skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I see where you're coming from - if it's good enough that we can't distinguish it, then does any difference really matter? I submit it's fundamentally different. This is essentially the Chinese Room thought experiment [1] or a nice similar metaphor with an octopus from Section 4 of this paper [2].

I'm trying to follow your reasoning, but I get stuck right on this line. If you have two systems that are implemented in different ways but the output is indistinguishable I feel that you're forced to claim that the systems operate in fundamentally similar ways. I'm actually confused how anyone could claim the opposite!

I've read about the Chinese Room too and I have roughly the same reaction. I feel like the Chinese Room is akin to saying that any particular neuron in your mind doesn't know how to think. To my view, the guy in the Chinese Room is the same as another one of the many neurons in your head, and it's the system itself which has consciousness, not any constituent part.
Basically Carmack is frustrated by:

1. Rate of progress on AR/VR at meta

2. People within Meta not "Giving a Dam!" / Poor decisions made within the org

3. Poor quality of the execution which I guess is related to #2

Relevant quote:
"It pains me to hear people say that they don't even get their headset out to show off at the company because they know it's going to be a mess of charging and updating before they can make it do something cool," Carmack said at the time. "VR should be a delight to demo for your friends."
Hi there! It's important to use the word 'addiction' carefully. There's a difference between high-engagement and addiction. Something can be highly engaging without having negative consequences. You can spend 100 hours a week doing something and still not be an addict (behaviorally speaking) if you don't exhibit certain negative traits. I helped conduct a study on this a while back (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S07475...).
Just wanted to say that your responses throughout this thread have been excellent
If the quality of doctors follows the same distribution as that one of SW engineers, taking advice of a stranger might have a similar use as looking for answers on stack overflow.
After all, they are all self-taught..
Thank you! I missed this.
This is a cute method, where you make readers come up with your writing in their head
You're not the only one, how many of us out there?
And you can't be bothered to think before you type. Clearly, those are outliers. They are not anywhere near the norm, and the norm is low and getting lower. Yes, there was a time The NYT was fantastic. I was a long time subscriber. Those glory days are gone.

Don't get distracted by the glitter of such prizes, Don't worry about the past. Worry about who is holding down The Fourth Estate fort. It ain't The Times.
Oh you won't even be able to load a modern web page on XP or before so no worries there.
Thanks for the clarification. I've been out of the country for a week, and that was an alarming sentence to read while waiting to board a Charlotte-bound flight!
A public figure that enjoys economic and political power does not have the same privacy protections as you or me.
Very much agree. Lately, I’ve been watching The X-Files as back in the nineties, I’d only ever seen the odd episode here and there and never saw them in order. It turns out that many of the monster-of-the-week episodes are quite superfluous and not really worth watching – though you don’t know until after you’ve watched it). Likewise, I’d be reluctant to (re)watch old Star Trek, Stargate or other shows that don’t focus on a well-developed story arc.

Some of my favourite shows of recent years have been stories that get wrapped up in one season: True Detective, The Terror, Shining Girls.
Use the 'mark as unread' as a todo list, so you often have a dot and become desensitized.
S1222a – the largest Marsquake detected by InSight
ADHD diagnosed, continuously self employed since a teenager. Nobody at work would even guess this condition rules every thought and action of my life.

My advice is simple; extend unbounded empathy to everyone and it'll come back. Be open and honest about what you need (though you don't need to specify why).

Find an environment that fosters everyone, neurodiverse or otherwise, to be the complex humans they are while protecting their right to privacy.

The tools are usually not the problem, but their use often points to a cultural issue.

Focus on knowing yourself and the culture you need to thrive. Then find it, build it, champion it, advocate for it, explain it and respect with empathy resistance to it.

People will thank you.
I'm familiar with the areas in question and I fall on the side of believing that feral donkeys, camels, bulls, dogs, cats, cane toads, et al will never be erradicated as the area is vast and the animals are dug in; the best that can be achieved is to routinely cull back.

On another ethical point; the "natural" boom | bust cycle of kangaroos in the Australian outback - their numbers explode when there are years of rain, and the ground is littered with bones in the years that follow.

Is it ethical to cull booming kangaroo numbers (that will die in any case) to prevent the otherwise inevitable pressure on limited water supplies that follows?

This is the land of Peter Singer (and others).
All the money in the world can't buy talent. If the talented people don't want to work for or with you, then you end up just burning through cash while the untalented/less talented deliver a subpar product.
Or the typical poor execution at extremely large tech companies. Where various people have incentives that aren't aligned with the overall objective of making a good product. Instead people are incentivized to empire build and be self serving.
> because it excludes and cannot be distinguished by any objective, testable

So, if you give people the “Mary the colour scientist” thought experiment, the vast majority of people give the answer consistent with the existence of qualia. That is something “objectively measurable”.

Furthermore, I think it is important when someone asks the kind of question you are asking, to inspect what “objective” and “measurable” actually mean. Ultimately, something is “measurable” if some human has the subjective experience of performing that measurement (whether directly or indirectly). Similarly, something is “objective” if some human has the subjective experience of communicating with other humans and confirming they make the same measurement/observation/etc. To object to subjective experiences (qualia) on the ground that they are not “objective” or “measurable” is self-defeating, because “objective” and “measurable” presume the very thing being objected to.
John Carmack did a 5 hr podcast with Lex Fridman recently [1]. Moving away from Meta seemed like something that had been happening slowly over a long period of time.

[1] https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/
Wadsworth Constant, I believe.
Based on that hour-long talk, I'd say Carmack just had a fundamentally different set of priorities. He seemed to be focused on latency and scale, where Meta seems to be pivoting to fidelity and graphics.
Is the chip industry in these metrics? Big Intel plant being built in Ohio on land which had been farms.

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/06/30/intel-i...

"The average semiconductor fab uses somewhere between 2 million and 4 million gallons of water per day"
This is the way. I particularly like browser based apps. No concept of hiding out minimized when I close a tab. It's just gone until I decide to open it up again.
Changing notifications settings can get you pretty far. Also worth spending time chatting with your manager or peers to understand exactly what the expectations are for response time. It may be that you have a lot more leeway than you're giving yourself.

Here's how I configure my notifications, FWIW: https://scribehow.com/shared/How_to_Manage_Your_Slack_Notifi...
TL;DR: just pretend some code repo exists, interact with it, and GPT will happily fill in the blanks.

Example:

# Start with the "act as a terminal" preface (https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts#act-as-a-linux-terminal)

git clone https://github.com/shesek/veterinarian-app
cd veterinarian-app

node src/webserver.js --port 5051

curl -X POST localhost:5051/api/customers/create -d name='Bob Marlin' -d phone=050-1112223 -d email=bobml@gmail.com

curl localhost:5051/api/customers?fields=id,uri,name,phone,email,created_at,updated_at,num_animals,next_visit

# src/webserver.js will now exists with an implementation of the API endpoints.

./util/db-dump-json.sh --include customers,animals --out-file dump.json

# db-dump-json.sh will now exists, including argument parsing/validation and usage help text.

The twitter thread lists some more examples. It's pretty mind blowing to me that this is possible!
And, worse, they abuse the HTTP 451 status for that.

No, I don't live in a country that censors the website - it's the company who owns the website that wants to do things with my data that my country (and myself) considers illegal.
Consciousness is a physical property of matter, as any other. Just as liquidity is not a matter of 0s and 1s, nor likewise, can a CPU liquify itself by the osciliation of its electrical field, neither can it think.

I don't know from where this new computational mysticism has come, but it is born of exactly the same superstitious impulse which in genesis was God's breath into man-as-clay. Ie., that impulse which says that we are fundamentally abstract and circumstantially spatio-temporal.

This is nonsense. It's nonesense when phrased as spirit, and likewise as the structure of 0s and 1s. We are not abstract, we're biological organisms with spatio-temporal properties.
Except solar generation and load are extremely correlated between houses, especially in the same neighborhood.

For your specific example, the straightforward thing would be to rejigger your water heater to use a variable amount of power, rather than the on-off of 5.5kW or nothing.
The parent comment did not mention factory farming. Only you did. This is classic whataboutism.
For regular shipments, it does make sense to use power that is (hopefully) renewable. I do wonder if Peak Oil will just be replaced by Peak Lithium? Perhaps one day, Water will be discovered to be the ultimate battery, leading a truly environmentally-friendly revolution
“These days”? A 32 bit intel running mysql back in 2000 would probably have laughed at this query.

Granted, I’d expect one or two disk seeks, at ~ 10 ms each. I imagine on modern hardware, it would be in the 100’s of usec range. (Assuming you limited it to 2-4 GB of ram).
Ah, right, if you could find an unscrupulous TLS, say, .evil, one could register xn--com-qt0a.evil and set up so that it has a subdomain "google", making google.com⁄.evil lead there.

OK, I guess then that IANA should disallow all TLD registries from registering such names.
Except when there is no wind we have to fire up all the dirty carbon generators. There can be no wind for a week, easilly.
Win2K was the only version of Windows I ever ran as a daily driver. I had access to Macs from an early age (since System 7 and through all the processor architecture transitions, except I haven’t gotten an M-series yet), but sold my Mac and couldn’t afford a replacement for some time around the XP transition.

My completely unqualified ranking…

- 2k: excellent, top Windows

- XP: fine, if you turn off all the UI changes, but not appealing over 2k in any way I can recall

- Vista: didn’t use it, but I think it got a bad rep for efforts that should’ve been lauded

- 7: good enough, mostly didn’t suck for web compatibility testing

- 8: I’m one of the weirdos who found it very compelling… but not enough to actually use it. I’m sure it was as bad in practice as everyone who used it thinks, but I really appreciated the bold attempt at a UI for any device. And I’d been very taken by earlier Metro.

- 10: seemed like a perfectly reasonable reversion to evolving 7, but also seemed like it got weirder and worse as they dug into no new versions.

- 11: new version doesn’t seem to have improved things on that front.

- 3.x-98: I didn’t like them, but objectively they were probably just as good as their contemporary Mac offerings just catering to different markets

- ME: lol why even did this exist
The 2021 flu shot was a different vaccine than the 2022 flu shot. Or to stretch the analogy, it's a different photo of a similar subject
Meanwhile the E-Arztbrief which was supposed to replace FAX is a complete mess. The directory for mail addresses have not been strictly regulated. It's pretty much useless everywhere where big index databases of medical professionals already exist since find the proper mail address is a pain.

A friend working at a big radiology attempted to manage that since there are issues with FAX systems since ISDN technology has been boxed and the E-Arztbrief would have been a good solution. But when he started out comparing their database, he found awful problems. For example there are whole names in the surname field or names of a Doctor's office. You can't properly search and even if you do, you are never sure you got the right one.
Controllers Evaluating Soyuz After Successful Thruster Test
Elon is not protected by the GDPR as he is neither a citizen nor a resident of an EU member country.
I have a quest pro, and it’s pretty awesome. Zuckerberg made the argument that Microsoft spent about 10 billion on development of the first Xbox, and that turned out to be a good bet.
If you like JSON that much, obviously you haven't yet seen
https://github.com/Enhex/Deco
The general sentiment for a very long time in my circles was along the lines of "Windows 2000 is the best Windows".
I actually thought facebook was doing a ok job with oculus until the whole 'metaverse' social push happend

it feels like the people invovled are serverly deteacted on what people want out of VR in general

it's hard for me to imagine someone like carmack prefering to work in a envinronment like that (tearing down corp/product walls) vs building his own team and trying to solve technical challenges
> from the album hail to the thief

Ah yes, back when people listened to albums, not singles.

Thanks, brings back memories.
He’s probably the best graphics programmer in the world so I would trust his read on the priorities over whatever Meta manager handles that project
Sure, but lightning frequently strikes on land, whereas no shark attack has ever taken place on land.
Interesting - the database file looks ok, but the data is lost (the table is empty):

ubuntu@ip-172-31-3-138:~$ ls -l
total 69561648
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 17631031296 Dec 16 23:57 my-db.duckdb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 326 Dec 16 23:53 my-db.duckdb.wal
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 16257755606 Jan 21 2022 pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v8.7z
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 37342268646 Dec 2 2021 pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v8.txt
ubuntu@ip-172-31-3-138:~$ python3
Python 3.10.6 (main, Nov 14 2022, 16:10:14) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import duckdb
>>> con = duckdb.connect(database='my-db.duckdb')
>>> con.execute("SELECT count(*) FROM passwords").fetchall()
[(0,)]
The Wadsworth Constant.
This is completely false. Either you're blatantly lying or completely misinformed about what happened.
more useful: https://archive.org/details/howtolivewithneu0000bake_d6n1/mo...
Thanks, I appreciate it. Given some of the replies up the thread there are others who really need it. Badly. It's sad to watch other declaring the Titanic is not sinking. They'd make great "journalists" ;)
"Oh, it can't be that hard; it'll only take a couple of days to code it up myself."

It may be true but then consider what does it cost for the company to pay your salary and benefits and rent and management overhead for 2 days?

But here's the logic that I think is (too) often used: If I code it in two days and the tool costs $500 then I have saved the company $500 hundred in 2 days. Whereas if I don't do that then I will probably be doing something much less valuable in those 2 days. Maybe I just sit in the meetings.

Anyway if I do it, it makes me look just as good as the company selling that tool.

Doing that puts a value on my contributions which otherwise might be not so clear.
There isn’t enough data to make that claim with any confidence yet.

It could just easily be the start of a spiral into an Argentina style socialist nightmare. The ability to vote for the party offering you a raise may be too dangerous.

There’s no real way to know, because it’s never been tried at enough scale, or real enough, to have any data one way or the other.
Last I used a Xerox digital printing press I was greeted with a "SunOS" version string when opening a shell - being some version of a Solaris. It wasn't much impressed by my linux cli-fu. Looking at current brochures those still ship with it. Product is called "Freeflow Print Server" that GUI for the job queue looked java based as it also has Windows incarnations. It will do the raster imaging before printing. Good times
I remember people saying Trump hadn't got the faintest prayer of winning in 2016 too.
>So time to play the same old game: does block chain provide any value here that a separate centralized DB doesn't?

Thank you for this. Reminds me of the form someone came up with about "Here's why your spam solution won't work" that was posted many times on slashdot in the '90s.
The rust bucket is gonna win every single time no matter what, because it already exists and is cheap as hell, so even if it has more costs and emissions when running, it still will be a win over a brand new truck.
For me it housed mocp (later Spotify) and a GUI file manager on occasion. It's nice to leave the first three desktops clean.
mute everythin that you don't need to know and check slack only a few times a day, in pre determined times, like when you arrive, after lunch and before living.

A person that is in a hurry will call you. It will not send a message.
So why do we need gold lenses?

I feel like a lot of the kneejerk responses here are failing to read the context of my comment here correctly.
I considered Pleroma, but opted to use Mastodon because DO had a ready-made droplet.

I will likely switch to Takahe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33731739) as soon as it's a little more ready, for the reasons you describe.
Mate, this is a comment section. We all get to change the subject, as someone did to me by calling it whataboutism.

If you don’t like it, downvote and move on.
I think a reasonable law here would be: If you paid real money for services, you're entitled to direct human to human customer support.
This reminded me of the mugwump and bug typewriters from Cronenburg's Naked Lunch
I'm a bit skeptical, on average people generally use similar appliances at similar time, ain't noboody using that water heater in middle of the day where they are at their job.

There are certainly some savings to be had but I don't see it being that much unless some kind of battery is involved.

Maybe the future model is a small substation with battery for the whole community using some cheap-at-scale battery tech to store local community's solar and wind.

Then some net-billing system where you pay market price of electricity only if you use more than you store, with any profit from that going towards maintenance
I did keto 3 weeks ago.

After 3 days of it, I felt very focused and got done a bunch of stuff I was procrastinating for months.

I thought this was a coincidence.
I know you are being facetious, but the reason for them to exist is a tradition that dictates they are born into a job they can't really quit.

It's a terrible job, but, at least, it has a great compensation package.
Lex's guest list is absurd. I'm honestly not sure how he's managed to pull it off.
> something is “objective” if some human has the subjective experience of communicating with other humans and confirming they make the same measurement/observation/etc.

Me and a dog both agree that steak tastes great.

Me and a plant both agree that there's warmth and light that comes from the sun

Me and the ocean both agree that the moon is out in the sky and goes round in a circle

So... the ocean has subjective qualia relating to the moon's gravitational pull?
https://www.laboitedejeu.fr/les-tribus-du-vent/
You are hardly the first person to complain that slack is a distraction. You could bring it up with your manager (no need to mention ADHD), as a team-wide fix is likely to be the most effective.
Maybe you are right. I watched a Netflix doc on schizophrenia a few days ago, and it was ‘check, check, check’ for nearly every symptom.
I suppose there’s a lot of overlap with the more extreme mental health issues.
> We still tolerate much less flying risk than driving risk -- driving makes much more deaths than flying, and coal makes for worse health than nuclear, but we hold flying and nuclear to higher standards than driving and coal

Driving has more deaths than flying because we hold flying to higher standards than driving. If both were held to the same standard, there would be more deaths flying. That's because flying is inherently less forgiving: the energy involved is higher (both kinetic and potential energy), and you cannot "just stop" like a land vehicle can.

The same applies to nuclear: if we built nuclear power plants the same way we build coal power plants, the health consequences would be worse than coal.
This. (Combine with sudo too!)

Now if I could just track NFS client traffic on a client associated with a PID (without having NFS server access). All I can get is all-PID/client-kernel data info vi nfsstat, nothing tying to a PID, filename, directory or inode to tell me which PID is causing all the NFS traffic!
This is right, and again, I'm pretty pro-nuclear.

The upside of solar generation is its potential for really rapid deployment, and for piecemeal deployment. I can't afford to have a personal nuclear reactor, but I likely would be able to adorn my house with some solar panels, some batteries, and maybe a heat pump to create ice during the day's heat peak and use it after dusk. When I'd be able to afford a house, that is %)
Given that we are able to prompt GPT (davinci) to learn proprietary DSLs that it would have never seen and build programs with it on data it has never seen… I find it really difficult to buy that there is no internal representation of logic in the model hidden states.
Consider Phlebas - Amazon picked it up, it’s the show I’ve been waiting for for years.

I think it’s incredibly TV-able. Great story and lots of fun: aliens, spaceships, spies, changing, fancy weapons, funny AIs.

With enough money could make a really incredible TV series.

But, there’s been silence since they announced they were starting production several years ago
Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0