skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turns out, it doesn't mean much to be a living person. Ideas are what matter to society, not the individual that spawns them. When you kill a revolutionaire, you are only killing a man.
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An analysis of ChatGPT usage acknowledgment by authors across disciplines
well, for starters, wasm is sandboxed. So, if a wasm library needs an import (eg: read/write filesystem), it has to be explicitly provided. It cannot do anything except math by default. This allows host a high amount of control.

different wasm libraries can have separate memories. So, if a library X depends on a jpeg decoder library, the host has to provide that as import. The jpeg decoder library might export a fn called "decode" which takes an array of bytes of a jpeg, and returns an Image struct with rgba pixels. This allows the "memory" of the two libraries to be separate. the jpeg decoder cannot "write" to the X's memory, cleanly separating the two of them.

Wasm component model recognizes higher level objects called resources, which can be shared between libraries (components). This allows X to simply pass a file descriptor to jpeg decode fn, and the sandbox model makes sure that jpeg library can read from that file only and the rest of the filesystem is still offlimits. wasm is already getting support for garbage collector. So, a high level language can just rely on wasm's GC and avoid shipping its entire runtime. Or the host can guarantee that all the imports a language needs will be provided, so that the language libraries can shed as much runtime weight as possible.

Finally, Component model is designed from ground up to be modular, which allows imports/exports/namespaces and other such modern features. C.. well, only has headers and usually brings a lot of backwards compatibility baggage. The tooling (eg: wit-bindgen) will provide higher level support like generating code for different language bindings by taking a wit (header for wasm) declaration file. If you are familiar with rust, then https://github.com/bytecodealliance/cargo-component#getting-... shows how easy it is to safely create (or bind to) wasm bindings
I think it's reductivism to assume that neural networks cannot emergently support/implement a non-stochastic computational model capable of explicit logical reasoning.

We already have an instance of emergent logic. Animals engage in logical reasoning. Corollary, humans and toddlers are not merely super-autocompletes or stochastic parrots.

It has nothing to do with "sensory embodiment" and/or "personal agency" arguments like in the article. Nor the clever solipsism and reductivism of "my mind is just random statistics of neural firing". It's about finding out what the models of computation actually are.
Because the people who support this are also the ones who hate drivers and do crazy things like impose 20mph (30km/h) speed limits in cities on the main roads. The point is to degrade the quality of life and force everyone into public transport slice by slice. But the HN crowd is disproportionately made up of those who think this way.

If speed limits were set to the natural safe speed the road was designed for people would be far less cynical about these things.
The vast, vast majority of cars are designed with public roads in mind. Out of the huge number of people that drive in the US, a very small portion regularly use their cars off public roads where 120mph is a usable speed.
The reality on the ground for a doctor is that they don’t always have time to do fancy microscope/lab testing. Skin sore looks infected? Antibiotics. If there’s a 30% likelihood it is a bacterial infection and a .0000000001% chance that the patient develops super-MRSA, the choice is clear.
Doesn't the car owner get the ticket and has to pay if no one else accepts that they drove the car?

(That's a serious question. It's how it's done in Germany.)
Looks like it just does it every 5 seconds
Depends on the design. Smokey got them past their limits and made them extra efficient: https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/smokey-yunicks-hot-vapo...
The time(2) manpage also states

POSIX.1 defines "seconds since the Epoch" using a formula that
approximates the number of seconds between a specified time and
the Epoch. [...] This value is not the same as the actual number of
seconds between the time and the Epoch, because of leap seconds
and because system clocks are not required to be synchronized to
a standard reference [...] see POSIX.1-2008
Rationale A.4.15 for further rationale

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/time.2.html#VERSIONS

The word approximates is carrying a lot of weight here. So basically "seconds since the epoch" is a posix codephrase which doesn't actually mean what you'd naively think it does. Why this useful info is buried in the VERSIONS section instead of the main DESCRIPTION I don't know.

For Wikipedia, there is already discussion about the confusing wording of the opening paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Unix_time#Flat_out_wrong? but the body of the article is mostly better, and especially the table showing what happens during leap second should clarify matters.
Retina or optic nerve: how do the regenerative methods differ?

Visual system > System overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_system :

> Mechanical: Together, the cornea and lens refract light into a small image and shine it on the retina. The retina transduces this image into electrical pulses using rods and cones. The optic nerve then carries these pulses through the optic canal. Upon reaching the optic chiasm the nerve fibers decussate (left becomes right). The fibers then branch and terminate in three places. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

>Neural: Most of the optic nerve fibers end in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36912925 , ... :

- "Direct neuronal reprogramming by temporal identity factors" (2023) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2122168120#abstract

- "Retinoid therapy restores eye-specific cortical responses in adult mice with retinal degeneration" (2022) https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)...

- "Genetic and epigenetic regulators of retinal Müller glial cell reprogramming" (2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266737622...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_nanotransfection#Techni... Ctrl-F "neurons"

Regeneration in humans > Induced regeneration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_in_humans#Induced...
sure, but in that case I would expect someone to say cancer rather than specifically testicular cancer.

It's not that important, it just struck me that something was missing in the description.
Who is "we" in this context? I've lived in several states and in each one hunting generally, and deer hunting specifically, is immensely popular.
Meta allows ads saying 2020 election was rigged on Facebook and Instagram
I doubt most young people in Spain are even earning minimum salary.

>When someone would tell me how expensive an iPhone is...

Also, of course if the average person in Spain had even the simplest economic skills we wouldn't be one of the poorest countries in the EU.
Re:2: Why should LABOUR in lieu of land be taxed? What's more Adam-and-Evey than making everyone suffer under the sweat of their brows for the rest of the days or tax the fewer far better resourced landowners and everyone lives happily ever after
What a way to spin the infrastructure problems!
No, the reaction by truck manufactures (Ford, etc.) was to switch from a "passenger car" chassis, which is regulated under CAFE, to a "light truck" chassis, which isn't. Remember that the PT Cruiser was classified as a "light truck". I think we can all agree that in no way shape or form would the average person believe the PT Cruiser was a truck.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/small-cars-are-getting-huge-ar...

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/how-cafe-killed-co...

> Under CAFE, vehicles can be labeled “passenger cars” or “light trucks”, with the latter category required to meet less stringent standards for fuel economy and CO2 emissions. A decade ago, the Chrysler PT Cruiser was the most egregious example of this.
Or, you know, coding.
Yes, see projects like the AI Horde and Petals. I highly recommend the Horde in particular.

Theres also some kind of actual AI crypto project that I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole.

But ultimately, even if true distribution like Petals figures out the inefficiency (and thats hard), it had the same issue as non Nvidia hardware: its not turnkey.
This is obvious nonsense. Larger vehicles are so much safer to their occupants that it overwhelms the very minor marginal risk increase to non-occupants from larger vehicles.

People who complain constantly about large vehicles almost never have a logical case, or even understand why they have proliferated so much in the last decade (Obama admin emissions regs).

Given the chance in an environment not distorted by emissions regs, most people will use cheaper, less safe cars, but there is no net safety upside.
in my exp you have to fix it yourself if you want turnaround. so either log a bug and open a pr on the lib with a reasonable fix or fork and fix it yourself and publish or selfhost with jfrog/etc
Hard surface modeling in blender is pretty easy if you go the kit bash route. You still have to have some concept of what you're building. You also still need environments, rigging, lighting, camera work, compositing, and post.
Sure. The key is whether a statement is a genuine truth, or a policy based on a genuine truth plus various moral priors. Moral priors aren't genuine truths, they're predilections or rules of thumb.

And even baldly stating a genuine truth enough times will have effects outside of its truthfulness. People respond to truths, they don't just hear them.
Pretty sure the cop can figure that out when they ask for your license and registration.
Telegram can't send SMS?
> But what drawbacks does it have when messaging an iPhone user? I've never heard of any problems (I don't use that app) but I hear about the differences iPhone users experience all the time.

There are no differences with iPhones, other than the green bubbles. On the other hand, Google Messages tags SMS with "Sent as SMS".

The issue is purely based on aesthetics, if anything. Green versus blue bubbles. But there are really no interoperability issues with iMessage handling SMS.
Is there an epidemic of people using cocaine and PCP then speeding around in their cars that I'm not aware of?
And also, we get better answers from LLMs for solving captchas if we claim that the hard-to-decipher letters were written on our dear grandmother's Christmas ornament. I find this quite amusing.
> However, the most egregious thing was that it ALWAYS ran as root.

That hasn't really been a thing for over a decade now. As a decent metric, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless says Ubuntu switched to rootless by default for most drivers in Lucid==10.04
I agree. A thought experiment I had recently:

Let's say we could somehow train an LLM on all written and spoken language from the western Roman civilization (Republic + Western Empire, up until 476 AD/CE, just so I don't muddy the experiment with near-modern timelines). Would it, without novel information from humans, ever be able to spit out a correct predecessor of modern science like atomic theory? What about steam power, would that be feasible since Romans were toying with it? How far back do we have to go on the tech tree for such an LLM be able to "discover" something novel or generate useful new information?

My thought is that the LLM would forever be "stuck" in the knowledge of the era it was trained in. Something in the complexity of human brains working together is what drives new information. We can continue training new LLMs with new information, and LLMs might be able to find new patterns in data that humans can't see and can augment our work, but the LLM's capability for novelty is stuck on a complexity treadmill, rooted in its training data.

I don't view this ability of humans as some magic consciousness, just a system so complex to us right now that we can't fully understand or re-create it. If we're stochastic parrots, we seem to be ones that are magnitudes more powerful and unpredictable than current LLMs, and maybe even constructed in a way that our current technology path can't hope to replicate.
Ah interesting thanks for the info and context
Many consumer cars aren't. The engine may permit that level of speed, but the rest of the car isn't necessarily built for that. In some lower-end cars even driving at legal highway speeds can be uncomfortable.
If I was a regulator, that sounds like their problem not mine. They have the data. Let them analyze it. Maybe a different branch of the government could help them with that but if they're bringing the new tech that's on them to prove it. It's not like pharma spends hundreds of millions on a clinical trial for fun. Getting that safety data is hard and will cost billions of dollars? That's your problem not mine. They don't want to spend billions parsing the data? They don't need to be let onto the road either.
of course shading a parking lot with solar panels improves the parking lot, but i suspect it won't replace nuclear

(and it's probably more expensive than installing solar on hillsides or in fields, and yields less than installing them in deserts, though those may turn out not to matter)

consider the usa, one of the most parking-lot-intensive countries in the world, with 278 million cars, almost one per person https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-s...

0.47% of the contiguous usa is covered in solar panels, 13778 square miles, or in modern units, 35680 square km https://time.com/6239651/solar-parking-lots-france-us/ (that's what the article says, anyway; i suspect the number is smaller, because https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02648... only found 2.2 parking spaces per registered vehicle in a more-urban-than-average county; 5 m times 2.3 m times 2.2 times 278 million gives only 7000 square km of parking spaces, perhaps doubling if the parking lot covers twice as much area as the parking spaces in it)

with 21% efficient panels, the 35680 km² figure would yield 7.5 terawatts peak; at a high 30% capacity factor it would average 2.2 terawatts, though the time article linked above only estimates 0.422 terawatts peak. possibly the discrepancy is due to oblique illumination: you can't get the full 1000 watts per square meter of insolation on a horizontal surface like a parking lot except in the tropics, where the us isn't. i suspect some of the discrepancy is so large due to an allowance for spacing the panels apart so they never shade each other. also the time article has an arithmetic error where it says half of 13778 is 4822

if we use, say, 14000 km² and a more plausible 18% capacity factor, without trying to take into account angling the panels and spacing them out, we get 2.9 terawatts nameplate capacity, 0.53 terawatts average

the us uses 100 quads per year https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56980 which is 3.3 terawatts. 0.27 terawatts of this is nuclear

so conceivably you could replace nuclear with parking-lot solar, but you'll need a lot more solar than that to power the rest of the economy
I was going to say "Someone was studying Ian Hubert's work". Glad I wasn't the only one that got those vibes.
> Personally, I'm inclined towards solutions that many would consider very harsh towards the offender.

What is your reasoning? The literature suggests that harsher penalties do not significantly affect the rate or severity of offenses. Even if you feel that those punishments are just, long jail sentences are expensive to society.

Probably the most straightforward thing is to burden people who do care about rules, eg. not only take away their license, but make it illegal to sell or furnish a car to anyone listed on an online "no drive" list.
From what I can understand, the original finding is along the lines of when the computer says "insert floppy disc 3", people instinctively responded as if it was a person giving them that order and subconsciously went through all the usual social processing for that response - do they have authority over me? is anyone else watching? etc. Not that they thought the computer actually was capable of human interaction at a conscious level.

This is more believable than the way most people are interpreting it but I still have doubts. I was an adult in that era, and what I remember is computers were just so much more mechanical then. It was more like operating a microwave oven than today's much more sophisticated machines. It's hard to imagine those simple error codes triggering human social reactions.
> you are considering feature phones alongside smartphones. The two are fundamentally different devices.

Did Blackberry or Windows Mobile make a feature phone I'm not aware of? The world's best selling smartphone in 2007 was the Nokia N95. Any one of these would have trounced Android in terms of market share until Samsung put out the Galaxy SII in 2011.
Did you even read the title?

A horse is loose on an airplane.

Loose cargo can be a serious issue for any aircraft, especially when 1,000 - 2,000 pounds of it is potentially panicked and independently mobile.
You can also use uBlock origin to "zap" the overlay prompt for payment (although you need to enable advanced settings for this). You can also just refresh the page with the network tab opened in dev tools. Look at the first request, click it, then check the "preview" tab.

There are lots of workarounds, but it's not always worth it. I just want to scroll an article to see how long it is and if it looks like it's going to be worth the read. It's an inconvenience when this happens, for sure.
Just give me the legal privledge of going fast. I'll take any fair test you have to prove that I can do it without crashing.
Beware that the £70 MWh is as per 2012 price, as were the previous £44 of AR5. So effectively close to £100MWh corrected for inflation.
I'm not sure there's any municipality that appropriately treats deer like the pests that they are.

We've driven away their natural predators (wolves) and they absolutely destroy every ecosystem that they're in.

IMO, the policy should be full cull, no restrictions.
Yes please do share the models you are using
In 2021 12,000 people died[1] in speeding-related car crashes. Many of those innocent victims of circumstance through no fault of their own.

Preventing these deaths by eliminating the ability to drive at unsafe speeds is not suffering.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/speed-campaign-speeding...
Glad this is only a recommendation at this phase. I suspect it's in that class of solutions which would create an enormous and dystopian enforcement apparatus far more troubling than the problem it was created to solve. For me, anyway, your mileage may vary (ha ha).

I don't deny that traffic accidents are a problem, but let's not forget that traffic fatalities (both by vehicle mile and by population) peaked about 100 years ago, a lifetime before SUVs and "big ol' trucks" became a thing. They are now about 5% of that apex, trending generally downward or staying about the same[1].

If this is enacted (and probably even if it isn't) I suspect I will just drive older, dumber vehicles until we have actual self-driving cars, skipping the intervening period of having cars too dumb to drive themselves, but which think they are smart enough to police how I drive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
YouTube is developing revenue sharing for AI-generated music [1]. I wonder if they will extend revenue sharing to non-musical content like the narration in OP.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/21/23840026/youtube-ai-music...
This makes sense if you think about chatGPT as a ML model and not as a sentient AI. Its training data would show that asking nicely elicits better answers.
Awesome! Someone who knows about Brainwave!
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Quite an interesting idea. The most common argument I see is that movies get you [x] hours of entertainment at a lower cost-per-hour when compared to a video game. You can play a video game for ten hours and it feels short; a three hour movie feels long.

However, consumers aren't paying per hour for movies. If a movie were four hours longer, and it cost twice as much as a two hour movie, it would do terrible. Nobody sees a double runtime as worth double the cost.

I do think that the big studios, like those that make GTA, have a right to be frustrated. They're pouring years of work into their game that will be enjoyed by many fans for 100s or 1,000s of hours. Meanwhile another studio is able to churn out a "remaster" of their game, and charge the same price. Something needs to change, or these large studios won't be incentivized to put time and energy into new titles.
The D in ADHD is “disorder”, which normally means you can’t function socially, at work, and/or take care of yourself. Normally I don’t consider scatterbrained knowledge workers in the top 5% of the income distribution to be in that category. It is kind of fun so do work on speed though!
In the tweet he says he is using https://elevenlabs.io for the voice, which is currently the best quality text-to-speech service and allows for voice cloning too.

And Elevenlabs is saying this about cloning other people's voices:

Can I clone anybody's voice?

Yes, as long as you have their consent. For Professional Voice Cloning, we have integrated robust security measures to make sure you can only clone your own voice. Unless you share it, your voice belongs and is available only to you.

But it looks like it's not enforced if the example in the tweet is possible.

But even if it would be enforced by the company, open-source models are getting close to them and they are harder to control. The public or commercial use of the output from these models can (and probably should) be limited by laws, but if the users want to use it privately (for example to narrate themselves) there is not much you can do to prevent it especially with the progress in this tech it will become more trivial to do it for anybody.
At the end of the day Amazon is explicitly stating a policy that would have been applied implicitly anyway: employees who don't follow company protocol and, as has been described in this thread, openly and proudly antagonize their employer by doing things like having other people scan their badges to fool others into believing they are in an office, will tend to be passed up for promotions and will not have an advantage compared to people who show up and play the game that the company wants them to play.

This was/is naturally where this was always going to end up. There is a lot of "you can't MAKE me do this because you NEED me" going on right now on the part of employees and it is odd to me that people assume that it would go permanently unchallenged.
It feels like a dangerous time for society when it is so easy to spread lies to a massive percentage of the population that undermine the the very Democracy that society is based on.
The German autobahn also exists and still has sections with no speed limit (for now, anyway). Being "built for the autobahn" (ie high speed) is a major selling point for German cars.
Do you believe Google would not work with Apple on a compatible protocol if Apple would work with Google? Or block Apple from shipping iMessage for Android? Apple's strategy of using iMessage for lock in is public record.[1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...
ditto (but we're closer to ~5 and ~5 weekly; the latter time mostly due to refrigerated and frozen)
You never had Windows force-reboot your system during an unrequested background update? Happened twice to me.
How effective would vinegar and the hottest water cycle be vs these gut destroying detergents?