skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They haven't appeared to use a lot of hypersonics (no need, really); probably just testing and calibration. With just the kinetic energy alone, they can do massive damage. And make no mistake, the US will have them soon enough. There's a reason Russia made their moves now (during that gap).

As for preciseness, the newer ballistics have precision of over 90% (thanks, US designed chips). Older ones probably 75%. Their biggest weakness is access to chips.

And the imprecise hits are coming from the Tochka-Us, an old system that mostly the Ukrainians are fielding - but maybe pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists forces some, too.

Check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Military-Supremacy-American-St...
Ask HN: Does a formal education in CS matter?
I am attempting to complete a MS in CS part-time and am struggling with the workload alongside a full time job and hobbies. The main issue is I am not sure if this is a worthwhile endeavor at this point.

I am young, and my job role is already lightly CS-related (data). I have an undergraduate minor in CS, so I have taken Data Structures, Discrete Structures, AI, etc. I don't think I want to be a SWE, I am mainly pursuing this degree for personal knowledge (to enable side projects and satisfy interest) and to make my profile more appealing to large tech companies and startups.

Is a masters worth it? Or would it be more worth it to try to build knowledge through side projects / a blog if I can trust myself to remain committed?
For me, only really hard, to make one solution, which will be market viable, mean, will sell on real open market in quantities enough to make project profitable.

For example, it is possible, if we consider some fantastic scenario, in which some big rich country will totally prohibit all other architectures, and enforce all people to buy only this.
But I only know big poor countries, who could consider such experiments.
> People are naturally predisposed to ascribe intelligence and emotion to things they interact with.

It's not just humans either. One of the things that struck me after getting my first cat was how quick he was to assign agency to random objects. Like if I accidentally bumped a stool that startled him, he'd spend a long time glaring at the stool and regarding it with intense suspicion.

My lay person guess is that there's an evolutionary benefit to erring on the side of overestimating other parties.

Chat bots, like so many other features of modern society, trigger evolutionary reactions in interesting ways.
https://josephnoelwalker.com/139-david-deutsch/

Philosophy is currently reshaping science and math. I'm curious what your take is on the discussion in this link.
Enter a new AGI winter where economic incentives align against creating an obviously sentient AI because the social/legal implications prevent it.
The UK has an apprenticeship scheme where police officers gain a degree whilst learning to do the job.
I like to refer to computing history as much as the next person, but the references in this post [0][1][2] came across as rather weak and mostly anachronistic.

Computer hardware, networking, and server software has evolved by leaps and bounds over the last 5-10 years, let alone 50!

[0] https://prl.ccs.neu.edu/img/p-tr-1971.pdf (1971)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month (1975)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu... (1997?)
Eh, as the technology becomes better and more widespread, the likely result is that people take compromising pictures less seriously, because everyone knows they're more likely to be deepfakes than real. It will be ubiquitous. People will be deepfaking each other constantly for any number of reasons—jokes, porn, pranks, etc.

All the consternation about deepfakes ignores this higher-order effect.
You are using this word "deflecting" and I don't think you know what it means.

Here's another "English as a foreign language" tip:

Every time you come across a word you are not sure about, look it up.

You'll be amazed at how much your English improves, both reading comprehension and writing.
> Fake crypto is not, as far as I know, a problem.

As it happens, crypto-less cryptocurrency is very much possible as demonstrated by the OneCoin scam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/cryptocurrency/articles/what...
I wonder how you can be so sure about digital logic not being able to produce subjective experience? How is being able to describe how a mechanism works related to knowing if it feels something or not?

We have no sure way to tell if any other human experiences anything or if they are philosophical zombies. This is just something we have not figures out how to measure conceptually let alone technically.
Where do you take the confidence of judging whether the AI has subjective experience in this case?

Do you think that there is something still to be found in the human brain that will explain why we (humans, animals) uniquely have subjective experience and others (AI) are zombies?
Noble. Thanks for standing up for a cause.
Amazon and other large caps have some sketchy patents but shouldn't we judge as follows:
A) Does Amazon use its patent portfolio largely on defense, never broadly asserting sketchy patents? B) Does Amazon ever sell tranches of patents to non practicing entities?
Does LaMDA have a memory or is it a stateless language model?
- taking sick days when healthy
- procrastinating aka slacking
- dreading the next meeting, starting your work day, working on a deliverable
- frequently oversleeping
- abusing substances
- normal work seems harder than usual because of a lack of focus
There is a big difference in Canadian pension funds and US pension funds.

Canadian pension funds are run more akin to a private equity firm. They invest directly in growth stage deals and therefore take commensurate risks like any other private equity firm.

That means that they make bets with more asymmetric risks and balance their entire portfolio rather than staying at a specific risk band with all of their investments. They pay for professional staff commensurate with that model. A canadian pension fund's employees earn salary and bonuses comparable to a investment bank or private equity firm.

You can't necessarily look at one off investments and have to look at return over time which is generally healthy and their funding ratio, which is generally much healthier than US pension counterparts.

There is a reason the "Canadian Model" is held up as one of the ideal pension management models.
I learned several years ago that what most people are thinking when they say "sentient" is actually "sapiant".
iPhones Are Allergic to Helium
it is only impossible to predict due to limited compute and quantum effects.

I disagree that they are fundamentally different - you have just defined one thing to be chaos and not the other.
Is sentience even a useful concept?

Starting to seem almost as useless as arguing about what makes code "clean."
Are you talking about free will?
It could be absolute and/or relative depending on the mechanisms. Relying on FDIC insurance to protect $1 million in a bank account is probably not a good idea.
I agree with you, which is why you always need a human in the loop.

The key thing is to tackle the low hanging fruit, which is the utter utter majority: people dumping the videos and photos of their ex girlfriends, tinder hookups or whatever over and over again unaltered. A ContentID-like system could save a lot of pain for the victims at relatively low cost here. Additionally, it could help to rein in the utter absurd amount of theft going on - pretty much everyone with an Onlyfans or whatever account can tell you more than enough stories about people dumping fresh content in a matter of minutes on imgur, Reddit and tube sites, not to mention catfish accounts.

The more difficult stuff such as content without faces - I'm actually inclined to default for "doesn't need to be removed until there is something like a tattoo or scars that clearly identify a specific person". But again, the key is to tackle the mass offenders.
We use Redislabs to run a redis-cluster for us, it helps our team not to focus on how redis works in clustermode, failover, failure-modes and routing etc.
A better first approach would be to try and remove roadblock and bureaucracy that are encouraging developers to actually consider microservices. Those are of course not the only the only arguments for microservices, but I do think they're a big one that more often goes unsaid than the modularity. You can have modularity in a monolithic app, but for some reason many teams don't actually take modularity seriously; they ask that everything be object-oriented and call it a day, as if writing a `module` in Ruby means you've made things modular. Microservices become appealing when the process to have monolithic code reviewed and deployed is long and painful, since they are by definition small, decoupled, and simple to deploy. Of course it often doesn't quite work out that way, in which case a monolith would have worked anyway.

But it's unlikely things will change in coding culture so long as there's the perverse incentive for businesses to encourage their engineers to use hacks out of expediency. Hacks inevitably make things really hard down the road, create mysterious problems that are hard to solve, and the solution is often to add bureaucracy or switch to microservice architecture.
I sense that your comment is going to attract a lot of attention. I want to point out that r/conservative is worse than r/politics in a way that both conservatives and liberals would agree is bad.

Perhaps 80% of r/conservative threads can only be commented on by flaired users. Certainly all the threads one would actually want to contribute to at any rate. How do you get a flair? You have to post conservative-sounding things elsewhere or in the non-flair-only threads. Only once you've established that you're not going to deviate from the groupthink will you be allowed to participate in the community.

Conversely, r/politics is a free-for-all. Granted, there is clear downvote brigading on alternative opinions but they do not get taken down ever. HN is going to read your "intentionally one-sided" quip and not understand how correct you truly are.
When you don’t want to get out of bed in the morning and end up phoning in sick.

Watch out for depression.

I’d suggest taking a long break and a holiday somewhere which is not anywhere in your normal location. During which, I’d reevaluate your priorities.
On current day Linux, /dev/random will only block during bootup, never after it has once started.
> Many of the Danish software companies have contracts with e.g. banks and government organisations, that makes them nervous about taking in people from outside the EU.

I actually meant outside EU. I do not know of any places that would exclude foreigners due to government contracts. I see no lack of foreign hires within fintech and medical, and the usual government contract dumpsters (KMD, Netcompany, that sort) also hire foreigners. I myself work in a place that employs a lot of engineers from India on-site for example, and I know many companies like it.

Foreigners from within EU will have easier paperwork and living situation though.
Where do we draw the line between sentience and a sufficiently complex math formula? I don't think LaMDA has reached that point, but it is a discussion worth having.
Because you’ll need even less skills than it takes to do a passable photoshop?
> As for preciseness, the newer ballistics have precision of over 90%

Ok, so they are bombing civilians on purpose, is that what you say?
Conversely, I'm not sure which OS is most like my preferred UK real ale: "Old Grumblebelly"
My argument isn't that it is good that everyone drives ICEs - just that it is silly to be proud of the current electric drivetrain longevity. Getting upset about that is silly.
To be slightly pedantic, C# gives you the option to throw an exception in that case (with either checked blocks or setting the CheckForOverflowUnderflow compiler flag to true), but the default behavior is to allow overflow.
You can set next/image to work with Cloudinary or Imgix or a custom provider. It gets the job done that way, but yeah, the experience isn't as smooth as with Vercel.

Same with incremental static regeneration and some other features... Next is obviously built not just by, but also for, Vercel. Vendor lock-in already is a small issue and may become a bigger one if they keep going down that route.
Gold's intrinsic value is defined by its chemical properties and value for use in manufacturing. A large percentage of mined gold is used for productive purposes, not simply to sit in a vault.

Companies buy gold for use in electronics manufacturing, believe it or not.

But a portion of gold's market value is driven by a speculative spread over the intrinsic value, similar to BTC. Except for BTC the intrinsic portion is close to 0.
The project will migrate to the denoland org soon.
"Not in a deliberately malicious way but in an apathetic, conformity sort of way"

It feels that way until it is realized that it is enforced by government monopoly on violence.

And despite this rant, I'm not a libertarian or even an anarchist.

I just need us to be honest about the fact Society can only exist with consent under duress. It tends to get obvious when you talk about sex-work because people feel different about bodily autonomy when it comes to sex vs other types of bodily harm.
This is a very insightful comment. I used the same versions of rails and (after reading your comment) realized I appreciate the same things about it. Thank you for articulating it so well.
What would we have to learn to make sentience a scientific question? We're in the regeime of the pre-theoretic - we don't even know what we don't know.
I think an important part of "what is sentience" is "what part of sentience is the valuable one?". I suspect that before we create AI that is indistinguishable from a normal person we are going to create AI that is fully sapient but insane.
> What exactly currency is failing, and which are the indicators ?

The USD's value has declined 90+% over the last 100 years. As Charlie Munger suggests, "My [the] working thesis is that the currency goes to zero."

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

Correct. That's a bad thing. They can't do that on a Bitcoin standard.

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

Because it forces participation in the economy. If it's going to expire, you're forced to spend it, thus boosting the economy. Also, you're guaranteed to keep working because you can't save your money and exit the system so you can repeat this cycle ad nausea.

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

Because the goal is to limit the number of people "kept alive." As for an individual case: fear of the sword. https://twitter.com/PezntJournalist/status/15095444990133739...

> 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

The floor of my bedroom closet is a small arsenal and yes, I've mentally prepared to die in a shoot out (if it comes to that) with the powers that be. Being prepared does not mean being ignorant/stupid/foolish. I lose nothing by thinking ahead while those who foolishly buy into what they're told—despite persistent evidence to the contrary—potentially lose everything.

> Gold?

That can be confiscated.
People hate this take, but to me it is obvious. Our conscious experience has to ultimately be illusory, because we know that at least parts of it are verifiably false - like our perception of free will when really what actions we take are close to deterministic.
I agree, big bias. I'm not totally being serious. But I have had really bad experiences with people working at banks.
Did the Amazon lawyer tell the jury their own hourly billing rate?
I've also been through the "Everyone in the world sucks" phase and I do still think that to a certain degree lol but I also feel more in tune with analysing myself and emotions when I have such thoughts.

For instance, I notice that I might get angry that a person driving didn't see me at a pedestrian crossing. But what's the point in being angry? Why should I let that person "put me" in a bad mood?

I believe the trick is to recognise your emotions, what you can control and what you can't. Does it make sense to be angry at things beyond your control?

Also I've come to understand that the brain is fed what we give it. What you feed it through media, television, the people around you - these all affect it. We should ideally fiercly guard what our brain is fed. Thinking about this I started to notice how much people drink in movies / TV and how it made me feel like drinking too. It's a bit like "the five people you surround yourself most with" idea.

I'm still a work in progress, and hopefully some of what I've mentioned can help you on your own journey.

Leetcode is difficult for sure, but I do think it's good in many ways - at least it exists, you know it's necessary and the way I see it, it's kind of like having the answers to the exam!

Is it fair people make you go through this hazing process? No, but unless you have some better ideas, if it's truly the only thing between you and what you want, then maybe it's time to reframe it in your mind - what are some good things that could come out of it?

I know it's hard when "the world fucking sucks", but I'm sure there's also a part of you that enjoys learning and doing puzzles. Maybe it's time to tap back into that side of you. Take your time.
Zune was outstanding, but
Crypto is dogshit. The stupidest asset since the tulip bubble, but at least tulips can make your house or funeral look nice.
This seems to not be a very useful distinction (binary vs gradient) though, because in practice the question in the gradient scenario moves to “at what point along the gradient do we demarcate sentience”.
That's why you pair them with an experienced mentor instead of just giving them a badge and gun and letting them loose on the streets.
Cute story, nicely ambiguous title.
I really don't want to go into details for obvious reasons, but I was close with someone who was called frequently for cases regarding sampled music with some pretty big stakes and could speak with a lot of perceived (and honestly, well earned) authority. He would show an FFT analysis and time waveform and say "See? they look nothing alike". I pointed out that it's pretty easy for things to look completely different on FFT and waveforms but be the same sound. I got the sense it was a pretty lucrative side hustle. This was many years ago and I don't think the problem has gotten any better.
I think what is missing from this perspective, is that according to our best understanding of neurolinguistics and consciousness, human intelligence is the result of the brain's ability to "match patterns, draw from massive statistical databases of human language."

And that where we draw the line for sentience in the animal and plant kingdom is more or less the level of sophistication we observe in social/communicative behavior.

I believe this opinion creates an impossible and undefined standard for machine sentience, that is certainly far beyond our normal standards.
Well I went to the same law school my cousin Vinny did, and I'm pretty sure you can disqualify the expert witness by asking questions like, what's the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic-inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor? You can also have your own expert witness called to directly rebut their expert witness.

If expert witnesses are never paid, no one will be an expert witness. What's that world like?
Highest temperature recorded in Japan is 41°C.[1] So this is fine for the domestic market.

[1] https://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00268/
Nobody needs to justify not replatforming, regardless of the involved tech. It's just a sane default. It's when an org _does_ decide that rebuilding their existing property on a different stack that justification is in order.
I would argue that authority without responsibility is the core issue in societies today.
I'm not defending the position, I'm explaining it.

And it's not the defense that's the issue, it's the money spent on the defense that they're comparing. They're saying that while crypto may cost $X to support, it's less than $Y where $Y is the total expenditure of the US Army.
What if i tell my car i want to do something fun with my GF. It knows based on my bank account that i want to do something cheap & it knows based on my social media accounts that i really love the beach. However, the beach road is full of potholes and there has been numerous other cars that have blwon a tire/ hurt their suspension. So it decides that the beach road is too dangerous for it and the drivers and takes me up to the mountains for a hike.

What is that, and how much further into the scenario do i need to go to convince you it's alive? If it is processing 100,000 inputs and making a decision that i have no idea why it made that decision. Would that convince you?
Lightyear 0 can drive for months without charging using solar-panel roof
Thank you very much for your suggestions. You are right, there is no real resilient reason why I do the job via action.bat and diskpart.txt. Originally, it was just to stay as flexible as possible (save time) and therefore be able to do without further compilation in case of error or improvement.
It's not magic. There is an `islands/` folder that you must place all of your client components in. 1 component per file. See https://fresh.deno.dev/docs/getting-started/adding-interacti...
I'll be the optimistic one (famous last words) and say that this apocalyptic scenario won't happen.

I am old enough to remember the times when "photoshopped" became a verb, and yet I don't remember a "Photoshop epidemic" where people blackmailed other people with production-quality fake pictures. I mean sure, it happened, but not at a major scale.

If the past is any indication we will indeed have deepfakes of personal connections, but their quality will rank from "bad" to "okay", and that will be it.
I've assisted with animal experiments as well, they were not unconscious.
You are a machine. Computers are machines.

Theres nothing stopping us building machines like us other than knowledge & time.

You can build machines like us, because we ourselves are the proof. But the resulting machine might not look anything like modern computers.
Attestations are not meaningless when determining whether or not something an organization claims as true is true.

It’s just a talking point by anti-crypto to claim otherwise. Attestations are used for similar purposes all the time, but only in crypto is it “not good enough”.
In theory and running high performance motors at rated capability. In the real world I use years-old gasoline all the time in small engines.
Are you implying that I'm Russian or something? Not sure I follow...
We have 7bn incredibly energy efficient AGIs walking around the planet. It isnt clear to me we need any more; or have any incentives to create any at all.