skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not clear what generates consciousness. Until we know for sure (e.g. A/B testing with humans who can report when they do and do not experience consciousness in different neural configurations) then I think it's impossible to know what level of conscious experience large ML models have.

Blindsight is an excellent book in its exploration of consciousness, but the speculative part is that a working sense of self isn't necessary for embodied intelligence (like the scramblers), which I tend to doubt. An agent without a model of itself will have difficulty planning actions; knowing how its outputs/manipulators are integrated into the rest of reality will be a minimum requirement to control them effectively. It is certainly possible that "self" or "I" will be absent; humans can already turn the ego off with drugs and still (mostly) function but they remain conscious.
One of the developers that built Superblocks here:

> Is this open source

Although the app builder you see on the cloud is not open source, we offer a hybrid deployment option - the on-premise agent (OPA) is our execution engine that runs all of the code that you write in Superblocks. It is source available https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent and you can self-host it to ensure your data stays within your network. Feel free to check out the github repo or our docs (https://docs.superblocks.com/on-premise-agent/overview) for more details!

> demo is really slow on my phone

Sorry to hear that! The one on https://superblocks.com loads faster.
Wow. I would love to see a news source living by those rules today. Anybody know of any?

Reuters might come close, at least on non-UK matters.
> shifting the manufacturing to another don't-care country

a.k.a. a poor country. So you're blaming businesses in foreign countries for seeing an opportunity to manufacture to a price-point, to satisfy a Western market that can't satisfy that demand domestically.

Isn't that what businesses are supposed to do? Perhaps the don't-care countries are really the ones that generate the demand?
This is called truck platooning:

https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/fleettest-platooning.htm...
On the other hand if you posted "monkey touching iguana" as a prompt on an internet forum - say a photoshop contest - you would get essentially all of these variants from actual humans as well when the task delved into being "meta".
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The authors here underestimate how much semantics is involved in gluing things together.
It's interesting how much the Fedora project focus on this revolves around accelerated graphics. I wonder what percentage of Pi users are actually running them in desktop mode and using graphics, etc? For me, almost all of mine are run headless or in console mode, with no GUI at all. I would have thought that embedded / headless mode would be a pretty significant portion of Pi uses, if not a majority, but quite possibly I'm blinded by my own interests there.

In either case, official support for the Pi from another mainstream Linux distribution can't be anything but a Good Thing, so happy to hear this.
I think this mentality is about like saying the earth/climate will correct itself eventually. Yeah it probably will, but long after I would have liked it to (for my selfish benefit).
I agree there's no high level reasoning (if there's a way to define this).

But saying "It’s simply a high dimensional latent mapping between characters and pixels" is clearly a very bad argument. Your brain is simply a high dimensional latent mapping between your sensory input and your muscular output. This doesn't make you not intelligent.
To me, it's a bucket that's being filled at constant rate from a tap until it's full, and the traffic requires taking some water from the bucket. If there's no water, the trafic has to be dropped or wait in a queue.

Basicaly, you can look at it either way.
I have a wife and two young children. I work remote so I am around them all the time.
Does anyone remember this?

https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/28/the-downfall-of-the-walled...

Apple tried before with ads in iOS. Right now it seems like they advertise only in the App Store but adding more ads to the core OS would be bad but I could see a play where you get free Apple Music and tv+ but you just have to tolerate ads (and I would switch to that).
This is a great self realisation. I started to stop working after 6. It's been a pretty hard change, but feels amazing.
Yes, how much do you trust the 33 countries supported by Stripe Identity?

Sybil resistance is not easy to solve absolutely, it's all about degrees.
Ugh, me too.
Web3's Bridge Problem
Might well have the distinction of withdrawing bills without debate a la Farm bill.
Thanks, that’s great advice.
Interesting, but I have two follow ups

1. What are the implications of intentionally disregarding the existence of truth vs being blind to the concept? How does this distinction you made manifest?

2. Are you sure all humans actually believe in the concept of truth, or could it be the case that some people genuinely function on a principle "there is no truth, only power". Is it possible to think "truth" and "current dominant narrative" are one in the same?

I've certainly had a ton of luck with Bullshit in Diplomacy. As Russia, I offered a plan that involved France helping me take Munich and I would repay by supporting him against the English invasion. Did I intend to actually follow through, or was this a cunning lie? Neither. It was bullshit that got me into Munich. I myself didn't know because (in game) I don't believe in the concept of truth. Everything I say is true and none of it is true. Its all true in the sense that it might happen and I put some weight on it, none of it is true in the sense that there is no branch of the future game tree privileged as "the truth". Some truths have more weight than others, but there is no underlying absolute truth value that must exist yet I choose to ignore. Eventually the order box forces me to pick a truth out of the many I have told. But prior to being forced, it didn't exist.

Is it possible to think in this way all the time about everything? Maybe.
Thanks, interesting. I'm not a heavy Linux user and never heard about SELinux. I'll take a look and see why it was chosen. What I also see is that NSA makes a lot of their own tools such as Ghidra so I'm wondering maybe they are also building their own Linux?
The one (potential) benefit could be utilizing hydrogen as a sort of battery, where off-peak electrical generation capacity is used for processing hydrogen instead of being wasted or sold at a loss. My municipality was actually paying other jurisdictions to absorb excess generation capacity, so something like hydrogen generation could be a useful off-peak demand source.
Should one interpret from this article that a healthier mind believes, a) it is unimportant and it is not a part of a group that is important, b) doubts its legitimacy, and c) should be a passive particpant in the narratives around it?

You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see that some ideas are specifically designed to be pacifying and neutralizing, and concern about conspiracy theories seems to be one of them. Delegitimizing opposition is a standard propaganda tool.

If were to accuse you as a reader of being a propagandized zombie incapable of reason, divorced from reality, operating as an ideological automaton in a bubble of insidiously manufactured stimuli - I would suspect your response would be dismissive. Yet this is exactly what we accuse people of when we say they believe in conspiracy theories.

All ideologies are conspiracy theories, and the only thing that makes one more meaningful than another is their falsifiability and predictive power about reality - and not its post-hoc explanatory power. As a thinking person with intellectual and moral agency, you are capable of ascertaining whether one or more of your beliefs is the artifact of this one fallacy: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Affirmative_conclusion_from_a_... , and I'd argue that calling people conspiracy theorists is the most reliable indicator that someone has been fully atomized.

I can't defend all assertions of conspiracy, but to me the urge to articulate them at all is an indicator a person is not actuated by the much greater social danger of banal nihilism.
I've seen different results than the author. Had it since it was in beta and learned that it needs better prompts to generate better images. As someone on their Discord said "prompt writing is a craft you need to learn".
That whale/seal was very disturbing
The point of the article is that US manufacturers in particular will be negatively affected. More so than tech or service industries for example. The reason being that manufactures often have low rates because of accelerated depreciation of investments in capital expenditures (factories and upgrades). The law as it exists today is intentional, and is designed to encourage investment in US manufacturing, this new proposal goes directly against that.
If you're suggesting that AliExpress would be an overall better shopping experience (including appreciating the delivered product), then I will switch!
Under what definition of monopoly does Apple possess one? Even in their best market, the U.S., iPhone holds just a smidge over 50%.
IMHO a discussion of meditation without the word suffering or Buddhism seems a little... cult of personality or, and I hate to use the term, a little culture-appropiation-ish.But I guess that's the author's prerogative.

The blog/book it's self going into more depth about those things.

I'm just curious why this review doesn't even touch those ideas at it's significant length (>6000 words).
Apple managed to make the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone and iPad without an advertising business so yeah being maximalist and saying "This industry has nothing of value to add to our company" can result in great things.
I used gpt-3 to make a machine learning curriculum and study guide

https://twitter.com/bsunter/status/1535730704138444801?s=21&...
It won't fuck the phytoplankton that much, it is the zooplankton that will suffer (and yes, this will have effect on the phytoplankton, but like I said in another comment, consequences are too hard to evaluate.
This is a really good idea and something that is on our roadmap to add templates to accelerate tooling development. We're learning about the most common use cases and going to build templates to shortcut getting started. The other thing we've discussed is upon connecting an integration (ex. Postgres) automatically giving you a postgres admin app, similar to what you get with a Django admin for example.

Is that what what you're referring to?

good usability feedback on the New API part of the UI, we will address this!
Working with a remote third-party introduces a layer of legal contracts plus a few timezones and will slow whatever pace a company has now with local-ish people to much slower with lower quality and communication issues.

If you work in a cost-center type of organization and your management doesn't care about quality then offshoring is more likely to happen. If you work in a profit center (aka creating products people pay to use) then offshoring to a third party makes zero sense and if management takes this approach - time to leave.

A concerted approach to take is to hire directly in that offshore location, this eliminates the legal contracts, middle-layer profits to a third party and if done right would reduce communication issues (people from both shores should do extended visits to each other). Companies cutting costs won't do this.
Interesting. Although there weren’t many humans around during the Carnian, so the volcanoes are gonna win that for sure.

Also there was a lot of old biomass waiting to be burned back then that exaggerated the CO2 emissions of the super volcanoes, as wood (and other novel carbon structures) evolved before organisms that could brake them down and allow it to rot. I’m not sure a super volcano today would release so much CO2 into the atmosphere as they did back in the late Permian / early Carnian simply because it won’t hit as much stored carbon pockets.

That said. These mega-colossal volcanic eruptions only happen like once every 50,000 years and emit an order of 10-100s of billions of CO2, which is only 1-5 of years of human CO2 emissions at the current rate.

Yes volcanoes do emit greenhouse gasses, but it is not nearly on the same scale as humans.
Don't discount the actual energy stored in the rock or capacity factor. Granit has 790 J/kg per degree C and 1 cubic meter is ~2700 kg.

So cooling 10 cubic kilometres of rock by say 50C releases 790J * 2700 * 1,000,000,000 * 50 * 10 = 10^18J or 600MW of heat over 50 years. At 33% efficiency your talking 200 MW of electricity for 50 years assuming 100% capacity factor and ignoring how fast it recharges.

If it’s a backup for solar and wind at 50% capacity factor then you could double the power output or double the lifespan.
Why is the maps app making any suggestions at all?

As much as Google apps annoy me (Android user), at least Google Maps still acts like a dump pipe. Silent unless called upon.
I have been actively following this space. I think there is a huge fallacy in a tool like this. At surface most of the developers love the idea, you often get feedback that people would use it but time comes people just not integrate their service with a platform like this. You have to build huge amount of trust either by raising from popular VC, Angel's, blogpost by reputed dev advocates, socialproofing. For a general purpose framework it is generally an uphill battle. Having said that, there has been outcomes in past like rundeck's acquisition by pagerduty. One thing I noticed that platform who have built some features that bound them to certain usecases done really well. Platform with a horizontal is a very long road than a platform with certain purpose, it also makes it easy to sell. Just some thoughts.
The solution is called a “brand”. Buy Anker, not random made up Chinese name, electronic accessories. Buy Gildan, not random nameless made-in-Pakistan disposable clothing.
> Jesus. I use mouse and keyboard as what's best for the task of that moment. In some cases it's a faster to do some complex things using a keyboard

Yes. In some cases. Not in the bizarre "let's do arithmetic to figure out how to jump to a line", which is exactly what I was responding to. No idea what got you so worked up.

> Get a couple of years solid emacs under your belt then we can talk because evidently you have little to none.

Ah. The person accusing me of dickish comments goes for the jugular and devolves into personal attacks.

I had two years with emacs. In the end I was very unimpressed, and switched to, drum roll, IDEA. That I use primarily from keyboard, by the way.
There are a LOT of apartments in the area where my dad lives. All the new stuff is higher density housing. That's making the traffic even worse.
I've been wondering the same. Surely given the amount that has been quoted in this article of $160k, I would assume millions of dollars gets scammed on a yearly basis. Why has this not even become a diplomatic issue yet?
At HN, only a few things are certain. Death, taxes, and advertisers and MBAs colluding to ruin every company.
It's not quite the same as default arguments in that default arguments are evaluated at run time, whereas array lengths for C++ (and not C) needs to be a compile time constant expression.

#include <stdio.h>

// "puts" makes "f" not constexpr.
constexpr int f() { return puts("hello"); }

// error: size of array 'argv' is not an integral constant-expression
int main(int argc, char *argv[f()]) {}
I got a job as a junior ml dev at Coveo's R&D (through HackerNews no less) with an MSc in Experimental Medicine (BSc in Biochem before that). I was sure they'd never take me but they did. I think the main reason I got hired was that I did really well on their interview take-home test. I had a great time their but ironically, I left to start a PhD in deep learning as applied to biology so that I can strengthen my theoretical skills. No regrets, but I'm sure I'd have been able to grow at Coveo without the PhD.
I just cancelled my plan of paying a graphics designer to prepare an android app (personal project) for launch. After playing with dall-e I'm confident that "I" can make a logo and some artwork "myself".
Edit: ment too say icon, not logo.
Rust has tch-rs - quite descent PyTorch binding. But I still switched to Python due to poor debugging experience in Rust (expression evaluation especially with traits is impossible).
The Press Is Already Working Overtime to Elect Trump Again
How to Embrace Doing Nothing
Absolute idleness is both harder and more rewarding than it seems.
Kind of fun the first time, but I think I prefer a normal crossword. Seems like the only way to progress is to pick an unfinished word and then do tons of guesses back to back of all the possibilities until one turns green, which starts to get boring when there are a lot of possibilities.

Feels more like stenography or data entry than playing a game at that point where you're just typing 10+ guesses without any investment in any one of them.

For example, when I tried the larger version, I got to a point of a 2/3 filled word: _ET.

I then had to sit and enter:

-bet
-get
-jet
-let
-met
-net
-pet
-set
-vet
-wet

and finally, I got to the word: yet. And that's not even including some less common but still valid words I would guess like ret and tet, which I'm not sure are off the table as possibly valid entries. It just felt like a chore more than a puzzle to get that word, and I have to repeat it over and over for the other words. Maybe as you get to a close the letter pool gets a bit smaller so you have less guesses, but that's only after you've guessed out a significant portion of the puzzle.

Wordle avoids this by giving you information on your guesses, making them feel less like a huge string of purely random guesses. Crosswords give you cryptic clues that aren't obvious, but make you feel like any guess was based on deductive reasoning rather than some brute force attempt.

Still, nice job on building and releasing the project! And it sounds like other commenters are enjoying it more than I am, so maybe I'm just a stick in the mud or I like word games too much and have too much time invested in them.
The thing that kills me, is that our legal system has turned into a chilling effect factory, because laws will be on the books, but prosecutors will often cherry pick or drop cases to avoid having an explicit counter precedent established. Nevermind that precedent is roughly equivalent to a longer term executive order in nature.

At some point, our system has started to look more like a system mutated through jurisprudence, rather than through sane collective action via legislation, which seems to be held up by the political machinations of special interest groups/the two main political parties, and less accessible/approachable by most constituents apparently; which leaves these types of judiciary precedent golf games to be the seemingly more accessible form of legal landscape change.

We're looking more like a country ruled by judges than by anything resembling some sort of sense in terms of how we architected the Government.

I'm not even sure I could pinpoint where the specific hangup is, or suggest a reasonable change without several years to really absorb the structural aspects of the system, and painstakingly listing out the inputs/outputs.
This is just such a weird move. MSTR is a boring software business that makes decent money but hasn't done anything interesting in a while. On the side of that Saylor has gone "Let's put all our money on red". On the one hand, it kind of makes sense for someone else to run the actual business - because clearly Saylor is not interested in that. But that should've been a decision they made when they went all in on BTC. It's a bit ridiculous to wait for BTC to tank and then go "Hey, we should really review Michaels role".

No. You made the decision when you put it all on red. There's no point bailing now. A while ago I decided to download the data for the daily closing price MSTR and the closing price of BTC. The correlation is basically 1. No one holds MSTR now unless they want pretty pure exposure to BTC. So do what your shareholders want. White knuckle bitcoin until you're all bust. The only real mistake I would say Saylor made is starting to use leverage. Do not use leverage to buy incredibly risky product. But other than that, go ahead.
>There are old companies like Consumer Reports which were sort of doing this, but I suspect they have some intentional or unintentional biases.

Consumer reports was--probably still is--fine in a very mainstream, safe sort of way. Which is probably fine if you're looking for a dishwasher.

In general these sites--CR, Wirecutter, etc.--are as appealing for more specialty products whose users have very strong opinions about what they want/need.
Given the comments I'm used to seeing in general in HN, the over excited tone of the comments in this post makes me wonder how truthful all the praising is, or if they are related to the company in any way. Maybe HN is actually full of people who build internal tools and find this honestly awesome and a game changer.
This is all uninteresting to me because contrarian versus Establishment is a pretty poor indicator for truth. Leaning on that is like the famous drunkard leaning on the lamppost, more for support than illumination.

The yellow flag in those tweets is the hyperventilating culture warrior attitude. It speaks poorly of ability to humbly and dispassionately analyze topics, regardless of which side it comes from.
> Under what definition of monopoly does Apple possess one?

Market power is defined by pricing power (empirical absence of substitution effect), not share of some descriptive market (where you could always get any result you wanted just by changing the way you divide market descriptions.)
And me too
They don't allow alternative app stores. Android has several, I pretty much get all my apps via F-Droid for example.
I bet you they turned back by now.
Wow! I have long wanted a tool like this. Will sign up for the trial.
What old C do you mean? I can't think of any version where undefined had a defined meaning
Getting a Rails "The page you were looking for doesn't exist." When trying to login with Github currently.
What’s the lock-in? As in - when we’ve built a UI/app is it locked into a subscription?

What happens if you go out of business or we stop subscribing?
It would serve the purpose better if it were structured closer to its own ideal of a README than a quaint millenial blog post from the 2010s
> >they are actually pretty crude right now

> Interesting. I am assured that they are the latest and greatest in motorised transport!

These two concepts are not mutually exclusive.
A Django admin replacement would be wonderful and something I'd absolutely love to build with Superblocks!
This could be really useful in healthtech, is it HIPAA compliant by any chance?
(One of the developers of Superblocks here)

Regarding UIPath, we don't yet have RPA as a building block but we have heard this ask before for automated scraping from customers. We are definitely looking into this in the future.

Regarding SQL injection - yes you are right. We have since worked on a feature to add support for writing parameterized SQL in-app. It will be live next week, thanks for the feedback!