skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China alone has 1.4 billion people.

There's some clues that their population count isn't accurate and would be closer to 1.2 billion in reality, not that it changes the conclusion.
> by doubting, you've already ruled it out, haven't you?

So you are attempting to create an environment where reasonable doubt is impossible. This behavior is actually part of the reason I have doubts.

> we know corals will be dead in the next few decades

Do we?

> The mass extinction event is underway and we aren't doing enough to stop it.

This is a clever dodge of the original question. Can you explain to me when our current inaction reaches a point where no response will ever be able to overcome the drivers of this mass extinction? Do you have an estimate you can share?
Not at all because they are all tech directors or high level programmers who have been paid well to do it for decades.
Weed is a drug. Drugs are tools. Weed makes things bother you less. It's obviously possible to take it too far.
Anyone remember T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?
>I was thinking you were saying that you had examples of people who were successful because they smoked weed

No, and I'm not disputing that weed is harmful.

What I took issue with in the parent comment is that it insinuates that smoking weed is a guarantee of a shitty life. I disagree with the weight of the harm they imply.

There is a lot of other factors involved, and a lot more nuance and context to consider.
This prompts questions about influencing kids...

With some generations of kids, you might be able to convince them that the people who want to keep them down... would be happy for them to become spaced-out stoners.

With current kids, it really is true that many would be happy to keep kids down. (Look at the dumbing-down and manipulating behavior of many top tech and media companies.)

But can you convince the kids of that?

And, even if kids thought that the dumbing-down was real, and a tool of oppression and exploitation, would they feel motivated to fight back? And would they know how?

Or is any youth rebellion and fighting instinct already in in some defeated, post mode, maybe counterintuitive to earlier generations. (Like, for example, they're subverting that they're supposed to rebel, and instead leaning towards nihilistic indulgence and indifference?)
It is also uninformed to say that they aren't. You're being pedantic. You know what muppetman meant.
1. Awesome and well done!

2. But it doesn't have the classic "win" sound that I remember so fondly :(

3. Prepare to be destroyed by Nintendo
I am pretty much in similar situation, the contradictions can sometimes drive me nuts, maybe I should try weed
Arbitrage opportunities :)
"Don’t drink, don’t do drugs" is still such awfully effective advice.
> Unanimous consensus is an impossible goal.

I know this. I was responding to the OPs appeal to authority.

> Overwhelming agreement among experts is as gold as standards get.

What is this agreement? That it will eventually happen? That's not much of an agreement.

> I don't think anyone believes that climate change is a quick duration species-existential event.

Among those who "agree" is there a common timeframe that they estimate? Or do they all have varying opinions on this?

> That's definitely on the table.

We have nuclear weapons. In bunkers. Aimed at "targets." Everything is on the table. This isn't useful.
Gruesome, in a crash like this, if there were any survivors from the impact, the water would likely have finished them off.
It wouldn't be foolish. The US has an active cult of personality, and whatever the leader says, half the country believes it unquestioningly. If OpenAI is said to be protecting America and DeepSeek is doing terrible, terrible things to the children (many smart people are saying it), there'll be an overnight pivot to half the country screaming for it to be banned and harassing anyone who says otherwise.

Who cares if some people think you look foolish when you have a locked down 500 billion dollar investment guarantee?
Pixel 7 pro phones latest camera was the biggest disappointment for me. I usually have been happy with pixels but it has trouble focusing on infinity, and the image stabilization on the 5x zoom lens is so jumpy it's worse than nothing at all. I thought about trying to get it warrantied or something but was already sick of spending hours at the Verizon store trying to get my trade-in credit.

And to get the full advertised resolution (which you have to enable in the photo toggles) you have to tolerate a delayed shutter button and a "long exposure" for it to do the computational photography or something. So it's useless to expect full resolution with kids or action.
this sounds like a parody comment
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, regardless of which country you have a problem with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As someone working in aviation safety, this is heartbreaking and awful to watch. The efforts of CAST and ASIAS in reducing aviation safety accidents have been very successful, but of course we still have so much to do.
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The horrific news out of America today has me seriously questioning what devices to use going forward.

http://nypost.com/2025/01/29/us-news/trump-announces-up-to-30k-illegal-immigrants-will-be-sent-to-guantanamo-bay/

I’m currently a heavy user of the Apple ecosystem. Given Cook’s donation to and presence on the stage at the inauguration I feel this is no longer tenable. The problem is I’m not aware of viable alternative devices that aren’t made by one of the companies who were also up there on the stage.

It prompts me to ask, are there any viable MacBook and iPhone alternatives, which aren’t produced by the companies that were up on stage with Trump. Even more ideal would be devices that orginate from within the European Union/away from the US?

What brands are working in this space?

Or are we stuck?

As a consumer the line has to be drawn somewhere, and at some time. I know issues with these companies already existed. I’m keen to understand potential paths forward.
...boomer submarines exist.

Nuclear second strike has always been from the submarines, which guarantee a response within minutes.

Versus your proposal here of launching a highly visible rocket, to manipulate a highly visible object, with a flight time measured in days to weeks that's mostly ballistic.

Frankly: this is strategic nonsense.
If you listen to the ATC recording, around 15:50, they instruct the helicopter to watch for traffic, specifically this flight, and clears them for virtual separation.

It's the helo's fault. They likely misjudged the plane due to assuming it was a large jet but it was a regional jet, so it was way closer than they thought it was.

It's a tragedy, but I don't see how it would be ATC's fault. But that's just my 2 cents.
Optimizing a distance calculation in a MySQL query (2009)
Not a full ride of course, but a scholarship of some kind? Definitely. Lots of scholarship money is out there and if you have the ability to get accepted at Stanford you undoubtedly qualify for many scholarships.

Frankly if you are a student from a US high school accepted at Stanford and you don’t have a scholarship it’s because you probably made zero effort to get one.
Weed is a drug. Drugs affect people differently. The question is: do you want to roll the dice?
It's way to early to say but one of the threads seemed to indicate the helicopter pilot was told about the airplane and instructed to maintain visual separation. I used to be a military air traffic controller and that was fairly common practice but I wasn't aware this is something that happens in civil aviation where usually the margins should be much higher.

Crazy and sad. I guess we'll learn more over the next few days. Going into the water is maybe better than crashing on land. Hopefully some people make it.

EDIT: Found this: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc_html...
This does not read to me as a good thing. Making significant earnings from speculative investments unrelated to your core activity means you had a massive upside from a risk. The problem will be pressure to repeat the outcome will double down on the risk side with inevitable outcome of a significant loss.

AWA, the last significant Australian electronics company basically went south on high risk forex 3 decades ago. This is a well trodden path.

If the earnings are a significant component of a quarter the underlying business isn't doing as well as it should, and so share value to core business is lacking.
You're statistically more likely to become a burnout drunk than a burnout stoner.

Literally every highly successful person you look up to in tech has been a proponent of weed usage, hell some even went farther with psychedelics.

Like op, I too attribute a lot of my success to being a daily user of weed since I was 12.
There’s an effort to restrict certain regulatory rule-making where it’s ideologically convenient, but it isn’t “returning” regulatory power. That rulemaking authority isn’t derived by some bullshit executive order, but by Federal law, as implemented by congress.

Congress has never ceded power to anyone. They wield legislative authority and power of the purse, and wield it as they see fit. The special interests campaigning about this are extreme reactionaries whose stated purpose is to make government ineffective.
We are all like this some of the time. If anyone is like this consistently, then something is wrong.
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>POSSE

What does this mean? (Googling wasn't helpful.)
Yeah, that's not a true measure of intelligence.
I think they mean the fees / commission
BBC live updates: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy7kxx74yxlt
Why Meta Is Paying $25 Million to Settle a Trump Lawsuit
Well Microsoft is using Github to put developers out of a job.

So I wouldn't feel all that much sympathy for them.
> DeepSeek is more affiliated and partnered with the CCP...

Given what we know about the PRISM program, it's a distinction without much difference.
> Their CEO met with the premier the other day.

While I agree with you overall ... have you heard of Mar a Largo?
What do you mean by Asian companies? Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai companies have very different cultures.
As far as as I known East Asian cultures are less expressive than the US. Being blending in and not drawing too much attention to oneself is often seen as a virtue, whereas in the U.S., standing out and asserting oneself is more encouraged. Indians are different though.

Ps. Most people will take your words at face value and dismiss them.
G'day, I head up the Sublime Merge team.

Thank you for taking the time to share all this feedback - I genuinely appreciate it and will be looking into this further.

A couple of things to note:

> It puts headings on diff sections. I want to copy text that from Sublime Merge and search for the identifier in my editor. Sorry, S.O.L.

I've just added support for this internally, thank you for the feedback!

> I want to search for things across changes - sorry, S.O.L. - "someIdenifier" doesn't exist in the current code. When was it deleted? Let me search.

You can use the search tool (Ctrl + F) and add the query `contents: someIdentifier`. It will return every commit which contains that term within the changes.

Thanks again for the feedback!
Try reading, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. It won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History, among other accolades. I certainly enjoyed it, though I read it on the heels of the 2008 financial crisis, which may have made it feel especially salient.
I was going to respond that most games from the PS3/360 era used p2p but I don't know about recent ones. But GTA5 was a PS3/360 game.
It wasn't a police chopper, it was a military VH-60, also known as a "White Hawk" [1]. It's a VIP transport helicopter, the same type that is used to transport the president.

~The flight track of the helicopter [2] starts at a property in McLean, VA (edited to remove likely inaccurate info)~

The chopper was based out of Fort Belvoir, and based on similar past flight tracks, looks like it probably took off from there too. CNN is reporting that there were 3 soldiers onboard, and no VIPs.

1: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_VH-60N_White_Hawk

2: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae313d&lat=38.952&lon=-...
Don’t waste your time. Office or Google.
You can get a nanodegree from udacity:

https://www.udacity.com/course/robotics-software-engineer--n...

Or a graduate certificate from Stanford:

https://online.stanford.edu/programs/robotics-and-autonomous...
Does anyone have the flight path for the helicopter? (Tail number PAT25). FlightAware doesn't show it but it might have been tracked by open source ADS-B receivers.

This helicopter was often utilized for VIP transport.
This whole thread is pretty funny to me, because from a group that generally prides themselves on being logical/rational and valuing the scientific method, it just highlights why anecdotes are generally useless in topics like this.

Sure, this is just a forum, and it's not like many folks are performing experiments with statistical analysis on this topic. I just think it's funny how the language that people using imply that they are so sure that their anecdote is the right one: "This is such an obvious problem", "Your position is harmful", "Some of the smartest programmers I know", etc. I mean, the whole reason statistics was invented was to actually bring rigor to observational analysis.

At a previous company I worked at, the server from where we shared A/B test results was named, as an ironic joke, "Obviously". It was done to deliberately highlight the point that it was pretty easy to come to any conclusion (right or wrong) and use language like "obviously" to kind of imply that the experiment wasn't necessary. I think there were even some example where this kind of language was used to argue the exact opposite possible outcomes to highlight why statistical analysis is so important.
Happy for you, seriously.

Getting this subthread back on topic, the study defines heavy (or medium) use - i.e., the problem categories in the study - as 1000+ (or 11-1000 days of usage). Are you a medium-heavy user?

I don't think you being an exception disproves the parent's generality that on the average heavy weed usage doesn't correlate with people in your position.
> It's in their best interests to cast doubt on that competitor's achievements.

it is, but the 2nd order logic says that if they are trying to cast doubt, it means they've got nothing better to offer and casting doubt is the only step they have.

if i was an investor in openAI, this should be very scary as it simply means I've overvalued it.
You end up with the tiktok situation. Bytedance is a singapore company, but it is forced to sell to a US entity.
Agreed- in fact, I think for the ones I know, it is a performance enhancer. For me, if I have an incredibly boring job to do, smoking weed enables me to keep going many many hours beyond what I could do without it. As I've gotten older, I've gotten used to boredom, so it's not necessary anymore, but still makes it much more fun
Not really a language that "everybody is thinking about" though.
But in containers we use the "veth" devices, which aren't even virtio and are only ever routed routed locally on the Linux kernel. So my question is, if this sort of optimization is possible, what does it sacrifice compared to veth to do it, given the constraints are (apparently) the same?
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I'd argue that you could write only for yourself for your entire life and still have a successful blog.
I was just wondering if this is even feasible?

The amount of iterations of training that would be needed for DeepSeek to actually learn anything from OpenAI would seem to be an insane amount of requests from a non-local AI, which you’d think would be immediately obvious to OpenAI just by looking at suspicious requests?

Am I correct in this assumption or am I missing something? Is it even realistic that something like this is possible without a local model?
I agree that short term memory loss being a side effect of heavy use is common knowledge to anyone who is or knows a heavy user.

But I think you shouldn't be so confident that smoking when young is a huge problem long term.

I would have been in the 'heavy user' category by the time I was 17, and I've had the odd experience of persistent short term memory loss (e.g., having multiple people tell me 'you just asked me that' with a bewildered look). I also quit smoking when I was 17, and haven't had any noticable symptoms since I was 20 (> 20 years ago). I doubt if anyone who knows me would say I'm not 'successful.'

Not recommending heavy use, to be sure. Just saying that it's not necessarily a permanent, long-term effect.
I think the setup in GP is something like 0.1uF tantalum + 47uF electrolytic. 0.1uF stops CPU crashing and electrolytic stops CPU passing out. Tantalum fails in shorting mode and have since been replaced with ceramics that fail open, of course.
While that is theoretically true, it misses everything interesting (kind of like the No Free Lunch Theorem, or the VC dimension for neural nets). The key is that the parent model may have been trained on a dubious objective like predicting the next word of randomly sampled internet text - not because this is the objective we want, but because this is the only way to get a trillion training points.

Given this, there’s no reason why it could not be trivial to produce a child model from (filtered) parent output that exceeds the child model on a different, more meaningful objective like being a useful chatbot. There's no reason why this would have to be limited to domains with verifiable answers either.
How do you figure? The videos of the crash that I can find on X just show a small airline light suddenly turning into a low-res explosion. (Edit: ah. yes.)
I don't disagree but they also don't display any of the symptoms laid out in the original post you are replying to.

Also I was replying to a person who signed up specifically to make a single troll post so I replied in kind.
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Link: https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/how-does-the-duck-hunt... Super low-tech and amazing ingenuity in making something work within the limitations of the tech they had then.
I think deepseek accidentally also killed google for me, not just chatgpt.
Because of the visible reasoning part.
It is absolutely fascinating to read the fantasy produced by people who (apparently) think they live in a sci-fi movie.

The companies whose datasets you're "poisoning" absolutely know about the attempts to poison data.
All the ideas I've seen linked on this side so far about how they're going to totally defeat the AI companies' models sound like a mixture of wishful thinking and narcissism.
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You can even buy them from Amazon. The cards don't have any sort of exposed code to scan when it gets sold to activate it like other gift cards. Nothing on them makes one identifiable from another until you scratch it off.
To quote the order itself:

> This order does not apply to military personnel of the armed forces or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety.

ATC surely falls under public safety. Additionally, the ATC issues stretch well back into the Biden term, and you can find plenty of articles discussing the controversy elsewhere.
Interesting your only metirc of success is how much money someone has.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874301.
Do you have a link to the recording?
Oh man. I’m in Wichita and am getting a bunch of texts.

Texted my friends that fly that route regularly and most have texted back.

It can all be gone in an instant, tell those you love what they mean to you.

edit: everyone is accounted for
Is it acceptable business practice (aka not fraud) to take money from people when an even laymen in the field can detect the level of lies. Rational human beings don't like being tricked, she was a magician of medicinal claims and knew the showmanship requirements.

Extraordinary claims require some kind of data and facts to back the claim, which there was none. There is no evidence to believe they could develop this technology, optimism yes, but evidence no. It was fraud from the start.
[2] shows the helicopter taking off 2 miles away from the old saudi embassy in McLean marked “permanently closed” on google maps. (The current embassy is in DC proper, directly across the river from DCA airport)

I don’t think thats strong evidence that it took off from the old Saudi Embassy - thats pretty far away even given your caveat about accuracy.

Edit: it looks to me like the black hawk was coming from somewhere else with its ADS-B turned off entirely, and then turned on ADS-B once it reached the potomac to approach DCA. The first two datapoints of that flight already show it going 110mph, which its unlikely to be able to accelerate to in just 0.2miles after take off.

Edit 2: The route also looks very similar to this flight from 11 days earlier (but reversed in direction): https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/PAT25 This shows the Blackhawk at 300 feet passing by DCA on what seems like a routine or training flight? I don't know how to look up historical flights to see if this is a commonly-flown route. On that flight, the Black Hawk flew past DCA at 300 feet of altitude, and the last FlightAware data for the American Eagle passenger flight showed 400 feet of altitude.
I'm from the United Kingdom and we can visit Japan for 6 months. I should start planning.
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1% is 1 in 100.

If you detected 100 objects with a 1% chance to hit, you're actually very likely to be hit by more the 1. There's a lot of objects up there, fortunately the chances they hit us are a lot lower then that so far.
Yep. The success metric isn’t unidimensional here. Having external readers is just a cherry on top. I didn’t even think anyone else would find my writings interesting, let alone useful.
> "Biometric information: Sold or Shared ℹ: Yes"

This from the newsatlas.com privacy policy. Sad how "privacy" policies these days don't even try. "Yep we're selling all your data."

As for the study, it doesn't seem confident in its own findings, admitting to various shortcomings of the data in conclusion. But in general it should be no surprise that "heavy use" of cannabis is asking for trouble at any age.

Some will get away with it, similar to functioning alcoholics who still excel in their work. But for most of us, my opinion is to avoid heavy use of any drug, including alcohol. Cannabis is more enjoyable and intellectually or creatively insightful with occasional use anyway, otherwise it's more haze than high.

Even if the worst that happens is you have a 10 year zone-out where you do very little, you still lost that 10 years. There is a small exception: you really wanted to zone out for 10 years!
> But this time is different.

Is it? Time will tell, but it wasn't "different" even during the crypto craze when CUDA was literally printing money. We were promised world-changing ASICs just like with Cereberas and Groq, and ended up with nothing in the end.

When AI's popularity blows over (and it will, like crypto), will the market have responded fast enough? From where I'm standing, it looks like every major manufacturer (and even the Chinese market) is trying the ASIC route again. And having watched ASICs die a very painful and unsatisfying death in the mining pools, I'd like to avoid manufacturing purpose-made ICs that are obsolete within months. I'm simply not seeing the sort of large-scale strategy that threatens Nvidia's actual demand.