skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general I agree with you about Hemingway. But it tends to focus on clarity of individual sentences without thinking about the document as a whole. In the wrong hands, it encourages monotony.
Surely it already has. Not consistently and repeatably, and not quite under the conditions Turing proposed, but still, in a way that's rather spectacular when it happens. Last year gave us this news story: "The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life". [1]

It's not that hard today to find someone who has chatted with a language model and come out with the impression it is a person. The Replika e-friend service is in this grey area, too. People have claimed to fall in love with their virtual friends. I see no reason to doubt their claims. And I think doing that requires projecting human-like qualities on the AI it does not have. I.e., being convinced on some level it really is a person. Though I'm sure some might disagree with that interpretation.

Are these systems not, in effect, passing the Turing Test? At least with some people?

Based on my use of ChatGPT, I believe I personally could be fooled for a significant amount of time, by a system along those lines, one designed to be a little more informal and conversational, with fewer taboo areas. I worry a bit that this will become widespread. That many people will become convinced AIs are sentient thinking beings, because they're just so incredibly good at pretending to be.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought this post was asking from the perspective of "How can I tell if I'm enrolled in that secret thing we learned about that Intel has a secret backdoor to our computers" from the perspective of "I want to make sure it is off/I'm not enrolled".

I was suggesting, if the PC isn't connected to the Internet in this hypothetical case, why does the Intel backdoor matter? It wasn't clear to me the OP was trying to actually use the Intel Management Engine for legitimate purposes. I apologize.
Wrong guess; the algebraic optimization you might be thinking of is simply not allowed.

The expression is likely subject to an optimization known as constant folding: the compiler calculates the value of the constant expression, and substitutes that value into the code.

However, that constant-folding calculation has to produce the same result as what would happen at run-time: the 56.999999999999992895... approximation of 57.

Constant-folding having to produce the same results as run-time creates a challenge in cross-compiling situations, when the host machine's math is different from the target machine's math. The compiler must emulate the target machine math.
Yet you chose to buy an iPhone.
Have some sources

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32081788/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897047/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j232kdcnSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBhfP3MBYLU

https://www.reddit.com/r/trt/
What about Brazil? I thought Bolsonaro was out?
Love to hear this, exactly what I'm talking about!
I met a crypto dev in a bar last summer. He was very secretive about what he actually did. After a few rounds, the only bits I got out of him was that he was working for EU on a secret project that will make cash obsolete.
This will probably get lost in the noise. But I think what sucks the fun out of side projects is where your agency is taken away by the ‘right way’ to do things. That’s what makes embedded and a lot of Raspberry Pi projects so fun. There isn’t a large collective telling you to use X build tool plus Y framework, and if you don’t, it’s because you’re doing a bad job and don’t care. And if you ask a question like ‘how do I…’, the response is Y takes care of that for you, you should really use Y.

Pick up an Arduino and there’s no one right answer. It’s still very hobby oriented, so a lot of people do fun an wacky things. The learning curve is fairly short. What I call the ‘book count,’ or how many books you need to read to be productive, is pretty low. On the other end of embedded, it gets very formal, very quick, but that’s for professional embedded developers.

Or, pick a ‘dead’ language. Go to some vendor like thrift books, or hunt used book stores, for books on that language. You might find some for $5. There’s no pressure, and you have full agency to make the greatest or the worst decisions you want. And a lot of the communities around these ‘dead’ languages are a lot of fun.
> many if not most mathematical functions won't be exact anyway

That's actually a really interesting question - while this is obviously true for most functions which (in a mathematical sense) exist, I wonder if it's true for "all functions weighted by their use in computing applications"? That is - do boring old "addition, subtraction, and multiplication of integers" outweigh division, trigonometrics, etc.?

In 3D modelling/video games, almost certainly not. In accounting software...probably? Across the whole universe of programs: who could say?
Humanity’s Soul: Life or Growth?
I think it's more the legal notion of intent that separates manslaughter versus murder. I would venture to say most car crashes that aren't attacks are not intentional, therefore they are accidental. Also if you experience a fatal accident in a car, it's likely enough to be a crash - so I would also venture to say most people understand "car accident" to strongly imply "crash".
You said it better than I. I don't think I made my point about "context" sufficiently clear above. A person's capital can be earning more capital at the same time as they are employed in productive work, but not in the same context. An owner of a small business may "pay themselves a salary" in accordance the salaries of their employees, but that doesn't make them "not a capitalist" at any point in time insofar as they own the company and employ people to work at that company who do not own it.
"The twitter files" while cherry picked to manipulate the narrative to attempt to show the opposite simply demonstrated that corporations reject the state requests as often as they oblige the state.
Seems like they must sue if that’s the law? Otherwise they’re not independent as the law requires?

Tyrannical seems like a stretch?
I think the issue of telemetry is fundamentally a human issue of incentives and trust. The system you describe is wise because it recognizes this and attempts to address it.

The difficulty with telemetry is that even if we design the perfect, privacy-preserving system to begin with, once the pattern of having a network port open is established, there's nothing to prevent us (humans) from changing our policies about what we're allowed to push/pull over that port.

In real-world analogues for these kinds of thorny policy problems, we have centralized arbiters to solve these problems. That might be a fruitful course of research for people interested in this problem to explore.

Unfortunately, even though this problem has software as its medium, it is a problem that cannot be solved by clever software alone, despite any appearances to the contrary.
Hasbro are attempting to do the same thing to the D&D brand, sadly. I don't know the details but the idea is to move to One D&D from 5e, which will inevitably come with more online/offline integration.

Why they can't stick (in terms of D&D) with the 'core product' - selling the rulebooks, selling spin-off merch like miniatures and dice, selling books for DMs detailing new worlds and campaigns - I don't know. Dollar signs, probably.
> Next, the bank starts applying negative interest rates when they need to "stimulate" asset prices and keep the stock market from crashing. No longer worried that people will pull cash out of their account to stuff under a mattress, your bank account starts dropping by 5% or 10% per year...

Can't they do this already by increasing money supply or QE? Central bank's can already create inflation which isn't dissimilar to negative interest rates.
I suggested institutions that won't require DEI statements. They're, uh... not the pinnacle of academia.

Putting moral arguments aside, there's a rational argument to exclude abusers from a research environment. If you let them in and shelter them, their prey (marginalized people, typically) will be less likely to visit, collaborate, and ultimately join. You've excluded roughly 75% of the general population with that choice! It's worse than that, though, because some fraction of that remaining 25% will also avoid you, because you've excluded that 75%. Recruiting from the remaining groups does not mean you won't make progress, breakthroughs, and valuable inventions. But you've massively hamstrung yourself for no real reason.

Weaponized ideological compliance isn't always a bad thing. We don't engage Nazis or hooded members of the KKK in debate, because our priors tell us that they won't engage in good faith (c.f. Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew)

Instead of "Don't do this because of how it could affect your DEI rating", try "Don't do this because of how it makes you look", or Vonnegut's "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
The word "always" may have lost its significance to us. Maybe it carried more meaning to writers who were only familiar with natural languages, not programming languages.
I didn't know this exists. If I know this earlier, I have used it. Anyways, there's Github or IPFS.
GPT-3 was unveiled 2.5 years ago, and it was very well-received at the time… and since. As was DALL-E and Midjourney.

This entire time Google has just responded with “Yeah, all this AI stuff like transformers and diffusers, GANs etc? That’s transformative tech. We’ve got something way better though. No you can’t see it or use it, no we won’t use it to make it so our website stops being primarily an index of Pinterest and Yummly. Our product is literally so good that we cannot bring it to market.”

It is… hilarious
> still returns some results for any query.

On the contrary, Google's search has degraded severely. They now routinely tell me nothing was found when I'm searching for things I know exist, and know used to be indexed. Google is now third or fourth on my list of search engines because of this. They just aren't very good anymore.
Not to defend Erdogan by any means (passionately despise him as much as I despise Putin), but truth be told - handing to and relying on unbiased/factual information dissemination, via Twitter, in the Musk era, is something highly questionable.
Many parts of our grid are more efficient when it’s cold. The brownouts in heat waves are caused in part by equipment overheating. For instance power line sags causing discharges to ground. I don’t know the ratio but I wouldn’t be surprised if you can push 10% more power through a cold grid than a hot one.
The increase in suicide rates for both genders (but especially females) are astounding. I really don't believe that any changes in treatment have been so radical as to cause this to manifest the way it has.
It depends on whether we believe in upholding the constitution or not.[1] In addition we did have people arrested for violating lockdown rules/orders.

[1] and given the volatility of this comment it seems people take issue with the bill of rights.
> while you can catch these kind of errors in C

Tbh C would have never crossed my mind as an alternative for Rust in this case. I guess that says something.
I was actually building something similar to Juice using S3 as an object store and optionally using redis(fast) or s3(slow) for metadata storage. Basically a log structured filesystem using rolling hash chunk encoding and delegations. I kinda stopped when I found juice (and to some extent seaweed) as they were much further along. If you need shared storage and don't have crazy performance requirements it makes a lot of sense to separate out metadata and just throw blobs into object storage.
> statement is obviously false

No, it isn’t, though misunderstanding it isn’t even fundamental to the flaw in your thinking. A couple of banks can create and destroy an infinite amount of money among them with no real effect. JPMorgan credits UBS a trillion trillion trillion dollars at the latter’s JPMorgan account at the same time UBS credits JPMorgan at its UBS account, and then they both undo it a moment later. No real effect. Hell, JPMorgan could create the money with no counterbalance so they could look at it how pretty it is for an indefinite amount of time. Same deal. Regulators won’t be happy, but that’s because of the potential effects of UBS trying to buy the Fed’s balance sheet.

It’s when the interbank market interacts with broader markets that anything real happens.
Computers that can pass the Turing test have already happened. But the Turing test isn't really a very good test. Even Turing thought that.
Etsy generally doesn’t go into selling services IIRC, and a lot people selling this stuff on Etsy sell “I will do a spell/psychic healing/remote reiki/whatever”, which is a service.

Also, even in the case of having the parts of a spell shipped to you, how do you do a payment dispute when the spell doesn’t work?
> Postgres doesn’t like running on NFS either to be fair.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19119991

Is that still the case after this? Or is it tribal knowledge?
This doesn't make much sense, IMO. Road safety and air travel safety are orthogonal tasks. We can and should do both things.
Interestingly, here's what I get when I feed it your exact question:

In C++, what happens when you call pop_back() on an empty vector?

When you call pop_back() on an empty vector in C++, an std::out_of_range exception is thrown. The pop_back() function removes the last element of a vector and it is undefined behavior to call it on an empty vector. Attempting to do so will result in the exception being thrown.

So it basically claims both that an exception is thrown, and that it's undefined behavior. At least in this case, one would know something is up.
Good god - the FBI recently got outed (Twitter files - Elon Musk - hello?) paying more than $30M to Twitter to do their bidding. Are you really this ignorant of current events?
> there's an argument to be made that de-globalisation is a sure fire way to global conflict..

You could make that argument, but that is dependent strongly on everybody being rational actors and there is plenty of evidence that dictatorships are not rational actors.
And it almost never works if you use different frameworks.
It's worse than that: This is Google pulling a Yahoo moment. They're realizing they missed the boat and are scrambling to try to maintain relevance against what is clearly an existential threat to their revenue.
I hope you actually went and asked everybody.
As a random experiment I asked both platforms "What is the current average mortgage rate?"

https://www.perplexity.ai/?s=u&uuid=6f7fe592-c11f-4df9-a2bf-...

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+current+average+...

Google's results were far more informative and usable.

I then tried something I thought would be more up Perplexity's alley: "Who was the first US president with a last name starting with R?"

https://www.perplexity.ai/?s=u&uuid=8d60cf3f-eab5-4af6-a616-...

Their answer is not correct. Google didn't even try to answer my question directly, but it did send me to a government website with a chronological list of presidents where I was able to quickly verify that the answer was Teddy Roosevelt.
The only futuristic thing Google did was calling themselves Alphabet. I'm pretty sure they didn't think search would be the thing they'd fail on, though. Wonder if anything else they have will keep them around another five years?
The OP is a bit ambiguous about where they want the project to go. If the whole point is to just have 'fun' while learning something new, then there are many different directions you can go with no accountability except to yourself. Pick any area of personal interest and start prototyping. It can be really fun to create something that does something nothing else does or does some common thing much faster or better than other solutions. Even if no one else uses it, it can be rewarding in its own right (i.e. a hobby).

If, on the other hand, you want to actually build something that you hope other people will try, adopt, give feedback, and (heaven forbid) actually pay you something for your trouble...then that is hard. You have to worry about things like what operating system or browser it runs on. If you want the project to also be rewarding to many other people, then all the business processes come into play (finding market fit, raising capital, evangelizing it, etc.) which can often be not fun to a technical person.

I know from experience with my own project. Shameless plug: https://didgets.com/
My PS5 is now just a Blu-ray player since I got my SteamDeck.
Show HN: Sol4k – Kotlin and JVM Client for Solana
That's why

https://www.exploringbinary.com/why-0-point-1-does-not-exist...
That doesn't sound right, are you saying that the kernel depends on an unreleased version of GCC (13.1?)
I suppose I'm looking at it from a more distant, human perspective, just in that, for any human to sign over rights to their voice or likeness is to fundamentally sever a significant level of autonomy / agency from themselves- which gives me chills for multiple reasons, but from a work perspective, essentially puts themselves out of certain forms of work / voluntarily obsoletes others' need for their work.

I just kind of shudder at the thought of a voice actor signing over rights to their voice without appropriate compensation and their career just vanishing (assuming AI gets good enough to outright replace them completely)

In my view, any human that signs over such rights deserves to be well-compensated upfront and should ensure they have a contract that pays them significant royalties for each subsequent use. I suppose maybe the most important part of all of this work-wise is just to have a reasonable contract so one retains some control.

Of course, all of this I say with the disclaimer that I'm not certain I think anyone should sign over such rights. I freely admit I come at this from a perspective that is biased against audio/visual/text-generating (and potentially other forms of) AI, unless it is significantly reigned in through restrictions/regulations. I do not look forward to an AI-dominated future of soulless pseudo-art generated by entertainment corporations.
Is his popular support relevant when he has his hands on the levers of government operations?
That seems like a ridiculous gotcha type exchange. I can be both true that glyphosate is safer than alternative herbicides and something you shouldn't drink.
Honestly, I'd just be happy with first class language support for decimals at all.

For example, I'm a huge fan of TypeScript, but it is hamstrung by the fact that javascript only supports a single `number` type (and, recently, `bigint`). Worse is the effect that since JSON is derived from javascript, it also has no built-in decimal type. So what happens inevitably when you want to represent stuff like money:

1. First people start using plain numbers, then they eventually hit the issues like this post.

2. Then they have to decide how they will represent decimals in things like APIs. Decimal string? Integers that represent pennies or some fraction of pennies?

3. Also, pretty much all databases support decimals natively, so then you get into this weird mash of how to not lose precision when transferring data to and from the DB.

Overall it's just definitely one of those issues that programmers hit and rediscover again and again and again. I'm surprised there hasn't been more movement towards a better language-level solution for the post popular language in use worldwide.
analogies are like CPUs, some people think they're the entire computer and not just a component.
But if I have info I need why would I visit links in footnotes
Browsers still have to support the older editions for backwards compatibility, so each new edition increase complexity.
Oh, thank you! I actually think I’m going with Crockford on this one, and that’s what I meant to post.
If that's your reasoning, then you don't understand what money is. It's a proxy for other things. Saying you're doing something with "an eye on money rather than safety" is meaningless. Substitute whatever else the money could have bought. E.g., doing something with "an eye on apartment building safety rather than aviation safety". Then you can have a discussion.
Just finished burning a whole pile of goodwill for no gains with the Open Gaming License fiasco.

Is it burn user goodwill month? Did someone invite Hasbro and Netflix and not tell me?
The Snitch in the Silver Hearse
The generous free tier is what attracts me most!
A photo taken in the style Steve Buscemi would have if he were a photographer.
Government is the monopoly on legitimate violence [In the US defensive violence* is also legitimate by the public, but gov holds monopoly on initiating violence]. They are a laughable distance from monopoly on all violence in their jurisdiction.

* As noted below, defensive violence against illegitimate initiators of violence [<- edit]
It's understandable - you trust a tool like a calculator to give you the right answer. If it sometimes makes mistakes and you have to check each answer by hand, it isn't really saving you any time.

To many, a rounding error makes the answer "wrong", and suddenly the tool has switched from a reliable one into an untrustworthy one.
Alphabet shares fall 8% following Bard AI event
Ask HN: Should you disable SMS 2FA after adding a hardware key?
What do most people do? Two yubikeys: one for main and one backup, and no other 2FA? Or do you have Yubikey + OTP + SMS
That was my experience as well. I was sticking to "verified" games (Crypt of the Necrodancer) and controls worked in the game's menu but not the game... using the developers official steam deck controller configuration. I updated the deck, redownloaded the game, same thing. I was holding a nearly $700 piece of hardware failing its first task and it was more tedious than gaming on my linux desktop because I had to troubleshoot with a controller instead of mouse and keyboard.

I am sure it could have worked with more tinkering, but I wanted to play games, not tinker. Truth is, the fanboys like to tinker, they like to balance trade offs and do performance tweaks. I wasn't looking for that at all.

Every time I've mentioned this I hear from fanboys how theirs just works, but the steam forums filled with people dropping into the terminal and editing files leaves me skeptical.

Ended up getting a return and buying a Logitech G Cloud that I love dearly and play every day.
Unpopular opinion: I hate Safari, it's slow, and I refuse to use for anything.
I'm glad encrypted git is still running although its days are probably also numbered :(
That's an interesting contrast, and I'm sure there's academic literature which lays out why that's the case. My personal impression is that this might have to do with the immediate aftermath of Independence, faced with strong internal crises to deal with. British Imperialism & Partition had left the country bereft - food production, economic infrastructure (raw materials & factories separated by hostile borders), & general development (India at the onset of colonialism produced about a quarter of the world's GDP, and at the end was about 2%). We had a host of issues to deal with, and hating on the British was unproductive. Within 25 years, India was in three full on wars with hostile neighbors. The British were a distant enemy.

I suppose the Irish antagonism with the British dates from the much more recent "Troubles", rather than historic English Imperialism.
Was there any technological issue? Or was it just that developers didn't want to use it?
Yes the difference could be that I am against US hegemony, and all for finally somehow growing up and attempting to avoid a catastrophic, planet annihilating conflict.

That would probably require a different point of view than labelling China as the enemy, or keeping them pre-industrial and poor in order to control them, as the US has done repeatedly in many south American countries.