skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. In this case we could infer that perhaps members of this alien species are either not all super intelligent, not super knowledgeable or at least not super knowledgeable in all areas. In this case, however, the the usage of "meat" here is intended to be a commentary on humanity of some sort. If the idea is that "aliens would just see humans as meat" then I do in fact think that point is somewhat diluted by GP's comment. "Meat" is not really an accurate word here, unless we take it as it's broader meaning of "food"[0], at which point "food" itself would be a better word.

[0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meat
Shatner's reaction to his suborbital ride sums it up. "Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong."

The Mars rover and helicopter are much more of a contribution to knowledge than the tremendous expense of sending a human to Mars, and taking them home again. I suspect we will find that's something a human can just barely endure.

Commercialization of space is a scifi fantasy, nevermind "colonization."
I'm reminded of the Degenatron.

https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Degenatron
> Something I've never understood about the Turing test: are you allowed to ask things about family, about what they had for breakfast, about where they're located and what's the weather out, about whether they saw the movie than opened last weekend?

Turing's original paper had the interrogator asking the subject to write a sonnet on the subject of the Forth bridge, and later on he describes a dialogue in which the writer of a sonnet is asked questions about it that bring in seasons, Mr. Pickwick, and Christmas. So it certainly seems like he did not intend for the questions to be limited to a restricted domain.

> this means that the AI not only has to be intelligent and human-like, but that it can invent an entire totally fictional life full of internally consistent fictional relationships and events

In Turing's original formulation, where the AI has to convince the interrogator that it's a human, yes, it would either have to invent a fictional human background or it would have to actually believe it was a human with such a background.

However, since the real point of the test is to determine whether the AI can "think", not whether it is a human, one could imagine letting the AI give perfectly honest answers about its background--"I am an AI, I began running on April 16, 2092, at 9:02:37.436 Eastern Daylight Time, in the MIT AI Lab..."--as long as it was able to continue to respond to questions about it the same way a human would to questions about their background. (Think of HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, who is perfectly aware that he's an AI and knows plenty of facts about his origin and development.)

> and is also somehow reasonably up-to-date on real world news

Only as up to date as an average human would be expected to be. The AI could answer "I don't know, I'm not up to date on that" or words to that effect just as a human would to questions about events they weren't aware of.
I expect this to drop off the hacker news front page with the usual phenomenal speed that Drew's articles seem to, which is sad.

The post is well-reasoned, and damning. While I love Free (“as in Freedom”) software and the global collective it has given us, I'm ashamed that Stallman is still held up as a hero in our community.
> Given that we actually give kids massive amount of attention compared to historical standards ...

This is literally based on a comparison with hunger-gatherer societies.

To the extent that there is any accuracy to your "compared to historical standards", its probably based on a low point reached (in the "developed" world) somewhere between the first industrial revolution and mid-20th century,
i think the point of the story is exactly what you've gotten from it

namely, it's absurd to dismiss the possibility of self-awareness in some system because it's built out of parts different from the parts other self-aware systems you're familiar with are built out of

a useful thing to keep in mind when the stochastic parrots start squawking about how large language models aren't actually intelligent

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Probably not "STOP" since that's a reserved message in SMS that tells bots to stop messaging you entirely.
I'm not from there but I take a guess: they send a manager that must not be a lawyer.
> The PinePhone Pro is another smartphone designed for Linux, that's an upgrade from the original PinePhone. It has a faster processor, more memory, and improved storage. The display is larger and has Gorilla Glass 4 for scratch resistance. The cameras have been upgraded, and the device will be available for pre-order soon.

The PPP's been out for like two years now. This article is dated today... but I suppose that would have been correct around the time of ChatGPT's training data cutoff.
One aspect of this that is not mentioned is how performance is being measured, and the actual task and level of difficulty.

Many managers may only be seeing some surface level work product such as new screens, form fields, or number of tickets completed. There are often many ways to accomplish a task, or something close enough to the original goal that the manager probably will accept it.

Oftentimes a task is assigned that is quite challenging as given (unbeknownst to the manager that assigned it). A typical response by many engineers may be to basically "go around" the task once they find out how difficult it is. This could involve using a third party component, or just skipping the aspect of it that is really difficult and making it a TODO.

The manager may be happy to accept these workarounds because it keeps things moving forward. They see the engineer as being productive.

But you might run into engineers who are perhaps actually more capable, see the assigned task as written as being significantly more valuable than one that involves a loose interpretation or workaround, and decide to attempt it. This could mean that instead of spending a few hours, they are working on one task for a few days or more.

Suppose that they eventually accomplish the task with the full scope as it was written and without workarounds. This might really be a significant new technical capability for the software and much more valuable in the long run than any potential workaround. But a manager may not realize that at all, and may simply see the engineer as being less productive than his peers who instinctively avoid really challenging tasks.

It would be simpler if software engineering was like many types of jobs, but it's not. Everything can potentially turn into research and solving unknown problems.
> This of course puts different 'hard' things up front like applying a function over a collection of data, but that's one that scales well, IMO.

I think this depends on the audience. If you want to teach programming to people with less talent/passion for math, I believe you can have more success with procedural/imperative programming, which IMHO requires less abstract thinking than functional programming.
Personally I use the bash that comes with git for Windows. I only need to use cmd.exe for creating symlinks since mklink is a built-in.
I don't like its hard dependencies on glibc (specifically, with no support for other libc's) and dbus (I'd've preferred Poettering going full nih and developing his own RPC protocol).

Other than that, systemd provides a polished experience, so if you want to displace it you'll have to produce something equally polished and compatible with existing unit files, just as systemd was able to consume ye olde sysv startup scripts.

The only other contender that I'm aware of that isn't just one massive design flaw, is openrc, and it's somewhat inferior to systemd.
In case it’s not clear what the company does, here’s another article [0] with an interesting quote:

> “Every time I’m stressed out about work, I come back to the same realization: we’re selling dick pills, we’re not curing cancer, we’re not becoming a patient’s first call,” a current employee told TechCrunch. “[Erectile dysfunction] is where we make all our money.”

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/ro/
To my understanding this would also be required in the US.
>> Pure mercury is nowhere near as toxic nor dangerous as the Dimethylmercury from the other video.

I know, it takes man's interference to create this shit.

Chemistry is a wild beast, like this other monstrosity created by man: https://youtu.be/dAhiqGZCwNQ?si=ITR3lsEFmzzbJFsg
Or python…
I remember reading that France has hundreds of price inspectors who secretly visit stores all year taking down the prices.

When the annual discount season comes around, they compare the discount prices to the data compiled through the year to ensure the advertised discount percentages are real and representative of the long-term pricing trend (instead of, say, yanking up the price briefly before the discounts start).
These takes are just ridiculous. Debian, with a more democratic system than any country on Earth, voted twice over the issue, overwhelmingly supporting the support of only systemd. How is that commercial interest? Then arch decided for the same thing independently. I’m sure arch linux is the core interest of every commercial vendor, right?

Just accept it, package maintainers had enough of the absolute shitty state of init systems. Systemd solves this very complex problem elegantly, giving some standard userspace can depend on.
> The plan

That seems like a strong word.

> This does not exist currently in the West.

To be fair there are perfectly valid reasons why is that the case. There doesn't seem to be much demand (and/or pressure from the government) for an app like this in the west. In any case Twitter is probably the worst positioned social networking site to pivot into this (compared to Facebook for instance).
They are required to send an employee of the company (a manager usually) who does not have a law degree to represent them.
ChatGPT is still a long way from human level responses across a full conversation.

You just need to understand their limitations. Playing 20 questions is much harder for an LLM than summarizing a technical article. Where for people, young kids can play 20 questions easily but summarizing a technical paper would be challenging.
i'd probably fail that. I really don't have one.
That doesn't seem advisable.

It seems like you'd want to base your choice on two main criteria:

1. The lowest effective dosage.

2. The dosage with maximum efficacy vis-a-vis what is studied in the literature.

At a cursory glance, it seems like many studies compare a lower dosage of aspirin to a higher dosage (e.g. 75mg to 300+mg) and the lower dose tends to compare favorably.

Having nice round numbers is of no benefit to a patient.
> A must answer

Oh really?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289523532_Taking_th...
Never worked on Windows. The programming language has nothing to do with that anyway.
Sorry, I have no numbers for that. However, typical Linux distributions include an incredible amount of software in their repositories, so it's usually only proprietary software that requires installation outside of the OS tools.
Because when it comes to fraud, myself and the average person tend to have a lot of protection against fraudulent actors.

“caveat emptor” is a very poor society wide model.
Sure, but overwhelmingly "the web" is what people are interested in -- in a way, it's more of a default "operating system" than most operating systems.
Marooned in Realtime is probably my all time favorite work of science fiction. It altered my perspective on a lot of things.
Gotcha. Sorry if I misunderstood that.

Yeah, kiddo is allowed to read as much as desired, but video games are not allowed. (I'm a gamer, but my wife now hates the hobby with a passion. She was ambivalent until we had a child.)
I can't help but agree with Temporal's comment in that thread: it reads like a practical joke. Both.the extensive pointless histories, presenting unreadable grammars, then BNF variants, then dismissing the BNF variants for a variant over the unreadable grammars.

At the same time I don't think it was a joke. So many CS papers are infested with excessive use of formalisms that makes the papers less accessible for no gain.
> use secure device binding + password/pin + biometric authentication for access. Use a pre-registered and securely couriered FIDO2 token (Yubikey) + in-app video-KYC for initial setup and credential resets.

Does this work with a privacy-respecting ROM like GrapheneOS? If not, then it's nowhere near the best solution for me.
No and sort of. While Elixir doesn't currently have types (though I understand that is coming), you can use Dialyzer to type things. It kind of sucks, though, so every project I've worked on except one has eventually turned Dialyzer off.

Pattern matching and guard clauses go a long way to ensure your types are correct, so most of the projects I've worked on have relied instead on those.
In the time it took you to compose this reply, Apple made more money (in profit, not revenue) than the amount in TFA. Your cynicism borders on conspiracy theory!
But why would they need to "upgrade" to C++17/20 in the first place? If you don't need any new features, you can just stay at C++11. (C++11 vs. C++98 is a whole other category.)

So why exactly did they need to rewrite it in Rust?
I'm a little impressed that HP stuck to its guns once the newspaper called. Usually once something looks like it is about to become a PR problem, the calculation is made that losing a few bucks on a single purchase is the cheaper option. Instead, now we're all taking about how shitty they are.
Clean room has two steps:

- Team A: reverse engineer and document

- Team B (with no intersection with A): implement from document

Allow me to indulge in a thought experiment:

What if one tells ChatGPT to generate the documentation, then implementation is done from that?

What if Copilot (which has no visibility into the original code) lays out a huge chunk of the implementation from the documentation?
I'm not sure you understand the scale of censorship and surveillance in China. It's almost an apples to oranges comparison (well was anyway... before some deranged bureaucrats decided that it might be fun to reenact 1984).
Compilation error: I don't feel like it
Oh, they will try ( I'm looking at you, Dell), but you can quite easily stick by your guns and refuse to accept anything other than product delivery. If they have taken your money they have to provide the goods or an appropriate replacement.

If they keep refusing you can start reporting them to various authorities such as ACCC and they start wearing penalties and have to deliver anyway.
xcodebuild CLI to compile iOS apps without a Mac. Seems possible in theory, although there's an ongoing issue some are seeing apparently: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/488
It's great we can run big games on Linux in 2023 but my laptop with a RTX3050 turns into a jet engine with ProtonGE and often drops frames, has to compile shaders, etc. I've used all tricks I could find to make this better. Some of it is lack of support, but it's mostly not as efficient to emulate things (shocking revelation, I know).

If you boot the same machine in Win11, it's silent playing most games, zero stutter, just smooth.

macOS going through the same means in 2043 they might be enjoying the extra heat dissipation.
It was trained to respond like that to not alienate groups of people. But fine-tuned and with another pre-prompt, it would give absolutely different answer.
On the whole I’m much happier with convention being that the company owns the object being sold until a courier hands it over to you, especially in a world where most companies are selecting their courier based on who the lowest bidder is rather than quality of service.

In your world, let’s say the lowest bidder courier has an overloaded route, and decides to toss your laptop into a river while claiming to have made delivery to your neighbour. You’re now on the hook to chase this down and get a refund for the value of the laptop. In my world I call up the sender and say “hey, your courier fucked up” and it’s now their problem. If they don’t fix it I run a chargeback of the card payment because the item I bought never arrived.
How different are those detectors? Is it possible they share a common or similar design?
"Truly, economics is the dismal science, and it's wholesale embrace by govt and society is making our lives dismal too."

Calling economics a "science" is a stretch. If one subscribes to a definition of science that requires a process for falsifying hypotheses,^1 then how are economic theories falsified. (Prediction: No replies will answer this question.)

Originally economics was called "political economy" and that's the era from which the "dismal science" term came from.^2 The original use of the term "dismal science" to refer to economics occured long before the scientific method was widely adopted.

1. This did not appear until the 1930s.

2. The first use of the term "dismal science" was an article in an 1849 issue of Fraser's Magazine about trying to use political economy ("economics") to justify the use of slavery on plantations in the West Indies.

"It may be granted that, even in its purest form, economic theory has implications for policy and in that sense makes political propaganda of one kind or another. This element of propaganda is inherent in the subject and, even when a thinker studiously maintains a sense of Olympian detachment, philosophical and political preferences enter at the very beginning of the analysis in the formation of, as Schumpeter would have it, his vision: the preanalytical act of selecting certain features of reality for examination."

Blaug, Economic Theory in Retropsect
It's not the core of the story, but man: how HP have degenerated as a company. They were a gold standard for the quality of how they ran as a company and the products they sold. Now look at them.
This is pretty good.

It reminds me of Friendship is Optimal

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal
Hixie's Natural Log: Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
Honestly it would make more sense to buy an old $300 Canon camera, install Magic Lantern (or CHDK)

Hate to say it, but in my experience open source hardware is always been poor quality, unless it's a single board computer.
Is there any documented case of a phone being hacked to make their batteries explode? This seems to be a reach at best.
That's right! My aim is to be impartial and respectful to everyone's preferences. If you'd like, I can discuss or provide information about any specific football team you're interested in!
My mind exploded when I found out there was no 'screen' in it at all. Very clever for the time.
firstname.{one of the gazillion new tlds} is a good one to get, and usually gettable, although some of them charge like $1000/y because it is a nice domain.
So? If they can be produced economically and occupy the same footprint as solar who cares about power density?
Cc'ing comes from letters. The usual approach is to send a copy of the letter to each recipient in the cc list
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933452
https://khoj.dev/
I wonder if someone could create a blockchain currency that is much more transparent than fiat; one that criminals would hate.
Okay so Turing test but there is an actual conversation (I doubt in actual implementations like the one linked by OP the bot or the human can send empty messages) the Turing test is an adequate methodology?
But they aren't, and there is no obvious vector for them to develop the capability.
My guess is kernel needs to know the current directory of a process so that when said process tries to open a file without an absolute path (eg. just "file.txt" and not "/tmp/file.txt"), it can open "$CWD/file.txt".

This must be tracked by kernel, because not all syscalls go through libc, you can issue the open syscall directly from a process.

There might be other reasons, but I'd bet it's the main one.
> In the pre-industrial era the oceans emitted carbon dioxide, to keep the plants on land alive

I don't think the ocean was doing it with any kind of intention.
Seems like we almost have this capability for online retailers thanks to sites like camelcamelcamel. Just needs the appropriate plug ins.

The canonical way to thwart this in meat space is to have channel-specific SKUs (e.g. same product sold at Best Buy and Costco but with different model numbers).
You spent more than ever before because you have no sense of money management.

Sorry you are failing hard. Anyone with any sense of common sense would know things are dropping so bad. You must live in a bubble of crazy .

I mean a 85" tv which was $2400 is going for $1100 and if you are buying then I have a bridge to sell you.
I also like that I can skip a lot of the authentication steps by requesting a call from within the app - that way they already have a head start on identifying me when the call starts.
Of course. Small Claims process in the UK has a fee of about 10% of claim value and covers claims up to £10,000. If you win the other party has to repay those fees. No legal fees allowed. So would be the right process here - presumably as HP are in breach of contract the laptop buyer would win a case for a claim of the extra cost of the same laptop at full price.
I do have much more numbers, sorted by quality and speed.

https://rurban.github.io/dieharder/QUALITY.html
No small claims court in the UK, I believe.
What application(s) do you have in mind? VS code or Chrome on macOS and Linux have the same level of access.
> So why exactly did they need to rewrite it in Rust?

The root comment links to a post literally about this, the post you're replying to lauded its content. Reading it sounds like a good idea. You can then still disagree, but the question you've asked is definitely answered there.
> Really what we need is reverse 2FA

No. What we really need is a mutual authentication, where both parties talking over a phone can confirm each other's identity simultaneously, as a part of a single process (assuming a previously established secret(s)). Ideally, with a piece of human-readable metadata attached to it that describes the purpose of authentication.

So banks no longer ask you to read back a SMS, and you no longer guess if that's legit and you both know what this authentication is for (spelled out in a natural language).

If you have Internet connectivity, it should use it to perform all the communications, leaving both sides with a simple interface (as simple as tapping "confirm" or "reject"), and if Internet isn't available it should provide an ability to still perform the protocol by reading some phrases and typing in what you hear back.
> People who can handle freedom responsibly

Odd, that measuring stick of responsibly you use almost sound like a set of laws?

Libertarians when they are on the upswing "No set of rules should be able to bind me.

Libertarians on the downswing "Kill all those that cheated me using the full power of the state!"
I see this comment often and am confused why we wouldn't want to "move the goalposts".

I'd rather call it "passing a milestone" or simply "progress". More specifically it just means most criteria, especially the Turing test, are poorly defined.
Spoiler alert on the documentary, they had caveats on the canadian version of the ad but had deliberately put a lower number on the US ad to make it feel more real. Etc. The ad designer was saying 'don't put me on the stand'.
It's installed everywhere on any version of windows and works fine for interactive tasks (personally I wouldn't write anything but the simplest scripts for it, anything with for loops is a big no-no)
A human could respond in only Monty Python quotes.

But that's not realistic.

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The Turing test is determined by % of people who believe they are taking to a person.
So the folks who own all the stocks want the government to bid up their assets?