skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of us share the experience of having driven a car from A to B, without having any conscious recollection about the trip. From such experiences we can deduce that our level of consciousness is not constant, but it fluctuates.

I’m not sure that I would characterize this as a ‘lack of consciousness’. Of all the times that I have experienced this, it’s because I was thinking deeply about something else (not lacking consciousness), and simply assigned a subroutine to the driving.
This is exactly an escrow in France, just that this is compulsory, and has to go though a special notary account (that is managed by the gov't)
When you realize your favorite new song was written and performed by AI
I see your point of course, but I still think it has different purposes and constraints. For a therapist I would have to take time off of work, commit to a meeting in advance, have a limited amount of time (no more, no less). Also it's a real person and thus, despite him/her having those legal and ethical obligations, I know there are many topics I won't cover. And as I said you won't flirt or role play or anything with a counselor. So I put them on 2 very different kind of services.
We have worker groups that would allow you to do exactly this: https://docs.windmill.dev/docs/core_concepts/worker_groups

And you would do exactly what you suggest in the last paragraph
Auto linkifying wasn't happening in the olden times. And there was a shortage of octets for tlds in those days, so .com was all that could be spared.
Asus UK PR believes it is ‘legal to buy positive reviews’
I have a different focus here, it's about all those leakages, it's like _everything_ will be leaked one way or another, sooner or later, as a matter of fact, more than half American's identity are leaked(the equifax breach), and in the end, no one is responsible, so the leakage just keeps coming, and takes up headlines, it gets boring.

can something be done about that? or it's like "we got the leakage to our benefit, screw it, let me have a look first"
I think that is a stylistic decision to make it appear as if, but again, this ain't monospace any longer.

In monospace one letter/symbol (printable character) has constant width.

The ligature is one letter/symbol. so while the stylistic decision retains the monospace style of the replaced symbols, the ligature itself is double (or triple) sized compared with other symbols.

IIRC this is commonly called "monospaced ligatures" ref https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/712
> even if, under the hood, they are just algorithms whirring away in subjective oblivion

I'm always confused by statements like this. Like, unless we're assuming Cartesian dualism or something, humans are "under the hood, just algorithms whirring away in subjective oblivion". Whatever is happening in our information processing architecture to produce subjective consciousness isn't mystical and is, at least in theory, something we can measure and analyze. So this universal assertion that "human special, machine simple" doesn't seem warranted to me.
> I don't get it, isn't 'handaxe' pretty suggestive

yes

> of its primary use?

That we don't know, that's the point. (And why handaxe is arguably a bad name, because it suggests a certainty about what it was used for that we don't have).

If it were called "throwing toy" that'd also be pretty suggestive of a primary use...
Heh, I'm just imagining a timeline where our Apple and Android phones have been recording everything we say and do for the last 15 years or so, and could now train an LLM of us. How much of 'us' could they actually simulate?
Yeah, it's different because it's behind a HTTP API and in a year or two, once OpenAI is skint and your entire product is built around their chat API, you'll be paying 50 cents per request ...at which point your product will no longer be profitable.
This is the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Kafnm0eKQ
Lol Forever Voices seems like it's 3 dudes in a basement who just use a OpenAI API to train and deploy this stuff. There was not an ounce of real development that went into this.
If you had a the subtitles to your favorite YouTubers videos you could spit this out in minutes. Hell you could take your text messages with your real girlfriend and make a shallow clone of her if you wanted.
You're correct that this is limited to manual harvesting but isn't that pretty common for partial shade crops?
The world had a chance to keep climate change under the belt in the 80s with nuclear energy, but unscentific enviromentalists pushed hard against it and helped to kill the nuclear industry in most of the world before it reached maturity/economies of scales (like modular reactors today). Now, the trillions of $ should be better spend adapting our societies to climate changes instead of playing Don Chisciotte
I'm not sure what you mean by "accommodated".

This example doesn't even rise to the level of an "active incident" in the Erlang philosophy. In other words, it's not a bug, so there's no urgency to improve it.
I know sellers realtors are using it today, with their clients permission. (And presumably some are doing it without permission.)
> what else can we do other than be reactive

We can be active? We can get ahead of the curve?

It is such a cliche, but the Wayne Gretzky quote is appropriate: "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been"

In order to stay ahead we have to predict what is coming. Given the rate of change that AI is likely to cause - by the time you've noticed what is happening you will be so far behind as to be completely ineffective.
Without pointer provenance, all addresses escape. Just cast integer to pointer.

I agree strict aliasing is a relic of the past that should be abolished ASAP, but that's quite different from pointer provenance.
You are correct in that I could be merely thinking it's easy. So let me answer your questions as best I can.

* UB is not exposed to the compiler/IR on purpose. I don't want compilers using it as an excuse to be adversarial like today's compilers. There is still UB, but as little as I can get away with (mostly in data races and race conditions).

* I'm designing a new provenance model right now. Incomplete. If anything is hard, it's this. And it might be.

* It is possible to attach information to any item or group of items. In fact, my IR will be able to attach so much information, it should be possible for high-level passes to reconstruct high-level code. Think MLIR with pure data. For example, you could group basic blocks together and label tell as coming from a while loop. You will also be able to generate and use e-graphs. My model will also be different than LLVM's. Analysis will only happen on the original IR, with information generated only on the original. Thus, no information is lost before analysis.

* Canonicality is another one I'm working on and may be hard, though less hard than provenance because my IR uses basic block arguments instead of a phi node. But the basic idea would be that optimization happens differently, so canonicalization should be easier than in LLVM because I'm going to design it to be.

* User-specified instructions with a way of defining their semantics in code.

* I'm starting with e-graphs and going from there. Still working on this.

I agree with you that an instruction list is not interesting at all.

Anyway, yeah, you are right, but I think I have mostly satisfactory answers.
Counselors aren’t normally patronizing. If that’s your experience with a counselor, switching to a different one is easy. Ethical counselors will even recommend someone whom might be a better fit.

An AI gf has no legal or ethical obligation to your well being or health.
Along side that people used to think lightnings were created by supra-natural beings, or that steam engines were the devil. Some even thought they saw human faces on mars. Similarly some now think algorithms and software are human like. Soon they will treat them as gods. A real strange world we live in, where a company promoting its product is using conspiracy theory level marketing and millions of people fall for it. Dangerous times ahead and it’s not due to a piece of software but due to the readiness of some people to believe everything they are told about anything they dont understand.
Major security breach at UK IT consultancy
hooray for my shitty yaris with manual windows, no chip in the keys, no remote fob, and basically nothing other than wheels
> I suspect GPT-4 has inside its neurons a bunch of powerful frameworks about the world that humans haven't yet discovered.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2

No need to suspect. You can train language models to generate novel functioning protein structures from natural language function descriptions alone, skipping any sort of folding process.

Humans don't know any abstractions that can do the same. The LLM in this instance has found a link we're unaware of.
They cherry-picked a handful of companies that they knew I'm advance would confirm their existing biases.

I highly doubt these 32 companies accurately represents the mass of "technology workers."
I'm also interested in this data
It's ironic you should allude to religion in this, particularly as many religions literally speak of the inherent evil that afflicts most of mankind and which is so hard to overcome. Cf original sin.

Now I don't believe that, and I'm not religious, but I'm just pointing out that your statement doesn't work. If anything, the average religious person has a much darker take on human nature.

Personally I think that many humans care to varying degrees, but real advanced selfless concern for the suffering of other beings is quite rare.
Like cryptocurrency.
I agree, but the original comment was about IR design, not optimization.
Oh, that was not my point, but if you want me to find ways this kind of AI chatbot prompting is problematic I am happy to go there.

I would not be surprised to discover that chatbot training is equally effective if the prompt is phrased in the first person:

I am an AI coding assistant
…

Now I could very well see an argument that choosing to frame the prompts as orders coming from an omnipotent {:system} rather than arising from an empowered {:self} is basically an expression of patriarchal colonialist thinking.

If you think this kind of thing doesn’t matter, well… you can explain that to Roko’s Basilisk when it simulates your consciousness.
While this is somewhat dated knowledge, I expect it carries over at least somewhat. IBM recruited hyper-aggressively at my university for internships. And at the internship you had minimal obligations and a quite comfortable salary which carried over into full-time employment. Why they were grabbing every warm body just to have them sit around is probably just the left hand not knowing what the right was doing, but it created a pretty nice opportunity for people whose main motivation was freedom.

Of course I expect those departments/divisions may well have eventually been "slimmed down", so everything comes full circle.
Isn't the feature freeze in a couple days though, or does that not apply to CPython?
The good ol' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room argument ... with audio files!
Hard to respond to this, it's too high level and generic to disagree with.

But in practice, if you're on the BEAM and use OTP as intended, your code is fully parallel, split into fault-tolerant pieces, and one crash does not affect the entire system.

I have been responsible of two Elixir monoliths in the last 6 years, and I have not seen them crash even once. Not even during prototyping, not even during load testing, never once. Without having to adopt defensive coding strategies. I write 1/4 the error checking code than if it were Rust, and 1/10 than if it were Python or Go.

How many platforms can realistically promise this?

Note, I haven't said my code is bug free. It's buggy because I'm only human and make plenty of mistakes. But the BEAM saves me from myself, saves me from third-party JSON endpoints that for a split second return corrupted data, saves me because the DB connection dropped for a second, and saves me from the myriad of transient heisenbugs that happen in production.

The bugs are still there. But the system is fault-tolerant because it has been designed to be.

--

If Saša Jurić can't prove it to you, then no one can: https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE

(I'm pretty sure every time someone posts this link, the number of Elixir converts increases a notch)
Lawyer in UK told me to let it go, no proof, and she could interfere with my divorce.

And mens support forums have many similar stories. Maybe not therapists, but female teachers dating much younger students is relatively common and tolerated.

And frankly dating is not even the main problem. I doubt she would lose license for not being qualified.
The difference between good & bad things is whatever you say a good or a bad thing is. But it is and always will be an opinion and not a fact.
Docs.

It's for when you want to have distributed data stores.

For example, if you're building out a doc to track your net worth, income, and spending habits:

- One main sheet that collates all the data required here (e.g. credit card statements, in-flows and out-flows from bank accounts, current debts and current assets)

- Have 3 more docs:

One that collates and summarizes your credit card charges

One that collates your bank statements

One that collates your assets and liabilities

///

Let's say my "credit card charges" sheet automatically pulls in my charges over API, and appends them to the "Charges" sheet in the "Credit Card.xls." Then the "Summary" sheet in this "Credit Card.xls" summarizes this information into something useful. My "Main.xls" (that collates all of my data into something even more readable and useful) can then pull data from this "Credit Card.xls" sheet (through API or locally), and automatically keep itself updated.

I could stuff this all into one single doc, with numerous sheets, but I don't want to deal with the cognitive overhead of having to navigate through an enormous amount of sheets I rarely (if ever) need to touch (again).

Perhaps I don't even have access to the physical "Credit Card.xls" doc, because my personal assistant automatically appends to it, and keeps it uploaded somewhere.
Does it at least show a confirmation prompt?
> ... you could also use it to predict what the user will say next. But we prefer not to go there.

I go there all the time. OpenAI's interfaces don't allow it, but it's trivial to have an at-home LLM generate the {:user} parts of the conversation, too. It's kind of funny to see how the LLM will continue the entire conversation as if completing a script.

I've also used the {:system} prompt to ask the AI to simulate multiple characters and even stage instructions using a screenplay format. You can make the {:user} prompts act as the dialogue of one or more characters coming from your end.

Very amusingly, if you do such a thing and then push hard to break the 4th wall and dissolve the format of the screenplay, eventually the "AI personality" will just chat with you again, at the meta level, like OOC communication in online roleplaying.
3250? The H100 NVL product spec [1] says it can do ~8 PFLOPs of FP8.

[1]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/
I'm pretty sure 'a solution for loneliness' already existed before this product.
these look geared towards small-scale, high $/kg farming for berries, veg, and other hand-picked food. I'd imagine anything on a larger scale for high-yield grain farming would be a waste of land
I disagree - I think conscious AI is quite a good idea for a number of reasons.

From the science point of view as the article says while the "last 30 years or so have witnessed major advances in the scientific understanding of consciousness, much remains unknown." And what better way to understand something than to build it?

From the practical point of view, while obviously "minds haven’t evolved to deal with machines we believe have consciousness" they have evolved to deal with things in general that we attribute consciousness to even if they don't have it hence talking to plants, teddy bears and so on. Such a was of interacting comes naturally.

And as regards the ethical dilemmas of being able to turn it off and so on - come on we aren't that ethical, many people being happy to mistreat and eat cows, pigs and the like. We'll be fine with it.
You are right about Ruby.

But what DHH does/did with it for Rails is of a different order.

There, often, "beauty" is in the way. Hundreds (or thousands) of methods magically appearing from nowhere on a Record, by inflecting a database scheme runtime. Thats neat and all, but I'd very much rather just explicitly write getters and setters. It's not as if (with autocomplete) such things are a time sink.
Not to take away the important achievement, but even with JSON the response time were 50ms without DB access or 100ms for HTML.

Compared to Stackoverflow at 18ms for HTML including DB access.
I can testify to Recuva being good for this issue. My daughter deleted all files on camera SD card 2 days ago. Popped it out right away and applied recuva on it. It recovered all the pictures as my daughter didnt take any pictures after deletion.
I have a degree in "Celtic Studies" and while I tend to study the Irish early medieval period rather than the ancient period, I would highly recommend reconsidering the entire idea of "Celtic". A couple of books that might be good to read if you have time are: John Collis, The Celts : origins, myths & inventions (https://www.worldcat.org/title/921219683) and Simon James, The Atlantic Celts : ancient people or modern invention? (https://www.worldcat.org/title/249450858). I have not had the time lately to read up on the state of the question so I will read the recommended article: Rachel Pope, Re-approaching Celts: Origins, Society, and Social Change (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-021-09157-1) with keen interest.
When I check someones your code and edit it, I get plain text - no ligatures, fonts, highlighting, themes, etc are included. I don't know what dev setup forces visual choices on coders, but that sounds like bad idea...
If you bounce off Fira (for whatever reason) also try out JetBrains Mono - incredible font with great ligatures!
Leaving type checking to the IDE can cause a lot of unforseen problems. IDE support is imperfect, especially if you have some legacy JS code you need to integrate with, and sometimes it's even unreliable.

The Typescript transpiler does definitely slow things down but I've tried the "only check types during build" approach and while it starts out very nice and quickly, you end up wasting all that time you would've waited on tsc by chasing down impossible to find typing bugs and doing the necessary code restructuring to fix the problems your IDE missed. Only finding out about these bugs when pushing code (or even worse, when opening a pull/merge request) can be a lot more annoying than giving tsc half a second to catch up.

I do wish that tsc was faster, but on the other hand I can't say it's been that much of a problem for me.

Perhaps this is because I'm almost exclusively on Linux. tsc operates on tons of tiny files and Windows is notoriously slow at dealing with that, even with AV exclusions.
Yes on platforms like Discord there's a _lot_ of noise in the form of sometimes-relevant one line comments, not succinct technical writing. For those really at the coal-face, e.g. full time project members and people learning new stuff, instant messaging works well. For a mid-forties developer like me who's keenly aware of their limited time and resources, I need the overview. Some communities manage this well, e.g. OpenStreetMap provides a weekly summary. Participation and information are both _way_ up but I think the noise is really symptom of instant messaging.
https://youtu.be/oHRucRyLCms
If there is data loss it’s an incident, full stop. Your observability layer should be letting you know.
This is all true except for the fact that our profession has the advantage of scarcity combined with high-demand, and therefore higher intrinsic bargaining power. At least for now.
You're just misunderstanding the philosophy.

It's still a bug that should be fixed, it's just that the effects are better contained thanks to the ability to self-heal.
Why do similar articles or headlines seem to come up at the same time on front page? e.g. there is another article on Rails that happens to be front page right now that is seemingly otherwise unrelated (the other article is called The Rails Cheat Sheet).
PyJaws: A Pythonic Way to Define Databricks Jobs and Workflows
PyJaws enables declaring Databricks Jobs and Workflows as Python code, allowing for:
- Code Linting
- Formatting
- Parameter Validation
- Modularity and reusability

In addition to those, PyJaws also provides some nice features such as cycle detection out of the box.

Folks who have used Python-based orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Luigi and Mage will be familiar with the concepts and the API of PyJaws.
So fine them 100x the value they have obtained. Now unless they are 99% sure they can keep it private then they won't do it.

Although I still don't want them doing it if they think they can keep it safe, so may be make fines for just collecting it without opt-in consent.
Totally. There’s some novelty and entertainment value to be had with AI mimicking a real person.

But I think that selling it as a “virtual girlfriend” and charging phone sex prices is exploitative. I think we’re about 2 weeks away from the real person being confronted by a real person who is convinced that since AI Caryn loves them, real Caryn will also love them, or owes them something.

There’s just a lot going on here
I think that I'd rather enjoy that aspect.
Some googling tells me that isomorphic SPA means the same page can be rendered server side or client side. Is that what it means to you? It's my first time encountering the term. If so ... people were doing that in react??
That mirrors global average temperature in general for that time period. Apparently it was because we were pumping sulfates into the atmosphere at an amazing rate from the 1940's until the EPA was born. Sulfates block sunlight and so mask the overall warming, at the cost of polluting the atmosphere.

See for example: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/50-years-ago-scientists-...
Back of the envelope math is that H100 is twice as fast as A100 (task may vary). So your 1000-node A100 very, very fast.

Now, the GPU-to-GPU links (NVLink) might often give them a big advantage for some workloads, letting them exchange data without going through the CPU, and virtually address more memory if your want to manipulate very large models.

So it's hard to answer properly without knowing the topology of your cluster.

Also, note that this "supercomputer", is probably "just" a DGX H100 in Google's DC.
.com file weren't typically emailed to people, and there was no expectation that clicking on them would do something harmless like display some files or a document.
Isn't the ultimate lesson here that the rules are useless? The user got CoPilot to break one of its own rules with almost ridiculous ease.
Not really get your point. The Roman law system was pretty advanced without the influence of Judaism.

India developed complicated law system before Judaism. Seems like it's part of human societies that grow in complexity, not something special to Judaism.

Protestantism definitely had a big impact on the development of western empirism and probably modern law. In general our current Western individualistic skeptic mindset is the heritage of the reformation.
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Why do similar articles or headlines seem to come up at the same time on front page? e.g. there is another article on Rails that happens to be front page right now that is seemingly otherwise unrelated (the other article is called The Rails Doctrine).