skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not "ignoring" them at all. I'm saying that they point to interesting questions that are not answered.

> The split-brain experiments are notable because the lab experiments SUGGEST the lack of communication between two hemispheres and a split conscious however this is paradoxical with everyday experience of these patients, far from providing evidence for anything.

It is not "paradoxical" but yes it does conflict with some reported experience. However, even healthy individuals often report being "of two minds" or struggling to "make up their [singular] mind." Why are these utterances to be dismissed while the also-subjectively-reported sensation of unitary experience is taken as fact?

> Suggests you're arguing that the brain has many different consciouses that are in a constant battle, i.e. there is not a unified consciousness in control of behavior.

I wouldn't characterize my position as "many different consciousnesses," but rather that consciousness is dispersed across (at least) the brain. In some scenarios (such as a corpus callosotomy) and perhaps in more everyday scenarios - perhaps all day every day - that dispersed activity can fall out of internal "synchronization." Anyway, you provided the exact same interpretation in the previously quoted section: "the lab experiments SUGGEST the lack of communication and a split consciousness."

You just go one step further of prioritizing the subjectively reported sensation of unitary consciousness over also-subjectively-reported sensation of non-unitary consciousness. That's your prior taking hold, not mine, and not actual evidence.

You yourself admit we do not know the mechanism (if any exists) by which the activity in various parts of the brain are integrated. We do not know if this process actually even occurs!

Regarding addiction, it is very, very commonly reported that addicts will go into "autopilot" like states while satisfying their addictions and only "emerge" when they have to face consequences of their behaviors. Again, subjectively reported, but so is the experience of unitary consciousness! If we cannot trust one then we shouldn't take it as granted that we can trust the other.

I get the sense you think you're arguing against some firmly held belief or a model I'm proposing as fact: you're not! We're both saying "we don't know much about how this works." And no, neurochemical mechanisms are not complete answers to how brain activity ladders up to conscious experience, similar to how a molecular model of combustion cannot explain much about urban traffic patterns.
And many generations of people before us ended up prematurely dead by cheating, as well.
though I do like this app. this app, along with onesec really illustrate what's annoying about modern tech development. why pay monthly for something whose feature set rarely changes? something like this ideally should be $10 once.
Maybe people are getting desperate enough for meaningful progress on environmental stuff they've decided to throw money at the problem on the theory that if we don't find real solutions soon, we're all dead anyway.

(A la the scene in The Titanic: "You're money won't do me any good at the bottom of the ocean.")
Show HN: Git for datasets and config table versioning, that commits diffs
I am building the Data Manager to version datasets and configuration tables in a storage-efficient way, and easily identify and deploy to S3 datasets versions to feed other code. It works on top of git for versioning but calculates and commits incremental differences only, locally and in the cloud. Committing diffs can enable collaborating on huge repositories without full checkouts for certain use cases, using only a logical checkout of a few kilobytes, and letting other machines merge your contributions into branches.

D:\install\dir\dm>dm

will:
* make sure the Data Manager is in sync with the Git HEAD
* process the data pipelines configured in data-manager-config.json in the installation folder
* for each source dataset calculate the diffs against the state represented by the HEAD
* commit those diffs in a readable format, that the Data Manager can also parse
* build snapshots and post them to S3 if configured

The installation .msi comes with sample \datasets and running dm.exe will automatically create sample \repos. Supported data sources: CSV, xlsx. You can create snapshots by tagging commits (there is a customizable “api_” tag prefix filter by default). Snapshots, identified by tag_name:commit_sha, can be posted to S3. Heavy files beyond a custom threshold will also be posted to S3, if configured, and referenced indirectly in the repo. The current best use case is for multiple datasets of a couple of gigabytes each and daily changes.

You need to have git installed and available in PATH (git --version) and you need to grant permissions with your antivirus and flag the executable (dm.exe) as trusted. Current usage constraints include: data must be structured and tabular, no dataset primary key changes allowed (there’s a workaround), merge features are work in progress. This early prototype will replay history using a naive algorithm.

Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35806843

AWS configuration in C:\Users\<username>\.aws\ with two files, (1) config and (2) credentials, no file extension.

(1) config content:
[default]
region=us-west-1

(2) credentials content:
[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIA...
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXU...

S3 bucket name in data-manager-config.json, the bucket should be available in the configured region and accessible using the provided access key.
{
"s3": {
"default-bucket": "mybucket"
...
}
}
Alright, there are a lot of stuff in Ready Player One, so I'll formulate more in depth what I meant:

Having one VR universe from which you can join various worlds where a world is pretty much its own game, and you can join friends in that, and it needs to be "alive enough" to feel like actual social interaction. Pretty much a very big MMORPG.

Several games actually have most of that (including Meta Horizon), except that the games inside are very crude, that the transition from one world to another is clunky, and it's obviously completely lacking emotion (which Meta is trying to solve, I don't know whether they will).

There are indeed other stuff in Ready Player One:
- walkpads: That's definitely cool, but they already do exist. They are costly, but same in Ready Player One: Only few people have it. But yes movement in VR is a bit of an issue. I sadly don't expect any progress on that matter (give me a trackball under the hand!), until we can connect to our brain (which I think could be possible 5-10 years from now for simple move forward/backward commands?)
- stunts: There are a lot of stunts made in game. I don't think there is any reasonable way to implement that realistically. That being said, stuff like EchoVR are already very immersive imo.
- haptic gloves: Okay everyone has it in Ready Player One, and even though we have some stuff, it's nowhere near mass-market. So yes I'll agree this is missing compared to Ready Player One.
Honestly one thing that worries me the most is the biggest applications of AI at scale so far are to manipulate humans to click on things (ads).

Google has been using this stuff for years, OpenAI has done the world a great service by opening it up.
Sounds akin to "hackback" ... which may (or may not) be legal

Some references from Bruce Schneier:

- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/11/hackback.html

- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/02/hacking_back....

- http://ethics.calpoly.edu/hackingback.pdf

- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2270673

- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/10/hacking_back_...

Engaging in scam responses to scammers could potentially run you afoul of CAN-SPAM, too (https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...)

More legal resources: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/inbox/state_anti-spam_laws, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam_legislation_by_coun...
I keep idly thinking about getting the last one. I have the 4.3 and 4.4 ones. I'm not sure that I'd find it useful, however. I wouldn't be surprised if it misses out stuff that one can see from the FreeBSD version control.

For example: It's fairly well recorded that FreeBSD switched to Mewburn rc, which it got from NetBSD, in 2002. But what isn't so well recorded, that one can only really find out from the version control history, is that this was actually a regression in one aspect, as FreeBSD had some years earlier finally got rid of an old backwards-compatibility mechanism, that Mewburn rc promptly restored.

* http://jdebp.info/FGA/rc.local-is-history.html

One of the interesting things about FreeBSD et al. is that one can reach back decades in version control and look at this stuff.

Another example: Linux people often talk about BSD-style options to their "ps" command. But they actually aren't, and BSD has not documented any such things for the entire lifetime of any "ps" command on Linux. Inspecting BSD version control history one can find where the BSD "ps" switched to getopt(3) and changed its manual, and it was in 1990, a year before Linux even existed.
That PM who can barely open a spreadsheet made it happen, of course.
It looks like a lot of the cheating can be curbed with in-person interviews. As for rapid promotion, I guess the cheaters had some skill, otherwise I blame the management for being idiots and they deserve what they got. It's surprising to find cases where there was no due diligence done.
I’ve been using Screen zen for quite some time now. I found it to be incredibly useful. Curious to know how clearspace is different from screenzen, given the latter is free on app store.
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/screenzen-screen-time-control/...
DevTools for language models – OpenAI CEO interview – generative AI with Pandas
Go with PHP
This is interesting to me because it's advancing the work on the notion of quantum graph problem solving.

I'm sure we've all heard how quantum computers can be used in the future to decrypt information from today. There's a lot of research out there on how QC may be able to efficiently factor large semiprimes and bust our existing cryptographic algorithms, but to me this is the more mundane side of QC.

The exciting side to me is that many graph problems, particularly whole graph problems like connectivity and shortest paths have a potential quantum advantage. This is particularly advantageous for sparse and hypersparse graphs that have billions of nodes but relatively low node degree. Language Models, chemical assay databases, proteomics, causal inference, and fraud detection are just a few problems that involve huge sparse graphs that could get a huge boost from quantum.

And to show my own bias here [1], I think the future of graph algorithms, including quantum, is expressing them in Linear Algebraic form with the GraphBLAS API. Using the GraphBLAS, you can write your algorithm in a mathematical form using the multiplication of adjacency matrices that is then synthesized to some optimal form for a given architecture.

The same code you write can then be run on a variety of backends, currently CPUs and CUDA using SuiteSparse's new JIT, but soon FPGAs and yes, quantum computers. Parallelism will become so broad and conceptually divergent that you won't even be able to conceive of an efficient hand written single function for all possible platforms.

[1] https://github.com/Graphegon/pygraphblas
There is a nonzero cost of extracting hydrocarbons, the price can only fall so far.
No. For emergencies have had to rely on nearby human beings, like the 1990's.
I wouldn't want to be you when Roko's Basilisk emerges.
I don't - I really think that it's a completely pointless distinction to make. Labelling some version of AI as general doesn't make it more or less useful.
Calckey recently gained the ability to migrate posts. Even from Mastodon. Maybe that'll motivate Mastodon and the forks to prioritize it.
The older I get, the more systems I learn are only around because they've been around.
- A lot of code won't work for types with no default constructors, but that is at least compile error

- Using memcpy[0] for arbitrary types is just wrong, see [1]

[0] https://github.com/DNedic/lockfree/blob/main/lockfree/inc/bi...

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p11...
If someone can just look it up, digest information in X minutes and come up with the same answer, then why does it matter that they didn't memorize it in the first place? Presumably I'm hiring an expensive problem-solver with good judgment here, accumulation of past knowledge beyond some basic level of competence is useful, but secondary.

Fundamentally, the issue is the interviewing/selection process itself. The best interview that I've encountered is the long interview. I hire you for four months as a co-op, see what you can do, and we go from there. Impractical in many/most settings, obviously.
Yeah, and "vintage" theaters can get away with a lot less "bells and whistles" like digital projection and other things the article is talking about.
How to waste your time tracking down 20000 wanna be script kiddies?
I would say, yes to understanding...

...no to the willpower part, or choice, though this might quickly become tangled in the semantics of those words.

Part of what I believe (and assert) is that understanding, belief, intention—all the self-conscious cognition and knowledge we have around e.g. fat and sugar, has on the whole moderate (or no) influence on our actual behavior,

because it is opposed by and undermined by the other part of our brain, the part that evolved in conditions within which sugar and far were extremely scarce.

The dilemma the developed world has today is that cheap calories are cheap and we live in a condition of abundance, with bodies (brains) evolved for a condition of scarcity.

It's not that any one person might not make a reasoned decision, or successfully inculcate habits that remove them from situations where their own instinctual selves short circuit those decisions...

...it's that on the whole, most people are not very successful at this. Modulo the conditions of upbringing and culture etc... which are relatively modest influences...

It's hyperbolic to say we have no defense, I concede... it might be better to say, it takes some happy mixture of conditions including habit-formation and cultural context, to aid the cognitive self in overcoming the animal self.

The main point though was, we have recapitulated a comparable dilemma with respect to methodically crafting social media (etc etc) to engage the animal self. For fun and profit. And the hidden and deferred costs of this are legion.
Stop of the Exchequer
oh, well, if you're a speculator, often you really do lose money to hfts because they're better speculators than you, but it's unclear why anybody outside your immediate family should care about that

if you're an investor, otoh, the lower spread and greater liquidity means timely execution costs you less, not more. you aren't paying them for liquidity; they're paying you, or rather you're paying them, but much less than the spread you'd've paid an old-style open outcry market maker

(do you even remember markets before decimalization? minimum spread 12.5 cents)

of course you do need to execute intelligently; you can't just plop a million-dollar order in a hundred-million-a-day market and expect the market not to move against you
I know of a family who lives in a neighborhood like what you describe.

They complain they never see any birds or wildlife when the nearest batch of trees is at least a half mile away.
Something about VB6 felt so pure when I wrote it. it's not fancy and is missing a lot of stuff we take for granted today (pretty sure there is no built in map structure lol) but solving problems in VB6 due to language quirks was always fun.
How to make programmer dumber by introducing ai to coding.
Lighttpd 1.4.70 Adds Native Windows Build Support, Faster CGI Spawning
Small teams are the future

AI is the new Linux

No single entity can own it or control it

This will impact everything in tech
4GB of Xerox PARC Archives Online at Computer History Museum
Top link is to the archive portal. Here is a lengthy blog post giving the history of backups at PARC from 9-track through multiple stages to DVD:

https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-backup-of-historical-prop...
It doesn’t work well. It’s the JIRA of CI/CD: it is entrenched and does multiple things but doesn’t do any one thing well, and the people that decide what to buy aren’t the people who are forced to use it so they don’t care about its quality so much
Airbnb drops 10% after earnings report offers cautious outlook for Q2
buddy in southern california the drive through lines are like 50 cars long.
Correct headline: Microsoft cuts salaries for 2023.

Even in a good economy inflation and cost of living increases are a thing.
AI can bring the Notorious BIG’s voice back to life. Should it?
What does “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” mean in this context? I ended up on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images but I’m not sure what it means here.
It's been a long time since I had the sensation of going from a site with a brightly/strongly coloured background to another on white/beige and my eyes not being able to handle it. I really quite enjoyed it.
Follow-up, anything in graph-theory?
All I'm trying to get is people to change their phrasing to something like

> Many may not be aware, because of the naming, but OSS is actually defined as having no commerce restrictions <link to OSD and DoD definitions>. Facebook should clarify that this is "source available". I'm glad the source is available, but this is extremely frustrating as we've had this discussion several times and I believe that Facebook should know better by now.

I think such a phrasing could have led to better outcomes. For example, if I saw that -- instead of a bunch of comments about OSS -- I would have commented about how there is a lack of a training script and that this makes the work difficult to reproduce. While the training looks standard sometimes there are subtle differences that make this difficult. Though I'll admit that Facebook has a decent track record for reproduction within my own experience (MSR is the worst and Google is okay but uses proprietary datasets[0]).

> or more succinctly "model code available for researchers,"

Just to be clear, the checkpoint is also available. But I should also mention that this is only the state dict and does not have other information, as is common practice.

[0] Google needs to be not allowed to use this dataset in conference publications (at least in review phase). Not only does it make the work not reproducible but it breaks double blind reviewing, thus violating conference guidelines. Any paper which mentions JFT is automatically known as a Google work and biases the reviewer. I am ashamed that both reviewers and ACs have not flagged these works.
> it's very galling that it's now becoming accepted as okay behavior in American society due to cultural shifts aligned to low trust societies we do business with

Pull the bandaid off and just admit it -- we're just becoming one of those "low trust societies". And it has nothing to do with who we're doing business with, and it is due to our own culture.
Oneohtrix
"Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World" is a book that makes an excellent attempt to answer this.
I remember when in early days of J2ME enabled mobile phones I was downloading development kits just to test out how UI on one or other mobile phone worked. They usually had very limited OS part, being targeted to development. Later some "simulators" build with Flash appeared on web, allowing to test out some phone features. Seems we came back full circle?
Pinching myself as I witness actual Marxist analysis on HN of all places.
If I had to name one it would be the violinist Vanessa Mae, but I think DJ's have replaced bands and musicians in many ways and have certainly added value to the original work, which ironically is a copyright nightmare.

I wouldnt listen to this original soundtrack/song,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N_ucgihNzk&ab_channel=fdsvf...

But I'd listen to these upgrades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vmbSXKNJ14&ab_channel=morte...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vak9wUPkL3Q&ab_channel=Hillt...
0 times out of ten for me. First I blocked the annoying cat, then I got to the bottom, was assaulted by blinking buttons and decided I didn’t need to know what else they were saying anyway.
Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model
> Capitalism is a stateless society... . Any problems with this definition?

Other than it's gibberish? Capitalism, a system where money is used to purchase property by individuals, is a society ... without issued currency or individual property rights, you say?

Look around you, are capitalist countries stateless, and are stateless countries Capitalistic?
So the people that gain the most income from stock decide to limit the income of those who don't. So their salaries effectively increase.
> You don't get to use [a copyrighted work] unless you have a license.

Not when you give it to me. "Hey, can I see your pamphlet? Sure, here's a copy."

> an implicit license to consume this content

No, copyright prevents copying, not use. There's no implicit license needed to use a work so there's no place to attach those usage restrictions. If you want me to agree to a license you need to not give me the work until I do.

You could have a ToS click-through agreement ("no training an AI on this!"), and then only serve content to logged-in users who have agreed to your conditions.

> but not to reproduce it.

I agree - those "pamphlets" were given to me and I can't copy them for someone else. They'd have to view my collection.

> The exact legal status of AI models trained on other people's unlicensed works and their output is still largely unknown.

Sure, predicting all courts in the world is a futile exercise. Surely someone will try to over reach from copyright to preventing what they feel is a bad use but it's unlikely to become law because there are already analogous uses, scanning someone's text and pulling data from it - data like which words follow which other words.

> I do have a problem with these multi billion dollar companies scouring the internet for their money maker, giving nothing in return.

Well, FB released Llama... It's not a closed technology, it's being led by for-profit businesses but the community (which consists of many of the corporate engineers as well) is trying to keep up.

Even if you can and do attach usage regulations to your site I feel it'll hurt the little guy more than the corporations. There are probably not any unique linguistic constructions on your site that will render a corporate AI less valuable, but for hackers and tinkerers and eventual historians, who knows what it'll interfere with.
Only if you've gotten through the waitlist. I signed up at least a month ago, no word. There was a comment thread the other day about getting around the wait by selecting the option that you're looking to build plugins, which apparently gets you expedited.

I haven't tried it. As always, YMMV.
Having watched a short documentary on ITER it seems like an incredible waste. A bunch of mismanagement and bureaucratic nonsense. As an American, it seemed like exactly what we would expect from a Euro-based project.

By the time any actual work can be done at ITER, won't the technology have progressed beyond they design they are trying to test?