skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The authors of the paper seem to define what they mean by consciousness quite precisely. They mean phenomenal consciousness:

>The central goal of any C-test is to determine whether a target system has subjective and qualitative experience – often called ‘phenomenal consciousness’.

Phenomenal consciousness is, as far as I can tell, binary. You either have subjective experience or you don't. Even if you are subjectively aware of almost nothing, you still have subjective experience. For example, when you wake up in the morning your awareness might be quite limited for the first few seconds - let's say you have your eyes closed and the only thing you are aware of is the warmness of the blanket. But still, you are aware. You have subjective experience. Whereas in deep sleep you do not.

Phenomenal consciousness is thus pretty well-defined. It's just that we have zero understanding of how physical systems could possibly give rise to it, and it might be in principle impossible to ever figure that out. It is possible that physical systems do not in fact give rise to consciousness, although obviously the presence vs absence of consciousness in humans is at least to some extent correlated with certain measurable physical states.

I doubt that any actual test for consciousness is in principle possible, but the authors of this paper do at least clearly define what they mean when they refer to consciousness. They mean the presence of subjective experience, not intelligence or language or logical thought or having a model of oneself or any other things.
It's not drastically different from the general tension between tech companies and open-source maintainer communities in the last decade, but it's especially frustrating that OpenAI capitalized on this tension to present itself as an alternative to this model, apparently (by their own admission) as a hollow marketing ploy
My suggestion to students who want to hone their skills is to actually spend time programming with whatever tool they like. If, on the other hand, they want their skills to degrade -- perhaps they could instead try something like blogging and churning out think pieces.
The primary reason is to make it easier to detect memory leaks.
The hardware just keeps on working (7 years and counting). If you don't abuse it PC hardware just keeps on going.

But just to be sure, I've stocked up on compatible motherboards and processors.

I'll be here till the bitter end. I'll probably be buried with my Hackintosh.
> how organization_id is being generated

The default value of the column:

organization_id int default floor(random()*10)

> Also, if each page contains data from all organizations then sounds very much like it's not clustered by organization_id

The sample data is clustered by foo_created_at_idx, I changed it to be clustered by foo_organization_id_idx
Agreed. It's ridiculous people have to resort to saying their question dumb to avoid being attacked by toxic commenters.
But the delay will always be significant either way.
Yes, I remember. But even then we knew full well the chance of identifying anything via SETI was minute. We were looking at a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of what's out there.

A tiny office full of grad students could have come up with a dozen more useful ways to use that many distributed computing cycles, say for medical research. Not only folding@home: imagine what a Wolfram or a Knuth would have achieved with all those cycles.
Who Needs Pegasus When You Have Apple Shortcuts?
Does Microsoft even need Hashicorp? GitHub was valuable for the access to code repositories (probably for their AI master plan), but Hashicorp?

With Azure they have alternatives for stuff that Hashicorp offers and what for them in Terrafor considering that ARM and Bicep exists?
It does not in fact take extra effort to make them be unavailable outside the EU.
> Which is the only valuable thing Twitter (X) has left.
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They have a very valuable user base (all kinds of world leaders for example), so the data is not the only valuable thing they have.
The distinction between intelligence and consciousness has been discussed in philosophy of mind for many decades, perhaps centuries. I don't know much much it has been discussed in the context of LLMs, but I'm sure it's not an entirely new phenomenon. The debate is not just a matter of people trying to argue over how capable LLMs are. Many people pursue this topic because it is inherently interesting.
AsRock X570D4i-2t because https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/lymbka/asrock_rack_x...
This is a bad argument. A brain frozen in ice also doesn’t demonstrate consciousness, and we don’t interpret that as a counterclaim to “the human brain exhibits consciousness.” Saying an LLM can be conscious implicitly means an LLM while it does things.
How are you planning on affecting the industry at large?
Because current electronic money are too centralized and gated. I have the same issue with payment from USA. I don't want PayPal, and my sister says ACH payment is expensive for her. So, I tell her to give cash to my parents when they visit. But when I needed to transfer cryptocurrency to her, it was easy and quick.
> The first reason is that consciousness is just a loaded concept. It's some arbitrary category with fuzzy boundaries

It is right now. We might one day devise a mechanistic explanation for consciousness though, in which case any system that follows that mechanistic process would be conscious.
Blaming tag managers and marketing departments is quite common and yes while they are problems on some sites many developers overlook the impact of their technology choices e.g. client side rendering, JS based components etc
Maybe you can get an AI agent for both of you who knows how to perfectly simulate you in a dialogue or predict to great accuracy what you would say on both sides.
Maybe this is fine for uni or testing where you may be quizzed on syntax but really shouldn’t apply beyond that. Use the tools that make you efficient to deliver results.
My anecdotal observations from service providers in the space:

No. That’s very much not the case in practice… Not in the case of family homes and nonlinear demand, that is.
Just playing Devil’s Advocate here, but we assume that AI consuming AI-generated content is going to inherently hurt the next generation of AI training.

But I’d argue that good AI content is more valuable training data than bad human content. The problem is not the source but the quality.
Thank you for your comment !

At the end of your answer there is "[Format you would like the result in]". Well, I'm curious what format you want the input (the sequence you presented) to be in.

I will also be happy if you can use the 2-space indentation formatting of HN (code block) to show a practical example.
Apple are so obsessed with anti-competitive lock-in that they are willing to spend resources on doing it on the region basis. It's already some insanity level of obsession and just highlights what kind of control obsessed freaks are running the company.
I totally get that my appeal to aesthetics and craftsmanship probably just doesn’t even remotely resonate anymore with today’s generation of developers who are just looking to cobble something together so they can “crush it in the market, and have a massive exit, bro!”

I always drag out the old Steve Jobs quote to explain my (evidently dying) attitude about Invisible Quality: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
There’s something rather delightful with this form letter that makes me wish I had fan mail so I could do something similar. It’s a nice glimpse into what everyone else is writing when you get your response.
> Third-party app stores

I wonder if we'll finally get UTM on the ipad without jailbreaks and weird stuff.

Being able to run a small virtual machine on my ipad would really be a game changer.
I don't think I have a problem with that, although I would have to see the specific proposal, talk to people, and think deeper before I would wave my magic wand to make it happen.
"Fast" Web Services with Zig Lang Using the Zap Library
If all you've used is crappy old SAC305 lead-free solder, you owe it to yourself to try a modern alloy like SN100C (& friends, it has several names and similar competitors). It's generations newer and with the right flux (I like AIM's Glow Core wire) it's just great for routine work. It runs a little hotter, but most people already solder too hot anyway, so who cares.

I still use 63/37 or 62/36/2 for anything challenging, though. Or for old rework: many people in this thread are missing that you really, really shouldn't mix alloys on a joint, so you've got to get the old stuff out before switching to lead-free, and at single-joint scale that's a lot more polluting than just grabbing the spool of 63/37.
There are no batteries involved with the type of solar pumps the article is talking about. They are likely 3 phase pumps powered by variable frequency inverters. The inverters are similar to the VFD¹ motor drives commonly used with industrial machines.

I'm not sure where you came up with a $20,000 cost estimate but it's likely a lot less than that. Particularly if you buy the cheapest stuff direct from China, avoiding avoid the dealers/installers who are probably marking up the equipment by more than 100%. Solar panels and the associated electronics have drastically dropped in price for the past several years. It should be possible to get 200 watt panels for $50-100 (or maybe even less if you buy a lot of them) That's something like $250-$500 per kW of panels. Make it $1000/kW to cover mounting hardware and wiring. The pumps / inverters are maybe a few thousand for a fairly large system.

I'd say the total should come closer to $5,000-$7,000 per acre based on the power requirements you specified.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-frequency_drive
std::quick_exit() also works, though you can decide if it's worthwhile to allow parts of the program to register functions to be called at quick exit time.
I'm saying: observe the broad range of epistemic territory covered by the word "refute" (the first definition is a blend of complete incorrectness and not absolutely perfect, the second is literally subjective opinion, ie: "at least one human holds this opinion"), something that seems rather untroubling to people (believing themselves to be) considering the truth of this theory. (See also if you can spot any other instances of this sort of thing in this thread, or all other threads).

I wonder how Westerners would react to a new word being invented that directly references this phenomenon, and I also wonder whether doing that would have zero effect on people's cognition (which is essentially what is being claimed impossible), especially if they were reminded of its existence every time the common habit of speaking ambiguously/meaninglessly arose.

Such a word would have to sustain substantial memetic attack though, cultural "truths" are usually defended passionately. I think the most that could be achieved in this culture and era is adoption in the counterculture scene.

As for whether he doesn't "prove" it false: which of the many conflicting meanings of the word "prove" (or "doesn't" for that matter) would we be using, and would it even be possible to achieve a demonstration of it, that people who despise taking the meanings of words seriously could agree on?
That is exactly correct.

I would only add that we attribute consciousness to our fellow humans, because we perceive them to be creatures like us from what we can observe about their physical bodies and behaviors being similar to ours.

With AI, it is much less intuitive to assume creations we know to have arise from very different origins than ourselves have the same kind of interior experiences we do. Even if the surface behavior is the same.
Not sure if I deluded myself, but the title did seem intentionally worded for this reason so I definitely cringed.
Over-the-phone AI stock portfolio updates
Your productivity is so depend on the factor of setted boundaries...
Is there some way to re-home my iPhone to the EU to get this stuff, without actually moving there?
Without analytical thinking how else would you come to conviction that two functions are identical, for a computationally unfeasible number of possible inputs?
None. Use IRC.
I'm not sure I buy that the oscillation around the plane can have a period other than the orbital period.
Sadly I'm a bit older than that :D

In my case is was the earlier Super Guppy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Super_Guppy

Dad used to work at the British Aerospace Filton site. I absolutely loved getting to go to their family open day.
Serde/mini-serde is pretty ubiquitous, and axum is getting close to the default as well.
Judaism isn't really comparable here IMO. It isn't proselytising as a religion and there isn't an emphasis on belief. It is of course possible to be both Jewish and any other religion at the same time.
The bloat depends on the manufacturer. I've used a bunch of Android phones over the course of the last 15 years.

Sony Ericsson, Motorola - Pretty much stock Android. Though this was almost a decade ago, so not sure what's their state now.

Xiaomi - Absolutely filled with bloat, but really cheap + flagship specs. Easily fixed by flashing LineageOS.

Pixel 1st gen - No bloat, stock

Asus - My current phone. No bloat, though it has a lightweight skin + QoL stuff that I don't mind. I use it non-rooted + stock OS
I believe a table and a lookup function would be smaller than a function for generating bitmaps: just for a single pixel I've got this expression [1].

[1]: not(c0) and not(c2) and c3 and not(c4) and c5 and not(c6) or not(c0) and c2 and c3 and not(c4) and c5 and c6 or c0 and c2 and not(c3) and c4 and not(c5) and c6 or c0 and not(c1) and c2 and c3 and c4 and c6 or c0 and c1 and not(c2) and c3 and c4 and c6 or not(c1) and not(c3) and not(c4) and c5 and c6 or not(c2) and c3 and c4 and not(c5) and not(c6) or not(c0) and c1 and not(c3) and c5 and not(c6) or not(c0) and c1 and not(c2) and not(c3) and c4 or not(c0) and c1 and c3 and not(c4) and c5 or c1 and c3 and not(c4) and c5 and c6 or c1 and c2 and c4 and not(c5) and not(c6) or c0 and not(c1) and not(c4) and c5 and not(c6) or c0 and not(c2) and not(c4) and c5 and c6 or c0 and c1 and not(c3) and c5 and c6 or not(c0) and not(c1) and c4 and not(c5)
A minimal effort to have a feature switch depending on region is still some effort more than not having that. It may not be a lot of effort, but it would absolutely be easier to have the same features everywhere.
It won't be something you as a layperson can just take and run in your car, like you would Linux on an old laptop. The HW is pretty diverse and is tightly coupled with the car. It's more like something car makers can use to build on top of in order to quickly and safely bring up an ECU. People who worked with, for example, AUTOSAR stacks on modern ECU's know how much of a pain bringing up even just CAN communication can be.

I share your concern about bitrot and longevity in modern cars, and this could help, but it would still not be something someone could just do in their garage, you'd likely need more resources than that.
There are diminishing returns in the World to block any societally negative behavior. I think that is the key thing here in the argument. Police monitors the city, but they don't stop all bad wrongdoing. There's always underage kids drinking, there's drugs changing hands, there's all sorts of illegal things going on. Some are easier to prevent, some are worse and have worse impacts on the society, it's a spectrum of illegal, immoral or otherwise bad things going on everywhere at once. Just because there's something on spectrum somewhere doesn't mean the whole thing should be shut off or should not exist. Just because police doesn't get all the 17 year olds drinking a pint or two doesn't mean the police or the World should not exist.
Yes. So you mean the end user can choose to never use any password-based sites, and only use passkey-based site. I guess that’s fair.
Consciousness & intelligence are orthogonal. It’s highly plausible we achieve superintelligence before we have conscious machines.

That said, understanding consciousness is not necessarily a prerequisite for engineering it. It may very much end up being an emergent phenomenon tied to sensory integration & processing, in which case it ends up self-assembling under the right circumstances. Exciting times…
Yeah. Anyone building a bunker just for themselves and a few other people is planning for a very boring and lonely future that will exist only so long as they can access/produce sufficient food and water. It should basically go without saying that a "real" plan is for provisioning an army.
That’s the easy case.

It’s much trickier to figure out if software running on a silicon computer has the same kind of interior, subjective experience as us. Even when exhibiting the same outward behavior.
There are organisations that have been following the rewrite strategy for 2 decades that are running 5 or more parallel systems and teams all doing a lot of common things with each with unique properties often in entirely different languages and a lot of integration hell. They will quite happily be starting a 6th such project rewrite this year to solve the problem of the previous 5, this time surely it will work.

Another organisation I know of replaced its "old" .net desktop client with a nice shiny Microsoft derived web solution using some customised COTs and it would solve all their maintenance issues. Sigh its a disaster as expected made all the worse because they fired the developers before the switch was even really done.

Over and over this mistake is made to rewrite and replace instead of refactor on the assumption the old code is crufty rather than battle hardened and that writing new code is easier than editing old. Never do these organisations learn to develop more maintenance friendly systems along the way.
https://archive.ph/Umqn3
I think when everyone has access to essential services and opportunities for personal development, it leads to a more productive and resilient society.
Guess the reason this keeps coming up, is because 'how can you be sure?'.

I'd say a lot of humans qualify as p-zombies.

The problem is, can you ever test for it? To be sure.

I'm not sure, that by the time you have a duplicate human, that it can be achievable without some inner subjective experience.

Put an LLM on a loop and continually learning in a 3d world. Then ask what is going on inside.
Yeah, they can just leave some server running somewhere and just let it seed forever
Fully agree. People will trash talk it due to Musk but lets not forget the engineers who poured hours of their lives into building this and are continuing to do so.
Disagree. It took more than 12 months from the release of GPT-4 to someone else producing a model of equivalent quality, and that definitely wasn't due to a shortage of investment from the competition.

There's a huge amount of depth in training a really good LLM. Not helped by the fact that iteration is incredibly expensive - it might take several months (and millions of dollars) before you can tell if your new model is working well or if there was some mistake in the pipeline that lead to a poor quality result.

Almost all of the world-class LLMs outside of OpenAI/DeepMind have been trained by people who previously worked at those organizations - giving them invaluable experience such that they could avoid the most expensive mistakes while training their new models.
> A &g = *new A;

> Note that this does not create a memory leak, since the pointer/reference is part of the root set.

Can someone explain this to me? How would that not be a memory leak? What does 'root set' mean in this context?
The only other Repository is a fork of Qdrant.
The counterargument to "NATO started it" is that Russia has been openly declaring that they will invade surrounding nations to reestablish the USSR borders, particularly to restore the historical gap defense. Russia had a Russian-aligned puppet, then we helped overthrow and install a Ukraine-aligned government.

It could have continued functioning as a buffer state, but then Russia seized Crimea.

The technology is probably an inevitability at this point. Smart rocks aren't rocket science, they just ride up on it. Likely all the major powers have the necessary missile guidance, and delta-v is ... just a small rocket. But it would be hard to hide the testing of such things, unless SpaceX signed up to sacrifice an old rocket for an interception test.

What IS semi-exclusive to the US is the core economics of Starship. The strategic value of Starship militarily is quite substantial. It means rapid deployment of forces anywhere in the world, possibly with some armor capability, in an hour. It means moving previously economically infeasible amounts of hardware into orbit. It means practical dominance of low orbit for likely 50 years.

So if ABM is the next frontier, the gauntlet is for these countries that will be dealing with progressively more extreme demographics and economic isolation to compete with American capability that, for once, delivers far superior capability for far superior economics. You'll be asking China and Russia to deliver miracle-level space program expansion, and then an ABM atop it. Remember, both of these countries have astronomically high corruption, in particular Russia.

I'm not going to argue that some nukes getting through isn't a bad thing that should still keep MAD in place on the American side. No leader in America wants to go down as someone that lost a major city.

But... nukes getting through might hit remote missile silos. A single nuke can take out a city, but not the entire USA. Not even Tsar Bomba is that strong. Yes warheads are retargetable, MIRV, and all that.

It still remains that Russia is the one with the outright aggressive speeches detailing recapture of Soviet satellites in the eastern bloc, the one that has a litany of assassins killing Putin's enemies, the one using ghoulish human waves of shock troops composed of prisoners (how many are political) and non-Russian ethnic groups (racism). You're not talking to someone with rose goggles towards US foreign policy, but come on, Russia is being about as aggressor posture as they can be within a MAD umbrella.

I'm not advocating ABM in space, I simply think that the publicly stated goals of Russia and China combined with forthcoming Starship maturation means it is inevitable.
Thanks. I was able to clean up more items.

I agree this should be documented, but I still appreciate uninstallers.

Also, I'm a little confused about your statement:

> Not sure what the best solution is for people who don't use Homebrew to uninstall it.

You said at the start you've "been meaning to update the Homebrew cask to be more complete on zap" ... does that mean Homebrew uninstall will not do a complete job?
There is a friendly warning here from Groq:
https://wow.groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/
So just you and Descartes.
It'd be awesome if a simple UI + hosting is provided if it's in your roadmap, I'd be interested in paying for that (as a startup segment)
Kindness and love can make a world a better place
Asus? Though I'm not sure what's it sending in the background, but there was no legal jargon that I had to agree to, to use any of the apps. There were barely any custom apps, it pretty much relies on the stock Android apps.
Same here. At work we were gearing up to use this, but after the acquisition changed focus to otelc.
Could you share the paper? Found this but not sure if it is the same concept

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02666.pdf