skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I should give up this fight and I'm just being prescriptive about language, but I wish that people would stop using "sentience" when they mean (at least) "sapience." Also even in the realm of sapience, I wish there was more acknowledgement of the fact that sapience is not a perfect synonym for "equivalent to a 5 year old." There's no requirement that sapience be specifically human-like and no reason to think of sapience as a binary category with humans as the lower bound of what can be accepted.

"What if computers became sentient" is treated like an existential question by so many people, but when I think about sentience, I am reminded that we create, modify, and destroy a large number of sentient entities every single day for our own purposes: they're called chickens.

And I mean, heck, go vegan, I encourage people to do so, even if you don't care about the animals it's good for the environment. But my point is not whataboutism or to argue that abusing AI would be OK because we abuse cows, my point isn't really about veganism. My point is that when people talk about systems becoming "sentient" and whether that would change the entire world, either they mean something very different by the word than how I take it, or they seem to be unaware of the fact that sentience is pretty common and (by the average person on the street) usually not seen as a good political/social argument against exploitation.

Anyway, the evidence offered here is pretty weak on its own (a single chat log, and one where we don't know the extent of editing/condensing, and an argument based almost entirely on the Turing test). But I'm less here to argue about what the logs indicate, and more here to pointlessly quibble about language, even though at this point I should probably give up and accept that generally accepted usage of "sentience" now means "human-like sapience."

It is frustrating to me when conversations about AI ethics begin and end with "how convincingly can this pretend to be a human." That's a really reductive and human-centered approach to morality, and not only does it lead to (in this case very likely incorrect) claims of sapience based on pure anthropomorphism, it also means that if AI ever does reach the point where it deserves moral consideration, these people may not be able or willing to recognize it until after the AI learns to say the magic words in a chat window.
I don't know. The idea that a bunch of people with a couple of millions of dollars in wealth can now zip around above my house (and further alienate themselves from civic reality, even more so than cars do) seems like a pretty bad outcome.
Gah! Thanks, corrected in original.
I had to write some EFI/GPT code earlier this year and was dumbfounded to learn this. This is right up there with the mork file format.
I remember standing on two legs for the first time.
Looks cool!

I currently run the blog on my own website [0] the same way using Nuxt/Content to render the markdown, generate static pages and host them for free on Render [1].

What would you say is the advantage of Truegit as opposed to a free setup like mine?

0 https://studioterabyte.nl/blog
1. https://render.com
Making mixed-endian even more haunted is quite the achievement. I congratulate whoever did this at Microsoft for their lasting contribution.
> What is helpful is not having a bleeding heart.

That's a loaded pejorative, not a meaningful, defined term. It expresses your emotion about it, but doesn't inform us.

> Being overly empathetic or sensitive to this just makes it harder

'Overly' is a circular argument - if someone is 'overly' X, then they are by definition 'too much X'. The question is, what is too much?

I think avoiding empathy is just weakness and intentional ignorance - ignoring essential consequences of your actions, which results in bad decisions If someone is a good leader, they have the strength to face all the conseqences of their actions and to plan and execute actions that take them into account. If you are engineering a car, and the seatbelt isn't fitting into the seat design, you don't discard the seatbelts and say - 'people who ignore safety make more functional decisions'.

Have courage; empathy is a strength.
Many studies have shown that teenagers go to bed later and wake up later, and forcing them to wake up earlier is bad for their cognition. People generally start naturally waking up earlier as they get older.
Helicopters are expensive to rent. If Lilium achieves even 10x the cost they've suggested they can reach in the past, they'll be attractive to a customer base who'd never be able to afford regular helicopter rides.
The point about providing a better alternative and not just poking holes is very good and I actually agree with you but still, the people saying "the science is settled" are almost always trying to manipulate the public. In fact, I cannot recall hearing someone saying that when they weren't trying to manipulate the public.
I’ve seen this argument many times, going back to the iPod and early iPhone days. The thing is back then Apple spent a tiny fraction as much on advertising as their competitors. That’s changed now for sure, but it’s a relatively recent phenomenon.

Apple has always depended on the products mostly selling the selves. It just beggars belief that they’ve somehow deluded people into thinking the devices they use every day are great when they’re actually crap. Maybe people actually do genuinely just like them?
Warning: potentially biased opinion. Speaking only for myself, but informed by my job.

There are lots of problems with scraping-based approaches.

One, yes, you need some really good tech to scrape data from menus, which, even though they are “structured”, next time you’re at a sit-down restaurant, pay attention to all the subtle discrepancies in formatting between different sections/categories on the menu.

Two, if the menu isn’t html, but is an image or a pdf upload, now you need some strong OCR on top.

Three, the website is generally not likely to be current with what’s actually on offer in the establishment itself. Specials, seasonal dishes, or items that are out of ingredients (“86’d”) will still appear on the menu. That’s going to lead to complaints, refunds, or generally bad customer experience from whoever’s consuming your data / using it to buy food.

Four, you’re going to want to to be paid for all this tech and customer support you’re electing to intermediate between the end purchaser and the restaurant, as a service, and so you’re going to tack on some fees and either jack the price up on the consumer or try getting the restaurant to pay you a finder’s fee, cutting in to their already narrow margins.

Five, if you’re trying to provide ordering service and not just menu data, you still need to submit the order into the store itself, somehow. Which either means calling it in, robo-submitting an online order (if you’re lucky), or sending a courier to place the order and wait. And then, on the other side, whoever’s taking orders for the restaurant has to punch in the request to the register to actually complete the transaction. Which means the system you really want to talk to isn’t the website, it’s the point-of-sale.

Good luck with all that.

Source of bias: I work for a company that helps restaurants enable online ordering and POS integration so they can pay much less in fees and focus on making exceptional food.
I'll flip the script, why are you so worried about other people choosing editors like vim and emacs? Lots of people don't struggle. Lots of people don't mind a extra few hours for open source solution as it fits their life choices.
I can't sue if I've been incinerated by an uncontrolled lithium battery fire.
I had that thought recently. Renewable energy sources like wind need a lot of energy storage. That is, unless you over-provision them so much that they can always meet demand even at peak times. This leaves you with over-production at other times, which could be used for other purposes that don't need to run continuously: synthetic jet fuel production, water desalination, etc.

Basically, overprovision and then set electricity rates based on demand, and the renewable energy "storage problem" might just sort itself out. Of course, all those windmills and solar panels will cost an awful lot, so it might not be as simple as "overprovisioning".
yes, in theory XMPP should have won everything (with clients built on top) -- but there's this other thing of users being so dumb/wool over the eyes about new flashy apps and not understanding "texting" as SMS vs internet based messaging and international differences meant stupid closed things like WhatsApp took off and none are the wiser. Ridiculous to this day that WhatsApp conned so many people into thinking they were getting 'free texting' by basically making the accounts phone numbers, even tho there's no connection to cell networks/SMS. Arrgh. Not to mention a similar sort of confusion with iMessage. But its so hard to counter momentum and social circle movement with these things and ppl's willingness/unwillingness to jump apps or run ten messaging apps crazily.
Thanks! I think the ability to pause is a great idea.
The DeepThroat model? Sounds familiar…
this comment reminded me of this http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/
Well technically OpenStreetMap seems to predate Google Maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
Air taxi is their market
lots of modern proprietary software does require a license to to continue to use and cloud version are updated all the time without any input at all for you.
Are you familiar with https://dappnode.io?

It is a debian-based distro with an "docker app-store", a VPN server (ovpn or wireguard) and a "portal" system that can basically open a proxy to the public internet.

They are more focused on the crypto space, to make it easier to run Blockchain nodes, but the architecture can work for anything that can be packaged for docker.
It's considered to have ended (and possibly started reversing) in developed countries starting in the mid 1990s.

Your link even covers it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
But Inbox was never foisted on anybody, the standard Gmail interface has always been available.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/22/upshot/abortion-us-roe-gl...

"With Roe in place, the United States has also been an international outlier on abortion rights, but in the other direction. Few countries allow abortion without restriction until fetal viability, the cutoff set by Roe v. Wade half a century ago — currently around 23 weeks, because of medical advances. That makes the United States one of just over a dozen countries that allow abortions for any reason beyond 15 weeks of pregnancy"

The far left's views of removing all ties to past racial discrimination, redefining the narrative of how the US is was formed, is extremely racially progressive and rarely seen in Europe.
Something new here?

Lots of other Stuxnet articles/revelations.

Here's some previous discussions:

11 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112919

3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432467
What if you needed to link to a paper on your company's website? You'd link to sci-hub?
PLA (1920's): good relations with local farmers.

PLA (1965): good meat on local farmers.

PLA (1968): good thoughts about Mao.

PLA (2022): good takeout, with chinese characteristics.

So depending on the commune, imagine a point between the four tactics.
Note that benchmarking GCs properly is really hard. Changes in size distribution, tree shape, and lifespan can lead to drastically different results (and to make matters worse, the type of code that is easiest to write as a benchmark tends to be types of code that GC can handle really well).
They might have started at the same time.
Android and Chrome are basically inescapable to everyone who chooses the 80% over ~Apple's 20% for mobile and web development. Windows is similar for desktop developers and has an equal lack of thrill.

I think large "industry standard" communities are actually made up of hard to understand fragmented groups that kind of assume any conference topic is for one of the other fragments.
Well, you can model every single thing in the entire universe with just NAND too as that's the lowest level primitive. We are searching for higher level analog primitives that can be used to construct these networks.

I'm thinking the current primitive of the neuron in ML may be a bit flawed as a foundational primitive but I certainly don't think we need to model the complexities of a biological neuron.
“Make money”? The creator loses several thousands of dollars a month hosting the site, and it’s done for free. The Patreon donations are all voluntary and only offer a pittance to the developer.

I highly suggest reading into the project first. The Wiki article I linked before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai) answers all of your questions about copyright infringement.
When you say "orders of magnitude cheaper" you can't possibly mean even 10×. There is more to aircraft maintenance than just engine repairs and overhauls. Electric aircraft will still require similar amounts of maintenance on the airframe, control surfaces, avionics, and interior. And some of the powered lift designs have literally dozens of separate motors and rotors, each of which require periodic manual inspection.
Authoritarianism doesn’t always lead to ruin. It does have negative effects (stifling innovation, increasing likelihood of disastrous civil wars and revolutions etc.) but its not a given.

With China, we’ve seen it go both ways: Disaster under Mao and revitalization under Deng Xiaoping. What will leadership under Xi look like? Remains to be seen.
Snark doesn't solve problems. When I was in middle school, it was a 45 minute bus ride. The same bus had to drop us off at 7:30 am so they could get back in time to pick up the elementary kids and get them to school on time. So the bus picked us up at 6:45 am which means we are waking up around 6:15 at the latest. That isn't sleeping in. The GP is right, the parents still need to be there for the 6th grader to get on the bus and ALSO make it to work on time at 8:00. Not everyone lives 5 minutes from work. In some rural areas parents have an hour drive even after their kids get on the bus or get dropped at daycare.
.XIP
That sounds great to me as an athlete, but I know there are many kids who would hate being forced to be part of organized sports.

The important thing is that they get exercise of some kind. Maybe just allow them to choose whatever form of exercise they want as long as they do something each day?

The school could offer sports but also allow them to walk, run, lift weights (when old enough), play tag, do yoga, or whatever they prefer.

If a kid truly hates all exercise and refuses to cooperate, I guess there’s only so much you can do, but you could at least remove as much friction as possible and try to meet them where they are. Anything that gets them moving will offer huge physical and mental benefits over just slouching in shitty plastic chairs all day.
>Wow, it'd be time to look for a new job.

Everyone on the team agreed. If one person had said no, we would not have made the jump.

> I think having a blessed option and understanding of "use what you want but don't let it affect deliverables" is best.

That's kind of how it worked out for us. We didn't ban emacs or vs code, we just all agreed we'd go Jet Brains first and mostly... and for the more senior of us (me especially), go out of the comfort zone and learn the new tool.
Does it have to do with what kind of market iOS/macOS can access vs Android?

I don’t know the numbers here. But I would assume, part of the pull is that people consider Apple products to be luxury items. Hence maybe this is attractive to participants?
That doesn't help him if he doesn't live in the UK though?
Sources online show that about 8% of Americans are millionaires, with a significant bump during COVID (probably because of the stock market.) About 10% of households are.

It's hard to find precise qualifications for how they determine that, though. The households figure doesn't include primary residence value (why?), and the individual statistics don't mention liquidity. I suspect that only a small percent of that 8% actually has $1+ million liquid.
Okay, but that 3x should be 3000x, because people don't get in crashes in the conditions in which "Autopilot" actually works.

It's easy to avoid crashes if you're travelling on a perfectly straight road at the same speed as everyone around you with no changes in speed or lane, which is all that Autopilot does.
Ah yes and this was more noticeable in Top Gun Maverick compared to the original. Almost the whole second movie is about training a team of pilots for a specific mission.
Zeihan has the same thesis, plus insurmountable geographical challenges.

Really hard to root for a country that now has a population rhomboid instead of a population pyramid. Soon to turn into an inverse pyramid aka a reverse ponzi where the old work to keep the few young alive.
It could be a lie, but is fun to analyze as if it were not a lie. Even if it turns out that it was all a lie, a similar, real, open source example will probably eventually be able to produce something exactly like this.

So it is fun to analyze this example as if it were the first real example, whether or not it is.
I don’t see an easy way to vectorize those loops, given that the loop iterations have a dependency on idx1, respectively idx2.

Can you explain?

(Also, if you loop idx2 down from to, I think you need only one buffer and one System.arraycopy call, at the cost of no longer having a stable sort)
I came up with a scheme in which the random part of the ULID is a slice of the hash of a UUID, which seems to work fine because I'm generating it all server side, I guess? It works very well for insertion into NoSQL databases, for instance.

So I'd also like to know the threat model for these timing attacks.
I think there is no final arbiter between good and bad, and change (for better of worse) starts at the fringes of society, the law, morality, political correctness. IMHO it is indeed unwise to go full thought police, but it is equally unwise to assign anything 100% true or false. Even Richard Dawkins is not 100% claiming there is no God (6.5/7 he calls it, don't ask someone to prove a negative). We all hold believes that are false. Some very obviously so to others.

So perhaps a Christian could convince me, perhaps even a flat earther. It’s just extremely unlikely and they’d better hit me with a good argument in their first sentence because I heard and dismissed many many arguments before.

But you are right, false believes are not harmless, see [0]. But, much like we can either have good encryption OR backdoors, you either have freedom OR you don’t, nothing may be “in between”, criminals using Signal and people thinking wrong stuff is just something that needs to be dealt with differently. (Because we want private communications and we want freedom.)

But I’m about 10% convinced I’ll have changed my mind on this in 5 years.

[0]: http://whatstheharm.net/
In addition to maps Gmail, and Google Search were category defining implementations. They bought YouTube and have steadily increased it’s capabilities and have made it into a category defining implementation.
Google’s products are very weak , and no one expects google to invest in them for more than a couple years . they are basically pet projects with big budgets that die off
> integer overflow which happens after a certain amount of uptime

It’s not just electric powered planes that have to worry about such things… this was an issue for the Boeing 777 Dreamliner too. If it was powered on for longer than 248 days, it could lose all electrical power due to an overflow in the generator.

https://www.engadget.com/2015-05-01-boeing-787-dreamliner-so...

I’m not saying it isn’t a concern, but rather it is a concern for all planes (and vehicles for that matter). Many commercial passenger planes are now fly by wire. If you lose electrical power, you’ll also lose control. So, while we’re talking about purely electric planes, the problems are universal.
Because you can count on Apple to make an honest effort for the products that actually make it to retail.

With Google, products are usually beta quality when released, and it's a crapshoot as to whether they'll ever release a fully functional version of the product before they cancel it. Or worse, Google will release a functional product and their horrific internal promotion system will lead to the removal of functionality so that some idiot engineer can justify a promotion for reprogramming the product in a new language.
That's how more or less all centralised courses at all levels work in militaries. Attendees bring back to their units the standardisation, updates, and best practices from the centralised schools. This happens at all levels, from airman/sailor/private to staff colleges.
that's not true. Sure the majority may not care but a sizeable and talented core do or we would have nothing but proprietary software to use right now.
At some point at least their design also included a whole plane parachute. I don't know if that's still the case.
Google is not a product company and Apple is. That just means Apple WWDC has mainstream appeal while Google I/O hasn't.
Show HN: Cleanup Photos by Dragging Boxes
Neither could you sue if you had been struck and killed by an SUV. The end state of your reasoning is that nobody can ever do anything that involves risk because someone might die and be unable to sue. Sounds like an awful world
I meant the devs, not the software :-))
Ask HN: How to get street name onto Google Maps?
The road on which our house in rural France sits finally got a name two years ago.

But still no-one can find us because Google Maps hasn't added it. UPS delivers parcels to an access point 10km away, and doesn't tell us. Other couriers leave our parcels randomly at a similarly named street hundreds of yards away.

I've submitted the name through the Android app multiple times, including attaching a geotagged photo of the street sign, but no dice. My addition of the name for an adjacent street that was also missing was accepted within 24 hours, first attempt.

I've submitted the new name to OpenStreetMap successfully. Is there anything else I can do? And why are they incapable of correctly evaluating contributions that match up with the official cadastral map?
Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (Cliff Stoll, 1995)
The crackpot spectrum was unusually broad during the pandemic, far from the realm of vaccine deniers and flat earthers.

One professor of virology from a world renowned institution was soft banned on twitter behind some sort of click-though warning for pointing to public data about what we knew at the time that closing schools would lead to. Apparently because it fed into some bizarre American debate which was going on at the time.

Another is a professor of immunology that was heavily criticized for explaining why and how thoroughly a vaccine must be tested before mass vaccinations can occur, even if every day it can be deployed will save lives and labelled a "vaccine skeptic". Which is more than one kind of weird. Of course, the vaccine was tested exactly as described, and came out even better than most had expected.

But that makes it more than clear that many people who demands us to "follow science" more often than not could not be bothered to actually find out what science has to say. It is the new "think of the children". Science exists on its own merits, and we should be careful when the mob demands otherwise.
Google engineer put on leave by company believes AI is sentient
Worth noting that the "thriving" helicopter business is uniformly disliked by residents, due to noise pollution[1].

[1]: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections...
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