skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plasmodium has no brain or nervous system, yet it can perform brain-like, intelligent functions.

well, no. i would say it can performs some simple algorithms.

> It knows itself

this is useful, performing those algorithms, and so will be selected for.

> It is able to learn and anticipate.

anticipate? don't know about that.

> It can learn, for example, to avoid something potentially harmful.

bacteria do this, via very rapid natural selection.

> It makes decisions

not in the sense we do.
maybe a way I would phrase it that is more interesting than vanilla phrasing:

hand wavy dynamical systems interpretation:

attractors in mental space diverge as intelligence increases (or something like that, have no overlap or stable orbit changes randomly)

I don't agree with it but something along that line would be the more sophisticated take on it imo.

also in order for this to worry you you kind of have to assume some other things, like that those non overlapping orbits will necessarily lead to conflict over resources in the physical world, which I think is also probably wrong in general lol
I would probably pay if it was a standalone service with an easy sign up.

But somehow everything that I have to do through Google makes me cringe the amount of friction I'll have to go through. Unclear whether this perception is justified, as I never even tried to sign up to YouTube Premium (though intended often).
but the bias is usually negative, hence easy $ by shorting it
My guess is it isn't cold itself that kills, but the effects of living in a cold, and damp, environment.

Take the UK for example, many houses are over 100 years old, made of brick and little insulation. Even before energy prices went crazy, during the winter you'd be paying hundreds of pounds a month for heating and some parts of the house would barely reach 20c. In most parts of the UK, temperatures below freezing are rare so it's probably +5C or similar outside at that time. And its an island that rains a lot, so combine that with 90% humidity and you have a rather high dew point.

Now back to the energy prices. Gas prices in the UK are around 3x what they were before COVID, and electricity prices around 5x - and let's not even start about other living costs. So you do as the media says and try to save money and energy by turning down the thermostat. Maybe you also turn off the radiator in the spare bedroom, and try to be smart by sealing up drafty windows.

This means your cold and damp home will be closer to the dew point and is going to be less ventilated (forced air heating or ventilation is not a thing in the UK; you ventilate by opening windows), which will to lead to more mold and fungus, and we have something which causes health issues. The winter in the UK was colder than normal too, with more days below freezing than usual.

(I'm from the UK, but live somewhere colder now, but as the humidity is so low during winter and houses are insulated properly, mold is not a thing here)
There's a "lite" option for €7/month (instead of €12) which only removes ads, but doesn't include music and all the other stuff. Prices may differ per region; this is what it shows for me.
Quickselect and non-randomized variations should get you that; no?
All the better to watch you with...

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

That old Soviet Russia joke has truly become reality, and it is quite disturbing.
“No one is forcing you to buy bread from the government run nickel bread company, you are free to start your own company and charge whatever you like. If others choose to buy the government’s bread for a nickel, well, hey, that’s just the free market for you.”
Many years ago I got mylastname.com for a normal price (like $20 a year or whatever) and then forgot about it. It helps that I have a very unique surname.

A few years afterwards, I woke up one morning with the bright idea that I should probably secure mylastname.com in case some jerk off domain name squatter grabs it. I do a whois from the command line (I don't trust the online domain name search sites anymore) and saw that it was already taken! What the hell! My last name is so unique, how did anyone know, let alone a domain name squatter, to snap this domain name from under my nose!

I go to try and find more info about the domain outside of what was in the whois info (eg. who should I contact to try and negotiate a price for mylastname.com) but the domain didn't go anywhere when typed into my browser. Bummed out, I go into my usual domain name registrar dashboard to try and perhaps get the .net version or something, and there I saw in my list of currently owned domain names, the very mylastname.com domain I was looking at buying.

The squatter was me all along! </callWasComingFromInsideTheHouse>
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A day old. You were quick to notice, wow.
It's a tool. Humans that adapt to any tool they use frequently.
> Life got better

I dunno, we seem to be struggling with a lot of kids who don't fit into an academic school run, and who no longer have lots of options in the form of practical jobs they can do instead when they're 16 and fed up with school.
More apt comparison: the Surface line.

Both are excellent reference lines.
Beautifully written. And myxomyceticolous is an indispensible new word for me to have learned.
Most of that content will hardly get any views though. Caching the top 10.000 on a daily basis will avoid most traffic.
Cutting back on wages to increase leverage has been the point the entire time too, not because companies needed the cash
Guess they should rebrand as AvailableAI then...
Shareholders of those companies would demand they do the same.
As someone who has lived in Europe and since returned. I can tell you people there are way way more happy and I’m also more frequently seeing the “saltiness” towards Europeans on here because of it.

I remember working in Europe, and going to the park during a week day and seeing all these parents, both Mum and Dad playing with their children in the sun with this kind of carelessness about them. I vividly remember being shocked at that scene. I’d never seen it before.

People would just go home from work and not “grind” away at their jobs.

I think given a few more years of “automation” and most Americans might think differently about free market capitalism. Maybe at that stage it’ll be too late to change to something better?

Europe is a kind or project too, it’s a work in progress. I think their systems will just improve over time.
And now it is a giant brick that doesn’t fit comfortably in your pocket.
YouTube is the digital content equivalent of cigarettes. Shorts is just a stronger form.
You're kind of making my point for me. To solve alignment problem you have to solve two alignment problems and you already have a detailed, nuanced view built over decades of experience as to the feasibility of aligning natural general intelligence on not-very-well-understood, divisive political issues.

This will be the most political technology in history.
How can you actually justify consuming content that took time and money to make, without yourself providing any value to the content creators?

If there’s a logic I’m missing, I’d love to hear it.
>A base price 1995 Ford Contour was $13805–$16190 [1]. ABS was an upgrade option on that car.

True; and interesting that the Contour struggled in the market due to it being noticeably more expensive than the model it replaced! The thought was that being a much better car (to the tune of $6 billion in development costs), Ford could sell it on its merits, but as it turns out, buyers of small cars in the US are really, really price-sensitive.
Keep the entire team as optional but most reviews can be done by 1 or max 2 people.
Nice morality shaming. The truth is as humans we are capable of abstract thought, and wishing for a world where we don't have to choose between compromise our principles or being judged by society, even sometimes friends & family, as a "loser".
Apple themselves have a 4% savings account and will also give you 0% on device purchases through their Apple Card.
Making Up the Mind
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And none of those processors are available or suitable for projects like these. You pretty much get to choose between i.MX, Allwinner or Rockchip. Although things do change in this regard, it happens very slowly.

I backed the project on the initial campaign and the switch to i.MX8M from i.MX6 has been merely mentioned as a big "maybe" back then.

(sent from my Librem 5)
What have I said that suggests I'm denying science?

What have you said that suggests you're facing the science?

I note you came in with 'life proves the supernatural'. This is not a unique claim, and repetition does not imbue it credibility.
The corollary of your argument is that hiring rampant cheaters produces (by definition, as you say) a low-trust company. Putting aside everything else, low-trust organizations are intrinsically dysfunctional (though it may take a while for the consequences to play out.) In them, asking more questions will not get you useful information, and you had better watch your back.

See, for example, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Hoxha's Albania, the Taliban's Afghanistan...
If you already can work remote on side gigs for your consulting firm consider moving to a low cost of living country in south/Central America, Thailand, or Eastern Europe.

No point paying living expenses in the west if you can generate a western salary remotely.
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I share the sentiments — I happily pay for all kinds of digital subs, but YouTube really rubs me the wrong way. Yes, it feels like they’re trying to trick me into a sub, and yes I realize if I do it, the tricks will go away. I just don’t feel good about giving money to a company like this.

It’s the same reason I eventually got rid of my Pixel — it felt like a box just for Google to push ads at me, even though it was a premium product at a premium price.
YouTube Premium is direct patronage.
Acres? Those are bona-fide mansions and estates.

The definition of McMansion I’m familiar with, at least in Los Angeles, is demolishing a 2bd/2ba bungalow to build a 5bd/4ba house, usually by getting rid of all fertile backyard/frontyard in the first place. They have another pejorative name, too— “Boxy Moderns”

This is super common in Santa Monica or Beverly Hills, for example. Even San Francisco!

And yet, for some reason, this is completely fine to build without any zoning meetings but the second you propose a 5-unit 1bd/1ba apartment building with the same profile in a “single family neighborhood” it’s ruining the entire “character” of the place and requires 3-5 years of bureaucracy and, depending on the neighbors, litigation.
Or error codes, because it thinks that all numbers are almost the same.

AI is the imprecision and stupidity of a human, amplified by the speed of machines.
I give up. Enjoy doubling down Pooty, and take your own advice. Look up what a crime is (this is illegal) and look up what a tort is. There is a reason we have civil and criminal courts.
They do discount it for Fi customers.

On the site, if you use Google Fi Wireless, and you keep your service for 24 months, then they prorate $700 discount for each month.
Why would you want farms in urban settings? We have plenty of farm land as is, in fact if many cities were more densely structured rather than suburban there would be even more farm land.
When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think
The Scientific Method is testing, so testing (tests, assertions, fixtures) should be core to any scientific workflow system.

- [ ] (It's not possible to run `!pytest` in a Jupyter notebook without installing an extension with JupyterLite in WASM onnly where there's not yet a terminal or even yet a slow-but-usable [cheerpx] webvm bridged to jupyter kernel WASM ~process-space.)

awesome-jupyter#testing: https://github.com/markusschanta/awesome-jupyter#testing

ml-tooling/best-of-jupyter lists papermill/papermill under "Interactive Widgets/Visualization"
https://github.com/ml-tooling/best-of-jupyter#interactive-wi...

"Markdown based notebooks" would store files next to the .ipynb.md, which implies a need for an MHTML/ZIP-like archive (for report notebook artifacts produced by scientific workflow systems with provenance metadata); but W3C Web Bundles avoid modifying linked resources with new specs:
https://github.com/jupyter/enhancement-proposals/pull/103#is...
wait till you see your Cisco bill
Google Fi offers a trade-in, and separately a "keep service for 24 months" prorated $700-off deal.
The parent said youtube should be able to take money directly... and I pointed out they can. That's what's So. And I didn't say youtube premium, I said memberships. Tho if you have enough memberships premium makes more sense fiscally even tho it doesn't give the money to the creators as much.
From the article:

> "The two areas where we see automated writing tools for SEO purposes having an advantage will be ... 2) generating content that is not watermarked by Google as synthetic content."

Wow. They're basically saying that AI tools will lets SEOers generate content that isn't detected as "synthetic content" by Google, even though it clearly is synthetic. It's surprising to see the SEO industry acknowledge this so directly. Whether the generated content is useful or not, I'm now even more ready for the world where 90% of my queries can be answered on search engines directly since it's just cutting out the middleman.
YouTube is extremely expensive to host and that too when it relies on Google infra which is very well optimised. Please remind me of any non trivial Government software project that didn't cost ridiculous amounts of money compared to similar private products.
It's not obvious. At all. That's like saying "people don't want to die from a novel coronavirus so it's obvious they'll take the vaccine". It feels obvious on a surface level, but it turns out reality is way more messy and unpredictable when you don't just run the caricature of it in your head but when it actually plays out for real.

Nothing about how this is going to go is obvious.
LPT: Use a Syrian VPN and Google won't advertise to you in any of their products (due to sanctions). Only use this for read-only content (YouTube, Search et al).
Does everyone really use it a lot?

I might watch one or two a month, that's it. I will always prefer written content over video. The only time I go for video is when I can't find a written source.

With that little use it will not be worthwhile.
Not skittish or reactive. They simply don’t need to give raises, so they won’t. What are their devs gonna do? Go somewhere else?
Apple's coming out with a foldable phone within a year or two, which will be more than enough to scare Google into continuing this form factor.
just buy the stock, which keeps going up....this is effectively the same as a raise. Profit that would go to employees goes to shareholders. It's like a conservation law.
> If you don't believe in secrecy or believe in revealing info for what ever reason, just dont join the company, it's very simple.

That is absurd. If you don't believe in inflicting pain, maiming, and killing animals for cosmetics research, don't do anything about it like infiltrate and leak, rather just don't work for one of those companies?

(that's an example, I am neither in favor of nor opposed to animal research, I'm willing to go along with informed majority rule. But I understand why people protest it.)
Check the Google Fi site for a $700 discount for customers who keep Fi service for 24 months.
I’ve seen the merit lines. Not that many people are at MRP%s that would generate 0% raises for the bulk of SI performers.
Thank you, very interesting I hadn't seen this concept of Dummy Blocks before!
> They're more employee hostile than dividends, that's for sure

Why are buybacks more employee hostile than dividends?
I used to have Youtube Red or whatever it was, along with Google Music. Then they got rid of Google Music, replacing it with Youtube Music that I didn't want. And then they ruined Youtube by intentionally nerfing it on Firefox, ruining my subscription feed, changing the algorithm to reinforce short form clickbait, and adding things like Shorts and autoplay that, no matter how many times I turn them off, they always come back.

So I switched to Floatplane (3 subscriptions) and Spotify. I have no problem paying for content. I have a HUGE problem paying Google.
It can be, for some people. Rural lifestyles work, urban lifestyles work; suburbia gets the worst of both worlds, even with the messed up economics that subsidise it it's still not a pleasant way of living (AIUI there's an established bias that people naturally underestimate how long they'll be stuck in traffic commuting and how miserable it will make them).
I was referring to the HN poster "Someone" at the beginning of this subthread, my apologies for the confusion--I didn't want to name them explicitly in my post since that feels a little aggressive. They said C# 5 made this change, which is wrong; that's why I explained with a C# snippet. This subthread isn't referring to your post at all.
> Btw I've arrived at a different interpretation of the "Open" in OpenAI.

I don't understand why people have to keep trying to wrap their head around the word 'Open' in OpenAI. If you ever saw a commercial like a product has a 'great new taste' but then you tried it and it tasted bad, would you twist yourself into knots trying to understand how you went wrong in your interpretation of 'great'? No that's ridiculous. Same with 'Open' in 'OpenAI'. It's just some letters that form part of the name that they chose for themselves when they filled the form to incorporate their company.
26 can certainly be solid if the sample is representative, the effect size is large and the variance is tight. If you heard that 26 people randomly selected from America took a pill and died within a year, you probably wouldn't want to take that pill.

None of that even matters much because there's barely any stats in the paper. I didn't even see anything besides descriptive statistics. It is, by their own description, a qualitative study.
Is going to be?
It sets the tone and it's unlikely that just the CEO gets bonuses like that. If the exec salaries/bonuses were tied to all the other salary adjustments, the incentives to care about workers would be better too.
Replicating some of the reason videos like Skyrim AI powered will give your pitch a lot more momentum.
I hope you realise Syrian VPNs do not exist
Anybody knows about a svg renderer written in plain and simple C?
Noise-Canceling Filters for the Internet Are Coming
Nice try YouTube
> That includes an implicit (and sometimes explicit) agreement to regularly reevaluate employee compensation based off a combination of employee and company performance.

It ain't a 2 variable equation, like all resources it is also driven by market. If Meta/Goog/industry is hiring at 20% higher the salaries have to go up to match or you'll see huge attrition.
118, can we beat it anyone?

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Probably the alternative is to simply not watch any video on YouTube at all. I'd love YouTube to do that for me because that's probably going to beneficial to me in general. I wish I could do that by myself.
You can always buy black masking tape to put over a fixed camera.
If you can induce it to hallucinate, it should just do whatever it associates that the words in that title with.
We’ve broken our society to think this. Shareholders should be third, after customers and employees. Or at the very least we need to ban the phrase “job creators” for the rest of time if employers are just supposed to stomp on their employees whenever possible.
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> Envy is not a productive way of thinking about economics.

This is an incredibly uncharitable way to frame the parent comment.

> If all the CEOs in the world were forced to make $0, it will not meaningfully change the amount of money in workers' pockets.

That's just not true.
I think you're missing the point here? There are plenty of censored / "aligned" models in the open source community. People are expending effort to supply the demand of "give me the raw, unfiltered thing".
Something $0.01 piece of tape will easily fix :)

Microphones are a lot harder to block though.
I'm with you, man. I run an ad blocker and I sure would hate to pay Google another dime. But I have to say objectively, govt ownership ought to be reserved for services that either practically cannot make a profit or morally should not make a profit. Things like police, fire, medical, education, etc.. The entertainment sector though has been making a profit for hundreds of years. Radio was funded entirely by commercialism from the beginning, as was television, and thus far the Internet has followed. So I gotta disagree with you as much as it pains me to admit. There may be a way to get some things funded like purely educational, or the arts, but the vast majority of YouTube is really just pure entertainment and ought to remain profit driven.
YouTube Premium is my most loved subscription, for what it's worth. I don't even use the Music element, but if I did that would be another reason. While all other subscriptions I pause on and off waiting for content, YouTube has always had solid stuff -- from mindless good stuff, content reviews, learning household chores, to full-on lectures/talks from Universities/Conferences.

If you're getting served McDonalds at the world's largest buffet, it's because that is what you enjoy.
I know almost nothing about this, so as far as I understand stock options are like stock except they start from "0" and you can only cash out the positive difference?

Like you can only earn from the company's future growth.
I mean if YouTube wants to block ad blockers, that's unfortunate, but I also understand the motivation. But here's the rub. Youtube premium is still not available globally. I had a weird workaround that I used a long time ago through google play but when my current credit card expires, I won't be able to use that method again and all the benefits of my membership will go away. That really sucks because I actually enjoy the ads free experience and the fact that I can pay for it.

I don't understand how a giant company like Google hasn't figured out global availability of a service like this. Especially given that videos can be geo locked if needed.
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I don't know Figma but I would use chatGPT to suggest how to learn it. It does a very good job, at suggestions, for the most part.
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