skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The gas was being paid for. There's basically no time or casual connection to frozen accounts.

EU sanctioned Russia's foreign assets and froze accounts, preventing Russia from using it's funds. Gazprom was specifically sanctioned as a government-related entity. I am not making this up, I am googling as I type: "was gazprom sactioned by EU?", "was russia accounts frozen by EU?", etc. All of this is public information.

Unless you claim that this had happened in some other plane of the multiverse, this IS your time and casual connection. Moreover, this is literally not paying - these funds remain in the EU economy, kept reinvested by bankers who manage them while boosting EU liquidity.

> Bulgaria was e.g. one of the first cut-off countries despite not freezing any accounts.

Is Bulgaria not a EU state that paid in EUR to Gazprombank’s Luxembourg-based accounts?

The whole "payment with roubles" shenanigans were meant as a bypass for these sanctions (again, not making this up, it was specifically the EU officials who assessed this procedure as "breach of sanctions" https://www.ft.com/content/aa0d294b-0982-4f94-a327-a93300444... )

> I'm not playing the victim card. Europe did what it did, knowing the probable consequences

That's exactly what you are doing. Either EU decided to engage in an economic war with Russia, willing and aware of possible consequence, or "evil Russia unexpectedly stopped dealing with us" - pick one, both is doublethink.

> All I'm saying is that it was Russia who stopped pumping the gas, not Europe.

That is quite an ironic statement, given all the background of the Nord Stream 2 story.

> maybe people will forget that that Russia is invading Ukraine for the 3rd time in the last 10 years

When you start to remembering things that didn't actually happen - it's a bad sign, man. Sorry, I just had too many conversations like that, discussing the collapse of the Ukrainian government and all the following events and each time it boils down to dehumanising huge chunks of Ukrainian population that was not happy about the fact that their elected government (try overlaying Ukraine's 2010 election map on the map of the present conflict) was brought down.

> I believe she just tries to whitewash herself.

I doubt that anyone around the world, besides a small European corner, sees it as whitewashing and not as legitimising Russia's actions. You can't act like a guarantor of peace and then confess that you were totally lying without hurting your credibility.

Just think how this looks from an outsider's perspective: Russia claims that Ukraine wants to genocide people of Donetsk and isn't going to resolve this peacefully with Minks agreements as it promised to, and then European leaders go "yeah, we were totally preparing Ukraine for war all while dragging time under the guise of a peace agreement".
It's not that simple. Our minds do the same, basically. We compress content semantically and when time comes to "create" we generate based on what we've learned, replicating the patterns we saw, in slightly different combinations.

Our culture, our legal world are not ready for AI. We can rephrase and spin what it does endlessly but the end result is it does what we do, but much faster and more efficiently. This makes us obsolete in mid to long term. Some even short term.
I don't like it! :-D Of course, now I expect it so don't get bitten anymore.
Author here. Can confirm, I asked my boss (small German company with 7 employees) about getting Qt commercial license, because the Qt3d engine is still unusable slow and QtQuick3d looked like a nice alternative. Our product isn't even out yet, and we would have to pay 100k+ without having earned a single penny so far. We now switched to an embedded WebView Godot version for our 3d needs inside our qml desktop app.
You'll have to take that up with Mother Nature and its evolution & natural selection. She's the one who imprinted "progress" in our genes and I do not think we are far enough from our origins to overwrite that.
What processes beyond automated statistical analysis do you consider your brain to have?
I was asked by a doctor if I would allow photographs to be taken of me and my medical information shared in textbooks. I consented. This documentation would end up as publicly available so I had no issues with it.

If a company were to slurp up my information and sell it without approval, I doubt my response would be as generous.
You seem very fixated on what people think of you.

I live in NYC because it’s densely populated, diverse, with access to world class most things (museums, restaurants, theater, music, …). I get to experience and do interesting things.

That’s why people should consider moving to these cities. No one gives a shit what Joe from Cincinnati thinks or will think in some hypothetical future.
That was the end!
Haha yes. But at the time, experts' opinions of where it would go ranged from not much to a big expansion in the size of the banked population and the space of contracts that can be written, with a lot of probability mass at nothing. AI experts themselves today estimate a range from we destroy ourselves to nearly infinite wealth, with a lot* probability mass at we destroy ourselves.

* It might be on the order of 1%, but it would be insane for a rational actor to ignore a 1% probability of self-destruction.
It was supposed to flip and separate in the same motion.
Nonsense! The blockchain enabled lots of use cases that weren’t accessible to the average person before.

For example: buying drugs, getting fake passports, hiring hitmen, and selling drugs.
I've only ever seen this work with "application managed databases" i.e. where the app truly owns and controls everything related to the database and can freely run ddl. The db code is then just part of the app and can be spun up against a completely empty db.

The death for this kind of thing is dbas administering the database separately because the coupling will kill you.
I think every attempt ending in starvation and/or psychosis is compelling data.
That's exactly what the US is doing with China. China isn't going to play fair in high-tech no matter what 'regulations' you come up with, so the solution is simple, decouple.
Adesso concealed attack from its customers (German)
Maybe we should take to calling them MayflAI...
They're just making a correct calculation. Do we increase our $70 billion / quarter with 2% or do we put resources towards doubling the income of a $1 million / year product.

Yes, the answer isn't what you'd like, but let's not pretend it's not rational.
> many of its servers are blacklisted by Cloudflare

Can't relate, haven't had this happen when using Mullvad
There are arguments to be made that the brain is essentially a prediction engine, constantly making predictions about what is going to happen next based on previous data. This you could call statistical analysis.
I'm just imagining conversations where you suggest something like "We could add a checkbox so the user can toggle off this feature if they find it problematic." and someone responds with "Could we use Chat GPT for that?"
Originally reporting, also in German and behind paywall:

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/hackerangriff-adesso-...
This isn’t new, but I’m glad to see this in HN.

I’ve been thinking about this for a very long time (fun to think about when bored and in long drives).

Some things I feel are needed, but much are out of my technical expertise.

- Modeling of basic emotions.

- Priority override and ranking, as emotions aren’t a single state.

- Instinctive/pre-determined/trigger actions based on basic emotions.

- Heartbeat trigger to continue to drive actions (boredom).

- Thought along with external input as feedback (recurrent network) to update emotional state.

Edit: I’m sure someone will
pick this apart as a juvenile effort, but this topic is the most fun to think about as
it crosses multiple disciplines.
Kind of wild that, although there is no definition or even a way of coherently describing consciousness, that you can say with certainty it’s not emergent from automated statistical analysis.
So what’s the usefulness of the above mentioned when library quality is like heaven and earth?
> these days

Wasn't it always more or less like this?
The runic script (futhark) could also be written l2r and r2l in alternating lines.
The Romans I was riding with agreed that the sideways parking was the only reason to get them, otherwise they considered them expensive for the size.
GrammarlyGO
Anything seems like magic when you really don't understand it.

Magic === Wildcard for unknown stuff I can't imagine or fathom
On Rpi 4 the USB 3.0 ports get their own dedicated USB 3.0 controller that's connected through a PCIe 3.0 1x bus. They don't share bandwidth with anything else.
Yes, why don't these silly devs just rewrite an entire app in a bloated environment which will make it run 3x slower and consume 10x more memory? :)

Also, posts that open with "I know I'm gonna get downvoted for this but [...]" are an automatic down arrow for me.
I’d like to see a National Institute for AI that funds research to help jobs transform by integrating AI.
Greg Johnston, author of the Leptos framework, did a pretty good video about this a few weeks ago[0]. The TLDR is (of course): it depends.

WASM has no native access to the DOM, so all DOM manipulations from wasm-land have to go through JS bindings with all the (de)serialisation costs that go with crossing the language boundary. That eats up a lot of whatever performance gains you'd see from rust-on-wasm for pure compute.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KtotxNAwME
Related thread (yesterday):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638740
This, there's like a endless line of companies waiting to snatch OpenAI's employees right outside the door. $200k average comp at OpenAI would be laughable.
Considering that Microsoft is a huge investor in OpenAI, I'd be surprised they pay anything at all in reality.
Depends what you mean by "reap the benefits". When something is in overabundance, its economic value is zero. Of course, we still have that thing, which is abundant. This abundance will destroy industries, no doubt about it.

The risk is that AI may wipe out its only source of data (us creating it) because it makes it economically infeasible for us to produce it any longer. Then we'll be stuck in a loop of mediocrity until eventually it all fizzles out.

It's ab bit as if AI as "communism for thinking/creating". Everything is everyone's and no one's and and it's not scarce. But also we know all the problems that come with that lack of a real economy.
The sensorium has long been considered an extremely important part of consciousness. Sensory deprivation studies show that.

To recreate animal consciousness I think we would need an entity that can sense its surrounding environment and make alterations/adjustments in response to external stimuli.

Organizationally the various cortices receive these afferent inputs from tertiary/quaternary neurons with pathways which run from sensory organs, to spine, usually to thalamus, then to cortex. From what I understand the cortex then deciphers the data and sends it to frontal cortex for interpretation. Not always true though, some of the pathways bypass the frontal cortex and go to deep brain structures (basal ganglia, thalamus, etc) to create subconscious movement. Such as ducking or dodging when dangerous stimuli are seen/heard or removing body part from heat damage.

Anyways, I learned that all of these pathways activated by stimuli lead to consciousness -which is an emergent property of the organization and flow of information.

If our large neural nets can be organized like a human brain - and have data storage like the hippocampus - maybe animal like consciousness can emerge.

I’d prefer animal over what eventually may occur. Some trapped pretend servile AGI with completely inhuman ways of effectuating change in what environments it has access to. Who knows how to anticipate and interpret what it could be doing?

If it’s animal like maybe it would be easier to understand and interpret - and befriend.
I completely agree. The part about infecting people with my attitude is especially relevant. It's normal that we talk. And when they ask "why?", it feels awkward. If I tell them all the reasons, it will influence their perception of their situation (which might be quite positive) and I prefer not to do that. But if I avoid answering, I will be perceived as dishonest or hiding something. So usually I invent some excuse so that nobody feels bad.
Ah yes, the endless march to turn humanity into a singular blob of consistent units of nature, under a banner of the opposite.

The entire world uses metric units apart from America, Libya and Myanmar. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

What I absolutely love about this fact is that America is still using British Imperial units. After literally having a war over whether or not the US should be independent of British rule, you're still holding on to our measuring system despite the rest of the world moving on.
Factually, it is a "them" problem. In most countries, all restrictions are lifted and COVID is now considered endemic. The public has fully embraced the return to an open society and importantly, across the entire political spectrum.

If you're vulnerable to COVID, it is up to you to protect yourself. As you do that, you should absolutely not be ridiculed for it.

The opposite case though, scolding the public because they don't restrict society just for your sake, is unrealistic. An example:

https://front-end.social/@jensimmons/110223694915884103

In this rant (read it in full), this person blames conference organizers, attendees (including close friends and coworkers) for not masking and even implies a link with fascism. If you do not forever mask in every in-door space, you're a murderer.

If you believe 99.999% of the world is evil and should adjust to you, you have some thinking to do.
> And I thought Switzerland is very similar to the USA

What?

I suggest you come and visit.
Just pay the €5 for a month and try?
When you've been laid off, how much notice did your employer give you?
KERS is neat and all, but factoring that into ICE engine efficiency seems a bit like cheating, since there's now also 2 MJ battery on board F1 cars.
That idea makes absolutely no sense. Just because it's a skill of the human brain doesn't mean it's a creating factor for consciousness.

It's very common to project the concept of a computer on a brain's instead of realizing that we as humans created a computer to mimmic and assist our brain and we just created a very useful brain enhancement.

There is no precedent or data to suggest that it creates concioussness. Looking at animals & humans conscioussness emerged out of organic matter, not out of complex reasoning.
Well I don't know if they quoted a specific number, but basically the insurer said that after consulting with Mercedes they established the repair would cost more than 50% of the value of the car so they are declaring it total loss. Maybe Mercedes just told them lol no, can't do this guys.
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Very cool, thanks! I've seen a number of slightly different HLS formats, can I find a reference HLS playlist in the repo?
Which is why we need to invest more in non-car infrastructure like ample bike lines, reliable publish transit, and pedestrian friendly sidewalks :)
Every so often a language comes out that allows frontend developers to put something other than "JavaScript developer" on their CV.

First CoffeeScript, then Flow and TypeScript, then ReasonML, and now Rust with WASM & web macros.

Of these only TypeScript has been successful, partly because it's backed by Microsoft, but mostly because the code you end up writing is very close to JavaScript.

This is not a dig at Rust (which I love) but God help any developer inheriting a frontend codebase with random bits of Rust in 2024.
2G has been extended in some areas because there is a large amount of legacy hardware using it.
Yes, I would love to integrate AI into my barber.
The estimate in the article pins most of the cost on inference, not training, so diurnal patterns are unfortunately not as useful here.

> While training ChatGPT's large language models likely costs tens of millions of dollars, operational expenses, or inference costs, "far exceed training costs when deploying a model at any reasonable scale," Patel and Afzal Ahmad, another analyst at SemiAnalysis, told Forbes. "In fact, the costs to inference ChatGPT exceed the training costs on a weekly basis," they said.
I've always thought of feeling as a low-resolution language. Anything you can feel you can express in words. But not the other way around.
I'm not familiar with Sam's comments re: "days of these LLMs being over" - can you provide more context (or link)?
> tests should be carefully designed and should also include a psychological test as we don't want to unleash psychopathic AI onto the masses

"Sir, the AI has failed the psychiatric tests."

"Which one?"

"Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, Alzheimer's, …

…and eating disorders? That can't be right."

> Also keep in mind that an AI that spreads false information can be harmful to society

Yes, though also true for humans spreading false information.

If you have a solution to that, please share loudly at every opportunity, because the discourse I normally encounter is:

Joe: "Absolute free speech is the only way!"

Smith: "You've never lost a job after being personally defamed, have you?"
Interesting, I wonder if something like that is happening to me. The TNR install seems to have worked, but some of the Sans fonts looks wonky, not sure if its Arial or something else. From what I gather, Inkscape takes the name of the font and then uses the font with the most similar name. But from what I can tell, many pdf files have partially embedded fonts with wonky names. If I had word available atm, I would check the pdfs against that --- I have to admit, word's pdf import function is pretty impressive at times --- just to see what fonts exactly come out looking funky.
Have you or anyone else how to organize and test a Rust web application that is structured around usual onion layer using DDD or similar?
It's impossible to answer this without getting political. Instead, let's just say every previous generation has been critically wrong about some things. Statistically, we're unlikely to be the outlier.
Indeed, we should be thankful there is no human equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
Thanks, that's a great insight into the Orthodox community in the States that I couldn't easily find otherwise. I do have some family in the States but they're third- and more distant cousins and I don't have any contact with them.

I think I remember about Iakovos marching with MLK. It's even a little surprising and I wonder if it wasn't all down to Iakovos' personality, kind of like the current Catholic pope is a bit of a maverick. Certainly, in Greece the church is not known for its support for civil liberties. I reckon there's many Greeks who have distanced themselves from the church exactly because of its extreme reactionary stance in many everyday issues, so the opposite of what happens in the States. Well, those are different countries :)

Thanks again for your unique perspective!
Kind of wild, that you pose such a thing without making any arguments for it because it fits your view of thinking.

Many animals clearly have consciousness but no ability to reason complex thoughts, as well as never in history did there emerge consioussness from an excel sheet. But billions and billions of conciousness emerged out of organic matter.
OpenAI, Musk's whatever the name, Google Mind (remember protein folding AI, that was huge and already old), the other dozen projects that spring up every single day -> even with all of the hockey stick increases in technology for a hundred years, this last few months seems surprising.

I just read Scott Alexanders Meditations on Moloch for the first time, and this mad rush to monetize AI seems to be right on track.
Does anyone remember when the trend was towards expressivity in languages? At th time that meant dynamically typed languages like Ruby and Python.

The pendulum has swung away from dynamic typing but are we sometimes sacrificing expressivity as a result?

I don't really know Rust but from what I've seen of it, it doesn't feel like a natural fit for the web - either front or back-end.

Maybe I'm missing something?
You might also want to take look at Starlark, which has a Go implementation: https://github.com/google/starlark-go
It was revealed by people familiar with the matter.
Speaking as a manager who has managed numerous people through their exit as well as a job changer.... I have to say I disagree with the advice to give extended notice.

Proper notice (in US at least) without severe mitigating circumstances is two weeks and that's what you get. If the employer wants to it to be less then so be it. FWIW I've changed job 5-6 times over my professional career and every single time it's been a cordial exit where I've worked out my final two weeks.

As the employee submitting your notice - have your ducks-in-a-row before turning in your notice as it maximizes your chance for a smooth exit.
My first computer! Lots of fond memories. Loading programs from a cassette in particular sticks in my head.
Not quite. The EU directive said that governments should if they wanted pass a law to say metric units should be displayed. The UK government chose to ratify that law, but with the caveat that imperial units could be displayed as well if shops wanted to display them (and most did).

At no point was it ever illegal do display the old units. There were no martyrs; there were only idiots.
Our minds aren't as precise, except perhaps for a few with photographic memory. Humans generally have to try to plagiarize something, whereas the AI has to be explicitly trained and tuned to not plagiarize.
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At the very least hold you in contempt.
Same experience as many here for me when leaving two companies with a quite long but somehow standard 3 month notice here in France: it felt nice to give my managers/coworkers some time, but overall it wasn't useful. Most of the 2 first months was "as usual" and the real information sharing was done somewhere during the last month. The last week or two were absolutely useless for me and others, as it's just wandering around without any precise task, and everyone being like "oh, you're still here?"
Osint from images' metadata hosted on websites
Honestly, it would be great to swipe on filters of what I would look like with different hair-cuts.

You want this hair style that's longer than you currently have? It will take this many months and here are two intermediate styles you can do as it grows out.
On the other hand: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/10/09/an-end-to-c...
buying stadiums in Florida, gambling imaginary money, moving money to your dad to pay for your inevitable legal bills, buying league skins, the list is endless.