skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the theory at the start of the post is well written and almost there, but it needs to more substantively engage with the relevant philosophical concepts. As a result, the title "efficiency is bad!" is incorrect in my opinion.

That said, the post is still valuable and would work much better with a framing closer to "some analogies between statistical analysis and public policy" -- the rest of the post (all the political recommendations) is honestly really solid, even if I don't see a lot of the particular examples' connections to their analogous ML approaches. The creativity is impressive, and overall I think it's a productive, thought-provoking exercise. Thanks for posting OP!

Now, for any fellow pendants, the philosophical critique:

more efficient centralized tracking of student progress by standardized testing

The bad part of standardized testing isn't at all that it's "too efficient", it's that it doesn't measure all the educational outcomes we desire. That's just regular ol' flawed metrics.

This same counterintuitive relationship between efficiency and outcome occurs in machine learning, where it is called overfitting.

Again, overfitting isn't an example of a model being too efficacious, much less too efficient (which IMO is, in technical contexts, a measure of speed/resource consumption and not related to accuracy in the first place).

Overfitting on your dataset just means that you built a (virtual/non-actual) model that doesn't express the underlying (virtual) pattern you're concerned with, but rather a subset of that pattern. That's not even a problem necessarily, if you know what subset you've expressed -- words like "under"/"too close" come into play when it's a random or otherwise meaningless subset.

I'm not allowed to train my model on the test dataset though (that would be cheating), so I instead train the model on a proxy dataset, called the training dataset.

I'd say that both the training and test sets are actualized expressions of your targeted virtual pattern. 100% training accuracy means little if it breaks in online, real-world use.

When a measure becomes a target, if it is effectively optimized, then the thing it is designed to measure will grow worse.

I'd take this as proof that what we're really talking about here is efficacy, not efficiency. This is cute and much better than the opening/title, but my critique above tells me that this is just a wordy rephrasing of "different things have differences". That certainly backs up their claim that the proposed law is universal, at least!
For those unfamiliar with both:

Brave New World features islands which are limited domains in which free-thinking is both permitted and encouraged, as Mustapha Mond explains to Bernard and Helmholtz late in the novel. In part these serve as centres of creativity which the World State needs.

Island is a paradise world which largely stands, as you note, as a counterpart to BNW. Though all does not go well.

Here and now boys! Here and now ...
This is a case where you’re seeing the word “macro” and reacting to that when it’s really not warranted. It’s not using macros for complicated code generation, just selecting from a couple alternatives based on one or two possible compiler arguments.

I’m also old enough to remember CFront and this isn’t that.
Summarizing an article isn’t the same thing as disagreeing or calling anyone names. The author of the blog post notes his employment more than once and goes on to agree with his employer.
Important subject, so-so blog post. This idea deserves further development.

The author seems to be discussing optimizing for the wrong metric. That's not a problem of too much efficiency.

Excessive efficiency problems are different. They come from optimizing real output at the expense of robustness. Just-in-time systems have that flaw. Price/performance is great until there's some disruption, then it's terrible for a while.

Overfitting is another real problem, but again, a different one. Overfitting is when you try to model something with too complex a model and and up just encoding the original data in the model, which then has no predictive power.

Optimizing for the wrong metric, and what do about it, is an important issue. This note calls out that problem but then goes off in another direction.
> there is not much leftover to help boys do anything.

As someone that competed in FRC for all of high school, I don't understand how an informed person could come to this conclusion unless they are trolling. STEM classes and extracurriculars are veritable boys clubs - go look up the team composites for your school's local robotics club and count the ratio yourself. It's a blowout, and while marketing STEM to young women can end up ham-fisted (as it so often is for young men), motivating girls isn't taking any opportunities away from boys.

You are either misinformed or arguing in bad faith. Boys that want to participate in STEM aren't any more impeded today than they were prior.
sioyek. its featureset is specifically focused on digesting textbook/academic articles/technical papers.
You're never too weak to be an enemy. You may be too weak to be a threat, but that's not the same as not being an enemy.
A lot of people don't have a choice.

Just last(?) year I finally switched to an ISP whose equipment supports IPv6. But I still can't actually use it since my wifi router's support for IPv6 somehow fails to talk to the ISP equipment.

Hm, there's a firmware upgrade ... (installs it) well, re-trying all those options again, it looks like one of them lets it finally work now. The others (including the default) still fail with arcane errors though!
I have heard this same criticism leveled at global supply chains as of the supply shocks of the early 2020s such as COVID, Ever Given, etc.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/27/24256361/wordpress-wp-eng...
Show HN: OSS Collection of Company Logos in SVG and PNG
No names were called.
What's the next hype after "AI". And what is next after that. Maybe we can just skip it all.
Sounds like Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
> Google could put a tree-like organization of docs on the sidebar, make the search a bit comfier, and make draggable blocks, and get 80% of the Notion users.

Technically they can. Organisationally they can't.

> I guess someone could build a browser extension that adds that UI to Google Docs, or eventually I'll go and do it myself.

You won't though, or at best you'll make a rough-and-ready version that works for you. Polished stuff doesn't get created without a business model, and you can't make a business model out of a browser extension that messes with a third-party site, not these days anyway.
> There is one party that benefits from people with foreign mindsets participating in American elections.

It's well on display in the article too with the multiple examples of recent immigrants bemoaning [price] inflation, but then just assuming this is the immediate fault of the current administration and going on to say they're going to vote for former party that was actually responsible for creating much of the core [monetary] inflation that is driving current price inflation. Some basic education in economics and more on separation of powers (aka bureaucracy) could do wonders.
Show HN: FlowG – A KISS low-code log processing software
Incompetence does not require intent.
Corollary: "If you do not measure me, I will not behave"
If you took a different boat separate from the normal ferry, intending to leave right away but now stuck unable to use it, I would say the next ferry is rescuing you.
This is the source I've used to collect information: https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f...
Fair enough. Didn’t look at their profiles. Was generally pushing back on the notion that the ISS is an orbiting beach.
> [..] it signifies the level of performance that uses the least amount of inputs to achieve the highest amount of output. It often specifically comprises the capability of a specific application of effort to produce a specific outcome with a minimum amount or quantity of waste, expense, or unnecessary effort.

to quote wikipedia quoting Sickles, R., and Zelenyuk, V. (2019). "Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency: Theory and Practice". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Offering that criticism without clarifying what efficiency measures in your opinion doesn't allow us to follow your viewpoint without us just taking your word for it. Needless to say this isn't considered good style in a discourse.

A 100 percent "efficient" system can be one that is overfitted to certain metrics and it is the typical death sin of management to confuse metrics with reality and miss that their great numbers hollow out anything that makes a system work well and reliable, because guess what: having 1 critical employee and working them like a mule is good when things work, but bad when they suddenly don't, because that second employee you thought was fat that could be cut, was your fallback. In that case your metric of efficiency was slightly increased while another, less easy to quantify (and therefore often non-existent) metric of resilience went down significantly. This means if your goal was having an efficient and resilient company, but your metric only measured the former, guess what.

Same is true in engineering, where you can optimize your system so much to fit your expected problem, one slight deviation within the problem now stops the whole thing from working alltogether (F1 racing car when part of the track turns out to be a sucky dirtroad). Highly optimized systems are highly optimized towards one particular situation and thus less flexible.

Or in biology, where everybody ought to know that mixed woods are more resilient to storms and other pests, while having great side effects for the health of the ecosystem, yet in pure economic terms it is easy to convince yourself the added effíciency of a monoculture is worth it economically, because all you look at is revenue, while ignoring multiple other metrics that impact reality.
We realize now or at least in recent past, the value of true nutrient-rich food or a balanced diet.

Carbohydrate abundance was likely important in moving people out of hunger and poverty but excesses of the same kind of diet are a reflection on obesity.

My guess is that calorie-per-gram-per-dollar of carbohydrates is still lower than fat and protein.
> The primary driver of economic health in the US is frequency of domestic spending. It goes in self fulfilling cycles in that when the economy is healthy people make more money and thus can spend money more frequently.

Sure, but money doesn't grow on trees.

If you're paying UBI, that money comes from somewhere - tax, debt, etc. That has a negative economic impact in and of itself.

There is no free lunch.
They have no value-add for developer-only documentation that exists in Git. Most of the value of Notion comes from it being usable by non-developers (but still tolerable for developers).
Musk is pretty clear about the fact that Shotwell handles the 'boring' operational stuff, so, F9, FH, and very likely includes Starlink now. These have customer-related constraints, which Gwynne is much better at handling.

Elon does decision making for the R&D programs, i.e. Starship, where his style works better.
If you sync your notes to icloud you can bulk export to flat text files via https://privacy.apple.com/ > "request a copy of your data"

I've never experienced data loss due to icloud sync YMMV
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> Besides, if the chicks were sellable to the farmer, why the hell wouldn't the farmer be able to sell them?

I think maybe the original poster is making some sort of additional assumption that the farmer must be selling chickens as meat at the market and a chick wouldn't be sold for that purpose until it's a mature chicken?

(Of course depending on how you interpret the question a chick is a chicken (species) and there's nothing inherently preventing reselling the chicks so I don't really understand why OP thinks the ai answer is clearly objectively wrong. It seems more like a matter of interpretation.)
YouTube removes many hit songs due to SESAC copyright dispute
What Is the Medium Is the Message?
Sorry, what?

Is this hyperbole? That is tremendously disturbing if not. Even if it was presented for illustrative purposes, that is in extremely poor taste.
Since the different sizes are ultimately a platform thing, they need to support multiple variants on those platforms, or limit their support to a new enough base set of APIs that they can rely on 64-bit types being there.
> Can you magically return/break out of iterator functions like you can in Ruby?

Sure can.

$ cat break.cr
(1..).each do |x|
break if x > 2
puts x
end

$ crystal break.cr
1
2

$

The answer to Crystal questions that end in "like you can in Ruby" is usually "yes." The language really is just Ruby with static typing, warts and all. Most random snippets of Ruby will run just fine when compiled as Crystal.
Yeah. Either buy their printers and throw them away when the sample ink runs out (because, while you are correct about HP, you are also a terrible person that hates the earth), or just buy from a different brand.

Having said that, we have an old Samsung laser printer, and the Samsung printer business was bought by HP since we got it. Recently, HP started shorting me on toner in the replacement cartridges (they cartridges go streaky with 25%+ “toner remaining”).

Switching to third-party ones that bypasses HP’s authenticity checks was clearly the right move (they’re higher quality, cheaper, and also, screw hp).
Also did FRC in HS. It's much more complicated than that. The high achieving boys did FRC and were wildly over-represented, but for every one of them there were five or six boys who just kind of...existed.

We have a real problem here but nobody wants to acknowledge it because the optics given the past couple decades of social progress are uncomfortable. There's nothing wrong with wanting to provide opportunities specifically for under performing young men even if it feels icky. We just need to be intelligent about it.
I highly recommend trying out sioyek (as a zathura replacement). it has a bunch of features that make it even more suitable for consuming technical papers/textbooks - such as a significantly faster search & index, an auto generated table of contents, highlights, and portals.
> Optimising for the wrong metric, and what do about it, is an important issue.

All metrics are wrong, some metrics are useful. Finding the useful one and then recognising when it ceases to become useful is the hard problem.
No astronaut has died on ISS in 30 years. Claiming they are in significant danger simply isn't accurate. Saying 'the default state in space is dead' when historically basically nobody has died in space.
Stop. Those guidelines don't exist for you to personally interpret and weaponize against someone who is summarizing a blog post.
Yes, historically religion provided not only a means of understanding one's place in the social system in which one lived but also provided a sense of self in a much longer historical aspect. Successful religions existed on the order of centuries, if not millennia, and set the foundation for one's understanding of self, membership within the group, morality and ethics, legal frameworks, and an explanatory model for the universe in which all these operated.. all of which had outlasted rulers, systems of government, nations, etc.
But access to the autoupdates infrastructure isn't part of that deal.

If wp-engine want to change customers for access to that it's not unreasonable to expect a contribution.
Only in America: Cold Winters Theory, race, IQ and well-being (2014)
>This is a threshold met by a torn parachute on a jet.

Not when it was the preferred option over sticking seats in Crew-8, right up until Starliner's software changes for uncrewed return started.
You keep using the term "professional" but all your posts so far are anything but. There is no information, no specifics and in short nothing of any value whatsoever which i keep calling out. And yet you keep responding with even more empty verbiage.

The book authors i have quoted are established academics/intellectuals/investigative journalists (i.e. the people who study “strategy/tactics/politics/psychology/warfare/operant conditioning etc” for a living) which you don't want to seem to accept thus reflecting quite badly on your grasp/understanding of the subject domain (assuming there is anything at all there in the first place). I can do no more than suggest education followed by introspection as a possible cure.
Any attempt to open up building restrictions needs to ensure it doesn't just turn itself into an air drop for real estate investors, otherwise it's unlikely to benefit those most in need of housing.
Lol how many times has AAD or Entra been effectively all-but fully compromised? Lol can you use an ed25519 key to deploy an Azure machine? (No)

Microsoft's entire org structure and mode of operation leads to these same results over and over across windows and azure.
Bangladesh, but I suspect that the same could be said for most Asian countries.

The west in general, and America in particular, is the product of mindsets and modes of thinking that were centuries in the making and are different from the dominant ways of thinking elsewhere in the world. Your average westerner can’t articulate these ideas precisely, but has an intuitive understanding of them because they were raised in western society.

You can’t take an adult raised somewhere like Bangladesh and expect them to think like an American just because they’ve lived here for 7-10 years and been naturalized.
Is it a rescue? Maybe. Is it a rescue mission? No. It's a normal crew rotation mission that has happened to (arguably) rescue a few people on the way. The mission itself is ordinary, expected, and planned prior to any crisis.

Arguable because everyone has a way back already, the modification to the crew rotation mission just provides a somewhat safer way back.

Edit: And the distinction here matters. A rescue mission would be an expensive unexpected endeavour. The regular crew rotation is an expected operating cost. The modification to the details of the plan for the crew rotation haven't significantly impacted the mission goals - i.e. for the same cost there are still the same number of fresh qualified crew members up there for the same duration, just a slightly different set of people.
I don't get the "note data is stored in a proprietary format" hate. There's a dozen different open source tools you can find which will one-shot export your Apple Notes to markdown, when you want to leave the ecosystem. Its not like Notion where the exports are messy, non-bulk, and destructive; they're proprietary, but parseable and sitting in a file on your MacOS filesystem.

I've never had iCloud Sync display any weird behavior in Apple Notes, and I've got thousands in there. I have, absolutely, seen Obsidian Sync delete notes I did not delete, and fail to upload notes; both of these were generally remediable via their recycle bin, but still very concerning.

All of these complaints are of the nature of "I don't actually have anything valuable to write down so I'd rather worry about the nature of the tool than what I'm writing". And, to be clear, I think this is why Notion is so popular, just for different reasons than your's; it looks great, and makes you feel productive because you've got amazing cross-referenced tables and hyperbacklinks and h1h2h3s and then wait where's the content?
Suggesting text-size-adjust for CSS reset (2022)
No? Because if you’re not in danger, you’re not being rescued. You’re just being transported.

If I miss the last train across the bay, my uber isn’t rescuing me. I can always stay up to 5am by making a shady deal at the endup.

But yeah, this is a black eye on boeing and definitely something that nobody wants to have to deal with.
As some additional bit of data to interpret the way you will... I just found a Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fol35p/wordpres...) thread that found several additional Trademark filings by the WordPress Foundation in July for the terms "Managed WordPress" and "Hosted WordPress".
Your Cynicism Isn't Helping Anybody
I mean, Cuba has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the US (see https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/), which is not a bad signal for "US enemy."

I'm actually surprised it's listed as January 12, 2021... I'm guessing Obama delisted it and then Trump relisted it right before leaving office?
Thanks for the reminder. Will do.
Odd, I didn't get a paywall. I guess they're being sneaky with it.
So... do we train them to work factory jobs in Mexico? I just don't understand what an equitable solution looks like, if you perceive this as a specifically-male epidemic. It seems infinitely more likely to me that people are self-selecting for what they are capable of, or hindered by things like a rough family life or low-paying service job. You're not going to create special opportunities for these people that aren't grossly unfair or outright unhelpful.

I agree that there is an intelligent solution here, but I don't understand why it necessitates scale-tipping because some men are less successful than others. There will always be a 75th percentile.
does anyone know of a solution for websites that hijack your ctrl-LMB (which is supposed to open the link you just clicked in a new tab)?