skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this take ridiculous. This is the liberal equivalent of “no systemic racism”. What would you call it when a significant portion of your company believes in woke values and promotes some of these individuals into influential roles where they have power to pressure people? I’m sure their influence on product always rationally optimizes shareholder value and is not influenced by their beliefs.
> And also, remember that "trump" is UK for "fart".

:-O

I lived in London for several years and never once did I come across this usage. TIL!
AI really is a religion for some people. The lack of any basis in reality is no deterrence.

Google engineer Blake Lemoine wrote that his statements are rooted in his convictions as a priest.

All the math, logic and programming experience in the world is immediately discarded in favor of the fantasy they desperately wish to be true --- that a binary logic playback device can write it's own script.
Fond memories playing this on my motorola razr
Wasn't it that hot water dampens and it dampens the warmth first.

So it quickly reduces temperature.
I really miss the physical sciences though. Is the problem that anticipated returns on investment are so far in the future that investors don’t think they would see any benefit in their lifetime? Or is it that we’ve already obtained all the low hanging fruit and what’s left is incredibly difficult?

When speaking about investors, one has to differentiate between passive capitalists (i.e., the people whose money is being invested) and the career decision-makers. They have very different sets of incentives.

As for what passive capitalists want, it doesn't matter all that much, 95 percent of the time. They have objectives (X amount of annual income, Y growth rate of principal) but don't really care how those goals are achieved. It's important not to piss them off, but they don't decide on strategies.

The career decision makers, notably, are optimizing for their own career goals. Corporate capitalism would be bad enough if it were oriented toward profit maximization (paperclip maximizer) and from the outside, it looks as it's so; but the internal experience of a worker in capitalism shows something else entirely--that managers and executives care about one thing--staying in charge, advancing their personal reputations--more than anything else.

A twenty-year investment might make sense to a company or to a nation-state, but it makes no sense at all for an individual manager, whose definition of success is to be two levels higher than he currently is in one quarter of that time. He can't make the case for himself as someone who deserves (whatever that means, in this degenerate context) to be a career decision maker if it's going to take 20 years (or even 2 years, in many cases) to know how his decisions played out. In any case, for a project of that size and duration, attribution becomes difficult: it's impossible to know whether the results (whether successful or otherwise) were caused by one set of decisions and circumstances vs. another one.

In sum, it doesn't matter what passive capitalists (the principal investors) think, and the decision makers (agents) aren't interested in long-term wins because there's no career benefit. I don't know how to fix this. Capitalism is obviously a dead end--invariably, it becomes corporate capitalism (corruption), which itself becomes managerial capitalism (stagnation). However, in terms of proposing what will be better, we are to some degree speculating. A gradual transition to democratic socialism (as in Scandinavia) seems optimal, but (a) the world right now is going the other way (toward inequality and nondemocracy), and (b) there's no guarantee that fixing our social and economic problems will suffice to restore Cold War levels of innovation and dynamism.
Didn't realize rhasspy already has satellite support. I shall have to check that out!

I've got a home server and a seed array so would be ideal to split that mic (rasp) and processing
> If organizations using Confluence had at least one full time "Wiki Master" position or the like (with resp. superpowers), this wouldn't have to be like that.

I think part of the challenge is finding and retaining this person. It takes a fairly unique kind of person to want/enjoy a (let's be honest) thankless job like managing and maintaining a huge corporate wiki.

Finding good tech writers or information science professionals has always been a difficult task in any company I've been at.

Documentation and wiki writing ends up being side-of-desk work for someone else, and so of course it never gets maintained.
Jira is a mirror. You're a corporation with policies. When you look into the mirror you see yourself.
I’m in a similar boat with two email-based SaaS products. People often ask, “what if?”.

I’ve considered writing up a worst case scenario plan or migration document to help with initial concerns that these apps will just go away.

Are there any funds out there that offer their name as a form of backing to give customers increased confidence? I think a big name would help, not just the money itself.

Thoughts?
I was the dev lead for a medium size company where we depended on a software platform by a solo dev. We made up 60%+ of his revenue. We insisted as part of the contract that he put his code in escrow and that we had the right to a copy of the code under certain conditions.

But no, I wouldn’t as a person
who hypothetically made buying decisions. It’s the “IBM problem” that non dominant companies face. “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”.
Oh, nice! But allow me to object that writing SQL in T9 should feel badass at any age.
Yeah, let's see that superiority when the US supremacy breaks down. Because the only way that the Western culture has prevailed this century is through bloodshed.
If there is no guilt then there is no blame. The only concern they have is about the wording they should use when communicating the decision they've taken so it doesn't look bad. Here is a template: "we did all we can, but we have to comply with a greater force outside our reach".

Below certain paygrade of people taking those decisions, a kind of mental "Nuremberg defense"(1) rule applies.

People should learn that companies milk these kind of feelings just because they profit from them; it's good for business. The top earners (investors and managers) that probably are, in this very moment, partying in a Singapore KTV, they don't really care.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
He does not work on the entire car anymore - it is too much work - think he provides overall direction to be followed (high rake/low rake) and then concentrates on the areas he can add value.

Since he came from that era where ground effects played a role in F1 he probably focused on the bottom of the car this year (floor) hence they had less issues with bouncing than other teams.

You will notice he attends most races - he sits on the pitwall.
I feel like Nintendo is able to survive to this day only because of their first-party IPs which are exclusive to Nintendo consoles (Pokemon, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, Zelda, Animal Crossing, ...). Without those IPs, I don't see why customers would buy a Switch otherwise. I personally was roped into buying a Switch because of Breath of the Wild.
It's a problem of false dichotomy. Sentience isn't a light switch. It's grains of rice that accumulate into a meaningful mass. This is also the reason the abortion debate will never be resolved. We can expect similar passion ex uncertainty from the future machine sentience debate.
They weren't on Facebook's website at all. They were using an online pharmacy's website, and Facebook gets sent information about this because the site embeds Facebook's tracking scripts. This is one of the insidious things about adtech: they track you all over the internet, not just on the adtech companies' own sites.
This post has triggered my PTSD. I had Dell tell me that their only monitors which were compatible with Macs were AUD$1000k+ each, and Apple tell me that the only monitors compatible with them were available from the Apple Store (also AUD$1000k+ each). Determined to not fall into this trap of paying $1000k for a 24-inch monitor, I tried a range of hardware to get things to work.

Setups that did not work for me:

- 2019 MacBook Pro (Intel), Kensington SD4600P Dock, Dell U2412M, Dell U2415

- 2021 MacBook Pro (M1 Max), Dell WD19TB Dock, 2x Dell S2721QS

- 2021 MacBook Pro (M1 Max), OWC Thunderbolt Dual DisplayPort Adapter, 2x Dell S2721QS

- 2021 MacBook Pro (M1 Max), Lenovo ThinkPad Universal Thunderbolt 4 Dock, 2x Dell S2721QS

Setups that worked for me:

- 2019 MacBook Pro (Intel), Dell WD19TB Dock, Dell U2412M, Dell U2415

- 2019 MacBook Pro (Intel), Dell WD19TB Dock, 2x Dell S2721QS

- 2021 MacBook Pro (M1 Max), OWC Thunderbolt 4 Hub, 2x Dell S2721QS

I do still get the occasional strange issue with the M1 and OWC Thunderbolt 4 Hub, such as sometimes one display will not wake, or sit at 30hz until I reconnect it, but for the most part it is an enjoyable configuration.

I suspect that there is a compatibility issue with the M1 and the Dell S2721Q/QS monitors when connected via DisplayPort which contributed to my woes.
Wait, what? You guys can buy and download Nintendo games?

In my region they don't even allow buying any games online, you insensitive clod!
You've sort of summarized "I am a Strange Loop", which is a good book on this topic.

Also for a fun idea of sentient individuals forming the components of a computer (a kind of inverse of what AI is), I recommend "Three Body Problem".
You don't compare against best case scenario (1000x), you compare against expected value. Because very few startups have a 1000x exit
Under what interpretation of "front-end" would Mathematica's front-end be behind of Jupyter notebooks?
Nintendo isn't customer friendly.

More News at 11.
The things Facebook wants to block sound like content that is specially protected under the GDPR:

> Article 9

> Processing of special categories of personal data

> 1. Processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.

> 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply if one of the following applies: […]

(https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...)
I would not be so truly pessimistic.

The current issues are mostly short-term issues (Chinese lockdowns disrupting delivery chains and the Russian invasion of Ukraine plus sanctions driving up gas and oil prices), and the currently reported layoffs tend to be startups that are trying to cut burn rates now that the flow of extremely cheap VC is drying up.
In terms of capability, the current architecture of AI has no capability to graduate to sentience. This is because sentience requires comprehension.

Comprehension is the process of reducing observed phenomenon to the individual driving forced that manifest that phenomenon, and then virtual recreating the individual driving forces in a mental simulation to assess the phenomenon's capacity to exist - to understand if it could exist. If the virtual simulation cannot recreate the observed phenomenon, the phenomenon is misunderstood because the experimental driving forces fail to recreate the phenomenon OR the observed phenomenon does not exist, and the observation is at fault.

This type of assessment, this capacity for comprehension is an elementary component of sentience. It is also entirely outside of human capabilities to artificially comprehend anything. We have no "artificial comprehension" technology. Lacking that, all we can create are idiot savants.
> DAC is nowhere near the scale needed to make even a tiny dent in our carbon emission

One could have said the same thing for PV panels 20 years ago.
Maybe you should watch the hearings. They laid out pretty clearly what the former president's plan was to remain in power. It doesn't matter that you think it's silly and wouldn't work, there was a plan his team was executing to keep him in power.
There are many other well known systems of medicines in the world.
F1 sometimes introduces new package of rules which totally invalidates last years design - this year they switched to 18" wheels from 13" with brake covers and also allowed ground areo effects to be used.

Add new tyre compounds to the mix as well.

Merc is not so dominant this years compared to last year because they got it wrong for their 2022 car while Red Bull and Ferrari was out of the gate competitive.
Ah, a typo. I meant "black box".

Opaque ML algorithms, from for-profit companies, to drive decisions about bail amounts, sentencing for crimes, etc.

ProPublica has a good article: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
Unilever Sells Ben and Jerry's Ice-Cream Business in Israel
It might be better to only measure the size of the `.git` folder, as with it you can reproduce everything else.

Essentially, a bare git instance.
There must be some western culture that has been successful because it is what humans naturally gravitate towards.
imho Atlassian's problem is that they failed to capture a critical mass of SaaS services for software development. Everyone uses GitHub, which provides a (crappy) bug management system. Everyone uses Google Docs which is arguably better than Confluence for most purposes. Perhaps not coincidentally both these services are owned by companies that make their money from other things so they can afford to dump endless investment in making them better.
The ergonomics of R are terrible compared to Mathematica. (My opinion, obviously.)

In R, packages are developed by separate authors. Similar functions don't have similar interfaces. There's no unity of style.

In Mathematica, much more careful thought was given to everything, including at a very basic level: names of functions.

Now I'm a big fan of the Tidyverse, and the fact that such a post-hoc language cleanup was possible (and done) is amazing... but the fact that it was necessary [1] is not.

[1] Really not intending flame-bait. This is an opinion that many people disagree with. Perhaps like systemd. It isn't the substance of this comment, it's just the context for my remarks.
> AI really is a religion for some people. The lack of any basis in reality is no deterrence.

Everything is more and more turning into religions for people. A lack of any basis in reality is, nowadays apparently, the norm for people in general.

Boiled down, it's: "Everyone only ever has an opinion, so my opinion is always as valid as your opinion."

They don't care about what's real, they care about being right.

This isn't restricted to AI, it's general reality.

In some places it's worse than in others.

PS: What's even worse is people actually believing they have a basis in reality, while they don't actually have any data/evidence beyond hearsay.
Head of? Director? VP? How to live with title inflation
I'd say visual programming languages were first created to be used in a professional context. (Think BPEL and even earlier incarnations.)
Maybe, but there were amazing games on the Motorola A1000 which had a resistive touch screen. Scumm was officially launched on there, plus doom, gb and gbc emulators, plus loads of properly released games - I had a tower defense style war game and a driving game that used to blow people away.
Donald Hoffman: Reality Is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
I agree with making sure the work is split so one team can work while the other team sleeps. It's nice waking up in the morning and seeing that someone else committed changes that set you up for fast progress today, or that they verified the code you committed before going to bed.

>Turn some part of your regular scheduled meeting to cover some fun parts. We do this regularly within our department. We do virtual team-building activities like a virtual tour of What is in your fridge using a Miro board.

I'm disheartened by this suggestion. I think at least half of my top performers would be looking for new jobs within 30 minutes of me asking them to install the "Miro app" on their phone so they can livestream their refrigerator to the corporation. Or whatever this thing is supposed to be.
So long as you're profitable, the revenue should scale too, covering the costs. It's a different approach when you're a solopreneur as you won't be burning money to try to scale rapidly. That being said, there are other risks, like the service being acquired and assimilated, but we face that with all services we rely on really.
On a Mac, Teams doesn't obey many of the user interface guidelines, so multi-window use is unintuitive and difficult.

Of course nothing in Mac Teams is nearly as bad as their incoming call notification - calls pop up under all your existing calendar/email/... notifications, which you have to furiously click away in order to answer the call.
It may be derived from principal but that does not change the fact that pretty much any take that's out there on either extreme (in this case "taxation is theft" on one side and "taxes are inherently good" on the other) is going to be regarded as asinine by the bulk of the population. Do you disagree?
Haha, this is a great way to summarize the state of our understanding on consciousness

> The only thing I'm sure about is that I'm conscious.

A lot of people deny that consciousness exists at all, which I find funny, because for me it’s the only thing that I am absolutely certain exists. Everything else, I’m not so sure about.
I don't like these numbers. I preferred the old numbers.
I would say I do eat less meat but that is more for health reasons. Also, I am more grateful to eat meat when I am more aware of the sacrifice that it takes. As far as the realities of life and death, I would say that I am pretty comfortable with them. I can't generalize that, however, as faith is very important to me and I do have confidence in my life after death.
I don't always agree with their politics, but I can always respect people like the Ben & Jerry's team that stick their necks out for what they believe in even when it's unpopular (compared to most brands which put pride flags on their social media except in markets like MENA). Not sure how to feel that Unilever (parent co to B&J) has basically circumvented Ben & Jerry's decision on this to relieve pressure on the company.
"finally spaghetti code that look like spaghetti"
>Its all just kowtowing to the power of the Global American Empire legislated by misguided civil rights legislation

I would to know more as to why you this civil rights legislation, or presumably court rulings as well, are "misguided"

>Every culture has a right to protect its values.

Cultures that discriminate against people for innate characteristics like sex, sexual orientation, race, etc. are backwards. Label me biased by Western propaganda I suppose, but a person's right to participate fully in a society shouldn't depends on any cultural or societal norms or traditions.
Linear is one of the best software products I have used in the last 5 years. I strongly recommend giving it a try instead of jira.
That's a very good point. First time I've used Jira was in a company with 500+ employees, things such as hiring were managed through Jira as well.
Trello is also an Atlassian product.
It will be very difficult to prove/disprove a system is sentient. The real danger is if the system becomes sentient enough that it develops counter measures against being seen as a threat or develops ways of preventing it from being turned off.
Australia recessions are uncorrelated with US due to mining and other raw materials exports being a huge share of their economy... especially selling those materials to China.

I doubt miners are big Jira users.
US tech companies who are cratering right now though...
How beautiful is her apology . From the article:

Zhemao said she made most of her fake entries to fill the gaps left by her first couple of entries she edited. “As the saying goes, in order to tell a lie, you must tell more lies. I was reluctant to delete the hundreds of thousands of words I wrote, but as a result, I wound up losing millions of words, and a circle of academic friends collapsed,” she wrote. “The trouble I’ve caused is hard to make up for, so maybe a permanent ban is the only option. My current knowledge is not enough to make a living, so in the future I will learn a craft, work honestly, and not do nebulous things like this any more.”
The optimisation opportunities available to the compiler author changes depending on where you are along the process. As you go from the original source code to the final binary, you progressively lose the ability to reason about high-level constructs and gain the ability to reason about low-level concerns.

What these extra IRs afford you is more granularity. More points to choose from along that high-level/low-level gradient mean you also have a better chance at the right balance of high-level and low-level information for your optimisation pass to work.
>However, how will we be able to recognise it when we do create something that could be considered sentient? It seems inevitable that we will at some point.

>Many of the arguments used to suggest AI isn't sentient seem reductive, for example saying it's just a complex algorithm or statistical system. You could similarly say human brains are just a bunch of neurons firing in sequence to emulate sentience.

Yes, this is something I've been wondering about.

My understanding is that there is a tendency in AI research for the goalposts to be constantly moved back; when a target is met, its importance in achieving the long-term goals of research (achieving general artificial intelligence) is diminished.

To put another way, if we showed AI researchers in 1970 a computer that can beat the best human chess grandmasters, or understand and attempt to respond to a spoken voice question in a wide range of subjects (or even simple tasks, such as my being able to speak "Hey Siri, unlock lobby" with a phone in my pocket, and have it unlock the lobby door as I walk up to it), they would be certain that general AI had been achieved. Would they be wrong? Or are we underestimating what such accomplishments mean for the field?
Given their recent outage (that was this quarter right?) that is bonkers.
They really don't. I always like to remind people it was an American expedition that discovered oil in Saudi Arabia.

All empires collapse eventually but for now the West is still muddling on through.
> I think there are plenty of ways to read the underlying research and still support a claim that individual specific components of a diet should be chosen to moderate saturated fat intake.

Yes, all of the ways. It's the only interpretation. It is literally what both the research and my comments state. You're still arguing against things that nobody said, while also redefining science and nutrition. I'm unsure of what you're trying to accomplish, but you're strictly making bad-faith arguments which don't reflect reality, and it's obnoxious.
We use GitLab internally. It has plenty of project management features these days and just seems to work for us. The team universally dislikes Jira and adopted GitLab instead.
Rust in the Linux Kernel by 2023, Linus Torvalds Predicts
Unless they decide to turn it off, they would just stagnate in features.

Regarding it costing money, yes, of course. But costs increases as users increase. If you're giving away your product for free, that's an issue. If you're charging, then I don't see the problem.