skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we are over the hard problem of consciousness, and the problem was only hard because we are emotional about it and think that it should be more special than it's humble information-processing origin suggests. We are biased when it comes to consciousness because we are right in the middle of it, it compels us to take it seriously, in fact it lies to us for practical reasons. In a way the entire subjective experience of having a self that makes a decision is an illusion, every subjective experience is. We feel cold, we see images, but it's all an information-processing machine convincing us that we feel it, that we see them. What actually happens is different, and we are not privy to it, but we are starting to understand it. For example the self itself doesn't make decisions, it's a report from all over the brain integrated into a coherent story, which is fed back to the memory and the rest of the brain. Our memory too is not what it feels like, for example we can't simply recall things, to do that we have to create a new memory with a new coherent story that integrates some of the original memory, reinterpreted. But your brain doesn't tell you this, it just makes you believe that you remember things. You often remember them wrong though. Humans are very unreliable witnesses for this reason. We have an entire bouquet of cognitive biases and heuristics, we don't even notice them. Our brain have to use shortcuts, but it lies about them. Turns out we are quite predictable actually, and therefore exploitable by marketing, politics or religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Consciousness is a tower of practical lies hiding the machinery, which is basically an information-processing machine capable of manipulating information. All we are privy to is the manipulated information. Our brain is in control of the entire process, our subjective experiences feel real, because we are made to believe that they feel real. We have no choice in the matter. When you are seeing a red door you are processing information, you are not seeing a red door, the information is just manipulated that way. And of course if you are seeing a red door, there is a door in reality, since brains evolved to be practical. It wouldn't lie you about a door being there, though it may lie about the the size for practical reasons. Objects with saturated colors look larger for example. See color psychology.

https://www.nickkolenda.com/color-psychology/

Physics is not only sufficient to create minds, it's why they work this way, otherwise I would imagine God could have done better.
IMO someone should be responding to the Twitter thread itself. I’m not sure why the official response is here when the copyright owner raised the complaint on Twitter.
There's also the option to compress with one format now, and during routine data storage maintenance to use newer better storage layers, like compression. What's most important are integrity checks, redundancy / duplication, and the ability to repair to the source data stream.
Find a book read a chapter a day. Repeat. I sometimes distill what I read into 15 minute “take always” presentations for my team. Helps to reinforce.
I’m not very familiar with SF and the Bay Area, but from what I have read about it my impression is that real estate in communities surrounding San Francisco and the Bay Area in general have absolutely been affected by the real estate situation in SF and become more San Francisco-like in terms of housing prices.

Again, not from out that familiar with the area so maybe I’m off the mark here.
If the license requires attribution and Github is not providing it (which it isn’t), then yes, Github is violating the license.
Nobody is suing anybody over AI art yet.

Until there are a large amount of court cases, the burden of proof is on you to say that this is copyright infringement.
It’s not just criminals it’s gambling. That’s why people buy “digital goods”, in hopes they’ll sell for more than they paid.
> People similarly freak out when you back up too quickly into them, because you have a reversing camera on.

Much worse, your car freaks out nowadays. Twice I've had my car apply ABS while I was backing up, while I was fully aware of a car behind me but not in my planned path.
The AI isn't actually able to hold a seat, so the plan is to have humans "act as a medium for it."

Also,

"So far, The Synthetic Party has only 11 signatures out of the 20,000 that would make it eligible to run in this November’s election."

So the specifics of how the members would vote might be something they can get away with hand-waving.
The important part is to make that space truely personal.

The first versions of my personal website were tame online resumes. This one is deliberately more personal, less refined.
What’s the use case?

If you can name one that’s not a word salad I’m definitely curious.
France didn't maintain their nuclear plants during COVID-19 and as a result suffer the consequences now (or rather all of Europe). Furthermore the heat has only made for less than half percent of lost production.
> And maybe held our politicians to account for the way our institutions are crumbling.

It's strange to hear this complaint after a comparison to the States. I would dare say a vainglorious attitude doesn't seem to be helping.
Wasm-service: Htmx, WebAssembly, Rust, ServiceWorker proof of concept
Saw HTMX on hacker news the other day, thought I’d do this interesting experiment.
Yup, had issues with loading reviews.
Just can be used to refine training of GPT3 model /s
That may be true. But a third-party site might also go out of business, throw up a paywall unexpectedly, or decided for some reason that what you wrote is not appropriate for the site and take it down.
Single-line block quoting is impossible to parse on mobile screens.
I also wonder if the producers make the script available to anyone?
No CAD formats. Too bad most are proprietary.
Disprove what?

You're conflating multiple issues and misapplying the data.

If we're trying to study a problem, we should identify possible root issues. The problem of lower test scores have much better options to investigate. This is why the studies are focusing elsewhere. It's like saying the boat is sinking and we should study the rain instead of the hole in hull or the broken bilge pump.
I have respect for Ralph, love to pick his brain on voting enablement. Will check this out. And this from a corvair lover!
> These problems are different and the solutions are different. The way traditional finance solved this was to incorporate the big scary people with guns to enforce their rules.

Traditional finance did not incorporate the Scary Men with Guns. They were already there, are still here, and will remain regardless of how many layers of decentralization you add.

Traditional finance's crowning achievement has been to successfully integrate itself into civil law: we don't send people to the Poor House anymore, and we don't execute bankers (or ordinary citizens) when they fail to finance the King's wars. Among the "kinds of crime" you can conceivably execute on as an individual, traditional financial crimes are among a handful that are regulated by agencies that don't have actual criminal enforcement abilities.

There is no "going back to the drawing board," only muddying the waters and hoping that someone won't notice the Scary Men with Guns (who have no intention of leaving) in the reflection.
You might look for a local disability advocate or vocational rehabilitation outfit.

They may be able to help you with finding / keeping a job or perhaps even attend the interview with you.

Granted, you’d be explicitly disclosing your disability during the interview process, but you could also agree to sign something that waives your right to sue for pre-employment discrimination.
There's a big list under another comment. Each website posted is fascinating
I would recommend Influence by Robert Cialdini.

And I would look for influential people and organizations instead of cold calling. You wont get 1% of deals closed. It will be closer, much closer, to 0% and you will feel like a failure.

Instead, seek out organizations and people who actively help the businesses you are helping. Small Biz associations, chambers of commerce. These wont be content creators nor "influencers" but rather gate keepers and influential organizations.

Selling to people who are actively looking for solutions is infinitely easier than cold calling.
this sounds really impressive.

unison has a UI to manage conflicts on a file level, whereas synchthing only allows a manual overwrite of all changes at once, and i have to log into the remote daemon if i want to overwrite changes there instead of locally.

syncthing also will not tell me if all local changes arrived at the remote side, or if the remote is still busy downloading, without logging into the remote daemon

on the other hand, unison only manages one source/target per process if i remember correctly while syncthing can manage many different source/target pairs conveniently.

how does mutagen compare in these two areas?
> I don't care. These are my terms.

That sounds like a you problem, not a us problem.

As of yet, no court has said that any of this is illegal.

So tough luck. Go take it to the supreme court if you disagree, because right now it actually seems like people can do almost whatever they want with these AI tools.

Your objection simply doesn't matter, until there is a court case that supports you. You can't do anything about it, if that doesn't happen.
I agree with you however the guy he replied to us speaking half truths and most likely knows it.
I can understand abandoned houses but why would people abandon their vehicles which they could have sold elsewhere to make some extra cash?
I'd be happy if local and state police just started issuing citations in earnest for misaligned headlights on pickup trucks. 99% of the pickups I come across at night have their low beams pointing straight instead of down at the road. It's so common that it can't be a coincidence that nearly every pickup truck has an illegal headlight configuration. And it isn't due to higher ground clearance, that's just their lame excuse.
The surface of the human body is slightly negatively charged just like most soil/the ground. There’s nothing to neutralize there, it’s just bullshit.
One thing that younger Canadians and foreigners don't seem to grasp is that Canada's economy is basically a handful of abusive corporations pretending to be a country.

The Maritimes are dominated completely by the holdings of a single family. The West is dominated by resource extraction and banking. Ontario and Quebec are owned by banking and manufacturing families. And then there's Robellus...

But that said, there's also that raising Canadian capital is historically a fool's errand. Raising loonies is so hard it's basically pointless, it's almost always better for entrepreneurs to register as American corporations, pretend to be American, and raise American money.

Because, at the end of the day, every party in Canada is beholden to their campaign financiers. Every party. And no money wants to flow outside of the proven channels.
But it’s not democratic, it is for show. Just an abstraction that organizes diplomacy, a method for legitimizing and coming to agreements or having conflicts with less chaos.

Let us not give up our sovereignty to a small group of people very far from being accountable to the people they represent, let us not chase world government.

If you dissolve the security council., the important members just walk away.

The UN is a game played by major powers in order to achieve increased stability. It is not a world government and won’t be blind to the actual source and distribution of world power.
Exactly - if Meta knows that the story is fake why hasn't Meta sued them yet?
They were not viable because of taxes added to make them not viable.
The accurate way of saying this is that the cochlear does Fourier analysis.

Folks around here don't handle ambiguity well, and are treating your comment like it's wrong, rather than basically correct except for a harmless conflation of an algorithm for something with the thing itself.

Ah well.
Allow me to make an edit:

>There's infinite things to do in many software companies. You're only given 40 hours of work per week. If you had the stamina for two jobs, then they'd give you 80 hours, with more than double the pay. That's what factories and gig jobs do.
But everyone believes that 40 hours is the peak, maybe less, before efficiency drops. You need rest to do well.

>If you can perform, then just get a better position or a better job. Take on more responsibilities. Use the spare time to fix the problems that nobody brings up. If you can't, ...

If you can't, you're working at a company similar to most people where taking on additional projects outside of your scope is not rewarded with "double pay". Its rewarded with leadership believing you don't have enough work.

The claim above makes sense at startups/etc where growth is determined by your output. At my employer, I'm literally not eligible for a promotion or raise until I've been there for 2 years. Regardless of how many hours I put, my (measurable) direct impact on revenue, my (measurable) reductions in cost, it is against policy to promote or pay me more.

That is why people look to get seconds jobs. That is why the only against policy raise I was given occurred when 2 coworkers left and cited this specific policy, so the company feared more people would leave.

Lets ask why I'm not cxo or even senior level, when I open my companies financials and see myself managing 6x more revenue than the next person with 15% better profit margin.
Any tips on other professors like SPJ? He seems like a super human even after the 10 years Ive followed him. Never angry, always happy, always engaged, always teaching things with depth, not dumbing things down to make it easier, not pandering…
I learnt VueJS (Vue2), Vuetify (It's an UI lib with tons of components that plays nice with Vue) and some CSS in the job; and I'd absolutely use it again if I have to. You get stuff done pretty quickly with that and after the first few days with VueJS everything becomes pretty intuitive to work with.
It started as a work of love and remained that way.

The transition to living from it makes a big difference, even if you want to pretend it doesn't. However it's been so steady that I can afford puttering around and feel secure that the bills will get paid.

I can also tell advertisers to shove it, a rare privilege.
GPL'd code has a copyright owner.

those two things exist at the same time.

try reading a licence now and again!
I have no horse (or Tesla) in this race but these figures seem a bit suspect. They are based on watching... seven hours of youtube videos? Not the greatest sample size. And it looks like the leader of this "Dawn Project" just happens to be the CEO of a rival software company. Hmm....

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/01/tesla-software-rival-calls...

I don't know if Tesla's software is actually good or bad, just pointing out that there's a pretty big conflict of interest going on here.
If you look at the software designed specifically for script/screenwriting, it almost always produces scripts that look like that, even the very latest modern software. Examples are celtx and Final Draft.

Why? Maybe convention, maybe superstition, maybe readability. Coders also like monospace fonts in their IDEs. In fact, the font I'm using to write this comment (on HN) uses a monospace font haha!
Very poignant - I hope that the rehearsals and performances were consuming and affirming distractions for Eric.
Nice work, I like the connector for the speaker and keeping the large cap can stock looking. The original grill cloth look pretty nice, and the bright red connector for the speaker looks a bit out of place. Congrats on getting the project finished! It's a lovely result.
I think it's detractors that argue that it's local, because that forces it to be impossible as per bells theorem.
> I want there to be trust so we can both grow the company together.

Do you offer equity, then? Does an employee working harder, faster, also benefit them because they share in the company's success, or does it just increase your profits while they slave away building widgets for you?

> I want to make a list of tasks and have you work through them as fast as you can

If you treat your employees as cogs in an assembly line, well, they're just going to think of you as a checklist they gotta complete in order to get paid. Doesn't sound like they have much reason to be loyal.

I dunno, the power dynamics in these relationships can vary so much between companies and individual managers/owners. The good ones take care of their employees and inspire loyalty and share their success. The bad ones just treat them as commoditized labor, and in turn get treated as commodity jobs. It's a two-way street.
Nice work. Depending on your secure networking goals, you could evaluate using the OpenZiti Golang SDK to embed zero trust networking in Mutagen as an alternative to VPNs.
> Presumably, wherever his skills lie, they don't lie in envisioning a better state

This is possibly the single best example ever of how Computer Scientist and Software Engineer are different jobs with different skill sets.
Casualties absolutely were out of line with WWII.

Go find a graph of war deaths divided by world population by year for the last two hundred years and make the comparison yourself.
If you hire a plumber to fix your bathroom, and the plumber completes the work twice faster than expected, you don't get to make him do more work for free. You may hire a cheap crew, pay them by hour and direct their work, but they'll just work slowly to bill more hours. I understand that it would be nice to have a competent plumber with hourly rate, who works as fast as possible without cutting corners, but that's not the world we live in.
Depends on the job and definition of performing, but if you’re a software developer (which is all I have for context), then yeah, you might be able to pull off the bare minimum of performance - which is completing whatever feature requests are coming from the product manager or client.

But if you are working on a team as anything above an entry level developer - the job description is more than that.

If you have extra time in your work week, you should be looking at ways to make your team better - what parts of the project are painful and can be improved?

You should be looking out for your teammates, particularly those with less experience - and asking them if they need help.

You should be coordinating with other teams that are doing similar work. Are there ideas you can offer to them to help their work, and in turn do they have ideas that can help you and your team?

Essentially, most jobs are social, and that’s embedded into the job requirements. You have to talk to people when they are working. If you’re working two jobs over everyone else’s 9 - 5, you cannot do this as effectively as someone with one “full time” job.
Historical note: PC RAM modules (SIMMs) in the 80's and 90's commonly had 9 bits per byte. The extra bit was parity, a simple form of error detection. Eventuality, as a cost saving measure, some modules faked the parity bit.
I cannot imagine writing performance-critical software in _any_ language without a tool like this.
I personally see no ethical conundrum BUT you are better off starting your own company and consulting directly. That way there’s no middle man and you can take all your $$& to the bank.
Did you read the whole thread you posted?

If The Wire is wrong, then Meta has all the evidence they need. While you could create a whole fake Workplace, the easier move is to just create a free trial instance, meaning those fake notes are sitting in Meta's databases along with the metadata of whomever created them.

I think, at this point, it's on Meta to write-up a detailed response with whatever technical evidence they have. This will not go away just by ignoring it.

The Wire has claimed their source is an employee / contract worker and they have verified this. If Facebook really believes that this is all fake, it begs the questions why they haven't sued The Wire yet and identified this employee to get to the real truth?
> "It is not your employers business."

Your employment contract makes it their business. If it says you can have multiple jobs, you're golden; if not, well...
GCHQ is for it. Ross Anderson is arguing against them.

He’s right BTW.
That point is different than the other point. If you're not Canadian you wouldn't know that all our government institutions are way worse than they were, say, 10 years ago. Trying to access healthcare, trying to contact the CRA, trying to get a passport, etc... All these institutions have gone to shit fairly recently.
> I know artists who are vehemently against DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. and regard it as stealing, but they view Copilot and GPT-3 as merely useful tools.

An example: https://twitter.com/DaveScheidt/status/1578411434043580416

> I also know software devs who are extremely excited about AI art and GPT-3 but are outraged by Copilot.

The fear is not unwarranted though. I can clearly see AI replacing most jobs (not just in tech) but art, crafts, music and even science. There probably will be no field untouched by AI in this decade and completely replaced by next decade.

We have multiple extinction events for humanity lined up: Climate Change, Nuclear Apocalypse and now AI.

We will have to not just work towards reducing harm to the Planet, but also work towards stopping meaningless Wars and figuring out how to deal with unemployment and economic crisis that is looming on the horizon. The only ones to suffer in the end would be the "elites" (or will they be the first depending on how quickly Civilization goes towards Anarchy?).

Can't say for sure. But definitely gloomy days ahead.
It might be an automated thing Substack does. Doesn't answer the question, but they might not have a choice.
It’s as irrelevant to the core of the subject as the post it is replying to and is trying to pit against each other unrelated issues of the past. As it is a sterile way of discussing the very real issue of gender inequality today and - let’s face it - we all know where this strand of thought is coming from and where it’s going, people are downvoting.
I often quote this comment regarding AI advances and jobs [0]:

> Yes, many of us will turn into cowards when automation starts to touch our work, but that would not prove this sentiment incorrect - only that we're cowards.

>> Dude. What the hell kind of anti-life philosophy are you subscribing to that calls "being unhappy about people trying to automate an entire field of human behavior" being a "coward". Geez.

>>> Because automation is generally good, but making an exemption for specific cases of automation that personally inconvenience you is rooted is cowardice/selfishness. Similar to NIMBYism.

It's true cowardice to assume that our own profession should be immune from AI while other professions are not. Either dislike all AI, or like it. To be in between is to be a hypocrite.

For me, I definitely am on the side of full AI, even if it automates my job away, simply because I see AI as an advancing force on mankind.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461138#32463198
If the watermark is their logo or name, it could copyrighted or trademarked.
> How is the last example different from an incumbents paradise? To me it looks like a road to autocracy.

That may be true if your vote is also your guess. But if they are two different things (i.e. I vote for candidate A but guess candidate B will win) I don't see an issue. In theory it simply favors a well-informed citizenry.

I would be curious if exit pollsters have ever asked this question. Ask people who they voted for, but also who they think will win. It would be interesting to see how accurate guesses are.