skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you appreciate the level of complexity here. We're talking about a core diagnostics system (extremely complex software), that already has guards in place to protect against this stuff (complex again), but there was a race condition (complex again), and this one instance in likely billions and billions of transactions is what led to an issue.

What training do you think could have prevented this? Microsoft deals with complex software at enormous scale. Bugs happen. And in this case, it was a severe one that's already been dealt with.
What if a gpt-5 powered robot starts asking these questions after staring in a mirror?
downvote + rebuttal makes sense.

(but i'm not downvoting your idea, to your point!)
I don’t think it’s as much official government discussion as it is party chatter. See lockdown party scandal, Forde report, typical CCHQ party lines.
Let me know when the BSDs have a complete networking stack.

for example:

- SO_BINDTODEVICE

- an option for not-symmetric NAT
The problem I have with qualia is that the argument assumes that qualia are a transcendent, non-physical thing. Why can't a qualia, eg, the experience of the redness of red, simply be what that conscious thing experiences when a set of neurons is activated in a particular way?

I know that sounds circular, so I'll expand. We can't know exactly how one person experiences a particular shade of red vs another person. But we can know that one person can experience the exact same shade of red in different ways in different contexts: what thing is red (a rose vs a welt), or what it the current lighting is, or their mood on different days. From that we can conclude that the red qualia isn't some transcendent fixed property.

We also know from experiments on conscious, human subjects undergoing brain surgery that stimulating certain networks can result in complex phenomena: eg, the subject smells fall leaves with a hint of maple syrup, say. Or they suddenly feel the impression of being in the presence of a long dead aunt.

The brain builds up associations, and each "node" that is activated nudges associated nodes into activation, and so on. I assume we've all had the experience where we are trying to remember the name of someone: we picture them in our mind and all we can come up with is the feeling it has two syllables and starts with a vowel. In those cases those associations are manifest but it wasn't enough to trigger the primary node (the name) we are seeking.

Why can't qualia simply be the state of consciousness when a particular set of nodes are in a particular state. So many other experiences seem to be exactly this; why assign a mystical, non-physical property for the case of subjective experiences?

I'm in the camp that the most likely outcome is that artificial neural networks can be conscious and have real experiences, but the toy networks we have today don't have nearly the right topology to achieve such states.
I've experienced something similar at Peloton where a C-level kept bringing former reports at Uber for key roles and started to push out the existing employees. It's business at the end of the day but I do think there's a graceful way of bringing people in from former companies.
what is performance of image building with this? can it build isolation container without image build https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/you-dont-need-an-image-to-run-a... ?
'How do you know when your art is good?'
Surprise, companies have been outsourcing for decades and not slowing down, and WFH or not does not change any of that. My company's current headcounts are almost only in India, yet they are asking people to come in 3 days a week.
> There is a difference between the nature of a phenomenon and the nature of a phenomenon’s existence, and the existence of intentionality and qualia is self-evident.

I would argue that good faith rational inquiry should not begin by having a desired final conclusion in mind and declaring it to be self-evident.
A 1x32 splitter costs somewhere between $20-70 (unless you pay exorbitant Corning prices).

32 core (well, 36 core) cables are cheap enough, but that's not what you need for a pure point to point network. Let's say you've got a local convergence point with 576 fibres facing the distribution network. With 1x32 splitters you need 18 feeder fibres. You can get a 24 core cable for $350/km.

Now, let's say you're building a fully point to point network. You now need a 576 core cable for your feeder in the access network. That's going to cost north of $6000/km (that's a wild guess -- sorry, I don't have accurate numbers for high count cables as I haven't bought any in the past few years).

If your access network is 10 km, that's the difference between $3,500 in cables vs $60,000 in cables. Plus you're adding a good $1,500-3,000/km in cost for larger splice closures and increased splicing labour.

Where it really hurts is when you start getting close to your Central Office (CO). With P2P networks, you need more larger cables in the first few kilometers closest to the CO, which is often the most congested part of a network. For brownfield builds, that might require directional boring to install new conduit in a town to bring the new cables into the CO. That can get really expensive.

Designing fibre networks is a game of whack-a-mole. Spending less on one component drives up costs on other components. Sure a P2P network means you can use cheaper SFPs, but the outside plant is more expensive. There's good reason that most carriers are building Passive Optical Networks -- P2P just isn't economically viable in all scenarios.
There's a copy of a MS-DOS 3.x kit around in the wild, yes. I think it might be 3.2, but I'm not sure.

When I say "in the wild" I obviously mean "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum"; nothing authorised.
> There could be 0% unemployment and anyone could find another job easily

Technically, 0% unemployment would mean that you can't take another job, as you transitioning into another job would create frictional unemployment, which would mean that the unemployment rate would not be 0%.

In practice, somewhere around 3% is usually considered full employment. The 3% are those in the process of changing jobs.
You're really good at whataboutism, I'll give you that

https://youtu.be/c1Fv1uKTd-w?si=FnDPTkb1maXDiRLx
The OP notes that they can infer a 7B model at 2s/tok using their CPU setup. Equivalent inference on a 4090 ($1600) is up to 400 tok/s, or 0.0025 s/tok. This is an 800x difference.

(to be fair, you can do better than the OP's performance, but we _are_ talking several magnitudes of performance, not to mention energy efficiency, which matters at scale)
> Functionalist Reply: “…but we don’t need exhaustive modeling or functional duplication.”

> Yes, we do, because there isn’t any assurance that consciousness is produced otherwise.

So the logic of the article is that from not having any assurance that consciousness is produced means that artificial consciousness is impossible?

It would have been more appropriate if the article were to argue for the impossibility that consciousness can be measured.
Interesting post.

From the metadata of a person's photos, you can extract, inter alia:

...whether they took some photos from a plane or helicopter (viewshed, angle and altitude are preserved);

...how conscientious someone is (by looking at their iPhone's uptime, perhaps the over-conscientious person with an extreme uptime is borderline OCD?).
I'd fire the entire city council for making dumb decisions.
Meat is packed with saturated fat, which is causally linked to bad cholesterol. Are there worse foods? Yes. Are there healthier foods? For sure.
But I believe that’s define-able. It’s how much you control your own thoughts. That’s what consciousness is. And it’s a vast, vast scale of opposites with so much variety, that a better picture than a spectrum is needed but I can’t imagine what. but because we have so many senses to become conscious in, we get a fusion of consciousnesses that is probably unique to us.
This is the correct answer. But left unsaid is the fact that we don't have any objective definition of consciousness yet. I posit that until we do, artificial consciousness if by definition impossible.
You would still need a STUN server, though there are many public ones out there.

The main idea in removing the signaling server is to somehow transfer the session description between clients e.g. one client scans a qr code that encodes the session description of another or sending session description through some existing chat application and allowing a user to enter it manually instead of having your own server do the transfer over some mechanism.

Also it may be possible to avoid the multiple qr code thing this blog is talking about (qr code per ice candidate) if you just wait for the ice gathering state to be complete then send the session description, though they are correct that the session description in its entirety will most likely exceed the qr code capacity (coincidentally they use LZ compression in an attempt to lower the length, similar to what I tried long ago though I ended up deciding it wasn't worth it).
The key milestones for VP often are

- Luck landed them in a leadership spot on a project that was already successful
or headed that way

- They didn't do anything to abruptly change that course

- They are skilled at managing up with the right words, phrases, actions

Then, they move up in the chain they are already in, where everything is very familiar. Goes well enough until they move outside that bubble.
We just experienced this though and it wasn't good for their stock price. Low unemployment means they have to pay their workers more to hire or retain them. More expense means they either need accept making less (bad for stocks) or raise prices to make as much money, which could be bad for business.
For point 2 anything with real world input is non mechanistic since non determinism propagates.

Eg. A regular computer with a camera that's programmed to do something if a photon hits a certain pixel is non deterministic. This type of setup is common in our ai systems.

I personally do agree that consciousness probably does have an element of non determinism but I don't think that non determinism needs to come from neurons in the brain. We have a whole bunch of non deterministic inputs, consciousness could well come from that and that's true if computers too. In fact it's pretty well accepted there's nothing really quantum about human neurons.

So point 2 is very weak.
We're going to need to determine the cause of the unexplained spike in recent all-cause mortality before we can have any sort of meaningful conversation about the risk/benefit analysis of the covid vaccination program.
The labor theory of value is bogus, though. A doctor doing work on their own car and a mechanic diagnosing their own illness are both worse off than if they exchange their labor with each other, even if Marxist thought wants to equate their labors.
So you trust the competence and the ethics of the government?
Yup. If you got your foot in the door at the right place and people in leadership liked you, you're on the track to be a director in 6-8 years. Usually the people who promoted you were themselves early employees with no experience being executives, who just peter-principled into senior director/VP roles.

I've watched these failsons get promoted to senior director/VP, leave before they were ever accountable for their bad decisions, and then bring all their cronies over to the new place at the same levels.
Lot of words so maybe I missed this, but can you go back to the Small State Government Agency? Seems to me that if they have good benefits and maybe even a pension plan it might be a decent comp package all told?
It looks like he got a drift stuck while trying to punch an eye into a piece of iron. His way of trying to free it is both mystifying and mildly infuriating.

However this guy also turns functional items into useless decorative garden tools that no one will ever use, so it's not that surprising that he keeps trying to press a drift out with a sharp pointed tool that will never get a purchase on the work piece.
Good for them. Dave Clark is a stain on humanity. Horrible horrible human.
I'm comparing Afrikaners to the English and to South African blacks who were integrating into colonial society (among whom the Zulu were likely the largest ethnic group, but certainly not an outright majority). Afrikaner national identity initially formed in opposition to the former and shifted to defining itself against the latter as the country began industrializing.
Sounds like a chicken or the egg issue to me. Why are the bike paths unmaintained? Because they aren't used as often as in a country like the Netherlands. But how can we increase biking in Norway if the roads are unmaintained?

The only answer is radically changing the way we view walking in biking in cities. They are the base of all transportation, and we should treat them as the most important mode of transport for that reason. If we do that, maybe Norway will plow their bike paths. Maybe California will drop their obsession with adding "just 1 more lane" to their freeways. Maybe high-speed rail could become a thing in the US as it is in so much of Europe.
Wikimedia DNS
All I can say is that I'm grateful for family who have given us antiques. When I've had to buy furniture, it's a sofa from Ikea (my husband is very hard on furniture and our two dogs are not much better), a solid wood headboard from a thrift shop, a something with veneer to be made into bathroom vanity, and a lovely antique sideboard for a kitchen island.

That said, I totally feel the pain of the gap in the market. Not sure how people manage.
Aye, matey.
The majority of people complaining are not contributors to the project at all, or for the one or two I saw that are, had a handful of commits.

Just like in this thread -- lots of people whinging about how something they don't contribute to is built, by the team that builds it. Which is both obnoxious and arrogant.

Glance at the contributors page and you'll see who has earned the right to have an opinion on how turbo is built.
CORRECTION: That figure from [1] doesn't actually specify the time period, but other sources [3] imply it is per year rather than per month. This means I overstated the cost of office-space by a factor of 12, and it should probably be more like $9k/employee/year.

That also means the office-rent cost is significantly less than if the employer began paying for employee commutes.

[3] https://www.squarefoot.com/leasopedia/dollars-cents-much-cos...
First, post your resume somewhere so you can get feedback, it's likely your resume is bad. Second, you need to check out pramp.com and ask people to give you honest critical feedback for your interviews.

You could need practice in the technical portion or perhaps you come off as too arrogant or not confident enough or any number of things.
> ..exercise your attentional system. Simply follow these steps:

- Start by settling into your body.
- Notice yourself sitting and breathing.
- If you feel comfortable, close your eyes.
- Ask: What’s most vividly tied to my breath? Is it the coolness of air moving in and out of my nostrils? Or are my shoulders moving up and down?
- Direct your focus on this sensation.
- If you notice your attention has wandered, redirect it back to your breath.

> Minds wander. It’s a natural thing that the brain does. When our mind moves away, gently return it back. Simply begin again.
Yeah, I've worked in this space for many years (more on the autonomous vehicle side, but certainly work with acoustic folks) and am very familiar with the WHOI affiliates and the ONR sponsors. You're not wrong. The multiple reference to the dock being too short to perform longer range testing also struck me as odd. It's very simple to get an academic or industry partner to strap a device on a two boats for a test. It's done all the time. WHOI is always testing vehicles. Something's not adding up.
That’s insane. I’m gonna retire if I feel the same as you about this.
Just out of curiosity, may I ask for which reason did you use ReiserFS v3 and on what kind of devices?
> I'm in the camp that the most likely outcome is that artificial neural networks can be conscious and have real experiences, but the toy networks we have today don't have nearly the right topology to achieve such states.

Agree with all you say, but just suspect that when we do come up with a network that can achieve such states, we will look at it and shake our heads and say,

“So… is that all there is to it?”
in consumer electronics people pay over 10k to get a simple device tested for EMC before slapping on CE and FCC.
> No one can explain the qualia of the sensation and the only way to claim this thing can be experienced by non-biological objects is by a blind faith.

For any entity with qualia, of which only one certainly exists from the perspective of any given observer, this is more accurately stated as “any other entity than the self” rather than “non-biological objects”.

Qualia inherently is not observable externally, so it is impossible to build a body of evidence which would support associating it with observable traits like “being a biological object”.
Hey, what kind of scores will you be selling?
In Germany they are forbidden.
It’s not about nobody. Individuals can escape the intention. Statistically though you can have a target achieved by slowing the economy, as evident in the current situation. Of course, if the goal is not optimisation of output but of it’s distribution (with different views on what is the proper objective) then capitalism is only different to socialism in terms of definition of that objective. But similar to how we never achieved true socialism, we have never achieved true capitalism either, so I am wary of discussing on the merits of each theory on the basis of the pitfalls of their application. We still need a proper descriptive theory of our experience and socialism inadvertently is better at forming the initial angle of attack, giving a more articulate basis of discussion in terms of distribution rather than output.
> This doesn't add up to me.

I agree, I added a correction because I think it's off by a factor of 12 due to month-vs-year price quotes.
I wish the article had a reference to the actual power used. It SOUNDS like it's quiet minimal. In which case, it'd be hard to imagine you are dealing with biologically devastating energy.

That said, the unidirectional nature of this approach also means that actual life that could be affected is a lot smaller than what happens with sonar, where the signal is blasted in all directions at a very high power.
If you read up on how wars historically got started the only thing you can conclude is that the people that somehow gravitate towards positions of power in autocratic countries are the last people that you want to have with such power. War is essentially inevitable once such a character takes over.
Winkel Tripel Warping Trouble (2012)
btw, there is already a label. it’s called “open source”
The same thing happened when I signed up for Twitter a few years ago. I emailed Twitter support and explained that I didn’t want to give them my phone number for privacy reasons, and they unblocked me. Never had a problem with it again.

I think there was an actual person on the other end of the ticket, I don’t think the odds would be very good if someone tried it nowadays.
Yes. Should everyone stop advertising on the dumpster fire that is X? Yes. Should the whole tech community be outraged that “man-child ceo” refuses to pay his: [rent, severance, legally required arbitration fees].
Yes.
Should everyone quit the platform in protest and utterly ignore it?
Yes.
That resolves the paradox of tolerance for you, but not for everyone else. What happens when you think that I'm being intolerant, but I disagree? Back to being a paradox.
It's not about the wetware. It's about the math, the process, the data, and the speed or order to calculate it all.
> Preventing someone from speaking is not an exercise of free speech.

You mean as a legal matter, or are you arguing this from a normative perspective?
My approach is to make sure to schedule 1, and preferably only 1, touristy thing to do for the day. It should consume no more than half the day. On the way to or from that excursion, allow yourself to wander and go with the flow. This framework has really amped up my vacations.
See a cool building? Check it out. Want some grub? Open Google maps for whatever's nearby or look for street food. Hear about something from a local? Sure, you've got time. Want to rest on a beach? Do that as long as feels necessary. Buy something cheap at a market or thrift shop. Try to do groceries or ask for directions in another language. Pull off on the side of the road and explore something undeveloped.

Having the one thing to do gives you structure and a guarantee that you don't waste the day. The rest gives you novelty and a chance to actually relax if you want to.
Related last month "First release of jq in 5 years" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951830

Huge fan, I use it all the time.
the progression of the commodification of human beings: on schedule.
Depending on the good or service. Other companies, government organizations, or the public individual consumer.
Now this is really really cool (technologically; let's not talk about the implications for people's freedom).

Do you happen to have some pointer were read more about this? Thanks
The innovation here is to make that unidirectional rather than omnidirectional. So seems reasonable to conclude that even if the beam is gunshot noisy, outside the beam is basically silent.
> Am I right to assume that because the attacker had the signing key all of the extra authentication mechanisms that would have been enabled on accounts were bypassed by the attacker...?

That's my understanding.
As a local of this side of the isle, I feel like the council are just being smart in getting more revenue.

I visited the Cliffs for the first time last year I believe, and I had a great time being up close to the cliffside. Me and my mam went along this cliffside walk that was difficult at times, but got us a great view.

When we finished and walked along the road to the visitor centre, it got incredibly foggy. But we made it, and when we were there, there was so many tourists that saw the visitor centre and the little lookout, and barely anyone besides locals walked the trail.

So for the council to capitalise on people wanting to see the cliffside, it's clever. The tourists can do the walk for free if they choose, the council knows a lot won't, mainly from laziness or time limit. They're just getting the bag, I respect it.
The argument is necessarily either that human neurons are magic and that artificial consciousness is impossible, or that some version of solipsism is true (the author asserts their own consciousness as self-evident and that no test can possibly show whether something else is conscious).
Conceptually it feels much closer to my much loved, much missed 2003
Sunset Orange AWD Honda Element.

Suicide doors & no fixed B pillar was awesome.
That’s $45/sqft per year, not per month. A 20,000 sqft office tower floor does not generate $10.8M a year in rents.

All CRE listed as price per square foot are per year prices.
Dataset Search (Google)
> if a Market creates externalities, then it is time to consider, argue over, and politically implement alternatives.

Until you can't, because gigantic corporations are stronger than states and can purchase even more power through capital.

It amuses me how often I see socialism dismissed as "amusing", only to see naive arguments against it. We live in this world RIGHT NOW. We have proof that the market does not regulate itself. Let me rephrase, they regulate themselves to extract maximum profit at the expense of anything and everything.

And again, as someone else pointed out, markets don't vanish under socialism. What most argue for is a baseline for every human being to exist and the removal of the profit motive.

Meanwhile capitalists gloss over all the inherent contradictions of capitalism like the need for infinite growth. Now that is amusing.