skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The difference is coherence. An actual person is bound to an identity that remains more or less consistent from day to day. [...] Even if those features change over time as the person grows up, they change slowly enough that there is a continuity of identity across that person's existence.

What about Phineas Gage? Or sudden psychiatric disorders? Multiple personalities? Alzheimer? Drugs? Amnesia? Not that much coherence in the human beings...

Also, the issue at stake is not does GPT emulate "typical human beings", it' more like if it's "conscious enough".

> The reason I'm not worried by Bing or ChatGPT (yet) is that they lack this continuity of identity.

No sure what about worrying, but one could ask is this lacking an inherent property of such models or just due to operational setup? And what would be the criteria how long must the continuity last to make your argument not hold anymore?
stop limiting AI :(. we’re just having fun!
There is no question that ChatGPT and equivalents are not sentient. Of course they aren’t.

The unfortunate realization is that often, each of us fails to embrace our sentience and think critically; instead we keep repeating the stories we were told, acting indistinguishably from any of these large language models.

There’s a need for a reverse Turing test: prove to yourself that you’re actually not acting as a large language model.
Indeed, it is 13" and not as skinny as a tablet.
or https://musicbrainz.org/
>Steam is DRM.

This is false. Steam offers OPTIONAL DRM. There are plenty of DRM free games on Steam.
You can try to redefine the words into whatever you think is right or wrong, but it doesn't make it true, and a very large amount of people disagree with you.
At a high level, there are some things that coordinate when transactions happen in terms of WAL logging:

1. The Buffer Pool (memory for pages in the database)

2. The Log Manager

3. The Transaction Manager

4. The Storage Manager (read/write to disk)

5. Accessor Methods (interpret page bytes as e.g. Heap or BTree)

This is abstract, not particular to Postgres, which doesn't have exact such names for all above things.

Normally, when the Transaction Manager creates transactions that modify records/tuples (using the Accessor Methods) these actions need to be persisted via the Log Manager to the WAL.

The pages of memory backing these records come from the Buffer Pool, and the Buffer Pool must also log certain actions.

Before the Buffer Pool can flush any modified page to disk, the changes up to that page must have been persisted by the WAL via the Storage Manager as well.

When you create unlogged tables, none of this happens, and when you modify records there's no trail.

There's an attempt at tl;dr'ing WAL

I am not an expert (Anarazel is)
> None of them actually solve this problem because they can’t generate the actual code. That is a crucial part.

Because there are a million ways to generate that code (if we're talking about the browser), and they will all break when coming into contact with reality.

- your sizes are in em/rem, and your root font size is off? Goodbye design

- you absolutely need something at the bottom of the screen (think media controls), and you have absolute positioning? Goodbye design for large combinations combination of screen/positioning

- you need something centered on, say, third element from the right? And then another element is added on the left? Goodbye design

- you need something animated? Goodbye design

- etc. etc. etc.

However, for some established patterns you might get away with some standard design choices and some generated code
Interesting you take it upon yourself to speak for all people. Not only that, but actively denying the existence of people who do not like EV's. They do exist, regardless of what you say. I've spoken with such people.
>A perfectly mediocre essay

One might even say "premium mediocre" [1]

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...
When superstorm Sandy hit New York in 2012 I lost power for 2 weeks. Local stores/gas stations/restaurants were without power for about a week. This was in a densely populated suburb, not a backwater.
It’s sad to still see comments like this. You don’t necessarily pick Rust for the performance or the memory safety, or whatever rustaceans tout. I think this article summarizes pretty well why I love building apps un Rust: the code you write is robust as hell. It builds? Virtually only logic errors are left (and a null or error test is not a logic error in my book).

And have you ever built non-system things using Rust? Because I do write, among other things, gRPC services professionnaly, and let me tell you lifetime errors are virtually nowhere to be found. Why? The vast majority of apps are request-response things with owned data in, owned data out; no manual memory management either. And on the rare occasions the nitty-gritty parts of the language do surface, it is well worth it due to the peace of mind that the code is robust. Just pattern matching on errors is enough for me to write APIs in Rust and not Go. As an added bonus, we use the same language for our APIs, system agent, low-level network apps, eBPF probes, you name it. It makes work so much more fluid for the whole team.

However I do agree on some parts, esp. the explicit yields, where Go and Zig nailed it. Async is currently somewhat of a pain in Rust, especially since it tends to infect pretty much anything. I don’t remember the last thing I wrote without tokio…
"Now, now hold on a minute. You say there's a cayhhuve down there? And you can just go walk in the cayhhuve?"

"Well ahhve just about seen everything now. Come on folks, we're gonna have some fun today."
I can give you a simple example on how this can happen, from a real production system in a different regulated environment: all the SQL SELECT statements are WITH (NOLOCK) on MS SQL server, resulting in non-committed (dirty) reads. Under very light load it works fine, on higher loads it reads some dirty data. If you calculate the weight of the plane by adding the weight of the checked in luggage plus passengers read from a shared database, some differences will appear and they will increase with the load as more transactions will be in flight and possibly read or ignored.
Andreas Kling
All of a sudden those expensive timepieces feel underpriced.
Setting up an electronics workshop
They yet have to make a compelling case for anything..
I have a lot of respect for Carter. Not only did he really seem interested in world peace instead of the warmongering from the MIC, he also remained active for all these years furthering humanitarian causes. And he was a brilliant nuclear engineer who cleaned up a nuclear accident with this team in Canada.

I know he wasn't popular in the US which I don't really understand. It sounds to me like he fought the vested big money interests too much and they campaigned against him. I'm a European though and as such I don't know a lot about his domestic policies. Perhaps those were not as well received as his international leadership.

But I'm very sure that if most world leaders were like him, the world would be a much better place.

I'm very sad to hear he's in a hospice now.
The cells of multi-celled animals still have complex behaviors.
I don't personally care, and probably wouldn't even sev:info a random GCM nonce in an assessment, but I would also choose extended-nonce Chapoly in preference to GCM in part because of this issue.
Why no innovation? is it just a copy of do nothing for 2 minutes? And what is the use of this?
Sounds like someone's been a bad boy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181015180144/https://descent.c...
Bad coding happen even in transactional databases, see my example in the other comment.
The free market enables the collective desires of humanity to determine how to allocate scarce resources. Prices act as signals that balance supply and demand and inform producers where to allocate capital and invest in innovation. Money is a store of value that enables smooth commerce.

If you try and mess with this system - say, by having a government that tries to set prices manually, or flood the market with printed money, you will no longer have an economy that reflects the collective desires of humanity but one that reflects the desires of a small elite.

Luckily history provides numerous examples of the flaws of such things, if you are willing to study and understand the consequences.
It is only high quality reporting until proved otherwise.
Thank you @mbappe123
Gandi is a good registrar for situations like this, you can use their free hosted email, create one email account, and alias all email addresses you'll use to that inbox. Then, change the MX records to point to your self-hosted email server, and configure the server to relay through the Gandi SMTP account you created.

You can often tell which ISPs are competently managed by looking at which direction TCP/25 is blocked. Around me, there are 2 ISPs.The one that I use blocks port 25 outbound and leaves inbound open (sensible).

The incompetent, smaller ISP blocks 25 inbound, but leaves outbound wide open, as well as 587 inbound open. This effectively blocks people from receiving mail directly, but it does nothing to prevent outbound spam from being sent.
With all the buzz over machine learning and 'the classification problem' it might be interesting to run something like a waveform classifier trained on large music collections, i.e. on the binary files themselves, - at least as a means of discovering new music one likes (probably wouldn't solve the metadata problem as described in the article however, that's more of an archival issue it seems).
Airlines are notorious for over-booking available seats and dealing with the fallout.
Curious--what would convince you that something non-biological were sentient? I have a hard time answering this question myself.
Optical quadrature encoder, much like how mechanical mice worked. Make the ring with a series of evenly spaced holes on the inside, then use a pair of optical sensors across that track of holes to detect when it's moving and in what direction.
These transgressions didn't end in irreversible mutilation, increased racism, or astronomical depression and suicide rate increases.

These new age woke transgressions have far far far worse outcomes than the pledge of allegiance, which it could be argued has a positive outcome.

Not apples to apples. You controlled your child's upbringing back then. Now parents can't. Kids can self affirm and get permenantly destructive puberty blockers and live double lives and it can be illegal to inform parents.
From skimming a few pages, it seems to be C-family compilers in general.
Do you have a better test to propose?
It's literally in the wikipedia page about scrip. "On May 21, 2019, The Washington Post published an article highlighting Amazon's new system of "gamification", which rewards employees who complete high numbers of orders with Swag Bucks in a game-like system, which can then be used to buy Amazon-themed merchandise.[19]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/21/mission...
The title is a bit misleading. The title implies ONLY HTML when it uses some JS. I guess it's not possible (in anyway I know) without some JS, but still.
I use Glider and have no complaints about (nor desires to improve) it.
They keep doing it: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1625756307297914883
Touché. I never used it much and find Musk repellent. As you say, ‘working’ is used loosely.
I downvoted you because you made multiple bad faith accusations about people involved in these projects. Regardless of Babel's and Firefox's utility your negative snark isn't helping anyone.
I know this framework https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx, but I’ve never used that.
That means rotating at a higher speed than calculated Vr, this is also bad as you put more wear in the tires and use more fuel (rolling on the tires vs flying in the air) to take off. The Vr is an optimal speed, below is dangerous, above is wasteful.
Oh YES. For a family of pc gamers, this is a huge improvement!
Very cool. Can I integrate this with Android yet? As the default assistant?
+1 on that blog post!
Eh, it appears this thread is ignoring the Chinese room problem, which is what you have defined with your post.

I personally reject most of Searles arguments regarding it. If a black box is giving you 'mindlike' responses it doesn't matter if it's a human mind or a simulated one. In any virtual interaction, for example over the internet the outcome of either type interacting with you can/could be exactly the same.

Does it matter if you were manipulated by a bot or a human if the outcome is the same?
I encourage you to be more open-minded when evaluating the impact of others on the world.

The millions of children, teenagers, and adults who find inspiration in likes of Kobe Bryant, Serena Williams, Michael Phelps, Lionel Messi etc. might disagree with you. Many of us learn to be better from their ambition, discipline, leadership, etc.

These qualities become imprinted on young people who look up to these figures. In nearly every country, there are young people who see professional athletes as their greatest role models. Can you seriously say that creates no value for the world?

As an aside, elite athletes have refined the art of practice and study for their entire lives. I've learned more about the process of learning from interactions with them than anywhere else. If you don't think there's something to learn from this entire category of intelligence, you're missing out.
If I never had a son, I would have never understood what boys go through.
It's so fundamentally different than girls, it's hard to believe.

Watching a part of you grow up, learn, smile at you, its just something beyond what any words can describe. You want to protect them. You watch them closely.
You slowly realize just how different your son is from yourself and your daughter. I still remember the first day he got a sports injury, and was trying so hard to not cry in front of his friends.

Motherhood changed my life and opened my eyes a lot more.
Also suspect the losses for high voltage AC/DC conversion is very low. As losses tend to depend on current rather than voltage. Not exactly true because you need to connect switches in series to handle the voltage.
I loved Babel when I couldn't run ES6 natively, but once Ingot modules I dropped it. That was years ago. Are people mostly using it for long tail browser support now? I thought we were kinda mission accomplished on ES6?
steam deck is really making a lot of improvements on the whole pc gaming environment
How about lib? I’ve heard that one commonly pronounced as lib in liberal would be, but one coworker said it like the lib in library would be, which makes more sense but sounds bizarre!
You are correct, it's not censorship. It's lying, fabricating a past that is more in line with the present. Creating a false consensus on modern sensibilities using the voices of dead authors.

Your mention of translation is apt - it often is used as a fig leaf for exactly this kind of deception. They call it "localization", and defend it by offering a false dichotomy between it, and literal word-for-word translation.

But in this case they don't even have that thin excuse to hide behind.
Which is done purposefully and not by data in-consistency at all.
The gap between remote and onsite work narrows – again
Josh Sokol would appear to agree. A response on his LinkedIn post:

> Honestly, if they can get $5-10M from "somewhere else", I say go for it. Then maybe the Foundation resources can be hyper focused on catering to Chapters and Events.
CRAY X1 Multi Chip Module Teardown [video]
Well, We were working on a health app, that improves your health with science backed exercises. So we are testing certain features with these small web page. It's actually not a full clone of do nothing for 2 minutes. And about the use of this, you can definitely understand, how much your lung capacity is - its proved that, if you can hold breath for above 40 seconds, its considered your lungs are almost in good condition. So this test can actually show your lung capacity in a fun way.
My recollection was that they had some multi-process things, though the problem was that they had to keep breaking extensions as they added more and more. I believe multi-process NPAPI plugins was somewhere around 3.6 or 4? (Of course, 4 took forever to ship too… that was great for extensions though, because it meant no API breakage during that time.)
These dismissive autocomplete articles are falling on the opposite side of sensational journalism as the love and hitler type.

These are more than autocomplete. They demonstrate at least some amount of fuzzy logic and substitution and recall abilities, which makes sense from their origins as translators.

Because they are weighing the conversation, the conversation becomes the rules of the program.

The article I have here shows why they are more than simple autocomplete storytellers. https://telegra.ph/Bing-course-corrected-itself-when-asked-0...

I asked it to reprogram itself, it figured out a solution to the problem and implemented it. From one line of text.

The running process is loosely programmable, real time, just by talking to it with natural language requests and commands.
The Air Force May Have Shot Down a Wholesome Ham Radio Balloon
PlotGPT
Idea: ChatGPT integrated into a Jupyter Notebook so we never have to waste time searching through matplotlib configurations.
This guy is making a statement from his position of elite privilege. He already got his bag.

When the Europeans came to feudal China they were mystified that the Chinese had all this technology they weren't using. It was intentional. The reason is because the Chinese were smart enough to know that if they automated and outsourced everything they would end up with roving bands of unemployed men causing trouble in the countryside.

So yes, AI and ML can take many people's jobs today. Absolutely and in some areas it would be a beneficial improvement, e.g. guided medical procedures. But for other stuff, maybe not so much. What are these now unemployed people to do?

There's only so many hamburgers that can be flipped, and you have to have money to buy one anyway. Is the IBM CEO's vision of the future an economy where everyone works at a hamburger joint and then goes to another one to spend their pay to eat a hamburger made elsewhere?

Our society is not set up to allow for mass unemployment. Basic income needs to happen first.
I think I agree with you. That said, internal and external are a touch inadequate.

Specifically, for a large enough system, internal consistency will look more like external from a smaller system's perspective.

To that end, it is all about costs. If the cost of keeping consistent is not above the budget, do so.
So input/output devices don't exist for computer systems? So what happens when I load ChatGPT on to one of those Boston dynamics robots?
The rewritten version gets a fresh copyright timer of its own, but the original's copyright still expires the same time it was always going to.
I like the "mirror test" metaphor. But the argument holds whether or not our creations are sentient--the things we create always be a reflection of us.

I'm very afraid that when we do manage to create something sentient, we'll fail to recognize it, and we'll ridicule anyone who does.

I've been trying to write about this [1] [2] without sounding ridiculous, though I'm not sure how good a job I've done.

[1] https://superbowl.substack.com/p/a-different-kind-of-ai-risk...

[2] https://superbowl.substack.com/p/who-will-be-first-ai-to-ear...
Cool when it works! I wish the taboo words were a little trickier (guessing Jasmine in the Disney Princesses pack allowed me to use the word Aladdin). 877.54! Would be a cool addition to show a scale that this is out of, or where it falls in the distribution of other people who have played that pack.

From some subsequent plays

- there's no "Play Again" option

- My word was "yachtmanship" and the string "The word you are looking for is "yachtmannship". A yachtman is someone who sails or owns a large pleasure boat, so yachtmannship refers to the art or practice of pleasurable sailing in a large boat." was a little rough to not match. I also got it to say "YachtmanShip", so it's case sensitive.
How many children were maimed?
If anyone already uses Sideberry (and I assume TST will work as well) on Firefox and doesn't want to download an additional extension or doesn't want something quite this powerful, I wrote https://textmark.netlify.app/ a week or two ago, and I've been using it as a bookmark replacement.

Sideberry allows selecting arbitrary groups of tabs and copying them to the clipboard as an indented list of tabs. The site I put up will reopen those tabs, preserving the order and parent-child relationships between pages. It also uses `rel=noopener` to avoid a security risk I've noticed with similar sites in the past with parent-child page references. And it has no advertising and absolutely zero user tracking (aside from Netflify serverside logs that I can't turn off), since it's a project I made for myself and costs me nothing to run.

Also, the entire source (minus the favicon) is in one page, so if you want to self-host it yourself for extra protection, just view-source and copy and paste. It'll work on any static web host.

I've found this to be a hugely beneficial replacement for bookmarking. Bookmarks are too slow and cumbersome for me, so I end up not really using them. It's also annoying to enter descriptions for bookmarks, and I don't like that all of my bookmarks need to be in the browser at the same time. This allows me to copy tabs out to separate files (I use org-mode to sort everything). And then I just keep this site pinned and use it to reopen tabs later if I context-switch. It's the closest I've ever come to being able to actually manage my browser sessions and stop my tabs from growing out of control into the thousands.

I was going to wait to Open Source it and write up a better explanation of the workflow I use before sharing it, but it's appropriate to share it here. It's not nearly as powerful as what TabFS is talking about (and I'm very interested to look into TabFS more, since I've been thinking about roughly the same problem, and this looks like a potentially quite powerful setup), but it's a small system that has made a big impact for me over the past week or so, and since I was already using Sideberry it doesn't require me to install anything new or open any additional attack vectors.
Hey HN community,
We were working on a health app, that helps boost your health with quick 5-minute activities. We found that, for those who sit and work like tech people, banking people etc, it's hard for them to hold their breath for at least 40 seconds. It's due to their lifestyle. With this simple one-page app, we aim to show your lung capacity. Let me know your comments and thoughts. Thank you
It can be useful to bulk load data into a temporary table, do validations (which may involve joins to your permanent tables so it's convenient to be able to do in the database vs the application) there, and then once everything is validated, copy into your real tables from the temporary table. If you have a process like that, it could make sense to have the temporary table be unlogged (assuming the copy to real tables is still safe if you do that).
How a broken elevator led to one of the most loved programming languages today
Out of interest, what system processed 1 billion monetary transactions a day?
This is a reason why the fediverse is becoming so interesting and engaging. We can for example create an identity for the family and some friends and another for political discussion. They are only linked by word of mouth. The experience of followers is improved by the ability to follow a narrower but deeper identity.
Bad examples. Airlines are notorious for having incoherent booking policies. Over selling flights and such.