skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree, although I think the crux is in the definition of consciousness. Where neuroscience and computer science are aligned is that they are both (like all science) concerned with observable and falsifiable truth. But consciousness as a concept is hopelessly subjective, because it's self-evident to us, and we can only recognize it in our earth animal kin.

Imagine an alien traveler comes to earth, will we consider it sentient or not? Does it depend on whether it is a robot or a naturally evolved organism? That seems like an odd distinction. Does it depend on how much it has a brain similar to ours? Hmmm...

Ultimately no matter how much we peel the neuroscience onion, the philosophical zombie question can never be falsifiable. We take it on faith that we are not zombies because each of us knows our own consciousness, and then by Occam's Razor we extrapolate that to humans and other earth animals to which we instinctively relate, but beyond that there's nothing to hang your hat on.
Single codebase for data object definitions, without an extra data definition language and code generation layer.

Which leads to things like... data validation logic that is exactly the same on client and server.

Same for serialization/ deserialization code.
Judging whether a machine is sentient seems pretty tough because I can't even explain or understand why I'm sentient.

One thing I know is that there is no physical law I've ever learned about that accounts for it. My brain is doing information processing, and the connection between that and physical laws is clear. But it seems like that could happen entirely without the accompanying subjective experience.

On the other hand, it has to be somehow connected to the physical, because my consciousness (temporarily) goes away when I sleep, and an anesthesiologist once used chemistry to force it to go away in about 5 seconds.

And I have no idea how to reconcile these two things. I've heard "it's an emergent phenomenon", but that's super hand-wavy to me. It might be true that it's emergent, but that doesn't tell me what the connection is. Plus emergent consciousness is not a very falsifiable hypothesis since it conveniently says don't be surprised if you never see anything at all if you look for it under simple conditions.

Anyway, what is an emergent phenomenon? In terms of numbers, I'll say it's like if you start with X which is tiny, then multiply it by 1.01 a whole bunch of times, eventually you'll get a number which is significant. That makes sense, but it assumes X is nonzero, and the most interesting question is why X isn't zero.
I am wondering whether a business being abused like this could trademark their business name, then sue TrustPilot for trademark infringement? Can anybody here who knows more about trademark infringement comment?
The magic the gathering subreddit has to moderate out the word "proxy" or risk getting banned. seems plausable like there are just a lot of speicfic rules you gotta follow to be a subreddit
> These were people who wanted to leave and other people who wanted to help them, not an 'anti-soviet operation'

Wasn't it both? It was certainly against Soviet policy and interests. What else could anti-Soviet even mean?
Now we are getting somewhere :-)
I don't agree with GP but there are legitimate reasons why people are sympathetic to this.

One reason would be the increased difficulty of a government to seize or freeze assets for people who are determined to be politically problematic (see: e-CNY and SWIFT).

Another would be the accelerating debasement of currencies which provides opportunity for the rich to become richer in wealth & assets, while wages for the working class are diminished by inflation.
>" 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. "

In my experience r/politics is the most biased and lopsided major subreddit on the entire platform. People criticize r/conservative but I genuinely do not see the same level of wanton hyperbole, demonization of the other side, and calls for revolution in r/conservative that I routinely see in the comments of major posts from r/politics.
In no particular order and YMMV. I'll add more as I think of them.

As people have mentioned, it can creep up on you and if you are worried about it you might already been burning...

* struggling making time for your hobbies/friends/non-work activities

* scared of your inbox

* sleeping longer

* Eating more (comfort eating), or eating less

* Exercising more and being harder on your body or exercising less frequently and struggling to find energy when you do exercise

* Taking more drugs, drinking more alcohol

* Being short with those who are close to you (snapping)

* Losing your desire for a long and happy life
Lead poisoning probably did not cause the downfall of the Roman Empire
Until there's an Ethereum Foundation backed validator, a huge number of people are going to stay away.

The Ethereum Foundation can do things like roll back a broken DAO. A 3rd party offering a potentially broken validator cannot force a fork to fix things.

It's also super weird the foundation is not building the validation code into Geth and making it a baseline part of a reference node as PoW certainly is.
> I was dumb and naive and just tried to replace the kernel on win95 with the WinNT kernel.

Hahah, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't do equally naive stuff back in the day, I know exactly what your kind of thinking was.

It's almost sad, because understanding takes the magic away. I sort of miss looking at computers with the eyes of a child and wondering what lies behind the abstractions...
Human languages exist to compress the world around us in a way that will survive being sent over sound waves and uncompressed in another brain that experiences a similar enough world around them.

Meaning that with enough words and their relations, sufficient complexity forms for its processing to result in intelligence.

Remember that an AI can process far more textual data than we can. It is still orders of magnitude smaller the amounts of information we process through our senses, but it is still a start.
The network effect is strong, if BTC actually was to take over for USD then people would have to have trust that BTC wouldn't evaporate the next day. BTC's incentive model and network effect provide that.

Assuming of course that BTC could outplace USD.
Google gives a reasonable answer to that question.
>"Also problematic is that gitlab really really cares what programming languages you've worked in before"

I agree that for experienced developer requirement to have extensive experience with particular language may not be all that important.

But rewriting perfectly working software just because developers knowing legacy language is too expensive is a big mistake. They would waste way way more trying to implement a perfect copy of the old system with "cheaper" developers.
"most experts have no idea what they're talking about."

"I'm not convinced the experts know what they're talking about."

Not sure why this author thinks they know more than the experts. Confused as to why this is upvoted.
Regardless of how artificial or real neurons work, does performing the "predict the next word given this corpus" task constitute sentience? And if so, does that mean an n-gram model is sentient?

And even if LaMDA were sentient, would the thoughts expressed be its true feelings (whatever that means)? Surely its output is just its best guess as to what the most probable continuation in the corpus is. It's like if you sat me down and offered me a dollar for every word I correctly predicted in a conversation between two strangers. What you'd be seeing is not my own thoughts or opinions, but my best guess at other peoples' thoughts and opinions.
remember the Maine!
I just listened to an interesting podcast interview with the author of this book [1].

He discusses what the GP said above: there's a team of say, 7 people listening, and each person has a specific job, depending on the situation: listening for positive things they say, negative things, tone, timing, background noise. Pretty interesting interview.

[1] https://www.jordanharbinger.com/chris-voss-negotiate-as-if-y...
When I want to use negative indices, I pipe the string through rev first, then do my cut, then rev again
GOT IT
NOT SENTIENT
wink wink
There are basically two good, actively developed FOSS email apps for Android: K-9 and FairEmail. Development of FairEmail almost ceased recently, as the developer was having issues with Google Play and no longer felt it was worth his time to work on the app. Thankfully he ultimately decided to continue development. I remember last year there was also a big campaign to get more donations for K-9 as the developers badly needed more resources to continue development.

The category of FOSS email apps may not be dying, but it is small, and never far away from death. Having a large, established project with decent resources backing K-9 is definitely a good thing for the health of the category IMO. Personally I use FairEmail and hope that it will continue to thrive as well.
Links as Tags: Visualizing Blog Internal Links
Today you could do this with a copy of Photoshop, but in practice this isn't really a concern for most people. What makes you think it'll be different with deepfakes?
We're also being carbon-biased, sentience in silicon could arise from entirely different processes than what we have.
Russia has incapacitated the second largest military indeed: their own. Trying to invade a country which a couple of years ago didn't have any real army to speak of, and failing terribly. They lost Kyiv, they lost Kharkiv, hopefully after Russian economy crashes they will also loose their territorial integrity.
Really the point is that while the intentions are reasonable, leaders must be judged by outcomes. It is necessary but not sufficient for leaders to do the right thing. They must also achieve the right outcome. This is a harsh rule and requires commensurate power to be fair (which is why we don’t apply it in all aspects of life) but it is both fair and necessary when applied to leaders.

Now, I believe this and you’ll find this belief implicit in much of the criticism of the EU regulatory directives but a reasonable person might disagree.
> You can probably ask these bots for guidance now and it will probably tell you something useful.

that's correct, it's the same as if you just queried Google for spiritual guidance. You'd find a lot useful there as well and that's the training set these AIs were trained on.
Cells mode of operation is statistical, on average they produce a certain amount of molecules and consume a certain amount of molecules, mediated by signals that are themselves molecules, but the transport and execution mechanism is stochastic and its basically impossible to predict what molecule will hit which receptor at a macro timescale

Not saying that that is what consciousness is, but one fundamental difference is that below all the abstraction layers one system operates off chaos, so they are fundamentally different
We were already seeing that happen back in 95. From that list half the operating systems were either deprecated or niche. We still have a plethora of niche platforms now from the various BSDs, Open Solaris derivatives, Hakiu, ReactOS, and all the experimental ones too.

The hardware duopoly was already in full force by 1995. Sure Amiga was listed in that article but by 1995 IBM-compatible PCs had won and Amiga, Atari, Acorn etc were basically just used by a small few enthusiasts or specialist domains.
That's a definition of mysticism and Lemoine hasn't publicly explained what it means for him, to my knowledge.
By that logic, I have seen hardcore misandry on many of the feminist forums. Many even talk about killing their partners or harming their body parts routinely. Even moderators respond positively to those comments sometimes. But hey, it doesn’t fit their narrative and there would be a shitstorm if they banned such forums. “Reddit bans popular feminist forum, paving a new way for misogyny”

My point is they only ban the ones that don’t fit their narrative or their political views and they know they can get away with.
I dunno how this eluded the dupecheck, but it's been submitted several times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31684529

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31693971
Are there any useful programs that aren't about creating or moving tokens or "play to earn" style games? (Which, to be clear, I do not consider useful)
I usually just pipe through sed to normalize the separators before applying cut.
I can think of many of exchanges pausing withdrawals in times of extreme volatility - either close to peaks or during massive selloffs.

I think Binance probably doesn't have enough liquidity to cover their withdrawals and you probably don't need to look much farther to find an explanation.
How to be creative in 6 words
don't worry Captain Dang, I edited it. Thanks for linking it.
Java is hard to use?

Seriously?
Unlikely, I don't think I have 10k emails between all 7 and on average I get maybe a dozen or so a day. Even when I had like 3 accounts they would randomly just disconnect and need reauth.
Sorry, I don't understand. I-Bonds are almost guaranteed to hold their value so shorting doesn't make sense. Maybe you don't know what short-selling is, but it's when you take a position that the price of an asset will go down. The issue with I-Bonds is not they their value will decrease. The issue is that they are a government program designed to offer a small amount of relief in times of high inflation. The government limits I-Bond purchases to $10,000 a year, and their yield is only good in years with high inflation.

> You see how stupid this "short them" argument is? If you don't like them, then short them.

I mean this in the politest way possible, but you should consider that you don't fully understand types of investments and short selling if you think the statement "short I-bonds" is equivalent to "short crypto" and if you think that I-Bonds can form a major part of an investment strategy.
The specification is more transparent
You probably know more than me already, honestly!
> How long before we have a religion where you ask the chat bot for daily guidance?

I'll go ask my magic 8 ball.
Sure, but there's a purely subjective aspect of consciousness, which by nature of being subjective, cannot be objectively quantified or measured. This puts it squarely outside the realm of science, which is deliberately and solely focused on measuring objective phenomena.
Fully agreed. What's worse, even if you painstakingly go through all your apps and disable this anti-feature—since there no global setting—it just gets turned back on the next time the app is updated. Putting aside the abysmal UX, automated systems should respect clearly-expressed user preferences.
> It is using silly naming conventions in filenames as an alternative to specifying routes. eg /users/[name].tsx for /users/:name

Its a convention also used by Next.js, so it is just sticking to existing conventions.

> There is no documentation about the islands or how they are implemented.

Documentation is still only partial & incomplete.

> It says there is no build step but there has to be one because v8 runs JavaScript not TypeScript

This is a module for Deno, which does that under the hood, it isnt something a deno user would have to be concerned with.
The fact that it's the mandated unit of exchange for commerce in the US, and the government ensures it maintains a relatively stable value.

It doesn't have intrinsic value, but it certainly has value by fiat/authority
I don't care how amazing the body is (it is), blood flow needs constant flow with a pulse. Put two bellows in parallel, use a linear motor to push out quickly and pull in slowly on each, and voilà mechanical heart without shear.

MIT licensed, go save lives you f'ers.
Yes, they do.

It probably won't surprise anyone that their "declaration" is written by the lawyers, and then they go over it, line by line, making sure it's something they would have said.

The check that they are "unbiased" is that the other side asks them "does your compensation depend in any way on the outcome of this trial?" Of course it doesn't, officially.
Takes all kinds to do all kinds of jobs.

For instance software engineer and software QA are done best by entirely different kinds of people. One wants to get to a solution, skating around issues as they go by to get to a first successful implementation. The other wants to notice every issue that is encountered and carefully investigate it and record it.

Maybe it's good to have a few outliers in every job to keep the others honest.
Reddit historically only cares about a subs moderation when it generates enough negative attention to become a problem for Reddit (the company, as opposed to Reddit the “community”).

They’ve typically been quite happy to let quite toxic and otherwise rule breaking subreddits to exist so long as they don’t cause (too many) problems.
http://deepnude.cc we are already there.
I find the timing of this story fascinating. We are just a few weeks away from the premiere of the 4th season of Westworld which is a show all about how a more advanced AI chatbot may or may not be sentient. And asks the question — “what does it mean to be real”.

I’m not saying that this entire story is viral marketing (but it could hardly be better timed if it were). It’s interesting that these questions are coming up, but until we have computers that have their own inner chat loops (inner monologue or “thoughts”), I think it’s probably an academic exercise.
> Is it implemented in all those hydration based frameworks?

I can't speak for all frameworks, but fresh can dynamically break out shared dependencies so you don't have to download the same code twice.

> How is solved the situation when <button> is delivered to the user, but "onClick" action is not because network failed?

Developers need to deal with this in their applications. The counter example on the fresh homepage uses <button disabled> for the server side render, and only enables the button in the client side when the counter island hydrates.
I recently wrote a small web app.

I started with https://alpinejs.dev/ linked via CDN, and OpenJSCAD, also linked via CDN - I wrote basic html, marked it up with alpine `x-model` and `x-data` tags, and sprinkled a little vanilla js on top. Everything worked well and I got 80% of the way through the project.

In the final 20% I ended up adding a bundler (parcel), so I could bring in an scss framework and override its variables. While it added a fair bit of complexity to the project (dev dependencies, parcel config files) I gained lighter files via parcel's tree-shaking and minification, auto-recompilation/reload during development, and re-usable html partials via `posthtml-include`. I'm also set up to swap to typescript quickly, if the project gets more complex and I start to get annoyed with the lack of compile-time type checking.

So, it's 2022, and you can write a web app without any of the things you mentioned (transpilers, package managers, typescript). Yes, adding even one of them nets you a 100+ dependency node_modules directory - but the reason we keep adding them to our projects is the things it gives us are NICE, and the cost (complexity) is mostly worth it.
> Surely there is a space for minimalist office suites and email clients

It might be interesting to try and port/rewrite siag/scheme in a grid to racket (or Julia...)?

It's the only "light-weight" office suite that comes to mind...
I wonder if there's indeed grounds for a class action against those who made the due diligence work. Should it be found that they might not have acted in the fund's best interest or that there was some back-channeling the repercussions might be interesting.

But your money is definitely gone.

Now, on the other hand, forcing everyone to invest in that fund 10% of their earnings, considering the huge amount of risk they are taking and the very speculative nature of their investments... that sounds like something else that would be great to challenge in courts.
>"Well since the only choices that exist are Java, PHP or Ruby"

Nope
Opinion only: I found their front page difficult to skim. It took me several scrolls-to-end-and-back to even realize they were trying to explain concepts on that page, not just showing screenshots. Normally I just page-down quickly to get to the features list or comparison table, but doing so here bypasses most of the explanatory animations. I kept wondering, "where's the section that tells you what this does and how it compares to other frameworks". Then I kept looking for a Features page on their top or bottom nav, but didn't find one.

Maybe it's just years of bad habits trained by seeing too many bad marketing sites, where the typical signal to noise ratio is really bad. I guess even when I see a good sales pitch, I don't recognize it as such anymore and try to skip through it... sigh. Sorry, Remix.
interesting discussion from the OG https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/06/a-few-thoughts-a...
These are credit default swaps. I don't know if they are implementable as smart contracts (I don't think so, but I could be wrong). I was thinking about overcolateralised DeFi loans which can be seen as a kind of swap where two parties exchange the returns of two different assets.
I guess you understand the concept of arbitrage, but you don't know the word. Also, do you just regurgitate information you have previously heard or have you actually tried to exchange DAI for tether? You can't... and there is no auditing mechanism for Tether. They can print as much Tether as they want with no oversight.
Rust type system has primitive traits Send and Sync that formalize behavior expected for safe multithreaded concurrency. This way compiler can statically analyze the program and determine if it's safe.
The vocal people you read about online are a minority. The vast majority (99%+) of investors losing money are doing so silently.
Coincidentally, just before this was posted I read a similar analysis of Windows executables from 2008: https://www.strchr.com/x86_machine_code_statistics

MOV is still the top, but it was followed by PUSH and CALL.
It is an illusion created because it was evolutionarily advantageous.
So it's not safe to keep in an exchange and not safe to keep outside of an exchange. Future of finance alright.
This consciousness business is making a lot of people behave like religious fanatics.

A couple of years ago I had the displeasure of attending a conference by Federico Faggin (the creator of the Intel 4004 and 8080) that after a historical introduction became a talk about how consciousness is an intrinsic property of matter and how he started a scholarship to create a new basis for quantum physics by including consciousness as a fundamental quirk. All just because one time he supposedly had an out of body experience during a red light in traffic.

Sometimes when reading stuff about consciousness I like to substitute "God" or "Holy Spirit" every time it is mentioned, almost always I get something I could hear at an omely or from the Pope
The answer always seemed obvious to me. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next --Robert Ford, Westworld