skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saying I don't know how to confidently state that something is or is not self aware, in the face of being confronted with something that firmly claims that it is self aware and passes any test you throw at it that another self aware candidate like a human would be able to also.

As a strict materialist I see no reason to assume that artificial consciousness is not possible.

And the above is what leads me to the uncomfortable conclusion about compassion that I can't rightly say one way or the other. I will say however that I'm polite and cooperative when interacting with LLMs on principle. Better to err on the side of caution and also they just seem to actually work better when you treat them like you would treat an intelligent human that you respect.

And yeah. That is my point, this entire field right now is awash in uncomfortable uncertainty.
South Korea fines Google $32M for blocking games on competing platform
Almost every app wants to be a wechat esque app. Musk mentions all kinds of goals about twitter all the time, and none of that info can be used to understand his real goal. The economics of that business is irrelevant (yes, it is lucrative and everyone wants it). You don't become wechat esque by charging people money. And if that is the goal, you should be hiring more and more to add features, since that's what a super app is. Nothing Musk has done aligns with building a super app.

The reality is that he vastly overpaid for twitter, and has no way of making good money. Hence all the antics. Had he bought it at 10B or so he would have a better chance of making money out of it.
Direct link to App Store: https://apple.co/3YPKc4q
Maybe so. Hopefully you’d find that out while looking at the spec for that particular function. If not, you may have to rewrite some code as you learn more. Life goes on
It doesn't need insightful rebuttal :)

But ...

1. *> is a thing
2. see above, I agree that Start-Transcript could be better and include all
3. Just provide your own massaged JSON
4. Not a pwsh problem, problem in general. For example take a look at Invoke-Builds `exec` as one way to handle this

But really, 4 random things, and you don't like 2 decades of work. Awesome!
The dumpster fire that is Reddit braces itself for another flaming tire to its pile
Better understanding of the rules makes you better to the game.
It was Paul, definitely.
George was the genius composer, Paul the pedestrian, who demanded everything for himself. In the end they kicked him out, well done.
No city is immune to it of course, particularly today.
Postgres is super cool and comes with batteries for almost any situation you can throw at it. Low throughput scenarios are a great match. In high throughput cases, you might find yourself not needing all the extra guarantees that Postgres gives you, and at the same time you might need other capabilities that Postgres was not designed to handle, or at least not without a performance hit.

Like everything else in life, it's always a tradeoff. Know your workload, the tradeoffs your tools are making, and make sure to mix and match appropriately.

In the case of Prequel, it seems they possibly have a low throughput situation at hands, i.e. in the case of periodic syncs the time spent queuing the instruction <<< the time needed to execute it. Postgres is great in this case.
Have done millions on nearly a decade old hardware. A million is <12 a second, and that's trivial.
When your workload is trivially tiny, most any technology can be made to work.
And Woz would not have created Apple without Jobs, either. Probably would have just stayed at HP.
Maybe because you have different requirements and preferences (than running CUDA applications)?
These ones can be plugged in with USB type-c, see:
https://coral.ai/products/accelerator/

It’s used for boosting interference (offline) on Linux, Mac and Windows.

Haven’t bought or used them but I’ve had my eyes on these for a little while!
Expensify does.

https://bedrockdb.com/jobs.html

https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...
> I'm far more worried about the degenerates on my route from the train station than I ever was about coronavirus.

And I'm personally far more worried about the 'degenerates' who might get my immunocompromised grandfather sick, than the people I meet on my way to the bus stop. You probably would be too, if you were sick, or lived in a 'better neighbourhood', or were better at analyzing long-tail risk[1].

Unlike the people refusing to vaccinate, he doesn't have a choice in his condition. He gets to live with the selfish, ignorant decisions made by others.

[1] Contagious, preventable diseases maim and kill vastly more people every year than <mentally ill people who are refusing to take meds>[2], but for some reason, you're more scared of the latter than the former.

[2] The solution to them is a pinprick, and sometimes a day of discomfort. The solution to mental illness is often a lifetime of meds that make you either want to crawl out of your skin, or feel utterly dead on the inside, or be completely disembodied, or just plain make you suicidal. There's a good reason people refuse medication for their issues. There's no good reason for why people refuse to get vaccinated.
Operative is hiring its first Head of Product Design. Reporting to SVP of Product, this person will look after a team of four and work across product, engineering, and of course design to build out the design program.
Resumes/questions to: allison@metronome.is or apply directly. Thanks!
>HN is for curious conversation—which rules out $X-fanaticism for pretty much any X.

My name is irrelevant to the contents of this post. I believe I said nothing wrong, nor did I intend to start a flamewar or oppose diversity. Promoting free software over proprietary software will be a reoccurring theme to my posts but it looks like that ended already if my privileges are revoked.
U.S. doubts Ukraine counteroffensive will yield big gains, leaked document says
Yeah, it seems that all Jobs did better than the rest is caring about his product rather than profits. And it seems that everybody is wondering why such a strategy could work and deliver actual profits.
What geo? If you want a historical US perspective there is a book titled American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures by Colin Woodward.

Spoiler alert - many areas of the US have political leanings shaped by the people that originally settled there (and by settled I mean mostly Europeans ousting the original people that were there).
An incentive structure for original human-made content, maybe. AI detection seems like a futile fight, thought. Even if you employed the best AI detection algorithms on the market, you'd still have to deal with false positives, missed spam and rapidly-evolving models that can be fine-tuned to adversarial data.
I see very little evidence that hydrogen or ammonia powered cars have anywhere near the probability of success that battery electric cars do, for a number of reasons.

If anything, companies like Ford are taking the pragmatic approach, while Toyota has wasted years with their idiotic stubbornness towards pushing hydrogen fuel cells.
Neither party gets exactly what they want, its the perfect compromise!
Said elsewhere previously[0] but the reason is simple: because the only way we as a society have to distribute a stable supply of food and shelter is for (most) every individual to have a job. "more jobs = more gooder" flows directly from that: "people need food → food requires job → we need jobs".

Changing that has to come before the bullshit jobs are wiped out or there will be an even worse situation.

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35470255
It did, but John and Ringo were big boys and didn’t get hung up on it. George was whiny and pouty.
Well now I'm interested. Want to share more details?
I cannot actually believe this. Can you share actual numbers?

Google pays well above most Fortune 50 companies at the VP level. Definitely over a few million per year.

I can think of a handful of companies that pay more, unless I’m totally mistaken.
I'm not kidding myself, postgresql easily handles 10s of thousands of queries per second.

No problem with millions of enqueue+dequeue per day.

A table for a queue is also going to be so tiny that postgresql might even outdo my own expectations.
I did not realize a Tax Credit, that also has a TON of strings attached that as it phases into more protectionism fewer and fewer EV's will be able to quality for, and it at odds with other Environmental / Climate protections (like the requirement that Lithium some from approved NA vendors, but then disallowing new Lithium manufacturing in the US) is now a Mandate the produce EV's

The claim I responded to was that Congress was going to Mandate the production of EV's, not that congress was going to pass a terrible protectionist law that provide weak credits for EV's....

very very different things
yeah, it's probably the wrong video. Sorry. :( I know it's there though. This question came up and I know there was an answer for it.
DDC is how monitors send EDID information about their capabilities to the computer. DDC/CI adds the ability for the computer to send commands to the monitor for things like brightness and color settings and input selection. So Windows obviously is using plain DDC to offer you the right set of resolution choices, but none of the DDC/CI functionality appears to be exposed to end users, making it effectively unsupported and unused and untested.
> isn’t accurate

That’s an understatement, good catch.
tldr; Hiring.

Going back 20-25 years ago there was web design and back end development. Web design was considered a non-programming visually creative field. That required less work experience to achieve competence and thus was an excuse to pay those people half or less than the programmers. That immediately creates a bias that those people worth less and thus are less worthy of investment. That bias persists even though it was hardly qualified at the time and certainly out-dated now, but it goes to scrutiny of candidate selection/preparation.

Also, back in the day the hot languages were Java and later C#. Both of those were at the time essentially a garbage collected C++ with less overhead. That is what employers were looking for in programming candidates, and so that is what universities delivered. Most programmers come from university CS programs. This is true even today.

None of that prepares people to write JavaScript. Trying to shoe-horn a bunch of unnecessary OOP nonsense into JavaScript is like stabbing yourself in the face, so its nice if there is some tool to fill that gap.

Furthermore, many programmers cannot architect a new original application on their own. There is greater demand for bodies to type code than there exists people of sufficient intelligence and capabilities to fill those requirements. Frameworks are boxed architectures. Its not that everybody who uses or favors a framework is negligently incompetent, but for some people this is absolutely true and then there are people who build their entire careers upon that tool.

As a comparison a carpenter is not a screwdriver user. A carpenter is expected to deliver a product. A framework is a tool, like a screwdriver, but tool users are easier to select than craftsmen.
Math is all about making proofs. There are infinite ways to prove something, and proofs are often asscesed partially based on aesethetic value.

If anything, i think it applies to the m more than the ste.
No, it's not just due to weather (you probably mean climate anyway). For example, ice melting in one place, say Antarctica, will affect sea levels elsewhere on the planet because of weaker gravitational forces where the ice used to be. Geoscience is complex and measuring changes on such a global scale is not "pretty easy", even if it's only sea level changes. It's nothing like a bathtub or elementary school physics.

Not to rant but this is one of those threads again. The majority of comments contain misinformation.
four years of committee meetings can't be wrong !

https://www.govops.ca.gov/what-we-do/blockchain-working-grou...

ps- everyone involved in the planning is on salary with healthcare
Were transformers used in other contexts ? biochemistry ? geometry .. whatever.
Mozilla or Wikimedia foundation have budgets with the right number of zeroes to support an effort like this.

While those organizations might not be the right fit, I think they serve as an "existence proof" that a large scale open / nonprofit project is not completely inconceivable.

Could possibly see an industry consortium (of players too small to compete on their own) funding an open effort.

Last idea sounds crazy but hear me out: how much would Nvidia spending $100M on "open"
models boost spending on graphics cards? I hope someone's running the numbers on that...
> there's no effective way of binding both title histories together.

The DOJ and the NMVTIS would beg to differ.

https://vehiclehistory.bja.ojp.gov/nmvtis_states
you're a good team player
I maintain a database of monitors coming from Lunar users here: https://db.lunar.fyi

It's not curated or anything like that because DDC can be affected by more than just the monitor itself (adapters/hubs/docks/GPU etc.) but you can run some statistics to see what specific monitors support DDC for most people.

For example, here's a query you can run to find the monitors that are most likely to support DDC:

SELECT
regexp_replace("name", ' \(\d+\)$', '') AS name,
count(ddc) working_ddc_count,
connection,
"DisplayProductID",
"isHiDPI"
FROM
displays
WHERE
ddc
AND NOT "kCGDisplayIsVirtualDevice"
AND NOT "isAirPlayDisplay"
AND NOT "isTV"
AND "DisplayProductID" != 0
AND "DisplayVendorID" NOT IN(7789, 1552) -- Filter out LGs as they don't have a useful name and Apple displays
AND name NOT LIKE 'Unknown Display%' -- Filter out those in a semi-connected state
GROUP BY
name,
"DisplayProductID",
connection,
"isHiDPI"
ORDER BY
working_ddc_count DESC;
How about WASM functions? One of Deno's selling points is sandboxing but WASM takes it to a new level it seems. I've been looking into Spin and also Dapr with WasmEdge. There is even QuickJS which does JavaScript.
How is twitter ruined? My personal experience on the site has not changed much.
TreeSnap: Send tree photos to scientists to aid threatened species conservation
Developed by the University of Tennessee and the University of Kentucky in the United States. Primarily targets trees in North America threatened by invasive pests and pathogens.
Right before the dotcom bust, Alcatel had the Go USA program, where European employees could apply for US jobs. I applied and was in the process of relocating as well, but ultimately joined a different US company.

The program was abruptly cancelled when the economy went south. There were stories about families who sold their house and everything, and discovered at the airport that their tickets has been cancelled.
... And depending on whether it uses steppers or servos, it may only know where the head is relative to where it was last told its origin was.

... And, if it's using steppers, it only knows that much if it hasn't slipped/missed/lost a step.
I have a thing for not taking advice from someone that doesn't listen to their doctor.
I'd be very curious to hear an example that couldn't be summarized as "I am a <blank> doing <blank>".

Of people I know, the most niche I can think of is doing work with programming mitochondrial DNA and my answer for her job would simply be "I'm a scientist studying cells for <insert-medical-company>."
Sorry, but that is the dumbest take I ever read.
Your last comment is the key, they had an issue and not the scale so a simpler approach works, but then I imagine that this company, which is a new company and growing, will have a future blogpost about switching from pg queue to something that fits their scale...
You're still focused on trusting that my data is safe. And while I think that matters - I don't really think that's the trust I care most about.

I care more about the trust I have to place in the response from the model.

Hell - since you mentioned search... Just look at the backlash right now happening to google. They've sold out search (a while back, really) and people hate it. Ads used to be clearly delimited from search results, and the top results used to be organic instead of paid promos. At some point, that stopped being true.

At least with google search I could still tell that it was showing me ads. You won't have any fucking clue that OpenAI has entered into a partnering agreement with "company [whatever]" and has retrained the model that users on plans x/y/z interact with to make it more likely to push them towards their new partner [whatever]'s products when prompted with certain relevant contexts.
> culminating in the 80s when Reagan effectively emptied the mental institutions (but more for budgetary reasons than any concern for the mentally ill).

“Reagan” getting credit or blame for this is largely misleading. There were a number of drivers..

Deinstitutionalizations was an important goal of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963.

Subsequently, a series of federal court rulings in the 1970s which restricted involuntary commitment and required paying patients federal minimum wage for doing work in and for institutions (like the prisons, mental institutions were slave institutions – on top of their myriad other problems – in all but name) undercut both the pipeline and the financial underpinnings of the system of institutionalization.
Auto-Llama-Cpp
A liquid, even if hot, is much easier to handle (pipes) than a powder.
I was a bit disappointed too, but wouldn't be quite as negative:

It is clearly a student project, intended to run very simple code and show how the registers and memory are affected. They did read the Intel manual, and most of the instructions seem to be implemented correctly including flag behaviour; for example the SBB AL,0x69 + DAS trick works.

Generating and running actual machine code might well be "out of scope" for something like this.
Varies by province in Canada but generally there is a fixed amount of time you need to be at the company before they can just kick you out. For example in Alberta if you've been with an employer longer than 2 years you must give them 2 weeks. They can terminate you immediately after you resign, but they own you 2 weeks of pay.

Likewise, if the company lays you off, they have to give you up to 8-weeks notice depending on how many years you were with the company; 10+ years warrants the full 8-weeks, while 2-4 years in service gets you 2-weeks. These are also mandatory minimums; some companies or employees with contracts or collective agreements may get / offer more.

Plenty of loopholes there, like for "just cause", and some industries are "exempted by custom" or by law, like construction or forestry.

* https://www.alberta.ca/termination-pay.aspx
The absolute value of gravity is (to oversimplify) the sea-level datum for current generation datums, like the delayed NGS (nominal year) 2022 datums.

They've (NGS) been flying absolute gravity measurement equipment in planes with precision GPS and lidar since ~2005 as part of the GRAV-D program.

Additionally, slight 'variations' (ie deviations from the expected circular/elliptical) in the orbits of GPS satellites can be used to infer slight variations in the gravity below.

Separately, the military likely has had all of this measured and modeled for decades as part of ballistic missile targeting, but remains mostly classified at useful resolutions.

The transitions from NGVD27 to NAVD88 to the work-in-progress 22 datum is exactly because the idea of a simple "universal" sea-level doesn't exist in the manor you would expect it to.

But even with the GRAV-D based datums, the actual observed water levels will occur at slightly different datum heights in different locations, for various geophysical reasons.
A few millions a days is a few dozens per second; we currently have a service running this order of magnitude of jobs with a SELECT/SKIP LOCKED pattern and no issue at all on a medium AWS box.
This is for traditional software issues (e.g. chat history randomly showing for other people due to a Redis caching issue), not model issues.

> Issues related to the content of model prompts and responses are strictly out of scope, and will not be rewarded unless they have an additional directly verifiable security impact on an in-scope service

https://bugcrowd.com/openai
Ask HN: As a software engineer, how has AI-assisted tooling helped you?
ChatGPT, Github Copilot etc... what are the big and small wins that you've discovered using them, or other AI assisted tooling? Are they making you a more "productive" (for your personal definition of productivity) engineer? What tips and tricks have you picked up?
Which region? - Indo/Asia-Pacific, MENA, CEE, Western Europe, North America, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, ASEAN, etc

Also which aspect of policy - business law, military technology, cybersecurity, innovation, economic regulation, internal politics, developmental economics/poverty alleviation, etc

For books/papers, it's best to read content published by members of the top 50 think tanks - https://repository.upenn.edu/think_tanks/

For a lot of regions, you may need regional language fluency (eg. Japanese NatSec people prefer writing in Japanese, Korean NatSec people prefer writing in Korean, PRC NatSec people prefer Mandarin, Russian+Ukrainain NatSec people prefer Russian+German, West+Central Africa excluding Nigera NatSec people prefer French)
And who pays for the proofs of work?
Goldman Got Some Good Swaps Deals
A situation can "not pan out" in lots of ways that laws can't/won't protect against. Pretty much no law is going to handle "This job/place isn't like I thought it was going to be and I want to pull the plug before we have to commit" absent gross misrepresentation and probably getting lawyers involved. The parent specifically used the phrase "once she felt good about the position."

Maybe you cross your fingers and hope for the best or you use resources you have to hedge things. (Where hedging implies spending some upside to guard against serious downside.)
I assume he won't be selling it in the near future then.
I think the 'select for update' query is used by a worker to fetch jobs ready for pickup, then update the status to something like 'processing' and the lock is released. The article doesn't mention holding the lock for the entire duration of the job.
There's a pretty large area between "trivially tiny" and "so large that a single Postgres instance on reasonable hardware can't handle it anymore".
Since you are on mobile, this is an acceptable tradeoff to actually be able to read the posts and the comments.
Of course libreddit is the best in this case.
I think it goes without saying that the EU is different.

Here in Germany, in fact things are problematic in the other direction. For the last 2 hires I made, their previous company forced them to work through their 3 month notice period.
Not at all. Even a Raspberry Pi would do - you only need ~6GiB RAM for a 4-bit quantized LLaMA model (though it's gonna be quite slow). A decent modern desktop machine would do just fine, no need for anything extra fancy.

What I'm wondering is how they fed the documents, as all those LLMs have limitations on the input sizes.
https://archive.ph/hRab5
> 7. Apple already has all that stuff worked out for Siri, which is a cloud service, not a local service, even though it'd be easier to run locally than an LLM.

iOS actually does already have an offline speech-to-text api. Some part of Siri that translates the text into intents/actions is remote. Since iOS 15, Siri will also process a limited subset of commands while offline.
Yeah, the current approach basically makes this entirely a non-starter for the target audience (eliminate a critical control for people for whom critical controls are a pain point).

Uploading your 2FA tokens to a third party is also likely a non-starter, sorry.