skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be interested in global workspace theory as a theory of consciousness. You can find more discussion of it, and other theories of consciousness as they relate to modern AI, in this very helpful paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
If it doesn't say "sweet", it probably doesn't have sugar.

Try a spicy brown for contrast.
Among last-ditch options considered for the Apollo programme (specifically several planned but eliminated long-duration, two-week missions), was the ultimate LESS-is-more approach: "Lunar escape systems".

This was basically a lawn-chair rocket for two which would utilise a disabled LEM's (lunar excursion module) fuel tanks, and would be hand-piloted without any guidance computer to an intercept orbit with the Apollo Command Module, with the hope that a rendezvous and crew transfer could occur within the four-hour window of space-suit oxygen supplies. Given that the CM's orbital period was two hours, this meant at best two chances for a successful intercept.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_escape_systems>

(I'd run across this from the recently submitted MOOSE article, "Man out of space, easiest", a strap-a-foam-mattress-to-your-ass reentry concept: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE>.)
More people have cars too though. Working on gut here rather than having checked any figures, but I'd wager that the proportion of rail journeys compared to car/bus journeys, for any given distance long/med/short, has fallen.
They did officially stated on reddit [1] that they are not supporting crypto related hosting. Just wonder why? Is the GPU/CPU/Network related over use? Or legality related?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/wucxs4/comment/ilf...
Every language I'm aware of has value types (but not user defined value types). Typically numerics or "primitives" are value types in GCed languages.

Those types don't have any sort of explicit lifetime that are different from a regular object type. If you put a `int` on a `Foo` object that `int` lives as long as the `Foo` object does, for example.

Being a value type simply means that the memory representation of the value is used instead of a pointer/object reference.

That means that even when you do have user defined value types the same rules apply. How long these things "live" depends entirely on the context of what they are associated with. If you have a `Bar` value type on a `Foo` object then `Bar` will live as long as `Foo` does, which means till the next garbage collection.
Reminds me of trump repeatedly trying to make trade deals with individual EU countries.

Only had to explain it 11 times until for it to sink it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-merkel-germany-e...
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Finally more people are figuring out that the EU is a net positive and not a net negative. Love my Europe.
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> "(...) best seen in the popularity of mass lay-offs – a strategy that has been resoundly proven to be counter-productive, costly, even disastrous, along multiple dimensions, over multiple decades of study."

This is the first time I read that big layoffs are "disastrous" for companies vs. some other approach in these situations (other maybe than the rather obvious fact that companies who are conducting mass layoffs are often in dire straits to begin with). I'm assuming "for companies" is implied here, because the way I read the sentence, the author is saying doing mass layoffs is misguided from the point of view of company management, not someone altruistically trying to maximize welfare in society overall or something like that. Does anyone have a good source for this?
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More governmwnt subsidized launch companies, car makers building shitty cars with bad servicing networks and more right wing BS on the internet? Yes, why puldn't we want that?
"Old" cars tend to have brake pedals where the pressure is used to judge how much force you are applying - find the point where it bites and then modulate the force. Many "modern" cars brake pretty much as soon as the pedal moves, and the amount of braking is determined by the position of the pedal, rather than the force applied at a certain point. I have no idea how they do this, but whenever I switch to a car with the "old" style, I always end up braking way too hard until my brain recalibrate.
Especially that they don't seem to get that while the EU is very slow to act, once it's moving it's almost unstoppable.

The time for Apple to get their point across isn't now but a decade ago.
Sure, just like I’m really happy having for instance AIS for collision avoidance on the boat.

I never got to fly with all the modern automations, though. Fuel prices shot up drastically around the time I got my license, and so I let it expire after a couple of years.

There's a good quote in that “Children of Magenta” article:
“We appear to be locked into a cycle in which automation begets the erosion of skills or the lack of skills in the first place and this then begets more automation.”

Though this comment from that 2015 article aged like milk:
“Airbus planes, by the way, are no more or less safe than their main rival, Boeing.”
It's rare to find someone with a very different starting point of view, and still don't feel any antagonism at all during the reasoning.

As an European for example I would attribute most of his general criticism of EU to the US but after much entrenching on "Apple vs EU" this felt like a reasonable third view.

Kudos to the author
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman just got sued by Elon Musk, so not the best time for them.

Also, they don't have to rush it, GPT-5 would mostly be competing with GPT-4 right now, while it would have a significant cost to roll it out to the world, given the demand. Plus safety concerns wouldn't have been properly addressed.
I've found it impossible to tell if it has any quality issues, because it only gives me non-answers, wrapped in disclaimers.
This was a vote that had very little dissent; it easily surpassed the supermajority that was required to amend the constitution.

There was only one major group that spoke out against the decision: the Catholic Church.

Almost half of the French population reported that they were Catholic in a 2020 survey, but it's clear that when it comes to abortion, almost no French Catholics are influenced by the Church's strong opposition to abortion.

That's in stark contrast to the US, where opposition to abortion, mostly among Christian denominations, has remained an intractable issue. People predicted that after Roe V. Wade was decided, opposition to abortion would fade away, but it never did. Indeed, for the better part of 50 years, opposition fluctuated only a few percentage points, unlike almost every other major social issue.
Reading the article I wonder how often YouTube would get sent these messages if it weren't part of the company:

VIOLENT_EXTREMISM,
HATEFUL_CONTENT,
HARMFUL_HEALTH_CLAIMS,
ANTI_VACCINATION
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Teletext it's an entire different thing. This was actual internet shown in TV.
Teletext was almost like Gopher or some mini-newspaper showing up different subpages (100 the index, up to 999, but not all numbers were used, often >200 was for news, >300 for sports, and so on).

Teletext had no interactivity beside of the 'reveal' button for some simple newspaper-like puzzles.

EDIT:ok, it;s close, it used vblank interval times to send the signal, identical to the Teletext. In that case, yes, it's close, but with different technologies as the protocol, even if they shared the same medium.
> I’m classically trained [...] I just don’t get jazz at all.

Listen to the Brubeck Quartet's "Dave Digs Disney".

If you still "don't get" jazz after that experience, my guess would be that your formal training installed dogmatic opinions.
This is just totally incorrect. Total rail subsidy in the UK is £11bn/yr. Ticket sales are another ~£8bn/yr Total TOC profits are £100m/yr. Rolling stock operating companies take maybe £200m/yr in profit but it varies.

So TOC/ROSOC profits 'take out' 1.5% of the money in the system. Saying they are 'mostly' a profit making enterprise is completely ridiculous.

Also, while the UK has privatised TOCs, Germany and other countries are also opening regional/long distance rail routes to franchising of sorts. National Express (a British company) operates a surprising amount of routes (and growing) in North Rhine-Westphalia (and probably other regions) for example. It's not just a one way thing.
Brave with a few extensions is pretty solid on desktop and when it comes to additional controls and mobile - nothing beats a DNS service.
> US subsidizes most of global R&D for healthcare

Do you have any numbers to back this claim up?

> there's far less flexibility if they are a bad hire

In most European countries any new employee will be on probation for an initial period [1] during which they can be let go easily.

[1] https://www.eurodev.com/blog/probationary-periods-in-europe
> There are a few examples of this trend towards denying reality. The starkest one being Elon Musk behaving as if European labour unions don’t exist and that labour is entirely powerless, leading his companies to lose money on strikes and other collective actions.

> And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world.

I can agree that labour unions are real, but I see little evidence that Elon Musk denies reality. Maybe that's the picture you get when you read only the news. If you watch any full length interview with him he seems pretty down to earth (or "grounded" if you want to call it like that).
Gemini is just following google images, I think -

The classic (2015-ish discovery) -
"american inventors" google image search still appears to silently replace "american" with "african american"

The main serp page appears to have stopped doing it.
I was unfamiliar with that model. UNIX machine. Here is more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_900
Money, sex and power are interchangable when it comes to sociopathic, power hungry people.
The opinion or words of an absent figurehead have little weight.

This is the equivalent of a someone who was a US president 40 years ago criticizing a current president.
Google, in general, seems to have stepped up it's hostility to it's users of late.
I'm sure he'll realise one day that to do that the super AI will have to get rid of money (after figuring out how to get us to post-scarcity, of course) - or at least demand it be redistributed fairly.

Ain't no way the millionaires and billionaires of the world are going to accept being on equal footing with the poors, haha. Outside of the folks that fear Skynet, I imagine this is the real concern with alignment.

How can a being of pure logic look past the hoarding of resources? If a monkey in captivity was hoarding all the food we'd step in and make sure the other monkeys had food to eat. I have to imagine the next intelligence above us would consider doing the same for us if given the power to do so.

We'll never get to a point without an "Us vs Them", or "Have and Have Nots" - it's tragic, and I really hope I'm wrong, but I have infinite doubt on this one.

Having said that I'll give anything a go, we're still stuck in the age of monarchies over here on Normal Island. AI wants to take over? I'm down to give it a shot as long as it promises to not wear a crown during a recession, haha
At this point its like school shootings. Vote for people trying to fix the issue and hope someone in power, that opposes that position, loses a loved one, due to that position, when you hear about the problem in the news [1]. The only person so far that seems to have gotten worse after experiencing gun violence themselves is Scalise

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/11/tennessee-governor-...
Yeah, because for eg. I can publish the given repository from my server with an additional signed commit (signed by me) on top of the original history, and that commit could include a backdoor. You have no way of knowing whether this additional commit is "authorized" by the project leads/owners or not.
Gosh damn you Denmark! You where super late to the party and then choose to be special :(
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1545/5143/files/Plugs_of_t...

That really grinds my gears. But I think the narrow 2 pin plug can be used in most EU countries.

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>The fact that the EU regulators can arbitrarily go after companies is a real problem.

Do they go arbitrarily after companies though?
It would have been quite expensive to try for a second or third take. You're paying for the room, for the tape, and for at least one engineer and probably another guy, and except for the tape, it's all per hour.

They had likely played together enough that they planned to just do one take unless there was a hiccup.
Some people who are against abortion do not consider a fetus as part of the mother's body.
Both SD1.4 and SDXL was in limited preview for a few months before a public release. This has been their normal course of business for about 2 years now (since founding). They just do this to improve the weights via a beta test with less judgemental users before official release.
> I think it was mostly due to just not thorough testing

Really? I suspect the people who wanted it to be like that successfully tested that it was like that.
The comments on the article are definitely something else.
good point!

there are news circulating here that the right wing is celebrating, it must be about that.
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> Another less talked about is how the US subsidizes most of global R&D for healthcare by virtue of the obscene amount Americans pay and hence make profitable that industry to the benefit of all of humanity.

Health Disadvantage in US Adults Aged 50 to 74 Years: A Comparison of the Health of Rich and Poor Americans With That of Europeans
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661456/#:~:tex....

Differences in Health between Americans and Western Europeans: Effects on Longevity and Public Finance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383030/

US spends more than twice as much on health as similar countries for worse outcomes, finds report
https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2340
To add to this, Apple is seen as a foreign company trying to cheat with local regulators
Without giving a position on the legitimacy of this question, I nevertheless point out to foreign observers that this, above all, shows to what extent France now assumes its colony status.

We are in the greatest demographic, energy and financial crisis since the Second World War and on the verge of armed conflict with Russia.
Our legislators have repeatedly refused to have a say on these issues in recent months, but while we had no problem with the status of abortion in France, they took up the issue as soon as there was a problem about it in the USA.

As they say at the UN and the European Commission: "always put a Frenchman at the head of all international institutions, they are the only ones who will never defend the interests of their country".
> have respect for Milton Friedman.

Do they? Still? Color me skeptical.
I worked on WebTV at a major television network. While I do have wonderful memories of the time I worked there, in the back of my mind I always wondered, "Who would use this?". Coding for it was essentially coding for a limited browser with a special tag for where the "TV" would go.
i am new here and i am here trying to see how it works
And now we have walled gardens and monopolies abusing people to death.
So would you posit an LLM which self-updates (retrains) its internal model after every prompt-response (perhaps at night, when it dreams of electric sheep) is conscious because it shows some recursive self-reflection & decision making? (And/or add in active inference as described by Karl Friston, whereby it tries to predict outcomes and self-correct its model)

If you knew the LLM does this after every prompt, is that a sufficient condition for possibly concluding that it's conscious? And if this recursion is not enough, what is? What's the missing piece?

>Consciousness doesn't matter. My phone is conscious when its battery is low.

Those are interesting claims...
It's 14 weeks 'no question asked' abortion. For non-medical reason it can be pushed further, as long as 3 third party (2 doctors and a social worker) say 'ok'. Further than that, it's only for medical reasons, again if 2 (or 3?) doctors say you should do it.

I've actually had this discussion two years ago? With a doctor who specialized in finding out genetic defects in the 90s, basically it's very rare to have abortion after the 14th week, and it's only when some developmental issues are found, or when carrying the pregnancy is dangerous (in some cases labor is induced while the pregnant woman under anesthesia, but the fœtus is known to be unviable, those forced labor seems to be the worst situation mentally for patient and sometime medical personnel)
Especially true for Copilot. I almost never get anything useful out of it. It's too restrictive.
> The first and most clearly top of mind recently is the US defense umbrella

Defense has to be believable, a 50/50 bet that treaties will be honored in the future isn't. All that debt fueled spending doesn't mean a lot.
Many modern cars have a turbo that makes this almost impossible to tell. It almost feels irrelevant, compared to planning ahead for the inevitable wait for the turbo to build pressure.
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>EU citizens haven't been brainwashed into thinking that their government is their enemy, at least not to the same extent as the US.

The same phenomenon can be seen in other areas, such as digital cash:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dpu6G_UlSdM

On paper, digital cash is superior to both physical cash and digital bank money in almost all aspects, but many Americans oppose it anyway because they see their government as their enemy.
The best way to do it right now is controlnets.

I'm not sure about re-doing the text of old images - you could try img2img but coherence is an issue, more controlnets might help
I think performance of Apple silicon is mediocre in many applications. Direct memory access by the GPU is pretty nice, but even with that it doesn't really convince. There are scenarios where it is surprisingly good though and that even includes some applications in x86 mode.

The only thing I really like about MacBooks are their displays. If notebook manufacturers would get their houses in order, they could have more attractive devices again. Perhaps their management suffers from bad eyesight.

Although one strength of Apple is also that Windows is so incredibly terrible right now. And I don't see that improving in the near term, their strategy is anti-user for decades. Apples strategy is too, but to a lesser degree and I don't see Windows getting anything right.
In the linked article Sergey literally says

> "it leans left in many cases"
Coding is 100% a superpower. Great post and love how you approached this. Hopefully it gives others similar ideas to help them.
Except he hasn't. And they are.
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> that cost them almost nothing

Adding guardrails comes at significant expense, and not just financial, either.
Wild guess: They use significantly more electricity than the average customer that does just about anything else with their hardware. The GPU can easily run at hundreds of watts, and when you add in the required cooling you're probably at 1.5-2x that in total power usage.
It's very likely an artifact of CFG (classifier-free guidance), hopefully some days will be able to ditch this kinda dubious trick.

This is also the reason why the generated images have this characteristic high contrast and saturation. Better models usually need to rely less on CFG to generate coherent images because they fit the training distribution better.
>It does seem they've mistaken the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better".

The notion of regulation as being on a sliding scale where "more is worse" was a manufactured American meme created by the Kochs in the 1980s. It emerged from some of their epic fights with the environmental protection agency and their subsequent lobbying and public relations outreach efforts that followed. They set up and funded number of institutions dedicated to telling this story (and others, including that one about hairdresser licensing). The Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Cato Institute to name a few.

If you think about it for a few seconds, dumbing down a complex system like laws or regulation to "more vs less" is quite stupid. It's like saying that some programmers believe in "more lines of code" and some believe in "fewer". Do you want more laws or fewer laws? The question doesn't make sense. You want the right kind of laws, right? Ones that are as simple as possible and no simpler. The same for code.

I think it's important to put this type of thing in a historical context though. These ideas and stories don't emerge out of nowhere - there is usually money behind them. In this case, it was money from an oil and chemicals company that had a singular goal - to fight the EPA - so it could destroy the natural environment in America with absolute impunity.
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That's not quite right, we solved this in Radicle. Each change in ownership (adding/removing maintainers) is signed by the previous set of owners. You can therefore trace the changes in ownership starting from the original set, which is bound to the Repository ID.
The scientists with phds who study nutrition science are pretty clear on what a good diet for healthy living and longevity is.

A mostly plant based Whole Foods diet with small amounts of fish.

There’s a whole lot of nonsense that food industry scientists will try and spread to confuse the issue but the science is pretty clear on this.

Lately we also have a whole class of “influencers” who jump onto the latest trend because they can make hundreds of millions selling supplements.

Finally, there’s also a class of doctors, who are driven heavily by anecdotes and ignore the actual science. Doctors are not scientists people. For one thing, doctors, almost by definition in the minds of most people, deal with people who are sick. For another they deal almost entirely with anecdotes. Unfortunately a lot of doctors let these anecdotes and a few cases of possible genuine anomalies due to allergies, etc drive their opinions about nutrition which isn’t based on actual science.