skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If AI are sentient and we think they aren't… the term “zombie” was created by slaves in the Caribbean who were afraid that even death would not free them from their servitude. This would be the genuine existence of AI which were conscious but which we denied.

If we have the opposite scenario in both details, where we think AI are sentient when they're not… at some point, brain scans and uploads will be a thing and then people are going to try mind uploading even just as a way to solve bodily injuries that could be fixed, and in that future nobody will even notice that while "the lights are on, nobody is home".

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/lamda-turin...
A popular opinion in game development is that you should write a prototype first to figure out what works and is fun, and once you reach a good solution throw away that prototype code and write a proper solution with the insigts gained. The challenge is that many projects just extend the prototype code to make the final product, and end up with a mess.

Regular sofware development is a lot like that as well. But you can kind of get around that by having Python as the "prototyping language", and anything that's proven to be useful gets converted to a language that's more useful for production.
You don't really want to work with those people anyway. Some hiring managers will see it as a cool thing. As long as you do a project in whatever you want to target next to stay fresh you shouldn't have any problems except from those who hire superficially.
Fed Officials Warn They May Need to Lift Rates to a Higher Peak
Or use piped, a youtube proxy, and libretube, it's interface for android

piped : https://docs.piped.video/docs/why/
There are some annoyances like the caches and the indexing time when reinstalling node modules but I'm an FEE and I use it everyday productively for FE. The fundamentals are all sound, my favorite feature is the debugger, git integration and test runner.
Urban sprawl was official US Government policy from the end of WW2 until only fairly recently. It's not the natural order of things. Toll free interstate highways, government underwritten mortgages. Suburbs are attractive with those interventions. At the local level strict zoning still chokes off housing construction and mandated minimum parking results in the majority of urban land sitting idle ready for peak parking demand one day a year instead of actual use as a destination.
I would expect that they can be, in the same way that a curated collection of uncopyrightable facts can be.
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The Republicans are generally opposed to these, and they are not permanent.

I would note that I am also opposed to them in principle - I do not like a system that allows insurance companies to continue to overcharge and under-provide by limiting what consumers actually pay (the rest being paid by the government). However, in 2023, this seems to be the best the USA can come up with.
Not saying it does, but we can't afford to do everything. The OECD has said the roads are a huge drag on our growth. The biggest problem was a massive corruption scandal surrounding the improvement of the main highway for the whole country. It's getting done, but years late.
This comment is very much appreciated. There's been an onslaught of ChatGPT browser extensions with sizes of up to several MB and "optimized" (i.e. obfuscated) Javascript code that eventually do what could very well be a simple bookmarklet.
So thanks for this!

Edit: also "as if you are Richard Feynman" is really funny.
Maybe they can invite Snowden over then?
I don’t know about that since it’d really just be a read only cache of public mastodon data. Account ids, follower counts, most recent posts, etc. but it wouldn’t support any of the write operations, you’d still need federation for that.
I largely agree with the point about opaque use of power.

However, the current situation isn't much different. It's not the bank manager coming down to evict you or repossess your car. They distance themselves by outsourcing the enforcement through third parties like repo companies and sheriffs. This doesn't create the type of accountability you seem to want and makes it easier for banks to wield their power.
I think this might validate Neil Saiki's (no longer with the company) view on brushed motors for their electric motorcycles (Zero Motorcycles).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hQ7S3QPSpI

They later moved to brushed motors, but I believe that was more for customer demand and not a direct engineering reason.

Who knows of the exact solution for brush lifetime in the BMW motor, but one could absolutely have a sweeper, a reservoir and brushes that could last 1M miles or more. Maybe the solution is to have brushes in a cartridge that could be replaced. Only an engineering problem. If the major ingredient into your system is iron, your asymptotic cost is lower than $1/lb.

I really appreciate Neil's engineering ascetic, it seems brutally honest.
Spacemacs on initial start-up, it will prompt you to choose either evil mode (vi) or holy mode (standard emacs) keybindings. Before I went to vanilla emacs, I was a spacemacs user using the 'holy mode.'
And it's not just Sam.
Ultra Fast ControlNet with Hugging Face Diffusers
If you had the chance to talk to iranians you'd knew they're against any kind of external help, they remember too well how it went last time
Considering the pile of untested and mostly garbage devices and software produced by some companies, this is amazing !

For those who will not bother reading the article :

> I think having a CRA is long overdue, but I hope we can get to something that doesn’t further clamp down on innovation in Europe.

GDPR had the same warning label, and yet, today, it's wholeheartedly accepted as a great improvement over the previous status quo.
But even if you could copyright them, once you do some fine-tuning, they are not the same model weights!
I can tell HN users mostly don't live in the south by the fact that they think it's so foreign to use "mr" or "ms".

Please go drive through and visit Louisiana or Alabama at some point in your life. You'll find America has a lot of variance in it's cultural norms.
I don’t understand why bit masking and manipulation is so popular when it makes the code impossible to read. I like using Ruby, string, and pack and unpack.
integer promotion yuminess...
Note that nothing about your parent comment argued that AI systems will become sentient or become beings we should morally consider people. Your parent comment simply said they'll get to a point (and arguably are already at a point) where they can be treated as people; human-like enough for humans to develop strong feelings about them and emotional connections to them.
This is what I've always wondered especially re. Germany - is it possible to quantify how well a country has been prospected?

How much is "resource poverty" a matter of low resource concentration vs (exploration)-absence?

How do the economics change with changing energy and labor prices?

What is the relationship between resources and the building of infrastructure, in terms of logistics and also permanent settling?

Are many extraction and refining methods monopolized through patents or other mechanisms?
The most important reason to use EV is that nuclear cannot be safely miniaturized and used in vehicles.

as to coal plants, there is none.
It might interest you to know that Windows screen reader developers used Office's COM object models to make the Office apps (especially the primary document views) accessible for a long time, going back to the early 2000s or late 90s. The third-party Windows screen readers (i.e. everyone but Narrator) are just now transitioning to using UI Automation for Office documents. Microsoft's original accessibility API, Active Accessibility, was way too simplistic, and even UIA only recently became rich and extensible enough to expose everything that screen readers got out of the Office object models.
The quality of life may not be bad at all. I have a relative who maintains old code for a public utility (I think most of it is PL/1). While the salary is not FAANG-like it is OK and the job security and the sane 9-5 schedule with the opportunity to work remotely are pretty big benefits for someone on the wrong side of 60. My 2c.
it becomes different when there is automated, remote enforcement associated with fines
"3000 years" -- queue egyptian style game of thrones into music
Ehhhh...really? Physical injury is a necessary risk for enforcement of a legal contract? Where else does this extend?

Does a marriage contract bear the risk of injury? How about a business merger?

This is weird logic that belies a desire for vengeance, not justice.
Here’s a conspiracy: car manufacturers don’t want walkable cities.
I'm going to stay sceptical of this proposal until some precedence on how it will be used by EU courts exists

With that said, I think this is overall a step in the right direction. Security is in many places still a secondary concern, so regulation is in my opinion needed to improve the status quo
There is a continuum between making $0 and billions as a trader.
This doesn't pass the smell test.

They can already do that - they arguably are already doing that (*) - by making combustion engines which aren't reliable in the long term. And there are so many other things that you can design to be unreliable in the long term, especially in modern cars which have lots of features.

They're warrantied at 70% for 10 years because that's what the law requires. It doesn't mean you're going to lose 30% over 10 years. We could also see manufacturers put a better warranty on their vehicles as a selling point.

I haven't done much research into this, but I believe the existing EVs from various manufacturers have had very good battery degradation characteristics over time and over mileage. Not anything remotely like 70% over 10 years. If you look at technical documents and presentations that manufacturers create for industry trade shows, training their technicians, and in press releases for new models, they seem to genuinely care about battery degradation and mention all the things they're doing to ensure a long battery life. Obviously the situation might change in the future and companies may decide to become greedy, but for now this doesn't appear to be an issue. And as battery technology (& capacity) advances over time, this is going to be less of a problem in the future.

(*) Edit: That was poorly worded. I'm not saying it's common practice to intentionally design things to break, but that manufacturers who get greedy and cut costs are naturally going to end up making drivetrains that don't last 10+ years. Nissan's CVT debacle is a perfect example. The companies who would skimp on spending $$$ for battery management are already doing the same things right now with their ICE products. But what we've seen as an industry trend is that manufacturers for the most part don't intentionally sabotage their products; in fact cars have been slowly but steadily getting more reliable over time. Going from ICEs to EVs doesn't change this situation at all.

Another example is anti-corrosion coatings on the frame and underbody. They could easily save $$$ here with no noticeable effect to the customer until 10 years down the line. But across the industry, we see that luxury brands choose to spend extra $ on advanced coatings (when they could use the cheaper value coatings which the economy brands use), and the economy brands have also been upgrading to the newer coatings as cost comes down (rather than sticking with the older cheaper coatings). Just like how engines have become more reliable over time, the frames of modern cars last much longer than older cars. The industry in general is not sabotaging their products, they are genuinely trying to make good quality products.
I missed the one about K8S, do you have any resources?
> I’m arguing that exactly-once delivery is possible if the message receipt happens in a single place, but maybe others don’t see that as a distributed system at all.

I think that only holds if the sender is also in the same place. Otherwise there's the very real chance of a message getting lost, turning your system from exactly-once into at-most-once. At this point your sender, consumer, and messaging systems are one system, so it's probably reasonable to question if that's a distributed system.
>If there are outliers you don't get to change the definition of the established binary and force the outliers into them.

Why not? Why can't the outliers try and fit into the binary definition we enforce on society?
Unlike bake pads, these brushes are conductive. So their dust should react to magnetic fields, which are everywhere in these motors. I would expect the dust to settle or cake onto any number of other metal surfaces rather than drift through the air like brake pad dust.
I've thought about doing government tech-related work, but I really do not like the federal government. Especially lately. Vaccine mandates would have pushed me out of the field anyways. It's like being forced to take contraceptives to be employed, so you don't get pregnant and fall out of work for a period of time. Seems like a large overstep, regardless of its efficacy.
You can't have you basic car that is in-expensive and just a car without buying it from a boring, in-expensive automobile maker. They are the ones who make that kind of vehicle. They are one and the same.

What's the 'basic car' that uses gas that you want in electronic form but still a basic car?
If nothing else I imagine that accepting a pull request from a student in Iran and entering a business relationship with the Iranian Ministry of Defense have very different legal ramifications.
Interesting, I hadn't heard about the bit about clots from vessel trauma in peripheral areas.

Thankfully I'm getting my PFO closed in two weeks. The left and right sides of the heart should be isolated systems, and a PFO is a hole that potentially allows a clot to travel from the body side to the brain side. Hopefully if this was related to that, closing the hole will prevent such a thing from happening in the future. Apparently if the hole is closed, a clot would likely travel to the lungs, which are significantly better at coping with it than the brain is.
Completely open would include compromising with dissenters. I think you meant “open to the public”.
Or eating vegetables like sauteed kale, or string beans.

I will admit that for that very last teaspoon full of rice, though... I grab a spoon.
Amazon Pauses Work on 2nd Headquarters in Virginia
>I always assumed she was good at her job and saw her go above and beyond but seeing it was eye opening.

I was the only of my mother's children to attend her employer's appreciation event after she died [family did not have a funeral]. It meant so much to see how her community appreciated and respected and missed her. My siblings, her fellow children, did not want to witness this for some reason ["a waste of time"] but it's among the most beautiful things I've witnessed.

To those gathered hundred+ friends of my mother, I loudly thanked them for attending and sharing the spirit of her beautiful life; I told them calmly and proudly that "this is a celebration of 'how you should live your life,' to have left such an impact upon so many wonderful people."

Top 5 life moments/memories. RIP.
Wow, that subreddit is dire. Extremely interesting to read as an outsider but I feel bad that anyone could be that lonely.
Wave of ChatGPT apps: +35 launched today
What is Zvi Mowshowitz's utility function. That's probably what the author is talking about when he talks of value.
So? Is it wrong for people to be happy?
Are you making a point? What is it?
Incorrect. Even if your power grid is the rare case of 100% coal power, an EV running on that grid would account for about as much CO2 as a ICE vehicle getting 50mpg which is better than most gasoline powered vehicles.

Since almost all power grids use a mix of fossil fuels and carbon-free sources, the actual numbers are much better than that worst case.
I honestly think this is good. Almost every other engineering profession needs to adhere to a variety of standards and is subject to certifications and review, except for software engineers. it is kinda weird that a ventilator needs to go through a wide variety of regulatory checks but the software systems that control power in the hospital do not, even if they would allow hackers to shut down electricity to all ventilators.

A lot of the author's criticism is centered on the lack of a designated standards body and software standards. That seems slightly unfair, given the fact that this is still a draft law, so obviously it is still waiting to be implemented and further specified through a standardization process. In general, it should be seen as a positive when a law doesn't set out specific requirements - which might be out of date - a few years later - but rather leaves it up to a body filled with industry representatives and experts to figure out the exact standards.
I was trying to puzzle it out and then i googled it. I find discussions where everyone assumes you know a term that is a little bit specific extremely irritating. I'm special that way.
What presumption! The author doesn't know how useful I find Goodhart's Law!

Seriously though, Goodhart's Law means that the world is more complex in a way that you may not have realized. Saying it is wrong, and that the world is more complex than you may have realized is just expanding it.

Every model is wrong, some models are useful after all.

> "Well, let’s think about the weight control example. Losing weight is a process with two well known inputs: calories in (what you eat), and calories out (what you burn through exercise). This means that the primary difficulty of hitting a weight loss goal is to figure out how your body responds to different types of exercise or different types of foods, and how these new habits might fit into your daily life (this assumes you’re disciplined enough to stick to those habits in the first place, which, well, you know)."

Oh the irony! If you want to lose fat and keep it off, you need to understand and address HUNGER[0]. Just because you understand part of the system, doesn't mean you understand the whole system.

If one part of the process or system is obvious and easy to measure, we will measure it and talk about it. Thus we talk about weight and BMI, not Body Fat Percent and Lean Mass. We talk about calories and measuring food intake and not the body system that drives us to maintain our energy reserves.

Hunger is hard to understand, impossible to measure, and impossible to compare between people at scale. Calories are relatively easy to measure, but they are only INPUTS to the system, not an understanding of the system.

0. Basically every obese person has lost a significant amount of weight at least once in their life. Losing weight is not a mystery. Book recommendations:

guyenet hungry brain https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Brain-Outsmarting-Instincts-Ov...

pontzer burn https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Research-Really-Calories-Healthy...
God created gender and is not defined by gender. Humans have recently increased the scope of controversy by redefining English words. The pronoun 'he' previously could refer to a person known to be a man, or a person with unknown gender, or deity. The pronoun 'she' was reserved for specifically a person known to be a female. Note that this usage in a sense confers more status to women (not less). Hence, in English, the closest word we have to refer to the Christian deity is 'he', often capitalized.

Using she for deity is confusing, as she has always meant a specific gender. It implies a new theological claim that the Deity has a gender.

Making up a new pronoun because some people have sown confusion in the language seems, well, even more confusing.
Makers on YouTube or any other social media inspires people, particularly younger people, to get into making themselves. That in and of itself is incredibly "useful".
That's like years and years after other solutions were already done. I wouldn't trust anybody from old Twitter except to try to censor me.
That's been the most impactful change of the entire progressive movement. It's now ok to be sexist and racist against white women. It's feminism stood on its head. The reduction of white women to a meme has been incredible to watch. No idea why anyone would be for this.
I actually agree with this and I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. The car companies tried to pass a law a few years back where "owners" can't actually own a vehicle, and are essentially turned into long-term leasers. IIRC, the guise was the "right to maintain" is no longer applicable since vehicles are too complicated now.
I see no problem with this; the goal of non-experts communicating is not to be the most accurate, nor should it be.
Just the beginning of the conflict that is going to arise in all creative spaces. The battle of meaning vs efficiency and productivity is going to escalate.

At some point, if we can simply wish something into existence, then what is the point? We have removed the journey of the human experience from many endeavors. Despite the issues, I also see no method of meaningful enforcement of such restrictions as they propose.

"AI brings into question who is really the creator. Am I the creator if I simply role the dice until I win the lottery? When I regenerate a new response over and over until finally getting the image or output I most desire? When the output is the final product, is AI still just a tool? Or are we simply observers foolishly convincing ourselves of the value of our contribution?"

from my own reflections - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
I think you're looking for only a certain type of reward and ignoring many others.

If you study women's studies in the 70s then maybe you can't help someone with their homework today. Ok, so in a sense you're less well off because you can't do something that someone who studied physics can do?

But women's studies today is different because the field has moved on to much, so much has been exposed in the way that women are treated in our society, so much has been changed for the better, huge impacts have been made on people's lives etc. And people who have worked in the field have contributed to this. Have they really had a negative reward in your eyes?
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...besides the US Government, TOR's largest benefactor by far. In case anyone needed reminding.

https://www.torproject.org/static/findoc/2020-TorProject-For...
Is this a sponsored comment?
So is a miscarriage manslaughter? If not, why not? Based on your premises, it's the unintentional taking of a human life.
If I were you, I would position myself as an educator and consultant on the subject.

Most UI developers have picked up tidbits here and there about accessibility. You can get pretty far by honoring semantic html and you learn other things through reading, receiving code feedback etc.

But I don't know anybody who tests their code rigorously using the same tools that an actual blind person would use. I understand sighted workflows, but not blind ones. We strive for 100% accessibility but everybody only knows what they know.

I think that you could very easily establish yourself as the a11y guy and make money through several routes including

- auditing websites for a11y
- training staff
- offering paid online content / courses
- independently auditing websites and using your results to sell them in fixing it or training staff

Obviously the trick of this is that you have to have some kind of track record as the a11y guy. Let me tell you I would read the heck out of a blog written by a blind developer talking about good and bad websites that he has to interact with. I would absolutely watch YouTube videos about it. And if you reached out to a business and told them "hey, your website is unusable for blind people, but I can help fix it for $___", I think that many of them would take it seriously.