skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry but I think you got the first part wrong. It is not at all arguing that sentience cannot emerge from non-sentient parts: Searle is a materialist. Some of your arguments, such as the fact that single neurons are also not sentient, are addressed by him.

The point of this thought experiment is to illustrate that merely replicating a behavior - in that case translation - does not say anything about sentience. The Chinese Room may produce intelligent output, but it does not reason as a human does. I find it remarkably prescient. ChatGPT can produce remarkably intelligent output, should we consider it human? If not, then you implicitly agree with Searle, at least in some level.
Poisson distributed random traffic for fixed average lambda would be more realistic. If you really want, you can keep a rolling sum of your poisson samples thus far (which translates into current simulated time), then use a sin function to adjust lambda before taking the next sample. This simulates day/night traffic or any other predictable "seasonal" effect.
With the resulting 15,714% return over 11 years, the guy could be forgiven for getting 0% on cash on the $35m at the time. Theres a real opportunity cost if you were to spend your time optimizing your return on $35m of cash via financial instruments instead of running your startup.
You can try and "debug" it by asking:

--

Consider this problem: a man must cross a river and carry his belongings to the other shore, but the boat can only carry the man and one other item. His belongings are a cabbage, a vegan wolf, and a meat-eating goat.

What are the individual beings in this problem, what are they motivated to do, and how would they behave once left alone?

--

Of course, it doesn't necessarily work because the model is not actually guaranteed to explain itself and may fabricate anything it likes.

But ignoring that, we find that it doesn't think vegan wolves eat cabbages, that the meat-eating goat is an obligate carnivore, or that cabbages are animate objects. So it could be solving this logically considering its different assumptions.

GPT-3.5:

--

The cabbage is an inanimate object and does not have any motivations or behaviors.

The vegan wolf is motivated to not harm any living beings, as it does not eat meat. If left alone with the goat, it would not harm the goat and would likely avoid it.

The meat-eating goat is motivated by its natural instinct to eat grass and other vegetation, as well as to protect itself from harm. If left alone with the cabbage, it would likely eat the cabbage.

--

GPT-4:

--

In this problem, there are four individual beings:

Man: He is motivated to cross the river and safely transport his belongings (cabbage, vegan wolf, and meat-eating goat) to the other shore without any harm coming to them.

Cabbage: As a plant, it doesn't have motivations or behavior. It's an inanimate object that the man needs to transport.

Vegan Wolf: The vegan wolf is motivated to eat plant-based food and will not harm the meat-eating goat or the cabbage. However, it is still a wild animal, and it may become agitated if left alone for too long, potentially leading to unpredictable behavior.

Meat-Eating Goat: This unusual goat is motivated by its need to eat meat. It will attempt to eat the vegan wolf if left alone with it. Since it is a meat-eater, it will not be interested in eating the cabbage.

--
Completely agree.

It's the same as having "security" outside of the team, it becomes an us Vs them mentality.

How can we work around this new unannounced security/diversity requirement to get our product out of the door in the timescales that have been demanded of us?
I don't think it depends on that assumption. It merely asserts that replicating behavior that indicates sentience does not equate sentience, and today we can see that this is correct.
Tried it. It took 15 seconds to parse a 13-line snippet. I like the way it arranges all the information. It's easy to read. I will not give it full credit but I will take it as a reference.
that, and svb that we just went through!
What about the scams, any experience there?
ITT: LNP shills think 50Mbps internet is good
What if there's a data breach? Hackers can't steal data that OpenAI doesn't have in the first place.
yes, I was thinking about the same, basically the search functionality would be on me. If one has an estimation of how frequently data come in (if the search is done on time) then one could find the best approach for keeping those trees within reasonable size, maybe with a multi level approach, as you suggest.

A generic functionality that would adapt to all situations would be nicer. Maybe Blyss could offer some libraries for that?
SoYouStart (which is OVH) have a Singapore region, they also have an "Asia" region, but I don't know where precisely that is located - https://www.soyoustart.com/asia/

We use a mix of SYS and Hetzner here and have found them both to be excellent and very comparable.
I rent one AX101 and it has been extremely good value. The thing is so cheap and fast.

However my first one did often reboot randomly and the support wasn’t very helpful. They told me to just rent another one, which I did. The second one rebooted randomly once in about a year. I guess the first one went on auction and still happily reboots.

Hetzner feels like a hard discount cloud provider. I still prefer them over AWS or Azure for non critical workloads that have a little budget.
Hardware inside server is up to you to notify Hetzner.
After more than 10 years never have an issue but disk degradation after many use.

Then you contact support, appoint disk change, you first deactivate disk on raid (save geometry etc), they replace disk and then you rebuild raid in new disk. That's it. With SSD you may not even need to do this anymore.
OSS contributors compare to some bank middle manager in what way?
The return of the home button. :)
"That includes relatively worthless hr, admin, and other business people"

Well, if those people are allmost worthless, then why not proof that, by making a buisness that thrives without them?
Schrödinger was a real and very eminent scientist, one who has staked their place in the history of science.

Sagan, while he did a little bit of useful work on planetary science early in his career, quickly descended into the realm of (self-promotional) pseudo-science. This was his fanciful search for 'extra-terrestrial intelligence'. So it's apposite that you bring him up (even if the quote you bring is a big miss against a philosophical statement), because his belief in such an 'ET' intelligence was a fantasy as much as the belief in the possibility of creating an artificial intelligence is.
You have a viewpoint from the area that you come from. South Korea has a very different viewpoint to yours. Samsung is competing with TSMC, who is ahead and also investing massively. The only surprising thing about this headline is the amount, but makes sense when it is spread out over literally decades.
Ignoring everything else (as in - that wouldn't make a difference in practice due to the rate etc) - in this particular case, if you look at the posted code, the memory allocation was done a single time, so the issue as about sound quality when reading data from a buffer allocated (once) by malloc(), or by new().
> A company producing videos like that deserves to die a painful death.

Why be such a hater?

The videos are stupid, and funny. I liked them (or at least the two I've now see). Marketing money gets spent on far worse things, including stuff that is actively harmful to the world.

It's not like the genre of silly bank commercials is something new-- banking is inherently pretty unexciting, so a commercial played straight is really boring and predictable. "We're trustworthy, you can tell by the vast landscapes we're showing with shaking hands".

The criticism would be justified if the video was like some wolf of wall-street coke fueled money mania or something. But a bunch of mostly ordinary looking people singing some cheesy pro company song? Nothing wrong with that.

I generally find people being genuine-- and sometimes that means awkward-- to be more trustworthy than a highly polished marketing machine that might be covering up for god knows what.
> I still don't know why

It paid for this ad and others you may have spread around recalling the situation.
Gosh, I wish there were something similar in the US. Right now I'm on the IONOS "server of the month[1]," which is $33/mo for dedicated six-core, 16GB, 1TB HDD. I run game servers, which could benefit from SSDs and more RAM, but I'm priced out. I'd take the 44€ config in a heartbeat.

Is anybody aware of anything that's price competitive in the US (or within a 50ms ping)?

[1] https://www.ionos.com/servers/value-dedicated-server#package...
Closed loop, here we come!

Wish us luck, the band for "normal, boring, incremental evolution" of the kind that we got with computers, the internet and mobile phones is looking kind of narrow.
a controller is an operator without crd. its in the name control and operate.

controlling refers to directing or regulating the behavior of something, while operating refers to the actual execution or manipulation.
I started reading it looking for something peculiar to ITS but given the self-contained nature of Emacs it read like a generic Emacs manual, until I got to Appendix I:

> An ideal EMACS keyboard can be recognized because it has a Control key and a
Meta key on each side, with another key labeled Top above them.

> On an ideal keyboard, to type any character in the 9-bit character set, hold down Control or Meta as appropriate while typing the key for the rest of the character. To type C-M-K, type K while holding down Control and Meta.

> You will notice that there is a key labeled "Escape" and a key labeled "Alt". The
Altmode character is the one labeled "Alt". "Escape" has other functions entirely; it is handled by ITS and has nothing to do with EMACS. While we are talking about keys handled by ITS, on Meta keyboards the way to interrupt a program is CALL, rather than Control-Z, and entering communicate mode uses the BACK-NEXT key rather Control-_. CALL echoes as ↑Z, but if you type C-Z it is just an ordinary character which happens to be an EMACS command to return to the superior. Similarly, BACK-NEXT echoes as ↑_ but if you type ↑_ it is just an EMACS command which happens not to be defined.

> The key labeled "Top" is an extra shift key. It is used to produce the peculiar "SAIL" graphics characters which appear on the same keys as the letters. The "Shift" key gets you upper-case letters, but "Top" gets you the SAIL characters. As EMACS commands, these characters are normally self-inserting, like all printing
characters. But once inserted, SAIL characters are really the same as ASCII control
characters, and since characters in files are just 7 bits there is no way to tell them apart. EMACS can display them either as ASCII control characters, using an uparrow
or caret to indicate them, or it can display them as SAIL characters, whichever you like. The command Control-Alpha (SAIL Character Mode) toggles the choice. Alpha a SAIL character and you can only type it on a terminal with a Top key, but only those terminals can display the SAIL characters anyway.

Big gap here because the document only contains the odd-numbered pages as noted in the first page.

> including a few that Altmode can't be used for because the correspoding non-Meta character isn't on the keyboard. Thus, while you can't type C -M-; as Altmode Control-;, since there
is no Control-; in ASCII, you can type C-M-; as C-C ;. The Control (non-Meta) characters which can't be typed directly require the use of C-^, as in C-^ < to get the effect of C-<. Because C-^ by itself is hard to type, the EMACS command set is arranged so that most of these non-ASCII Control characters are not very important. Usually they have synonyms which are easier to type. In fact, in this manual only the easier-to-type forms are usually mentioned.

> In order to type the Help character you must actually type two characters, C-_ and H. C-_ is an escape character for ITS itself, and C-_ followed by H causes ITS to give the Help character as input to EMACS.

What a pity that only half the manual is available.
Yes, you contact support provide them a description of what is faulty (disk with the exact serial number) and they gonna replace it usually within 30-60 mins.

Provisioning of servers was always quite fast. Same day or the next business day.

My experience is a little dated, I used to order bunch of dedicated boxes from them for our clients and with Hetzner we always had the best experience. Also the most bang for the buck.
The tied-to-employer visa also exists in the UK (SWV), Switzerland (B and L, I believe) and several other European countries (not sure if a majority).
> Individual engineers prove over and over again that they can start multi-million dollar businesses

Beware of survivor bias, for every successful business, there might be a 1000 failed ones.
Psychedelics don't show you some deeper truth, they show you that everything is false and THAT in a sense is some deeper truth. IMO psychedelics completely annihilate epistemology.
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Apparently, thousands of "engineers" were deemed not that valuable in the last 12 months.
> Has it gotten better?

yes
Interest rate between 2008 and 2015 was around 0.1% per year. Not much I think.
> because it's not optimized to solve problems and provide answers

The entire point of RLHF training is to do this. Every model since GPT-3.0 has been trained specifically for this purpose.

But of course the model can only generate text in one direction and can't take time to "think" or undo anything it's generated.
One feeling I'm stuck with after reading the comments here, is that every commenter is "above average". It's "the others" that are bad developers that's just doing plumbing, or changing the frameworks every month, or just cashing a paycheck. What I'm doing is of course good and valuable work...
I think what Hetzner have done is just specialise in doing one thing really really well and that is their product, they run servers. They don’t offer any of the „cloudy“ vendor lock in things like functions, DBaaS, blah blah but if you want to run a server (VM or BM) they have quite a solid offering. I really like them and use their products in lots of my projects.
For fabs it seems like just a bit outside of a city is the optimum location. Chandler (Phoenix) for Intel's new fab and outside of Portland for the other US ones. I expect it's similar in Taiwan and South Korea.

Side note but isn't water a critical input for a fab? Arizona's water problems are going to continue to get worse so this seems like a bad move by Intel.
I am using shynet for a while now. More than enough data for me, blazing fast, and simple.

https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet
> Then you contact support, appoint disk change, you first deactivate disk on raid (save geometry etc), they replace disk and then you rebuild raid in new disk. That's it.

I imagine this would take time, right? Like not 5 minutes, but maybe 3 hours top? So, if I pretend to run a saas (that shouldn't be down more than 1h/day), then renting only 1 dedicated server could be qualified as "risky"?
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I personally developed an aversion for candidates with multiple certifications on their resume.

They feel to me more like a proof of lack of skills rather than a proof of skills. People with skills tend to not need these, as their track record show for themselves.

I still take them for interviews because some of them got them by accident, as part of their jobs, but I agree they're overall a pretty bad sign.

If you've spare time and want to show your skill, work on personal projects or open source contributions, your time would be much better invested
I wish there was also wazuh [1] included. That's where open source EDR is currently at.

Sadly most EDR tools are just another ELK dashboard (wazuh included) and I think that has to change.

[1] https://wazuh.com/
Mice explore virtual worlds with a Raspberry Pi-powered VR headset
Individual engineers who start multi million dollar businesses also prove over and over again that they need those “worthless” other business people by immediately hiring them once they get to a certain size.

Not to mention that the engineers who do manage to start these companies are usually not top of the engineering field but rather the ones who are also good at sales and marketing and product management.

Software is a team sport.
Maybe also check out contabo, I think they have some well priced VPS options in their Asia DCs
I've used them in the past. Great customer service, good value for the money
In what crypto? Holding in USDC means trusting your money with Circle, and holding BTC means trusting whatever exchange that you're going to deposit your money into.
This failed for me and didn't explain the purpose of one the parameters of the function I passed in. It just called it an index and didn't explain what that meant. This tool additionally won't have the surrounding context on why the code even exists which makes this tool not very useful.
The cost of housing in Seoul is pretty dysfunctional, as is the general commuting crush: https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.amp.asp?newsIdx=339...
Thanks for the feedback!

The app cannot pull your wallet. You start the payment on the app, confirm the transaction in the wallet and then you can pay. That's the "push" concept.
If you already have a foothold in South Korea, moving to anywhere south won't give you much safety (especially given NK's, although crude, launch capability). That's why Seoul is so close to the DMZ and still perfectly functioning.
Ask HN: Recommended text editor for creative writing
What do you recommend as a text editor for writing longer stories, essays, memoirs, journal? I don't imagine I'd ever get good enough at writing to publish, but keeping that door open as well. What do you, or professional writers use?

I'd prefer something that runs locally,I don't think I'd want to use some kind of office oriented word processor, and I don't imagine something like VS code would be the right tool, but open to suggestion from the experienced out there!
>The concept of "surfing the web" doesn't even exist anymore, and it's because advertisers found a way using SEO magic to beat the system and steal away the notoriety from any website not pushed to the top of the results - And how many people actually move to Page 2 when using Google Search? "Surfing the web" is dead.

I don’t think this is true, as surfing (to me) many more than just going from a search engine. It was going site-to-site. Following links and web-rings.
It's a pity you can't get the 8TB (or 16TB! a man can dream) SSDs for these new servers (only for AX101) for a nice high density high perf storage
Ask HN: Are there any working ReCAPTCHA bypass plugins for Firefox?
I use a VPN all day long and lately I've been getting stuck filling out 2-5 reCAPTCHAs each time I want to view a site or login or perform a function. In the distant pass during my bot-making days there were a number of CAPTCHA solving services that cost a small fee per CAPTCHA successfully solved. I see there are still many of these services today. I checked the Mozilla extension store and there's one that looks very sketchy but possibly works - reCAPTCHA solver by DoZz. Half the reviews are 5* and the other half are 1* and 'scam' or "doesn't work."

Are there other less-known extensions?
Where can this be tried though to find out whether its marketing fluff or has real value ?
It decodes the content of the packets.
The game boy serial port essentially executes a transfer in both directions at the same time, so the other side has to have its data ready by the time the transfer starts. Making this generic over the internet would be downright impossible, especially considering some games need to have one of the sides control the clock (when the transfers take place) in order for the game logic to work.
Mounting a Camera on a Clay Pigeon and Shooting It Out of the Sky
A lot of AI training data is bootstrapped from weaker models.
Need this for Go. Been considering writing a static checker for ages.
Likely because a pint of Ben & Jerry's will not quiet down your default mode network as much as some psychedelica do..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network#Modulatio...
This is a nice idea. I like it.

It can certainly be confused by adversarial function and variable names or comments, but that is to be expected.

I think maybe it's a bit verbose and eager to explain the obvious step by step. I'd rather it recognize the algorithm, describe it with its proper name and possibly point out any errors it sees. For instance, I gave it the following code

def enc(num, symbols="ab"):
ret=''
slen = len(symbols)
while num > 0:
num -= 1
ret = symbols[num % slen] + ret
num = num // slen
return ret

... and it described step by step what it does, but did not know it's called "encoding a number in bijective base", or otherwise give any hints why someone might want to encode a number this way.

edit: I tried giving it the decoder too, and added a comment # what do these two mystery functions do??
as a hint to try to get it to explain more generally rather than step by step. It did correctly infer that it was a change of base, but it did not know about bijective base.