skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still about twice or so the number that the simulations of sxp and myself give, but I think that we both used a different definition of back-to-back than you. We both are not counting the first song in a run of consecutive same gender artist songs as being back-to-back.

If the first song in a run is included in the back-to-back count then my simulation seems to be matching your updated simulations. If 11% of the songs are from female artists for example I get that ~2.27% of the total plays should be part of back-to-back runs of female artists.

If the first song in a run does not count as back-to-back, that was ~1.22%.

Note that the percentages for "first doesn't count" B2B simulations come out pretty close to the B2B percentages given in the article for most stations. That could just be a coincidence, but it is probably worth double checking how you calculated the B2B percentages for the actual station data to make sure that you are using "first counts" B2B.

If the station stats are using "first counts", then it looks like most of the stations are playing about 1/2 as many female artist songs B2B as they would if scheduling were random. But if the station stats are using "first doesn't count", then it looks like most are consistent with random playlists.
> Curious how does federal govt subsidize them?

Through the VA Loan, FHA Federal Home Loan, and USDA Rural Loan programs.
It depends on how rigorous/detailed you want to be. This is at most two semesters worth of material, and has a very shallow learning curve (hence the large PDF). If you've been exposed to these ideas, you could cover it in a semester. I'd say it's quite doable in a year in your spare time.

If you drop the combinatorics chapter, it is definitely doable in one semester.

For example, Chapter 7 is 100 pages. In Tao's analysis book, he covers the same material in 42 pages.
I was immediately disappointed to not find https://www.phallus.is/ represented.
No recent data seems to be available.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-artificial-intelli...

Edit - Arxiv ML publications double every 23 months:
https://twitter.com/MarioKrenn6240/status/131462299513926451...
> Can you point me to more reasoned AI doomers?

I will try to this afternoon... I don't have any links handy on this computer. But I am not sure I will meet your criteria. I think we need to first agree on a simple set of premises. Do you agree with:

1. It is possible for humans to create superhuman AI with agency (the ability to set goals and enact them, affecting things in the real world)

2. It is not currently possible for us to predict the motivations and reasoning of the above AI with high confidence

3. It is possible for the above AI to set goals for itself which will be damaging or destructive to human civilization

With these assertions out of the way, it's an open question how likely these dangerous goals are. Some argue they're more likely than not, which I tend to agree with by way of analogy. That analogy is influence-seeking human individuals and organizations.

Humans and human organizations tend to have negative effects on their surroundings when seeking influence. Individuals and organizations which seek to grow their power, no matter their intent, tend to harm people and environments. There are many, many reasons for this, but I think they can largely be boiled down to the following: it is easier to enact harmful change than to enact harmless change. (Think about how many regulations we have, for example, on creating a new building, and how many safety and health hazards still happen. Besides that, the footprint of the building obliterates a natural ecosystem: this is intrinsic harm.)

> If you believe something wild to that degree of certainty, there's no other word for it. It's religious.

I don't agree, but I accept that you believe this. We might just have to agree to disagree here. But that makes the belief wild? Is it religious to believe in quantum mechanics, which IMO is far less intuitive than AI apocalypse? (You might say no because QM is extremely rigorously tested. But as an idea, QM is insane.)

Fundamentally, AI "doomerism" is a logical belief, not one of pure faith. It is derived from logical reasoning. It is actually more similar to string theory than QM, now that I think about it - it is reasonable, and there are logical pathways to reach the belief, but it can't be falsified, so it's not scientific. Perhaps it lives in the area between religion and theory.
Logic Pro (1993)

Now it belongs to Apple but it was only acquired about 20 years ago
LLM University (LLMU)
I went traveling and now I'm lost at a random forest
My 2021 Hyundai Kona EV illuminates the brake lights immediately when the regen kicks in. Strange that that's not the default behaviour on the other model.
Nvidia Short Sellers Lose $2.3B in One Day as Stock Soars
It's so nice to not have to ride your brakes going downhill, especially when you also have to turn at the same time. (I miss my old manual car)
theres no argument. They productionized a docs example, something I did consider too shameless to try. Wish I had tried. Kudos to this dev he is rolling in the cash.
I would argue that, no, it's Hyundai that needs to rethink brake lights (though I suppose we might write some regulations to ensure consistency). I have an Ioniq 5, and this is one of the two reasons I don't use one-pedal driving (the other is that the car always uses both motors in one-pedal mode, therefore reducing range). There are many discussions on https://www.ioniqforum.com about the subject. There are also three levels of regeneration, and apparently the highest level (Level 3) also does not light the brake lights appropriately, whereas Level 2/1 and "auto regeneration" apparently do.
Yep. It's dangerous and it's just not appealing. Even in SF, despite parking being a pain, I've grown to prefer driving places to walking (beyond ~10-15 minutes radius) because:

A) Sidewalks are just too damn cramped. Pedestrians feel like 2nd class citizens to cars

B) Public transit, to get longer distances, is unreliable and often chaotic

C) It's faster

D) Besides some parks, there aren't very many places I want to hang out outside at en route to most destinations. There aren't enough nice, safe public spaces

E) I keep my head on a swivel and I still have to dodge clueless drivers who run stop signs or don't use turn signals _far_ too often for how little I walk now. Although I will say that this seems to have gotten worse since COVID for whatever reason.

I don't really see a solution to the problem.. there's opposition to pretty much every baby step towards progress. They tried "slow streets" (with minimal investment into said infrastructure) and... local residents seemed to hate them, drivers didn't care, and police didn't enforce anything.

If you can't beat 'em..
Yes, and with pointer-to-array syntax the bounds checking already works today:

https://godbolt.org/z/oc6MTWjYd

For your syntax we will probably just also add it is an option.
There was a guy in a senior tech role I once encountered in a consulting gig who never let an opportunity to put someone down publicly go by. One time, a young researcher came and gave a (remote) presentation. At the end of the presentation during the Q&A, this guy basically says, "don't you think that your project is a complete waste of time in light of factors x, y, z?"

For my project, I was building some tools that were helping me understand the problem space (which was new to me and that he fundamentally did not understand himself). In a team stand-up, which included the CTO, I shared that I had built a useful tool that was helping me and he chimes in: "I think that you just spend all of your time making tools and don't do any real work." Even if there was a conversation to be had about how I was spending my time, it was ridiculous that he was bringing this up for the first time not 1:1 but with the whole group. I resigned a few days after that interaction (which was probably at least the fourth or fifth time he'd pulled something similar in the two months I worked with them). BTW, he would never just say "you are a moron" but it was very clearly the subtext of almost all of the feedback he gave, except to the most junior people who didn't threaten him in any way.
Yes, considering the additional cost of a tape drive versus the price difference per stored TB between tapes and HDDs gives an intersection point somewhere between 100 TB and 300 TB.

Taking into account that for long term archiving it is necessary to store 2 or 3 copies of the data reduces proportionally the threshold above which tape is preferable.

The storage cost per TB includes not only the purchase price but also the lifetime of the media, e.g. a HDD model with a warranty of 2 years cannot be trusted to store data for a longer time.

Tape is guaranteed for 30 years, but the storage time is normally reduced to about 10 years by the risk that the corresponding tape drives may become obsolete.
Much easier, but not as technically interesting :)
And I do pedal it if I think the driver behind me is risky, though I'm not sure where the light engagement is relative to brake engagement.
Joining a table on a column without an index will require a linear scan of the column. You almost always want an index on JOIN columns
> Why would someone want to detach their self worth from what they do?

If you derive self worth from results, then you could be disappointed by circumstances outside of your control.

Suppose you set a goal to make $1 million by age 30. At age 27 you're doing great and (through no fault of your own) you are struck by lightning. Because we're playing pretend let's just say your insurance doesn't cover lightning strikes and so medical bills drain a lot of your savings and you cannot continue your career and you do not become a millionare by 30.

If your goal is just the million, then you are a failure. You did not make it. If instead you derive self worth from your values, then you can still be a hard worker (or maybe your value is being self-starting, or entrepreneurial, or something else), even if you are struck by lightning.

> If someone ought not feel a negative emotion in response to doing something “bad”, by what logic can they justify feeling something positive in response to doing something “good”?

I think this section is pretty close to what I'm advocating here. "Good" and "bad" are doing a lot of legwork. What is good and what is bad? I'd wager if you asked people of different religions or ideologies or backgrounds you'd get a whole swath of answers here.

> I cannot conceive of a world view that allows one to feel proud of their accomplishments but does not require their disappointment in their shortcomings.

You might find that you attribute too much to yourself here. It can feel good when you are succeeding and sometimes the system at large is a major contributor to your accomplishments and your shortcomings. As an extreme example, I don't think that someone accomplishing little and suffering under Apartheid is worth less than someone benefiting from that system that accomplishes a lot.

> If someone’s worth is not tied to what they do, then the criminals, liars, frauds, cheaters, etc., of the world are every bit as valuable as our loved ones, idols, great contributors, etc.

To me it would depend why they commit crimes, why they lie, cheat, etc. Someone is stealing bread to feed their family that is very different from someone stealing taxes for a public project. Going back to the Apartheid example, an interracial couple would be breaking the law, and although they are criminals I would not want them to disappear for that. They could have even done horrible things to protest Apartheid and I would still not want them to disappear. If they had rotten values then sure.
Unthinkable does not have anything to do with probability. Rather, it’s something the author would prefer to not think about.

Also, you saying it’s common is a judgement call and not a true frequency call.

It can be both unthinkable and uncommon and possible.
Yes. I feel there should be some kind of anti-list of people who dumped SPACs and ICOs on the public.

I personally feel it was pretty gross behavior (in many, but not all, cases), and the people who did the egregious ones mostly knew at the time that they were doing a zero sum wealth transfer to themselves.

I personally avoid working with people who were involved in ICOs and SPACs where at the time of issuance a reasonable analysis could've shown that it was grossly overpriced to the public investors it was sold to (because in those cases, I believe that the issuer themselves should've known, and shouldn't have proceeded).
The phrase "individuals who think alike", what does that mean?
One business mantra goes: "If two people always agree, one is not needed"
My ego gets a boost when people agree with my solutions but my intellect prefers to hear the rebuttals or even better, insights. People may tell you that they are driven by intellectual pursuits. Not true. We all want to feel good about what we do.
So.
What am I getting at?
Not everything that shine is work.
Yes and WASM can be sandboxed just as easily as JavaScript.

There is nothing "magical" about web browsers in that regard.
These things make more sense because LTO is used for backup, not archival. Companies don't want to be able to read the tape data in 50 years, they want to be able to read it tomorrow, after the entire business campus burns down.
the US often doesn't even have to say anything about human right abuse _in_ the US
Looking at these comments, I can't think of another VC that has burned as much goodwill among technical people as a16z has. Don't get me wrong, it's well deserved, but it's just surprising how universal it seems to be (at least in this thread).
Selling shovels continues to be profitable.
Self managing storage is never easy to configure, especially not when it's storage that you want to access in a timely manner
The First AI-Powered SVG Generator from Text Prompts. Available Next Week Yet
Hi HN,

Just wanted to share a project I've been developing for a while, called neoSVG. It's an AI-powered tool that can generate SVGs based on text prompts, aiming to simplify the SVG creation process.

I've tried to focus on building something that genuinely adds value to designers and developers in their everyday tasks.

Would be thrilled to get your thoughts and feedback on it.
A. A. Milne is turning in his grave.
How can one become better at office politics? What are books to read / courses to take?
For starters to, say, protect privacy and intellectual property? Both of those areas are kind of under served in the current ai models landscape
Wonderful review! You can feel John's passion for his craft.
Read both.
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INDOCHINA

1. CASUALTY FIGURES FOR WORST BOMBING ACCIDENT OF INDOCHINA WAR AT NEAK LUONG GIVEN BY AMEMBASSY PP AS 137 (INCLUDING 56 FANK) KILLED AND 268 (INCLUDING 137 FANK) WOUNDED, BUT KHMER OFFICIALS SAY 189 KILLED AND 315 WOUNDED. SOURCE OF BOMBING ERROR NOT YET PINPOINTED, BUT DOD BELIEVES DUE MECHANICAL OR HUMAN TECHNICAL ERROR (AP CHITRIB, NYDN, WP; BINDER, NYT; SEIDEN, SUN; CSM; MARKS, UPI, PHINQ). KIRK (CHITRIB) FINDS REACTION AT PP ONE OF RESIGNATION. CHARGE ENDERS APOLOGIZES TO GKR AND EXPRESSES PROFOUND CONDOLENCES FOR NEAK LUONG ERROR (MARKS). SUN (AP) BELIEVES DANGER OF MISTAKEN BOMBING OF FRIENDLY AREAS DUE TO US PILOTS' DEPENDENCE ON CAMBODIAN OBSERVERS FOR TARGET INFORMATION AND DANGER IS HEIGHTENING AS INSURGENTS TIGHTEN NOOSE. PHOTOGRAPHER WHO VISITED NEAK LUONG (AP WP, NYT) SAYS HALF OF TOWN DESTROYED OR HEAVILY DAMAGED AND MAIN STREET LINED WITH RUBBLE; CONTRADICTS US AIR ATTACHE WHO STATED DAMAGE NOT EXTENSIVE
It's a useful label to categorize and marginalize speech. This is a common tactic used in propaganda.
Wireshark 4.0.6 Release Notes including several CVE's and bugs
Sorry to disappoint, but try searching for that on Github and see the amount of projects where this has been unironically suggested.
"Largely" unfounded doesn't make it unfounded. It's founded, and relevant, and either will be addressed by people acknowledging its genuine existential nature as a threat or, following your baseless dismissal, people will die.
I'm actually in the USA. The question was how do the Chinese feel. I conveyed the general feeling.
A Study in Practical Deduplication – Usenix
AI is a pretty broad term. I think it safely fits there. AGI/ sentience / etc. No. And yes it’s not reasoning because by definition reasoning requires agency, as you point out. However I think you make a few assumptions I wouldn’t be comfortable with.

Is human intelligence anything more than a statistical model? Our entire biology is a massive gradient descent optimization system. Our brains are no different. The establishment of connectivity and potential and resistance, etc etc, it’s statistical in behavior all the way down. Our way of learning is what these models are built around, to the best of our ability. It’s not perfect but it’s a reasonable approximation.

Further it’s not soundex. I see the stochastic parrot argument too much and it’s annoying. Soundex is symbolic only. LLMs are also semantic. In fact the semantic nature is where their interesting properties emerge from. The “just a fancy Markov model” or “just a large scale soundex” misses the entire point of what they do. Yes they involve tokenizing and symbols and even conditional probability. But so does our intelligence. The neural net based attention to semantic structure is however not soundex of Markov model. It’s a genuine innovation and the properties that emerge are new.

But new doesn’t mean complete. To be complete you need to build an ensemble model integrating all the classical techniques of goal based agency, optimization, solvers, inductive/deductive reasoning systems, IR, etc etc in a feedback loop. The LLM provides an ability to reason abductively in an abstract semantic space and interpret inputs and draw conclusions classical AI is very bad at. The places where LLM fall down… well, classical AI really shine there. Why does it need to be able to do logic as well as a logical solver? We already have profoundly powerful logic systems. Why does it need to count? We already have things that count. What we did not have is what LLMs provide, and more specifically multimodal LLMs.
Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode
Orcas are ramming yachts off the Spanish coast – is the whale world rising up?
>One explanation is that their behaviour is a reaction to past trauma inflicted on one member of the pod by humans
You need to transfer that ASAP to some SyQuest drives. Baby steps.
Criticism about code is either accurate or useless. If it’s useless, no point getting bothered by someone’s bad opinions. If it’s accurate, then thank god you won’t have to discover it later when it bites you in production. Always good to remember all the times you’ve messed up, makes you appreciate the extra eyes. Plus, no matter the quality, you learn a little more about programming and the people you work with by seeing their thoughts applied to something you made.
AFAIK ABS modules already have accelerometers. If I had to guess it falls into the domain of the ABS module, and it's just easier to talk about it as an accelerometer, when it's really using multiple inputs (wheel speed sensors can fail).

I hope whatever new regulation is intelligent enough to not consider the deceleration from coasting up a hill to be part of triggering the brake lights. Brake lights should only come on when there is deceleration beyond what you'd expect from a naturally rolling car.
PostgreSQL 16 Reaches Beta with Performance Improvements – Including SIMD
The way I see it, new movies don't modify old movies. The third movie cannot nullify the ending of the second movie because it cannot modify the second movie in any way.

How could it be any other way? Because "canon"? It's a senseless concept. Suppose I buy the full rights to all Alien intellectual property, and then commission a prequel story in which Ripley cruelly murders a dog for no reason. Does this ruin the first movie, by making it into a story about a heroic dog murderer? No, I didn't change the first story at all. Owning the IP doesn't make me into a time traveler who can retroactively modify the meaning of art created in the past. Even if I were the original creator and not just somebody who has the IP rights, I cannot travel into the past and modify the meaning of things already published.
Considering that industry standard software like backup exec has built-in support for hardware encryption (which is actually part of the LTO standard), I would need to see a source for "nobody trusts encryption built into tape drives"
> If there is danger, the police will come fast to catch the stranger

Oh the irony of having this in Texas. Instead of having real 2nd amendment reform, lets give everyone a book to cope with the new reality.
Turns out, in the real world, arbitrary complexity under the hood which is almost completely invisible to the user, is less of a drawback than not having access to the largest ecosystem of 3rd party libraries that exist for the platform.

I greatly prefer a project that is willing to reconsider its founding principles than sticking dogmatically to them even when they are being harmful to the project and its users.
> That's hateful by definition.

My whole point is that you (and many others) are using a new definition of "hate" which doesn't match the old one. "Hate" used to be an emotion, a feeling, a dislike of something and a wish to see it destroyed.

One can feel superior to something without having any dislike of it or a wish to see it destroyed. I consider myself superior in many respects to the rocks in my back garden, but I neither dislike them nor wish them destroyed.

A supremacist may consider themselves smarter or prettier or taller than some other group, but that does not necessarily mean they want to destroy the other group.
Thanks!

> And inoculate yourself against AI x-risk nonsense. That’s not something you should be worrying about.

I'm actually a "believer" in the "AI x-risk nonsense", having self-converted over a decade ago into a sympathizer / non-practitioning follower of the cult of Yudkowsky and his LessWrong disciples. Religious metaphors aside, over the past 10 years I figured out a (what I think is) healthy attitude to this - I am worried at the intellectual level, but I'm not feeling anxious or terrified of it on a daily basis.

I suppose it's the same attitude as everyone has to the threat of nuclear war.
It's quite annoying that Hyundai got this so wrong, while a long list of other makers got it right. Even without regulators demanding they do so.
Missing:

The National Museum of Funeral History

https://www.nmfh.org/

Surprisingly, zero goth content. Much about presidential funerals, ancient Egypt, Popes, and New Orleans jazz funerals.
If you want to use an inferior Gmail client similar to the iOS Mail app, you can simply access Gmail using a third party mail client on Android exactly the same way.

The difference is you don't have to give your location to anybody on Android, while Apple makes you give them your location. You don't have to tell anybody that you installed an app on Android, while Apple knows every app you've installed and when you used each one.
Did you not read the parent comments? You're just repeating what was already said.
It's why I put it in brackets.
> New York has been under Democrat control since 1975 [1] and California since 1959 [2] -

Neither of those claims are supported by those links (and even the control that actually is shown by those links may be misleading, in that it ignores things like “controlling all of the separately elected executive offices and having majorities in both houses of the legislature is insufficient to govern California since it takes a legislative supermajority to make tax changes that involve any increases, and, prior to 2014, to even pass an annual budget”.)
Agree but you can always add an index without downtime. It just becomes a money and complexity issue ;)