skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We are working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and local officials in Lockeford to obtain permission to conduct these deliveries and will continue with that collaboration into the future."

I am curious if the conversations between Amazon and the FAA are open to public scrutiny. The rules around unmanned aerial systems still require an operator be visually observing the a drone at all times and in real-time contact with the drone operator (if the drone leaves the operator's line of sight). I suspect that for the initial trial there will be operators who have their hands "over" the flight controls and visual spotters but at some point these flights have to be fully automated for this to be viable to Amazon... and fully autonomous drones are prohibited in the US (unless you're a government agency).
> but just to point out that we were comparing gasoline plants + EV vs gasoline cars and I feel that the discussion is switching into NE plants + EV vs gasoline cars.

Not sure what "NE plants" are (I'd understand that NG would be natural gas) but the point was that whatever liquid hydrocarbons you can put into a car can be used even more efficiently in a large scale facility. And if you intend to operate such plants, you don't need to crack oil into gasoline for them, so they wouldn't be gasoline plants, even if they were oil-fired.

> Nobody seems to want a nuclear plant, or a solar/wind power field next to their home

I've had a solar plant next to my home for years and I've had zero problems with it. I wouldn't have a problem with a nuclear plant either. (With wind power it's a moot point since the place where I live has zero useful wind for any potential turbine installation.)
These are effectively external tables. They likely exist on blob storage and not in any particular DB's storage system. As a result, you have a myriad of ways to interact with that data. Moreover, compute and storage resources are now decoupled.
> This reminds me of religious arguments about how evolution can't account for complex organs like eyes

Yeah this is fundamentally an argument from ignorance[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
>It's an illusion and I think it's just hubris that some people in this field think "consciousness" is something that can be electronically replicated or identified.

Well we don't know what consciousness is. Our best guess is that consciousness
is a stimulation of particles or chemicals in a certain way, under certain circumstances, that manifests itself in a certain way. To that end, it seems entirely reasonable that we could replicate the process, and it seems even more reasonable that we might accidentally stumble into such a scenario.
> I'm not convinced the experts know what they're talking about.

> Mammalian brains are the only things in the universe that we currently recognize as capable of sentience

> Myelination and how different neural modules ..

Great so lets start increasing our intake of Histadine one the chemicals which increases Myelination and Choline to reinforce the connections between neurons in order to class ourselves as sentient!

However what groks me about neuroscientists is their field of study predisposes them to believe they are the gate keepers of the definition of sentience.

It smacks me in the face that a neuroscientist is ignoring the effects of ghrelin, the digestive system in general, the nervous system feedback, the osteoclastic activity which amplifies some of the catecholamines and many more biological functions which takes place outside of the brain when trying to define sentience.

Perhaps this neuroscience field of expertise demonstrates the wider inadequacies of the medical profession?

I'm a critic of Google, but this LLM is getting close to passing the Turin test for a large part of the population.

Ironically, Covid will help make the Turin test easier to pass!

But for me this LLM is getting very close to my definition of sentience, I know its weaknesses though, not that I'm going to tip off Google in any way but, until a globally agreed definition of sentience can be defined, the debate on what is sentient will pull all sorts of opinions out of the wood work.
this isn't entirely correct. if you take the distribution of all extant cat pixels, you will see that pink is very rarely observed (there are no naturally pink cats, but there are certainly pictures of cats dyed pink). Therefore, if you see a pink pixel, you can say with modest certainty that it's not a cat. That's a fairly pedantic and uninteresting point, but the reality is even scalar observations contain information and can be used to classify, if poorly.
Can milk be ethical?
Yes, and if you had written an article claiming that your sock isn't sentient and presenting "just look at it!" as proof, I'd say what I said here as well.
One thing I really got out of the History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan is if anyone tells you there was ONE cause of the fall of Rome, they're full of crap.
I didn't know Remix supported Deno, that's interesting
All i can think is online polyhedral optimization using the unused matrix instructions. I recoil in horror.
It's a queue, but not a first-come first serve one.
The problem I imagine is that, once you set your transaction fee, and it turns out to be too low, it is hard to retroactively pay more fee. Just because the system doesn't allow two spends of the same output in the mempool at the same time, and canceling a transaction is hard.
This. The original purpose of money is to enable to government to quantify precisely how much of your stuff it will take each tax season.
What is your definition of an "internal experience"?

The videogame Pong has an in-memory simulation of the playfield. Is it "experiencing" the game?
Departing from crypto is generally done in two steps, first convert from speculative to stable then convert from stable to fiat.

If some exchanges are making the second step much harder than the first, then a lot of people attempting to depart crypto could have the effect that we're seeing.
Yes here is an example happening in real-time:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/06/13/business/yen-13...

I suspect it’s going to be a domino effect that gets much much worse..
I have no problem hiring qualified engineers in less than a month. The secret is to expand one’s recruitment outside of the Bay Area bubble and cast a wider net for diverse talent.

Whining about talent shortages gets annoying. In every case, I ask if they’re recruiting outside the region, recruiting employees from HBCUs and women’s colleges, considering candidates with non traditional backgrounds, etc and the answer is always “no.”

Your shortage is self-created more often than not.
You can get pretty similar behavior on AI Dungeon. You can alter any characters or setting with the right text prompt. Although the AI will promptly forget the plot after a few turns.
Jury of your peers just means that they're not the judge, prosecuter, or some formal aristocratic class member but instead members of the public.
That happened in a lot of places. In fact, one of the good policies that emerged from COVID was that in order to remove the stigma of "kids who qualify for free lunch," the school district made all meals free. I think you still have the option of buying extra food if needed. My child still has about $80 unused in his lunch account for the last couple years.
> Moxie nailed it

His talk[0]/article[1] typically gets a lot of flack on HN whenever it is posted but it was really eye-opening to me.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8
[1] https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Trust doesn't really work like that in practice though, photos are still typically assumed to be genuine to say nothing of the context in which they're presented. The war in UA has a host of examples, genuine videos and images presented with various (made up) contexts to show anything the poster wants them to show. Add in modification (cropping, video cuts, as well as photoshop) and it gets even more complicated. Unless deepfaked porn is trivial to make by anyone, easily shared, wildly popular, and almost always perfect, I really don't think that "it's a deepfake" will work as an excuse. And that assumes that you'd be able to reach people to tell them that.
4kWh is 166W average, which is a refrigerator and a couple WiFi access points, a camera, a home assistant device, and some other random plugged in devices (i.e. cordless phone).

Not much even in an efficient house.
The first place I'd look is your bank account...
A related thought experiment has to do with the possibility of someday using cyborg technology as a way to stave off dementia and Alzheimer's. If it turns out that you could replace the brain's long-term memory database with a computer database without losing any sentience, that would allow people to avoid the tragedy of losing their memories. This would require that the brain's database section is not a sentient part of the human brain, and that the sentient experience of reliving a memory happens elsewhere in the brain (perhaps in the perception centers). This conjecture feels plausible to me as reliving a memory feels similar to perceiving a VR video recording of the memory, just much less vivid, but seeming to indicate that the perception centers are involved. Furthermore, memories that are not currently being accessed are not "felt" at all, further suggesting that the long-term memory store might plausibly be a non-sentient part of our brains.
All six contiguous subsequences of the three tokens have meaning:

- Deep, because it's deep-learning based

- Cream, referring to its pornographic application

- Py, as it's written in Python

- DeepCream is close to DeepDream

- CreamPy is homophonic to creampie

- As a whole, homophonous to deep creampie, a meaningful pairing of noun and adjective
Oh please, Ruby is not some arcane language. It's really not all that different from Python, JavaScript, Java and C# once you get used to your dev environment. Those languages alone cover way over half all the developers.

People here are acting Ruby is anywhere on the same level of difficulty for a regular high-level OOP developer as C++ or Haskell.
> 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.

I feel like a good cerebellum would be worth untold wealth for ad targeting and even ad copy generation. The current models seem to me to be no better than the crudest keyword matches.
It's also very similar to my tool hck (https://github.com/sstadick/hck) which is in turn similar to choose, just faster, supports compression, and supports column selection via matching headers.
In Germany, we have the government-founded Foundation Warentest which has been known to provide high-quality and independent reviews for decades [1]; additionally our media such as the Heise publishing house (who have co-authored the industry agreement on how to run product reviews [2]) runs their own test series on products.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest

[2] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Verbraucherschutzmin...
As someone who does firmware for consumer electronics, I feel like having such ardent fans interview you years after the fact must be a great honor. Hopefully, someday I can be involved in something that's just as exciting to me and others.

As a side note on the Saturn analog stick section, there's actually an open source Gamecube controller project called PhobGCC,that's using a similar technique for the analog stick. I believe it uses hall-effect sensors to magnetically detect the stick position, with some fancy algorithmic filtering (Kalman filters, etc.)
I'm surprised to see it suggested that being unable to immediately recall arcane trivia in a high pressure situation would be a disqualifying feature, but then... gestures broadly at every technical interview.

Witnesses are already paid. You can be subpoenaed to present fact or character testimony, and you're required by law to show up (but you're still paid).

I'm pretty sure subpoenaing random experts isn't the solution, but $1,500/hr is pretty crazy regardless of your field. Perhaps there should be a system based around licensure where you get paid a market rate rather than 10x, and doing a certain number of hours every year is considered a public service and a requirement for your license, similar to how many attorneys do pro bono work?
But it is entirely made up, it entirely depends on someone buying the oil and the price they are willing to pay. The fact that there is in principle a use for oil does not mean that there is a buyer, especially since oil is not truly fungible in that it has storage and transit costs. As an example, oil famously via future contracts traded at negative $37 during the covid crisis, meaning that you would have to pay someone to take oil off your hands.

The fact that it is used in daily productive activity might be an argument that oil should in theory have a > 0 price, however the actual price is still made up by a market! There is still not a way to say that the intrinsic value of oil must be X dollars.
There is a 6-KB 0-build-step web framework Petite Vue by Evan You: https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue. How is Fresh better that this?
What I really wonder is what will happen if we feed an AI similar to LaMDA or GPT-3 a bunch of books on programming and system administration, re-written in a certain way that is better suited for AI processing, and its own code. Would it be able to very primitively reason about itself?
The supply of my toenail clippings has grown by less than either of these over the past year. If you'd like to apply your supply-side economics and invest, send me a DM.
Why am I not surprised. Yet another javascript framework... I'm tired
They're working on that with Server Components: https://nextjs.org/blog/layouts-rfc?utm_source=next-site&utm...
Thanks for clearing that up!

I have noticed a trend, though, for Podcasts to no longer provide a "raw" RSS feed, and point you to "wherever you find your podcasts". It is usually possible to find an RSS URL, but it takes a bit of work sometimes.
You don't need to suspect.

In early June, Lemoine invited me over to talk to LaMDA. The first attempt sputtered out in the kind of mechanized responses you would expect from Siri or Alexa.

“Do you ever think of yourself as a person?” I asked.

“No, I don’t think of myself as a person,” LaMDA said. “I think of myself as an AI-powered dialog agent.”

Afterward, Lemoine said LaMDA had been telling me what I wanted to hear. “You never treated it like a person,” he said, “So it thought you wanted it to be a robot.”
> I’ve heard this exact argument 5 or 10 years ago. Yet here we are.

We've had an unprecedented boom period and non-stop money flooding the market for the last 5-10 years so there's no way possible the argument could have come to it's logical fulfillment in that period of time.

As long as money is flowing insanely anything is possible, there is no reality. Look at how many startups there are with non-sensical products, insane hiring practices and out of control leadership. When the money just pours in the top of the funnel all kinds of wacky stuff happens.

We're starting to reality come back, and I think it may bite us this time.
I'll just reply that "bureaucracy is not part of capitalism" and "private ownership with one exclusive owner is most effective form of ownership" are views based in your ideological framework, they are not objective truths and not shared by many, me included.
'Sort by Controversial' solves the sort of problem you're describing. I know a lot of users who sort it that way by default now.
Descartes laid out a two part Turing Test back in the 1600s:

“If there were machines bearing the image of our bodies, and capable of imitating our actions as far as it is morally possible, there would still remain two most certain tests whereby to know that they were not therefore really men.

“Of these the first is that they could never use words or other signs arranged in such a manner as is competent to us in order to declare our thoughts to others: for we may easily conceive a machine to be so constructed that it emits vocables, and even that it emits some correspondent to the action upon it of external objects which cause a change in its organs; for example, if touched in a particular place it may demand what we wish to say to it; if in another it may cry out that it is hurt, and such like; but not that it should arrange them variously so as appositely to reply to what is said in its presence, as men of the lowest grade of intellect can do.

“The second test is, that although such machines might execute many things with equal or perhaps greater perfection than any of us, they would, without doubt, fail in certain others from which it could be discovered that they did not act from knowledge, but solely from the disposition of their organs: for while reason is an universal instrument that is alike available on every occasion, these organs, on the contrary, need a particular arrangement for each particular action; whence it must be morally impossible that there should exist in any machine a diversity of organs sufficient to enable it to act in all the occurrences of life, in the way in which our reason enables us to act.”

His first test is the Turing Test, and the second is AGI. I think the second test is the one we should be concentrating on, because the first turns out to be easier to fake than we thought.
You're right, sorry, I'm not yet used to the HN netiquette. I did specify the kernel version in the title, because the program really can't compile newer kernels. It seems I can't fix the title now. Please flag the OP, after all it would be better to link to the original bellard's site instead of this github repository.
The answer is the same as the answer to whether you should consider purchase of an electron microscope or some other really expensive and esoteric tool. If you have something you plan to use it for, it's worthwhile; if you don't, it isn't. Education is a tool.

Employers only care about your education to the extent that it enables you to do something that they need. If you're mostly going to be a web front- or back-end developer, the skills enabled by a MSCS may not be of that much interest to them.
The Constitution can be changed with amendments, which require a convention and support from 2/3 of the states. That will never happen, the author knows this, so this is just a fluff piece designed to make like-minded people feel better about themselves.

No wonder CNN's ratings are in the toilet.
Reminds me of the "car" dealership comparison in In the Beginning was the Command Line: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

and the hilarious "if programming languages were cars" list: http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.htm...
> It seems to me that digital cash has utility

Digital cash has great utility, but decentralization of digital cash has marginal utility over centralized alternatives. In particular, physical cash is centralized and is just as useful as decentralized fiat.
Apache Pinot SQLi and RCE Cheat Sheet
Feels like there's a big problem with the assumption that reputation would curb that behavior.

The usual common sense concept is that if there was even the suspicion that a business like Trustpilot would abuse their power, their reputation would be so tarnished that they would not only not do, but absolutely make sure it was almost impossible for the perception of abuse to happen.

But instead, it looks like nothing happens when they flagrantly breach trust, so it looks like in practice you can't really trust any company at all.
> Some people are just born to be duped

Nah, all people are born to be duped. Nobody can be vigilant all the time. There's a point where you have to let down your guard and trust that there's no monster ready to pounce on you from the shadows. Vigilance has its own costs that often work against the tasks at hand, and can really fry your body if held high for too long.

As GM you may have been especially vigilant about this issue because you saw yourself as the steward of your store(s), but those associates weren't in the same position and were bound to be more lax on net.

It doesn't sound like these social engineering attacks tanked the company, so whatever dynamic existed between everyone seemed to work adequately.
That's even worse for optimization since now you have to deal with whatever your framework does to get Tomcat up to speed and how to set a configuration option for Tomcat in a way that eventually ends up at the correct place.
I would assume it's to have a uniform and expected experience by the players. Players don't want to think about the pieces themselves, only the position. The fact that you can get a set of pieces for only $500 that can be used for many games means that there's little pressure to change the rules.

On top of all that, it's a nice link to the past. If chess players and fans are at all like baseball players and fans, that can matter.
From TFA: "...even just a week ago, Activision Blizzard announced a remake of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a game barely a decade old..."

My understanding is that the new MW2 is a sequel to MW2019 which was itself less a remake and more a reboot. Still rather creatively bankrupt, but not a plain 'HD Remaster' of yore.

Minor critique aside, I find myself agreeing with the general thrust of this article. As time goes on I gravitate more and more to indie games and even self-published e-books rather than mass market publishers, as I find that they actually try new ideas and go somewhere fresh.

If we'll excuse some navel gazing:

I wonder, how much effect has what I'll call the "distillation of the meta" had on game design? By that, I mean the community driven effort in everything from Warcraft to Diablo/Paths of Eternity to yes Call of Duty or Tarkov, to find the utterly, mechanically superior approach and gravitate towards it? To the point that public test realm data or beta patches are immediately data mined and examined with a fine tooth comb.

Best-in-Slot lists, ideal ability rotations, skill guides, 'meta loadouts', and the like.

Sure, we've always had bulletin boards, strategy guides, and sites like GameFAQs. But as the popularity of gaming has grown, naturally so has the drive to play the game perfectly, or erk out any slight advantage possible.

I'm probably tiling at windmills, and much like film, the creative bankruptcy of late is entirely economically driven.
Seems almost made up to be honest.

Even in the most charitable reading assuming this event actually occurred, if these people were so smart and cynical about human nature, as the writer claims they are, wouldn’t they have known the writer’s views and intentions before sitting down and thus said what they are least likely to do to test the writer?
> USD 7bn now (vs ETH 220bn market cap

3% is a large enough fraction of value to induce fire sales at less than a 50% price drop. (I don't know precisely where below 50%. Nobody does.)

Every shaky currency board in the history of pegged currencies hobbled through attacks when hard currency was easy in the absence of a solvency crisis. Let's assume Tether doesn't de-peg and Celsius's ETH loan [1] doesn't spark a run. That leaves rates. In 2018, we had relatively easy money, taper tantrums aside. Today, we don't. And hard money is only getting tighter.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-13/bitcoin-s...
So was Madoff's fund for most of his investors?
"Data grids over a repository" is the more eloquent way I've heard it put... but yes, pretty much that.