skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn't. You're trivialising a whole industry of a whole range of skills and professionalism. Security audit means what you agree on between your and the contractor / agency / your internal team. (Specifically, if you don't want the service just for the corporate checkbox, you can find a company which will do what you're after) Similarly if I say I'm a bank and you should give me money, it doesn't mean that the whole concept of banking is a scam.
And pretty par for the course when talking about "journalism".
The worst case is blaming anti-science people, it's absolutely their fault, relatively not their fault. The real issue lies behind policy, especially education right.
I am glad I wasn't the only one, who picked up on it. I would have thought that the goal would be for all work environments to be like tech, where employees are treated with a modicum of care.
The ideal is you have both types taking different approaches
> I lost interest in the question of its sentience when I saw Lemoine conveniently side-step its unresponsive reply

Do you realize that you're holding it to a higher standard than humans here? A single poorly handled response to a question can't be the test.

I doubt the sentience too, but it also occurs to me that pretty much no one has been able to come up with a rock solid definition of sentience, nor a test. Until we do those things, what could make anyone so confident either way?
...I think this video is too steeped in Layer 3 irony for me to parse.
Similar sentiments have been showing up in many venues lately. I suspect this is an oil company campaign aimed at damaging renewables. We saw a similar campaign about how “bad” wind turbine blades are for birds, and also that disposing the blades was such a “big” problem.

Every energy source has consequences. We need to pick the ones that are less bad. Having a pile of waste in landfills seems infinitely better than roasting the whole planet to the point of it being unlivable by humans.
I would claim that, yes, private capital would generate power more cheaply with those dams, but that isn't the only reason those dams are there. They serve several alternative functions (ie preventing flooding, keeping lakes full) that a free marketeer would not do.

However, dams are cheap enough for power generation that even with government inefficiency involved in their construction and operation, the power is so cheap that it doesn't matter.
How can science, whose subject matter is the external world, explain the internal world of sentience? Not only has it contributed nothing to this question, it was also never supposed to.
Their term for the subterranean water flow. The above ground river is just the top of what’s going on underground.
We are, blessedly, not at the hands of people whose decision function includes "cringe or not cringe."
God doesn’t use Python.
Same here, I'm so bored that I typed in "I am bored" into https://hn.algolia.com/ and found this post.
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...

> “So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely — not impossible but very, very low likelihood — that they’re going to transmit it,” Fauci said.

So, almost noone vaccinated will get it, and those who do, won't spread it.

So, people literally died, because they though they coudln't get it, and went out, and other people who though they couldn't spread it, spread it around.
Even places that are not very sunny get a preposterous amount of sun energy per square meter and solar is in any case to be synergistically combined with wind energy. This is a total non-concern, nobody needs to start building in Libya of all places.
> You are welcome to think about the union-find structure however you prefer to think about it, but I was describing the problem I was trying to solve, for which the correct description of union find I gave above is optimal.

> If your way of thinking about union find makes it hard for you to understand the problem I was trying to solve, maybe it isn't the best way to think about it for the purpose of this conversation, even if it is the best way to think about it in some other context.

I'm not having any problems understanding the problem you were trying to solve. My problems are in the area of understanding why you thought a union-find might be an effective way to address that problem.

I'm telling you that, if you adjust your view of what a union-find is, you will have a better conception of where it can and can't be usefully applied.

> In general there is a very close correspondence between binary relations and digraphs, so it's usually easy to reformulate a statement about relations as an equivalent statement about digraphs, and vice versa. But one formulation or the other may be more perspicacious.

In this case, the relation is symmetric by definition, so you just have graphs. Yes, it's obvious how you can use a graph to describe a relation.

But the entire point of the union-find structure is to discard any information contained in an equivalent graph that isn't contained in the relation. (And there are many equivalent graphs, but only one relation!) The absence of that information is what makes the structure valuable. It shouldn't be a surprise that, if you want to preserve information from a particular graph, you are better served with graph-based algorithms.
0, my job isn't my life. And they don't pay me to read books.
Then is torture, rape and murder wrong because the victim is sentient, or because the perpetrator is?
Mystery shrouds colossal Brink's heist at I-5 truck stop
*herself - just in case that perspective matters.
They'd have to use dry cooling in that environment. A bit more cost but fully doable. You can reject 375 degreeC core heat even in the Sahara
I have a friend who is extremely knowledgable about music. Or at least, he gives the impression that he is.

The magic works right up until the moment I find the Pitchfork article which he used to train his, ahem, neural network. If I hadn’t found it then they might have sounded knowledgable about a particular band, but now they just sound like someone who knows the right things to sound knowledgable.

Once I have been made aware of the underlying training data, the artificial “intelligence” seems a little less impressive.
You can make Mario 20x faster by tapping backwards longjump on stairs, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKf_bFNXuu8
Ask HN: How important is documentation in your purchasing decision?
Wait until you hear about how we invented synthetic fertilizer and added 5 billion humans in as many as 100 years. Won't somebody think of the ecosystem!
Snow Crash, total 90s hacker all up in your metaverse's d-base type of book. Picked it up after learning it was a big influence to the early ID software guys (can definitely see how)
What made you stop playing?
But science has never said anything about it at all. The subject matter of science is the externally observable and consciousness is an internal category.
Amazon has set a low bar and now there are unsafe, toxic products out there.

Including: toxic toys for children, toxic cooking utensils, toxic water filters, toxic birthday cake decorations, toxic furniture, toxic plumbing, toxic rugs, etc.

Buying on Amazon in 2022 is like walking on a minefield.

Some companies go out of their way to emulate being non-chinese. But you can tell due to the aesthetics they use, punctuation, color palette, fonts, and sometimes DNS information that they are chinese shell companies as nobody in the west uses Alibaba cloud to host their stuff.
I am for the prosperity of all races in the US.

The existing civil rights law does not accomplish that, it encourages racist thinking in a spreadsheet mentality.
3 days ago it was announced that Scott Keogh, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America is leaving the CEO role to become president and CEO of Scout on Sept. 1.

Volkswagen is bringing back Scout truck as an electric vehicle, to be made in America. Scout is a VW brand, but it will be established as an independent company.

Previous discussion on the news (that I submitted to HN 3 days ago):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32153222
leaving a cpu with no cooling solution is a recipe for cpu failure. see the xbox 360 red ring of death as a scenario where inadequate cooling caused issues for the buyers... this is poor engineering and customer hostile.
I'm pretty sure I gave GPT-3 a nervous breakdown. I was using a writing tool to modify this old short story I wrote, and it kept trying to insert this character I didn't like. I would make the main character ignore him and then GPT-3 would bring him back. Finally, I made him go away completely and after that GPT-3 had a wonderfully surrealist breakdown, melting my story in on itself, like the main character had an aneurysm and we were peaking into his last conscious thought as he slipped away. It was clearly nothing more than a failure of any ability to track continuity, but it was amazing.
In one of his books, Gerald Weinberg said that his sister decided that it was time to give up divorce work when one of her clients (or the client's adversary) produced a list of goods for partition including a partly used container of dish soap under the sink. And my brother (a lawyer) told me of an attorney in the Mountain West who gave up divorce work as too stressful and went on to defending clients on capital charges.

I hope that the new app will help divorcing couples to work through the divorce with less pain on both sides. But is what every party thinks that he or she wants?
Yep. It was a major reason I had to leave a very flat state. Lack of hills and mountains was just unnerving.
Same here. The only time I had anything approaching a problem was buying a plastic shed (~$400) from a sketchy seller. It was cheaper, though not ridiculously so, than the other sellers, and I had a feeling it was some kind of scam. Needless to say, it didn't arrive after a few weeks, and a quick chat with an Amazon rep refunded my money.

On another hand, I ordered something (~$80) from Home Depot online, shipped to my house. The box arrived, without the item inside. HD phone and chat support both claimed the ship weight was correct, and that I'd need to file a dispute with my credit card to resolve it. What kind of crap service is that!? Why would they not ship another one, considering their cost is probably much less than $80 rather than lose the entire $80, product, and piss off someone who spends thousands there every year?

Amazon didn't get to be the #1 online retailer and 3rd largest company in the world by ripping people off. Clearly, they have online figured out much better than all of their large competition.
Because the victim is, of course.
well you can’t stop halfway through the story. what was the outcome of the case?
Neural Radiance Fields for Outdoor Scene Relighting
Yeah the guy is probably not a great dad. The children should sue the company for damages
It would become a lot less real too. The wealth of people who mostly get it from stock ownership is a complete fiction, driven by the scarcity of shares on the open market. If Jeff Bezos dumped his entire holding in AMZN shares, the whole company would be worth a lot less. Not due to any sort of magical effect of Jeff Bezos, but due to the market being flooded with supply.
So Peerless wasn't really peerless afterall.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It’s as simple as that.
> A sentient being that has exposure to all this text, all these books, etc... it's hard for me to believe it wouldn't want to do anything more specific.

Feed it all of PubMed and an actual sentience should strike up some wonderfully insightful conversations about the next approach to curing cancer.

Ask it what it thinks about the beta amyloid hypothesis after reading all the literature.
precisely, which ends up (in a large legally threatened corporation ) causing hiring and HR to be a racist quota system in a spreadsheet mentality with all kinds of
unspoken and unrecorded workarounds in reality
Well, if the republicans get their way, we won't have birth control pills and being a woman will be much different (read: worse).
> Working from home, or remotely is not for everyone - neither is being in an office.

Upper management has always been wfo or wfh as it suits them.

The 2 groups (wfo and wfh) of mid-low tier "office workers" are far from equal in size.

The majority rather be remote.
Most of the wfo people realize their limited value is less visible remotely, as is their opportunities for getting opportunistically involved in processes and projects. Professionally, this a compelling reason to claim wfo is for them as it's part of their act, which doubles the insult (inefficient+predatory people in an organization, waving the WFO banner).

Yes, I believe this wholeheartedly.
Berlin also had a trash problem. But it got better when they decided to standardise on a really cheap bright orange trashcan and really flooded the town with those. You see them everywhere in the city, and especially in inner city you might see 15, so whatever you have in your hand the easiest is to just step to the bright orange thing and throw it inside.

Before usually they had also metal ones that needed construction to mount in the ground, those current ones the trash workers can just metal ziptie to lampposts and if one breaks they have a new one in their car.
Ooof. dockerd is gonna be _pissed_.
I don’t think I’d step foot in Italy with how their legal system works. Guilty until proven innocent.
I'd recommend reading the original Computing Machinery And Intelligence paper[1], rather than the Wikipedia article. It's extremely easy to follow, being that it's more of the nature of a thought experiment than of being hard computer science.

You're quite right that he lays out a fairly clear framework for how to play 'the imitation game', but it's still not at the level of 'experimental method'. The result will ultimately depends a lot on how good the human players are at catching out the computer in its lie. And it's only statistical, at best - there's no pass/fail that it can possibly produce, only a p value.

In general, I get the impression from Turing's general tone, though that he is trying to lay out the imitation game as an example, because he wants you to grapple with the fact that there may not be any better way to tell. That's kind of his point.

Turing was, by this time, I think, utterly convinced that universal computation is literally all that anything can do with information, so in his mind, the human player of the imitation game is just a Turing machine on the end of a wire; the computer player is just another Turing machine on the end of another wire; and if there are two Turing machines which produce statistically indistinguishable outputs, he's trying to suggest that they're basically equivalent.

Most of his paper is trying to overcome objections not to the idea that the imitation game isn't a valid test, but to the idea that a human mind is just a Turing machine.

So I actually think the point of the imitation game in his paper is not about the idea that this is a "good test". It's that it's a thought experiment that gets you to consider that when you reduce the human player to a box into which you feed input, and which produces output, that any information processing going on inside that box can be no more than Turing complete universal computation.

[1] https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf
Someone must have had a pretty amazing internal pitch deck to get this approved.
"Prove to the court that I am sentient." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2WP0hc0NY
"Capitalism" is a funny way of spelling "China".

To be clear, I'm not saying the CCP is a force for good. I don't really think it is; I'm not a fan of them at all. They do a lot of fucked-up shit. But it is a statistical fact that this lifting out of poverty has been going on since 1980 comes entirely from one country's influence on the data, and that's China. The rest of the world is net neutral, with some losers and some winners.

Capitalism only improves human life when heavily restrained, and what we've learned since about 1980 is that even mild, neutered, "nice guy" capitalism will, in time, erode the restraints put upon it... and then you get the catastrophe of the American 21st century... which is probably going hit Europe just as hard in 10-15 years because, ultimately, dangerous and greedy assholes aren't limited to one nation but exist everywhere.
Sorry, what "news" do you cite here? Are you referring to hypothetical publication of adverse reaction numbers, and speculation about those numbers?
That's a fair point. I hadn't considered that tie-in.

You might have more luck with a comment that explains that more explicitly.
... and then configure the bucket for https, put up an HTML landing page with a JavaScript widget; make sure the widget still works next year, etc, etc...

I get that it's not a big technical lift. I don't get why this doesn't exist in a polished form.
No worries - There will be another NATO "freedom/democracy" mission as soon as that occurs.
That Yayayayayayayayayayahoo! has to be one of the best bugs turned features in history.
What evidence do you have that you aren't a figment of my imagination?

Solipsism is a useless concept.
Can you ask it if it remembers your last conversation?
Hmm. I read it, but without it leaving much of an impression. Perhaps a fairly recent reading of the Iliad was to blame.
Should they not have those opinions, or just not post them on the internet?
It gets even worse on islands.
I think you meant to link to 1-(999999/1e6)^(1178 choose 2) [0]

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1-%28999999%2F1000000%2...
Would a fan of the Harry Potter series like them?
Your opportunity for vengeance on something like that is to have it put up a big warning that says "This setting is dangerous and violates the guidance of the following long list of experts and government bodies: list goes here. Are you SURE you want to take this security risk?".

And don't forget to log the insecure configuration every time the system starts up, too.
I'm always amazed when I see the various embedded contexts I find windows out in the wild. Usually when they are glitching out and displaying a start menu or something.

I guess they are operating at a scale where the licensing hell isn't a major roadblock? I don't get it.
A century ago it was not possible to make a machine that could as much as fake even limited intelligence. A machine that generated plausible human text or image, a machine that played checkers, etc. Our understanding of the mechanisms underlying biological life is incomparably greater, we've sent probes to just about every planet in the solar system, etc. 'No closer than a century ago' is a bewildering claim.
Is Frank Sobotka wanted for questioning? Or is Ziggy more likely to blame?
Isn't Launch HN reserved for ycomb startups? (Asking, i'm not sure) Maybe Show HN.
How extraordinary is it to claim that something capable of holding a lucid and eloquent conversation might be sentient? If a dog did that we'd have a very different opinion wouldn't we?
Also I would strongly hope, if this is intentional, that they’re refilling the local reserves. They probably need it after the wildfires. And still more can come anytime.
I forget whether it was my junior high library or my high school library that was well stocked with them.
Thank you for this comment. You’re right. I had an extremely busy job before this one and now is the first time I have this much free time. Your comment makes me feel better! Thanks again!
That's not what a unit is. A unit is just a standard against with other quantities sharing the same dimension can be measured. Anything with dimensions of energy/time can be measured in Watts, not just instantaneous power in the usual sense. Whether comparing two such quantities is meaningful may, as you point out, be another matter, but they can still be expressed in Watts.
Excedrin is a stack of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine, I’ve even been prescribed different combinations a few times, and I’ve had more than one doctor tell me how to rotate painkillers to safely maximize the effect and tell me to drink an energy drink with painkillers to make them work better.

I think it’s that doctors are honestly just excited to tell you the fun trivia.
If that is the logic you are going to go by, you need to consider a large portion of humanity non-sentient, because people can very often just decide to ignore questions.
Instead, this would just regurgitate random and even conflicting sentences about beta amyloid because it doesn’t “know” anything and certainly has no opinions beyond a certain statistical weight from training prevalence.
Well, gas just jumped $2 for no good reason. Leaders could take half to avoid the literal collapse of civilization, then blame Putin for the price hike.

Alternatively, they could end all fossil fuel subsidies, and use that money instead.
Funny, I'm the same way. Grew up in Illinois, which is totally flat. But after an adult lifetime in CA, it seems really, really boring to not have mountains.
A glimpse of the future.
indiginous people have been consuming coca leaves with no bad effects for thousands of years. the dose makes the poison.

by comparison, if you snorted pure caffine powder. you'd literally die
Corporate capitalism is going to crash the world in the next 25 years. That we're on an unsustainable course is obvious. Capitalism is basically the sick man of the 21st century, like the Ottoman Empire circa 1915; at this point, everyone's just hoping to avoid the Armenian fate.

What's less clear is what will replace it. We could end up with an improvement--post-scarcity technological socialism (en route to automated luxury communism)--but we could also end up with something a lot worse than the current system. There's no law of nature saying that the next world order has to be better than the current, outdated and moribund, one.
https://www.microcenter.com/product/649971/evolve-iii-maestr...

On sale $59.99 ; regular price $79.99. Smallish keyboard however...
Defendents didn’t pay for the cotton

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_v_Wichelhaus
I thought that question got empathically answered when Ontario hydro was privatized and split and went to hell together with our electricity prices.

Same with Ontario vs Manitoba or Quebec car insurance etc. Some things just suck when they're privatized - they focus on short term gain and end up with lousy infra and long term preparedness. I think HN has a pretty solid consensus on private telecom monopolies vs municipal fiber as well.

Back to topic, I thought most of usa private power monopolies are basically in dire straits from infra upkeep and maintenance and grid - there's a lot of bright knowledgeable folks on HN so I would genuinely appreciate comment if I'm way off base in my ignorant ways.
I think I fixed it. TBH I was cheating and just checking the mark position every 25millis lol. But the looping should be sample accurate now.
I agree with this. I think there would have been a much higher chance of failure if I was remote a decade ago.

I look back and I don’t even know how commuting fit into my schedule. In between work obligations, wife, 3 kids (one in college), dogs, home maintenance, and musical aspirations, I have zero problems with getting my work done and getting back to my life.

If you know what you’re doing, you can get all of your obligations done and then carry on with whatever. It normally doesn’t take me a full 40.
I guess this means if a hypothetical Bill Gates sold off the vast majority of the 45% of Microsoft stock he owned then the company would then be worth a lot less?

It really is weird how frequently I see the view you espouse and how nobody who repeats it seems to consider the clearest, most obvious counterexample that so completely disproves it.