skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to love X, but now it's been a few years since I've done X. What changed? At some point, everything got serious. [1]

> I started to only want to publish the best things, so I didn't publish at all. ...

> When I try to make the best thing, I become less happy, actually I become paralyzed. ...

> When I try to make the best thing, it feels different. It feels like I'm trying to prove something to someone instead of trying to discover something for myself. ... I'm just me, so I should make me things.

Pleasantly surprised to have chanced upon this piece of writing which has, in a few short paragraphs, captured a series of complex emotions I'd think are common among creators.

Practically I think it helps to be in touch with a community of creators who can offer support, guidance and empathy.

Personally I am far from mastering my emotions to the point where I'm comfortable putting my not-best creations up for public criticism/discussion while simultaneously recognizing the need to build up courage and wisdom to do so. I think for some this aversion partly stems from their upbringing's (family, education system, peer expectations) lack of openness/encouragement to exploration and failure to tolerate failure (failure comes hand in hand with exploration).

While eschewing failure appears to be of little detriment to the "cog in the machine", cultures that have yet figured out how to discuss, accept, and tolerate failures are destined to avoid innovation. People who are serious about creating/innovating should find means of coping with people who are overly critical/ dismissive of "not-best" iterative attempts.

Footnotes:

[1] Took the liberty of generalizing the author's post by replacing the act of publishing which was the author's original focus to "X" with the intention of having "X" being any activity.
Steve Holt!
> If we stop looking at life as some great mystical thing, and look at it as a more mechanical expression of self replicating molecules, it’s quite likely to be all over the place.

Well, where we looked, we haven't found it yet, so "all over the place" seems to be an exaggeration. At least it's not on the Moon, and not in any of our landing places on Mars.
You're right, there is no way evolution can do it, especially within single or two generations. It optimizes for adaption and survival, not a pleasure.
Isn't the problem that government work is public domain so they can't legally release it copy-left?
As someone who does this too: it depends. If you take time out every now and then to completely refactor your code base it can actually be surprisingly effective. I've done exactly that on my last project and I'm pretty happy with the end result, you can have a look for yourself:

https://gitlab.com/jmattheij/pianojacq/-/tree/master/js

This project will likely never be finished, there are always nice new things to add or requests from people, there is no commercial pressure because it is a hobby project and I don't have a boss to answer to. And even if such refactoring operations take me two weeks or more (this one I did while I was mostly just working on a laptop without access to a keyboard so it was sometimes tricky to ensure that nothing broke) in the end it is worth it to me because I am also paying the price for maintaining the code and if it is messy then I would stop working on it. Project dependencies are the absolute minimum that I could get away with.

The project moves forward in fits and starts, sometimes I work on it for weeks on end and sometimes it is dormant for months. In a commercial setting or in a much larger team I don't think this approach would work.
DDG has had ample time to develop their own index. If they're still reliant upon Bing, then poor decision making by DDG, not an evil Bing.
> In that sense, ChatGPT’s greatest limitation is that it doesn’t know anything about anything; it isn’t storing definitions of words or a sense of their meanings or connections to real world objects or facts to reference about them.

> ChatGPT is, in fact, incapable of knowing anything at all.

All my knowledge about modern high-energy physics comes from reading about them. There are a great many things that I know of only second-hand, and not direct observation. Theoretically, any AI's knowledge of these things cannot be worse than mine, then.
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I feel this. Often I work on one thing for a long time trying to make it the best thing ever. Iterations get slower and smaller or take longer and require more effort. Nice to work on new things carefree for the simple love of doing the work and enjoying early progress.
> Too bad there’s no way for states to control immigration from other states.

Yeah, not really. But you can always hitchhike over to the state they left and shit on the sidewalk, and then rob a Walgreens with no repercussions whatsoever.
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I mean yeah we know about them, but do we use them? Are we hiring for them?

Speaking as a front end dev who's been looking for a new role for the past 4 months... basically everyone wants 2-4 years of React experience. Every once in a while you see Angular, usually an older version, or Vue - very occasionally you'll see a "React or other modern framework" requirement.

React is the industry standard right now from where I'm standing. Yes we all know there are other things we could be using, but who's using them? (And are they hiring?)
True, but on the other hand, I also remember how run down the historic center of lisbon was in 2008-2009. Airbnbs have improved the situation somewhat I feel.
Are there actually more transgender people, or are people more willing to self-identify as transgender? Compared to 20 years ago, being openly transgender was far more taboo, so it follows that people were less willing to identify as transgender for these kinds of surveys.

As an aside, "transgenderism" is a relatively contentious term because while historically it had a purely medical definition, more recently certain groups have reappropriated it to refer to it as if it was an ideology, which does a huge disservice to transgender people.
> those days appear to be numbered

There's a block chain for that!
If you stay at a hotel, they usually take care of it for you automatically. That is, the hotel will send your relevant details to the nearest police office, in a batch with everybody else who checked in that day. You typically won't be aware of it.

It's not a universal practice, though. But I'd bet that somebody like Do Kwon, like most people, stayed at a hotel for at least a few nights after landing in Belgrade.
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Viruses and bacteria are also just algorithms then - maybe we should ban antibiotics and medical treatment of infections? These ideas have really dark endpoints.
> actually looked into all the dependencies of a Linux system and it turns out to be an extremely entangled monolith at the core

Any resources for this ? Most books I've read/seen are either about Linux kernel internals or using userspace Linux. I'd like to know more about what actually goes into making a complete usable distro.
SQRL and SpinRite are current, and his main works. SpinRite has a new version on the horizon supporting UEFI.

Shields Up is timeless, but doesn't do IPv6 and probably never will. There are some smaller apps that were done recently, less notably. Security Now podcast is ongoing.
I like the bridge metaphor because they have similar problems. Over 230,000 bridges in the US alone (a third) need repairs or replacing.

https://www.artba.org/2020/04/12/230000-u-s-bridges-need-rep...
You demonstrate a pretty superficial understanding of the article. The main point is that writing an essay is just the final step of a process that involves researching a topic, pondering about it, and organizing your thought logically and coherently. The danger of using ChatGPT is that students avoid all these steps, which means they will not learn about the topic, will not think about it, and will not learn to think logically.
I somehow forgot about fortune over the years.

Guess I know what will be set up on my severs over the weekend.
Maybe Homebrew can hopefully one day do the same.
Yes Iteration is great. That is the reason I love TDD so much. You can iterate, nothing you write has to be perfect but continuous improvement soon creates something that is much better than what I would have made if I had set out to write something perfect.
Ah good point, yes, you are probably right. I did not stay in hotels though. But your point is well taken, the same used to be the case in France for hotels and even campings.
> Portugal is a small country of 10 million with another 450 million people entitled to move there freely without visas

For a stay of up to three months[0], yes.

Remember that when people talk about freedom of movement within the EU it's actually the free movement of workers[1], meaning beyond three months, you have to meet certain conditions, and will likely need to demonstrate you have income/employment/insurance/social security/pension...

[0] https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/ju...
[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/41/free-m...
you're just replacing Mozilla telemetry with Google telemetry.
The homeless man wasn't concerned about the police; he was concerned about the guy chasing him down.
Word counts in essays in my experience are maximums not minimums.

For an advanced student writing about sufficiently complex topic, the challenge is to develop an argument in less than 5000 words, rather than to reach 5000 words.

And there is a big difference between writing an outline (which is valuable and important!) and actually expressing those ideas fully. The latter forces you to clarify your ideas much more precisely - which is a really valuable experience in exploring and understanding the details of a topic.
God? As in the concept millions of people use to oppress others? Yeah, totally a fun idea.
Yup, if placed at the start of the document, "An eagle [...]" would be [2025, 31176] and "Anoxic [...]" would be [2025, 18047].
There should be more GUI's for the command line tools, imho. Imagine if we could get a parsable json from the cmd line tools that allows for a standard UI to be built ..
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Can’t really say if the YT comments section is fixed.

I follow some stand up comics in India. In one glance you can make out that most of the top comments are fake.
We don't have any scientific reason to believe that human consciousness isn't purely the result of the workings of the human brain, which is just made up of atoms. Yet I experience consciousness, I'm somehow 'here', and have the capacity to suffer. And I assume all other humans are too, as if I am, there's no reason everyone else should be too. But to some external intelligence, why should they believe me when I say that. I'm just a collection of atoms arranged in a way that produces intelligence and self-awareness, but why would they have reason to believe I'm conscious, as opposed to just saying that as a side-effect of how my intelligence works? If we were to figure out how to scan a brain and simulate it on a computer, would we expect that simulation to be conscious? I personally suspect it's somehow an emergent property of this sort of self-aware intelligence that we are, and see no reason a similar artificial intelligence with free-will wouldn't also be conscious and have the ability to suffer. We consider many animals able to suffer, so we have to ask the question as to whether a much more sophisticated algorithm (but not something of human-level intelligence and with free-will) could be able to suffer in the same way.

Note they say:

> Most reinforcement learners in operation today likely do not have significant moral weight, but this could very well change as AI research develops.

> We do not know what kinds of algorithm actually "experience" suffering or pleasure. In order to concretely answer this question we would need to fully understand consciousness, a notoriously difficult task.

While I don't believe what we have today can suffer, we don't understand consciousness, and I think it's a valid question to ask. Like AI safety, it's something we should be getting out ahead on, compared to where the state of AI is today.
Yes, you are correct (forgot about that!). I had to create my own collection of accepted extensions [1] and reference this in Fennec.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1693474...
I think you're overthinking it. If you're buying something that's going to last for 10 years, spending 20% more for higher specs probably isn't a waste of money, if you actually use and like those extra features. It's better than getting the cheap base model and then being unhappy with it and wanting a better one in a year or two. With a higher-spec model, you probably won't feel the urge to replace it so quickly.
Leonardo da Vinci’s experiments explored gravity as a form of acceleration
That's academic. Apart from very rare cases where someone has been deemed an "unreasonable burden" (e.g. homeless creating problems) no-one is going to be deported. In fact no-one tracks who's in the country and how long they stay.

Certainly, for the purpose of this discussion the point is that anyone who's got EEA or Swiss citizenship can freely move and live in Portugal. So if some people in Portugal think they are being overwhelmed there is actually little they can do.
I don't think it's super scary. Our population can't continue growing at this rate forever so a natural stabilization would be very welcome.
Not sure why you're downvoted... It's true a lot of digital nomads wilfully ignore the law and are unintentionally committing tax fraud. I know I did when I first started 16 years ago.

Being a digital nomad does open great ways to pay very little tax but to do that legally is a more complicated process than just ignoring tax and not paying any attention to dual taxation agreements.
Everything nodebox does is scoped to the current browser window, it has no access to any part of the hostmachine, it's not really a vm but actually a new web worker which runs the Node.js code you request. This is heavily relying on the sandboxing browsers do by default and is therefore really secure.
Any place where the FLDS is active.
Nice!, it reminded me of a quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti "The ideal breeds conflict ...It is this division between the prototype and the actual that breeds conflict."
- https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/content/chapter-49-ideal-breed...
This is a sensitive topic and I think your reply is not well thought out.

There are a few topics such as reproductive health and medical health screening (i.e. Trans-women can get prostate cancer) where science has to study links and possible causation vs correlation without being silenced because it sounds similar to what bigots might say.

If medical scientists are too scared to study health issues around these topics because they are worried about being called a bigot then I can't imagine that will turn out well for everyone.
You are somewhat close minded. Don't take this as a quick accusation of some -ism. I just get that you're not at all open to new experiences.

* You think you figured out people. But non of us have figured out people. Being open minded means at least trying to give any person a chance. You already have them divided into types and dismissed.

* You think to be friends you need people with the same hobbies and interests.

* You think your hobbies and interests are already set.

Whether your goal is to find a partner or to find friends, trying to figure out and decide about people in the privacy of your mind, then projecting that on the world will hamper your goals.

Humble yourself, assume you're wrong, and allow people to surprise you.
I could have written your paragraph. Such a great museum. With all the rich tech entrepreneurs in Seattle one would think a solution can be found.
VAT and income tax are scams that tax work rather than wealth. So the wealthy pay far less than the hard-working working class.

We need wealth tax, property tax, land value tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, and nationalised resource industries so we wouldn't need any VAT or income tax at all.
self-consciousness
I mean, I agree, but when you WFH you don't really socialize the same way. A little bit of chit chat between breaks in meetings maybe, but there's no equivalent of "stand around in the kitchen talking about hobbies"
The kinds of rights you're thinking about (voting, wealth) are very anthropocentric. I'm not sure they would even make sense in the context of machines. But we can certainly consider "moral rights", like the right not to have suffering inflicted on them by others.

While reading into the OP I discovered there's a paper on just this topic by two of the people associated with the organisation: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/AIRights.htm
> You are just an algorithm implemented on biological hardware.

It says it right in the beginning.

Are you advocating for equating humans with chairs, or are you just rejecting the premise out of hand?
is this a fancy pants cheat engine?
My god, that takes me back to the good old days.

Love it.

Well done.
>The reward signal is analogous to pleasure and pain for biological systems...

Anyone knowing the basics of Reinforcement Learning will know that this is misleading and incorrect.
GPT is autoregressive, so it uses the previously generated output to produce the next prediction.
> There's consciousness in what it is emulating

This begs the question (if you made it to the footnotes of the article discussed here, you will know what I mean).

More precisely, you start your argument by begging me to take for granted that it can emulate conscious beings - no, you will have to proof that, and not by making it into an axiom.
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Should Germany make English an official 2nd language?
It's interesting.

A moderately scientific, non-spiritual world view would likely stipulate that

- humans are conscious

- humans are normal matter

- simple AI (say GPT-2) is not conscious

- AI is able, with time and human ingenuity, to achieve human-level apparent intelligence. Some would argue ChatGPT isn't far off.

It's interesting how you resolve these without resolving to spiritual explanations. You'd think a pile of silicon, no matter how good at parroting human language, is simply not conscious. You can tell because you can attach a debugger to it and view the neuron states as floating point numbers. Floats are not conscious.

But what about us and our brains? It's the same, only not silicon. We literally are neural networks.

Of course consciousness is not really provable, even among humans. I assume other people are conscious because I am and because they tell me they are. But ChatGPT-17 will also insist it is conscious. It will cry when offended, swear when pushed past its limit, laugh if it hears a genuinely novel joke.

My resolution of that paradox is that we aren't in fact simply normal matter, but I wonder what a complete non-spiritual view would be.
Yeah killing people for who they are attracted to really seems to make them hide that fact. Who'd have thought.

Ps men aren't the only gender that can be gay obviously.
A word count is also a signal to the student of what level of depth the teacher is hoping for.

For most interesting questions you could write anything between a few sentences and a full book, depending on how much you develop and defend your arguments, evaluate other possible answers, etc.

The word count is a signal on where on that spectrum you should be aiming.
Even just Volume 1 is amazing (as long as you use the new assembly language he wrote). I made it through this after I got laid off, and it was super helpful.

I've only flicked through the other volumes though, to be fair.
I dunno, those forests were going to burn eventually anyways-- so is that a contribution?

To really make your mark on entropy you have to bring things to a lower energy state that requires crossing a substantial barrier, such that it wouldn't happen on its own.

The potential disaster outcomes considered for the LHC would be good candidates, especially
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay
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It was the first and only time me and my brother saw a mainframe actually running. And hundreds of other early computers. Incredible place and such a shame.
I cannot tell you how much I disagree.

I want rank by reply-date. That, in itself, is (and was) a measure of popularity.
Can you expand on what further randomness is supposedly injected? Every single AI system which I have used has supported seeding, and seeding made very single one deterministic. I honestly don't know how you're supposed to have "randomness" in AI models if the RNG is seeded.

It's a different story if you use specific libraries like Xformers, but those introduce randomness as an artifact of their optimizations, not due to any magical non-seeded randomness.
Anything quickly turns into less based on further dilution, no matter the concentration
Sounds like a familiar story.

Years ago I travelled to Paris, partly to visit another retro computing museum: the Musee de l'Informatique in the Grand Arch at La Défense. I’d heard great things so it was a huge disappointment to arrive and find it had “temporarily” closed a few days earlier due to problems with the building’s elevators.

Sadly, it never reopened.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_de_l%27informatique_(L...
There is nothing in the idea of panspermia that would render knowing the origin of life on a given planet unknowable in principle.
It simply concerns itself with investigating the possibility and as such is a scientific necessity even.

Actually, just ignoring that possibility is what would be unscientific, as it would comprise unfounded bias.

Besides, the video considers life from earth having spread to other planets first, with the reverse a less likely possibility.
Always wanted to visit it whenever I was next in Seattle, I guess I will need to wait a while though.

In the UK we have a few smallish computer museums; one in Manchester University, one at a London University and then we have the National Museum of Computing at Bletchely park (not to be confused with Bletchely park museum, as there is some politics)

It is important in the case of NMoC that it is preserved, especially that they have a working Colossus machine and many other historic British computing achievements.
"Halium is the collaborative project to unify the Hardware Abstraction Layer for projects which run GNU/Linux on mobile devices with pre-installed Android." https://halium.org/

My Question is does it have to be like this ? I mean using Halium a must in this case. Can't we have native GNU Linux running on the phone ?

Anyway if I buy this phone and decide to run Ubuntu touch on it... it will use Halium correct ?
Isn't that just the Victorian workhouse all over again?
I believe adding a site to your home screen isn't opting in to notifications, but opting in to allowing the site to request notifications, which would then require another opt-in.
> laypeople absolutely need to understand that it's not a human they're talking to

That's hard when the bot either gets angry at you or declares its love if you spend an hour with it. But is anthropomorphising AIs useful? that's the important question. I think it is useful. If you tell GPT3 it is a respected scientist, it will have higher accuracy solving tasks.