in your head but that process is completely hidden from your conscious mind.
I heard an interesting fact a couple of days ago,

The median student that graduated from college starting in 2009 had more debt than what they started with after 12 years and it's only gotten worse.

So your belief that it will cover the most egregious is not true for the median student. Given that, I'm also interested in how those lifetime earnings increases are distributed across degrees.
Not GP, but mine are:

- I open link in new tab, a button to switch to it appears - and disappears right before I manage to click it (unless I'm on redbull, then it's fine). Every. Single. Time.

- extensions - why do I need to create my own list of extension and publish it, just to include some extension Mozilla didn't approve? It's not like they are checking them much anyway.

- stop the telemetry. Seriously. If I wanted someone spying on me I would have used Chrome. And even worse, stop contacting Google (firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com)! I'm blocking it all with NetGuard, but it's annoying knowing I can't trust the browser.

Not much else really. It works pretty nicely once you have the obligatory uBlock Origin installed and blocking in NetGuard set up.
Yes, There are multiple Springfield in Wisconsin, multiple Madison in Pennsylvania and multiple Clinton in New York. These are some of the examples I remember. And yes it is annoying if you live in one of these towns.
My apartment shared with three other roommates in that era was $750 (four bedrooms and a giant living room in a trendy neighborhood of a decent sized city). So $150 checks out.
> Spend any amount of time in programming circles, and just as the sun rises and falls, you are certain to hear someone complain about error handling in Go. These complaints are, anecdotally, rarely well thought out suggestions on what error handling could or should be like in a language like Go, but often merely boil down to “I don’t like having to look at it”.

I read it. The first paragraph dismisses preferences in a matter that boils down to preference.

> Note that for any sufficiently complex program that invokes many dependencies, this stack trace will be so far down the chain that you may not even see where you’re making the call that causes it.

I don't understand this part. Why would my code not appear in the stack trace? Did this author know how to read stack traces?
> * #!/bin/bash instead of #!/usr/bin/env bash

This one becomes very apparent when using NixOS where /bin/bash doesn’t exist. The vast majority of bash scripts in the wild won’t run on NixOS out of the box.
I think questions like this cannot have an objective answer. I dealt with code written in lisps, and Forth. There are plenty of people who claim they are hard to read, but in my experience once your brain starts to recognize patterns, and idioms it becomes crystal clear and logical. At the same time I find myself taking more mental effort parsing code in languages which like to overexplain by repetitiveness, like Java with its "Foo foo = new Foo". I have a colleague however who believes that everything which is not Java is barely readable. Probably, it's related to the fact that he writes Java exclusively for a very long time.
You flew too close to the sun. You can’t argue with a bunch of people who are in debt and learned that playing the victim pays.

It’s funny. That everybody is mad at the banks and schools. But the politicians and do good laws passed are what caused all of this.

Banks did it want to give loans out for shitty degrees to people who would probably not pay them back. So laws were passed to force banks they had to give out loans.

Schools did not want to accept everybody, but only the top of class. But laws were passed forcing them to widen their acceptance criteria.

This creates the perfect storm we are in.

Before the system was self limiting. Banks only gave out loans for degrees and to people who had high probability to pay back. Schools accepted only the best students who had a high probability of succeeding.

The loans were low risk, high reward, and the schools were able to provide a higher level of overall education to those who did go.
What?

They say:
"ARC-AGI tasks are a series of three to five input and output tasks followed by a final task with only the input listed. Each task tests the utilization of a specific learned skill based on a minimal number of cognitive priors.

Tasks are represented as JSON lists of integers. These JSON objects can also be represented visually as a grid of colors using an ARC-AGI task viewer.

A successful submission is a pixel-perfect description (color and position) of the final task's output."

As far as I can tell, they are asking to reproduce exactly the final task's output.
You are a good writer. Like the original post.
It was always sad to me that most of the people I met who believed him were non-native English speakers.

Just my experience with his followers in person. Made me suspect they couldnt detect nuance or bullshit in our language.
Depends on OS settings these days. Lots of OSes want to help and detect link down and reset all your connections. Kind of a pain when you just want to move a cable.
> supermarkets would have to empty majority of their shelves

I doubt this. The supermarket I go to would be about 1/2 empty if they removed processed foods. The rest is still largely taken up by the deli, meat, produce, dairy, and fresh foods. None of these are highly processed.

> And then additional strides would have to be made to be convert restaurants

Chain restaurants that supply themselves exclusively from Sysco. Almost all other restaurants actually cook with mostly whole ingredients.

> a single burger place

Everything there can be a whole food except the bun and the beverage. You're presenting this is as if it's a huge challenge when in reality it barely would be.
Yep. He has demonstrated it repeatedly in pinbiard threads here.
Not imperfections, the fabric itself. If the balls were on a frictionless surface, their movement would be completely different, they would barely spin. Much of their movement is caused by their interaction with the fabric. But that is very hard to model from Newton's laws of motion.
relatable by all the unseen engineers whose job it is to keep the machines running, so that everybody else can do their jobs.

especially so in the early days of computing, from whence the stories come; where "reliability" was a laugh
There is a fork of Pale Moon that is compatible with Windows XP called "New Moon". It's based on Palemoon 28.10.7a1. While an old version of the browser, it is still compatible with modern websites, such as Github.

It is available at http://o.rthost.win/palemoon/ , but make sure you don't download a 64-bit version by mistake. (Providing a non-secure http link because the MSIE version that ships with Windows XP is not compatible with modern https websites)
I agree. To me it always seemed a bit like insisting that foods from the first half of the alphabet are bad for you.

Are they? Maybe! Alcohol, Burgers, Croissants, for all I know there are more bad-diet things in the first half of the alphabet than the last. It could even be that if we convinced people to buy less high-alphabet food, they'd be healthier. But that doesn't mean it's a sensible category. We don't "need more research into high-alphabet foods", we need a causal theory of what makes food healthy or not. It's pretty clear it isn't alphabetic priority, and it's also pretty clear it's not simply "processing".

Most food needs to be processed in some way or another to be edible. I read a terrible catalog many years ago, from an alternative magazine, listing a ton of weird diets and questionable health practices. There were only a handful of things in that catalog of hundreds of things that even they warned against, and one of them was the "raw food diet".

If it's benzopyrene from frying that's the problem, talk about frying. If it's micronutrients being lost from soaking or boiling or long storage with preservatives, talk about that! But don't dumb us down by putting it all in a box and refusing to engage with what actually makes it bad.
Also a good explanation and analysis on a similar problem is available from MIT https://youtu.be/r4-cftqTcdI
It's certainly interesting, but he's not a hero.
I think the only truly unfixable problem here is "Our founding team doesn't care anymore".

Plenty of companies have made successful pivots, even later stage. It gets harder and harder the larger you grow of course, but it's always possible. Most startup deaths come from a lack of motivation. Everything else is a side effect of that.
If you look at a lot of people’s PHDs, we now teach these things to 1st years. PhDs today do incredible deep work and the edge of science will just go further.
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They are not mutually exclusive statements, because they don't exist in isolation: they are both potentially true and false depending on the context of discussion.
Hm. After waiting several minutes, it does not seem to pick up the info from my profile.

"No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update."

Also might be good to add Mastodon to the list of available social networks.
I think you're right about conservatism evolving. A good example is that not even conservative Evangelical Christians were concerned about abortion before the 1980s -- though conservative Catholics were, I believe.

On the other hand, some shifts in thinking were not dependent on ideology. Is it a myth that at one time Coca-cola had coca in it? Whether or not it did, it was readily available. And back in the 1960s both liberals and conservatives (and their kids!) drove around in cars with no seat belts!
Yeah. The error type requires so much boilerplate that I honestly thought I was stupid and doing something wrong. But nope. Just horrific amounts of boilerplate.

Then people who don’t want to engage with ThisError and Anyhow do bullshit hacks like making everything a string that has to be parsed (and don’t provide functions to parse).

I get why it is that way, but it feels icky.
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One of the reasons it's broadly not true in the US is that, between social security and medicare, people are provided for at some level upon retirement based in no small part on their own contributions. I paid into both those pools so I'm not sure why you think that money (along with other savings) constitutes being "forced to pay for those who waste their money on entertainment and high living."
How can you verify a proof though? Pure math isn't really about computations, and it can be very hard to spot subtle errors in a proof that an LLM might introduce, especially since they seem better at sounding convincing rather than being right.
You can simulate a NAND gate using balls rolling down a specially designed wood board. In theory you could construct a giant wood board with billions and billions of balls that would implement the inference step of an LLM. Do you see these balls rolling down a wood board as a form of interiority/subjective experience? If not, then why do you give it to electric currents in silicon? Just because it's faster?
Interesting set of observations - I have not spent much time with both new releases, but the "vibe check" on o1-mini seems more promising than o1-preview. I hope they will post an update comparing results.
This. If you want education to be cheaper or free, you'll need to give up some amount of choice.

Most states in the US already have public university systems, but that isn't where most of the debt comes from.

Everyone wants to go to Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, etc.
It's frightening to think about the implications of this when generalized toward mainstream topics.
Is there a way of setting an audiogram? That's basically a frequency response curve for your hearing, so it's the basic requirement for acting as a hearing aid. This is a setting which iPhones have for Airpods (as far as I know, you can't set it without an iPhone).
I rent a place with an espresso machine, but the next place I'm moving to doesn't have one. I absolutely love tinkering and open source. I like coffee, but I'm not crazy about perfection. I value the experience of building it and owning a self-built thing highly.

This is perfect for me. There must be dozens of people like me. Dozens!
There's always someone out there claiming Moore's law to be dead. It never is. Chiplets and chip stacking in particular have enabled big increases in transistor count without associated downsides like decreased yield. So long as there is innovation and competition in the semiconductor industry, density / $, which you correctly point out was Moore's original metric, will continue to increase.

The potential for increasing performance and decreasing cost of LLM inference is even higher than Moore's law suggests, as the algorithms improve and are pushed closer to ideal hardware to run them.
I agree with the article's diagnosis: the system is out of control, with no market forces are in place to keep costs in check. It's unsustainable for students to take on this level of debt.

I'm not sure I agree with the solutions though. Making student loan debt dischargeable doesn't make a lot of economic sense. We're talking about 17-year-olds with no income and no collateral. Why would any lender want to be in this business? Who will lend to students if the debt is dischargeable?

The article's solution is to essentially make the school the co-guarantor of the loan, such that the school absorbs part of the financial impact of student default. Ok, but now the school has a direct financial stake in the student's overall finances. Do you really want to have that kind of relationship with your school? Do you want an admissions process that is partially trying to decide if you're financially responsible? Do you want your school pressuring you to choose a more lucrative major? Do you want communications from your school reminding you that it's important to be making good financial decisions? If your school is co-guarantor of your loan, it's their business to make sure you're going to repay on time.

There has to be an element of responsibility that falls to the borrowers themselves. It's true that a 17-year-old does not have the experience to know for themselves how much debt is reasonable, especially when they cannot necessarily predict their future earnings. But there has to be some incentive to borrow less. I don't think it's healthy if student can borrow with abandon, safe in knowing that they can just discharge the debt in a few years if it doesn't work out.

Ideally students would be voting with their feet, and would make it clear to colleges that the cost of tuition is a significant factor in their decision. But I guess prestige and tradition are so powerful that people will want to go to name-brand colleges no matter the cost.
I too live in country with free university, and yet I'm also paying off student loans. Tuition may have been free, but rent and food wasn't.
If we stopped subsidizing the degrees less people would have them, but employers would still need the same number of employees. They would be forced to drop necessary degree requirements or go understaffed.
One thing it's certainly doing better is exploring the search space better e.g.: https://x.com/sg3487/status/1835040593703010714

If you know the contours of the answer and can describe what you are looking for it can quickly find it for you.
It's an example list. It's not exhaustive nor is it exclusive. The hint is in the paragraph preceeding that section:

"Ultra-processed foods are industrial formulations made entirely or mostly from substances extracted from foods (oils, fats, sugar, starch, and proteins), derived from food constituents (hydrogenated fats and modified starch)"

> Haagen Dazs vanilla at Walgreens with only "cream, milk, eggs, sugar and vanilla."

Yes, that's an "ice cream" according to the FDA. The problem is the definition is so loose that any product with 10% milkfat or milkfat solids can be called ice cream. Which means that "ice cream" may or may not be highly processed.

You'll need to examine the ingredients to know. Which is why Ben & Jerry's can't call themselves "all natural" anymore, because, they happily include many more industrial ingredients over your Hagen Dazz.
Looks cool, but how does it actually differ in functionality from a regular mokka pot? Where is the pressure coming from?
Sure, ok. Let's posit that the value they're getting is that they enjoy travel, and wish to do it. My response is the same.
I've researched a lot of people in my lines and I can't recall a father younger than 15 - tho I recently found one married at 14.
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While I agree with the dice concept I believe general health has a lot to with what die you use to make your roll.
How much do you typically pay in a month of tokens?
I guess it's prudent to remember to always use Times New Roman when committing fraud.
With timeouts. You can’t unplug it for an hour and have this happen. But a few seconds is exactly what this is designed for. As another commenter pointed out, your OS could also try to be “helpful”.
That seems like a false claim - that "advantageous" jobs are less likely to care. I'd argue people seeking high-visibility, high-prestige jobs are more at risk from backlash about having made porn. But thanks for playing.
I also attended a well-known institution and this was precisely my experience of university. I stayed home and read the textbook, supplementing with materials online, hardly attending lectures at all.

I had paid for university almost entirely out-of-pocket with earnings from co-operative internships in software; when "real-life" problems started to rear their ugly head, the choice came down to incurring debt or working in a (still to this day) lucrative industry.

What was the point? Why join the rat race of my peers who would rush through the material, only for it to be forgotten amidst the torrent of next semester's information? Does this style of studying actually produce a level of erudition equal to or greater than one who obsessively pores over the literature at their own pace, taking their time to slowly digest and process and crystallize the information in their mind? Or have they just found the most expedient route past the gatekeepers of higher education and diplomas?

I would much rather do exactly what I did in university - read through the material on my own terms and take time to digest it at my own pace, but without the crippling debt. That said, I still very much view education as a privilege, open to those of financial means, who have the opportunity to put aside several years' worth of earnings and time to pursue academic studies, irrespective of practical application. I am reminded of a second-year philosophy professor who took half a lecture to explain how the purpose of higher education is not as a vocational school to bring one wealth and employment (taking shots perhaps at the career focus of the institution's co-operative program), but rather to give one a more fulsome perspective of the world and enrich their intellectual life - not in hopes of some mundane, worldly reward, but for its own sake.

Had I the wealth, I would love to go back to complete a degree, not for practical employment prospects or even prestige, but to (at least attempt to) feel intellectually whole. A merit based system of standardized testing that awards degrees based on examination performance would be right up my alley, for I could prepare myself to meet its demands at my own pace and according to my terms; I consider the hacker spirit of measuring the quality of a software solution not according to the attributes of its author (wealth, status, degree, or otherwise), but on whether or not the code works correctly and efficiently adjacent to this sentiment. For everyone else, there's debt - and I can't justify making that decision.
How can personal character weakness be a thing that varies by century? That doesn't make sense. If we have less willpower than our great-grandparents, whatever that means, it has a cause outside ourselves.

You can maybe blame individual differences in outcomes on personal character weakness, if you really want to, but when millions on millions of people fall to the same character weaknesses that very similar people didn't fall for before, then "personal" is exactly what it isn't.
How does a model "know full well" that it output a fake ISBN?

It's been trained that sources look like plausible-titles + random numbers.

It's been trained that when challenged it should say "oh sorry I can't do this."

Are those things actually distinct?
This kind of "fact" always raises alarm bells for me. Did you hear it because it's true, or because it sounds compelling while being impractical to disprove?
Related: you can get at most once delivery or at least once delivery; you cannot get exactly once delivery. If I had a dollar for every junior who thought that a lack of exactly once delivery guarantees was a bug...
Isn't it based on ML family? I mean, I see Rust error handling heavy inspired in monads used in languages like OCaml and Haskell.

Is Rust doing something different?
apache -> nginx. Python versions. postgres. All fine.
I cannot find the artist, between queries for World of Warcraft and a footballer.

I thought of my brother. When we had one computer, we fought over it. With two, distant. Only natural, since age partitioned our social circles. Even so, what can people have in common when one keeps starting over and the other levels up?

I never realized two could set up next to one another. A fellow hacker online, and in the real. Ahead and above, miles of cabling. Networks for projects launched in the ocean of bits.

Oh, right--so, semiotics. I could not find the artist, so I took a screenshot of the page.
I respectfully disagree.

This torch isn't passed, it's taken. Shortly after some off-label use of quicklime.
Reasons I can think:

* Harm to the body

* Harm to the brain

* It can be expensive (sometimes disastrously)

* Opportunity costs, both of time and money

* Drugs alter your behavior, sometimes not in polite ways

* Addiction make you dependent on something outside of yourself, a literal substance.

* Many drugs leave you unable to work or operate heavy machinery (cars)

* Some addicts prioritize their drug over anything, even family or friends.

* Some addicts with steal to fund their habit.

Some people make it work, there are high functioning stoners out there, there are people who need painkillers for chronic pain. These people don’t let a drug affect their lives as negatively as the alternative.

But being a dependent addict isn’t virtuous.
Think of people who started a Computer Science degree in 2019 or 2020 (yes, individuals can maximize their chances of getting a software development job after university, but as a collective many of them will have to do something else for the foreseeable future).
> forced dozens of people not living in UK to pay big money to defend themselves.

At the risk of not being able to enjoy castles and blood pudding on vacation, couldn't they just ignore the suit?