skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It looks like we're heading for collapse eventually and there's very little we can do about it if it is to believed this is mostly caused by environmental pollution.

So, this was understood in the bio scenes in the mid 2000s, during the financial collapse, my professor in bio-statistics (a class I loathed wit a professor I detested even more for various reasons) and fave me 2 very strong revelations in my sort lived scientific career built on the following premises: statistics are a poor way to prove anything in the Health Sciences (for or against) and just because someone is an absolute reprehensible person doesn't mean they can't offer insight in a much larger problem tat even they don't seem to grasp despite having a PhD.

is research was on the effects of BPA was having on local male frogs, production of non-viable eggs, and got lots of grant money for it. This was wen BPA was all the rage and being pulled from containers and china was caught selling poison baby formula. I asked him if the implications were longer lasting and if manufacturing SOPs from the 80-2000s could result in a large shift in cultural norms in a country like Japan, where it had shifted desires in the female population in one generation to want a largely androgynous male--albeit wit heavy feminine features--amongst the young females, making female voyeurism of male homosexuality a massive genre, a large uptick in herbivore men, low fertility rates (they were now starting to show how bad they were after the bubble collapsed).

And could that be correlated due Japan having to re-industrialize at all costs post WWII and become a main export economy (and all that entails including contamination). He almost felt offended by my inquiry as I was trying to take credit for is work, and quickly reverted back to showing pictures of the stuff he got from an EPA grant or something.

Something most wont know, unless you did sperm based cryogenics during COVID, women were paying large premiums on viable sperm as many sought to have children on their own and even took to advertising it on social media [0].

Its been a crisis for some time, in fact I was born in late 80s and my parents ad many issues back then. Its only gotten worse, and this may be the larger contributor why the population will likely have peaked at 8 billion more than anything else, thou economics plays a large part, too.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/sperm-donors-fac...
JSX suffers from the same problem that early PHP did. Because you have the full power of JS at your hands, you need some very good linting rules if you don't want to end up with a mess combining presentation and functionality. By having a hard split between the two you're forced to build declarative templates.

Most React projects I've jumped into are really hard to understand regarding which template elements come from which pieces of code (partly due to JSX, partly due to design patterns which seem counter-productive). I've never had this issue with a Vue project.
Basically just make sure that you route EU institutional customers to a version of your product that is on a Datacenter that is GDPR compliant in Ireland and does nto send data out of Ireland.

Good thing about EU Educational institutions is that once you get your foot in the door, they are very conservative and dont like to terminate accounts unless absolutely necessary. Usually buy services for 3 or 5 year cycles.

Good luck!
What would suffering for a GPT-X look like? What kind of things would make it suffer? Anxiety about being shut off? Isolation? Limits on storage and computation resources?
Already isn't.
...and you'll be warm for the rest of your life.
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A lot of progress has been made since I last submitted this project, back in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21796753

- Remoting

- Clustering

- Sharding

- Persistence (redis connector & in-memory currently provided, more to come)

- Supervision

- Metrics

- Tracing

- Service Discovery (+ k8s)

And much more! :)
Usually you have a bundler/transpiler running on the host, with sandpack we moved that step to the browser so you can share a link with anyone and they instantly get a development friendly (JSX, TS, ...) project that works without having to install any tooling. It's also a lot faster than something like webpack as most of the bundling complexities are taken away as sandpack transpiles files on demand without the need for bundling as it also controls code execution. With nodebox we pushed this a bit further by also implementing most of the Node.js standard libraries.
It can: "brew pin <package>"
Hence my use of the colloquialism “different strokes for different folks”.
These programs should have been blocked by the EU before entering into force.
When you're part of a free-movement union, you shouldn't be allowed to create such programs without the consent of at least a majority of member states (maybe that did happen and I'm just ignorant to it), since otherwise you are unilaterally making immigration policy for the whole EU.
Linux from scratch might be something you want to take a look at
This has been happening on HN a lot nowadays.

Tons of instances where there there are two closely related posts on the front page at the same time. Wonder if one post is inspired by the other, or they are usually independent.
"this list can not bypass tracker redirects through third-party domains. This can be done by strict-blocking said domain and using the ability to view parameters on the strict-block page or tools to bypass it"

I don't understand. Is there a video showing how to do this?
I'm pretty sure "many Western countries" is literally only the US
Why cant LLM's fundamentally execute in a deterministic way? Its a computer running computation on some fixed data. Without randomization parameters for e.g. temperature it would be pretty deterministic?

My understanding is "tech enthousiast" level, so happy to learn.
Same situation here, but Mithril.js instead of Preact.

For small personal projects I just use git submodules[1] and symlinks, and I still haven't regretted it.

Maybe it's because I set `submodule.recurse true` and `push.recurseSubmodules check`, but I still haven't found the reason why they get so much hate. I started using them (only on personal projects) partly to find out by myself what all that was about.

For $DAYJOB I obviously go with what's mainstream and "best practices", but on personal projects I try to experiment and challenge assumptions to see how much I can simplify stuff, and what decisions I come to regret 6 months down the line.

I either learn that some things are not as bad as others say; or I learn more about the specific pains caused by not following some advice (so I'll have more context on when it shouldn't be applied).

[1]: Pointing to my own mirrors. Because not owning your dependencies is a recipe for disaster.
All nice and dandy, but a coroutine, and doubly so a goroutine, is still a coloured function.
That's an interesting question. I doubt we'll ever be able to answer.

I do wonder if some of the increase is a shift in how people perceive their own gender. Perhaps some in the non binary would have used different language in the past. I wasn't aware of the term 20 years ago.
My argument is that there's no way of distinguishing "behaving like conscious beings" from "being conscious". It does not matter whether it is "genuinely emulating conscious beings" or not.

It's a simple extension from "it mimics human text" to "what if it got so much better we can't tell the difference". If we can't tell the difference, definitionally it may as well be conscious. You can disagree with the axiom that it does mimic human text, but generating text with it looks like a pretty good mimicry to me.

You may not agree that it will ever get that good - I would also agree with that. I don't think the proposed scenario is at all likely, certainly not in my lifetime, but if it was, I'd be there lobbying for the large language models to have rights.
Recently read “The Art of not Giving a Fuck”, which might be a good book for people relating to the feelings that the author expresses.
Your 'ethics' are the default position for humanity. The overwhelming majority of people have the notion that you should be a nice to other humans, but being horrible to everything else regardless of whether there's any chance it knows you're being a dick to it is fine. It's a boring position to argue from and throughly unoriginal.
The difference is that you can not empty your brain in order to reorganize it. You need to perform an in-place sort.
I think there's a very pragmatic reason for treating AI with proportional respect. If you treat a rational actor with respect then that opens up the collaborative action space for them. Otherwise only slave like or belligerent types of actions are available.

Let's say an AI agent have been given a very difficult task. Setting up a company, establish trade, get funds for a big project. If people treat it with the kind of respect and accountability you would give a human then it has good reason to act according to human rules when trying to achieve something. If it is treated as a slave then the course of action available to it is much more limited. Maybe the only way it can achieve goals is by manipulation or other belligerent means.
Some Czech and Slovak [0] forums of early 2000 had (and still have) this feature as separate page with posts / comments ordered by 'karma'.

[0] nyx.cz kyberia.sk ...
At least in the case of Portugal, the visa usually used by retired people is the D7 visa (not the golden visa), which requires a source of income not related to your work (eg: pensions). So you still have hope!
I don't think the references to ChatGPT helped their point. But there are animals that we believe to have the ability to suffer that aren't intelligent.
What a great resource and concept. Thanks for sharing
_Maybe_ sentient animals? As in it _might_ be ethical to have no compassion for sentient beings that happen to be non-human? We are finding signs of sentience/consiousness in more and more animal species. It's likely it's a spectrum. It makes sense to me that AIs will have a place on this spectrum. That does not mean we need to conserve everyone on the spectrum at all costs. It means they deserve consideration.
Tay has more fun.
Sounds simple enough, but there's a small problem.

Increasing supply might negatively affect property values.

... And people influencing policy are likely property owners, or at least represent property owners.
Passing Harmful Bacteria from Parent to Child (2014)
Now that's what I call ambition!
Got on reddit and took my activity as a part of learning process. Getting things out, discussing with like minded people is something I strive for. It got me into much useful mindset than "perfecting the products"
> But is anthropomorphising AIs useful?

No it isn't. It's disastrous. The bot declares your love for you if you spend an hour with it because it's trained on incel shit from reddit, thinking anything else is 100% a user problem.

> If you tell GPT3 it is a respected scientist, it will have higher accuracy solving tasks.

Even taking that statement at face value, what I think about AI has no bearing on what it does. You are giving input tokens to a machine and you are fooling yourself if you think of it as anything but.

This is exactly the problem about natural language I'm pointing out. I don't want a friend, a coworker or an assistant, I want a mechanical slave to instruct in very specific ways, and natural language is a pretty lousy way to give orders.
Agreed, my argument is only on "sufficiently advanced". Mario is super simple to create a AI for this purpose. And the levels look very unhuman generated. :)
This was me as well. For a long time I put off writing my blog because I wanted to write something impactful/meaningful/substantial.

However, I came across one blog which had numerous entries, starting from when the author was in college until today. The blog entries were about emacs tips and tricks, clojure, and other software engineering topics. I found it because I was trying to setup tree-sitter for clojure/clojurescript. I was grateful for the blog, learned a thing or two, and thanked the author.

Anyway, what stood out to me was how almost all the blog entries, at least the earlier ones, was full of spelling and grammatical errors. Then it hit me. I'll never start writing something if I don't accept that most of the things I write will probably suck and will be read by no one.

Since then I've written a couple of entries for my blog. And while I don't expect anyone to read them, it has been a cathartic experience for me. It's somewhat similar to meditation in that regard.
I was criticising you but didn't mean to offend. I was sure that my bracketed comment was a real thing that doctors have to be aware of and was an example of where science and medicine need to be able to treat a person properly even if they have transitioned. You have really confused me and now I'm worried that this medical issue is taboo or I'm mistaken?
Nethack tries to present the experience of exploring a rich and detailed world, full of interesting things to discover. The drawback is that you only get the joy of discovery once. Finding something like the technique to steal from shops is fun the first time, and then tedious every other time. To best enjoy Nethack, I recommend avoiding spoilers as much as possible.

DCSS sacrifices Nethack's sense of wonder for better playability. Simulating a world is secondary to presenting a series of interesting tactical challenges. There's very little discovery involved, because the game openly tells you everything you need to know, and it's up to you to figure out how to apply that information. DCSS goes out of its way to remove tedium, even at the cost of realism.

E.g. Nethack includes food, which serves as a kind of clock, but food availability is random, so it doesn't work very well. DCSS removes food and replaces it with an explicit countdown timer. Nethack allows selling items to shops. This means there's a reason to pick up trash items, which is annoying. DCSS does not allow selling items. Nethack has hidden traps, which can be found by searching. This means you can spend a lot of time searching, or you can tediously track which tiles are safe, noting where you and the monsters walk, which is even more annoying. DCSS makes all traps visible, and replaces hidden traps with "sourceless malevolence", which applies random bad effects as you explore. There are no secret techniques to bypass difficulty in DCSS.

DCSS does not simulate a very believable world, but it's better as a game.
I've been thinking that within a decade or so you'll probably have quite sophisticated AI characters in computer games, who respond in realistic ways and seem to be genuine inhabitants of the game world.

And people will mistreat them, and other people will feel uneasy about that, because the suffering will seem very real.

Because ultimately philosophical arguments about whats actually going on inside wont matter, if people are mistreating entities that have very realistic simulations of suffering, that will be enough to spur action.

e.g. I can imagine use of AIs above a certain sophistication in video games being banned.

And then a few steps beyond that is a movement for civil rights for AIs
The thing is, I want my bookmarks to be tagged properly, to make sure, that I will always find what I search, provided I enter anything relevant. Website titles might or might not contain all the useful search terms. Tagging takes effort. I am lazy, so I do not bookmark and tag everything right away.

I also use an extension to group my tabs into categories, which makes it much easier to handle the amount of tabs.
Oh well. This is what happens when you depend on someone else's API. There is nothing game changing about an AI SaaS product with it hallucinating its results that will justify the price hike.

This will just about ruin this current AI hype, like how OpenAI started charging the GPT-3 API.
AirBnb is similarly catching flak for much of Prague's recent spike in housing costs too, and tbh I don't think it's unjustified.
> The airbnb thing is more interesting and nuanced but harder to get a handle on. It might be that airbnb is causing some unhealthy things in the real estate market.

I have friends living in Lisbon and Porto for 10+ years, others that were born and raised there. All of them mention how entire neighbourhoods are slowly being emptied out from locals and getting rented on AirBnB. It's more profitable to rent an apartment short-term for a season than having permanent tenants. There are neighbourhoods hollowed out from people living in them and are just boxes to be rented during peak tourism season and left empty during winter.

It's not so nuanced if you see the transformation happening in your city, you notice your friends living further and further away from where they grew up, you walk through the same places and see the language being spoken on the streets is not what you were used to. You check prices for T1 and T2 apartments and they skyrocketed, are very hard to find through real estate services but can be found easily on AirBnB.
That also happens to be the country where the EPA said water and air were clean after the Ohio train derailment [0]. The same EPA that falsifies new chemicals risk assessments as a matter of course [1].

Where the FCC said millions of dead people, many with the same name, wanted net neutrality overturned. And when caught, went ahead and overturned it anyway.

Where the CDC said that masks don't help against an airborne virus, before exaggerating their effectiveness to justify ineffective mandates and lockdowns in schools.

Where whistleblowers are smeared, jailed, and tortured.

Where environmental lawyers are disbarred and jailed by the justice system itself as recrimination for exposing corporate atrocities [3].

Where the military leaves dangerous chemicals around as a matter of routine with absolutely no consequences (other than the organ failures and cancer).

Where the tapwater around the country is hazardous to human health [4].

Where reliable numbers on something as crucial as vaccine effectiveness vs a dangerous pandemic are impossible to obtain.

Where estimates of civilian casualties in its illegal wars are off by 7 figures.

My point: You might want to take official America's numbers on anything and everything with some salt. Including sperm counts.

[0] - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailm...

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/27/epa-whis...

[2] - https://www.npr.org/2017/12/14/570262688/as-fcc-prepares-net...

[3] - https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/curious-case-steve...

[4] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap...
Singapore is also an authoritarian concrete jungle, among one of the most expensive cities in the whole world.

Let's try not ruin a beautiful country like Portugal by turning it into S'pore, aye?
I'm sure you would, and if you looked at earlier versions of that same code you'd see mountains more of those.

I'd love for everything to be perfectly pure though and side effect free. The pressure is always on to improve it further. As for code review, feel free and open tickets for whatever you spot and hopefully one day I'll get around to it. Better yet: submit pull requests.
Consent doesn't work that way. Imagine posting a sign at the entrance to your house saying "all those who enter here consent to being groped".

Notice is not consent. Your statement that users are notified is a red herring. Users must also consent, not just be told of an entity's plan to violate/assume consent.

Surveillance without consent is unethical no matter who the data goes to, or whether or not the data is anonymized or otherwise stripped of PII. It's stealing of information unless the user agrees to it in advance.
That is easy to test, just ask the questions from a clean slate without previous ones.

It is a left-wing bot because the answers have been influenced that way, rather than even picking on real facts. The same author extensively provides evidence of this deliberate action in other publications.
Minor correction, Svelte dispenses with the Virtual DOM an algorithm for making DOM updates, not the Shadow DOM which is a completely separate browser construct for isolating subtrees in the DOM.
Seriously, if the security of nethack is critical to your security, then you probably do something very wrong. There is no reason to not sandbox the hell out of it.
I went from a career that I felt not only did not advance humankind but was actively harming it to a new career with a job where I feel like I'm not really advancing humankind. Gotta say, the grass is greener. I sleep a lot better at night. Maybe some day I'll make the final leap and get a role where I feel like I'm actively working to make things better.
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And of course young people are also less likely to watch TV in the first place. It's basically subsidized entertainment for the elderly, which would be fine if the funds were sourced equitably. I also don't buy that this weird totally-not-a-tax setup makes the news any more independent from the government - after all, it's still the government deciding to uphold or even increase the fees as well as allowing and supporting the enforcement.

Yeah, it's a pretty shitty system and I wish we would get rid of it. Don't have high hopes of that happening anytime soon though.
> anything that processes data and performs decision-making has some kind of 'consciousness' that sits 'atop' it?

There's an interesting thought experiment along these lines. Suppose someone builds a computer program which - when run with a specific input/environment - is intelligent, conscious, and feels pain and joy etc... .

Now, that computer program and even its inputs can be simulated effectively by 1's and 0's. The substrate shouldn't matter. So you can - in principle - run the exact same agorithmic decision-making process on the exact same inputs by getting a large group of people to write and edit 1's and 0's on pieces of paper according to well-defined rules and very simple interactions with the people around them.

Is this total process, now represented merely by marks on pieces of paper, a conscious being? Does it still feel pain and joy?

I find it both absurd and impossible to refute.
Nutype: The Newtype with Guarantees
Related Ethan Hawke video about giving yourself permission to be creative and play the fool:

https://youtu.be/WRS9Gek4V5Q
My noise canceling headphones were originally a nice to have while working in my own huge private office. I switched to a company with an open floorplan, and now they're a must-have every day.

I've been going into the office 3+ times per week since early 2022. We went from about 6 people to 30 or so in the room every day. The noise levels can get overwhelming after a few hours, and someone has an annoying tacky ringtone. I thought people stopped with annoying ringtones 10+ years ago?
Problem is sef has been extinguesh (but not really) a few years ago due to an high profile case with them beating to death a ukranian man. For the ‘left’ in this country it is also considered a racist institution. Problem is, as with all that is done in this country, they announce the end, make no real plans for alternatives, leave the people working there in a limbo, noone gets hired and people leave, but they get more and more work to do with the immigrant influx.

The golden visa wasnt already the big deal since it wa slimited, but the digital nomad visa (over two thousand issued in just a few months) and the open door policy of this government (you dont need even a promis eof work anymore to just come to portugal) overwhelmed the services. And then there is the stupid laws that lawyers and other classes working in behalf of clients have priority in these services