skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would have appreciated some honesty regarding why they're really sticking with Rails at Gitlab: a decade worth of development that would have to be rewritten from scratch to little discernable benefit.

This is an underappreciated value of sticking with a current solution. You know the warts. You know the issues. You have significant sunk costs.

The value of moving to a new solution has to be really really high, because there are always surprises when doing so (business logic that you didn't account for, edge cases that only occur once in a blue moon).
It doesn't require IT support, it requires reading (a limited amount depending on how much you want to know).
I can't find any info about anything in Github, much less actions specifically, being rewritten in c# either.
Does anyone know how to make gmail play nice with K-9 or FairEmail?
Gmail keeps asking me to log in through a browser on my phone, and authorize almost every log in attempt, and not all authorizations are accepted! When I log in into my gmail account on a computer and authorize the "suspect" log ins, gmail still refuses (8/10 times) to allow use through 3rd party apps.
My experience with 3rd party email apps has been awful because of this. My conspiracy theory is that google wants to lock users into its ecosystem for continued surveillance/data gathering on users and their usage but I digress. Back to the original issue, wouldn't TB on mobile experience these same issues as K-9/Fairemail?
Fixed, thanks.

And, credit where due: I stole the term from Howard Tayler's wonderful "Schlock Mercenary" webcomic. It may not be original with him, but that's where I got it.
To be fair, the stuff going across r/conservative is quite a bit worse than r/politics. Which I expected, of course, because r/politics is a generic discussion subreddit and not intentionally one-sided. But Reddit leaves both alone.
I thought Netware was pretty good for what it was... not nearly as powerful as a UNIX, but that's not what Netware shops usually needed. I administered it next to UNIXes (and some NT sites, ugh) in my youth when I jobbed as a system administrator before studying, and have mostly good memories of it. It didn't cause troubles and served a small to mid-size company well. Fond memories...
What do we do when someone creates a deep fake of Putin saying he will nuke Ukraine if they do not surrender within 3 days?
The price of existing MBS is, of course, affected by the auction of new MBS.

If the Treasury issued a bunch of new T-bills and no one bought them, the price of existing T-bills would crater. And also the financial system would collapse, but that's a different story.
People in the HNews community have been pushing for the ability for unaccredited investors to be able to put money into early-stage startups for years. I think the situation with crypto-currency* is a preview of the upsides and downsides of what that would look like. Now - crypto is worse because of the constant theft - but even without the crime you can clearly see the upsides and the downsides.

The upside is that anyone can get in on the "ground floor" of these projects and crypto currency - for all its flaws - does do a good job of securely transferring 'ownership.' Fake crypto is not, as far as I know, a problem.

The downside is obvious for all to see: it's difficult to figure out if a technically complicated product is worth investing in. It's doubly difficult when the people working on those projects will get an immediate monetary reward for attracting investment.

I do think it's unfair that only the rich can bet on early-stage startups, but it's impossible for me to ignore the anecdotes of naive investors losing their savings on poor crypto investments. I'm not sure what a better system would look like - perhaps one where investments are taxed to create an insurance fund. Though the downsides to that are obvious as well.
Exactly in some sense we (collectively) are doing most of the hard work, by providing these models with a vast number of samples of "intelligent" behaviour and expression. An embodied system wouldn't be able to learn anything as it stands, because none of the "bootstrapping" steps humans do are adequately captured by current training methods.
> They are constantly raising the bar on what "lack of active moderation" means.

If they are I haven’t seen it.

Plenty of subs out there with zero moderation… sadly.
It's already a well-established type of scam in Eastern Europe. Scammers call old people late in the the evening. A Distressed Female Voice is in pain, non-specific, calling out "mama, I'm in pain, help, I'm hurt", then the call cuts away to Authoritative Male Voice who tells the old person their daughter was in accident, needs help, needs money etc. etc.
I detect a weird and concerning undercurrent of palpable anger from people in these discussions. What is it about misidentifying sentience that's causing such ire?
https://old.reddit.com/r/SFWdeepfakes/comments/v0d4i8/elon_m...
If you'd asked me a few years ago, I'd have said deepfakes aren't a problem - that lack of media literacy is the problem. We've had photoshop and staged photos and impersonators and satirical news for years, after all. And although a tiny fraction of the population falls for hoaxes like bigfoot and astrology and homeopathy, 99% of people manage to sift through this stuff.

What I learned from the pandemic, though, is that people are much worse at telling fact from fiction than I expected.

It's given me a greater understanding of the people who are very worried about deepfakes - if you think it's more like 10%-30% of the population that are very easily fooled, new technology for fakery is an ominous thing to see.
Tell me you don't understand finance without telling me you don't understand finance.
Technically superior for what use cases though?
If you think computers can ever be sentient then so can an Excel spreadsheet since they are Turing Complete. That said, I understand a follow your point somewhat, though it's not impossible an autocomplete system with sufficient hidden state and self-reference ability could become sentient somehow.
> The app needs the geolocation permission to access the bluetooth radio and scan for devices.

Sure, but why does the app need to be able to scan for any and all Bluetooth devices? There should be an entry in the manifest describing the kind(s) of devices the app wants to interact with, and only those devices should appear in the scan. Naturally the list would need to be reviewed to verify that the selected devices are related to the app, and presented to the user in the app store along with all other requested permissions.

In this particular case the same company designed both the app and the device it's connecting to, so for all we know the device could have an embedded GPS receiver to provide the app with much more detailed location information than it could get from Bluetooth alone. It could also just relay its own Bluetooth scan results. However, the app at least couldn't easily get location data from Bluetooth scans when the device isn't in range.
Totally agree, and its gradually growing from a animalistic fixated on the now state to full self-awareness. It can temporarliy collapse when fight and flight reflexes override the expensive reflection. It can permanently be lowered if a mental sickness (or a neuro-diverse adaption to more warlike states of humanity) gets triggered by stressfull circumstances.

And there is also a zoo of complexity when it comes to "sentience", meaning there are those who are "great thinkers in the subconcious" and can not explain there thought process. There are levels of sentience and almost automated task, were the subconcious kicks in and the sentient human just "dissolves" for a moment, like driving home in a car. Its a fascinating topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) Obligatory Watts Reference, cause his book really does have a interesting look on the zoo of humanity.
> I just don't understand what "can split text into lines" is, do you mean that the selected fields can be split into lines?

Good question, I struggle to word it properly, any help is appreciated.

Assume a file (we will call it "input"), such as

first line here
followed by second line

You can use a delimiter and cut inside each line

e.g.

$ tuc -d ' ' -f 2 < input
line
by

or you can cut it "by lines", practically considering the whole file as your single "line" and using newline as delimiter

$ tuc -l -f 2 < input
followed by second line

If you want to remove a line, or keep something inbetween it can be more practical/intuitive than head/tail or sed
That's a common fallacy. Hoarding, saving, preparing for the future is one of most fundamental human needs and the bedrock for a functioning economy and society. There's no fundamental economic principle which would indicate that an inflationary money would do any good to a society. It destroys savings, which is opposite of what is good for an individual and a society.

Also, because you mentioned colonialism, read this to understand how colonialism and slave trade was enabled by inflation (counterfeit money): https://breedlove22.medium.com/masters-and-slaves-of-money-2...
You can probably ask these bots for guidance now and it will probably tell you something useful.

The fact is, it’s extremely well read and reasonably smart. Conscious? That’s another matter but people can be forgiven for reacting this way to a computer that can talk this way.
On one hand, it seems completely reasonable and likely that LaMDA may simply appear to be sentient to some observers while not actually being sentient. On the other hand, if and when sentient AI does appear it is likely to be from somewhere unexpected. Instead of saying "this isn't AGI because it's only stringing words together" I'd rather see a specific type of test being applied not based on what is expected from the AI but based on how it actually performs when the test is applied.

If that film Ex Machina taught me anything, it's that a good test for sentience is whether the AI displays self-preservation instincts that are not expected based on its programming. I'd be curious what types of tests could be designed to separate an actual instinct for self-preservation or other signs of sentience versus just stringing words together in a certain sequence.
No.

I'm telling you outright that Ukrainians got their nazi problem under control during the last eight years while Russia did not and in fact encourages groups like Task Force Rusisch.

You are showing me half a tatoo in an image out of context.

I'm giving you and everyone else here some pointers to look up whole nazi detachments of the Russian army.
If consider every claim separate, looks possible.

Everything, even claims to be better than CPU,GPU and TPU at once.

But to make all claims in one business, in one solution, looks scam.
Because every vector needs it's own very effective leader, and in real life they will compete for shared resources. It is extremely difficult to organize in such way, so will got overall system working smooth and be economically viable.

In best case, I think possible for this company, to deliver some sort of very good number-crunching accelerator, and only then, to consider something more.

But now I see too much self-confidence and too much hidden details.

For example, all commodity hardware suffers from slow commodity DRAM and buses.

It is possible to make complex solution, with custom DRAM (HBM), custom high speed bus, etc, but its net cost will be prohibitive for commodity market.

So need some killer app, which will tolerate so high cost for some more important reason.
This could be something for big corp, or govt, or military, or anything, but I cannot see any fit, which is not already handled with already existed solutions.

For example, I could imagine, we got knowledge about 11-dimensional travel, but for this need too much computational power for current best hardware, so need something much more powerful, and it will pay off.
But I don't see any signs of such knowledge.
Here in the US, I have three wires from the utility: phase 1, phase 2, and neutral. I also have two copper ground rods that are 3-4 meters in length, which are connected to the utility neutral.
> I sincerely feel for the people who got in over their heads.

They were insufferable pricks when they were making loads and laughing at everyone else staying poor. Why would I give them a second thought on the other side? btw: same goes for some tech entrepreneurs too.

Remember: Be Nice to People on Your Way Up. You’ll Meet Them On Your Way Down
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." ― in other words, these are arguments over semantics (i.e. what do "think" and "swim" mean), not arguments about programs or submarines.

If you want to ask whether a computer program is sentient objectively, a good way would be to ask how smart it must be, or what qualities it must exhibit, before we treat it like it is sentient and give it legal rights. I suspect the answer is: that will never happen no matter what, because it would be expensive. That doesn't leave much to philosophize over, but so it goes.
I don't think there is, see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727483
Oh yay. Reading these comments made me realise I'm in full burnout.

Go me.
Is that a failure of implementation though? I ask because you also said "impossible".

Computers themselves were impossibly unfriendly for so long. What if someone created a UX friendly cryptocurrency. Like any computer, deep down it could be insanely complex, but is it a requirement that the UX reflect that complexity?
You're deflecting again.

But sure, fair enough - a lot of those guys were volunteers. Either way, they got hammered as did the ones in the Odessa hotel (and likely others).
> It can still be coding. But something you’re excited about.

Problem is that you cannot do anything significant or at scale on your own. Writing POC or some fun code on the weekends isn't satisfying as collaborating with group of people and accomplishing something worthwhile. Sure you can find an OS project but that requires significant time investment to make any major contributions and you likely have the same frustrations with it that made your original job un-fun.
> Nowhere on Earth, will you find an organization that will execute both sides of a conditional process requiring hunans to do the work just to throw away the result. Not taken.

Speculative execution today (within modern high-end processor) does not execute both sides of a conditional branch.

It would indeed be a waste of power and it would be a much more complex micro-architecture.

Modern speculative OoO processors execute a single path and simply relies on the branch predictor accuracy. And they are pretty accurate, on the order of 3 misspredictions every 1000 instructions.
The power consumption in unnecessary work due to a missprediction is quite low.

Modern processors consume much of their power in Out-of-Order instruction scheduling.
BlockFi Announces 20% Layoffs
>Does this not strike people as a bit cult-like?

Crypto is not a technology, it's a religion. The reason behind this is that it takes faith to believe that today does not represent tomorrow.

There is more nuance behind crypto besides its technological innovation like AMM's ,ZK-proofs & distributed computing. It's the idea that you can be a self-soverign individual, owing fealty to no nation.

It's often brought along at the disillusionment of the current united states world order. We see rampant corruption, an absolutely ancient leadership completely out of touch with the current generation and an economy that seems to forever favor the rich. There is no light at the end of the tunnel in the current economic system for a large majority of the population.

Bitcoin promises(ed?) the ability to transact with anyone on the planet outside the vieew of the current regime. Bitcoin promised "Proof of work" over "Proof of violence". It has allowed us to create "ad-hoc governance" like neveer before. it gave an entire generation of people light at the end of the tunnel.

I am not saying that any of these things are correct, or 'Right'. Simply stating how i've seen the community evolve and why.
What do you do when both are happening at the same time?
> What is the benefit of adding lead if you don't fully discharge the lead? Or do you?

You do - but not always. If you only discharge the lead 1/10th of the time, your lead batteries will last incredibly long (if otherwise properly maintained).

Additionally, lead doesn't take up charge quickly. Putting in Lithium allows you to take full advantage of your solar. This can be mitigated in other ways, but this makes it "easy" and a not complex system with many charge controllers, many batteries, etc...

Additionally, it allows your input voltage to be much higher (from the solar) meaning you can have smaller wires (but amps are amps!).

> If you are only using the lead until the LiFePO4 are dead then what is the benefit? Or do you have something to disconnect the batteries with they are at 50% (or what 55% to be safe) charge?

I'm not sure what the question is, sorry. Yes you have equipment to make sure you are safely drawing from the lithium and safely charging the lead.

> So you can increase the battery capacity by 50% of the lead you buy instead of 100% LiFePO4. Which means the lead needs to be half the price or less (excluding the cost of the DC-DC charger) for it to make sense.

Well, if cost is not a problem, it would be better and a more simple system if you bought 100% LiFePO4. But that is really expensive.
The advantage of the decline of public TV is that I can get to sleep now at around 10pm, so I get up at 5:30am every day, to serve my cats.
Starting work at 6:30am is a revelation. I get so much more done in the morning, without any interruptions.
Controlled Fabrication of Multimetallic Building Blocks for Hybrid Nanomaterials
Needing more and more time to get less and less done. Constant preference for "short breaks", distractions and procrastination, instead of trying to focus on work. At this point you are already burnt out.
Effects of legalized cannabis in the United States
Had a professor who taught structural engineering and served as an expert witness, he said we'd better pay attention in class because there's more money to be made when stuff falls down than building it up.
Do you know who was in the wrong place at the wrong time? It's the genocidal army of USA being thousands of Kms away from the US. If there is a criminal it's those children killers, and anyone who hide this fact. The US army and gov are in no place to punish even a legitimate criminals like the Al-Qaeda (their previous allies). In an ideal world the whole military of US would be dismantled and punished in Guantanamo (or any prison of your choice) for crimes against humanity.
Spotify invests in AI voice technology with Sonantic acquisition
I recently went through this, and I’m a month into a sabbatical to recover.

Most of the answers here are resonating, but one other thing I noticed was a slide over in my baseline heart rate variability and resting heart rate.

My burnout was driven by an extremely high stress role/environment so this may not apply to everyone, but a few weeks after leaving, my resting heart rate plummeted and my HRV has been trending back up.

(I have seen my doctor, and they agreed that the factors were stress related as I was otherwise in good health).

I’ve found keeping an eye on these metrics useful as a high level indicator of overall stress, and it has been satisfying seeing them return to normal as I focus on self.
> To an observer it may appear intelligent enough to be conscious but it ultimately it is still just a machine

Are we not ultimately just machines too? Sure, we are incredibly complex machines that we are not even close to understanding, and we only work in conjunction with other machines ("microorganisms"). But does that really make us different from the machines we built ourselves?
More of a post-truth world
When it comes down to it, we are just cells that work in a coordinated manner. Those cells are made up of different proteins and other molecules. The proteins are a sequence of amino acids that are translations from a lower level sequence of DNA. The production of proteins is controlled through a combination of other regulatory mechanisms such as transcription factors and epigenetic markers.

(And I am intentionally leaving out a lot here)

We are all just levels of abstraction.
It’s not that I think people should be ashamed of those things if they do it with consenting adults in private, it’s when it’s broadcast and easily available that it becomes something shameful IMHO. I’m not advocating for the banning of so-called kinks, just the easy access to (and I suppose the normalization/mainstreaming of) those kinks.

When a 12 year old can access any of these extreme sex videos easier than they access a NYTimes article, then something has to change.
> What does Bitcoin provide that a cheaper coin doesn't?

Longer track record than the rest. More buy-in from people. Just like Gold vs other shiny metals.
> There are still good actors out there. Monero is doing its job dutifully.

I don't crypto, but, isn't monero the coin whose primary intended use case is enabling illegal transactions by rendering them untraceable even to the police?

Are ... we calling that a good actor? Or do I just misunderstand what they're for?

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> Now that is hyperbole.

No, it's not. Hyperbole doesn't mean "thing I don't agree with" or "thing I believe is wrong."

The person speaking very clearly wasn't exaggerating and very clearly meant themselves to be taken literally.

As I see it, if any crypto wasn't a scam, crypto fans would have long since agreed to give that thing as an example. The fact that the entire "industry" can't come up with a single compelling example, a decade and a half and twenty billion dollars in, is about as clear and obvious a proof as is actually possible.
If you could actually internalize and act on all that knowledge at once, vs being a "roving eye" over your own internal state, then yes I think that would be reasonable.

Consciousness is just a bootstrapping mechanism for intelligent behavior and meme distribution. Once an entity is smart enough without it (Likely via an effective set of cultural memes and a good system for propagating them), it will become vestigial much like the genetic selection pressures it displaced as the primary means of adaptation.

I recommend "Blindsight" by Peter Watts for a discussion of that. (It work of fiction but it is a well researched with citations and embraced by the neuroscience community work of fiction)
Launch HNs and job ads are 2 of the 3 things that HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it (the third one is orange usernames for YC alums). This is explained in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#yc. I've also posted about it many times, as you can see from links like https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Making sense out of things real or abstract has got to be way harder than driving. Faking sentience, on the other hand, is a neat trick with no value apart from 1 day of media fame.
"Project Nessie: Transactional Catalog for Data Lakes with Git-like Semantics"

https://projectnessie.org/

This supports lightweight branches, and transactional commits and merges. I haven't used it—and it seems cool—but it also seems a little heavyweight to get cross-table transactions on top of these table formats (which would be my primary use case).
No, he's super wrong. That ETF is a basket of MBS. It's traded on the stock exchange so people can trade MBS as a general concept, rather than buying and selling individual bonds. If there were truly a "no bid" situation, the price of existing MBS would crater, and the price of the ETF would crater.
Well until then nothing stops you to generating extra income to the ladies from senior house and turn them victoria secret models recording mic licking videos to monetize