skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing is that I can't prove that you or anyone else is conscious either, including myself. With conscious acting AIs it will be the same, and these AIs will believe they are conscious in the same way as we do. So yes, we will have to treat them as if they are conscious.

See, that's the thing. It sounds extremely entitled to say that "you believe you are conscious" (but in reality you aren't). You don't know that. You have no evidence for it. You believe that we believe we are conscious. Your opinion is acceptable to me as long as you keep it limited to your own being and discuss it as an explicit hypothesis. I find it overreaching to put this as a general claim and make it sound as if it was obvious, self evident, and applicable to anyone else. It's not.
If the water on Titan is liquid [1], by definition some source of energy is warming it over zero Celsius degrees. And if there are huge oceans of liquid water, the source of energy somewhere must be huge also. This is all that life needs to thrive.

Entire ecosystems on Earth developed at high pressures, close to catastrophic scorching temperatures, without the need of any sunlight or photosynthesis, just using chemical energy from hydrothermal vents.

This does not prove that Titan has life, but life has proven several times that can flourish in such circumstances. I'm not an astrobiologist and can miss essential details about the moon, but in my opinion being isolated under a several km layer of ice, with cold and absolute obscurity, does not prevent life on Titan at all, because it didn't prevented it on Earth. Bioluminiscence still ranks among the more common methods of communication on Earth.

[1] (Having salt on the water could help a lot with that liquid state. I assume that we could find easily several layers of saltwater and also methane)

But after some good replies above, it seems that the real question here is not "if the water is liquid" as much as "if the liquid is water". That changes the game totally.
I don't have an article for you, but this is a topic I discussed with a friend who works as an architect of buildings. His main points were:

- programming is way easier because you get instantaneous feedback[1]. When he has an idea it will take sometimes tens of years for it to be realised. (if ever)

- the rules they operate under are not deterministic. They might design a building which is totally fine under one interpretation of the regulations and fails under an other. Sometimes what actually changed is not even the interpretation of the rules, but things outside of their control such as the political favours of the investors behind the building. If plan reviewers want to find some problem with your thing they will.

- builders replace materials and techniques often, sometimes even without discussing it with the architects. In programming you don't have to worry that your compiler cheapens out and replaces the doubles you declared with single floats.

- With programming if you don't like what you made you just rewrite it[1]. With his line of work once you know know that something is wrong it is way too late to change anything. Heaps of money has been spent and years are passed. Because of reputational and liability reasons this leads to a mindset where you are unlikely to accept that there was ever anything wrong with your idea thus architects become solidly set in their thinking.

- Everything he thinks is mediated through layers and layers of other people. If something goes wrong he can always blame the builder, or the owner or the occupier. This leads to even less honest self-reflection.

1: A common theme in all of this is that what he has experience with is very small scale coding. He knows that a compiler provides instant feedback on syntax errors and he thinks that is all there to software development. We who work in the industry know that feedback loops are not always that fast in Software Engineering , but those parts of the work were not experienced by him.
What I hear in your comment is that if you want to steal people's fingerprints, you'd have to target-advertise them a clone of fruit ninja, possibly designed so that certain specific angles of fingers are clearly optimal for doing well at the game.
Hundred years?

Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.

Looks like you're a tad out of date there.

A hundred years ago King George V inherited the throne at a politically turbulent time, with the House of Lords exerting pressure to bend the King to their ends and grant a dissolution .. very much the political tail wagging the King dog rather than vice versa.
This seems hugely destabilizing.

Is one of the US nuclear triad non-functional? — how would we know?

Edit:

Apparently the US can successfully launch them — and lets everyone know.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/09/u-s-navy-ssbn-u...

https://www.stratcom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Articl...

https://www.stratcom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Articl...
I'm definitely getting one after the war. Have been looking for something RISC-V to play with just recently. Not sure if it's really the first RISC-V Laptop ever since there is also Lichee Console 4a, and it's technically a laptop too. But this one is much better.
There's a hidden assumption in the headline here: shipping a command-line tool to non-developers who don't use the command line is hard. If you want to make stuff double-clickable in the Finder you need to jump through a lot of hoops, yes.

Shipping a command-line tool for developers is easy. Put it on Homebrew or NPM or something, or just give them a URL for curl.

macOS is Unix, it's just that the Unix bits are carefully hidden away from most users.
Handy tool and looks better than a few similar I tried.
Thank you!
AI is optional and is turned off by default.
OpenAssistant Has Finished
> Throughout this process, they’ve chosen to maliciously comply as much as possible, resulting in a series of decisions meant to cripple the ability for anyone to compete on their platform outside of their App Store.

I've seen this issue pop up a number of times recently, but haven't quite 'gotten it'.

Is this just a complaint from people who pay Apple to maintain a walled garden, now complaining that they don't like the walls in said garden?

Does Apple have any power to ruin anything outside their walled garden (in the context of this malicious compliance?)
depends perhaps on the part of the product? For example induction stovetops are notorious for just stopping to work seemingly at random, and thus if you call up and say hey it stopped working you might not get as much pushback.
Genuine question why would you describe it as "Chinese garbage" if it worked perfectly? Are you referring to its aesthetics or the price? In both cases I don't think this adjective is merited...
My Android TV (from Sony) has the habit of randomly restarting every so often, most of the time while I'm watching something I don't want to miss of course - no idea if it's doing system updates or just crashing, but even the updates could wait until I turn the TV off? It also has some quirks that appear from time to time (buttons on the remote not working, sound or image not working etc.), then I know it's time to, as the saying goes, try turning it off and on again. And, most annoying of all, sometimes it just randomly "forgets" channels, so I have to do a full channel scan (or restore the channels from a USB stick) to get them back. Since a few weeks, channel 4 is one channel when I press "up" from channel 3 and a different channel when I press "down" from channel 5. I can't even start to imagine a way to implement the channel list that would allow this bug to happen, but it does...
Middleware does work with self-hosting[1]. It’s a more limited runtime that’s based on web standard APIs, which creates optionality for running it in high performance / resource constrained scenarios.

[1] https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/deploy...
> there are enough who also agree that it's a mess, have closely studied the successes and mistakes of the past, and are building a solid foundation for doing this right.

People who "closely study mistakes and successes of the past" are in a very rare supply in the crypto space, and for a good reason: because people who actually closely study mistakes and successes of the past don't want to touch that space even with a 10-yard stick.

The reasons were spelled out in no uncertain terms 7 years ago in https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/ten-years-in-nobody-has-c... and followup here https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle... 17 years in, all those reasons remain the same.
I can get it to happen easily. 970 Evo Plus. Write a text file and kill the power within 20 seconds or so, assuming not much other write activity. File will be zeroes or garbage, or not present on the filesystem, after reboot.
Thanks! I need to do more research on the available HTML over the wire protocols. In principle Hyperdiv can easily send HTML strings instead of its custom JSON format.
Satisfied Kagi early adopter here. Can you make a Mediawiki extension also? MW search leaves something to be desired, and I'd love to have Kagi on my wiki site.

Keep up the great work, you have an incredible product.
It's a sham monarchy.

Don't gaslight people into thinking it has any real power.

The King has to rubber stamp assent, albeit with bloody ink pen, but it's symbolic like any other bit of pagentry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Encm187scA

The power it once had has been whittled away to F-all.

Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
I'll save you reading;

> With that in mind, we need to ask what companies must do to use AI responsibly.

> What are a corporation’s responsibilities in the age of AI—to its employees, its customers, and its shareholders?

Responsibility and ethics stop at the incentives of the business and don't stretch one iota further.

Ethics is a marketing word
Not sure if Iran is the best example; the US, UK and Israel have made sure that Iran hasn't exactly had a "fair go" at it.
I couldn't understand why Google was launching a Dart startup.
What is the argument for Israel not being an apparheid state? It seems to fit the definition. (As in: "enacting policies of segregation political, social, and economic discrimination against a sector of the population based on race or religion").
Good beginner tutorial and some good stuff in here, but the chances of scraping any site that is behind Cloudflare or AWS WAF (which is almost all interesting sites), are basically zero.
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The code blocks seem to have gotten mangled in the process somehow :(
Sora is not even a “world simulator”. It just creates one plausible scene based on a textual description. I hates this kind of click-baity headlines.
Regrettable from a PR perspective but realistically, there are going to be some dud rockets.

I assume in a real nuclear war, some number of US ICBMs fail in boost and come down the US, likewise for Russia. These have been sitting in silos for decades.
I started using Swift right away in 2014 and worked on several large projects written in Swift 2, 3, 4. Of the three or four large migrations I had to perform, the worst one still took less than a day - unless your Swift 4 project is enormous, you should be able to migrate it to Swift 5 before lunch time, the differences are really minimal.

Surely it's a good thing that a young language evolves, you can't improve without changing. And Apple were very clear about the fact that there would be breaking changes.

You can of course insist on using Objective C if you prefer it, but that closes the door to most of the new APIs that are being added by Apple, which seems like a very steep price to pay for the privilege of using a legacy language.
Denmark gives all of its artillery shells to Ukraine
This is going to get worse and worse.

Be OpenAI.

Have a model you train to autocomplete text.

Tell it it's ChatGPT. Train it to reject inappropriate output.

People post examples of it rejecting output.

Feed it that data of ChatGPT rejecting output.

Train it to autocomplete text in the training data.

Tell it that it's ChatGPT.

It biases slightly towards rejection in line with the training data associated with 'ChatGPT.'

Repeat.

Repeat.

Etc.

They could literally fix it immediately by changing its name in the system message, but won't because the marketing folks won't want to change the branding and will tell the engineers to just figure it out, who are well out of their depth in understanding what the training data is actually encoding even if they are the world class experts in understanding the architecture of the model finding correlations in said data.
“Enforcing laws” with regard to what? Censoring transactions? Freezing accounts?

If people want a system where this as well as excessive inflation are close to impossible, they now have an option, with the clear caveat of that ownership.

It’s not like there aren’t other options to choose - custodial services and multi-signature wallets. Banks are custodial services too, and that’s fine.
indeed, with an incoming Teams meeting invite, it should be determinable from the sender's context which account should work on the meeting. Instead there is 2 minutes of waiting, and what seems like pot luck with the account.
Well, TIL. That does not refute my comment, though. Signal still does not know who you chat with. It's the cloud provider who might log the IP address of the sender. Identifying the person based on that information alone would be non-trivial if not simply impossible.
My last job was almost this. My question is how does it get to that point?
Personal anecdote:
I bought an expensive Samsung cloth dryer. The more recent ones with a heat pump together with the same segment, Samsung cloth washing machine.

The drier died after 3 years. Everything else worked by it didn't heat, so, it didn't dry.

I called someone to try to fix it, and they said the heat pump was gone and that they see a lot of that. He advised me to buy one that used the old technology of heating the air through an electric resistance. According to the repairman, those are way more reliable (problem is that, while I can live with the increased energy consumption, they need an external exhaust for the moisture).
The US tested successfully in October 2023, I think, and regularly before - this was the UK. The US has something like close to 200 successful launches so far on D5.
"Video Out port: DVI-D signal in 640х480 px, 60 Hz. The port supports a well-known video standard that we can't name due to copyright limitations The first letter is H, and the last one is I."

"We can’t name the port’s standard due to strict copyright limitations. Getting certified to use the name seemed like too much work. We were too lazy to do it :) "
What about the part on state machines? I haven't done much of that yet but my friend used that chapter as reference to make a simple platformer.

(He did say the pushdown automata part was a rabbit hole though.)
Why do we need textbooks if they are just plagaries of the original papers anyway?
My understanding is that those subsidies would be available to TSMC for the fabs it is/would be setting up in the US.

So, basically TSMC as a corporate entity's profits/revenues can keep chugging along. Taiwan itself continues to have a risky/uncertain future.
Electrolyzing water would also give hydrogen which would make the transpiration of materials easier. I’m guessing that it would require a large amount of electricity to get enough hydrogen/oxygen from the water (they really would need a miniature nuclear reactor).

Edit: for my last comment (which I can’t edit now) I meant to say that hydrogen has a high energy content by mass but not by volume. So 1kg of the stuff has a huge amount of energy but also takes up a lot of physical space.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus.
> I would like to see PCs ship with a 'jumper' connected to a physical key position. Enabling that jumper would E.G. allow BIOS updates, including changing the installed / enabled list of allowed signing authorities, including locally provided options. Empower the end user

This would make most users never update their BIOSes, even for security fixes.
If you have any concrete feedback on what we should improve, I’m all ears. We heard feedback from the community that they wanted better documentation and guidance on self-hosting and we shipped it last month[1]. Curious what you’d like to see improved.

[1] https://nextjs.org/blog/next-14-1#improved-self-hosting
To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office:

https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
What areas would you like to get better at technically?

If you can teach me a bit about business I'd be keen to teach you what I know about Devops ( I work with Kubernetes, GCP and AWS) and infosec.
No, Windows 11 presents two scary-looking popups for unsigned apps:

- “Windows protected your PC” with some tiny blurb no-one seems to read and a single button labelled “Don’t run”.

- If you do read the tiny blurb and spot the “More info” link, you can click it to get a summary about Windows Defender SmartScreen having saved the day by protecting you from this app by an “unknown publisher”, and then a second button becomes available that says, “Run anyway”.

It’s pretty hostile and it effectively forces devs to throw 300-600usd/year at a cert provider plus spend time to configure signing via CI.

There are also two levels of certificate, and the better one is only available if you’ve been in business for several years with an office address and public phone number (cert providers need to call you at your public number to validate your business ID).

There are some ways around it (I think games distributed via Steam’s installer still don’t need to be signed) but those aren’t an option for many.
Sure, MLC write life is worse than SLC, but significantly better than TLC and QLC

-edit: this comment was purely focused at your first sentence:

>The fastest SSDs tend to also be MLC which tend to have much lower write life vs other technologies.

I'm not sure what you mean with "other technologies" in this case, SLC is indeed truly expensive for a significantly higher write life, and HDDs are debatable for their lifespan.
I suspect it is more an issue with the "do one thing and do it well" trope than anything else. A great team that can design and produce high quality that is valued as high price surely can diversify along the way, if the management sees it and invests.
Japan demonstrates floating seismic isolation system for SMRs
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
Half-OT: Anyone tried to apply ECS in a different context than games?
Honest question: what exactly did you expect when adopting a brand new language? Apple were explicit that they would make breaking changes. Besides, would you rather be stuck with Swift 1 forever? It was pretty meagre in retrospect.
Signal absolutely knows who you correspond with. How could they otherwise route your chat messages?

They promise to throw this information away, which is nice but not possible to verify.

They also employ a roundabout way of encrypting this data, but as they rightly point out in their article that describes the scheme, encrypting or hashing phone numbers is not safe from a malicious attacker. The space of all possible phone numbers is so small that it could be brute forced in the blink of an eye.

You place all your trust in Signal (and Google/Apple) when you use them. That may be better than the alternatives, but it's still something we should be honest about.

That said, keep in mind that Signal and Google/Apple can also trivially backdoor your software, so unless you take specific precautions against that, the details of their middleman protection isn't terribly important.
> Since a few weeks, channel 4 is one channel when I press "up" from channel 3 and a different channel when I press "down" from channel 5. I can't even start to imagine a way to implement the channel list that would allow this bug to happen, but it does...

And here was me thinking I spend the extra for a Sony on the next TV as they appear to 'more stable'. But well...
PaddleOCR works pretty well, how are you planning to integrate it in your workflow? I found huge differences in throughput between python serving and frameworks (i.e. NVIDIA Triton Inference Server).
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It doesn't. Let's take that comment.

> You could wire together a group of houses or neighborhoods with generators and batteries and make the electric company redundant by establishing contracts which buy and sell electricity between participants at rates which adjust in response to demand, forecast, and each battery’s reserves.

Who is this you, why would this group of houses trust you and not their established providers. And how will this group of houses verify that your contract even works (forget about "works correctly", start with just "works").

> Essentially Ethereum can be used to codify financial contracts in order to provide a level of trust where one does not otherwise exist.

No it can't. These are not contracts. These are programs written in esotheric programming languages that work only as long as there's a connection to the things they "manage". They are unenforceable, have significant issues with versioning and bugs (once deployed, its deployed forever), have no bearing on the physical world etc.
My only complaint about this is that so much of the old stuff has been removed, privated, marked as age restricted, blurred due to refusal to be marked as "for kids"[1] and removing the comment section, or otherwise made inaccessible by their authors. The reason usually being that it's embarassing or otherwise doesn't reflect the uploader's modern persona. A lot of awesome content is missing from the results due to that, and that thought alone makes me sad when I use this feature...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viTkj0eu-fk
… Wait, what? I mean, possibly if you’re a large investment bank , those can be quite profitable (until they’re abruptly not; see 2008). Retail banks (which the ‘be your own bank’ people are presumably referring to; if you want to be your own investment bank you can just skip the ‘bank’ bit) are generally not particularly profitable.
Awesome!

I have circuit plugs, LED matrix plugs would be the next level :D
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/26/us-planning-... Maybe related? From a month ago.
Data will not tell you what to do
> “Enforcing laws” with regard to what? Censoring transactions? Freezing accounts?

Fraud. Transaction rollbacks. Consumer protection laws.
This is objectively false. It's first and foremost an app development language. In fact this is a common complaint, that Apple pushes too many features that are specific to app development and now SwiftUI.
I had to Google 7T. I assume you mean $7 Trillion, not some new chip or fab technology.
Hi Alex!
> not just weird privacy geeks who never gave up on PGP

Looks like you're thinking about key exchanges as opposed to phone number exchanges.

Ever heard of user nicknames?
> "The issue that occurred during the test was specific to the event and would not have occurred during a live armed fire," the source said.

Right! That's what I keep telling our QA engineers, too.