skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been thinking along similar lines. It’s like with LLMs, they’ve created the part of the mind that is endlessly chattering, generating stories, sometimes true, sometimes false, but there’s no awareness or consciousness that ever steps back and can see thoughts as thoughts. And I don’t see how awareness or consciousness would arise from just more of the same (bigger models). It seems to be a fundamentally different part of the mind. I wonder if AGI is possible without this. AGI under some definition (good enough to replace most humans) may be possible. But it wouldn’t be aware. And without awareness, I don’t see how it could be aligned. It may appear to be aligned but then eventually it would probably get caught in a delusional feedback loop that it has no capacity to escape, because it can’t be aware of its own delusion.
Personally, I would put more stock in a news report by Ali G than John Oliver.
It's LLM-generated content.
Lack of interest maybe? I don't use grep, I use an UI that lets me click and jump to a file. Or the builtin search in my IDE.
If it’s better, it will be built?
It's started off that "take a couple of months parental leave", which I agree. Then it talked about "kids shows", that's years later.
2D material reshapes 3D electronics for AI hardware
Fundamentally, this "awareness" isn't defined by quieting the thinking. It is a description of fundamental reality. No individual should be able to experience it, and the "glimpses" are just forms of brain dysfunction.

Meditation techniques that focus on breath or the body are an attempt to make you do the breathing/sensing consciously. If you film yourself and later look at what you did, you'll notice you aren't breathing well when you're breathing consciously, so you're probably depriving yourself of oxygen, lowering blood concentration in certain brain regions and you hope it will be the brain region associated with conceptualizing, language etc.

You can do the same with sleep. You can try to consciously fall asleep, and just like breathing, you will have a hard time because there's a reason why falling asleep is not conscious (or in other words it does not go through the regions of the brain that conceptualize). You can experience the balance center shutting down (feels like falling or turning) and you can go even deeper and feel the fear of the "ego" dying (temporarily). What remains is definitely much different than waking or dreaming state. But it is still not that "awareness/nothingness".
The idea that society itself may be a living intelligent organism is fascinating. It's not a revolutionary idea in nature, (eg: the portuguese man o' war is composed of multiple animals), but when it is applied to human society, it feels mystical. I think this is because our ability to comprehend and interact with the macro level makes human organization feel more artificial. But if the rules of game theory/economics make society inevitable, could it not also be a natural process? Do we individuals control society or does society control us?
Hookless for road bikes is a dead end manufacturing fad that only exists to increase manufacturers' margins. It does not provide any aerodynamic benefit. The weights are not substantially different. The low tire pressure maximums are not suited for road tires. The manufacturing cost savings are not passed on to consumers. Hookless might improve strength in a way that matters when tires are flat or otherwise bottom out (i.e., maybe useful for MTB, where the pressure maximums are not a concern). Hooked wheels are moving wider, too, of course. 21mm internal is now relatively common and you also see 22-24mm internal road wheels.
Kids, Guns and Gas Masks [pdf]
Yeah, especially with a large knowledge base I find it important to keep a log of prompts/responses and perform team reviews of both. It’s honestly making more work than it’s saving at the moment with the hope that it’ll be more helpful down the road. On the plus side it’s made the team more interested in tasks around technical documentation and marketing material, so still a win!
Yes, they have, but you can’t watch them in 4K on PC/Mac.
Must the paper be brown for some reason? Or why would everybody say "BROWN paper bags"? And to the particular solution, has it to be paper, not plastic?
Neat! I didn't know this was possible!
If you work for a company that lays off 6% of the "fat" every year and then still continues to have 6+% of the company considered "fat" then the issue isn't the 6% of the people, it's the structure, culture, and practices of the company.
This is probably sacrilege but after 40 years of being annoyed with avocado ripeness I just routinely buy them and keep them in the fridge. They don't go off and keep for weeks.
VSCode for Go is pretty much just gopls (the language service). So this is all true for Go plugins in vim, emacs, etc because they all use the same base, but not GoLand.

IMO: gopls is only just barely good enough to stop people from building an actually good replacement. Highlighting and build error stuff is reliable, but it regularly misses extremely straightforward type lookups, navigation, and autocomplete hints and that makes it untrustworthy in pretty much all cases. Basically everyone I know who uses it (somewhere between 50 and 100 people that I've talked with about this) relies on plain text search to get around and find things rather than doing type-driven stuff, because otherwise they fail to discover a lot.

All of which means it's insane and awful to me, barely better than "it doesn't support Go but Go looks close enough to C that it mostly works"-style ctags. And sometimes worse: even unsupported-language-fallback stuff in random tools sometimes gives much better autocomplete than gopls, which for me semi-routinely fails to hint things defined in the same file.

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GoLand by comparison is wildly more capable, stable, and controllable. It actually works, and e.g. if you "find usages" you get a complete and precise result. Highly recommended if you do a lot of Go work. The single exception is that it doesn't support GOPACKAGESDRIVER (because it isn't gopls), so if e.g. you've got a complicated/abnormal Bazel setup it won't integrate well.
So if I lossily compress a novel so random typos and spelling errors are introduced then it isn't copyright infringement?

Wow, that changes everything. BRB, I got books to pirate.
Yeah that's a fairly well studied one. Most of these techniques are rather "lossy" compared to extending the context window. The most likely "real solution" is going to be using various tricks and finetuning on higher context lengths to just extend the context window.

Here's a bunch of other related methods,

Summarizing context - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14239

continuous finetuning - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02839.pdf

retrieval augmented generation - https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401

knowledge graphs - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302

augmenting the network a side network - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07174

another long term memory technique - https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02738
Even before it could search online it would hallucinate checking things online. You could ask it to email you something or upload it somewhere and it'd also hallucinate thinking it did it for you. Changing its mind is always easy as long as you pretend to give it a source that refutes it.
That's probably true in terms of benchmark problems, but at the same time, losing knowledge of seemingly irrelevant things could make the specialised model less creative when it comes to looking for unexpected causes and links.

It would also be less robust in the face of exceptional situations that should make it doubt the reliability and relevance of its own training.

For instance, an autonomous driving system that doesn't know the first thing about the zombie apocalypse could put its passengers' lives at risk by refusing to run over "pedestrians".

A specialised diagnostic system might not notice signs of domestic violence that a GP would see. Being able to connect the dots beyond the confines of some specialised field is extremely useful in many situations.
Really goes to show how uninformed these opinions of him are.
Trying to change the rate at which avocados ripen is way beyond anything I would ever worry about. Because I can't even tell when they're ripe! The article is spot-on when it says (emphasis mine):

> "The window of time in which they are absolutely perfect—soft and tender with no brown spots or streaks—is notoriously short."

But then it claims:

> "...gauge ripeness by touch: Using your fingers, very gently press on the avocado near the stem end (that's where the avocado was once attached to the tree). You want to feel a slight tenderness and give. If the avocado is very firm, it's not ready; if it feels soft and mushy, it's gone too far."

I have gotten this wrong so many times that it seems like useless advice. The skin of the avocado is so stiff and wrinkly by the stem end, you simply cannot tell. By the time you apply enough force to feel through the skin, you're going to explode the avocado.

But if you try pressing against the side, where you can sometimes feel the level of hardness/softness more accurately (if it is a particularly thin-skinned one), you bruise it.

I'm an expert in the kitchen at basically everything else, but trying to figure out if an avocado is ripe or not just absolutely defeats me. I've routinely cut into an avocado I thought was underripe, only to discover it's so over-ripe it's inedible, because the skin all over is so darn tough that the whole thing simply felt rock-hard all over. It's like fossilized reptile skin.

How does anyone do it? I'm talking about regular Hass avocados bought in the northeast US shipped from Mexico.

At the end of the day, I just buy a few, wait 3 days, cut into one, and if it's ripe I try to eat the rest quickly. If not, I throw it out, wait another couple days, and repeat. Ugh.
This is missing the other avocado trick:

You can put citrus in tight proximity to a cut avocado, or guac, or avocado mash to halt oxidation better than oil. It won't really impact avocado but it will effect guac/mash - it will make your guac mushy and overly acid/citrusy, but it is possible to adjust for it, under-adding citrus to your batch when first making it, by reducing the liquid content added to your guac, and straining with a fine mesh strainer it to purge the extra citrus juice.

It is also possible to replace the citrus with vinegar if you prefer using vinegar for your guac instead of lime juice.
> They're just system 1 thinking, the equivalent of putting a gun to someone's head and asking them to solve a large division in 2 seconds.

No, it's the equivalent of putting a gun to someone's head and asking them "what are my intentions?" Which is readily available to any being with a theory of mind.
Which works or doesn't work depending on where you are. You're not the son of that particular (local) biker gang's members or in favour with them? Sorry, no welding for you!

As a software person this sort of thing seldom comes to mind. What we also dismiss is all that professional association and certification stuff that we don't have to deal with. I don't know about you, but so far I still like the freedom and ability to move up and around we have better than being stuck working myself up from entry level through to a high paying job by waiting for someone else to retire or move up and out of the way first. Or you become a business owner, which in the plumbing and electrician business I guess is very common. But not everyone is cut out for that.
We found 100 year old recipes from magazines for christmas cookies. It was funny/crazy to see steps like ‘whisk for 30 minutes’ before they had mechanical kitchen utilities.

Different times!
Thank you. How do I go about negotiating that ? Board is my cofounder which I don’t really trust and one of our investors. Do I need to hire a lawyer? If so any firm you recommend?
It’s only 1 in 18 if you have the attention span of a goldfish.

If your hiring quality is uniform, there’s only about a 5.6% chance the new guy gets fired next year. Instead they’ll go after someone else. For an average tenure of 3 years that’s closer to 1/6 chance of ending up on a PIP. Higher if they hand out extra PIPs in order to hit the quota.
And takes ages to build. Solar is here now not in 15 years.
There's also somewhat similar extension for Hammerspoon: https://github.com/FryJay/MenuHammer/
Exploring that as well through secfi
That's fair. And he didn't drag half the world down with him.
Man, Kepler would've loved this. One of his books was titled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonices_Mundi
I’m working on this right now, will be open sourcing soon probably :)
Ask HN: Is there any hope for medical privacy?
My US healthcare provider had a new release for me to sign this year.

Among other things, they are allowed to make _and release_ ("non-identifiable") images of me. On the other hand, I am not allowed to make any photos or recordings of my treatment.

It's just painful to have to work with a system that makes the asymmetric power in the relationship so clear. Whatever happened to the "let everyone know they are being recorded and get a signed release"? Now you can't even get an immunization without consenting... good luck fighting that system.

Readers here might even worry about de-anonymization. At least it'll be good for a laugh when my friends figure out I'm the patient in the number 3 endoscope video on YouTube.

> Photography and recordings by patients: I understand that I am not allowed to take pictures or to record care or treatment provided by [Big Health Group]. To respect the privacy of other patients, I understand that I am also not allowed to take pictures or record other patients.

> Photography and records by [Big Health Group]: I understand that [Big Health Group] and my individual provider(s) may need to take photographs, video and/or audio recordings to document a medical condition, help with the diagnosis and/or treatment of a condition, and/or help plan details of care. I give permission for [Big Health Group] to take photographs, videos, digital and other images or recordings of me for treatment, education and operational purposes. I also give permission for [Big Health Group] to use and disclose non-identifiable images externally for these purposes without additional authorization. I understand that all reproduction and all copyrights associated with these images and media are and shall remain the property of [Big Health Group], its successors and/or assigns.
If you're old enough to remember "sniglets", here's one that's elevator-specific but there should be a crosswalk equivalent of:

Elacceleration: hitting the elevator call button repeatedly to make the elevator arrive faster.
I agree with you and my interviewers that I conduct are always more behavioral. Most of the positions I interview candidates for are for bog standard CRUD jobs that anyone can do technically. The deciding factor are the traits you mentioned.
I see that but we know the Romans had lead pipes. I'm curious how much steam those pipes could withstand. Perhaps enough to get some sort of rotary tool.

Regardless, it's a fun hypothetical to think of an ancient Roman and Greek steam age.
Not having a spare is definitely a problem when you need it. But a spare is needed so rarely today. And that is a major, major advance.

One hundred years ago, a car with two spare tires were not that unusual--tires were sufficiently unreliable that you might not manage a trip without _two_ flats, but tires improved, and now the only long-overland back-country adventurers carry two.
Not just enterprise - industrial / embedded applications, retrocomputing / gaming. Did you know 386 clones are still produced today?
Will High-Yield Treasury Accounts Jeopordize My QSBS Status?
> Which is good, because it turns out that lower pressure, when coupled with flexible tires, is actually lower resistance than high pressure.

Yes, on rough (real world) road surfaces, rolling resistance is lower. (Ignoring aerodynamic drag of a larger tire profile.) On smooth surfaces like velodromes, skinny tires at stupid high pressures are faster. (I only bring this up because I race at a velodrome.)
I would recommend Capacitor JS for mobile, responsive CSS (or CSS utility libs such as PrimeCSS, PrimeFlex, or tailwind), and any JS state based library (React, Preact, etc).

Many people underestimate the power of webview based tech in mobile. For most usecases, webview based tech does just fine.
Theory of mind is interesting but one wouldn't want to hinge consciousness upon it.

That direction would likely contain weird outcomes if the science progressed, something like "Dogs are barely-conscious due to their pack structure, they have a couple levels of recursive theory of mind but they can't sustain it as deep as we can. But cats didn't have that pack structure, they're not conscious at all." Or, "this person has such severe autism that he cannot fundamentally understand others' minds or what others interpret his mind to be, so we've downgraded his classification to unconscious. He'll talk your ear off about the various cars produced in a golden age between 1972 and 1984, but because he doesn't really know what it means for you to be listening we regard it as sleep-talking."

It also just kind of doesn't sound right. "What happens when we go to sleep? Well, we stop thinking about what others think we think, and we simply accept what they think about us." That doesn't sound like any sleep I experience -- it might describe some of my dreams, but of course dreams are anomalous conscious experiences that happen during sleep so that also misses the mark.
Let’s call a spade a spade. It’s not an “issue” it’s abuse. This is abusive behavior.
My 2019 vehicle's manual explicitly says not to do this, and that if the battery fully discharges you should make a follow-up service appointment to frobnicate the computers. I miss older cars.
One big difference between IRL art and computer art is in the breadth (bandwidth?) of the process.

IRL art process is a subtle thing. Analog, fuzzy and mysterious.

Computer art process is crass and pinhole-narrow in comparison.
Would that put a stop to these types of criminal activity? (No)
I've been thinking about the 'glue' bit too.

I think a cron job run say every hour would be good enough. It would just have to collect all the inputs and make a decision about how "valuable" it would be to check in (haven't worked out in 3 days, very valuable), then it's just about connecting it to the right outputs (email, push noti, ...)

The job itself would be cheap and trivial to host on something like lambda
LLMs don't fail those kind of tasks though. 4 is very good at keeping track of who knows what and why in a story. You can test this yourself.
> Humans define intelligence to be something about manipulating symbols and abstractions, aka language.

No they do not. Nobody can agree on the definition of intelligence and it is an open question what it is.

Are cats intelligent? They can't read but plenty of people would call them that.

Are illiterate jungle tribe people intelligent? Absolutely yes.

Your easy definition falls apart right away.
User-Like Bots for Cognitive Automation
Maybe in cars at 30 PSI. In bicycles at road pressures (60+ PSI), even with sealant you lose a few PSI every day.
Prettier's CLI got rewritten, in JavaScript, for a 20x speedup
If anything, calling these abusive companies' practices out is what's needed, including the name of the company and the roles.

When they can hide behind "molar company", yeah, they will never change that practice. Instead, if you said the name, at least we'd know what to keep an eye out for.
Are you sure? Maybe you've never had an actual conversation with a human, but only the individual vocal fold cells that were making the utterances.

Inside that human, neurons were directing the vocal mechanism on what to say, but weren't causing the sound to be emitted themselves.

When you talked to the corporation, were hidden (from you) managers directing the spokesperson to speak based on stilted scripts?

Individual humans are rare, and people dislike being near them. You can become contaminated by them, and it causes no end of problems.
Which has been followed, and this comment was not a response to this specific app but rather a general trend I've noticed and was mentioned at the start of this thread
It doesn’t have to be an image to be a screenshot. It could just as easily be a properly formatted monospace block quote of the terminal contents.
Eating less makes me skinny fat with "trye around my waist"
It happens slowly, then all at once. Don't know how old you are, but I'm at an age where I can conceptualize a decade and as a result, have some sense of exactly how many of those I likely have remaining to enjoy. Not sure my kids have internalized it, but I tell them regularly to make the most of every day and every experience.
The testimony and article was about the removal of a nypost story about Hunter's laptop. Not that they are never in contact with government officials.
Cool idea! I actually do something similar albeit without sorting. The idea is if you check out a remote branch it'll track it.

gbb() {
eval $(echo git checkout "$(git branch --all \
| fzf --height 10 \
| tr -d '[:space:]' \
| tr -d '*' \
| sed 's/remotes\//\-\-track /g')")
}
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25736735

mcguire on Jan 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought

Don, did you ever figure out the difference between a "client" and a "server"?

DonHopkins on Jan 12, 2021 [–]

Sure: xterm a client of your display and keyboard and mouse, remote input and output services that the X11 server provides over the network.

And at the same time, a web browser is the client of computing and data servers in the cloud, provided over the network.

In reality, there can be many different client/server relationships existing in different directions over the same full duplex network connection. It's really a bi-directional multiplexed messaging channel, not a pure strict hierarchical relationship, and many client/server dependencies can go both ways over the same connection, at the same time. You can even run an ssh that opens tunnels in both directions, then tunnel X and http connections over that.

Once a connection is established, it really don't matter which end initiated the connection (or how many links and proxies and tunnels there are along the way) -- you're just sending messages both ways.

"Client/Server" is an over-simplified way of describing what's possible.

ddingus on Jan 12, 2021 | parent [–]

Only the server, actually serves the graphics to the user.
Within the context of the X Window System, the server is the body of code responsible for delivering the display to the user viewing it.

bitwize on Jan 12, 2021 | root | parent | next [–]

> Only the server, actually serves the graphics to the user.
The server actually serves the user to the remote client.

It's like "you are not the customer, you are the product". The remote program needs to communicate graphically with you, and connects to the X server to do this; therefore, you are not the requester of a resource, you are the resource being served. :)

ddingus on Jan 12, 2021 | root | parent | next [–]

I like it. Clever, and current context relevant.
Cheers.

DonHopkins on Jan 12, 2021 | root | parent | prev | next [–]

Great analogy. Think of it like Amazon Mechanical Turk.

mcguire on Jan 13, 2021 | root | parent | prev [–]

Think of it in terms of a print server. It's a long-running process that other processes connect to, in order to request a service. It handles the "impedance mismatch" between the clients and the hardware it controls---in the case of a print server, it demultiplexes requests and translates them into something the printer can deal with; in the case of X, it displays the information as requested by the client and provides notifications of events as requested by the client.
You can use the React + (Browser, Capacitor, Electron) stack to do this. I'd recommend against React Native. OP's suggestion is superior IMHO.