skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't AI just a statistical model which 'predicts' the most likely outcome based of the input? So something like GPT just chooses the most likely word to be next, and therefore it isn't really smart and can't actually 'understand' what it writes about. A consciousness is unpredictable and I doubt it can actually be modeled on a computer. Although it depends on how you define consciousness.
No, but you also can’t rely on just one. You need both. I highly recommend reading he book, he explains it a lot better than I ever could.

The problem is many people think that just by presenting facts they will get through to people, but that doesn’t work. You have to understand the other persons emotional state too.
> Are you sure people are still contributing or is it just men who do with very, very few women who is willing to put up with this?

The skewed male to female ratio isn't unique to software developed under the FSF. It's the case throughout the industry and even at the high school/college/graduate school level. Therefore, the lack of women contributing to projects within the FSF isn't because of RMS or the FSF board.
UK proceeds of crime act that's what happens.
Finally, actual footage of the project. I've been thoroughly annoyed that all the news outlets ever show is the same three pictures.
Surely Bilibili is actually the answer to "where can I watch anime and mingle with others in the 2D subculture", a market which YouTube doesn't seem similarly interested in. (YouTube has the subculture, but AFAIK no licensing deals with Japanese studios. If they do have licensed content for paying customers, they're not advertising them very well.)
This is disgusting. If you don't trust your employees, don't have employees.
Is this the model you use? https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/
I think Banks very much was aware of everything you say. In fact reading The Culture as an allegory for the USA/The West is one of the most common interpretations of the The Culture, including by Banks.
Sadly the world will never know since his post did have some substance about taxation and the educational system but now it's been censored.
I was trying to hint at the fact that "boat density" is not a very well defined concept.
What makes you think the super powerful, rich and "smart" people associated with Epstein, weren't also a good judge of character or aware of who they were dealing with? As is documented throughout this thread, many of them met with Epstein after his high profile arrest for having sex with a minor.
If companies are the lifeblood of the country, then the government is the bones. It provides absolutely necessary infrastructure like roads, water, sewers, and law enforcement. It provides economic and social stability through fiscal controls and food subsidies. It provides an educated population through schools.

When viewed this way, the vitriol arising from a large company not paying taxes makes sense. The entire organism requires coordination in order to survive, and the government and companies need to work together and support each other in order to thrive.

This isn't even going into the outrage arising from the fact that large companies are treated very differently from small businesses and individuals.
Yeah, I read the context. If you're scared of someone because they speak Russian, then you're being racist. Probably. Potentially some sort of nationalism.

Our hypothetical clam doesn't know that the speaker is in the KGB or equivalent. They're stereotyping based on rumours, ethnicity and background. It doesn't matter that they are behaving prudently, it is pretty clear-cut that they are making decisions based on the racial and ethnic stereotypes they know.

I'm the bearer of bad news here. Sometimes racism is a rational response. Strive to make it not so.
Bravo, this made my day. Kudos to you. :)
Equally, how do we know anything is not conscious?
I'm not sure how to cite "I placed a sell order to match an existing market order, and the majority of the market order was withdrawn 1 millisecond before my order was confirmed, as seen on the websocket message timestamps, and this happened multiple times".
I usually give the "natural" qualification if it is not immediately obvious there are plenty of naturally occuring sources of radioactivity around us. This has mostly to so with human perception of radioactivity being something unnatural, maybe it was not necessary on HN. It does not matter that much in the end with respect to radioactivity.
Get them a new name maybe?
Why not use the ever decreasing costs of space flight to lift blocks or reflectors into our planetary L1 point? We wouldn't have to affect our own atmosphere to do this, though it may cost more to get a sufficiently sized object into orbit.
I sign my work-based git commits. I've been using GPG since the late 90s. It's not a silver bullet (especially when a git server has been owned).

When you git pull, then do your work and git commit/push, if you are not careful and you do not examine git status/diff you could sign and commit the hackers change (that you pulled from the repo initially) along with your new changes. So care is required even with PGP signed commits.

This is another good reason to not interrupt developers while they are working. Doing so, makes mistakes such as this more likely.
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Sure. The version of LibreOffice online that people know, is now developed from another spot: https://collaboraonline.github.io/
So all hackers welcome there scratch their itch ;)

Talking about a demo: Collabora offers free demo's and CODE, to be found (from) here https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/
Aren't they contractors in this case?
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I think we agree - but I do notice that there often seems to be a lot of "assumption of intent". (The below is general in nature and not related to the article from which this thread grew.)

I've had >30 years of conditioning to select the pronoun according to the physical appearance of the person I'm referring to. Until last year, the concept of a person stating a preference of pronoun and expecting me to follow that preference had never crossed my mind. I simply had never been exposed to the concept. I make no judgement about whether that is the "right" way; I merely assert that this is the way I have learned. Since I was exposed to the concept, I have tried to understand it better and do my best to use the pronouns a person wants me to use, though I am by no means perfect at this.

A person whose native language does not have gendered pronouns has potentially spent their entire life using neutral pronouns without consideration to the apparent gender of the person they are referring to, and the concept of that person having a preference of pronoun is likely completely foreign to them, too.

Given that, it seems reasonable that a sudden shift in societal expectations of people, namely that they should learn the pronouns of others and correctly and consistently use them, should be coupled with a recognition that people are likely to make many mistakes whilst adjusting to this shift, and therefore good faith should be assumed unless there are indications to suggest otherwise.
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what's an individual PhD?
It feels like the old IO.js vs node.js. I hope this time too the two ecosystems get merged, but this time it feels much harder to happen
If you don't have an appointment, I don't answer the door. I was not called into the bureau.
I'm pretty sure they do. I remember it being mentioned in a video about them or the robotics industry. At least for the robots with legs.
It's not about the green label. A set if commits signed by some unknown person is a lot easier to spot and clean up.

Looking at these commits they say mid-2017. Without signatures any previous commit could be by the same author.
There are plenty of work out there that low skill workers could be doing, that requires uniquely human hands. Some of it doesn't seem that awesome, like say pickup litter, but some of it could be very cool like building trails or planting trees, or building sustainable homes. There are still lots of low problems that can only be solved by human hands.
None taken. My comment wasn't necessarily about Free vs Open source software, but about leaders for the free software movement. From my point of view RMS seems like a strong leader from a technocratic perspective, he has written significant portions of the code for the GNU "operating system" and of course is still the leader of the GNU project. His means of accomplishing his political goals are practical - writing software with copyleft licences and boycotting other alternatives. To accept RMS as a leader we must take a technocratic view we ignore everything but his performance, in a narrow sense.

I myself am no fan of RMS (although I'm also critical of the way he was "cancelled") so it is much harder to put justification for an opinion I don't share to paper but I hope this clears up my previous post somewhat.
I train martial arts since being a small boy and no one ever called the police because of me. So I am not sure about that:

"Besides, I bet you are fully aware that the point GP was making was that his training made him dare say something where he before wouldn't. "

And I know a lot of people, bolstering their martial arts skills to impress and supress people.
Once or twice I had to restrain some.

Still - repeatedly engaged talking to someone who don't wants to be talked with - can be defined as harrasment either way. And close to self justice in this case.

I know the urge for it sometimes. But .. that just means trouble.

(side note: Judo is not very effective as self defence)
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> Zerodium say they have nothing to do with this

Would they admit if they did?
The article explains exactly about how a growing list of issues, with every ticket needing time and effort to figure out is bad for their mental health. Then your response is: "no, every ticket should stay open until it gets a response"? That is the exact mindset that drove the original author to tears.
Yeah, no kidding.. shots fired...

As someone who uses Node but doesn't closely follow the steering/proposals side of things, I can't say I had this impression of that process..

Is Node really that bad compared to how JS/ES is innovated on in the browser?
Depressingly, the scam he used (claiming to run advanced trading algorithms to guarantee a profit for his 'investors' and using MLM to spread the con) is repeated over and over again and seemingly impossible to stop.

One of my in-laws is a serial MLM patsy and has totally fallen for one of these. Both AI and cryptocurrency are in the news a lot, making it easy for con-artists to dazzle people with marketing techno-babble and promises of guaranteed riches. (Obviously not all trading schemes are complete cons, but so many are.)
The full title:

> How To Criticize Computer Scientists
> or
> Avoiding Ineffective Deprecation And
> Making Insults More Pointed

Am I missing something? Isn't your failure to read the full title a result of your desire to insult the author, rather than to criticize them? Wasn't this done already at Xerox PARC?
Doesn’t sound like a bad way to weed out less important work. If an inactive issue is closed an nobody cares: good, that’s the intention. If someone does care enough to re-open/open a new issue: no harm done, and maintainers have clear signal that someone still cares.
Your conclusion is as subjective as his is. There is no real objective criteria by which the "net negative" could be measured. Even history will not be objective, because it will be written by those in power. However I'm of the same mind as him, that this has been more negative than positive for three reasons:

1) This was a precedent for public shaming without evidence or due process
2) This generally changed the working dynamic between male and female to something extremely formal and sometimes borderline hostile
3) It was a bandwagon for actresses(and eventually other careers) to make money because of 1)
They went around the actual hand-like manipulators to lift boxes from the top & bottom edges like human hands would but with vacuum suckers.

Almost reminds me of the last DARPA challenge for humanoid robots where KAIST cheated with a robot which simply rolled from one place to another & did super slow stairs one leg at a time, which was exactly what the competition was supposed to overcome.
Have you tried esbuild? It's still a build step, but it:

1. Works more or less out of the box. You'll maybe need to set 5 or 6 CLI arguments but that's it

2. It's super speedy (sub-second in our case)
To avoid taxes they need to relinquish ownership of the land. At which point, how does them having lots of stuff and good times on their island affect the rest of us?
if it can decide what to do.
and there are reasons for that. As bad as it is for a developer experience, the ui for non-tech people just can't be beat.
Why do interviewers ask linked list questions?
> if Google’s DeepMind develops an AI that starts asking, say, why the color red feels like red and not something else, there are only a few possible explanations. Perhaps it heard the question from someone else.

Oh no! I didn’t start asking those questions until I heard other people ask them!

Am I conscious?
This is not "childish", this is the essence of the actions done by the people the drama originated from : when a target has been found, the idea is to ostracize them, and any of their "support", interpreted as including those who disagree on some point with the target but think the mob is going too far, and in extreme cases, selectively those who did not take a public position. This is the very object of the RMS open letter : they openly want RMS to disappear from everywhere and the whole FSF board to resign.

There is still hope at some organization level, if they have strong constitutions, for example Debian has called for a vote among their members and is not threatening, officially, "dissident" people of being ostracized. Maybe "individually" some members will fall in that trap against others (in quote because the individual aspect will often not just be them avoiding intetaction, but them actively trying by openly or covertly pressuring everybody to prevent interactions between others, like we see here)

The sad part is that this guerilla is highly assymetrical. Benevolent and correctly functioning adults won't even try to cancel the cancellers, or to make transitive lists of who can not be talked to anymore, because how would that be better than what they are doing? Of course some declaring support for cancelled people will attempt a counter boycott but their stance is not reasonable and they should be ignored as well on this point.
For personal spare time projects, the only way it won't spiral into what's described at the top of this post is if the burden for making an issue useful is on the reporter, not the author. There's one author and millions of possible users.
Why was the case sealed?
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Small is beautiful.

Small things dont blow up and cause huge collateral damage.

Restaurants go out of business all the time. 1 collapse doesn't do anything.

However, 1 monster entity collapsing (LTCM, Lehman, AIG, any pharma today, or Amazon, Google, or 1 ship blocking a key waterway, etc) and its pandemonium.

City states may have warred more frequently, but they never led to the type of destruction that you saw with WWI, WW2 or the french wars of revolution.

Its wise to have resiliency by decentralizing central power, even if it costs a bit of convenience to the individual.
Still common in Italy, one if my favorites! I believe they're quite common in Japan as well.
Yes, you as an individual can get tax credits. If you own foreign stocks, you pay foreign taxes and get a US tax credit for the foreign taxes paid. Or if you lose money on a stock (and realize the loss by selling), you get tax credits.

Sounds like you're questioning the validity of the concept of a tax credit, a fundamental and necessary component of income taxation. Income taxation is economically inefficient, but if it's implemented, deductions / credits are vital.
> when our ability to defer governmental roles to machines is sufficient

This baffles me. I’m genuinely curious what this would look like to you. Would you please describe how you imagine this to look like? What makes it beneficial to give governance power to machines? What fundamental changes (technological, social or otherwise) have to happen to get us there? And lastly, what components make up the plumbing of a system like this?
A gentleman’s bet with $500 is just a bet.
Not at all, its well below entry level salary for an engineer, and not really a livabe income unless you rely on 2 incomes..
Sorry if I misunderstood you, but I don't believe the author is advocating for this particular use of "dropping" to become mainstream. The author is explaining what "dropping a hash" means precisely because it is not widely understood. It's basically a term of art, not something created by the author.
A super-popular EU policy would be to have a blanket 20% VAT rate for anything sold online. No bands, no messing, nothing - just 27 countries agreeing that anything that touches the ‘net attracts a set tax level. Money sent to Bruxelles directly, which can then redistribute 50% on per-capita basis and 50% equally among countries. Boom, progress and wealth and job growth and benefits for everyone.

But that would be too easy, wouldn’t it...?
Tearing down Chesterton’s Fence:

"Don’t demand that people stop doing a thing until you fully understand why they think it was worth doing.

Only when you fully understand their perspective should you then argue with their specific reasoning."

Closing Chesterton’s Gate:

“Don’t ask rhetorically why people don’t simply do a thing, until you fully understand why they considered but rejected that thing.

Only when you fully understand their perspective should you then argue with their specific reasoning."
I wonder if computers already have a kind of "consciousness", but completely irrelevant to us since it is not a sentient being at all, unlike animals of varying level of intelligence.
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I'm not sure that they meant those specific runtimes would be premium products.

My read was that anyone could more easily configure a runtime to expose (or not expose) the underlying bindings that it requires, vs. just having them all in there by default.

I think "us" in that statement is the Deno community, not Deno the company.

But maybe I'm wrong.
The number of people with direct commit access is almost certainly less than the number of commits in a release though. Without signatures you have to verify every commit.
The real stuck ship was the friends we made along the way
Pays reporters on the ground badly.
It's the least sexy of the videos I see from them in ages but also the robot that seems to the most utility.
You know that the ship was designed specifically around the published size limit of the canal, don't you?
Try React. Breaking changes are few and far between, generally very easy to update to (a few hours at most for a medium sized app), and they almost always introduce new "new way" of doing thing at least one release before the old way is removed (if it ever is).
If you want to use Latin to talk to people, you should probably use whatever pronunciation they expect, even if it's not "correct".
Seems like it places great trust in the structural integrity of the packaging/box. BD claims it can "grab and move" boxes up to 23 kgs.

I've done some work in Mech Engg. designing grippers for smaller objects, and gripping objects is often the hardest part. From an operations research perspective, a human will figure out the best way to carry a box that is almost falling apart almost intuitively.

I can see this being extremely useful in, say, a large warehouse where it is isolated to finding and moving boxes to loading bays, particularly through an API.

Amazon is already doing this, and this video is highly relevant here — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sEVX4mPuto
Gotta double track the bastard!
Other mammals don't ask those questions but they give the impression that they're conscious.
There is an interaction with a female coworker that still haunts me to this day.

I joined a company in a different country and that coworker slacked me and said her welcomes in my mother tongue and asked me to speak in that. Apparently one of her parents was from my country and she lived there during her childhood and she was missing it

After carefully planning my reply for 15 minutes, my reply was something like: "Hi, thanks for the welcome! We can have a tea and chat if you ever visit to our floor". Immediately I thought that could be interpreted as me hitting her but I offered the tea conversation because tea is a big part of our culture and we used to do that all the time back at home with our coworkers.

But yea, it kinda felt like I am hitting on her and I was a bit worried that I introducing myself in such a bad way. iirc she replied something like "sure, thanks :)" and that smiley still haunts me. Nothing happened after that, no tea for us either.

So yeah, if you are a sperg like me with 0 social skills, it is even more worrying interacting with opposite sex.
Maybe this was someone close to Zerodium burning the compromise against PHPs Git server to bring attention to other zerodium commits dating back to 2017?
I hear you, but I'll also give them some credit—you can't create anything worthwhile without a clear vision which basically requires an opinionated sense of purpose.
it would also make things sold online more expensive in some countries. And it would also remove a large funding for nation states who would then heavily rely on the EU for everyday things, which would shift the power over to Brussels bureaucrats.
Oh, thank you for the heads-up. I'm moderately happy with 1800s onwards -- but would be absolutely delighted to a adopt an earlier, more legitimate (prestigious? : ) form.

(Earlier today I briefly railed at someone on a podcast uttering 'a myriad of'.)
Can you provide more details about the breach? Did they get in via munin?
Caecilius est in horto.
> I've always thought the future of newspapers was an iPad sized e-ink reader. One cheap enough for papers to give away to their subscribers. Yet it hasn't happened and I'm left wondering why

There simply aren't any anywhere near that cheap, especially not that big. Besides, everyone in the market for newspapers already has a smartphone or tablet, and those are better at displaying ads, video, etc. The breadth of articles shown is probably of low concern to the newspaper, or they would have fixed it.
A few years back the team that do "Business analysis" came to our team asking for help setting up some machine learning. What for, we asked. Well, we'd like to predict hardware expenditures over the next n years.

Ok. Well that sure seems like a thing the business might like an estimate of! Sure. Next question: Have you run a basic regression over the data you've got, maybe a simple model would be close enough to throw some error bars up and get going.

Of course not.
I suspect they won't catch him. Building a new identity isn't really that hard, especially since the guy has had some time to do it, and (I assume) money to pay for it.
I doubt they can predict all of the second order effects of doing this all over the earth; it could easily lead to an ecological, climate, or humanitarian disaster. This is a terrible idea. A unilateral action is completely uncalled for.
Because if it happens soon, it will probably not be because someone spent 3.4 billion years tinkering on it.
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