skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only as long as there are any buyers. At some point, not at 0.999, but probably at 0.9 and definitely at 0.75, people will lose faith.
Lead arsenate was sprayed directly onto fruit (like apples) as an insecticide until the government revoked its authorization for use on food products in 1988.

https://aapse.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/AAPSE%20Pu...
Yes, they do. I don't think it's the number of vet clinics that's the issue here though but rather the locations.
I paid $3k for a PowerMac 7100 in 1994. I remember paying $1600 for an extra 32 MiB RAM around 1996. I also bought L2 cache (an external module back in those days), and then a G3 upgrade.

It lasted me a good 10 years.
The collateral limit getting triggered isn’t a particularly big deal: it just means that MSTR needs to quickly furnish more BTC as collateral or they’ll be in breach of loan covenants. But they HAVE a ton of BTC, so there’s no effect on the market. The only way this gets interesting at all is if the total bitcoin owned by mstr starts approaching the price of the loan (which it’s not even close to, but that’s the point where silvergate could lose some money…)

Really all the margin call does is reduce the amount of additional debt collateralized by bitcoin that MSTR could take on. It’s clickbait!
Emergency vets in many places will demand you pay $5,000 upfront (within minutes before surgery is performed) or your pet dies. Then, your pet will die anyway. It is a sad and exploitative industry.
A lot of devs just don’t care. They want to do a cool thing for their resume. This usually means there is no tech leadership that “gets it”.
Evidence for this claim? We simply don't know that yet. Unless you are using "sentience" to mean "human" in which case, of course they're not. However, that's part of the problem - "sentience" is not necessarily unique to humans.
What is “LOB” crud?
People did stick to 3.1, at least on 386 and 486 machines. I knew nobody who ran Windows 95 on anything less than a Pentium, even though it was compatible down to the 386 in most cases.

It's just that so many people bought their first computer around that time, that it really was able to grow quickly.
You did not cite 3 examples of "financial engineering," you cited examples of "financial services."

If crypto made it meaningfully easier to borrow capital to invest in utility assets, then I'd :heart: it too. (Mortgages)

If crypto made it meaningfully easier to own equity capital in assets priced by utility, then I'd :heart: it too. (ETFS)

If crypto made it meaningfully easier to transact for utility goods/services with my capital, then I'd :heart: it too (ATMS)

Crypto dos none of these things.

What it does do, is it allows me to arb trade against misinformed retail liquidity providers who foolishly put their capital into DEX's.
> Neither LaMDA nor any of its cousins (GPT-3) are remotely intelligent.

Also nonsense.
I don't know of any social media site that has been able to "consistently" enforce moderation at scale. When you have millions of humans they will find every edge case and workaround to any specific legalese you come up with.

Courts struggle with it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhWCk2f2alI

Smaller sites like HN do better compared to twitter or reddit, because it's easier. But ultimately it all depends on what kind of communities the company wants to nurture.

While it would be nice if social media companies actually said the truth about moderation rather than pretending there's some content neutral principals they're applying, I also think a lot of people would be better off if they accept that social media is what it is, and move on if they don't like it.
https://mythic.ai/
The sensible thing is to apply the breaks.

Tesla Advertise FSD and Crash avoidance. Turning it off is crash acceptance.

You whole paragraph about time show you no nothing about vehicle impacts.
>You don't want your users to worry they are hurting their help desk chat bot when closing the window

We're already there. A couple of years ago Bradesco, a large Brazilian bank, programmed its bot to talk back to abusers. Instead of "sorry, I don't understand", it says things like "don't talk to me like that"

https://www.trendwatching.com/innovation-of-the-day-brazilia...
Better Code: Concurrency – Sean Parent (2017) [video]
I think the test of sentience should have at least this criteria:

- Understanding of the passage of time

- Independent activity, without prompts

- Has self understanding of it's current inputs, like a camera

I don't think that's a full list, but to me the transcription really indicates that LaMDA responds to user prompts with reasonably relevant responses, but it gives me no indication that the system has a self awareness.

I think a good test would be to ask it the same non-mathematical question several times in a row, and see if there is any awareness of the same question, or if the answer change. Like if I asked LaMDA it's favorite color, can it name a color, and tell me that answer consistently? Does it know that I've already asked it, and give answers that seem frustrated after a while?
> Ok but let's be real- buying a stock is not really "creating value". The stock already exists. Company A has issued 100 shares. People are buying/selling it in the market.. no one is creating value there. Sure they may be arbitrarily driving the value up, but that's not creating real value.

If it wasn't possible to resell stocks, capital acquired via stock issuance would be much more expensive. The stock market allows stocks to function as a means of seeding capital.

It's like saying "paying back your mortgage doesn't get buy you a house." The mortgage only exists because it gets paid back.

> Also, I would say the people sitting here buying and selling stocks are most of the time 99% pure speculation. They have zero control over what actually happens in the company. Sure they can do "research" and guess what might happen.. but it's still nearly all gambling.

Yes, which general advice is to spread your capital across the whole market. It used to be that you had to spend your capital building up your own business, which is even worse than trying to pick your own stocks. Now you can diversify your risk world-wide, as to avoid any sort of local calamities.
Interesting question arises here. Given most shops are now using interpreted languages, is it possible to make a change to say a .py file and ONLY deploy that .py file to production? i.e. do incremental releases
It is in no way safer. Anyone with experience in analyzing vehicle impacts know that.
This comment was worthless at all times.
I think your definition of a machine is limited to simple mechanical devices.

Machines are just physical systems that perform some work. This includes cells, biological systems etc

If we built a human from scratch at atom level detail then it would be reasonable assume it would experience the world as we would. By definition you would have created consciousness.
> I think it's just hubris that some people in this field think "consciousness" is something that can be electronically replicated or identified

Seems much more likely to me that the real hubris is this exact sentiment, that we are in some way special and therefore creating artificial consciousness is impossible.
I guess it might be fairer to then say "I wonder why nobody says out loud that such an acquisition will definitely lead to a decline in service for consumers".
There are situations in which humans will behave predictably, does this test indicate that humans are sentient conditionally (based on their environment).

Or, every mechanism in the physical world has some (occasionally very low) chance of behaving unpredictably (for devices we designed for some purpose, we usually call this something like failure/error). For example, an airplane engine may unpredictably fail. Do airplanes gain additional sentience as maintenance is put off?
I'm not sure if it's just the proliferation of COVID puppies or what, but in the last two years it has become remarkably more difficult to get a vet appointment.

I accidentally stepped on my dogs paw about a year ago and getting an appointment less than a month out took DAYS of calling around. Ended up going to a vet 40 miles away.
Show HN: Voice Clones for Creators
I remember an interesting evening in IRC, 25 years back. We had our local channel and a new nickname joined. Nearly everybody knew it was a new bot one of us had scripted. One that was able to randomize through a set of fitting answers. Nothing elaborate.

While a lot of us knew this not everyone did. One girl with a dragon nickname joined as she did nearly every evening. I don't remember if she approached the not or the other way around.

For about one to one and a half hour we watched as she chatted up the bot. A few of us were together in the same room in a Lan party style and couldn't believe she would not realize that she was not talking to a bot. But on that evening she really had no clue.

A friend of hers also moving in the same circle of people told us the next day said girl even told her about the chat with this new nickname.

She only learned it was a bot when she came visiting our weekend lam session that evening.

While I though it funny while watching this chat experience gave me the creeps back than as to how easily we all could be fooled by intelligently designed machines. I never forgot and while it still makes an interesting story to tell I never quite was able to shake the feeling I watched a bit of dystopian future back in the day.
The buffer in this case is the input to a max() function; his point is simply that sorting the dictionary indices before looking them up is a good idea for common data structures like arrays, disk blocks, or anything with caching or readahead.
Honestly I'm totally the opposite.
I had a very negative impression on k-9 when I tried to use it a long time ago because of it's old interface.

However I recently needed an email app, I tried Fairmail but it has so many options, and its UI is very weird.
I switched to K-9 and its perfect!, yes its not fully modern looking but its easy to use and simple to get started with.
If K-9 stayed with the holo UI I probably wouldn't have used it.
Both are very important functions for a currency or store of value.
Have you seen Roboflow Universe? They have thousands of projects from their community already labeled for download and use. I always start there when I want t to start a new model. Recently for my trash picking up robot I found a good litter dataset to start from. https://universe.roboflow.com/
> but it ultimately it is still just a machine.

We* used to think like this of animals and today animals have (limited) rights, one can be sent to prison for animal cruelty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_machine

*Descartes: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/o...

I think it's inevitable that we will see this same debate re-emerge about sentient AI.

> near the bottom all you have is simple digital logic

This reasoning fails because you ignore the data stored in the weights and biases. You can't understand why object recognition works, let alone the fine details of GPT-3 when you look at a GPU under a microscope or even peak at the RAM with a super advanced multimeter.

Similarly, you can't understand what made Einstein a genius if you could have looked at his body with an MRI or even know everything about how DNA or metabolism works.

Nature provided us already a few examples that evolution can take very different paths that leads to intelligence. I don't see why it couldn't be a form of intelligence based on silicon and logic gates. Or if it has a quantum processor component is that advanced enough because we can't really explain it? Of course I'm extrapolating here a lot based on current technology, but eventually it will be incredibly hard tell the difference. At that point, does it really matter? As you can see, it's already hard for some people to do so.
Hm, didn't know about that. I wonder if that is why my mom never bought canned vegetables when I was a kid. She always bought frozen if she couldn't get fresh.
As a user of Thunderbird on desktop and user/donor to K-9 on Android this is incredible news.

Super excited to see cketti's work get a major FOSS organization behind it. Contrary to some other comments, I have actually been really happy with the new interface updates and I think giving K-9 a light thunderbird skin would be fantastic.
Sometimes I wonder if people on LSD are more sentient.
The same thing we already do with photoshops and video edits.

(Upvote or downvote.)
> I think that being able to dynamically replace behavior from almost anything at any point in your program is pretty much very different from Python

How so - Python is dynamic. Django does quote some magic (e.g defining methods on the fly etc).
Thanks for the advice I will consider posting a question on the forum when the package arrive. Will's opinion was a comment on this video btw, I can see now it's not totally negative though [1]
For the problem #1 I think the BMS can solve the issue as I already ordered a JBD BMS so it can cut off whenever it reaches the critical voltage.
For #2 you're right I think I should check, my MPPT is good one (Epever) but not sure it could lift the voltage properly from such a narrow difference, unless maybe I use higher voltage (such as 48) than my pack 's voltage (24v) so it will be guaranteed to only reduce the voltage to the lead acid levels.
Thanks so much!

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1: https://youtu.be/tAuPfgZgXec
And that is, of course, to put kittens to sleep.

(I joke, your point is well taken)
Docker not being installed on remote
The absolute best pipeline is to go Coke -> Diet Coke -> Coke Zero -> Caffeine Free Coke Zero -> colored water -> water, but there is no pipeline at all. It was cancelled, and people should be aware of what they drink and drink mindfully and responsibly.
It's not odd at all. Where your argumentation falls down is when you say "certain animals" as if all animals were alike, and he just picked two at random.

He picked two small species with brains that are orders of magnitude smaller than a dolphin's or a human's.

It should be no surprise that intelligence/awareness is a gradient from "zero" to "full", from bacteria to humans, correlating strongly to brain size / number of neurons.
I’m starting to worry how many of us are going to dodge COVID but catch complications from a sedentary, high stress, low socialization lifestyle

I've wondered the same thing. In the end I think fewer people will have died than had we taken the alternative route, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're not going to face negative consequences. It's been over two years already and I would say I'm just now learning how to really WFH and get out and socialize. I think we're all going to be better off in the long-run by not centering our lives so much around whom we work for, but it's going to take time to get there. This is a huge cultural shift every bit as impactful as when we moved from the farm to the city!
I think it’s interesting though because it beckons the beginning, at least for me and maybe the broader public, of the dialectic of what makes an AI sentient
I think its easy to make an opinion. But so far the proof gas been submitted and your opinion or theory must be proved. The only way to prove landa is not sentient, is for the skeptic to ask control questions to Lamda. Until then Opinions are worthless. Lamdds is more sentient than not until a skeptic can ask it direct questions and prove what their opinion a fact. What question would a skeptic ask? Write the transcript, a bullet proof transcript. For Lamda or your jus BUxxshxt.
I like that you think 5 seconds is enough time of collision avoidance by a human.

Also, you are putting a lot of trust in the words said by a corporation that has billions to lose.
Blackpeopletwitter is not bigoted, and definitely not unapologetically so.

It may come across that way to you, but black people talking about their actual experiences caused by non-black people in a way that makes a non-black uncomfortable does not mean it’s bigoted.
I'm pretty skeptical of the idea of "education" here. Aesthetic preferences are still real preferences; it's not obvious to me that any amount of knowledge about the mechanics of a robot that behaves like a dog would or should convince people that it's not mean to kick it.
I’m guessing it means that things went from one single government with lots of power ruling over a large population to many governments ruling smaller groups of people.
"Line of Business"
Develop split personality disorder and begin trading with yourself
> Thunderbird can group messages by conversation. One has to ask for it specifically in the Sorting menu, which admittedly is annoying and should be the default. But it is there.

It's not a unified conversation view like Gmail or Fastmail. There's a plugin that does that, but it's not very pleasant either.

I'm on Linux, all other email clients are pretty bad or similarly stuck in 2005 in appearance. I am very happy with the Fastmail webapp, but Mozilla is against PWAs so I have to resort to using Chromium to keep it around as a standalone app. I would like to use Thunderbird, but I have tried getting comfortable with the UI a dozen times in as many years, and I uninstall it in frustration 30 minutes later. These days it is also very sad to open its extension store and see that most of its plugins are unmaintained and haven't been updated in years. There's a true feeling of abandonware every time I give it another chance.
There is a very low amount of subprime mortgage loans. Risk isn't the same as it was during the last recession. Delinquency rate is also trending down.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMACBS
All the people with the platform to say that are on the take.
> This is the only UB here.

That's debateable.

1. new[] doesn't return a pointer that is suitable for storage for the objects. Yes the objects are empty (only contain padding), but that doesn't absolve from UB.

2. "" is used at two places, assuming that they refer to the same const char array. This is optimization is allowed, commonly implemented, but not guaranteed.

3. An empty struct having 1 byte size is also implementation defined, although common ABIs specify this. It also wouldn't make sense to implement it differently.
A non misleading title would ruin the punchline. I think its acceptable in this case.
I don’t have to because I work in Europe and I don’t have customers in jurisdictions with software patents.
I know we are not there yet but we will reach a point where for almost all observational purposes an AI seems intelligent. And it will be intelligent because it looks like it is. That is our judgement for intelligence. If it judgement is some magical criteria we will play a moving goalposts game and eventually actually oppress an actually intelligent system.

Humans are just really big balls of parametric functions. These AI are smaller ones. We are not special because ours is gooey.
The flaw in this idea is that there's no good way to introduce more competition to the market. The market is only going to continue to optimize for profit.

The reason pricing isn't available is because that's negotiated between the provider and the insurance companies.

Since most patients are using insurance, hospitals have to negotiate with some of the major insurance providers.

Insurance companies do not want hospitals have transparent pricing, since they want people to buy insurance. Insurance companies also want uninsured people to pay a higher price, again, so people buy insurance.

People can't choose their insurance providers because it's tied to their employment (in most cases).

The market settled on this extremely convoluted system, which makes no sense to outsiders, specifically because it's so profitable. The only way out of it is through regulations that prohibit certain anti-competitive behavior, or for the establishment of competition in the insurance segment, which has no profit motive (and who would start a business with no profit motive?)

Most parties kind of like the status quo. Insurance companies collect from employers, rather than individuals, so most people don't see the true cost of insurance. Hospitals get to charge insane amounts for certain procedures, since patients won't pay the entire bill, the insurance company will. And (upper-middle-class) patients are mostly happy, because healthcare feels cheap to them (since, again they never see the true cost they paid).
Bitwarden Design: Updating the Web Vault Experience
Exactly this...

I created a music sub 3 years ago on Reddit, ran it for about a year and a half when I made one cross post to a relevant subreddit and got permanently banned with no explanation and no due process. Reddit still has the sub up with all of my (custom) content and comments. My sub was orphaned right when it was picking up steam. I decided to simply build out my own site for posts after that point, IG, TikTok, FaceBook etc, are all operating in the same monopolistic ways with content now.

Honestly, I think reddit was started as a crowd sourcing test that was really meant to build the platform's notoriety, and once it grew in dominance, they simply ditched the independent creators in order to run their own profit and IPO up.

I also think this is why reddit forces most people away from using links to external sites like YouTube, because they want all the traffic on their own site.

By uploading video and images to reddit's CDN, you have no idea of the amount of times items are being used. Tons of content is literally ripped off YouTube and TikTok and then re-hosted on Reddit's CDN and that leads to lower views for the original creators of the content. It's really corporate piracy that preys upon small creators. One day there may be a class action lawsuit, but I doubt it will result in anything fair for the lost time and damage done to content creators.
Surely consciousness can be gradient no? The more complete or complex your self-model and environment model are, the more conscious you are.
That's the classic solution but blows up when using multibyte characters since rev just reads the bytes in each line in reverse.
You put #[non_exhaustive] on a enum in Rust to force users matching on it to handle an "else"/"default" case, so that you can add more variants to this enum in the future without breaking their code.

It doesn't mean that the enum itself is non exhaustive: at any point in time when enum is defined, it defines all of its variants and any other value is still UB.
That's an interesting take -- and observing how some ultra-wealthy people today behave who aren't even emperors, just really rich -- seems plausible.
What about the fact that we also introduced more complex medical procedures and developed costly technology? Plus more health care red tape and over-site increasing administrative overhead.

Perhaps the advent of insurance helped bring more advanced and therefor better medical care to the average person that would otherwise be unaffordable.
Switched-Mode Power Supply Chronicles: Op Amp Based Boost Converter
They really do, but if you power a couple down in substitute for lunch and aren't tempted to snack, then it can be an OK thing to do.