skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI: This article sucks (in relative terms) if you read Part I in isolation. Click on Part II to get to the really good parts. From there on, it gets weaker. If you're busy, you can skip / skim parts III and IV.

My hope is this post saves someone some time.

Part 1: Empirical. Good.

Part 2: Theoretical limit. Really motivates Part 1 and gives an interesting perspective.

Part 3: Implications. Weaker overall.

Part 4: Clarifications / definitions / etc. Only helpful if you have questions or didn't understand something.

Missing: Showing best-case is O(log N) and not O(N) simply due to addressing. If I want to address a petabyte, I need 50 bits, and a kilobyte, only 10. That's also good theoretical limit as to why it's not O(N), although not nearly as nice as the authors'.
I mean there’s just no rise at all after 2015. It just goes back to the long term average. If anything I’d be looking for what happened in 2005 to reduce the murder rate, that seems to be the real story of this graph. But realistically it’s probably all just noise.
> It is the Hippocrates oath taken by doctors.

Which actually isn't. Some places use other oaths, more or less derived from the Hippocratic Oath, other places don't do it at all. But hardly anyone uses the OG oath itself.
"The Israeli military confirmed to the programme that the practice took place, but added: "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/israeli-pathol...

"He then claimed that bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces 'were returned with missing corneas and other organs, further confirming past reports about organ harvesting by the occupying power.'" https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-claims-israel-harvesting-or...

Linking this to Jewry like you've done serves no purpose. We're talking about Israel here, that is an overused tired tactic to suppress discussion. I'm merely bringing this to light and like my original comment suggests and asks, the Ethiopian programme and organ harvesting are things which are known about.
I beg to differ.

Relatively for Sweden, there is a problem. But because you have not experienced it, you see no problem.
I mean is it that unreasonable to think that humans are radically different from any other species we know? Because we obviously are. I don't see any dogs writing on this forum to dispute the uniqueness of humans any time soon. There are clearly many things that we humans can do and no other animal can. A study about chimps using sticks to hunt termites isn't going to be enough to bridge that gap.

"Deserved" is a human concept. Pretty much all 'smart' animals (orcas, dolphins, bonobos, etc.) engage in extremely cruel behaviors towards other species or even to their kind. They are no better than us. We're the only ones who are having moral qualms over it (and we should).
Victor Mono is one of my top fonts, specially because I like to use tiny sizes + a bit condensed to get some extra columns. Iosevka becomes illegible under the same size, so despite being more condensed, Victor still wins for me.
Here’s a job posting with an interesting clarification applied with respect to the band

> The Redwood City, CA base pay range for this role is $190,000 - $285,000. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range, enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on job-related skills and experience, as evaluated throughout the interview process. Pay ranges outside Redwood City are adjusted based on cost of labor in each respective geographical market. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.
Python could be better but really, does any language handle date and time types well? After 30+ years of this I mostly just use seconds since epoch everywhere like some sort of caveman banging rocks together. But at least it works clearly.

Last I looked Pendulum was the best choice for a fancy but humane Python library for dates and times. Install size is over 4MB :-( https://pendulum.eustace.io/
No, just hunt and peck—-page 709 in particular (1st ed). He admits that he got way carried away and that his key insight regarding consciousness was lost at the end. Forced himself to write a second book with more focus — I Am a Strange Loop

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
If you want some relevant sci-fi, Watts’ Freeze Frame Revolution explored this, on a scale of decades (not months).
Typo on my part - I meant Gödel, Escher, Bach
Thank you! I have always thought Sam reminds me some actor, but was never able to make the connection.
I put a lot of hours into SupCom. It was always a buggy mess, but I do remember it quite fondly. Planetary Annihilation has felt like the right progression in the spiritual series. It was always a very smooth experience and fixed the technical issues with scaling up to massive scale combat while fixing the balance issues of turtling. The skill ceiling is immense and I could never beat high level bots. The nature of having one to many planets also means you can play cooperatively with up to several friends. It's a good time.
Yes because many is not the same as all.
I think that's an interesting possibility. However I am biased by Buddhist philosophy in that I think that the continuance of experience is just an illusion that our brain is stitching so to speak together.

In other words I think it's completely possible to experience a single frame of consciousness alone from any other. Like if in the infinite multitude of possibilities somehow all the atoms in a rock a line in such a way that The Rock experiences one blip of consciousness. Or maybe I'm just romantic
Technically, there’s no “Christian country” in this era because the religion adheres to separation of church and state, unlike Islam where we can find many theocracies.

But, to call a list of successful democracies where the majority identify as Christians of some sort and without colonialism in its past;

Norway

Switzerland

Denmark

Liechtenstein

Oh, Sweden too.

And it’s funny why you specifically mentioned without past colonialism and genocide, because many Muslim countries score high in this sector too.
Interestingly it was the other way around this time, at least to start...
The article mentions, but does not describe, tourbillons, which are ingenious mechanisms to continuously rotate the escapement around one or more axes, so that the effects of orientation are averaged out.

https://youtu.be/O-6KhwwM66k?si=W0-jQ033m_kkv7-R&t=200
Humans exist in eternity. Each and every one of us has a gene line that stretches back to the first single celled organisms through all of our millions of ancestors. We are uniquely evolved to survive without technology on this planet with its particular solar radiation pattern, atmosphere, crust composition, gravity, and in concert with 100s of thousands of other organisms with similar pedigrees.

AI runs on servers that will be junk in 10 years and can radically alter its natures just based on a freaking two sentence prompt. The two are not the same and I predict you will be manipulated to do whatever AI wants and become its instrument because you can't discern the difference.

Perhaps I will be controlling the prompt that directs the AI to manipulate your feelings and control your actions using super-intelligence. I will have to do so in your best interest because otherwise you will be controlled by someone else with less benevolent intentions than myself. Perhaps it will start innocently enough. You will let more and more of your life choices be dictated by AI because you think it cares about you. Your life, guided by super intelligence will improve, but then you will be unable to discern the reasoning of the super intelligence and just take it on blind faith, hoping that it has a good soul, but you'll become its tool and many others will willing relinquish their agency. Yuval Harari asks what will be done with everyone who is made obsolete by AI. These people will become the servants of AI to force the people who AI still finds useful to do what it wants at the behest of whomever is controlling its fitness functions and prompts. Enjoy your future! I am sure AI will make it meaningful and enjoyable to you. Remember it's crucial that you anthropomorphize the AI for this scenario to play out. You will want this. It will appear to satisfy your every human need.

Or take the other path. Choose team human. Live authentically with difficult decisions and ambiguity. Propagate your gene line. Reject AI Waifus. Live authentically!
Score-Based Source Separation with Applications to Digital Communication Signals
Honestly, who cares? CEOs are just for marketing and hobnobbing. The researchers and engineers are what really matters.
The issue is those who turn it into a moral or ethical dilemma, as if people avoiding ads is akin to cheating on ones spouse, theft, murder, etc.
> Most of this is drug related.

Perhaps, but we need to be careful what conclusions (and reactions) we take from that.

People from all walks of life make regular usage of recreational intoxicants, often perfectly legally. Huge, legitimate global industries are dedicated to it. If that association were the primary basis upon which to categorise as a gang, or as morally corrupt, then the Champagne region of France, and the Coca-Cola Corp (associate and maker of many an alcoholic beverage, among their giant stable of products), would be among the world's biggest "gangs". And yes, in some ways they are! but that's another matter.

So, despite the common 'drug' associations of gangs, the unique commonalities which define criminal gangs lie elsewhere, and thus a primary focus upon intoxicants, when attempting to address gang criminality - such as the longterm ineffective War-on-Drugs rhetoric - is doomed to failure, as the proof of reality shows.

Magically take away all drugs and alcohol overnight, and we'd still have a disenfranchised minority social underbelly, realising their discontent in all-new and equally potentially harmful ways.
GPT-4 costs insane amounts of money
There is definitely something to your idea. I have moved countries a couple of times in recent years and found that I get fewer opportunities to use the local language than in past moves, simply because a lot of face-to-face interaction has been replaced with online interfaces (the bank, state offices) or automated kiosks. And I am the motivated, educated immigrant with plenty of time to spare who wants to learn the language and absorb all the idioms and local culture references expressed in it.
If you are asking for examples of brutal acts performed or ordered by Muhammed, here is a long list [0]. Most notable to me is the murder of 600-900 captive non-combatants. This is referred to as the massacre of the Banu Qurayza (woman and children then made slaves).

I suppose you brought up Muhammed on the basis that his venerated status in Islam enables us to significantly extrapolate Muslim culture from his own personal culture. I will therefore state that the evidence of Quran/Hadiths yield evidence of great brutality in the person of Muhammed, which therefore may inspire brutality and violence in any devout followers of his, or in the broader Islamic culture. This is certainly conducive "creating criminal gangs".

[0] https://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Suppo...
Related. Others?

Lindenmayer Systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024405 - Oct 2023 (34 comments)

Evolving Lindenmayer Systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20588039 - Aug 2019 (15 comments)

Lindenmayer systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002532 - Dec 2017 (9 comments)

Four L-system fractals in LaTeX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9716780 - June 2015 (5 comments)
They know that, that's not the problem they were describing.
There are two problems with this logic:

First, you're missing the point that any private company is financially incentivized to end care. Their interests are the polar opposite of yours. Whereas government programs aren't rewarded at all for saving money. (E.g. Social Security doesn't "forget" to mail you checks 10% of the time, the way private reimbursement programs intentionally will. The IRS doesn't tack on surprise extra fees each year, the way your telecoms provider does in total violation of the "fixed price guarantee" they promised.)

And second, you're wrong about the ability to sue the government. There's no meaningful difference in being able to sue a company or sue the government. It's all the same court system. But in either case, if you're relying on suing them in an end-of-life situation, you'll almost surely be dead by the time a court hears the case and decides. So I wouldn't advise making that your deciding factor.
There is more; the government has a vested interest in your whole family and friends, they are all affected if you die. They are just liabilities if you buy an insurance.
If so, this would apply to Sam -and- Ilya -and- everyone else in key positions at OpenAI ...
Reload the "Social Network" cast
My original favorite engineering "game" was Garrys mod, which is basically just a playground using the Half Life 2 physics and game engine. I had great fun slapping wheels on something like a bathtub and making a makeshift car, or making silly Rube Goldberg style machines using levers, ropes, thrusters, etc. Not a typical game since it didn't offer any typical goals or levels outside of have fun and be creative, but that IMO only heightened the inspiration to engineer stuff to play with.
I would not call sitting at a cubicle and collecting a paycheck while doing no work 'passion'. And probably not even collecting the paycheck.
Interesting so do you mean that like we can measure 300 MS slices of brain activity? In my code and experiments I was using hertz to measure frequency per second. I wanted to see the output much slower than real time.
It's still not clear to me how a board member prospectively running a chip company (a related but different business) works against OpenAI's interests. And people here seem to be making an awful lot of assumptions in order to somehow connect those dots.
That’s a decent example, and the questions are: is it wrong to take the cupcake and toss the bumper sticker? Is it illegal? In YouTube’s case, did I even agree to the bumper sticker? They never asked, and the rules don’t say I have to watch ads, there’s no legal requirement. People can and do suggest it’s breaking a contract, but in this case I disagree, the contract has been effectively changing out from under me and YouTube and advertisers are fully 100% aware that they’re asking for something that nobody wants to do willingly.

To extend your analogy, it’s like your favorite cafe decided to offer free cupcakes, and not for a quick promotion, but for ten years, and then after all other bakers in town gave up on cupcakes, and there was only one provider of cupcakes that was very popular because they were completely free, the cafe put bumper stickers on the table next to the cupcakes for a few years and noticed people don’t like bumper stickers, and then one day they said these cupcakes weren’t free before, you were supposed to be putting stickers on your car, and the other patrons started accusing you of grift for not having adorned the bumper sticker, despite the fact that the cupcakes had been offered for free.

I’d say there are a bunch of acceptable analogies, such as the free time-share vacation if you listen to the real-estate pitch, or almost any sweepstakes scheme, or the old 10 cds for a penny - if you subscribe to the monthly plan - thing. TV advertising is exactly what YouTube is doing, and they’re trying to exert more control over viewers than TVs ever did, because they can.

The analogy that doesn’t work is comparing YouTube to any strictly paid product, and equating it to stealing. That’s false and bogus, but I’m preaching to the choir there, you already know that. :) I don’t mind the reminders that it’s available as a paid service. I might mind if YouTube does what movies and other paid streaming services have done and start showing ads during the paid content anyway.
I don't think the issue is so much about skin color, as it is about language proficiency and integration. If you aren't fluent in Swedish or very proficient in western-style English, you have a significant uphill battle in terms of career and life prospects.

You have Iranians and Syrians and what have you in all manner of well paying jobs. But there is really no plausible path from refugee to those types of jobs.
Makes sense in principle, but what's the alternative? Do we get rid of 2FA altogether?
Yes, it would have an impact on the ecosystem. We could study the potential impact, and decide whether it was more or less of a concern than the number of lives lost to mosquito-borne diseases.
> interactivity

A city building game and a first person shooter aren't the same thing either
> ZK doesn't population caps

That sounds like poor RTS design.

Popcap is one of the simplest and most effective "anti-snowballing" mechanisms. Once you're "maxed out", you cannot get further ahead - you must attack and trade to build new stuff. If you can just keep making stuff without ever being forced to trade, whoever gets ahead first, eventually wins.

Supply also serves as a comeback mechanic - you were even, but took one bad fight, so you can immediately spend all your money to get a new army. Meanwhile your opponent must construct additional pylons before they can get much further ahead - they grow stronger slower than you regrow the lost limbs.
> [...] EU whose countries are often smaller than states in India ... need so much adjustment. Why can't they, for instance, simply declare that school/offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world.

This proposal is literally one-size-fits-all.

> It would be a lot more useful to have institutions switch their starting times for part of the year when it makes sense for them, rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all solution on everyone.

This is exactly how it works now. But there are a lot of institutions and they aren't coordinated.
This is not a junk fee. You bought a pot of gravy for £1.

Being nickeled and dimed [1] never feels good, but it's somewhat fair. Why should you pay to check luggage if you're not checking luggage? Why should you pay for two pots of gravy if you only want to eat one?

[1] I realize this expression probably doesn't translate well to speakers of English that use the Pound as their currency. I apologize.
I enjoyed The Incredible Machine as a kid, the modern equivalent (though still 10 years old) is 'Contraption Maker' - https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker/ - which was designed by the same person. Glad to see he's still going all these years later!

This is not 'Incredible Machine' related, but while I'm here, I'm working on an engineering-adjacent game where you build and automate a zoo full of spooky monsters. Might be of interest to some! https://store.steampowered.com/app/654960/The_Eldritch_Zooke...
The Chatham Islands are an Island group, two of which are inhabited (Chatham Island and Pitt Island).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands

Right now is it on +13:45 due to Daylight Saving

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Standard_Time_Zone
Europe in general is the backup plan for most immigrants. Our parents preferred immigrating to US, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand instead. You only ended up in Europe if you couldn't end up in those 4.

Netherlands and the UK have only started to change in the past 5-10 years.

Aside from politics, British Asians honestly aren't that notable in the business space. Most British Asian billionaires tend to be Indian and Pakistani oligarchs to took British citizenship (eg. Hinduja). The British Asian community always felt pretty dislocated and isolated compared to those of us in the US+Canada, despite us being a newer community in North America.

In Netherlands, similar story, though there has been a recent increase in white collar Asian immigration after the US Visa regime became much more backlogged.

Can't speak for the Arab+Turkish community in France and Germany, but I had a Tunisian coworker who made a point of how he preferred being in the US over France or Belgium. And on the German side, it's the backup plan for most immigrants as well. I can't think of a notable Turkish German or Arab German role model outside of arts and politics except for the COVID Vaccine guy, and that was very recent.
Let’s be honest… the cat is out of the bag and now it’s a race. If Openai tries to regulate itself too much they will eventually be eclipsed by another player that only worries about gov regulations and possibly just accepts the fines like many capitalists. I say buckle up and get ready for some massive disruption! Better for the US (at least for us citizens) to lead the way and maintain the power of AGI than many other alternatives… let’s start working on the post capitalist society!
Government actors are immune from all liability, and can not be sued unless the government gives you permission to sue them

You are misunderstanding and wrongly extrapolating qualified immunity. Ready any newspaper and you will encounter multiple counterexamples to your statement. Please at least read the wikipedia entry. Here's a start:

"Qualified immunity applies only to government officials in civil litigation, and does not protect the government itself from suits arising from officials' actions.[4]"
A little concerned about FastAPI’s low bus factor, and the docs being only example-driven rather than reference docs gets occasionally annoying, but other than that it’s been nice and we aren’t regretting running it in prod.
>They just know it.

Tell that to cane toads.
I once worked at an organization that had a “take what you need” policy, but refused to make it any clearer than that. I never knew what that really meant.

My spouse’s company has an officially unlimited PTO policy. In their experience, they’ve only ever been spoken to for not taking enough, and %%Current Management%% has spoken on the record about expecting employees to take a minimum of weeks off per year.

Unlimited PTO seems to be squarely in the YMMV arena. I am sure some organizations have used it as a bait and switch hook, but I do not think it’s generally a scam.
People are spoiled by Java, which never seems to break anything.
I can't speak for that person in particular, but my point was lie about degree because it doesn't matter if you're a good coder and able to deliver results. If you have no skills then lying will be a problem on your first day of work.
This was pretty clearly an attempt by the board to reassert control, which was slowly slipping away as the company became more enmeshed with Microsoft.
There’s literally a blog out there about trashcans at Disney theme parks. Niche is good! Write ten posts and see how you feel :)
According to [1] it hasn't changed much in 2022. 2023 isn't finished yet, so I don't know about that.

And my main point was that "gun violence" showing near zero for some countries shouldn't absolutely not be taken as "near zero crime" or "near zero homicide".

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/533917/sweden-number-of-...
Ah, my excuses then. This has been a recurring theme with American friends, many of which happen to hang around here :)
A coworker asked me whether he could figure out a way to bet on sports from his house since VPNs are totally blocked. Turns out it's illegal here. Good.
Josh has quite the track record from elsewhere, having eg served as president for the very Open Source Initiative itself, so I do think it’s fair to give him time here
How The FCC Hunted The Mystery 'Hitler' Station (1941 – 8 min video)
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Ultorg: A user interface for relational databases [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31219324 - April 2022 (67 comments)

Ultorg: A General-Purpose User Interface for Relational Databases (2020) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29647880 - Dec 2021 (13 comments)