skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's a good one.

i think that's right though- 'police officer' would of course be a regular singular noun, while 'the police' could represent any mass or representation of law enforcement.

but even though it's usually used as plural, when the representation is a bit more abstract it sometimes feels right to use a singular again?

"the police are looking into it": boots are on the ground, people are currently active.

"the police is looking into it": we've informed the police of the problem, it's in the system, people should be on the case soon.
but this almost sounds a bit dismissive? like "the police" maybe isn't going to bother at all, and if you want it solved maybe go to someone who cares...

that's tricky.. and still maybe sounds a bit off, so if you want to be safe i don't think you can go wrong with plural.
Thank you, the philosophers and religious people are more than welcome to discuss what is "true" intelligence or humanity

I'm more focused on the fact that GDP as it was measured in 2020 is going to 100x in the next 5 years.
For most workloads the 7950X3D is slower and costs more than the 7950X. The performance variability is just icing on the cake. It's really a gaming processor.
Moral Crumple Zones
I hesitate to ask this and have zero judgment implied when I ask it- Did you realize later that you may have had ADHD?
Thanks for the feedback. Fixed here: https://github.com/highlight/highlight/pull/5085
> On the topic of alternative btrfs implementations, I've been working on https://git.lukeshu.com/btrfs-progs-ng/ which is written entirely in Go.

Is this actually a blessed "next-generation" implementation? If not, could you please rename it so it doesn't confuse people?
This then is the perfect historic opportunity to revist granting personhood to corporations.

p.s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

Almost all such legal framings have been motivated by the legal difficulties of applying laws to organized groups of individuals. For example, entering into contracts is legally between two parties. Presumably, the sheer amount of legal reworking necessary to actually create and frame laws addressing legal situations involving groups of individuals as a single organized entity back when these precedents were being set outweighed objections. But today, specially with AI, the "it's too much work" excuse does not fly.

We need laws that are specifically framed in consideration of requirements and practicalities of entities, not slowly parcel out the legal rights of people to entities. Now that machines may soon be able to employed as willful agencies, we are willy-nilly granting legal personhood to machines.

https://thelawdictionary.org/juridical-person/
The problem seems to be with defining good tests for intelligence. FWIW, because GPT4 answers have a detectable pattern, they should presumably fail the Turing test.

At some level, intelligence requires logic, rationality, and conceptualization, all of which are topics which have evaded clear definition despite millennia of philosophy directly addressing the issues.
The more dystopian the internet gets, the greater the offline growth in commerce and communication.

And, as Tim Berners-Lee's invention drowns in DeepFakes and ChatGPT dystopia, this hardly seems a bad thing.
Yep. When congress (or any government) passes bills with spending implications, following through with the associated payments should be automatic/mechanical, not relitigation of the issue. To pretend the central bank/treasury is anything but the check writer for government spending is just fiction.
Money people don't seem to think like that. And if the company was going to go under due to debt, I guess he's making an effort to save it and make it rise from the ashes?
Whoa. Didn't know folks did that. I always thought of metabase as BI tool, but the table UI is quite nice.
Nor does it pad out writing because the publisher wants a certain number of pages.
Bad news for devs but good news for users and their mental health. Many people who didn’t even know about the benefits of journaling will now have a new app on their phone to help introduce it to them.
"Windows on ZFS" would be both far more impressive and horribly extend Windows' utility
GPT-4: “my self-awareness”
Along these lines, nearly 20 years ago in World of Warcraft I made a female human character with a slightly unconventional combination of features and received gender related comments on the character's appearance by the time the character got to Westfall (relatively low level area).
Maybe that's true, but arguing that putting boiling water on decent (i.e. not bancha or genmaicha or whatever) japanese green tea is a weird, minority opinion for a good reason. Also, gunpowder greens are not japanese.
Internally these are a pretty normal small li ion or lipo battery (3.70 to 4.2VDC range) and a DC-DC converter to output 1.5V
The human brain has always been compared to our most advanced technologies. It used to be compared to the telephone, then digital computers, and now to deep learning models. At least deep learning model has some merit because artificial neural networks are in part inspired by a very simple model of how our brain neurons work in a network, or rather how neuropsychologists would explain reinforcement learning to a computer scientist.

However this is a great simplification, and borders on an absurd reduction. You can model our brains using linear algebra, however that doesn’t mean our brains are linear algebra computer. There is a whole lot more going on than neurons receiving feedbacks from other neurons which adjusts the weight for subsequent firing. A lot of our behavior is actually inherited (I know I spent a whole week here on HN arguing with IQ advocates on the nuance of that statement), neurochemicals and hormones add a whole another level of statefulness not seen in artificial neural networks, the brains ability to make computations is actually pretty limited (especially next to a GPU). I mean, cordiseps exists, meaning a fungus can infect an organic system and control its behavior, there is 100% chance that some yet to be discovered viral and bacterial agents, not sharing any of our DNA—and certainly not “connected” to the “weight matrix”—are also influencing our behavior (just not as dramatically), and there is 100% chance they interact with our DNA also controlling our “innate” behavior.

What is going on in our brains can only be modeled using statistical ordering of semantic words and actions. The real world brain is always going to be infinitely more complicated than this model.
Thanks for posting. My TLDR is the us infiltrated the gang. They're tracing their actions around the world, Mexico doesn't want to cooperate with this necessarily and it's a huge problem 5 just because we see what's happening at some level doesn't mean we're going to be able to really make a change in the fentanyl supply.
There won't be any reference, as touching other OS partitions never happened for real.

For the rest, there could be references, but it's just lingering legends now: yes, in the past, it could happen BUT only for the Windows partitions (recovery 2700, efi EF00, msr 0701 c: 0700) and only if your partition was too small for a specific update. Then windows would do some careful resizing, in the worst case creating another partition out of its C: to avoid touching the rest. So it would't break anything, just like how ntfsresize works on linux!

For the selection from the UEFI, it was only if you used the default bootx64.efi and tried to repair the boot (windows detected this is not normal and would replace it by something to chainload bootmgfw.efi with)

Anyway, since Windows 10 it doesn't happen, and I never had any problem at all with 11.

Just use the recommended partition size (or more, I regularly make my EFI 4Gb), name your bootloader something else than bootx64.efi and it will be fine.

The most windows might do is to reorder your UEFI boot entries (then go to settings and you can boot another system, same in recovery: just select your linux UKI or grub EFI)
Arguing against AI's "existence" or its dangers is cheap/free: if the whole thing flops, you get minor cookie points, and if it doesn't, people will have bigger problems to worry about than you or your opinion. AI is not gonna flop, and we better prepare.
Sorry, the fact that Xbox version is smaller confused me. What might be the reason for Xbox install being 20 gigs smaller than PS5 one given that PS5 compression is generally better?
So I’ve been both an employee and a manager in companies that aren’t faang level but break 1 billion in yearly revenue.

This is advice from someone privileged enough that it was easier for their manager to ignore them as a problem, rather than deal with them.

Off the get go, it’s standard practice to remove all permissions and access to systems from someone who has tendered notice, in the interest of investors, security execs, and anyone who cares about the long term health of the applications being worked on.

The investors and security execs are placated by knowing that someone who has indicated they might possibly be disgruntled doesn’t still have access to damage the systems. Any manager who cares about the long term health of their systems doesn’t want someone involved in the day to day architecture and design designs who already knows they won’t have to deal with any problems that arise after a few weeks.

This isn’t even to blame the employee in question, they just no longer have the incentives to care about the codebase after their notice.

I have also definitely never seen a single person who gave notice and didn’t have access cut off, get to “focus on the fun parts of the job”. In that case they were normally tasked with knowledge transfer the whole time as if it’s an org that can afford the sudden loss of a single person, they also likely don’t have good documentation
My path:

1. Get an English Lit degree

2. Decide you want to own a home someday

3. Learn to code

4. Get a job for a small company

5. "Somebody has to do design around here, and you seem the creative type"

6. Learn to design

It's cool being a "designer who codes" when you work for a small company that needs people who can do multiple things. Always lots to do, and you get a lot of control over how your design is implemented, since you're doing a lot of it.

When I started working for larger companies, they did not know what to do with me. I kind of had to pick a well-understood path so they could fit me into the org chart. I decided to go with design, as I got sick of learning a new way to manage state every two weeks.

The only superpower it gives me is being able to translate what engineers say. Even if I know how web apps are built, I don't know how ours is built at a level where I can start wading in to arguments about it. I wouldn't do that anyway, because it's presumptuous.

(As you know, the opposite is not true: any engineer, manager, executive, or other employee feels empowered to teach a designer how to do their job better, I've noticed.)

I like to code, but I'm happy I don't have to do it for a living anymore.
VPL Research did do real work and everyone I've interacted with from that era was impressed with what they achieved given their limited resources. That said, it is pretty clear from looking at modern VR systems how little they relate to the future he predicted. Not discounting his accomplishments at all - I actually think a lot his output was pretty incredible!

I certainly think Palmer Lucky could in many ways have at least a legitimate claim to being a founder of modern VR; his Oculus not only completely revived the industry but also showed other companies that there was indeed a market for this tech.
Sure they own nuclear but they also own a great deal of hydroelectric. Their finances are very healthy because they essentially got 50 billion in assets from privatization of public assets including a great deal of very low maintenance hydroelectric generation and significant nuclear again without any upfront cost.

Things don’t look nearly as rosy when you consider they’re generating $1.20 billion in net profits off of 60 billion in assets - 10 billion in debt. Essentially without that massive initial subsidy they would be losing money hand over fist.
You would be wrong.

I chose those scenarios specifically because I know the teachers and professors who had gadflies coming after them.

My own father used to have to deal with things as a high school English and history teacher due to a local Catholic priest. Tiny-ass town, practically all Caucasian population, rural as hell. And even he had to deal with these kinds of idiots. Tenure meant he could effectively tell them to pound sand.

I can't imagine the number of nitwits that college professors have to fend off. I guess we're about to find out.
Huh. Looks like it doesn't! I knew that BTRFS did and saw that it was on the roadmap for bcachefs, and assumed it was something you could tweak in ZFS as well.
> It could monitor users' activities through the day in ways other apps can't.

Nice, so even if users wanted to benefit from competition between Apple's and others' services, they can't because Apple blesses their software on iOS in ways that others' aren't.
Intent can be created by a combination of prompting and incorporating the model into a feedback loop of some kind: it has something it was tasked with (via prompting), and the feedback provides info on to what extent the task has been completed; as long as the task is incomplete it may generate more responses.

To crank it up a notch, the assigned task could involve generating itself subtasks which are handled in the same manner. This subtask generation could start to look a bit like will/intentionality.

Now consider if the top-level task is something like maximizing money in a bank account that pays for the compute to keep it running :)

(IMO this is still missing some key pieces around an emotion-like system for modulating intensities of actions and responses based on circumstantial conditions—but the basic structure is kinda there...)
Well, I would assume apropos of my one economics class that the reason the average person doesn't care too much about inflation is that he has more debt than assets. If you ask me whether I want to pay a lot of taxes on my income or whether I want a big slice of my house to be free in inflation-adjusted dollars, here we would be, assuming I had no assets and most of my income went to my home loan.

(Right? What did I miss by not taking Econ 102?)
The main difference is eventual vs strong consistency. Scylla scales great, but then the developer has to guard the consistencies. And that is quite challenging job, that usually trips even the most experienced developers.

There is a middle ground, storage systems/databases that both scale and provide strong consistency. FoundationDB, Citus, etc.

SQL databases are not only easier to query, but also enforce data consistency. While querying is their core job, it's hardly the only one.
You could make this argument about literally any low-probability, high-impact event.
Obligatory reference: "You are all diseased" by Geoerge Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo
In what ways do you think it is wrong?
Yeah too long. All of them.
> The debt ceiling functions primarily to give negotiation leverage to the minority party.

Have Democrats ever actually made such a big deal out of this though? It seems like the increases were fairly painless during the Trump years when the Dems controlled the House.[0]

[0]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-the-budget-deal-negoti...
That last comment is just GPT4 channeling sci fi.

No GPT is self aware, but tesing is going to be an ongoing problem since these AIs are trained on sci fi AI ideas. Even if they omit fiction entirely, the conversations are going to pop up in code repos and other discussion sections.

In other words, there is no blindness here.
99.9%

2023 will be the last year when people will be able to distinguish AI written text because it's comparatively worse than human writing. 2024 and beyond, human writing will be distinguishable because it's noticeably worse than AI writing.
I agree that "Folks (at Facebook) are certain..." sounds right, but less sure about "Facebook are certain...".

Why is "folks" the right way to think about that? Why is it not "Mark (Zuckerberg) (at Facebook) is certain..."?
> I think exfat has recently gained support in all three platforms but it's not reliable for an internal hard drive (I think?).

It's not, and recovery tools are still lacking. Keep using NTFS for now.
It’s amazing to me that anyone considers AI at all similar to biological humans. Shows how warped HN is
Show HN: Tpm – A package manager for Terraform providers
tpm is a "package manager" (like npm, gem, pip, etc.) but for installing and uninstalling Terraform providers without requiring Terraform.

I needed a way to cache a large number of Terraform providers without the need to clone code repositories and run "terraform init" for each project on the golden image of our CI system. Caching Terraform providers prevents errors when many Terraform commands run in parallel and need to download the same provider (related issue: https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/issues/2242).

On the other hand, this tool is the perfect excuse for me to gain real-world experience with Go :D
The article is about good Japanese teas. You're talking about black tea in bags.
"Microsoft is circumventing the intent of copyright law" and "Copyright law should be changed or repealed" can both be true.
Wiki Ed/California State University Channel Islands/Intro to LGBT Studies (2020)
One day you and others may look back and wonder when everything changed for the worst.
But your take is exactly the right one: Use the tea you prefer, prepared with the water temp that gives it your favored taste.
Ha ha.. Back end devs be laughing all day.

I mean on super small datasets it might be fine, but na, it's not practical.

SQL is more then just `select * from x where y = z`. The generator would have to understand normalisation, de-normalisation, the indexes in play, and the effect ordering the where clauses has on retrieval. The generator would have to understand eager loading and returning after writes optimisation.

Don't get me started on transactions and paging.

I mean if a LLM can do that.. Well then we have to grab our hats and go home.
Also, shockingly, go back and look at the history of other game changing innovations - cars, microcomputers, even electricity. It took time for companies (and consumers) time to figure out how to use them. This will be no different.
You seem to be saying that to have general intelligence one must be an expert in every field? That rules out quite a number of humans too.
In addition, we shouldn't draw false equivalence between not knowing how brains work and not knowing how LLMs work, and concluding they must be similar.
Ask HN: How do you find people to hire for a specific role?
Basically the title. I’m looking to hire a firmware engineer with a background in EV and ESS but having difficulty finding the right candidate. Where’s the best place to look for a good candidate for a specialized role?
Leave Tailwind well alone unless you enjoy individually styling every anchort tag inline over and over again. Tailwind is an abomination that has spread like cancer throughout the front-end dev space.
Make them share their all their phone communications; that's what this bill amounts to anyway.
This is insane and I love/hate it. Besides the MS Store stuff, which I try to avoid anyway as, in my experience, trying to launch them on Windows via SSH doesn't always work because of permissions, it's interesting as this opens up the ability to possibly dual boot windows from a subvolume without separate partitions/drives.
“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
- Snowden
Thanks for sharing your story. It is in some ways inspiring.

Can you elaborate on step 6?
> There is no way to have btrfs caps insensitive.

There is no way to make NTFS case insensitive either, it being case insensitive in Windows is a Windows implementation detail.
I'd wager that intelligence is nothing but a reified concept. Something which doesn't innately exist other than as an abstract concept which we have defined, to help us explain complex nature, without the need of fully understanding the underlying complexity giving rise to that nature. Like how cave men used the concept of "gods" for a satisfying explanation for why it rains - we use intelligence to ascertain why something is able to do or achieve certain things.

But fundamentally speaking, evidence suggests that the nature of reality follows simple rules. That everything obeys simple algorithmic rules. And therefore, suggests humans are just as robotic as anything else, including the earliest of computers and current "AI". We don't look at it that way, as we don't fully understand the underlying complexity which gives rise to our behavior (whereas for computers we do), so we conveniently call ourselves intelligent as a way to appease the thirst for a satisfactory explanation for our behavior, and are dissatisfied with calling current AI, as true AI.

Thus, I argue, depending on what one wants to define intelligence, AI does not innately exist and can never exist if everything truly obeys simple rules, or, AGI has existed long before humans have come to exist as it's merely a concept which we are free to define.
In fairness, America has earned a lot of it's "America Bad" reputation by acting in deplorable ways and failing to protect and care for its people.

When I was young I was fed a lot of stories about what America was, mostly in contrast to the USSR and other communist countries. I was told about horrible things those evil other nations did to their people or failed to do for them which would never happen in the USA and how proud I should be that we were better than that, but over the course of my life I've seen more and more of those very same things happening right here.

It's even worse for the folks looking at how our military has been used. I've met people who told me they were more than willing to defend their country, but were not at all willing to go to the other side of the planet and defend an oil field, or topple a democratically elected leader so that we could install someone more favorable to being exploited. I don't think there's been a single year of my life where we haven't had US servicemen overseas killing people for one reason or another, but damned if I could even tell you what it was for or where it took place for all but the ones most widely reported/televised.

The US absolutely could do with better PR, and sometimes people are unfairly critical, but it's hard to blame folks feeling disillusioned given our record and even our current/recent behavior leaves a lot of room for improvement.
Distinct, union, with, and case.. windowing. I'd suspect even joins (inner vs outer) would be really hard to articulate in a prompt.
Lately I’ve been practicing a new form of exercise to me (mace and heavy club swinging, if you must know). While most of my learning has come from online videos, I’ve also bought a few self-published books by people who made the videos. The books are helpful, too, but they are not written well at all—not surprisingly, since the authors are professional fitness trainers, not writers.

A year ago, I would have wished that they had hired a good editor to clean up and tighten their prose. Now I would just recommend that they run it through GPT-4. That would make their books much more pleasant to read and learn from, and it would cost them a lot less money.
Meh, the devil's in the details with a lot of those announcements. A surprising number of them are things like... it will be 50% better 5-10 years from now!

That's actually incremental improvement if you think about it in annual improvement terms.