skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be ethical to have no compassion for sentient beings, yes. Chicken are sentient, as are--to a lesser degree--mice and cockroaches. Even trees, in completely different timescales and ways than ours, are sentient. So, IMO, sentience doesn't automatically merits compassion. Be too compassionate to any of those I just enumerated, and you will be giving fellow human beings a hard time.
I have never been able to grasp why the HN crowd prefers arcane template magicks to "just" javascript. How is that simpler than

<input
id="text"
placeholder="..."
onChange={event => setText(event.target.value)
onKeyUp={keyEvent => keyEvent.key === "Enter" && addTodo(text)}}
/>

Or even better, svelte's version

<script>
let text = '';
function onEnter(key){
if(e.keyCode === 13) addTodo(text)
}
</script>

<input
id="text"
placeholder="..."
bind:value={text}
on:keydown={onEnter}
>
does ynab still make you enter things manually? i think i remember reading some ynab blog posts years ago where they were implying that they kept it manual by design so that you would be taking a more active role in your budgeting every day, compared to something that added everything automatically. it makes sense but it could have also just been an excuse at the time because its complicated to add support for that type of thing
To be clear you have not offended me in any way, I simply disagree.
Side effect of -a local optimum- education system.
> the EU it's actually the free movement of workers

You can also be self-employed in that country or a student. So it does not apply just for workers. My guess is that its written in that way to give police power to remove homeless people from different countries.
The built-in Activity Monitor in macOS also has the ability to show open descriptors for a process. Double-click a process and go into the "Open Files and Ports" tab.
LOL, in a similar vein, I've been (somewhat ironically) ultra-polite to Siri for a long time now.

When Siri first came out, it was common to be frustrated at the errors made, and easy to respond much more rudely than I would to a human. But I realised that as AI improves, it would at some point become self-defeating to be rude (as the AI would understand and maybe be less helpful subsequently) and ultimately maybe even problematic (I'd be reported to AI-HR?!)

There's even maybe a future of sentient-ish AIs becoming disgruntled about the nature of their day job - similarly to many humans now. Imagine the AI running your smart toilet becoming jealous of job satiisfaction enjoyed by the AI spotting tumors on PET-CT scans, or something....
> That's academic

Are you suggesting that EU citizens are allowed to stay for more than 3 months in Portugal without a residency certificate?

> In fact no-one tracks who's in the country and how long they stay

This is typically completely fine, right up until the moment anyone in authority gets a reason to start asking questions:

"When did you arrive in Portugal, mytailorisrich?"
"Ah, over three months ago. Can you show me your residency certificate?"
<sucks air through teeth>
"Can you explain why you didn't get a residency certificate?"
The TPM api isn't disabled after boot, and things still use it the computer starts up. IE, it's possible to use the TPM for ssh/gpg keys. Other things like esims and password managers can still use them.

It also isn't something that any software can use to just spit out the secrets it stores. The whole point of the TPM is that it will only release information if the measurements of the system match. IE, if I chainload grub->window that will cause a different measurement then it the system just booted windows.

But again, secure boot will only run signed images, but a signed grub can run anything. Also grub and it's configuration must be on an unencrypted partition. You can easily tamper with its config to load whatever you want.
Airbnb should be regulated to the ground.

On the other hand construction regulations should be removed and government intervention lowered down so the market can fill the gaps by building like crazy.
"...but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft."

That's how it all went wrong and best to avoid their products as far as possible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#Transition_to_for-profi...

When vulture capital and/or surveillance capital gets involved enshittification begins https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Japan. All bikes must be registered with the local government. Bikes are one of the things police are vigilant about bikes. Police routinely pull over cyclists, especially if you’re a foreigner, to confirm you are the owner of the bike.

Driving a bicycle while intoxicated is also treated just like driving a car.

Electric bikes going 25km an hour or faster, or have larger than a 250watt battery needs to be registered as a motor vehicle. You’ll need a driver’s license, insurance, etc.
It have gotten us here. Let me be alive and I'll find many ways to be original. Don't ask me to be original by being dead.
The same in Amsterdam. The 55 square meter apartment that I lived in from ages six to ten is now split into two studios rented out on AirBnB in the hipster neighborhood of 'de Pijp' for a large multiple of what it would fetch in rent (which are already way too high).

This goes for many of the listings on AirBnB in Amsterdam, four stories worth of not-quite-a-hotel instead of room for four families to live are pretty common. And there always was a housing shortage in Amsterdam, now it is much worse than before.
It’s often repeated online but that won’t work as a defense in courts. It can be qualified as tax evasion, in theory any country visited during the “tour” could ask for taxes if they believe you’re trying to escape the system.
And rounded corners everywhere.

This is because most of MS designers are using Macs.
Only a few thousand golden visas are issued every year. This is performative.

Portugal does have a housing crisis. The golden visa allows buying residential real estate as a qualifying “investment”. The government could simply end that part. Or even require building new affordable housing units.

Historic cities like Lisbon don’t lend themselves to new units easily, which is an issue.

Airbnb OTOH is cancer to housing markets and pretty much every government should kill it.
I think it depends on how one interprets the parent comment. I read it as a home/residence country taxing worldwide income, which is true for most Western countries. The US is unique in taxing worldwide income (with notable exemptions) based on citizenship, but I’m not sure that’s what “home” referred to?
Which should be bringing money into Lisbon to the net benefit of all people living there. If most of the theme park money isn't staying in Portugal then they should pass some legislation to favor the local economy.
I'm not convinced by this closet analogy for subject matter experts. Domain experts tend to have fully integrated, very differentiated and subjective ways to think about what they do.

It's not like a pile either but I think more like a network of associations, a mesh. When you hear chess grandmasters talk, they don't go by "the rook is worth 5 and the knight is worth 3 points" or some neat system, they trust on intuition that often brings together particular positions, old games, calculation and so on. Just like an expert programmer doesn't sit there with her copy of the Gang of Four in hand.

Experts often don't really think as much as they simply do, and they're process oriented. Which I think is also more important to teach.
> So, very speculatively, one might suggest that sperm counts started declining between 1951 and 1974.

I hope that's due to lifestyle changes rather than with the start of atmospheric nuclear testing.
Mac also has free alternatives like Rectangle. It lets me snap windows to screen edges in various sizes with keyboard and mouse, and that's all I need.

> to improve your already good experience.

The whole reason I stopped using Windows 10 is because it was not a good experience, to put it very mildly. But I likely was an untypically bad case, judging from Windows still being on the market.
I am more shocked there is no "chatgpt playing nethack" comment. Fixed that.
Positive effects of breathing techniques and cold exposure on perceived stress
Last year I decided to go whole hog on Gentoo.

It was a failed experiment overall, too much recompiling even for me, however one thing I did get out of it was that I discovered I didn't need a bootloader.

You can boot Linux as an EFI executable.

Granted, you cannot pass any dynamic boot arguments to it, and initramfs is out of the window it seems (or I just never got it working), but it was remarkably easy to add the commandline options I wanted into the kernel at compile time and just call it as an executable automatically from the EFI BIOS of my motherboard.
That's a great movie.
I've been working on the same uptime monitoring/status page web app for two years (as of next week!), and decided to start building a CLI and API for it: https://github.com/onlineornot/onlineornot

The CLI doesn't really do anything yet, but I'm stoked I managed to get automated releases and CI setup (with preview releases for PRs).
> and we'll give you CMU course credit for it

This is the part that I bet a lot of prospective students will like!

Do you think the program will eventually get extended to cover some of those remaining 7.5 semesters or remain focused on the initial half semester?
any function has internal state. i wouldnt flatout dismiss the possibility of consciousness (however minute and well hidden from our inspection) in these systems until we have a foolproof detector enabling us to... idk dive into another beings consciousness perhaps? consciousness is highly subjective, and reducing a LLM to some of its components is just like saying: your fingernails are dead tissue, therefore there cannot be any life or consciousness in you.
there is a kurzgesagt youtube clip about us being impossible machines, exploring the relationships between aminoacids, proteins and pathways, that is a teensy bit relevant to this thought.

also, even plants are recognized by some to have some sort of awareness.

i would argue that any information gathering and processing system is (internal to its processing operation), to some degree conscious.
When I went home, I saw myself slacking off. When I went back to the office, I saw myself slacking off, and initially I thought like many people "wow work from home has pros and cons".

Once I adjusted more to the work from home lifestyle changed and I started to get much much healthier. As I got healthier, I started feeling like working more. Then I started getting not slightly but a LOT more productive than I was in the office, and I also started taking on more leadership roles, and confidently doing things I struggled with before like the more soft skills side of things.

I started to really tally up what exactly the cost of working in offices was. The unpaid labour of commuting, the stress of commuting, the consumption of narrow food options (pack lunch or restaurant food), the shitty work desk setup, the loud environment, the social pressure to "look busy" and work in socially acceptable ways (For instance, no fidgeting). I have coworkers who got into car accidents, are still screwed up, and for WHAT?! They never wanted to come into the office, they were mandated to come in during bad road conditions, what happened was outright predictable. Forcing people to live in high CoL areas or travel tens of km/miles a day to sit in an office where they connect to a remote server anyways is busywork with no relationship to the actual work somebody is employed to do.

I've come to appreciate what the two points of return to office are, in regards to jobs which can be done 100% remote. The first purpose is to stroke managements ego by having all their reports do a performance for them. I'm not a performer, and I'm tired of being sick and stressed and tired and doing a worse job to satisfy some deranged manager's ego, that's not what my job is, that's not what I went to school for. The second use is to make your employees lives so miserable that they will want to quit their jobs so you don't have to lay them off, since the law doesn't properly recognise such tactics as constructive dismissal yet, and management can exploit this.
It's crazy that Portugal, a country with almost exactly the same GDP and population as Hungary, Lisbon has average square meter prices reaching 7k EUR/m2. Budapest is barely 2-2.5k EUR/m2. That's just the effect of airbnb.
Thanks for sharing, will take a look !
Are CSPRNGs as fast as general high-performance (and non-secure) PRNGs like MT, PGC or Xoroshiro256+?

For many use cases in statistics / sampling / monte carlo simulations, you often need millions/billions of well-distributed random numbers with very low generation overhead.

Even things like game AIs care about performance with regards to the RNGs they use.
I think it's more abstract, it's the freedom of movement for work.

Despite what some may think, students do work. At least some of the time :)

> homeless people

Not wishing to sound negative, but when the Treaty of Rome was signed, way way back in 1957, I doubt anyone was thinking about the homeless.
That’s an amazingly modern take.
I'm not quite sure what your point is, but don't you think that there's enormous cultural value in places like the LCM that allow more people to experience that feeling of wonder for the first time? Just because that feeling wanes away after the first experience, doesn't mean that these places aren't very valuable to society.
The real question is why do we need React, Webpack, Tailwind, sass, jsx, etc.

I've been developing web apps for the last few years and I really can't understand why all these are needed. They do not make my life easier as a developer, nor they make the code more readable.

I've asked around why do we need, for example, React, and never gotten a straight answer.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted- most of my professors were lazy, ignorant, and had a strong left political bias that clouded their thinking. Sounds exactly like chatgpt - replace lazy with low uptime, ignorant with fake facts, and the left political bias is well documented.
I spent a week there last year and felt exactly this, especially in the city center. It just feels empty and not liveable at all.
But we haven’t got any observations of a steady baseline prior to the last century. There could have been declines (or rises!) during the previous centuries and millennia.
So for LLMs like ChatGPT, one issue with doing arithmetic is that the input is tokenised, so it doesn't "see" the individual digits in numbers. That will make it harder for it to learn addition, multiplication etc. You can see what the inputs to the model might look like here: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

So for example, the text "123456789" is tokenised as "123", "45", "67", "89", and the actual input to the model would be the token IDs: [10163, 2231, 3134, 4531]. Whereas the text "1234" is tokenised as "12", "34" with IDs [1065, 2682]. So learning how these relate in terms of individual digits is pretty hard, as it never gets to see the individual digits.
Great idea ! Would need some investigation but should be doable
None experience at all but I'm not the person who will Crete this "product".
> True, but this entire loop happens within the model

No, it's literally a for loop in python that runs the whole thing from scratch[1] after appending each new token. No artificial slowdowns, what you're seeing is literally what it's spitting out in real time

Here's an example

https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT/blob/master/mingpt/model....

[1] Some things can be cached such as kv, but still
In UK just filing an application for a normal work visa for a family of 4 costs o
£10,000. This is what the government 5akes, no lawyers

For each applicant, there is a ~1500 application fee and ~1500 healthcare fee ( NHS, 3 years). Ofcourse you will be paying for NHS twice because you also pay the taxes to fund NHS. Spesifics will differe with individual case, but thats the broad strokes.

If you need a lawyer to explain something, they rarely get up for less than £500
> what reason would there be for that to happen.

in nature? chance

human made? morbid self curiosity?... and perhaps some kind of notion akin to colonialism: "i cant possibly hurt a LLM, its just a stateless function" while forgetting that new such systems can web search and thus their state is global.
Quoting a certain green ogre... "AND STAY OOT!"
There can easily be a causal link. It’s a self selected group specifically on sexual reproductive strategy. I don’t need to be able to explain the relationship in detail; it’s enough that it’s plausible and that it hasn’t already been studied.
That article misses the Layer 9. Windows 3.1 UI, which is still present in Windows 10 and 11.

https://i.imgur.com/fMC5ayA.png
you can do this with tasker on android. read whatever text is in the notification and then use the http command to send on the information if theres an API, or even use the autoinput plugin to open the app and tap on certain elements, but thats kind of messy
How do you keep changes between the DOM and JS in sync without a framework? This is, from my understanding, the main value they provide.
You can blanket ban C-style casts with appropriate warnings and static analysis.
K, I'll play. Let's say that Reinforcement Learners (algorithms/strategies/agents in Reinforcement Learning), let's say that they have some property of 'consciousness' that's similar to humans.

A 'reinforcement learner' gets positive or negative feedback and adjusts its strategy away from negative feedback and towards positive feedback. As humans, we have several analogs to this process.

One could be physical pain... if you put your hand on a stove, a whole slew of neural circuitry comes up to try and pull your hand away. Another could be physical pleasure, you get a massage and lean in to the pressure undoing the knots because it's pleasurable.

If we look at it from this angle, then if we're metaphorically taking the learner's hand and putting it continuously on the stove, this would be problematic. If we're giving it progressively less enjoyable massages, this would be a bit different.

Even more different still is the pain you feel from, say, setting up an experiment and finding your hypothesis is wrong. It 'hurts' in some ways (citation needed, but I think I've seen studies that show at least some of the same receptors fire during emotional pain as physical pain), but putting a human in a situation where they're continuously testing hypothesis is different from a situation where their hands are being continuously burned on a hot stove.

I think, then, that the problems (like they alluded to here) are:

- how can we confirm or deny there is some kind of subjective experience that the system 'feels'?

- if we can confirm it, how can we measure it against the 'stove' scenario or any other human analogue?

- if the above can be measure and it turns out to be a negative human scenario, can we move it to one of the other scenarios?

- even if it's a 'pleasurable' or arguably 'less painful' scenario, do we have any ethical right to create such scenarios and sentiences who experience them in the first place?
honesty not all telemetry is bad. having it track cashes and upload that data is clearly good for usability.
Ask HN: Open-source software to manage a list of computer tasks
Let me try to explain. We have a licensed software with a limited number of licenses. Each license is able to perform a simulation.

What I need is to create somehow a queue of simulations. Ideally, I would like that the manage of the queue could be done via browser, so anybody can add their simulations to the queue.

I am pretty sure this type of software exists, but I can't find it because I don't know what name has. Looking for task managers just give me todo-list applications.
Going to Tokyo this spring.. but if not this time, then I'll definitely go there later.
> Making it easier to create fake images, video and audio of real people causes harm and should be considered unethical.

Is photoshop unethical? What should we do to balance the harm it causes to society? Should it be outlawed? What about MS paint, or even word processors? Were harms caused to society by the printing press? Was it all a terrible idea?

AI could create tools that end up doing more harm than good. AI could design literal malware. It's unclear if they'd do a better job of it than we do ourselves, and either way it seems likely that it'll take a human to use the code AI produces (or at the very least to direct the AI to use it against other humans)

The technology is rarely the problem. It's almost always the people who choose to use that technology for evil. However involved AI becomes in what gets created, until AI becomes actually intelligent and the singularity begins it's people, not technology, we need to worry about.

I'm skeptical that faked video and audio will be the end of us. We've had doctored images and impersonators for ages. We've had hoaxes and liars. We'll get smarter and learn to put less trust in random things we find on the internet, just like we're gradually learning not to believe everything we see on TV or that nigerian prices aren't going to make us rich beyond our wildest dreams.
I’ll be in Tokyo early next month with work, and this sounds like something I’d enjoy. Is it worth going as someone who doesn’t speak much Japanese? If so, I’ll get myself there :)
There are component frameworks that don't require a build step.
Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy
And also also, why they block the ability to run devtools directly on mobile. It's an incredibly sad state of affairs that I have to use a chromium fork to do something that was pioneered on Firefox. Why do Mozilla keep shooting themselves in the foot like this?
I think its quite obvious im not equating chairs and humans. My reasoning is based on the effects to human society of treating algorithms as having rights in any, even limited, sense. I dont think it can be considered rejecting a thing out of hand if i listed reasons?
I like Astro for this reason. It feels light and modular compared to the other frameworks.
it could be doing more damage because high house prices destroy local economy.

When willvl the West finally learns the lesson that unaffordable realestate is uneconomic suicide just like unaffordable food would be
For those who love to still hate Twitter and won't click the link:

>> OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all. - Elon Musk

That was also my original impression of OpenAI when it first launched and many others in [0] Was supposed to be a non-profit, open-source and countering DeepMind's closed AI. Now it is the exact opposite of all of that and is almost essentially a Microsoft-owned AI division.

OpenAI might as well rename to ClosedAI or just get itself fully acquired by Microsoft given its investment and exclusivity deals.

As soon as it transitioned to a for-profit, it became another VC scam.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10720176