skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>LLMs cannot function, by definition, without language. But we know there is an experience of being without language.

Take a sufficiently big LLM, remove the input and the output, but let it run in a loop regardless, in a complete vacuum. Past the encoding and decoding layers, there is still math, computation, some sort of thinking happening, there is just no clear tie to human language anymore.

The LLM with inputs and outputs sheared off is not useful to us, but if you keep it running, how would we know whether or not it has a sense of being, inside? If you presuppose that it did not before, it still doesn't after, of course.

A stroke of the ventral pons can sometimes leave people entirely unresponsive. No language, no observable behavior. Except for some of them, who can still move their eyes. People with locked-in syndrome do not very much 'function', but they are as far as we can guess, still conscious.

Being quadriplegic, they lose almost all external stimulus, they can't feel very much in that sense. They still have intelligence, and emotions, and thoughts, by extrapolation from those whose eyes still move to those more thoroughly disconnected.

Furthermore, some people don't have an "inner voice". They simply don't use language for thinking, only for reading, hearing, and talking. These people have an inner experience that is pure thought and intuition, without translating it into any particular language in their head.

So, we already knew that there can be experience of being without much or any language. Language happens, mostly, at the interface with the outside world. I think LLMs give us new data points to think about being, but not in this particular way. We already had being without language.

Certainly small humans are born without knowing any language, language comes from the outside in, much in the way that the experience of being doesn't.

>So now we suppose that thought, at least, does not require the experience of being that can be accomplished without language.

That's reasonable to suppose in the abstract, but then applying that supposition to LLMs is just as untestable as your other hypothesis. We simply aren't aware of any way to know.

Otherwise, I could apply the same supposition to people suffering of the most comprehensive forms of locked-in syndrome, who we are pretty sure still think, but show otherwise no externally observable proof of their inner experience of being. Just a disconnected brain, floating in the dark, sending action potentials in a complex loop.

I think this reduces to a feeling that LLMs are categorically different, because they look so much simpler, and so different from us. If we were cleverer, perhaps we'd think of ourselves as relatively simple, too.
Benny F for TPOT!
Windy is as good as advertised. On a bit of a sad note, they just recently moved a number of their longtime standard features behind a subscription wall.

I still have their previous android app version, the ungelded one. It's promising unspecified delights if I'd only just upgrade.
I hold in my hand a "Unix Reference Card," second edition, March 1979.

There are 10 options listed for "ls":

l, f, a, s, d, r, u, c, i, f, g

My recollection is that this card was for Unix V7.
Thank you, it is really good. I was able to find the wind shear forecast pretty easily, and cycle through a lot of detailed images. (obviously, understanding that the further out I go, the wider the error bars will be)

Here's hoping that the wind shear continues to stay strong enough to protect people from any bad hurricanes. Although I don't know what will happen if that ocean energy isn't "bled off" by a few big storms?
I didn't know that! Windys color scheme is a lot clearer (and I like you see hiking trail numbers on it) but OSM shows hiking refuges when more zoomed out.

EDIT: https://i.imgur.com/WBiptdo.png for example on OSM, vs https://i.imgur.com/EsZCsA8.png on Windy
...i may be stupid but i could have sworn endotyping was already a thing. i talked to someone last week who brought it up. does anyone w more expertise know what the specific innovation is?
im not against vegans but trying to stop people from eating "real meat" and making propaganda for it is just really weird
Their facebook addiction is strong then. As they are not 'resorting' to using a means of communication other than facebook.
Gemeente Amsterdam publish a handy noise map (along with some other great public data). Check it out: https://maps.amsterdam.nl/geluid/
> Topics I regularly blog about (append /feed/ to the uRL to get the RSS feed)

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/about

I think I agree with your overall point, but it is mentioned on the site where to find the RSS feed.
I think the way that it works is that by default sound is muted, but browsers allow onClick event handlers to unmute the tab.

So if you have a page that tries to make sound after it has loaded but there has been no user interaction, it will be muted.

But as soon as you interact with the page, all bets are off.
Middle-Aged Adults Are Binge Drinking and Using Marijuana at Record Levels
Oh! OK then... that's really cool.

It's interesting how they still need to do some fudging around the poles. Non-Euclidean geometry is hard, I guess. I wonder if that means the models are all done with Euclidean geometry or is it just a display thing?
You must not be familiar with what happened to the real estate market in Vancouver as a result of majority foreign investing from China...
if information about disasters is “content,” then the correct answer is “everyone.”
Since you’re not resident in the US anyway, it probably won’t make any difference to the company hiring you. Most companies routinely pay foreign invoices.

Basically, if you’re not in the US, they know they’ll have a hard time suing you. The LLC won’t help obscure that.

If you go the US LLC route, make sure you understand the tax implications. Preparing your American tax return may be very expensive. (When I lived in NYC as a European expat, the paperwork for my private tax return cost several thousand dollars each year. American tax advisers who have experience handling foreign professionals know their price.)
Idea could save CA billions of gallons of water and generate clean energy
You answered your own question at the end there. It's to keep you coming back every day.
I need to combine it with some other site like weather underground because it seems to me that windy uses past model outputs for current conditions, instead of actual observations. So it’s as good as anything for the near future, but not great for the present.
Most people are either blissfully unaware of their surroundings regardless of the noises or they just tuned out said noises because there are so many of them.

This is not an argument for noisier exhausts. It's an argument to reduce noise in general, from all sources. Then people will react better to the louder noises.
Author here. That’s the takeaway I was going for.

It could have been any technology. The silver bullet is choosing the right tool for the job.

I don’t have an attachment to any particular tech. At the time React was what I knew, and I was coming off the back of building a server side rendered React site when I joined this company. I had a team of JavaScript-focused engineers to work with.
> Also, whatever vehicle designer that decided the horn should honk whenever the car locks — you are on the top of my list!

I recommend never visiting Ecuador. Car alarms (false alarms), lock, and unlock sounds are an all day thing.

If you think America is bad you ain’t seen nothing yet.
CIA. yeeting people out of their shit every ten minutes cripples availability, we gotta balance. like most things where the person making the call is not the person who deals with it, security ppl are often too aggressive about killing session duration.
Does that just translate to rotting book smell?
I've abandoned it because larger and larger amounts of Reddit users seem to have become more insufferable over the last year or two.

That, and the mobile experience sucks.
The problem is that even if we assume this (or anything similar) is a good thing, we can't simply wish it into existence. The world is going into a different direction, everything is ever-more connected and apart from a very small minority, most local network admins are fine with Letsencrypt certificates or rolling their own CA.

If someone would want to put in the advocacy and development work, this would need to be written up in a formal fashion, probably in a scientific journal and/or an RFC published. Then there would need to be an implementation for at least one of the major OSes so security researchers can get their hands dirty with it and iron out the bugs. Once all this is done, you still need to convince Microsoft, Apple and Google to ship it in their OS because this is not a browser-only solution and needs OS support. And at this point the thing is probably pretty dead because their big customers are happy to run their own CA infrastructure, which leaves only a tiny minority of sysadmins for small systems that could ask for it. Not enough for these big companies to care because these small customers moving to Linux won't affect their bottom line. I would rather spend my time to advocate for simpler CA management or other verification methods with LE.

Honestly, I think the FQDN and Letsencrypt solution is fine. I've been using FQDNs for server names for a good 15 years now and I never had a problem with it. The people who didn't, however, had a bunch of pain to deal with, from having to merge networks to weird trust issues. I still remember the headless running around when .dev became a TLD and suddenly there was a conflict with oh so many folks' internal hostnames. Nothing about DNS says it has to be on the Internet. If you really want, you can even run a split DNS to make it only available in your own network, you just need to make the Letsencrypt verification work over the Internet.
I'm the author of the post and you're right. My blog is hosted at Write.as, which doesn't make feeds auto-discoverable.

I'll definitely bring this feedback to the Write.as developer, thanks. I also added a link to the RSS feed to the blog's About page.
The Rimac Nevera Sets a New Record at Nürburgring
Nothing facebook does makes me happy.
It's not like any performance significant component of the ML stack is actually implemented in Python.
Everything is and has always been cuda, c or c++ under the hood.
Python is just the extremely effective glue binding it all together.
Those plastic license plate concealers are wild. I couldn't believe it the first time I noticed one and I don't understand how they're legal.
When I moved to London from Central Europe, I was surprised how many people drive with loud exhausts in residential areas. It was especially annoying during the night, when every fifteen minutes some idiot would drive down the nearby 2-lane road (Aerodrome Rd, Colindale) at full throttle.
it's so freaking disingenuous when hyperregulatory twerps pass this kind of crap, then wait for a disaster, then soyface at facebook like "see what they're doing!! this is a critical natural disaster tool!" well then maybe yall shouldn't've broken the business model, geniuses. i neither use nor like facebook but this is an obvious mistake.
But are they crushing in because of the anatomical accuracy of a piece? No. They are doing it because of the names of the artists. There are mountains of works that are as precise as anything by the 20 most loved artists that get no lines in museums. The motivation for most people to see a piece by Vermeer is the same as the motivation to see a piece by Monet or even deKooning.
Scientists race to understand highly mutated coronavirus variant spotted in four
>A highly mutated new variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 has countries on alert as scientists scramble to understand how far it has spread and how well our immunity will defend against it.
Sound Map of Amsterdam
The Sound Map of Amsterdam shows the (calculated) noise load for the most important traffic sources in the city.
Get better windows? I live across from a major road and I can't hear anything since replacing the old single panes from the 70's.
You’ve got to be careful when rationalising sentient-seeming behaviour in non-humans as ‘actually non-sentient’. Pull too hard on that thread and you’ll realise that most humans aren’t especially sentient most of the time either, with all the attendant uncomfortable implications.
> Wasn't Python originally designed as a language to teach children how to code

I think it would be very confusing for a child to start with a language so far away from low-level logic.

...And some people said BASIC was evil. At least what it is doing looks plain and direct.
I'll assume you're writing in good faith, so I will try to explain why I think some are disagreeing with you.

> Amazing what greed can do. They want to make money from the news, yet they don't want to pay the news sources for letting them feed off of it.

The Canadian government has said that a law is going to come into effect that will ban a company like Facebook from allowing news links unless the news provider is compensated. Meta has started to put changes into effect to comply with the rules of the land. The Canadian government is now demanding that an arbitrary exemption is being made. How is a company meant to build systems with such whiplash reactionary legal framework?

> If a Canadian outfit wanted to host news and other media from the US, you know it wouldn't happen without payments in kind to the American news or media outlet.
> (Downvoting doesn't make it untrue. Same for the other posts this user is downvoting.)

You are postulating.
I have literally started tracking being social as a habit on an app for the last few months and it has been a godsend. Every day, if I do something social, I put a tick in my app.

At first it was just to get over my social fears, but now as I get more comfortable, I still keep doing it because I love the rush of talking to new people and seeing if we click.

And of course, the fear never completely goes away in all situations, but it turns into something exhilarating, like before an important test/interview even when you're well prepared.
Why doesn't the gov just use the Amber alert system to share essential info?

Why do people even need to read articles on a forest fire.

It's a...large fire. In the forest.
do you have the money to fight corpo inc. when the repo men come for your first born sons eyes?
I don't see the quandary. FB has managed to make themselves a defacto public space, they should not however be allowed to extort that position.
You have never changed the wording of anything you had written to make your intent clearer?
wouldn't work in SF because SFPD has announced they're no longer pulling over people for "minor" violations, like not having license plates
"Silly" is really underselling it.

One biker jumped to fight me once after I joked with him that he uses loud exhaust pipes to get a prostate massage while riding. People around him stopped him. I laughed my arse off. Apparently I hit a nerve.

But yeah, that's how much respect I have for these people. Whatever reasons they invent the fact of the matter is that noise pollution is already too much and everyone should be working on reducing it. Everyone. No exceptions. Including mothers with rattling strollers; having one with rubber wheels is not gonna bankrupt her family, I am pretty sure.
It costs money to gather information, send reporters + photographers places, etc. rent seeking is wanting to be paid for no new work, not wanting to be paid for work that is in the public interest.
This is why I kind of like the idea of so-called "Active Sound Design"[1]--where car makers are starting to play vroom-vroom noises over the internal speaker system to make their engines sound louder. Car enthusiasts criticize it as "fake engine noise" but it's actually brilliant: The only person who really cares that someone's car is loud and obnoxious is that car's driver, so let him blast himself with vroom-vroom and let everyone else enjoy a slightly quieter existence.

1: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15117726/faking-it-en...
Great for Mastodon adoption for sure. And even better smarts on NWS for diversifying their alert systems, especially outside of a large corporate-owned platform.
Most micro service architectures I come across sadly are very spaghetti.
In polite company it's called a "cyber incident".
but either can be good or bad, so choosing one over the other isn't better by default
I miss some of the real communities that were there but I haven't been back. I may try Lemmy or go back to RES and a desktop browser.
Yes, ls does have a lot of flags, but how did it get them, and what are the alternatives? It got them to satisfy real needs, and using flags, especially when combined with having man at your fingertips, was (and is) a highly effective interface for interactive work. If there is anything to be learned from the proliferation of command-line flags, it might be that one should not attribute too much significance to a vague aphorism such as "do one thing, and do it well."
Need them at my location. It’s so fucking rude.
A human driver killed a 4-year girl and her mother this week. How many 4-year olds has Cruise killed?

My point is that picking false equivalencies and anecdotal evidence doesn't work, in both directions.
There’s a reason why this sort of thing is managed through someone medically guiding you and that’s because it’s complex, and there is a lot that snoreRx is not suited for. Unless you feel like you have a firm physiological foundation on which to base your need for some sort of treatment, you’re really doing yourself a disservice. There’s also no harm in discussing this with your doctor either
Is it "dying business model" or the public good that the Canadian government are responding to?

Seems like the loss of local news has become more like a dying societal model.
Was Facebook the main news channel in Canada? No TV, no radio? Where did Canadians got their news since the Facebook ban?

Some countries have SMSes from the government and/or officials going around with loudspeakers. Maybe Canada has all of that and more. If not, I can hardly blame Facebook for the lack of coordination at state level.
Visual Programming and AI: is there a future?
Same here. I’ll visit if I’m searching for something, and there’s a responsive page, but otherwise I’ve quit it altogether.

I don’t feel like I’m missing anything except something to fill time when I’m bored. Instead I’ve mostly filled that time by reading books on the Kindle app.
Very useful for sailing, but also biking, hiking, any kind of outdoor activity. Turns out a certain temperature with 5 mph wind feels very different from the same temperature with 20 mph wind.

I like this app for being forward about the weather models that it uses and letting you choose between them. Most regular places that show weather present the work as "their" forecast, but they're typically repackaging weather model information. No pretense here.
The further I zoom in the colder it gets. :D
Those lead paint chips aren't going to eat themselves, live a little!
But so will their incomes, right?
Here in Brazil they tried to sneak in similar provisions into a fake news law. They actually preempted Facebook's move by simply writing into law that social media companies have no right to block the links as retaliation.
Likewise compiler specific extensions don't define universal truths about languages, that aren't part of the respective standard.

Had you been clever, you would have pointed out that inline Assembly is defined in the ANSI C++ standard, with the mention of asm (content) language construct, leaving the meaning of content implementation defined.

As it is also defined in the Ada language standard, Modula-2 standard revision, and Oakwood Guidelines for Oberon-2 implementation.

That is the thing mixing up C with compiler specific features, confusing the language for its standard and assuming no other language in the planet offers similar capabilities.
Had already “mostly” abandoned it a year or so ago but the changes were the final straw and I don’t think I’ve been back since (maybe once or twice when someone linked something).

Replaced with carrying my kindle around and reading more often, so it’s been a great change for me personally.
If only there were other places to get news other than Facebook. Who is this trying to target, people are well aware of the fires and actively seeking info. Not being able to stumble across it on Facebook doesn’t sound like that big of a deal.
For myself I noticed reducing my own bodyweight helped a lot (so from 108kg to 100kg was already helping me a lot). Which also means that I know that I cannot allow myself to regain this weight again... ;)
Ohwow, that's less than ideal. I wish I could convince my provider to let me use my own router so I can get rid of the double NAT, but I'm probably 1 in 10000.
Can you say more? I'd like to hear about examples you've experienced.
If it’s a public safety issue, then neither Facebook nor the newspapers should be able to make money off the information. Instead, the provincial government should prepare a website for the information and allow that to be shared.

If there are additional costs involved in distribution then the government should provide reasonable subsidies.
When I lived in Shanghai most people were using electric mopeds and it was great. Much quieter.
that sounds very confident, how come?
Cut it drastically.

I am saving hours a week for vastly more productive and less irritating pastimes.

The quality dropped off so hard over the last decade anyways. It had long passed the point of 'more trouble than it's worth, really'; but losing Apollo, and spez's patronizing lies, made it easier to quit.

I used to really enjoy the site, before it got hollowed out by various scumbuckets at every level. It's sad to see how far it fell.
Correct. Even in this thread, it’s just a bag of opinions. Most are elaborate and well articulated, all correct, all wrong nonetheless. No wonder this topic is always such a pile of patchwork. It’s as diverse as developers are.
You need to realize that to some, torturing kittens is, indeed, fun.

Psychos do exist.
Why is content from the news media needed for this?

The Canadian government should find ways to produce public information about the fires, and find ways to distribute that.

I am all for punishing Facebook in many ways. But if they want to use Facebook to publish public service info, don’t make demands that Facebook allow sharing articles from commercial news agencies. Make a deal with Facebook to have Facebook distribute government official information about the fires to peoples Facebook feeds.
http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

This page lists features from es6 (and newer versions linked at the top) along with compliance to the spec. First column is the current browser, second is babel+corejs polyfills.

Overall, babel gets about 70% of the way there.
Ok so to make your postal service analogy accurate let’s add a detail: whenever you send a newspaper clipping the postal service opens the letter and inserts a piece of junkmail.

Ok now imagine the gov passes a law saying “if you insert junkmail into a letter containing a newspaper clipping, you have to pay a fee to the newspaper”.

Where’s the problem? Either they stop inserting ads, or they pay.

As for “make less money” vs “stop existing” - having journalism exist is in the publics interest. If one business threatens to cause another to go out of business we might not care, but in this case the business is theoretically socially important.
That's why I wear a car alarm strapped to my head, always going off, when I walk down the street.