skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"ASI" is still limited by physics and logic. Or if not, we're just more screwed, maybe. I suppose we're in agreement that in the long run (maybe longer than we think with some really cool stuff like Ems in between...), the likely scenario is we're screwed one way or another? I'm just glad people are working on trying to discover the chains of logic that let us not be so screwed, hard as that problem may be. I don't see any paradox there that makes the problem impossible, logic is logic independent of intelligence. Similarly, I'm very sure that no one else and no superintelligent AGI can ever reproduce the original string I used to produce the sha512 hash of a5136df53e73c4fdcde80d9ba41f2526c6e144e344c85a355f518b161f5b5171a6de831908ec32f6a6e503ae055219027d8e9890517977bbcd16a6cd9f36c858 (perhaps they'll find a collision). (Incidentally there are many secure systems and schemes that have not fallen. But you'd probably write them off as too narrow for some reason.)

Yes, there's "difficulty comprehending" current deep learning models, put modestly. There's also interesting work in interpretability/explainability going on to work on that. Nothing there says "impossible". However, even granting that it is actually impossible to explain and reason about current AI methods to the degree we need to in order to create chains of logic for alignment purposes, that just says that it's impossible to reason about an AGI produced using such methods, if it's even possible to produce an AGI that way. It says nothing about it being impossible to reason about an AGI produced using different methods.
This is not true. The cognitive model of depression has been debunked: https://theconversation.com/cbt-is-wrong-in-how-it-understan...
> What you're seeing is that Asian-Americans are better qualified, but not enough of them are accepted as one would expect from being better qualified.

Please reread my entire comment.

I covered your thesis, and I am fairly certain that it is an inappropriate characterization of the reality.

Specifically, every study I have seen that makes this claim determines that Asians are “more qualified” based exclusively on a comparison of SAT scores and/or grades.

Grades and SAT scores are only one factor of many that are used in admissions decisions.

As I have said before, some folks may not like that more than grades and SATs are used in admissions decisions, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

Let me give you an example of a profile I see a lot:

- 800 math 780 verbal on SAT.

- Top 5 in class taking a strong academic curriculum. Not valedictorian because of a few differences of a + or - here and there attached to their straight As.

- Played instrument in band and marching band for 4 years.

- Wrote articles and took photos for school newspaper and yearbook.

- Volunteer in school volunteer group that actually did some decent work.

Using the guidelines in the link below, how would you rate this applicant?

https://veritasessays.org/college-admissions-blog/posts/type...

1. Academics — solid 2. Definitely not 1, since there is no indication of “genuine scholar” like published research or a Westinghouse award or something similar.

2. ECs - Squarely 3. Did some stuff, but no leadership or substantial impact.

3. PQ — Let’s say 2, but this could be a 3 if their school does not know how to write good recommendations for elite schools and/or if the applicant did not impress the right people. Note that there is nothing about low SES or other challenging conditions that might make them a solid 2 or even a 1. Frankly, in our case, it doesn’t matter.

4. Athletics — Marching band is basically a sport. Let’s say 3. If they were just in band, that would probably fall under ECs, and this might be a 5. Note that there is no expressed desire to be in the Harvard band, and there is no quality measure (like winning a competition) that suggests that they could be good enough, so 1 and 2 are out of the question.

So… is this person an admit?

Probably not. This is almost a perfect “standard strong” — nothing wrong with them, but nothing stands out. Note that their grades and scores only got them a 2 in academics, and there are a lot of other 2s out there in the applicant pool.

They probably won’t get in unless they have some other highly desirable trait like geographic diversity, racial diversity, recruited athlete, director’s list, or child of faculty.

Anyway, I hope that people stop perpetuating the myth that “better qualified Asians” are not being accepted. A more accurate statement is “asians with higher grades and SAT scores are not being accepted because they are not excelling in other areas that are explicitly mentioned as part of the evaluation process”.

Note that those folks (Asians and otherwise) who have good grades and good SAT scores as well as excel in other areas are much more likely to be accepted.
Call depression what you want, but I don’t agree that it is not contagious, along with some other mental illnesses (e.g. anxiety). They’re not “contagious” in the sense that you will receive a clinical diagnosis for depression immediately after being around someone depressed, but I think it is naive to think others are not impacted by their interactions with depressed people.

A few of my family members struggle with depression and also with anxiety. I love them dearly, but spending too much time with them can ruin my mood. It is exhausting to try to be upbeat around someone who is depressed; in my experience, they win, and I am dragged into sadness as well. Similarly, it is stressful to be around someone who suffers from anxiety.

It is widely accepted that mental illnesses like depression and anxiety are positive feedback loops. I don’t know why the same traits that make them so would not be able to impact others.
Are you sure there isn't an arbitration clause hiding somewhere in the tos?
I'm responding to the comment you made about dying for your country. Only pilots / special units fight in the air force, everyone else is support and relatively safe. No joke intended.
Latency numbers every programmer should know, part 2
JetBrains Space Q1–Q2 2023 Roadmap and 2022 Retrospective
Despite the HN bubble, most of the 2.7 million developers working in the US in banks, insurance companies or other “enterprise developers” will never see a total compensation amount (inflation adjusted) above around $170K in most of major cities in their life.

These developers may go their entire careers without ever reversing a binary tree on a whiteboard while juggling two bowling balls on a unicycle.
Yeah, the ads for that always made it look wonderful! But my fam had already got original Pyro, a couple upgrades to it (colour! and fish!), and then Darkside. That last was freeware, with what seemed like loads more modules, even some third party ones and a dev kit… but nowhere near as many as what became thousands of After Dark modules (though Darkside could run some of them).
The photo of "Claire" is a crop of a stock photo listed as "close-up-portrait-of-a-young-beautiful-blonde-woman-summer-outdoors.html". So yeah, there's that.
No, no, no. To a free market apologist, there's no such thing as inelastic demand. Every item is a completely optional luxury item that you can choose to walk away from without consequence. Nothing is ever a Hobson's Choice.

It's a great world, living in an Econ 101 textbook.

The hilarious thing is that a core tenet of conservatism used to be that widespread private property ownership is the cornerstone of liberty. Rental models, which keep the maximum number of people in debt in the form of eternally-owed rent, were bad. In today's Ayn Rand-worshipping neoconservative free-market religious dogma, the core tenet is The Supply Side Gets What It Wants, NOW, And It's Your Fault If You Don't Like It. And the ultimate socioeconomic effects, any sort of principled view beyond "If the people it costs the most to don't like it, they can lump it", don't matter anymore.
If you're hosting it yourself, until somebody comes in and turns off the equipment.

If it's hosted on the web, until the hosting company cuts off your service for non-payment.
I do not think it is feasible to make sure prompts are reproducible. Considering that a LLMs are large you can not host every version of the model indefinitely.
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You are limiting your investigation to consumer brands. Lots of codecs (which support video infrastructure) originate in Europe, look up Fraunhofer institute for example. Python, the world's most popular programming language, invented and managed by a European. The world wide web originates in Switzerland. So does Linux. A lot of the technology you use every day comes from Europe, it just isn't in the form of a consumer product.
Well it was mostly pieced together information - the one that I already had from experience and the rest pulled from the Internet.

But which parts do you mean exactly? How to setup nginx to act as a reverse proxy? Or putting together a docker-compose? I'm thinking of doing some kind of guide for this type of thing on my blog - basically from setting up a Hetzner VPS box to running a docker-compose'd app and exposing it on a HTTPS endpoint for your own domain (so setting up DNS probably also).
That's probably enough to get the "host" banned
Changebacks aren't guaranteed that your bank or credit card issuers will allow it. I've had a bank tell me several times that I can't do a chargeback when there were fraudulent purchases made on my account on the Playstation Network.

Even better, Sony threatened to ban my account and I'd lose all the content I legitimately purchased if I did a chargeback against them.

I buy physical game copies now and I've found CapitalOne is better at doing chargebacks than my credit union is (guess credit unions aren't all they're cracked up to be in certain aspects)
That seems the best alternative to me. If the host is so interested in enforcing the policy, let she enforce it herself.

Given the circumstances, I think it is highly unlikely Airbnb would charge the guest. In any case, the guest can also resort to a chargeback, as others have said.

Not giving in to unreasonable demands should be the norm when using services such as Airbnb, Uber, etc.
Why Not Shibboleths – By Michael Huemer – Fake Noûs
He never changed his mind. He wanted to amend the name on the booking to rectify what is essentially a clerical error. It’s not his fault if the only way to do that through the software is to effectively cancel and make a new booking.

If we’re talking about laws, the law varies between states and countries and just because something is buried in page 59 of a clickwrap agreement nobody reads doesn’t magically mean the case is a slam-dunk - there will be many nuances a court will consider if it actually gets there, which it will not because Airbnb and maybe even the host has way more skeletons hidden in the closet to risk showing up in court over a cancellation fee - in fact the only reason this wasn’t resolved in favor of the guest is because the entire case was offloaded to someone in a third-world country barely capable of speaking English and definitely not paid nor trained enough to understand and care about the situation - so they’re definitely not going to be flying in a lawyer to argue their case for a few hundred bucks in court.

With regards to a chargeback fee, Stripe charges around 30 bucks last time I checked? Far from breaking the bank I would say.

> it seems like (IANAL) your chargeback could also be taken as a breach of contract by the host

I would absolutely pay good money to see that host argue their case in court when the whole dispute started out of them trying to make a quick buck instead of allowing the guest to change their name. However just as the above there is no way they will show up in court considering it’s very likely they’re not even abiding by their local laws when it comes to short-term rentals, and the writing style of “Claire” suggests the whole thing might be a complete scam in the end.
Awesome game! Really addictive :-)

Perfect landing, incredible, you can’t get better than this

Score: 101.1 point landing
Speed: 0.7mph
Angle: 0.1°
Time: 26 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 32.4mph
Max height: 194ft
Engine used: 53 times
Boosters used: 30 times
Cool! I wasn’t born when the Mackintosh was firstly published unfortunately, but these screensavers make me feel nostalgic somehow.
> 1. Go has a major bottleneck and that’s the growth of its memory size when it’s under pressure. Templates bloat the memory quickly and make the site less performant at scale (aka if you put it on Heroku, you’d need more Dinos to support the traffic, which costs more.). Instead of GO templating, you can produce static pages and fill them up with JS Ajax or React, or whatever your front end flavor is and make that call a Go API you produce with the framework instead. This also helps you turn your site into an app if needed as well.

It will most likely be fast enough. If not there are libs that will compile your templates to Go code with very minimal overhead, or templating libraries that are much faster than builtin one.

I'd think adding megabytes of JS garbage just to run site would be opposite of "HN clone"
Yes. Iatrogenesis doesn't imply an overall negative outcome: livesaving medications and treatments can have iatrogenic consequences that are outweighed by their intended, positive ones (or vice versa).
Some strategies to deal with this:

1) Don't A/B test on actual users, instead form a focus group and watch how they use your site.

2) Don't rely on ads for income, add a paid subscription option I.E the fremium model.
So you're being forced to use a workflow you don't like that gimps your productivity, and you still would force guys to use workflows they may not like? That's worse than choosing it man.

Switching workspaces is as easy as moving your eyeballs, at least in a tiling wm. It's no different workflow wise, except it costs hundreds of dollars less. You can literally only look at one monitor at a time. Very, very few people actually have a need for more than one. The majority of people using more than one monitor are doing it because it makes them feel like hackerman, because their boss imposes a workflow and environment on them, or because they can't be bothered to try to make their environment more efficient.
More over most honest businesses would rather you contact them for a refund rather than a chargeback. A chargeback should not be your go to for someone stealing your credit card or whatever as that costs the business (which is itself a victim) money. For Amazon etc that might not matter, but for smaller businesses it can be an expensive event. The payment processors charge them significant fees for any charge back (to “discourage” the need for them). (Ignoring that those companies may sell through Amazon or whatever, and those intermediaries take double digit % of every purchase, but don’t pay a cent of any refund).
I've spent more time studying programming languages than anyone else I know, and I understand FP very well. The argument that I'm making is not that FP has nothing to offer (I dearly hope that many more features from FP languages make it into the mainstream!), it's that FP comes with a set of restrictions on what can and cannot be done, and those restrictions do not seem justified to the majority of programmers. It is as uncomfortable for them to work with Haskell as it is to work with Rust, but unlike with Rust they can't see why they should bother.

The author of the article hopes to build a new functional programming language that will finally get traction by making a few different choices. I think that this is a mistake because a single-paradigm language will never reach mainstream adoption. Pragmatically multi-paradigm languages have historically been the only ones to get traction, and I believe that the reason is because they explicitly endorse multiple possible approaches, even if their support for any given approach isn't as strong as a specialized tool. They may not support FP as well as Haskell or OO as well as Smalltalk, but by sacrificing purity they buy pragmatism, and allow programmers more flexibility in problem solving.
if it's not reproducible, it's not science
IMO this is 100% right and not just for new grads. The compensation for software engineers is on such a broad spectrum. Even if I think leetcode style questions are completely inane and reveal horrendous values, I'll put up with it for the prospect of double the compensation (or more).
WTF! What are they being poisoned with?
Same in the US, of course. Suicide by gun counted as 'gun violence' is the classic disingenuous deception. Remove those and gang violence (primarily against rival gangs), and the numbers don't look that scary, which is the issue for those with an agenda.
Lisp was never "pure", but yes, there's definitely been a shift in the meaning of the term "functional language". Which makes sense: the things that made Lisp more "functional" or better suited to the functional style have almost universally adopted by other languages. There's nothing particularly functional about it anymore.

Lisp has always been deeply multiparadigm, even if it was the harbinger of FP. It's had support for mutation and OOP since the 70s. If you wanted to (although most Lispers wouldn't), you could view that support as an escape hatch for when the functional paradigm, as expressed in Lisp, was inappropriate or insufficient to solve a problem. It's natural, then, that languages that have taken the functional paradigm and insisted on it, run further with it, are now the ones that are particularly functional. It's how language naturally evolves in cases like this; similar things can be seen with the term "artificial intelligence".
You accept that some people run faster ("uncontroversial") but somehow it is "unknowable" whether some people think faster?
Your food pyramid is hilarious: https://exfatloss.substack.com/p/ex150-diet-macros-2294kcal-...

If it works for you OK - but I'm not a fan of dairy or red meat. I'm very close to my ideal weight anyway with my current diet and intermittent fasting. (I do two 36 hour fasts per week if trying to lose weight)
>You also have general knowledge at your disposal on writing code smartly as to avoid potential mishaps.

Exactly that's why I use pure functions where possible.
It is managers who decides what project dies or lives, not engineers.
I don't want to trivialize anything but I most of my time in gamedev was dealing with similar either engine uplevel-integration hell(the team I was on still has scars from having to rebaseline UE3 on a 3 month cadence which took... 3 months every time we did it so it was back-to-back uplevels) or dealing with these sorts of things even in established engines.

Yes Unity does better but there's a ton of momentum with established commercial engines that have tens of millions of dollars invested in them. It was only recently that Godot has started making some inroads on the indie side of the engine space.
Thanks for the feedback! Definitely gives me more motivation to start it.
At this point, I'm pretty convinced these Europeans legislations are about being as vague as possible so that they can target pretty much any entity they (the state) doesn't like with fines and legal threats.

It all works because the public are made to believe these are good because they seem to go after some boogeymen (the evil foreign tech companies and the United-States).
I don't believe anyone said that it was marginal for crypto?
14 inch laptops are the sweet spot for me, easily fit in a backpack with a protective travel case and support larger memory & more performant CPUs.

e.g. ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 AMD, Ryzen 7 pro 6850U, 32 gb LPDDR5-6400MHz for around 1000 EUR

Having used an XPS 13 and XPS 15 I was underwhelmed and none of Dell's laptops hit the sweet spot for me.
My experience has been that after having become comfortable with Nix, self-hosting is the path of least resistance for the majority of "mainstream" tooling where you can pick between paying for a SaaS or self-hosting. So nice to not have to deal with Docker containers to deploy (most things) anymore.

I see a lot of people suggesting hosting on a VPS, but I feel that a Hetzner Auction box is often much better bang-for-buck and serves as a nice remote dev/build box for projects that need that extra oomph when you aren't working from a capable desktop or laptop.

[1]: This was the article that finally opened my eyes to the power of Nix for self-hosting https://arne.me/blog/plex-on-nixos, and it is such a huge upgrade from the previous Docker setup I was running[2]

[2]: https://github.com/madslundt/docker-cloud-media-scripts
And then there are psychopathic workplaces where management hires anxious and vulnerable employees in order to maintain their own sense of dominance over those who work for them. I talked with a managerial candidate once who considered this a "good strategy" because "you can make them work 80 hrs a week and they won't complain".

At the end of that interview I wasn't sure if I should call social services or not. It was pretty deeply unsettling for me.
Culture largely flows from genetics, so I'm not quite sure what you are getting at.
Obviously it’s in his interests to write that. There’s likely some trivial sense where it’s true but there are always jobs being destroyed in some parts and created in others.

Ignoring that sense, I think it’s a reasonable opinion to hold today, even if it turns out to be wrong.

Fun fact: there are more bank tellers in America now than when ATMs were invented.
> Spectacular failures include

Someone misplaced a comma (hello YAML), prod dies, yor site doesn't come up because never it happened to test the infra against the bla kout
The Quest for Certainty (1959)
PDF: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1959.02340130089015
This is a wonderful tip. I’m surprised that as a professional python programmer for 10 years, that I’ve never seen or heard of anyone doing this!

I’ve already shared the link with my coworkers, I suspect I’ll be evangelizing this to all of my interns and mentees going forward. Thanks again.
To the extent AI fills in for a deficit of labor then the comparison to Bastiat is apt (for this is how candles and lantern oils were always used, for when the 'labor' of the Sun went away). To the extent AI replaces available labor, then I'm not so sure. It may effectively be what Bastiat was sarcastically calling for here: "First, if you shut off as much as possible all access to natural light, and thereby create a need for artificial light, what industry in France will not ultimately be encouraged?"

The parallel does not align. Ludditism and import restriction come from differing motivations, even when they call for the same actions.

If AI is cheaper than human labor, AI will be preferred by industry. When human labor is cheaper than AI (such as free help from a friend or neighbor), then human labor will be preferred. But sunlight is almost always preferred to candlelight or lamp light.
Some would argue that, due to the unfortunately near-universal deprecation of paper authors after 70-90 years, the actual process of writing any particular paper is not and has never been reproducible. As opposed to experiments, which are reproducible and are not generally contained within the operating weights of a LLM nor the thoughts of a human.
The book summary! But curious around costs for that
As laid out in the original post, there is currently no commonly agreed on definition of implicit bias, or if it even exists at all. As such, we can't reliably extrapolate the properties and effects of it, much less how it interacts with other aspects of reality.
Meanwhile, you never addressed the point that the US invades more nations than anybody else. Why are you ignoring that?