skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Emotions are concepts our internal model has learned when trying to model itself.

Do you have a source to underpin that claim? (Honest question.)

> For a system to experience what we describe as pain, it needs to receive sensory input which it predicts signals that something is damaging its internal state, and then model/describe/represent itself as something that has this experience.

And then the system would feel pain? It doesn't sound convincing. I can model everything I want in my brain, but that certainly doesn't equate experiencing the feeling of pain. What about a headache? Do I describe myself without a headache and the difference to the actual "model" is my pain experience? It sounds a bit too left-brained to me, sorry.

> Such as system would, like you do, believe it is experiencing pain.

How do you know? I think that's a pretty bold claim. Also, pain is not a believe, it's an experience of a feeling?
Lol oh no I’m petrified.
If you click learn-more on the linked page the first section ends with this:

".... I was able to explore my application in ways I didn't think was possible. Yet, I always missed what I was used to in PHP with the Laravel Debugbar."
I disagree with the implication that linearity is an unnatural concept, it appears whenever the changes being studied are small relative to the key parameters that determine the system. Every system is linear for small perturbations. Even logic gates; in negative feedback they can form passable inverting amplifiers. In a place as big as the universe it is rather common for two things to be very different in scale and yet interacting.
>LLMs will make curation so much more valuable, that it will be done much better.

Won't that also mean a return to a world of gatekeepers?
In case anyone is interested in how to use some of them in combination with Go, I created https://github.com/philippgille/go-wasm, but it's far from complete
I would say start a Twitch stream :)

twitch.tv
> Steam and combustion engines might be a net good for humanity, but weren’t good for millions of species in the current mass extinction.

This is true, but what followed also led to lifting probably billions of people out of hunger, and saving the lives of billions of children, increasing life expectancy by over 30 years, led to insane leaps of literacy, etc, etc...

> AI will only be a good for the very top of the food chain.

With FUD being spread like this, yeah we're at a risk of exactly this being the case, once draconian regulation is passed by clueless lawmakers.

As it stands right now, open source and locally-running AI is available to nearly all, cheaply (with an incentive of becoming even cheaper). Aside from Sora being leaps and bounds beyond everyone's expectation, the OSS world of local LLMs, Llama, Mistral, Stable Diffusion, and the likes, is very competitive in terms of quality and utility to the big closed services.

The issue is the DISTRIBUTION of the net positives. And closing and gating the progress will only create more imbalance in how the positive impact of this tech is distributed.
The Fediverse seems to be suffering a particularly disruptive spam attack presently. Much of it is Japanese or Korean language advertisements for one or more Discord channels, with much of the spam featuring its payload as an image of a Spam can itself (the luncheon meat, not the message scourge), with the server identity as part of that image.

In considering the possible downsides of federated systems, spam does seem one especially prevalent failure mode, having pervasively and often fatally affected Usenet, email, SMS, PSTN telephony, online forums, and increasingly much of the Web itself (accelerated by AI-generated grey goo).

It seems as if open-registration instances, often small and single-user ones, with little administrative oversight, may be to blame, though any initial assessments including my own are obviously suspect.

One assessment of the current spam wave is in this set of posts by Cappy Ishihara (linked in TFA):

Part 1: <https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psdqurvye>

Part 2: <https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psnooe6p1>

Part 3: <https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9pth6oh3xr>

Whilst it's quite likely that the present spam wave is from a small set of bad actors (as is most often the case in other media), it's also true that the Fediverse is exceptionally vulnerable to such behaviour, and that the lack of defences in other instances helped contribute to the decline in use and reliability of other communications channels (again: Usenet, email, telephony, SMS, etc.).

On which note, give thanks to HN's moderators and moderation.
They can go back to work in the farms, or weave baskets, or pottery...

Still not good? Ok, maybe this is too radical but hear me out: how about we take this incredible increase in productivity as an opportunity to start paving the way for a true post-scarcity future that can benefit most people, eliminate intellectual property and take everything produced by robots to fund UBI, instead of worrying about our cushy jobs and (relative) wealth/status obtained through bullshit jobs?
My comment isn't naive - it acknowledges that KYC is part of a series of safeguards against what is an incredibly complex problem, and those safeguards absolutely come at a cost.

The difference between my comment and yours, as well as my comment and the initial post, is that I acknowledge the complexity. You look only at the bad - you don't seem to understand the reason that KYC exists or the value that it provides (and yes, despite the negatives, there is value to KYC rules).
so where do we go from here? the moon landing was faked, we're ruled by lizard people, and there are microchips in the vaccine. at some level, you can believe what you want to believe, and if the checkout clerk thinks the moon is made of cheese, it makes no difference to me, I still get my groceries. but for things like nuclear fusion, are we actually making progress on it or is it also a delusion. where the rubber meets the road is how money gets spent on building big projects. is JWST bullshit? is the LHC? ITER? GPS?

we need ground truths for these things to actually function. how else can things work together?
Subsidies don't mean zero profit. It can even more profit if volume increases and others are driven out of the market.

> Oh yeah, the US is trading with China to the tune of $750 000+ billion a year. So, I guess they should cut off all that trade to stop funding their future adversary.. or perhaps it is not so simple.

Again literally just

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
I don’t know that it proved anything, but it did say the average return rate for 2022 was 16.5%, which is at least an order of magnitude higher than mine and a pretty large inefficiency.
Even outside of regulations, the biggest issue is access to (well paying) jobs. There may be land available to build affordable estates in tons of areas, but there are no jobs to work there to pay for it.
You have a lot to catch up on, then.
And your comment is against HN guidelines. Don't take swipes.
feel free to point out that part of the document. AFAICT the entire document is in the context of the first paragraph which sets the scope for everything under it
That it does, but all sources of innovation are fueled by natural resources in some form further down the supply chain from thought to product.
Musk has many goals. He also does drugs and gets involved into politics. There's only 24 hours in a day.
Women in AI: Irene Solaiman, Head of Global Policy at Hugging Face
So a coroutine would be a “stack” one frame deep?
That's exactly the reason why frequentist approach sucks by the way;) Parameters are treated specially and there is no internal consistency - to have it you need to introduce priors...
Let the crawler AI discard a sample if it detects it as AI generated? That's at least quite expensive I think.
Been posted a bunch of times in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=haskell+useless
My assumption was that it was to help build confidence in their self-driving by always showing you what it sees no matter if it is control or not. It does have some effect in that you start to get a feeling of what situations the car has a good idea about the surroundings and when it struggles.

There is probably a "it looks cool" factor that doesn't hurt.

As far as UX options. Providing customization is old-school thinking these days :/
It's possible, but rust follows platform conventions in only doing this by default on Windows. However it is now easy to configure by setting split-debuginfo in your Cargo.toml [1]

1: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#spli...
> Opened in macOS and it appears impossible to open a folder of any sort. I type the folder path into the Open Folder thing at the top and it just silently fails.

That sounds like it could be Lapce failing to handle macOS full disk/folder security permissions (which you can grant in the System Preferences app)
Something actively dropping inputs is an entirely different category of problem than it merely being slow to process them.
that I can talk with you and get your opinion on this topic which is valuable :)
Otherwise it may be some bot trying to aggressively persuade me to buy some new bot-detection product (for instance)
The NSO is only supplying a product for which there is insatiable demand from every government. If they wouldn't build them, someone else will.

They're kind of like arms manufacturers. Do you blame them if your government shoots you?
> but it remains to be seen if the wealth makes everyone's lives better, or just a select elite.

yes, as I see it this will go one of five ways, ordered by probability

0) it's all hype: AI plateaus/fizzles out, maybe minor productivity improvements

1) techno-feudalism: ruling class of AI company trillionaires exercise complete domination of 99.9999% of humanity

2) new dark age: billions of newly unemployed formerly middle class workers riot worldwide targeting DCs and fabs. AI CEOs/VCs suffer the fate of the French kings

3) techno-utopia (Earth in Star Trek)

4) AI takeover

personally I'm hoping for 0
Other than generative, what other AI advancements have there been in medical and science fields in the last 12 months? Hopefully the sole focus hasn’t been on white collar job automation in exchange for $20 a month.
It's really hard to find any constructive discussion around Chinese companies here.

Anybody willing to share facts about subsidies, state control or anything that would justify believing that BYD success here is not justified?

For me the whole story of vertical integration of a battery manufacturer company that decided to make EV cars makes a lot of sense.
It's not a "high bar." It's fundamentally different. The Sierra Club is a quintessentially liberal organization, not even nominally left wing in any way.

The DSA, however, might be a better candidate for a relative comparison, but it is still effectively just a liberal organization, despite it insisting otherwise. No historically left wing agenda would take any side in the shortsighted NIMBY/YIMBY dichotomy, both of which presume capitalism marks the end of history, which is definitionally a right wing position insofar as it effectively reinforces the established order (capitalism). A left wing agenda under a capitalist society must pursue progress while also undermining profit. The NIMBY/YIMBY dichotomy simply offers no capacity for that, meaning it is right wing by default.

These are of course contextual political categories but, by virtue of the enlightenment that produced them and the inherent forward direction of history, they can only become more complicated over time rather than more simplified. The definitions you're insisting on are strictly deteriorations of meanings and distinctions; they add nothing whatsoever to the discourse. With all due respect, their contribution is mere idiocy. It's the propaganda of American exceptionalism, a well documented anti-history that thankfully hasn't penetrated in every part of the world. I hope we can keep it that way for a bit longer.
> IMO, any program using naive timestamps is probably doing something wrong.

Here's an example where you'd legitimately want to process and store a naive (wall clock) time object:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39419845
Sprite Attack
Where in the parent post did the poster say they "despised" the people writing the content?
I don't think that following the primal benefit would be a good estimation for intelligence, despite the fact that such behavior is common for most species.

What makes human specie special is the ability of some individuals to create new things that didn't exist before. That's a loose criteria of course, because most individuals just follow educated social constructs for their entire life.
I would argue that methods presented here will make learning very engaging regardless of cultural backgrounds as these learning methods value highly individual effort.
Lapce dev here. Firstly sorry for the bad experience for some people.

Just a bit of context here to explain the status of the project. The first line of code was started around 2018 as a personal project. And as of today, we still don't have anyone who works on it full time. We don't want to defend ourselves too much here, because there are very good quality code editors out there such as Helix, which is also community developed. But still, GUI is just such a beast of complexity, which consumes lots of time and energy which we already lack. That said, we had developed our own cross platform GUI toolkit called Floem, because as you may know there aren't any good ones that exist.

The journey was fun and challenging, but the aim of the project isn't a toy, and we believe by taking slow but firm steps, we'll reach production quality, one day. Before that, please do bear with us, and help us if you can (as in code).
I maintain email systems for a living and it's a completely legitimate hack.

Capital 'S' spammers don't care because they hit wide swaths of email addresses by generating random strings. They don't waste money buying data.

On the other hand, when someone is buying your data from Equifax, there might be some real bright actors out there, but the majority of firms engaging in this kind of behavior are not as technologically robust as you would think. So you will still catch people sharing your email address regularly.

Besides, if you have + modifiers in your email, they don't know what sort of shenanigans you might actually be doing with it. For all they know, it's a DLL with a re-router or it junks all non-modified emails.
I don’t like paywalls as well, but in principle payed content is justified, and if one is willing to pay for relevant content, isn’t it better that Google allows one to find it? Maybe Google Search should have a switch “show only non-paywalled results” (paraphrased) (I’m sure they could figure out which content is paywalled if they wanted to), but personally I would probably still prefer seeing which sources exist even if they are paywalled.
Nope! I have to profess, as an American, my primary exposure to the three aforementioned novels has been filtered through Japanese adaptions (e.g. the Romance of the Three Kingdoms videogames, Suikoden, Dragon Ball, Dynasty Warriors, etc.). I think it would be great for China to take a stab at adapting the stories for an international audience as a game/movie/TV series.
That's exciting. While I have some minor gripes about VSCode, it is fine enough. What gets me worried is the plugin ecosystem continually becomes a selling point in which no other editor can compete. I want other editors to be built and have a chance to thrive, but it becomes impossible if all of the good development tools get locked to one program.
IANAL but I think the "you grant us" part is what is key. If a license is not yours to grant, then that license is not theirs to receive.
that's because of the cambrian explosion of what being a "programmer" means today. there's no time to learn all the history anymore. at the start of the PC era it was possible to understand every microprocessor architecture on the market and how to program them and programming languages for PC applications were sparse (assembly was pretty much the only viable choice although some profitable applications were written in Pascal). i may be off base here but i think 40 years ago the majority of programmers knew 80-90% of the history and you just can't do that today unless your career is "historian".
In this case it's important to note though that this is a necessary side-effect of offering a powerful extension API.
If you – for example – install some badly coded extension that blocks the main thread to parse the open file into an uncached AST on every keystroke before rendering the input, that's the extensions fault.

Take my example with an ounce of saltt as I've never coded a VSCode extension. It is very well possible that the extension API prevents this particular example. I guess normally things like parsing source files have to follow guardrails that prevent this kind of bug, or at least discourage coding this way. And ASTs are exposed by VSCode's core for the natively supported languages.

Still, it's probably safe to assume that there is a lot of badly written code out there that does not pay attention to performance, or follows an "optimize-later" mindset.

Features surely often seem tempting to implement in a slow and unoptimized way, and anyone can contribute to VSCode extensions.
I have no personal opinion on the code, but it was a high school project. Relax.
My read is that they do what Volkswagen did with the emissions scandal: they detect when they're compiling code for the benchmark, and compile it in a way that makes the benchmark code (specifically) faster. That optimization wouldn't generalize to "real" code because the optimization relies on the specific code and data ("data" being fixed non-code inputs processed at runtime) being processed by the benchmark to have an effect. If you know based on prior knowledge that, for instance, code that uses a signed integer will always only handle positive integers, you might cheat by optimizing it to be unsigned integers. But a compiler couldn't possibly know that in advance because it can't see the data the code processes at compile time.

For your code to benefit, it would have to do the same things the benchmark is computing and have the same shape of data as the data included with the benchmark suite.
When we were looking for our next EV last summer, the BYDs all had some weird design elements that killed the vibe for us one way or another.

We ended up with a Renault Megane e-Tech[1], very pleased with it so far. Our garage was built for 1970s cars and can't fit the new monsters, so choice was limited.

[1]: https://www.renault.co.uk/electric-vehicles/megane-electric....
And "humans like you" have been saying what you just said for the same amount of time, what's your point?

If we can only dicuss ideas which have never bee shared we can close this website right now
I suggest listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmNu6lQU2o while reading :)
I'm not surprised this isn't an original idea. But I haven't seen it discussed.
> Before that it was information security

Fair call-out. To clarify, I swap what I call the job depending on the audience, but IMO the underlying requirements of the job haven't really changed. A SWE/business audience - call it cybersec. At the security cons in Vegas - call it infosec. Obviously there's skill variations within the security needs of the day (i.e. pure "netsec" isn't around as much anymore vs. "cloudsec"). But, skill shortages have persisted across all these variations of the job IMO.

> insurance companies and cyber coverage.

I've primarily worked in tech or finance, and tbh I don't run into insurance topics a lot although it's of course speculated as a possible growing motivator for the field and related hiring. The issue and "signal" I look for with that changing is when will the Fortune 500-style mass data breach actually turn into (a) uninsurability or (b) massive fines. Neither have happened yet, but IMO this is changing.

In terms of security programs I've joined where there was an incentive to hire, it is always something like this, which is what I mean by regulations or hacks driving hiring in my (anecdotal) experiences:

- Want to IPO, Series C tech startup? Must pass SOC-2, must hire security team.

- Horrible hack or very narrow close call, largely stayed internal -> board/founders gets fired up about cyber risk, and it filters down to hiring out a security team.

...
> AI is able to make art, it can learn from people and then produce similar results.

In the jargon of fine arts, "craft" refers "making a thing well / in a particular style" while "art" has something to say, most often challenging a widespread idea.

EG installing a toilet in a room of an art gallery with a plaque stating "this is art" was a bold work of art, but was not an impressive display of craft.

I really appreciate this distinction, because separating those concepts immediately clarifies a lot of the discussion around "AI Art".

AI can imitate _craft_ exceptionally well, but it cannot create _art_ (that is, it can't independently devise a display which challenges a widespread idea).

Working artists are losing out because nearly all of the economic demand for art was actually demand for craft, and they're doubly angry because their past work was needed to create the machine that's now undercutting their income.
You've confused Calibre with Calibri
If the library isn't supposed to do all the heavy lifting, then who is?
Very satisfying! And definitely unlike any other puzzle I've seen. Nicely done.

Edit: just finished the set. This is wordle-level addicting at this point. Different strategies to think of, and insanely satisfying endgame.
At one unnamed startup I worked at, one of the sysadmins would just read the CEO's email and let us know o_O

I remember one email he sent me, paraphrasing: "You know that tech demo you gave the C-Suite last week for that really cool thing you invented in your off-time? Yeah, well they are having their lawyers figure out if your employment contract means that they own it already."
Profitable, whether for the company itself or for some oxygen waster to get some metric ("engagement"?) that justifies their salary/promotion.

I'm not saying they will strip out the + from the primary email address used for login/etc - that would be dangerous for many reasons and could deny access to users.

But they are absolutely likely to strip it out for obnoxious behavior which is only valuable at scale and individual failures don't matter - such as ad targeting, email spam, etc. In this case, it doesn't matter if you fail to spam the 0.001% of users with + as part of their actual username if it means you manage to spam the 2% that use + as an alias separator.
> The traditional capitalism has ideology rooted in liberalism and the concept of meritocracy. You are good at what you do, you sell it in the free market, you make money. So how this transformed in the cloud feudalism?

"Move fast and break things." [0]

"Software is eating the world" [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move_fast_and_break_things_(mo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen#Industry_influ...
It would be nice if it fit on a standard size 1.44MB floppy, but given that I haven't used a floppy drive in about a decade, yeah I guess it doesn't matter much.
I have to point out that the terminology used here is not universally understood in different cultures and the difference is not at all subtle.
This is ummm... news?

I thought since the spam floods of the early 2000s everyone knew not to put their real email to get that 5€ off coupon.

Of course tracking is a thing now too. But most people I know, even non techies are aware of that and very reluctant to give any information.