skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That linked study doesn't particularly resemble Turing's test, though? The authors asked an LLM some questions (like personality tests, or econ games), then reduced the responses to low-dimensional aggregates (like into "Big Five" personality traits), and compared those aggregates against human responses to the same questions. They found those aggregates to be indistinguishable, but that aggregation throws away almost all the information a typical human interrogator would use to judge.

Turing's interrogator also gets to ask whatever questions they think will most effectively distinguish human from machine. Everything those authors asked must appear in the training set countless times (and also corresponds closely to likely RLHF targets), making it a particularly unhelpful choice.
The Recipe for an AI Revolution: ImageNet, AlexNet and GPUs Changed AI
Peer-to-peer across networks is impossible unless you can punch a hole, i.e. UPnP. It's possible this isn't enabled and that could cause Parsec to have to fallback to a central server.
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"For months" is surely an exaggeration? What has changed in supply and demand is that much less toilet paper had to be distributed to workplaces, and much more close to people's to homes.
"abolish European governments by merging them together into one superstate"

That wasn't the goal of the EU. Even now it isn't the goal. Nations and governments still exist.
> upscaling from 720p/1080p using framegen

This isn't something you can just do. I mean, it almost is (look at apps like Lossless Scaling, Magpie) but it's always most optimally implemented by the game itself.

Just because the buzzword exists doesn't mean the problem is solved.
For all we know, it might be that consciousness is not fully contained in the physical structure of the brain. It might as well be something that partially exists on another layer of reality we have no idea about yet.
Yeah but if women go to work, the amount of available workers will more or less double, so if you where to apply the theory of supply and demand you'll find that this will make wages decrease, which is very good for extremely rich people ...
Problem with this is that if you want to hire engineers it is near impossible to do with vc money. You could maybe bootstrap if you try hard but still will need cofounders or vc money to hire engineers to do something fast enough. If you are working full time on bootstrapping some idea, you are still missing out on your salary which is probably high if you are able to do something like this
I’m writing this comment so that people who want to know more about alternative theories of consciousness (to materialism/physicalism [1]) can know where to go to find well-argued positions on the topic.

(To be clear, I’m not here to argue about the topic or try to persuade anyone of any position – that’s a waste of everyone’s time).

I recommend seeking out discussions involving:

- Federico Faggin: inventor of silicon-gate technology and developer of the earliest microprocessors;

- Bernardo Kastrup: Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence), former CERN engineer at the LHC;

- Donald D. Hoffman: Ph.D. in computational psychology, professor in Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine.

On YouTube you can find plenty of discussions involving these figures, some with each other, and plenty more with others.

I’d suggest it’s particularly important to explore these discussions as dispassionately as possible if you regard materialism as the only theory of mind that has any scientific credibility or validity.

As Christopher Hitchens reminds us in his legendary oration on John Stuart Mill and free speech [2], it’s only by thoroughly understanding the opposing view that we can thoroughly understand our own position on any topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism

[2] https://youtu.be/zDap-K6GmL0?t=120
> Your napkin math wrt the energy doesn't really make sense either, your card only draws so much power if it's actually on full load.

Not only that, but there's evidence that more powerful cards can actually perform the same workloads as less powerful cards more efficiently. Of course, it's not going to be more efficient if you let it run at full tilt, but if, for example, you lower the power limit of a 3090 to 200W, it's still going to blow a 3060 Ti (also 200W) out of the water in terms of performance. Higher performance for the same power means you can also get the same performance at a lower power.

> Finally, there is no way in hell a working adult will find time to play 4+hours day, every day.

I work full-time and still get the hours of 5 PM to 12 AM to myself, which is 7 hours, and then I can still get 8 hours of sleep
Impersonation and spam are things you find on other ways of
running a forum.

On Usenet you can easily stop following a group or person.
I know that at least one other human is conscious, otherwise the term would never have been invented.

But you have no way to tell if I am as conscious as I claim to be, or if I'm just a large language model trained by humanity :P
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I'm designing my first proper application and I want to get it right as best I can. I'm looking for good sources for UI and UX.

I'm looking at Don't make me think by Steve Krug for simple self-explanatory UI design.

I'm looking for a good information source on, and I don't know what the term or if there is one, for designing how a user moves through the application. Is that a thing?

Obviously any suggestions for other good sources to look at would be appreciated.

Thanks.
There’s a RISC-V Telegram? I only discovered it for war coverage.
Good luck getting the personal phone number of an EU Commissioner. You can't vote for who decides things in the EU. You can vote for MEPs but they don't decide things. The DMA represents the desires and priorities of the European Commission, a body carefully placed well beyond any form of democracy and whose membership isn't even close to representative of the actual continent.

If the EU Commission were influenced by voters, their priorities would follow what people say they care about in the EU's own opinion polls:

https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3218

"Europeans tend to think that the most important issues facing their region at the moment are the cost of living (31%), the economic situation and unemployment (26%), and health (26%)."

No surprises there. People are feeling poor. They want more jobs and more money. A normal democratic government response would be trying to woo companies to Europe to create jobs, train locals and create economic success. It would also be lowering taxes and encouraging the creation of local startups in any way possible. That's a standard recipe that's been used many times throughout the world in response to economic discontent. But the EU isn't a normal democratic government so it spends its time on fiddling with iOS, something that doesn't even show up on polls at all because nobody cares.

It's for this kind of reason that French voters are likely to send the RN to the European Parliament in large numbers in the next election, mirroring the same pattern seen all over Europe:

https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/france/

The RN is an explicitly Eurosceptic party whose only specific policy on the EU is to oppose it. Sending it to Brussels will change nothing because the European Parliament doesn't matter, but it does send a strong message of discontentment and a desire to use whatever meagre powers the Parliament has to slow the Commission down.
Most people aren’t rockstars. Most of us are cogs in a big wheel meant to grind us all into meat.

Aspiring to be a middle manager at an F500 is the saddest dream imaginable, and yet it’s a lie sold to girls that it’s so much more rewarding than motherhood.

It’s not. Most jobs are pointless. If you don’t have to, don’t waste your life make someone else money.
Intel Architecture Labs is responsible for essentially the entire I/O architecture of virtually all computers (not just x86) for the last ~three decades: USB, SATA, PCI and PCIe, plus PCI-for-Graphics (AGP). Notably all of these were largely developed in-house at Intel and then basically gifted more or less finished to standards bodies or Intel created an industry consortium around them.
I believe the article is correct to criticise the indoctrination that the LDS church targeted at her. But I also agree with you that grass is greener on the other side. Many of the comments cited in the article could be summarised as: I'm jealous that someone I knew 10 years ago is much more successful now.

I personally also know a few people from university where if I superficially look at their situation now, I'd think "that could have been me". And I'm a guy so in my case it wouldn't highlight a man/woman difference. But then, looking at the details, some of them made sacrifices that I would be unwilling to make. Or their starting position wasn't that similar, after all, e.g. I just didn't know 10 years ago that they were trust fund babies.
We’re not Mormon. And it’s come from her — in fact, I’m somewhat uneasy about it as finances will get tight.
Text continuation doesn't. AGI does.
> Why do you think Linux ends up being the most widely deployed Unix? It's
avoided niches, it's avoided inbreeding, and not being too directed means
that it doesn't get the problems you see with unbalanced systems.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40404440
> How arrogant can you get?

Could be that some of the people in here are fine with a "Parliament" that is not really a parliament and that they are fine with the unelected European Commission taking decisions that affect us all, but that has nothing to do with "arrogance", it's just them wanting to live under a non-democratic regime.

And facts speak for themselves, the technocrats in Brussels do not represent anyone because it was not the people of the EU who have put them there. Some of you may agree with their fiat decisions, but that is not "representation", it's just "sharing of interests".
The Alaska Permanent Fund funds more than just the Permanent Fund Dividend (their UBI initiative): it's a source of funding for the whole government. These issues seem specific to that. Per your second link, the budget issues are due to wider changes in the economy, and affect everything. Given how long the Permanent Fund Dividend existed without causing any issues, is there anything specific that can be blamed on the PFD?

Your first link is just about politics. Per the data table on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Fund_Dividend#Annual...), the massive increase described in that article didn't happen. In 2018, the PFD payout was $1600; in 2019, it was $1606. Not $6700.

If adequate, long-term funding can be acquired, I don't see why a UBI initiative should have these issues. The general principle "money represents other people's labour" applies, so if UBI prevents people from performing valuable labour within the economy (i.e., working for money), that could cause problems (though my instinct says that performing valuable services for others should be enough to avoid problems, regardless of whether payment is involved). Is there evidence of that happening in Alaska? doi:10.2139/ssrn.3118343 (also from "my" article) argues not.

For somewhere that isn't Alaska, the money would presumably have to come from taxes. I don't know enough to design that, but I don't see why it shouldn't be possible – especially if UBI has positive effects on the economy, as some theorists claim. (I don't tend to trust economic theorists.)
Why? It works great. Since google dropped usenet access through the web, spam is down, discussions are great, and if there is no discussion start one. I'm enjoying usenet immensely!
I m still conflicted what we do with the bag of flesh after the fact. Are we bag holding forever?
I appreciate this being shared for the perspective. Despite the advances we've made in some places, it's always worth being reminded that the progress isn't universal and there are still cultural, religious, and traditional institutions in place that keep holding us back.

Towards the end the author says that "I hope the next generation of girls can forge a different path than mine was able to." and to that my first thought was, the only way to do it is to help pushing them along and getting involved in promoting the sciences to the next generation. This blog post is one of them.
For starters, they could hash every address with bcrypt and only show reviews to people who search for that exact address. Then they could hide the review pages from search engines (which they are currently not [0] doing). They also have no good reason to include the exact date beyond maybe the year, and even then they should let the user change it if they want to (haven’t checked if they do).

None of this would make the site lose its primary function, which is by their own admission to do a background check on the landlord you’re about to sign an agreement with.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Aberdeen+St%2C+Chicago%2C+IL...
If you know of such an article why don’t you post it rather than this whataboutism?
Yeah, anonymity in this kind of case isn't a technical problem, it's a social problem. I would never review a workplace on something like Glassdoor for the same reason; "worked in x department and wasn't happy" is easy to narrow down.
### Idea #1:

I had an idea to use AI with a phone's camera to identify any medicine, whether it's in a package or not. This AI would provide information about the medicine, including its uses, symptoms it treats, side effects, and the correct dosage based on the individual's health condition. The inspiration for this idea came from a personal experience in India, where some doctors prescribe higher dosages to earn commissions. My father was given medicine intended for heart or liver transplants, even though he had not undergone any transplant. This AI tool could help prevent such situations by providing accurate and reliable information about medications.

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There was a man who wanted to adapt the economy to human nature. His name was Silvio Gesell. He called his economic order "natural" not because it was a constant of the universe, but rather because existing economic theories expected the humans to adapt to the economic system, they had to be convinced and forced to do things against their will in communism and capitalism.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/werner-onken-a-marke...

Even if you disagree, consider this: the economic system that is being proposed can coexist next to a capitalist or communist country. The reason for that is that the hoarding of gold or non-demurrage currencies only harms the division of labor of the countries still using gold or non-demurrage currencies. People who claim that demurrage is unnatural can just go ahead and do whatever they want. It doesn't harm the system at all. There is no exploit or escape hatch which ruins it.

As weird as it sounds the exploits that people come up with only work with the conventional currencies, because they have this misconception about holding money being the same as saving money. Holding money is more akin to hitting the pause button in a video game. If people understood the economy was a multiplayer game kind of like Civ 6 with each turn being delayed until a player ends his turn, you could take a bath for half an hour while the rest of the players have to wait, then the waiting people would get angry and know exactly who they are waiting for. Unfortunately money is anonymous, so we don't know who we are waiting for.

To prove that holding a turn (hoarding) is not the same as making a decision (saving), consider the hypothetical case where you could play the next 20 turns in one go and then take a bath. Nobody should be angry about your decisions.
The 555 timer is considered one of the most successful chip designs in electronics. It has a simple, well understood, design. The timing on the 555 can be configured to generate a periodic signal using just a few resistors and capacitors. The 555 is often used as a timer in electronic circuits. The Linux scheduler is usually configured to respond to interrupts generated by a cpu. To replace those cpu interrupts by a simple 555 timer is impressive due to the unconventional nature of the setup.
I'm Romanian and I see nothing wrong with that, I've been on the sending and receiving end quite a few times. But it's up to you of course.
Breeding then really carefully for decades. Those 94 in the wild were most probably underestimated. A few cryptic wild populations were rediscovered later.
That's regarding the size of the entries, not the frequency though. Many small comments in a short time frame will have a huge overhead.

Also, there is a reason why binary content was first frowned upon, then became essentially a paid feature. It's expensive.
So why can't you replace 99% of callcenter calls (<5min) with AI right now?
One of the things I appreciate greatly about living in a Finnish "concrete suburb" (a decades old, concrete-walled apartment complex) is that actual nature is always a 5 minute walk away in every direction. I can walk from my living room to deep in the quiet of the forest faster than I can listen to the median Dream Theater song.

I have to say I like this much better than lawns, or frankly having a yard at all, although actually owning a patch of forest someday would be the ideal.
Some interesting context to consider with stories like this one are that the overall (global!) picture is sub-replacement fertility. That suggests we're going to see a big realignment where parents tend to come from cultures that promote children as it is hard to see why they wouldn't just outbreed everyone else.

I'm a little sad that I might not be around to see the results, but I assume the winner will be one of (1) a cultural approached like what the article describes, (2) renegotiating the social contract between men and women or (3) just people just having a really strong instinct to have children.
> Actually, I did phone the super mario 64 help hotline as I was missing level 10

Aha, snowman’s land! Jump through the wall that has the snowman portrait reflected in the mirror. Blew my mind as a 10 year old
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Seriously? In my experience, having lived in several places in Europe and in the US: Americans like to pretend that calling it "pop" or "soda" depending on where you are in the country, or Chicagoans having a deeper pizza while food in the bayou is spicier, or Californians liking surf while Iowans are into hunting, constitutes fundamental differences. Meanwhile, they all share the same overall culture: same language, same tv shows, same movies, same school systems, same university systems, same sports, same music, same historical figures and references, same laws, same political figures and topics... There are slight variations here and there, of course; just like in any European country. But ask a Hungarian and a Spanish person if they watched the same shows as kids or learned the same stuff in school, and see where that gets you. Most Americans I've met take their country's cultural baseline for granted and magnify the slight differences among themselves.
Simple. Because I don’t think either article belongs here. The decision to stay home with children or work is something almost everyone struggles with. This isn’t unique to Mormonism as the author imagines it is. This is just a complicated way to complain about religion, which is not what hacker news should be used for.
The US has no official languages, so by that metric, the US is the most homogenous country in the world.

FWIW, as an American living in Europe, I do agree that the US is far more homogenous.
Send your friends post carts for no reason. It's so rare, they will definitely appreciate
When I was reading the title and I was wondering if this happened many decades ago when social norms/expectations were very different and gender discrimination was much worse. Turns out this woman is only a few years older than me, and in her time college/career isn't that much different from mine -- except the Mormon factor. The context here matters a lot. (And I imagine even among Mormons, people take it differently and prioritize their career differently -- but no use saying that now.)
Isn't spoofing an email sender address much easier than taking over an account on a web-based forum? I think forums are very robust against that, while email and usenet are not.
I don't agree that it's a case of grass being greener, the difference is that you as a family are able to make that choice, after having had the opportunity and privilege earlier in life.

> the bond invested in our children will be there forever.

It is entirely possible to bond with our children and still maintain a career. These are not mutually exclusive the way you've implied.
Does it really matter? Even if they were, it’s still amazing.
True. Which leads one to wonder, could those same kinds of consciousness that inhabit us also be capable of inhabit an AI. Or even, could there be other kinds of consciousnesses in those or other dimensions that are not currently able to exist on earth because there doesn’t exist anything yet that they are able to inhabit. But that our computers would eventually, when we arrive at some specific combination of hardware and software, enable them to inhabit those. Bringing a new kind of consciousness from outside of the universe to earth that is unlike all others outside already present here (in us, the animals, the plants, etc).
When will 2560x1440p finally become a standard among these streaming services? It's either 1920x1080 or 4k, nothing in between (pricewise, but also client/browser wise)
It might be a pink elefant that lives in the 7th dimension and contains every person's consciousness in the shape of a magic peanut. Or it may not.
What a cool person, also it was interesting to see the list of various computers used throughout the years!

I also think the VOXLAP engine was used in this one indie game called Ace of Spades, at least before it changed hands: https://web.archive.org/web/20161031124717/https://www.rockp... and http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm

I'm mentioning this because that game had a lot of charm (like Sub Rosa also did), but also because it was immensely cool to see large voxel worlds rendered on the crappy laptop I had at the time without it breaking a sweat.
What makes you so sure there isn't one already? The FBI's whining?

It's like that scene at the end of Sneakers: "they just don't want to share with the other children..."
Your right,I agree with it but,the thing is for a good idea to get example Chatgpt it was Google's transformers architecture where he had done that but still the idea of using was by openAI so to find such good ideas or trying to solve a problem it's kind of hard in this generation. What are your thoughts on this?