skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing fighter pilots to helicopter pilots might say something about the effect of G forces, since the cognitive loads are both high.

However, the control group is “10 adults with no experience in flying … matched for age, gender, and educational level”. I feel like fighter pilots are pretty different from other people with the same amount of education.
Ah, I get it now. Yes, it would be more apples-to-apples to, for example, compare white Americans with ancestral Europeans, by disaggregating scores in European countries by ethnic/ancestral group of origin. However, this would not affect comparison greatly, because in European countries, the children of ancestral Europeans comprise 80-90% of the total, compared to <45% in US, so taking the whole aggregate instead of this 80-90% doesn’t change that much. Same is true for East Asian countries: immigrant population in Japan or Taiwan is pretty negligible, as these countries are fairly homogenous. Finally, for countries with highly heterogeneous populations, like eg India or Indonesia, none of the large ethnic groups is ahead of US whites.
For me, the most interesting differentiating factor at this point is probably the GUI tooling for Sapling. Try out their "interactive smartlog" and see if it resonates with you.
Doesn't the defense also get a say on the juror selection?
The older version with faces looks even cooler IMO https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Nepal#/media/File%3A...
The model you are running isnt the one used in the benchmarks you link.

The default llama3.3 model in ollama is heavily quantized (~4 bit). Running the full fp16 model, or even an 8-bit quant wouldnt be possible on your laptop with 64G RAM.
The real issue is that the sand isn't orderly sorted. At a micro level, it's billions and trillions of individual interactions between atoms that create the emergent behavior of solid grains of sand packing reasonably tightly but not phasing through each other.
Do you have an example?

My experience with customer surveys indicates the opposite — that customers prefer you have an opinion.
Couldn't agree more.

Laziness, lack of skill, poor communication, and unexplained delays are so much the norm that people who need something done are willing to pay top dollar just for the mediocre folks. I'm thinking mechanics and home repair contractors as the most obvious example but there are white collar equivalents too.

I'm trying to teach my kids that these days, if you are working for someone else, literally just showing up on time and doing exactly what is asked (and with integrity) will get you to the front of the pack easily with no other special effort, skill, or intelligence needed. It's been working unreasonably well for me, at any rate.
> There should be an UN resolution that says: "You start a war, you take the immigrants."

"We need the natural resources, not the people" /s
Well no, that's not the reason why we're not Boltzmann Brains. A Boltzmann Brain is perfectly capable of believing that it is sensing reality in exactly the same way that your brain believes so.

It is worth reading the section "Modern reactions to the Boltzmann brain problem" in the article to understand why the Boltzmann Brain is a useful thought experiment.
How, Where and When Apache Kafka Writes Data (Page Cache Included) [video]
> You and everyone else involved will be 100% focused on the task.

That's not the strict positive you seem to suggest. In creative arts, like many of us practice in software engineering, being 100% focused is not the way to get things done. Your conscious, focused attention can only take you so far, and the best work is often influenced by the weird associations and spontaneous insights that come from setting the work down and doing other things.

Now, that's not to say there isn't some extreme on the other end, where you just never actually sit down and write code or whatever because you're always so distracted, but the sweet spot you want to aim for is somewhere in the middle. For many people, pair (mob??) programming is waaaay too far to one side. Although if it works for you as part of a fuller, balanced, practice, you wouldn't be alone in that yourself.
The bank will however ask why you are switching to them and telling “my account was closed without explanation“ will make them think twice
You are correct the in-kind creation/redemption pushes any taxable gains/losses to the trading of the ETF by the holder, not the ETF itself.

But there are some benefits to doing what you refer to as a "custom one-off fund". Namely we can Tax Loss Harvest any losses and realize those to offset gains we realize in the name of rebalancing. The industry generally calls this direct indexing and wealth clients with $1M and above portfolios have been doing it for years.

We also provide the option of entering a "Buy & Hold" optimization for strategies, which would not rebalance your winners into losers and realizing any gains or losses, but your portfolio will drift over time if you choose this.
Indeed. The low income inequality is in many ways a contributing factor to the high wealth inequality, since it is virtually impossible to become wealthy in Sweden just by working hard and earning a salary.

Virtually no 'normal' jobs have a salary much above $200k. Whereas in the US that salary is quite achievable for a lot of people by just working your way up in a normal corporation. Even CEO salaries in the biggest Swedish companies rarely break $1m and if you break $2m you have among the very highest salaries in Sweden.
Y Combinator is the simple syntax for representing the concept of passing a function to itself, so it's useful, for symbolic manipulation.

However the "Tree Calculus", just from those 5 little rules, is supposedly able to do all kinds of magic. I'm not buying it. It's nothing but musings and examples of binary trees, and how you can convert various data structures to binary trees.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a successful healthcare insurance CEO.
If I'm not mistaken, the decades of economic liberalism and dismantling of social support systems has made a lot of people very worried about their future, and as usual the rich and powerful blame immigrants (or some other weak minority group) as a slight-of-hand to distract from the actual issues.
This is a really good example of why software with a license that is basically "this could hurt you but, like, trust me bro" isn't worth building with/extending/learning. It feels a LOT like a landmine waiting to detonate.

Even if I'm doing completely non commercial work I never ever ever will want to productize in any way I'd rather build my skills and familiarity with something portable (and I don't want to have to remember when I can and can't safely use each part of my stack). Anything else is just asking for a future nightmare.

The oracle and wordpress stuff recently are devastating. Can you imagine having to grind your entire company to a halt looking for anything that uses anything that uses anything that uses redis/java/whatever?

I'm an engineer. I can't justify a fixed amount of upside for an unbounded downside if I ever get on some stranger's bad side for whatever reason.
That's over 30 hours of work for a very large portion of the population.
Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year
>Getting better at your job, like everything else in life, is just a function of time. Show up, and then show up consistently. Put in the time. Be patient. Le
ad with an open mind and an open heart

This is generic advice. Of course. But the "digital comsumption/doomscrolling/etc" eats away from that, even if all those other aspects are done...
I find, even in the short stories I write, that managing the story arc is so much harder than managing code execution…
"The BadRAM attack – which does require physical access to hardware"

so...academically "blown wide open" but for anyone with a cogent opsec, probably not the end of the world.
If anything, the government out here discourages using cash and not the other way around
The Death of Developer Relations
My issue with Canvas is that its not available with o1, and if you are working on a large function it can just truncates the prior script there.
I think this will be the next generation of science to some extent. The things we can understand and call explanations/reasons might be something involving 5 or 50 variables with not too many interactions between them. They have some unifying principles or equations we can fit in our head. I think many things inherently just involve far too many variables and complexity for us to understand in a neat theory and we are hitting those limits in biology & physics. Even so I'm sure we will develop better and better ways to interpret these models and get some level of understanding. Maybe we can understand them but not create them past a certain scale.
Sweden has much higher wealth inequality than the US. Its higher than Russia even
It's not strange when you hear it as the dog whistle it is
Yep. It is still a bit ironic that the community rallied behind Big Tech instead of a small startup though. Just saying.
At a guess, you probably have a very large base of genealogists on there!

Old maps are incredibly useful for genealogy because it helps you do lots of stuff. Say someone lived on "House #3 Country Road" in (county), but County Road no longer exists, and all that can be found is a brief description of "County Road is now Main Street, Bank Avenue, and Church Road" It would serve as a vital clue as to where their ancestors house used to be (or may still be!)

It also helps to give a better narrative of how the community has expanded and changed over the years. Instead of just, "It was probably all forest land, then farm land, then suburbs or something?" Instead you can see stuff like if there were spikes/declines in populations in response to various events (gold rush, mining, factory work, railroads, war, highways bringing/diverting traffic, and so on). They can also show how the land may have changed from environmental factors (mud slides, earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes). Maybe you're from a "Military family" but never knew why, only to find out that a Military Depot opened up 2 minutes from their house just as great-grandpa turned 18.

In a real sense, it describes not just the family and where they lived, but the type of place they knew, and community they grew up in. It hints at how they saw and experienced things over the years. "But why did great-great-grandpa insist on moving his entire family? He had lived in that beautiful house his entire life! Ah. They put the railroad 6 inches from his backdoor!"
> Anyone can write about quantum computers as if they are remotely qualified

He's the quantum guy. [^2]

You're applying classical computing intuitions (where verification is indeed usually much faster than computation) to quantum computing, where this relationship doesn't necessarily hold. The fact that verification can be as hard as computation in quantum computing is actually a major challenge that Aaronson has written about extensively.

n.b. I've been here 15 years but sometimes have to take a step back and adjust my approach, because I can use this as a quick break to let out frustration with something else. When I do, I find the HN guidelines helpful, almost a joy. [^1] They're written conversationally and are more meditations than rules.

[^1]
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. [...] Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

"Other threads in these comments talk about some rick and morty multiverse type of thing, just stay on the sidelines guys"

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

"Anybody can write about quantum computers as if they are remotely qualified"

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

From Aaronson's actual post:
"...for the exact same reason why this quantum computation would take ~10^25 years for a classical computer to simulate, it would also take ~10^25 years for a classical computer to directly verify the quantum computer's results!!"

He goes on: "...this is why I've been obsessing for years about the need to design efficiently verifiable near-term quantum supremacy experiments."

[^2]

• Received the [2020 ACM Prize in Computing](https://awards.acm.org/about/2020-acm-prize) for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing

• [ACM Fellow (2019)](https://www.acm.org/media-center/2019/december/fellows-2019) for contributions to quantum computing and computational complexity

• Named [Simons Investigator (2017)](https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-physical-scienc...)

• Won the [Alan T. Waterman Award (2012)](https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123406), NSF's most prestigious young researcher award

• Received [Presidential Early Career Award](https://www.nsf.gov/awards/PECASE/recip_details.jsp?pecase_i...) for Scientists and Engineers (2009)

• Awarded [Sloan Research Fellowship](https://news.mit.edu/2009/sloan-fellows-0217) (2009)

• Won multiple Best Student Paper Awards:
- Danny Lewin Best Paper at [STOC](https://www.sigact.org/prizes/student.html) for quantum computing proofs in local search (2004)
- Best Paper at [Complexity Conference](https://computationalcomplexity.org/conferences.php) for quantum advice limitations (2004)
- Best Paper at Complexity Conference for quantum certificate complexity (2003)
> It took Europe a century to leave Christianity behind

Maybe you should make a visit.
Or do you mean, behind the corner ?
(see Notre Dame for the most recent example)
This feature could actually be the overwhelming value of acquiring the copyright. When trillion dollar companies go to war with each other this kind of thing is a fantastic weapon in the arsenal.
A Nobel physicist that couldn't do basic arithmetic would definitely raise my eyebrows, but even taking your analogy at face value Gemini was not marketed as fast food slop. Google can't be trusted to hype products in a reliable way, regardless of their technical details.
It's much cheaper to run for Google as long as the ECMWF keeps cranking reanalysis for training data and keep generating new initial conditions for forecasts which are generated by combining new observations and the previous forecast generated by the ECMWF physical models which is not cheap to do.
I think I've found the answer and it's simpler than that. There is no analysis splitting whites or other ethnic groups because PISA has national variations of questionnaires (source on the US one below), and in all likelihood no other country splits by race.

It's still weird, probably lacking rigor and methodological soundness, to split American races out and compare them to the bulk of other populations.

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/data/datasets/pisa/...
Scroll tried this but they failed: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/24/21192048/firefox-better-w...
General Motors Scraps Cruise Robotaxi Program
Weather models can't compute some of the important physics that happens at sub-grid scale, and use various tricks to deal with that. How sure are you that these traditional models aren't also heavily tuned on past data to maximize performance? Perhaps they will also perform badly "out of distribution".
Of course you’re right that children of US Asian immigrants are ahead even of US whites, I mention this in my different comment in this thread. However, since there are few of them relative to other groups, they don’t affect the distribution much, so I didn’t mention this for the sake of clarity, as it didn’t detract from my main point.
A developer's plight
Seems pretty cool for getting some data off web pages. How many browsers can I open concurrently with hyperbrowser?
> Just like how we still don't have mass driverless cars, and just like how Bitcoin didn't take over the world, just like how LLMs aren't going to take all our jobs.

In San Francisco, we do have mass driverless cars. It's hard to drive across SF without seeing one.

Bitcoin didn't take over the world, but it's well on the way to taking over the administration and Congress through sheer lobbying spending.

LLMs aren't taking over all the jobs, but if everything you do for money goes in and out over a wire, less people like you are needed.
I built a tool called Canyon to help jobseekers land their dream job by helping them perfect their resume, be much faster at applying to jobs, and practicing with our mock interview tool.

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Okay, now I understand, you know very little about banking. I started a bank so I will try to help.

Banks are mostly private companies (most are listed on stock exchanges) so public companies in that meaning, but in most cases they are not government owned. I was meaning private in the sense they are not public owned entities by the government.

Banks are highly regulated.

Regulations require banks to manage their risks mainly liquidity and capital risks plus operational risks.

There is no laws mandating banks must bank everyone and every business.

There are laws that mandate banks must not take on excessive risks.

Banking is a principle based regulation. This means the governments set laws based on guidelines of how banks meet the obligations.

Banks are managing their customers constantly and any customer that represents unmanageable risks mainly liquidity they must remove them from their balance sheets.

It is the crypto industry fault that they refuse to take the actions and accountability to work with the banks.

This doesn’t only happen in crypto.

Crypto is highly volatile and liquidity is unmanageable for banks. When I spoke to the regulators, we were told we had to hold 100% liquidity for deposits intended for crypto. There is zero ability to recover the losses of the liquidity obligations.

Like all businesses, banks have the right to refuse to service customers they don’t want to serve because the costs exceed the income.

On the flip side the crypto industry is refusing to accept the additional costs and refusing to derisk their platforms.
I think it's different when the product is an tool you call by name to use vs just the name of the tool. E.g. the article is about "Alexa" and I'm not sure most people even realize there are ways to use it without saying "Hey Alexa" every time. Without that type of callback association it's not a very serious concern.
> the question of where computation took place shouldn't be dismissed

Sure. But it also shouldn’t be glorified as adding anything to an old debate—every QCD calculation has this dynamic of lots of classical “computations” happening seemingly simultaneously.
It doesn't matter how it works in the background. A checking account is marketed as a bank account in which your balance matches what you put into it and unlike a formal, named loan, it's necessary for many very basic transactions of daily living for even ordinary people who participate in no business banking. Thus, being frozen out by some bullshit regulatory "compliance" nonsense or some brainless, fearful risk assessment is at a whole different level than it would be if you ere denied a loan for similar reasons.

Banks that fear risk so much should organize their checking account system better for the full range of their customers, but that requires more effort than simply unbanking people and then communicating with them through grudging hostility about the reasons why as their lives take a major hit, and then being defended for this conduct by someone who gets mealy mouthed about how checking accounts are actually loans, as if they involved a major financial favor by the bank to you as a customer.
Weird.

This seems trivially solvable. In BC, Canada, I had an old doctor renew a prescription over the phone. This must have triggered a fraud alert because my address was now in a different health management district. They sent me an automatic notice asking me to confirm that I had been helped by that doctor at that time. I believe I can also log onto a provincial portal and see activity related to my medical care.

Seems like a pretty low cost way to ensure that no fraud is happening. Set up triggers for confirmation like doctors treating people who don't live nearby, treating people who are concurrently seeing other doctors, or any number of other known fraud alerts, and follow up.

Since private practice isn't really allowed here, getting removed from the provincial insurance program means a career death sentence, so I think that it just isn't that big of a problem anyway.
>Tablets/Phones/screen time disables cognitive abilities of kids and reduces them to dumb clicking machines.

Sure, if you hand your kid a phone and walk away, that's a likely outcome.

Phones/tablets/etc. are tools that can and should be leveraged. But you need to teach your kids how to properly use the tools (which is not a one-time conversation). It seems like many people skip that part for some reason or another. Age-appropriate oversight is also a necessity that is often skipped.

Having a pocket library/language instructor/graph calculator/music theory coach/etc. (i.e. a phone) is an absolute superpower that can accelerate learning significantly.

However, every time I suggest that you can teach kids to responsibly use technology it seems to be an unpopular opinion. I'm not exactly sure why, though. So if you don't agree, I'd love to hear your side.
Thanks for the links, I'll be reading up on these.

When I signed up for a computer science degree, I was hoping I'd learn this stuff (if not this calculus, than enough context to grapple with it at least). What I actually got was software engineering. Snore.
how about friends getting a domain and each gets a subdomain there and does their thing? more fun maybe in a tiny group and they can help each other. fwiw
Meteorologists are quaking in their boots!
There is a belief that Daniel Penny acted in the direct defense of those in the area. That is quite different than killing a CEO who is probably going to be replaced by the same type of person.
Hey, 100 max on our paid plan but I can enable 1k concurrently if you want!
It's not a very human medium, so it is not man who is implicated.
"More accurate forecasts of risks of extreme weather can help officials safeguard more lives, avert damage, and save money," DeepMind said.

Did the DeepMind AI say this?
>>isn't aware that videos can be faked with AI, or non-AI special effects

These two are very different things. My family believes all kinds of videos on the internet are fake. None of them have any idea what a tool like Sora can do. The gap between "oh this was probably special effects" to "you have to notice pixels shimmering around someone's hand to tell" is enormous.

>>My family is mostly working class in an economically depressed part of the Virginia/West Virginia coal country, and every single one of them is aware of this.

Your working class family has time to keep up with the advancements in generative AI for video? They have more free time than I do then. If we're sharing anecdotes about families then my family is from Polish coal country and their idea of AI is talking to your car and it responding poorly.

>>I maintain that the attitude driving this paternalistic, censorious attitude is arrogance and condescension.

I'm confused - who is displaying this "censorious" attitude here?

>> and your source of data for this is "your own experience"? Really?

Yes, really. I mean do you have anything else? You are also quoting things from your own experience.
That's a great analogy, and I basically agree with it. But there would be some ancient, abacus-wielding mathematicians who would be impressed by this fast-but-useless computer. One might take it as a sign that once/if the computer can be controlled properly, it might be quite useful.

This might have been part of the history of classical computers as well, except that it turns out to be pretty easy to do classical operations with very high fidelity.
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