skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.mckeown.net/PENaddress.html Santa Monica’s system was called PEN. It seems like a microcosm of the last 25 years of the web compressed into a couple of years in a small beach town, on the edge of everything.
The consequences are what effect it has on the humans that interact with it and the feedback loop that ensues. The more it begins to resemble human level capabilities the more some people are going to attempt to extend those capabilities further.

It's fine for now, but it is very much a genie that has gotten out of the bottle now that everyone has had a glimpse of what might be possible.
My house has machines running FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Mac, and lastly some old '90s Unix I never power on. Those all have which.

The only portability wrinkle I've personally seen is that old Solaris behaved differently when the program isn't found. It would say "no $1 in $PATH" to stdout, whereas more recent systems just don't display anything.
Worked a bit with the "small" version of Flan T5 today. I was able to fine tune it, and the results were not complete garbage. About half were non sensical but the other half were passable.
This is a not-unreasonable position without context, but I think the American public reasonably expects the American president to handle foreign revolutions vis-a-vis hostage taking.
Good always better than bad. I think we all agree on that.

But good and ineffectual. I'm not sure I'd pick that over a dickhead who gets the job done.
And also, eventual consistency means that you need to make sure that data eventually does become consistent, and not just give up on consistency.
> For us to consider a machine sentient, it needs to function in a similar way to us, or else our definition of sentience gets way too broad to be true.

Imagine a more technologically advanced alien civilization visiting us. And they notice that our minds don't function quite in the same way as theirs. (E.g. they have a hive mentality. Or they have a less centralized brain system like an octopus. Or whatever.)

What if they concluded "Oh, these beings don't function like us. They do some cool tricks, but obviously they can't be sentient". I hope you see the problem here.

We're going to need a much more precise criterium here than "function in a similar way".
True, but this is something that could have gone both ways. It could easily have led to an enlightened movement as well. At he time the Mudjahedeen were very much in the "good guys" book.
I'd be interested in seeing other "setting up an electronics workshop" articles by other engineers.

Luke Gorrie, for example, has an article here: https://github.com/lukego/soldering
President Carter solved inflation, and it cost him the election, and President Reagan got the credit. Carter appointed Paul Volcker, an inflation hawk, as Fed chair in 1979. Volcker solved inflation by raising interest rates, causing two recessions, one of which was during Carter's re-election year. Reagan kept Volcker on for a short time before firing him, but Volcker got the job done, so it was President Carter that took inflation seriously and solved it with his hawkish Fed chair appointment. President Reagan gets credit for a booming economy, but it was President Carter that was responsible for that through massive deregulation. Reagan is thought of as a deregulator, but he only had two deregulations, one of which was Savings and Loan, which massively contributed to the 2008 mortgage crisis. Conservatives think back to the good old days of Reagan's two terms, but Reagan, seriously, didn't do shit, and everything everyone loves about that decade was solely due to the policies and decisions and sacrifices of President Carter. The man absolutely is a saint, and if there is any US President that could validly be canonized, it is him.
Currently those require a bank, a (smart) phone, and a data service. All of which aren't impossible but they're also not exactly universal. There's still about 5% of the US that doesn't even have a bank account in their household, a number highly correlated with income.
Apparently my grandfather had a bumper sticker, “Keep the canal, give ‘em Carter.”
I agree with you, and believe it is based more on feeling and leverage than what’s best for the employee (obviously).

However, In my experience at Amazon (going on 7 years), they are are slow to course correct or provide clarity. This guidance was handed down on a Friday, with no email, no forward notice to at least L8 or below leadership (Director), and relevant policy pages were unclear and hastily edited. This sent managers scrambling to provide answers to everyone panicked. And sends everyone off into the weekend with anxiety about their future. Its a non surprising but shitty feeling.

Meanwhile we had an all hands meeting earlier in the week, this wasn’t even mentioned…
That was very popular back then. Besides the 404, it has the side effect that if that URL leaked, then your password system broke. With this implementation leaking the page is not a big deal (assuming you're not using it to store state secrets or anything like that)
No, this is strictly client-side, ie. encryption and decryption happen in the user's browser.
Well-intentioned, fairly smart I guess. Hopelessly naive.

e.g. monitoring Venezuela's election 2013
I regularly get power outages of several hours in the pacific northwest [1]. My local cell towers go about 2-4 hours before dropping off. The telco DSL drops immediately, not sure about the cable company. Gotta make sure you've got offline entertainment or you're gonna be real bored.

[1] mostly from trees falling into lines; the same soil conditions that make undergrounding lines very expensive also contribute to trees having shallow roots, saturated soil and high winds strongly implies no power. Also, local regulation requires the power company to pass costs of most undergrounding along to the affected customers and they have to approve the work; most people don't want to spend their money on undergrounding, so it's not typically done.
>It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality.

I hope not. That movie was boring and terrible.
The question is what it would take to convince users, not to achieve some “definition” of consciousness.

The situation you describe seems contrived to the point where I doubt a user would see that as conscious - just like chatGPT
Related is the fact that most people who would be good politicians want nothing to do with politics and most that go into politics are the worst people to represent us. While i know it's too idealistic, I wish there could be some jury duty style model where real people are obliged to take on political duties
That's a tricky position to hold, because they keep doin' them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wIOqHSsV9c
For the avoidance of doubt, I wasn't at all suggesting that the original submission should have been to the Guardian article rather than the Telegraph one, and I don't think anyone else was either. I was just trying to explain why someone might have bothered to mention the Guardian article in response to a complaint about the Telegraph allegedly being a right-wing outrage machine.
Santa Monica’s PEN foretold the 2010’s rather eerily (1990)
Why wasn't the networking in doom just done as TCP/ip (or UDP/IP)?
Pretty much this. If there was ever a fundamental flaw of democratically-based systems, it's that people need to stop electing their leaders on the basis of how the economy is doing right now, at this moment.
I've had this problem to an even more frustrating degree when trying to catalog my own rehearsal recordings. I'm the composer, so at least that part is clear. But the "album artists" vary from rehearsal to rehearsal, I have many recordings of the same version of song, differentiated by rehearsal date, and I have different versions of songs too, for instance from when I add or drop an extra verse or extend a bridge. A lot of these recordings are in iTunes, but now I'm petrified to turn on iCloud Library sync because of the various data loss scenarios that are still out there.

Believe it or not, I had my entire process nailed when Bento existed. Then they got rid of it and I tried to cobble something together with Filemaker and it was always an awkward fit.

I'm not really aware if there's an open source or commercial offering out there for this sort of thing. I've come close a few times to just investing the hundred hours or so to roll my own web-based thing on a private server.
Oh yes centuries ago indeed
“Mother #*^%er.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Sigh. Just got this in the mail. It says I have to be president this year.”
It’s not without precedent at other universities. Let us not forget UC Berkeley I believe that unlawfully arrested student protesters and sprayed them with pepper spray while they were sitting there in handcuffs
The iPhone would be over a billion dollars if the world only built 20.
> brilliant nuclear engineer

Was he though? He did a B.Sc. and then "nuclear power school, a six-month non-credit course" which he did not finish (through no fault of his own).

The course was started after the clean-up in Canada.
should be noted that Russell’s HoWP has some major interpretative issues. Most notoriously he wrote prior to Kaufmann’s rehab of Nietzsche’s image in the Anglosphere; Russell interprets him entirely improperly.
> Human intelligence and consciousness are emergent properties. Machine intelligence as it develops will be emergent too

This is an extremely important point that's worth thinking hard about. After all, to some degree, human intelligence is also "just a fancy autocomplete" built from a giant network of interacting nodes.

The question of, "When do we grant personhood and moral consideration to AIs?" is worth thinking hard about. Turing proposed a standard which would include a sufficiently human-like chatbot. Now that we have more or less crossed that threshold, we seem to conclude that it's not a high enough bar. But that means we're entering the territory where the philosophical zombie thought experiment[1] becomes relevant.

In fact, I wonder what would happen if we dedicated a supercomputer to running one single long-running session of a GPT3.5-sized LMM. Further, I wonder what would happen if we connected it to a robot body where it could control motors, read sensor/camera info, and generally interact with the world. We could then give this system a clock which ticks at regular intervals, where the AI system is simply prompted to perform some series of actions if it "wants". This is all stuff we have the technology to do today. How would such an experiment turn out? How human-like would this LMM with a body and life experience turn out? Does it matter? Should we just assume that sentience or qualia is binary; that humans possess it but LMMs categorically do not?

I think the question is worth taking seriously. I think it's worth taking seriously because my own moral compass does not know which direction to point in at all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
Doom was from the early 90's. The internet wasn't a common thing, so TCP/IP was not as thoroughly established then as it is now.
In many cases you can get around these issues by being a little more clever in how you allocate nodes. In some cases you don't have the luxury of allocating all elements next to eachother anyway, in which case an intrusive linked list is often the best option to minimise copying. You might say use a vector of pointers or a circular buffer, but if you're in a timing sensitive context you might be unable to realloc.

Hell, memory allocators themselves are often implemented using some form of linked list. You tend to see them quite a bit at very low levels like in kernels.
Do you mean a property tax? We already have those. California also has a sales tax on real estate.
Don’t forget Amazon’s “Climate Pledge”, more like an IOU than actual action.
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https://youtu.be/tKnS84Vo2XY
Maybe you could ask ChatGPT to help with that.
Yes, it does behaves a bit like that exhausted outsourced call center that would give the customer an easy answer with a wish that a customer would not notice that a lazy answer was in fact given. Instead of giving the best insight possible with the clarity of limitations of that insight.

This is maybe caused by precisely the nature and the origins of the training data.
> I don't think there's much evidence either that he fought big money or was driven out of office by them.

Although "big money" is different people and different corporations now, they've pretty much always, in last 70+ years, acted in concert with the Republican Party. And that is exactly who drove him out of office, with activities such as illegally negotiating with Iran during the election to withhold the hostages until after the election, so the GOP could lord the hostage situation over the American public. That's just the tip, and the situation is exponentially more advanced today. Big Business, as we know it today, didn't even exist during Carter's Administration. Mom and Pop, family companies were still the majority then.
Surely it depends very much on what job gets done?
I naively don't know why you say that.
How much of that was the US's Cold War classic evaluation where Anti-Communist seems to vastly dominate any other consideration in the decision of who to back? Just look at the dictators and death squads we actively trained here in South and Central America.
Will Blackrock Money Fund Create a Back-Door CBDC?
> I was taught, back in the late 20th century, to never use the “which” program in shell scripts, since that program has its own logic on what programs are available, and that might differ from the method the actual shell uses to find programs, and this could obviously lead to subtle bugs.

This reminds me of the suggestion not to use access(2) and X_OK to decide to call execve(2) -- because the kernel behavior of executing the binary may work differently and fail for some other reason, or perhaps even there's a race condition where the executable bit gets removed between your calls.

This is typical advice given to people writing shells.

On this basis I would say using either which or command -v in unsound; neither of them are a guarantee that execve(2) will succeed. But like many things done in shell scripts, it's a "good enough" kind of solution that will do the right thing a majority of the time.
Recently laid off from misinformation team at twitter?
Where I live, McDonald's and other stores have already started replacing cashiers with touchscreens.

Not everyone can be a doctor or a lawyer. What about all those people who used to do a job that is now replacing them with a touchscreen or a "chat bot"? What do you envision for them? That they go back to school to train to be a doctor or a lawyer? Sure, will you agree to making education and training free or accessible, or will this require continued privilege where it's a requirement to be born into a rich family first?

There's over 8 billion people on the planet. How many blue collar jobs do you envision as being available to people if all the white collar jobs are replaced by AI and ML and automation and outsourcing and offshoring? Am I supposed to be a bricklayer now when I'm already too old physically for the punishing demands of that job?

A long time ago I knew a guy whose job was off-shored to the Philippines from Canada. He actually moved to the Philippines to keep it, but this isn't an option available to most people.
Ah yes, the mythical land of jobbies. Unfortunately we need solutions that work in real life and not an Ayn Rand fantasy.
There's a great book "Data and Reality" that discusses these subtle but very crucial differences. Discussed here in HN a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30251747
> It would be prudent to include some data to substantiate your insinuation

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-outsourced-737-max-re...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
With the number 390, it's either "Every man in this village is a liar" or it's one man saying his own version of the facts is the true one...
* Initiated deregulation and an inflation-hawkish Fed.

* Very dubious energy policies - which were not dominated by environmentalism but by the search for alternate fossil fuel sources, all of them way more polluting than conventional fossil fuels.

* Mixed foreign policy record, failing badly in on Iran and Zimbabwe but helping with Egypt-Israel peace.
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I ordered mine in 2017 and it's still not here.
Some people can't form long term memories due to brain injury. Are they killing themselves every time they forget their short term memories?
there are plenty of more plausible misconfiguration risks that we accept, or consider the operators responsible. i'm not sure why you would take issue with this one.

additionally, content-addressing provides another layer of security beyond location addressing. even improperly cached information is as secure as your hashing algorithm.
It tells me that the fee on digital goods is insanely high.
They do that in the US. It's called civil asset forfeiture, and the federal government supports it and takes a cut. No due process needed.

https://jalopnik.com/heres-another-reminder-that-the-police-...
Hello, Jerry...
Reagan played the political game far better than both Carter and Nixon (Watergate notwithstanding). He was a master at couching effective foreign policy tactics, which often relied on detente (eg negotiating with Iran), within the augur of American values and exceptionalism that spoke to the people of the time ("we don't negotiate with hostage takers").

The former was critical to actually get things done, but a president has to realise that the latter is just as critical because you need that public support to get the former through the door.
I’m not sure I follow. Hypothetically an AI that is able to honestly want would want for things that it could actually interact with — more RAM to live in maybe. ChatGPT is not such an AI of course.
I think what’s actually important to the Unicode Consortium is this - “countries” get RGI, non-“countries” don’t. Too many of the latter. But we don’t want to decide what is a “country” - we don’t want to evaluate ourselves factors like those you mention (degree of independence), since that’s politically fraught and largely beyond our expertise. We just want to defer to some existing international standard and let them take all the heat - and such a standard exists, ISO 3166.

ISO 3166-1 lists “countries”; it also lists many (but not all) “dependent territories” and one or two “special areas”, but there is a well-established international precedent for treating the latter two as if they were “countries” (see e.g. ccTLDs). However, ISO 3166-2 also labels subdivisions as “countries”, but only in two cases - the UK and the Netherlands. The Netherlands case is irrelevant for flags, because all of its “countries” either have 3166-1 codes too, or else lack flags. But the UK has three “countries” which do have flags, so those flags get RGI. Denmark and France contain “countries” too, but not according to 3166-2; but even if 3166-2 was updated to include them, it still wouldn’t make a difference, since they all either have 3166-1 codes too or lack their own flag.

Maybe, someone will convince Hawaii to declare itself a “country within the United States”, and 3166-2 will then be updated to list Hawaii as a “country” - then the Hawaiian flag would get Unicode RGI status. I really doubt all the other 49 would ever do that though.
Refik's artist portfolio website satisfies the visual curiosity you'll have after reading the article, which doesn't say much new in itself but notes that his team "spends months sourcing data, then applies an algorithm to scrub the imagery of any human traces — no faces, body parts or personal details, such as names — for privacy reasons".

https://refikanadol.com/
For him
They are required to provide the full source code for the versions that included the GPLv3 code. There is no exemption to this requirement. Removing the code is not sufficient; it shipped, so they must abide by its terms.

Otherwise, the relevant package authors should take them to court, because this should be a slam dunk win. We need more precedents for these licenses, and I am almost entirely certain that there will be lawyers that would take the case pro bono.
> Pointing out that is merely queued for deletion...

ok, so before deletion occurs, 1) how are you going to get it back and 2) how do you know how much you have/haven't lost (that transactional integrity I mentioned)?
This quote is relevant:

>The make-work bias is best illustrated by a story, perhaps apocryphal, of an economist who visits China under Mao Zedong. He sees hundreds of workers building a dam with shovels. He asks: “Why don’t they use a mechanical digger?” “That would put people out of work,” replies the foreman. “Oh,” says the economist, “I thought you were making a dam. If it’s jobs you want, take away their shovels and give them spoons.”

I think you are wrong in saying "Basic income needs to happen first." [emphasis mine] We have continually increased efficiency for hundreds of years without causing mass unemployment. I think there's still quite a ways to go before we have more bodies than we can find a use for. Not to mention there's a shorter, 32-hour week on the horizon that could negate the effect of less demand for labor.
I think a stock Atari Falcon is capable of playing mp3 thanks to the DSP (56001), but it still isn't a walk in the park even with that (in combination with a 68030 as the main CPU).
I remember when my Girlfriend and I were play Elder scrolls Online. I was really short on disk space at the time. (The download was also huge)

So I just set up a network share on her computer for it and launched it from a network mapped drive.

It just worked. I was kinda surprised. But I guess if the devs don't do anything fancy there's no reason it shouldn't work.
> Below is a simple implementation of a Linked List in C++:

LinkedList<string> myLinkedList = new LinkedList<string>();
LinkedList<T> myLinkedList = new LinkedList<T>();

Yeah, great implementation. Seriously though, you couldn't even spare the time to write something like (not C++):

deftype Linked-List
#:optional : value-type T
Option : Node value-type

defstruct
Node
#:optional : value-type T
head +none+ #:type value-type
tail +none+ #:type : Linked-List value-type
The problem is with doing the accounting for this… wouldn‘t we need a separate price for everything we buy for every product on the market?
"Take" can also mean "accept" or "require".
I hear this a lot but I think it’s kind of a cynical take. There are plenty of people who run for office because they genuinely care and genuinely believe they can make a difference.

Of course there are power hungry sociopaths who make it. But there are 535 members of Congress, 50 governors, thousands of mayors and city council members and state reps, etc. They can’t all be terrible, yet I feel like the popular refrain is still “no one actually good wants to be in charge.”

I don’t know. Just feels very self fulfilling and defeatist.
Can you recommend a good substitute for the Cheatsheets?
> You're hiding behind a semantic argument about what "full" means

No, I'm "hiding" behind the truth. I'm "hiding" behind the benchmark Tesla very publically sets for itself. Every year. Year after year:

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...

> that's leading you to some really emotionally dark places

Okay, this is just sad now. It's like a kind of Stockholm syndrome. Cult members go one of two ways when confronted with realities which contradict their beliefs: they either finally recognise the silliness of their beliefs or they become even more ardent believers.

It's better to try to find a way to be objective. You shouldn't let people con you and you certainly shouldn't propagate the lie.