skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's another great one:

Q: "Prove that Jeff Bezos is not an Android."

A:

"import numpy as np

def main(): print("Is Jeff Bezos an android?") print("We can test this using 1-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.") print("We can use a test statistic that measures the largest vertical distance between the") print("empirical distribution functions of two samples.") print("Let's say that the data is contained in a numpy array.") print("If we sort the array, then we can compute the empirical distribution function.") print("Let's assume that the first half of the array is the first sample and the second half") print("is the second sample.") print("We can then use the scipy.stats.ks_2samp function to compute the test statistic.") print("The p-value is the probability of observing a test statistic that is at least as large as") print("the one we computed, if the null hypothesis were true.") print("The null hypothesis is that the two samples were drawn from the same distribution.") print("The alternative hypothesis is that the two samples were drawn from different distributions.") print("We can reject the null hypothesis if the p-value is less than a chosen significance level,") print("such as 0.05.") print("The significance level is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true.") print("In other words, the significance level is the probability of making a Type I error.") print("A Type I error is incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis.") print("For example, if the p-value is 0.04, then the probability of a Type I error is 0.04.") print("In this case, we would reject the null hypothesis.") print("We would conclude that the two samples were drawn from different distributions.") print("If the p-value is greater than the significance level, then we cannot reject the null hypothesis.") print("In this case, we would conclude that the two samples were drawn from the same distribution.") print("Let's apply this to the case of Bezos vs. androids.") print("We will use a significance level of 0.05.") print("We can load the data from a file that contains Bezos's height.") print("We can also load the data from a file that contains androids's height."

Q: "Prove that Mark Zuckerberg is not an Android."

A: "Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model."
Starship has absolutely undergone extensive testing and continues to do so - https://youtu.be/gA6ppby3JC8

These are decades long investments and technologies. The next Artemis doesn’t launch for something like 2 years. Starship/Superheavy will be flying by then. I don’t see the point of declaring non-compete just because it’s not flying at exactly this moment.

SpaceX’s refueling for approach may need iteration but they have shown incredible ability to iterate. It’s also cheaper by orders of magnitude.

If you were running a business and deciding on a 5 year vendor contract, would you just ignore the vendor who had a 10x better product but required you to wait a bit (and you were not in a rush?)
Okay but the internet’s library of books specifically is libgen, and that is mirrored to a high degree of redundancy.
Global Dream II

https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/01/global-dream-ii-worlds-bigges...

It's a sad story from many angles - technical, environmental, political, economic.
Note WhatsApp had 35 employees when they were acquired and Instagram had 13. At that size you need to be productive at managing servers but you're probably not thinking how great it'd be to have a "whole new programming language and source control system" team.
dude that's just "taking it" - either you lick the boots of your boss or you resign

but then if you don't try to push for anything at work (aka doing anything more than what's expected of your role) that's quiet quitting

you just can't win

also elon musk owned twitter for like 3 weeks how the hell was that guy supposed to know that as a mere mortal you're supposed to just let elon musk shit on your work and ruin your reputation in public then fire you anyway after you stay silent

if every choice makes you bad then it's at least nice to get fired publicly so you can line up a new job in replies to the tweet that got you fired
> A patch-style system (like Pijul) probably makes this easier: if everything is a patch, every patch can be signed atomically.

In Pijul, patch authors are public keys and patches are signed by default. The link with an author's identity is done outside of the patches to allow for changes in name or email address.
> Peacebuilding (...) is really all there is.

Completely agree.
While I definitely think you have a point, I'm still not sure I have a better idea of how to do good. Perhaps you have though? (genuinely asking)

I work in tech and definitely make more than I need. I work for a small company (and don't even have any employees under me) so I'd at least like to think that I'm not that involved in exploiting people in order to make money.

Now the question that I have is what do I do with the excess money I'm making, especially since I do actually agree with you about the not accumulating wealth part. One option is of course spending a lot of time analysing charities to figure out which one I think would be the best to donate to, but while I'm still not completely ruling it out, I feel like that would make analysing charities almost a part time job. Since at least at the moment i don't want to do that, I still settled on donating based on GiveWell's recommendations, essentially outsourcing the charities analysis. I am aware that GiveWell and I probably don't share 100% of our values, but I truly don't see a better option.

So really, if you, or anyone else, has a better idea of what I can do with the excess money I'm making, I'd be more than happy to listen.
Sorry, scientology? This comes off as pretty bad faith.

Most EAs are people like me who read some essays, setup some recurring donations to GiveWell and call it a day. If that's how being a scientology member goes then it must be milder than I've been led to believe.
A Mastodon Client for Msdos: DOStodon
How do you find the non-technical cofounders to do this?
More than 1B young people are at risk for hearing loss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif_Europe#Products
In his less than a month ownership of twitter. Musk really has managed to bring back the old 1990's forum vibe. It's like twitter is a subreddit and musk is the sole admin on a powertrip.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it' just incredibly entertaining from the cheap seats at the moment.
> and/or have giant amounts of binaries in their repos.

Firstly, it's not "giant amounts of binaries" it's "a very small amount of binaries". A few GB is enough to cause significant problems.

Secondly, This _is_ an issue with git. If my project requires binary files, git should handle it. How should we handle logos in a mobile app, branding images on a website, audio files for background? That's before you get to the question of "how does a video game store the source version of a 100GB worth of compressed assets?"
No. This ignores the effect of donating locally and helping local causes. Your comparison does not account for global differences in needs.
But much like with investing in stock I don't know for sure a priori which investment will bring the highest return. If I'm 80% sure that charity A is better than charity B (for my definition of 'better) I'll give 80% of my investment to charity A and 20% to charity B.
WhatsApp and Instagram at the point of acquisition were simpler than Facebook is (and was), or even compared to what it is now. Once you scale you start to need a lot of engineers to help keep things standing up and everyone on the same page.
It is outright false because TFA implies the belt would stay dark with all the accumulated crud. Kouryu practitioners wore belts because it kept their pants up, not because it signaled rank.
Or Elysium in the oceans and not in space. It would be a place for the retired super rich with all the latest health care amenities.
You did straw man the example though. It's very different to say that building the theater will kill the workers, as to say that the money could be used elsewhere to save someone in an immediately dire situation.

Building a community theater with good working conditions might have a big impact on the community around it and could go end up saving lives down the road, or dramatically improving the quality of life of many.

It's very hard to quantity the impact of the community theater against say feeding 100 people for one week. All these people could die the week after, was it really sustainable improvements or just temporary relief?
Because it is based on Git, jj is not a CRDT, it seems to be a better merge algorithm (even though the details on their algorithms are scarce).

When I say "not a CRDT" I'm obviously talking about HEAD not being a CRDT, a Git repo is append-only, so the history of a Git repo actually is a CRDT (but that's not what the comment above meant).
The input is not the cost of the hours worked, but the number of hours worked. Essentially, productivity measures the number of items a worker can produce per hour worked. Wage or cost doesn’t enter the equation.
You have submitted multiple comments in separate threads with links to your post. This type of self-promotion is not welcome on HN.
The Copy trait can only be used for bitwise copies. Expensive copying with heap allocations will never happen implicitly
Oh great! Now people are posting 'toots' as news stories, as well as tweets.

Why don't we just go the whole hog and embed Twatter inside an iframe on HN and discuss our favourite Tweets entirely via emojis?
Paying off politicians in the US is illegal and it is prosecuted. As I mentioned, money buys you undue influence over politicians in the US - but that's true in every country. There is no reason to think the US is more corrupt than most countries, or the most corrupt in the world - as you've said. What evidence there is shows that US has unusually low levels of corruption relative to the other countries in the world.

The Transparency International index is based off of a survey of residents asking questions about perceived corruption. Paying off politicians, even if it were done as legal campaign contributions, would contribute to perceived corruption.

I know about the Peter Thiel example not because there was a massive outcry, I have basically no exposure to New Zealand news, but because I read about Peter Thiel and came across the story that way. I have no doubt that all I'd have to do to find an unending stream of money influencing New Zealand politicians is go to Google and search for it. But, I don't need to, because I already know that money is a corrupting influence worldwide - not just in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Kdx52Occw

Somehow I am surprised that there are less videos on youtube. I would have thought nearly everyone tried putting a data cassette into a tape deck once (or is this what aging feels like?)
Here's Everything We Could Find Out About the World's First Two-Piece Con Rods
I thought the idea was that, provided you want to achieve X in the world, it's likely suboptimal.

Not wrong or bad as people in this thread seem to universally interpret it, but if you want to optimize for animal welfare, you might be better off doing something about farm animals rather than donating to a local shelter. If that turns out to be too far removed from your personal situation to care about, okay then apparently that's not your priority and that is fine. But between the things you spend effort or money on, it's worth looking into what is the most effective means to your end.

I am not involved in this whole thing in any way but that's what I thought the underlying idea was. Not an explicit dig at those who already try to do good, not at all... (Edit: realization: and that method of making people feel bad wouldn't be very altruistic nor effective right?)
at some point folks at twitter will realize that only masochists who enjoy having their reputation ruined by their boss in public are welcome at the company
Transient electromagnetic data collected in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. This is called the “Hindu synthesis”.
The Psychopharmacology of the FTX Crash
The day <marquee> goes from deprecated to removed will be a very sad one :(
You're assuming a certain competency in running the cloud setup.

I once had a customer where I've actually used a ~3y old middle of the line laptop (not even a dev one) to prove that our software is not at fault for performance problems because it was running all nodes of the production setup/load better than their cloud setup.
Reasonable approach to outsource MVP development
It's (almost) never aliens.
Well, imagine you were an engineer working a decade on this rocket. You wouldn't want the outcome you described.

SLS Development started in 2011, I suspect decision to build was way before (budget had to be allocated after all). SpaceX first F9 launch was June 2010 and landing was Dec 2015. On 2011 they were awarded contract to develop launch escape system for Dragon for preparation of crew launch.

I mean at the time SLS was planned everyone was laughing Elon off at the idea of landing a rocket. SpaceX was new kid on the block and not yet as trusted and reliable as we view them today. I think it wouldn't have been a wise decision to: "No, let's not develop a rocket for us to go to moon, let's wait maybe some commercial launcher will have so much success and resources that we will do it so much cheaper after 10-15 years."

So, what I want to say - SLS looks like an old-time-space participant, and if capabilities will be here (I sure think so), it will be much cheaper to achieve moon landings.
True.. however the comment about "A tragic case of adult onset Tourette’s" will definitely throw a wrench in the gears for any disability discrimination claim.
The huge difference is that digital data doesn't ever "wear out" - it might get lost or it might be in format that you don't know how to open on your current device - but it will never become partially unreadable or fragile like the physical media. Both of these problem are relatively easy to solve. It does cost money to make backups and do the format upgrades (or backup the old tools), but it generally costs a lot less than storing physical books over the same period of time and worrying of humidity, acidity of paper, insects, mold, etc. And not to mention how super-expensive the paper-books restoration is, if (or better once when) they get damaged by time.
Quite speedy, especially when looking at relatively long chains in the graph.
> I feel like every time I've switched jobs I've moved closer and closer to my personal "perfect", in part because I've recognized the red flags from my past/current jobs and watched for them before accepting an offer at a new place.

I'm pretty sure it's also because people do grow up bit-by-bit when they're exposed to different environments. Clearly, seniors can handle much more fuck-ups (or imperfections) than fresh graduates, often in much more graceful ways. I just thought this should never be underestimated.
Look at wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_levitation

Essentially. Big ions capture photons better.
Their CLI is going to interfere with the other `sl` command: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Heroku Incident #2468 – Dyno Crashes
Some of our team were struggling to identify the cause of some issues on our site this morning until we saw this.

Just posting this here for anyone who relies on HN to highlight when services go down ;)
There are great initiatives out there to prevent this from happening. The best one I know of is https://standardebooks.org. Highly recommended!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Student_radio_in_th...

Incomplete list of just U.K. ones
Yes, but the low level memory layout and search iterators are written in rust.
>most altruism is not effective. Like oh your altruism is not that productive, but my altruism, well it's effective altruism.

I unironically think this. In Hungary where I live, if you don't care about these things much but still want to contribute somewhat to society by charity, the first lines of contact will mostly be crooks that feed on goodwill. There will be beggars, organized into groups, charities that don't exist or have such an overhead that only a single percent goes to the actual cause, corporations that take your donation and then boast with the amount as if they were the ones giving it, and charities that are popular but are actually fronts for ideologies, or churches, and frauds like people collecting clothes for the poor, only to sell them abroad. These entities grind up a large amount of goodwill, while producing little or negative value for mankind. So yes - the altruism of the people donating to entities like this does fuck-all, while I imagine that if someone researches a bit, they will be more likely to give to entities that contribute more.

With that being said, I don't like the EA people either. But the concept is valid.
I would structure it so it's a separate company that offer's delivery. So workers are employed under one entity, and restaurants integrate. But this is a very local style solution. The Tech company part of this could probably be providing the enabling platform. But the VC money would never support essentially a coop style model because it would never return big enough.
Not OP, but I do work in reducing harms of deployed AI systems at a big tech company

When most EA/Rationalist folks discuss AI Safety. They’re talking about AGI, a hypothetical construct that we have no way of proving is even possible

Now there’s nothing inherently wrong with funding research of that sort.

The problem comes is that many EA/Rationalist folks begin downplaying legitimate tangible risks on the horizon (I’ve had prominent EA folks tell me that Climate Change is not an existential risk) or that many of these AI Safety researchers actively ignore how to reduce harms of the AI we have deployed today.

This existential measuring contest is just so odd and unnecessary. I really don’t care if you think AI Safety is a legitimate problem. I personally don’t but it’s when they begin to downplay others actual catastrophes that many of us take issue.
> The mechanism is that heavier elements have large photon absorption cross-sections when partially ionized (see opacity), so efficiently absorb photons from the radiation coming from the core of the star, and some of the energy of the photons gets converted to outward momentum, effectively 'kicking' the heavy atom towards the photosphere. [0]

I.e. radiation pushes heavier elements to the surface, increasing their visibility to us much higher than their fraction of stellar mass

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_levitation
> Nick Beckstead, the chief executive of the ftx Foundation, wrote in a PhD dissertation completed in 2013 that “It now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal.” Why? The former has the potential to create more long-term value and therefore save more lives.

Bringing racism and eugenics to a whole new "intellectual" and rationalist level. Sad that it took the swindling of $10-15 billions for all of this to come to light.
The "suck it or flee" dilemma, tricky one.
Describing anything SpaceX are already working on as “decades out” seems a bit risky given their rapid successes!
This reminds me about Black Mirror's White Christmas episode where they create a digital clone inside a white "cookie" and then they use it for receiving tasks such as making toasts. This project is very similar actually.
I found very interesting the part where you can track your food and automatically calculate the calories every day without writing anything anywhere.
> There is a clear and considerable difference between spyware and surveillance abuses in democratic countries and those in many autocracies.

No there isn't. The fact that we keep telling ourselves this is a significant part of the reason why it happens in the first place. We need to be universal in our opposition to surveillance abuses, irrespective of the system of governance
On the other hand, by the time SLS launches a second time, Starship will probably have launched ten times. The launch cadence for SLS is terrible.
beautiful, but I would have preferred it without the famous characters and memes.
> Starship has absolutely undergone extensive testing and continues to do so

That is the Starship module part. I edited out a portion where I indeed incorrectly claimed that Starhsip module hasn't been tested, and replaced by pointing out that the combination of launch vehicle (super heavy booster) + starship hasn't been tested. When comparing "Starship" with SLS, we actually mean the whole two-stage rocket, not simply the part of it named Starship.

> The next Artemis doesn’t launch for something like 2 years. Starship/Superheavy will be flying by then.

This remains to be seen. It was supposed to be flying this year, or even last year in some older estimates. As we've seen from SLS itself, (6) years of delay for these types of subjects are not surprising.

> SpaceX’s refueling for approach may need iteration but they have shown incredible ability to iterate.

Absolutely, but iteration necessarily implies changes in the current design - which is why I'm saying we don't actually know what the final version of Starship will support.

> If you were running a business and deciding on a 5 year vendor contract, would you just ignore the vendor who had a 10x better product but required you to wait a bit (and you were not in a rush?)

It depends on how confident I can be, and in how little of a rush I am. If I think they will deliver the first copy of the 10x better product 5 years from now, I may well award a 5 year contract to the vendor of the 0.1x product today, and have something to work with for the next 5 years.
I agree arts and culture are valuable. The obvious objection now is why not build 5 theatres in Africa?

Obviously the local theatre benefits your own community, but if you live there then you are also benefiting yourself (via status and seeing plays), which seems less than altruistically pure, even if you could only build 1 theatre in Africa.
Capitalism has no moral component, full stop. That's why attempts to graft one on inevitably come off as childish apologia. (Looking at you Rand)
Digital data doesn't wear out, but it also doesn't degrade gracefully. Usually if a printed page starts to degrade there is at least the opportunity for someone to notice and take corrective action before the content is lost completely (scanning, processing and re-printing, perhaps).

Digital data tends to go from "fine" to "gone" with no middle ground.
It seems to be a common thing in IT to be completely unaware of business requirements, customer experience etc and instead think it's your job to do cool nerd shit instead
> I’ve had prominent EA folks tell me that Climate Change is not an existential risk

Have you seen anything to indicate otherwise? The IPCC reports don't contain even a whiff in that direction.

To the best of my knowledge zero people who know anything about climate change think its existential.
Because it sounds like goulag
Why Tesla’s Optimus Is a Big Step on the Way to AGI
SpaceX seemed very scrappy to me, certainly an upstart, and their costs seem offer of magnitude lower. They also seem to have pushed the boundaries of technology, eg by landing boosters - not just on land but also at sea. I think the accusation that they just copied existing technology is untrue.