skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>investing should be reserved for fronting cash to create some value (like buying stock to infuse capital into a corporation). As it is all crypto trading is purely speculation.

Ok but let's be real- buying a stock is not really "creating value". The stock already exists. Company A has issued 100 shares. People are buying/selling it in the market.. no one is creating value there. Sure they may be arbitrarily driving the value up, but that's not creating real value.

If you want to argue that an IPO is "creating value" because people basically front the money to give capital.. ok fine. But let's not pretend you as a random person buying and selling google shares that already exist is creating value.

Also, I would say the people sitting here buying and selling stocks are most of the time 99% pure speculation. They have zero control over what actually happens in the company. Sure they can do "research" and guess what might happen.. but it's still nearly all gambling.

Investing is the horrible word for how nearly the entire financial system works. People have created gambling as a way of life, and convinced everyone else that they must gamble their money to make more. Which, surprise surprise, nearly always benefits the rich. Guaranteed pension/good social security? Nah, throw your money into our 401k so we can prop up the rest of the market arbitrarily and continue to drive up everything the rich own so they are richer! And you've all fallen for it.
Since many might not know: You can go to r/conservative any day of the week, and see the most batshit insane mind melting garbage you could possibly ask for. Eg, right now the top posts are:

1. Cheering the liberal tears that must surely ensue, as 5th graders are taught how to shoot guns in class.

2. Fabricated Biden attack. Just, invented, like as if it was a funny thing to do, or as if there isn't real stuff to criticise him on.

3, 4. Pictures of tweets from Republicans, both blaming Biden/Dems for systemic issues (problems caused and maintained by both sides).

5. Outrage that Sunday morning shows aren't talking about the man on serious meds, who called Emergency Services saying he was going to kill Kavanaugh (for trying to loosen gun control regulations).

... Fucking. Crazy. That's not politics, it's not discussion; it's mental assault on morons. And you are not allowed to post or comment there without affirming your conservatism.
Do you think that banning a subreddit will stop that from happening?
I don't think you can create a for-profit business that is trustworthy here because the incentives are too messed up.

You could do an open non-profit structure where all reviews can be analyzed, including "removed" reviews (have a second data feed that is raw, with the appropriate disclaimers").
> Corporations have no interest in producing systems with the relevant properties to have "rights". AGI isnt of interest to business. Business is interested in automation; intelligence in this sense is precisely its opposite: a highly expensive, time-intensive, process of creatively responding to one's environment. It is, in a sense, the opposite of automation.

For a time, this will be true. But at some point a company with an AGI CEO will start winning, and then the tables will turn.
This is already a real issue with many existing public chatbots.

Take r/replika for example, they’re constantly getting posts from users who think their chatbot partner is real. It’s the first question in their FAQ.

The mods keep needing to post reminders. [0] Even in this post, there are many commenters (if you scroll down) who don’t believe the mods.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/r5t0wk/so_you_thin...
There is a contradiction in your reasoning.

The system we have today requires surveillance and control of governments to function. The parallel system or systems on the internet would also require some form of external, i.e. off blockchain, control to function as well as the current system. So far humanity has not invented anything better than democratically elected governments to implement such controls.

Blockchain cannot in principle replace governments because governing comes down to use of violence. Unless, of course, you are advocating going back to times when barons fought each other with private armies.
And… I am still waiting with baited breath for something like this that would work for tabular data.
This is an interesting point because I both believe that philosophically machines will never be sentient and yet I do believe the technology will advance to the point where we can’t tell the difference. Which raises some Epistemological questions about equivalence.
Oh god, is tmux considered “old stuff” now? I barely finished replacing my screens.
Eh, I think moderating the larger political sub is a much harder job. idk how much time you have spent on r/conservative but the comments can get pretty aggressive too, I just imagine there are orders of magnitude less of them, so the mods generally find and remove the ones that call for trans people to be forcibly hospitalized or harmed for example, or that such and such a politician should be shot. You can still find comments saying parents who have gay friends to have their children removed from their custody or whatever though; they have to be slightly more oblique than I think what stays up much longer on r/politics.
Go to your Google account and setup an app password. Might have to enable 'unsecure' access in additionele (Google think standards bases interfaces are outdated, you see). Then you can add your mail account through IMAP/SMTP, *DAV.

As with all things Google, the only winning move is not to play. Long term I'm sure they'll axe this and tell you to use their app or bust.
> Attestations are not meaningless when determining whether or not something an organization claims as true is true.

Well, sure. The problem is the claims are too narrow to be useful.

"Here's my bank balance" - roughly what Tether and other attest to - isn't even enough info for me to get a mortgage. The bank will want substantially more info; they want to know how I got that bank balance, how much I owe to other people, whether I'm employed to continue building it, etc.

Again, Tether attested to bank balances, and those attestations were truthful, but they entirely lacked the very important context of "we didn't have money yesterday, and we won't have money tomorrow".
This is nice idea that I watched some video about it few months ago, but will prowse (do you know him?) didn't like the idea as he prefers all lithium (he thinks it's cheap enough), I'm living in 3rd world country with a LOT of power outages (basically no power), I have a solar array with tubular lead acid but I'm soon switching to LiFePo4 when my package come from China, I feel tempted to implement your idea instead of selling my acid batteries. Do you think I can use MPPT controller instead of DC-to-DC charger? Technically it works like that I think
If Putin wants to threaten someone, it's on him to make the other party believes the threat. Hopefully Putin has more trustworthy methods of communication than posting videos on Twitter. Like having his ambassador deliver the message in person, or at least confirm it.

When this doesn't happen, the recipient can be assured that the threat was either pure PR or fake. In either case it can be ignored.
The worst thing with Firefox Mobile is that they still force you to use addon collections to use the most basic addons.
but will they host the original video/images?
To NickM and whimsicalism:

The quantitative argument is a red herring. Science is one of the disciplines in the business of explaining things, not in the business of calculating values, but it just so happens that when you get into the details, quantifying properties leads to better explanations. For example, I can give a qualitative explanation for why it rains, which can be expanded into a quantitative one.

The subjectivity of experience can be attributed to the scientifically-explainable inability of our conscious mind to directly access the physical state of the brain. If arguments such as "Mary the Neuroscientist" show anything, it is that phenomenal experiences can not be conveyed by any language, scientific or otherwise, so if you are demanding an explanation must do that, neither science nor philosophy nor anything else will explain consciousness.
But we defer to experts all the time in life because it’s impossible to verify evidence yourself in all(or most, or even many) circumstances.
That sort of thing should be called out in (1-star) reviews.

The Samsung Gear app is like that, for example. You need it if you want to tweak the settings for their Galaxy Buds headset (the ambient sound level, for example), but on first startup it prompts for what appear to be all the permissions needed for every kind of Samsung device, including things like smartwatches—calendar, contacts, notifications, the works. If you deny any permission the app refuses to start, even though none of that is necessary for the task at hand.

My workaround was to install it and then immediately disable all Internet access (airplane mode), adjust the settings, and then purge the app from the phone before turning the network back on. Fortunately the settings are persistent even without a constant connection to the app. I think that should be sufficient to avoid any unwanted data leakage, but it's a lot of work for relatively minor benefit, and the process must be repeated any time the settings need to be adjusted.
Maybe that's a feature and not a bug? I'd argue the point of having things in a constitution is because you expect them to be unpopular and they need to be embedded in the foundation of the country so they can't be changed. Otherwise why would you need a constitution?
Your opinion is ignorant in the most literal sense of the word.

Throughout human history we have used effort and cost of communicating in a given medium as an indicator of the legitimacy being contained therein. At various points the bar to entry for disseminating information using said mediums has dropped precipitously causing relative chaos as we acclimated to the new reality. Often times institutions or groups that had power and were using the difficulty of disseminating information to maintain that power were left with less when the dust settled.

Right now we're in the middle of one of those precipitous drops. From realistic special effects and green screens to celebrity porn modern computer tech is enabling high production value content with incredibly minimal expenditure compared to what would have been required in the past. That's gonna shake things up. Maybe it'll be a nothing-burger like photography. Maybe we'll have a century of religious wars like the printing press.

Society will be fine in the long term.
Until technology becomes transparent on our interaction with reality xD
Stated reason != real reason. A common method reddit uses is to first ban all the mods, not accept any request for other users to take over the sub, then ban it for being unmoderated. Attempts to recreate the community will result in another ban, since you are recreating a banned community. If they want a sub gone, they will generate a reason to remove it.
Try looking at r/conservative right now. It's fucking batty mate.
Someone has written a comprehensive howto: https://pyimagesearch.com/2018/09/24/opencv-face-recognition...

Someone else has managed to get face recognition running in real time on a Raspberry Pi, which is mind-blowing on its own given how lackluster performance was before the Pi 4 came along: https://towardsdatascience.com/real-time-face-recognition-an...

And all of this is from 2018 - hard to imagine a company the scale of Pornhub could not hire a bunch of ten developers and let them google "opencv video face recognition".

For something like Content ID, I'd use ffmpeg to get raw stills of the video, normalize them into 720p resolution and then go with a visual hash implementation (again OpenCV has enough howtos on that topic) over these. Yes it's a ton of data to store but it should not be too difficult to implement at the scale of pornhub.
Your argument, then, hinges on the fact that a human being can only be in one place at a certain time, thus their experience of the world is unique. An agent that takes in experiences of thousands of people at thousands of places at different times lacks this quality. Naturally such an agent will not have a single opinion about the world. But, is it not better to be able to consider many different viewpoints at the same time? Why do we have freedom of speech and expression, why do we learn other languages, if not to be able to hear other people's points of view about the world, even though we may not have had the particular unique experiences that shaped them? Isn't being able to take a broader perspective and being able to argue for any side of a debate regardless of personal preferences, a sign of greater intelligence in humans? Then why an AI that thinks entirely in this way should not be considered at least somewhat intelligent?
The article nearly lost me at the start:

> whether we liked it or not, we were now listed, and anybody could leave a public review that we have no control over

Why should a business have control over public reviews? Unless, that is they are libellous or otherwise in breach of some law, in which case the business has a fair case against the publisher.

However...

I feel from personal experience that TrustPilot is a huge scam, having had my genuine review suppressed by one of their paying customers. It's a huge loophole - dispute the review to get it off the front page, by the time it's reinstated, it's further down and they've had a chance to harass the customer to get it changed (incidentally, when companies do that I tend to drop another star if possible and edit the review saying so.)

It's also a privacy nightmare for anyone shopping online (at least here in the UK) if you use different email addresses for each company, because you have to opt out every single time. And if you don't leave a review, the send a reminder (as though it's somehow my job to leave reviews).

I ended up blocking their domain trustpilotmail.com in my email service, and if I see the Trustpilot logo on a company website, I will look for an alternative provider.
Monks understand that sentience is not connected to language and reasoning. “You are not your thoughts, you are the observer” language and reasoning are just the mechanism we use to express this experience. We only believe other humans when they describe sentience because they are equipped with the same hardware as us. In fact, monks meditate to avoid thinking in order to increase their consciousness. Thinking is viewed as a distraction from consciousness.

In this sense, a very intelligent sounding language model provides no evidence of sentience. We have to understand what sentience actually is to establish a machine is sentient.
At any given moment the vast majority of the program that makes up LaMDA is inert, just sitting somewhere in memory and one or a few instructions are in the CPU along with some data in registers and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between when the CPU is running LaMDA versus when it is running any other program. The magic would be in the CPU and there is no reason to believe the particular code for LaMDA has endowed it with consciousness. If the computer is conscious while running LaMDA it would be conscious while running any program because at the level where it matters there is no essential difference between them. Why would LaMDA shuffling data between registers and memory and performing operations on them create consciousness while TurboTax doing the same thing does not?
Random aside, but if you are into Vintage Computing, check out the yearly Vintage Computer Festival MidWest

http://vcfmw.org/
I agree with people exercising somewhat, but I think from personal experience that the opposite can be true sometimes as well.

If you exercise really intensely it can also be a source of stress.

What I mean by intensely - for example doing 2h a day of high intensity training.

If anyone finds themselves trying super hard and wondering why they're doing "all the right things" but still not in the right mind, it can be good to perhaps try a more soothing form of exercise like swimming / yoga with a bit of lifting.
> people want to be fooled

More directly, some people just want to "feel".
Thought experiment:

Let's say we implemented a very large DNN with different hardware. Say, rather than with transistors and capacitors, with a bunch of mirrors and lasers (and some other creative analog equivalents for capacitors) spread out in space across the universe. And let's say this mirror-laser network could receive and output binary messages that can be encoded and decoded in the exact same format as LaMBDA or some other LLM. Would that configuration of mirrors and lasers be conscious? Would it have some subjective sense of its existence and relationship with the rest of the world?
Binance has been making it hard and expensive to make withdrawals for years, well before the crash.
> Rails is perfectly fine but being perfectly fine is an unsatisfactory outcome over time.

Perfectly fine over time feels like a tremendous accomplishment in software.
> cargo install tuc

Slightly off topic question about this: in Linux, are rust programs always installed like this, or should these also be made available in the regular package manager of your distro?
I have an even better dumb story. Right after high school I visited my friend at Berkeley, and while there I wrote down his IP address.

When I got home I changed my IP to be a different one on the same subnet and matched the gateway address. I knew what a subnet was, I knew what a router was, but I didn’t realize you can’t just reach any router you want.

I figured if I did that I could get all the stuff that was restricted to the Berkeley network.

Needless to say it didn’t work.
It could basically be renamed "/r/HowToGoldDig" and still be accurate
This is why I'm not an urbanist even though I support in theory a lot of urbanist policies.

The motte: "There is great demand for dense, walkable, affordable, towns/cities/neighborhoods in the US, and not enough supply to satisfy this demand. A big reason why there is a supply shortage, aside from the relative inelasticity of housing in general, is government restrictions on building/zoning these sorts of developments. There are many coordination failures in attempts to create these sorts of neighborhoods which could be rectified through government action."

The bailey: "Suburbs are a failure of city planning. Car ownership/usage is a net negative on society and should be disincentivized. Government policy should work to eliminate suburbs, replacing them with dense development. Most of those who live in suburbs would surely choose and be happier living in denser developments."
I’ve heard this exact argument 5 or 10 years ago. Yet here we are.

Like I said, I totally think cryptocoins are all scams. I’m just amazed that the bottom hasn’t fallen out yet.
Their official explanation, that bitcoin txns are getting stuck due to low fees, is plausible.

See: https://mempool.space/graphs/mempool#24h & zoom out farther to see how the current fee regime is higher than usual.

This does show a nasty form of contagion within crypto. One player pauses withdrawals which causes a run for the doors elsewhere, any given L1 can only process so many txns per second, so fees spike, their code doesn't handle it gracefully so more players pause withdrawals to fix it.
> that can leverage existing tooling and typechecking, instead of a de novo template language with its own syntax for control flow constructs jammed in, that doesn't usually have great editor support or typechecking for integrating with the rest of the server-side code.

This is exactly what I find frustrating about go templating. I lose autocomplete and type hints.
To be fair it takes a ton of memorization to be productive in a Rails codebase, between lack of static types and tons of runtime "magic". Requiring Ruby experience is silly if you've managed to write in several languages productively already—Rails experience, though, I could see requiring that. Recent Rails experience, even.

Which is part of why I've pretty much sworn it off forever, after working on several Rails projects over the years. I never, ever want to onboard to a Rails project again, if I can help it.
If Sega had a true Steve Jobs like visionary they could have become the Apple of console gaming. Alas, their time has passed.
Burnout is really just a form of depression that strongly relates to work.

It can be mild, possibly in an early stage (see: most, not all, of the comments here). Or it can be severe and have acute symptoms. And the connection between those is gradual.

Severe examples would be things like extreme tiredness, such that you can just fall asleep after a few minutes of work, sudden fear/anxiety/stress attacks, severely decreased stamina and cognitive ability, overly sensitive/overblown reactions to any kind of stress factor, complete shut down of your system, blackouts/fainting etc.

If you have full-blown burnout, then just doing a bit of exercise and a long holiday won't cut it. It's as if your whole body and mind will do everything to stop you from working, because going on like before is impossible. It can pin you down, leaving you unable to act without support. It might take years to recover from it, just like other forms of depression.

It's very good that people are aware of this and discuss possible early/mild symptoms. However do _not_ downplay the severity of its potential. An issue here is that it seems to hit some of the most productive and hardworking people the hardest, possibly because they power through the early symptoms for so long until they shut down.
Funny you say this. Whenever someone would bring a Magic 8 Ball to school, the Pentecostal kids would inevitably show up to yell at us for “summoning demons” and “disobeying Jesus” because we were “fortune telling”.

Of course this was the same school district that had to give out permission slips whenever we talked about probability because it would involve flipping coins, and rolling dice.
Wow, I wonder if that is what happened to my company's domain a decade ago. We lost control of our domain due to social engineering at GoDaddy. It was really, really tense as we worked to get control back. We got lucky and we able to retrieve the domain later that day.
We don't have a good way of judging sentience at all. I'm merely saying the simplicity or not of the task does not preclude sentience.
Back in the early 2000s there was a site called aoliza that documented conversations where the ELIZA chatbot routinely and hilariously fooled people into thinking they were chatting with a real person. If a bot that simple could fool people, the majority of the population doesn't have a chance against the latest and greatest text generator.
Sounds like a fair trade.
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>investing should be reserved for fronting cash to create some value (like buying stock to infuse capital into a corporation).

Low interest rates have killed this cause. If corporations can get cash from the banks at near zero rates, the only remaining use case for investments is heavy speculation. In a sense, the post-2008 monetary policy was about making things look good on paper, while hollowing out the economy with bullshit jobs, bullshit stocks and bullshit business models.

As bad as the spiraling inflation could be, I hope the shock coming from it will bring the economy back to the common sense.
You are making the case against premature pidgeonholing.
CNET says Binance withdrawals are back up.[1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/binance-resumes...