skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "deterministic" is the more correct option.

Yes, of course deep down there's unimaginable numbers of atoms randomly bumping around. But so far everything suggests that biological organisms do their damnedest to abstract that away and operate on a deterministic basis.

Think like how you keep changing -- gaining and losing cells, changing chemical balance, and on the whole it takes a lot of damage, even brain damage, to produce measurable results.
ChatGPT plus accounts selling on eBay for a premium
You can't judge course content by their titles. BUT if your kid can get into MIT, they really should go to MIT, not UMass, not Boston Community College, ... Also, MIT isn't Harvard, it is very utilitarian, and ya, some buildings are designed by famous architects, but it isn't a luxurious campus by any means. Like Caltech, it is a complete meritocracy.

CCs serve a role for many people, but if you are (smart, work hard, lucky) you can skip them.

> Personally, I think the right point to aim for is the UMass system. Education is better than MIT, in terms of teaching quality, and the course selection is adequate

I don't know many people who would claim that with a straight face. But it is your right to have that opinion.
After the war he lived four years in the same small village as my grandmom, breeding chicken and working in the woods until he saved enough money for his escape to Argentina. He supposedly even sold his eggs to the Jewish survivor community of the closeby concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

https://www-weser--kurier-de.translate.goog/niedersachsen/ei...
Good toddler
You've swung completely the other way when what I'm saying is the middle.

1. Teenagers aren't choosing their phone because it what their parents use.

2. Teenagers aren't choosing their phone because they want to rebel.

3. Teenagers are choosing their phone independently of their parent's choices because that's the phase of life they're in -- the one where they develop independence.
Meanwhile they're all committing code to github and pulling packages from npmjs.
Show HN: RemoteMarketerJobs – reverse job board for remote marketers
I forked railsdevs.com to build a reverse job board for remote digital marketers (the niche I work in).

Not super original, but after 3 weeks of hard work we have 100+ marketers and 3 businesses signed up!

How would you grow this site?
When I was in interrogation school in the US Army, we were told we were only allowed to interrogate non-US citizens off US soil. However, even if a US citizen told us they were a US citizen off US soil, we were allowed to say they "were lying" (and any documents are counterfeit) and interrogate them anyway.
> I firmly believe that LLMs are stochastic parrots and also that humans are too. To the point where I actually think even consciousness itself is a next-token predictor.

I agree with the first sentence but not with the second one. Consciousness most probably does not arise from just a next-token predictor. At least not from an architecture similar to current LLMs.

Both humans and LLMs basically learn to predict what happens next.
However, LLMs only predict when we ask them. In contrast, humans predict something all the time. Even when we don't have any sensory input, our brain plays scenarios. Maybe consciousness arises because the result of our thinking is fed back as input. In that sense, we simulate a world that includes us acting and communicating in that world.

Also noteworthy, the human brain handles a variety of sensory information and it's output is not only language. LLMs are restricted to only language. But to me it seems like it's enough for consciousness if we can give it the self-referential property.
*brandishes crutches*

"Behold! The Mechanical Leg! The first technology that actually copies aspects of our very selves! Think of what wonders of self-discovery it shall reveal!" :p

P.S.: "My god, it is stronger in compression rather than shear-stresses, how eerily similar to real legs! We're on to something here!"
Well with psychology it’s more fair. Thanks to the replication crisis we can say with a straight face that psychologists aren’t even experts on psychology. As usual the demonstrable expertise in the field lies with the pragmatic types. For psychology that means salesmen, pickup artists, advertisers, conmen, propagandists, high school queen bees, and so on.
I hear this a lot, but is it really a mystery/incompatible with materialism? Is there a reason consciousness couldn't be what it feels like to be a certain type of computation? I don't see why we would need something immaterial or some undiscovered material component to explain it.
There is nothing an LLM could say that would demonstrate thought to me. Not even close... At least with anything I can think of.

Even if you gave an super-LLM agency and a body, and it moved out to a little shack on a lake, got married, raised children, and started publishing sublime philosophy and fiction, I still wouldn't be convinced.

There's just too much human data available. Anything could be probabilistic word selection... Maybe the distinction is not really important anyway.
Indeed our consciousness is an emergent property from a complex system, however the complexity of that system - the human brain - is almost unfathomably beyond the complexity of anything we might make in silicon now or in the foreseeable future.

For example, it is possible to write down a (natural/whole) number that completely describes the state of an LLM - its connections and weights etc - for example by simply taking the memory space and converting into a number as a very long sequence of 1s and 0s. The number will be very big, but still indescribably smaller than a number that could perfectly describe the state of a human brain - not least as that number is likely to lie on the real line, or beyond, even if it was calculable. See Cantor for a discussion on the various infinities and their respective cardinalities.
Neither Uber nor Lyft is "a bunch of sensors stuffed into a single car", to quote the comment I was replying to. But even counting them, public transit seems to be doing fine in Europe, Asia, and NYC despite the existence of ride-share services. Ride sharing services don't impose additional right of way constraints either because they're just private vehicles.

I guess I just don't understand why you'd say they prevent cities from improving public transit.
I doubt any medical doctor has claimed that.

Heck, I doubt any have even said that an injection of saline solution is as safe as normal water consumption.
Constructive dismissal is a thing, sure.

But this massively glosses over the fact that the employer has vastly more leverage in this sort of thing.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend on groceries?
The classic Pomodoro is said to be 25minn + 5 mins break, which adds up to half an hour, which is a common measurement unit for time worked. I've discovered that for my needs, a 20 min pomodoro with 5 mins rest works better.

The problem is that Pomodoros are hard to count if you hit flow state and find it hard to stop when the timer rings.
Ian Hubert vibes
Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Apple II
More specifically, I think we're worried about AI taking our incomes, not our jobs. I would love it if an AI could do my entire job for me, and I just sat there collecting the income while the AI did all the "job" part, but we know from history (robotics) that this is not what happens. The owners of the robots (soon, AI) keep all the income and the job goes away.

An enlightened Humanity could solve this by separating the income from the job, but we live in a Malthusian Darwinian world where growth is paramount, "enough" does not exist, and we all have to justify and earn our living.
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> Very few people have the resources to successfully sue their employer.

In general, sure (although in most US states you can get lots of assistance), but in the HN crowd? I expect that the majority of people here make good money and can afford to do this.

> do you want your name to show up on every Google search as "the guy who sued his last employer" when you're job hunting?

Why not? Most employers aren't going to be searching for such lawsuits in the first place, and it's not likely to hurt you with the ones that do (unless they're shady, in which case -- bullet dodged).

> There is a lot of social pressure for people

Absolutely true, but it's still a choice the employee is making.

My point is that a contract does have value beyond the paper its printed on, but the enforcement of it is up to the parties who signed the contract. Choosing not to enforce a contract you're a part of doesn't mean the value isn't there, it means you're opting not to make use of that value.
I'm still so bitter about this nonsense https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-a...

> Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID

ok, geez, thanks
sigh, the book wasn't blaming sugar.
They likely created a large portion of these assets themselves. There might be some kitbashing but the amount of detail here is certainly doable for a motivated 16 yr old.

Theres a lot of creative ways to add details using scans, texture projection and scattering.
> It's pretty well understood language is defined by its use, prescriptivism is a fantasy,

But that's the heart of the conflict. Some people are prescribing language, and other people are unhappy about having language prescribed to them.
Public transit in almost every US city is terrible. It isn't hard to see why someone with means would rather call an Uber than wait 15 minutes for the next bus to show up. Public transit can certainly be improved while Uber exists, just look towards many major international cities for examples.
> yet we tend to only hear about how humans need to cut back

There's also financial reasons to do so, with livestock the financial reasons are likely reversed.

Beside that, anti-biotics also have side effects that can make you more sick, their use is not just unnecessary but counter productive. Some of the side effects can be serious and long term, like changing your gut bacteria.
So How Long Until My Business Just Dies? (Also, the Unity Debacle)
And a good reason to be pick about bots is in the endgame the limit is ones hardware, and bots are really computationally demanding compared to other transportation
It makes perfect sense if you can disprove your own existence
Are there situations where you'd want to use something like this over a more modern algorithm like ByteTrack or DeepSORT?
Previously Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Commodore Plus/4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269173
Amazon has always struck me as a pretty aggressive employer. I wonder if it'll ever come back to bit them in the ass.

One free coffee a day is asinine. MS gives you all the free soda and coffee you could want, and their food courts are great. I assume this is true of Google as well. How the hell does Amazon keep finding employees?
This is just another power grab. A "solution" to a problem that doesn't exist. Another waste of taxpayer dollars. SMDH
That "some" RLHF is part of what made such a big difference.
Almost certainly. As a longtime member of Ian's Patreon, I recognize more than a few specific techniques being used here that he's posted tutorials for on it. Not that the inspiration takes away at all from the final product! The fact that a 16yo made this would be insanely cool even if it was a shot-for-shot remake of an existing movie scene, so any originality that it has beyond that only makes it more cool!
at the risk of appearing pedantic: whereas a large chunk of X11 is dedicated to draw commands (circle here, line here, pixel here): wayland doesn't have any

instead it's all shared memory buffers
My kids both picked it up, but my younger was similar. Being able to sign "please" and "all done" helps anyway because "eeess" and "a ya" are what she actually says.
I don't agree with the whole skimping-on-small-things thing, but I work at home and don't eat out that much. The "how" seems pretty straightforward: either buy groceries at a grocery store or have them delivered. I have a fresh vegetable box delivered every week. "Getting out" and "winding down" don't require eating out.
Mass adoption doesn't happen overnight though. Things need to be proven to some degree to make big bets on them... especially in aerospace. Making generators and UAVs is a great way to do this; If a generator fails and it's 75% lighter than what it replaced, then just have two of them around... and now you have learned something for relatively cheap.
Spontaneous Synchronization (2013) [video]
Inspired by this post I threw together a new open source desktop app that has an annoying always on top window that has a flashing timer, this seems to accomplish the same thing. https://github.com/timsayshey/cringe-clock
If anything, vaccine is a misnomer for the Covid shots. Maybe prophylactic is more accurate?
I think this is a problem with any highly specialized or technical topic. I vaguely recollected what wayland was, but I didn't know why I would care about it and ended up doing similar googling before realizing this news will not matter to me outside of a general technical curiosity.

I encounter the same thing when dealing with code reviews as well - people love to document the WHAT or HOW of things, but rarely if ever consider talking about WHY it matters, or WHO it matters too.

To borrow from a favourite corpo speak: answer the "so what" for the reader to make something actually useful to more people.
I was wondering why my burst of middle-clicking links into tabs didn't actually open those pages.

<a
href="#"
onclick="goToExample('examples&#x2F;hello-world', 'hello-world', 'assemblyscript', 'en-us')"
>Hello World!</a
>
Just observing
> FWIW, I tried this with both my sons. They both started using the gestures the same day they started actually talking :-/

Could still useful: instead of shouting across the playground on whether they have to go potty you can simply make the gesture with minimal embarrassment. :)
At some point, they will get some basic rights, considering animal abuse is a crime, but also that we will anthropomorphize LLMs more.

Current tech is not there yet, but we should not wait to discuss either
Parent's late response to good sibling comments that no one will read:

Many people here seem to think that because one is good at programming they are necessarily bad at everything else like visual art, music, and story-telling. However I think many of such programmers would actually be in a great position to pick up one or even two such side competencies and do amazing things. Many of the old good games probably had programmers doing things outside their core competency.
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Especially with the recent advent of AI, I think programmers should no longer think of themselves as narrow specialists but something like directors or conductors.
>I'd like to live to see a future where people build appliances like this for various purposes, not just this specific NVMe one. For example, a nice thing to have would be an appliance whose only job is to make all local displays available via Miracast. I hope this repository is inspiration enough for an interested soul, to get this off the ground.

Very nice idea.
let's say you wanted to count the number of coins on a table

you organize them into piles of ten

this created new information
Be fair: the mile is either base 8 (furlongs) or base 1000 (paces). 5280 is an arbitrary complication.
His, he's a male
I suspect the juniors are taking the meetings too seriously, and getting stressed during the meeting to the point that it's difficult to transition away after.

I've had this problem too. But now that I have more meetings, it's become much easier to transition back to focused work. It's only the occasional more-stressful-than-usual meeting that eats up my attention for hours afterwards.

I don't know what the solution is for most people. I guess this is why some people who transition manager --> IC can be so effective.
The same kind as you would of the contents of his data in the cloud; data is data.
No it does not. Read the secion "Data sources", they list all the usual regional providers.
It's funny because I could see those going either way for ADHD individuals

either nightmare scenarios or dream scenarios

i've actually done some small amount of event planning, an annual event for about 125 people. (i realize that's tiny, obviously people are out there planning events for 100,000 people)

yeah, you're constantly switching your focus back and forth between the 20 things that need to get nailed down in the next 3 months for an upcoming event. and a professional event planner is probably juggling ten small events or several larger ones. it's a juggling act but it's kind of fun. also you have executive freedom to an extent.

engineering is kind of fucked because you are expected to do deep deep deep deep deep big-brain thinking for 2000 hours a year, and yet you are still often bombarded with distractions on a minute to minute basis. absolute MISMATCH.

event planning is chaotic by nature, and hard, and requires context switching, but generally no individual element requires hours of meditative thought and iteration while 3 different managers ping you on fucking Slack and you're also supposed to "keep an eye on production" and also mentor five kids who just graduated from a 6-week code camp like engineering does.

a lot of entrepreneurs are ADHD as hell. the context switching suits them, especially when they are calling the shots.
I get what you are saying. I was just thinking about the stochastic parrot analogy for consciousness, but I see your comment is more about there not being special sauce to conciousness. But hey, the fact that such behaviour can emerge from simple processes is still pretty damn cool.
Shouldn't be illegal, but I could understand it if we see laws that require explicit disclosure when voices of living people are simulated. At first glance that seems like the right compromise.
You can buy the Ampere chips:
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Other winners are here:
https://younganimator.uk/winners
Supermassive black hole in the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic speed limit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoe_(tool)
It's already obvious, the article is literally about that.
Very cool project! I've been getting more and more interested in "bare metal" projects, and one day am just going to dive right in.

There's something weirdly unsatisfying about building a Raspberry Pi appliance that boots to Linux just to do a Thing, when it could just boot to the Thing.
I don't know what it's like in India, but here in the US I've never been asked a leetcode question a single time in any interview over 10+ years of web dev experience.

Maybe it's just the role (web) or the industry (small/med businesses and nonprofits) or the specialization (frontend), but it's been possible for me to get employment without ever touching leetcode.

I've worked with several Indian colleagues too, and as far a I know they didn't have to grind either. It's for an American company though.

Can you consider other types of businesses like that in India? Or does everyone, even the non tech businesses, do this?
One of my favorite experiences from my daughter’s earliest years was the realization that she was able to think about, describe, and deliberately do things much earlier than I realized. More plainly: once I recognized she was doing something deliberately, I often went back and realized she had been doing that same thing for days or weeks prior. We encountered this a lot with words but also physical abilities, like figuring out how to make her BabyBjorn bouncer move. We had a policy of talking to her like she understood on the off-chance that she could and just couldn’t communicate it. She just turned 5 and continues to surprise us with the complexity of her inner world.
Really sweet story.
> it's not hard to scrounge up a bus ticket to SC

From NYC, you don’t need to pay for a ticket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_homeless_relocation_pr...:

“For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending homeless individuals tickets to the nearest large city. More recently, a nationwide investigation by The Guardian in 2017 found that many homeless relocation programs are offered by cities with high median incomes, helping people move to places with cheaper housing and a lower cost of living, but also fewer economic opportunities. While some individuals welcome assistance to help them relocate, others say that they have felt "targeted" and forced to move, under the threat of arrest by police.”

That Guardian article says (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...):

“New York appears to have been the first major city to begin a relocation program for homeless people, back in 1987. After the current iteration of the program was relaunched during the tenure of mayor Michael Bloomberg, it ballooned, and its relocation scheme is now far larger than any other in the nation. The city homelessness department budgets $500,000 for it annually.

Almost half the approximately 34,000 journeys analyzed by the Guardian originate from New York. In contrast with other relocation initiatives, New York is notable for moving large numbers of families, like the Ortizes.”
Reeks of the "don't break the chain" cultism that originates from an urban myth of about how Jerry Seinfeld practiced wiriting jokes.
> Yet many startups and existing designers anticipated this demand correctly, years in advance, and they are all still kinda struggling.

As I already hinted in my post: I see a huge problem in the fact that in my opinion it still is not completely clear to this day which capabilities an AI accelerator really needs - too much is in my opinion still in a state of flux.
Well the undiscovered part is why it should feel like anything at all. And this is definitely relevant because consciousness clearly exists enough that we exert physical force about it, so its gotta be somewhere in physics. But where?
Starship Launch Approved
FAA has
concluded that the modification of an existing vehicle operator license for Starship/Super Heavy
operations conforms to the prior environmental documentation...
brain.fm really seems to help me out, when I remember to use it!
You dodged a bullet. Was also approached seven years ago in the UK, turned them down as pay was rather low. Few months later I met someone working there and they told me it was quite unpleasant. Dodged a bullet too.
Humans are inherently bad at estimating risk when it comes to low probability events. The fact that there was an irrational response shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Maybe because demo ends with a vowel and it would be hard to come up with a smooth transition to a second word?
"came of age in a post-iPhone world"

"grew up in a post-iPhone world"

"learned to communicate in a post-iPhone world"

All of these were valid options for the author, and all of them would support the "nearly all" part of the claim, yet the author used "born".

If you don't mean shit, don't say shit.
I think the position of Gebru, et al, can best be expressed as a form of "human exceptionalism". As a teenager, my english teacher shared this writing by Faulkner, which he delivered as his Nobel Prize speech. I complained because the writing completely ignores the laws of thermodynamics about the end of the universe.

"""I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance."""