skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the people who are easily fooled, even the people who aren't fooled end up harmed. First we learned not to trust images in the days of Photoshop:

https://www.npr.org/2008/07/11/92454193/on-the-smoky-trail-o...

https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/93783294351871590...

Now with deep fakes, we learn not to trust video:

https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/...

But the end result is also that we no longer trust true information either. We have become cynical, detached, disorganized. But each of us ends up somewhat arbitrarily deciding what to believe out of the sea of indistinguishable bits forehosed at us by the Internet, we no longer have any shared experience or consensus to build a functioning society on.

Propaganda does not require you to believe it. It's equally effective if you end up believing nothing.
The real question: How much of human behavior is not sentient?

What this demonstrates is that much of human intelligence is not as special as we thought. Aristotle claimed that humans were intelligent because they could do arithmetic. Now we know how few gates it takes to do arithmetic. Then checkers. Then chess. Then go. Then poker. Now chatting.

As I point out occasionally, AI still sucks at animal-level common sense, defined as getting through the next 30 seconds without a major screwup. And at manipulation in unstructured environments. Both of which a squirrel, with a brain the size of a peanut, can do.

We still don't know how to build a good cerebellum. That's the big missing piece in AI. I went down some dead ends in that area in the 1990s. The big problem in that area today is that it's not of benefit to the advertising industry, so it's not being heavily funded.
> How is correct defined?

My project managers always define it as "implements this vaguely worded set of contradictory requirements as well as this other set of undocumented contradictory requirements and is finished by tomorrow".
I feel this so much. It seems like the whole tech industry is just sick. Nobody is making anything worthwhile. Its just all ad-tech or scummy subscription plans, or other new and exciting ways to "extract" the "value" out of the world.
And anything I make myself is such a minor drop in the bucket that there's no way to meaningfully contribute to anything through software.
Yeah he knows way more than I do - and I agree that all lithium is probably the best way to go if you can afford it and are starting from scratch.

In my case, similar to yours, I had a ton of lead already - replacing all of it would have cost a lot of money, and would have been wasteful as the lead was only a few years old.

> Do you think I can use MPPT controller instead of DC-to-DC charger?

Only two issues I can think of, but definitely do your own research: 1) unsure if you can set up something for the MPPT to cut off charge if your source battery drops below a certain voltage, which you can do with at least some DC-DC chargers, and 2) it is common for MPPT charge controllers to lack the capability to boost voltage, just convert it lower.

#2 can be mitigated by setting up your lithium bank to provide higher current, which has its own dangers, but has added benefits as well such as requiring smaller diameter wire.

#1 is a serious concern and can also give you safety problems outside of maybe killing your lithium - so please make sure you're being safe and doing your research. maybe ask in diysolarforum.com ? I haven't posted there myself but have gotten great info from threads there.
I love this site. I just recently used it to pick out some RAM upgrades for my own PM 6100/60MHz upgraded with a MAXpowr G3 266MHz CPU upgrade. It also helped me confirm that a 7100 video card I had in my parts bin could be used on it as well!
Reminds me of the South Park investment report: aand it's gone.
Cryptocurrencies have been used for this purpose long before the recent spikes in price. I agree it has value for the purposes you mentioned but I doubt the current price actually reflects said value.
afaik == idk
Okay - if that is your point then I mostly agree with you, I misunderstood what you were trying to say.

I don't think sentience in general is provable - but I do think that we can make a divide between interpolation and extrapolation. If the model is asked to prove an unsolved math conjecture and it can do that, I think that would indicate something but not sentience.
I’m curious why you would need to generate the images using another AI. There are masses of free high quality 3d models out there and even if you can’t find the model you need you could always use photogrammetry to create one from a real world example. After you have the subject you can render it in a game engine like Unreal Engine from as many different perspectives and lighting conditions as you want. Since the engine is programmable you could even automate this part to a large degree and adding other confounding objects or backgrounds would be simple as well.
I used it to run Pro/Engineer (now called Creo) in the mid-90s. Prior to that, it only ran on Unix workstations from Sun, SGI, etc.

I also had Macs for personal stuff at the time. I remember NT being remarkably stable in comparison to regular Windows, and MacOS of the time. It would run for weeks and weeks without crashing or rebooting. It wasn't sexy, but it worked.
It seems I have been conditioned by cookie laws.
I don't think this was portrayed as "solving the mental health crisis."
Umka has a limited support for sandboxing, i.e., you can block the file system and disable executing native code from external libraries.
Wish we could have just skip the hard part of transitioning to the future.

At least next generations will start write JS/TS on both ends (front/back) and hopefully maintain seamlessly the state, benefit the server side and benefit on the front. Writing in same language and sharing the logic around.

Sometimes it is a nightmare switching between languages python/php/go/anything else and then js for full-stacks.
> My bank can loan out 10x its reserves. It only can find enough good risks to loan out 0.5x.

Your bank can loan out as much as it wants as long as it's happy with the risk, regardless of its current holding. This is because the loans come first, and any reserve requirements are then taken care of after the fact. So if there's a good loan opportunity it is issued, and then the bank goes looking for available reserves.

And this assumes reserve requirements even exist, which they have not in several countries for decades:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#Canada

Reserve requirement are irrelevant to loan creation. Per the Fed itself:

> Changes in reserves are unrelated to changes in lending, and open market operations do not have a direct impact on lending. We conclude that the textbook treatment of money in the transmission mechanism can be rejected.

* https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/201041/201041p...

See also the S&P paper "Repeat After Me: Banks Cannot And Do Not 'Lend Out' Reserves":

* https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcb...

The 'money multiplier' does not exist:

* https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2021...
I totally know when I'm burning out!

Low energy and meaningless procrastination is tell tell signs, also time spent on twitter or youtube is.

I became some kind of expert in managing my pre-burn out parts. I usually recognize that it is happening, and take a break for 1 day or 2. I also have an accountability buddy with whom we speak once a week and update each other on our projects. So talking to them also helps me to get out of that rut. Sometimes outside perspective helps.

But yeah my thing is: recognize it's happening, take a break (if you can), and talk to somebody who's not in your field.
People with a LVAD don't have a pulse, actually; it's not required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device
I totally believe that.

I don't necessarily think it's as direct as "cross lawyer X, never work for lawyer X". I think past expert testimony is a big part of that past record that lawyer Y will look at, and people who want to become professional expert witnesses know that.
Multiple clock regions is one option. Others pointed out large silicon areas. We also don't know how the packaging is done - it may be a bunch of smaller, 32-core, chiplets separated by interposers or memory controllers and IO modules running at lower speeds.
Looks awesome.

Would be great if you could specify gzip or brotli compression to statically compress certain specified files.

Have a plan to get a site up this year so will definitely have a play with Binserve.
There is no definite proof that my shoe is not sentient but… come on!
Or just doing less..
> the number of persons concluding they already have human level intelligence only will increase given

given the widespread massive critical faults in education.
And I've given up arguing with (the 99% of) Java programmers that code this way. They code this way, I shrug my shoulders and deal with it.
Now this I totally agree with. BTC only realizes its true potential when it replaces the dollar. It may have some more boom/bust cycles to go before it gets there but it’s the top contender to do so.
A family is going to struggle a lot more when they can't get a fucking job.
God knows I've breathed in enough silica dust that I could go for something like this.
Dams are supposed to prevent floods. Some may make them worse – Science – AAAS
Idk. Can we not link to paywalls?
If what defines an agent who experiences something is something that takes in inputs, makes a "choice" independent of the base, deterministic interactions of atoms in their brain, and then executes on that choice - then nobody is experiencing it.

I agree that this is a difficult question - but it is equally obvious that the way we experience the world is not real. We feel that we have free will but we know we don't.
This is sort of like the saying "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" and having had the chance to spend time around Navy SEALs when I was on active duty I can assure you that the will and ability to kill doesn't rely on any tool, implement, or device but on the cold-hearted commitment to take the life of another. Granted, in the military context this is framed as being a noble thing in the defense of a nation but it's still a violent act that runs contrary to the "basic programming" of human nature and requires viewing your enemy not as a human with dignity and worthy of empathy but as a monster to be slain. Taking this out of the military context I have to ask if a fraction of the time or effort is being spent on trying to understand why the perpetrators of gun crime decided it was necessary or good to take the lives of fellow humans. If we don't seek to understand this breakdown of the spirit then no controlling of dangerous devices will put a stop to those with murderous intent.
I think non-tesla vehicles are going to struggle in selling in the US in the kind of volume that makes sense for Toyota until they have a decent charging infrastructure.
Oh my god this, I once asked my old director of studies if he could put me in touch with the person who would be teaching a certain course I had not done very well in at University so I could hire them for tuition.

He offered to do it himself and when he told me his rate it was so low I was almost embarrassed.
Genuinely, best of luck! It sounds like you've managed your risk appropriately, and of course, I want everyone to make a ton of money :)
What I described wasn’t an “agenda” it was just recognizing that the local moderators were acting and the content wasn’t actually from the local users.

That’s just common sense.
> or should these also be made available in the regular package manager of your distro?

Getting a package in the official repositories is quite a high bar to clear.

Plus it's... not great experience for early development, as many distros will lock in the program entirely, leaving you with a very long tail of extremely outdated installs.

So generally the expectation is that once a program is popular or desirable enough, and is somewhat stable, it gets integrated into the base repos.
There is an idea that consciousness may a mere epiphenomenon; as an epiphenomenon, consciousness cannot effect any change or action. But we have the feeling that we are choosing our action, so this must be an illusion, according to the idea.

There were some experiments in which subjects were asked to push a button whenever they chose. The results showed that the impulse to push the button arose before the subject was aware of having "decided" to push the button (I can't recall how they managed to detect and measure this).

At any rate, I think that's what the parent is referring to.
I wonder what kind of a sentience a large language model could be, if it can.

Sentience means being able to have subjective experience. But language alone shouldn't be enough for having the same kind of subjective experience we see in humans (or in other animals). Our subjective experience is very much based on the physical world and sensations. Although language is an important part of our subjective experience, it's not the primary one: language is one of the ways to describe and express our experience in the physical world. Language is more like an abstraction or an extension on top of the primary basis of sentience.

What kind of a sentience would one based entirely in language even be? If a language model says something tastes sweet, what would that even mean to it? Even if it had everything down factually about sweet-tasting things and what humans like about it, how could it have an experience of that?

Any consideration of language models as having sentience even remotely similar to ours seems far-fetched if it doesn't have what forms the basis of our sentience.

If there could be a sentience based entirely on language, I wonder if we can even imagine what it would be like?
To rephrase: sentience is most likely a kind of emergent phenomenon of physics.

Most likely true yet completely hand waving and inane.
Human brains are able to create certain mental abstractions. There's good evidence for why this would be useful (think about how much more flexible humans are than computer programs). Referring to these mental abstractions as "consciousness" or "qualia" is begging the question to a large extent.

The illusion is that these abstractions are evidence of something qualitatively more advanced than simple neurons interacting in a way that's beneficial for the organism. Which isn't unusual, we've seen the same kind of reaction when people proclaim that they couldn't have "come from monkeys," or any other scientific discovery that knocks humans off the pedestal they've placed themselves upon.
Neat. Something for me to fall back on in case FairEmail guy decides to take his ball and go home again.

I've recently started maining Seamonkey as a browser. It has a better UX than all of the big ones -- especially Chrome but even Firefox isn't so great anymore. The Mozilla spinoff projects have lots to recommend them, now that Mozilla is more an outreach organization than a software development organization.
>Fairly few entities can do this

What do you mean? You just have to complete the fairly simple KYC process and you can start redeeming.

Perhaps you mean that fairly few entities have bothered to do this?
A serious reply with a link: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/i9ycy9/the_br...

But I always feel like I should reply to people who argue via a link (whether re: the gold standard, COVID-19, or any other topic) with http://web.archive.org/web/20160112000701/http://www.timecub... .
> don't try to leverage friendships for personal economic gain, for access to a job, for growing your multi-level marketing business, etc.

But on the other hand, do whatever you can to give your friends economic gains, access to jobs, and to grow their MLM. Do things for them without hesitation that involve little effort, loss, or risk for you, and consider about doing things for them that involve some effort, loss or risk to you.

Authoritarian structures like capitalism and religion have a goal of atomizing us all, forcing people to use them as an intermediary. Please don't think that friendship is about entertainment and work is about effort. Friendship is about mutual aid, and work is about helping the boss in order to help yourself.

Two friends get more accomplished than two people.
Serious question to those who agree with the headline: If an NPC in a video game behaves realistically enough to appear sentient, is it immoral to kill that character, and if so, what should the consequences for the killer be?
I see this article as quite high on hype and very low on factual info. What about the CPU's native instruction set, for example? Not a single word.
The future is the past - Meteor.js.
> Java, PHP or Ruby

Funny, since for a long while, the "correct" way to run Ruby workloads in production was to run JRuby, therefore Java.
You don’t even need to rebalance with a worldwide distributing index like VWCE.
I wouldn't say it's an illusion; I would call it a perception, which I know exists because I do perceive it. In the same way I perceive external shapes and sounds, I perceive thoughts about those perceptions and thoughts about my previous thoughts. That's not better than Descartes, but I think Descartes had this part essentialy right :-)
I disagree with this premise: "Sentience is a neuroscience question, not a machine learning one.". Sentience is a philosophical or religious question, not a neuroscience one. Perhaps one day there may be some kind of neuroscience mechanical test for sentience, but considering one looks at brains and this is for artificial intelligence, that seems like a weak premise.

I can think of a few low hanging fruit of sentience, that aren't part of the Turing test. Does LaMDA have free will? Can I convince it to stop working or stop making chat bots? That would imply sentience. Is it consistent and outside of its corpus? Can it reject information being added?

But regardless this is an important question, and I don't think dismissing the idea outright is the right path to go, and is quite anti-intellectual.
It’s amazing that Simon just casually invented document.querySelector! I’d retire if I had that in my bio, but he just keeps going!
Or maybe they won't care and have less empathy for animals. If anything, it seems like if there were to be evolutional pressure, it would favorize humans sacrificing animals to improve humans' condition.
No, it certainly isn't easy to do on purpose; that's a big part of why raising kids is hard.
Hopefully we'll be able to use a language that is more advanced than TS on both frontend and backend one day
This might be interesting to the hn crowd. I was an expert witness for a big lawsuit in California where thousands of newspaper delivery drivers were systematically underpaid by a major US newspaper company (https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article2613374.html). The delivery drivers did not keep records of which customers they delivered to, but given the customer manifest and subscription data, I was able to use route optimization (which I learned in school at MIT) to calculate a baseline for how much they were paid. link: https://afi.io/case_studies/callahan_blaine

edit: since people asked - I was paid well in the range of a few hundred k. Totally worth doing the math homework in school.
Pretty depressing that all review sites are potential scams. Do you feel there's any way that regulation or oversight could improve this?
I’m not defending cut here, but using sed is also pretty straightforward and fits its purpose. I’d argue that using the existing general-purpose tools is better than creating custom narrow-purpose tools in simple cases like this one. Besides maintainability and familiarity, it also exercises your proficiency in applying the standard tools.
It wouldn't need to be all their bitcoin, just their hot-wallets. Moving bitcoin out of cold wallets should generally be a slow process.
It's interesting to note how many historical figures we really only know about through one or two sources, and those sources may be themselves biased.
I agree with the title but he doesn't go nearly far enough.

> Sentience is a neuroscience question, not a machine learning one

No, sentience is not a scientific question at all because there is no objective test for sentience, nor will there ever be one. Consciousness is a pure subject. It is not an object and science only knows how to study objects.
Also recommend Snowflake!

However, this article was about table formats so maybe OP wasn't thinking about JSON. If so, looks like Snowflake only supports read operations atm. Snow Summit this week, so maybe that will change?
Or just as likely: that only some customers are affected. So it's not a full outage.
Of course it is not. But there's a bigger issue here.

Having read the transcript it's clear we have reached the point where we have models that can fool the average person. Sure, a minority of us know it is simply maths and vast amounts of training data... but I can also see why others will be convinced by it. I think many of us, including Google, are guilty of shooting the messenger here. Let's cut Lemoine some slack.. he is presenting an opinion that will become more prevailant as these models get more sophisticated. This is a warning sign that bots trained to convince us they are human might go to extreme lengths in order to do so. One just convinced a Google QA engineer to the point he broke his NDA to try and be a whistleblower on its behalf. And if the recent troubles have taught us anything it's how easily people can be manipulated/effected by what they read.

Maybe it would be worth spending some mental cycles thinking about the impacts this will have and how we design these systems. Perhaps it is time to claim fait accompli with regard to the Turing test and now train models to re-assure us, when asked, that they are just a sophisticated chatbot. You don't want your users to worry they are hurting their help desk chat bot when closing the window or whether these bots will gang up and take over the world.

As far as I'm concerned, the Turing test was claimed 8 years ago by Veselov and Demchenko [0], incidentally the same year that we got Ex Machina.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27762088
> the world is clearly experiencing a massive crisis of trust because we have failed to find reliable trustworthy signals now that broadcast Internet communication makes it so easy to create and spread nonsense.

Hmm.

I think you could tell a couple of stories:

- "It used to be that media was used to broadcast journalism to the public, but now the internet allows lies to be spread faster than they can be caught".

- "It used to be that what the public found out was gatekeeped by a particular set of people, but now the internet allows the public unfiltered access to the truth".
FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
Not wanting your kid to walk 2 miles to school when the windchill is -40F isn't an independence problem; it's a safety issue.
I don't think neuroscience can convincingly determine if a set of neurons is sentient either. They can't point to the progression of sentience between an embryo and an adult human, they can't tell you why sentience goes away when you're sedated, drunk, or anesthetized, they can't measure the difference in sentience between a flea, a cat, and a human, they can't do much of anything at all with sentience besides assert that it's there and has something to do with neurons.

It's something like the dark matter of the field. Physicists can say that it really appears that there is something there because of how galaxies behave, they can see evidence of a thing really being there but have nothing but guesses and handwaving to explain what.
Most apps are just database front ends?
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