skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem is that "self-awareness" has so many different meanings, it's hard to know which one is being discussed.

Any feedback loop has some dependency on its own prior state, but then the question is "what's awareness?", and "what's self?".

Awareness is "knowledge or perception" says a random dictionary, and I think we can reasonably state that AI have "perception"… as do single-celled bacteria.

What then is "knowledge"? My Philosophy A-level got as far as pointing out the problems with the definition "justified true belief" and then didn't give an adequate replacement. Me? I think "knowledge" is just the word for our own beliefs. It's like one of the Yes Minister quotes:

"""Oh, that's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential press briefings; you leak; he's been charged under Section 2a of the Official Secrets Act.""" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751832/characters/nm0288621

I know, you believe, the AI is parroting its training set.

The concept of self is a whole extra can of similarly wormy worms.
if you don’t want EU laws applied to you don’t sell phones on that market.
Yes, huge swaths of them in Olympic National Park. Washington State, USA. Here's the giant spruce:

https://www.scenicwa.com/poi/quinault-rain-forest-worlds-lar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_National_Park

The park is almost a million acres; it's enormous -- larger than small countries like Luxembourg. There are two entrances; most visitors go to the North entrance near Port Angeles to see mountains. If you want to see trees and beaches take the Southwest entrance at Lake Quinault instead.

I recommend the North Coast hike from La Push to Chilean Memorial. It's a multi-day hike, and you need to get a permit from the Park Service office at Lake Quinault beforehand. But it's worth it. Remember to get a copy of the tide charts so you don't get trapped by the tides.

https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/north-coast-beach-travel...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chilean-memorial
Could a Netflix for AI-generated movies be a killer idea?
Hi there,

I've been working on a new project: AiflixHub.com, a platform for AI-generated films. Think of it as a combination of Netflix (to watch content) and the Hollywood industry (to produce content).

In the 'Cinema', you can publish, share, like, and watch AI movies and videos. As a creator, you have your own page to showcase all your AI creations. Alongside this, there is the 'Studio,' a tool designed for creators to easily craft AI movies, handling everything from scripting to video and audio production. Your feedback is welcome: How intuitive do you find 'Studio'? Are there any features or improvements you'd like to see for a better experience?

Thanks for your support!
Yep, it feels like half the show hn launches is for infrastructure tooling that already exist natively or as plug and play libraries for Elixir/Erlang.

I really try to suggest people skip Node and learn a proper backend language with a solid framework with a proven architecture.
Last time I checked, Lisbon was in fact in the EU... Vladivosstok not so much.
Unfortunately the documentation for Erlang doesn’t really describe any pros/cons for anything and I’m not an expert in it so I don’t know what the limitations are for the Erlang approach but they certainly must be (e.g. if you have long running sessions and do several upgrades, are you running N versions of the code & eating up RAM because the old sessions aren’t complete?).

As I understand it, Erlang/OTP captures the entire state of the program and it’s a feature of the language and VM to accomplish this. It’s not something you can retrofit into any arbitrary language. For example, your JS app or your Python app or your Rust app won’t be able to do the same easily which means it won’t be robust and it will be error prone. Thus I stand by that there’s no “generic” solution you can bolt onto an arbitrary language.
The short answer: it happened because the previous board was incompetent. Even if their grievances were not entirely illegitimate, they badly mismanaged the situation.
But can't you then also change the units on the linear animations? "move 40px/s until you reach the destination"
Looks cool but looks like it's only typescript. If there is a json payload, couldn't any web server handle it?
I dunno... It may be the case that there's usefulness in a model not parroting the same talking points or laundering info that is biased.

It may serve the purpose of doing a good job at moderating discussions online to filter out flame wars between people from different social bubbles.

But then you have the problem of alignment, ... Whose interests will it favor? How can you be sure that it remains unbiased?
Tax payer money?
I can vouch for deploy-rs. Used it for years without issues. Flake support is built in and activity is pretty good.

Disclaimer: I am a relatively active contributor
EF is not really practical, the depth of the mount limit too much the movements you can make.
Agreed, I have the 16gb M2 air and while it’s pushed to its limits when running Firefox with lots of tabs, webpack, docker and a windows vm in parallels at the same time it holds up very well. Can’t imagine that a normal user would have any problems at all with 8gb.
Either you make an account and upload your game, getting a downpour.games link you can share. Or you can export the game as a self contained webpage to host elsewhere (it's a zip with an index.html, a JSON file & the required images)
Yes, but I’ve seen people regularly struggle to write code that accepts all back compat state + handles it correctly. It’s a very hard problem and bugs are very real. Not convinced it’s a better strategy to go for seamless transition for every session vs other approaches.
Remote procedure calls (or whatever it is called) simply can never really feel like local functions. It has been tried again and again for decades.

Maybe call it "removes as much friction as possible compared to local functions" but please don't call it "feels [exactly] like local functions". It's simply impossible and pretending so will just cause trouble.
So is it theft because a human is "stealing" from a machine? That seems a bit far fetched, also I'm talking about the creativity of the machine.
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It doesn't.
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Windows Phone (as opposed to Windows Mobile, which was basically moribund at the time the iPhone came out, and was replaced with the incompatible Windows Phone) wasn’t competing with the original iPhone; it came out shortly after the iPhone 4.

IMO the real problem with Windows Phone was the complete failure to produce an actual platform. Windows Phone 7 was incompatible with Windows Mobile, and _Windows Phone 8 was largely incompatible with Windows Phone 7_! The whole thing was comically developer hostile.

(Second mistake; Windows Phone 7’s UI ran at 30fps, presumably in an attempt to save battery. This made it feel a lot worse than iOS and Android.)
Sadly true, though there always has been bugs in the Apple ecosystem, much more than everybody wants to remember.

I remember my dad telling me when I was little “Apple is not what it used to be; now there are so many bugs. I miss the good old times…”

Personally I think the main issue with Apple is the lack of transparency wrt what actually happens. Take AirDrop for instance. It’s magical when it works, but truly opaque and frustrating when it doesn’t…

The other issue is the follow-up for reported bugs which is lacking, though I guess they have a lot of reports and following up on everyone of them must be tricky.
it's at least one server (_any_ computer that never turns off) hosting things you would use (and probably pay) on a day-to-day basis.

The most important point is to be available all the time in multiple devices that you own, that's why some folks don't want to do these things on their main machines. A laptop you could take it away, and your family at home would/could lose access to the things you're hosting. A beefy desktop might be a bit too power hungry to be on all the time.
The closest I know of is Realm, which is an amazing object database and seems to do a lot of what the op describes. But after the acquisition by MongoDB they seem to have drifted a bit more in a document database direction.
Not to mention that we need to clearly define what we're talking about when we say "advertising". Do influencers flaunting new outfits every video count? People who post intentionally lavish lifestyles on Instagram? There are studies proving both of those make users envious and, most likely, spur purchases. But you can't really ban people from showing off.
Exciting time for distributed, transactional task queue projects built on the top of PostgreSQL!

Here's the most heavily upvoted in the past 12 months

Hatchet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136

Inngest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403014

Windmill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35920082

HN comments on Temporal.io
https://github.com/temporalio
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Internally we rant about the complexity of the above projects vs using transactional job queues libs like:

river https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38349716

neoq: [https://github.com/acaloiaro/neoq](https://github.com/acaloi...

gue: [https://github.com/vgarvardt/gue](https://github.com/vgarvar...

Deep inside can't wait to see some like ThePrimeTimeagen to review it ;)
https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen
When I was trying to learn C at 15 or so I tried to implement Solitaire crypto from cryptonomicon as part of some programming challenge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher)

Failed but learnt a lot about memory management :)
It's nice to know that there's a group of dedicated people in the National Trust who focus on preserving heritage trees.

If coppicing (letting the stump grow shoots back out) doesn't work, hopefully these cuttings are able to do it instead.
It was a nice tree, but preserving genetic material from famous trees is just silly. I don't think anybody would be able to pick out a clone of the Sycamore Gap tree out from an identity parade of other sycamore saplings, because it's just a sycamore, and likewise Isaac Newton's apple tree is just an apple tree, of the Flower of Kent variety - preserving this one makes more sense, because it's not a popular variety, being "mealy, and sub-acid, and of generally poor quality by today's standards". But the 2,500 year old yew is just a yew, and is very far from being the oldest in the country, and its descendants and clones, of course, aren't old at all, so they kind of lack the whole point of the original tree.

There's a sort of superstition like sympathetic magic going on here, where the powers of objects literally rub off on things they come into contact with. It's culturally very weird, but so is the idea of "a famous tree" in the first place. Maybe turning its DNA into a celebrity as well makes a sort of crazy sense.
Haven't watched the interview but on Twitter Yann never admits being wrong, always bashes LLMs, and pushes his own architectures as the future but never shows big wins with them in practice.
And the Vatican is rightly subject to a lot of criticism and scrutiny every time their activities stray in the for-profit realm. A few years their banks were effectively banned from the global banking system because they were too shady - they're not shady because they like to be shady, but because they work hard to hide activities that are not, er, "in character" with their stated non-profit mission. They had to clean up their act before they were allowed back in. The state of their numerous properties and businesses in Italy is constantly under legal challenge, with various different outcomes at various points in time.

The pope is not a model.
Came here for this subpoint. We know a lot more than we know we know.

I had a system, back when multiple choice tests were a significant part of my life. Next to each question, I would write a 1, 2, or 3, so I knew which ones to come back to if I had time at the end. 1 meant I was confident I knew the answer. 2 meant I could eliminate at least one answer, but was guessing among the remaining ones, and 3 meant I didn't know, and had just circled the first thing that came to mind.

I especially appreciated tests where I got my own question sheet back, not just my answer sheet with a grade (like a Scantron) because I could verify that my system worked!
A formerly-popular cipher that works better than you'd expect given its extreme simplicity--simple enough that you can encrypt and decrypt it by hand with a deck of cards.

Nowadays it's insecure though, so you should never use it.
Yep we are using cloud tasks and pub sub a lot. Another big benefit is that the GCP infra is literally “pushing” your messages even if your infra goes down.
These two:
https://www.yipesoftware.com/yipeii.htm
https://www.yipesoftware.com/yipeiii_MAC.html
Money is just a unit of accounting. Land is still just as important, as is labour. And in any case, capital is accumulated money. In the end these all amount to power, and capability to direct that power towards a goal.

Even if AGI becomes some form of new capital, it is still the same as capital as we know it today. Until the day humanity transcends and we no longer face the human condition of course.
> And software development, as a process, does not have a (finite) mean or variance.

Ever heared of something called linear regression? E.g. LOCs/week might be an interesting enough metric for a growing company.

Edit: better example
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=mfsbsd ?

There have been others in the past, but this seems to be the most polished and ready to use ATM(for FBSD).

Another would be NanoBSD (also FBSD).

For NetBSD you're on your own, starting from there https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_create_bootable_net... , and/or asking on https://daemonforums.org/ , https://www.unitedbsd.com/ (taking inspiration from some 'live-distro' discussed there. like 'OS-108'), reddit(?), 'crap-overflow', and even https://www.linuxquestions.org/.

Of course you're free to use the official NetBSD mailing lists, and some obscure IRC-channels in even more obscure IRC-networks also :-)

(You won't be spoon-fed, and are expected to have read the manuals and other documentations...)
which era Elon do you feel would be embarrassed to take money from fans?
Using a law is pretty legal, actually.
You should mention something about your content moderation or "community guidelines". I'm sure you'll (if you haven't already) establish appropriate policies to ensure you don't wind up hosting illegal content. You might even want to consider doling out "blue checkmarks" for trusted video producers.
> That's like saying "choose a cup with your left or right hand -- if you choose correctly with your left hand, you get $5, and if you choose correctly with your right hand, you get $6". Everyone would use their right hands.

From the article it seems that placing the chosen cup in front of the subject, to make it feel like they "own it", is an important part of the experiment.
We need the same 3D stacking they do on NAND flash.
Do you know if this or something else, like Merkle trees, could be used to efficiently diff datasets (e.g. an SQL database)?

My rough idea: Consider a table "items" that you want to back up and make a perfect copy of. You want to keep this backup up to date and also verify its integrity. The data isn't timestamped and can be billions of rows, though we can assume each row has a primary key that doesn't change. To do this, compute a Merkle tree in which each adjacent node is a non-overlapping partition of the items table. To determine which partition a row belongs to, we could say that each item row with a "hash(pk) mod N" which we could even precompute at insert time. To diff the "items" table with a remote mirror, you just compare the Merkle tree recursively and only copy the rows with differences.

The challenge, as I understand it, is to compute the hashes incrementally in a live system in a way that preserves consistency. The backup copy's tree doesn't change until you do a diff, but as the "items" table undergoes database updates, we need to (1) serialize the updates in order for the hash updates to be applied in a consistent order, (2) update the hashes at each level of the tree, (3) and this needs to be kept transactional consistent with the original data.

The above is trivial if the hash tree is computed at diff time, because you could just sort and scan both tables to build the tree in memory. But this would not be efficient for very large datasets that you want to compare fairly frequently. (It's also much trickier if the scan takes so long that you run into the issue of having out-of-date hashes by the time you're done, if the input table is frequently updated.)

To date, I've not seen a Merkle tree implementation like this that is also persistent and usable in a database setting. Prolly trees may work, but they're a kind of low level data structure that wouldn't map to something you can store in, say, Postgres, I think. Do you know of any prior art, aside from Prolly trees?
The top answer is a very nice explanation. I don’t know Rust but I understand it.
> Nobody knows who Marcus Brownlee is unless they're into tech and under 30.

Disagree. I started looking at EV reviews on Youtube, and soon noticed him in that context. Yes, including the Fisker review. I don't fit your filter. You don't need to be under 30 or into computer hardware to have that experience.
Then you have not understood what the term self awareness refers to.

What is the self that is aware? Do you believe that the server is aware of its own existence?
It doesn’t match the other clock we made, sure, but boy that would’ve been a weird thing to explain to any human at all 200 years ago. https://www.lasrslogin.online/
No, use a cryptographic hash function. If you use a CRC32 you will massively reduce the password space and make it easy to find collisions.
Imagine a nifty useful piece of software that does something genuinely useful and that you want to use, but that you really only use once every few months.

Say for example something like a nifty project roadmap generator.

You'd like to use it.
You would be willing to pay for it, but $10 a month is just way more than it would be worth to you.
That's an interesting thought I'll give some chin stroking to. Sounds
like something Kurt Godel and John Gall would have hatched together.
Is it a personal insight, or from experience, or something you think
might be attributable. cheers.

> we have to rewrite systemic priorities to some degree

maybe Forrester or Meadows has an insight?
Hello, the creator here. It's a tricky subject, I agree - especially because as a trans person who likes lots of messy transgressive art, I don't want to shut down that kind of self-expression from the platform. But also it's on the app stores, which do have rules for what content can be served up within an app. But there's a few layers to this - first is that the Featured list is currently a hand selected list of users, which means that there's no algorithm to surface that kind of explicit content automatically. And there's also a reporting/moderation system for explicit content that is uploaded. And finally - the app works as a standalone tool even if you don't host the games on the platform - you can make explicit content and export it to host elsewhere. I'm always glad when people think about this side of stuff - honestly it's one of the things I've most been stressed about with launching this. You gotta!
NetBSD is pretty cool, can still remember someone porting it to the Dreamcast game console [1] way back. Still in awe for such a feat!

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/ports/dreamcast/
> Given we know the AI isn't self-aware

That's presuming the conclusion.

Part of the US culture war right now is whether or not embryos and foetuses count as people. I think it's obvious they don't, but am I right?

And in the opposite direction, 160 years ago in the USA, or in my lifetime(!) in South Africa, you'd see people making those kinds of claims about people with too much melanin in their skin.
Has China, Iran, Belarus, etc decleared war? All of them help Russia. Are those doing proxy wars?
> the subjects who held on to their first choice the longest received 10x the reward

If the experiment was designed right, there wasn't a second offer to the same subject and it was made clear that there won't be one. Instead separate test groups were offered different amounts. Or at the very least the game was repeated.
These people are AI "experts" and they're still unfamiliar with LLM abilities to detect jokes and incongruities?

Every interested layman knew about this within 48 hours of ChatGPT being released.

It doesn't imply higher-level awareness. It just means a thing trained to predict the next word can tell you when the next word isn't what it predicted.

AI safety doesn't seem all that close to being a real academic discipline yet. Too much woo.
I mean, Facebook has been repeatedly fined for various non-compliance, for years. Apple, at least for the moment, isn’t really there yet.
As the creator of Downpour, I have to say: yes! both of these tools are great. I'd also shout out Bitsy and Twine as two phenomenal simple game making tools.
Yup, it was quite like that in the Lex podcast when Yann went on about joint embeddings.
GPT-4-Turbo beats Claude 3 in all benchmarks - https://twitter.com/TolgaBilge_/status/1764754012824314102
I love it! I think people like myself who are hobbyists will benefit from your approach and documentation just as much as undergrads.
From the student's chat log, he thinks that upon retraction, the supervisor would be so unhappy that

1. His future doctoral program would be hard.

2. It would be impossible to graduate.

3. He would be killed by the supervisor.

It's hard to say how much of these is warranted. He said 3 was concluded from a conversation with his supervisor. However, tragically he thought these are real enough for him that there was no other way than to suicide.
Good answer. A refurb Dell desktop tower or smaller form will get ya 10-20 years service vs. the 5 tops of the laptop (excluding battery and screen for generous comparison because they may fail sooner). Also laptops just seem to do sucky stuff like keyboard randomly stops working. Laptops suck.
I'm not following the project to much, my only experience with NetBSD was to bring back to life an i486 laptop with 4M of RAM, many years ago.

What I'm less confident (probably because of my ignorance, i'm talking without numbers) is by how many eyes are looking into security issues/bugs. How much time takes a port to be fixed and available to users, compared to other vendors, for example.

Not saying that there is not an excellent work of those involved, but maybe, more mainstream OSs have the two sides: more people working on new attacks, and more people watching for security issues, or paid to work on patching/packaging etc.
> I am against help, because we do not help enough.

And he is using a website made for the smarter kids. This election is going to be golden.
I shelled out the 20 bucks to try Claude Opus 3 after all the hype, and was left disappointed.

Gave it some medium difficulty coding tasks that GPT-4 struggled with, and Claude made some elementary mistakes like assigning variables that were never used, forgetting about parameters, and suggesting to change some lines of code to the exact same code which was already there.

It was quite an underwhelming experience
Pakistan court awards death penalty to student for 'blasphemous' WA messages
Is that - don't use it ... with playing cards?
I'm curious what glorious civilisation could ever meet your standards
of approval?
So good they made two* of them.

* not counting the niche CString and OsString
Can you imagine if that is how LLMs become self aware? By going through multiple cycles of interacting with the world, having these interactions reported in the media, then having their new training corpus include those articles.