skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evolution per se isn’t the important part. I apologize if my wording gave you that impression.

The only reason our brains exist at all is to control our bodies. There are no conscious entities we know of that are just brains in vats.

Why would a being that has no need to maintain biological homeostasis experience something like hunger, tiredness or fear?

That’s what I mean when I say I’ve no reason to believe a thinking machine that has none of my motivations and limitations would ever have a “subjective experience” like my own.

That is, of course, unless we succeed in reverse-engineering human consciousness and somehow deliberately program the machine to experience it.
Btw masks work for influenza too! I plan to keep wearing masks during viral outbreaks. Why not? Beats the hell out of being sick.
Agree with that assessment, particularly relative to what the GP seems to be looking for. Vlang is a great alternative to check out.
billion people?
I assumed it was pin-chin, but "Thomas Pinecone" is too much fun to not to slip in every once in a while.
No, op didnt
Sure, because the communists are well known for their rejection of tracking technology…
Jerry Weinberg had an expression "Cucumbers get pickled more than brine gets cucumbered" to express the influence environment has on individuals.
> Are you saying that people should only focus on building infrastructure for other engineers and never actually make a product?

Sorry, maybe I was unclear. I wasn't intending to opine on that aspect. I think product and infrastructure are both super valuable. You're goaled on impact not necessarily on whether you build infra or product per se. Infra you're rewarded based on the impact of the product teams leveraging your infra - and product teams you're goaled on moving specific metrics.

I've worked at 2 FAANGs - on product teams - and my experience has been that if your product moves metrics that your org has decided are important then you will be rewarded.

What I meant when I said "leaf services like that" was "leaf services whose measurable impact doesn't align with org goals."

> That being said, bad projects definitely exist within big companies, and it's not always easy for (junior in particular) people to know if they are working on something useful or not.

Yeah, that's basically what I was trying to say.
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale

> The fail whale is a graphic that appears when the social networking website Twitter.com is experiencing technical difficulties. The image is of a whale being lifted by 8 orange birds and was created by Yiying Lu.
I would have been stunned if they had listened to someone wise and decent. They listen to quarterly reports I guess?
When we ran HP systems it was because they had PickBasic
My guy, I've spent a decade reading up on that word. You want to talk Bookchin, Kroptkin, or Öcalan I'm available any time.

Respect to my anarchist comrades who are all or nothing, but I recognize the current system we live in, and I'm not going to throw away the useful tools before replacing them.
If you solve a few more problems with chatgpt it's going to become useful enough that people are going to stop caring so much about the AGI label. It's going to quack like a duck enough to change a lot of industries.
You can have other metrics if you want like human deaths / kWh but again nuclear also has the best metrics here. Additionally, climate change is the biggest threat to humanity, there's no denying that.

> Let's instead invest in a mix of other, already available solutions

Like what others? There's none. (If you care about CO2 pollution of course)

> b) have simple energy storage solutions

Have you missed the part where I said that this storage tech doesn't exist?

You can't mention technologies which don't exist and claim that we should use them. Deployment of tech isn't R&D.

As an example, the solution being used in the real world seems to be an increase of coal and gas if you look at what Germany has done on the past month
The lines and paved road got put in during the old days of logging, I'd assume it was considered financially impractical for a number of reasons, likely from a legal perspective, due to many private property owners, along with a mixed bag of county, state and federally-owned land sprinkled in there, for a town of around 100 people or so. Things just kind of went along from there.

Nowadays it's all that plus environmental lawsuits.
Kids were being manipulated by information long before the Internet. I was raised in evangelistic religion. It is a blight on mankind, teaching kids magical thinking, confirmation bias, survivorship bias, appeal to authority, etc. Then there's all kinds of mental gymnastics to explain "the truth", much of it written by grifters.

It's good to take care, yet at the end of the day the kids have to grow up. So they need the tools to evaluate information. This can start early and schools can help even if parents won't, or even if parents are part of the problem.
As a rule, I don’t use Slack for productive work, nor for productive relationships. The noise is high. The interface is poor. The incentive is to not get anything done.

Backing my own experience up, I don’t have a single high-performance friend/collaborator that is invested in the Slack experience. However, I am familiar with well-paid and tuned out managers who love Slack.

Your idea of separation (checking 2-3x per day) is the appealing solution in this case.
Lol, try telling that to the no screen crowd.
This looks very neat. Thanks for sharing!

mpv has been my favorite media player for years, and one of my favorite pieces of software, period. It's simple, gets out of my way, works beautifully across platforms, has some of the best documentation I've ever seen[1], and is very extensible. I wasn't even aware of mpvc, and your fork has some nice additions.

Currently I'm using plain M3U playlists for both video and audio files. The default hotkeys and UI work fine, as I've found I don't have a need for a file or playlist manager, metadata editor, and all the fancy features popular audio players have. Any features I need, like scrobbling, can be easily added.

I'm not sure if a TUI and mpc-like interface will drive me away from my current setup, but I'll definitely give it a try.

[1]: https://mpv.io/manual/stable/
Back in the day, Twitter's error page showed a cartoon picture of a whale, which became nicknamed "the fail whale". The fail whale was a common sight on Twitter circa 2009 because the site couldn't scale fast enough to match the demand and errors were frequent - that's the era GP is referring to by the fail whale times.
Yep, it’s a grift to shill to non-technical management. AI will do what low code promised to do.
Yeah I've commented on this [before](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33040446). The other thing is that a lot of the people unbanned by these kinds of services really did deserve to be banned. Until people inside these companies start expressing skepticism about what the abuse/"risk" departments do and how they handle false positives nothing will change so I just see it as a necessary evil but fortunately it seems some Facebook employees in this thread offered to help.
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale
Benefits: decentralized, censorship resistant, permissionless. Can’t have your account suspended, assets censored, or API key revoked by the game publisher. Can decide to build competing clients on top of the same shared structure.

Whether it’s “worth it” depends on your view. Dark Forest and L2 blockchains are much, much less expensive than a lot of modern games. The graphics are not impressive, but it’s not really relevant—anybody could build a better client; and many games can succeed despite limited graphics, such as Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.
Success in the corporate world requires more than technical prowess. One of those things is influence. It's not for everyone.
He has the quality of being unformidable. The guests are very relaxed on his show I find. Tim Ferris is similar. Contrast to say Sam Harris, who although very erudite, perspicacious and articulate, asks paragraph long multipart questions and spends around 50% of his air time talking. Tyler Cowen is a better example of a formidable interviewer, who keeps things quite short and punchy and is always a little lighthearted.
As a middle ager, you want two things: to stay relevant for the foreseeable future, and freedom to control your time.

Those would be my optimisation suggestions. You need to stay in a technology trajectory that will have utility into your 60s, and you want time to work on your own projects and potentially raise a family or find a mate, or whatever is your personal life goal.
For someone who constantly applies bothsideism in the discussion of the Ukraine war and uses "Putin's regime" and "Zelensky's regime" in the same sentence (you can find an example in a very recent interview), I'd say he's not doing a good job of being a US government shill.

(Yes, I know that the original meaning of the word regime does not necessarily imply dictature, his intensions there were very clear and open - there are both sides and they are somehow comparable).
We have multiple people giving their anecdotes saying big tech positions emphasize self-promotion, and one anecdote (yours) saying they don't.

So, sincere question: for those of us who haven't worked at a FAANG, why should we believe that your experience is the norm while the other people's is the "corner"?
Oh Meta 100% has some sort of non-compete in writing, especially after his lawsuit with Bethesda when he left Id to work at Oculus[1].

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/zenimax-accuses-john-carmack-of-thef...
There is no mandatory Facebook account, anymore. It's now a mandatory Meta account. Facebook is only linked if you want it to be. Meta has said that this was in response to disapproval of the mandatory Facebook account.
There was a time where a fresh 98 install wouldn't last very long at all if you had a public IP
The commenter likely meant “fail whale”[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages
Work firewall does not want me going to this site.
In what way is this consistent? The authors describe toxoplasma infection forming cysts in the brain as a result of immune response. The cysts then release neurotransmitters, primarily dopamine and glutamate, which presumably causes the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia.

What does that have to do with metabolism?
It's pretty trivial. Some things are disabled by default, but still available on the latest versions of clients. For the OpenSSH client, it will tell you what specifically the client and server failed to agree on, and you can just add the option to enable on the client one of the ciphers, kex algos, or whatever that the server accepts. I've had no trouble with neither the latest version of the OpenSSH client nor Putty to connect to such servers.
This is an interesting thought.
The bigger the ship the smaller your rudder is.
Yes. Re-read what I wrote.
Considering the other options you can add the deprecated ciphers and key exchange mechanisms with a few lines for the host in your SSH client config on the newer system.
All public infrastructure should be run using the co-op model and financed directly by government. Both private investors and government have consistently failed to "do the right thing" on almost every level. That includes electric, water, communications (fiber), and transportation (roads, bridges, railways and buses).
Humans are lazy. They like things others consider a waste of time. Kids don't need more judgement or strictly regimented 'culture'.
perhaps a custom app to filter your traffic?

https://api.slack.com/
Shifting the burden from the game developer to a walled garden store with digital assets (like Apple or Steam) has also not proven ideal.
This is really nice, and the documentation and testing results are extensive.

https://github.com/circuitvalley/USB_C_Industrial_Camera_FPG...
There is some software to have a windows-like alt-tab experience, and you can decide to filter to current desktop or not
> The problem, in short, was that Youtube continuously feeds them new content.

Does it? I feel like my son has been watching essentially the same 20-25 videos over and over again. Of course his youtube time is limited, but it doesn’t seem like it suggests anything but his three favorite channels.
I have the social awkward side with the same inability to understand social cues, after many decades I can fake it, but still come across as odd or strange.
I guess its the uncanny valley effect.
The emotions and empathy is however the opposite, its so strong and raw I have to try and shut it down as its overwhelming.
You mean politics.
Agreed and maybe this is a little naive of me but I don’t currently own or plan on owning an oculus but if it was still an independent product via its original founders, I’m almost certain I’d have one.
Getting a minor (or double major!) in math or statistics would be helpful. I know it isn't the flashiest answer, but getting a solid foundation in math will be helpful in understanding what's going on behind the AI curtains. I think math has to be one of the hardest subjects to learn after graduation, so focusing on it now will pay big dividends.
When I have a social-emotional interaction with another human being, of a certain quality, that interaction produces in me the conviction that they must be really conscious, as opposed to a psychological zombie. Of course, I only personally have that kind of interaction with a tiny subset of all humans, but I generalise that conviction from those humans which provide its immediate justification, to all humanity

Which means, if there was an AI with which I could have that kind of interaction, I would likely soon develop the conviction that it was also really conscious, as opposed to a psychological zombie. Existing systems (for example, ChatGPT) don't offer me the quality of social-emotional interaction necessary to develop that conviction, but maybe some future AI will. And, if an AI did create that conviction in me, I likely would generalise it – not to every AI, but certainly to any other AI which I believed was capable of interacting in the same way
I’m not sure we’ve ever seen a giant company successfully “slimming down” ?

Sure, some go though catastrophic downfall and miraculously rebound from there, but that feels more like throwing someone down a mountain with a only a bottle of water and see if they can make it back to civiliation.

The more natural cycle would be frustrated workers moving out to make their own company and build something better from there. In the current climate that doesn’t work because of mono/duopolies and corruption, but that should be the thing to strive for IMHO.
I don't really think that's it, I feel like there is enough prior art (Second Life, VRChat, AltspaceVR, etc.) that we know this has potential and is feasable. Its just that their technology isn't even remotely competitive with anything. Its all just a clunky, buggy, uninspired mess.

Its everything from their corporate design story that bleeds into every world and avatar, the laughable visual programming tools to create worlds, the proprietary walled-garden approach to horizons, the privacy nightmare that is horizons, the operating system being this hacky unstable Android fork (don't ever look at logcat). Its like every single step of the way they made the wrong decisions and executed on them incompetently, no money in the world is going to fix this mess.
Just fishing in general is probably the most horrible form of hunting (imagine fighting for your life against a sharp hook caught in your mouth until you give in to pain and exhaustion and then die of asphyxiation and/or being beat and dehydrated).

Which is at least quite brief compared to factory farming, as a sibling commenter mentioned. I think the reason shark fins get so much attention in the English speaking world is because most of us don't consume shark fins, so there's nothing for us to give up to decry an otherwise unspectacular act of cruelty.
The way I think about GPT et al in terms or their "intelligence" is the same as the original Eliza chat that did some simple substitution based on patterns in the input. Gpt is obviously more complex and very large scale in its patterns but fundamentally it's exactly the same kind of "parlor trick". I mention this in reply because I think it would be a funny exercise to imagine Eliza as a black box and attempt to critique some of its answers.
I think the more important thing is fostering your children to have other interests - when the electronics are given just to make a kid shut up it can eventually become their "real" parents. When parents are active and make an effort to show their children other activities and find what they're interested in, the electronics won't be as enticing.

Maybe that requires a child having some built in proclivity towards some manner of creative expression or physical activity, who knows.
Not everything is a partisan. The FBI should not be asking Twitter to take down accounts. Period. These accounts he cited were low-follower accounts that were doing nothing illegal or immoral. This is a threat to everyone, no matter what side of the fence you are on. How is that so difficult to understand?
Hey there! It depends on exactly how transparent you're talking, but I rewrote some Fortran and Honeywell assembly to 'C' on lowest-cost-bidder unix workstations on behalf of NASA in 91 or 92? We used NQS [1] to distribute the workload across the nodes and it worked pretty well. Well enough for NASA to retire the mainframe. The idea is hardly unique or novel - I believe DEC's clustering software allowed something similar? [2]

[1] https://gnqs.sourceforge.net/docs/papers/mnqs_papers/origina...

[2] https://www.parsec.com/wwwDocuments/ClusterLoadBalancing.pdf
yep, legacy tru64, aix, solaris. big issue is ssh encryption.
I don't know why the person who was first to respond to you is "dead" but set aside his value judgement; all he wrote is factually correct.
The embarrassment you speak of lies in the fact that it became public knowledge, not in the act itself, depending on the perspective of specific institutions.
Furthermore, disregarding the fact that signal is in Israeli hands, i'm fairly certain they don't even trust themselves and simply calculate and spread risks as they see fit.
Regarding your Munich example, the most significant factors for the outcome of that debacle where at one end incompetent people backed by powerless competent people and on the other end Microsoft with millions of lobby money backed by a powerful state actor. Both can easily be regarded as both a risk and opportunity for state security.
Your closing statement is of course indisputable, never the less we should not forget that despite the fact that times change; old adagia such as "Something you have, something you are, something you know" are not only easily understood by everyone but we are also getting there with for example the advent of cheap FIDO2 keys, fairly invisible network access control & encryption at device enrollment, infrared cameras, privacy respecting / agnostic AI driven real-time analytics & heuristics at scale and so on.
In other words, we are slowly getting there but not due things such as "having a BundesMessenger" unless it's weaknesses contribute to the drive for improvement ~ including replacing American cloud services ~ ; something it's open source nature definitely does.
> - ME: lol why even did this exist

To get Internet Explorer 5.5 deployed as widely as possible which was their strategy pre-DOJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
Even on the worst year of nuclear for France, the renewables still have a worse output than that. This month it's been ~10% of the installed capacity for wind turbines and 3% of the installed capacity for solar.

I don't know why it's not on the news either, there's seems to be a massive bias in reporting where nuclear is expected to have a 100% uptime but renewables nobody cares, whatever it produces is ok even single digits is fine.
How do you enforce that? The retail investors are not aware of that and they have no way to compare at the point of trade. If they grease enough palms in the government they are free to do what ever they want
Why is he needing to sell off so fast? I thought we were talking like a billion per year in interest. Is this purely about margin calls because his TSLA collateral has lost sufficient value?
I don't understand your comment. Architects did not design this fishtank, engineers did, ones that specialize in such constructions. Whether or not the design was at fault or there were construction or maintenance issues or the tank was modified out-of-spec, whether there was damage due to the recent renovations are all open questions.

Structural engineers take their work very seriously, much more seriously than your typical software person and you can bet that any and all lessons learned from this incident will be incorporated into future designs. They don't just slap stuff together for the laughs and call it a day.
One that I've found pretty helpful is comby: https://comby.dev/

It's a code-syntax aware large-scale search-and-replace tool. E.g.,

comby -matcher .scala -review 'foo(:[x], :[y])' 'foo(:[x])'

This will search in the current directory tree for all files that contain the code pattern 'foo(x, y)' and replace it with 'foo(x)', using Scala syntax rules. It's super convenient for doing large-scale codemods. E.g. https://github.com/tinymce/rescript-webapi/pull/40
You could have said “in that particular leaf of the organisation”. Did you work in a leaf?
He might be considered by others as "boomer" that hasn't been relevant "since Quake III"
Is that because they’re not doing what you want? Or because it’s bad? They’re still scoring straight A’s in school.
I must be the only person in the world who really loved that theme. It always cheered me up. The default wallpaper not so much, but I never let the default one anyway.

The coloured "rubber" gadgets were very nice. Those haters surely dislike Comic Sans too!
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And that you got away ;) Great comment upthread by the way.
Genuinely, have you considered leaving? You don’t have to work in a place that makes you so unhappy.
Nobody is saying those countries have to maintain their infrastructure, they can outsource it to countries which have good nuclear industries
I don't think that comparison works: the size of a computer wasn't a direct blocker for it being useful at all — it's great that I can use my MacBook Pro on the couch for a day or two but I could do just about everything sitting in front of a desk with a computer which was too big for my lap (or, a generation earlier, too big for the desk) because I didn't need to carry the computer around on my body.

VR is different in that the experience is worse until you reach a number of hard thresholds: the headset has to be light, yes, but you also need good display and sound quality, sensor tracking & lag has to be tight enough that you don't get nausea, input tracking has to be detailed enough to make behaviors feel realistic, etc. You also have practical problems for many applications — I can't move in VR without trashing my living room without even more hard problems unless you're doing something like making flight simulators.

That's not a hard problem but rather a collection of them and the problem is that the alternatives good enough for most people — i.e. few people are going to pay a significant premium for it, and even the people I know who have VR setups mention not using them much when the novelty wears off — and there's a real chicken-and-egg problem with needing high quality content to be worth all of that extra expense & hassle but not having sales volume to support it. I certainly wouldn't bet against it happening eventually but I think the trajectory is going to be more like “electric car” than “personal computer”.