skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the Mathew principle all the way down.

Actually it's a bit worse, in the sense that if you exhibit competence without the "appropriate pedigree" all you'll get is punishment.
"This suggests that academic success is shaped by structural forces similar to those that govern social mobility, where the advantage of having a top mentor can lead to a self-reinforcing cycle of success"

This is not surprising. Poor or rich, if you have good family support, you have a much better chance at success. This can be seen with rich kids with absent/uncaring parents blowing all of their money within a couple of years/going to jail/becoming alcoholics or drug addicts.
The ARC AGI questions can be a little tricky, but the solutions can generally be easily explained. And you get 3 tries. So, the 3 best descriptions of the solution votes on by 10 people is going to be very effective. The problem space just isn't complicated enough for an unofficial "leader" to sway the group to 3 wrong answers.
> 56% of Americans cannot cover a $1000 emergency expense. Insurance absolutely is a lifeline that most people need to avoid financial ruin.

If you can't muster $1000, then you are in financial ruin. Insurance is pointless for these people.
In everyday life, parents and children do not choose each other, whereas in academia, mentors and mentees actively select one another.

I don't think the distinction is nearly as concrete as the authors seem to assume.

Parents, in choosing their mates, certainly have in mind a broad set of concepts about how their offspring should turn out, and even the most gentle and supportive of them have values, behaviors, and disciplinary strategies they put into place to mold their children - obviously not a guaranteed outcome, but certainly on the whole correlative in many dimensions of child outcomes we could measure.

In the opposite direction, I would not assume mentor and mentee relationships in academic are as fluid and breakable as the author might assume. Students make major decisions about where even to attend graduate programs based on prospective but not promised guarantees to work with mentors, and mentors take on mentees based on initial impressions of research compatibility that don't always turn out as positive as they might have hoped, and it's not that easy when grant money or institutional budgeting is at stake to reverse these decisions.
Honestly speaking, I don't know for sure but I also spend time thinking about it and figured it mostly comes down to the politics of the issue. Although I can only comment on the German part of the issue, the overall discourse is likely rather similar.

> And that too, specifically, Germany ?

The discourse around the energy market in Germany is mostly centered around the inequality of the German energy market. Germany is a single price zone. However, this price is only the bidding price on the electricity market. In addition to the energy price, there are taxes and network transfer fees (Netzentgelte) that make up the final electricity price that is paid by the consumer. In the northern states the network fees are pretty high because of the high amount of wind turbines being connected to the grid, so the consumers in the northern states pay comparatively expensive prices, especially considering the vast amount of cheap wind energy that is in available in their network regions [0].

In southern states like Bavaria the network fees are less of an issue, resulting in lower energy prices overall (which sometimes makes sense because Bavaria has a lot of solar power installed). The north (eastern) states are also economically relatively weak, so the impression is that these regions essentially subsidize the "cheap" electricity for the economically well off states in southern Germany, hindering the development of new industries in those states.

Beyond those issues there is also the ever increasing cost for redispatch which is placing an increasing burden on electricity consumers [1]

> Is it targeting green energy

In Germany it is certainly targeting the green energy by proxy and the green party in particular. German politics has been a pretty shitshow ever since I turned old enough the care, but the last 3 years were super bad.

> Is it targeting Germany ?

I think Germany in particular is targeted largely because of the decision to phase out nuclear power. This is a decision that is for some reason widely unpopular nowadays, even with people who celebrated the decision 10 years ago. The stuttering transformation in Germany probably also has some side effects in countries that we're (re-) importing from, namely raising the prices due to higher demand.

With the power of hindsight you can argue that exiting coal before nuclear would have been a smarter play, but here we are.

TL;DR: Energy grid transformation is a bit of a (political) shitshow

[0]: German https://www.stromauskunft.de/strompreise/strompreis-atlas/

[1]: German https://www.ews-schoenau.de/blog/artikel/steigende-kosten-du...
I disagree entirely, and I have personally witnessed people lose themselves to drug use.

Anyone with a relative dying of addiction has no doubt been long exhausted in watching them circle the pit of their addiction. They are going to be under no illusions regarding the chances there were to escape it, and the choices made to remain there.

Asking if they were escaping from a miserable reality vs chasing a high isn't offensive. It's just dealing with the reality of the situation as it is. The only person I see being offended is someone in denial, blaming the drugs alone rather than allowing any blame to the person using them, trying to imagine them an innocent victim without agency in the matter.

The question is a good one. It actually looks for what caused everything to go wrong, rather than just being pointlessly offended on behalf of the imagined umbrage you think others might feel.
Problem Driven Development
You cannot tell the difference between the two veins of AI. Why do you have such a hard time understanding that?
If you have a nanny/preschool/daycare that is letting your child be raised by TV, the solution isn’t instead have your child be raised by AI.

The solution is to replace the nanny/reschool/daycare with a better nanny/preschool/daycare.
Yeah, that's why I mentioned creating a very generous distribution for the probability if you don't want the risk of being wrong. You can set up the maximization step just the same, and the wider the distribution, the more conservative it will tell you to be, until ultimately it says not to take the bet at all, since you have no edge. If you're really risk-adverse, you can go with a full min-max approach, where you bet as if the actual probability is unfavorable as possible. You just end up making suboptimal choices compared to someone who (accurately) puts a narrower distribution on the probability.

Also, your estimate of the true probability doesn't have to be that exact, if your edge is big enough to begin with. Once I made great profits (betting with fake internet points) just by naively taking the sample proportion from a small sample. In fact, the event turned out to be more 'streaky' than a weighted coin flip, but it didn't matter, since everyone else there was betting on vibes.

In any case, it's not like there's just the trivial Kelly formula, and woe to you if its toy model doesn't apply precisely to your situation. It's a general principle that can be adapted to all sorts of scenarios.
Their arguments for "won't go up much" are reasonable but their arguments for "will actually fall enough to allow two generations to finally own homes" are pretty fucking nonsensical.

They're comparing to hosting dips in the world wars and while I assure you ww3 will have enough loss of life to make houses quite cheap a third time, you still won't want them because they'll be covered in radioactive contamination.

The issue isn't blind supply and demand, it's that we've made construction expensive through code and arbitrary supply chain constraints and we're planning to deport all the construction workers. Even if population grown naturally slows to zero we will simply stop building houses because it won't be profitable. That's what got us here in the first place.
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Millennials were the same for the ones born in the late 80s and early 90s.
Free listeners listen to ads which turns into dollars.

here's an industry blog report on the problem:

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/great-big-spotify-sca...
> I would bet that it would make zero difference in the amount of plays those tracks got.

Well given that they are inserted into generated playlists and offered up as "similar" playlist suggestions instead of tracks by authentic artists, probably not.

For this to really be resolved they would have to stop putting these tracks in those lists or suggestions panels.

The fact that they evidently list the same track under completely different titles suggests that they are not going to act ethically here.
Perhaps they could make more if they just post them all on Youtube and monetize them [1] and thus remain transparent to the public. Even better, link the cam over wifi to the patrol car and stream to dispatch when the officer is on a call. Dispatch would then know when all-officers-available is required even before the officer calls for it and they would have a description of the perp along with their vehicle even if the officer is down. That provides 3 copies of the video/audio stream that would be harder to tamper with. Log to dispatch if the officer turns off the camera. Set up a delayed rsync the dispatch body-cam server to a public server in a DMZ that is behind a CDN so there is enough delay to notify next-of-kin.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/@PoliceActivity/videos
Is its head on the left or the right?
I'm pretty sure Google is milking them now by just selling ad words, they no longer care about the search results, just how much money they make
Please do. I'm certain you can't, and you'll have to stop much sooner than you think. Appeals to triviality are the first refuge of the person who thinks they know, but does not.
Apple is the only company that has managed a single CPU transition successfully. That they actually did it three times is incredible.

I think people are blind to the amount of pre-emptive work a transition like that requires. Sure, Linux and FreeBSD support a bunch of architectures, but are they really all free of bugs due to the architecture? You can't convince me that choosing an esoteric, lightly used arch like Big Endian PowerPC won't come with bugs related to that you'll have to deal with. And then you need to figure out who's responsible for the code, and whether or not they have the hardware to test it on.

It happened to me; small project I put on my ARM-based AWS server, and it was not working even though it was compiled for the architecture.
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I've used VAX and IBM systems and never heard anyone call a VAX a "mainframe". Looking into it, I get similar descriptions where they definitely were mainframe-class but refrained from calling them "mainframes" outright to distinguish them from IBMs. Other names Super VAX, VAXcluster/VMScluster etc were common. There probably were some that called their VAX computers "mainframe" but I'd never known of one--it just has the wrong connotations. The VAX systems were actually far more advanced in most ways--except for deployment scale.
Several states have tried that. Some have already repealed the laws because they were a disaster.
> Always on access or just occasionally?

You have quite a few granular choices.

> You can share your current location once, temporarily share your location while you're on the way to an expected destination, or share your ongoing Live Location... for an hour, until the end of the day, or indefinitely.

In Messages, you can use Check In to share your location... Your location is shared only if there's an unexpected delay during your trip or activity and you're unresponsive.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105104
The problem is that not everything it has replaced was originally ephemeral.

In a the Internet is both too ephemeral (self-hosted blogs disappear, Youtube videos get taken down) and too persistent at the same time; I don't think that most Twitter posts of non-public figures would need to remain public forever by default, for example, and I don't think I need to mention various data breaches.

The Internet Archive somewhat mitigates the first issue, but it makes me pretty nervous that there's essentially just one organization doing what used to be much more distributed to various physical libraries.

For the second one, I hope we'll see better solutions (both technical and social) as the technology and our interactions with it mature.
I disagree with your characterization of my comment and I think you greatly missed the point I was making. The OP presented a false dichotomy as if these things aren't woven in with each other in a large feedback loop.

You comment falsely assumes that I don't have familiarity or loss stemming from addiction.
It is also highly likely that the cost of that phone was externalized onto a worker in a poorer country that doesn’t even have basic necessity like a running water, 24 hour electricity, food security, etc.
Sorting through twenty years of spammy email is one of those things that seem like an llm would actually be good for.
What’s the optimal point for pricing? Is it better to fill to 98 and charge less or fill to 93 and charge more?

We had some finds that lived in some odd the downtown units and their occupancy rate was quite low 70-80% because they were charging way above what people were willing to pay but they never adjusted. There are other factors at play that might be affecting average fill rate. Different plays seem to optimize for different rates.
Please do share where I can reliably store my backups for free!
There's one important part about risk management though. If your Waymo does crash, the company is liable for it, and there's no one to shift the blame onto. If a human driver crashes, that's who you can shift liability onto.

Same with any company that employs AI agents. Sure they can work 24/7, but every mistake they make the company will be liable for (or the AI seller). With humans, their fraud, their cheating, their deception, can all be wiped off the company and onto the individual
AGI would have a major impact on human work. Currently the hype is much greater than the reality. But it looks like we are starting to see some of the components of an AGI and that is cause for discussion of impact, but not panicked discussion. Even the chatbot customer service has to be trained on the domain. Still it is most useful in a few specific ways:

Routing to the correct human support

Providing FAQ level responses to the most common problems.

Providing a second opinion to the human taking the call.

So, even this most relevant domain for the technology doesn't eliminate human employment (because it's just not flexible or reliable enough yet).
It proves there’s a bug in one indie web game, and nothing more. It proves nothing about the process or the ecosystem or what can happen in the future with APIs.

> Even with WebGL 2.0, there is nothing at the level of iOS and Android OpenGL ES 3.x games, after a decade.

The main thing it seems you’re confused about is that ES3 and WebGL2 are very similar, WebGL2 was designed to be compatible with ES3. Why do you believe that ES3 is far superior, and what features, exactly, do you believe ES3 has that WebGL2 doesn’t?
The language may have been harsh, but the message is not.

Why do you willingly give a company such as Spotify power over what music you listen to? There are better ways to discover new music if that's what you are after.

Try finding communities of people with similar tastes, sometimes they share their own curated playlists.
Tech companies have the same problems as the NBA. there used to be career stars like Claude Shannon developing cultures of excellence out of teams like IBM, but just like Larry Bird and the Celtics, the free agent market and stars chasing the dollar has diminished the culture and thus the product.
There's no point being rich in a world where the economy is unhealthy.
I am not expert in llm reasoning but I think because of RL. You cannot use AlphaZero to play other games.
easy, make the ad-money pool different from the subscription money pool
> Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

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You've had multiple people "misunderstand" your comment. I suggest reconsidering how you express whatever it is you are trying to say, as I and the others are responding to what you managed to actually communicate, whether that message was your intended one or no.
Wonderful, another albatross over the head of the x64 architecture.
I'm one of those people that growing up, was bombarded with negative talk about drink, drugs etc.
So I took more.
And will continue to do so.

Guess my age?

I give my kids my* advice. One had a 6 month period of getting fucked up, and now doesn't touch anything. Another, 'doesn't inhale', and has never touched alcohol.

They have also learned to shut the fuck up when being lectured by some teacher that is parrotting (sp?) the party line, and they howl at the 'touch drugs snd you'll become an addict' government bullshit.

My conclusion?

1/100: Scientists need to be young now to understand,
Where this ends is general intelligence though, where all more challenging tasks can simply be done by the model.

The scenario I fear is a "selectively general" model that can successfully destroy the field I'm in but keep others alive for much longer, but not long enough for me to pivot into them before actually general intelligence.
The buildings across the street from the city hall plaza are an interesting counterpoint or maybe complement to brutalism. They're the same cement architecture but the concave areas of the faces are filled with brick, so it looks like a blending of the architectural styles of older Boston neighborhoods (like adjacent Beacon Hill) and the brutalism of many of Boston's municipal buildings. It's a lot easier on the eyes.

There's plenty of brutalist architecture around Boston and Cambridge, though none is as pronounced as city hall, in its massive open square, which in winter keenly acts as a powerful wind tunnel to smite those who would walk through the plaza.
GP got it exactly right: I already am. There's no way for me to opt out of having self-driving cars on the streets I regularly cross as a pedestrian.
> how completely locked down the wireless carriers had things back then.

That was (and probably still is to some degree?) the case in the US. Here in this country SIM-locked phones have been forbidden for more than 20 years. Phone subscriptions have limited competition because the were only 4, later 3 operators. And the most aggressive price challenging service providers get acquired by the bigger ones.

But phones have fully free competition, you buy them from a domestic or international store, from your own operator, or from a competitor, just as you prefer.
I'm just pleasantly surprised that this stuff is played by humans at all. Maybe in 20 years we'll see some "best of mid-2020's streaming muzak" compilations pressed on expensive vinyl, like we got with the library music of yore not that long ago.
But you know if you have ever heard about call by name or value semantics.
You can't just be in your codebase and start doin' technical debt like that.
1a. Technical debt is when you...
1b. Okay, wait. Technical debt is when you write code but, like, the kind of code that you know Future You is gonna hate.
1c. Let me try this again.

1c-a. It's when you're coding and you think, "I'll fix this later," but then later turns into never. And now there’s spaghetti code in a project that was supposed to be a sleek pipeline.

1c-b. Like, imagine you're about to refactor something, but you go, "You know what? The deadline's tight, so I’m just gonna... not." That’s technical debt.

1c-b(1). If you're writing code and you think, "Wow, I hope no one sees this commit message," congratulations, you’ve accrued technical debt.

1c-b(2). It’s like leaving a TODO comment, except the TODO becomes, “Oops, it’s been in production for three years.”

1c-b(2)-a. You can write a clever workaround here, but the workaround has to work around the workaround of the workaround from three sprints ago.

1c-b(2)-b. Also, don't forget to include an inline comment that says, "This should be fine for now," which is developer code for “This is the next intern’s problem.”

1c-b(2)-b(i). Fun fact: the "for now" phase lasts forever, and the fix will never be fine.

1c-b(3). Seriously though. Technical debt is when your code does the thing but not in the way anyone would ever want it to. And if your app suddenly catches fire during peak traffic, that’s just the interest being collected.

Do not do technical debt, please.
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I’ve had my bank call me because of dubious online purchases, asking if it was me. The call was legitimate and my card number had been skimmed.
There just isn’t just one type of “cool” anymore. Media is extremely targeted and everyone interacts within their own bubbles to the point where they don’t know about the other bubbles. There are artists with 1B+ streams that I haven’t heard of, because none of the algorithms ever recommended it to me.

Same applies to “cool”ness, as there aren’t a handful of tastemakers that decide on “what’s more or less cool for a given environment”.
Music is actually an ideal candidate. I don't listen to music all day, and when I do listen to it, it's often something I've listened to before. My current collection is about 200GB and that includes a ton of stuff I've never listened to; it seems reasonable that a full life's worth of music could fit in 1TB, easily.
I don’t think Rust’s actual safety properties aren’t overhyped, although they may be subject to misunderstanding about their exact extent.

Concretely: spatial and temporal memory safety are good things, and Rust achieves both. It’s not unique in this regard, nor is it unique in not having a formal definition.
I don’t use the person tracking very often except on group vacations, but I track a vehicle with an AirTag after a car theft for a little peace of mind (along with other preventative measures). Every now and then it’s handy for my own devices, too, including alerting me when I’ve accidentally left one behind at a non-routine location.
Just use 2 normal cameras with 1 meter separation. There are some videos on deovr/quest with this kind stereo effect; for example clouds filmed from a airplane, they look like toy 3d clouds.
Humans and AIs are different, the next benchmark would be build so that it emphasize the weak points of current AI models where a human is expected to perform better, but I guess you can also make a benchmark that is the opposite, where humans struggle and o3 has an easy time.