skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't accept the Turing Test is relevant for anything other than judging the Turing Test.

I also don't accept it is remotely likely any intelligence indistinguishable from humans in quality will lack sentience and consciousness.

That's the whole point in calling out current AI paths of research, they don't address that, they just move closer and closer to your Turing Test, which doesn't interest me.

Anyway, as we seem to be talking past each other, I'll agree to differ on whether AGI that matches human level capabilities in all aspects can exist without sentience and whatever else we are differing on.
His first worry after the earthquake was to slow down Twitter instead mobilizing the army to get people out of the wreckage.

The people from the region affected by the earthquake represent an important percentage of his voter base.
For added context, one of his government's first responses to the earthquake was to immediately mass-arrest hundreds of structural engineers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/12/turkey-arrests...

- "Turkey’s vice-president, Fuat Oktay, said on Sunday that authorities had identified 131 people suspected of being responsible for the collapse of some of the thousands of buildings flattened, and that detention orders had been issued for 113 of them."

"“We will follow this up meticulously until the necessary judicial process is concluded, especially for buildings that suffered heavy damage and caused deaths and injuries,” Oktay said. Special investigation units have been set up in the 10 provinces affected."
let me know how your exercise with avian flu, yellow fever, HIV, ebola, hepatitis, etc etc etc goes.
Fantastic, had a lot of fun poking around this little machine.

I really love it, here are some minor improvement points:

- when right-clicking, the intended functionality of selecting the appropriate rhythm works only half the time or so. The other half is the browser modal showing normal right-click action. Consider doing long-press to change rhythm?

- volume per channel feels off. Putting the slider halfway already results in nearly inaudible contribution from that sample. Consider changing the "slope" of the volume slider?

- the BPM slider is a bit on the small side. Consider making it wider for finer control?

- the window at default zoom level (100%, 1080p resolution) doesn't fill the screen. Works perfect on 125% setting. Consider filling the entire screen so that the button sizes etc. are maximized?

Amazing to play around with.
The internet has certainly accelerated the development speed of culture. What year did indie films start being distributed by amateurs? We’re at least that point in gaming. We’re at the point now where independent startups are making higher quality products than the peak AAA games from ~20 years ago.
2 hours notice - How do you handover the work? Or is there nothing to handover?
This is my Jira trauma resurfacing thanks. I'm quite heavy on technical explanations, like to put a lot of context, links, references, alternatives, notes in my tickets. Now I just write with outlook (less formatting options than word, actually saves my 35-pages-long shit while typing and people can read it without logging into some slow monster, and I can insert images really fast inline) and save to add an attachment to Jira.
It's been a controversial point among cycling advocates for years.

One fear is that if a handful of bike lanes exist, cyclists will feel confined to them, that they don't feel it is safe and permissible to ride on the roads -- like you need to haul your bike on the back of an SUV to an authorized bike trail if you want to bike.
A few years ago I watched an interview on youtube. Some CEO was describing doing business with India and China. Yes for China it was "can do, want to do, will do" attitude and he was generally happy. Indians - not that much. I will try to find the interview and post a link later. His description of doing business in India was a gem to watch
Incumbents thought they were going to be bin assemblers as they’ve always been, not an engineering first org with cutting edge battery technology experience. Oops. Can’t MBA way your way to the lead, physics cannot be fooled. I hope they catch up, the space needs robust competition.

This is also why Tesla is building and selling 40GWh/year of stationary storage from their Lathrop Megapack manufacturing facility; their battery management systems are proven under the harshest conditions vehicles see. Utility storage demands are comparatively benign compared to high end powertrain duty cycles in top trims.
Sounds like the "decoupling" is off to a great start!

Reminds me of my experience at companies with outsourced IT support.
The scapegoating was so predictable that quite a few apartment block owners, contractors, architects and other people involved in the building industry fled abroad. And a whole bunch of them that moved just a little bit slower were nabbed at the airport whilst waiting for their flights.
One step closer to hologram technology... "Help me Obi-wan you're our only hope."
I think PowerQuery largely solves this problem
"Feature" phones from 20 years ago (most Nokia and Ericsson even into the android era) could sync personal data such as phone book and calendar over the internet [0]. The libraries doing this were originally written in C and their compiled versions took up maybe tens of kb running on constrained hardware. The functionality is not remarkable.

The UX of those phones was pretty poor though.

[0] - SyncML.
If it wasn't the case, tv/media wouldn't have been so effective in shaping people's thoughts and opinions. It's not rare to hear people rephrasing what they read on social media as their own thoughts. Because it truly becomes their thoughts.
ChatGPT-led AI buzz unlikely to fuel near-term software growth
That's part of what I mean by advanced as well. Yes, it might well take a generation, it took China a generation too.
Sadly this has been a norm in countries/places with a mix of corruption and ineffective enforcement of laws.

Back in my home town in India, tons of my relatives have built huge multi-storey buildings all the while ignoring the city code about spacing between adjacent buildings or distance of structure from main road.

That's not to say that everyone ends up kicking the rules, but the number of people who have done that in past 20+years makes me wonder how is it that easy to not follow municipal building code.

Hope, that it doesn't take a natural calamity for people to realize the importance of code and the local civil enforcement starts using its power!
Perhaps I misinterpreted your statement. I inferred it meant that getting into a top tech job was due to luck, and so it's a long shot lucky chance (like winning the lottery).

The other meaning is it isn't luck to get a top tech job.
In many positions, and at many points in your career, job hopping or the threat of it is the only real way to get any noticeable raise in actual compensation.

Most companies just don't really reward loyalty anymore.
Doesn't it require you to already have connected to the server once?
>India, despite it's reputation as a software outsourcing location has never been able to produce exportable quality besides textiles.

It's precisely a software outsourcing location because they are unable to produce anything of value by themselves.
Well, keep in mind humans didn’t evolve to live in big cities and children in daycare and schools. I would think that the past 500 years or so the amount of illness each person suffers has gone up exponentially.

Viruses are also linked to all sorts of nasty outcomes like Alzheimer’s, cancer, etc. I doubt we’ll have any means to knock transmission back a ton anytime soon but it’d be nice to do what we can.
exactly. they just like pitting the little guy against each other so we don't look at them. Those making money and getting rich.
It's possible to use the RP2040 in a low power way if you're specifically code it to do so, no? It should be able to consume as little as 1.3mA in sleep state, so if you had an application with a loop that did something like read a sensor and send out a bluetooth or wifi signal, then sleep for 15 minutes, I think a few AAA batteries could power it for months, no? https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/124951/raspb...
Podcasts in the Spotify app drove me to try Apple Music. Apple Music has even more UX problems. In particular around their music podcasts/shows. Like Elton John has one called Rocket Hour. This may have changed but there was no way to bookmark or favorite Rocket Hour or keep track of which episode you listened to last or even to get back to it without searching for it. Other users literally suggest keeping a notes doc with the link (https://music.apple.com/us/curator/rocket-hour/993269779) and then just tapping that.

I dunno if the space needs more competition or what but UI/UX does not seem to be a priority for the main players.
of course, you know your business far better than i do. and as you say nothing stops people making money off foss - i've done it myself. but the normal route for this is via people finding the software useful,consultancy, support and adding paid-for features. i have never, ever seen per-seat licenses for foss software. if this software actually exists, you could at least point to its web page.
The thing you're linking doesn't even measure social mobility, it just calls itself a social mobility index.
People arguing against the usage of Rust just because they don‘t „believe“ in its advantages puzzle me. They are usually proven wrong with multiple CVE‘s shortly after.

Rust was never expected to be a magic fix-all, but after the C++ committee‘s stubborn refusal of introducing some sense of memory safety into the language in favor of keeping ABI compatibility, it might turn out to be a self fulfilling prophecy.
Excluding the recent impurities (NDMA and NDEA) that took losartan, irbesartan, and valsartan off the market for months -- made by Hetero Labs, Mylan Laboratories, and Aurobindo Pharma in India (and Zhejiang Huahai in China)?
People do cheat their way to professional sports, though. We had a whole collegiate scandal explicitly to get non athletes into the athlete track.
I feel the opposite: I'd rather have AI generate pop quizzes instead of pieces on geopolitical events. Unfortunately, we're likely going to get both.
The internet contributes 1.6B annual tons in greenhouse gas emissions
Not really, provided some data is already known, which is the case in TLS has well (either you know the public key of the server, or you trust a set of CAs)
Well, first off, trains run everywhere. So if it happens in Ohio, it can happen near where you live too.

Workers have been pushing to get a single day of paid leave per month and threatening a strike - but rail bosses have greedily ignored them to give more money to their stockholders (ie, themselves too). Then Congress voted to force a bad deal.

What you could do is to get informed and see the results of this blatant corruption.
I feel like Google is just not focused. They are branching off into many directions.
This is cymatics!
Anyone want to vouch for their great experience driving a Tata car?

Not exported outside the middle east and India.

Looks like they sold 5 of them in Europe in 2016.

https://carsalesbase.com/europe-tata/#:~:text=Tata%20cars%20....
He also blamed all the developers and immediately arrested them:

Vice President Fuat Oktay said overnight that 131 suspects had so far been identified as responsible for the collapse of some of the thousands of buildings flattened in the 10 provinces affected by the tremors early last Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-steps-up-co...
In ~2006 I was working in tech support and we moved from a snappy homegrown ticketing system to one where tabbing out of each field took ~5. We all hated it and complained immediately, but the contract was signed and we weren't able to influence management. Evidence for "Customers aren’t the clients" and "People don’t decide on satisfaction".
> It was claimed the Germans Luftwaffe could fly by night on the full moon navigating by the reflection of these bodies of water, so the British govt issued orders to fill in these ponds and lakes to make it harder to fly by night.

> Consequently the water table on farmland fell causing more drought problems and after WW2 these bodies of water have never been re-established by govt orders.

Citation?
They gonna care when the crops and livestock we depend on from that area quit producing. And prices go up even more.
This was insanely horrid the toll it is going to take on that region and the Country.
The New York Times is reporting:

>In a sign of how closely the United States had been monitoring the balloon surveillance program directed by the Chinese military recently, U.S. officials said in interviews that they began tracking the spy balloon as it lifted off from Hainan Island in southern China in late January.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/us/politics/ufo-spy-ballo...
Love it. Hope you add more samples :)
Cars are one of India’s larger exports. Cars are definitely manufactured in India- TATA, Mahindra, Maruti etc.
A lot of people living in a small town in Ohio felt the same. Just stay away from the urbanization and cities and the government won't bother you... until a quasi-national freight train comes rolling through your town with a literal chemical dumpster fire in tow.
Don't be an ass. He's referring to the way in which all kids see their parents as having a particular occupation. He's not saying that he built his career at Twilio at his daughter's expense.
It works as "you built your building, we will allow you to keep it and legalize it"
Back to the future has a famous scene where Doc says Japan produces junk. And Marty says they make the best stuff. Reflecting the state of Japan between 1955 and 1985z

Idea is to produce whatever crap you can initially just to get started. Eventually you’ll get better. China is in middle of this cycle.
I lived out in the country and our neighbor down the road got several goats. Every day I would drive past and he would have 3 goats on top of his Subaru outback. He built a new barn to park the car in because he got tired of the dents.
I still think this isn’t a failure of giving parents the right to what’s exposed to their children.

The points you mentioned, to me, are a case of the system not doing its job properly. A board not reviewing or representing the parents is not a problem with what parents have the right to show their children.

A simple waiver that parents sign, that details the more “edgy” (according to the local area/group) material to be available for check out for the kids seems to me to resolve much of this. Books won’t be banned, but parents have a say what their child can check out at the library.
Until just after the next manufactured crisis that makes Erdogan look good and strong.

It is such a pity because until this new phase Turkey was doing fantastic, enough to have Turkish nationals abroad and even second generation immigrants to Western countries beginning to migrate back to Turkey because they felt that it was their future once again.

Since then large numbers of people have moved out once more because of the downward spiral the country has entered and this earthquake will only accelerate the drop, it is unlikely that Erdogan will end up removed because of it. And the people that moved out were exactly the people that Turkey needs the most.
That's a direct quote from the article we're talking about here? It has a link.
So they're fixing gazillion of individual shops that do the business? I think you give way too much credit.
> A reset button would be nice to undo the horrible mess I made.

The (...) button next to "Your jam" -> Clear does the job for me
I've always been impressed with upper management at my current company, and I don't believe any of them have that mindset. My wife broke her leg a couple weeks ago, and we have a 3 month old baby and a 4 year old. I had just started working again after taking paternity leave. I've been a rather poor employee the last several weeks, and will continue to be for a while. Middle management is stressed out about schedules and stressing me out, while the word from upper management has been consistently clear: you've always gone the extra mile for the company, so let the company do the same for you. Focus on taking care of your family and don't worry about work.
I very much take a mercenary approach to my jobs. At my very first software job I remember seeing a let go employee walking sadly through the office with a box of his possessions under one arm and a potted plant in the other. Since then I have brought nothing personal into work. If I'm let go I just have to grab my keys and I'm out.

Work is something I do to earn money. If companies can replace people for less or cut them they do. Why be loyal in that kind of environment? I will work hard for the money they pay me though.

At one point I got a job offer for 25% more than I currently made. I told my current director at the time that I got a job offer for 40% more. The director matched the imaginary 40% and I stayed for another year. This company habitually fired people for the most minor of productivity drop offs. They had just recently promoted me without providing a raise. You reap what you sow.

I would love to work in an environment where I felt valued as a person but I have yet to find that. Remote work makes that even harder to find now.
I'm pretty sure that steering wheel locks were required by law starting in the 1970s. Does this process bypass the steering wheel lock somehow? Or do these cars not have steering wheel locks?
When you get sufficiently close to the metal, the performance gains seem to be coming from better algorithms rather than from the programming language. Like you are saying:

> The reasons for these gaps can include things like it being harder to use the optimal data structure for your application (eg C code using red-black trees instead of btrees in 2023)

Bryan Cantrill described this experience[1] and maybe that is exactly what you are referring to.

But if you're just looking for a language to get work done with, does it matter if Rust is faster because of better off-the-shelf data structures and algorithms or because of some inherent magic in the programming language?

[1] See point 9 here: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-...
They say the CVN Enterprise was able to do nearly 50, I imagine you'd get straight up blown off the flight deck at full speed haha.
It's mostly the reasons you've hit on but I'll try to add some color to them based on my experience with Ruff.

1. The "fearless concurrency" that you get with Rust is a big one though. Ruff has a really simple parallelism model right now (each file is a separate task), but even that goes a long way. I always found Python's multi-processing to be really challenging -- hard to get right, but also, the performance characteristics are often confusing and unintuitive to me.

2. Ruff performs very few allocations, and Rust gives us the level of control to make that possible. (I'd like to perform even fewer...) We tokenize each file once, run some checks over that stream, parse it into an AST, run some checks over that AST, and with a few exceptions, the only allocations outside of that process are for the Violation structs themselves.

3. Related to the above (and this would be possible with CPython too), by shipping an integrated tool, we can consolidate a lot of work that would otherwise be duplicated in a more traditional setup. If you're using a bunch of disparate tools, and they all need a tokenized representation, or they all need the AST, then they're all going to repeat that work. With Ruff, we tokenize and parse once, and share that representation across the linter.

4. Again possible with CPython, but in Ruff, we take a lot of care to only do the "necessary" work on a given invocation. So if you have the isort rules enabled, we'll do the work necessary to sort your imports; but if you don't, we skip that step entirely. It sounds obvious, but we try to extend this "all the way down": so if you have a subset of the pycodestyle rules enabled, we'll avoid running any of the expensive regexes that would be required to power the ignored rules.
It’s also not very up to date which is suspicious for such a precise answer.
Is it doing that though? My understanding from their FAQ and comparisons is that they're intending to replace flake8 and the likes, not mypy. And if they're implementing a subset, then the de-facto standard for the larger per-commit checks is still the one you'll have to run.
So a 50% acceptance rate? Give it time.
> Visual Studio Code + Python

The perfect example of why Microsoft can't be trusted. VSCode had a great open source Python extension which everyone used. Then Microsoft hired the developer and switched to recommending their closed source extension instead. VSCode extensions are then licensed so they cannot be used with VSCode forks. It really shows Microsoft's mindset.
Fair, but your body also does away with things it's not using. An inactive immune system for too sterile environments may result in not being able to protect yourself in less sterile environments, or the immune system finding uses for itself, i.e. an autoimmune disease like allergies.
I see it like this: it is my work. It is my name that goes on the CR, on the commit, on the documentation, etc. Why shouldn’t I take as much pride and genuinely care about it as much as I can? At the end of it all, it is my effort, and I will give he best effort I can.

I know I’m speaking about effort, and you’re speaking about becoming emotionally invested, but the latter is a natural manifestation of of the former; the emotional investment arises because of the effort I put forth.
Here's the thing I've learned lately from friends who have survived layoffs: handover often doesn't happen.

The company terminates access effective immediately (maybe with gardening leave) for security reasons.

The immediate loss of institutional knowledge causes fucking havoc across the board.

So some people will be taken back on as contractors for a while at extremely expensive rates.

This also means there's a weird incentive to start hoarding knowledge if you suspect layoffs are coming down the pipe...
In the absence of labor regulation, employment sprints in the direction of slavery.
You should have read more carefully.

They are talking about transport of molten regolith. Not rockets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...

I don't know that this is the work of ALEC, but its existence and goal is hardly some secret conspiracy.
Eye Drops May Stave Off Nearsightedness in Children
Your post is needlessly political, but you have a fair point. Ultimately there is a balance between too much and not enough regulation.

Certain regulations are very important, such as those for public safety around earthquakes, floods, fires, etc.

But we have a lot of zoning regulation in this country that seemingly just exists to support special interests at the detriment of society as a whole.

For instance, there is a significant amount of single family zoning in California that has prevented developers from building sufficient housing density where it is needed. Recently, some areas have lost their zoning privileges due to state law because they’ve refused to take any steps to solve the problem.

I believe we need to significantly reduce zoning restrictions around the country to allow for more housing to be built with the aim of bringing down housing costs.
Yes, but the issue with pharmaceuticals is safety -- compliance with regulation and close monitoring of medication ingredient quality. That's something that numerous Indian manufacturers continue to have difficulty ensuring.
Startup Motor revs up its EV subscription service with Series A funding
I feel like very few ML researchers actually use CUDA. You'd likely get a long way with an optimised backend for XLA to cover tf/jax, probably something similar for pytorch. That's a lot of work but not sure it's a whole decade.