skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does intelligence require sentience though? Geoffrey Hinton, who I point to merely as an expert in the field and someone much smarter than myself, said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuNN32Tmc9c) that he thinks current systems are "intelligent" and that they "have experiences" akin to humans but that he does not consider them, yet, to have much self awareness, a necessity for sentience.
Wouldn’t all the companies then just conspire to pay everyone lower wages?
I just searched for "ai hallucination" on arxiv and got 43 hits. And terms get reused in new contexts all the time. I don't disagree confabulating would be a more correct term, though.
Are empty plots not bought and sold? Are properties not bought and sold for demolition and redevelopment? Can you not compare the sale price of similar properties with similar plots in different locations to get estimates for the land value?

What about using insurance estimates for rebuilding costs? If my house is insured for a rebuilding cost of $500,000 and I bought it for $1,500,000, isn't $1,000,000 a reasonable estimate of the land value?

> A LVT gives power to the government to unilaterally declare that in some alternate universe, your plot of land might be worth a lot more

Only if the law for some bizarre reason gives unilateral power to the government to declare the land value for plots arbitrarily

You could say exactly the same thing about property taxes currently. Why could the government not unilaterally declare your property is worth 10x? Because that's not how it works
I started off at MSFT over a decade ago and though I haven't worked there in quite a while I'll say that these numbers look very old to me - there's no way Level 59's base salary range is 74-110k today (e.g. about 3 years ago, a new-hire Lvl 59 friend of mine said he was on $115k base and he said he felt he was in the middle)

The publicly disclosed numbers on Levels.fyi are much closer to reality, IMO.
Semantics, but useful ones. By the way, since you wrote '(probably) don’t even have a subjective experience in the same way humans do.', I want to talk about that.

Couldn't llms (or rather generative transformers) sort of confabulate their own subjective experience? If you added other senses/input, just text, that could all act on neurons, a 'memory', a feeling of passing time (internal clock or whatever, this is weirdly a sense every viable human get, as do all complex animal lifeforms). Is this a technical possibility? If a GPT was able to remember and 'internalize' recent input (I mean it passed recent input in its training function, not at all like ChatGPT 'remember' previous input/output that he experienced very recently) and it's output, and you asked it 'why was that your response', would it confabulate too? Would it trick itself? And could it experience 'déjà vu' if the 'internalization' bugged?
My brown rice flour starter doubles in size. I think gluten ones triple? Doubling isn’t so hot
I also published a simplified version on GitHub, so you can try to self-host it. I'm really excited to see all the possible use cases for such a tool besides web scraping or data enrichment.

https://github.com/semanser/JsonGenius
Bluesky has already missed the boat. Unless musk publicly sets fire to a kitten or something, the mass migration is over, and they missed it.
'shaping the cognitive environment' is what the business of news is generally all about.

As information consumers, we have little choice other than trepidatiously pick our way through the narratives supplied to us as best we can. If we end up settling on a heightened level of skepticism to all 'produced information', irrespective of source, then we might be satisfied as to our progress.
I had hoped that would be the case, but I tried multi-lingual clustering, and the clusters were neatly assigned per language, even though the meanings were incredibly close (e.g. short phrases literally meaning "cheap" or "unhealthy").

BTW, that was using ada-002.
Coroutines for Golang
Coroutines are make up for the difficulties of using go routines.

Coroutines can explicitly yield control to their callers and other coroutines and send and receive data across yield points.

https://github.com/stealthrocket/coroutine has the code and a basic sample.
> There are also considerations around the weather, etc.

That's quite an understatement. Wales is a very wet and windy country.
It decreases seating less than you might expect. Seating on an aircraft is usually limited by the number of emergency exits rather than actual dimensions.
Alternatively, I don't have the energy to deal with people pushing misinformation. :/
I doubt moving your hands are the reason this worked for you.
> "Solving the BB(3, 3) problem is at least as hard as solving this Collatz-like problem."

> How hard is this Collatz-like problem? Well, let's see if anyone can solve it :)

I thought John Conway already proved that all instances of the halting problem can be converted to a Collatz-like problem [1]. So one could say this about all BB values, not just BB(3, 3). Some will be easy, some will be hard, but all are reducible to Collatz-like problems IIUC.

[1] https://julienmalka.me/collatz.pdf
Master the Art of Showing Up
Level 59 is entry-level for an SE (e.g. an undergraduate hire), Level 58 is for Interns. People at Level 59 are expected to reach Level 60 within 2 years or they'll basically get managed-out, but once you get past Level 61 people generally take things more slowly.

In West Coast circles (Blind.app, et al) Microsoft's reputation is that it's still "the country club" where you go if you want a stable career without too much excitement (or stress) - if you play your cards right (and dodge the occassional round of layoffs) you can still live the baby-boomer dream having a single-employer-for-life untill you retire.
is () syntactically important or could you use _=> to save a char?
It would cause wage growth leading to a lower percent (but an increase) increase in other prices (housing, etc).
Would really like to try it if you still got one :)

Edit: rune ruune.de should work
This measure will be harmful. Not just due to the person being a bureaucrat who can be bad at their job and/or influenced to achieve certain outcomes; not just because the info is instantly out of date on purchasing decisions; not just because the pricing info is specific to that purchaser. But because everything like this adds more drag into systems that have enough drag already. People can't do anything useful if they're constantly coping with bad systems voted for and put in place by people who don't understand unintended consequences.
I'll add this from the article:

Microsoft uses a system of levels to denote seniority. Higher levels come with higher offers, according to the guidelines. Levels also vary by field and location, but generally, "senior" starts at level 63, "principal" starts at level 65, and "partner" starts at level 68, according to insiders.
Not all types of roles go up to level 70, but in engineering, an employee at this level would be considered a "distinguished engineer.'" There's also a level 80 for a "technical fellow," which is typically one of the highest-ranking executives at the company.
What is level 59 equivalent to in terms years of experience?
I think your comment is totally fine to be honest!

I used to be one of those people who believed that opposite gender close friendships are not possible, but then I came to realize that I’ve just been projecting myself onto other people. I know people who have close, long-term friendships like that, and it’s working out just fine! So, yeah, people are different!
This is vague enough that I have absolutely no idea what you're referring to.
The idea is to change incentive structures around specific types of assets, not to raise money. The idea of rent-collecting landed gentry is economically devastating. Adam Smith wrote extensively about the outcomes, and that is a natural path for economies to take. Wealth consolidates, buys landed, and becomes an informal nobility who collects land and does no work. At some point, it spirals, as rents lets real estate investors buy more land.

Put another way:

If I have $1B, and I buy $1B of land, that creates no value, and raises prices for everyone.

If I have $1B and I start or fund a company which produces a new medical device, computer, or car, I've created massive economic value, both in the inputs (hiring people) and outputs (new technology).

Land is also a scarce resource we all need to share fairly (for whatever 'fairly' means). If you have more, everyone else has less. On the other hand, if you're investing in making movies, I can make my own movies too. There is no fundamental limit to that sort of economic growth.
Yeah that stuff's pretty bad and worse on my iphone it just appeared without warning during some updates. The phone used to work fine in a simple way and then they nag you to update to ios whatever and then the slip in focus mode etc without warning you. I'm wary of even trying to figure all the stuff before the muck it all around again on some other update. As a work around I've figured putting it on 'work' mode makes it behave like a phone again.
So things that are happening regardless?
>LVT muppets

You're attacking the person rather than the idea.

Experiments are good, even if they fail to confirm a hypothesis because we can learn more. Sounds like your mind is made up before the experiment though.
So right now all the companies do share salary data with each other. They typically wash it through a 3rd party so it's not that blatant.

So, a change where the companies also posted their salary data publicly would only additionally inform employees not HR. But yes tech-HR has in the past gotten in trouble over salary fixing.
>Asked whether he condemned Londoners waving flags in support of Hamas, he added: “Waving the flag of Hamas is against the law. Hamas is proscribed and the police are making sure that they enforce the law.

The flag of Palestine ≠ the flag of Hamas.

Hamas is not the Palestinian people, and the Palestinian people are not Hamas.

>“There’s obviously a distinction with the right to freedom of protest and so forth, but nobody likes to see people scared as a consequence of the actions of others.”

Must be nice to be able to so easily bat away the rights and freedoms which underpin free societies.
> Language changes all the time

...towards less complexity and redundancy. Scientifically accurate terms are called that because they're usually not part of everyday language. Hallucination is a much more common word and thus more self-explanatory to most people. For a random person AI confabulation sounds about as intuitive as flux capacitor.
Zero. Fresh-faced just-graduated college-hires are Level 59.
The possibility of Maguire's move to Italy has ignited discussions among football enthusiasts, with many wondering about the impact it might
Pretty sweet. What happens when it falls?

A question for anyone: how would a device like this best guarantee that it can broadcast its data? What would it use in practice?
Land specifically has uses (people live there, grow stuff, build a business on top of, have community things like a park etc).

Most people won't care about some Rolex that someone around the world is willing to pay $100K for.

Land has purposeful value rather than just 'worth'
The problem is, what if it doesn't produce that much? What if it doesn't produce anything?

Imagine someone buying a house somewhere cheap. Then some gentrification, a new microsoft campus built nearby, etc., and the price of the house jumps 10x+. You're on a fixed income, and your taxes are now higher then you can afford.

If you have multiple houses, sure, tax the second, third, etc. one (evn though the taxes are then charged as higher rents if you lease those properties), but the first, primary residence should not be taxed as a "profit maker".

Maybe it's a cultural difference, but here in the balkans, people rarely move, and telling a 75yo grandma that she'll have to move, since her socialist built apartment is now worth 500k eur+, because "investors" want it for airbnb, and she cannot afford taxes on it, is just evil.
First feedback for you: It's an AI picture gallery.
Exactly the contrary: if all wages are public, that wouldn't be possible, because only one company would have to violate that conspiracy to get all employees at other companies to start applying to them.
> Aassuming constant revenue, a move from property to land value tax would create a relative migration from city cores to a highly developed exurbia

At this point it appears you're just ignoring basic economics price sensitivity. Lowering overall taxes on a lot will not cause a migration from that lot.

I mean you can just keep repeating that phrase, but it doesn't then make it true. If you continue your argument that eliminating a tax on economic activity in an area will reduce the amount of activity in that area then there likely is little left for us to discuss.
Germany has become an absolut shit show for everyone who is capable and not in the business of scamming via Gov. The chancellor Scholz is literally the guy who helped to steal from gov. via Cum Ex in the biggest scandal of the country. And now the prosecutor to investigate and prosecut cum ex gets defunded. You can't make that shit up.
Falklands War
For every one comment like yours - “same boring design” - there are a hundred comments from auto enthusiasts who really don’t want EVs to have different design language.
There are already companies collecting such information and making them available for their customers (who supposedly provide some collated data set to them in exchange). That's what all the "paying top of market rate" talk in various companies is based on.

So: the potential for collusion already exists, but unless regular folks can get access to the analysts' data sets as well, it's a very one-sided deal.
Often the market isn't for land, but for land + property. It might help, but overall there is more room for subjectivity/untethered valuations.
Not just empty land. The 'little old Lady' who lived happily in her small house for decades, while everything else developed bigger. At one time her house fit in, but now the rest of the block is bigger buildings worth a lot more.

You decide if the above is good or bad.
Sure but it would be worse.

You see this all the time when the minimum wage is increased by say 10% then there is a general inflation of 1%. General inflation lags wage increases although at a reduced effect.
At this point the thing holding ChatGPT back from universally-accepted "AGI" label is its few remaining sub-human skillsets, like forgetting things from too many tokens ago that a human would not forget.

My prediction is that over the course of the next 6-48 months, we'll see the emergence of LLMs with "working memory," "short term memory," and "long term memory," with working memory being more or less current LLM capabilities, short term memory being made up of a fast one-shot summarization which then gets temporarily stored raw on disk, and long-term storage getting transcribed into a LORA-like module overnight based on perceived importance of the short term memories.

I think emotion analogues will be important for the last part, as emotion processing plays a big role in memory formation (this is an adaptation: we more strongly remember things that we had strong emotions about because they're more important to us.)

So, 6-48 months to computer systems that feel (/have emotion analogue) and sleep to dream (/summarize into long-term storage overnight.)

Those developments, I'm confident, will absolutely silence anyone who says it's not "real" AGI. But then, at that point, you can potentially have built a being that can have feelings about its own existence, and then things get Interesting.
Other than the really granular levels, this is typical for a large corporation.
> Bandcamp has always felt like it should be someone's lifestyle business

Me too. Layoffs are terrible for the people involved but I honestly don’t see why bandcamp would need more than a handful of employees. The more people you have to pay the more money you have to extract from your customers and the whole point of bandcamp was to be a very slim layer between artists and customers.
To test if the system has a functional MMU
Easy to say. But my family lives in a country about 1000 miles away. I can take a coach from Budapest to Oradea (in Romania - the wrong way), and then back to Birmingham, which would take around 36 hours. With no space for my legs, nowhere for my son to play, etc.

It would cost about 30-40% of a flight, but would mean setting off 2 days earlier, costing me 2 days' worth of holidays.

I could take a train, which would take around 24 hours. Trains are much better for long distance than coach, so that's good, but still cramped and difficult. I would also need to buy tickets from four or five different providers, and it's not clear how much my journey is 'protected'. If just one of those trains is delayed, can I still get to my destination within the planned time, or will it mean missing a train which runs once a day, adding 24 hours to my travel time?

The train also costs about 100-150% of the flight price.

It's really the case of 'fast, cheap, comfortable, pick two' when you fly. When you travel without a plane, often you can only pick one.
When old chips shall hash generation waste,

Thou SHAlt remain, in midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to ape, to whom thou POST'st,

"JSON is truth, truth JSON,"—that is all

Ye know on chain, and all ye need to know.
There was a book linked on HN a month ago about the Deisng of UI/UX experiences. One chapter mentions how cars are simple and easy to use despite being more complex than a phone numpad, because the linkages between the car controls and your mental mapping is one-to-one.

Having to endlessly recombine your mental mapping with a numpad or digital pad to generate letters/sentences is much worse for humans than driving, or pen and paper.

The mental mapping for pen and paper is also one-to-one, using behaviours to make specific known shapes is way more powerful than submitting to an arbitrary remapping device.

Electronics are really no good for first order knowledge generation and gathering. The metaphysics of reality hasn't been overcome by tech revolutions, unfortunately (or not).
This doesn’t look particularly special? This is just a form of cursive right?
I never had any exposure to HPC, scientific or numerical computing, even through university and in my career - that world is still comparatively silo'd off from the wider dev ecosystem IME; I know you are correct in what you say, but I imagine Millennials like myself (who were still in middle-school when you were using Python professionally) only ever saw Python in less serious applications.
Because of the sunk cost fallacy which is a fallacy only if you ignore the emotions and trauma of having to abandon work you identify with or is responsible for your self esteem.
Hmm, maybe those who could afford the extreme expense of living there got tired of contending with uncontrolled violent crime and a really (literally) shitty environment? It's not as though people with money have their pick of the entire rest of the planet, the vast majority of which doesn't have those problems. How selfish of somebody to want to live peacefully, not step in shit, and not be endlessly taxed as a penalty for being productive.

The only ones seriously asking "What happened" are the ones whose policies made these problems and want to pretend that they aren't problems, or want to evade responsibility for them.
There's a fair amount of precedent for third party sites hosting schedules, descriptions, and other info about other entities events. Google, as one example, has quite a few widget type things that pop up if you use a search query asking about specific events, concert tours, etc. Try "upcoming conferences", "taylor swift concert dates". Or, similar things like airline and train schedules.
Land prices go up when poeple have more mooney and go down when people have less. The root cause is that land is unique in the economy because it both cannot be manufactured and cannot be moved. Each piece of land is therefore unique and no one can increase supply in response to demand. Renting or purchasing land is essentially an auction and the price is set by the highest bidder. Economists call this a "monopoly price" because it's the same effect you would get if someone has a monopoly and can raise prices at will. This is in contrast to competitive prices which sink lower and lower until they bump up against the actual cost of getting the work done to provide that product or service.

Land value is therefore a really weird part of the economy that allows people to charge money without doing any work or providing any value in return. If we confiscate all the money people charge to rent or buy land, nothing changes because no work was ever happening. The land is still there and still just as useful. Contrast that with anything where work is actually done - the industry would collapse if you confiscate the money. Taxing land value therefore allows the government to reclaim the money which those people should not be able to charge in the first place (if there was free market competition). When this happens, counter-intuitively, land prices do not rise (because the highest bid in the auction doesn't change) and there is no negative affect on production or jobs (because no one is employed to manufacture or maintain land). We know this because economic theory predicts it and various countries have already tried it. Instead, other taxes can be cut or eliminated due to the enourmous boost in government income, which has very positive effects on the rest of the economy. Understanding how this works is deeply counter-intuitive and so people usually think that a shortage of buildings is driving property/land values because it's easy to make sense of.

To directly answer your question: if you tax the land value as set by the current market, you don't have to worry about assessing other factors that SHOULD lead to higher taxes because the people trying to buy the land have already done that. That's why they are offering a higher price. It's simple and therefore cheap and easy to administer. Also essentially immune to tax dodging because you can't hide the asset.
People never learn. If your app is dependant on another system you are in their hands. The only real solution is not to be dependant like that.

Or at least always be prepared to get the rug pulled. I also have a hard time to understand why anyone would use their free time and energy to help a billion dollar company to get richer for no reward.
More like 20-22 days or so if you are working 5 days a week, have around 25 days off + all the public holidays, which are about 4 weeks.

2 weeks every 6 months doesn't sound extraordinary to me. These are not vacation, these are regular work days. For an engineer I would imagine that would be what we call hackathons.
It might at some level, but taxing all assets would disincentivize the creation of new assets. For most assets we probably don't want that - we probably want more home construction for instance.

Taxing land only disincentivizes land from being hoarded and being used inefficiently. It's not going to prevent the creation of new land.

Theres also the issue of fairness. Land owners didn't create the land or make it valuable. They just use it to extract rents. Asset creators did make their assets valuable and if they do rent them the value of the rents will be in proportion to the value of the work they put into them.
healthcare is better, pension i take care of myself.

Zero leeching, smaller country yes, but why does that matter?

But you are so indoctrinated of "Germany is the best" that you will only wake up when your Pension ponzi scheme in germany explodes. Already now 100% of the federal income taxes are needed to support this ponzi scheme. Just think about it Germany could remove all federal income tax if they just did not have the ponzi pension scheme.
What makes you think these are "solid meetings"?