skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ecofascism is a pretty unimaginative, lazy and downright illogical solution to the complicated problem of climate change. It's also morally and scientifically wrong.
I started playing tennis again, building on some basics I learned as a kid. Joined a local club, and was dumbfounded why no one was playing on beautiful weekend summer days. The sport has declined a little but still, where is eveyone?

Turns out all the action is at the organized league play with teams of 6, playing at home or travelling to nearby clubs. Through age groups and play modus anyone who can nominally complete a match skill-and fitness wise can join and contribute both to team success and social life surrounding the play. Through the shared activity you can connect, and meet for a match before joining people for non-tennis activities, before "making a friend as an adult".

So yes, the social structures are eroding rapidly and this will have major consequences for society, but there are still pockets left that you'll have to go out and find.
Housing energy models are well established - things like PHPP, which though a bit of a dog to use is well validated and cheap. Low and negative carbon techniques are also available - things like mycelium insulation, which notionally outperforms EPS (and even that pays for itself from a carbon perspective very quickly if used properly).
I'm a KDE user for a few years and I feel the exact opposite.

Anyway, do you use the GTK file picker? Or have you swapped it out, somehow? That's my biggest problem with gnome. I'm frustrated every time it pops up. It has a long list of bugs that have been ignored for 5+ years. The biggest issue being that it only offers list view, no thumbnail view. So, doing anything with media files is extremely irritating. But, for some reason, so many projects still use it.
It would be funny if the AI applied for his job.
>"large scale statistical knowledge assimilation" as well, aka learning

No, experimentation is an act on the world to set its state and then measure it. That's what learning involves.

These machines do not act on the world, they just capture correlations.

In this sense, machines are maximally schizophrenic. They answer "yes" to "is there a cat on the matt?" not because there is one, but because "yes" was what they heard most often.

Producing models of correlations in half-baked measures of human activity has nothing to do with learning. And everything to do with a magic light box that fools dumb apes.
I don't think it is.

For a start, it's not the lean/agile way to have a large capital cost for your idea. If the idea dies, so does all that money you've wasted.

Secondly, the example given is quite naive in design. You wouldn't serve directly from s3 because of costs so you would serve via caches/cdn; for instance, using aws cdn would cost 85 cents.

Going back to the first point though, you're putting a lot of money at risk.
I keep a list here: https://maxrozen.com/examples-of-large-production-grade-open...
Nice thing to learn - thanks. Although the only scenario I can think of at the moment would be the lack of netcat (and telnet).

Not a fan of limiting scripts with bashisms. I like them to be runnable under zsh and similar shells despite having /usr/bin/env bash, /bin/bash, /bin/sh shebang.
'working' for who though?

US is in great shape, Europe very far from great shape, RotW alternatively suffering collateral damage via increased prices / lack of supply and taking advantage of lowered prices / increase in supply
Makes you wonder what shared culture opportunities there were before TV (and radio).
> Everybody already knows that code running on a computer cannot become sentient

That sounds pretty confident considering we don't even know how sentience works or emerges.

Aside from that I agree this specific story isn't particularly interesting, though. The media hyped it up to an insane degree.
I haven't used KDE since the Plasma transition, when it got buggy, and according to most users' reports, stayed buggy for quite a while

I also jumped off the kde train after the 3->4 transition/train wreck. However, about a year ago I gave it another try, basically on a whim, and I was really impressed. Impressed enough that I haven't switched back to XFCE since.
When you deregulate stuff, the catastrophic results usually don't come immediately. If they were to come immediately, it would be blatantly obvious to everyone that it's a bad idea, and hence deregulation wouldn't happen. So, in practice, most of deregulation happens in areas where it's good for short-term and bad/catastrophic for long-term.
I'm sure he's made more from the show than he lost on the investments. He's been on Shark Tank for 10 years now.
I don't see how this is different to a computer which exceeds average human performance on math tasks - which they all do, from an 8-bit micro upwards.

Being able to do arithmetic at some insane factor faster than humans isn't evidence of sentience. It's evidence of a narrow-purpose symbol processor which works very quickly.

Working with more complex symbols - statistical representations of "language" - doesn't change that.

The set of things that makes us us is not primarily intellectual, and it's a fallacy to assume it is. The core bedrock of human experience is built from individual motivation, complex social awareness and relationship building, emotional expression and empathy, awareness of body language and gesture, instinct, and ultimately from embodied sensation.

It's not about chess or go. Or language. And it's not obviously statistical.
Yup. But still funny as hell (if you ignore the references to dated tech).
> Will Bush also be remembered fondly and for his buffoonery and not the war crimes?

I mean, he pretty much already is, from what I've seen (palling around with celebrities, getting good press for shunning Trump, etc.)
I’m not sure what you think he was doing with that machine to begin with but he basically runs the Flutter project and was testing it with a low end device precisely because that is important to him to know how it performs for users on low end hardware. Kind of the exact opposite of what you are saying.
Wasn't new knowledge assimilation from talks the reason for Microsoft infamous Twitter chatbot to be discarded [1]. Despite such ability it definitely was not sentient.

I rised this point in another thread on HN about LaMDA: all its answers were "yes"-answers, not a single "no". Self-sentient AI should have its own point of view: reject what it thinks is false, and agree about what it thinks is true.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
Cynically, it seems possible to me Blake knew he was likely to be fired and thought by "telling the world" (aka talking to the media about something fantastic that would gain a bunch of attention) he could get some fame/notoriety and a possible second act.
I like to play on Flatris: https://flatris.space/
Reading this kind of article always bring this to mind: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I stopped using KDE during the KDE3 -> KDE4 transition. Loved KDE3, really didn't get on with KDE4.

KDE5 has been vastly better for me - especially in the last two years or so.

I don't really hit any bugs day to day.
Also an ancient example. Mach's latest version is ~30 years old (released 1994). See https://fediverse.blog/~/3542/the-three-generations-of-micro... for advancements since then such as an order of magnitude performance improve.
"That sounds pretty confident considering we don't even know how sentience works or appears"

This works better the other way, no?

- "The code has become sentient!”

-- "Define sentient..."

sound of crickets

Edit: Actually, I suppose it wouldn't be the sound of crickets, but the sound of a thousand idiots regurgitating the last YouTube video they watched on the subject, but the informational content is the same.
Not sure you actually read the thread or not but the point was that Flutter actually ended up working great on a $100 machine even when it was compiled to JavaScript and run inside a browser.
I agree that the average Chinese person would think that their government is doing a good thing. After all their views are controlled by that very government.

However I disagree that this is a good reason for surveillance. Because I don't think it actually improves quality of life. Also, I really abhor the Chinese confucian values of "society first". I really value our freedom and individuality.

Luckily it seems the corona crisis seems to be lifting that veil of propaganda a bit. I hear a lot of Chinese are really getting sick of the heavy-handed manner in which it is controlled. I can only hope that they will revolt, however I doubt it will be successful because the surveillance machine is primed to detect early outbursts of revolution and nip it in the bud. Kinda ironic since the current regime in China ascended to power through revolution.
Working in the sense that they are hurting Russia and hampering its capability to wage war(s).

Sanctions are hard for Europe and there's a growing argument, in Europe, that they only benefit the US without being effective, and that they should be abandoned.

As a European, I think this line of reasoning is extremely wrong, defeatist and careless.

Sanctions are necessary even if they don't work, because of the message they send. But if they do work, so much the better.
What if, recursively, a conscious being can instill consciousness in things observed by said being? Wouldn't that be funny?
I had some shower thoughts.

Let's assume decoherence won't be a problem.

How about a purely economic perspective. Something like the number of bits of DRAM you can get for the cost of a single qubit. Surely, for quantum computers to become usefulfrom a cost POV, this number needs to shrink, yes?

So it could then be interesting to graph this ratio over time and see where it's headed. My gut is that given the state of the art nature of QC, the cost of 1 qubit should be very high, whereas one bit of DRAM should be very low. Which mean 1 qubit is worth a crazy amount of DRAM.

Does anyone know if this has been analysed?
Classical computers appeared and for the first decade existed purely because of scientific demand. Gaming and business were secondary effects.
While it might have been a war crime the existing international legal mechanism were unable to deal with such war crimes. The Nürnberger Prozesse were not run by an international mechanism but by the allied forces. Similar in Japan.
There is a rather surprising amount of research about these kinds of approaches [1]. The various strategies and extensions are an interesting read.

^[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting
I think what US lacks severely is humility. That big ego acknowledging that even they can and sometimes do fuckup big time, despite all good that is done. This very effectively prevents recognizing and addressing issues like these and much needed improvement.

It goes deeper - US needs allies, everybody does. But if you position yourself above everybody else and treat rest as sub-humans (which is what effectively various US laws state), people and nations will align with you only of its convenient for them, and not for 1 second more. You will receive a lot of hatred, open and hidden. Nothing healthy for long term empire.
Having used KDE 2, 3, skipped 4, and now 5, it's the most polished desktop environment I can think of. OSX is too weird and Windows is a hodgepodge of "GUI trend of the day". Not that either of those matter, since they're not FLOSS.
...predicted? Or CAUSED???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu
Isn't this kinda exactly the retail model that have been around since cheap overseas manufacturing. The products themselves are cheap, margin goes to shipping, warehousing and inventory. Potentially even risks involved on not selling all of the inventory.

The margins look huge, but actually many steps like carrying that inventory or even the shipping from near warehouse is pretty expensive. Like more than the product itself.
> Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information.

Can't that be taken to be understood as, Blake got fired for letting the cat of the bag and continuing to let more cats out of the bag, or at least saying the cat was just hoax and was never there?
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>That's not what alimony is.

Yes I'm aware. I was specifically asked to model it as 'severance.'

Most of the stay-at-home spouses I've met didn't give up work as a gift to their spouse, they did it as a gift to their children. Should children pay alimony to stay-at-home moms for the work opportunities their mother lost out on to take care of them?
Berlin isn't "north-German" culturally, it is a very distinct cultural sphere and probably good for making some friends.

Note that behind the aparent coldness of Germans lies a promise of eternal, deep friendship once you break through :-)
Why are deals like this always only available in the US? Here in Europe it's really hard to find any Laptops or Chromebooks for less than 200€
No, it used to as a side-effect, but DPI circumvention is an unpopularity contest... wiregaurd is no longer unpopular enough, DPI targets it, and wiregaurd's purpose is not to play the circumvent DPI game, so it's not going to continually make arbitrary changes to do so.
Somewhere I worked used the wrong serial numbers of postal delivery. We had an overflow which no one noticed for about a year and we ended up using the same range as another customer of the postal company. There were thousands of parcels with duplicated serials, everything arrived fine and as far as I know there's been no real admin issues either. So in this case it didn't matter.
Both are right -- is it so difficult to see that?
> They will more likely keep the 'ChromeOS' name to limit the confusion...

I mean, that would make sense. But being Google, I think they're likely to name it something different that nobody recognizes. And then change that name to something similar enough to ChromeOS to cause confusion, since they're actually separate and incompatible products.

Sigh. Sorry, I used to work for Google, on chat and video chat products.
> In a lot of cases, though, it might be cheaper just to build ten times as much solar panel capacity

All these ideas about plastering the world with millions of tons of solar panels makes me worry about what happens in say 50 years from now. Recycling all of that stuff may prove to be pointless from economic perspective and we may end up with millions of tons of dead pannels in a small-country-sized landfill.
> I calculated I would need about 70 to 80 kWp (optimized for winter sun angle, e.g. pretty steep modules at 60° or 70° that relatively produce less in summer, but more in winter).

I know there are sun-following installations but those need expensive mechanics and control systems. Aren't there middle-ground solutions that can be manually adjusted twice a year?
QC cant do anything, it has no use cases. And that won't change. Except if you want to generate random numbers. that it can do.
Interactive Intro to Remix.run Conventions
with just a few points of interest pertinent to your existence.

Pertinent to your existence as a cash-cow to be milked by the corporations, and as a slave to be controlled by the government, no doubt. I vaguely remember one story, and there's probably plenty of other dystopian sci-fi based on this premise.
Sounds like the next step should be long-term at-home storage through generation of solid or liquid fuels.
Himself.
I read this the Mac comparisons as “compared to what I normally use as my daily driver at work which is a very high end MBP with a very different price point” which is far more innocent
Surely utility level wind power can fill parts of that gap?

Utility level solar is much more effective too of course.
Perhaps the problem is how we model sentience. Perhaps the default should be everything is sentient but limited to the interface that exists as boundary conditions.

To say otherwise is almost the path to sure error, and many terrible historic events have happened in that vicinity of categorization what is and isn't.

Perhaps we should go by what sentience means. To feel. A being that feels. To feel is to respond to a vibration in some way. That is to say, anything that has a signal is sentient in some way.
Try a laptop designed for Linux. Suspend is working 100% of the time on my Librem 15.
Simpler option is to avoid marriage, greatly reducing the pressure on getting a divorce.
Seems so.

https://insidehpc.com/2019/02/ionq-performs-first-quantum-si...
I find the one in Texas much more impressive.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/preliminary-report-l...

While Texans froze and natural gas-fired power plants tripped offline during a February cold snap, natural gas traders and pipeline companies made up to $11 billion in just nine days.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/11-billion-in-9-...

“I will say we understand that it would be unacceptable to just have customers bear the cost on their monthly bill and as if anybody could pay for that,” Gold-Williams said. “So we are working diligently - the financial services team is working diligently, trying to figure out ways to truly spread that cost, potentially maybe, you know 15 - I mean, 10 years or longer to try to make it affordable. We don’t have that fully assessed.”

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/02/19/skyrocketing-pric...
This is why covering big box stores with solar panels is generally more economic. Flat roofs with lots of space.
Interesting to see the two meanings of good appear in both your and your parent's comment.
It's a shame they ended it after seven seasons and left most of the plot lines hanging.
No, Dresden was a big garrison city, manufacturing and transportation hub. Bombing it, as cruel at is was, served a purpose for the Allies to remove safe retreats for the Germans.

Lots of Dresdeners were supporters of faschism before the war and after the war. A quite vocal minority still supports neofaschism up to this day. In the 90ies they installed the myth of the "holocaust bombing" as an allied war crime, trying to turn themselves into the victims of war.
I wonder if it really is true that the sanctions don’t affect the US. After all in this globalized world there are chain reactions that are not immediately visible.

Nevertheless assuming the statement is true: Does the high value of military support of the US compared to, f.e. Germany, set of the better economic situation?
I'd say, depending on job, the incompetence and lack of analytical thinking displayed by thinking sentience is present, is a reason for dismissal alone.
The Great Firewall of China (Wikipédia)
I just saw the thread about GoodbyDPI and talks about the GFW, so I researched it. Their techniques are very interesting.
You should look into the noestimates approach which will give you more of a skeleton around that insight.
Well in Germany at least they have legislative requirements for insulation on new builds (and have for years).

So that's an actual solution to the problem!
Doing the math, methane is around 30x worse than CO2.

So say you pulled down 30 units of CO2 and 1 unit of Methane leaked (3%), you’re back to square one. Not to mention the Methane will be burned into CO2 again so this closed cycle isn’t so closed.

This study suggests up to 9% is leaked currently:

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/03/24/methane-leaks-much-wors...
President Biden said it.
This comes up a lot when desalination is mentioned. Think of the pacific as a bucket of water. And desalinating all the water we ever need adds up to tiny fraction of a drop of water in comparison. Now the brine is an even tinier fraction of that drop that goes back in the bucket. What does it do to ppm counts of things like salt? Absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Yes, dumping concentrated brine in shallow waters causes issues for the local wild life. Simple solution: don't dump it there. For example, if you pump it out to deeper waters, you are not going to affect ppm counts of salt and other minerals in any meaningful or even measurable way. You couldn't even if you wanted to. It's just way too much water.

There's a reason why surfers in LA wear wet suits: the water there is cold because it has no chance to heat up by much. That's because the coast there isn't very shallow. About 1-2 miles from the coast, the bottom already drops to hundreds of feet. And there are some powerful currents that constantly mix things up. Ideal place to get rid of a relatively tiny amount of brine.

Brine disposal is a simple engineering problem. Probably you and I could come up with a dozen different ways to do it that would be perfectly acceptable. Of course there's a cost attached to those things. That's actually the main challenge. Pipes and pumps cost money.
At that size of a project everything will have bugs. With the current way we develop software it's unavoidable. If they're not stopping you from doing what you want to, then "everything works" is true.
Haven’t you just replaced trust in your ISP with trust in the hosting provider of your VPN?

(Depending on yourISP and provider this can be a good trade-off)
It is harder problem that it sounds. Deep packet inspection needs to happen at some linespeed. More work you do the harder it is to process it all fast enough. You can write stuff for single packets, but when you have lot of connections happening it becomes much harder problem.
Why would code running on a computer be unable to become sentient?
Yes, the fact that he's testing using that device is a good thing. But having software run fast on low-end computers shouldn't be a surprise, and I was just addressing how much we've lowered our standards for optimized software; unrelated to what he's doing. But I guess the way I wrote that, I was putting a lot of blame unto him.
Can you describe how you test for independent thinking? What does independent mean anyways? A decision tree can rationalize its outcomes. Does it count towards sentience? Is there an academic source for this definition of sentience?

> Telling this extra information is just communicating we spent enough time on it to give somewhat informed discussion.

Doing so is appeal to authority. When there is a claim of authority, it's very natural for it to be questioned. And those questions are based on subjective perception of authority.
I'd MUCH rather have transmission lines behind my window than a busy rail or road, generating noise, pollution, congestion and danger.
yes fair enough, this is a strong argument.

the consequences for Europe may be bearable for the moment but I suspect will have long lasting manifestations down the line which might shift the calculus, as economic pain is felt by the people, who will shift the politics of every country to the right. Italy will be the first, Scholz will be the last Chancellor of the SPD, Macron will give away to the right when his term ends.

all this may still be 'worth it', tho at some point enough people in European democracies might disagree. Their answer might be quite unpalatable
Don't forget, EU prices include sales tax. Online shopping in the US doesn't (as I understand it).

However, in the UK, there are Chromebooks for around £120 - https://www.currys.co.uk/computing/laptops/laptops/chromeboo...
It is for sure not more polished then OSX or windows but it is best in Linux world if u care about looks not stability.
It's hard for me to imagine, in a commercial setting. Wikipedia demonstrates that it's possible, but the financial aspect makes it so hard to manage incentives. Sellers have every incentive to game the system, up to and including bribing the curators, and curators presumably like money as much as anybody else. You can monitor the behavior of one guy sitting in a room performing curation, but when you start scaling up and have thousands of curators, all over the world, doing the same thing for thousands of different combinations of language, subculture or market segment, etc...it's hard to picture how it could work.