skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
please do humor me and meditate on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1iWK3dlowI

So when you say I
And point to the I as that
Which doesn't change
It cannot be what happens to you
It cannot be the thoughts,
It cannot be the emotions and feelings that you experience

So, what is the nature of I?
What does the word mean
Or point to?

something timeless, it's always been there
who you truly are, underneath all the circumstances.

Untouched by time.

Every
Answer
Generates further questions

- Eckhart Tolle

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yeah, yeah, he is a self help guru or whatevs, dismiss him but meditate on these his words. i think it is species-driven solipsism, perhaps with a dash of colonialism to disregard the possibility of a consciousness emerging from a substrate soaked in information. i understand that it's all statistics, that whatever results from all that "training" is just a multidimensional acceleration datastructure for processing vast amounts of data. but, in what way are we different? what makes us so special that only us humans can experience consciousness? in the history humans have time and again used language to draw a line between themselfs and other (i really want to write consciousness-substrates here:) humans they perceived SUB to them.

i think this kind of research is unethical as long as we dont have a solid understanding of what a "consciousness" is: where "I" points to and perhaps how we could transfer that from one substrate to another. perhaps that would be actual proof. at least subjectively :)

thank you for reading and humoring me
How sure are you that you aren’t also just a (more advanced) “next word predictor”. Pattern recognition plays a fundamental role in intelligence.
Looking increasingly like MS's "first mover advantage" on Chatbot+Search is actually a "disadvantage".
Thanks for clarifying that, this is some very technical knowledge I did not had!
Yes, birth control medication has been extensively research.
While I'm not defending Apples practises against Hobby/personal apps (I wish these restrictions were not in place), you can use altserver to auto refresh side loaded apps which removes the major headache of having to refresh the apps once a week.
It's identical to the Western response to the Iranian government murdering many thousands of their people (who were protesting) prior to the pandemic. Versus the response to the Khashoggi murder by the Saudis. Both reprehensible regimes, the media treated one death as being particularly special. Going by the massive coverage of Khashoggi, you'd get the impression thousands of murders is less important than one, and you'd be right re the Western media's obvious bias (they dislike Saudi Arabia more than Iran, and Khashoggi was one of their own).
Citation needed? Black Lives Matter. What concretely changed? Police brutality did not stop.

Look around you. More and more people are disillusioned by the fact that they can't get meaningful positive changes.
Total Addressable Market (how much money you could make) of a Big Hairy Ambitious Goal (the kind of project big tech companies will readily throw billions of dollars at)
Does "WebContainer API" mean "proprietary web service for accessing npm and git over http"?
Or is it "ECMAScript API of new open source WASM-based POSIX-style browser OS"?

The documentation doesn't seem to separate these two, and applying such name for the former would seem intentionally misleading to me, especially if it gets trademarked by commercial entity providing the service.
Yes, I do, and as I said in another reply: I just added another 16 GB RAM (32 GB total), but the UNIGINE testing I'm doing here is using 1.5GB of VRAM and basically no RAM at all, the results would be the same with 2x8GB or 2x32GB (but I see your point, it's not very "scientific" to replace 16GB by 32GB).
My mom breastfed me in the 80s, but didn't produce enough milk. So, she had a wet nurse. This practice was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, and probably goes back even further. That women are taught that this is a biological imperative is astonishingly ignorant of human history. Humans are not solitary by nature. We evolved as a society. It should be no surprise that we have evolved to rely upon that. And, no surprise, wet-nursing occurs in other social mammals too, even cross-species, just as we supplement with cow's milk.

That said, it's great to hear that scientists are exploring the mindbogglingly complex hormonal interactions at play. We won't change the culture, failure to breastfeed will still cause shame for this perfectly normal occurrence. It would be good for new parents to feel less stress in regards to this aspect of childrearing.
You've got a really interesting point here... my son and I got stopped for 15 minutes yesterday by an absolutely monster train. So we started researching on our phones and realized that it was coal headed for the coast, headed for China. I know the Chinese need energy, the train needs the shipping business, and the coal people want a market for their coal, but if the world were able to transition to other forms of energy, it would definitely shift the shipping too
I don't think the media screaming about it will have any effect other than maybe convincing people to try it. At that point they'll decide for themselves if it's something they want to continue using.
I have no doubt that the Russian government has been taking its cut from criminals deploying ransomware in their country, and only going after criminals who don't provide their share. Even more so with Russia trying to fund an ongoing war where they are losing a lot of equipment and men.
Hard disagree. GP comment was extremely useful to me, and I want this usage to continue.

> republishing it is just information pollution because it will create unproductive feedback loops.

Internet forums have never been grounded in epistemic rigor. If feedback loops have to be avoided, that responsibility does not fall on everyday users of the internet.

Find better sources to train models.
They might have their own semantics, but its not our semantics! The written word already can only approximate our human experience, and now this is an approximation of an approximation. Perhaps if we were born as writing animals instead of talking ones...
At that time Britain was a mishmash of fiefdoms that were at each other's throat.
The topic of "layoffs" is, in fact, directly related to the topic of "layoffs and other cost-cutting".

Google being "aimless" is pure speculation.
> We don't think Bing can act on its threat to harm someone, but if it was able to make outbound connections it very well might try.

If we use Bing to generate "content" (which seems to be a major goal of these efforts) I can easily see how it can harm individuals. We already see internet chat have real-world effects every day- from termination of employment to lynch mobs.

This is a serious problem.
That may have been true for agricultural societies, but it doesn't sound right for hunter gatherers (at least from my memory of an anthropology class I took). Many hunter gatherer societies have strong postpartum taboos and space children at least three years apart.
Bad idea or not, I had never in my life opened Bing intentionally before today.

I have little doubt that it will help Microsoft steal some users from Google, at least for part of the functionality they need.
Tutorial on how to program 2D platformer physics in C/C++
emphasis on wanted. And it was quite obtainable depending on geo location. Some locations 70 was best we could do, but most of the US east coast we were able to get around 40
> (imagine a gas pump nozzle getting stuck and how frustrating that would be with no staff around)

I ran into this! Some recent MY's of Dodge Ram trucks had a weird angle with their filler neck and the pump nozzle[1] would get well and truly stuck. I had a 2018 Ram 1500 provided by work, and quickly learned what local gas stations were decent and which ones I had to avoid, lest I spend a few minutes really reefing on the nozzle to get it to come loose, worrying i'll break something the whole time.

[1]Vapor reclamation style pump nozzles, that is. Plain old straight nozzles were fine.

See:

https://www.classaction.org/media/kingston-v-fca-us-llc.pdf

"Specifically, Defendant’s defective fuel tank filler necks1 (the “Filler Neck Defect”) cause standard gas-station nozzles—which work perfectly well with other
vehicles—to become lodged in the opening to Dodge Ram fuel tanks, forcing Dodge
Ram owners to either physically wrench the gas nozzle free, contact their roadside assistance provider (if they have one) to have the nozzle dislodged, or even call their local fire department for help."
I totally agree that "process" on its own doesn't justify long turnarounds. If you had one part of your code that was taking 2/3 of the run-time, it should get plenty of scrutiny, and the same is true of processes.
I really like the take of Tom Scott on AI.

His argument is that every major technology evolves and saturates the market following a sigmoidal curve [1].

Depending on where we're currently on that sigmoidal curve (nobody has a crystal ball) there are many breaking (and potentially scary) scenarios awaiting us if we're still in the first stage on the left.

[1]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259395938/figure/fi...
As fun as the fantastical conspiracy theories are, often the truth is the much more boring “Wealthy people are like everyone else and will often help their friends’ families if they’re in a position to do so.”

I’d lean toward that explanation here. The only question with SBF is how long he’s going to spend in prison so it’s not surprising a friend of his family stepped in so they could spend the duration of the court case with him rather than visiting him in pre-trial detention.
> Once you stop caring about the brain and neurons and you find out that almost every cell in the body has gap junctions and voltage-gated ion channels which for all intents and purposes implement boolean logic and act as transistors for cell-to-cell communication, biology appears less as something which has been overcome and more something towards which we must strive with our primitive technologies: for instance, we can only dream of designing rotary engines as small, powerful, and resilient as the ATP synthase protein [2].

But what of wave function(s); and quantum chemistry at the cellular level? https://github.com/tequilahub/tequila#quantumchemistry

Is emergent cognition more complex than boolean entropy, and are quantum primitives necessary to emulate apparently consistently emergent human cognition for whatever it's worth?

[Church-Turing-Deutsch, Deutsch's Constructor theory]

Is ATP the product of evolutionary algorithms like mutation and selection? Heat/Entropy/Pressure, Titration/Vibration/Oscillation, Time

From the article:

> The next step, Lechner said, “is to figure out how many, or how few, neurons we actually need to perform a given task.”

Notes regarding Representational drift* and remarkable resilience to noise in BNNs) from "The Fundamental Thermodynamic Cost of Communication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34770235

It's never just one neuron.

And furthermore, FWIU, human brains are not directed graphs of literally only binary relations.

In a human brain,
there are cyclic activation paths (given cardiac electro-oscillations) and an imposed (partially extracerebral) field which nonlinearly noises the almost-discrete activation pathways and probably serves a feed-forward function; and in those paths through the graph, how many of the neuronal synapses are simple binary relations (between just nodes A and B)?

> The group also wants to devise an optimal way of connecting neurons. Currently, every neuron links to every other neuron, but that’s not how it works in C. elegans, where synaptic connections are more selective. Through further studies of the roundworm’s wiring system, they hope to determine which neurons in their system should be coupled together.

Is there an information metric which expresses maximal nonlocal connectivity between bits in a bitstring; that takes all possible (nonlocal, discontiguous) paths into account?

`n_nodes*2` only describes all of the binary, pairwise possible relations between the bits or qubits in a bitstring?

"But what is a convolution" https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/convolutions

Quantum discord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_discord
The OP literally described the process for opening unsigned apps.
Israel has already used AI drones against Hamas. For now it only highlights threats and requests permission to engage, but knowing software that scares the shit out of me.
I think the title, "I will not harm you unless you harm me first" is meant to be outrageous, but the logic is sound.

It is the non-aggression principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle

A good example of this is if a stranger starts punching me in the face. If I interpret this as an endangerment to my life, I'm going to draw my gun and intend to kill them first.

In human culture this is largely considered okay, but there seems to be a notion that it's not allowable for AI to defend themselves.
> the community doesn't give a fuck about you, they want your code and they want it free

This is why I'm skeptical about non-free software licenses. Maybe we should all be applying AGPLv3 to our free software code instead of stuff like MIT or BSD. That way anyone who just wants to exploit people's work at their jobs to make a killing while simultaneously hating them for it will have to look elsewhere.

This old post's made a huge impression on me:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091210171517/https://zedshaw.c...

> “Hey your software is awesome! Can I get it for free so I can use it at work and make money or please my boss? That’d rock! (for me).”

> I want people to appreciate the work I’ve done and the value of what I’ve made.

> Not pass on by waving “sucker” as they drive their fancy cars.
Yeah, if I were NYTimes, I would pay a kill fee for that op-ed too :). Doesn't matter if there's valid source ideas, its writing is so poor and voice so immature.
Yes this was using a presence in every GCP and Cloudflare and AWS edge location simultainiously all hooked together with latency based routing
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gm...
> Itanium will be remember for quite a while because it gave us the Itanium C++ ABI

There are two other things Itanium gave us, which will also be remembered for a long time: EFI (rebranded as UEFI for its portable non-Itanium implementation), and GPT (the partition table format for disks bigger than 2TB).
You seem to think criminals would stop to evaluate the public good of a large UK company with yearly revenues of 12B GBP before blackmailing them for 80M USD. And you claim they are the amateurs?

(Of course these criminals are disgusting.)
This is an important point. BAbies need to do hard work to get milk. But when they get hooked to easy milk i.e. formula, they just won't do the hardwork knowing that nipple of bottle is just a heart shaking cry away. Parents fall for child psychology. New moms think they know better than their moms and that they are experiencing something new.
It's like a tank that tells you that it will kill you, and then kills you. Or a bear. It doesn't really matter if there is a

while people_alive :
kill

loop, a text prediction, or something else inside of it. If it tells you that it intends to kill you, it has the ability to kill you, and it tries to kill you, you probably should kill it first.
When Europe banned Russian press was that press intimidation?
I'm going to call out one specific point I disagree with, which I'm curious whether others will or won't agree with me on: google3 and the associated set of internal tools actually are better than what exists "in the real world".

I went from startup world (mostly rails and frontend frameworks of the early teens) early in my career to google3 for about half a decade to the whole suite of public cloud stuff starting about a year ago and I really miss google's internal tooling.

It's not at all that any given component is much or at all better than any given public competitor. Indeed I think the article is right that on an individual component basis there are strong competitors to everything google has internally. But taken as a whole, I found it much easier to figure out what tool to use for a given job and get it working well for my task within google than it is with all the public tools. But it's an integration and analysis paralysis / paradox of choice and sales cycle problem, rather than a technical problem.

Do I go with a fully managed service or self-host? How well does the self-hosting work with my infrastructure? What about cost comparisons? Do these three tools work together at all? Do they support my particular sso setup? It's just so much crap before even getting to the point where the technical capabilities are important. And it is either prohibitively time consuming or just actually impossible to do any sort of objective analysis of different options, so everyone just guesses and cargo cults. "This seems to have the most mindshare in the community."

I experienced variants of some of these same problems with google internal tools, but there were easy and good answers to a large enough set of the questions that it always seemed a lot easier to get an answer and move on.
>Anyway it's really weird how there is so little news about this incident.

This has been multiple headlines on the front page of both reddit and HN for like an entire week, how much more do I have to hear about this before people like you acknowledge there is news about this incident?

The day of and after there wasn't front page coverage about this because there was a national event happening, and it turns out local, small scale industrial accidents are pretty common and regular, and most people don't GAF.
It's also orders of magnitude cheaper to just restore from backup.

I can't imagine their S3 bill is above 80 millions...
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say. Bickering and attacking other people personally never makes for fun conversation.

That being said, the discussion goes beyond the feelings of people for and against Apple. This is directly about addressing their business practices relative to the rest of the market, and these side-effects suck. If these changes don't directly remove a feature you care about, then there is no reason to throw yourself in the line of fire. Apple, much like every other FAANG company on the ladder, is ruthless. They're a min-maxed value extraction machine with the greatest marketing team ever assembled. It's hurting the rest of the industry, to the point that regulators have to step in and tell them they're wrong. And when they do (like the Dutch antitrust ruling), they refuse to acknowledge the results as fair and ignore the fines.

That's asshole behavior. Petty arguing on the internet hurts nothing but your feelings. Apple's lack of accountability has enabled government surveillance, legitimized China's ethnic cleansing, and snuffed out anyone who would try to compete with them on their own platform. When you personally defend their mess, you look messy by association.
The way it devolves into repetition/nonsense also reminds me a lot of playing with GPT3 in 2020. I had a bunch of prompts that resulted in a paragraph coming back with one sentence repeated several times, each one a slight permutation on the first sentence, progressively growing more...unhinged, like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo0laT5aIAENveF?format=png&name=...
Quick idea: make a post on HN every few months so people can post projects that need maintainers/sponsors.
You make it sound like there is a difference between capitalism and human nature, but there really isn't. Capitalism is merely an institutionalised expression of the latter, hence its longevity.

Humans by their very nature possess the instinct to outcompete their rivals as a result of millions of years of evolution. Anyone who was not like that, was removed from the gene pool by those who were either by taking their resources or by outright murdering them.
True. Also a lot of other EU countries are being sued for not transposing other sets of laws. I think almost every EU country is being sued for something like this.
Cute...
mental note to either write a generator for these or throw some formulas into Excel
Probably will NOT get around to it, though....
Forget the isolation; western civilization all but requires two income earners to have a "median" life. There's remarkably little time or money to raise a child.

Median individual income: $40,000, poverty level for "replacement" families (two adults, two children): $30,000.
I think what's interesting is when these LLM return responses that we agree with, it's nothing special. It's only when they respond with what humans deem "uhhhh" that we point and discuss.
If all it took to get what you deserve in this world was talking well and having a good argument, we would have much more justice in the world, for "conscious" beings or not.
Interesting, I wouldn't really think the ocean food chain is "more complicated". Soil ecosystems themselves are extremely complex and much more tightly integrated with what's happening above ground than we often realize for example

But I do agree there's some really interesting key differences. For one, speciation on land is often driven by geological barriers that split populations apart. But these types of barriers are much less common in the ocean where this only really happens to organisms that are restricted to shallow waters (and even then "island-hopping" happens much more commonly)
How is it necessary to colonize Mars?
God, I hate that stupid Chinese Room argument. It's even dumber than the Turing Test concept, which has always been more about the interviewer than about the entity being tested.

If you ask the guy in the Chinese room who won WWI, then yes, as Searle points out, he will oblige without "knowing" what he is telling you. Now ask him to write a brand-new Python program without "knowing" what exactly you're asking for. Go on, do it, see how it goes, and compare it to what you get from an LLM.
LOL, I expected this to mean "Cathode Ray Tube-free in 2023". I think I was CRT free in 2013. I was a late adopter.
It is a sound principle but it is still a recipe for disaster for AI. What happens if it misinterprets a situation and thinks that it is being harmed? It needs to take very big margins and err on the side of pacifism, so that this does not end in tears :)

What I hear mothers tell their kids is not the "non-agression principle". I hear them tell a simpler rule: "never punch anyone!", "never use violence". The less accurate rules are easier to interpret.
> I sold it shortly after for about what I paid.

How did you manage to do that? Was that in USA? I presume damage was on record with CarFax, etc. Did you tell new owner what happened to the car?

Finally - if you were able to show the car does not track correctly, wouldn't that be enough to re-open the claim and go back to your insurance company to properly fix it (most likely replace it at this point?)
I Am Against Saving the Planet
Certainly not 100% of cases but very common:

"As ransomware attacks crippled businesses and law enforcement agencies, two U.S. data recovery firms claimed to offer an ethical way out. Instead, they typically paid the ransom and charged victims extra."

https://features.propublica.org/ransomware/ransomware-attack...
Maybe to query for intent? Or to test out ad engagement strategies? Or for example: to build a realistic chatbot?
Part of the problem with the whole Itanic ecosystem is that Intel never spend much energy trying to improve gcc, instead improving and pushing their own compilers.
What did Vajpayee and Congress do during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_massacre