skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You found the wrong form of the word. There's the medical consciousness found in the dictionary, as in, "He is asleep so he has lost consciousness," and there is the metaphysical consciousness as in "does a fish have consciousness?" The latter is what people refer to in ethical debates, the former is more of a medical term.
I agree with you.

The argument against this would be things like homes being larger now and housing standards having risen (even slum units have things like fridges and electricity). I don't think those are compelling arguments because often going without those things is not allowed/not an option, but that's what the other side's argument would be.
Reread. It starts with making individual choices, goes to informing others and effecting policy change. Reading uncomfortable articles is prerequisite for this process to even start.

For an example where individual choices eventually cascaded into big changes to human environment see anthropocene.
As simple as grabbing it off with tweezers.
Short of launching all the nukes, it's actually really hard to imagine a faster way to make Earth uninhabitable than humanity's GHG emissions project. (3.68×10^13 kg of CO2 in 2022 alone! Impressive!)

If we could terraform planets as quickly as we're de-terraforming Earth, Mars would be prime real estate in no time. Alas.
I'm a little confused by this comment because a sole proprietorship cannot exist in the form of a corporation. Of course, one person can have a corporation all to themselves, but the definition of a sole proprietorship is a business without a more complex form.

I'm guessing what you actually mean is "Also a common structure for one person who does business on their own, who has incorporated, and who is their own sole board member." Is my inference correct?
I read a post from someone who got as far as showing up to view an apartment on reservation only to find there was no reservation or available apartment. "Oh, that's our chatbot!"
It's only obscure professionally; it's also one of the most loved languages. [same survey]

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-loved-dreaded-and...
Large language models generate functional protein sequences across families
They survive by being a 10-20% fee for taxi dispatch.
No, I stand by it

Right now you are already forced to pick 'no'. It's a button that lets things go the way so many people claim to be necessary and proper. They can own up to deliberately choosing our current reality if they think our current reality is so much better

In a world where immortality is a given, being able to off yourself is one of the most important things an individual should have a right to do
Is there a way to add programming ligatures to an existing font, similar to how Nerd Font patches existing fonts to add useful terminal glyphs like the Powerline symbols¹? I would love to have a ligatured version of that font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

1) the last sentence of the article implies that the author of the article abhor them as much as programming ligatures. I don't understand why but preference in taste, color, esthetic are not objective, nor absolute, so I am not the one to judge him.
Yep, launching things slowly and testing them before releasing wide. Seems like a good practice when you're introducing a new technology to the world.
this is a textbook example of involuntary proving the point you were trying to disprove

dogs are not like that because they are dogs, but because we humans literally created them with genetic manipulation over millennia

dogs like we know them did not exists in nature before we invented them to be the way they are

we literally put what we wanted them to be into them

and terminated the experiments that failed (we literally eradicated the most problematic breeds we created)

of course we like them, we made them to like us and to be likeable by us

now take an African wild dog or a wolf and tell me they act like domestic dogs...
Improving Ventilation in Buildings
I’ve considered this as the totalitarian end result of AI.

That someone of x age, y status, flies in to Dubai, goes to z set of bars after checking in to a hotel, after b time if they haven’t gone to a restaurant, is c times likely to be found at d set of brothels, with e substances.

It’s all patterns, and it doesn’t matter if you participate or not, everyone else is.
> The US is a massive area of land with a variety of different regional geographic and cultural differences. You wouldn't go about describing Europe or an entire continent with equally broad strokes.

The 13th amendment is federal and applies everywhere in the US. Not every state takes full advantage of prison slave labor, sure, but it is legal everywhere, and some do.
Excluding via browser extension is doable. We'd need to:

1. either add a ui element to each tag to let the user exclude, or create a text input perhaps at the bottom of the page where the user can enter the tags they want excluded

2. save the above in local storage

3. after the tags for the page are fetched from the backend at https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags/-/blob/main/tags.js#L60 loop over the stories and hide the ones that have any of the tags

PRs welcome :-)

Here is the full list of tags as of now:

a11y, acquisition, ai, algorithm, android, announce, api, apl, art, assembly, audio, auth, bitcoin, book, browser, c, c++, clojure, cogsci, compiler, compression, compsci, cryptocurrency, cryptography, css, culture, database, debugging, design, devops, distributed, dotnet, drugs, economy, editor, education, elixir, elm, emacs, email, energy, environment, erlang, ethereum, event, exploit, finance, fortran, freebsd, games, geography, golang, graphics, hardware, haskell, health, hiring, historical, interview, investment, ios, ipv6, java, javascript, job, julia, knowledge, kotlin, language, law, layoff, legal, linux, lisp, lua, mac, math, medical, ml, mobile, music, netbsd, networking, news, nix, nodejs, nuclear, openbsd, opensource, osdev, parallel, pdf, performance, perl, person, philosophy, php, physics, plt, politics, practices, privacy, productivity, programming, prolog, psychology, python, release, research, reversing, rss, ruby, rust, scala, scaling, science, security, shell, show, slides, space, startup, swift, systemd, tesla, testing, transcript, twitter, unix, video, vim, virtualization, visualization, wasm, web, webapp, windows, zig
No. They use 400 known fakes and 400 matched (presumed) non-fakes to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of their indicator, then apply that indicator to the full universe, then employ the estimated sensitivity and specificity to the obtained measurement to estimate the approximate actual rate of false papers.

If you know the true prevalence of a disease in a population, and the sensitivity and specificity of your test, you can predict how many positive measurements you obtain. Vice versa, from the (flawed raw) measurement, given sensitivity and specificity, you can estimate the true prevalence.

Furthermore, they’re explicitly saying that “red flagging” by their simple indicator doesn’t mean that the paper is fake, but that it merits higher scrutiny.

ETA: I mean, it could still all be bullshit (by virtue of some bias or so), but you’ll need to argue a bit harder to establish that.

ETA2: Actually, not sure that’s what they’ve done. They might have just reported the raw (very bad) measurement (that they call “potential red flagged fake paper”), without doing the obvious next step outlined above, and without applying any confidence intervals. So, it might actually be a pretty crap paper (though possibly technically correct) coupled with some mediocre reporting layered on top. Isn’t basic statistics taught anymore?
This doesn't use special quote tokens with fine-tuning. It's just two inconsistent instructions (in the system message and in the user prompt) competing against each other. Actually preventing prompt injection is easier, since the model authors are not limited in this way.
I just don't see the claims as related. Even if a restaurant did make those claims I'd see that as a claim about how they treated their customers, not what kind of food they'd serve up.
Have you ever helped someone without some connection to a reward?

As a thought experiment, you are in a room with a deaf, blind dying person--they will soon be gone from this world. They are reaching for water you can see on their bedside, but can't quite reach it.

Do you bother to cross the room to hand it to them if they will never "be aware of your virtue"? Why expend the energy? Compassion is real, for those who have it.

And to be clear, my definition of evil isn't intended here as some religious appeal. In my view, we are all playing an iterated prisoner's dilemma with each other, and good is believing in a better world and collaborating, while evil is defecting and making everything worse for everyone.
PDF: http://cdn.fraserlab.com/publications/2023_madani.pdf

Code: https://github.com/salesforce/progen
For the most part. It’s the system prompt + user/assistant structure that encourages second-person system prompts. You could write a prompt that’s like

System: Complete transcripts you are given.

User: Here’s a transcript of X

But that, to me, seems like a bit of a hack.

One related behavior I’ve noticed with the OpenAI chat completions endpoint is that it is very trigger happy on completing messages that seem incomplete. It seems nearly impossible to mitigate this behavior using the system prompt.
What do you think about Remix Run?
That's not how society works.
Since you seem knowledgable on this topic, what is it that TPUs do differently than GPUs? Why are they better at inference?
As always, the devil is in the details. They defined an AI system as software that uses any of:
(a) Machine learning approaches, including supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, using a wide variety of methods including deep learning;
(b) Logic- and knowledge-based approaches, including knowledge representation, inductive (logic) programming, knowledge bases, inference and deductive engines, (symbolic) reasoning and expert systems;
(c) Statistical approaches, Bayesian estimation, search and optimization methods.

That could very reasonably be interpreted to mean all software. The act is mostly concerned with high risk applications. These are based on intended use, which is obviously tricky in the context of general purpose LLM’s. Most of the covered intended uses make sense, but in combination with their definition above it could mean that, for example, any developer of EdTech software in the EU could be regulated under the act.
More broadly, the act was clearly not written with general purpose foundation models in mind. For example, Article 10 requires that all training data be “relevant, representative, free of errors and complete.” That is pretty much impossible to comply with if you’re training on The Pile or similar.
COVID and the general slowdown gave a lot of folks here the chance to breathe and think about what they want out of life and realize what a dead end many jobs and salaries
[0] here are... and that the hope for improvement seems vanishingly small, especially for anyone who is some kind of minority.

[0] https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01631/#:~:text=A%20sur....
How exactly do you imagine that working?
Supermicro if you can find anywhere stocking their boards
That’s not what the paper says, I think (even though the badly written article can easily be understood that way).
Medium-rare, more like.
Noncitizens do have constitutional rights, that much is clear. If they didn't the job of hardline anti-immigration politicians would be much easier.
> Plants love sun

No. Some plants love direct sunshine and others don't.
damn. You got me
Thank you for the input, I just have a lot of interests. I see how one could view that label as pretentious though.
That sounds nice. I like that places like this exist.
It will be interesting to see what effects regulations like this will have on EU's access to emerging AI technology. We already saw Google block EU access to Bard.
Even if you (obviously falsely, in my opinion) believe that nothing gets qualitatively better than GPT-4, we know that the speed will increase by AT LEAST one order of magnitude. PaLM 2 seems marginally less intelligent than GPT-4 but is probably 10 or 20 times faster already.

Given that we have increased computing performance by more than a dozen orders of magnitude already and we are now optimizing for a very specific application, it is almost a given that we will get at least one more order of magnitude performance improvement in the near term.

There are also new approaches like crossbar arrays of memristors that, if we can make them work, promises at least two more orders of magnitude performance increases. Quite possibly more.

Claude can read a whole book and answer a question about it in 20 seconds. Not quite at GPT-4 level but no reason to believe that isn't possible in the near future.

Computing performance and efficiency have consistently increased by orders of magnitude as we leverage previous generations of systems to make improvements and when necessary invent new paradigms.
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander.

It really made me reconsider the process and ultimate goals of building systems beyond housing, and how to make pattern languages for any system I build, especially software systems.
The high school he went to is private and not cheap. But it's not the you-have-to-own-a-mine type of place.
> We should be less concerned about the consciousness of the AI

Author's warning seems to be:

1. "Conscious" means you can feel things (have feelings)

2. "Conscious" means you can have intentions

3. --> A conscious AI could be hurt, take umbrage, and take measures to either protect itself or take revenge.

Kids tear wings off insects; I can certainly imagine people inflicting pain on a machine on the principle that it's "just" a machine. Like, you're angry, you want to hurt someone (or kick the cat), but you refrain, because you're a decent person and don't do that kind of thing. Hurting a conscious, intelligent machine could have bad consequences.

I don't happen to believe that consciousness is some kind of extended intelligence, so I don't believe that AI research is ever going to result in machine consciousness. I certainly don't know what consciousness is; but provisionally, I take the view that it's fundamental - that everything else depends on consciousness, not the other way round.
Why Do Babies Around the World Say “Mama”?
One of issues I read somewhere is that distance between film-patrone to imaging area is not standardized, and also what I figured is digital sensors needs spaces to the back of focal plane which film cameras cannot accomodate. This is apparent just from comparing digital continuations of film camera brands.
This is accurate and not sure why you were downvoted
Thanks! I imagine this would drop in unmodified on the M3, which may actually yield a nicer experience thanks to the the increased magnification of the viewfinder compared to the M2.
The greatest danger is that the AGI could convince us that what you said is true.
I agree, it seems like there should be a traditional program on top that's filtering responses for known company secrets, conversations that go against published company guidelines, etc.
They don't keep parity. As far as I know, the official TypeScript implementation is the only major one that performs checking. There are tons of other options for stripping types that are much faster, but that's a much easier task

Deno uses tsc internally, and VSCode at least uses the official typescript language server, which I believe uses tsc internally
> Do you have any open bug reports you can point to for "Wayland" not working?

No. Why should a user go hunting for bug reports, or make an effort in making them to begin with? Developers shouldn't expect users to report every issue they run into. Most users will see something not working as expected, and move on to something that does. Fighting with software to make it work, a.k.a. "dealing with it", is a behavior exclusive to technical users and tinkerers. And even this cohort won't be bothered to do so when they just want their machines to work.

> Which compositor were you try to use?

How should I know? All I know is that I selected "Wayland" in my login screen, and ran into a half-dozen UI issues in less than 5 minutes, which I can't be bothered to list now (I posted about it here a few weeks ago if you're interested to know the details). Switching back to Xorg fixed all of them.

With the complexity of a DE like KDE, I, a technical user, wouldn't even know where to look for the culprit. Was it KWin, XWayland or Wayland? When Firefox had UI issues, is that because of Firefox, XWayland or Wayland? Or something with my combination of hardware and drivers? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Developers shouldn't expect users to debug their application issues. Users are not testers.
When I read people on reddit say stupid shit like eat the rich, I always get downvoted for going against those coommie/anti-work types. But sometimes like now maybe they are right even if I know its wrong.
There was a horticulture textbook that showed a zoomed-out plot of land on the cover, which with its divisions and sectional diversity effectively looked something like an illustration of the inside of a CPU.

It wasn't intentional as far as I know, but I have to admit that stuck in my head ever since as a really eye-opening metaphor. And the contents of the book were really new to me and even more eye-opening.

Wish I had the name of the book, sorry.
Maybe it's been read already by anyone here, but Carl Sagan's "The demon-haunted world" turned me into an atheist and made me appreciate much more science and the scientific method in general. The irony part is I got to read it because a the logic teacher in my catholic nun-ruled school suggested it.
Don’t mistake that this may be an oversight.

Do you know how the 5/14 eyes program works?

By pushing EU citizens to use services overseas, they can freely be spied on. So, enact strong privacy locally, then when looking at the next generation shift, make sure you can see exactly what your citizens are doing with it. “No laws broken”.
If Kmart is on the list, Sears obviously should be as well.
It also traps them in a continual cycle of missing the hype wave, and then shutting down the unpopular product a few years later.
Devil Mode Manual
Marketing budget.
Or I'm a greedy or incompe exec taking silly risks and now people are out of a livelihood and are hurting because of my actions
Advocacy for nuclear power would have made sense back in the '80s and '90s, but it's too late now; renewables cost half as much and come on line ten times faster. The ROI just isn't there for nuclear.
> The users whose data is lost during these incidents probably wouldn't feel quite so peaceful about it, either.

Who says data has been lost? Only if your protocol is fire-and-forget with no checking. But then you'd have data loss no matter the language(s) you implemented it in if your system became inundated with requests and crashed.
I appreciate your compassion and empathy for the suffering of others. I share your concern and your desire to help.

But I also think that all humans care at some basic level, it’s pretty difficult for us not to. Most of the turning away we see is more about self-protection from the gnawing feelings of despair that empathy generates.

We would all do better to not make this about “who cares more”, but more about “what actions are we willing to put behind our care". That is likely to be a more productive conversation, and a starting point towards encouraging people to focus on action and not on feelings. (Bing helped me write this.)
I was a compiler engineer, even was a committer to V8 itself via Qualcomm's codeaurora legal entity while a Qualcomm engineer, bringing up its backend code generation support to new Snapdragon processors with SIMD extensions about 14 years ago, with a coworker double checking the work on hardware targets. That said, I hope you are right, and it's fun to watch, as time will tell.
Nah. "Prompt Engineering" is the burger flipping of software.
RTX 3080 on a laptop. 8 GB was more than enough for gaming, but I get out of vram errors quite frequently.
Thank you so much for the practical advice. Im going to start chipping away at these points, especially the first one.
FYI rumour has it next round of titan GPUs are supposedly coming with 48GB

Of course there is always something better on horizon, but if you're building soon that may be worth the wait
I'm an Elixirist, love the idea of "let it crash", and I still code defensively.

To me these phrases are more about the guarantees—if it does crash it recovers—and less about dogmatic advice that everyone follows.

But there's time and place for different levels of defensive programs. I get to pick and choose based on where I see risk, but I know the whole app isn't going to blow up if I missed something.
Yet, the reply can be encoded, returned as base64 or in a different language.
I feel like you are being unfairly dismissive. Just imagine the stress of being targeted by the police because you match some criminals statistically.
Scientific misconduct like deliberately falsifying results should be more of a career-ender.
A devastating conclusion in the last sentence:

> I feel that the crap store lockdown and race to the bottom have drained much of the enthusiasm out of our industry, and left us in a state where we think the programming language is the most exciting thing in the world.
Depends on whether you mean access to giant TVs or stuff like education and healthcare and housing. It’s hard to usefully turn it into a single metric.

Wages have remained flat, cost of consumer electronics have gone down, cost of education, healthcare, and housing has gone way up.
> It's not what's happening, going forward.

By all indications, neither is Wayland. It's barely any more usable without running an X server on top today than 10 years ago.
> functional cities do not have streets that look like what many of Baltimore's streets look like

You may be experiencing a bit of proximity bias. Roads all over the north east are torn up.

I'd argue the school district issue can be fixed, but it will take funding.
On the edge to well-done.
Problems like these often come from the pressure to ship fast, and not writing code 2-3 times to find a good way to express something. If you're going to rush through abstracting things away, I'd rather you duplicated. If you will take time to express it well, then I'd prefer a good abstraction.
we don't live in pure market economies

legislation, not the market will determine the outcome of the artificial "intelligence" battle

and large traditional industries are rather good at lobbying against their upstart complements

(the fact the RIAA and MPAA even still exist is proof of this point)
>“It will never be a [fully] automated process,” he says. Rather, the tools are like “a spam filter … you still want to go through your spam filter every week” to check for erroneously flagged legitimate content.

Even the article makes it clear that this is just a wide net for an automatic first pass. Of course, it is biased towards countries with lax standards.
I think this just further confirms the number of Chegg users who were using it to cheat. I always suspected it was a lot.
Very fair point! Will do.
> The fact that other humans are so similar to me (all humans are similar in virtue of being human organisms) allows for an analogical inference: You guys are similar to me, I am conscious, therefore you are probably also conscious.

That hinges on the fact that the brain, or human-like body, is related to the existence of consciousness. But there's no reason to believe that a bunch of electrical pulses as the source of consciousness. For example, had "I" existed as a plant, then it would be reasonable for me to think that other plants are also conscious and that plants are what give rise to consciousness.
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