skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used to joke that our student caving club was really very safe, having only had seven fatalities over the 50 years it had been operating.

In reality we had a lot of expertise and took safety very seriously. The club had always done a lot of exploration of new caves and other intrinsically tricky activities, and six of the seven deaths were in the same accident (the Mossdale Caverns tragedy of 1967). Our parties of freshers were in very limited danger being trained in well-known and well-explored caves. But still.
The final photo in the article appears to show pretty good forward visiblity. Seems fine?
The reality, which politicians will never admit out loud, is there is a population of K-12 students who 1. will never become educated to any measurable standard, and 2. disrupt the education of everyone around them. You could give unlimited funding to a school, and these kids will not learn. You could assign a huge staff of dedicated top-educators to each class, and it won't make a difference. You could isolate them from everyone else, each individual into a dedicated classroom with that staff of education PhDs all to themselves, and they will not learn. They will either graduate high school not meeting the standard, or they will drop out before they graduate. You can't force education on someone whose parents, peers, and surrounding environment don't value it.
But that's my argument exactly. Even if kids with Ivy League degrees disproportionately have successful careers, lots of non-Ivy League kids also go on to have very successful careers. One possible explanation is that the Ivy Leagues are just really good at spotting talent early and not that they are actually responsible for building the talent. Going to an Ivy League school might be an indication that you are smart, hardworking and driven. However, if you were not already that way, the school is not going to transform you into someone who is.
AI Agents. Is it getting traction already or is it 2025 trend?
> an omnipotent ... could

The Architect in Leibniz is not omnipotent, and can only make the best out of what is possible.
As a product designer for a finance app, I can tell you a few things we've discovered during our research:

- Most users are satisfied with an "at a glance" view of
various things (e.g., their credit score) coupled with a low desire to "go a level deeper" (for credit score, this means low-to-no interest in seeing open credit lines, which factors affect their VantageScore 4.0 score, and so on)

- List of recurring transactions (read: subscriptions) is a huge value add

- Spending by category and category overview is useful when speaking with a financial consultant

This is a sample of "what users want," more or less. I can also state, empirically (with our user base, at least), that Joe Public does not care about goals or goal-setting, and rarely thinks in those terms.
> if Russia itself suffers for long enough.

Do you want Russia, a geopolitical entity, to somehow measurably suffer, or do you want an end to pointless bloodshed? Are you willing to put your own life to this lofty goal?

> placating an invading army is the best way to peace.

If you're not capable of repelling the invasion effectively, then yes, this is absolutely true. How could it not be? There's no reason that you can't have peace today and sue for justice tomorrow.
This is tremendously fun, thank you!

Your solution seems to assume that all cuts need to be directed towards a single point, but doesn't it seem likely that an even more optimal solution increases h (depth of cut target) as the cuts move outward? Or did I miss a reason that's not the case?
Patents and the Presumption of Conformity
As one of these kids, in Massachusetts, I had my math classes at a desk in the hallway by myself starting in 3rd grade, where I was just given an algebra textbook to read. I reviled the process of math lessons where the teachers just asked me to show the other 3 kids in my quad of desks how to do the lessons... I couldn't understand why they could not just grasp the concepts. It was frustrating for everyone involved, and the solution was worse. By the time I made it to high school I'd learned that: I could read the book and nail the tests, so I never did homework. why bother? Unfortunately they grade homework, I used to skip class because I already knew the material and I didn't want to answer for not doing the homework. I never used the muscles I needed to use for learning, and I was so over it I had trouble participating in the classes that were actually great and I enjoyed. There were AP classes in high school that I never qualified for, and I barely graduated, had to go to summer school every year, so I joined the marines which is probably the only reason the school moved things around so I could graduate.

This was a failure at every level of the education system for me, at a school system with 9/10 ratings. I needed engagement as a young student, I needed to learn and be challenged so I _had_ to study for things, I _had_ to do homework to learn... and by the time the structures where there that supported that I was lost already. There were allusions to a better future, I tested in the 98-99 percentile on the Iowa tests (except in English and spelling, I'm just middle of the bell curve there) so I was fed in Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth in 6th grade, but that never was anything more than a weekend at MIT learning about some truly amazing science, but it didn't seem to go anywhere. I'm sure my own discipline problems, apparent from a very young age, didn't help. It was just too easy to understand that the authorities around me where full of it, poke holes in their logic, see what I could get away with, etc... all because I was bored.

You've got quite a task in front of you, raising your son. I didn't find an outlet for this "gift" until I was in college and started writing code for real... self learning is everywhere in computer science and the problems are vast and difficult, there is always something new to learn and I do it voraciously. The other thing that helped immensely was learning to race motorcycles, it's a task that mandates preparation and planning, diligent practice, getting up when you're knocked down, and the amount of brain power you need to devote to it quiets down the inner loop I have that is always going. When I'm on track everything is quiet.

I hope you've got the resources to send your child to private school, I always imagined that path would have had a different outcome for me. My kids are in private (I'm also in CA) now and I've heard parents with older kids (even in school systems like Kentfield) saying the same thing you're saying about treatment of gifted kids.
The idea is great and necessary. It doesn't seem super hard to replicate but why would anyone build their own solution if something already exists and works fine.

The thing that got me thinking... how do you make sure an LLM won't eventually hallucinate approval -- or outright lie about it, to get going?

Anyway, congrats, this sounds really cool.
If you're wondering just how much to cringe, here's a sample.
https://youtu.be/48Y-pCffh10
This isn't an economically driven platform that is directly revenue driven like ads, movies, news articles, podcasts, etc for one.

go to reddit or even linkedin which is revenue driven and it is a sea of bots parroting the same tired points with comments that are 1 or 2 words different from other comments directly above them.

My entire point is that human production is not going to zero, but is moving to a minority.

I still go to the theatre and listen to live orchestras but I would be a fool to say that other mass media types didn't replace the cultural role of entertainment that those forms once had.
It's easy to see African chattel slavery in the US as worse than the Barbary practices: European slaves of Barbary owners could be and often were ransomed out of slavery by their societies back home, but West Africans were rarely in a position to do that for abducted Africans in the US. Secondly, African chattel slavery in the US was bound up with rigid notions of blood purity, which can seem bizarre to us today, that severely hobbled the opportunities of former slaves and their descendents even after manumission.
I need to plug “why evil exists” [1] as it was where I first learned about Leibniz and how he framed the renascentist period as one where men got closer to God through progress, until shook by the Lisbon earthquake. It is in audiobook form and starts with Gilgamesh all the way to pope Benedict XVI.

[1] https://books.google.pl/books/about/Why_Evil_Exists.html?id=...
I'm pretty sure the enemy of vehicle longevity isn't design, but parts supply.

The crown victoria could have kept on supplying police departments for another decade or two if ford didn't discontinue it.
I agree. I think there is a third thing: processed foods are more likely to contain additives like colorants, emulsifiers, preservatives and stabilisers that humans have been eating for decades rather than centuries so we don’t have the same body of knowledge about them or their health-related impacts.
After driving a new Mercedes Vito (I can't describe how insane the controls of this vehicle are, but it has capacitive-touch buttons that you have to swipe to change the stereo volume ON THE STEERING WHEEL), I long for controls that look like this:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/11/20/multimedia/00xp-m...
Tons of innocent people take plea deals.

Courts can and do get convictions based on bullshit. "The cop says you did it" convinces loads of juries. There's also often further incentive to take a deal if you are stuck in jail or are otherwise spending shitloads of time and money on a defense.
The problem with changing the terminology is that people/kids are clever enough to turn it to a diss regardless. It's only a matter of time.

Anyways, I don't see the big deal. I was too dumb to make it into gifted classes in school but it's not like that stopped me from going to college. I just went to a lesser college. Still make good money
Yeah but why are you consuming human-generated garbage comments on HN instead of just getting infinite comments from ChatGPT?

Pontificate on this, then return.
Yes, this seems possible. I only wonder if it is too fragile to be self perpetuating. But we're here after all, and this place used to be just a wet rock.
I didn't read the paper in depth, just skimmed it, but it seems like their assumption is that the astronauts will be eating some sort of microbe slurry; so I think that the cost includes only that, not using microbes to feed higher-order life or growing plants.
Uber's Gig Workers Now Include Coders for Hire on AI Projects
The space version of this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SeaBlock
Reminds me of a paper from Scandanavia- cooking bread generates acrylamides which are unhealthy.

If you read carefully enough you can see there is no real health effect in practical cases, especially when you consider how core breadlike foods are around the world. But it still generated a lot of press and literature, see for example https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8073677/
Really? I often hear the opposite, kids I knew who got a bachelors degree at 17 say well now what? What is the rush!
"What happens next is that they buy and sell government bonds in the open market."

This describes how central banks operated in the U.S. before 2008 and in Canada before the 1990s. The Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada both set a target for the overnight interest rate, and then they hit that target by doing open market purchases (or sales) of bonds, effectively adding funds to (or draining funds away from) the overnight lending market. By changing the quantity of funds, they influenced the interest rate.

What changed is that both central banks introduced interest payments on balances that banks hold at the central bank. Previously, these balances earned 0%. With this new tool, they could directly set the overnight interest rate by adjusting the rate paid on these reserves, eliminating the need for regular open market operations.
get more emphatic names, something better than "human_as_a_tool".
I think there's some fudging of the terms here. When the article is talking about "bread" being healthy- well, there's bread, and then there's bread. Supermarket bread (sliced, packaged) typically lists a couple dozen ingredients. Ordinary bread... you know, bread-bread, like the one some of us bake at home, is made of: flour, water, salt, leavening agent (yeast or sourdough for those as have the patience). Bread-bread is probably healthy especially if you make it with (expensive) wholemeal flours. But supermarket bread? I don't think so.

Same goes for breakfast cereals and breakfast cereals. e.g. there's oatmeal and weetabix that are basically just a bit of fiber, not the healthiest thing you can eat but won't kill you. And then there's ... well my favourite poison is Kellog's Smacks and it's basically just as nourishing as eating cardboard with sugar on top.
I even see some video games (say Dome Keeper) that periodically go out to lunch even on a top of the line gaming PC and understand that kind of game is often written in C# which has a garbage collector. Thing is I remember playing games on the much weaker PS Vita that were written in C# but I never remember pausing like that.

VR games are now the frontier of gaming (in terms of the industry outdoing itself) and there you're approaching hard real time requirements because it is so awful to get seasick. I appreciate it.
Why is it unfathomable?
Probably personal taste, but I still like Hubble's image more, really gives the disk some depth, as opposed to the flatter MIRI image.
oof, that title

… I love it!

And… I am looking forward to reading the paper!
You can read my comment history. It's right out in the open. Why would guidelines say not to look at it when it's right on the profile? Lol

He got on the train in ND. A drug task force illegally searched his bags and arrested him in Portland. I believe it was all state charges from a state agency working with the DEA. I'd have to ask because I don't remember the details. This was like a decade ago
Unsong has a pretty novel take on it.
I draw my line based on units of consciousness that I half-arbitrarily assign to different animals. I think most people do so, the assignment seems to be a sort of emergent property of the local society within which any individual is brought up.
I guess the key is to not just accelerate the kid into a higher grade full of "general population" students. He'd just be surrounded by a different group of mediocre (just older) kids. I think really smart kids need to be surrounded by other really smart kids or their social circle will constantly drag them back to the mean.
There's a rather famous court case about civil asset forfeiture involving somebody who had just closed on their house for cash. Cops stopped the car, decided the money was dirty, stole it.

Carrying a ton of cash is unusual, but does really happen.
I think comets are significantly harder to get a hold of; they're in long-period orbits, and changing their trajectories - or even catching up with them! - is significantly harder than catching something that circles the sun inside the orbit of Jupiter.
thanks for the heads up, I dont see any errors on my side, do you mind sending me any debugging information such as screenshots or URLs that are erroring out. I am worried cloudflare is regionally blocking people but I need some details.
When I was going through school the gifted program allowed for kids to skip 1 grade in math and 1 grade in science. I think this was reasonable and didn’t lead to much bullying. Also helped that we had a large gifted program. A math class might’ve been 20-30% gifted kids at any given time.
I switched to improvised pods for this reason. Podcasts are for doing the dishes and mowing the lawn and playing factorio. I don't turn on anything with 'meat' unless I have a long car trip ahead of me. I just am not able to sit still and only listen without feeling like I could be doing something else, and when I'm doing something else I'm gonna start tuning out eventually.

Hey Riddle Riddle, Hello from the magic tavern, Artists on artists on artists on artists are my picks for now.
We also have been developing six kinds of reconfigurable processors (Morphle engine and SiliconSqueak) for our Wafer Scale Integration since 2008. A little information and slides can be found in the four hour talk [1] and in our papers since 2008 [2,3].

Our runtime reconfigurability comes from adaptive [5] load-balancing [1] JIT compilers (at runtime) that reconfigure hardware or generate hardware blocks at runtime with Morphle Logic [4].

We have 8-bit slices that you can combine per [block of] instructions into teams to make CPU or GPU or DSP or TPU cores and fine grained logic cells to make FPGA fabric and interconnect networks.

Like Transmeta and Apple Silicon our processors also are optimized to emulate bytecode, Intel, ARM and RISC-V instructions. With large teams of 80 8-bit slices we can emulate Intel instruction blocks several times faster than high-end Xeon or AMD ZEN 4 cores can run them.

[1] https://vimeo.com/731037615

[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mWS92YsAAAAJ&hl=en...

[3] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6wa49gkAAAAJ&hl=en

[4] https://github.com/fiberhood/MorphleLogic/blob/main/README_M...

[5] https://youtu.be/CfYnzVxdwZE
> And, get this, writing one FORCES YOU to fully understand every possible state and edge case of the problem you're solving.

lol? ;P Here is just one example of a bug I know of that should exist, today, in Chrome, because, in fact, state machines are extremely hard to reason about. (I have filed previous ones that were fixed, and tons of bugs in Chrome in general are in this category. This one is top of mind as they haven't even acknowledged it yet.)

https://issues.webrtc.org/issues/339131894

Now, you are going to tell me "they are doing state machines wrong as they don't have a way to discriminate on what the state even is in the first place"... and yet, that's the problem: the term "state machine" does not, in fact, mean a very narrow piece of inherent algorithmic limitations any more than "regular expressions" implies the language is regular, as this is an engineering term, not a computer science one.

In the field, state machines just kind of happen by accident when a ton of engineers all try to add their own little corner of logic, and the state is then implied by the cross-product of the state of every variable manipulated by the edges of the machine. This results in a complete mess where, in fact, it is essentially impossible to prove that you've provided edges for every possible state. Nothing in the type system saves you from this, as the state isn't reified.

This contrasts with approaches to these problems that involve more structured concurrency, wherein the compiler is able to not only deduce but even some concept of what kinds of edges are possible and where the state lies. (This, FWIW, is a reason why async/await is so much preferable to the kind of callback hell that people would find themselves in, maintaining a massive implicit state machine and hoping they covered all the cases.)
>If you're writing a CMS/wiki software, it's gonna be pretty straightforward to do.

>If you're working with transactions, trades, contracts etc, it's not.

why not?

what's the difference between those two categories, mentioned in your last two sentences, as far as this argument about illegal states is concerned? not clear to me.

in fact, just a few weeks ago, I saw a video by yaron minsky of jane street about ocaml. the title of it might have been "why ocaml". I know he has a video by that name. just not sure whether that was the one I saw or another one by him.

it can easily be googled.

in that video, he talks a fair amount about how jane street uses ocaml, including on how they use it (including defining types for kinds of business domain data, iirc) to make "invalid states unrepresentable" - in fact, iirc, that was the title of one of the slides of his talk.

i remember that very well because i was kind of impressed by the idea, although i have not checked it out practically myself yet.

but I don't know much about this area, so I'm not saying that either he or you are wrong. just asking for clarification / explanation.

also, trades and transactions seems to be the main area that jane street works in.

edited for spelling/wrong autocorrect:

s/one I show/one I saw/
> Actually carbs are necessary

This is NOT true. Carbs are ONE form of energy that the body can use for fuel. Fat is the other one.

> people with diabetes tried to live on a completely carb free diet - but you cannot do that for long.

I guess you're saying I don't exist?

For about 10 years, I haven't eaten carbs beyond the VERY rare cookie or two every other month and the insignificant trace amounts in above-ground leafy vegetables and the like. I'm not alone, there are lots of us who eat this way. Whole online communities, full of people who each have their own reasons. I did it for general health and fitness reasons, others do it to reverse their type 2 diabetes.

In the 1960s, a man named Angus Barbieri fasted for over a year under medical supervision and suffered no ill effects afterward. Unless you want to believe the whole thing is a hoax and he was secretly snarfing donuts on the sly, he is proof that humans don't NEED carbs.

The planet used to be dotted with cultures that eat animals and fish primarily or exclusively for hundreds to thousands of years. The Inuit, Mongolian nomads, tribes in the Amazon, etc. They mostly don't exist anymore. (But not because of their diet.)

It's not a big group, but there ARE modern people who live on a carnivore diet for years on end and don't appear to suffer any notable long-term effects. Generally these are either extreme keto/paleo adherents, bodybuilders, or those who are trying to manage a medical condition.
Costa Rica is not in the EU and we were discriminated as well.
Obviously some plants die and others don’t in harvesting.

Mostly the “even broccoli screams when you rip it from the ground” is a joke more often than actual trolling.

I think the valid moral argument is that as a result of modern agricultural practices substantially more animals are killed than animal husbandry. Usually the counter-arguments involves moving the moral goal posts by valuing farm animals over “pests and insects”, or blaming the modern agricultural practices and suggesting organic farming cures those harms.
> In so doing, he anticipated the evolution of structuralism, post-structuralism, and critical theory.

That is a bit of a word salad. How about just calling spade a spade. This is an account of hypocricy of america's freedom mythology
Wait, ssh has a config file?! And I should learn about it!?

lol, you’re an ass
Thats irrelevant to what I am saying. You want all or nothing. I am saying AI will dominate in the majority and human generated content will still survive in the minority.

It doesn't matter what luddites like myself think. It matters what is economically viable to the masses.

Perhaps with such excellent examples of human thought such as your comment eventually ChatGPT comments won't seem so bad.