skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same thing happened with the psychiatrist Amber Heard hired to diagnose Johnny Depp without ever meeting him.
From one non native speaker to another(?):

I've learned that mercenaries are the paid ones, people like Russian Wagner etc.

The ones on the Ukrainian side are "volunteers".
> it cannot be manipulated or stolen by the state.

How's that different from the paper notes in a Monopoly game box? The Fed can't steal it or debase its value either. I still need a large group of people that also hold monopoly money and are willing to transact goods and services for it, with the understanding that the monopoly notes have zero fiat cash value.
Thanks for the clarification.

> They are presented (and potentially qualified) as "experts"

Does this not follow a proper scientific method? The expert draws some conclusion based on some scientific process they performed. The other side can challenge the data, method, chain of custody, record keeping, expertise of anyone working on it, and so on.

You keep putting the term expert in quotes. What is the bar of an expert in your mind?
This isn't about truth-telling, it's about impressing enterprise prospects with the _relative_ and self-described simplicity of a basket they are considering putting some/most/all of their apples in.
> Why is this the top comment? I don't know (but I have my suspicions)

It’s because many people clicked the up arrow. There’s no Vast Conspiracy.
> I can say with certainty that both options, dialysis (both kinds) and transplant, just suck.

You're not wrong, and you have my sympathy. I'm somewhat leery of over-sharing on here, so will leave there. Hope you're not overly weighed down by the inevitability.
> This was after I tried to take the NT 3.51 kernel and marry it with the Win95 UI (that didn't work).

How in C:\>'s name would that have been possible? Windows 95 was an unholy mixture of 16bit code running in vm86 mode interleaved with 32bit code, and nearly full Windows 3.1 compatibility even in lower level aspects. NT was a relatively clean full 32bit reimplementation.

Was the UI part so cleanly separated to have a chance at that? (Not what my impression was, but I really never dived that deep into Windows.)
It can seem like overkill, but I can't recommend Snowflake enough. It's so simple to setup and manage, and JSON support makes it easy to just drop JSON line files into a table and query on the fly.

Depending on your data/query volume, it can also be very cheap.
If someone created an equally convincing chat bot to converse with children but it was entirely driven by imperative code, would that change the situation?

I think just being able to fool someone into thinking their is a consciousness behind the curtain isn’t enough.
I believe you are right, and it is quite awful. Though from what I can tell, stock trading accounts offer similar leverage tools.

I sincerely feel for the people who got in over their heads.
By your logic would we suddenly lose consciousness/sentience if we gained complete knowledge of our own bodies and brains? What if at a sub-quantum level everything decomposes to a simple turing machine?

Not understanding how conciousness works in our bodies does not directly imply that conciousness cannot emerge in a complex system of fully understood basic components.
Thinking about the word “fractured”, what turns merely holding different views and letting them inform each other in a friendly and fair competition into a fracture?

I suspect it comes down to fear and insecurity. When we distrust the other, being afraid that their gain is our loss and their agenda may hurt our (psychological, financial, etc.) security, we start acting erratically. Fear manifests itself as anger and contempt. We are not relaxed and watch every word they say for signs of pushing their agenda. We are torn between considering it beneath ourselves to spend effort arguing with them, and being unable to stay silent. We don’t know when are they themselves and when they represent their group.

You can truly enjoy friendship (and indeed love) if you are secure on some fundamental level, and I suspect it is a hard precondition.

I don’t know where I’m going with this. Maybe we should look into being more secure and relaxed? Pay heaps more attention to mental health, our own and our society’s? Learn to play non-zero-sum infinite games? Release some part of us from having to fight for survival if we are lucky to enjoy highest ever standards of living?
Non-mammal brains are pretty obviously and clearly sentient.

(Other commenters claiming that cats are not sentient… what?)
Heh, if you plead guilty does that mean the jury should be made of convicts?

but to the actual topic, "jury of your peers" is a legal term and not a logical term. It just means the people should live near you [1]. and not that if the town is say 99% black that the jury has any black members.

See also, does a "loaded gun" need to have any bullets in it (NO!) [2] [3].

[1]: https://www.nolo.com/dictionary/jury-of-one's-peers-term.htm...
[2]: https://www.gjllp.com/news/new-york-s-definition-of-loaded-f...
[3]: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/265.00
What evidence is there that deepfakes are harmful and not just distasteful?

Generating offense and disgust is not necessary inherently harmful.
Everybody interested in this topic should read Yishan's (reddit CEO early 2010s) thread on the story around /r/Jailbait and content moderation.

edit: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1519239024379973632.html
Long time ago and the travel was very limited. I may not be remembering properly but it would have been very small potatoes in any case. (And may have been adjusted at the back end as I didn't handle the business side.)

I expect "whatever you want" exists within some sort of customary and reasonable window.

In any case, my basic point was that our regular consulting had a lot of off the clock time which this didn't.
Aside from the idea of charting random developers' gut instincts regarding entire programming languages, the only contribution this article makes to the literature is the dubious phrase "scalability of innovation." I would have appreciated some honesty regarding why they're really sticking with Rails at Gitlab: a decade worth of development that would have to be rewritten from scratch to little discernable benefit.
"tyrannical money"

The USA has an elected legislature, independent courts, multiple levels of appeals in the judicial system, a strong system of civil rights, the right to trial for anyone accused of a crime, the right to an attorney, an independent press, and an active civil society made up of tens of thousands of organizations; all of which shapes the political environment which in turn shapes monetary policy. In what sense is the USD tyrannical?
>To be sentient is to be aware of yourself in the world

I mean is there anyone, besides yourselves, that is sentient?
One study is not a quorum.
The casual gaming market and the enthusiast market are two distinct classes of users, and Apple has long neglected the latter. That's a perfectly fine (and lucrative!) business decision, but the point still stands: Apple doesn't really do gaming.
I think if you look at Angular as an example, the Aleph team is doing it right. Angular didn't just make breaking changes when they went 2.0, they basically abandoned everything about 1.x and released something completely new. There were definitely people who had just learned Angular 1 that found out their time was poorly spent.
>Even though many such posts skirt perilously close to copyright-driven bans, the continuing survival of ‘IP-appropriated’ non-porn deepfake video posts by major YouTube deepfakers such as Ctrl-Shift-Face suggest a broad studio and rights-holder tolerance towards such activity, at least for the time being.

I would not be surprised if this isn't so much tolerance as much as it is ignorance. Copyright enforcement is hilariously expensive, and the only reason why any litigation even happens is that larger outfits are also hilariously petty. The mantra of copyright maximalism is that if anyone is even remotely touching "your work", you storm in and demand whatever money you can purely for the sake of keeping people off your "property".

Trust me, once they run out of nominally-SFW-but-actually-NSFW communities to ban, you'll see movie studios cotton onto what they consider to be theft[0] and start prosecuting something that doesn't really harm them in any way.

[0] Assume, for the sake of this discussion, that if we as a people decide someone gets a government monopoly on something, then depriving them of their monopoly is stealing from them.

Yes, I hate this logic too.
From the experiences I’ve had and seen I think the depression can be kind of like a symptom. It could be just a component of the burnout, it could be a temporary state having to do with other situations/conditions. Or it could be the clinical type that is biochemical and a completely different animal to be dealing with.

If someone can do most stuff in general then it doesn’t sound like the clinical type to me.
Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder
Stupid meat robots trying to feel good about themselves and justify centuries of self-indulgent BS. That's all this outcry is about. You're not special. You're an object just like everything else. Get the fuck over it. If a "sentient" AI is what it takes to finally prove that point and drive it home then, well, we're finally getting somewhere.
> This was touched upon a bit in season 2 of the Raised by Wolves sci-fi

To add to this, also very relevant and on-topic piece of Sci-Fi is the Movie "Her": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ where a guy falls in love with his operating system - so knowing it is not a real-entity but basically a chatbot.
Astute observation (sincerely, this is not sarcasm). I hadn't considered that. It's a puff piece.
I saw the Crypto.com Arena as a Pets.com Superbowl moment.
That's not what the GP is getting at. When Reddit management wants to ban a subreddit, they cite all sorts of transgressions and lapses in moderation policy that can easily and routinely be seen on other subreddits - often large ones.

I see all sorts of thinly veiled calls for violence on political subreddits, and even on seemingly mundane ones like r/Texas whenever Ted Cruz comes up. Apparently, calls to get out the guillotine are highly contextual.
Or six hours.

Looking at you not-stable coin.
That article contains a lot of pretty serious claims, which if proven in any competent court would result in scathing rulings and all the attendant.

It lacks citations or evidence for any of them, however.
What iOS 16 and Android 13 Tell Us About the Future of Smartphones
> Also problematic is that gitlab really really cares what programming languages you've worked in before. I've applied and they've turned me down because I didn't have enough Ruby experience, nevermind that I have plenty of years of experience in development and learning another language isn't that big of a deal.

Yeah, I've come across this in loads of companies too. In the end, I think those sort of companies don't understand that once you grok 2-3 languages, the rest of them mostly look/work the same (except the really different ones), and they are just looking for "code-monkeys" to program with them for a year or two.
> No need to put private currencies in quotes. Here ECB talks about the interplay between public and private money [1] when discussing their CBDC (digital EUR) plans. I think this is a pretty interesting topic and just reducing it to 'private money == not real/useless' doesn't serve it justice.

I think that most major currencies will have mirror cryptocurrency versions as state-backed entities, replacing USDT and the similar more hand-wavy versions. This is definitely going to happen.

But this isn't "private currency" rather it is just the evolution of state-backed currency.

> At all times in unstable monetary conditions, such as hyperinflation, funny-money issued by occupation authorities, unrecognized governments, fiat currency mismanagement, etc, people have flocked to alternative means of exchange.

Make sense. If your country is in hyperinflation, do not hold its currency.

> There are reports from places in such conditions of people actually using digital assets for this. Whether it's better to hold Lira or Dash at this particular moment in time though, is a pretty open question.

Dash lost most of its value in the last 2 months. I am unsure what your point is. Dash obviously is a speculative asset and it is super hard to predict its future direction.
Expert Witness is Argument From Authority by definition. If the evidence were self-evident, you wouldn't have an Expert Witness.

Lies cost more than truth, so the price of testimony matters.
> ie, there is ONLY the road to walk on, and it's unsafe because of the snow

As a Finn, the first part is an infrastructure issue and you're building it wrong, and the second part is just plain old weird; snow on the ground doesn't make walking unsafe. Too much snow makes walking slower and more tiring, but that circles back to infrastructure, specifically snow plowing.
Heart is truely an amazing organ - don't think we will get close to a mechanical replacement.

Has multiple chambers, Has chambers that pump sequentially with different pressures and volumes, Never needs to stop for additional lubrication, Never needs to be "charged", Never stops for maintenance, Is powered by oxygen delivered by the red blood cells it is pumping, Is controlled by the body's "proprietary" electro-chemical control system, Is not rejected by the body's internal bio-chemical defense mechanisms, Produces only carbon dioxide as waste, delivers that waste
to red blood cells, Doesn't have a single rough or chemically reactive surface, Forms perfect in-line seals around each chamber without crushing red blood cells, Never leaks a single drop, Doesn't retain any fluid in the chambers, Doesn't allow "backward" flow, Has a pump action and pressure that are strong enough to circulate blood up from your toes, but delicate enough to prevent damaging any red blood cells or capillaries
> How long before we have a religion where you ask the chat bot for daily guidance?

A bit tangential, but QAnon doesn’t really feel this far from this idea.
The book, Light of Other Days, has a good take on that - everyone can see everything everywhere with wormhole cameras, they "effectively destroy all secrecy and privacy". So prudishness in the generations that grow up with wormcams is non-existent. (not dissimilar to kids and mobile phones ...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
Can someone ELI5 why Unix timestamp would be stored as left-padded 48 bits for a 32-bit or potentially a 64-bit number? Is it a coincidence that 48 is the middle of 32-64?
no, it is not the same effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidge_effect

degenerating into filth is not something to say "so?" about, the whole "as long as its not illegal" is a line that gets thinner as people begin to approach it when they get into more extreeme things.

we should have a nanny state
They are constantly raising the bar on what "lack of active moderation" means. Also as the site gets bigger moderating even a small niche subreddit can become a part time job and Reddit does pay moderators of some subs, so it's being used to editorialize more now than ever.
Free Gitlab Instance for All
I started my self-hosted git instance moving from Gitea to GitLab a few months ago with plenty of resources to go around. I'm inviting users from the community to feel free to use whether to host their own projects officially on it or have it as a backup/mirror for their existing projects. Nothing special about it.

I'm still working on getting SSH to work properly, so don't expect it to work.

Cheers!
"I have no idea what sentience is and cannot define it in any testable way, but I'm completely sure this system doesn't have it."
It also ships in a hardened can to make it difficult for others to illictly drink your beer.
The Floppotron 3.0 – Computer Hardware Orchestra
A compact model is a constraint that changes the problem entirely and doesn't discredit the quick-but-effective approach that works for nearly every other use case.
I've heard talk of one hypersonic that hit a weapons cache early in the war. The rest of what I have seen has been ordinary missiles of various kinds, often either aimed at civilian infrastructure or extremely imprecise.
eVTOL aren't anywhere near to being certified for commercial flight, and anyone telling you they are is a charlatan trying to cash out on investment fraud. I know because I worked for a semi well known eVTOL entrepreneur who continually facilitated an enterprise engaged in lying to customers that they would get an eVTOL in short order when in fact the FARs didn't even provide a path to certification.
Europe's most powerful supercomputer is an all-AMD beast
Good points, but you still have the fundamental physics problem of hauling too much mass for too much distance for too little gain (1s kgs of groceries, etc).

The US needs to get as many people off the road as possible. Get them on to bicycles (e-bikes), walking, riding buses and trains.

I am looking at America's balance sheet and the only thing cars do is blow a whole in it. Cars cost too much relative to cash flow generated for families. Cars take up too much space in cities, killing cash flow generated from sales taxes and property taxes. The Return on Assets from a car is just too low, I believe the rate falls below the US gov/state govs cost of capital (hand wavy-speaking).
You didn't read what I wrote. I'm not concerned about what's currently true, I'm concerned about where we're headed. As Bitcoin has a supply limited to 21M, it's prudent to acquire as much as you can (while you can) before the system I described is implemented. When that happens, you will have no other options save for covert means.

Edit: this is a more long-form articulation of what I'm getting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtX6AKEO8ok
Agreed. The kicker is knowing what those boundaries are and avoiding them. I really enjoy working with microservices for async tasks, and I think they're really well-suited to them. I really dislike inter-service dependencies. And of course, there's nothing wrong with a few, small monolith services. It's all about the right tool for the right job for me, and being too prescriptive to a particular architecture comes at a high cost.
Year over year the Dash is down 75% and the Lira is right around 50%. The Lira has much lower short term volatility. Plus, everyone knows what Turkey is, and there is an entire millenia old society interested in maintaining the value of the Lira.

$DASH meanwhile is a speculative "investment" with no underlying assets that most people has no idea exists.

$DASH could go to 0 tomorrow and it would probably not be reported on outside of crypto sites. Neither of those things is true for the Lira
I realized I was burning out when I started yelling at my kids. Here's how I realized it and I quit the job although I loved it.

At the end of every day I started reflecting on it. I started looking for answers and realized once you hit your peak of stress level your mind can handle, you start to crack, show signs of strong negative emotions during meetings/discussions, you will show those emotions somewhere else (like in traffic, waiting for coffee, when your kids take time to get ready), you loose patience and your rational mind starts to break down.

I later learned from some of the self book on how to not end up like that. There is a book called "Essentialism by Greg McKeown", you probably know by the title. But honestly do yourself a favor, read it/listen and try to apply and see if it helps.

Quitting should be the last option unless you already have another plan instead do the minimal thing necessary to keep your job (just as it says in the book). Remember, it's ok to do just enough work as long as you enjoy doing that, nobody can force you to put extra effort(it's ok to say no). It's based on how much effort you can put without reaching your breaking limit. Know your limits. Use tools to increase that limit (that's a career growth .. sometimes slow growth.. sometimes fast growth)
> that reason is intelligence

Is there any reason to think intelligence is substantially more than statistics?
This blog post by the creator goes into some of the more technical details about the system http://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0/
I train a teenager who happily starts school at 8:00, but having huge troubles on the weekend to play before 11:30. Not possible even with 2 cups of strong coffee. Probably because his parties usually last until 4am on Friday and Saturday. The challenge will be to play now on the county level, because these games start at Sat 10am not Wed 5pm anymore. Troubled times for teenagers.
I’ve seen folks try that.

Didn’t work.

Another “politically oriented sub” had users who got pissed that they were banned for spamming a sub that I frequented.

They made new accounts (they did that a lot…) and posted a couple normal posts in our sub and then again spammed but this time pretending to be organizing a brigade vs … their sub.

Admins didn’t act when they complained because it was all pretty obvious and we moderated the brigade posts.

In my experience it’s not just “hey there are a few posts” that triggers these kinds of actions.
Pointing out someone is in effect a highly paid actor is addressing the facts. Both the content of what was said and the manor in which they said it should be considered suspect.
It couldn’t. :) I was dumb and naive and just tried to replace the kernel on win95 with the WinNT kernel. Like just the one sys file.

After booting it just sat there like “what in C:\>’s name have you done to me?!”
I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense to me.... What I am missing ?

> as governments will introduce digital currencies

Governments generally don't create money, central banks do. Famously, some central banks are actually private entities, not government (public ones)

> own failing currencies

What exactly currency is failing, and which are the indicators ? USD and EUR are roaring successes in facilitating value exchanges on a global scale.

> simultaneously robbing citizens of their savings

If that's the intention, banks can do that right now by printing money. Oh wait, they do.

> will give out free money (it costs them nothing to do so)

Yes, printing money has a small marginal cost.

> not tell them that their money can expire

Why somebody would expire money when they try to prop the economy on which they base their own support ?

> have its purchases limited to "approved" vendors

Again, why anybody would shoot themselves in the foot by killing the economy that keeps them alive ?

> it cannot be manipulated or stolen by the state

I'm sorry all your post reads some like crypto-prepper thing. If you feel that the state is out to steal you, you'd better start arming too, because if the state is out to get you, they'll not do it via obscure economic means, they will send the state-sponsored-thugs to violence it out - see Russia.

> Something that's never existed in the history of humanity.

Gold?
Nudity itself is not the concern; impersonation/fraud is.
Do "expert witnesses" really put 6 months of work into their testimony?

That kind of confuses me. It seems like if someone puts that much work into something they are more like a Detective on a case, than an outside resource.

Does that make sense? Like isn't that way too much time to assume they are unbiased?
Sadly I never managed to get it running, but you're right that it _should_ work. I'm using Foliate for book reading and it works fine - not perfect but definitely good enough.

https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/