skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least they don't push snake-oil ads to your grandparents.
Would you say that a "Markov chain"-type (e.g. Dissociated Press) language model is "self-aware" in any way?

If yes, then... how, exactly? It is basically an N x N matrix of values.

Current language models (GPT et al.), are qualitatively nothing fancier than this: probabilistic models which encode regularity in language and from which you can sample to get "plausible content".

If a bunch of values in a matrix is "self-aware", then I guess GPT can be seen as "self-aware"; if not, then it can't.

My problem is trying to imagine an N x N matrix being self-aware (like... what does that even mean in this context?).

Is GPT human-like? Sure... if you stretch the meaning of "human-like" enough (it produces content that is similar to content produced by a human). Is a human GPT-like? That's harder to argue (and I don't see how your argument would support it).
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On a related note, the Uyghur Tribunal has started again. Main website at https://uyghurtribunal.com/ , and a live-stream for September 12th at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkr3pC1BmI .
Investing the work, to make it public, indicates at least the author is interested in selling it to some degree.
> Outside of maybe a very innovative R&D department I don't really see these "brilliant ideas that only smalltalk could achieve" in your typical run of the mill company.

So where are good ideas supposed to emerge from? I've yet to see much of that beyond technical smalltalk.
Does the entitlement ever end?
I think there is still a whole ecosystem of conspiracies, the only reason they look more homogeneous now is because 50% of the population of america is basically "out" now, there's no narrative that integrates them into the country, so they instead coalesce around a set of simplified so called conspiracy theories. The simplifications for the masses will always look more ridiculous and basic.

I like the analysis saying that america has collapsed in the last years from a "Two-Story State" to a "One-Story State", so everybody that is left out of that story is now a traitor to the country.

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-th...
Wow, you thought for yourself and your conclusion was you’re not going to think for yourself. Well that’s fine. Now try affording others that same privilege and allow them to draw their own conclusions.
Maybe the most important lesson of MMT is that public debt, deficits and all those things that so frequently are at the center of the public debate are irrelevant compared to what's really important: real resources.

It doesn't matter if you have a big or small public debt (in your own currency), what's important is the real things in the economy.

If people is, for instance, using dollars instead of the currency of the country, it's, probably, because your country depend totally on imports (in the worst cases for basic things like food or energy).

If that's the case, the first steep to solve it, it's to recognize the problem. If you don't recognize the problem, you will finish addressing virtual problems like deficits or public debts instead of real resources constrains. Those are very difficult problems to address, but it will be even more difficult if you don't understand them.

The mainstream advice to development is: open your economy to competition, reduce deficits and public debt. The result of that is the impossibility of an agricultural, infrastructure or industrial policy that solve the real resources problem.
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The chances of ending up dead from COVID is higher than the chance of dying from the vaccine for basically everyone right?

Even if you’re in your 30’s and in perfect health.

I absolutely agree that I’d much rather die from COVID than from the vaccine that is supposed to save me. But logically speaking, choosing to not take the vaccine doesn’t make any kind of sense.

It’s like choosing to drive a car because you might get hit by lightning if you take a walk.
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Looks great!

If I could request some features:

The layout might be better 4-wide (or dynamically reflowing) instead of 3-wide so that typical PC monitors can view all of the controls at once.

Also, I'd love the ability to use Oklab to pick ranges of equal distributions (dark to light), or typical symmetric colour pairings (opposites, or 'n' divisions of a circle, or whatever...)

In the past, I used an app that allowed me to do that with the Munsell colour system, and I found that it worked great. The only annoyance with that was that it was fixed to 10% increments, and had limited symmetry types.

However, despite that, I could pick a colour that was perceptually 2x as saturated (or bright), and then use it for a control that was 1/2 as big as an adjacent one. It made things like almost eerily balanced. I felt like it was the cheat code to artistic web layouts!
Self-medication is a symptom, not a treatment.
What is so awful about "scuttlebutt"? In the old days, when ships were wooden, real sailors were pressed, etc., etc., every ship had a water container available to the sailors -- a water butt -- bigger than a puncheon but smaller than a tun. So sailors would share gossip (probably about how misguided their management was) -- scuttle -- around the water butt, hence "scuttlebutt".

Where's the "awful"?

eta: Exactly what we today refer to as "water cooler chatter/gossip"
Well, if you use maven or gradle, it will manage the classpath for you. If you are doing this manually, you indeed need to read up on how that works. It isn't particularly hard. It's like a file path; but for class and jar files. It pretty much works the same way. Where the class loading mechanism gets complicated is the notion that it's a run-time thing and that Java allows for loading and unloading things at runtime as well as loading jars and classes into separate class loaders that can each have their own copies of the same; or even different versions of class files. Not a lot of applications actually do that these days but it used to be quite common.

I actually used OSGI back in the day (a more powerful module system) that relied on this for managing different components that each had their own dependencies and dependency versions. Neat, but no longer that common to do these days. Osgi actually emerged out of the embedded software devices world. Later Eclipse used it to componentize the Eclipse platform and I know some companies that use OSGi for different things. These days you'd use microservices in some kind of Kubernetes container; or not (I'd consider that overkill for most of the stuff I work on).

The Java module system is much simpler and not really intended for this (at least not primarily). Instead, the main use case is ahead of time compilation. Modules allow parking things that can't be compiled (e.g. because of reflection ahead of time in separate modules, which you can then exclude. Breaking up the jvm platform into modules was a big project. As far as I know, they are not that commonly used for anything else. At least, I've not encountered many projects that rely on this. It's a pretty low level mechanism.

These days for servers, you package up applications as Docker containers, which contain your application and the full jdk. Both Spring Boot, Ktor, and other modern frameworks are commonly packaged up as single jar applications. Nothing magical about that; they are literally zip files with some manifest listing their content (classes, resources, more jar files). Of course modularizing a single jar application is kind of pointless. Likewise, there is no real need to tweak the java runtime you run it with either. Just not a thing. The notion of stuffing zip files in zipfiles is also a bit weird but it kind of works as a packaging mechanism.
Is that something you come across frequently enough to hate the Java classpath? AFAIK, $PATH might be tripped up by that as well, as `:` is part of the syntax for delimiting.

Just because I was curious, I tried searching for all directories containing ":" and besides /sys and /run, I got three hits. One because of "https://", one because of "localhost:8080" (both mirrors made from wget) and one where it actually seems to be on purpose.

It seems, to me at least, that having colon in path names is unpopular enough for this to not be a real problem.

Edit: desktop I tried the command (`# find / -name ':' -type d`) on has been running daily since beginning of 2018 (2196 packages installed atm), with daily pacman updates, so should have enough data for a average workstation.
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=FRA shows more like 60%-70% for the total population (I turned on more countries than France).

Are your numbers percent of adults or including people that have recovered from infection or something?
The best way is to hire a front end designer that has done the learning for you.
There was an interesting point about this on the Mangadex thread the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443261

> Do that! If you strip them out, the 529 kB document shrinks to 280 kB, which hardly seems worth the hassle, but when gzipped, this is a miniscule 13 kB! This is because those strings are hashes, which significantly reduces their compressibility compared to general JSON, which usually compresses very well.
They're not based on public key crypto like in the rest of the world?
Bulma or bootstrap or pay someone to do it for you. Honestly, though, try to shake the idea that learning anything is dreadful. Whether it’s css, JavaScript, or quantum physics, learn as much as you can about everything you can. Then, if you need help with your css you can know what it’s worth to you to pay someone else to do it.
Judges just apply the law as it is. We want to change the law.
Not really sure I follow? For anyone living in poverty, increases in the price of staple foods will be a disaster, no?
I had a project where I had to convert absorption spectrum of a liquid sample into a colour. It was one of those "Just do this quick, it doesn't have to be perfect" type of things where I didn't get a chance to really understand it. I was baffled how many standards and technicalities there is behind a seemingly simple thing.
> When you buy a share of stock, someone else is selling it to you.

if that's not money flowing into a market, what is?
Is this not a national security issue when looked at in a broader scope?

The Chinese company behind this seems to solely target the North American market and makes medical devices, IoT devices, and other things.

According to their homepage, their LA based office employs engineers from "United Bell Lab, Oracle, Motorola and other well-known international companies".

What else are they root-kitting? With this particular Android one they are freely able to brick devices at will, if it was ever necessary.

http://www.teleepoch.com/company.html
RedisGraph uses OpenBLAS sparse matrices which deliver astounding performance.

It's not as feature-complete as Neo4J but it's a promising start.
This is very true. I personally find it mad that the UK is the nation with the highest covid infection rate in western europe, with ~30k new cases/day. Long covid is a real, debilitating condition and if anything is going to affect the young -- who are least vaccinated -- the most, thus creating a long-term disease burden and morbidity cost on both those individuals and the country as a whole. Ignoring the human cost of this, from an economic point of view alone, surely this is mad! -- it's very much not in the national interest.

I'd therefore naïvely think that the integrated burden would be greater than the short, sharp dip that comes with more conservative measures -- but this government is rolling ahead full-steam with pretending that the disease isn't there and telling us all to "get on with our lives". That makes me feel deeply, deeply unhappy. One in ~70 people nationally have covid at the moment. Nightclubs, etc, typically contain far more than 70 people!
Not to go into a restaurant to eat. Which is what is now being asked in many places.
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With the lesser methane production of the largest cattle pen, this Kettleman City, California, the land of millions of shit, can smell a bit better and that its nearby city of Los Banos (The Toilet) will be less of a wry joke.
This is snarky but poses a real question. If we ban people from spaces or events due to their vulnerability to COVID then why do we not do the same for those vulnerable to other diseases? Flu is a good example for the young and elderly since it poses a significant risk. It would strain the argument but you could make a case for banning the obese from fast food restaurants based on this reasoning as well.
There is a library called MVP.css which has a solid set of rules on the semantic html tags. Could get you far enough but positioning / flex box will be needed.
Bear in mind the pre-spike price was ~0.30/kg, so it comprised less than half the price of a 0.7/kg pasta brand then.
Good point, I forgot about this but its very true.
You’re clearly trolling here.

The virus is an invisible agent spreading exponentially throughout society, putting the health system under a massive stress. That’s of course not what smoking, drinking, or over-eating is about…
A previous coworker now works at Katana Graph and I've been keeping an eye on what they claim to be doing. Sounds very interesting.

https://katanagraph.com/
In normal jobs, innovation and creativity are optimized away, and may even be seen as threats to status quo. There's little incentives as well, as you can get blamed and fired at any time. It usually doesn't go that far, but contracts often say company even owns your work in free time, so everything is set up against the employee to end up the way it does.
No, Lynx doesn't support JavaScript. I think to get something close you'd have to do a page refresh (e.g. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1">) and set the check box states-server side to emulate 'animation' in this way.
Indeed. Bear in mind that that before becoming Health Secretary, Javid was very recently Chancellor of the Exchequer. Perhaps his motivations lie somewhere other than public health.
Bangladesh population 1950: 38 million

Bangladesh popuation 2020: 165 million

https://www.populationpyramid.net/bangladesh/2019/

Fortunately Bangladesh has made major improvements in giving women access to education and contraception, but they still probably need a 1-child policy, until the population is back down to sustainable levels.
That’s true, in the sense that there are never more total jobs than there are qualified workers, although there can be less. Once full employment is reached any job creation is a zero sum game.
And yet, look at Fortune 500 executives nowadays. How many of them have a spouse that work full time?
The purchase (and maybe rollout?) of the vaccines was done at the nation level rather than individual country.
OSGI is quite common in Java based CMS platforms, like Liferay, AEM and Hybris.
Unless you are a young person (or look like one) and decide to have alcohol with your meal. As much an optional act as going to a restaurant in the first place.
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The country has one of the highest vaccination levels in the world also.
HCG

https://github.com/helixd2s/hcv-color

HCG = Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, which will dominate your search results.
Well, now we do. At least in Hamburg, Germany. It was very quick to adapt, you flash your QR code and that’s it, we are back to supporting our local restaurants and other businesses we love.

The alternative was to see them close one by one, I’m personally very happy with the way the EU vaccine pass has been implemented.
I’d imagine it’s more like an adjacency list structure with various indexes (similar to a regular relational dbs) to allows lookups based on node properties
I think the really salient point here is that we have no idea what "consciousness" is and thus we have no idea how to create it.

Thinking that it will just "arise" somehow on it's own from a box of silicon switches (aka a computer) is incredibly naive and fanciful --- the modern equivalent of alchemy.
Usually, the path when such revelations comes out is to pillory the messenger as traitors and spies. So who do we blame and shame for this one? Where's the two minute hates about whoever it was revealed their government's latest mis-steps?
Promotions.
Thanks! Selfhosting is a great idea.
Recently Unreal Engine 5 released a beta version with a new lighting feature called "lumen." It makes lighting an order of magnitude easier if you can export your scene or create in Unreal.

For example: https://youtu.be/oT2DDu9vRJk
That later solution won't work after Java 17, which I agree with. Java is not the language for doing monkey patching with internals.

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403

Notice that on Android, this kind of tricks earn you the prize of the system killing the process and be done with it.
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> ... these documents include the original proposals along with project updates, so significantly flesh out what we knew. They highlight how US funding bodies outsourced risky gain-of-function research to China, even over a three-year period between 2014 and 2017 when it was banned in their own nation
Distributing a graph is a really hard problem does anyone know what the state of this is?
>The chances of ending up dead from COVID is higher than the chance of dying from the vaccine for basically everyone right?

Your chances of catching COVID aren't 100%, your chances of getting vaccinated are if you choose to do so.

>It’s like choosing to drive a car because you might get hit by lightning if you take a walk.

This argument also works in reverse.

note: I'm double vaccinated and urge others to vaccinate if they are medically able to do so.
No it's shit. Just let people decide if they want to get the vaccination or not, and go on with life as normal. By now everyone can get it and be protected against the virus. You now have the immunity, so act like it! Stop dragging this out with requiring passports, masks, and whatnot.

The "main concern" aren't tourists - tourists are the lifeblood of many places, and they should be welcomed. They come to you to see your culture, and you encumber them with your own burden and fears.
On Windows you can re-create this ‘magic’ pretty easily (on the WSL-less Mac its a bit harder). I wrote a blog post about it. https://jason-umiker.medium.com/replacing-docker-desktop-wit...
This will work if the sender is just incompetent or uncoordinated. If they want to keep sending you spam against your wishes, they will just normalize back to your base address. you could keep a dotted form that you only share with entities that you trust absolutely, but that seems fragile
I don’t think megacorps have been selling “all” our data.
You're better off browsing what interests you personally. If you come by a great group of people or person, it'll happen by chance, and will be fueled by your personal interests.
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The Java classpath is "flat" by default: you can only have one version of any given class (and therefore de facto only one version of any given library, unless they move the library to a different package for each major version, which some libraries do) on the classpath. This has advantages: you avoid the Rust problem of "Foo is incompatible with Foo" because you had two different versions of Foo in your (transitive) dependencies. But it means that if some library you're using uses a utility library internally, that dependency "leaks" and "pollutes" your classpath: you can't use a different version of that utility library yourself.

Modules try to solve this by distinguishing between exported and internal dependencies. The idea is that if your library depends on some other library and uses that as part of its API, that should be an exported dependency (and a program that uses your library has to use the same version of that). But if your library depends on another library just for internal implementation, that gets hidden away from the application that uses your library.

Personally I'm extremely doubtful of this working, because for it to work, library authors would have to specify their metadata correctly. So I suspect it's only going to lead to bigger problems than before, as the classpath gets more complicated and there are more ways to go wrong. But we'll see.
I am curious too. It is all reddit links full of sports-related nonsense.

It is not the usual spam. No product link, shady website, obvious scam or political message. Just nonsense.
> Because his phone number was in my address book (so I could block him) Signal thought it had the right to let him know he can now contact me.

Nope. Because your number was in his address book, his device periodically asks Signal "Hey, can I use Signal to message this contact?" and once you use Signal it says "Yes". The fact he's in your contacts means, by default, your phone thinks you know each other and it should provide information like your preferred name and photo if asked. Of course if you've got the number in there "so I could block him" you should... block him. In Signal too. Having blocked him, your phone won't provide your information and he can't contact you on Signal.

Under the hood if you do this, your phone ignores Signal messages from this number but it also mints fresh "postage stamps" for Signal's anonymous sender capability, it won't give the new ones to the newly blocked person and the old ones no longer work, so your actual friends can get new stamps and send you messages without even Signal being able to tell who sent them, but blocked people can't waste the service's time sending messages you won't even see.

This capability is necessary for Signal to function as something more than a fun "secret decoder ring" for a small circle of nerds. Without it for example, the ex-colleague I suddenly needed to contact a month ago wouldn't have been reached over Signal, he had no reason to tell me, a person he rarely talks to, that he's got Signal since we last met, but since his phone does have Signal, and my phone checked my contact list, it knew that Signal would work and it transparently used Signal for the conversation.
But then you have the ability to exclude dependency X's dependency 1.4.0 because you're already using 1.4.8 of Y, and 99% of the time, it works.

And I've had so many times when I've wished I could do this for Python dependency trees.
With both France and the UK each projected to see a more than a 5-million-tonne reduction in their 2020-21 wheat crops, EU wheat output is forecast to fall by nearly 11 million tonnes year-on-year to 144 million tonnes due to a 700,000-hectare decrease in planted area.

That’s seems like they are removing land from production unless I understand that wrong.
Germany bans Mein Kampf which is comparable in content to the Quran