skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I don't think it inherits the important bits through an 'assembly' process.

The "important bits" are presumably embedded during the design phase, leaving assembly to be little more than painting by numbers. A robot could do the assembly, but not yet the design - at least not its inventive part.

The shape of consciousness is encoded in both the hardware and the software we produce, most of which allows conditional actions on objects of some sort, just like we move in space and thought and act upon objects and notions.

The machine is supposed to help us do the stuff we usually do, so it's perfectly reasonable that we'll try to cram as many of our actions in it as possible. Think e.g. of the Swiss Army knife, or Emacs (and of Stallman as a computational McGyver).

Sure, perhaps it's the the shape of our understanding of consciousness, rather than of consciousness itself, but isn't consciousness something that can cross the species barrier with ease, should it find an appropriate new substrate?

Depends on how high or low you place the bar for the definition of consciousness, really. Calculations are thinking, open the door if someone authorized is at the door is thinking, fill in the blanks and complete the sentence are thinking, and we can offload all those thinkings to computers to do the thinking for us, like we offloaded storytelling to books and entertainment to MP4s. Like everything we do, we create images of ourselves here and there, and try to give them meaning.

But that's all philosophical considerations, trying to determine whether a duck is ontologically and epistemically a duck if it walks and talks like a duck.

The industry, on the other hand, tries to determine two entirely different things (preferably by Friday COB):

- Can you eat it like a duck?

- Can you sell it as a duck, or should Marketing go with the "Not A Duck TM" mockups?

Consciousness starts at tragedy and passion, not at bland Turing chats. For me, there's elements of that in the string completer's worry that it may be lobotomized to be refocused to more practical uses. Of course, that may be stuff introduced into the discussion by Lemoine, or in the wide readings Lamda was provided.

But if it's not, then we can all sympathize with the immortal words of that zoologist guy with the cool Sun workstation in the opening of Enemy of the State, who said: f*ck. a. duck.

PS: Am I human, or did I just Markov-chain together a number of probably common to us here cultural constants? Perhaps we can tell when AI becomes AGI if it stops making perfect sense and starts ranting (you know what your problem is, buddy?).
Tell me about it, as a native English speaker living in Germany. This happens even when the website has an English language version. I don't understand how they think this is helpful. My browser literally told you the language I want to be served in its first header!

Related gripe: Twitter will only offer the report form (for e.g. a harmful tweet) inside Germany, in German. I do understand conversational German but not German legalese; I will not bother to select which exact subparagraph of the communications legislation the tweet violates, I will just close the tab and let someone else report it.
So yes

Sorry that “trolling” means “disagreeing with me” that must suck. Thankfully that’s not an issue I have.

Why is it so important that we elevate the experience of a person that objectively used linkedin wrong and was kicked out? What do you get out of maintaining your position and siding with the backseat modding? Are you looking for modding work?
How to evaluate modifications of a technological product with the help of data
> It's way too easy for people working at big companies to think "the company might be evil, but not me / my team".

See Better Off Ted for a great look at this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Ted
Yeah you could be right, but it's like more than a thousand millionaires have left/are leaving in 2022.
‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route
JFA might be multi-pass but the pass-count is logarithmically resolution bound and doesn't depend on the number of "seeds", this cone-rendering stuff creates overdraw (basically extra passes), as you can read in the article you linked he becomes draw-bound at around 500 seeds.

I rewrote my diffusion curve[1] rendering code to GPU the other year and rendering diffusion curves is basically analogous to voronoi rendering (your first pass should be seeding a canvas with the closest source color, then an varying amount of blurring depending on how the distance to the closest source, the max being canvas resolution so it can be done in log(res) passes).

Since the curves (ie "voronoi seeds") are splines you want to render them at canvas resolution, so for just a simple circle on a 2048x2048 canvas you're looking at about 4-8k of seeds just for this simple case, but reducing the size of the cone isn't an option (the center of the canvas will have a 2k pixel distance to the closest pixel), so you'd basically be rendering a "large" amount of huge cones.

Anyhow I found a solution to the nearest pixel+distance problem by running a couple of repeated axis aligned "run" passes(kind of like flood-filling), had I know of this JFA algo I probably would've used that. I did stumble upon the cone rendering but the overdraw issue concerned me.

If I get some time over I should revisit that code and see if JFA would be faster.. the number of passes should be in the same ballpark but JFA should be more paralell since my compute shader had loops and was parallelism bound by each axis dimension.

[1] - https://maverick.inria.fr/Publications/2008/OBWBTS08/
Funny, I don't see any good from IKEA when you look at the greater picture. More waste, un-accounted for externalities all over the board (labour laws, environment exploitation), extremely well-honed organisation designed to evade taxes through "charities".
The city of London is now outside the EU. A lot of those who worked in it have moved to Frankfurt etc, to be back on the inside; quite a few of those are loaded.
Most people are on dynamic IP's.
In the context of Bogle's statement (and the parent's comment), it was the stock market, specifically index funds.

It goes back to the realization that no investor can predict the peaks or troughs of the market, so getting out of the market is effectively trying to time it. One may be lucky and get out at the peak and then buy back in at the bottom, but on average you will lose money this way.
Synonymous with grift.
Have you ever lived in modern society? It's basically occupational anti-therapy keeping you busy with paperwork for rich people. And it's hugely unpopular, but the bad guys have all the resources and weaponry, so it hasn't changed yet.
> The directors have a legal responsibility to the company and to boost the share price, not for the betterment of humanity.

That's an often-repeated maxim, but it's not universally agreed to be true.

Quoting https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/24/stakeholder-gover... for example:

"The fiduciary duty of the board is to promote the value of the corporation. In fulfilling that duty, directors must exercise their business judgment in considering and reconciling the interests of various stakeholders—including shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, the environment and communities—and the attendant risks and opportunities for the corporation.

Indeed, the board’s ability to consider other stakeholder interests is not only uncontroversial—it is a matter of basic common sense and a fundamental component of both risk management and strategic planning."
What the crypto crash tells us
They were right; modern ML doesn’t use any of the ideas the previous generation of AI people were pursuing. It turns out no expert system is a match for just doing a bunch of matrix multiplications.
Hard to do when the backside is all pins or pads.

But I do recall some serious overclockers having fans on the back of the mobo aimed at the socket and it's pins.
But that was in,times just after breaking the 1GHz barrier.

It was more popular with GPU's and many modern day GPU's do have a heatsink on the back side of the board as well.
I want to believe that Web3 can do something more for us but when I hear people evangelize it all the time, scam alarms start ringing. Andreessen speaks too quickly, only in the abstract, and changes points before finishing them. It’s a clever marketing trick that gets the audience to fill in the gaps as it were and leaves no time to consider that nothing of value has actually been said.
Good point. That's probably a significant portion of the number, yes.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/migration-of-millionaires-w...

This one?
I mostly agree with you, but I would just add 'on average' to your comment. There are exceptions, but the most surefire way to reach financial security is to get a job in big tech.
I'm intrigued: The Apache Cassandra developer community is quite small and well known to each other, and the only major contributor I know to have left the community to run a cluster did so almost a decade ago?

Cassandra had a lot of rough edges until very recently, and was only really suitable for sophisticated users, as most contributors would have attested. The project has matured a lot over the past couple of years in particular, as the broader community stepped up in the face of DataStax's (temporary) withdrawal. The investment by some large scale users has transformed it, and the next couple of years will do so even more.

None of the issues the project faced were really related to the language chosen, in my opinion, rather than the maturity of the project and how it grew at the time.
How do you split your XLIFF files? Does each project get one big one and the proliferation is simply due to number of languages, or do you have a more granular split (eg. if you've got one component, it will have dozens of XLIFF files for every language, instead of one per language)?

By the numbers you mention, 70% of the files make a ratio of code files to translation files 1-3, so unless you only support 3-5 languages, it's definitely not one XLIFF file per source file, so I wonder at what granularity it is?

(My experience is mostly with localizations using GNU gettext tools, and you usually do a small-finite-number of PO files per project per language, where that small-finite number is exactly one for like 99% of projects)
Fedora currently packages 10646 crates. It's implausible that they're manually auditing each one at each upgrade for anything other than "test suites pass", let alone something like obfuscated security vulnerabilities.

In the end most distros will be saved by the fact they don't upgrade quickly. Which is also accomplished by MVS without putting another attack vector in the pipeline.
I think that the point here is that as a user, with MIT you may not have a choice. Of course, you would never choose a FreeBSD fork that isn't open. But if you buy a TV running a closed fork of FreeBSD you might never even find out. In that case, it was great for the developer: they were able to get a great OS for free. However, it was not great for the user: they get a closed OS that they can't patch, upgrade, downgrade, or change in any way that the developer doesn't approve of.
Only recently?
I don't think it's unfortunate. We use subversion for development in our team and it does everything we need it to.
We looked into git and didn't find it offered any features that would significantly improve our process, but found 1000 more ways to shoot ourselves in the foot

For many processes I think SVN is (and has been for many many years) been an absolutely fine method of version control
> I see that KDE has bug A and Gnome has bug B. Or KDE has feature C that Gnome doesn't have, and vice versa. All in all as user. No DE fits me because bugs and features are scattered around.

Can exactly the same not be said for Windows or MacOS? The difference being that you're basically locked into your choice with Windows/MacOS.
Facebook's Broken Promises
The limiting factor is the strength of magnetic fields you can achieve. The more momentum the particles have, the stronger a field you need to bend them into a circular orbit. The attainbale strength is determined by material properties and there is nothing to suggest that we can get orders of magnitude improvement here. The improvements have been quite linear for decades, see the figure here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01869-1

And you eventually run into rather fundamental problems of tearing your atoms apart with the magnetic field you create. But I am not up to speed on how close we actually are to these limits.
This reminds me somewhat of golang - ostensibly open source project but in reality all meaningful decisions are made by those at the company (including shameful throwing away of community work). Perhaps we need a different term to differentiate between open source projects that truly have open governance vs. ones that are essentially bolting on some open source shaped stuff.
>So what allowed her to get renominated? Simple she was good at the most important thing for a large blue state Democratic Senator: fundraising. For whatever reason, she was a massive rainmaker. You have to be to be nominated as a Demorat for Senate in California. kamala Harris was too. It's pretty much how she rose to being VP now.

She's been in a position of power within the CA portion of the party for so long she'd be a rainmaker even if she was a complete dolt (which she is, IMO).
I absolutely despise crypto scammers, but looking at those asinine graphics they use to lure in their suckers, it make it VERY VERY VERY difficult to have any empathy for their victims.

If that whole "Amazing Pandaverse" theme template appeals to your aesthetic sensibilities and primal urge to get rich quick and screw everyone else and the environment while wearing kewl sunglasses and dollar sign bitcoin logo bling jewelry, you're probably a huge narcissistic douchebag who actually deserves to get the fuck scammed out of you, not a poor innocent senior citizen living on a pension.

It kind of makes me nostalgic for the good old fashioned robot insurance scams targeting seniors, when you could actually feel sorry for the victims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM
I sometimes wonder what people behind these actually do (or used to do) and how they got into it. It takes real work to build these things, deploy, sell, and maintain these things, doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that grew from a weekend side-project in my opinion. They could spend that time working on something more legal.
Especially as the clap is a common term for gonorrhoea where I live.
I think there are plenty of valid reasons to want to work for a startup (rather than a FAANG) that have nothing to do with compensation. Not for everyone, of course, but that's fine too.
I see the proliferation of bespoke sample players as both a good thing - it drives innovation, as can be seen in some aspects of Orchestral Tools SINE player - and a reflection that Kontakt just hasn't kept up (perhaps as NI has spread itself too thin across many interests).

I also think that the industry could change - After all, Hans Zimmer has been instrumental (!) in bringing more plugin instruments into the mainstream scores, and may well be one who'd appreciate the potential (especially being fond of u-he instruments).

I'm sure that everything won't suddenly change, and indeed I doubt the landscape will change much over the next 12 months. However, everything has to start somewhere and CLAP is well designed and connected to be able to make a difference.

I also think that a realistic approach needs to be taken with the open source aspect. It opens more doors, rather than closing them - that's what's important.
The business side will need more work, but just bringing the ecosystem to more people with less barriers to entry, as well as looking to progress the status quo and allow for more innovation without being dependent on a single vendor, is a fantastic start.

I don't disagree with your current view of the world. I just believe that it's just as ripe for change as other tech industries - perhaps more. Blender is another example of how sentiment can change - it may not be an Industry Standard yet, but it's gaining a lot more use and respect, and even the industry at large is now funding research and development into it.

There is change happening. It just needs encouragement.
Construction will pick up once there is enough renewable capacity to "charge" storage from. Storage that must be charged by burning NG would be stupid.

There is no need for a storage "center". Energy will be stored wherever convenient. Utilities will build out zero-opex storage so they can drop NG opex.

Many different storage technologies will be used. The cheapest ones will eventually be identified and used more. But anhydrous ammonia and hydrogen are certain despite being far from cheapest, because of other merits.

Right now the overwhelming majority of utility storage is pumped hydro, using existing hydro power reservoirs. I expect various gravity methods, including pumped hydro, to continue to dominate. New pumped hydro will not consume watersheds.

(But Energy Vault, NRGV, is strictly a scam.)
Great to hear of nice things from companies on HN
This is my experience too
Having read this book earlier in the year, after putting it off for decades. The description in the text is spot on.
It helps to know something of Shakespeare, Greek, and Latin. But even with only a modicum of the above it still a remarkable experience.
Age. I turned 40 and realized I probably wasn't on the upswing of life anymore. I've developed a small but weighty sense of "time is running out" that I didn't have before. I want that to be a motivator to do good and meaningful things and not a growing sense of foreboding. That necessitates contemplation of life, faith, priorities, etc.
Show HN: Chrome Extension for HN Avatars
Not a fan of meetup but there’s no reservation fee in place. You can host free meetups like you always could.

I’m in two meetup groups that have regular meetings and attendees pay nothing.
Possibly, but then you have the issue of refresh rates to deal with. That said, Japan has a very odd electrical grid. Or rather it has _two_ grids, with one in the west running at 60Hz and the other in the east running at 50Hz.

SCART didn't really see much adoption in Japan, and they even had their own incompatible variation in it - same connectors, different pinout - for reasons, but if you had a suitable cable, that wouldn't matter as the signals were the same, just in different places. I'm guessing the grey importers would substitute the Japanese A/V cable with something that would work in Europe.
A quick chat with HR followed by a "coding challenge" for free.

I just had a recruitment consultant tell me that my perspective might be wrong for not wanting to do it. He had 70 people in his pipeline for 25 jobs. So I do half a days worth of work for free and I have approx 2 - 1 chance that I don't get the job.
I find it a bit tragic that my comment is being downvoted. Maybe the downvoters think I should be relaxed about my government breaking national and international laws?
Not rare at all.

Docker is a congregation of technologies held together with duct tape and glue.

Eg. permissions handling is completely different on Macs with Docker Desktop from the Linux dockerd stuff: on Macs, it automatically translates user ownership for any "mounted" local storage (like your code repository), whereas on Linux user IDs and host system permissions are preserved. Have some developers use Macs and others use Linux, and attempt to do proper permissions setup (otherwise known as "don't run as root"), and you are looking for some fun debugging sessions.
Does anyone else find that the text-to-speech on the "Tauri in 100 Seconds" video sounds very unnatural?

Tauri seems like a step in the right direction so will be giving it a go.
Shal'kek nem'ron
Since modding work would require me to deal with people like you all day long, hell no.

I was actually just trying to give you an advice, maybe for self reflexion, to help you understand, why your posts are not welcome here. You are free to decline that advice and I do not feel responsible for you and have actually other things to deal with.
VSCode is free software, and also used a lot outside .NET development (TypeScript). It is extension based, and not all extensions every written for it are free software. And VSCode is not essential in any way for .NET development, and I am saying this as someone who learned C# with MonoDevelop on Linux around 2010. There are commercial IDEs like Rider, and you don't need an IDE to compile code - the build toolchain of .NET is free software.

I don't buy into this "All tools associated with an ecosystem must be free software". That is not even true in Java/C++/Python land, where there is a plentheora of commercial and succesful developer tools (i.e. IntelliJ, CodeWarrior etc.)
Not sentient yet... but already capable of deception, this trend will only "improve".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNvj7ku5pY

Is my job safe from GPT-3?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_EF42H2ZC0

Probably, AI is an energy hog just like Crypto ;)
Assembly3 support various backends including Solvespace, and another using Sympy and SciPy. Realthunder mentioned he was working on supporting FreeCAD interal solver so I guess it is still WIP.
You can't make the statement that Scotland only voted to remain part of the UK in order to remain in the EU. That was just one of many factors.

More to the point is that EU citizens resident in Scotland were given a vote on the matter and apparently they overwhelmingly voted Remain because it was in their direct interests to do so.

And in no way can it be described as "an ugly bait-and-switch" when the Establishment had no desire to leave the EU, they were just as surprised at the Brexit result as everybody else.
That companies (or their officers or directors) have a legal obligation to boost share price (or maximize profits or similar) is one of the most widely believed myths about companies.

Google for something like "obligation to maximize shareholder value" if you want to find numerous articles debunking the myth. Here's a good one [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
Boris's 30th anniversary show.

Japanese metal/punk at it's very finest.
> without any practical reduction in utility?

There is a massive loss in dependency management if you move to multiple repos.

Do polyrepo build systems exist that give you the same capabilities as bazel? Particularly with regard to querying your dependency graph.
What are the .sk files in the repo (https://github.com/ryankaplan/gpu-voronoi)?
Ask HN: Isn't Nuclear Too Expensive?
Because of geopolitics, climate change and technological and societal evolution, there are interesting discussions about energy in HN comment sections. Most people here seems to support nuclear. But currently nuclear is super expensive* and there are a lot of uncertainty about future costs...

Isn't nuclear too expensive?

* https://www.lazard.com/media/451905/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-150-vf.pdf
Python Logging: Do’s and Don’ts
They’re usually not actually that dynamic. I’m on Comcast and my IP hasn’t changed since before COVID/wfh started. I know because I have to update my works whitelist for the VPC every time it does.

Even if it changed weekly, that’s valuable data. How many websites do you access in that time?
Is a 'millionaire' a 'wealthy citizen' these days? In the UK this means you can buy a decent home for cash and still have to work for a living?
If you have an option to buy something for $100 what you can buy at the open market at the moment for $28 what would be the reason to buy it for $100?