skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the relation between O̶p̶e̶n̶AI and this website? Isn't Sam Altman also part-owner of YC?
> Yes, charging can be quicker than filling with gasoline. 15 minutes charging can be done in parallel with the rest stop. OTOH 5 minutes filling with gasoline is done in serial with a bathroom break and buying a coffee.

I see people fill their tanks unattended all the time. Probably not a good idea, but it happens.
I like that paper, but I don’t think it was the first to suggest separating x and y and using multi-pass for distance transforms.

Here are a few that predate and I think make the same observation:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ipl.2006.12.005

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002001...

That second paper from 1996 references an even older paper from 94, saying “Dividing rows and columns alternately, Chen and Chuang reduced the time complexity to O(N^2) which is optimal.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002001...
I found a more detailed analysis here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dp2C4J2yMe4

Apparently the probability is indeed very low.
Just a counter example, if a Comcast customer unloads a racist tirade against a customer support rep on the phone, it's reasonable for Comcast to cut-off their internet services, right? Even if they bought their router and modem from Comcast - is there a meaningful difference?
True. And let me go a step further to argue that someone so forward-looking as to (allegedly) make a script for an all-caps DISASTER scenario would be intelligent about the contents of said script. They would have cared deeply for their fellow line staff of the then-unknown future.
That’s an interesting thing you point out. I’m a computational social scientist and I’ve really only seen this with colleagues whose native language doesn’t have pluralization morphology to begin with (East Asians usually). Since code is an irregular pluralization in English, it trips them up. Perhaps it’s a combination of:
Learning to program informally (as most scientists do)
Being a non-native English speaker

My native English speaking colleagues or those from Europe, India, Africa, South America, pluralize code as code.

I didn’t like, do a study on it or anything this is just a pattern I’ve noticed, so your mileage may vary.
This reply feels a bit tangential. The amount of land taken to raise livestock is a small fraction of the land used to grow their feed. You discuss the lack of nuance with respect to the former, but OP was talking about the latter. The land taken for raising animals hadn't even entered OP's equation yet, and can only strengthen their point.

I think the confusion comes from the term free-range meat, which (at least in the US) is a marketing term far removed from what any normal person would consider "free range". It could be -- and often is -- just a barn with a fenced outdoor opening small enough that it amortizes to a few square inches of "free range" land per animal. Many of whom will never get there because they die of various kinds of nastiness before they make it to the opening.

The percentage of human-raised animals who are truly "free range" and roam grasslands in any meaningful sense begins with a decimal point. Cut the per-head subsidies and you cut the incentive to singularly maximize body count at the expense of all potential benefits of free-roaming animals.
> I have zero idea how I'd "come up" today since all the ladders of "work harder than those next to you and you can slowly improve your lot in life" have largely been pulled up

You're not wrong about them disappearing. But you're not mentioning factors like how much more top earners are extracting out of the system today versus before. Wealth concentration and wealth disparity have not remained fixed. They certainly haven't gone down. They've gone up, and not even just a little—they've gone way up.
Wouldn't another solution to have been to appeal to the courts or the legislature to sanction competitors who used unfair and misleading wording in their plan terms?
It's weird anyone still thinks strength of arm is the determining force-multiplier in the era of drones, nukes, or even firearms.
Thank you for your response, it is nice to hear from someone who considers themselves to have aphantasia.

With "ego" I meant to refer to people boasting about their abilities to visualize everything to the greatest amount of detail in their heads, which to me seems likely untrue except for very rare cases.

I think reported phantasia (as opposed to aphantasia, and if there is such a word) is in a way similar to clairvoyancy or having a sixth sense. Some people report having such a gift, but it is very hard to test if that really exists, and up to what level. The end result may be that a lot of people consider themselves aphantasic, because they lack an internal Unity engine.

As a simple proof that visual phantasy has its limits, consider artists who paint fantasy with oil paint and put in lighting and shadows. This is typically either very bad, or based on photographic reference images. Artists who are, by exception, fairly good at this, require insane amounts of training. There are always strange exceptions, but these seem to be one in a million. (Stephen Wiltshire and Kim Jung Gi come to mind, but even they do not perform accurate shading).

Obviously all misunderstanding is probably based on me not knowing a clear definition for aphantasia, and I should read more about it. Does it mean that a person is unable, even with a lot of training, to form any visual images in their heads? This would seem either unlikely, or related to memory problems, such as you describe. In the latter case, is aphantasia simply a symptom or result of the memory problem, or is it a phenomenon by itself?

Again, I am skeptical, I am not denying that it exists (but perhaps not as much as self-reported on HN and Reddit). And I most certainly would not want to hurt anyone's feelings if they suffer from it! My apologies if that is the case, and please point out if I'm continuing to do so.

(For reference: I am a trained visual artist and mathematician -- I can visualize and draw pretty decent images, and read and write code. I know there's a difference in working with these, but I doubt it's as big as some people make me want to believe.)
Exactly none of what you said invalidates anything I said.

If the migrant workers had a lot of in-demand skills, farms would not be able to double the workforce overnight.

If there weren't migrant workers, employers would need to train workers. And in order to not lose investment on that training, they'd need to pay their workers more than the alternatives. But they don't, because the exploit migrant workers.

How are they exploiting them? Well, if wages go up domestically, the cost of produce will go up domestically. Which means produce from other locations will fetch a higher margin, which will allow those economies to develop.
I was a little shit too. At one point I was playing a MUD from a university terminal, and had lag issues. I tracked down the slow node via traceroute, figured out the domain, and sent an angry email dripping with vitriol to admin@ berating their router, their infrastructure, etc. Actually got a reply back admonishing me for wasting resources :-). I wish I could track down the person involved today so I can apologize...
If the weights are not copyrighteable, you don't need a licence do use them, they are just data. There's not a right to infringe if these numbers have no author. Of course, to use openAI API you must abide to their terms. But if you publish your generations and I download them, I have nothing to do to the contract you have with openAI since I'm no part of it. They can't impede me to use it to improve my models.
> In say Poland if you speak good English it means you learned it on private lessons or on your own.

Really? I looked them up, and it says Polish students typically learn one or two foreign languages, and 67.9% do English. Unsurprisingly, German came next at 33.3%, and the rest on the list summed to another 33%, which also implies how many do two.

Of course, "good" is subjective; I did French at school (in the UK) from 11-16, got a GCSE grade D, and had to be corrected IRL by a native speaker after saying "Je ne parle français"…
I am in favor of genuine open source rather than source-available. I also see the OctoBase project, which enables local-first, p2p collaboration using CRDTs.

What about importing Evernote into AFFINE? Do such tools exist?
And after that happens, how long from the point where you worried to the point where a whole bunch of people starve?
I actually would hesitate to take a course from an economist who doesn't have a track record of making accurate predictions in the real world (not necessarily about trading specifically). Most of econ has always been unscientific bunk that isn't even useful for practical modeling. Why waste any time learning it unless you need the course to meet arbitrary graduation requirements or something?
Same, had to repeat 10th grade, dropped out of 11th to get a job in IT and I've been living it up ever since. Not with any FAANG but then again I'm in Europe so we don't have such giants here. I work for the largest telco, partly government owned. (same ISP that sent me that letter;)
I happen to have been taking a blood thinner since I was 9 (almost 40 years now) due to a congenital defect and then the ongoing surgeries. I am aware of the evils of US pharma. Perhaps "the best we can do" was flippant. Apologies.
Pffffff the Amazon will be long gone by then.

they'll be fighting over arable land in now-tropical Upstate New York
Yeah I do the same for projects I use. I also received an email but don't remember if I also signed up to their newsletters or something like that.
The ISP president called me at home when it was a teen to tell me "don't do that[0] again".

I looked him up recently. He's a big player in SV now.

[0] little demonstration that their Windows domain shouldn't be on the same subnet as their users.
Struggling German property firms appeal to Berlin for multi-billion boost
Can draw being a key. Cars can only sustain their max draw for a short portion of the charging curve, so it would extremely rare (if not impossible) to actually draw 2.5 MW. 10 cars with under 15% state of charge would all have to pull in within 2-3 minutes to a supercharger that started empty.

Many charging locations are getting dedicated batteries to smooth off the peaks and valleys of fast charging, turning it into a much more constant draw. When a peak is needed the battery fills in. When the site is more idle, instead of a valley, power is diverted to the battery to ready it for the next peak.

Another strategy companies like kempower are using is 25 or 50 kW modules that can be dynamically allocated across the whole site. At the peak of the curve a car gets many modules. As the power a car can take decreases deeper into the curve the extra modules can be assigned to a different plug. If everyone pulls in at low state of charge at the same time the site hits the limits and cars have the throttle. A more typical usage pattern of cars pulling in and out at different times means cars can maximize their charge curve while capping the total draw of the site.
I think in general EVs have been a huge disappointment, people kept beating the drum about it but the reality is that the car industry is 150 years old and you'd hardly invent anything new or revolutionary at this stage.

Every idea that Tesla has put forward was conceived by Detroit , the Germans and the Japanese back in the 90s, they didn't execute on it because they realized that the overhaul required would be massive and the improvement in quality of life for the consumer to be negligible or even net negative.

Little did they know that EVs would become an ideology and a political goal more than a tool to improve the quality of life of the consumer who in the end is the person paying their hard earned money for the product.
@dang dupe
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. We've already asked you this once and we have to ban accounts that keep doing it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36779614.
> “If I ask you now, ‘How many senses are there?’ I suspect your answer is gonna be five,” Ameka says. But in the West African language Ewe, spoken by over 20 million people, including Ameka, at least nine senses are culturally recognized

There is already known to be more senses that five:

* sense of heat and cold

* sense of pain

* sense of balance

* sense of body awareness (touch your nose while your eyes are closed)
I appreciated the summary so I don't have to click in and read paragraphs of fluff.
Transperspectival Masturbation
I pulled up the receipt; I don't actually remember the battery level when we dropped it off - I think it was about 45-50% ... looks like they charged £15.71 + VAT for the shortfall.

Frankly, if I'd known it would be so reasonable I would not have bothered and spent an extra hour and a half in the Cathay First Class lounge.
Seems like that would take care of roots for the bytecode's themselves, but not for "native" functions[1]. Allocating a new object could call gc[2], and native functions are using the native callstack. It seems like it would be easy to allocate in a native function and any unrooted references would be invalidated. In fact I see a case like that here[3]. That method creates a reference with `expect_concrete_object_at` and then calls gc with `new_java_lang_class_object`. It avoids UB by not using `arg` after the call that gc's, but there is nothing stopping you from using `arg` again (and having an invalid reference).

[1] https://github.com/andreabergia/rjvm/blob/main/vm/src/native...

[2] https://github.com/andreabergia/rjvm/blob/be9c54066c64a82879...

[3] https://github.com/andreabergia/rjvm/blob/be9c54066c64a82879...
Any technical details about those unmanned service vessels?!
When you’re talking about labour issues, but you mostly talk to owners, that’s different from leaving global markets out of the story. The workers perspective is incredible relevant, in fact i’d say it’s more relevant than the owner’s perspective, to the idea of “how do we get american grown asparagus, while paying workers fairly” which is theoretically what the article is about.
"A good alternative to a car with seat belts is a car without seat belts that is nevertheless equally safe."

There's lots of important information that comments can convey which code itself cannot. In particular, a program's code can tell you how it works but not why it was designed to work that way.

And after a point, even trying to convey too much information about how a program works through code can be cumbersome. We've all seen function names that are way too long, because the author wanted to cram way too much information into it. That extra information should have been put into a comment, where the author could have articulated it clearly, instead of as a single overlong compound verb in camel case.
pseudo/true random number generator and initialization

It's not just the generator and initialization. If you do anything multithreaded, like a producer/consumer queue, then you need to know which pieces of work went to which thread in which order.

It's a lot like reproducing subtle and rare race conditions.
It strikes me that this post is opinionated and exactly lacking the nuance described in the previous post.

Nobody argues in favor of the meat industry at large. This is about the difference between localized, grass-fed beef which can be raised where crops cannot.

The single largest issue with industrialized meat production is the environmental impact of the feed, which is a non issue if it is provided locally and organic. In fact, organically raised meat and animal products provide benefits to the local biodiversity.

Note: I’m from the EU where you have strict laws on organic production and farm animals have to be almost exclusively fed with grass.
In this case the expensive resource is labor, so following your analogy, they should grow crops that are less labor intensive. Makes sense but doesn't seem like there's a net gain for the laborers there.
Part of the benefit of FOSS & open source is that a curious user can inspect how something is made and learn from it. It matters that open weights are no different from a compiled program. Sure, you can always modify an executable's instructions, but there's no openness there.

Then there's the problems of the content of the training data, which parallel the dangers of opaque algorithms.
wow, real discussion about language!

> Do you speak any languages other than English?

yes

> Gender in linguistics is better referred to as noun classes and should not be conflated with societal notions of gender.

grammatical gender has been referred to as synonymous to noun classes for decades, obviously varies language to language but this isn't a correction but rather your opinion :)

> And calling a language outdated is deeply ignorant, and borders on xenophobic.

what do you mean? im divorcing any notion of region, politics or cultural context to something as broad as a language like the article is doing! i dont REALLY mean anything negative when trying to discuss weaknesses of these classes of languages by making broad statements, im just noting that the field of research would make these choices inappropriate as a comparison to english using the same sterile tone as the article.

> And Hangul is not a language, it’s a writing system.

i meant writing in korean (too implicitly, my mistake), does it change that statement? :)
More like all that Uranium in the Czech and East German mines. The US thought that buying off the Uranium from East-Congo in Belgium protected them, but it only protected them from the Heisenberg bomb.

The bomb itself is trivial once you have enough uranium or plutonium.
Oh, I was only running the C program not the Go binary which orchestrates it, that's why I wasn't seeing the longer stats. But I'm still getting no duplicate collisions.

running longer zeros test ...
sampled 10000000 pairs; 0 time diff zeros = 0.000000%; 0 nano diff zeros = 0.000000%

starting parallel test 24 goroutines x 10000000 samples ...
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 0 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 945466 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 1982688 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 2739919 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 3334361 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 4109772 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 4489881 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 5157178 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 5596508 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 5854763 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 5937583 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 6434076 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 6521917 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 6932626 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 7104428 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 7285076 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 7514904 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 7833317 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 7737265 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 7723545 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 7730441 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 8311161 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 7965117 collisions with other threads
10000000 samples from a thread; 0 collisions inside the thread; 8460173 collisions with other threads
102297835 final samples; 137702165 total collisions = 57.375902%; possible duplicate collisions? 0
At which point of sale? If you mean in some chain grocery store then I would agree with you, but if you go to any local rice merchant they have tons of varieties.
They didn't say how deep the knowledge is. Puddles have some depth.
Which is a good argument against medication that just lowers GDF15 levels. But if you approach it as "what lifestyle changes lower GDF15" then there's a good chance that those changes would also attack the actual reason for dementia.
I believe no longer affiliated with YC. Although obviously has a long history with YC.

EDIT: Although likely still has investments in YC backed companies -- but just a guess.
If you want a different approach, try Linux Device Drivers (LDD3, it's freely available), because during the course of the book it implements a small device driver, and so can you! This book is actually very old and some of the things may have changed, but still the fundamentals are the same and by learning how to implement a small driver you get to learn a lot about the OS.
Hence the futures markets.
Just for context for the reader, "free range meat" costs orders of magnitude more to make and takes so much more room that if industrial farming had to move to free range, I doubt most people could afford it more than once in a blue moon.
Moving AI governance "forward" - means working on eliminating the competition via regulatory capture, censoring and blackholing any facts they don't like, and preserving the economical status quo with enriching themselves.

None of this will protect against actual risks like massive job losses without any reskilling, lowering of living standards and widespread censorship.
Hum, no. You can easily hash numbers from 1 up to the value you see and guess the next value.

If you want a secure identifier, make a random 64 or 128 bits number (a UUID type 4). And do not use this number as an internal identifier, because identifiers performance is all about predictability and low entropy.
Really?

Your customers bought that product under license A. Afterwards it turned out that you pirated some artwork from disney.
Then your customer can sue you (not disney) to make things right. The specific license of the original work seems quite irrelevant here.
> As someone else pointed out, it would be far far less than 21%, since labour is not the only cost of production. A 21% increase in labour costs doesn’t mean total costs go up by 21%.

> Labor accounts for half of the costs

The margins aren't 10.5% either, and they can't go below the market rate of return or the farm shuts down because the land and equipment is worth more than it generates. Which it was already so close to before this happened that many of them already have.

This isn't Apple, it's a farm.

> If you’re AT work you’re working.

Slogans-as-hard-rules that don't take into account context is why labor laws consistently hurt workers.

Can you see why a worker might prefer this arrangement to one in which they're paid e.g. $12/hour for 40 hours, and are consequently upset at having it be prohibited?
> Before the car and the radical change in individual human movement that came about [...]

The lack of privacy in a local town is surely quite different in its effect on society than a centralized and wide reaching dragnet surveillance program. That local lack of privacy was limited in reach, not automatic nor persistent, and mostly symmetric... which doesn't present the same potential harms.