skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese eBay seller brought to mind the concept of the Chinese Room[0] and how it is a reflection of current LLM’s. Perhaps also influenced by a recent read of Blindsight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Basically all of crypto passes Howey test for securities:

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an instrument qualifies as an "investment contract" for the purposes of the Securities Act: "a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise and is led to expect profits solely from the efforts of the promoter or a third party."

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It'd be a missed opportunity if someone with a talking dog tried to hype it as a replacement for C++ programmers instead of an entertaining sideshow - no-one wants a talking dog that writes terrible C++ code to be writing their C++ code.

It'd be as silly as cirque du soleil advertising that their amazing trapeze artists will be replacing accountants any day now.
Is this really possible in a real device? I would like to have a typewriter which really can not run anything except of vim.
It's a useless metric if no one is using it. It's a magical purely speculative number.
Advocating casual class genocide. Nice.
> The media landscape of today is one that is heavily polarised and sensationalised,

Wow, this seems heavily biased
The ability of a service provider, such as a broker, to set prices above production costs depends on the amount of competition in the market. The higher the competition, the thinner the margins are going to be. So, a monopolistic broker that doubles as exchange is absolutely not good for customers. In this scenario customers will be charged higher prices for brokerage services, compared to what they would be paying in a competitive market.
'liberal-leaning' not left leaning. And they're winning.

They already expurged feminism from emancipation, replacing it with empowerment.

I thought BLM was the BPP successor, but weirdly, any leader referencing the rainbow coalition get shafted, as it seems that Fred Hampton is waaay better as a martyr than as a thought leader. But he was assassinated because he was a Marxist who reassembled minorities, not because he was black.

And declaring institutions are influencing human behavior is not essentialism. 'l'existence précède l' essence' apply to living being, human constructs can be essencialized, and that's why people believe in essentialism, or at least that's how I understood Sartre.
> no, knowledge qualifies a structural engineer, not licensing

Only to other structural engineers of similar or higher competence. How does a property developer know their engineer has sufficient "knowledge"?

pg wrote a whole essay on this problem: you can't hire good people unless you start with good people doing the hiring. But that doesn't scale to problems like "all the buildings society needs" because of the chicken and egg problem.

Someone needs to have a way to (1) identify sufficiently knowledgeable engineers and (2) ensure that only sufficiently knowledgeable engineers are designing buildings.

Call it whatever you want, but any such regulatory regime is going to be isomorphic to "licensing".
GPU or chipset drivers, maybe?
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We're well onto that road with autonomous agents, see BabyAGI, Auto-GPT and LoopGPT.
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VW Already Talking About Dumping Touchscreen Controls in Future EVs
I thought that was deprecated since Windows Vista or 7.
The former empires are shadows of their former selves and had to undergo significant reforms. Nobody knows or cares who the king of Belgium is anymore.
I've had a pet concept for some time that I don't often see repeated so I'll put it in this thread: discussions like these are always searching for what is "really" intelligent, how to define or detect AGI, etc.

I think a lot of this can be sidestepped by realizing that when you go beyond simple game playing intelligence, the next useful definition isn't "is it real?!?" but rather: "does it act intelligently?". And to the point, actions and interaction are fundamentally social, and so it reminds me that there are different kinds of intelligence and what a lot of people are looking for in AGI is social intelligence.

And, personally, I don't believe we'll have "social AI" until AI is able to live with us in some form, perhaps embodied or not, in society, as an independent entity with its own identity and memories. This means an ability to perceive, and, probably, to act, whether it means as a robot or not.

An interesting aspect of this is that to achieve social intelligence, a robot just has to act socially and not be someone people want to shut off. Notably, it doesn't even need to pass the Turing test -- look at movies like Star Wars where robots function in society in tandem with people -- no one is under the impression that the droids are not robots, nor do they consider them particularly smart, but they do, kind of, consider them as "people".

I think this is artificial intelligence. It's artificial, the argument about whether it's "truly" thinking or not doesn't matter -- what matters is, does it act intelligently? In other words, as long as it is perceived as intelligent, it may as well be called intelligent, as far as I can tell. We're not there yet, but LLMs sure feel closer than we've been up to now.
Let me tell you a story about playing The Settlers IV on a 233Mhz 64MB RAM Voodo 3 2000. This game was cool in that it had two audio features: a soundtrack on the CD itself, played using the CD drive's DAC [^1], and you could also drop MP3 files into a folder where the game would play those instead. It was common practice to use a NoCD crack when playing online, because the CD check took long enough you could time out of the lobby, and if you forgot the CD you got booted. That meant most online gamers had MP3 files, and no CD.

The minimum requirements to play this game were a 200MHz CPU w/ MMX and 64MB RAM - I was pretty close to this baseline. So anyway, I discovered that the game played at much better FPS (like 30 instead of 5) if you turned the music off - but only when playing MP3 - CD Audio had no hit. Now perhaps the game used a sub-par audio codec, but that single MP3 decode stream was enough to make the game unplayable.

Anyway that's not to say that I would expect MP3 decoding to be a problem in 2014, in fact you can likely play audio with no noticable increase on CPU usage, but when you have multi-stream audio (think voices, background music, sound effects from various channels - guns, explosions, etc.) I can see it starting to add up - especially when the CPU is already constrained for the graphics, game logic and perhaps of course everyone's favourite anti-piracy/anti-cheat logic.

[^1] For younger readers, yes, CD Drives used to come with built-in DACs and a special cable you could hook directly into the audio card, allowing you to listen to CD Audio on PC for "basically" free in terms of CPU cycles.
Naive suggestion from someone who has zero knowledge about these things: can't an unmanned submarine drone be constantly moving ahead of the main submarine to detect these obstacles before they become dangerous to the submarine and crew?
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Except that the folks using Electron don't care about C++, VSCode being the exception, being how much it has of it to work around performance issues.
Thank you. Not holding my breath, but I do hope things don't continue this way.
> Who's this "we"?

People such as myself and the person you replied to.

> You are talking that way, way too seriously

I am. It is a serious matter.

> interpreting it in weird way in order to take maximum offense

Yes, I take maximum offense when some monopolist tries to compare me to rapers and pillagers because I copied bits.

> You have do to a lot of deliberate work to strain to take offense at the association.

Not at all. Actual piracy is still happening even today in the 21st century. Everyone knows exactly what a pirate is and it's exactly what comes to mind when someone mentions them. It's not some forgotten history only geeks know about. People will even mentally picture those very same "file sharing enthusiasts" you mention as roguish types when in fact perfectly normal people forwarding pictures, videos and documents on WhatsApp are a perfect fit for the definition. People literally infringe copyright every day at massive scales without even realizing it. They infringe copyright when they save a picture from a web site.

> It should be noted your alternative "file sharing enthusiasts" is at least as propagandistic, just from the opposite party.

Except I didn't use those terms. I used the proper one: copyright infringement. Sounds like a whole lot of nothing when put that way, doesn't it?

> it's just that computer geeks' overwrought stridency on the issue is obnoxious and obscures more than it informs.

So the copyright industry insists on using propaganda words like "piracy" purely to add weight to copyright infringement and make it seem more real than it really is but I'm the one obscuring the issue? Right.
I'm not saying it's not needed. I'm saying if everyone took took steps, things would happen faster at the government and corporations level. As soon as people become more willing e.g. stop purchasing from corps that aren't helping I bet you they'll soon start changing there ways pretty fast.

Companies will only do the bare minimum they need to and there main goal is to make lots of cash for shareholders. If everyone starts to do there bit, things will start to change much faster

At the moment, most people are sitting back and waiting for someone else to make the decisions and to.
> a few thousand people left on-chain.
> all that money just to serve two thousand people

This is clearly false and I welcome you to try and prove otherwise.
That can also be framed as “erode legitimate institutions”
The idea that news could be "unbiased" is wrong. The fact that this is run by AI and called "unbiased" borders on ridiculous.
> If this is really their argument they've already lost.

This would only be true if government were in fact answerable to people. It isn't, and hasn't been for a long time, if it ever was. Legislators decide what they want to vote for, and then decide how to brush off people who tell them anything they don't want to hear.
The fish on the wall looks real but it's also a display of wealth. In a pixel world, the stuff on the "wall" doesn't have to look "real". It just has be displayed as a token of wealth.
There's lots of data, yes. Rozado has many n-gram plots that show this happening around 2010 for some terms and 2012-ish for other terms:

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/ppdwnmd

The huge spikes in terms like inclusion, racist, sexist, climate change, global warming, etc is clear, all starting around either 2010 or 2012 (except for global warming, which spiked a few years earlier and then was replaced almost overnight in 2010 by the vaguer term climate change, which shows massive growth in the last 10 years).

A clear trend of increasing prevalence of prejudice related terms is apparent with words such as racist or sexist increasing in usage between 2010 and 2019 by 638% and 403% in The New York Times or 514% and 141% respectively in The Washington Post.

>> "should I just listen to a fat white man screaming on talk radio"

I thought that would be considered racist fat shaming these days, but I guess it doesn't count if the person you're offending isn't on your team?
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> Many employers do listen to exit interview feedback, and if themes are consistent, changes do get made. Have seen it happen more than once, although it usually takes multiple departures or the loss of a key person.

My anecdata seems to confirm this. I told my employer I love my job but I'm leaving solely because of their RTO policies. They changed them after I left.
Sure. Focus on the procedural textures and see where that gets you.
Maybe I misunderstand something but to me it seems the premise is wrong.

What's most important about game textures is that they can load fast at a quality good enough not to disturb gameplay. Absolutely everything else is a secondary concern.
Coding is a must have tool for a designer
WPF team was created from the IE team when it was disbanded during Longhorn days, hand plenty of Win32 folks, and was the original contributor to the CSS Grid design.
First of all you seem to be confusing their designs with the more common LWR design which is commonly used in Europe/US. Instead most of their new fleet is planned based on HTG pebble bed designs. These have much different cooling requirements and are actually being built at smaller size and being deployed into remote desert areas like Xinjiang. This design was selected specifically because it's low water and cooling requirements - also it's proliferation resistance as Xinjiang has historical instability and proximity to Afghanistan. The rest will likely be based on the Hualong One design which is an EPR reactor that has 5x the output of the HTG SMR designs but does require more extensive cooling and isn't proliferation resistant so will likely only be built in stable area with ample cooling.

Nuclear reactors are just one area I highlighted they are dominating in.
Are you saying the reason they are doing so well in solar, wind, batteries and coal is all just down to ignoring environmental concerns?

How then can you address their improvements in air quality in Shanghai and Beijing? See https://www.statista.com/statistics/690823/china-annual-pm25... and https://www.statista.com/statistics/1283503/china-annual-pm2.... Air quality is even good in industralia hubs like Shenzhen these days but I couldn't find the same long term statistics. You can see the current air quality here though: https://www.iqair.com/th-en/china/guangdong/shenzhen. Right it's somewhat worse because of all the burning happening in SEA.

I know it's fashionable to pretend the Chinese are cheating or something but the data simply doesn't support that assertion.

I spent quite a lot of time in China over the last 10 years and everything has changed drastically. There was a time where I used to think "Hey China is basically caught up to the West". That time has long since past, on my recent visits it feels like going to the future instead and the slow realisation they completely passed us by has set in.
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Anything is possible with enough work!
Yeah, this is why people never commit fraud or smuggle drugs /s
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Reading the articles, you end up with vague sentences that are disjointed.

Take this example: https://newsnotfound.com/new-seafood-and-italianinfluenced-r...

this is a PR piece from a local news site. There is no critical thought as to why this is in the news.

Not only is this not news, but it contains about 4 facts. The rest is vague useless information.

If you want good quality news, you need to pay for it, from multiple sources.

Contrary to popular opinion, bias is actually pretty easy to spot, its just that you need more than one source to find it. This approach just isn't going to help, it just strips away context from any bias and presents them as stand alone sentences.
To me it seems that the author is focusing too much on the ability of the recent crop of "AIs" to generate interesting creative content -- poems, essays, images, etc, and forgetting (or hasn't recognized) how good something like GPT4 is at formulating a _correct_ answer to a given problem. This is also an attitude I've seen among non-technical friends; I think there's a bit of a divide at the moment between people who've seen it perform like a human on technical challenges vs people who've just asked it to write song lyrics or create interesting images.
> I wonder how it is that the NSA hasn't already enabled that.

It seems pretty weird to assume it's not already done and in use by select people or groups in the NSA already. They literally have the ability, they're smart enough to pick their targets carefully, and there's plenty of evidence of their oversight being useless.
Most underwater travel is done via dead reckoning. Like flying a plane with no windows. You're only as good as your maps and instruments.
But why.

Even when you do want lossless assets, as long as you compress in reasonable chunks there is no downside.
Are you talking about this?

run_length_encoding([], []-0):- !.

Yeah, well spotted, that looks stupid. Who knows what I was thinking...
It is just "democracy" at work there.
That's my point: that's not the definition used by anyone in the actual anti-malware space.
"if you are not failing you are not trying hard enough."
What's the source for your data?

I agree with you on the overhype, but if roughly 16% of active addresses are real users, then active users within the past 24 hours would be around the population of the largest city in Indiana rather than a small town.

Source: DefiLlama
Solar on roof has no resistance, but solar plants takes a lot of space and it starts being a source of conflict in some places of France. It's important to take everyone opinion into account to avoid doing stupid things like putting wind turbines way too close to people houses or farms.
In general, try to put your idea into paper using something like Lean Canvas [1], [2].

Cover the following aspects: technology, organization, people and processes and how these tie with the business context (using the lean canvas).

If your venture is going to require software development, you can

- design and develop a prototype / work on the MVP

- identify your target customer segments and talk to real people seeking their input

- build a landing page and write copy for your product

- put a list of things you need for your venture and prioritize to identify the bare-minimum needed to start

- read about company starting procedures

[1]: https://leanstack.com/lean-canvas

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lean+canvas+template
Market cap is by definition people using it. They’ve exchanged their money for it.
Perhaps some human moderation as to which articles finally make it to the site would solve this?
I was an amateur digital artist in the 90s, and I can tell you that although we did work with what we had, no-one liked CRT artifacts. We were always trying to get a sharper, clearer, better picture. The first LCD monitors were so stunningly sharp and clear that it was obvious we would never go back.

At least, that's what I thought. It's funny now to see people glorifying CRTs as some kind of "ideal" display device for low-res art. Past-me would have laughed.
How are FAA and EPA going to view the event? What are the external ramifications for SpaceX for this event?

FAA has already grounded Starship from further flights after this event, till they investigate matter on their own. There are also reports of dust clouds triggered by the explosion in Texas dropping dust in a large area in Texas.
Don't get me started on the ad market.

One company is the broker, the exchange, a major placement vendor, and the software vendor for algorithmic trading (which is a black box anyway). On top of that, in order to trade, you have to show them your books so they know everything about your business. And finally there is the extortion as well, don't advertise against your own name, oh sorry someone else is paying more.

The whole thing is engineered to extract every last ounce of margin from the advertisers. However due to the duopoly of the two colluding players (they carefully don't compete with each other) there is no choice.

It's frankly absurd the situation we have gotten into with online ads. It needs significant regulation.
> Do most of the android users / Windows users / Cloud users / Linux users understand the totality of consequences of their choices? I highly doubt that.

No, and I never suggested they did.

> It may come as surprise but to lot of people/institutions getting something done is far more valuable than totally owning something.

Doing what you want with the stuff you bought is not orthogonal to "getting something done".
Yeah I grew up in rural Australia. I get why it would be useful.

Just travelling opened my eyes to much bigger fire problems is all. The pollution caused by slash and burn is estimated to cause ~11k deaths a year in Thailand alone, I imagine the numbers are much worse in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.

I'm not saying I don't appreciate improvements in detecting and maybe preventing bush fires just trying to raise awareness of a larger more dangerous issue in the world that gets little to no attention because it's outside of Western media sphere.
I’ve seen many of the very best AI scientists (Hinton, Hasabis, Lecun, etc) say that we need philosophers and ethicists deeply involved on this topic urgently. I think a guy like Lanier, who knows CS fundamentals but has been talking about the ethics and impact of different digital creations for decades, is a pretty good guy to have on team humanity, no?
Your tolerance for file size is increasing but what about your SSD/HDD tolerance for file size ?
Games are problems people pay to solve
The way I understand the article: Insurance not likely to pay in case of small short cured default and in a major default the counterparty is at risk. So buying it as insurance makes no sense. But..

.. there are special rules which trigger even in a short default allowing a fair bit of money to be made turning the CDS into a sensible bet on a short duration US default.
It can also “talk shop” with lawyers, doctors..

Are we all vain? I guess we are, but I find this take to be a bit too simplistic.

I do agree programmers are arrogant and think everything they do requires vast amounts of intelligence.

I’n not sure what your point is. I am honestly curious. You think having coders as major advocates for your product is somehow a brilliant strategy? If anything, this will work against it.
Support of as many modes as possible is an aim that is often too ambitious. Instead, unsupported modes should be indicated with an instantiation error or (much rarer) an uninstantiation_error. In this manner the logic remains intact as long as no error occurs and the program does not loop. And yes, this may come at the expense of its usefulness, think of (is)/2.

YeGoblynQueenne omitted what the mode +,- actually means. And the program does not check it. Does it mean that the first argument must be ground or is it OK, to leave some variables inside? Think of `[a,f(X),b]`. Also the - has sometimes the meaning of being descriptive (that is a completely steadfast argument) or prescriptive (meaning that the program may be incorrect if the argument is not an unaliased variable). Would errors be used for the unintended cases things would be much clearer.
I think I am loosing my taste buds - my preference is for gunpowder tannin flavor, which I get by pouring whatever the hottest water setting is on my pot ~208F.