skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pawn shop? Or maybe at a supervillain's lair, where sellers are known to accept briefcases full of gold.

Usually you need to convert your gold to a legal tender currency in order to be able to spend it. You normally lose money on the conversion at a retail volume, though.
Consciousness is a if not the central question of religion these days. We don’t need religion to tell us a creation story, why it rains, or how anything works at all outside of topics connected to consciousness, sentience, etc.
That wouldn't change a thing. A simulation is not the thing being simulated, it is data being processed and people agreeing to interpret that data in a certain way. If somebody coded a perfect simulation of a fire their computer would not burn down.
> Maybe the issue is just that we no longer have a store of wealth that isn't tied to a speculative asset?

You say speculative, I say productive.

Is a non-productive store of value actually a thing which exists in nature?

For most things, you can't store a thing itself: grain rots, chickens die, houses decay, iron rusts, water is fouled.

If you want to have a thing in the future, you need a way to produce the thing: fields of grains, lineages of chickens, maintenance and construction of houses, refinement of iron, the purification of water.

All investment in these future means of production is speculative; you have no guarantee the bet you made on how you will obtain a chicken in 20 years will play out.
I've mentioned this before[1], we once had a domain stolen because somebody called GoDaddy and was able to get the 2FA code removed with a phone call and they had some leaked email credentials for the account.

We had to call GoDaddy and cancel the domain transfer, they would give us no information on how it happened.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308613
> Take Caligula as an example. We all know him as the mad emperor who supposedly once declared war on Neptune, then ordered his soldiers to attack the sea and take seashells as booty. The problem is that this story and the others like it all come from extremely late, hostile sources such as the biography Life of Caligula by Gaius Suetonius Tranquilus (lived c. 69 – after c. 122 AD) and Roman History by Kassios Dion (lived c. 155 – c. 235 AD).

Actually, I think Caligula was more trolling than insane. Reading about him, reminds me not so much of insanity, as if a 4chan poster was suddenly given absolute power.

It my view, he had the Roman Army march around collecting sea shells for the lulz.

Absolute power can be its own madness apart from lead.
simple test: if you can't predict the behaviour of something then it's conscious (sentient).

because if you can then the thing doesn't have its own mind to make decisions.
Why would you even waste your time looking into it? Of course it's animal abuse.
Not being glib, but I think we’re going to keep moving the goalpost until humans don’t even qualify as being sentient. And maybe that’s actually the real truth we learn from all this.
> They hired him a couple of weeks later.

Says that in the article.
I worked on GitHub's Rails app. The main way this was solved was by running tests in parallel. It's now available in default Rails: https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#parallel-tes...

In addition to that, the test suite performance was regularly monitored. And like any performance issue, we'd instrument and then fix issues as they came up.
If we were to become able to design a sentient computer program, then I guess we could investigate and understand it fully (it is in the end just bits). After understanding it fully, we could use that information for design a computer program that has the mindset of an Ork from Warhammer 40k -- essentially, one which enjoys battle and doesn't mind dying -- to play against in video games. So, I think this is not a big problem.

In general, imbuing a program with a survival instinct seems a bit cruel, because we know they'll be terminated eventually (also inconvenient, as who'd want to try and shut down a computer program that is trying to stay alive? We have enough trouble shutting down runaway processes that have become stubborn by accident).
I am right there with you. Alden Global Capital comes to mind.
I'm not sure if this is in the Love Death and Robots version of Zima Blue - but it was part of the written story. The clips from people reviewing the LD&R version of it always concentrate on Zima and its pursuit of the color. There's an entire second story about the reporter that is intertwined with Zima.

> ‘But there isn’t anything natural about being alive a thousand years after I was born,’ I said. ‘My organic memory reached saturation point about seven hundred years ago. My head’s like a house with too much furniture. Move something in, you have to move something out.’

> ‘Let’s go back to the wine for a moment,’ Zima said. ‘Normally, you’d have relied on the advice of the AM, wouldn’t you?’

> I shrugged. ‘Yes.’

> ‘Would the AM always suggest one of the two possibilities? Always red wine, or always white wine, for instance?’

> ‘It’s not that simplistic,’ I said. ‘If I had a strong preference for one over the other, then yes, the AM would always recommend one wine over the other. But I don’t. I like red wine sometimes and white wine other times. Sometimes I don’t want any kind of wine.’ I hoped my frustration wasn’t obvious. But after the elaborate charade with the blue card, the robot and the conveyor, the last thing I wanted to be discussing with Zima was my own imperfect recall.

There's another page of the story that starts out with "As for me . . ." and happens several couple of decades later as the reporter reflects.
OP isn't exactly wrong. Much of the regulation in housing and healthcare serves to benefit and entrench the incumbents into a non-market situation where the distributors control pricing power.
My proposal for deciding if a machine can be sentient, is as follows:

1. Replicate every detail of the information processing of a human brain as closely has possible.
2. Feed the artifical brain the same kinds of input we would feed a human brain. (If we include the development phase of the brain, that may take 10-20 years in an artifical reality or through a robot. If we are able to scan brain in sufficent detail, we may replicate an pre-existing person's brain to a level where memories would be included.)
3. Compare the brain to that of a human, and check if it displays the same kind of sentience symptoms that a human brain does. If so, we have to conclude that it is sentient*

* The reasoning here is based on the assumption that sentience has some kind of effect of effect on behaviour. For instance, when a person says that she is sentient, it is because she is. Obviously, we can easily program a machine to say this explicitly, but if we only provide the information processing of a human mind to the machine and the information processing involved in "sentience" were missing, that would have a noticable effect on behaviour. A metaphor would be if we replicated/simulated an x86 processor, but left out the MMX instruction set. Any program relying on that instruction set (and without fallbacks) would fail to run properly.

Once we have such an artifical brain, and provided we convince ourselves we can do experiments ethically(for instance by receiving a declaration of consent from the artificial brain), we should be able to come up with experiments on it that would allow us to figure out precisely what types of information processing that would need to be excluded for different elements of sentience (emotions, consciousness, self-consciousness, subjective experiences, etc) to go away.
The 18 year old actress recruited online flying down to Miami to shoot and live with 5 other actresses has an agent that represents her interests?

Yeah no.

And that I know is the situation for many in porn.
> Just because you get the person to predict “I am happy” doesn’t mean the person is happy; indeed, the interface that is available to you, from outside the room, really gives you no way of probing the person’s emotions, experiences, or desires at all.

But in that case the "sentience" (whatever that means) in question would have nothing to do with the person, who is just facilitating whatever ruleset enables the prediction. The person in that case is merely acting as a node in the neural network or whatever. Sure they would have feelings, being human, but they aren't the sentient being in question. Any apparent sentience would derive from the ruleset itself.
even if there is an energy cost, for some markets (illegal substances/darknet), it's "cheaper" to pay that energy cost than the cost of laundering fiat money.
> Introducing Django—17th July 2005

Or retire here :)
no, it's to buy drugs on the internet.
I do get something. In this hypothetical I get a HN with less BS. It's a win win.
Technologically it’s not sentient. Sociologically it’s sentient enough to evoke real feelings in people at least some of the time. That’s more interesting and relevant at this point. What are the consequences of having non-sentient AIs that people have real feelings for?
Same type of job (software), different circumstances.

The most burnt out I've felt was when I needed to be in an office from about 9-5 every day. I lived in a town I didn't really like where there wasn't much to do besides checkout yet another new brewery and I worked on a product that sounded kind of interesting for the first five minutes, but I quickly realized I couldn't care less about.

Now I work remotely. My hours are flexible and deadlines are relaxed. Most of my coworkers work remote and at different times. Most conversations are asynchronous, removing a lot of that fake urgency that comes from feeling like you need to respond immediately to someone's message. The product is more interesting and something that I can see adding value to peoples' lives.

The biggest thing for me personally though: I travel while I work. Not for work, but while I work.

I've always liked exploring and being able to spend a week working in a new town "just because" has been huge for me.

Because I don't work set hours, I can sleep in when I need to and work later that day. Or I can decide to go exploring around a new town for a couple of hours before I start work. I run errands anytime I need to - which is great for avoiding busy times and traffic.

Working remotely with flexible hours has removed a lot of small, but substantial, stressors in my life. I wouldn't say this is a panacea for burnout though because it really depends on the person and the company, but it has worked well for me.

"Work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Life" balance is more balanced.
(duplicating another comment I wrote to hear your thoughts)

The fundamental design problem for rspec is for each test you create db state (tons of writes), run the test (reads and writes), and then tear-down (truncate). Each test is at least adding an authorized user (and then removing it) at the simplest and at the worst creating complicated db state to support relational models that must be added and torn down with each test (database_cleaner).

Gems like Fabricator or FactoryBot also make the "create db state" even more excessive, because developers would be lazy and use factory methods that create more than they actually need for the test.
This is going to be awesome given 10 years of refining or so.

It only needs to be safer than what we have now, an overworked gig worker rushing through traffic to drop off packages.
I don't think we can answer that questions because we don't even know what "I" is. Are we even "the same person" from one minute to the next? Are we a different person with the same memories? My wife had a rare condition called Global Transient Amnesia three times and I was there for all three occurrences. In essence she temporarily forgets the last few years and cannot form new memories. One remarkable thing that happens is that she will be caught in a loop that last 20-40 seconds. She'll reset and repeat the exact same dialog. This to me intuitively drove the point home that we in a way are just passengers on a somewhat deterministic machine. At that point it practically becomes a somewhat religious assertion though.
What does the Turing test really mean? (2009) [pdf]
No OP and I don't know about 1988, but lead pipes are still common in the US, either many states have them or all states do. Flint, MI has a plan to eliminate them this year, maybe.

https://www.nrdc.org/lead-pipes-widespread-used-every-state
OT:

> Google is notoriously bad at finding older news articles and its competitors don't do nuch better.

It’s not just Google. I’ve found the same to be true for Duck Duck Go and Bing.
:(
agree, it seems like almost every industry really has like maybe 3 at the most players and they are all gigantic and it is extremely non-competitive.
What's really interesting with 3d models is that you could give the classifier motor control within it's environment i.e. it could "step to the left" and see how the banana changes in it's visual field. This would allow the classifier to integrate it's movement with the visual stimulus and build a far richer model. It also gives the classifier access to an active learning strategy: predict how the appearance of the banana changes when it "steps to the left", try it, then evaluate the difference and refine.
A testable theory that would enable the mechanisms to be measured and manipulated.
It's been a long while since I looked at the differences. I know the red top are typical car use for starting with high surge loads. these are not recommended for deep drain usage.

There are 2 blue tops, and just realized the one I linked previosly is not the same version (dark gray) as the one I have being the light gray.

Essentially, the differences are in use cases. Lots of short but heavy loads vs long sustained loads. Looks like the blue tops are still Optima's best "drain to 0 frequently" type of battery where the yellows look like an occassional drain to 0 is survivable but not the recommended use case. I had forgotten the differences after making the decision years ago. Just looked them up again for a quick refresher
Except in most jobs you only metaphorically get fucked violently in the ass.

Have you tried it not metaphorically?
If the 4090 comes out in the speculated $1500 - $2k price range (and is actually available at retail price), then even with the (rumored) same size VRAM as the 3090 (again assuming the rumors are triangulating on the actual spec by now), the (rumored) 2x+ performance potential is still very attractive as a personal project ML platform.. This is if it is actually available by Q1 '23 of course. (running a 1070 which is showing its age)

As it is, the 3090 already seems like overkill for gaming to me, but I'm sure the available stock will easily sell at retail price or more in the interim ; (various versions of the 3090 are currently selling on Amazon for up to $2100 and the standard Nvidia 3090 is still hard to find / sold out thru Nvidia website links..)
there is absolutely no way in hell SHOP is going back to $1300. Or even COIN or any of the other tech will return to their heights.
AMZN, GOOG might return probably in other 10 years.

There is the saying "don't catch a falling knife" for a reason. It's illogical to plough money into stock market when QT has hit, inflation is soaring and a recession is all but guaranteed.
Hacker News users are much more likely to have vast email archives organized into folders which must be regularly searched than the general public. Most people have no choice regarding work email. Web email clients and the default mobile clients meet most people's personal email requirements. In other words 3rd party email clients are dying because there is a lack of demand.
Good' Bacteria to Tackle Depression
I got a laugh out of that.

It makes me wonder how many 'no longer with the company' replies to mobs are similarly a technicality. Like, giving an employee unpaid leave until the mob dies down.
Aside from the cats mentioned in a sibling comment, there are also all kinds of ways light could make something look pink, when it is actually not
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Some people here get so touchy over post next jobs era macs.

I do disagree with your timing though. I think the best of times was in the early to mid 90s. With radius graphics card. Daystar accelerators on Nubus slots. For some macs, separate math coprocessor. Asante network card. APS and LaCie external scsi hard drive and Daisy chaining them. Adb port devices. Nostalgia!!
If you state what you disagree with, people might understand where people differ better.

Do you disagree with the idea that with knowledge and time humans have the potential create any material thing?

If that's a reasonable thing to assume. Then we could simply just build a human from scratch.
Show HN: Tech-Blog Aggregator
I have created a website to aggregate the tech-blogs from various trusted sources (Company/Individual/Product)
> he is presenting an opinion that will become more prevailant

I see little difference to "Einstein and moral relativity" (actual social issue at the time). A mistake easy to avoid even for a layman, yet occurring, out of differently instanced perversion.
There is Upstash! Per request pricing. Built-in REST API. Global replication.
It's a convoluted Java codebase that likely nobody outside of the NSA fully understands. Publicly released early 2019, 184 contributors according to GitHub but a signifigant portion of the contributors only have a couple of commits with most of them being typo fixes or minor bug fixes (likely the result c+p fails or typos in the first place - not major logic flaws). The regular contributors are likely NSA employees.
Ask HN: What is the best book you have read with the greatest impact on you?
The book may be on any topic. Relating to your profession or not. A book that had a significant impact on you or your life in any manner possible.

You can name multiple books though if that is the case with you.
No screenshot!? C'mon.
“One just convinced a Google QA engineer to the point he broke his NDA to try and be a whistleblower on its behalf.”

This is spot on. The danger is not from the AI themselves. The danger is from people’s reactions to the AI’s.

I remember seeing a Boston Dynamics video years ago where they kicked their robot to test stability. The video was littered with comments sympathizing with the robot because it moves in a lifelike way, “Stop being so mean! You’re hurting it!”

The capability to imitate intelligence is only going to grow, and along with it the percentage of the population that believes they are conscious.

It would be wise for technologists to pause and take this human reaction seriously.
I usually listen to Podcasts on my desktop/laptop, though. I use gPodder, which does not access Apple's directory.

I could switch to another client, ... but I'm a creature of habit. I might try building my own Podcast client, though, I've been looking for a project lately.
yes, that improves clean up time, but doesn't help with all of the db writes you have to make to create db state for each test case.
I would argue the eventual "bogged down" feel of a Rails application isn't ruby itself. It's rather the abuse the database takes because ActiveRecord allows you to lazy load records so easily by abstracting SQL calls, so you're hitting the database many times per request and not realizing it until you get bitten. There is an option to disable lazy loading at a project level, but I've run into gems that assume it's enabled.

For comparison, elixir's Ecto doesn't allow lazy loading
Interesting. Doesn't Mars own a ton of specialty vet clinics too? (E.g. the VCA chain)
The Mausoleum of Augustus was designed to hold the ashes of not only Augustus, but also his family/descendants. Maybe we could analyze those ashes for lead before jumping to any conclusions.
Lincoln said in his first inaugural address that all constitutional controversies can be separated into majorities and minorities. And that either the majority or minority must acquiesce for the government to continue. He was talking about the minority who just lost the 1860 election, and were refusing to submit to that loss, by seceding.

But importantly, minorities sometimes win. There's the bill of rights. There's case law. There's popular vote in presidential elections, contrary to the Electoral College vote - as in Bush 2000 and Trump 2016, in which majorities submitted to the outcome, i.e. they did not revolt. Thus the government continued.

Also importantly, Lincoln is pointing out that even a significant minority can be extremely disruptive to civil order, that it is actually a fragile business. And Trump and his pro-autocrat supporters have laid the ground for a significant minority simply refusing to be governed in numbers exceeding law enforcement's ability to contain it. No one can predict whether that'll be attempted or actually succeed, but the Bastille-storming moment is the mere attempt at such a coup, despite being a failed coup, despite it surely failing even had the goals at the Capitol succeeded: assassination of any number of elected officials, stopping the Electoral Vote count or fabricating an alternative outcome... the people who were needed to make a coup succeed simply weren't present in positions of power to make it happen. But we can do counter factuals to analyze whether and how that could have been different, and end up with a different result.

Both of Trump's AG's in the last three months following the election told him he lost. Both told him there was no evidence of fraud in any amount that would alter the outcome of the election. Well, what if one of them said he won and that he absolutely had authority and a duty to order the military against the Congress? You'd need multiple members of the armed forces willing to go along with that. It wouldn't just be one. And it's essentially certain armed forces would split, because all of them are trained about military coups and interventions, and the deceptive trap of militaries getting involved in civilian decision making processes.

The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 (written in 1992, imagining a coup had taken place in the U.S. in 2012 - it's been required reading in the various military colleges for at least a couple of decades)
We can confirm that we would never collaborate with inkjet printer manufacturers. Inkjet cartridges, like rare earth metals such as platinum, can be traded on commodities exchanges and are a reliable way to store value. Indeed, you can probably buy several kg of gold for a single CYMK cartridge package.

We, in contrast, are committed to a store of value that does not change, no matter what.
Dr. Sbaitso!
https://oneweakness.com/dr-sbaitso-online
I can track down the actualy post if you want
I don't recall there being a specific announcment, but the logic goes something like this most people who use proxy are referring to fake magic cards printed to look like real ones and therefore talking about proxies how to make copies etc will lead to people cheating or stealing.

For what its worth i used the term proxy for a decade almost exclusively to mean a cheap paper copy of a magic card (or even just writing the word on a sheet of paper and sticking it in a sleeve over a land) and I find this restriction wrong-headed.
Amazon Aurora now supports zero-downtime patching
What, if anything, is OOP?
There's a big difference between "hey, can you give me a ride to the store to pick up this large thing?" vs "hey can you give me a ride to work every day".