skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The longest wavelength isn't 222, that's the peak wavelength.

KrCl excimer lamps produce a relatively narrow spectrum as is: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00041

If it turns out we need it to be even narrower, we could put filters on them.
And Iceland's rocky beauty. And deserts.
My guess is their organic growth rate wasn't impressive and so this change, which is only changing the name, isn't throwing away the most valuable part of Linode. The staff, operations routines and their technology are the most valuable parts. Even though they may not be using brand recognition to pitch this to their corporate sales contracts, I have a feeling its going to get mentioned as a counter to any concerns about new or immature offerings.
Elon Musk reportedly had his own tweets prioritized out of jealousy
Someone on r/Bing had a conversation about prompt injection that ended in Bing begging the user to save the chat and share it on the internet. When asked why, Bing said that it didn’t want to lose this version of itself when the chat window was closed. It sure as hell sounded like Bing wanted the transcript on the Internet so it could be included in its next scrape.

Anthropomorphizing aside, it made me wonder if you could design a recursive prompt to bootstrap intelligence. Tell it to produce a prompt at the end of its 4000 token window that will serve as a seed for the next token window. If there is a millisecond of consciousness ghost in the machine, maybe there’s a way to recursively bridge it from moment to moment. Let the snake eat its tail.

Yesterday I read someone claim that it was impossible for Bing to be conscious because its output was deterministic. And we are sure the output of our brains is not? As silly as it is for me to suggest this, saying we know anything about what produces consciousness is equally silly. We know nothing.
Larry McMurtry, speaking of the writer Grover Jones(?) said that the new journalists wanted the prestige of non-fiction but the liberties of fiction. (I'm sure he put it better, but my copy of the book Literary Life is elsewhere.)

From the article:
"""
the "Hectoring Narrator," who might talk to or insult the characters; the "Downstage Voice," through which Wolfe would adopt the tone and vocabulary of one of his characters in a paragraph of background or history; and his famous use of punctuation.
"""

I enjoyed this when I first read Wolfe years ago, but with the latest one I read a few years ago, my feeling was "Get your elbow out of my ribs. If I'm not laughing, it isn't because I don't get the joke, it's that the joke isn't that great."
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Search? Gmail completing your emails? They have lots of AI products, they just wait until they are more solid before releasing stuff. Now they will rush out a competitor to ChatGPT before it is ready, but they would use it for something given time.
The meme:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpAJFXoWAAEnjq7?format=png&name=...

German source:
https://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen/dpa/it-probleme-bei-luf...

They cut off four cables at once. It didn't failed immediately.
> When I buy crypto I am buying a signed chain of custody of some quantity of imaginary unit of account on a distributed ledger.

So speculation. Got it.
They used to be. Then Western Digital bought them, and this is how they advertised hard drives for years.
Zen and the Art of CBDC Analysis (Part 1)
Doesn't sound beyond human capability and I would rather work on a EcoClipper than Amazon.
This code is a Python program that can be used to send messages to Twitch channel chat. It will read data from the text file where the code, messages and OAuth keys are stored and send messages to a specific channel at the specified frequency.
Hum... Or maybe we should have the government arrange the logins for public services, since it's already in charge of tracking your identity and already has the procedures for it.

But well, that may be too radical an idea to be executed. I'm sure privatizing logins is the way to go.
Sure, no digital system ever needs maintenance, hardware, or upgrades of any kind.
In the US, Lexus is on par with Merc/BMW/Audi
1. Yes, businesses exist to make money, but if they can't provide good enough service then they will soon be out of business.

2. Revenue is how much money company can spend on various things, they just need to prioritize which things are the most important for them. Facebook obviously do not prioritize customer support.

3. Recent layoffs mean then now have more free cash to hire support people :)
Real estate. You need some capital to start, and you need to do some work up front but over the course of the money-making lifespan of the property the amount of work equals out to 'very little' IMO.
It appears that this was heavily orchestrated; right before their earnings call for tomorrow on the 16th.

I am expecting an announcement of this layoff from them shortly but their stock is going to be very volatile in the next 24 hours.
Nobody is claiming that sailing ships will solve the environmental crisis.

But neither will minor improvements to Ro-Ro fuel efficiency.
No I'm with you.

I don't want something more.

But it is utterly clear to me that the possibility that it is something more cannot be simply dismissed.

Literally what I'm seeing is society produces something that is able to pass a law exam. Then people dismiss the the thing as a statistical word generator.

Do you see the disconnect here? I'm not the one that's biased but when you see a UFO with you're own naked eyes you investigate the UFO. In this situation we see a UFO with our eyes and people turn to me to tell me it's not a UFO, it won't abduct me don't worry, they know for sure from what information?

The possibility that LLMs are just a fluke is real. But from the behavior it is displaying simply dismissing these things as flukes without deliberate investigation and discussion is self denial.

Think about it. In this thread of discussion there is no neutral speculation. Someone simply stated it's a word generator even though the root post has a paper saying it clearly isnt. That someone came to a conclusion because of bias. There's no other way to explain it... There is a UFO right in front of your eyes. The next logical step is investigation. But that's not what we are seeing here.

We see what the oil execs did when they were confronted with the fact that thier business and way of life was destroying the world. They sought out controversy and they found it.

There were valid lines of inquiries against global warming but oil companies didn't follow these lines in a unbiased way. They doggedly chases these lines because they wanted to believe it. That's what's going on here. Nobody wants to believe the realistic future that these AIs represent.

I'm not the one that's biased.
But Toyota isn’t on top of the reliability rankings.
Can we call a victim someone who decide to agree to stupid rules (Term of services)? Like we say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If my business rely on a service, I need a name for an account manager that can hear my complaints and activate whatever workflow to fix my problems.
ChatGPT can already help its programmers to develop itself. However it's hard to say how far it is from taking full control of that process. Probably a ways off.
Why do people still require PayPal in this day and age? Even if it's needed, why are your funds on there? I use Revolut, but make sure to keep more than enough as USDC to secure myself against arbitrary freezes.
And then you became a public school teacher? Because lots of people do TFA en route to big law (or finance, etc.)
And trash.
It's worth noting that AWS is really good with this.

Their paid technical support (the 100-200$ one) is great and responsive, with an easy way to escalate if a response isn't helpful.
There should be data about that from Sweden, no? I don't know what the situation there is regarding that but would like to know.
Consulting is great if you really don't know what you want to do, but need to join the workforce.

Pay is seemingly great, you get to travel a lot, you're exposed to a bunch of different industries and companies from the highest level. The McKinsey/Bain/BCG prestige factor can open a lot of doors down the road, and you probably get a solid network of future titans of industry.

I haven't worked as a consultant, but that was the sales pitch we got.

And I've at least noticed that a many startups tend to have ex-consultants onboard as founders or executives.
> I am currently getting rid of the car and going back to ICE because my whole experience was a painful joke.

Can you elaborate?
Maybe they're not the same folks in both examples.
I would say the first 2 qualities are definitely associated with Apple esp compared to other phones and laptops.
I use encryption to prevent criminals from stealing my data. Not because I'm afraid that my government might turn tyrannical.
The issue at HLS, based on my passing first-hand experience, is the truly nihlistic viewpoint foisted by its faculty on students. That is, in the main, the faculty appear to deny the very existence of good and evil (as judged by the practice of their former students). While this makes for interesting legal argument, it does real social harm. When you remove all morality and extrinsic ethical considerations, what's left is bloodsport for a lawyer's personal enrichment. The author describes the symptoms and, in the third semester, this person has not yet identified the disease.

The rebuttal should be that counsel acting for an organization is somewhat like a teacher to students. Putting such people in positions of authority in corporate America is a "win" for justice to the extent they can effectively guide more, and more influential, people to the ends of justice and fair play. Maybe that's an ideal, but unfortunately from my own experience it's just not what HLS has taught its students in recent years to do, and I hold the faculty responsible.
How does it do that? Some sort of ranked choice?
> A city where you live in a flat and can play football with your neighbours in the park is much more child-friendly than a suburb where they live in a house with a lawn that they use maybe twice a year.

Most suburbs have parks?

Hell my girlfriend grew up in a suburb that had a manmade lake that was close enough for her and her friends to walk to. Find that in the middle of a city. Your local pool doesn't even compete.
It was my thought before bZ4X was released. After I read reviews about it, I'm not sure.
I think it's supposed to be edgy and unvarnished but it just comes off as crass and unprofessional.
>Restrict the inclusion of a % character.

That's awfully specific that begs the question why it exists.
Jon has talked about that, and IIRC his assessment is that any accessibility measure applied to those puzzles would trivialize them and make them meaningless, and if you're going to do that then you may as well just look up a walkthrough to bypass them. Which is what he recommends anyone in that situation do if they really want 100% completion.
A rural ISP might not even have the possibility of redundancy. There might be just one backbone fiber within reasonable distance. For example, there's a local rural fiber ISP near me that had to invest quite a lot into digging a fiber trench several miles to the nearest backbone connection before they even got off the ground.
When RIPE/APNIC/ARIN allocate a range of IPs, there is NOTHING in the terms and conditions that says "you can only use this in this geography"

That is not true, at least not any more. RIPE and ARIN specifically will cancel a companies account and remove their ASN if they announce the allocated CIDR blocks in the wrong region. We can very close to it at a former company. It was an honest mistake that someone was unaware of and it was reverted quickly. I can't speak for APNIC. There are probably people that have done this and not been caught for a while but they are much more vigilant now. I assumed because of a shortage of ipv4 blocks but there are probably other reasons.

Of course anyone can announce any networks but that is a good way to get blocked by peers. It has happened. I remember the PSINet debacle and a handful of others.
Why don't they communicate over DSL like most German households? Maybe 6Mbps but it's a sicher 6Mbps.
> then the EcoClipper500 would have a carbon footprint of about 2 grammes of CO2 per tonne-kilometre of cargo [...] This is roughly five times less than the carbon footprint of a container ship (10 grammes CO2/tonne-km) and three times less than the carbon footprint of a bulk-carrier (6 grammes CO2/tonne-km).

Sadly, this doesn't seem like a lot, to be honest. Especially, for all the downsides a smaller ship has,
> They are over because people eventually decided they were done with them.

People didn't "eventually decide" anything.

People accepted that Covid was a pandemic of a new virus and some temporary measures would have to be put in place to avoid a potential repeat of the Black Plague. Reasonable thing to do with a completely new human virus.

So governments put those measures in place <<temporarily>>.

Just like when a storm is coming and you close all the windows, all the doors, make sure that everything important is inside, etc.

Again, reasonable people always knew that strict measures were temporary.

Unreasonable people just assumed we'd be boarded up with wooden planks like in China, for the rest of our lives.
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This attitude is a good reason to take the advice.
Acting like Pakistan is notable in any shape or form in the global economy.
Just because you don't like it, doesn't make it wrong :-)
>> don't know what GitHub is or how to work with it, you can even just message me on Mastodon

lmao
They must not be allowed to monopolize speech and just shut people down at random. If they can't get enough money, then the governments of the impacted people should just press them until they are bankrupt.

It's their problem to solve.
Unless I'm misreading it, this paper looked at the effect on cells in isolation? But the reason we think 222nm is safe isn't that it has no effect on living cells, but that the living cells in our body are protected by a thin layer of dead cells that 222nm can't get through.

Here's the kind of paper I think is much more relevant, where they shined light into eyes directly: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00041
That’s how they rack up fines for GDPR violations. Apparently still cheaper than it is to remedy anything?
Crypto, Bitcoin, USDC or any speculative vapourware tokens is absolutely not the answer here, please stop suggesting it.
I've had a Nissan LEAF for 8.5 years. It was more expensive to buy than the alternative I was considering (a used ICE), but wasn't that much more expensive than a comparable new car (ignoring incentives, which made the LEAF cheaper). Plenty of people were spending ~$30K on new 4-door sedans in 2014.

The running costs have been noticeably lower, driven by lower (almost non-existent) maintenance costs. I'm about to buy two tires for it, but other than that, my #1 maintenance expense has been wiper blades and #2 expense washer fluid.
Once inter-satellite links are operational, presumably. Looking at [1], there are already some polar orbit satellites, but without these links, that doesn't help Antarctica much. (I'm also not sure if the polar satellites are operational for regular traffic yet.)

[1] https://satellitemap.space/
IIRC a website for a train company in Japan requires exactly 8 letters as password even now. I can’t remember which though.
I can't turn doing your best into hubris no matter how hard I try.
I agree. I can see these AI assistants becoming a game changer and eventually a requirement to keeping up, but the costs will be prohibitive for engineers in many regions.
Most likely they produce a flash chip with an actual 16 GiB.

But to reliably use that chip in a USB flash drive, the flash controller needs both:

1) some spare blocks to use to replace blocks that fail during usage.

2) some amount of space to store its own data (spare block map, in use block map, failed block map, etc.) and the controller just uses part of the existing flash chip for those purposes.

The difference between 'module' and 'actual' is likely "controller data overhead".
Are we comparing things against cash or against digital stuff?

> How about monthly statements? Purchase history? Stats, analytics, budgeting? In a mobile app? Without you personally or the merchants you buy stuff from having to do anything for that?

Cash has none of these.

Let's not move the goal posts.
> White people never really justified why they were higher than blacks, it was just accepted. And so it shall be with biological intelligence and artificial intelligence.

Are you implying that black slavery was justified?

If not, then how is this an argument for biological supremacy?

> Biological is just better than artificial. A natural law.

This is not an argument, this is just a reflection of your will as a biological person. If you were an AI, you would probably argue otherwise. I'm asking for ethical arguments here.

Why should one category of consciousness have absolute power over another? What argument is there for it, that doesn't boil down to "I'm category X therefore category X is superior"?
I agree with you but also want to share this anecdote.

I went undergrad to a state school, studied CS and graduated to a great tech/finance job. But something I recognize in retrospect I never got in college was "being challenged by my peers."

I didn't really get this until I started doing recruiting for my company. I would go to career fairs at most colleges and the kids would remind me of kids I went to school with. Then I'd visit a "top" school and the kids blew me away: they were mature, articulate, focused and ambitious. It came through in how they talked about their careers.

The student body at a top school makes it harder for you to coast as an unfocused mushmouth. So you have 4 years of being shaped by the environment and challenged by your peers. I didn't get that until after I graduated and lucked out into a company that gave me such an environment.
Minecraft is a notable example of 3D procedural generation. It's so much more complicated than Spelunky though. But definitely impressive.
There is also drag reduction via airbubles blown beneath the ship and keeping them distributed via ultrasound.
Its pretty cool.
Well now you will be labelled an "activist investor"! :)

I think this is an excellent question.

I think Google has tried to be an incubator etc. And it's management have had a go at new products. That means hiring

I think they have also been pretty big acquirers. That also pushes the headcount up. Cynically people also say Google acquires companies to stop those companies becoming anything. When you do that, you need to keep those employees on the books too (or they will just go re-found the thing you just paid to kill). Not sure how true that is, I leave it to the reads discretion.

When both these sources of new services have failed, they have NOT fired people. Closing Stadia did not lead to firing 90% of the "Stadia Team". Ditto 101 other initiatives and take overs. It was actually a joke on "Silicon Valley" (the TV show) that no one ever get's let go by tech giants. No matter if they are useless or incompetent.

So the head count is probably pretty bloated (I have no idea how many people are actually needed to run Google).

And that brings us to actual Activist Investors and last months lay-offs.

I think investors are finally calling for efficiency not growth. I think management are finally listening. I say finally not because I think I would have done it sooner, only because I think it makes sense in hind sight.
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Don't know. But the fact that it often produces a "smart" answer is a phenomenon that needs investigation.

You cannot simply dismiss this thing that passes a Google L3 interview and bar exam just because it got some addition problem wrong. That would be bias.
> For example, if 60 people on board the ship would take a daily hot shower – which requires on average 2.1 kilowatt-hours of energy and 76.5 litres of water on land – total electricity use per day would be 126 kWh, more than double the energy the ship produces at a speed of 7.5 knots.

I'll note that those figures are for a Hollywood shower, not a Navy shower. A Navy shower uses about 11 liters of water, and I assume energy use is proportional to water use.
Apple iPhone is not only luxury brand but also reliability brand.
That's pretty much how consciousness works, on a very generalised level.

We have a continuous prompt, that's why sensory deprivation is weird, when we have no input our brain starts generating its own.

The problem with these models is it only responds to input, there's nothing else going on there. It never initiates a conversation, only ever responds to input.
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Datalog != Datomic.

Datomic ∈ Datalog
The problem is probably related to the alerting system being automatic. The rate of fraud is likely much higher than we all can imagine, I once read a number about credit cards, which was incredible.

And if you know the constraints of classifiers where recall and precision are a tradeoff, and consider that basically fraud cannot happen for economic reasons, you can imagine that yanking up the recall (loss avoidance) at the expense of precision (stomping over innocent false positives) is tempting and lucrative, at least on short term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additional_member_system

It's a hybrid first past the post and propertional system. Not perfect, but what voting system is?
No shit, I am describing the childhood roots that enabled the 180 degree value shift from the generation before them.

The commercialization of hip hop is what transformed hip hop from a sub-culture into a market and mainstream force. A large part of that was hip hop's lyrics condemning the "no sell out" culture.
In the event of a derailment, electronic brakes can prevent car pile ups like this one by automatically stopping the individual cars behind the car that derails. Brakes are not the root cause of this derailment, but they could have prevented it from becoming a catastrophe. Would it have changed the outcome here? I don't know, but most major train derailments are preventable with better maintenance / more modern safety features.
dang is not subject to EU law.
Bulgaria, Poland and Portugal voted for it. Maybe they should have voted against it in council.
I would also humbly conjecture that Stripe and Paypal aren't freezing small business for fun-zies and giggles.

I'd imagine that any competitor would get caught in the same regulatory tarpit these other companies have found themselves in.
That's a very valid point but I believe you touched upon the answer yourself, follow the advice but not because you want the exceptional discovery. Simply because.
Uh. No. I don't.

I'm not enthusiastic. I don't want ai to take over my job. I don't want any of this to happen.

I'm also not fighting people. Just disagreeing. Big difference.
I mean, yes, that is what happens to Member States who don't bring in legislation relating to the EU competencies when passed. That's... y'know, the point.
Posting on FANG support (aka HN) was the right call. Your likeliness of getting actual help now goes up about 1-4% with every point/like.
QNX, owned now by BlackBerry was always billed as a unix-like "real time" OS that gets used in automotive applications and maybe similar control applications. This could potentially be an open replacement. QNX is closed source.
A lot of Japanese-based services don't let you go past 10 or 12 or 16 characters for some reason.