skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also the primary medium schools use to communicate analytical reasoning and deductive analysis.

That would be news to History and English teachers among others. You need to learn to make a structured and coherent argument based on evidence in many subjects and the evidence for the existence of transfer learning is so weak it seems unlikely basic Math makes the average or even 75th percentile student better at reasoning. Most people follow a formula at best, and forget that much rapidly after the end of school.
There is absolutely evidence.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-i...
"Building Braze" How does tracking anonymous users impact our privacy?
What OP is saying, I think, is that the argument that led us to believe that Boltzmann Brains are more likely than normal brains is itself product of the physics of the world we experience.

But then, if we conclude that we must be a BB, there is no reason for the physics of the universe in which this BB exists to be the same as the physics of the universe we experience. Hence, the argument breaks down, because BB are only very likely in the 'simulated universe', but have no reason to be in the 'real universe' (which has no reason to abide by the same laws of physics).

In other words, the assumption that we are a BB, because they are so much more likely, invalidates the argument that BBs are much more likely.
For dying off Russia, it might be both.
TLH works best during downturns. Pre-downturn contributions are harvestable. Once you have enough to cover your maximum tax claim ($3000/year) further losses just aren't useful. I generated a lifetime supply of capital losses from like 5 minutes of manual TLH in 2020.
> In PISA, for example, white American children score better than any European country,

European countries also have better scores if we disregard the immigrants. Well, mostly certain immigrant groups. Others do fine.

And those groups that do bad do bad everywhere. Those that do well do well everywhere. It's almost as if something else matters more than the local educational systems.
This reads like word salad
It has already displaced some workers, for sure. At least one suicide could possibly be linked to AI. And it will continue to disrupt society and waste needless energy as well.
> We all know that a bunch of people are getting rich off massive copyright violation, and anyone who understands how sketchy it is would rather be one of the people getting rich, than to martyr themselves pointlessly in front of this freight train of thieving greed.

This verbalises something I had been thinking about for a long time, and resonates deeply. Thank you. It’s all so darn bleak…
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They are in fact the same, since Turing machines are mathematical models. If you had such a magic box, capable of computing things without regard for their time complexity, we might need to revise our assumptions about whether Turing machines are in fact capable of universally modeling all forms of computation. But like I implied on the sibling comment, I'm expressing skepticism that quantum computation is actually physically realizable, to the extent that functions can be computed in fewer operations (i.e. more efficiently) than is predicted by classical computing.
WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction
It is a bit short … ?
I think there are some missing words or phrases here. Was this the restoration of a mural in an old chapel?
> Oh yes, Zapata Computing, the best funded company in quantum algorithms just went under this year.

It's kinda hard to make money by developing algorithms for imaginary magic computers.
If an AI could research and write as well (and as accurately) as that, I'd say they've finally surpassed us.
They're authoritarians, they don't want to take away guns from the government, only the citizens.
The biggest question here is: what is the purpose of the law?

The standard answers are things like, the law exists to protect people, or enforce broadly agreed conduct, or to deter or punish criminals.

Those answers are all wrong. The purpose of the law is this: to convince people not to take matters into their own hands.

Civilization depends on people mostly not taking violent revenge when wronged. The law exists to replace revenge with “justice” in the minds of the aggrieved. Everything else is window dressing.

If this starts to break down then the law is failing. The fix isn’t to convince people that following the law is inportant, the fix is to show people that the law offers a viable notion of justice, whatever that might entail.
This is the recipe to have 100+ different runtimes.

Don’t forget that In large deployments, you have no idea who is using what, which features are enabled or what’s the flavor of optimization someone pushed to make things work for the customer. You have dozens of engineers and all trying to keep the lights on.

This was the state when I joined Auth0 and it took us a year to migrate every individual customer env to a managed PAAS and another year to migrate our multi tentant environments later.
You have a great point that scaling a library model requires careful design, but we think that's worth it to provide a superior developer experience.

For example, the DBOS library provides an API to instruct a worker to recover specific tasks. In our hosted platform (DBOS Cloud), when a worker crashes, a central server uses this API to tell the workers what to recover. We like this design because it provides the best of both worlds--the coordination decision is centralized, so it's performant/scalable, but the actual recovery and workflow execution is done in-process, so DBOS doesn't turn your program into a distributed system the way Step Functions/Temporal do (I haven't used Hatchet).
They're testing it on 2019 data. From the paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9):

>> We use 2019 as our test period, and, following the protocol in ref. 2, we initialize ML models using ERA5 at 06 UTC and 18 UTC, as these benefit from only 3 h of look-ahead (with the exception of sea surface temperature, which in ERA5 is updated once per 24 h). This ensures ML models are not afforded an unfair advantage by initializing from states with longer look-ahead windows.

See Baselines section in the paper that explains the methodology in more depth. They basically feed the competing models with data from weather stations and predict the weather in a certain time period. Then they compare the prediction with the ground truth from that period.

Plot twist: they measure accuracy in predicting the weather 5 years in the past.
No need to guess. It's in the paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9

See section "Baselines".
Computation isn't hidden in a parallel program, either. But if you only count the running time, and not the total instructions retired or the computer's energy usage, you're not getting the full picture.
Periodic table uses objective criteria for categorization. American race classification is rooted in debunked theories and mostly meaningless today. One can say at least that there exists black subculture, black dialect of English etc among descendants of slaves. How much of that is related to 1st and 2nd generation immigrants from Africa, which have much stronger cultural links to their motherland, speak different languages and may even have different faith? Asian bucket is absolutely non-sensical — there’s either cultural proximity to America or to native Asian cultures, which are very different, so the people are very different. It is very hard to understand why Indians and Chinese should classify themselves the same way. This classification is imposed on them. How is this nonsense informative? It’s just some racist legacy.

In Europe we do not have that system and we don’t miss it.
I began creating art a few years ago which is beginning to ramp up:
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In April of this year my fabrication business switched from side to primary and I traded Jenkins infra (https://cicd.life) for small manufacturing:
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I’ll would prefer to never go back, but I do miss some aspects of the old job.
One premium chat-like UI subscription at a time (currently Claude), changing every couple of months with the soup-de-jour. But active API keys loaded into my env for all the major services.
They can say what they want, but I get rained on by surprise rain more than I ever have in my life, now that I'm practically forced to use the built-in Google weather due to them and Apple catching and killing all the good weather apps.
Is it? The point is that the availability depends on the retailer, not just that they “can” be found. In some places there’s one brand and others there are many.
Completely agree, but I'm very glad they exist. It's always good to have multiple companies offering a service, and they've opened the regulatory door for Tesla to eventually launch driverless robotaxis that operate in more cities.
> If the code body was looking for problems in need of solving, they should have banned all of the janky residential/builder grade $1 receptacles instead.

Absolutely, those should not exist. I buy commercial spec grade (Hubbell CR20 or equal) whenever I replace a receptacle in my house, they are ~$3 or so.

If you want the ‘best’, Hubbell HBL5362 is the ticket, very well built with a one piece brass grounding strap, I can get them for under $10, but you need to go to a supply house or Grainger to get this one.

> like it would be utterly stupid to put a GFCI ahead of a sump pump (at least without some kind of active monitoring that would alert you if it tripped).

This was actually added to the NEC in 2020, any 120V sump pump that draws 60A or less requires GFCI protection, even if its cord and plug.

You could rig up monitoring with a current switch, normally open relay, and notification device.

Install the current switch around the load side of the GFCI breaker feeding the sump pump that is wired to the control coil of a normally open relay and wire up a horn, strobe, ESP32 or whatever you want to use as a notification device to the relay output.

When the GFCI breaker trips, the current switch will close the relay and power up the notification device.

If you don’t want to rig it up yourself, there are sump pump monitoring kits with text/email notifications, etc.

Or you can avoid it altogether by installing a 240V sump, no GFCI needed.
I love this. I love finding resources that genuinely empower others. Thanks for the sacrifice in writing this
It's impossible to logically disprove a theory like this, because the entirety of your thought process would itself be a random fluctuation, never mind the inputs on which it is based.

The problem is that if you start with the reasonable assumption that you objectively exist and that your observations are valid, the model of the universe derived from those observations (or at least some otherwise viable models) includes prevalence of Boltzmann brains.
> For example, we pair nicely with Kargo for progressive rollouts

You've greatly piqued my interest (we're currently using Timoni). However, how does this integration work exactly? We've been wanting to try Kargo for awhile but it appears there's no support for passing off the YAML rendering to an external tool.
I find that very popular subjects do, in fact, manage to be relatively unbiased. E.g. Bush or Obama's Wikipedia page is pretty fair. The more eyeballs on a piece, the less likely that egregious bias is to persist. Bias is a lot more prevalent in niche subjects that can go relatively unnoticed. Furthermore, a couple people can effectively lock down a rarely-viewed page and dominate edits. This wouldn't fly on a very popular page, admins would take notice.
The conclusion only holds if you assume that you yourself are not a BB. Yes, in our universe, the laws of physics predict that BBs are much more likely than normal brains, given you wait long enough.

However, the moment you assume that then it must mean that you yourself are a BB, the argument breaks down. Because the huge probability of BB applies only to the laws of physics of the universe you live in; if you are a BB, the laws of physics of your universe have no reason to be the same as the laws of physics in the actual universe, where the BB exists. Thus, you can make no prediction on the likelihood of a BB arising, since you don't know the physics of the actual universe.
Big donors in the democratic party overwhelmingly support ultra-progressive policies:

https://calgara.github.io/PolS5310_Spring2021/Broockman%20&%...

You're talking about national elections, and even then the people will vote for whichever candidate that gets the most votes by the delegates (as Bernie and Trump showed with Trump winning the nomination 3x times, while Bernie got good numbers despite having been seen as an relatively unknown person).

Even in your articles there was never any clear evidence of DNC top officials actively going about directing CNN/NBC to attack Bernie, having email leaks showing the DNC not liking Bernie and thinking of ways they could potentially push against his campaign is not the same as actively doing it.

This of course is fair if you believe we should have the low bar of seeing an offhand comment as incriminating evidence (i.e. if you and I talk about someone we hope could just fall off and die and it turns out they fall off and die - we would be accused for causing said death).

As an example from your second link (https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/04/politics/bernie-sanders-2...):

> Sanders ran strong and beat Clinton in states like Michigan and Wisconsin, parts of the Democratic wall she would go on to lose in November.

>He trounced her among young Democratic voters, who did not show up for her the same way they did for Obama.

>None of this is to say that Democrats shouldn’t have treated the process differently, but it doesn’t change the fact Clinton dominated the process from start to end. Or that Sanders, surprised by his own success, didn’t have the infrastructure to win a long campaign.

>There’s also the simple fact that Sanders ran in the primary of a party to which he was proudly not technically a member.

>Sanders ran a strong race, to be sure, and surprised every Democrat in the country. That’s beyond doubt. But so is the fact that, despite her flaws, Clinton didn’t need the DNC to win the nomination.

You can critic the superdelegate system 100%, you can critic the DNC's not being neutral, but your claim is that they actively worked against him, despite your links not providing this crucial evidence for such an accusation & the CNN conclusion seems to highlight more that it's likely due to Sanders just not having the infrastructure and long-term cred that Clinton had.
The only thing I can think of that shouldn't result in a big societal argument would be quality air filters in schools and workplaces. Preferably with a CO2 monitor so people get used to checking if air is relatively clean or not.

But as someone with long covid I've given up on anything being done.
> lowest performing students losing more ground

It's a verboten topic in many places, but is it possible that children of the lowest performers are also low performers?

And is it possible that the lowest performers at math might not in fact also be low performers at reproduction?

Has anyone dared collect data on such things?
the two things are both true. mass immigration is causing problems and elites are using as a distraction to push through right-wing economic reforms
I read that. It's an inverse of what you describe above: bankruptcy is ongoing, all accounts are already frozen. However the debtor asks the court to unfreeze them, resume the normal operation, resume all ACH operations except for chargebacks because they suspect fraud. It never says the bank was obliged to honor reversals with insufficient funds out of pocket, it's not even close. Accounts in question have sufficient funds.

Now here's a legally binding document that actually controls reversals and returns of ACH entries: NACHA: A Complete Guide to the Rules Governing the ACH Network [1] All newer versions are paywalled but for a question you claim is essential to the US banking the 2005 version should suffice. Here's what I see after reading it for two hours.

> Except as otherwise provided for in subsection 6.1.3 (Restrictions on Right to Return), an RDFI may return an entry for any reason.

I didn't find any restrictions that disallow immediate return of the REVERSAL entry with reason code "R01 Insufficient Funds". Reversal entry of a credit entry is a normal debit entry with a word "REVERSAL" in it.

Now the originator can potentially dishonor the return:

> An ODFI may dishonor a return entry (1) if it can substantiate that the RDFI failed to return the entry within the time limits established by these rules, thus causing either the ODFI or Originator to suffer a loss, or (2) if the return entry contains incorrect information, does not
include all information required by Appendix Five (Return Entries), or otherwise fails to comply with the
requirements of Appendix Five. To dishonor a return entry, the ODFI must transmit a dishonored return entry complying with Appendix Five to its ACH Operator within five banking days after the Settlement Date of the return entry.

However the possible reasons for dishonoring is very limited and doesn't include "we really need that money" reason. Besides filling errors the only real reason is the time limit that doesn't apply here.

So, I can't find any concrete proof that the receiving bank must always honor the reversal ACH entry, especially at loss. The topic of losses from erroneous entries is mentioned multiple times but never in such context.

It maybe a confusion of ACH network rules with Visa/MC rules that do have this requirement in some cases, don't know.

[1] https://archive.org/stream/gov.law.nacha.ach.2005/nacha.ach....
>negotiating the validity of competing logical arguments

ChatGPT would soon do that for you better than you do it yourself. That begs the question - what is the core competency of humans? I see so far only the one - the ability to discover, to dig further into unknown. I think though once we get ChatGPT a bit further, such an ability would be pretty easy to add, and it would do much better than humans as it would be able to generate, prune, evaluate, verify hypotheses much faster and at incomparably larger scale/numbers.
Preliminary Judgement in WPEngine vs. Automattic [pdf]
There are regularly PISA reports on European countries that split the data by natives (n-generation Turks are usually counted here) and immigrants. Sometimes all the immigrants are in one single group, sometimes there is fine-grained data (Somalis do very poorly, probably to nobody's surprise).
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Looks like most countries are up on 4th grade math, and quite a few are down or flat on 8th grade math. My sense is in 8th grade math, countries below a certain performance level are able to increase performance, while countries above a certain level are more likely to experience decreases in growth or actual decreases. Is mass COVID infection setting a ceiling on cognitive performance as is documented in the scientific literature for years?
Japan is (and was) a pretty ethnically homogeneous place; the largest indigenous minorities are the Ryukyuans and the Ainu. The Ryukyuan languages aren't all that different from Japanese in the first place, and the Ainu were subjected to forced assimilation that has made many ethnic Ainu unable to speak the language, and while I'm not sure of the speaker count in the 1940s, I doubt it was that high. While their imperial possessions at the time would have included lots of other ethnicities, incorporating Korean or Chinese code talkers wouldn't have been that helpful (not that hard to find people who speak those languages), and the size of their Pacific Island groups would have likely struggled to produce enough adequate code talkers. Although the institutional racism of the country was probably enough to forestall any plans in the first place.

It's also worth pointing out why the use of Navajo code talkers was so successful. Part of that is that it's from a language family that was poorly known by linguists at the time. But even within that language family, Navajo is pretty different (compare how different English is from other Germanic languages, or indeed most Indo-European languages). It's also a fiendishly complex language; like, there's no regular verbs--that would make attempts to crack it via standard cryptanalytic techniques rather more difficult. (Also worth pointing out, it was a code within Navajo so that even when the Japanese pressed a Navajo POW into translating the messages, they couldn't crack it).
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Yes, they did use Matt's Hacker News comments against him. (p24)

The more relevant outcome of WPEngine getting the injuction is in Section F (p40), which includes removing that WordPress login checkbox.
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Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A Change of Hats
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I suspect immigrants may not be the issue either?

But I agree, blacks and Pacific Islanders combined don't comprise enough of the population to be causing the drop in numbers. I removed the lowest performers from the data entirely, and could only count one group that actually performed on a level indicating a readiness to process next concepts. And that group, I'm assuming, is comprised of a large number of immigrants.

So, until it can be explained why no one other than asians performed satisfactorily, I'm just not sure the data supports this drop being about immigrants. We obviously have a lot of work to do fixing the education system in this country, and the people out here talking about immigrants or blacks are, for whatever reason, trying to get in the way of doing that work.

The data is clearly stating that there is a problem here. And, in the US anyway, that problem exists in every demographic but one.

ETA: Again, the level for readiness to process next concepts is set at 550 for TIMSS.
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Nice post. Thank you.
Your comment is kind of confusing to me, because I don't understand how you're grouping kids. By school/district/city/county/state?
Or is it that cars are now so expensive that you don't want appear to be showing off and so choose white and black cars that don't turn heads? Anti-conspicuous consumption?

>pastel colors

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=honda+diffused+sky+blue&iax...
Belief in God implies some effect on one's behavior, unless you believe in a completely impersonal Prime Mover that retires thereafter.

The notion that one is a Boltzmann brain doesn't really change anything. If you are, there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. So the only sensible thing is to assume that you aren't, regardless of probabilities.
I don’t disagree. I need to point out that I used the word “let,” not “force.”
Yes you have to use appropriate methods for the task/problem at hand. This is uncontroversial.

Body doubling is good for clear tasks with clear outcomes. When you're at the "figuring out what to even do here" stage, you need a different approach. Sometimes the most productive path forward is to sit in a hammock and just think for 3 hours.