skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how they always forget to mention the elephant in the room, 8 billion in absurd amount of any living organism, by many estimates we already surpassed the number of rats in the world, but the responses about doing anything at all to reduce that number in the long-term are all emotionally charged and empty of any rational thought.

In the context of capitalism as we known scarcity increases value, such thing is true for number of employees available, the less employable people around the higher the wages and therefore the quality of life of the living.
> None of us are rich but the system appears to be working from a sample of say 30 people aged 25 to 45 from different parts and backgrounds in the UK.

I have a similar sample, all middle class in their 30's. The only ones who have bought houses have been given significant assistance from their parents, now none of them are poor by any stretch, but few have any significant assets.
We had a guy like this on our team once, it took a year to convince management he was a net drag on the team. Half the team quit, the other half said they would if they had to work with him any longer.

To prove the point we put him on a strategic rewrite and gave him master/trunk while the entire team moved to a feature branch for 6 months. This was complimentary to his ego as he was sick of us bureaucrats in the rest of the team telling him what to do and being such a burden on his genius creativity.

By the end he was unable to build / run his own branch, while the remaining team lost no velocity and was making regular releases to end users. The choice was easy at that point.
I know that. There's nothing forcing you to join Quora+ premium subscription to see a small subset of answers. I wouldn't. Most Quora users don't. It's not necessary.

The vast majority of Quora posters are unmonetized, and if you can't find figure out how to use Quora to get quality answers among them (e.g. figure out which Spaces to join to get traction), you might as well equally consider which Medium/Substack/Patreon to subscribe to than the not-at-all-necessary Quora+. I'd much rather that 90% of any subscriptions I paid went to sponsoring human writers.
> Perhaps my friends and I are outliers

That's it, you're outliers.
> It's obvious that the technology has hit a brick wall and the farce which is to spend double the tokens to first come up with a plan and call that "reasoning" has not moved the needle either.

If nothing else, that technique has cut down drastically on hallucinations.
you are greatly overstimating it 33% oppose him entirely, 33% don't care, 33% cultishly adhere to whatever he says; 1% pull the strings
Were they unable to fulfill the contract?

As I said, I don’t have the full context here.
Formation of organic glass from a human brain
There are several ways a spacecraft engine can be efficient. The fundamental thing is the tyranny of the rocket equation: in order to get faster you need fuel, and then you need fuel to push that fuel, into a compounding way. The best way to address this tyranny of the rocket equation is to have an engine that expels something at a very high speed. The best chemical rockets push hot gas at about 4.5 km/s. The engines discussed here are "magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters" [1]. They push plasma with a velocity in excess of 15 km/s. Some studies suggest even 100 km/s. They are basically the most efficient rocket engines our current technology can build.

The next type of efficiency is how much of the source energy is converted into the energy of the plasma jet. Is it 50%, 90%, 99%. That I don't know, and obviously you want as much as possible.

But this project is addressing a different problem. In order to create this plasma jet, you need a very strong magnetic field to contain the plasma while it is being accelerated. The field itself does not provide the propulsion, it is there only for containment. You don't want to expend a lot of energy maintaining this field. Superconducting magnets are much better than regular electromagnets, so it's no surprise that containing this plasma with superconducting magnets requires a fraction of the power of regular magnets. But someone still needed to do the actual research. What works on paper doesn't translate always in things that work in real life. These guys did just that, and now are ready to send a technology demonstrator in space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoplasmadynamic_thruster
Now, with 500% more Java and a configuration language that isn't XML. ;)
Which fields?

I feel like software has been an outlier here for a decade; the only place where traditional economic intuitions still apply (semi-smart people can work hard, learn a technical skill, find a job in their field, pay off their loans, make more than their parents, afford a house, and have a comfortable personal life and relatively fulfilling work life)

Everything I've heard from the rest of the economy is that this model is dead
As predicted in Piketty's book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century". He posited that wealth trumps labour and the post-war period was an anomaly. His proposed solution is a wealth tax. I can't see those with wealth/power implementing a wealth tax, so the alternative is to invest to accumulate wealth and know that your children, who are not in a position to invest, will probably be relying on that wealth.
Right, short of his actions resulting in them being fired, losing medicare or other direct impact, there is no way they will change course, they are too deep in to the grift.
This feels good, but will ultimately fail.

Russia will respond with either strategic bombing of Kyiv or tactical nukes. And then what do we do? Nuke Moscow? Send NATO troops in? More sanctions?

Russia knows that we are not going to blow up the world to save Ukraine, which means escalation always ends with us backing down.
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This is why settlers left Europe etc in the first place to seek fortune overseas."

And why you guys are looking at Mars now.

Here in latam we haven't filled the land at all, you guys have been hard working and filled with riches. But our laziness might give us more longevity, we are playing the long game with the amazon
OOD = Out-of-Distribution = when a model encounters inputs which differ from data it was trained on.

For anyone else not familiar with the acronym of the day :).
Taiwan without American support is extremely easy for China to take.

There is absolutely no risk whatsoever.

Everyone noticed trump behavior with zelinsky, Chinese too. It might instead push up their agenda to conquer Taiwan quickly before trump mandate end, or at least fund him to put up with a third mandate.

Which is something he had been talking a lot.
Oh, Russia is still the outside force pulling Trump's puppet strings. They just did such a good propaganda job with "Russia Russia Russia" that people are afraid to say it.
Wow. That's such a huge change. I hope it has been ok for you and wish you a great future.

Do you want to share a bit of your story? 3 years ago would mean you left right at the start of the war. How do you feel about that now?
I dont understand how anyone is not seeing that trump just want to gobble up parts of Ukraine for his own gain, it's no better than the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Trump is just angry he's late to the party. There will be no guarantees for Ukraine and no concessions for Russia once this deal is signed.
Except it was not shared, it was almost a genocide.
Opentofu then
Exciting. I for one would love to have services where I can get the most diagnostics possible. Today, my doctor and insurance are blockers, avoiding even measurement of things (like blood panels) as a preventative thing unless indicted by some outdated standards of care. I want more data on myself not unhelpful barriers.

The big question I have is what will they do with that data? How is privacy guaranteed? Can I collect the data without it being shared with other companies, including insurance companies?
Just this week trump said he will not defend Taiwan from china.
Donald Trump is no greater ally to Putin than a trained asset would be.

Vance is like Ben Shapiro with a little bit more intelligence.

Zelensky had some translation issues, perhaps, and said something in a strange way. But Trump's outburst was like that of a run-of-the-mill dive bar moron, not a diplomat.

Zelensky's interview with Bret Baier was also subtly hostile. Z never said the words "apologize" or "sorry" but did express regret that the conversations happened as they did in public. He was repeatedly grateful of the support of the US and was showing quite a lot of understanding.

The arguments of the Fox panel, if you cut through the lines, is that it is Zelensky's fault for not knowing how to handle the intellectual child that is the US president.
Other countries also get access at 1/3 the price.
It Was an Ambush
Love it! Zero issues with my Teslas. Don't like the design of Rivian.

> couldn't stomach it anymore

Why?
I appreciate the explanation. That sounds incredibly reasonable (from my naive perspective).
The US and the west as a whole are already a very big winner for the war and it was 100% worth the investment. But for how long should it continue? Ignoring Trump's terrible negotiation strategy I still think there's value in some sort of ceasefire. Continuing a brutal stalemate is not something we should take lightly just to burn through a few more Russian tanks. It's mostly just T-60s and cheap Iranian drones left anyway. They've been thoroughly embarrassed.

The history of war is full of unhappy truces and compromise. WW2 type victories are extremely rare and take massive sacrifice.
Yep. A good friend of mine grew up to a very poor immigrant family, both him and his sister got full rides to good schools because of grades, and at age 30 bought a house in NJ with a very good school with 4 kids after saving non stop and living with his parents and taking care of them.

The system works fine if you don't need nonstop luxuries
> Trump armed Ukraine to the teeth in first term, providing lethal aid which previous presidents did not do.

Indeed, this reads like a convincing argument to me.

> you do realize that placing a large US business interest in Ukraine (as opposed to backdoor dealings) is actually a way of strengthening the US's commitment and investment in Ukraine, right?

Honestly, the best pro-Trump explanation I've read. Well done! I'm sure that wasn't easy ;)
land is still plentiful in the u. s. just maybe not where you want to be, similar to what a pioneer town might look like
PyFL and Its While Clauses
Which is more important to you: Justice or an absence of violence?

Sometimes, it's simply not possible to have both.

Do you truly expect Ukraine to just roll over?
You can work around this a bit by using “new” and/or “active”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Since I’ve discovered active, I actually look at it first to find stuff that got pushed off the front page while I was not looking at HN.

I appreciate the goal of the front page algo quite a bit, but sometimes it pushes interesting stuff off the front page very aggressively if I am not refreshing HN throughout the day.
Thats not an insignificant number. This election had the second highest turn out in recorded history(2020 was slightly higher)

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_...
One reason I can guess: measured response (or more) against adversarial actions. Like when someone blows up something of yours so you hit something of theirs. We know that many state agents - and others - are conducting offensive cyber operations against the US, and it may be that defence is not enough.
is you're birth year 87?

In which case you were able to save a deposit within 6 years of graduating? When i was at that stage my outgoings (rent, food, council tax, car, insurance) were probably 90% of my salary.
> in few years we will spread in observable universe

That may happen in 200 years. Geologically as you zoom out, the difference is negligible.
It's even worse to read anything into it, because of expectations:

The stock market could have priced in the model being 10x better, but in the end it turned out to be only 8x better, and we'd see a drop.

Similarly, in a counterfactual, if the stock market had expected the new model to be a regression to 0.5x, but we only saw a 0.9x regression, the stock might go up, despite the model being worse than the predecessor.
And people don't want the government anywhere near their lives, until people with big sticks start poking at them instead.

The US populace can stick its head in the sand & say the rest of the world doesn't need them, but what if a superpower starts snapping up that rest of the world?
That's shockingly first-order. Even if there was zero bilateral US-Ukraine trade as of 2022 there's:

(a) trade with other EU partners that depend on Ukrainian food imports, gas transshipments, etc., and also on those trade partners. y'know, not being embroiled in trench war on their eastern front.

(b) trade with APAC partners that depends on EU partners that depends on (a). Even the most blatantly obvious ASML -> TSMC -> NVDA -> FAANGetc relationship transits that entire chain.

(c) the entire web of mutually beneficial international trade that benefits from (1) a more or less stable system of borders and laws and (2) again, participants in said system burning the minimum amount of blood and treasure trenches.

So what is it you really think? US involvement is unnecessary to maintain both its current position and the rest of the international system? Or that system unnecessary to maintain the state of the world today, and some alternative arrangement would be preferable? And we can smoothly transition to your preferred system with a belligerent Russia?

I'm being a bit unfair in the preceding paragraph, so I'll ask in all sincerity: what's your alternative policy in 2014? 2022? now? what outcomes do you predict under your policy? Who is (dis)advantaged?
According to the Austrian military, there’s currently about 800k Ukrainian soldiers up against 700k Russian soldiers.

Because a substantial number of Ukrainian soldiers need to be present across the Belorussian border and elsewhere in the country, the Russians have a meaningful manpower advantage on the frontlines.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRjughhXMg
Altman says:

> The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it.

Pretty sure how log curves work is you add exponentially more inputs to get linear increases in outputs. That would mean it's going to get wildly more difficult and expensive to get each additional marginal gain, and that's what we're seeing.
More than unprofessional. Embarrassing is an understatement.
Trump behaved like a petulant fool. If you don't know it, let me tell you, every foreign government on the planet and their diplomatic corps knows it. Shouting over someone speaking your language at a public meeting was such a god damned embarrassment for the country. A total lack of decorum, a total lack of diplomacy, a total lack of understanding or control of themselves or the situation. He's not fit to run a McDonalds.
For Americans, this is also a battle we need to fight at home.
Europe doesn’t have the resources in a lot of cases. To start, a lot of what the US gave isn’t cash, it’s old equipment that was in long term storage. You can’t just place an order for 100 infantry fighting vehicles and get them in a month. For other forms of equipment, the US has a ton of industrial capacity that Europe simply can’t make up for.

> it doesn't even sound like we're withdrawing all funding, instead we're attaching a few conditions in hopes to end the killing.

There is currently no funding for Ukraine from the US. Trump has dangled offers of assistance “with conditions” but nothing concrete. Even this minerals deal didn’t actually include any security assistance or funding for weapons.
Fair question, it’s a mix: IT admin, manufacturing project manager, primary school teacher, tree surgeon, mortgage advisor, doctor, something in finance, secondary school teacher, plumber, software developer, power electronics engineer, charity sector project lead

So a real mix
"He". There are Russians and Saudis behind the funding (to no-one's surprise), the same countries that have bankrolled Trump for decades.
The point of diluting the notion of truth into a meaningless concept - a process so loved by both Putin and Trump - is to make things such as kompromats have zero power.

Just imagine some
photos and videos of Trump having sex with minors or even murdering someone emerge. Do you actually believe it will be damaging to him? “It’s fake, it’s AI, it’s our enemies trying to attack us”.
An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
The comment you are responding to makes it pretty clear that they know there is not enough evidence for it.

I'm not sure it's worth commenting on the semantic difference between theory and hypothesis, especially since these words often overlap in meaning in casual conversation.
Trumps talks of NATO problems go back to his last term. Foreign leaders showed fear of reduced US cooperation then [1], some directly attributing increased spending to that [2]. It was very widely reported back then, with similar fervor.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/world/europe/donald-trump...
How can you compare these experiences to a greater upward mobility which does not exist? You don’t have a baseline for comparison. What if you had 2x more leisure time with the same fiscal wealth? What if you had easier access to healthcare?
I think you can give that honour to India.
Idk I switched about a year and a half ago from Chrome and aside from Firefox still being slower I haven’t had any issues. All the websites I visit and the features I use like Nvidia video upscaling work fine. Ublock Origin works fine which is really the most important thing. I’ll eat my hat if any Chromium derivative is still supporting MV2 in 2030.
I can't believe I forgot about that episode :/ This season is just so chock-full of content.
And wear your child on your neck like a support blanket.
I've watched the whole video and Vance was asked a question about diplomacy in the Ukraine war, the idea that Zelensky doesn't get to respond to that while he's sitting in the room seems absurd. Why have him there if he can't give his opinion on diplomacy in Ukraine?

If he was asked a question on American politics I would tend to agree but this is Americans here espousing their views on Ukrainian politics and then expecting to not hear the Ukrainian side to it.
"These results show that X disproportionately highlights extremes of the German political spectrum, in particular the populist parties: left-wing BSW and right-wing AfD."

I'm guessing rage baiting drives engagement...

(And reminds me of Bertrand Russell's nobel prize speech in which he talks about what happens when two men are bored in a pub...

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/russell/le...
)
I vibe coded this entire DSL, changing syntax and grammar while following my whimsy:

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl
Lots of people here hate Marcus, and he can lay it on thick, but I quite like him. He has actually studied human cognition and intelligence outside of programming – something that can't be said about a great many AI pundits.

I'm doing an interdisciplinary PhD in CS and Music right, so both music cognition and AI is in my program. From what I can see (which is not a lot of data, I admit) no one who has actually studied music cognition would think LLMs are going to lead to AGI by scaling. Linguistic thinking is only a small part of human intelligence, and certainly not the most complex. LLMs are so, so far from being able to the thinking that goes in a real-time musical improvisation context it's laughable.
Same here, but we are in a very similar boat in our voyage through socioeconomic statuses (though I'm in Ohio River Valley US). I may be fooled by the discourse that [Xennials/Oregon Trail gen/Gen Y/Elder Millennials], but we supposedly saved more, delayed gratification, planned more, and worked more than even Gen Z (who, don't get me wrong, have it worse because of undercompensation vs purchasing power and sheer hopelessness).

I doubt we're typical, is my point.
The Germans weren't ready for a fight either. As early in 1936 when Hitler marched a token force into the Rhineland, the French could have called his bluff there. In fact, even Hitler himself nearly called off his forces on sighting of french forces.

The Allies still had a larger and better equipped army at that point, the strategic mistake was having the French completely outflanked through Belgium, in which an earlier offensive with preexisting troops would have made it much harder to happen.
These "OCR" tools who are actually multimodals are interesting because they can do more than just text abstraction, but their biggest flaw is hallucinations and overall the nondeterministic nature. Lately, I've been using Gemini to turn my notebooks into Latex documents, so I can see a pretty nice usecase for this project, but it's not for "important" papers or papers that need 100% accuracy.
Most of my friends who bought a house in Seattle in their 20s or 30s used inherited funds. When I worked in mortgage lending it was basically universal that anyone younger than 30 was getting a lot of help from parents. There's a massive advantage to owning a house when you're young, especially pre-rate hike.
The USA certainly is involved, they signed the Budapest Memorandum.
>Vance’s presence at the White House also suggests that the meeting was a setup. Vance is usually an invisible backbencher in this administration, with few duties other than some occasional trolling of Trump’s critics.

Trump 2.0, DOGE, and J.D. Vance were created and molded by the Silicon Valley investor class. Worth looking up the term "blowback" when it comes back to bite American techbros.
Ukraine literally invaded Russia with Western weapons in support. The nukes did not fly. The nukes will not fly.
Altman is out of magic beans.
Might you be conflating finite for static? Or more charitably, implying and assuming the growth rate is smaller or equal to consumption.

I'm not saying it is or isn't, but that would need to be the case for your argument.

Also the ratio of wealthy to non wealthy needs to be quite high.

Also wealth needs to be transferred and maintained, and not spoiled or lost.

I think those are the assumptions.

But yeah, under those conditions, the competition for resources would mean in order to move upwards someone needs to come down.

But it would need to be a zero sum economy
You are not aware of all evidence in existence, and what "is evidence for" something is a subjective matter, downstream from your conditioned biases.

These conversations are a train wreck, I don't understand how people expect to stop war if you can't be bothered to even try to speak truthfully.
If Trump has his way, the US's "support" will have been in exchange for rare earth minerals. Not really support in the end though, if Ukraine doesn't get any security guarantee.
It's not just that paragraph, either - the word starts showing up more and more frequently as the chat goes on, including a phase of using the word at every possible juncture, like:

> Explicitly at each explicit index ii, explicitly record the largest deleted element explicitly among all deletions explicitly from index ii explicitly to the end nn. Call this explicitly retirement_threshold(i) explicitly.

If I were you, I'd treat the entire conversation with extreme suspicion. It's unlikely that the echolalia is the only problem.