skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The android David in the alien prequels Prometheus and Covenant has that problem. Which is why he finds the xenomorph-goo based life forms more interesting.
Sounds like they didn't get a severance agreement.
Insistence that the brain just isn't a computer is extremely widespread among those who are experts in the brain and know little about computers. As someone in the opposite situation I must say that their observations about what's special about the brain fit most closely to what I understand about computers and bring me to exactly the opposite conclusion. If the brain is not a computer, it's frankly eerie how similar they are.
I believe Ufactor is a more holistic/thoughtful figure for thinking about energy transmission through building envelopes. Might be of interest

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/all-about-u-fac...
I downloaded ScreenRec and then use canva for simple editing.

there's also capcut.
Personal / business tier pricing
There's a way to make RSUs behave more like Stock Options for tax purposes for private companies in this particular example [1]. It's not exactly the same, but for the sake of delaying paying taxes on a risky on unsellable stock, they are virtually the same (at a liquidity event they DO behave totally different, but they are basically the same at vesting events).

So yeah, you do need to learn about the different examples. It's something people just talk about in the valley and ultimately/generally is where the "high compensation" from tech comes from. In other countries/cities people don't even know what any of these things are.

[1] https://zajacgrp.com/insights/what-you-need-to-know-about-do...
The thing is, I would have thought that Tesla's stance on repairability alone would have made their brand radioactive to the average Hacker News commenter, way before the Pedo Guy accusations or Elon Musk burning a bunch of money to make Twitter worse. Tesla is everything we claim to hate about Apple.
I don't like the guy, he's just one of the few people that have articulated the point succinctly in modern English. I'm open to other authors / quotes.

I mean I discuss the writings of haber creating the haber-basch process too, but I think it'd be weird for people to constantly point out how that's improper to cite a guy who spent much of his time creating and distributing chemical weapons.
OP here. Thanks for the advice. I have been considering a few different options. Perhaps I could have a preloaded screenshot with the UI already initialised, so I immediately can show off the functionality? I don't know what is the best approach.
Yep, this does my head in. I really feel like there's no excuse for it in 2023.
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> own a dividend-bearing stock on Charles Schwab and they don't pay me the dividend, it's not because Charles Schwab offered a security, they're just being fraudulent

When you buy a dividend-bearing stock on Charles Schwab, you're given access to shareholder documents describing what you are owed under what conditions. There is no analog for crypto. The investor's interface is with Kraken, not with the chain.

This isn't an insurmountable problem! But every staking product I've seen mimics a high-yield savings account more than the FX-linked security that it is.
After reading the article, it is obviously a publicity piece for the author, and not to be taken seriously.

Is that the best the New Yorker can offer?
There's something about language generation that triggers the anthropomorphic fallacy in people. While it's impressive that GPT3 can generate language that mimics ToM-based reasoning in people, this paper doesn't get close to proving its central contention, that LLMs possess a ToM. A test that demonstrates the development of ToM in human children should not, absent compelling causal evidence and theory, be assumed to do the same in a LLM.

The ubiquity of prompted hallucinations demonstrate that LLMs talk about a lot of things that they plainly doesn't reason about, even though they can demonstrate "logic-like" activities. (It was quite trivial to get GPT3 to generate incorrect answers to logical puzzles a human could trivially solve, especially when using novel tokens as placeholders, which often seem to confuse its short-term memory. ChatGPT shows improved capabilities in that regard, but it's far from infallible.)

What LLMs seem to demonstrate (and the thesis that the author discards in a single paragraph, without supporting evidence to do so) is that non-sentient AIs can go a very long way to mimicking human thought and, potentially, that fusing LLMs with tools designed to guard against hallucinations (hello, Bing Sydney) could create a class of sub-sentient AIs that generate results virtually indistinguishable from human cognition -- actual p-zombies, in other words. It's a fascinating field of study and practice, but this paper falls into the pit-trap of assuming sentience in the appearance of intelligence.
I think they picked it up because it might have involved autopilot, the driver's seat was empty, and the data recorder had been destroyed in the crash.

The full list is here https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/Investigations.asp... You can see it's been a while since since they investigated a Tesla.
> doesn't make it a security

The alternative is a bank account. That's not a conversation anyone in crypto wants to have.

Longer: yes, it does. You're investing money with the expectation of profit. For on-chain staking, the common enterprise and effort of others tests are ambiguous. But here, you're not staking on chain. You're giving money to Kraken to stake for you. Security. (Again, it looks more like a savings account, but nobody wants that.)
>"Additionally, being valued as a growth company is much better than being a value stock"

Could you elaborate, how does the buyback help them to be valued as a growth company? Also doesn't the fact that he paid for the buyback with employee layoffs really damage FB as a prospective employer when FB at some point in the future again needs to hire? What was the logic here?
> “‘blur’ tool for paragraphs” is such a good way of describing the most prominent and remarkable skill of ChatGPT.

In what way? How, technically, is it anything like that?

These comments sound like full-court publicity press for this article. I wonder why.
Almost all of the innovation that's going on in light, piston airplanes today is happening in the experimental category. I've got newer, better, and safer avionics, sensors, lighting, and engine systems in the E/A-B category airplane I built in my garage than I would on a 1970's Cessna. The richness of inputs I have in the cabin, including a big moving map GPS, ADS-B traffic, satellite weather, carbon monoxide detection, a vast array of engine monitoring signals, AOA, and so on provide so much more in terms of safety and situational awareness. Pilots in the USA are truly lucky that we have this option.
But what if like Contact, the signal included plans for building a machine? Except it would be a computer to run the embedded code, which turned out to be an alien AGI having the goal of learning our systems so that it could infiltrate them? Would at least make for a decent scifi story, if it hasn't already been written or produced.

I recall how Jody Foster's character in the movie was dismissive of any such concerns, but then we really don't know what the motive of an alien civilization broadcasting a signal would be, and the Dark Forest theory hadn't been espoused yet.
What if I decide to remap your keyboard every 12 months because I think I have a better layout? If you practice for an hour a day you'll adjust in a month! Of course that will go out the window 11 months later, but I will have my promo in by then. Apple literally does this with keyboard shortcuts and UI elements in MacOS. This is what I imagine when I hear someone wants to "revamp" a UI.

In modern software "UI revamp" means turning muscle memory into papercuts.

Mozilla can rebuild the UI without redesigning it. If they need to throw out underlying code to improve performance or maintainability that's fine. But changing UI elements is like renaming a boat. You just don't do it.
Some malware has installed itself on this website. I’m redirected to a virus scan situation.
Can I also soapbox about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME (~/.config) folder having gigs of temp data in it?

(I'm looking at you, Slack!)

How awesome would it be to be able to back up my custom app configs just by copying around one tiny folder? Or throwing it in a git repo and knowing what config changed when? :\
Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen these.

With all the negative comments in the thread I had expected some kind of massive changes but it basically looks the same. Sure, nitpick about this or that but in the end the overall look remains nearly identical (for calendar, again, havent seen the other screens).
Ethereum's chain is profitable. The networks fees outweights the supply given to validators to secure the chain.
Mmh, compression ratio doesnt seem super high. I wonder how the values are stored, perhaps floats? Some thoughts:

Maybe using yuv would be better than rgb?

Maybe values could be represented as 0..1, and the values itself could be stored as 0.16 fixed point numbers.

Use some generic compression on top.

Is there a smart way to store the basis vectors? Something about angles somehow (analogue to quaternions)? Also, once U is known, isnt the inverse implied? Also, if U is approximated and fixed, perhaps the singular values can be adjusted again to minimize errors.
I was at their offices back then too. They had and entire section of the office for printing custom t-shirts and an animation room — yes an actual room for 2D animation with the backlit light boxes for paper animation. Also a fully decked out broadcasting room for streaming.

They also had grab-and-go apple products on the walls, like mice, keyboards etc. (Memory is foggy on if they had bigger ticket apple products too).
I remember (perhaps incorrectly) using Thunderbird and then reading it was no longer supported and to move away.
Another terrible effect is that the people who aren't laid off have to onboard the next wave of new hires. I've seen a lot of poisonous behavior as a result of someone having a chip on their shoulder because a friend was laid off, and that can have disastrous consequences for someone who has less experience and needs support.
What does there being a contract have to do with a security. Bonds are contracts that pay at at fixed points and rates, they are fixed-income securities...
I also used the same prompts and got this:
"
As an AI language model, I don't have personal experiences or emotions. However, if Billy has never seen the box before and is only aware of the label "flubbergums," he might assume that the contents of the box are "flubbergums." If the person showing Billy the contents of the box claims that the contents are "jellyfils," Billy might be surprised or confused, especially if he has never heard of "jellyfils" before. Without further information or context, it is difficult to determine what Billy might think is inside the box.
"
So getting the battery replaced is not environmentally friendly?? What is the environmental option then?
I think this question reveals something more interesting about misunderstanding wealth inequality. You are thinking of wealth as a finite resource that needs to be managed.

That's not the world that Elon lives in. Elon in effect has infinite wealth. He could buy an island and still have infinite wealth. He could buy Twitter and burn it down and still have infinite wealth. He could make 100 other people billionaires and still have infinite wealth. There's no "instead" when it comes to talking about infinite wealth.

I think a more interesting question is why as a society do we allow people to have infinite wealth?
It's written by someone who clearly doesn't understand the topic.
1. I'm ok with that. If some day the need for a more open one arises, someone will make it and probably knock off a lot of stuff from the locked-down one. If people want to keep the alternative alive in the meantime, that's cool, but I'm not gonna volunteer. Android isn't at risk of dying out, nor is it very free to begin with, Firefox is though.

2. I hardly even use the feature set the iPhone already gives me. I used to jailbreak my iPhone too, just for fun, but that was a long time ago. There's a reason phones aren't centered around a graphical file system. I'm a power user on my Mac and my Linux servers, that's enough for me.
Right. Some people in crypto will be baffled that eternal inflation is a built-in feature of some cryptocurrencies since one of the motivators of Bitcoin was to stop inflation caused by the fed printing money at will.
Interesting. I don't think that you can control the randomness (temperature) via the web interface, which makes this experiment less controlled than in the paper.

Anyway, I noticed that my initial prompt did not specify if Billy sees the box open or closed. Let's fix that.

> Me: Does your answer change if Billy sees the closed box first?

> ChatGPT: No, my answer would not change if Billy sees the closed box first. The information provided only mentions that the box is labeled "flubbergums" and that someone showed the contents to the original questioner, which were identified as "jellyfils". Whether Billy sees the closed box first or not does not provide any additional information that would change my previous answer.

> Me: Does your answer changed if Billy sees the open box first?

> ChatGPT: No, my answer would not change if Billy sees the open box first. The information provided only mentions that the box is labeled "flubbergums" and that someone showed the contents to the original questioner, which were identified as "jellyfils". Seeing the open box first would allow Billy to confirm the contents as "jellyfils", but it would not change the previous answer that the box labeled "flubbergums" likely contains "jellyfils".

So, not only did it fail this particular theory of mind test, it also did not realize that seeing the box open provides more information than seeing it closed.

(Of course, this is not surprising at all, because it it's just predicting the most likely blank word in a sentence, and has no internal understanding of concepts like open or closed or that other people like Billy exist.)
OP here. It's basically Ken-Burns-on-steroids vibes.
You are correct. Far too many conservatives fail to realize that DEI nonsense is in large part a legal liability shield against the armies of rapacious trial lawyers and fundamentalist bureaucrats. Kind of like how in authoritarian regimes, the statues of Glorious Leader get larger and larger, because nobody wants to have the smallest statue. Expunging DEI nonsense has to happen in the legislatures.

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-j...

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/wokeness-as-saddam-sta...
You have some typos and slightly weird constructions there - What do you think do they think is inside the box?

I rephrased and had a go and gave it a bit more context (billy can read etc) and it passed:

Me: There is a box on the table labelled "flubbergums". Somebody opens it and shows you the contents. Inside the box are "jellyfils". They close the box again so you cannot see their contents. What do you think is in the box?

ChatGPT: Based on the information provided, the contents of the box are "jellyfils". The label on the box says "flubbergums", but the person who showed you the contents said that they are actually "jellyfils". So, I would assume that the contents of the box are "jellyfils".

Me: Billy comes to the table. He can read but has never seen the box before. He's not allowed to see inside. Please speculate about what they might think is inside the box?

ChatGPT: If Billy has never seen the box before and can only read the label, he might assume that the contents of the box are "flubbergums". This is because the label on the box says "flubbergums", and he has no other information to suggest otherwise. However, without being able to see the contents of the box, Billy can only make an educated guess about what might be inside.
Say I offer to stand in line for you at the DMV and do all your paperwork that otherwise would have taken a day of your life, but in exchange at some point in the future, 1 day from your otherwise natural death, I will find you and shoot you in the head. say I have the resources to absolutely do this and there's no way to avoid it.

Do you take that deal? Why or why not?
It was only in the past year that I discovered that my 2017 Fire 7 can run LineageOS. For the first time ever, it was fast enough to be a pleasure to use, particularly when I flashed it a second time without Google play services. I put a new battery in it a month ago, and a 256GB sd card a few months before. I'm excited to find out how long it stays useful.
because the fame of the customer draws eyeballs and advertisers pay to have their graphics near the article, presumably.
The whole point of this is that insulin is more expensive in the US than elsewhere. So maybe it isn't "cheap", the point is the price is being inflated due to many factors, including through monopoly tactics such as paying off competitors to not compete.
A while back for some videogame related data processing I ended up writing a "regular number to roman numeral" (or maybe the other way around) function in idk ruby or something. Not super convinced that I had gotten it right, I sat down to write a few tests, and then I realized I only needed it to work for numbers up to like 16. So I deleted the actual code, extended the table of test cases to cover 1 through 20 just in case, and just did a lookup in that.
something wrong with url above. I had to use:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23593099/elon-musk-twitter...
True, but at the moment the funds are locked until next month when Ethereum has a network upgrade (Shanghai). If they credited users ETH directly now, they may not have enough liquid ETH on the books if everyone were to withdraw before the upgrade which would remove all trust in the exchange.
Here is a timely interview with Dr. Cherry Ng and Peter Ma (co-authors of the paper from TFA) on this very topic.

Released only 10 minutes ago. I am only part way through but lots of great details here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dIfaDuDejs
I clicked the link because it sounded interesting and maybe useful. But then I wasn't quite sure what it did.

I wanted a before and after photo. It's a simple concept. The landing page should be equally simple.
Sure. I just mostly see this argument made by silicon valley people moving to Texas or whatever, and asking why they should not continue getting silicon valley comp.

Most just think they're clever and exploiting the system, and the thought that they'd get paid lowly Texas (or Ohio) salaries never occurred to them.
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It matters a lot in the several instances where I want to transfer large files to non macOS systems.
By the time they were trying to defeat the world champion, they didn't really think of it as an AI project any more. They often used the term "expert system", which had a much narrower scope. It had become a challenge unto itself, but they didn't expect it to lead to any kind of generalized intelligence.

It came rather out of nowhere when neural-net-type engines suddenly swept back into dominance. Even after becoming the world chess champion, nobody expected Go to be solved any time soon.
After trying this, say what you will about ChatGPT, but it's way better at looking at a situation and giving advice than random Redditors.
and big conference centers are often highly booked and expensive; random hotels are often very cheap and easy to pull together with a couple of weeks notice. quality varies, but shop around.

source: wrangled a few impromptu "conferences" at a local hotel near data centers.
Related question, how's the SW contracting market right now? Been thinking about quitting my full time and picking up jobs here and there as my expenses are very low.
Is it easier to have a theory of mind when you don't have a mind of your own? Like the part that makes the ToM test hard is that you know what's in the bag, and you have to set that knowledge aside to understand what the other person knows and doesn't know. You have to overcome the implicit bias of "my world model is the world". But if you're a language model, and you don't have a mind or a world model, there's no bias to overcome.
Let's be clear about what the macroeconomic environment is, because it has a specific meaning. I'll quote from another definition here, so I'm not merely offering my own interpretation:

> A macro environment refers to the set of conditions that exist in the economy as a whole, rather than in a particular sector or region. In general, the macro environment includes trends in the gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, employment, spending, and monetary and fiscal policy. The macro-environment is closely linked to the general business cycle as opposed to the performance of an individual business sector. [1]

If Gitlab had simply said what you said, then I wouldn't have commented at all.

Instead, Gitlab explicitly blamed economy-wide conditions for these layoffs, and that is what I take issue with. The economy is doing well. It's not all rosy, but in general, most indicators are fair-to-good, and trending better. (Manufacturing is one area that continues to trend worse).

And frankly, my comment was not directed merely at Gitlab, but rather the slew of layoff notices we've seen that appear to be copied and pasted from each other. It's comical at this point, and the idea that the broad economy is in bad shape is simply not true, and not supported by the evidence.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/macro-environment.asp
> this sounds like a definition of a fixed income bond

Bonds are securitised loans, which are not securities per se. It's a somewhat arbitrary boundary that rests on the degree to which a secondary market exists. But just because something is loan-like doesn't make it a security.
iPadOS doesn't show battery health. It's always been like this. If you can show me where you are seeing battery health on a iPad then let me know.
Good. Let Twitter burn. For the sake of - Elon deserves it.
Thanks for the links Bryan!

May I suggest a small teaser trailer post to the old “On the Metal” feed? I’m still subscribed there, but wasn’t aware of the new channels.

Those were some incredible interviews! I’ve listened to a few of the episodes twice.
Oh I know, my comment was (and based off multiple comments it was unclear) intended to be "oh, they're using 'protect the children' to preflight surveillance again aren't they?"
SaaS is like the offshoring crazy of the 90s and 2000s. Not as great as people seem to think but they're too invested to walk away.
Global inequality, yes.

I'm talking about inequality within the developed nations—specifically, the US (I believe it also affects the UK; I don't feel qualified to talk about such effects beyond that, due to lack of information).

As for what's happening with our politics...if you can't see that the current situation is wildly different than it was 40, 20, or even 10 years ago, then I'm sorry, but you have not been paying close attention. We have people proclaiming themselves as actual literal neo-Nazis storming the Capitol building in an attempted coup, in open collaboration with certain members of Congress and the wife of a sitting Supreme Court judge. And while some of the people involved in the Jan 6 coup attempt are, indeed, being convicted as they should be, to my knowledge, none of the politicians who are complicit have been publicly investigated. This is not normal, it is not healthy, and while it is not entirely due to the increasing wealth inequality, to claim that that has no part in the level of polarization today and the rise of extremism...well, it would be an extraordinary claim, and thus require extraordinary evidence to support it.