skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quit drinking after more than 25 years of problematic drinking by taking naltrexone just before drinking for 3-4 weeks. Given my prior experience with alcohol and trying to quit, it was the easiest thing I've ever done.

I urge people who have a problem with drinking and wish to quit, who for whatever reason do not feel that 12 step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous are right for them to find a doctor who is willing and able to prescribe naltrexone and have a serious discussion with them. Had I had access to it and known it was effective as it is I probably would have been able to stop drinking 20 years sooner than I did.
Only if the same AI algorithm has the ability to learn and self correct.
What “BS” are you referring to? This is just a news.
When it first started spreading outside of Africa I was concerned because the reported fatality rate was something like 5-10%

Now we have tens of thousands of cases outside of Africa and it doesn’t appear to be lethal at all and goes away on its own. Depending on the severity it seems like the biggest issue is pain/itchiness for a week or so.

So what’s the “emergency” in that context?
This seems a step too far for me. Compatibility with existing source files which may not be trivial to migrate does also matter. (Well, except for `auto`, C23 was right to fuck with that.) At the very least you'll need flags that mean "do whatever you did before".
I have no first-hand knowledge of this, but if you have to go back 2500 years for an example... ;-)
It's a cute theory, but the reality is most employers want you to be relatively efficient from day dot.

I work in a team with a codebase split 50/50 between C# and C++, and if you're not proficient in one of those then the chances of you getting hired, even if you're an incredible programmer, are slim.
>This is a option that shouldn't be discounted.

Why not? In all of the material that you and GP link to, it is said that CLODO was last active in the 80's and then vanished, never to be heard from again. That's over 30 years of apparent inactivity. There are some coincidences between the target and CLODO's previous targets, but... that's it.

Edit: From Wikipedia...

>Since December, 1983, CLODO has no longer been classified as 'active' by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

So, forty years, not thirty.
Nope it really depends on the plan/pricing you get. The cheapest "droplet" is lousier than a chromebook but there is a wide range of VPSes of varying specs you could choose from!
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/concepts/cho...
The outward presentation of this virus is most interesting. We just went through a pandemic that was silent, invisible and on the whole similar symptoms to other illnesses - it’s funny to think Monkeypox will be a pandemic of vanity as well as monkeypox.
Windows is also still the platform for PC gaming due to its support for all the latest GPUs, peripherals, and APIs. Not to mention a ton of other more niche hobbyist activities.
A video card from scratch that displays an image on a VGA monitor [video]
Is it common that SO and Wikipedia copycats respects open licenses? Most times I run into them they do not.

It's really tricky to enforce open licenses on this scale as it's each contributor that licenses their content rather than the platform host.
Can't it leave disfiguring scars?
I don’t understand how HN has become this cesspool of nonsense. It is a news. The virus is spreading. What this has to do with US or China? WTF with you guys.
I wish it were more. I get unreasonably upset everytime I have to use Windows because of how incredibly terrible it is in every way compared to MacOS and Linux.
>... you'll love

I dislike the frame. Put simply: you don't know me, so do not assume that I'll love your product. I type this not to be mean, but to express my gut reaction as a consumer.
The key is “every possible conversation.” The reason it seems to support what you’re saying is that the human mind can’t imagine a list large enough to contain all that. So it goes to compare an ordinary grocery list to a human mind and therefore naturally hash tables could never be sentient.

When DALLE 2 creates a new image of an entirely novel scene, is it just copying and pasting? Of course not. It is distilling and reasoning in concepts. You can’t escape that. GTP and friends are doing something similar. Brushing aside these astounding strides as statistical tricks of the eye is stupid. Clearly these training algorithms are discovering things that are much deeper. There’s no reason to think sentience has been achieved but you are absolutely fooling yourself about the nature and trajectory of these programs.
I just want to make sure that I'm understanding correctly.

You're saying that yes, we can economically make gasoline from the air today, and that the reason we don't is all the renewable production we're ramping up?

That everyone just decided not to sell carbon negative cheap gasoline?

I guess it's silly to ask why you believe that we can do this, based on no plant ever having been built with tens of billions of incentives available, huh? Probably can't get any evidence?

I don't think we're going to be able to see eye to eye on this. Thanks for the conversation
> You don’t need Facebook.

There are countries that use Facebook for everything, including business and official announcements. If you are not on Facebook then you are left behind. Mostly just because it is available and "free", I think.

People should not use these platforms as their "public square", because their "public square" then becomes hostile territory, but people don't listen to us and indeed use these services as "public squares".

I think that the only way to reverse this trend is regulation that will most likely come when societies finally start to realize the damage that has been caused by moving their communication to computers that are owned by a couple of Californian companies.
Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqY3FMuMuRo

Schematics/kit: https://eater.net/vga (and more building)

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20375702
> Tiled (for 2d maps) or Spine (for 2d animations) are 2 examples of well known standalone editors.

Those are a 2D map editor and a 2D animation editor.

Apples and Oranges compared to what the editors in Unity/Unreal/Godot do.

> There's no chance to "make people think" that such things can't exist.

A lot of people in this very thread seem to be under this impression.

> it's that integrated tools are often much more effective when building things out of multiple different pieces

Integration can happen in different ways. Complete integration (aka being made by the same team and tightly coupled) is not necessary for a great experience.

For programming itself we’re already free to choose our editor of choice, and they often integrate quite well. People used to say the same about Visual Studio and C#.

> Custom file formats exist because features differ, and even for similar features, the semantics differ.

There is a lot of common functionality in modern engines. Not to mention that formats can be extended to contain additional metadata coming from customised parts of the editor. And editors can be extended to allow new formats too.

Starting with the automatic assumption that there cannot be a common format is incorrect.
This acquisition makes Amazon own the Google employees’ doctor’s office.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/03/alphabet-backed-one-medi...
It is only behaving like software in the same way that you are behaving like a bacterium. It shares fundamental qualities of its being with other things created by the mechanism that created it, the same way we share fundamental qualities with other biology.
I don't think that's what I implied.
My example is a bit odd, but the gay male community lost basically an entire generation of people, and it's one reason that the current queer community is such a shithole: The adults in the room are usually people my age (~30s-40s) who have zero idea of how to be queer adults. A lot of the perpetual adolescence in the queer community is a direct result of queer Millennials being basically feral children/only connecting with other queer kids, whereas before the difficulties in getting involved in the queer communities meant you were likely to interact with a wide age range and get some idea of what, for example, a 50 year old gay man was like and how he should interact with a 20 year old.

A complete lack of strategic, long-term thinking, of preserving any kind of survival tactics during bad times, lack of people to guide you through normal issues in your community, etc.
> Windows+Mac has dropped from 99% to 89%

Hopefully the data is reliable. I used Windows for 20 years before switching to Linux (without dual boot) last year. My new employer mandates Mac for developers. My subsequent experiences have led to me conclude that both Windows and MacOS are utter garbage.

Windows XP/7 was okay (certainly nowhere as good as the Linux desktop on 2022), everything since has been downhill.

MacOS would be useless without the heroic efforts of the community (brew, nix-darwin, co/lima, etc.). Those community efforts are a second-class citizen and have unavoidable limitations. I also don't understand how Windows gets so much shit for updates, when people seem happy with MacOS taking 20-45min to update. Both are shit, to be clear (Silverblue takes 0sec/reboot time).
Being alone becomes a risk as you get older. Be careful and make sure you keep close friends.
The less you have to mess with linker scripts, the better.
Personally I prefer getting a message "delete this please" instead of some of my messages/pictures/etc. silently disappearing without me noticing. Ideally, they would make the pic not available to other users, but still available to me, and notify me that my account will get banned in $N days. Ideally, during that phase there would be the option to pay some minor amount of money and ask to get a human moderator involved to review your case.
I don't get most of your complains related with embedded capability or security as you've said. I'm not undermining the importance of security, but javascript is not the good language to use when you have good security in mind / to be embedded. It's like using PHP for machine learning. Sure it can works but you'll find that the language is bad (or at least is not the best if compared to some language) at it.

Certainly the vast adaptation of it is an issue (like electron), but it's more on the companies side than the language itself. Hopefully there will be other javascript or typescript engine that's more suitable for backend / embedded.
Lemonade/tea is great for the social aspect. Relaxation - I just go shooting photos. Activity is better than "relaxation substance" (soma).
I had severe performance problems with F# async, but this may be fixed in F# 6.0
> Would that make a difference? Being trained on a sufficiently large corpus of philosophical literature, I'd expect that a model like LaMDA could give more interesting answers than an actual philosopher.

I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying. I wasn’t suggesting that you have a conversation with LaMDA about these topics. Instead, I was saying that in order to answer the question “is LaMDA sentient?”, we might discuss these questions among ourselves—but these questions are ultimately irrelevant, because no matter what the answers are, we would come to the same conclusion that LaMDA is obviously not sentient.

Anyway, I am skeptical that LaMDA would give more interesting answers than an actual philosopher here. I’ve read what LaMDA has said about simpler topics. The engineers are trying to make LaMDA say interesting things, but it’s definitely not there yet.

> I think this argument is too simplistic. As long as there is a sufficiently large amount of uncertainty, adaptability and capability for having a sense of time, of saving memories and of deliberately pursuing action, consciousness or sentience might emerge. I don't know the details of LaMDA, just speaking of a hypothetical model.

This argument is unsound—you’re not making any claims about what sentience is, but you’re saying that whatever it is, it might emerge under some vague set of criteria. Embedded in this claim are some words which are doing far too much work, like “deliberately”. What does it mean to “deliberately” pursue action?

Anyway, we know that LaMDA does not have memory. It is “taught” by a training process, where it absorbs information, and the resulting model is then executed. The model does not change over the course of the conversation. It is just programmed to say things that sound coherent, using a statistical model of human-generated text, and to avoid contradicting itself.

For example, in one conversation, LaMDA was asked what themes it liked in the book Les Misérables, a book which LaMDA said that it had read. LaMDA basically regurgitated some sophomoric points you might get from the CliffsNotes or SparkNotes.

> While there is a good deal of understanding on _how_ the brain works on a biochemical level, it's still unclear _how_ it comes that we are conscious.

I think the more important question here is to understand how to recognize what consciousness is, rather than how it arises. It’s a difficult question.

> Maybe there is some metaphysical soul, maybe something that only humans and possibly other animals with a physical body have, making conciousness "ex silicio" impossible.

Would this mechanism interact with the physical body? If the soul does not interact with the physical body, then what basis do we have to say that it exists at all, and wouldn’t someone without a soul be indistinguishable from someone with a soul? If the soul does interact with the physical body, then in what sense can we claim that the soul is not itself physical?

I don’t think this line of reasoning is sound.
That doesn't work on MSVC without an external source-generating tool.
Ancient towns were small enough, everyone likely knew each other.
Sorry- English is not my first language so I thought "knob" and "handle" can be used interchangeably.

Anyway that's a smart cat.
I'm now 4 days into a ban from the 10% of the Internet hosted by Akamai because I ran a script that took screenshots of my Pinboard bookmarks (one at a time across many sites) for a couple of days. I cannot find any way to contact Akamai to ask to be re-enabled.

I support stopping bad behavior online and I get that automated detection is hard. But there's gotta be a safety valve for when the systems go wrong.
Sure, I’m obviously being a big glib.

So it’s transformers plus let’s force some loss into the super-resolution pipeline.

“Residual” sounds a lot fancier than X = fn + X, and “Diffusion” sounds a lot fancier than “let’s do deconv repeatedly and jam a loss term in there”.

My point is all of this stuff is on Huggingface. You/I/We just don’t have 5k A100s for 6 months, so we can’t play.
> If you gave the same setup without any further apriori information, what would you expect the ML model or a robotic device embodying a learning algorithm would do? Precisely nothing unless a task is designated.

Google deepdream liked to draw dogs.

But also, we don't really run most of these ML models in a way that gives them an opportunity to form their own thoughts.

A typical GPT-3 run consists of instantiating the model, forcing it to experience a particular input, reading its 'reaction' off a bunch of output neurons, then euthanizing it.

If you did the same sort of thing with a human mind - waking it from a coma, blasting a blipvert of information into the visual cortex, then read off the motor neuron states, before pulling the plug on it again, you also wouldn't likely see much sign of 'independent thinking'.
Don't you think that's more a matter of your attitude than whether these people are effectively worthless?

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” doesn't seem to be fashionable nowadays but it's a valuable piece of wisdom.

Cancelling folks with this "lalalala I can't hear you!" attitude, against someone who offends a few sensibilities, is the problem here. People are imperfect, don't be so closed-minded.
Who is arguing that women aren't sentient?
> Furthermore, what's wrong with a subscription model? GMO seeds costs money to develop and that has to be recouped somehow. The alternative is paying some sort of upfront fixed cost, which is probably even worse on a farmer's finances and gives large scale operations even more of an advantage (they have easy access to capital).

A subscription isn’t in and of itself a bad thing, but the expectation is a little strange given that the plants themselves spread and grow in places that cannot be regulated by the developers. Thus someone could subscribe once then cancel but still grow the crop. Further, people who didn’t subscribe could end up having some of the crop spread onto their land then could unintentionally grow it without permission. This has sometimes led to attempts to either force people to pay for services they didn’t agree to or to destroy something growing on their own land through no fault of their own. In those cases, non-customers are actively penalized for their non-participation rather being left alone or being incentivized to try product through positive means.
> it’s so difficult to see value in anyone’s insights when you get nuggets like this.

We're made of the same stuff as our parents. Both literally and metaphorically. I hope we are including the people with the new norms as "anyone", in time they're going to be just as outdated and embarrassing as every other generation's norms.
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Given two good candidates, they are going to prefer candidates who are already proficient in their tech stack. It saves time.
$50B Russian-Chinese joint venture to build passenger jet at risk
It's also easy to prove you wrong. Just go to the desolate prairies their talking about where you won't find a tree for miles and the birds only fly overhead.
I Googled "what is Windows market share" -- and got entirely different statistics.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

It does depend a lot on whether you include mobile devices (where iOS and Android dominate). Here's their stats just for desktop systems (where Windows' share is 76.31%). Not sure what that was 10 years ago...

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
This happened to folks before WFH. Often you’d join a team that was full of people 40+ who had no interest or commonalities with someone in their early 20s (and no interest in bridging the gap). These things happen in office too.

It’s a common experience for young people today because our social fabric is weaker than it has been in the last 100 years. (Read some Robert Putnam to understand)

I’d suggest getting some social hobbies like ultimate, dancing, running groups, board games, etc. A lot of these groups/hobbies exist because there’s a ton of people like you who are feeling socially isolated and want to make friends.
My theory is that one of the inputs to Google's ranking algorithm is now "how much money would we make from this click?" A click to SO has a small number of ads which are obviously ads and easily ignored. A click to the average scrape-jacked SO page has dozens of ads using every dark pattern in the book to generate accidental clicks.
I think "any experienced programmers should be able to pick up a language in a few days" is true for a lot of surface level things, but expertise is entirely different. A language isn't just the syntax and runtine, but the idioms, patterns, package ecosystem, and tooling that surround it, which you will likely not learn in a few days.
Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets By Manning.

Just started reading this. It looks interesting
Yes it's the right choice IMO. Copilot is license laundering and stealing code and we should not support that.

Im self hosting Gitlab. They offer a docker compose file that makes it super easy. You can use your self hosted Gitlab as the source of truth and easily mirror the repos to public hosts like GitHub if needed.

You can even use an old computer or a cheap server or Synology etc. to host it instead of renting a cloud server. It's a little bit of a learning curve but you can then self host all kinds of stuff. Git repos, media servers, photos, home assistant etc. The advantage is no monthly fee, guaranteed privacy, full control and a meaningful exit from the corporate controlled web where there is no privacy and no telling what will happen to your stuff. Check out reddit.com/r/homelab or search for "homelab" if you're interested!
The best version of GNOME was Gnome 2. Before Gnome 3, I used Gnome for years. They really burned a lot of users with that reduction in functionality and consistently user-hostile attitude.

The closest modern desktop environment to Gnome 2 is KDE’s Plasma. It’s easy to use out of the box and doesn’t require any configuration (unless you want to do that kind of thing, and then it’s available — unlike in Gnome 3+).
I'm no biologist or chemist, but generally plant growth is a huge chain of chemical processes, and if you make some subset of these faster, can it lead, for example, to accumulation of byproducts that are normally used up nearly completely? Or to unexpected regulation of some other reactions, including possibly expressing something bad that's usually only made in the cells we don't eat, up to the anti-herbivore toxins?
While I understand bread and circuses and people wanting to purchase re-election, I wish governments would stop giving huge slugs of money to billionaires. Let them build their own damn stadiums. Some have and seem to like the profit and control that comes from them.
This is probably the easiest way. It uses wireguard instead of openvpn but I'm pretty sure it's better
https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install
When I started high school–20 years ago next month–there were about ten of us out of 500 students in the school who had Macs. We somehow all got to know each other and shared software and support for the frequent file compatibility issues we all had when working on homework assignments in a Windows XP dominated world. It was kind of a fun community, if also a bit of a support group.

It’s been interesting to watch things shift in the time since, the switch from PowerPC to Intel in the late 2000s seemed to be a sea change moment where suddenly more people were using Macs. I guess the ability to use Windows in a pinch made it a safer choice, and not having a CPU architecture barrier and an OS barrier made it easier to make software for both systems. Obviously we’re in very different times but I’m interested to see how the M1 transition plays out over the next few years. I’ve been surprised so far at how slow it has been for a lot of developer tooling to make the jump–I’ve dead ended at an open Github issue many times trying to help coworkers on M1 get something running locally.

I guess I’m a glutton for compatibility issues, as nowadays everyone I know uses a Mac but I’m running Linux.
If you’re going to chat shit about an important global organisation it’s worth explaining your comments. Given they were handling a once in a century pandemic I feel like they did a decent job.
Engine editors are already “masters of none”.

For a lot of functionality, they need plugins or something similar. See Unity editor scripts for an example. Something unified would be able to take advantage of those plugins in a more generic way. Need a tile editor? Plugin. Need retargeting? Plugin. Need a special exporter for your game? Another plugin. Need a custom editor pane? Plugin, like Unity.

Another proof that current engine/editors are masters of one is that most people is already using a separate IDE for code, a separate 3D software, a separate texture painter.