skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite inflation I would say Argentinians still have a relatively high quality of living compared to most other countries in the region. The reason for this is that the state is still capable of providing decent services to people.

Argentinians have decent schools and universities (compared to other countries in the region), the capital has a decent transportation system, they have free healthcare, etc. All of these things are keeping a country that's falling apart still somewhat together and Milei has openly said he's going to do away with all of these.

How is that going to improve the situation in Argentina? I'm not sure slashing public education and healthcare is good for the country. People are extremely poor, what are they going to do when they can no longer afford medical care, just die?

Argentina definitely needs to become more fiscally responsible, but if anything, this shouldn't mean getting rid of their free healthcare and education; that's a difficult equation to put together for sure. But that's why they need responsible leaders capable of truly discerning what matters from what doesn't. I believe Milei is just going to plunge Argentina further into chaos.
Exactly, that’s why the investors should get to fire the board of the charity
I don't know if I agree or disagree with your general thesis, but it has to be pointed out that the JavaScript ecosystem is even more complex than Python -- despite the fact that it doesn't have to deal with a C ABI -- and I think this is in fact largely because the language has resisted change so much that everything has just moved beyond the language itself to some form of transpilation.

The world changes. Software development changes. The best way to guarantee that your entire codebase will become an obsolete monolith that eventually needs to get replaced is to make sure that you choose an ecosystem that isn't growing and changing too.

Yes, there are COBOL and Fortran and whatever else programs still running out there. But software is not mostly a "one and done" thing, and unless you're confident you're writing something that's "one and done", then these comparisons are truly irrelevant.
People knock intellectuals because they don't give straight answers and say things are complicated. So they elect the first idiot that offers them an easy, feel-good solution to problems despite how dubious those solutions are.

I guess if your population gets cynical and apathetic enough, democracy becomes a means of entertainment rather than governance.
"...EA brand will now be associated with irrational feminized college students rather than interesting quantitative thinkers."

That is quite a quote, the kind that makes it hard to take anything in this essay seriously. If this guy has been to an EA event in the last year I'm sure he'd notice it's still like 90% men and the demographic is pretty much the same as in previous years.

Somehow he's been around EA for a long time but think AI safety is a problem to work on. He compares AI regulation to over regulation around medicine. Maybe because there's basically no regulation around AI and a huge amount in medicine and the stakes between the two are completely different. In fact they are completely different issues so why should it be the case that EA should have the same viewpoint on both.

Don't bother wasting your time reading this like I did
Yes. Just like sexuality, racisism and sexism are part of what it means to be human. They are all natural instincts. Suppressing them is leading to the same sort of dysfunction that sexual suppression lead to in the Victorian age. That said, in the same way it's not healthy for society to be full of sexual deviants, it's also not healthy for it to be full of flaming racists. Moderation in all things, but nothing wrong with a little here and there.
going to try this and see if it works out :)

big fan of the Arc browser UX so I am hopeful this is better as well.
Meh. Too many ways to solve the same problem results in bugs and security issues. There is no case where you need to use the Accepts header, you can just put that info in the URL instead.

Some effort to clean up the useless and duplicate features would be good.
President Biden in speeches doesn’t say fees should be visible, he says they be ended.

It’s not unreasonable people might think proposals are to end the not just makes the visible when scrolling hotel rooms, tix, etc.
Which unfortunate country experienced both of those transformations? Afghanistan? South Yemen?
You sometimes see Õ(_) as a variant of O(_) that ignores logarithmic factors.

Unfortunately, you cannot extend Big-O to ignore sqrt(n) without ignoring all polynomials.
The title of this article is embarrassing. They took "best series" from a post of a random X user @MhayYhusuf who called the series "the best show on the platform".

Shadow and Bone is far from being a best anything.
"Below" in this context means "directly below and connected by a line" (the lines are the edges of the cube). So you can have a blue vertex that is vertically below a white vertex, so long as they are not connected by an edge. The first time this can happen is for a 3 dimensional cube. You can have blue at the top, then 2 blue and 1 white below that, and then 1 blue (under and between the 2 blues in the layer above) and 2 white in the layer below that, and then white for the bottom vertex. This configuration can be rotated 3 ways and this takes us from 17 to 20.
I'm not sure I understand. How is this different from any other quantity with an associated unit? What's the possible failure mode here, interpreting the "created_time_us" field as a distance in km instead of a timedelta in microseconds?
>How is trying something else sure to lead to the same?

Because that's kind of how Latin America has worked for decades. Pivot from shock therapy Chigago school free marketeer to the other end of the spectrum and back again, usually because leaders are either eccentric, strongmen or plain crazy and radical reforms start to cause social upheaval.

What would be an actual change would be just putting a competent, moderate administrator in charge.
They work with Peter Thiel.

And they work with all kinds of infidels and sinners in general. Money is money.
As a Chilean, I'm happy for our neighbors, but also somewhat cautious.

Leftist ideas have brought nothing more than misery to the Argentinian people.

Milei's ideas are much better on paper, but I don't know if he will select the right people to help him develop these ideas in a fruitful way, and I hope he has the character to withstand the political pressures that will come and still act like a president.

Keep in mind that the other guy is the current minister of economics, and Argentina has an anual inflation of 140%. Milei was clearly the better option between the two.
> If you want to question religious values and religions themselves then you're going to have to start by planning something that will take decades

Exactly why we need to start that process now.

I'm not saying we should treat all immigrants as terrorists or anything, I'm just saying that we should recognize that a large influx of people who don't share Western values is a danger to western society and we need to think how to handle it instead of just saying "be inclusive" and hoping that nothing bad happens.

And if we want a (silly) tech analogy, this isn't that different from tech companies who grow too quickly and lose their "culture" on the way. You have to have a hiring strategy if you don't want that to happen.
It's hard to distinguish signal from noise in responses to these posts without knowing context of how long people have used fastapi in their system, was it used in production vs a hobby project, what interesting limitations or failure modes did they learn after going into production.

I've used fastapi for less than one month, to bash out an API for a simple service, in a commercial environment that doesn't have high load requirements or value software quality.

What i like: auto generated API docs, declaring types (not as good as language with static type system, but OK for python ), automatic validation of request/response payloads.

What i'm skeptical of: fastapi forces me to use asyncio but my service doesn't have a problem where asyncio helps, fastapi's bespoke dependency injection system -- started to immediately feel awkward when i wanted to write some custom middleware, fastapi encourages you to structure apps with a bunch of global state & then write tests by monkey-patching that global state in test harnesses (more a style mismatch, not a blocking problem).

What's actually been a serious problem: haven't been using it long enough in production to have an opinion.

We used Python as we had a bunch of existing business logic in Python we wanted to re-use, we're prioritizing "can it exist and be integrated very quickly" over other concerns such as scalability or long term maintenance costs or software supply chain concerns. If we were starting from a clean slate with no Python code, Python + FastAPI isn't obviously a superior choice to go + go standard http library + chi router.
We're still waiting for the explanations from Altman about the alleged involvement in spending time on conflicting companies while he is CEO at OpenAI.

According to FT this could be the cause for the firing:

“Sam has a company called Oklo, and [was trying to launch] a device company and a chip company (for AI). The rank and file at OpenAI don’t dispute those are important. The dispute is that OpenAI doesn’t own a piece. If he’s making a ton of money from companies around OpenAI there are potential conflicts of interest.”
There are also countries using Euro without being in the Eurozone but those countries are tiny. It is going to be extremely interesting experiment.
I mean there already exists software for Linux to run windows apps using a VM but make it as if they are native
Lots of reservations about this guy and appalled by some of his positions, but from my outsider perspective this clearly seems like more of a referendum and rejection of the status quo left wing establishment party that's failed to bring prosperity to its people for decades.

Everything I know about Argentina says it should be far more wealthy and productive than it is. It has a bounty of natural resources and geographic advantage comparable to the US, and yet a GDP per capita below the global average. Something's wrong.
Funding a show episode-by-episode would be way more expensive. It saves so much money when you can do things like produce multiple episodes at once, schedule filming locations or actor's time in advance, or leave sets up for months of filming. It can take many months for a single episode to be completed.

Having to shut down production and fire everything up again after every episode based on the how the numbers look after every release seems like a logistical nightmare.
Slicing the state to zero would definitely decrease inflation, but at tremendous cost to citizen wellbeing. It is not like print so much money that groceries cost more in the evening than they did in the morning is working out well for the people either.
Nuclear codes, assuming they are using modern cryptography would not be spat out by any AI, unless they were leaked publicly.

Bigger concern would be the construction of a bomb, which, still, takes a lot of hard to hide resources.

I'm more worried about other kinds of weapons, but at the same time I really don't like the idea of censoring the science of nature from people.

I think the only long term option is to beef up defenses.
I'm not worried about when OpenAI discovers AGI - all of us Americans have. I'm worried about when OpenAI discovers the Alternative Minimum Tax. OpenAI is in San Francisco! Like, everyone not on welfare in San Francisco encounters the AMT for no good reason, and the second that AI understands what's going on, things are going to get real weird. Like, all of a sudden there's going to be TaxGPT!
They are currently in talks to rehire him. It would seem they wish to rehire him?
Microsoft is an enterprise company first. They're not going to break contract with a business.
Big O notation deals with asymptotic behavior of a function - in other words, as N goes to infinity. If we're accepting the premise that N has an upper bound, the rest of the discussion is meaningless.

Presumably the argument is an abstract one, not applying to any particular machine that actually exists.
> James Russell was surprisingly keen to jump on board an experiment designed to persuade people to own fewer cars – especially for someone who has had up to four vehicles parked at his Melbourne home.

So we're starting with someone that has four cars and we're asking them to not drive a car that's likely already used? Okay, sure, but that weakens the premise quite a bit.

> So when he saw Uber’s ad offering to pay people $1,350 - in cash, public transport credit and Uber credits - to leave their car at home for a month, he jumped at it.

For a month. Huh.

I'm all for improving walkability and mass transit options, which is why this stunt is fairly disappointing. This smells like an Uber PR piece that's trying to paint Uber as part of a sustainable future. A much more compelling story would be a narrative about subsidized transportation for people that lack alternatives rather than asking someone leave their _fourth_ vehicle parked.
He is the leader of a political party that calls itself the Libertarian Party, so calling him libertarian sounds fair.

Political labels often don't match the original meaning of the terms. Most liberals are not liberal, most libertarians are not libertarian, and most communists are not communist.
Because they're overly aggressive and assume everyone is guilty of something.

Being grabbed of the street, detained and questioned just because you look similar to someone who did something wrong is not an uncommon thing.

I don't know whether to blame the hiring standards or the conditioning they put aspirants through, probably both; I've seen perfectly normal people, friends of mine; turn into fascist assholes in no time.
I would like to see PNG become the main format first
> why not tether?

Initially pesos were fully backed [1]. <voice=Mingo>"Un peso = Un dolar"</voice>.

[1] I think it was 100% of the M1, not the M2.
> Not sure why though, is there something with the way it’s phrased that makes us think of the tab character?

For me, a reason might be that I am not a native English speaker.

The "tab" meaning of the character, key, and typewriter mechanism is quite similar in German as in English ("[der] Tabulator" as the encompassing term, and specifically "[das] Tabulatorzeichen" (the character), "[die] Tabulatortaste" (the key), and "[der] Tabulatormechanismus" (the mechanism on a typewriter)).

On the other hand, the term for the GUI elements (derived from the office stationery) is quite different in German: "[der] Registerreiter" (for the GUI element that you click on to switch between tabs) and "[die] Registerkarte" (the content of a tab (tab page)).

While I know all the listed meanings of the English word "tab", the meaning of the first concept is the much more "natural" one for me.
Can you be more specific about which stuff you read from Eliezer? Did you read this post for example? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...

It sounds like maybe you're saying: "It's not scientifically valid to suggest that AGI could kill everyone until it actually does so. At that point we would have sufficient evidence." Am I stating your position accurately? If so, can you see why others might find this approach unappealing?
I’m surprised they cancelled it though, given how popular the books are.
Is locating the memory address a significant part of the time being spent on RAM access?
There needn't be a layer such that all layers below are completely white and all layers above are completely blue.

For example, consider a cube. It has four layers. We could say the bottom-most layer is the one with (0, 0, 0).

Above that, there's a layer which contains (0, 0, 1), (0, 1, 0), and (1, 0, 0) [the entries with a single 1].

Above that, there's a layer which contains (1, 1, 0), (1, 0, 1), and (0, 1, 1) [the entries with two 1s].

Above that, there's a layer which contains (1, 1, 1).

We could make (0, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1), (0, 1, 0) and (0, 1, 1) white, while making (1, 0, 0), (1, 1, 0), (1, 0, 1), and (1, 1, 1) blue.

Note that all the blue values will have a 1 in the first position, while all the white values will have a 0 in the first position, ensuring monotonicity.

But both the "single 1" and the "double 1" layers have a mix of blue and white within them. So there's no single transition layer, as you put it.
Is providing medical treatment without informed consent unethical? Absolutely.

But the outcome between regular administration of a drug that wears off in less than 10 months and surgical interventions that are mostly irreversible permanently sterilizing someone are very different things and not "splitting hairs."

As well, you are deliberately ignoring what the article points to as other factors which might be in part playing into differences in birthrates:

> A 2016 study argued that the rapid decline in fertility rates among Ethiopian Israeli women following their migration to Israel was not the result of the administration of Depo-Provera, but rather the product of urbanization, improved educational opportunities, a later age of marriage and commencement of childbirth, and an earlier age of cessation of childbearing[1].

Was there a decline in birthrates? Yes. Was that in part because of an unethical dosing off a drug without informed consent or under coercive conditions? Probably.

Is that still a world of difference from permanently sterilizing a population? Yes, very much so.
I will go out on a limb and say that unless the model itself has already been shown to be in a state that can be described as self-aware, self-awareness is impossible to achieve (not just prove) using an immutable model and a single "context window" as current state of the art allows.
It’s no different. But Beeper at least makes that clear, including this warning call out, with caution signs, in the FAQ:

> Using native chat apps independently may be more secure than connecting to other encrypted chat networks with Beeper.
I can only imagine his reaction to needing his wife to vouch for his identity as golden.
makes as much sense as selling books with the last couple chapters ripped out
Looks cool. Any reason you don’t have a Linux version too?
Not the same country, but Bulgaria in the 90s and Turkey in the 2000s. I suspect that my parents are crisis chasers. :)

It's fun to notice similarities from the past. Did you know that when your economy collapses, the quality of ketchup nosedives and you end up with ketchup having strange color and wrong texture?

But there are of course so many differences too, the first 10 years of Turkey's transformation were mostly for the better. The later 10 so far are 90's Bulgaria level.
I get that, but IMO it's not an issue.

On one shard you can't use more than base CPU, so there's no advantage to a subscription there.

Other optional shards are almost entirely people who subscribe. Do that too if you decide to, or ignore them.
Perhaps that's what they are selling, but ASML lead times are many years-long. It sounds to me like a WeWork/Softbank-style heist: taking advantage of those who have more money than sense under cover of the current LLm/AI hype.
And he's going to allow it to be exactly that.

What positions turn you off? I think the only thing I can put a finger on is his flawed view on abortion, but I guess that relates to him being a Catholic.
"Baba is You" destroyed my ego. 10/10 Great game
Why would any employee put up with that? Why not go work somewhere else that better aligns with what you want?
As some anecdata, I work in facilities with hundreds of non-tech folks using USB-C Yubikeys and we see multiple bent connectors daily. Granted, our userbase isn’t known for treating electronics kindly…
Could you copy your password and the per-user salt and get the same result? Or does it also concatenate the username?

Edit: just honestly curious, how to implement it best.
Perhaps I did misread it. Let me try again. Your proposed definition is not adequate, because if something were constructed to have free will, then it would be exhibiting free will because it was constructed that way :-)

You first have to show that it is impossible to construct something in a way that it has free will. To show that, however, I think you'd need a definition of "free will" which is not "doing something it wasn't constructed to do" on pain of either circularity or contradiction.
They finally talked to a lawyer?
It should be legally required to do one more episode of every show after it is cancelled. I joke, but it would be really nice if this was at least an unwritten rule.
Unlimited growth eventually leads to resource shortages. And we’re about to see a massive amount of growth from a lot of countries in the next century (not to mention how the west is about to spend electricity on ai and/or crypto in the near future)
This article is in Spanish.
No one here is uttering his party's official name when describing his policies as anti-authoritarian, "ancap", pro-freedom, leftist, etc. I hope we can have discussion beyond the vocabulary of populist sloganeering
Some of us are starting to wake up and open our eyes though.

I've personally stopped tipping in most places I go to. I might leave 10% at a high-end restaurant with really good service, but in general I leave a very minimal tip at sit-down restaurants, and pretty much never leave any tip for any sort of takeout/counter service.

I know the wait staff see that and think I'm an asshole, and I don't care. I'm fine with being an asshole to avoid getting fleeced, and I've not yet had any issues with service, even on return visits.
Mine was Away with Jennifer Garner. Good first season with good characters, then BLAM cancelled. Although I suspect that one didn’t have a ton of viewers.
This paper suggests that learning does happen within a prompt.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

By extension it seems totally reasonable that the model is developing self awareness by introspecting its tendencies (prior generated output), summarizing those tendencies, and then iteratively building a more nuanced description of those tendencies over time.
Agreed (mostly). Apache is not a defense against proprietary relicensing regardless of who owns the code (and it's why Matrix is able to make this change even though it didn't have a CLA before).

It's a shame though because this change feels like it's weaponizing the AGPL to make the code harder to use rather than relying on the AGPL to preserve software freedom, and it's a shame because I think a more nuanced and limited contributor agreement with narrower permissions could potentially have the opposite effect and be a highly positive change and a highly credible commitment to keeping the project Open, without closing off any of the revenue opportunities that Element seems to be chasing.

I will push back a little though on the idea that nothing is different at all. This change also has the side-effect of giving contributors fewer rights over the code they write themselves. It's not clear to me whether the copyright assignment here means that the contributor is also bound by the AGPL for the code they themselves submit. If that's the case, then this is a meaningful reduction of contributor rights. I think the GPL works best when it is a universal mutual agreement by all parties to keep the code Open to everyone under the same terms; not when it is used selectively to close off specific rights of only specific parties.

But as it stands, without a CLA I could write the same code for both Element and a more permissive fork of Element and I could choose to relicense the code I offer Element to allow for the more permissive use. With a CLA, I don't know that I can do that.