skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the Enlightenment, it has mainly been our use of language that underpinned humans' purported uniqueness. Prior to that, it was religion.

LLMs will be a challenge to the sense of entitlement which derives from this so-called uniqueness. I suspect another attempt to move those goal-posts is imminent.

>> I'm baffled that we don't spend more time trying to understand sentience on earth

I wonder whether there exists enough tagged big data to train an LLM on any non-human language. If not, chat apps like this parrot app could be a step in the right direction.
I was speaking as in 'ontologically subjective', the experiencer. Like, 'what is it like to be a bat'.

The problem is, if a brain neural net has experiences, does a computer neural net also have experiences.

I don't like 'hallucinate' as description because everyone gets confused with mental illness. But it is more like the old Buddhist fable, mistaking a 'rope' for a 'snake', doing a double take, and then realizing it is just a 'rope'.

Humans can make mistakes based on their incomplete model of the inputs, and thus 'hallucinate' an answer just like an LLM might.

But I'm more in the camp that philosophical zombies are impossible. That by the time an AI can completely mimic a human, they would also be having some internal experience of some kind like a human, maybe not identical but something. But of course, it can't be proven either way, for AI or Humans. We only assume other minds experience reality like we do, but even that can't be 'proven'.
Thanks! Looks like I got downvoted to hell anyways, now at -2. But that's OK, I've got points to burn on challenging views ;-)
> Where do you draw the line? I saw many funding proposals for extremely abstract category theory justified on the basis it helps number theorists solve problems related to cryptography and protect e-commerce.

That's not fraud. Not even the most gullible reviewer believes a word of it.

Leave it to anthropologists of science to describe the ritualistic aspects of writing abstracts.
If you want to really own something, buy physical media. Simple as.
We now have more details on what the heck happened at OpenAI
You can do it in any browser with an ublock origin filter...

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Ethereum DAO hack? Hello?
Is anyone else using XState on the backend?

At work we have an interactive guided process/wizard that is currently implemented with an unwieldy low-code engine. I've been replacing this with a Node API that uses XState to encode process states. The API endpoints wait for XState to enter a 'ready' state (calling out to external services in the process), then pass meta properties of the current state back to the client.

One nice thing about this is that I can translate the existing low-code model into XState more or less directly. And the state machine can be rendered as a process flow diagram using viz tools in the Xstate ecosystem or some straightforward custom tooling.
Yes know problem. But also known that they work on it.
I would really like if the language reference[1] had a "rationale" or "principles" section describing the decisions at a high level. At the moment it dives straight into the minutiae of syntax, built-in types, etc.

The language marketing insists it is "data-oriented", even in the footer of every page. But I couldn't find any more detail on this.

My favourite example of this is Austral, which has a detailed rationale[2] that justifies the choices made and the tradeoffs. It really helped me decide whether I was interested in the language.

Odin, cited in the blog post, has a shallow rationale on its FAQ page[3], but seems to have had more time/maturity to document specific "data-oriented" features like built-in SoA[4].

[1] https://docs.onyxlang.io/book/Overview.html

[2] https://austral-lang.org/spec/spec.html#rationale

[3] https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/

[4] https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#soa-data-types
Also this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E&t=1176s
I believe it has, indeed, been tried
Well, are they completely wrong? Being a country is mostly about how many (and partially which) other countries agree that you are indeed a country.
I find that moving the full query system into the front end is where most front end devs really want to be. They want a full power query system for the data instead of continuous rounds of re-inventing the transport layer, REST, GraphQL, *RPC, etc.

It's hard to adopt such a system in most traditional web shops with their specialized backend and frontend teams. You're pulling out the database, backend, transport, and auth layers and replacing them with this single block system. Most system architects grew up in the backend so they are generally pretty ignorant of this issue. As it touches both sides extensively you're probably not fitting this into an existing system, which leaves only green field new development. Finally your backend is not an AWS or Asure service, neither is it lambda friendly. All of this means that most architect types I talk to will never touch it.

This style of system mostly already exists with old tech, CouchDB+PouchDB. Which works pretty well for some things. The downsides are that the query system isn't really ideal and the auth and data scoping system is pretty foreign to most people. The easiest model to work with is when the data is totally owned by a single user, and then you use the out-of-the-box database-per-user model. High data segmentation with CRDTs removes a lot of conflict issues.

It has scaling issues though, CouchDB has really high CPU requirements when you're connecting 10k to 100k users. The tech is long in the tooth though it is maintained. On the system design side it gets really complicated when you start sharing data between users, which makes it rather unsuitable as you're just moving the complexity rather than solving it.

This approach seems to hit the same target though will likely have similar scaling issues.

Look forward to see the evolution of the system. Looks like a first step into the world.
Ah yes, Nouveau drivers. The thing that crashes immediately and prevents Linux from booting when you try to set up a fresh install on an Nvidia machine, leading to a short scramble to blacklist it with launch options until the actual drivers can be installed.

I sort of don't really know why they even bother. The only reason to have an Nvidia card is to use their CUDA toolkit, which isn't even supported by Nouveau.
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> Is the only reason you think that isn't "child labor" because no one is directly paying them for their work or that the work is "good for them"?

Yes, these are very significant differences. Children are also given time off with holidays, time to play, etc.

School disgusts me, personally, but it's not even close to child labor.
Completely agree here. They were showing animation like this in the 90s.
You couldn't make Salad Fingers today.

Edit: Oh come on, lighten up! Every joke gets downvoted here.
The original comment also felt like a swipe or at least slightly disrespectful so hence my reply. But you're right - rules are rules so I edited my comment =)
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I just pirate.

I'll stop when my rights are respected, promise.
This is an article about ghost writers?

Is this copypasta you have prepared for any article about Onlyfans? because your responses dont seem to be about the profession or friction in the article at all
Cockney English and French Verlan comes to mind.

I don’t know for cockney but verlan is very alive.
Try telling the police, a judge or tax collector that the country you live in is merely a fiction with no basis in your reality. I'm sure they will duly vanish in a puff of logic. Models and abstractions can certainly be very real.
This seems like an overly simplistic take and reads like someone who hasn't worked closely with board members or been on the board of a company with a lot of money behind it.
> warm water tube system

Not to pick on you because that sounds like a legit idea for the environment those guys were in, but that's part of the "plot" of "The Complicator's Gloves"

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_complicator_0x27_s_glov...
Reading this article, I kept think about James Micken's 2018 usenix security talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k. He warns quite effectively against widely deploying technology that we don't understand. Kevin Scott, on the other hand, seems to have exactly the opposite take. I suppose there is a reason though why one of them is a successful businessman and the other is an academic.
My car is parked more than drive. Still, the drive is the more important, valueble, and difficult. Cars should be optimized for driving first, and only for other things when needed.

Likewise code should be optimized for reading, which is to say for maintenance first, and for other things only if/when needed.
I got used to it back in the days. I would download the driver from Nvidia, make the installer executable. Then drop into run level 3 and run the installer from there. Reboot, and it worked. Every time there was a kernel upgrade I believe you needed to reinstall the drivers, as the Nvidia software installed kmod's. Needless to say, I use ATI cards now. I wonder if Nvidia supported Wayland natively, maybe the installations will go much smoother?
> PG seems to absolutely love him

It doesn't serve PG's interests to say otherwise. Sam Altman is part of the YC brand so his reputation is valuable to YC and to PG's net worth. And he's no longer running YC.
To be, frankly, more fair than they deserve, with CUDA they don't have to worry about anyone else. It's their API, they just have to maintain it themselves. When supporting X or Wayland they have to play nice and integrate with other people and their APIs.
> I don't think that's accurate. It was old Internet Explorer that wouldn't render tables progressively.

IIRC Netscape didn't either around the IE4/5 days. It also had significant performance problems with large sets of nested tables which IE6 (and perhaps IE5) did not.

For example back at University on 133MHz Pentium-class CPUs a large slashdot page with all threads open could take minutes to render where IE took merely a noticeable number of seconds - a co-student use to make a big thing of this as a reason to dump other browsers and use IE. There was actually a use case for this away from the University's fixed line connection: on dial up you could, RAM+swap and browser-not-crashing permitting, open a couple of windows like that then disconnect the modem and read at your leisure without racking up a per-minute phone bill.

Or maybe NS was capable of progressive display and this was just hidden in extreme cases by the performance issue, that was a time ago and memory is hazy…
> Do birds or dogs recognise such things?

Birds and dogs also don't recognize mirrors (or windows, in the case of birds), so this probably isn't the standard you mean to apply :-)

Whether or not states are "real" things is probably the wrong question: what matters is whether they're efficacious, which they are.
"in part".
I took a close look at htmx, and my impression is that the problems it addresses can be resolved with even fewer than its 4000 lines of JS [1], and without having to familiarize myself with its many opinionated approaches. The crux of the matter is to generate HTML on the server, as much as possible. I know how to achieve that without htmx.

The marketing materials for htmx are also a bit off-putting to me, and the authors seem to be enjoying fueling the flames of old and useless holy wars about what REST and hypermedia "actually" are, and how we all need to get back to basics, and remember to thank Ted Nelson before every meal, etc. Their online book spends something like 30 pages explaining what hypermedia is... [2]. I prefer not to sign up for a religion when I choose a JS framework (honestly, that's a bit hard these days :-/).

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1: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/master/dist/htmx...

2: https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-reintroduction/
I would thing this model would fail with a heavy quebecois lingo, as opposed to standard French.
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You're allowed to copy a VHS tape, you're just not allowed to distribute copies of VHS tapes.

You still own the physical tape itself, and you have a perpetual right to play, copy, and modify the tape as much as you like, for personal use.
How did you find the experience of compiling to wasm? Do you build an IR first at all or just ast -> wasm?
I quite like its syntax. I also don’t think the target audience is beginners, this seems like a passion project someone is making for themselves and people who have a similar taste to them.
I feel like the article / author is perhaps attacked for missing key front end concepts such as square/circle (if I got that right, it's been years since I touched front end), but the premise still stands - which is exactly what you and gp says: A simple UI element shouldn't waste resources like this.

I was thinking that even a higher resolution scaled down animated gif would be better, wasting memory is perhaps better than cpu, but ultimately a bug report/ optimisation request for the Chromium browser would be a big win.

Hardware keeps evolving, yet inefficient software always seems to find ways to catch up to this.
Poor multi-trillion company unable to support open source drivers
I'm amazed no one's posted is yet, so I guess I'll have to do the honors.

"Nvidia, fuck you" - https://youtu.be/i2lhwb_OckQ
I am gonna venture to guess that you never really either interacted with people from those populations.

> I suggest empowering women who don’t want children to not have them.

Let's first get this out of the way. The men don't want children at equal rate. No need for grand plan about empowering women (what ever that means beside just increasing everyone, both men and women economical outlooks) : just make contraceptive and sexual education available.

> If we look at the developed world, it is clear the total fertility rate will settle far below replacement rate (2.1) and child labor will dry up when women are educated and have robust access to family planning.

Correlation and causation etc...etc... I might introduce you to orthodox jews, some Mormons and Muslim communities which don't really follow those models.

> By all means, open your wallet to pay these kids a living wage.

ahah yes, personal solution to systemic problems... Following this logic, we should all be silent about everything.

> Perpetual labor shortages are a better outcome than surplus labor and lives of suffering, most especially children suffering.

I don't buy the premise and this sounds like a false dichotomy to me. Just treat people decently and don't participate in system which involve children doing back breaking jobs.

> Hope is not a strategy.

And whatever you are proposing is ? The idea that it's easier to somehow curb the population growth a whole group of nations instead of just having proper international laws to regulate child labour seems both crazy and reversed.

Polution control won't solve child labor, instead child labour, women right and polution growth will be solve by better economical outlooks. And that start by having people actually make living wages...

In the final anlysis the problem is not that deep. To paraphrase Gates, those conditions continue because the market wants it, and the public opinions doesnt particularly care. You are wellcome not to care, but to invent poorly constructed argument to make you sleep better at night.
If I was interested in this paper, I would read it and understand it like I do with all the bio papers I read…all research papers do is narrow in on something highly specific, they aren’t hard to understand once you have the vocabulary down. It’s like reading someone else’s code. And I highly doubt your so called trusted “experts” like Fauci understand any of it
There is another way of looking at this, in the context of the parent post: we could suggest that any accent could be converted to “no accent” where American accents are converted to British, or where standard Japanese is converted to a Nagoya pronunciation. Whatever seems like your preference of “no accent”. With this interpretation of the parent post, it’s not specifically about any particular English accent. I’ve been told by others that I have an accent yet I think I don’t have one - and honestly, I think most people have either encountered this - having an accent when you think you don’t have one - or haven’t travelled enough! :)

And I mean, yes, there are people who know they don’t sound like whatever ideal accent they have in mind, and there are people who will make fun of accents - but, and I can’t stress this enough, depending on the context literally any accent can be made fun of, sadly. I’ve had people mock my “American” accent while travelling, for example. It sucks, but it’s not easy to single out any accent as “default” unless it’s literally enforced by a government and taught that way in schools. Last I checked, the US is not one of those countries and English is not as centrally controlled as e.g. French can be.
It’s great for that use case, if

- you host at one of the Drupal-optimized services (Amazee, Pantheon, Acquia)

- you put a Varnish service like Fastly in front of the site

- you use BigPipe to serve the dynamic content

- you have experienced Drupal engineers available for your project

If you’re missing one of those pieces, I’d recommend pretty strongly that you find a different platform.
DB logs can get HUGE. logrotate for them is currently daily. I briefly wanted to tune it to help alleviate the issue, but honestly it didn’t and doesn’t matter, given the infrequency with which they’re directly accessed. No risk of running out of disk space, and the DBAs like them how they are, so meh. There are other things to worry about.
I go by a de-facto interpretation. That way a country isn't defined by people wanting or not wanting to accept reality, but rather by facts on the ground.
First, board members criticizing a company is very common, indeed, an entire career for some people (like Carl Icahn) and a useful role, especially in this case. If you think it's so outrageous, as so many OAers apparently do, better fetch the smelling salts the next time you crack open a WSJ...

Second, the 'criticism' here is laughably weak and is barely even a criticism at all (I actually read it as a criticism of everyone else but OA); I strongly encourage anyone who thinks that this might justify firing someone (especially without, apparently, a replacement who would be acceptable to the safety faction) to actually read the supposedly unforgivable page of the paper: https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-Decoding...
So an efficacious fantasy is fine?

What's so efficacious about a country?

Mirrors and windows are specific examples of things that trick the eye, even the human eye. If glass is clear, or a mirror is in an unexpected place, humans are just as capable of making an error as any creature.
Or don't purchase things in DRMd walled gardens.

Even better stop supporting / participating in DRMd walled gardens.
> grade inflation at Yale is driven by the humanities and “studies” programs — with gender studies leading the way

Now there is a shocker. Half the grade comes from showing you're woke, where merely having enrolled is considered an attestation.
slightly new to this area

is there an example notebook that shows how we can use this model with own sample audio and text? thanks!
My /boot partition is 256MB because that was the default in the Ubuntu installer way back when I installed it. I can't easily resize it because my primary partition starts right after it. I am constantly running out of space in /boot because Apt doesn't fully clean up after old kernel versions automatically. An extra 20-30MB (per kernel version, at least) is absolutely a huge deal.
I’ve heard many “pirates” say similar things, and when their condition is met, they find a new demand. Why would an IP rights-holder believe you?

Why not just buy physical media where available, and abstain where an acceptable legal option is not provided?
First Road in the U.S. That Charges Your EV While You Drive Opens in Detroit
It’s tempting to think “corrupt LATAM officials”, but the article mentions that Newark, NJ fell for exactly the same ruse just months ago, for no apparent gain https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/16/newark-offic...
Grass requires too much water sorry
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U.S. tap water has a $47B forever chemicals problem
C# is also much better than most languages about being able to split code into separately compilable projects with references between them, and multiple applications referencing the same shared library. Trying to do the same in TS or python (without extra tooling) is an order of magnitude harder.