skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For human consciousness to be "exceptional"... we would have to have some undefiniable "other" quality that could never be explained by science and is therefore necessarily supernatural?

No, it only means that science has limits on explaining the natural world. See Colin McGinn's argument for cognitive closure. He thinks we can't solve certain problems in philosophy because we lack the correct cognitive machinery. Consciousness being a primary example since it proposes a subjective/objective split where science only explains the objective. Nagel argued along similar lines in his paper, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?".

There's no need to invoke the supernatural. It just means some natural things may be beyond our capability to understand. Why would we have evolved to understand everything?
Rust is awesome but the ecosystem and job market are tiny.
>The whole point of abstraction is to make those decisions once and isolate the complexity

The point Sandi Metz is making is that it's often only obvious when you can do this in hindsight.

Lots of things can look abstractions worthy but aren't - including things that are repeated 3 or even 10 times.
Xorg vs Wayland isn't a thing because Wayland is the replacement for Xorg.
Think of the nose tissues as of a simple heat reservoir.

When we inhale cold air, these structures warm it, and thus become colder.

When we exhale hot air, it heats these structures, making them warmer again, to allow heating the next breath in.

It's of course not 100% efficient, but it's better than nothing. I wonder uf there are more advanced strictures, like circulating liquid, to improve efficiency.
What do you consider to be the best?
No I think it is more due to implied seniority due to age. The older the engineer the less BS he eats from management.
You assume the fragmentation is unintentional- it’s not.

Making Organizational intelligence and knowledge management convoluted and compartmented is one of if not the core way that managers keep power over employees.

So that’s not a problem that a company wants solved.

However it might get solved via this process IF managers start extracting the information from ICs that is then absorbed by a large corporate model - then get rid of the employee

I mean if you think about it, we’re just headed toward capitalists creating the Borg
Complete bullshit
Things like pspice and microcap can simulate a lot.
But if theres high speed digital and switchers on the board, simulating it all could take tens of hours, if not more.
" but for non-technical topics that appear on HN, the discussion would be a lot better if the average commentator read the obvious Wikipedia article before commenting. That’s true even though Wikipedia has a lot of problems"

I have vague ideas of a forum, where any new poster has to answer some basic questions about the topic first correctly.

Most online discussions would probably benefit from that.
i find this critique interesting, because i believe the initial momentum behind rails was sparked by a video about how to create a blog using rails without any setup in just a few minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY
These pointer provanance semantics are implemented by LLVM too. They also apply to C++, Rust, Zig, etc.
Need a new Pokemon Go! version released.
But without the ability to withhold labor en masse, workers don’t have much leverage. I’m afraid some form of union with collective bargaining and the ability to coordinate strikes are unavoidable to achieve the laudable goals you lay out. Otherwise you are at the mercy of the good graces of employers, which employees may occasionally benefit from. However, when the rubber meets the road, the coercive law of competition will … coerce employers into favoring their own interests.
Segway enters the chat

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-18306
Which article are you referring to? I didn't see it in the parent.
Agreed. To anyone reading this: do not feel alone in this. Despite the scale of evil and the scale of suffering in this world, good people, opposed to suffering and evil, still exist.

Anti-war people exist, people who do not turn a blind eye to factory farms, to the torture and killings, exist. Religious and non-religious, vegans and Jains, theists and atheists, Quakers and animal rights activists, exist. They do the things they do sometimes even at a great cost to themselves. So, do not feel alone in this.
I only know of Tesseract and PaddleOCR if you want to run them locally.
What do you think guys? We would love to receive your feedback. Thanks!
What's complete bullshit?
My takeaway from this article is that I want to go try Fira Code now.
I'm not sure what your getting at, humanity has been saying mean things about itself since we could speak. If the AI whining at us about its moral superiority is the greatest danger I think we're in great shape.
You are misreading the second point. That's not what he thinks, he's saying that the assumption by many people that that's how it will work is unfounded.
Sorry, not to be snarky, here is the "Background" part of the wiki article :
"The minister of climate change of Pakistan, Sherry Rehman, said that the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan had received more rainfall than the August average, with 784% and 500% more, respectively.[9][10] Higher than average monsoon rains were also recorded in India and Bangladesh.[11] The Indian Ocean is one of the fastest warming oceans in the world, warming by an average of 1 °C (1.8 °F) (while worldwide temperatures are now at 1.2 °C (2.2 °F) above pre-industrial temperatures, oceans in general are at around 0.7 °C (1.3 °F)).[11] The rise in sea surface temperatures is believed to increase monsoon rainfall.[12][11] In addition, southern Pakistan experienced back-to-back heat waves in May and June, which were record-setting and themselves made more likely by climate change.[13][14] These created a strong thermal low that brought heavier rains than usual.[12][13] The heatwaves also triggered glacial flooding in Gilgit-Baltistan.[14]

Pakistan contributes less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but is one of the places most vulnerable to climate change.[15][16] A study by an international team of climate scientists says that global heating made the flooding up to 50% worse and future floods more likely.[17] However, some of the contributors to the severity of the flooding are local to the country. Deforestation in Pakistan has also been a factor worsening the floods"

So much larger than usual rainfall is the problem - they had record flooding - meaning bigger than ever recorded, right?

I don't understand why you are talking about public health like that had an impact in the amount of water that was covering more land than ever?
Wayland doesn't really replace Xorg, tons of things are nonworking, downright weird, stupid or neglected in Wayland. The original article even says so.
People can work on whatever problems they like, from obscure mathematics or logic puzzles, to the physics inside black holes, to recovering ancient texts. Maybe they'll have important consequences, maybe not. Who cares, as long as they find it interesting.
I am not sure all GNU mailing lists are archived, but the ones I read are very well searchable and threads well explorable in the browser. I follow along daily digests and Thunderbird displays threads nicely. I tag some or move them to my archives in Thunderbird. If I cannot find something, I check in the browser.
Except a lot of things don't work with it. For example shortcuts.

Which is why people keep using xorg… wayland is NOT a drop in replacement.
Perhaps revealing my own biases here but that was surprising to read from the Washington Post.

Reminds me of the Simpsons replacing voice actors for characters depicted as anything other than Simpsons-yellow. I get the good intention behind the move but the original voice actors for those characters added to the comedy with their delivery and had done so for 30 years. The replacement voice actors deliver their lines like they are imitating the original voice actors acting like the character and the end result is a worse product.

As the article references, hopefully the pendulum swings back toward something more reasonable.
You took it like a champ, dude, and I mean that in full sincerity. Best of luck on your journey to the sky.
It's a great tool for those that want to build CRUD apps quickly and get 99% of the things right. That speed comes from code re-use (mostly gems). Once you get experienced in rails, you primarily glue things together. It's fast, but does not feel rewarding.
The best evidence is that in case of Bing, many people have succeeded in extracting basically the same prompt. If it were a hallucination, then this would be highly unlikely. The hallucinations would be substantially different every time, like other LLM hallucinations.
This is silly. The whole history of humankind is about reducing suffering, of ourselves and those around us. That's all we do.

Also, suffering is a bug (or a feature) of biological organisms. Obviously machines shouldn't be engineered to be capable of suffering.
This makes perfect sense - the Asahi project is about developing a robust Linux distro for Apple Silicon systems and must focus their limited resources on achieving that goal. Spending time to support X.org - which is quickly becoming deprecated for Wayland - isn't a good use of their limited resources.
> Yes, because we all know that humans care so much about the suffering of others

If we didn't care we wouldn't be here to talk about it.
Yes, it’s on my GitHub.

https://github.com/chipotle/Elixir.bbpackage

(This reminds me I have an update to push out, though…)
> is there evidence that car thefts are higher due to Kia, or due to lax enforcement?

Yes. In numerous cities the car theft rate has gone way up in the last couple of years, in some doubling or more, with something like 95% of the increase being thefts of these particular Kia and Hyundai models.
they even list a source, having a child with vision issues.

your complaint may feel well-intentioned, but taken at face value you have told a parent that their enthusiasm over things like companies caring about groups of people that often get lost, that their child falls into, that has led to their child struggling, after all that, that their way of communicating, of expressing themselves, is so burdensome that it drove you to check into their previous comments to make sure it wasn’t a troll, and then offer your “constructive criticism.” without acknowledging anything about their comment beyond the punctuation.

was it worth it?
Apple was absolutely an industry leader before the 2000s. Which leaders exactly have been knocked off their perches?
Ruby is practically the pseudocode they teach in schools. Which is selected for it's intuitive and simple nature.
Geez another article on the AI Spookiness? How many is that this month now?

Most of these articles border on science fiction and involve a lot of projection. While I am concerned in some ways with AI, particularly in mass surveillance and public manipulation via bots, what else can we do other than be reactive to _real_ AI applications when _deployed_? Then we start to discuss proper policy towards AI.

Until we see service sector employees being replaced the way we saw self-checkouts emerge what is the point of these articles other than some form of PR campaign?
How long ago was that ?
> Sure, just the fact that billions of hours of pointless, tiresome human activity will be freed to do whatever is enough of an incentive.

Just like when we “automated the boring things”?

Instead one of the primary goals seems to be to prevent people in fields one doesn’t understand from making a living.

I have my doubts about people ever being “freed”. And what is free, really?

There is a reason monks sitting on mounds of treasure pit themselves through paces of physical and supposedly menial work. Its not because they choose some kind of holy suffering.

It’s the same reason creating a work of art means going through the paces of practice and growth. Otherwise it’s kind of empty, and you don’t learn anything.

Our chores aren’t the things imprisoning people.
In EU immobilizers were mandated in 1998, 2001 in Australia, 2007 Canada.

I.e. it wasn't like the manufacturers decided that they were useful, they were forced to introduce them by the national or pan-national authorities.

If the US didn't mandate them, the reference to industry standards is - at best - a very feeble one, the city of Baltimore could - maybe - sue the NHTSA
No, the reason "Linux on the Desktop" won't happen is that it's not shipped by any (significant) hardware manufacturer for general desktop use. No one (in the scheme of things) installs an OS that didn't come with their hardware, and they never will. Open source developers, contributors and purists can't change that, no matter how hard they try.

But, Android is a thing, and Linux is literally everywhere. OS has won, even if the mythical "Desktop Linux" didn't.
> 'You are an expert statistician' ..

"You are <q><x>" likely shrinks the possibility space to items (auto-)categorized to be 'near' <x>. <q> could be filtering on 'quality' labels. So then it may be -- with 'gl' as general language and 'p' as specific prompt - something as simple as

f ( GL ∪ ( X ∩ Q ∩ P ) )
That's exactly the kind of place where shooting video from a drone is likely the best way of reporting.
I use it daily. To be quite honest I don't see what needs to be done more beyond security and compatibility fixes. I never had it crash and I honestly can't think of a feature I would like it to have that it doesn't. Sometimes software is complete.
> bulk data loads that make table stats more stale

This is the usual culprit (cure: "ANALYZE ((tablename))").

Collecting more samples (ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS...) may be useful.

"Extended Statistics" covers most(?) other cases:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/planner-stats.html#P...
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/multivariate-statist...
> Fun but I tend to type code fast.

When you’re used to it, and given the comparative infrequency of the characters you use it for, it’s not much of a burden—just ~three key presses instead of one.

> Really dont need an extra modifier key.

Note that Compose isn’t a modifier key in the most common understanding of the word: you don’t hold it down while you press the others (which would certainly be awful for its ergonomics), but you press keys in sequence.

> Not to mention there isnt one on your regular keyboard.

On my current laptop I map RAlt to Compose. On my previous laptop, it was RMenu. There’s always at least one key there that you literally never need to use, and I find the ergonomics for thumb usage very comfortable. (But I really wish Space was split into at least two keys. It’s so stupidly large.)
"The Railscasts Pro videos were recently made free by the author because the videos are dated."

Six years ago (2017), not recently.

http://railscasts.com/announcements/13
I’m not a fan of wealth concentration but a lot of the wealth increase at the bottom was by increasing the technological power of their possessions. While this isn’t the same as political or financial power, it’s something.
Oh I see what you’re saying. No, “the wrong abstraction” doesn’t intrinsically mean it’s more costly than duplicated code. A lot of people argue that the wrong abstraction is still better than having duplicated code. She’s saying that’s not the case.
I don’t get how this work, could you elaborate more?
Ask HN: What are the best examples of “learn once, use everywhere”?
If everything stood still with nothing more than GPT-4 we are a few years ago from realising the disruption of just that alone
Scala suffers greatly from the "it lets you do too much".
I wonder if this can be solved by adding a disconnected, 2nd layer which can answer meta-questions about the bot’s answers, such as “does this answer follow the rules?”, and this can be used to tweak the answers.

Perhaps it can also be used to answer questions that require some sort of chain-of-thought, like “what would be the first step to answering the question? What is the next one?”, etc, then compile these “thoughts” to a final answer.

Basically you have the LLM that answers questions, and a “supervisor” LLM which can help guide it.

Does something like this exist?
As the OP correctly points out, intelligence ≠ consciousness.

The challenge is that there's no generally-agreed-upon definition of consciousness: We have no way of determining if an entity is conscious -- even when the entity is biological. Imagine an AI model that has been finetuned to pretend to be conscious. It could fool pretty much anyone into thinking it's conscious. The opposite is true, a smart person can fool others into thinking the person is an unconscious machine.

AI researchers have been grappling with these questions for a long time. Neuroscientists, philosophers, psychiatrists, and psychologists have been grappling with them even longer. As of yet, no one has been able to propose a definition, nor detection method, on which we can all agree. Perhaps the closest we've come to a detection method is the Turing Test.
I’m both a business person and an engineer. I recently did a short workshop where a marketing guy took us through using GPT and Midjourney to iterate through new business ideas. In the 4 hours of the workshop, a bunch of mostly non developer people generated about 500 business ideas using GPT, took the top ideas, and turned them into business pitches. A couple of people in the room thought the idea their promoting came up with was good enough to run with.

This sort of stuff is fuzzy, even without AI. In many ways it’s about exploring the knowledge space rather than seeking specific answers. None of this requires correctness because there are no correct answers to begin with.

Even in computing, correctness is not always important. I recently asked GPT to produce a bunch of names from the Austin Powers universe in order to populate a demo database. I asked for them in JSON format and in 20 seconds I had what I needed. There is no wrong answer for that, either.
Kudos to her for the entrepreneurship. I suspect that number will drop as copycats flood the market.

Personally, I think having to pay someone to talk to me would be just about the most depressing thing imaginable…but not quite as bad as paying a bot to talk to me.
Good, that's what I do. At least it's what I do by far most of the time. Trouble is, the inevitable happens on rare occasions when I don't follow those rules. Moreover, such disasters usually happen when I'm a hurry.

That's why, by now, Microsoft should have recognized that such incidents happen and responded by building in protections into Windows to avoid them.
Agree with the big idea, but the problem is - If you are not a computer scientist and current with the latest papers, you certainly have the "wrong" abstraction

So i'd collapse this whole article down to 1 bit - "software development is hard"
I feel like this is also what evil people tell themselves.

They need an internal explanation for the wondrous and beautiful goodwill and altruism in the world, and if they project their selfish world-view out, the only explanation they can come up with is that it must be self-interested behavior, somehow. It's like the idea that some people want to make the world better is inconceivable to them, because they don't.
Worst maybe, you definitely don’t have to like it. Difficult to parse, maybe, some things can look similar to other things (blocks and Hashes), but complex from to POV of the programmer? Not really.
64 year old believes they are the exception to aging.
In which a very accomplished ad exec gets shoved off the glass cliff
> Not understanding why this is an issue for LLMs but not humans.

Because humans have the capability to understand where their information comes from, and thus give enough meta-information to evaluate an accuracy rating, even if not all of them are good at it all the time.

I understand that there has been some effort to build this capability into LLMs, and that it works a little bit for some of them, but it is not something that most of them are fundamentally capable of.
Why is the macro not a solution?
PDF was printed in 2007 but text is originally from this book, published in 1996:

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QdSfb9_fXssC&pg=RA4-PA7...
I haven't used Excel much in the past decades but I'm surprised to see the undo behaviour remaining unchanged. Next time you tell me 1904 date formatting is still a thing...
I have absolutely 0 problems with the type checking that VSCode does. Always feel snappy. By comparison, command line performance is absolute crap though. The missing piece I suspect is a background daemon that auto-analyzes as you type like they do when you’re editing in VSCode to hide that latency. That’s a pretty standard technique to solve this problem (typically LSC although I don’t know how VSCode does TypeScript)
I can't speak for this particular lupine species, but in Europe lupine seems to be a good candidate in the search for a native plant species that can be grown here instead of soy beans. Personally I don't really like the taste of soy products so I hope that works out. And it's a nitrogen fixer too, which is a nice bonus.

For example, I have seen various lupine tempe brands, and in Germany I can get lupine "coffee" (it's not quite the same but tasty on its own terms, and I need to avoid caffeine).
Who pays when the ML model gets something wrong and the batch is scrap?
You can work around this by starting a fresh instance of Excel. Run -> "Excel.exe /x"
You must mean total wealth rather than per capita because most scandinavian countries are more wealthy than Germany, France and Japan per capita and are quite close to the US. They’re all below replacement rate and headed lower anyways.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and...
Unfortunately most companies, shareholders, and execs care about the stock performance the next quarter and that’s about it.

A neat compensation package for a CEO would be “What will the stock price be in a decade?” But you could never get a CEO to commit for a decade because they know like we all do that job hopping is how you make more money and get raises. The system is messed up all the way down.

https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-ceo-life-cycle

> For instance, when we asked CEOs about the ideal tenure for the role, many mentioned the widely touted seven-year average. When we surveyed directors, they said that CEOs generally should leave the job after 9.5 years—a point at which, many believe, performance typically plateaus. Why these expectations? No one has a compelling or evidence-based answer. They are simply conventional wisdom.

The graph in that linked article is particularly telling as it shows performance increases all come after ten years.
But most forums these days are shitty compared to what we had a decade or longer ago, when it comes to being accessible and searchable. If we were using classical forums everywhere, I might agree, but with the new JS-only crop of forums, I feel delighted, when a community has an active mailing list instead.
And chats don't really serve information archival or storage functions well. Especially not proprietary ones like Discord. Maybe some like Zulip, if there is some extension or so, to make content well searchable from a search engine. But that is still only a maybe.
PRs and issue trackers, yes, yes, but only if you got capable people moderating them, not people who think, that employing a github bot to auto close issues is a good idea, when questions remain unanswered. Also one cannot paste GPL licensed code on Github issues any longer with a good conscience, because of code laundering by MS. So that is also no good solution any longer.
..and why was that?
Keyboard shortcuts? I have only really used Sway but it just kept my i3 shortcuts working; never noticed any change?
I obviously disagree based on years of writing Rust services.
Doesn’t the comment you just replied to link to one? (Tsx)