skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's partially the price point which has lead me to believe that Replika may not be being 100% truthful. There have been text based answering services for decades charging 10 cents to respond to a text message. While I don't doubt the majority is ML driven, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few human responses.
Oskar Barnack's 0-Series Leica prototype camera sold for a record $15M
I had a 6100/60. It was one of the most significant personal computer upgrades I’d ever done- the Rosetta that ran 680x0 code on PPC was impressive. This was also around the time I think Apple decided to start to stay processor-agnostic by starting the LLVM project when OS X/Rhapsody became a thing
Bogle of Vanguard fame actually warned against the problem that Vanguard and Vanguard like things could cause: http://johncbogle.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n...
They can, or they can't, depends on what's in them.

A scoop of protein powder in water or almond milk might hit 130 calories and will satiate, unlike diet coke.
Hi suyash, take a look at the README for information on what all the little graphs represent: https://github.com/diegomacario/Animation-Magic/blob/main/RE...

There's also a button in the controls that allows you to open the README. Thank you!
Based on what/ divided how?
Purchasing a tent, utensils, backpack etc ie starting from scratch, or assuming everything already paid for and just 'real costs' ie food, tent-place (ground rent?)?
Decathlon.fr or .co.uk prices can be pretty cheap, but I'm not sure where the costs start.
By 2029 no computer / “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test
The real question is, what even is sentience? The only real certainty about it is that one is sentient oneself - and that's because "I'm sentient" is taken as an axiom! From there, you basically have two approaches: either try to somehow define the specifics of sentience, or give up and say that anything that behaves as a sentient entity is one. The latter is the premise of the Turing test. The former all try to decompose one's sentience into bits that can be translated to other entities - but doing so "from within" produces criteria that are tautological or circular.

I strongly suspect that notions such as sentience and self-awareness don't have a meaningful physical definition, but are necessary for us to function, because they're the mental glue that makes thinking about "I" possible at all - which is broadly advantageous for survival. But why should a different mind necessarily need the same kind of glue to function as a whole? And how do we even know if it's the same or not without being able to observe it from the perspective of that other mind (since that's how we observe our own sentience, that's necessary to make accurate comparisons)?

I furthermore suspect that we refuse to embrace these notions because our sense of identity - of self - is, by necessity, so strong that any premise that undermines it is strongly disadvantaged from the get-go. Basically, we do not like to even contemplate the notion that "I am not one indivisible whole", even if it might be closer to how our mind actually operates on the physical level.
I don't see the paradox. "I" is a notion of semantics.. all there is is interacting wavefunctions behaving according to physical laws. There is nothing else.

This seems entirely self-consistent and non-paradoxical.
> This suggests the U.S. recently went from being a net exporter to an importer

Looking at the data [1], that's probably not the reason. Sanctions on Russia, combined with the outlook of lower demand in the future, make short-term investments in increased production capacities unfeasible: [2]

> the biggest firms have so far stuck with investment plans forged before prices really soared, choosing to put the windfalls primarily toward shareholder payouts, rather than extra production.

> Investors are pushing companies to share profits now, instead of making long term investments, given uncertainty over demand as the world pushes to shift away from fossil fuels

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61446317
... but if I'm installing curl or jq or similar, I'm quite familiar with the provenance of the project, and of the tarball I'm running a configure script from.

And maybe I need to install one or two dependencies, similarly they should be familiar, or small and comprehensible, and only downloaded and installed with my explicit actions.

(And yeah autoconf generated configure scripts are crazy huge and baroque, and could easily be 1/10 the size for the needed functionality, but compared to "npm install" I'll take it.)
Is it a good trade? To me it seems like maintaining a gem/library is less complex than maintaining a service that exposes the functionality of said gem. No networking, deployment configuration, request handling, parsing, host monitoring, logging, access control, etc to deal with.

Which do you think is more complex?
>why are consumers choosing them

It's interesting that most people who like to defend the free market act as if consumers actually have choices most of the time.

That's just simply not the case nearly all the time.. or it's a complete illusion of choice.

Especially in any rural/smaller suburban area (of which the US predominantly is). It's not as if you have 1000 choices for everything around. That's only in large urban areas. The US is so spread out that it can't cram tons of competition in most of it's areas. And that is probably what is being exploited here.
Or maybe we evolve to become sufficiently advanced enough where we entirely understand consciousness and are able to manipulate and identify it accurately.
I think it's pretty clear but alright.
Unless you have an equity position you haven't given the company anything for the shares when you buy Berkshire stock. You are essentially riding off of Buffett's success and making money without doing any work.
Does this build exist somewhere?
This article argues against the fall of the roman empire being caused by severe lead poisoning.

I would argue that it was more likely caused by widespread minor lead poisoning. If everyone is more forgetful and learns slower, then that isn't something that will be written in history books - the people themselves will just consider that 'normal'.

Yet an empire of forgetful and slow-learning people won't be efficient. Every task will take more man-hours to achieve. Productivity will be lower. Accidents will happen more frequently. Crime will be higher. Strategic mistakes will be made by rulers, but will also be made by local rulers and individual families. "Should we plant corn or wheat this year?" - someone with intellect may read a book to discover the best crop or do a small scale trial, while someone with lead poisoning may just do the same as he did last year because it takes less mental effort.
I wonder how heavily other fields sacrifice in the name of "ease of implementation".

Could we have houses that are 100x stronger and longer lasting if we allowed a few extra weeks of construction time? Could we 10x battery capacity with a slightly more sophisticated manufacturing process?

I don't think many developers nowadays understand how fast computers are, nor how much needless bloat is in their software.
My one wish for K-9 is swipe-to-archive (or like the fastmail app, swipe to custom selected action).

Other than that, while it's generally just... a bit ugly, it functions fine for me.
That was pretty cool! Good work
It does not matter. We know it is another scam coin, the fact is the crypto wallet is still in the Signal app. If it is a 'toy' project why didn't they remove it already after years of developing it in the first place?

The CEO of MobileCoin already admitted to using MobileCoin to fund Signal [0] and Moxie being the original CTO and paid advisor of the coin as mentioned in the article; also meaning he was a paid shill and part of the scam.

They already made the effort to create, shill, and then dump the tokens as soon as it was listed on the exchanges. The fact that Signal already accepted the tokens in the first place tells us that they were most certainly involved from the beginning and were part of the pump-and-dump scheme of the token.

Since MobileCoin was pre-allocated with them owning over 50% of the supply with that being the only supported token on Signal tells you that both Signal, Moxie and MobileCoin are all complicit in the scam.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26726246
I don't know what context you read my comment from, but the comment I responded to ended with the following paragraph:

> The "hard problem" seems to mostly exist in the minds of people outside the field who are unsettled by the thought that we might not be special (a pretty common reaction whenever science makes progress on subjects).

I don't need consciousness or sentience to need a special or magic substrate to combat existential dread, because I don't feel it in the first place. My comment was not meant to be an explanation either, and I honestly can't see how you read that into it.
Well, it's less than $4 per gallon in Russia; one has to wonder which country is being sanctioned
My take is "don't use the same channel for internal coms as for customer coms". That way training could make it clear:

* Supervisor communication will always come through Slack, or email or some other mechanism.
* Never trust that the identity of anyone on the phone is someone internal unless you initiated the call.
There they don't even ask, they just start treating, because they know that the emergency costs will be borne by someone.
I’ve wondered if someone could run for mayor of Uvalde on the simple platform of firing everyone in their police force, and eliminating pensions for any police officers deployed to the school.
Is noise pollution a possibility with this?
> The risk of confiscation is high

I got a buddy with a bunch of money in Celsius right now, that feels like its been confiscated.

Apparently, cryptocoins can also be "confiscated", and are unable to be sold during these times of duress.
I can totally imagine a Chinese chat bot that DMs citizens pretending to be an old classmate or colleagues long forgotten and chatting them up while trying to sus out who isn’t compliant and supportive enough of the state.
People who want weaker and stronger gun control laws can find consensus for the idea that trained police are the most tactically equipped to deal with an ongoing crime, and that you should not interfere with professionals who are already on the scene. 40% of Uvalde's city budget is going to police.

The police went in to save their own kids, but detained and chastised parents who went in to do the same. How many more trained experts with guns we do need to stop school shootings? Should townsfolk have enough guns and force on their side to subdue the police so that they can go into classrooms themselves as an impromptu tactical force?
> and I think that was done during this administration. It's no secret they are pushing for more green energy, and doing so by decreasing existing gas and oil production.

I think this is an easy statement to substantiate, and I believe it'd set a foundation as it derails to a moot point the moment a conclusion is derived from your own speculation.
As I've posted elsewhere in this discussion[0], I have a very clear set of necessary but insufficient requirements for an AI to be eligible to be considered for sentience:

1. Continuity of input: The AI needs to be constantly "on", constantly receiving input of some sort, and constantly able to produce output, rather than being strictly limited to producing discrete responses to discrete stimuli.

2. Continuity of learning: In addition, the AI needs to be continually update its "mental model" of the world—in effect, constantly "learning" and re-training its neural network on the input it receives.

I believe there are likely to be other requirements on top of these, but I am sufficiently learned neither in neuropsychology nor machine-learning/AI to be able to speak (or even reason) with any confidence about them.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728907
Beethoven, too, is suspected to have died from lead poisoning. In his case, too, a drinking cup for wine made of lead is the prime suspect.
I think it is really just the high probability stuff that isn't insurable. Low probability high cost things should also be covered by catastrophic insurance.
No it doesn't. You're making a lot of mental leaps that I'm not able to follow. Those companies existed and were profitable BEFORE crypto. They don't NEED crypto. They're NOT CRYPTO COMPANIES.

I'm going to politely bow out of this debate, this isn't a productive use of time.
parents tried to go in UNARMED and the cops arrested them. Bringing a gun wouldn't have helped them, unless they had mowed down every cop first. Do you think they should have done that?
- A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul: explores themes of belonging, ownership, home, independence, escape, freedom.

- Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: explores love in it's many forms.

- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry: about love, the absurdity of life, beginnings and ends.

- Miles by Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe: about jazz and the life of it's greatest creator.

- Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson: ramblings of a pope.
I find Coke Zero disgusting. But I feel the same way about regular Coke, and Coke Zero is supposed mimic the way it tastes. So that makes sense.
Wall Street Floats 100 Basis-Point Fed Hike as Inflation Stings
US has been a net importer since the 1950s until 2020-2021. Even then, they were barely above the threshold of being an exporter.

> Total petroleum net exports were about 0.16 million b/d in 2021, and total petroleum net exports in 2020 were 0.63 million b/d.
I'm a serial litigator of Freedom of Information requests. The reason I have to even litigate is because the public bodies believe every tiny thing they do is not disclosable.

I'm about 6 years into one lawsuit to disclose the contents of a jail Policy and Procedures manual. The AG ruled that it was all subject to disclosure except the bits about locks and keys and where the weapons are stored. The jail is free to ignore the AG ruling and continues to maintain that even the sections on how the jail library books are top secret.

It's absolutely impossible to know if the jail employees are doing their jobs as they are supposed to without the public knowing what those roles are and what the job requirements are. You can't keep these people honest without knowing if they are abusing their positions.

Public disclosure should be the mandatory default for public bodies.
There's an infamous case from Adobe where an engineer added an unauthorized easter egg that caused a runtime problem and was fired for it. The firing spurred widespread shock among the employees, and management quickly rescinded his termination. He quit shortly afterward. The takeaways here are that a rash firing for this sort of thing isn't always the best course of action, and that being fired-then-unfired leaves a bad taste in an employee's mouth. Oh, and test your easter eggs.
Perhaps. Maybe our brains are just an algorithm and data, maybe (for all I know) you are a bot, maybe we are all a simulation.

I think these sort of arguments (assuming you meant the first - that brains are just maths) that equate our thinking with a neural network are hard to deny but also we have thousands of years of history that have established that suffering is real and conscious, whilst debatably imaginary, is at least a consideration.

I therefore argue we must, for example, maintain a massive distinction between the morals of turning off a human brain vs turning off a neural network.

The calculations and output of the neural network could be achieved with pen and paper (albeit it might take years). I doubt a human brains workings could ever be calculated that way.
That is every project when the team is dysfunctional. Your language won't save you.
For me it’s a lot more than a few bad apples. It’s the general state of discourse and empathy from a reasonably large chunk of the user base.

HN was never perfect (since I found it), but it’s much worse now.

To be fair this has happened in general to a number of sites/thing in the exact same timeline. It’s not an HN specific problem, other than the degree to which such people may be attracted to the usual HN spheres.
People are willing to pay up to the perceived value for themselves. That's how an equilibrium price is determined.

If I can make $10/hour running a generator, then I'm willing to pay up to $10 in fuel to operate it
And to add on top of that. If pharmaceuticals could buy out dying patients at a fraction of a cost of even the pre clinical trials to get first human dose there would no longer be such a thing as “early stage clinical trials”
This is not, to my knowledge, an argument that anybody who is serious about gun control uses.
IDK. Camping can be very cheap. I went on camping trips all the time as a teenager and I had almost no money. Unless by "camping" you are talking about towing a small mobile home into a paved "campground" with electricity, water, showers and bathrooms.
I'm glad Tom was so open about his lack of knowledge here, so often it is easy to assume any professional mathematician should know all this things and it all comes easy to them. However this obviously isn't the case and I doubt things will be any easier in the future as mathematics becomes more specialized.
I spent a year being a part time expert witness. I got paid what seemed like a lot of money.

But I was also examining the specific implementation details of avionics for their enhanced ground proximity warning system.

The combination of understanding code, aircraft dynamics, and existing patents was complex. It was made more so by the attempt by other avionics manufacturers to design around the patents and write the code sufficiently differently.
I was bored and had $100 lying around when BTC was at ~$39k so I dropped it in the machine and have watched the investment go all the way up to $150... Checking my investment today, it's around $50...

It's not that bad for risking tiny amounts of money if you're into losing cash.

If you're into losing vast amounts of money, I highly recommend dumping your life savings into BTC.

So many large companies have their hands in creating the BTC/Crypto cookie jar that it's guaranteed to fail, it's promoted in every setting because it is their drinking money generator. The factor (they didn't account for) that added a ton of volatility was that independent (whale) investors like Elon would jump in and screw up the entire works with tweets and strategic buying and dumps... Meanwhile, it's all the small people who saw the commercials and though it was legit that totally got hosed.

It's literally the rich and corporations robbing the poor, and on top of that in one of the most dire economic points in time ever... It's the pits of humanity I tell you.
The description of the test setup is very precise, and specifies, for example, that the interviews with the candidates last "two hours each", with multiple judges.

For an AI to keep up an internally-consistent act for that long (especially against an adversarial interrogation) it will probably need specific coaching and abilities that don't come automatically from scaling up GPT-3 or LaMDA, but I still think it's looking like Kurzweil might win this one.
Isn't 25 work hours a really low amount of work? That's just a tiny bit more than 3 work days for whole weekend camping?
There’s no element of choice. Calling around my local vets every one is 3+ month wait for new patients. Even existing patients have week or longer lead times.

But of course if you choose Banfield (PE shitshow), they’ll see them same day (drop off in the morning, pet waits in kennel surrounded by other sick dogs all day until a vet is free, pet goes back to kennel to wait until end of day). The charge is significant, but the pets waiting around locked up all day is what bothers me more. At checkout they’ll of course hit you with the “wasn’t this so expensive? You should buy our health insurance plan!”

Compare this to the vet in my parents town that will also see same day, but I walk into the exam room with the pet, meet face to face with the vet, and stay with the pet for the majority of the operation. And pay less in the end.
Actually I bought my 6100 somewhere around '93-'95. I know it was before 1996.

But I'm not actually saying the 6100 was "the best of" anything; it was the bottom-of-the-line cheapest one you could get at the time. I'm really just talking about pre-OSX. The early Macs were and are fun too.
Google engineer says Lamda AI system may have its own feelings
This has been a systematic issue that I'm glad the FTC is taking a closer look at. Does anyone know if veterinary medicine spots are controlled a la the AMA's control on residency spots?
Hm... I realized I was burned out when I scraped signage from my car with a kitchen rag ane baking soda. Wasn't even drunk.
But you can have capitalism without financialization.
Thank you for your work
>Over there entire career, ask them how many times the expert witness they hired did not come to conclusions supporting the side they were hired by. Even amongst lawyers that have hired 100's of experts, that number is usually zero.

I don't know where you're getting this from, but at least among forensic psychiatrists (and the forensic psychologists I've worked with), this is wildly inaccurate.

It's totally routine and unremarkable that I (or the dozens of colleagues I've talked to at length) have an opinion that doesn't support the side by which I was retained.

Edit: Not sure why this is being downvoted; only hoping to clear up misinformation/misperception. Sure, there are hired guns, but in my experience, they are actually pretty rare. Based on the lawyers I have interacted with to give them the news I can't be helpful, it seems pretty routine to them also.
Seeing glfw mentioned in your readme, I wanted to know how your (web) build process looks like.
Gotta say I love this CMakeLists.txt
It is so clean and simple!
This is how markets function - rising profits for vets will encourage more providers to enter the market.

e: Sorry, sometimes forget what kind of science denialism is cool now. Climate denial out, economics denial in.
Turing says: It's A Bot
A Review of Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
Security through celerity?
I'm definitely open to being worried about... pretty much everything in the general AI/autocratic state proximity... but I'm not sure what specifically you are getting at here. That is, I can imagine an AI that is snooping on everyone. And I can imagine various forms/communications being leaked to authoritarian states. Plenty to worry about!

But, even if an AI convinced me it wasn't sentient, I'd still not trust it to keep things secret for me. I mean, I assume the little "self help" chatbot thing at work could be reviewed by HR if they wanted to.
Is the Fed not a monopoly on your FIAT American Note? Just because they have "12 independent 'Member Banks'?

You're understanding of a monopoly is outdated. Plus, you're likely to knee-jerk with a "Thats not the defenition of a monopoly!"

Cool get all semantic on the third grade defenition of an insanely nuanced issue.

Monopoly in the dictionary sense is the same as a fucking sound-bite from the news on a highly complex nuanced global issue that takes one to have decades, and in some cases centuries, of input factors to understand the nuance.
Accountability is the issue. If they can tax you by force, they're not going to put themselves in harms way. They already got paid.

(Generalization of course, but true in many life-and-death situations.)