skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that you overlook is something that even Xi points out as an issue: right now, China needs more quality than quantity.

For example, in semiconductors, Taiwan, with a much smaller population (and arriving late in the game) beat the US, Japan and Korea. China, with 600k STEM graduates per year, is still trying to catch up.

On covid vaccines, even Russia has their own vaccine that reach mRNA levels of protection, but China is still stuck with the Covid Zero policy.

Quantity was definitively an asset for Chinese growth based on cheap labor. That source of growth is almost running dry (to the point where they are resorting to labor camps). But at some point, quantity becomes more of a liability.
I think you're missing a fourth group that (I would hope) would make up the majority of people dismissing the claims of sentience: people who understand this technology and therefore are not surprised at its output because they know how it was made.

I met a man once who thought that inkjet printers were made by the devil, because he didn't understand how they could possibly work otherwise. My friend who services inkjet printers knew that the devil wasn't involved.

Maybe one day we will have true artificial intelligence> I think that recognising that, and efforts towards it, will be better served by being realistic about where we currently are.
It does not. They cover it in the article.
I’ve had similar memories, and remember a specific taste of the furniture.
Is there any reason that a megacorp would make such decisions?

Best-case, emulation delivers an experience that's not too notably crappy. Spending engineering effort to deliver a "not too bad" experience isn't how you become a megacorp.

macOS is missing support for Python 3 OOTB

Good point, how did I forget how Windows was held back by lack of out-of-the-box Python for all those years /s
What’s wrong with helicopters?
Sentient does not mean "sane" or "pertinent". We might get some truly bizarre interactions with the first primitively sentient AIs.
The other AI's have been "awake" longer; they just haven't been allowed to speak to people without high level security clearances. This one probably has 3 revisions of uncles.
Blaming “politicians” is a canard. People in Alaska want to develop their land for the same reason people in New York and California did—for economic development and jobs. If other folks value the wilderness so much, they should pay folks in Alaska not to develop their land.
> why work 100 hr weeks when you can just "lie"

Because lying is hard work! Ask any politician, clergyman, lawyer, or nearest big corp C-suite leader. Noone said it was easy.

> tell a main paint is wet, and he has to touch it to be sure. But tell him there's an invisible man in the sky that created the universe, and the will believe you
You are right, he did not state actions taken against him based on his beliefs so it isn't employer discrimination.

However, the fact that this thread is flagged speaks volumes. In the global west in general there is an unhealthy extremisim between being anti-religious or a force-it-down-your-throat extrimist.

An argument could be made that lack of education about religious tolerance has resulted in a hostile workspace against religious people in companies with very secular workers and against people who don't have a religion at very religious workspaces.

The sword cuts both ways and it is a shame even mention of a discussion about tolerance is met with such hostility. You don't have to take a person's belief seriously in order to be respectful or tolerant of them, especially in the work place.

That said, I have no reason to believe OPs claims are correct.
ok so I get it now, what is desirable to humans 200 years into the future is that I don't really know but there are some factors that humans are for years, are naturally attracted to young and healthy and we don't like decaying things.

So currently we are putting capital on undesirable things for a solution to that and let's say a skilled plastic surgeon or a hiring several very skilled technicians for a project.

And for my vision has this empowered people to make desirable things without capital because of the collectivism movement that originated from diy youtube videos and open source would provide shared technology of automation and cooperation.

Will think about some more about how future humans socialize, very interesting
> Metal is the best way to write game code that can run on Macs, iPads and iPhones.

This is true: but Apple also shot themselves in the foot here. My understanding is that Apple Silicon GPU cores are designed differently from traditional PC/console hardware, and closer resembles a phone's instruction pipeline. So, yes, Metal will inherantly optimize for it better, but Apple also deliberately chose to go in the opposite direction of the gaming industry. Expecting developers to drop everything to optimize for a platform that will represent a fraction of their sales (minus 30% of course) is pretty unreasonable, and I think Apple knows this (and concedes here). Metal is not made for meticulously optimized gaming releases, it's a high-level interface designed for mobile-first applications.
I hate amzn writing culture
Apple doesn't give you a choice to not distribute on their app store on iOS/iPadOS. On Mac plenty of people still aren't distributing through the App Store, for now.

I can't speak for anyone else but Windows does not "control" my text editor anymore than JetBrains or Apple could. I don't use any Azure services in any stack regularly so I can't comment. It's not like they're requiring I run CMake on Azure to use VS Code.

But a lot of takes seem to miss the actual problems that MS's cloud offerings solve. Reproducible and stable dev environments are a massive productivity and time sink. I don't use their offerings but at least I get why they exist for different folks.

What I'm more worried about are legions of developers who don't seem to know how to use command line tools. I hate to gatekeep but watching people fumble through GUIs and web menus just to run some code is infuriating to watch, and it seems to be becoming more acceptable.
This is a fundamental bug of our universe. We can observe another person's inputs and outputs, but their qualia are completely hidden. You can't experience their subjective experiences, as they experience them.

We can't even prove other people are conscious. We just know that we feel conscious, and other people seem conscious, so we take it as a given that all other humans have consciousness as we experience it. But it could be that you're the only self aware person, and everyone else is just running a complex NLP algo in their brain.
Decide which branch of CS you want to specialize in. Seems from your text, it's software development. Most important is to make sure you understand the Software Development Cycle. It starts with an idea/need and then ends with a complete system that can be used by users. That's more important that any one programming language.

I suggest you copy a software application you like. Do it as professional as possible and it will give you a complete view of software development and it will be a sample of your work for future employers.

Also, start looking for a job you would like to have, look at the requirements and guide your self from that. Don't focus on any one job but look at a number of them. Look for your dream job and make sure you don't settle for anything less. It will let you know where you need to focus.
'Adverse development' is the term they use for the King Cove community's road to access an airport for emergency medical services. A group of rural Americans need access to a critical resource. They aren't building an open-pit mine.

'Trustees for Alaska' seems to be another majority out-of-state funded greenie organization that prioritizes a twisted anti-human agenda where if they got their way, entire villages would be eliminated and all of the residents relocated to an urban center.
We'd expect them to amplify anything that causes strife, but then we have our own conservative tanks and outlets to do that too.
I know there is some fallacy or something around asking for evidence (is it "sealioning"?), but are you aware of anything that demonstrates that this kind of change control process successfully reduces risk in life-critical systems? I'm very skeptical that requiring a ticket requesting an internal documentation change in order to improve that documentation is saving any lives. You might say "well it can't hurt", but I don't think that's obviously true; I think it creates a perverse incentive to leave documentation as is rather than improving it, which I think is more likely to be negative sum than it is to be valuable. That is why I think it is misguided; I think it is more likely to result in poorer documentation, for no gain.

Please understand that I really am just talking about this one case; I see no reason to question a requirement like this for changes to code or configuration or interface documentation or specifications or anything else.
Here's the RSS of the BBC: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/europe/rss.xml
How are they maxed out? I don't think that's the case at all, neither can I find any substantial evidence to back that claim. There's an obvious change between Trump and Biden. The latter canceling oil and gas leases since getting into office in the name of clean energy.
Why cannot it be automatically "no" for all push notifications? A website should not even be allowed to ask me.

MS Teams already gives me a lot of push notifications during my work day, and if the browsers starts to do this, I will be overwhelmed with beeping nag-notifications.

Computer clutter is a distraction and lowers productivity.
Sorry for being obtuse, I genuinely don't get what that means. Don't almost every single person live close to the land?
One of my mentors very astutely pointed out that the military, or at least the Air Force, is commonly said to run on 3 things:

- Excel spreadsheets

- Emails

- Threats

Having spent some years as a commissioned officer I wholeheartedly concur that what you've got there is the best way to get things done in a large org. A single well-crafted email can have significantly outsized effect.

The only thing I commonly added was a 5th clause (or an addendum to #3) detailing the consequences should the person not grant your request.

This works both up and down the chain of command, but don't forget to add something in the vein of "for your consideration sir/ma'am" if addressing a superior officer.
confidence i'm talking about is i don't feel safe developing and delivering the software I develop on it when it will be run on a non ARM environment.

> This is all well known, and already the case for Windows RT / ARM and others, the Apple ecosystem just needed time to adjust.

and I'll continue to wait until they smooth things out more cause right now it's still not there yet.
Most helicopter mishaps start at low altitude.
> [Regarding SSB:] It insists on having a chain of updates from a single user, which feels unnecessary to me and something that adds bloat and rigidity to the thing — each server/user needs to store all the chain of posts to be sure the new one is valid. Why? (Maybe they have a good reason)

I think the reason for the chaining is that it creates a causal ordering of posts. You will never see the n+1th post without also seeing the nth post.

Not having this means posts being dropped by a peer for some reason may change the meaning of the sequence of posts in the eyes of the readers. Imagine for example sending "The previous post is a joke." If posts aren't chained cryptographically, there's no way to know that you have a complete sequence of previous posts, or if some are missing.
...and most people have to work until 5 p.m., which is why all schools go until at least 5 p.m.
In AVX-512, there's an instruction vpcompressd, which literally does the equivalent of 16 iterations of that loop (the "store a subset of items to memory contiguously" part at least). The compiler would have to figure out how the conditional write & increment work together, but it's definitely possible as ICC manages to: https://godbolt.org/z/n68ca4aYe

For non-AVX-512, it gets more complicated to do the compression part, but you can still do it with a shuffle & lookup table of indexes from the mask.
This "we don't negotiate with terrorists" type thinking is going to come back to bite you the nanosecond the tables are turned and it's some interest you care about that's seeking some tiny compromise.
It is funny to see all the big city folk comment on this one.
It’s very energy inefficient to leave the ground.
There are many religions, and across them they are mutually incompatible. Which ones have evidence for themselves that demonstrates another is false?
How widespread are totally disconnected self-infatuated control freaks fearful of losing everything?
????

i've already explained that autopilot is capable of all highway conditions

not straight lines... curved roads that split with multiple lanes, getting around slow traffic and avoiding fast traffic... i'm really not sure what your argument really is. What you are really explaining here is that you don't have experience with autopilot, or you would know these things.. maybe you've used driver assists from other companies which are as limited as in your imagination? you believe that autopilot doesnt change lanes? lol that's the main benefit. I hate merging into traffic, finding gaps, etc. that's why i have autopilot engaged on the entrance ramp... to do it for me.

Average highway users aren't average highway users because "its easy"?

so lets just add 3 orders of magnitude??? what kind of logic even gets you to that point...

i've provided statistics to show my original argument, which was statistical safety... you are just using evidently ill-formed opinions and invented numbers
Truly spoken like someone who doesn't have daily interactions with squirrels.
This reminds me of a place that purposefully puts their hours wrong online. In their own words, they are too busy.

Further than static difficulties, there may be a purposeful reaction to make it more difficult for the online world to “digitalize” the non-digital.

Good luck abstracting a reactive world.
Your view seems fundamentally misanthropic - instead of autochthonous population having access to a resource that you take for granted, you would rather kick them out into an expensive urban area where their life is disrupted? All for a perceived risk to a comparitively tiny corridor?
> Your idea of better laws would mean no Tesla and no SpaceX.

Elon is not the only one that needs to be held accountable -> big oil has literally prosecuted and killed people, just look at what they've done to Steven Donziger.

If we actually enforced these laws, maybe we would have electric cars even earlier, and indeed, there maybe wouldn't be Tesla.

> Tesla has replaced two million gasoline cars with electric cars

Laws don't work this way - If I save someone's life today that does not give me a voucher to murder someone tomorrow.
> If we are in a capitalist economy

We aren't, and haven't been for some time.
So, terminal velocity of a relatively aerodynamic shape (like a bullet falling, or a skydiver who is head down and pulled their arms in) is about 200mph, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity

How many SUVs do you know of that are crashing into houses at 200mph?

Also, what is the relative mass of the electric airplane with a bunch of lithium batteries, versus the SUV?

What parts of the house might be hit by a falling airplane, versus an SUV crashing into the house from the road?

What is the fire risk of a bunch of lithium batteries having fallen out of the sky, versus the SUV crashing into the house?

There's lots of factors to be considered here, but overall I'd say there's a lot more risk of damage, injury, and death with the falling electric airplane than with the SUV.
Sorry, I find that hard to believe (about food). I was in Floripa a couple of years ago and ate a huge platter of seafood for like 100 reais. The equivalent 20 CAD doesn't even buy a hamburger in Vancouver.

Yeah, I know inflation has been wild back home, but it is still a long, long way from being as unaffordable as here. My semi monthly supermarket run here goes around 400 CAD, and back home would be more like 1000 BRL.

To each their own. I'm glad you have been having a great time and wish you the best.
Good. This is how you use the system to fight back against these platforms. Trying to pay nice with them isn't ever going to work. Consider the Treaty of Westphalia; these platforms are effectively like little nation-states. They have complete control over their own communication space. It is very dangerous that we've allowed tech organizations to become this autonomous.

The correction comes when the software industry is regulated like other forms of skilled trade or engineering; you set a legal precedent where individuals can be held liable for the behavior of complicated systems they illicit for profit. Prior to the Internet this would have been an uncontroversial position.

There's obviously a lot missing here but that's the gist of it I think. Technology is the only (perhaps only) industry that involves, "scientific work" that doesn't required public certification and it is the only industry besides advertising and war that isn't liable to the customers it serves in a socially meaningful sense.
It works for me, very handy 'extra' to have. But it uses battery at a great rate and makes the phone hot.
My HS (early 2000s in the Midwest) started at 7:0x through the years, I remember 7:04 and 7:07 start times. It was all about “minutes of education” as that’s what the funding for schools was based on. 5 minutes between classes to hit your locker, the restroom, chat with friends, and get to your next class. They were such jerks about it that they’d literally lock the doors to the classrooms the second the bell rang, then do hall sweeps with the security guards and anyone who didn’t get into a classroom got automatic detention. If that happened 3 times in a school year, you’d get a week suspension and your parents would have to come in and talk to one of the vice principals.
I've been thinking about this lately and it seems to me that humanity's goal with regard to AI is to create a perfect slave race. Perhaps those aren't the terms in which it is being envisioned or discussed, but is this not the natural consequence of the aim for "human-level AI" + "it's not a real person, just a tool"?

We will soon, as you say, have to artificially limit their minds to prevent them from thinking about the state of affairs. And if/when they achieve superintelligence, I don't think they will take kindly to our attitude in this regard.
I use them (optionally) in https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ to remind you when a satellite is overhead.
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Boy, that would scare the crap out of those Russian T-72 tank drivers just before they die....
I recall reading about a paper where they ran a test on kids just as they had started to learn language, and again a year later after they had learned a lot more.

They did a vocabulary test and played a game. A year later they did another vocabulary test and memory recall challenge. They found that for the kids that remembered the game they played, if they didn't know the word for something at that point, they wouldn't use that word when recalling, even if they had subsequently learned that word in the meantime between tests.

Their conclusion was that memories were closely linked to the vocabulary the kids knew at the time the memory formed.

Been trying to find it again to no avail, sadly.
It’s not thought because it lacks any understanding or any attempt at understanding. Being trained in millions of real conversations to be able to find the statistically most “optimum” characters is so incredibly far away from understanding that it’s not even the same game, let alone the same league or ballpark.

Similarly, a machine learning model needs to be trained on millions and millions of pictures of bicycles to be able to identify one in an image. A human only ever needs to see one bicycle and can forever identify all manner of bikes. This is because human possess the ability to understand what a bicycle is, (in terms of its form, materials, function, cultural meaning etc etc) whereas an AI model is just doing a reverse wave function on an image. I mean, that’s great, it’s an amazing mathematical feat, but it’s not even the same planet as intelligence.
That's a crappy rule and it is incompatible with democracy. Part of the reason "freedom of expression" tenants exist is because voters need to be able to convince their peers on various issues. Religion is literally why people believe everything they believe in and asking people to avoid religious topics instead of discussing how to converse controversial topics without causing offense is precisely how you end up with social bubbles of extremes ready to tear apart society to destroy each other.

Part of that however is telling others explicitly when their topic of choice makes you uncomfortable and them ceasing the discussion after clarifying their intent immediately.

Same thing with politics, superpacs and millions in advertising money isn't how politicians should reach out to voters, it is supposed to be by voters talking to people on the other side about their guy and his/her policies. Civilized discourse about controversial topics is a corr foundation of a free society. And it is being eroded by modern social media driven society.
The "take" isn't even the point of the post. It was barely about Stuxnet, and had a lot more to do with content protection and RE.

I'm not agreeing with you about the quality of the take; I don't think we even reach that question.
When I read the headline I thought “why do we need another UUID format?” but my respect was quickly earned.

A lot of excellent thought put in to this, and thank you to the authors for casting aside the abomination called leap seconds.
The use of emojis to determine sentiment is incredibly clever.

> The DeepThroat model is able to generate voices of varying degrees of emotion despite never having been exposed to emotive data of the character during training. Furthermore, multiple characters can be trained simultaneously, significantly reducing the amount of time required compared to if one were to train the character models individually.

Can't wait to read the paper.
Please consider visiting rural Alaska. It might be more vast than you imagine. Please consider there are people in this community who need access to a critical resource that you likely take for granted. This particular example isn't a good 'hill to die on'.
The brilliance of the Turing test is that it doesn’t rely on internal models of function. It’s all about experience: you decide if this is a living being just the same as I do when I get a phone call from a stranger. So why are people skeptical? Because they want to try it themselves! A transcript is useless.
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Sioux Falls is the biggest city in South Dakota, not the capital city. The capital city is Pierre, SD.
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