skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how does any of that show that “minds arise from chemistry”?

That's too long a story for an HN comment (which is the reason I referred you to an entire field of study) but the TL;DR is that the only reason we have to believe that minds exist at all is the I/O behavior of things that purport to have them (i.e. people) and that I/O behavior can (as far as we can tell) be completely accounted for the the behavior of neurons, which can be completely accounted for by chemistry.

> Replace the person with a powerful CPU.

That completely eviscerates the experiment. The whole point of the Chinese Room is that there is a conscious person inside who does not speak Chinese. Without that, the Chinese Room is just a run-of-the-mill AI.

> Showing that it is not a philosophical zombie would call for some conclusive evidence showing that the phenomenon of consciousness is caused by whatever entities feature in models from today’s natural sciences—so that manipulating them in a particular way is enough to cause consciousness to magically arise.

Where is your "conclusive evidence" that this "phenomenon of consciousness" actually exists?

If an AI exhibits I/O behavior that is indistinguishable from a human (i.e. can pass the Turing test) then on what basis can you call one a "philosophical zombie" and not the other?

> they always strike me as inelegant and needlessly contrived

What is your alternative?
There's tasteful advancement of civilization. And then there's mountains of trash food.
were they the ones you had to publicly apologize for basically training on top of the llama 2 series models?
Most young folks don't understand URLs anymore? "Find us on App Store" or "Find us on Social Media" is the new internet. QR codes that takes you directly into a walled garden is the new web.
Agreed that AMD needs to work on the developer flywheel. Again, not defending their software.

One way to improve the flywheel and make the ecosystem better, is to make their hardware available for rent. Something that previously was not available outside of hyperscalers and HPC.
Maybe because voting demographics change so slowly, policy changes slowly too. Thirty years ago, when I was still in K-12 school, Baby Boomers were the largest generational voting bloc in the USA, and they still are. With a few exceptions that the rest of us are grateful for, it's been politically status-quo for pretty much my entire life.
Public perception is negative because profitability is usually reached by cutting unnecessary jobs and projects in the poorly run firm. People don’t like their jobs being cut
The title is "The Worst Outcome is a Mediocre Success" and that's what this is about. How is this deceptive? The "substance" part might be debatable. I personally don't think every post has to go in-depth on everything. I enjoyed his nugget of insight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/opinion/private-equity.ht...
> Both services are relatively insecure because they require phone authentication.

That hasn't been the case for Signal for some months: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

You still require a phone number for sign up for Signal, but your phone number isn't visible to anyone you chat with.
“Please send me that critical requirements document over WhatsApp, my email isn’t working” is a terrible thing to hear from a vendor/partner/etc.
There was a little issue with the platform only allowing sign ins by invitation, that limitation has been lifted so y'all can sign in now.
How do you expect to refuse suggestion without free will?
Nitpick & a tangent, but:

Being properly represented in a democratic system is not the same as being able to vote for someone.
Hmm, while the advice is mostly presented as relevant to startups, I kinda wonder if this is also an issue in other aspects of life and business too.

Like say, having a side project or hobby. If you try something and find you both don't enjoy it and fail miserably at it, that's probably a sign it's not the right thing to be doing. If you try and succeed beyond your wildest dreams, then you'd continue.

But if you're in the middle and become moderately successful, then what (as the article says)? Do you see that as a sign you've made the right decision and should continue? Or a sign that you'd be better of trying something else?

It's all too easy to take it as a sign that "things will work out if I keep going down this path" and plow weeks/months/years into something that may not pay off in the end, or be best suited to your talents and interests.
Why don't you go to the local casino to chat with friends? They serve the same beer.
AI red-team tools helped X-Force break into a major tech manufacturer in 8 hours
Sensors? Heh :) Well, however I am able to do this, I do it. And I feel it. And you don't know. So, your model must be wrong.
> It's a pretty clear depiction of the investor class being so detached from the technical reality

I think, their ROI model is much different and subtle. Few decades back, everything ran on-premises and costed ok ... Then a huge investment had been shovelled into fancy frameworks and pushing strange paradigms (microservices, distributed systems, monoliths whatever flavour works for the tech giants) so now people just put together whatever and needs massive _cloud_ to run basic things that used to run on few MHz devices.

In the end, the ROI is NOT from these models, those are just gambles in case one actually becomes a king maker. The actual ROI is from the _cloud_ where innocent people will rent expensive hardware to try and utilise these models and funneling wealth to the actual investments(cloud operators, hardware vendors) which are already part of portfolio of these investors. Basically, $1MM invested in random shiny startup will inspire other shiny startups to also spend similar in race to become unicorn, all the while the cloud operators and GPU vendors are laughing to the bank preparing their shareholders(usually same investors) dividends.
Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript (2021)
I think the DR-DOS variants of DOS did? I also believe that OS/2 did as well.

I broadly agree with everything you said though.
Not only did they have a reason, they discussed the reason and the proposed change with upstream.
The number of products that can be successfully marketed due to small friction or non obvious UX is high.

I think this will change as we shift to AI-assisted desktop / smart Siri.
Out of curiosity, how is MacRelix able to detect even under what emulator the system is running on?
The hype on usenet for DOOM was quite the thing to behold. It was super hyped because of Wolfenstein was so interesting. It even spawned two different usenet FAQs to track the madness. Wolf was also the first game I found out about motion sickness.
I'd consider that to be implied. Put differently, the 'grain of salt' is that I consider the effects to be overstated, not non-existent.
"When tested against several prominent AI models in its class among pre-trained models, Falcon 2 11B surpasses the performance of Meta’s newly launched Llama 3 with 8 billion parameters (8B), and performs on par with Google’s Gemma 7B at first place, with a difference of only 0.01 average performance (Falcon 2 11B: 64.28 vs Gemma 7B: 64.29) according to the evaluation from Hugging Face."

From: https://falconllm.tii.ae/falcon-2.html
Pompeii Lakshmi
There were two reasons the IBM PC clones became dominant. The smaller reason is because IBM created it. The bigger reason is because everything but the BIOS was off-the-shelf parts and easy to copy. Apple had the same problem with Apple II clones where only a couple of companies managed to not lose when sued by Apple. IBM couldn't sue Compaq and others for their clean room BIOS replacements.

If the IBM PC had custom chips, it would not have been easy, or even possible, to clone and would have remained an IBM-only product. If that had been the case, I suspect CP/M and GEM would have won out and Microsoft would be much smaller and still producing language compilers today. The only question is, which version of CP/M would have won out? I think Motorola's 68K series would have won over Intel's x86 series.
Market cap is now close to ~$11B, for a company that over the last 12 months burned ~$240M in cash. Revenues declined by ~11%. Net cash on hand is ~$600M. It's hard to justify purchasing the shares at the current price based on the company's recent results. Its future prospects don't seem particularly promising either.

A stock's price is set by the marginal buyer and seller. For example, a single share that trades at 50% less than the last price instantly brings market cap down by 50%. Once all the retail investors loading up on the stock have purchased as much as they can hold, very little marginal trading volume can bring the stock price back down.

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> New Falcon 2 11B Outperforms Meta’s Llama 3 8B, and Performs on par with leading Google Gemma 7B Model

I was strongly under the impression that Llama 3 8B outperformed Gemma 7B on almost all metrics.
Curious, what does someone gain with MacTCP? I'm not familiar with the space, but a casual glance (not an assessment!) suggests that OpenTransport was standard-ish from system 7.6 onwards.

Does it boil down to compatibility with older hardware?
Id argue that QR codes are doing pretty well at keeping bespoke URLs alive (although it pains me to see people use qrco.de or other qr code generators that automatically shorten the URL and thus could, at any point, maliciously redirect people to ads or malware instead. I don't see bitly doing this but it's unnecessary risk).
Mastodon instances fronted by Cloudflare (with Email Protection on) are good examples.
What's Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and How Is It Transforming Cloud Security?
It would be interesting to hear more about the compute used to build this.
It's so pity that it is hard to create a future that is truly inclusive and sustainable for all
I don’t really care to prove it, I was going off that Texan’s report of their personal experiences.
Red Delicious and probably Golden Delicious, which have been around forever but have generally declined in popularity, are likely sweeter than any of Gala/Fuji/etc. varieties.

As another comment notes, Granny Smiths tend to be cooking apples for which they're very good.
MI300X also has on-package RAM, but that's even further from a laptop chip than Xeon Max. :)
I've also had my email posted in mailto's in a half dozen places for... a long time. I remember in the early 00's when I'd cargo cult the old "type the whole email out as adrian at adrianpike dot com" thing on forums thinking it would work as some mystical talisman, and it turns out considering emails to be secret isn't worth the time.
If climate stability has changed I like it being called climate change.
Fair enough; I guess I'm applying a 2024 lens to a 1988 problem. We don't print a lot anymore, but that I will acknowledge that that was really really important back in the 80s and 90s.
Still I think mentioning the greatest data collection projects in human history in the same sentence as Signal which is supposed to fight that is not very good.
Ask HN: Resources for learning about file system implementations?
RFC 9562: Universally Unique IDentifiers (May 2024)
This appears to sacrifice more horizontal space, I don’t see this coming to desktops in its current incarnation as motherboards are already super cramped and replacing 4 ram slots for one doesn’t seem like a trade off most users are willing to make.
By the early 90s the design and graphics-focused software for color Macintosh systems was light years better than Amiga. And the high-end video modes on Macs simply worked out of the box. If you needed a Gen-locked system for your local TV station, sure - get an Amiga. Ironically the custom chips that made the Amiga so special and a natural fit for broadcast design is also what killed its ability to use interlaced video modes that didn't make your eyes bleed or require special hardware. Most folks by then didn't want to learn how to make the Amiga "do all the same things". They wanted to go to the store, buy a computer that worked like the ones at school or work and use it. Period.

I have a Quadra 700 (same era as the Amiga 3000, which I also have) that can run circles around the 3000 with far less power or needed upgrades. For example by adding a decent video card the Q700 can output to dual monitors, each running their own resolutions and color depths - while multi-tasking. I can install triple-A CD-based software titles (like Photoshop or Illustrator or Pagemaker or MS Word) and on and on. The tools on Amiga pale in comparison even while the hardware was cool. In the 80s the Amiga was magical. By 1992 the way it seemingly just stood still was tragic.

As previously stated, high-quality print had become a "killer app" and Amiga simply didn't get the same support. And a lot of this had to do with their native video modes.

I can throw video cards and processor cards at the Amiga and make it a much more technically impressive machine. But if I want to run A+ professional software on it I basically need to run a Mac emulator.

As the video points out, the gaming market by '92 was moving on in the US. For 2D the SNES and Genesis took over. For 3D the PC arms race had begun, and there was no looking back.
This so much.

People who live in Western cities have no fucking clue what fruits and vegetables are supposed to taste like.

It’s like a running gag that my father complains about supermarket tomatoes, but after travelling through rural places in Eastern and Southern Europe and a little bit in Central America, I totally get it.
Venture Capitalists Are Using Podcasts to Lure in Founders
Would it have gone private if it was such a great business at this moment ?

Squarespece looked like a fairly competent company, even as they were perhaps overspending on advertisement. Their competitors don't seem to be doing that much better except for Automattic perhaps.
And why would bread be full of sand and grit?
In theory somebody could just make a client that takes your message, generates a random string, XORs your message by that, and sends the XOR via Signal and the rest via Telegram.
>the statistical correlation between groups of sounds

That assumes that the speaker is similar to the person correlating the sounds. For example, if you had statistical data for utterances of English sounds in the context of Magic the Gathering tournaments, and you tried to decipher the speech of a Swahili electrical engineer talking about transistors, you could very well decipher something that's seemingly coherent but entirely incorrect.

It would be an overgeneralization to assume that whales speak about things in the same statistical patterns that humans do.
This is what I use for that

https://github.com/simon987/sist2
computers were expensive and so was the software you ran on it. it was an investment and switching was starting from zero.
From model card:

Falcon2-11B was trained on 1024 A100 40GB GPUs for the majority of the training, using a 3D parallelism strategy (TP=8, PP=1, DP=128) combined with ZeRO and Flash-Attention 2.

Doesn't say how long though.
Reconstructing the 3DS Bootstrapping Process at the Factory
Writing is one of the strongest tools I have against ADHD. When doing a code review or thinking about a problem my mind wanders, but while writing, just stream of consciousness, it focuses intensely.

It’s barely legible and utterly useless for revisiting, but it does cause way more retention and focus. It usually comes out something like: “uhhh ok so like we want to uhh make it rerender only uhhh when like the user hovers” but it works for me.
Every weakness of the Amiga could have been solved if money was poured into it instead of poured out of it.

The entire chipset state could have been bankswitched in a multi-tasking fashion and each process could have gotten its own "virtual Amiga" to play in. So much can be done when you have full vertical integration, but Commodore never leaned into it.

Every perceived weakness of the Amiga is from the perspective of the design of the winning system, i.e. generic modular PC design where the hardware and the OS are at best uneasy friends.
Here in quasi-coastal NC, I'm down to maybe 10 days a year wearing long pants. It got up to 71F New Years Day this year, and February had days in the 80s (and none below freezing). There's basically pollen season, summer, fall, repeat. It doesn't seem to be much colder, if at all, in January than November. i barely ever see my breath.

Not at all how it was in the exact town 35 years ago as a kid. It wasn't frigid, even then, but we had a real Winter season where it would consistently stay cold for 3-4 months.

Now, even though it can get cold, it seems like you have a "nice day" weekend at least once a month.
> Did really anything support protected memory back then?

UNIX did, I ran it on a 386-25 from 1987.
Hanami Shrine
Food security remains a critical issue in certain parts of the world still I think
Squarespace is going private, it is already public: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SQSP/

The lack of IPOs is not from market demand, it is just easier to be private. If there are venture firms willing to invest or the debt market is accessible, then there is no need to for a company to go public.

Generally speaking, private equity sales are not more attractive than IPOs.
Hate to be a downer, but the bomb in the baby carriage is wired through the radio.
Which is exactly why Bucky's ideas are as widely adopted as they are today - which is basically zero. He had an amazing ability to identify future problems and design prototype solutions, but that's a very small percentage of the work it takes to bring something to reality and make an impact.

I honestly think Bucky was one of the most brilliant thinkers of the 20th century but his legacy will mainly be his thoughts (and designs and writings) alone. Even the best ideas fade into irrelevance unless acted upon. "Idea people" should take note.
ty. you're right
I mean, if you're trying to point out that the people who believe that everyone is racist is a silly belief because it leads to absurdities, then I agree, welcome to the club. My point is not to justify that thinking, but to point out that they exist and so, to them, moral progress is apparently a fiction and so claims of "who wasn't racist in the past?" is not persuasive evidence that we're better now.
> I still don’t understand the leap from “well that isn’t convincing me to buy their product” to “I’m personally offended and my day is ruined. Someone must apologize to me.”

I see a lot of comments expressing the former, and a lot of comments reacting against the latter. Are you sure that's an accurate representation of the reaction?

> Is this just the “I need validation by other people liking what I like” thing we see a lot in gaming, sports, etc. fandoms?

Internet forums? ;)
Funny how ORM no longer means Object-Relational Mapping.
Impossible or inconvenient?
just that? then why not a f-droid release?
And Minix on 286, but each process had only 64 kbytes.
Skunk Works Releases New KC-Z Stealth Tanker Rendering
Thank you all for the valuable feedback.

After analysing a lot and reading different opinions from various forums where I posted this question, I believe that the best option is indeed to try a MacBook Pro.

Now that I live abroad, I have a need for really good battery performance in a laptop because I'm constantly moving and working while traveling. It seems that in terms of battery life/performance, nothing can match the efficiency of Macs.

However, I will probably wait until they launch the M4 chip in Macs, which I hope happens this year.

Again, thank you all for such valuable comments.
https://expatcircle.com/cms/why-you-should-never-use-cloudfl...
> Maybe I'm missing something basic but that still doesn't explain why it's 30% and not 50%.

It's like tipping. There's no ideal value that can be picked; just agreed normal values. If 30% appears to work most of the time then that's probably why it's used.
If they look atypical for the last 100 years or so, and also look atypical from the less "granular", even-longer-term samples... then how do you prove that they're typical?
Next step is they buy out Squarespace's competitors. Then they move everyone to the same platform, after cutting expenses by 50%, and doubling prices. I assure you there is a spreadsheet somewhere that runs through all this....once that is done, they do an IPO in 5 years to cash out.
> Public perception is negative because profitability is usually reached by cutting unnecessary jobs and projects in the poorly run firm

I think private equity-induced lay-offs seem to create more negative PR than corporate ones, but I have no hard numbers.

(Private equity in healthcare has also been an unmitigated disaster, which obviously doesn't help its image.)
Skunk Works Working on a Classified Reconnaissance Aircraft – Reports
Yeah that's what I was thinking of when paying at the supermarket. Try explaining contactless payments to someone from 18th century.
Probably should've been in the first sentence or at least in the opening paragraph of the whole thing.
From the article - Joist provides:

- Bullet-proof N+1 prevention,

- Tracking loaded relation/subgraph state in the type system, and

- Backend reactivity, for declarative cross-entity validation rules and reactive fields.

Wow!
A lot of people "think about it," and many decide not to. Please respect their choice.
The problem with hardware business is that it’s capital intensive: large, expensive product runs needed. Not many are happy to upfront the bill for a new, unproven, company. Whileas in software business, the upfront cost is fractions, and thus VCs love it more.

Thus, in hardware, funding comes from the existing players who already know the hardware business with its cyclic business and other associated risks.
Show HN: Share your Fortnite Locker with a short link
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> I think the US should move to SI

F is a much better unit than C for everyday use.
It seems you don't trust your capacity for feeling. You need to develop that more, then maybe you will understand.

What you say is common among people who have not learned yet
Yes. Private equity likes cash making business machines.
Have you heard about the damage done to grape and stone fruit crops in BC? It has been happening consistently enough that I expect some vineyards not to exist in the next decade.

Even where I am it’s considered a temperate climate and a friend’s grape crops were almost totally destroyed from a snap freeze in late February. He said it wasn’t that uncommon for the freezes to happen when he started, but what changed is how early the vines start budding, like you mentioned.

Late-starting crops can bypass this problem, but my understanding is that they often need irrigation because they grow into the tail of summer. That’s not really viable here either, as water’s gradually diminishing from our extended drought.
Indeed, AmigaOS despite being ahead of its time in the '80s, was doomed to lose by the end of the '90s.

The biggest problem was that Amiga did not have an MMU until very late, and the OS has been designed for unprotected shared memory space. It was crashy, with fragmenting leaky memory, and it could not support fork(). Later AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS struggled to add full process isolation.

In retrospect, Microsoft has been prescient in adding virtual memory to 9x, and incredibly successful in switching to the NT kernel. AmigaOS would have needed the same to survive, instead of just sitting on their multitasking-a-decade-before-Windows laurels.
Armadillos now as far north as Illinois, Nebraska. Wild.
And that even depends on the location! panels in Arizona vs in Vancouver island are going wear at different rates!