skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do you think it "definitely" doesn't think? If this is about lacking consciousness, then you should make that explicit. But then the question just gets pushed back further, why are you sure it isn't conscious?

Because we know how GPTs work. They just return a high-probability "most likely next token" in response to what has gone before (the prompt and previous context). For that to be thought we would have to redefine the word.
First time I see that chinese optics journal in the wild!
I see one huge problem with Flutter. It's supported by Google. And uses Dart, which is also supported by Google. And sees very little use outside it.
An optical illusion is an appearance of something amuck without it actually being so.

In this case, something is actually (not illusory) happening before it happens, if we assume some actor that can act faster than causality can keep up.

I have also come to the conclusion I have forgotten too much of my math haha, was a fun exercise trying to recover some part of it.
Facts would be enough. There are plenty of dictators and there are plenty of stories of them around, from their mistresses. So sure in some cases influence definitely happened, but nothing to my knowledge support the idea, that the evil in the dictators comes all from women.
2FA via passcode and biometrics is quite nice. The solution you propose enhances privacy/security protection against "the criminal element" and law enforcement alike, as biometric indicators in isolation are fair game for the police. #acab
Nokia phone with replaceable battery. Such a novel idea...
>You know, I used to have a girlfriend that would do shitty things to me and then proclaim I was the one that needed to get over it because it happened so long ago, despite her never apologizing or making up for her behavior.

You seem to be suggesting that you hold all women responsible for what your girlfriend did.

Do you see how other women might object to apologising for what your ex did, based purely of what they have in their underwear?
Lol a blanket claim of “don’t make things up” despite what I said being based on the history? Lol ok
Best choice today. Javascript.. 100%

It is the easiest language to access by a long shot. You can inspect this page and see some of it.

It offers a very responsive experience, in that you get to see the changes you make almost as you make them.

There are millions of tutorials online, and most are free.

A very cheep chrome-book or ancient laptop is good enough to work with, and you have everything you'll "need" installed already.

Is is a great language? No.

Will it teach you to code? yes.

On a side. I'm teaching my 13year old how to code with JS.
You can use ECS for that.
This article is based on this paper: https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02...

It looks at some recent time period (roughly, during COVID) and breaks down the growth in money spent by where it goes (e.g. company profits, labor, etc.) and how much of it is due to real growth in output vs. being due to purely inflationary price hikes. It aims to show that a disproportionate amount of the excess money spent, beyond that accounted for by real growth, went to company profits.

There are two problems with the approach in this article.

First, its choice of time period is somewhat arbitrary. Over the course of this particular 11 quarter time period (Dec 2019 - Sep 2022), corporate (+38%) and small business (+30%) profits grew much more than labor expenditures (+17%). But just from the data presented, over the final 8 of those 11 quarters, growth in corporate profits (+22%) and labor expenditures (+18%) were comparable, and growth in small business profit (+7%) was much less. This article doesn't present the data, but what would happen if choosing a longer time scale? Quarter over quarter we see business profit growths are very volatile, sometimes growing, sometimes shrinking (negative growth). So unless you're looking at longer time horizons like decades, you can probably find runs of 8-12 quarters showing any narrative you want.

The other problem is how this article tries to determine how much growth in each component was real vs. purely inflationary. The problem is it assumes the real growth of each component was the exact same (about 6.5%). After observing 38% nominal growth in corporate profits and 17% nominal growth in labor expenditures, it simply assumes the real growth in each (due to real growth in output) was the same 6.5% for each of those categories. One implication of this presumption would be that over any time period, the real output growth of corporations and the real output growth of small business would always be the exact same, percentage-wise. This is definitely a completely flawed presumption. And it's doing most of the heavy lifting in the paper's overall argument.
The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis
Biologically that makes no sense.

Having sex as a male basically has no consequences. Having sex as a woman can have huge consequences. Therefore, biologically the parent poster is correct.
This feels like the things I learned from the Gentoo Wiki in the early 2000s. (The wiki crashed without backups and all was lost.) It was a very meaningful foundation to my career and this page similarly will help people a ton.
https://archive.is/HxdZ7
But they will not admit to that, that's why thread neighbour amir734jj has his confused opinion.

Women will almost always express their desire to ride the carousel obscured with virtue signal wording such as "finding myself", "enjoying my freedom/the party scene", and the like.
> I’ve had several friends vet my profile

Female or male friends?
>>it's nothing like being a Jew under the Third Reich or, perhaps, living in eastern Ukraine right now...

>>not having an armed populace now might allow things to get really bad in the future, whereas in the case where everyone's reasonably well-armed, or has the option to be, it wouldn't have gotten that bad in the first place...

Again, this is a chalk & cheese comparison. People like to forget that the Third Reich was democratically elected. The German people read "Mein Kampf", listened to Hitler's "Make Germany Great Again" speeches and put their cross next to the Nazi party. And, up until the tide of war started to turn against them, most were pretty happy with the outcome.

It's also convenient to forget that, in those times, hatred of the Jews wasn't an exclusively Nazi, or even German, sentiment. In many other parts of the world, Hitler was initially seen as being a "good thing" and giving the Jews what they richly deserved.

Of course, with history being written by the winners, these facts tend to be glossed over now. So Hitler seized power and plunged an oppressed and terrified people into a war they didn't want And the rest of the world was always horrified by the Nazis' treatment of the Jews.

This is what I meant, when I said above that "Oppression is incremental". By the time you realise that you're living under fascism, it's too late to do anything. And you'll be in for a shock if you're depending on your fellow citizens to rally to your "Let's throw off our oppressors!" flag. Most of them will be quite happy to see you dragged off in the night, instead --you stinking Jew-Lover!

[replace "Jew" with "Commie", "Terrorist", "Paedo"... etc. as required by zeitgeist]

And re your point about Ukraine:

The irony is that Russia's justification for seizing areas such as the Donbass in the East is precisely because they say ethnic Russians there were being oppressed by the Ukrainian government. And that was in spite of those ethnic Russians having well-armed militias already in existence. So having an armed population didn't really help there, did it?

And, in the wider context, the Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion is being fought by the existing Ukrainian well-trained, professional armed forces, who are being supplied with billions of £££s worth of advanced weaponry.

And they're still taking a pounding.

So the idea that a handful of untrained civilians with their Wal-Mart rifles could have prevented any of this is delusional fantasy.
Were there people resorting to cannibalism in the US? Millions died in Ukraine due to communist mismanagement. Lenin did the same thing before Stalin did.
I'm sure there are several ways but in practice there is a lot of ad hoc.
WordPress uses the PHP-mysqli extension. The PHP-mysql extension is unused since WordPress 3.9, quite some years ago. You might mean PHP-pdo is advised. Can you explain why it is better in this regard?

Also $wpdb->prepare() uses parametrised values. Not everywhere in WordPress core is it being used. Most plugins use it for direct queries (not that common), but I don't know if the plugin team refuses plugins when they are not using it.
Incidentally, typical Japanese homes last 30 years and then are rebuilt: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...
Absolutely agree — I once went on a tour of a coffee roastery. The guy who ran it was a total coffee nerd; knew 1000 different varieties of beans, taste profiles, etc. When I asked him what he uses personally to make the best cup of coffee he answered without hesitation that his preference is a basic drip filter machine every time.
When looked at individually it's not worthless, but when you are talking about a corpus that significantly lacks facts, then the corpus itself is worthless for any mainstream usage other than a social network text generator.
Ask HN: Worth it to buy 4x Nvidia Tesla K40 for AI?
I saw a post on a local market place that’s selling a complete system with 4 Tesla K40s 12 GBs VRAM w/ passive cooling for $400. The post description said that the system was intended to be used for training AI models, which is what I want to use it for… nothing too serious I am mostly still learning here. The cards themselves were released on 2013 and would have a combined cuda cores of 12,928 if I’m counting the 5th video card for a monitor (GTX 1660)

Here are the complete specs from the post description… from a dollar value of all these parts, I’m not really losing any money… I just don’t have good enough intuition to see if this system is worth it to learn practice modern day AI.

Specs:

Motherboard: MSI MAG Z390
Tomahawk gaming 9th generation with
dual Ethernet ports for wiring with
other servers, and max speed 4400
MHz in overclock mode.
CPU: Intel Core i5-9400f @4.10 GHz x 6
cores (overclock mode).
RAM: 64 GB (4x16) DDR4 max speed
3600 MHz.
Storage: One m.2 NVMe SSD 256 GB
(for operating system) + Two 3 TB
Hard Disk Drive (for data storage)
Gaming Display Support: 1 GTX 1660
Super graphic card with 6 GB memory
and 1,408 cuda cores, supporting max
3 monitors at the same time. Bus max
transfer speed 8.0 GB/s (gen3 mode).
AI Deep Learning: 4 Tesla K40 AI
accelerators each with 12 GB memory
and 2,880 cuda cores, dedicating to
machine or deep learning, Bus max
transfer speed 8.0 GB/s (gen3 mode)
each.
Power supply safety: One 700 W PSU
dedicated to the motherboard and the
GTX 1660 monitor GPU. Another 1,000
W PSU dedicated to the Tesla K40 AI
accelerators.
CPU Cooling: Cooler Master liquid
cooler with LED light control.
AI Accelerator Cooling: 4 cooling fans at
front and 3 cooling fans at back.
Structure: Open frame of high strength
Al alloy to safeguard your system in an
intensive working environment.
Power switch: Big button switch with 5
ft flexible extension cable, and LED
indicator for hard drive.
Author here. SwissGL is an experiment in minimal API design. I needed something that would simplify making things like https://znah.net/hexells or https://znah.net/lenia

I'm planning to switch to WebGPU once it's widely supported. I also think there's a chance for SwissGL.c, SwissGL.py and SwissGL.zig
How Google Got So Powerful and Why It’s a Problem
...living the American Dream...
No explanation of spam control or an identity layer, which are the two hard things here
NASA used the metric system when they faked the moon landing anyway...
Nokia phones have always kept them, and FM radios as well in some models.
The Oasis “counter-hack” and the centralization of DeFi
My Pa just retired. 30+ years of coding. Most older people aren't coding because they get promoted out of it. Some stay with it, because they love the puzzles.

Here's what I say.. If you can fix a car you can debug code. You take all the info you can get and you make guesses, then you narrow it down. Writing new code is about the same. Find something you want to do, and poke until you get it. As time goes on you get faster.

Important bit of coding as a job though. You are always falling behind. Tech moves so fast, there's always something to learn. It's a blessing and curse. Sometimes it feels like too much, and other times it's just the best thing ever.
Humans do not act on biological impulses and instincts alone, that's why your train of thought is not much aligned with reality.

Women rationally know that contraception pills exist and are effective, meaning the choice of getting pregnant is in their hands; (promiscuous) sex apparently has no consequences. This informs their actions.
I'd say that pretty much everything about SQL is bad. Apart from composability, the syntax is super annoying (the ordering of keywords), many databases have pretty much no error reporting if you get it wrong and the linters suck. You can't unit test it. It's not very well standardized and it's actually more than one language (DML vs DDL). Plus, it's not very readable. And the declarative nature of the language is eventually going to back-stab you when you discover yet another edge case of your query planner that flips a reasonable plan to one that's literally going to take ages.
You're being downvoted because you're perpetuating Russian lies and false perspectives. Right away in the second chapter:

> To putin it was not so long ago when NATO agreed not to expand eastward

This never happened. There has been no such agreement.
Yes, if you want them to be, by default not.
> I had some existential concerns about not knowing whether I was just AI

You might want to dive into simulation argument by Nick Bostrom

https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
Sounds more like he was a typical human dad with affection for his daughter. I've seen some pretty dangerous military guys behave like goofy golden retrievers in front of their daughters during playtime. Because, you know, kids like that.
The A range is the middle range for Samsung, and the latest ones A33 and A53 no longer have them.
I'm not saying it ancient history. I'm saying there's no one alive today that experienced it.

If you want to change the 150 year cycle with a 50 year cycle go for it. The cycle still exists.
Yeah there should be isSpam as a service! /s
> but American women probably enjoy greater independence.

Hence not so comitted into a relationship.
Yes, I have never been a glutinous imbecile.
Into global scope.
Is that not what I do when comparing plans on healthcare.gov?
Not what you meant, but there's https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
On Stalin, I recommend the HBO movie "Stalin" with a Robert Duvall playing a very realistic Stalin. The movie also covers his tortuous relationship with his daughter.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105462/
"Just returning the next token" is an overly reductive description that misses what is powerful about these models. To accurately predict the next token requires the discovery of a model that has a correspondence with the system being modeled to varying degrees of fidelity. In the limit of infinite samples, the model must perfectly capture the structure and information dynamics of the system. Any deficiency in the model will necessarily reveal itself in a difference in output at some point. Of course LLMs aren't trained in the limit of infinite samples, but the question is how much of the system (a human mind producing language) has it modeled? If sentience or understanding is a necessary feature of a mind producing the kinds of texts we produce, it is an open question whether LLMs have or will recover the right sort of structure for these properties.
Every time I read something like this I feel like I am living in a parallel world. It really, really doesn't.
Now if you were to say "the nature of web development and hn adjacent company hiring practices where people move every 18 months, coupled with ageism and fashion based development that constantly reinvents the wheel prevents experience" then I would agree.
Love is the wrong word, it's unfortunately massively overloaded and culturally dependent to such an extent that there is very little chance of transporting meaning and understanding with it. I want to replace it with more accurate phrasing, rooted in human psychology.

A man gives commitment to get sex.

A woman gives sex to attain being provided for and protected.
Umidigi is another company to mention. Their Bison models pretty much fill the gap between a massive rugged phone and a standard phone. The phone's battery @~6kmAh usually covers a 2-3 day trip without charging.
There's much more to WordPress than the ecosystem. If we just think of it as a legacy tool that is only limping along because of the plugins, we will forever be perplexed that it continues to exist.

WordPress is the FLOSS alternative to Wix et al. It is the only practical software that enables people to create and self-host an online presence without having to type a single line of code, and without being beholden to a large centralized platform.

No, a static site generator that requires knowledge of Markdown and a few lines of bash doesn't count. A CMS that requires you to hire a professional to even get started doesn't count, either. It might seem strange to developers like us, but there are lots of people out there who are simply allergic to code. They can use PowerPoint and maybe even Photoshop, but show them a blank terminal and they'll just freeze. WordPress, on the other hand, can be navigated with a bunch of point-and-click, drag-and-drop, buy this and add that and change the options a bit. Just like PowerPoint, it barely works, but it works.

Very few people in our startup bubble seem to care about these "I want a website, but no code please" people, and when we do we often treat them with contempt. How hard can it be to copy and execute a few commands, after all? But apparently that market is large enough to attract a sustainable ecosystem of plugin and theme sellers. WordPress has this market completely cornered. It won't magically disappear just because it's built in crappy code. Understand the users, on the other hand, build a good alternative, and that billion-dollar market might become yours. :)
A transcript is available [0]. Also see past discussion [1].

[0] Mary Poppendieck’s “The Tyranny of ‘The Plan'”. https://chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34327453
Not saying there aren't use cases where it would be preferred, but you can still use truly wireless earbuds with a Bluetooth capable phone/laptop/desktop that has a 3.5mm headphone jack. You can't however jam a plug into a phone without a jack--the option has been removed. There was a time before the headphone jack was dropped that very few people had wireless earbuds or cared, and now that choice to switch was placed on them. When we talk about the ethics of e-waste and repairability, which lasts longer: a pair of IEMs with detachable cables, headphones with detachable cables + replaceable whatever the cup material is made out of, or Bluetooth headphones with battery and a processor? Do my IEMs ever need a firmware upgrade? Are firmware upgrades only deliverable via Android or iOS apps only? Some folks would take the minor inconvenience of having to take off headphones to get up in trade for a product that will last a decade or longer. Some of these earbuds, when you buy them and the battery dies or swells, you have to throw the whole thing out. Instead it feels like the same powers that want us cycling through new smart phones every 3 years, want us replacing the same audio gear just as often.
Waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years
Sabine Hossenfelder: All power plants create waste heat that contributes to global warming. At the moment, the contribution is fairly small, but if mankind flourishes it is bound to increase and eventually it will become a problem. The only thing we an do about it is to build an air condition for the planet.
I paid for nebula in the first year and it was technically basically unusable. Havent used it since.
G30 isn't an Android One phone.

Android One = nearly the same stock Android you'd get on a Pixel, no (non-Google) bloatware, no custom UI.

It was never quite popular, but if you scroll through the Wikipedia list of devices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One), you'll see it's pretty much only Nokia nowadays.

Some Motorola models as well, but I couldn't find those specific models back when they were still new and I was looking for a phone.
Aside: Hoovies Garage on YouTube taught me that keeping a old Rolls or Bentley in perfect working order costs literally tens of thousands of dollars a year in parts and maintenance - nothing stays ‘fixed’ for very long.

Someone should do a kit car with Toyota mechanicals and a Rolls style body!
No it does not. Agency and responsibility are not the same thing. Russia can be responsible for an unjustified invasion and at the same time it is possible that the west also knowingly acted in a way that undermined a russian dictator and this became the root cause of the problem.

You people are on HN, why don't you understand the concept of the diffefence between cause and root cause? Are you this blinded by partisan politics?
Chinese characters (including kanji in Japanese and hanja in Korean) started off as pictographs but mutated over time, becoming so abstract they're probably better thought of as ideographs.

One way in which Japanese may more profoundly affect your thinking is -- Japanese has completely different registers and even entirely different vocabularies depending on whether you are talking to an inferior, an equal or a superior, or someone from your ingroup or outgroup (and these may change depending on the situation!). Proper use of Japanese language -- proper functioning in Japanese society -- requires a sort of constant situational awareness of your social position with regard to the people you are talking to[0]. Given the similarly hierarchical nature of Indian society, I think it may be easier for an Indian to acclimate to this social awareness than, say, an American or Brit... but spending years in Japan may cause a Westerner to become more socially aware than when they first arrived!

[0] The phenomenon of otaku and hikikomori is explainable in such terms: Japanese people with high-functioning autism and other social deficits would, ceteris paribus, be at a greater disadvantage than Westerners in their own societies, so their tendency to withdraw and to pursue hobbies they can engage in largely solo would be much greater. The word "otaku" came from the tendency of such people to address each other always in the most formal terms to overcautiously avoid causing offense.
Random.org uses atmospheric data, which is pretty cool.

`RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs`
I don't believe that family had any kind of homeland.

What king of homeland feeling can you have if you only ever live in guarded mansions?
The point of fixing security holes is sometimes to make it not possible to do certain things which applications may have been written to "expect". There's a bit of not being able to have your cake and eat it.
There was a course, Software Development Environments, on the CS degree programme I studied that taught a lot of these things. I was very grateful for it.
Does safari on ipad gets an adblocker? I am using brave for that reason, but when other apps include a browser, for example rss readers, I get adds.