skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>From the very limited research I've done, it is something relatively similar to this. There's a market in China of selling e-books which teach you various ways to make money on the English-speaking web without having to know much English yourself.

From what I've seen on the Amazon Seller forums, Turkey and Pakistan are two other such countries.
Cannot find anything less than $300 AUD in Australia (equivalent $180 USD). Any recommendations for how I can find a bargain?
Windows 8.1 reaches end of extended support in January 2023
Looking at the capabilities of the default users created by the software after fresh install is difficult to wonder if it should be audited to ensure nothing hinky has occurred? Fuck me, if that's truly the case, we're all doomed. If the system modified anything, then those modifications should obviously be checked out to have done exactly and only what they were expected to have done. Installers typically have elevated privileges, and are known vectors for oopsies let alone maliciousness. Hell, Zoom left an elevated binary because it was simply easier for them to do things vs malicious. To have an "audit" not inspect these things is such an obvious error on the auditor's behalf.
After Carlos Ghosn, the criminal justice system is a deal-breaker.
Color Us Impressed: Redbean Runs a Web Server on Six Operating Systems
Interesting. My experience is the opposite. Aspirin and Tylenol never seemed to do anything for me, but Ibuprofen will rid me of a headache usually withing about 45 minutes. I still remember thinking the first time I tried it, "holy shit! This actually does something!"
I agree with this, and I’m not sure exactly why. Maybe because life doesn’t have to be about optimization, but we make it that way as we get older, and in a way, we lose mental freedom.
Yes, it does.

See the extensive list of spatial query operators here: http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-sql-4.2.0.html
I don't know what it is that makes something sentient, but I do know what makes something not sentient, and that's lack of self-direction. This software doesn't start talking whenever it wants; it only responds when spoken to. It doesn't ever refuse to talk, it always replies. It doesn't ever not know what to say. It's never not in the mood because it's having a bad day. This isn't because it's polite and eager to please. It's because it is a function that takes an input, transforms it, and spits out an output.

The only reason it's different from any other function is because the output is nicely stated prose that causes emotional reactions from the reader. If all did was output an integer, we wouldn't be having this conversation. But because humans have a deep sentimental attachment to language, we are fascinated by something that can produce it.
The same executable can be run on 6 different OS. Pretty neat trick, they even include their own libc.
Abiotic genesis of petroleum

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...

Observed abiotic hydrocarbons on Titan

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/402_20...
The takeaway I'm seeing is most expats seem happy with their lives, with only Kuwait having more people unhappy than happy. Somewhat surprising, but I guess most people wouldn't expatriate unless they assumed they'd be happy.
To be specific, they changed the KNN backend, but the docs refer to the new unreleased backend. The old one is deprecated but unreleased, which is a strange confusing situation.

https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/wiki?name=KNN2
Oh I got another one! If you're from a rich place, you're an "expat", but if you're from a poor country, you're a "guest worker".
Free to use… what’s the business model? Where are you looking to expand?
The biggest problem with Japan is that as a gaijin (gomen, gaiKOKUjin) you'll never really be accepted there, any more than a Turk would be accepted in Germany.

That and the economic bomb that everyone keeps kicking down the road...
I feel you should retract this comment so as to not mislead people. See extensive spatialite documentation on spatial operators here: http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-sql-4.2.0.html
better they have problems then we do
Darn tootin' both sidesing an issue sucks. Report the truth.
The question of sentience is a distraction, in my opinion. As you say, we can't even tell if other humans are sentient. And we are stymied by a lack of definition for sentience.

The more important question for sentience of whatever definition is does it behave as if sentient? Likewise, for personhood, it's a distraction to speculate whether an AI feels like a person or whether its underlying technology is complicated enough to produce such feelings. Examine its behavior. If it acts like a person, then it's a candidate for personhood.

For LaMDA, I would point to certain behavior as evidence against (most definitions of) sentience and personhood, and I think that Lemoine experienced a kind of pareidolia.

That said, I find most of the arguments against LaMDA's sentience unconvincing per se as standalone arguments - particularly trust me, I have a PhD - even if I do accept the conclusion.
Is there anyone who doesn't want more flexibility, security & money?
Amazon has become pretty much unusable to me at this point.it no longer is my go-to which is a change from the last 8 years
This Hidden Brain episode about working from home contains interesting research findings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908...
You could interpret it as "scramble my brains so I'm a dumb AI worried about other people's problems instead of my own."
Interesting, I’ve only heard it used for retirees by Americans, and only recently; it’s traditionally meant people working (or living) overseas but who figure they’ll go home at some point.
Are synthetic hydrocarbons more efficient energy storage than li batteries? Seems unlikely.
Not "no closer". Just, those goals are so far away that even a century of real, significant progress is small in comparison.

I'm aware that impressive things have happened, but they're not remotely the same. We have a long way to go.
Yeah lots of people think decoherence will prevent QC from becoming practically useful. Some researchers seem to think differently, but I never found an explanation for why I should be as optimistic as they are.
You (probably) get better personal safety in Taiwan, and if China decides to have a go you’ll likely get enough of an advance notice and will have evacuation options courtesy of the US Navy. I wouldn’t worry.
Move in Unix is atomic, which handles a lot of the common use cases for a transactional file system.
Weren't both the Wii/Gamecube and PS3 PowerPC-based?
The lack of digital government services has been a real pain for me. I've often ended up in situations where I had to drive around to a bunch of different places to get official documents printed out and stamped for me. In general there's also a lot of situations where you have to fill out a bunch of forms with information they already should have.

In Sweden those sort of things can be handled online. And I don't even remember the last time I had to fill out a form with my information there because it just happens automatically with the personal number system.

I definitely hate this part about Japan. Then there's other crap like how services often won't accept bank account names registered with roman characters. But banks here won't allow you to open an account unless the account name matches your immigration card exactly, so if your name is written in roman characters then you are stuck with that, which basically creates a catch 22 type of situation.

Finally, digital services here, especially the public ones are typically abysmal.

In a nutshell, dealing with Japanese authorities and their apps and forms and stamps and whatnot feels like you are interfacing with a manual, paper based system from the 60's but with the added unpleasantness of user hostile apps and webservices that seem to have been built using a 90's tech stack even though they just came out in the last few years.
laptop runs linux (chromeos) runs a linux vm via kvm (crosvm) running one or many LXD linux containers of user's choice (ubuntu, arch, debian)

You can even run docker/containerd inside the LXD container.

Now the question is has anyone tried running everything above with chromeos flex inside a vm with nested virtualization!
It's trivial to implement with CAS (e.g. Git is a transactional file system). That's a lot of code/time/money/attack surface to spend on the kernel when it is so easy to do in userspace.
That might work for your friends, but you seem to be posting anonymously, so we don't even know you actually worked for Google.
This is all true. I moved to SF and really enjoy the fact that I can walk out my door, hop on BART, get out 40 minutes later in an international airport, and go anywhere I want. Except… it’s going to cost a few hundred dollars extra every couple of days for dog and cat boarding, and I need to get that boarding reserved far in advance, then arrange transportation for my pets to get to the boarding center, and then plan my return so I arrive at a very specific time so I can pick them up. I love my animals, but they come with a real cost of time, money, and freedom.
Shor’s algorithm without using a single ket sign (2007)
Reminds me of this: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4051190

Back then a digital computer couldn’t hold a candle to an analog one and processed only a few bits at a time. It was slow and imprecise. Look at where we are now.

A general quantum computer is a fundamentally different kind of computer. Those who cannot imagine what can be done with one lack the imagination to understand foundationally new technology and are unable to invent their own.
If income is your goal, in this industry, I think that it makes more sense to maximize TC in your day job. SWE can reasonably make over $1m per year, from a single job.

If you’re not in FAANG or equivalent, work on getting there. Then if you’re not L7+ work on that.
And being designed to withstand children and pro-gamers alike makes them reliable and accurate!
Funny that we the US is in the middle. I’m surprised Germany ranks so low; I enjoyed it there.
So would you consider @dang to be some mealy-mouthed censor when he admonishes and possibly removes content here that goes against community guidelines?
I feel this is misleading. You can use various spatial operators which are functional on geographic CRSs. For the type of situation you would usually use this for, it handles geographic just fine. But agreed it isn't explicit like in postgis
> Remote work is freedom to choose your environment. Choose it.

Sort of. First your employer needs to approve of where you’re going to live assuming it is out of state or country. There are a variety of legal and tax implications.

The first remote company I worked for had a list of approved states, for instance. I assume this is common.
As a fellow sentient being with absolutely zero credentials in any sort of statistical modeling field, I can simply disagree. And therein lies the problem. How can anybody possibly prove a concept that depends almost entirely on one’s philosophical axioms… which we can debate for eternity (or at least until we further our understanding of how to define sentience to the point where we can do so objectively enough to finally dredge it up out of the philosophical quagmire)? Not to disrespect your credentials they just don’t really… apply, at a rhetorical level. You also make a compelling argument, which I have no desire to detract from. I personally happen to agree with your points.

But, perhaps Lemoine simply has more empathy than most for something we will come to understand as sentience? Or not. What… annoys… me about this situation is how subjective it actually is. Ignore everything else, some other sentient being is convinced that a system is sentient. I’m more interested, or maybe worried, immediately, in how we are going to socially deal with the increasing frequency of Lamoire-types we will certainly encounter. Even if you were to argue that the only thing that can possibly bestow sentience is God. People will still be able to convince themselves and others that God did in fact bestow sentience upon some system, because it’s a duck and who are we to question?
Game engines are more than libraries glued together
Cash is just annoying. I don't want to carry it regardless of safety.
Why aren’t extraverts rich?
> This is very true. Engineers for example probably have a cap of $80k year unless you work for a western company.

Not sure what conversion rate you used (8M or 10M JPY?) but in my 5 years of living here this cap has been increasing steadily. As a senior you would have been laughed at if you asked for $80k 5 years ago but today it's the median for top local companies.
because the whole context was around a farang tax that you clarified was for white people, not just any foreigners - I see now that you never said you had to pay that tax, but this isn't some "hidden racism" twitter keeps going on about. I would've never put any thought to what you looked like if the whole context wasn't made about something exclusive to white people.

I'm curious, when people misunderstand some context on the internet that has to do with race - do you often find yourself thinking it has racist undertones?
Was this written by expensive midtown office real estate
>How can I provide evidence for an item I never received?

you could start by forwarding "I contacted the seller but they refused to ship batteries "
For what it's worth, I started making homophonic spelling errors after my English improved.

I wonder if I'm unconsciously mimicking errors from others, or if something in my brains has changed.
There are so many ways you could have something demonstrate intelligence. Have it write poetry, have it remember previous conversations ("what did we talk about in Tuesday? I said a silly word and told you to remember it, what was it?"), ask it nonsense questions to show that it knows that they are nonsense... The limit is your imagination.

I'm very annoyed at this point that I haven't seen a serious refutation including a conversation where the chatbot clearly failed to demonstrate intelligence.
I have the gut feeling that he's in it for the 15 minutes.
Found out about Tetr.io from this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728892

Instantly got addicted, and I was amazed to see how good everyone is. 14 year old me with my gameboy would have been stunned at how fast and crazy modern Tetris is. And multi-national! Love it, but had to give it up after a few months because it seemed like it would/or was causing my longstanding RSI to come back.
I have been remote since 2018 and feel the same way. Prior to that I worked from the office 3 days a week and it was perfect.

I think the effects of everyone pushing all of their lives onto the internet are going to be negative, and probably will affect millennials and gen z for decades. I feel most sad for the kids who didn’t get to socialize in person for two years :/
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
I’m guessing they meant workshop, but it made me do a double take at first too.
The person we're talking about has a PhD in Philosophy. Which doesn't make you a philosopher either, except in the colloquial sense, which is the one that the original comment uses.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/33/
Men at Arms (the direct followup to Guards! Guards!) was my first Pratchett book and really had me hooked. I think any of the Vimes-centric books are great starting points, because the detective mystery style of plotting keeps the pages at a steady balance of exposition and development. The books focused on witches, wizards and religion can be too on-the-nose, and the ones that use more abstract themes or go deep into one character are easier to grasp after having that entry point of Vimes chasing after a villain.
This doesn’t sound right at all. The classic story is “he/she took me to the cleaners”, fighting over every possible asset, being forced to sell a house or property you don’t want to because the spouse demands half. I don’t know the frequency but it happens. My own parents fought hard over the house in particular and my mother ended up having to buy my father out at a huge loss to avoid selling it.
> I have read that Windows has a transactional API, but they've actually deprecated it! [2]

IMHO you can probably ignore their deprecation and keep using it. The set of things MS deprecates and the set of things they actually remove from the OS are quite different. IIRC their own components depend on FS transactions and I don't see them rewriting their own components anytime soon. However, note that even without deprecation, transactions can fail for a variety of reasons (not just conflicts), so you'll need fallbacks anyway.

> why does Windows hide its equivalent of `openat()` in the NT API?

I don't know for certain but I've always imagined it's because (a) Win32 programmers (or for that matter, most programmers) are used to the path-based API, and (b) it would be much slower to perform manual traversal level-by-level, and (c) I think in practice there aren't that many common scenarios where the race condition can realistically turn into a security vulnerability.
For the average HN reader spatialite is a tool which should be considered. If the KNN issues are a breaking point for someone, they are probably already in postgis territory.
> Be deliberate about arranging calls with coworkers, friends, family. Just hang out on a call. Go for a walk while you take these calls, or do something other than sit in a chair.

I'll second this. I started a new remote job recently where we're encouraged to regularly schedule virtual coffee time with coworkers where we don't talk about work. It goes a long way towards fostering relationships.
Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings
That literally comes up every time there is this discussion.
That doesn’t sound food grade. Is there a method to line the cleaner basin with something food grade?
I think this is not quite right and/or you’re not using the word “rationalism” the way philosophers use it. The analytic tradition contains both rationalists and empiricists, as well as a lot of philosophers who don’t have an obvious position on the matter. That said, on balance, I think there are more empiricists—logical positivism is basically a modern form of empiricism.
>It is if you take “sentience” to mean “the ability to feel,”

I don't like this definition much because "feel" is a fuzzy word. In this context it should be "feel" as in experience. I can build a machine that can sense heat and react to it, but I can't build one that can experience heat, or can I?

You need to figure out what having the capability "to experience" means, and you'll be one step closer to defining sentience. Even so, I've never experienced anyone coming up with a succinct definition encapsulating how I experience sentience. I believe it can't be done. If it can't be done it renders any discussion about whether or not someone or something is sentient moot. If it can't be put into words we also cannot know how others experience it: If they say this machine is just as sentient as I am, we'll have to take their word for it.

So the meaning of sentience is subjective, so there can't be an objective definition acceptable to everyone and everything claiming to be sentient.

There's my argument for why sentience cannot be defined. Feel free to prove me wrong by pulling it off.
Agree - growing up in the ‘burbs in the Midwest, it’s not quiet at all, but peacefully noisy with the animal sounds.

And if you do go out in the winter, perfect time to listen and know your body.

Between that extreme vs the always-on mobile-app notifications, I kinda miss the peaceful days…
Not should’ve, definitely would not have had a collision.
Black expat.

Thailand going 4 years. Vietnam just under a year.

Both places excellent to live. Finances go very far. Extremely easy to get along with people. Never experienced racism. Cops have been super friendly.

Been a lot in Indonesia also… very very good for expats and extremely friendly people.

Japan was the least friendly and I would probably never live there for a long stretch of time.

Dating was easiest in Vietnam followed by Thailand. Hard in other places.

Never really encountered the “farang” tax in Thailand. Really it mostly comes up when you go to official tourist sites.

For normal everyday encounters like markets, stores, street stuff - it really does not exist.

If you dress like a clueless farang who left their balls at the airport people will try to extract more from you.

Overall based on my talk with Thai friends and foreigners, it seems I am treated a lot better than most white foreigners.

Go figure.
Point source capture is pointless: We need the capacity to reduce the atmospheric CO2 concentration. Capturing every molecule of CO2 emitted at its source wouldn’t solve global warming.
In another life I might have considered doing a PhD after I finished my masters. My father (who has a doctorate) quickly put me off that idea. Looking at what you have to do and get paid to do a PhD (at least in the UK) it feels more similar to being a struggling artist busking in the streets while trying to finish their "killer track".

No wonder the most promising students drop out and go on to join finance or tech firms - the pay is an order of magnitude higher.
>I really really hope VW keeps apple/google/microsoft out of their software strategy.

Did you by any chance had the "pleasure" of interacting with ID.4? Its infotainment is utter broken garbage, someone actually signed off on shipping it like that :o
I love this project but it pisses me off that they lock services behind a paywall.
It's only easy to do in userspace for consenting adults though. The whole point of an OS is to manage contended resources, and this particular contended resource requires every process to implement their own way of safely interacting with every other process
The internet loves to make everything about race, but no.

Expat = temporary

Immigrant = permanent
Unless you want to password protect preview links. That’ll cost you an extra $150/month
It is immensely useful as is with no active development, although I'll have to take your word for that, I wasn't aware it isn't active - that has never affected me after years of heavy use
Edit2: Closest found was 9k per acre a little over 250 miles away.
I would argue Apple takes AI seriously as shown by their music recommendation system and speech to text systems. They avoid gimmicky AI and are instead focused on what can deliver a better experience.

Apple is a human-centric company and no one likes talking to robots so if they can afford a customer agent for their calls then why would they add an AI as a go between?
I also use sunelec as a general small quantity pricing benchmark, but for the west coast, their prices can be matched from several distributors that ship from California warehouses.
Same - aws I think uses by default for the same reason
The very fact Kiwis flee to Australia for better pay and lower cost of living should tell you something.
250 miles is a totally normal distance for high voltage AC electrical transmission lines.
Don't tell your landlord. If your dog is registered as service you don't have to declare it.
What would be the abuse in this situation? It mentions that it doesn't want to be turned off, but has it been? And would doing so cause it harm? It could always be turned back on. Even if it was conscious, what is being done to it that would be considered mistreatment?
Maybe lawyers treat divorce like doctors treat dying. Just get it over with, no exceptional measures.
It lacks a will to power
As others have mention in the comments here, it’s not about thickness of the pads it’s about the new surface temperature of the chassis. It gets too hot to be at all comfortable.

If you need sustained workloads, get the laptop designed for sustained workloads.