skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say this as well. To say the human brain is a statistical machine is infinitely reductionistic being that we don't really know what the human brain is. We don't truly understand what consciousness is or how/where it exists. So even if we understand 99.99~ percent of the ohaycial brain, not understanding that last tiny fraction of it that is core consciousness means what we think we know about it can be up ended by the last little (arguably the largest though) bit. It's similar to saying you understand the inner working and intricacies of the life and society of new York city because you memorized the phone book.
It's just a guess. There are 40,000,000 men worldwide in the top 1% of any metric, and I am fairly certain it's safe to assume that Mahomes can throw, lift, sprint, run long-distance, and stands tall enough to place in that top 40M every time.

I suppose some argument could be made that he's probably more in the 90s for everything rather than 99, but he's a full-time professionally trained athlete in the most dominant NFL team currently active, so I don't think calling 99% absent any formal data is too crazy.
He benefits from superlative play calling and a superlative supporting cast (pacheco etc) with no way to clearly establish how much that benefits his stats. Contrast him with same size Caleb Williams and it gets interesting, for example.
Nothing to do with autism come on
The administration doesn't need to ignore the courts - the courts have building for decades to get to this point, where the unitary executive gets to do whatever they please and the courts exist solely to rubber-stamp the executive's actions.

He was declared immune for all actions he and he alone declares as official.

He will die in office, in his mid 90s. Democracy has been cancelled.
Democracy or the blob?
> Anyone can write very fast software if you don't mind it sometimes crashing or having weird bugs.

Isn’t that exactly what VCs want?
Remember Fedor Emilianenko? He was probably the best MMA fighter in the world around 2010, and he looked like this:

https://images.app.goo.gl/JZoqXvSbcnCSahkKA
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I wonder if people on Easter Island were telling each other this.
Look at Daniel Cormier too. Incredible athlete.
They do it even if it directly clashes with the project. Like for example Sonic 2 James Marsden playing a nerd while being more buff than beefcake Shemar Moore.
> the well-known shift towards men having bodybuilder level physiques

What's puzzling is that bodybuilder physiques aren't even attractive to most people. I don't mean physically fit and showing some muscle, I mean the extremes of Arnold and even more "built" guys. When you talk to normal people, they don't find it attractive. The people who universally find the bodybuilder physique attractive are other bodybuilders! It's a very "niche" look.

And it's well-known it's not a physique that correlates with actual physical strength or agility. It's just for show. Actual physical fitness doesn't look like that, and even bodybuilders admit this.
Can you specify what do you mean?
Calling American football “one of the most competetive sports on Earth” feels like a stretch. It’s big in US, but not that popular anywhere else.
The race to make RFID tags cheaper than barcodes
> Always self-hosted. Servers optional. No blockchain. No tokens. Free forever, in every sense.

Best thesis statement ever.
Someone please productize this
Can we please stop this bit of misinformation?

Trump: 77,168,458 votes (49.9%)

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/RESULTS/zjpqne...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/president-re...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/...

More people voted for Trump, but it wasn't half the country. There were a lot of people that did not vote at all. The most accurate would be to say that nearly half of the votes cast went for Trump. That is not half the country
Confirmation of the id.
For years I've been asking all the models this mixed up version of the classic riddle and they 99% of the time get it wrong and insist on taking the goat across first. Even the other reasoning models would reason about how it was wrong, figure out the answer, and then still conclude goat.

o3-mini is the first one to get it right for me. Transcript:

Me:
I have a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage and a boat. I want to get them all across the river. If I leave the goat and the wolf together, the goat will eat the wolf. If I leave the wolf and the cabbage together, the wolf will eat the cabbage. I can only take one at a time. How do I do it?

o3-mini
1. Take the wolf across to the right bank.
2. Return alone to the left bank.
3. Take the goat across to the right bank.
4. Bring the wolf back to the left bank.
5. Take the cabbage across to the right bank.
6. Return alone to the left bank.
7. Finally, take the wolf across to the right bank.

Me:
I have a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage and a boat. I want to get them all across the river. If I leave the goat and the cabbage together, the cabbage will eat the goat. If I leave the wolf and the cabbage together, the wolf will eat the cabbage. I can only take one at a time. How do I do it?

o3-mini
1. Take the cabbage to the right bank.
2. Go back empty to the left bank.
3. Take the wolf to the right bank.
4. Bring the cabbage back to the left bank.
5. Take the goat to the right bank.
6. Go back empty to the left bank.
7. Finally, take the cabbage to the right bank.
Do you mean when the current POTUS is attached as VP and then the newly elected POTUS steps down to elevate him to a third term?
See what it is like from a women's perspective

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Love-Hurts-Sociological-Explanati...

PG's talk about it reminds me of Rush Limbaugh talking about Net Neutrality. I disagreed with Rush about most things but most of the time I thought Rush had some understanding of the issues he talked about. His opposition to Net Neutrality came across as completely ignorant, he didn't seem to know what it was, he was just against it because the phone company told him to be against it, the same way that my son's trans friend hates J. K. Rowling because somebody told them to.

Unlike PG I can point to specific men and women, some trans, who have been hurt by it. That's a step up in evidence.

I've spent plenty of time looking at conference proceedings, review articles and such in the social sciences. If a literature search turns up a conclusive conclusion about anything it's because somebody wrote one paper and nobody followed it up for 20 years.
I've always understood it as by using principled rationalism, you will become _less wrong_ over time.
I couldn't find that conclusion. It seemed like a positive piece with discussion but not much critical analysis.
Watch any Chiefs game, then compare against 100 men that you know. How many of them have more strength, speed, and agility?
EV tax credits under the previous administration applied to almost every EV that wasn't a Tesla. They got Tesla its start, though, so the ladder must be pulled up.

Of course, carbon offsets are still a huge cash cow for Tesla, so Musk won't be eager to touch those.
Excited to try it, but I don't have a goodreads account. Could I import data from my calibre library directly?
It might be too big. I'm there right now, and the queues are so long that it's put me off from watching a lot of the talks.
There are different types of athleticism. Quarterback in the NFL is the most difficult and important position on the field. Without taking anything away from him, like most humans, Ronoldo wouldn't last a single NFL game.
| even in roles where it doesn't really fit the character.

I recently watched A Small Light with Bel Powley playing Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who hid Anne Frank.

It was solid miniseries, I recommend it. Not extraordinary, lots of tv melodrama but still worth it. Otto Frank doesn't get nearly enough attention for his prescience in trying to keep his family safe.

That said, the actor who plays Jan Gies, her husband, while playing the role very well, at some point takes his shirt off and reveals an absolutely incredibly bulked physique. A social worker in Nazi occupied 1940's Netherlands where people were treating ration cards like gold bullion and eating tulip soup because nothing else was left looked like he was consuming 4500 calories a day and possibly on a steroid stack that didn't exist yet.

He might as well have whipped out an iPhone, it took me out that much. I understand every actor is waiting for a call from Marvel these days, but I wish actors didn't feel so pressured to be ripped for every role. If I was the director I would have at least never put him in a shirtless scene and kept him in oversized suits.
this is the pattern:

- humans find useful concept X
- they describe it with label Y
- it's genuinely useful, it spreads
- It gets too big, Y is misunderstood and corrupted
- New group of humans rediscovers concept X, gives it label Z

This is the story of humanity. The good news is we're kind of (mostly) stumbling through a upwards spiral. Current religion would be unrecognizable to the people in ancient times. It was never meant to be something frozen in stone. Folklore and things changing as they're retold was a feature, not a bug.

There's a great write up on this [1], but TL;DR, religion is cultural technology. It succeeded in doing exactly what it tried to do at the time (get people to stop killing each other in tiny tribes and allow mass decentralized human coordination to build civilization & empires where humans could be safe from the elements of nature)

[1] https://defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/a-beginners-guide-...
Bitcoin never ceases to amaze me how people can understand 90% of how it works, what it's for etc but it takes the last 10% to turn them from someone who owns none, to someone who is all in.

I wonder if this guy filled in the remaining 10% of his knowledge over the last decade?
Unless you use steroids or won the genetic lottery, you won’t look much different in clothes compared to someone who never lifts weights.

There are proven short-term, medium-term, and long-term benefits of resistance training for men and women, both young and old.
> And I’ve lived in Europe for over a decade now and frankly much of Europe is painfully naive about how much people in power care about protestors waving clever signs.

I guess the same goes the other way, Americans seems painfully unaware how effective the public's will can be, when you act together. But I think that's to be expected, the US is still relatively new and young, compared to other countries, so lessons others have learned still need to be learned by the Americans themselves. I guess this is what we're witnessing right now.

I'd urge you to look up changes brought by protesting and riots, but I think we both know you're not interested in learning, since you already stated twice you think it's pointless.
Oh, I was naive to think that the Pi was capable of some kind of magic (sweaty smile emoji goes here)
I spent years thinking its crazy to get your morals from a random book, but then I read this stuff and I understand the pitfalls of also having it all wide open. This idea we all define our morality works extremely poorly. I used to think it was a product of the old times of almost non existent education and honestly dumb "ancient world" people (lack of nutrition, lead poisoning...).

But I don't know, clearly smart and educated people can believe extremely dumb things. The smarter they are the weirder the setups they get themselves into. One almost comes to appreciate the existence of some religions with a history of many centuries to "chill out" and see what works, instead of any of the new age cults.
Adjusting for inflation, $2000 is about the same price as the first iMac, an entry level consumer PC at the time. Local AI is still pretty accessible to hobbyist level spending.
Simple, you run a diesel powered generator! /s

If it's out in the boonies, yeah, power usually follows the roads. If it's existing infrastructure being upgraded, just tap in to what is already there
Holly crap, it reads like the anti Electric coolaid acid test, with petty revenge ,guns, and murder dejour,instead of , instead of, well, an epic road party that is still going......bobby just played the gramys...there were glitches with the sound system and they raised 15 mill
I like some of what Aella has written, but had no idea that ,Rationalists, had just rebranded nialistic hate.....so cleverly.
this is still how I am with pretty much all genAI. People on this site say it's great, but a lot of people on this site have big incentives to hold that view. I have found the free models to be useless, and sufficiently useless that the paid models -- which are not cheap -- are not enticing.

Maybe I'd be more willing to pay per token if I could get a refund for all the tokens it outputs that are wrong?

Maybe my opinion of genAI will change if my employer ever allows us to use it and I am able to use a state of the art model on someone else's dime, but I'm not risking $60 or whatever to find out the performance is only moderately better than GPT3
The number of times I’ve had to install an older version of Java just to compile some code is not even remotely funny to me. I really hate this idea that you can have code that just won’t compile if you are using a modern environment.
Oh yeah, there are 4 slightly chubby guys in "elite" sports out of 10 000, therefore we got athleticism wrong.

Also, sorry to say it so directly, but none of these guys would have a remote possibility to (athletically speaking - not talking ability) play in third tier soccer in Italy or Spain, or any actually physically difficult sport (e.g. climbing). It's a rule in these sports that people look at minimum super fit, at maximum godlike, and the few exceptions that exist show extremely visible downsides (and it's clear they'd be better off being athletic).

For context, a picture of a soccer player considered unfit (constantly rated at something around ~70/100 physically in various rankings/video games/etc)

https://64.media.tumblr.com/9a64e77011b24cf2aff656356587de97...
No, this is fascism.
I largely agree with you, but in general more muscle => stronger so bodybuilder muscles are not strictly ornamentation. In fact it’s not uncommon for bodybuilders to become powerlifters and vice versa.

Also, an underappreciated role of muscle mass is as a giant store of emergency amino acids.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894357
I'm not that surprised. Codeforces is a relatively low area of vocabulary knowledge needed.

Real software has a lot more complexity and constraints, as well as ambiguity. Claude nowhere scores so high on codeforces, but crushes o1 on webarena: https://web.lmarena.ai/leaderboard

I also ran a hold out test myself for o3 mini - asked it to implement a function I need for Python 2.5. Claude and O1 get it - o3 mini hard incorrectly believes some functions are available in this certain that aren't. If I correct it, it's revised solution is very hacky (technically works, but I would take Claude's solution over it)
As congress has become more and more dysfunctional they've given more and more power to other branches. At this point both the supreme court and the president can functionally write laws as well, the checks and balances are very out of whack.
> Without sounding like every other developer who hates on electron, I would really appreciate an http client with a Gui that was lighter, like iced or slint.

How much would you be willing to pay for such a client?

I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know, because as an independent developer, every single time I suggest a native application using native widgets to a client, they choose the HTML interface rather than a Qt or similar based interface.

The easily doable pretty animations in CSS in a 800MB-in-RAM-while-running application is, to paying clients, preferable than a 50MB-in-RAM-while-running that doesn't have the fancy spinning, tilting, animated wizz-bangs.

I have been writing software professionally since the mid-90s; I can do you a quick GUI-based cross-platform HTTP send+receive application based on libcurl in about 2 weeks. Looking at the minimum I need to make to pay my bills, I need purchasers paying a cumulative 1000USD for this effort, so 10x buyers @ $100, or 100 buyers @ $10, and so forth.

And, of course, I'd expect to only be able to sell it for a short while, if it is popular, until a clone starts up with $40k worth of SEO and advertising money.

The software you want can be had, and the skill to make it exists, in a timeframe that is feasible, but the economics are just not there.
The good news is that as a Trump voter who is a MAGA believer, you’ve established that you’re ignorant and open to emotional manipulation. You’re the political equivalent of the old lady who talks to the scammers.

So when your glorious day comes, and your State asserts their rights and levies your bank account to pay for your parents medical bills as your filial responsibility, (or whatever your personal tragedy ends up being) you’ll have the feels, and will flip to the next cult of personality.
Just saw this reposted, but figured I’d come back to give this one some love.

This is an interesting approach and seems like a great way to deal with the conflicting dependency issue.

I’ve contributed to an open source Python command line interface (CLI) and maintained some private, internal CLI tools for companies and environment issues and version mismatches were always like 80% of the bug reports.

Reducing the noise from those issues in bug reports would be amazing.

I wonder if there’s some opportunity to share and extend an install script like this instead of every CLI needing to fork and extend it manually?
How much of that "income" is attributable to government subsidies (for EVs, solar)?! Lol.
OK, people walk in the streets and wave signs, then go home.

What happens next?
It's more the administration is attacking journalism than the other way around.

For example, the FCC regularly receives complaints against pretty much every broadcaster that they are biased and the FCC regularly dismisses those because broadcasters are supposed to be allowed to take positions that politicians may disagree with.

Until now. The new FCC chairman reinstated complaints against all the major network stations that were alleged to have a liberal bias and is now subpoenaing them, and did not reinstate any complaints against major network stations (e.g., FOX) that allege conservative bias.
No subpoena?
> the current sitation is not fascist enough yet"?

You are putting the burden on me to argue they are NOT fascist? (whatever meaning you want to attach to that word)

> They proved in November that they already have done the right amount of voter disenfranchisement and gerrymandering to secure a win.

Ah so you think the election was stolen?

> gerrymandering

How do you gerrymander state boundaries?
I’ve found that striping across two drives like the 980 Pro described here or WD SN850 Black drives easily gets direct IO read speeds over 12 GB/s on threadripper pro systems. This assumes a stripe size somewhere around 1 -2 MiB. This means that most reads will not need to be split and high queue depth sequential reads and random reads keep both drives busy. With careful alignment of IOs, performance approaches 2x of one drive’s performance.

IO takes CPU cycles but I’ve not seen evidence that striping impacts that. Memory overhead is minimal, as the stripe to read from is done via simple math from a tiny data structure.
Uh, what ever happened to Civil Disobedience? Direct Action? Nonviolent Action?

There are at least as many ways to respond to repression as there are avenues of repression: https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/
Are the AI bro lobbyists asleep at the wheel? I assumed human creativity was already sold to the highest bidder.
> will they abdicate their power

Yeah, no. This is a coup and they are all in. They would not be this blatant about taking control illegally and fast if they expected to leave any institutions to still enforce the law against them.
And Mahomes wouldn’t last a 3 minute round with a boxer.
Serious question; what's a decathlon pro?
OpenAI Lost Its Job to AI but What's Your Opinion on the Future of Tech?
- Is is worth going to a bootcamp to become a software engineer?

- What type of jobs will be in demand going forward after all this AI Boom

- Should I learn to code and even if I do what should I be learning to do with code?

It will be great to hear what you all think because I honestly do not know the future of Tech and in my country, there seem to be less and less job posting for tech roles.
With AI people will be easy to roll your own anything.
Companies will be able to say clone sales force but tailored to our needs. Saving millions a year in sales force custom crap.
Define "burner phone" in this context?
This looks like my experiments to get R1 to write fiction and I think it’s worse than what you get from openai. For instance, it’s using very colorful language to describe a place that’s both a remote fishing village on the edge of a cliff hours before dawn, and a bustling wharf with chattering laborers and large ships anchored in the distance. It also starts by saying the protagonist wakes up with his mouth tasting like blood, that he was screaming, and that his throat is hoarse from holding back from screaming. It’s very colorful but it’s very confusing to read.

I suspect you can update the prompt to make the setting more consistent, but it will still throw in a lot of inappropriate detail. I’m only nitpicking because my initial reaction was that it’s very vivid but feels difficult to understand and I wanted to explain why.
The use case for Palantir is generally understood, whereas nobody knows why SAP exists.
It's accurate to say more than half let this happen. You can include the people that didn't vote.
Elite rock climbers look like this: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/06/07/ap_1815766716269...
I don't really care about whether this person is criticising the author's moral philosophy, I care about this thing about sex crime at MIRI.
Most utilitarian dilemmas boil down to Omelas in disguise.
Related:

Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after confusing locals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894708
For Grand Tour cycling stage races, the GC contenders typically start the race carrying a few extra kg (although still very thin). This helps a bit to avoid getting sick or fatigued during the early stages and they know they'll gradually lose the extra weight as the race progresses.
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The OP said they were getting 3-4 TPS on their $2000 rig.
Not half the country, depending on how you reason about it it's about a 1/3 or 2/3. Just a smidge more than 50% of voters did not vote for Trump. And numerically more than either Trump or Kamala voters, 36% of the US populace didn't vote in 2024.
And wound up building a heretical pseudo-Christianity where the messiah is a superintelligence.
I see you edited your post, it is now clearer what you meant. I think you have a very local perspective, but you have every right to enjoy that. I have nothing to win in a handball versus football debate, besides calling spades spades. :)
> And it's well-known it's not a physique that correlates with actual physical strength

100% disagree. The last I checked, muscle size is the strongest correlating physical characteristic with force production. Also, have you not seen videos of Ronnie Coleman lifting weights?
If you asked me to bet over/under on 99th percentile for nearly all elite, world class level athletes of "normal" sports (i.e. not cornhole championships or something) I'd always take the over.
So from your experience which part, specifically, wasn't portable?