skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were already discussed, already ruled on, and already decided. Just because you don't like where society landed doesn't mean "we haven't explored it" and it doesn't mean that your wishes are some sort of "hard truth."

These sorts of inconsistencies in the law can easily be sorted out. If the fetus is not a human with rights yet then if another person terminates it (against the mothers wishes) then you've clearly harmed the mother. This is literally the same argument for abortion, under some development threshold of X months, its called healthcare.

As I said, this same discussion has happened for the last 20 years. I'm never going to be swayed to your side on this. Maybe this is all novel for you. But nothing you said is new to me and I just don't care to debate it or discuss it. I completely understand you point of view, but I disagree and will continue to disagree and fight for women's health and rights.
Yes but should we do it? Those rules prevent most people from e.g. investing into startups.
oh awesome! Very, very cool!
> For me, consciousness is more than just perception, it's more like the awareness of your own thought processes.

That is self-awareness, big difference. Consciousness is required for self-awareness, but you are placing the bar too high for consciousness. Anything that has brain (in any form) that experiences and can feel pain is conscious, whether it is self-aware or not. A 1yo baby is not self-aware, but I'm pretty sure it is still conscious. It is a pretty good bet that all animals are conscious to some extent, including insects. It isn't a terrible bet that even plants have their own plant-consiousness, fungus has its own fungus-consciousness, etc.
You also forget the small detail of having to pay back the money you received.
T5 was open-sourced on release (up to 11B params): https://github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-tra...

It is also available via Hugging Face transformers.

However, the paper mentions T5-XXL is 4.6B, which doesn't fit any of the checkpoints above, so I'm confused.
I am glad there is some innovation happening. If you compare redshift to BigQuery it feels quite archaic in the current production version. I understand that Google commands a metric ton of engineering excellence, yet the difference should not be so extreme especially when you consider AWS still being the king of cloud. BigQuery is downright magic.

I would love to see more competition in this space as having large amounts of data with Google always makes me feel uneasy for all kinds of reasons.
A belief oft shared is that sufficiently complicated statistical models are indistinguishable from reasoning.
Hiring thaw or hiring freeze?
The political economy of submarine cables
Oh that's weird, I always thought the next commit would have its gitsha affected by the annotated tag and you couldn't just delete it, but I just tried that and it deleted fine...

Now I'm not sure what the point is of annotated tags other than the default git describe behavior.

Everyone else can enjoy Cunningham's Law working like a charm.
Ok, so I just read a bunch of articles about animals grieving and it seems like there would probably be a lot of difficulty in agreeing on what it means to grieve, and what it means to be conscious and all sorts of other terms.

I believe that my dog has emotions. I think he has feelings towards me and towards his brother and mother. But I also think he has minimal object permanence, and no ability to conceptualize my inner experience. He only knows what I'm feeling based on my face/actions/smells etc. I think if you took my dog and gave him to another family, he wouldn't think of me again, unless he heard my voice again in the futre.

When she says a cat knows what it's like to be a cat, it's not that I don't think cat's have an inner experience. Maybe it's not that they aren't ware of what it's like to be a cat, as much as it is that they're not able to be aware of what it's like to be anything else. And those feel like the same thing to me.

Oddly, after reading a few articles bout how elephants mourn their dead, I have sort of the opposite reaction, I assumed all animals did what elephants do and am kinda surprised they don't. Maybe I'm confusing consciousness with empathy or the ability to imagine another beings inner experience.
Right, that's the likely cause of the bias.
Humor aside, many years ago I had a 1:1 discussion with Vint Cerf (2003?) about interplanetary networks. He was thinking deeply on this topic, and I had some interesting and relevant input.

His focus was primarily on Store and Forward routing, and the implications that come with long latency hops. The overlap with military & battlefield networks where nodes are subject to active interference and "Node no longer exists" was a very overlapping topic.

A quick Google search shows he's still working on this.
Crypto tokens for product ideas that never get realized.
“Open source is just as much marketing as it is technical merit.” – Chris McCord
It's speculated that the only really guaranteed way to
defeat these systems is a saturation attack

Why haven't we seen a saturation attack in reality?

Obviously, there haven't been a whole lot of naval conflicts in recent decades. And antiship missiles are not cheap (although, obviously much cheaper than ships)

But, still. They seem like such an obvious method of attack that it seems weird we haven't really seen one in earnest.

Are there specific technological issues that need to be worked out?
Rugpulls, as in projects attracting funds and then absconding with them, are different from exploits in that they involve outright lies / deception. There's a (moral, at least) difference between bad intent and honest incompetence. The attacker didn't ask anyone to contribute the funds that he appropriated.
It's not up to you. It's up to them, and they trust themselves/don't care about your definition of malicious.
What possible action can a carrier take to evade satellite that can take daily photographs? Its not a plane, it cant travel a thousand kilometers in a day. It can only be withing a limited radius of it's initial position

I would expect that every major nation keeps track of every carrier on a daily basis
Would rephrase that as "Hitler thought he was doing good for the 'Aryan race'"
It's almost an exact copy aside from the conventions and names. It very much _is_ Remix. This is pretty wild. It also brings one of my gripes from Remix: parallel fetching. In practice it makes sense, but at times there needs to be a way to fetch data on a parent route first so that child routes don't fetch again. I'm sure Vercel will find a way to solve this.
and you know this because you've spoken to the author?
The Worlds littlest skyscraper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_littlest_skyscraper
From the HN rules:

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

They provided a pretty thorough overview (nearly 500 words) of the multiple reasons why they are showing caution. You picked out the one that happened to bother you the most and have posted a misleading claim that the tech is being withheld entirely because of it.
Cultural biases aren’t uniform across nations. If a prompt returns caucasians for nurses, and other races for criminals then most people in my country would not note that as racism simply because there are not, and there have never in history, been enough caucasians resident for anyone to create significant race theories about them.

This is a far cry from say the USA where that would instantly trigger a response since until the 1960s there was a widespread race based segregation.
While actually using your tool of choice is important to mastery, my instincts say that if you're working in a technical field, you probably don't need extra practice just for the sake of it. Designing and reading programs are skills which seem to be improved with repetition and persistence more than study. It's also often said that learning many languages of different paradigms makes better programmers.
This is not a pure Ekranoplan and can fly high enough to avoid most mountains, let alone large waves. It's most efficient flying lower but it can act more like a normal plane if necessary.
> Indent with tabs, align with spaces intuitively made a lot of sense.

gofmt does this.

> use the IDE/compiler/community standard

gofmt does this too :-)
"Should" is modifying "consider". Considering something is obviously subjective and not fact.
The distinction is the legal entity. If an individual speaks, and has liability for that speech, it is entirely different from if an individual speaks, but only as a representative for a company, union, etc... This is simple and easy to enforce, but would give a huge advantage to individuals and small privately held business over large corporations in terms of rights, while corporations would benefit from scale and limited liability. As it stand, large companies get ALL the perks and none of the costs, and effectively have MORE rights than individuals.
I'm seeing it fine on Safari 15.4
The pictures I got from a similar model when asking for a "sunday school photograph of baptists in the National Baptist Convention": https://ibb.co/sHGZwh7
Why is it wild? How is it contradictory?
Tbh imagine this tech combines particularly well with really well curated stock image databases so outputs can be made with recognisable styles, and actors and design elements can be reused across multiple generated images.

If Getty et al aren't already spending money on that possibility, they probably should be.
I still think we're missing some fundamental insights on how layered planning/forecasting/deducting/reasoning works, and that figuring this out will be necessary in order to create AI that we could say "reasons".

But with the recent advances/demonstrations, it seems more likely today than in 2019 that our current computational resources are sufficient to perform magnificantly spooky stuff if they're used correctly. They are doing that already already, and that's without deliberately making the software do anything except draw from a vast pool of examples.

I think it's reasonable, based on this, to update one's expectations of what we'd be able to do if we figured out ways of doing things that aren't based on first seeing a hundred million examples of what we want the computer to do.

Things that do this can obviously exist, we are living examples. Does figuring it out seem likely to be many decades away?
This reminds me of the character graphics you would get on Commodore computers in the 80's
I apologize in advance for the elitist-sounding tone. In my defense the people I’m calling elite I have nothing to do with, I’m certainly not talking about myself.

Without a fairly deep grounding in this stuff it’s hard to appreciate how far ahead Brain and DM are.

Neither OpenAI nor FAIR ever has the top score on anything unless Google delays publication. And short of FAIR? D2 lacrosse. There are exceptions to such a brash generalization, NVIDIA’s group comes to mind, but it’s a very good rule of thumb. Or your whole face the next time you are tempted to doze behind the wheel of a Tesla.

There are two big reasons for this:

- the talent wants to work with the other talent, and through a combination of foresight and deep pockets Google got that exponent on their side right around the time NVIDIA cards started breaking ImageNet. Winning the Hinton bidding war clinched it.

- the current approach of “how many Falcon Heavy launches worth of TPU can I throw at the same basic masked attention with residual feedback and a cute Fourier coloring” inherently favors deep pockets, and obviously MSFT, sorry OpenAI has that, but deep pockets also non-linearly scale outcomes when you’ve got in-house hardware for multiply-mixed precision.

Now clearly we’re nowhere close to Maxwell’s Demon on this stuff, and sooner or later some bright spark is going to break the logjam of needing 10-100MM in compute to squeeze a few points out of a language benchmark. But the incentives are weird here: who, exactly, does it serve for us plebs to be able to train these things from scratch?
Housing is by it's very nature exclusive; every building with a roof and at least four walls is put up to keep out animals, the elements, and other people. Exclusivity on it's own has little to do with price. Desirability, mainly in terms of easy access to/production of vittles and lack of crime, is what influences the latter.
I'm honestly kinda confused why you'd put tape like this on the outside rather than use it to seal the flap like an envelope.
Multiple-precision arithmetic routines were almost always little-endian.
For starters, US dollar was taken off gold standard in 1971, which unlocks printing money and the corresponding inflation and unnatural wealth reallocation.

There many theories in other comments that essentially boil down to “it was no one’s fault”, but I’d first like to see the data for other countries, particularly those not too interdependent with US.
Reading these comments and replies has me very interested. I think talking about technical debts and ways of quantifying it is definitely worth another post. I'd read it!
>> The US has a lot of legal policy that is based on spirit of the law

>Yes, but that's a wrong and unfair way to define and apply laws.

Sounds like you're interpreting how to define and apply the law there based on what you feel is the right and fair way to do so. Seems a bit paradoxical.
I'M SQUEEZING MY PAPER!
https://kjzz.org/content/1777360/arizona-gov-doug-ducey-says...

And yet here is Governor Ducy arguing for an arguably mentally incompetent man to be put to death for the murder of an innocent child. While, yes, the crime is egregious, and he should never be set free from his cell... Do you think that it is, indeed "pro-life" to argue, as quite a few do, to argue for the death penalty as a form of punishment (I won't say many - this truly does split the movement. Catholics especially - Ducy is a poor representative, but Republican politicians are overwhelmingly pro death penalty, anti abortion). A strong case can be made that the people who are executed suffer from severe mental illness and are not capable of telling right from wrong in any true form. Sociopaths who lack the education or means to make it to Wall Street, as it were.

Just so you know, I'm not trying to be argumentative to be argumentative. You guys being very polite and I enjoy these conversations =) If you get sick of it, just stop responding, no hard feelings =)

EDIT: grammar is hard
Write a recipe for cake.

Should you think that is easy, think again.

What pan should you use? It depends on the size of the cake. Where is the pan kept? Is it in a cabinet? What kind of door handle, twist or pull? Is it under something?

What ingredients? How do you combine them? Do you 'stir'? How many times in how many directions for how long?

What kind of topping? (That's a subroutine). Again, what ingredients? How combined? How stirred?

Do you use milk? Is it in the refrigerator? If not, do you go to the store? How do you go to the store? By car? What kind of car? Does it have enough gas? How do you navigate? What if the store does not have milk? Do you find a cow?

Think of all possible questions and provide answers as part of the recipe.

NOW you're programming.
When you have the skills to design pretty 2D graphics and functional games, and you decide to do it in Excel, just because. Hacking in essence.
I don't buy it, dude. In the towns around where I live in SoCal, it is totally legal to raze a single family house and build up to 4 units in its place. The problem is the extra capacity gets built out at such a slow pace that it's just a drop of water in a hot frying pan.

lol my landlord is actually planning to do that with the house I'm living in after we move out, whenever we decide to do that.
All it takes is one 'trick' to give these models the ability to do reasoning.

Like for example the discovery that language models get far better at answering complex questions if asked to show their working step by step with chain of thought reasoning as in page 19 of the PaLM paper [1]. Worth checking out the explanations of novel jokes on page 38 of the same paper. While it is, like you say, all statistics, if it's indistinguishable from valid reasoning, then perhaps it doesn't matter.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.02311.pdf
So we need to give credit now to every little bit of inspiration we get when coming up with new features and ideas?

Not really sure what the problem is here.
I think it's more for pollution than contagions...
and how do we _feel_ about that outcome?
Historically the Fed has been independent and the current administration (in contrast to the last) seems to respect this tradition.
https://twitter.com/sebmarkbage/status/1528858510754459648
Similar to this but not (maybe) as nefarious is the links to what looks like the result of the <solemn-and-important-font>Quarterly Conversation with Your Manager to Set Goals and Milestones</solemn-and-important-font>. The outcome of the QCYMSGM is "Goal: understand $(technology); Milestone: write a blog post about it". So you get a lot of half-baked "Intro to OAuth2" links that don't really help that much.
> I mean, from my perspective, the skill in these (and DALL-E's) image reproductions is truly astonishing.

A basic part of it is that neural networks combine learning and memorizing fluidly inside them, and these networks are really really big, so they can memorize stuff good.

So when you see it reproduce a Shiba Inu well, don’t think of it as “the model understands Shiba Inus”. Think of it as making a collage out of some Shiba Inu clip art it found on the internet. You’d do the same if someone asked you to make this image.

It’s certainly impressive that the lighting and blending are as good as they are though.
The Big Players put atomic clocks in the datacenter, and provide multiple mechanism's of time synchronization. Google Spanner was the first to do this, back in... 2007?

https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/26/3692392/google-spanner-a...
https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...

Now, I don't think they worry overmuch about general or special relativity at this point, but if we start putting datacenters in orbit that will become an actual issue.

I'll wager we'll start seeing Edge Compute and CDN features on the very large satellite constellations (Starlink, etc) soon. Initially this will preserve bandwidth between satellites and with the ground stations. This will be a big upsell feature. The Quant folks would pay more for those sweet low-latency links...
Show HN: IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development
Hi HN,

I'm opening up the beta for IndigoStack. It's a native macOS app which provides a fresh take on how to run all the services you need for local web development. I've been building it for myself as a Laravel & Drupal developer and I'm now looking to get some beta testers on board!

Check it out, and don't forget to sign up to the forums to give us your feedback!

https://indigostack.app

My motivation:

Like many developers I've developed a love-hate relationship with the existing options for local development on a Mac. If they're virtualised, you'll often get...

* high CPU usage
* high RAM usage
* poor filesystem performance / syncing
* command line and configuration complexity

And existing native solutions tend to be either too simplistic, or command line-based or both.

So I've built IndigoStack with everything I liked and wanted, running everything natively on your Mac:

* services are all native & fast
* services are standalone; macOS updates won't ruin your setup
* able to run multiple services (eg PHPs) simultaneously
* easily build / start / stop / rebuild your stacks in the GUI
* run multiple projects which don't interfere with each other
* config-in-code; quickly and easily share stacks within a team
I'm in favor of specific criticism rather than lumping everyone together or painting with a broad brush, so on that specific point, I agree with the OP. There is no mention about needing to satisfy any specific 'standard' as you claimed. What you quoted doesn't say that either. Anyway, there isn't much meat in this thread arguing over such minutia, so I will just let you have the last word if you'd like to.
>> Technically, these are beliefs that you have formed, not facts demonstrated by your example.

> technically democracy is all bout that.

For now, to some degree (the degree that it is true, which is unknown).

But if you won't exert effort towards sound logic and epistemology, or show any interest when you are mistaken, should you be criticizing others? Granted, Western Culture is also "all about that", but it's not a great excuse.

>> How would him providing proof change the epistemic state of underlying reality that you are allegedly describing?

> by proving the thesis that "liquid democracy solves that"

Note that I was challenging this: "It simply says that people know nothing about govern, they should only vote once for themselves to protect their personal interest. And that liquid democracy doesn't work at all, when applied in practice..."

...but now you are addressing this different claim:

>> However, given the kind of people we have running Congress... this system doesn't seem to work that well. Geriatic insider traders who owe their positions to various corporate conglomerates (finance, energy, defense, pharmaceuticals, etc.) have ended up running all the committees, and the evidence that this is a failure can be easily seen by looking at America's crumbling domestic infrastructure.

> Yeah, this is what liquid democracy solves. Please make sure you understand the concept before arguing against it.

Note that by politicians being removed by the equation that specific problem is solved by definition (opening up new problems, of course).

As I said elsewhere in the thread, I think a big benefit of some form of direct democracy is that it would offer an opportunity for people to develop skills in various forms of thinking that are taught in philosophy, but not in schools.
Naw, I don't agree. SSG is a killer feature. The fact that Next.js is able to do both SSG and SSR means that it's positioned to be a wholesale replacement for most React tech stacks. You can still have a "CSR-like" app with SSG, while having all of the Next.js conventions (such routing, layouts, etc.). Additionally, it's actually pretty useful for sites that need to be heavily SEO-optimized. Next.js is an impressive framework.
The bits in a byte do not have a defined endianness!
No, because there's at least one male nurse.
I agree with the sentiment but the RFC even mentions the PDP 11 as the first computer to claim being little endian. I wonder if the ascent of C and Unix at that time also contributed to it.
Neither can I, but they were solid enough. A lot of people like to talk about how good XP was, but that is rose colored glasses and ignoring where OSX was at the same time, which, while not without issues, was a much more modern operating system.

Never mind the security issues of XP pre SP2. Antivirus software became commercial products because XP was so insecure.
virtue signalling satisfies a huge hole in many souls
> That depends heavily on mechanism design though.

> If I am simply aware at some stage that I have become someone's delegate and am not made aware that person is X, the level of secrecy means that I may rationally choose to delegate my votes to X without realising the two delegations cancel out.

Isn't the obvious solution to simply make the software enforce such situations? Or am I misunderstanding?
I have a blog without any of that junk and it works out great. I get ~50k unique visitors on most of my posts, which I’m very happy with.
"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission." is one of the more well-known variants of that.