skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All US employers I've worked for included disability and long-term injury insurance as standard benefits, in addition to always offering the best-tier health-plans (from non-profit insurers too). Unemployment insurance is another (legally mandatory) benefit that outshines whatever I'd get in the UK because it isn't considered a public-benefit (i.e. it's not the state or Feds paying it ("welfare" as yanks call it), it's still a insurance pool model where the payouts are proportional to your salary and not some arbitrary income limit the DWP set for the year, nor is means-tested or requires me to use-up my savings first - so in WA ( https://esd.wa.gov/unemployment/calculate-your-benefit ) I'd be getting about $4k/mo for 6 months, for comparison I quickly ran the numbers on benefits-calculator.turn2us.org.uk (there's no official UK calculator, wat) just now and got... £300/mo - and that's only after I exhaust all my savings first. (To be fair, I could just purchase private unemployment insurance in the UK too, except I'd be paying for it myself out-of-pocket (though it might be a tax-deductible expense?) whereas in WA employers are required to pay into it at no cost to the employee, IIRC).
Which is terrifying - ARM's biggest risk in that regard is that ARM China can effectively shoot itself in the foot in the name of Chinese strategic/geopolitical/technological interests, and all their Chinese employees will have absolutely nothing to worry about.
Rofl. This isn't going to be the thing that destroys Twitter. Musk is.
Pigs have the intelligence and consciousness of a human 3-year old. And we treat them horribly, despite their ability to feel stress and pain. Not sure if that will be a predictor for other non-human consciousness, but it's not a positive signal, anyway.
> Capital however is predominately held via inherited wealth and its controllers want rentier incomes with low risk

You just described the capital markets in the entire western Europe, not just the brits.
I see the creeping panopticon as being a bit like climate change.

Anyone with some knowledge of history can see what horrible things might happen if we build a comprehensive surveillance machine, but nothing terrible has happened yet. It’s hard to convince people to give up convenience to prevent a danger that hasn’t yet come and cannot be clearly seen.

With climate change it will take years of records for extreme weather being blown away. For this it might take a developed nation falling into hard core fascism and the digital dragnet being turned directly against its citizenry.

China is perhaps a case with its social credit system and camps, but it might not be extreme enough and may be too far away. It may have to happen here, or much worse. Americans in particular think “it can’t happen here” even though it almost has several times.
A little confusing that strengthening the Hubble tension is worsening it.
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The general approach is: performance, when measured, improves; performance, when measured and reported, improves exponentially.

KPIs might be defined incorrectly, but their use is simple and straightforward for people to understand. This gives rise to Goodhart's Law, "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." The best KPI is something that can't be gamed by those whose performance is being measured. This is probably impossible in practice.
Leaving this not-so-humorous-post https://medium.com/@NTDF9/if-soccer-managers-did-performance...

Full disclosure, it is my own rant about performance management.
Most people don't realise you can plug almost any HLS URL into ffmpeg and trivially rip the stream. Most live streams don't bother with DRM because it's expensive, fragile, and user-hostile. It's often difficult enough to get the motion picture to display properly at all, let alone with acceptable resolution, latency, and artefact-free. The smart companies prioritise UX over policing the "high tier" features.
Don't Add Story Points
"Because China is doing it" is not a good reason.
Everyone forgets that ARM's success was built on Sophie Wilson.
Unstable currency.

Unstable government.

High tax.

Questionable access to other markets.

Questionable reliability when it comes to international agreements (which is pretty fucking vital to a company like AIM).

It's sad (I'm a londoner) but the UK cannot blame anyone but our selves. We're just going through the national equivalent of a tantrum.
i suppose kde matrix has SSO so you can use your existing kde account so there would actually be one less account to check. That coupled with the fact that you can use your existing matrix account to federate with kde.org instance, its a win-win i suppose.
I like how the most convincing examples of "agile transformations" almost never use the word agile.
For my 30th birthday a group of friends and I walked the perimeter of Manhattan island. Except for a section along the Harlem river, there are paths along the water the entire way so it required almost no navigation. We picked up and dropped off friends along way that only wanted to do parts of the walk. And we stopped at several bars too, meeting other friends that just wanted to have a drink. We started at 8am and finished just after 4am. I would definitely do it again, even without the friends or bars - but they definitely made it a memorable adventure.
I'm not so sure about this claim. Here's a Microsoft press release from April '99 about digital rights management, which uses the DRM acronym throughout: https://news.microsoft.com/1999/04/13/microsoft-and-reciproc...

Seems like they filed for a patent that same month using the same terminology https://patents.google.com/patent/US7103574B1/en
Majority of the authors are from philosophy. I don't think this paper is valid at any point. Define consciousness based on turing machine then we talk.
It baffles me that (here in the US) we don’t take full advantage of the sun in newly built homes. Use the sun to heat water, generate electricity, etc.

I rarely see newly constructed homes include solar panels, much less anything else.

It seems like “every new home needs solar power” should be a thing.
Disagreed. They were clearly told not to do that and didn't follow their directions. It sounds like a potential safety hazard to me.

They could just have reported what you said - they were told not to touch the wheel, and are concerned that in reality this could be a problem because there are too many people for at least one person not to do something dumb, or fall onto while doing something dumb etc.
Are there consultants who help deprogram young men & women to stop them wanting to join sororities and fraternities?
Good point, maybe I should try using that more.
Unless you can present something to actually increase nuance, this is just diluting the conversation. Screen time for under 2 years Olds is bad and comments saying otherwise with anecdotal evidence shouldn't change anyone's mind.
Managers like dashboards. KPIs are dashboards.

Your car dashboard is great for staying within speed limit, but now try driving without taking your eyes from the speed dial. :-)
Wild hypotheses:
while GPT-4 is probably not self-aware, you could build a "thin-wrapper" around it that you tell what GPT-4 is, and how it behaves, making it self-aware.

self-aware and conscious are strictly speaking not the same, but it is at least a stepping stone in this direction
I don't think consciousness by itself should equal rights.

A crucial difference between AI and biological life is that biological life has wants and needs. It wants to keep living, it has feelings and emotions, because that's how biological life evolved.

AI could be conscious but not have any wants of its own (without them being programmed in).
Ok, well, as long as we're on the subject of the distinction between theory and practice I'm not worried that unionizing Amazon warehouses will bring about a new USSR.

I've worked union jobs and I've worked non-union jobs: the union jobs paid better and came with better benefits than their non-union equivalents. QED.
Your comment would be significantly more accessible to the general HN crowd if you explained what BI and MAU stand for.
>Head of the Commonwealth

that is no joke, remember back in 80 or 70, when she recalled the election results in Australia. Then they had the election again, and of course this time the other guy won.
Thanks for sharing. These are really good advices.

I stopped dabbing into electronics last year due to lack of time, and I'm absolutely sure this is one of the reasons I was scratching my head:

> - learn how to translate between schematics and breadboards. Nowadays there are many breadboard-illustrations that show you exactly how to connect things. That is neat, but ot is hard to reason about circuits that way, and this will be needed once you deciate from what you find. Most interesting circuits will come as schematics anyways, so learning it is worth it

I found it particularly hard to translate if the schematics uses multiple grounds and single line power sources. I found it difficult to figure out whether the components are linked serially or parallel.
I don’t know about Facebook, but at other BigTechs we were offered very affordable short and long term disability plans. And if your income is low enough (e.g. laid off or fired), you qualify for ACA health plans with huge subsidies making it almost free.
The most vivid (and horrific) example of what relying too much on metrics can lead to are Robert McNamara's policies during the Vietnam War. [1]

Also, because defenders of KPI-driven management love to use the saying that "you can't manage what you can't measure", it's worth repeating the original quote where this is lifted from:

> "It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth." (W. Edwards Deming)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
You have Oppenheimer and you have Barbie. They are both "movies" technically but are completely different type of products that happen to use the same media for dissemination. Her books are no different; I like your start-up analogy because she's focused on making money through this particular media and not "writing books" in the same way, let's say, Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote books.
> Is everyone employed and happy? No

Relatively speaking, it’s the best it has ever been in the history of humanity.

Of course it’s hard to measure happiness and we’ll never be perfect but we have greater safety, lower violence, more food, more work, etc etc.

I wonder if people had succeeded in stopping the tractor because it displaced workers.

Of course it displaced workers. Workers who now do more valuable work. Or even less work altogether.

100 years ago, retirement was very rare. Now people retire and live 10-30 years without work.

Robots and automation will help this trend, not hurt it.

Of course as a programmer I’ve been making myself obsolete for decades and just moving onto cooler problems. Only stupid programmers worry about “job safety” and creating brittle software that requires them to be around forever.
Pretty much all studied show that "screen time bad" is actually true for babies up to 2 years. Snippets won't change that.
And? So?
> Therefore, if you are unhappy with a measure, it means solely that it doesn't capture all of your preferences properly. Which is a technical problem rather than a philosophical one.

Here, you're assuming that the space of possibilities is an ordered set. But it's probably not, so your “technical problem” is in fact a mathematical impossibility.

With KPIs, you push people to maximize a very-straightforward-but-fundamentally-flawed metric, instead of relying on their own judgment. Or when not trusting your employees end up having them behave like brainless bots.
I hate this stuff.
I generally work on internal platforms within tech orgs, and we periodically get this shoved down our throats.
Tech management wants us to come up with KPIs, despite not having any of their own for us to use for alignment. Our product guy who drives our roadmap doesn't want to put any work into KPIs either.

So instead some second-in-command on the team has to come up with some KPIs that they will have no control over addressing (they aren't team lead, they aren't product, they don't own the backlog or roadmap).

Inevitably there is a bunch of angst from management that the KPIs are too tech/engineering centric (well..) while again providing no actual good KPIs themselves, and then they all get missed anyway since no one is incentivized to address them.
It's difficult for me to assess how original your library is without examples, maybe I could find the exact implementation on github within 30 minutes. But I've yet to see anything that isn't just mashing together stackoverflow and git repositories to save time. I get the same answers with less wordy fluff from a simple search, but I also know where to look.

It's impressive that it knows the difference between "how many are 5 more apples than 10" compared to "how many percent are 5 apples of 10" (I don't know if it does, just assuming). But the first release also tried to reason why the weight of 1 pound of nails depends with the simple prompt "how much do 1 pound of nails weigh". That's most likely a perfect example of it mashing the classic "what weighs more, 1 pound of nails or 1 pound of feathers".

It IS just looking in a database, and mashing it with some fluff. I'm happy to be proven wrong but I need more than your word for it. My experience is that as the topic gets more niche (less data in the training set) the worse the answers I get and it starts making things up based on probability. It doesn't reason in the sense I assume you're expecting.
> So does this require new physics to solve?

Not necessarily. First the distance ladder could have another problem. Second to look at the early universe, for the early universe observations you are looking through the entire universe at the CMB and that requires foreground subtraction, which is very much a non trivial task. And finally from theory, General Relativity is a non-linear theory which means taking the average and then evolving the average does not necessarily yield the same result as evolving the initial state and then taking the average. Either of this could explain the tension, though an actually dynamic cosmological constant would be more fun.
I really think their cartoon illustrated the point of the article quite well. For those visually impaired or who didn't read the article it was a two panel saying:

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Boss: John, your commit frequency dropped 25% last week. Are you quiet quitting?

John: Sorry boss, I was on sick leave. I'll be more active.

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Before you cry "this is a contrived example!" Look at what Amazon just did. They sent out an email threatening folks who weren't in the office 3 times a week in the previous two weeks. I did not take into account sick leave, vacation, FMLA, corporate travel, anything.

You take a vacation? You and your manager got a threatening email about your KPI you're not meeting.
Transmission of Alzheimer’s disease-associated microbiota dysbiosis in mice
Something is off. The article is pretty clear that is referencing US attitudes, but the linked paper contains a sample from the Netherlands alone.
Facebook very probably has a group long-term disability insurance policy which adequately its employees in that case. Google did when I worked there many years ago. Some supports might also come from Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and loans or withdrawals from retirement accounts that are far better funded at Facebook US than at Facebook UK.
>Transmission of Alzheimer’s disease-associated microbiota dysbiosis and its impact on cognitive function: evidence from mice and patients
Indeed, but the only viewer for ahn4 I know of is some crappy arcgis site.
No reason to hate sororities and frats because we nerds couldn't join or didn't want to join.
Original journal article here: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00850-4

I recently wondered why nobody tried to model complete neural network of some simple animal. Glad I was wrong.
That's weird. Probably it depends on reviewer? Or probably the reviewer figured out how to compile your source some way? In my experience, the reproducible requirement is always forced.
Compuserve was my gateway to: The Well.

The Well was my Internet before the Internet. What a fond trip down memory lane.
A spare can be the difference between arriving somewhere 30 minutes late and waiting two hours to be taken home.
Consciousness is a bad metric I think. Experiments show that some insects possess self awareness, can learn by observation, and have language (and culture, as an extension of memetic evolution)

Here is a thought provoking question:

Of a feral human being raised without language or culture of any kind (perhaps survived from infancy on an island with no mammals)

And a dog, fully wired into a GPT4 level LLM including connections to emotional response

What is more “conscious”? More “human” (in the social sense)?

The dog could clearly participate in society, while the other demonstrably (based of the history of feral humans) probably cannot.

Is it our culture then that makes us “human”?

Is self awareness == consciousness?

Is the moral value of a life form defined by the depth and richness of inner experience of existence? Or by the ability / need / desire to use tools?

It’s entirely possible that the inner experience of being of some animals (elephants, dolphins, whales, ???) might be actually richer and more complex than our own. Animals in aquatic environments especially have little need of tools, shelter, etc so we cannot judge their inner sophistication by external evidence of technology.

Aside from their practical utility, LLMs have highlighted a peculiar state of being in philosophical conversation, the thinking, reasoning daemon.
Ah yes, the strong assertion on a contested topic with zero arguments behind why you might think so.

What's unequivocally not science here is the false belief we understand enough about consciousness to preclude emergence from nonbiological means.

Par for the course I guess, for someone who doesn't understand science to put forth such confusion.
Exactly as I said. Nuclear was the right choice in the 70s. At that time the climate as a question did not exist, it was only about energy independence.

Today the equivalent choice when rebuilding our energy systems are renewables.

Case in point, already in 2021 renewables delivered more TWh globally per year than all existing nuclear [1], we are still early in the buildout. The tender in 2024/25 for German north sea wind auctions will be ~10 GW. [2]

[1]: https://imgur.com/JYMNAWR

[2]: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
You seem to be ignoring the evidence presented in pretty much all studies because you want to use screen time for your kid. If the study doesn't specify home conditions I would be wary of doing something potentially really dangerous to my child just so I can say "well they didn't consider this".
That's the original quote? That's the opposite of "you can't manage what you can't measure."
> this means AI, whatever form it takes, will then be afforded rights

I doubt it, and I think it won’t even be controversial. Many conscious animals are without rights, as PETA found out when advocating for the copyright of a monkey.

I agree with your core message though. Instead of accepting that some AI is conscious, we need to accept that humans are not. Consciousness is an old word that should never have survived this long. Wondering whether a mushroom is conscious is akin to wondering how many years they will live in the sheol. The sheol (as a location in the universe) is now considered historical for most, just like alchemy, just like consciousness will one day be.

It is disappointing to see Bengio sign this paper.
"Because the USSR is doing it" was an equally bad reason.
An excellent software project, preservation is a personal favorite ;). I had a look over the blog and GitHub project - but I have one important question that I could not find an answer for: "Which version of macOS is targeted?"

I would assume only the latest or near-latest version, though it is mentioned in this post that they were only recently able to sync source code up to macOS 11.5 (from August 2021).

My theories: either they aim to support a wide array of macOS versions (like Wine), or adopt a "moving target" approach, removing old code and stubs that handle old/removed Mac functions.

I am leaning towards my second theory, as it was mentioned in issue #1337 (heh) that Darwin does not have a stable ABI. That sounds to me like an app built for 10.7 Lion would not run at all on 10.14 Mojave... something that is probably true for real Macs as well.
> If you find the means so horrific, why do you consider this ideology justifiable.

Because I don't think there's anything that's unjustifiable, and I say that in the literal sense. That is, take any position and you'll find both people who agree with it and people who disagree with it. I've seen people seriously argue that 1+1=2 is not necessarily true. I explicitly try to avoid thinking "yeah, that's obvious, no one could disagree with that".

It's obvious to us that the holocaust was a horrible event that would be better if it had never happened. I don't think it would be so obvious to someone living in this hypothetical utopia. Hell, I'm not sure it's obvious to everyone living right now. Are you saying you can't conceive of any society that's so advanced that most people would think "yeah, it was terrible that so many people had to die, but look at everything we have"?
By your logic I can say that:

Liquid is a crucial stepping stone towards solid. So liquid is just half solid.
> Or by 24 thousand pairs orbiting 1 time per second,

no, and for the same reason you can't use the output of a quarter million 2.45 Ghz microwave oven magnetrons to produce monochromic teal light (612500 Ghz).

The maths is basically equivalent for EM and gravity waves, except for the constants.

Well, that and the fact it's changing the space-time through which the waves themselves propagate, but the effect is usually small enough to be barely detectable even when you want to.

> Yep, more length to travel - larger wave length. :-/

no, same wavelength, going further on one half of the cycle, then not as far on the other half of the cycle. Same wavelength within the space, it's the space itself which changes.

> I had a discussion about that recently. I have no power to repeat the discussion. You can find it in my comment history.

TBH, that would be a colossal waste of my time. I'm only even bothering to reply to this this now because discussion is supposed to be helpful while I learn things.
The US tends to leapfrog. To Mars!
Oh it's even worse when senior leadership gives you KPIs. I remember when I was a fresh face college grad working at Dell Services.

One of my KPIs was about selling more headcount to the client.

None of the KPIs that came down from on high made any sense. I could be the best junior engineer in the company and it would have no impact on my performance review.
I agree with many of the sage points here, however, I think Unix is more of a general philosophy as well as a set of related operating systems that are loosely based on the original UNIX. My recent KW-LUG presentation revolved around this, specifically: https://archive.org/details/kwlug_meeting_2023-07-10/KWLUG+2...