skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Society did precisely what you say it didn’t do. As polluting industries arose, society decided what to do about it. For a long time it was nothing. Then some restrictions, generally increasing over time. The fact that restrictions were enacted and changed means there was a deliberate choice here. We looked at industrialists profiting from mass poisoning, and our response was, could you tone it down a bit? And not, killing innocent people for money is wrong, so you’re going to prison.

There are plenty of circumstance where it’s legal to release lead into places where it would affect people. Sometimes outright not forbidden, and sometimes technically illegal but barely enforced. Examples of the former include leaded gasoline (still legal for some application) and coal power plants (they exhaust all sorts of nasty stuff, including lead). For the latter, consider Flint Michigan, or you can find random cases such as Smith Foundry where they exceeded limits for years and consequences were light.

I recognize that it’s a lot easier to draw a causal line for a gun than for pollution. I don’t think it should matter aside from the increased difficulty of proving guilt. I recognize that it does influence perceptions, but I don’t think it should.

Interesting thing about living longer, healthier lives than ever before. In the US, that leveled off about 15 years ago. Lately it has started getting worse. Health care costs continued to rise steadily. Insurance bureaucracy gets ever more onerous. And the wealthiest people in society continue to get vastly more wealthy.

You could say that people are still a lot better off than they were 50 years ago or whatever. And you’d be correct. But people really don’t like it when things get worse. They especially don’t like it when the pain isn’t shared by the upper crust.

Would you rather have a health care plan that provides quick, easy access to leeches, or a plan with a million forms, an annoying call tree, and opaque decision making, which gives you proper medicine 90% of the time and leeches 10% of the time? The second one is the objectively better option. But the people who offer that plan will probably be lynched. You can acknowledge that and work with it, or you can insist on treating people as rational and get absolutely nowhere.

“Murder is wrong” is a tautology. “Murder” means a killing that is wrong. (Either morally or legally depending on context.) The question isn’t whether murder is wrong. Everyone agrees on that. The question is which killings morally count as murder and which don’t. And don’t say “they all count!” Almost nobody actually believes that and you probably don’t either. People draw the line in different places but you can almost always find some circumstance where they’d say, yeah, that killing was acceptable. It’s a little surprising that a bunch of people think killing an insurance CEO is on the other side of the line, but it shouldn’t be surprising that there is a line.

Society is unhealthy. We agree on that. Why do you think it’s so? Is it just something that happens randomly, or is there an underlying reason?
Cruise started as "fake it til you make it", with a drive down the Great Highway in San Francisco. The ideal public road - several miles of straight road with no cross streets. They managed to parlay that into an acquisition by GM and board seats on GM's board.

Then they didn't deliver.

Waymo hasn't left blood on the pavement. Cruise and Tesla have.
C is also fast.
Self-employment can be more enjoyable and intellectually rewarding than working for someone else.
Unfortunately there's a huge variance in PT quality and skill levels, so just because 6 weeks of PT doesn't produce results doesn't necessarily mean that a different approach to PT wouldn't be better than surgery. Seriously, have you tried visiting a McGill Method Master Clinician? I would certainly try that before letting a surgeon cut on me. Watch the video I linked above and see if it might be relevant.

What sort of injections are you referring to? Corticosteroid injections can sometimes be helpful in the short term but clinical practice guidelines discourage prolonged use due to the risk of bone damage and other severe side effects. So insurers aren't necessarily wrong to deny payment for those.
PostgalAgent seems cheap, 0.72$ per card? Maybe I am wrong, I would've thought it might cost more!

Where do you get the data from? census.gov?

BTW, the demo link seems broken - https://checkanyvin.com/free-report/sample/1N4DL01AXYC165358
We are all small in every domain in which we are not an expert, which is approximately all of them. The "computer" domain has expanded wildly over the last 50 years to include so many specialties that even within it one cannot possibly acquire expertise in everything. And of course "computers" do not include (although they do impact!) the vast majority of domains.

If you want to go deeper into quantum computing, I can highly recommend Scott Aaronson's own book, "Quantum Computing since Democritus"[0]. Although I have a background in physics and math, I found his style lively and engaging with truly unique and compact recapitulations of things I already knew (two come to mind: his description of Cantor's diagnalization argument, and the assertion that QM is the natural consequence of "negative probabilities" being real. The later is a marvelous insight that I've personally gotten a lot of use out of).

It's also useful to understand the boundary of what quantum computing is. At the end of the day what we'll see are "QaaS" apis that give us the ability to, for example, factor large primes. You won't need to know Shor's algorithm or the implementation details, you'll just get your answer exponentially faster than the classical method. I would not expect desktop quantum computers, languages designed for them, or general user software designed to run on them. (Of course, eventually someone will make Doom run on one, but that's decades in the future.)

https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&keyword=quantum+c...
The problem for me is it's 23 degrees f outside so if I vent outside I'm losing money
Probability, not statistics.

And I think this conversation has reached saturation point. Thank you for the discussion.
And you're talking about an FDM printer but the author talks about resin printers which are hundreds of times more harmful.

That said fabric enclosure with something that goes up to 250 degrees Celsius isn't the best idea. There are fireproof 3D printing enclosures.
yeah this is person is talking about a very particular Twitter "for you" social algorithmic tarpit
Asian immigrants seem to do just fine.
As the authority on the subject you should definitely correct the Wikipedia page
Do you use the idea of the previous post to store 5 ternary digits in one eight bit byte ?

Discussed a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42329307
Universal Physics Transformers
I think it's just another example of enshitification.

Newspapers can't make the bills with just subscriptions, so they start selling ads. Ad revenue starts dropping so they add more ads. More ads cause less readers. Cost cutting measures erodes at the quality of journalism. And then a big media company swoops in, buys the company, fires basically everyone, and turns the newspaper into one of the uniform newspapers that they also own eschewing all local issues. That further drops subscribers and trust which simply leads to more misleading garbage.

Throughout the process, yes people cared less. But also quality decreased which made people care even less.

My parents who have had a newspaper subscription for 50 years have cancelled their subscriptions a couple of years ago because of how garbage the paper is.
FWIW, American Descendants of Slaves (ADoS) have an average European genetic admixture of ~24%.[1]

1. https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5
Remember what happened to the Google employee who tried to leave and take some of the technology with him.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski
Two (well, really one) concrete example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_F._Cantlon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_Kidd The allegations these women made against Jaeger were investigated four separate times, including investigations carried out by 3rd party investigators, and each time were determined to be unfounded. Not only that, the investigations revealed that Kidd and Cantlon had told explicit lies to investigators (e.g. claiming he sexually assaulted other women, but those women explained to investigators that no such assaults occurred, and they never gave any indication to Kidd or Cantlon that that were ever assaulted by Jaeger).

Despite this, the wikipedia articles remained entirely credulous of these accusations until only a few months ago. A couple editors suppressed any inclusion of exonerating information.
Ashkenazim have unusually high average IQ scores.

(There is also a North/South divide in Europe but Northern Italy is in the high IQ group.)
The Albuquerque "Broken Arrow" Nuclear Accident
Among Us doesn't turn someone into an assassin
The increase in car crashes coincided with de-policing and related unrest, not with COVID infections per se. Car fatalities didn't spike until the end of May / early June 2020.
Loss leader. Fidelity and Schwab make a lot of money from Net Interest Margin on uninvested cash (or e.g. Fidelity's relatively high fee 0.42% money market funds).
Waymo's strategy traded "do robotaxi early" in exchange for big penalties in cost-per-car (LIDAR) and cost-per-city (requirement for millimeter mapping).

Yes it gets them early service in a small number of cities, but it dramatically kneecaps their ability to scale to the entire planet.
I don't think anyone wants to convince you that you're a Boltzmann brain. This is more a thought experiment. The fun is to try to explain on logical grounds why this isn't a viable option.
For much of my child's formative infant year, people were screaming bloody murder if we wanted our infant to develop a sense of facial expression in strangers and in public. They were also hell bent on banning much of the social events that people might bring infants to that may help develop early socialization. You do not get a more neuroplastic year than the first one.

There was a lot of stuff going on where one has to wonder how much we disproportionately sacrificed the children for disproportionately the elderly. It still deeply bothers me what effect this could have had on my child.
A lot depends on who the immigrants are. You are obviously going to get more problems if they are say criminals from some war zone as opposed to PhDs coming to teach at the university etc.
the US is very demographically different to Sweden
> They explicitly state, "Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute the original SQLite code, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means."

It's not clear this is a license grant rather than legal advice (which would be correct legal advice if the code were public domain, but it is not).
This feels like taking quantum bogo sort seriously.
My very first day at a new company I was shown around the office and met my team. At 10.30am I was invited to a mobbing session, where I was asked to contribute to writing to some code.

I did not have a single inkling of what the project was in detail or understood anything that was being talked about or written. But I was expected to 'contribute' in a performative way to show that I was useful to the team. It was perhaps the worst intro to a company you can have.

To this day I despise mob programming.
Well in this case, antirez literally promised[1] they wouldn't change the license of the core away from BSD, and then Redis Labs did just that, and now antirez is speaking favorably of that decision.

[1]: https://antirez.com/news/120
Waymo hasn't left blood on the pavement. Cruise and Tesla have.

As long as we're clutching our pearls and being overdramatic, how much blood have the humans left on the pavement in the meantime?
I'm finding the focus of UX/UI around the AI 2.0 very interesting.

It seems to boil down to:

- You go to where the AI is (which is what this is, and the other web/app interfaces)

- The AI comes to you (Cursor is a good example of this, everything from Microsoft is probably a bad example of this, Apple...i haven't tried yet)

I'm not sure if there is one clear winner, and certainly I tend to switch between the 2, depending very much on the context of what I'm doing.

One area that appears to be less advanced than I expected is search. We have Gemini mixed into the Google search page, and an explosion of AI generated content on webpages, making the traditional search experience even worse. I haven't even touched openAI's search, Im not sure why, is it good?

Where's my utopian dream of AI providing me with the exact information I'm after, and can trust, without having to fall back to ad infested websites and needing to open 1000 browser tabs to piece together the information I want.
it has brought to the attention of CEOs the fact that even though the individual shooter might be apprehended, the CEOs who push too far over the line might not make it home from their next shareholders meeting.
There is a [tools dropdown](https://i.imgur.com/oDfv8hm.png) where you can force it to use canvas among other things.

Admittedly, I also remember it being how you described before so it could be new.
I know, I've used jsdoc type hints and I don't like them very much. They're verbose, types and names are the wrong way around, there's about two or three different syntaxes for defining any one thing, you don't get any autoformatting (AFAIK)... I'm not a fan.
Isn't Tesla service worse than the dealerships? Maybe things have changed, my opinion is completely based on what I've read on the Internet.
Your pivot from "newcomers who followed the rules [i.e. those who took the time to educate themselves beforehand about the speed limit so they don't break it]" to "newcomers who are having a tough time [because they need help learning the ropes]" isn't particularly artful or subtle.

I'm referring specifically to experienced editors who take the stance that some action by a new/IP account is coming from an confused/uninformed place for no other reason than because it's an inexperienced editor—a bag of foregone conclusions and the kind of presumptuousness that, perversely, your comment exemplifies.

And you're wrong about 2004 Wikipedia versus 2014 Wikipedia versus 2024 Wikipedia. It's much, much worse in 2024.

(I began editing Wikipedia in 2004, by the way. I am not the newcomer described here, but I've absolutely seen other experienced editors behave this way, including in response to IP edits that I've made when I happened not to be logged in.)

> at the same time I have gone to look repeatedly when some newcomer complained about being antagonized (either complained here, or other forums, or on Wikipedia) and maybe half the time the newcomer making the complaint was being a total jerk to everyone but really didn't like being called out

Uh, okay? So if in a group of totally unrelated persons who have nothing in common except for the fact that they're all inexperienced, at least half of them are in the wrong, then it supposed to cancel out or something?

Even if 999 new editors behave badly and 1 new editor doesn't, then that 1 editor has a legitimate grievance when they're being wronged (instead than being the one who's in the wrong themselves). They have no control over and bear no responsibility for the actions of the other 999.
i think its because the accused dude is just as online as the average social media user who has latched on to this.
Seven Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. vs. U.K. (business) Culture
I think they're suggesting that court is the American police officer dispute resolution process - in response to the "American police officers don't have that" bit.
Mammoth featured in Western Clovis diet
https://produktly.com/ - a suite of tools to improve onboarding, product adoption, and retention. Things like product tours, checklists, feedback widgets, changelogs etc. that help you proactively guide your users, listen to their feedback, and communicate progress and upcoming features.

All manageable without any coding (after the initial copy-paste script integration), so e.g. product managers or customer success can build and add these from the web dashboard.
It helps, but e.g. Fidelity's money market funds charge 0.31% higher fees (0.42%) than Vanguard's (0.11%).
Indeed the bigger issue as I see it is that the only "sensible reality" that can exist is the one you subjectively experience. Since that one is the only sensible one, it's the only one you perceptually would be able to hang around for - even if it's actually a conincidental series of flickers of sapience across trillions and trillions of years.

i.e. a time stepped simulation, absent external reference, doesn't know how long it's been between the actual steps - could be seconds, could be hours, could be years.

EDIT: Like the real issue with "death" is that it's not "eons on darkness" - which is why I think people get afraid of it (or one of the reasons) - but that actual, literal non-existence is inconceivable even though we all did it - 13 billion years of not-existing in the universe, then suddenly you.

So after you die the same problem re-emerges: the conscious experience of "you" ends...but then from the subjective blink of an eye if something happens to restart that information process just right, suddenly again, you - and it has to be you, and no one else, because if it wasn't then well, it would be someone else - i.e. why am I me, and not my wife or son for example?
And this is another great one, also in the vein of 'the last one' about the death of the last of the Beguines:
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2013/04/27/marcella-patty... (https://archive.is/ClVez)
The catch: the model is predicting the past:

>> But DeepMind said GenCast surpassed the precision of the center's forecasts in more than 97 percent of the 1,320 real-world scenarios from 2019 which they were both tested on.
I had been on the fence about turning this on or not since I wasn't sure if turning it on would block legitimate reasons for stabbing me. I mean, I probably have deserved it many times. Good to know those reasons won't be blockers! I'll definitely turn this on if it becomes a ratified standard!
OECD PIAAC (survey of adult skills) results also dropped yesterday: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/do-adults-have-the-skil...
> My oldest is in 4th grade now, and the most relevant maths are from 2nd and 3rd grade. Basic division, multiplication, and fractions matters (3rd grade) - but so does adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers (2nd grade) because multiplication/division is now multiple digit (which is the actual, new, 4th grade material)

Are the standards really that low? AIUI in most developed countries w/ the significant exception of the U.S. (and to a lesser extent, other English speaking countries), 4th and 5th grade math are for teaching the earliest elements of pre-algebra. (Meaning that algebraic expressions are very much not used, but the style of reasoning is clearly intended as preparation for that). They may get a lot of practice with fractions or multiple-digit arithmetic, but the basic procedures are not new to them in 4th grade. It seems to me that the U.S. educational system is underserving these kids quite significantly by not catering to their potential and actual skills for mathematical reasoning, which while not fully developed (and very much tied to "concrete" skillsets, as opposed to a real capacity for abstraction) are still quite substantial.
at least with the bank you get your capital back

more than can be said for those that trusted another YC fintech (synapse)
"You'll also want the exhaust port pointed away from the house."

Chimney in my case.
Isn't this just delineating by wealth? i.e. race and/or those 4 other categories are just correlations.
There's room for private schools, but vouchers can't be a thing. I understand public schools can't accommodate every crazy religion, but public education is a necessity for a successful country.

Once people get enough first hand experience with schools being horrible, constantly closing, uneducated children, etc. They'll blame whatever their social media tells them to.

Inequality can't get much worse before there's a tipping point. People are reallllllly dumb now though so change won't be for better when it comes.
There's leaving with what's in your head and there's M. Levandowski. Very different things.
The Theoretical Programming Languages class I took for my minor at Princeton was okay, basically they just taught from Benjamin Pierce's textbook. I'm sure there are other undergrad level intro class syllabi available if that's something you have spare time to self study.
Do you perchance have something directly comparing jj and your branchless work?

Regardless keep up the good work. Assuming some one hasn't done it while I haven't been paying attention I will some day write some code to support gitlab in the submit command (I have a script I use all the time, just written around it rather than within).
Why does this response sound llm generated to me? Maybe it's the phrase "however it's worth noting"
Audible's Monopolistic Practices
Another large advantage of Fidelity, which is unclear if Double has, is that uninvested money can sit in SPAXX/equivalent and earn competitive growth.
>We don't put enough money into our schools. Our teachers are incredibly overworked and underpaid.

As others have told you, this is wrong.

New York City spends more per student than anywhere else in the US. <https://www.silive.com/news/2019/06/how-much-does-new-york-c...> Baltimore, an incredibly poor and run-down city, spends the third most. #4-6 and #8 are all wealthy suburbs of Washington DC, but their schools are all far better than those of Baltimore or NYC on average, despite Baltimore spending slightly more per student and NYC spending 60-70% more.
Poll: Are you currently subscribed to any of the LLM premium tiers?
I've being using the free versions of ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini for months now and they are perfectly fine for what I do. But today I started to question my decision not to "invest" in the premium version of one of these tools.

Are you paying for your LLM usage?
Yes, for 1 service
Yes, for multiple services
Their argument hinges on one particular claim:

> As unlikely as it is for a BB to form at all, it’s drastically more unlikely for additional things to simultaneously form around it. And even if additional things did form around the BB, it is not especially likely they will be the kind of stable and sensible objects a brain could even perceive. Therefore, the evidence we have is more likely supposing we are OOs than supposing we are BBs.

which doesn't ring true to me. Assuming that universe is indeed dominated by BBs, it's not at all clear to me that any observations we could possibly make "is more likely supposing that we are OOs". While the number of BBs "with decorations" would be dwarfed by the number of BBs without, it is still entirely feasible that there are many more such BBs than there are OOs.

I also found their argument as to why all observations shouldn't be considered hallucinations (including "over time", "history of" etc) as a matter of probability to be incomprehensible.
a friend and former neighbor of mine was a college physics professor. He is vehemently against education tracking and early bucketing of students into potential career tracks. His early scores would have led him to a life of manual labor, yet his true love and gift was mathematics, and he shared that with the world for a whole career.