skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Consciousness seems to be a word that is poorly defined

That's because it's not some foreign thing or theory that we need a good definition of to understand what we're talking about. For us humans it's not a loose colloquial notion - it's concrete in a way that even the most well defined things aren't, because it's directly experienced.
> I don't need to show that all components scale poorly to show that overall there are diseconomies of scale.

Yes you do. If A represents 0.001% of the cost then increasing it by 20x doesn’t matter and the support structure is cheap.

Same deal with a fission reactor there’s several diseconomies of scale for example around the length of control rods passive cooling after an accident etc, most of them just don’t matter much.
I've been pleasantly surprised to see a lot of rural fiber from MEC - https://www.teammidwest.com/internet/
They don't work, and nothing in the category can ever truly work.

Models and adversarial data are equally powerful - you can find an adversarial example for any current model, but you can also train a model that can handle any existing adversarial data.

Any image is a good example of /something/ - at worst it's only an example of itself and irrelevant for any other class. Don't know if there's a name for this principle but it's kind of like a Church-Turing thesis for data.
Your comment reads as some form of social/class warfare propaganda, instead of discussing the technical merits of the post.
I use an old Android phone with a long deprecated app called MobileWebCam (still available on certain sites) I removed the battery and connected the charger directly. It uploads a picture every minute, a Node.js backend creates the timelapse with ffmpeg. Currently experimenting with a TP-Link C520 cam and a Raspberry Pi. You can point the camera to different positions using ONVIF, use ffmpeg to grab the stream and take a snapshot, then process this again on the server. Downside is the wide angle / fish eye lens and occasionally a corrupted stream snapshot.
> it doesn't take much browsing in categories such as tattoo design to spot the hallmarks of AI generated artwork

Which is kind of interesting. My first tattoo has its roots from it. Where I used ChatGPT together with DALL-e to express the concept I wanted on my body, and not a direct translation of it.

Worked out pretty well, got a lot easier to discuss how and what things would work and how to apply them.
Every time I see photos of North Korea, I always wonder the same thing: Where is everyone? There are pictures of massive buildings and perfectly paved highways with no people and no cars. It’s bizarre.
Winamp (for macOS, for instance)
Small reminder: people in the eu, including governments, disagree on what the eu id about
> how expensive and non-compositional soundness necessarily is

It is "deeper" properties (these are defined more robustly as those requiring a greater number of alternating universal and existential quantifiers) that are usually non-compositional and expensive to prove (and soundness means proof). Simple properties are easy to prove and can be made compositional, but they're also less valuable.

> So why wouldn't you?

No reason, except for the fact that you've defended against things that are easy to defend against easily and didn't defend against the hard things. In other words, of course you should prove as many properties as you can for a low cost, but don't exaggerate what it is that you've gained by doing so. That is precisely the delta between "can" and "need" that I was referring to. It's cool that I can get some extra security cheaply, but if that extra security amounts to 5%, then its value is not that high.

> There is no cost-benefit here, it's just benefit.

Of course there is. When the benefit is low then it's particularly easy to offset by other concerns, e.g. the speed at which I can churn out code or the cost of writing a compiler for an exotic architecture, a relatively common concern in the embedded space.

In any event, I always prefer typed languages when building big/important software (I've rarely used untyped languages), but remember that the original post is not about the simple properties that we get cheaply in typed languages, but how non-aliasing can make proving deeper properties easier. And what I was saying is that these proofs are nowhere near cost effective in most cases even after they've made a little easier.
You're training a different kind of immune sensitivity. You're still inducing inflammation, and you're still allergic, you just see less IgE response.
What's the most radical book you've read?
By radical I refer to ideas/frameworks/ways of seeing life that are dramatically different to what you think/am.
How do allergy shots work?
Once you start considering it just metacognition, it gets to be a much more useful concept, but most people seem to desperately want it to be "special".

Ask any therapist, consciousness has limits, it has bound depth. It takes a lot of work to re-train it. It isn't a magical human only special thing.
How long does malware last "in the wild"?
Want to Buy SpaceX Stock? You Have to Know Someone
I agree. How were these pictures even taken? Did they shut down all these roads?
Style is largely in the eye of the beholder; SD1.5 was used to make a lot of images that looked like Greg Rutkowski, and people presumably believed they looked like his style, but he wasn't in the training set and it was a coincidence.

Of course this is mostly only possible if you limit yourself to looking at digital art. A JPEG of a gigantic abstract art oil painting is pretty different from the real thing.
Just i.e. almost a day ago.
I'm not sure "swarm over interstellar distances" makes any sense here, then. How many stars are within 100,000 km of each other and what percentage of stars does that represent?
Did this at camp in the way deep woods. The troop I was in was sort of “outside” the mainstream campers.

It was a blast though. So many good memories. I would definitely recommend it if you’ve got the space.
Generally if an enemies large slow military transport plane is flying over your city, your military is already losing.
I’ve occasionally worked with more dynamic models (tree structured decoding). They are generally not a good fit for trying to max gpu thoroughput. A lot of magic of transformers and large language models is about pushing gpu as much we can and simpler static model architecture that trains faster can train on much more data.

So until the hardware allows for comparable (say with 2-4x) thoroughput of samples per second I expect model architecture to mostly be static for most effective models and dynamic architectures to be an interesting side area.
Wow, look at the ratio of "people wearing swimming clothes" / "people wearing suits" in the recreational water park in photo 4! It says so much.
Not everything that's useful to me is broadly applicable enough that I can expect to stumble upon it after launch
Would make sense given their shared ML roots

Unrelated, but TS is poorly placed in static/strong plot
I'm curious how these studies consider factors like race and ethnic background. In the US for example, Latinos earn less than whites for a lot of reasons. Latino men are also shorter overall than white men. But we can think of a lot of relevant reasons Latino men might earn less than white men in the US before we'd start thinking about specific physical characteristics.
Google Does Code Review
(2016) Previous discussions [0](284 points, 7 years ago, 76 comments), [1](305 points, 4 years ago, 60 comments), [2](52 points, 1 year ago, 5 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707000

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626972

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34203622
And a few drinks too many: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13vv941/tempera...
Although note the map is only city addresses. For example the "London" pin is on the notional point where "London" is, ie Charing Cross. There is no giant network interchange at Charing Cross, it's just a convenient place co-ordinate for "London".
"Waiting periods are one of the biggest causes of unoptimized processes in real life. You need to identify waiting periods and try to reduce or eliminate them."

That's just 1 way of dealing with wait time. And not even a good one: some wait times can only be reduced at ever-increasing effort (diminishing returns).

Another way is to make the wait time useful so it's not 'lost'. It's kinda like a scheduler in multi-tasking OS: some process 'blocks' (wait time starts), in response you just switch to a different activity. No busy waiting, no 'cpu time' lost.
I don't understand this logic. Consider the two possibilities here.

The first is that only weird tech people are interested in doing this. Then they might as well allow it because it's a negligible proportion of the market but it makes those customers favor rather than dislike your brand, and makes them more likely to recommend your devices to others, which makes you some money.

The second is that it would be widely popular and large numbers of customers would want to do it, and thereby choose the drives that allow it. Then if Samsung does it and SanDisk doesn't, or vice versa, they take more of the other's customers. Allowing it is the thing makes them more money.

Meanwhile the thing that trashes most SSDs isn't wear, it's obsolescence. There are millions of ten year old QLC SSDs that are perfectly operational because they lived in a desktop and saw five drive writes over their entire existence. They're worthless not because they don't work, but because a drive which is newer and bigger and faster is $20. It costs the manufacturer nothing to let them be more reliable because they're going in the bin one way or the other.

The status quo seems like MBAs cargo culting some heuristic where a company makes money in proportion to how evil they are. Companies actually make money in proportion to how much money they can get customers to spend with them. Which often has something to do with how much customers like them.
There just aren't many cars, thats really the answer. Theres a few videos on youtube of tourists/diplomatic staff driving down a completely empty 10 lane highway lol

https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/4...
It’s crazy that one of the largest commuter rail systems in a state with some of the highest taxes cannot just spend $8 million to replace the windows. I’m sure an audit of contracts or overtime payments could quickly find some extra money.
They probably just wing it, come up with an assumption and never revisit it.
Doing this in a trainer helicopter without doors was the most terrifying experience of my life. You don't want to do this if you don't have to.
You want to steal my time and trash my public services. And you promise that it’s all for my benefit. Just no.

I’d call you paternalistic, but you sound more like an abusive father.
> Authorities were told from the top to not prescribe it

They were also told not to prescribe Metamizole, because it kills people. there is no controversy there (well apart from spain who still have it on license.)

> How about the fact it killed some people within minutes?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/697... No drug is 100% safe. How many people were killed per 100k doses?

>That the actual data was slated to be suppressed for 75 years for bullshit reasons

https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/ you mean published quarterly

> The dictionary even changed the definition of "vaccine"

Which dictionary? Also, bear in mind that the dictionary isn't static. Its updated to reflect how english is spoken now, by the public.

> In the years since the vaccine came out, many young people have suspiciously dropped dead or at least lost consciousness on live TV

Do you have data for that? what does it corrolate to? also depending on the country, some places its the younger that have less uptake.

Do you know how hard it is to run a project with 10 people?

Do you know how exponentially harder it is to run it for 1000 people? How on earth, looking at how shit the US government is at functioning, can they organise something like that?

Moreover, if its the "MSM", who are holding the secrets, do you know how fucking chatty those pricks are? (I used to work for a finance newspaper) All you have to do is take them to the pub and you can find out who's doing what illegal shit. or whos flogging synthetic opioids to the rust belt
Qt 5.15 LTS on Windows Without a Qt Account
Everything is open if you can read assembly and de-cap silicon.
I often wonder if the Ottomans hadn’t sided with the Central powers how much better off the region would be.
Very well. I will simply note that 2/3rds of the mass of ARC is the support structure for the magnets. And the rest of the mass includes the blanket.
On the other hand, it's far harder to break than glass, which is important for equipment that will be subjected to vandals.
/Sonic Shuffle/ moment :þ

No seriously, you'd be (like I was) surprised at how sweaty a game that appears for all the world like a /Mario Party/ clone can get.
You could add logs with timestamps. It is common that players forgot what actions they did, e.g. "Did I forgot to add a TR for this ocean?"
I saw this last night in Matosinhos - north Portugal outside of Porto.

This is a town that happened to have its biggest celebration of the year last night. It's called Festas do Senhor de Matosinhos.

The meteor made an appearance 15 minutes before midnight. The big fireworks were to go off at midnight. We all thought it was the weirdest firework we'd ever seen and only later realized it was a meteor.

It was truly huge. And lit the ground blue.

The really interesting part of this is that the festival is to celebrate a miracle in the town wherein a vision of Jesus appeared a long time ago.

I am not religious. But wow. Quite a coincidence.

Posting under a fresh account for location privacy, of course.

Maybe this sounds unbelievable but here is the program of the festival where you can see that the fireworks happen:

https://www.leca-palmeira.com/senhor-de-matosinhos-4/

And here's the wiki about the reason for the festival:

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matosinhos#Etnografia
neovide is a nvim gui that feels good
So, I haven’t had the pleasure of using the thing, but, kind of sounds like the revenge of the dread talking paperclip.
Dealing with Risk Aversion, Lack of Innovation and Becoming Slower (2019)
I asked our doctor about immunotherapy and she urged against it saying it was lots of trips each week, risky, unlikely to work and the benefits were limited.
Looks like you are giving "Ackshually" technically correct points, when it's clear what others are trying to say. Please engage with what they are trying to convey instead of coming up with technical gotchas.
Would that make it more of a hear? Since obviously the guy can't watch.
> As I understand it, generative AI is a sort of average machine, in that if you ask it for a picture of a dog, it’ll give you the most average result for the prompt, model and whatever randomness there is in the system.

"Generative AI" isn't a single technology. Text and image generation don't actually work the same way (have the same model architecture), which frankly makes it absurd we invented them both at the same time.

But for text at least this isn't true; LLMs have fractal complexity, which is why they work. ("Average" text would just be the letter 'e'.) It's harder to say how diffusion models even work.

It makes them easier to handle if you train them to act like this though, but try playing with a "base model" and you'll see all kinds of inhuman results.
> Let's say we just start the peace negotiation process in earnest this time.

Also, there can be no peace between the sheep and the wolf. Russia believes Ukraine does not and cannot exists. How can that ever lead to long lasting peace and long term territorial integrity for Ukraine?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_Munich
Some notes from the editor...

I do think there is a middle ground. Look at Bukowski as a good example of effective terseness.

On one hand, you can indeed rely on the precision of a large and unequivocal vocabulary, removing all doubt as to your intentions.

On the other hand, you can also rely on context and find beauty in conveying advanced meaning within a simpler interface. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry says, "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away".

There is a creative art to compressing meaning. As evidenced by the response to your first post, things can actually get lost in translation once you stray from the common vernacular in an attempt at precision. The more you can say with less, the more effective each word becomes.

With practice, you can communicate quite profound thoughts in a form that even the most uneducated among us can understand. Know Your Audience. We may be on Hacker News, but we are also on the Web. People encounter and digest a massive amount of text every day. Making them work a little less in order to understand you can be beneficial for everyone.
Are African Prices Too High? Balassa-Samuelson-Based Hot Take
> pushed a woke agenda during the pandemic

That sounds like a positive to me, but I'm a filthy leftoid, so. :þ
Now just look up how expensive steel is per kg vs superconductors or lithium and … ahh yea weight is a poor predictor of cost.
> You can become allergic to new things, but you won't lose allergies unless the recognizer population dies off entirely.

That's not true. Desensitization therapy often works.

The trick is to introduce the allergens into the bloodstream, bypassing the skin.
I feel like that would require society to get pretty chill about suicide. In a world where everyone is immortal-by-default, I can actually see the opposite happening - the fear of death increasing from its absence, and becoming an even greater taboo.
> Stuttgart 21: from €3,5B to €11,5B and finish not in sight. So the bridge has potential to reach €50B.

That is the purpose of the EU institutions. It's the 2nd biggest scam, after the mandatory pension schemes. Note that the EU is currently jealous of the biggest ponzi of all time and hence wants its own: they want to remove veto-rights of member states on fiscal policies to be able to create an EU-wide, mandatory, pension fund (it's literally in talks right now).

The public sector knows how to do one thing: seize private property (through taxes) to fund projects whose sole goal is to steal taxpayers money. Going from $3.5bn to $11bn over budget is the goal. In that these projects are very successful.

That's why we don't have the equivalent of Tesla in Europe and that's why the European State Agency is nowhere compared to SpaceX.

There's not a dollar or a EUR that's less well used that a dollar or EUR that's been through public spendings.

Play stupid communist games (like having gigantic public spendings), end, all EU-wide, with a stupid failing economy.

The EU shall only keep falling into irrelevancy on the world scene.
Part of the reason for that is those artists are doing commercial art, which means the "style" is imposed on them by the customer/series character designs/etc, and they're not putting their whole ability into it.

It's like how it was easier to automate office workers because they just followed steps in a process and didn't use creativity.
Or ignore the physical human attributes and pay based on metrics and performance? I’m aware, unlikely to ever occur.
Wasnt there some sort of natural selection centuries ago so that only folks tolerant to such chemistry actually performed the job?

I know next to nothing about these topics but there are some wildly opposite claims in this thread. Truth has the tendency, despite being complex, to generqlly favor one direction.
There are open source clients for FastTrack protocol based on giFT (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/): Apollon (https://apollon.sourceforge.net) and KCeasy (http://www.kceasy.com).
My sister got a strange rash on her face growing up.. our pediatrician traced it back to the boxes of mangos she ate
This is why I love HN. Something I'd never thought about before reading this article is now of vital importance to me!
Ask HN: Thoughts on publicly shared patent ownership via smart contracts?
Hi HN,

I've filed a patent application (WO2023102581A1) for a protocol that enables tamper-proof and authenticated software execution in any environment. I plan to share the licenses and revenue with a public society through a smart contract system using NFTs on the Ethereum network.

I believe this could lead to:

- Hyper-scalability: Thousands of ideas and opportunities from license holders. Each of which can scale on its own.

- Alignment of Interests: Everyone benefits from each other's success, reducing the need for governance. Self-assebmled cooperation.

- Optionality: Royalties are distributed to all license holders, promoting a "rising tide lifts all boats" situation.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts:

- Under what conditions would you consider joining such a patent society?

- What expectations would you have if you joined?

Cheers, Michael
I sat in a philosophy class in high school. I went to a prep school, so it was a Ph.D. teaching. I adamantly explained that neurons firing is the same as a feeling of pain. But he kept telling me that my feeling of pain is distinct from the firing in my brain. It took me weeks to realize what he was saying. That a conscious feeling is a distinct thing. That I could be in "the matrix", and no brain is actually firing. That the feeling is the only thing we know is real.

So I would suggest that simulating consciousness has nothing to do with it. I would suggest there must be technology in the brain to produce it that operates on a level we have no comprehension of. Maybe quantum or something.
> Besides Teams meeting summarization, they are all pretty worthless.

Wait, does that actually work? I’ve only experienced the Zoom one, which, while occasionally quite _funny_, is not what you’d call useful.
Yes, it's worthless. Are you a troll or something?

Large parts of the Donbas look like the moon after Russians bombed them. They've sent most of the local men to the slaughterhouse. Industry is gone, mining was obsolete, natural gas resources are less and less valuable as we advance with renewables, etc.

If there is ever a compromise, as a Ukrainian president I'd choose Crimea before Donbas because Crimea is strategically important and protects 80% of the Ukrainian South from invasion.

In an ideal situation, Ukraine should still get it back, because it's Ukrainian territory. But in practical terms, Donbas 2013 was a totally different place to Donbas 2024.
Those images of the residential areas at night are crazy. Not only are there no cars or people, but it looks like every visible unit is empty of any furniture or fittings. Literally no signs of life.
Eh, if you take a picture of a big shot inaugurating a water park it'll probably look similar, here's Macron at the opening of a new pool for the Olympics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNT4cCWveTo
Science is adaptable to reality -- therefore, it reflects reality as it is presented.

Esoteric arguments portraying an ineffable, unobservable stream of will that never interacts with reality is not observable by definition; since it doesn't interact with reality, it can be safely ignored. Roko's basilisk be damned!
Riven will also be on Quest
(1) 10 year or so too late, (2) MS would have to try much harder to convince people to migrate - it seem they have run out of ideas and just focus on monetizing the OS without any regard for the opinions of their customers. [0]

[0] Maybe with one exception: the ability to ungroup windows on taskbar is finally coming back after a few years.