skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what's so different in that coming from goo chemistry instead of electric bits?

Very insightful comment reply. If you don't mind, I'll respond in an analogy: What's so different about just building a bigger rocket to move more stuff into space at one time? A: You can't because you reach a finite potential in the relationship between fuel weight and lift. Extrapolating this analogy to the context of your comment reply, sure, in a theoretical sandbox environment that could happen with the silicon circuits and transistors we have today, however I find that unlikely.

Silicon based circuits and the current model and understanding we have of machines and the way they should be built, from a basic principals level is wasteful, thermally inefficient, and requires a sum of resources that if used to model the human brain would surpass our ability to house, power, construct, and allocate the precursor materials for. Given our current technology and the parameters involved, it's just not going to happen for us.

Maybe tomorrow something will get invented that will even further push moore's law into the dirt, but I just don't see that happening in this generation nor lifetime.
I had the original COVID-19 in early '20. It was a like a flu, why take any shots for this if you aren't at-risk group (old or immunocompromised like cancer and aids)?
If I spent a lot of time and money making something and someone else immediately broke it I’m not sure I would be as satisfied with the experience alone of having invested time and money in it as you, but I have to say theres something to be said for having that incredible level of optimism and ability to stay positive.
Most inmates are religious - that's why prisons have chapels and give out religious texts. It's estimated only around 1 in 1000 prisoners are atheist.
A company is where people spend most of their time, so of course the companies should cater to how people want to live their lives. Period...
You are at a meeting with colleagues, one colleague suddenly starts to insist that Santa Claus is real. Do you take them seriously? Sure it’s freedom of speech but there will be some kind of drop in respect.

I mean I get that you believe that one book trumps all of human science because you were raised that way but when you grow up your critical thinking skills should kick in. If they don’t, it’s very difficult to keep taking an adult that believes in all kinds of unprovable stuff serious, because where does that end?

When is weird weird enough to be allowed to be publicly rejected every time it’s brought up, according to you?
I don't think that adds any value over pseudo-random.
You can load extensions in puppeteer, also in headless with the experimental chrome mode. https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/api.md...
My Invisible Underground Unicorn (rainbow poop be beneath her) disagrees.
Doesnt't that... make the situation all the more ridiculous?
Scientists Analyze Drawings by an Acid-Tripping Artist
The notion that humanity would be morally lost without the guidance of religious belief is laughable. For sake of gaining some perspective and widening one's thoughts I'd suggest reading the works of any of the number of major philosophers.

And if you need to read in some book that oppression is bad, that murdering people is bad, that basic human rights are a good idea, etc. - if you need to read that in a book and have these concepts crystalized for you as capital T True by dogma fed to you by a church of some kind... then, my friend, you're just a bad person. And we do have bad people and will continue to have bad people but religion has done nothing to abate this. Moral compass is innate to human nature, not something you learn from a book.
> If you start talking about your religious beliefs at a social event people treat you like you just farted in their face

Let's say someone brought up BDSM at a social event. How would the average religious person feel? Exactly how non religious people feel when someone brings up their religious beliefs.

If you were into some niche sex act, chances are you'd completely understand if other people didn't like it. However, religion is usually ingrained in religious people's ideology. Which means they are low key uncomfortable when people have incompatible beliefs. OP is projecting exactly that.
If you regularly photograph relatively flat things and want a consistent look, just get a copy stand. No futzing with a mirror to align the camera every time, just mount it, drop the objects on the stand's floor, and boom there you go. You'll never want to use a tripod again for that.

The only issue is that typical copy stands use the same hardware as enlargers, so their columns are usually fairly short; maybe 50-60 cm for the normal size, and around a meter for "large enlagers". This limits you to short 60mm macros for floor-covering subjects, and reserves medium (~105mm) macros for approximately Eurocard-sized objects.

You can get long columns, but they're a specialty item, and now the enlarger/copy stand has to go on the floor.

For PCBs a light table makes them look nifty, but it's fairly useless for multi-layer ones beyond showing that they're multi-layer. Most have inner power planes anyway.

(The issue with short macros for things that aren't actually flat is that you get perspective distortion because you're close to the objects; long 150-200 mm macros get you closer to an isometric view)
My better-half works in a hospital where the concrete roof is 20y past designed life and is now actively failing to the point of being supported by hundreds acrow props.

Tory government says it's still deciding if it'll be one of the arbitrary eight hospital projects they'll fund.

They made nursing a degree course, put tuition up to £9kpa, and removed both the nursing bursary and final-year medicine tuition grant... and wondered where all the new doctors and nurses went.

You're not right. It's not foolish to want to protect the NHS, it's foolish to trust a Conservative to fund it adequately. And yes, some of these problems were caused by poor policy of their Labour predecessors.
Congrats on being an engineer that can do these things. Many cannot and that is the bulk of teams out there. For those that are this skilled, this gives a window into areas they can flag for where they need to help level up the team.

But I'd urge you to reread your post and consider that it comes across as presumptuous, myopic, and holier-than-thou.
C is just fun. I do t know how else to say it. It feels like you get to really think about what you want the computer to do.
Is there any proof that the AI is anything else than a complex statistical model and actually has consciousness?
At least one.. me. But I'm coding for fun, not for a living.
Python.

Former experiences with c,c++, Java in the (early) 90s.
It surely is quite aggressive. But the author qualifies it with "might even go so far as to say", so it seems like it's the absolute worst thing it was said to him. I've heard worse?
I might be biased for being old, but this is how all keyboards sounded for a long time, and headphones mostly stayed at home. You'll be fine. What you should really be addressing are people who burn popcorn and microwave fish in the office. Those are the real monsters.
> PgDown in Mutt goes to next email when I reach the bottom of the current one.

set pager_stop=yes

> Or deleting email keeps it displayed in the list ... but doesn't allow navigating to it to undelete

-bind index n next-undeleted
-bind index p previous-undeleted
-bind pager n next-undeleted
-bind pager p previous-undeleted
+bind index n next-entry
+bind index p previous-entry
+bind pager n next-entry
+bind pager p previous-entry

(Not sure why these aren't the defaults. They seem much more usable than the defaults!)
I am not sure if its universal but in most if EU a "restaurant" business cannot get a permit unless it offers a public bathroom.
Are you not moving the bar higher, from just an example, to now evidence? I am for high standards, it is just dangerous that, in the current culture, they are not the same for all.
I've noticed that Google Maps Timeline utterly refuses to ever mark a Synagogue as a location you've visited. It always marks it as the city or neighborhood.

Other locations show up just fine, but for a synagogue you also have to manually override it.

Of course, it could just be "it's not sure you actually were there" kind of thing, but I don't think I've ever seen it mark a synagogue as a visited location.

I want to ask if anyone else has seen that, but I have a feeling there aren't that many people who check their timeline and correct it........ so I'll never know if it's just me, or Google really does discriminate in this way.
If this was the case people living far north should be in a really bad spot for nearsightness.

Maybe it is that if pupils are outside they focus far away when looking up, rather than sun light?
https://geizhals.eu/ is in English and if you then click on the EU flag (top left ) select the Union flag it takes you to skinflint.co.uk.
Apple BNPL will use Apple ID data for fraud prevention, uses FICO/credit reports
Other way around.

Consciousness is a loaded word. It tricks you into thinking that there's some profound concept here. There isn't.

When you contemplate consciousness you're not contemplating about anything profound. You're actually just contemplating vocabulary and how to map out the exact definition of the word "consciousness"

Really all it is, is just studying a collection of arbitrary intellectual attributes that we're not clear about which attributes are encompassed in the word "consciousness." Thinking about it results in just a large categorization problem of stating axioms like: " oh consciousness must include the ability to be sad" and other random attribute selection stuff.

It is a language phenomenon not a philosophical phenomenon. Don't fall for the trap. It is similar to the question what is "life." Well "life" is also another loaded word.
"On waiting for services: I was actually (and still technically am) on an NHS waitlist which I've been on for the last 5 years, my new employer is just paying a private doctor to handle everything which begins next week"

Presumably you've connected the two. If there is a supply side shortage of doctors - and there is - yet if you have the money you can jump the queue, then all that does is increase the delay to those without money.

It's like the priority queue at Alton Towers, which in itself is an affront to one of the core British values - that we are all the same really and we all stand in line awaiting our turn.

The solution is to abolish the fast track option and reorder the priority queue based upon need, not ability to pay. That is, and remains, the founding value of the NHS.

It's how we get the rich to pay more. They wait the same time as the poor person with the same issue, but their time is more valuable.

Private medicine doesn't increase the capacity of the system. It tilts the system towards those who can afford a FastTrack Pass at the expense of those that can't.
Nah, there's a bunch of very popular religions which probably are derived from Canaanite worship of El about 2500 years ago and these focus on that "Creation God" figure so much that their surviving text is today read by believers as saying there aren't any other Gods even though if you look at it frankly sure seems like it's actually ranking El as merely the most important of many Gods. Thus it's easy to see why you might think that, but plenty of religions don't have any personal Gods at all, or don't think you can talk to God.
You mean “talk” as in be receiving answers in real time? Because I think all Christians believe that you can “talk” to God in some way.
Just use olive oil or whatever you have in your kitchen. Works just as well.
There are two things to tease out here.

1) the Indian caste system is not _just_ religious discrimination, its a class system that is devilishly tricky to escape. Its difficult to comprehend in the USA because the class system there is basically skin colour>money>very distant last religion. OP touches on this, but doesn't really quite grasp the difference.

The implication is that he is but a poor dalit, because of his faith. Which is pretty wild.

2) choosing to preach in work will lead to raised eyebrows.

on point two he says there are other mystics about in google, but I strongly suspect they aren't trying to convert people.

Look, I am surprisingly religious, I don't talk about my faith unless it's expressly required. Like my penis, it doesn't come out at work.
Or maybe the effect takes years of sustained lack of light to work, and northern summers compensate?
>When are people going to stop expecting large public companies to cater to their every whim?

When these companies will stop to cater to specific groups and will stay politically neutral. The moment they started making socio-political utterances is the moment they've become a political entity not merely an economical one. And given that Google has profits that surpass the budgets of entire countries they can, they will and they have already mold society to their specific political whims: it is best for all of us that these whims are checked against to remind us that there exist alternatives to their techno-dystopian future.
Myopia is a risk factor for floaters, retinal detachment, and glaucoma. It's objectively not neutral, despite that glasses exist.

Glasses are also inconvenient, cost money, can be lost or broken, and don't cover the entire field of vision, and contacts have their own problems.
> While nowadays most people learn linear algebra through the perspective of vectors and transformations, the matrix and determinant are much older than the ideas of vectors in a multi-dimensional space.

Determinants, yes. Matrices, no. Matrices were originally invented by Arthur Cayley as a formalism for describing linear transformations.

Mathematicians making historical claims ought to cite their sources. Mathematicians should also define what their terms mean, otherwise it's not clear what they're saying. I'm defining matrices as a certain number system which supports operations called "plus" and "times" (for the pedants, a preadditive category).

[edit]

Secondary sources: If we look here [1], matrices were invented in parallel by Sylvester and Cayley. Cayley invented the notion of a linear transformation first (1845), and in parallel Sylvester developed a notion of "matrix" to study determinants (1850), and then Cayley finally combined the two ideas to form the modern matrix algebra (1858). Therefore the claim that matrices are older than their modern perspective in terms of vectors and transformations isn't true.

[1] - https://www.quora.com/Why-and-who-invented-matrices
Because glasses suck, and we don't wanna condemn future generations to wear them if they don't have to (and they still can if they so choose, of course).
> and will almost certainly require LIDAR to achieve any kind of safety.

Is there a physical reason for that? We know that humans do just fine with just ~8cm of stereoscopic separation, and for example cars have the potential for a significantly higher amounts of stereoscopic separation.
Weak excuses that put profits of car manufacturers over lives of children. Enough. We're a civilized society and can end this madness.
From reading the articles, they are completely separate exploits. The other one is about intercepting Bluetooth traffic at the network level.

This one is about exploiting the fact that unlocking a Tesla with a NFC key enables new keys to be registered to the car without authentication for 130 seconds.
Fragility is also what happens to you when you rip out a decentralized, grown and proven-to-work, decades-old system like railroad signalling and replace it with a centralized digital system. Or when you think it's a good idea to make public water supply plants accessible over the internet. This we're yet to learn the hard way, I'm afraid.
Okay, so how would you consider the alternative when someone is expressing their opinion on other topics like: “Do you really like dating people of the same sex? Sorry that’s the kind of thing I associate with someone who does not have any mental issues as yourself”.

I am not advocating if any of them are good or bad (personally I avoid both), but we should really have the same standards when it comes to the famed “free speech”.
I scoffed at first, but I guess the qualification is about water safety and things, just in case?
People should keep their religious believes to themselves instead of trying to rub it in everybodys face.
> (they/any)

I wonder when the fad for putting pronouns after your name will die out.

It feels a lot like the little 3rd person biographies people used to write about themselves in the 2000s.
Computers were not situated in quiet offices for the most part, they were mostly in rows, or located near much louder equipment like tape spools.
> Because I think all Christians believe that you can “talk” to God in some way.

The noisy ones perhaps. I strongly suspect that only a small, vocal minority believe in actual dialogue with god.
I don't see a problem with this. I'm glad that we have freedom of religion in the United States, and nobody is systemically persecuted or deprived of opportunities based on believing in one god or another, but I also feel organized religion is a dangerous set of beliefs from another time.

I'm glad we're finally reaching the point in the timeline of civilization where we can stop taking it seriously and start treating it as inanity, which is what it always was. I think it had value a long time ago, before we had developed better forms of societal organization and better explanations for our world, but that value is long since gone.

While I would never vote for a law persecuting religious persons, I do believe it's fairly crazy to believe in made up things that make no sense, and I certainly don't consider it discrimination to treat those beliefs as such.
... including the author of the blog post.
El Tren Fantasma: a case study of the geography of sound in Mexico (2014)
There's an amazing youtuber/creator I've been following for a while and he does exactly this. Goes into the science of what it takes, and the results are really stunning. I'd love to give something like this a try, just need time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw

Also there was a breakthrough a while ago with LED ceiling lights that mimic natural sun. I haven't heard much since their release, so I'm sure cost is still a major issue for these sadly.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/artificial-light-...
But do we know if lamda is not continously trained on its inputs? Moreover do we really know that continuous learning as opposed to discrete learning (i would assume lamda being retrained on conversations quite often) is a precondition to sentience?

I'm not saying that I believe the engineer has encountered a general AI, but I think dismissing his claim as ridiculous based on the little information we have and Google (who has a vested interest to the opposite) statementa, is premature.

I also think describing lamda as "just a chat bot" seems to be an oversimplification, it seems to more be a hive of different chatbots from the description.
I’m the author of the post Rohan mentions here.

I must say I thought this was an amazing critique. It was respectful, thoughtful, and well-structured.

Thank you, Rohan. You’ve got excellent points and great references too.

Much appreciated.
Democracy is just mob rule, I'd be happy to see Democracy replaced with an improvement. Even legislation creates fake science, so I think its time we developed a society that doesnt peddle superstition and falsehoods.
Tesla moved too fast imo. Basically exploiting loopholes to get self driving cars on the road when there was no approval from government. I like waymos approach a lot better.
The inconsistency gotchas in this thread are hilarious. “What if you replace religion with race or gender?” “What if you replace AI with god?” If your answers change then you have no principles.
Counter argument:

Some synapses contain multiple receptor sub-types. Dopamine, for example, has some receptors which are inhibitory, and others which are excitatory. Each receptor is sensitive to different concentrations of dopamine. This gives the effect that when the dopamine concentrations in the synapse are low, this synapse acts to inhibit the activity of the efferent neuron, while when the concentration reaches a certain threshold, the output of the synapse flips to an excitatory signal.

How would you model that system with a single F16?

And that's just one example: for instance there are specific signals which trigger cascading effects in the neuron which up-regulate certain chemical pathways, causing an amplifying effect on other signals.

Or you have shunting effects, where an inhibitory synapse placed at a certain point in the dendritic arbor serves to selectively cancel signals from farther down that one specific branch of the dendrite.

That's not "noise" - the brain has incredibly refined and detailed mechanisms for information processing which go very far beyond `weight * sigmoid(activation) = output`
I imagine it's built on the same infrastructure.
It absolutely is. That doesn't mean that 90% of the world population use forward slashes for dates.
This statement is a bit vague. I know Tesla’s system had this issue with a monocular camera & radar.

I doubt the same issue would appear with stereo depth.
It's likely that a minority of Christians take everything in the Bible literally and believe that it trumps science. I think you are being a bit disengenuous.
It’s quite baffling to me that people would start talking about religion at social events that are not related to religion in the first place.

To me, one of the basic rules of social etiquette is never talk about religion or politics unless you’re amongst people who share your views or it’s a specific religious or political gathering.

If I’m attending a social function, I certainly don’t want to hear about your religious views or political bent. Chances are slim that I would espouse compatible views and that would just make things very uncomfortable for either or both of us.

There are so many other interesting and less polarising topics of discussion with strangers.
it is easier to cast aside uncomfortable questions when you are able to group them into a monolith, relegating them to bad faith arguments and gotchas.
Google is probably going to come out of this looking good. The fact that they were tolerant enough to welcome an openly religious ex-convict and are still supporting him even as he skewers them in public (since he's just on paid leave not fired). I wouldn't be surprised if he was doing this for years, and then things didn't get real until he started stirring up fear against technology. That's one thing that will actually trigger them.
At the same time, the regime that killed absolutely most people last century were staunchly anti religious: the USSR.
My idealistic answer would be "go back to the drawing board to create a business is not built on someone else's land."

Do you mean advertising or keeping an internet presence? If you mean "internet presence", I'd would use one of the numerous site builders and I would create a pixelfed and mastodon instances to publish content.

If you mean advertising: I'd write a post here about how my account was banned without justification...
GDP growth comes from increasing production and consumption simultaneously. If you produce more but don't consume more you merely increased productivity but did not grow the economy.
All of these hypothetical conversations are great reasons why sex, politics, and religion should never be discussed in the workplace. Somebody's feelings are going to get hurt.
It is called sortition.
Be aware that there may be a correlation between writing “M$” and believing that they do it on purpose.
I thought it was a good practice to not talk about politics and religion in the workplace?
I can't believe I've never come across this before.