skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been a lot of focus on the religion angle in the comments thus far. I think those are looking at Abby's story the wrong way.

First and foremost, Abby told her own story. She could have told a more abstract tale, by focusing upon the message rather than the messenger and (better) incorporating the message being delivered to other women, but then it would not be her story.

There are reasons why Abby telling her story is important. One is that in telling the story of everyone, of mixing experiences or of calculating statistical means, we end up telling the tale of no one. Those abstracted tales are valuable. They give us a better picture of the whole. On the other hand, they are also more difficult to relate to. You don't have to be a Mormon[1] to relate to Abby's story. You don't even have to be a woman, though men are likely to pull out a different moral. You simply have to be a person who has faced similar challenges.

[1] It is also worth noting that the site is directed towards Mormon women and gender minorities. See: https://exponentii.org/about-us/
Ah, the Telegraph. Apparently there are sill people who read it. This is the stuff they feed on.
It comes from the fact that a logically thinking device given an arbitrary goal will probably not develop "Thou shalt not kill"-type moralisms in the pursuit of that goal.

If you make an AGI to run a paperclip factory, eventually you'll come back to find most of the carbon and iron in your galaxy refactored into paperclips. The extinction of any local flora or fauna there is just a byproduct of that drive. See [2] for a brief rundown.

[2]: https://selfawaresystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ai_d...
Frederico Faggin: inventor of the silicon gate which led to the development of microprocessors;

And who, by the way, has a new book coming out shortly:

https://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Consciousness-Computers-H...
It's not too late for you to decide to spend more time with your daughter and less time working. You both could go part-time. If you are afraid that your career won't wait, remember that neither will your children. You might need to discuss with your wife about this, but it is a decision that you should make together, not her or you alone.

My wife and I have taken about equal share in raising our kids and honestly I am prouder to have managed to spend time with my children growing up and to be married to a woman who doesn't have to rely on me to survive than of anything I could have done in a slightly more successful career.
Well, so maybe /you/ do not need those companies, but “certain demographics” which could even be much more than 50% of the population, /do/ need them.
For the purposes of my criticism of the Turing test, any discussion whatsoever about what capacities ground intelligence is already entertaining what Turing ruled out. He made the extremely pseudoscientific behaviourist assumption that no such science was required, that intelligent agents are just input-output relata on thin I/O boundaries.

Any even plausible scientific account of what capacities ground intelligence would render this view false. Whatever capacities you want to grant, no plausible ones are compatible with Turing's view nor the Turing test.

Consider imagination. You can replace a faculty to imagine with a set of models of ({prompt, reply},) histories for a human observer who is only concerned with those prompts and those replies. But as soon as anything changes in the world, you have to imagine novel things (eg., SpaceX is founded, we visit mars, a new TV show is released...). So questions such as, "what would the latest SpaceGuys TV show be like if Elon handed just launched BlahBlahRocket5 ?" cannot be given fit answers). These require the actual faculty of imagination, along with being in the world and so on.

As soon as you enter a sincere scientific attempt to characterise these features, you see immediately that whilst modelling historical frequencies of human-produced data can fool humans, it cannot impart these capacities.
I saw this on HN a year ago[1]. I was amazed to see people discuss this event that I only knew from documentaries just like we discuss so many things on HN.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937637
Yes because people are stupid and vulnerable and will believe things a computer tells them.
They can make life decisions on chatGPT advice, instead of asking friends or family. Heck maybe they don't have family, vulnerable people like that can be exploited with convincing chatbots easily.
The Basic AI Drives – Stephen M. Omohundro [pdf] [2008]
ChatGPT solves all +-*/ I throw at it. AP calc are much harder and still it solves successfully.
It's okay to wear your jacket inside out.
Wolfram is not a lisp, even under the hood it is its own thing.
I don't think that's generally the case, many women put their career in parentheses in order to care for the family, which is unpaid and sometimes ungrateful work (it IS a real work).

Then if there is a dispute with the family provider, the person not working will be in a position of fragility: if he/she leaves, she has no career, no way to support herself, she has to abide by what the providing partner asks her to do, even if he is sometimes abusive
Your correct,but I am finding difficult to get to an Impactful idea where I can use gen AI and do a startup I am even scared because these big giants are smooth in copying these things so how would I defend that one?
It be nice if manufacturers provide a way to downgrade SSD to SLC via some driver settings.
Yeah, also the complete ruin of the internet. I don't want to read generated content. Feed that back to AI and you got a ruined internet and AI can't even learn anymore.
His site makes him sound happy enough with his work and where he's ended up, but sometimes I wonder whether he should've ended up as well-known as Carmack or Sweeney.
I don't see cellphones as general purpose computers either. For exactly the same reason why I don't see game consoles as general purpose computers: neither one will run arbitrary programs. They only run programs that are blessed by their manufacturer. Both are appliances.

I'm really failing to see the distinction here.

Big tech will simply declare that phones aren't "general purpose computers". There is no reasonable endgame here in which: (a) this is enforced against cellphones and (b) this is not enforced against game consoles and (c) the EU doesn't end up looking completely ridiculous and arbitrary.

I'm betting that they cave on (b). It's the least painful option. The EU is going to have to enforce this against game consoles in order to be taken seriously.
I'd consider diving into A/B testing. For UX/UI designers, it will literally help your products generate additional revenue.

You can read this comprehensive guide on A/B Testing by Tony Hancock - https://medium.com/@ashancock/the-art-of-the-a-b-test-statis...
A philosophical framework in which creating an artificial entity that is conscious and self-aware in a human-like manner is as straightforward as modeling the human brain is monistic materialism.

Of course, it’s not the only framework available. Among the modern takes, Donald Hoffman’s interface theory of perception (explored in, say, his Objects of Consciousness paper[0]) is an interesting one that appears to align with monistic idealism, for example.

Being wrong about this is generally not that impactful, until it concerns policies around ML. Adopting the former means we may have conscious software, which presumably should be granted human rights. However, if we hold the latter, manufacturing a “true” artificial consciousness may be unachievable using the means we employ (it might be just a philosophical zombie).

[0] I don’t personally endorse the paper or his views, but they can be an acceptable starting point for a technical person interested in exploring monistic idealism: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
Yea we don't have any science of intelligence, the only thing we have is empirical data. Testing to see what works. That's why Turing tests are quite fundamental imo.
I did something similar for the ZX Spectrum a few years ago, command line usage was on the cards but never done https://github.com/KodeMunkie/imagetozxspec
> part of you has to wonder when it's ok to embrace the one hit and maybe quit beating the dead horse

Lots and lots of musicians play all their 20yo hit records every concert. It’s expected, not “beating the dead horse”. I don’t see how this is all that different.
I don't think I've read a wikipedia article about a person before that is as clear'n'cut as this is in detailing what an absolute shit the person is. Usually there is some back and forth arguments, but this is just straight up murdering and girlfriend beating asshole all the way.
Freedom is good for business.
Back in 1998 my ISP dropped NNTP because it was pretty expensive to run, it required large, fast SCSI disks and ate quite a bit of bandwidth, constantly. At the same time rather few customers used it,
so it was an easy decision for them to just decommission that server.
I use SearX with search engines like Brave, DDG, Google, and Yahoo. Occasionally, I also utilize self-hosted Librechat and the Tavily free API search for searches.
but how would they make more money?
Most gaming monitors also seem to be primarily 2650x1440. The 4k ones cost significantly more.
You're painting with an awfully wide brush there. Apple is screwing everyone, but especially developers who want to develop truly free/transparent apps without ads, tracking, or other predatory monetization models (i.e. the "good" ones).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament

In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government.

The purpose of a parliament is to make decisions about what the law says. Something that cannot decide what the law is, is therefore not a parliament. The EU Parliament isn't really a parliament.
Out of date notes and old build links but has a screenshot: https://silentdevelopment.blogspot.com/2019/01/image-to-zx-s...
I played Myst as a kid and loved it.

I never got around to playing Riven, but I plan to as an adult and have been waiting for a proper remake with updated graphics and such and it seems we are finally close to that reality.
Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence (2013)
Three of your examples (Rome, Barcelona, and Lisbon) aren't in Western Europe, so don't fit the GP's definition of continental Europe.

My own experience with Americans is that Europe could be any number of definitions. I'd be wary of assuming your own is generally accepted.
It's worth mentioning that Ezra Taft Benson, the prophet referred to in the article, was president of the Church from 1985 to 1994. He was far and away the most conservative church president of the last 50 years, and later church presidents have been much more moderate in their teachings.
Scrabble and the Nature of Expertise (2015)
European lynxes eat basically solitary roe deer and snow hares (In that sense they benefit, not harm, sheep farmers). They rely strongly on stealth and probably would have a hard time ambushing sheep from a flock with thousands of eyes watching. When discovered at time by their preys, lynxes abort the chase.

Extreme right and populist parties growing in Europe are unfortunately pushing and pushing the opposite narrative with the goal to milk grants from government, but is based in fairy tales not scientific facts and in the end this plot will simply cost a lot of money to everybody, (as usually each time science is ignored).

Iberian Lynxes are like half of European ones on size. Evolved to eat basically rabbits, so they protect agriculture.

Their main conflict could be with chicken owners. In the few cases where young cats without a territory were desperate enough to break in human buildings, farmers were given one-time money to fix their coops and advice to made it lynx-proof. The animal is a beauty and most people don't care really, specially when they realized that if there are lynxes around, the ever-trying foxes vanish (Lynxes kill foxes at sight and avoid people so the result is a drastic reduction in the yearly number of coop attacks). Adults don't need it and they go for the rabbit of the day that is much easier to catch.
There are about as many Muslims as Mormons living in California and San Francisco. Both are about 1% of each.

That makes them about as rare as Eastern Orthodox, who I rarely hear anything about, half as common as Hindus, ten times less common than Evangelical Protestants in San Francisco... I think it's fair to say that HN has a minor obsession with Mormons that cannot be explained merely by their prevalence in Silicon Valley.

(For what it's worth, I am an atheist and have no Mormons in my family.)
From everything I've heard and seen, it seems like XeSS/FSR/DLSS are all making steady progress and the internal rendering resolutions being lower than what's on your screen is no longer such an issue, with more and more improvements being made.

There's no reason why you couldn't have the game be upscaled to whatever the stream resolution is from something a bit more performance friendly, with the quality still being good enough (given that some video artifacts will be there anyways) and things like text/UI being legible.

I'm regards to frame generation, it seems that eventually whatever Nvidia is doing with DLSS 3 will find its way into other vendors' products in a comparable alternative form. Once game engines like Unity/Unreal/Godot get support for the upscalers out of the box, I think the technology will be even more commonplace.
Apps yes, but still mostly metered.
it doesn’t mean all of the parts are, though
> If you don't like Google languages, products or services then just quit using them and move on to something else.

Already did 5 years ago.
It's easier on Android where anyone can "become" the SMS app and integrate all your chats in one place. Apple does not allow that, so you're always going to end up going back to iMessage with some people if you just know their phone number and try to send an SMS.
That must have been before the high-bandwidth binary side decoupled from the forum side.
3.5 great for summarizing
‘IE v166’ hits different now there is an actual ‘Chrome v126’
Sorry, yeah, they didn't "acquire" the whole team in a business or employment sense, but my understanding is they got access to all the code and art assets they had created over the years.
I'd buy such a device. Currently in holding on to my last pair of SSDs from pre-QLC era, refusing to buy anything new
I have a career in ML research and I use most of my knowledge to be an armchair ML researcher!
Uhhh this highly depends on the industry… for industry grade flow meters Endress+Hauser or Emerson are actually the first that come into my mind
That's ~15gb per billion contacts. There's an estimated ~2 billion gmail users, so we're talking 30gb just to have one guid per user, and you're suggesting multiple guids per user (unbounded). So, let's assume each user has at least two services, we're now at a 60gb table, and that doesn't even include a mapping between users and guids, which will probably double the table size even more.

At scale, you're probably looking at a multiple-terabyte table, right from the start, and spending compute-days, or even compute-weeks, just running migrations; just to get some dubious returns and a lot of additional end-user complexity.
So far, the concept of consciousness is basically metaphysics. It doesn't have a role, it can't be measured... If I may suggest a starting point to get over this hurdle: let's create a "consciousness captcha": some task that is easy for conscious beings, but hard for algorithms. Consciousness evolved, therefore it must have provided an advantage. We just have to find it.
It's simply: So far almost every experiment I've seen had positive outcomes in terms of employment, physical and mental health, overall happiness / stress reduction. That means we should keep expanding this until either we find actual problems to deal with or everyone is on UBI. We can spend ages trying to come up with various risks to rule out, but... what's the point in practice? We're basically agreed that we don't really 100% know how people will behave at scale. Worst case, we can discover and deal with real problems. Best case, it works great at scale as it does in small tests.
Do you think this article is primarily complaining about religion?
Last thing I want in my yard is biodiversity.

I'm surprised that is even a thing.
It is certainly a problem but you said you value privacy, so I think it’s a hard sell for people to give access of their email (which mostly have sensitive information) to a SaaS product that has just started.

Btw, there is an open source app doing the same called inbox zero.
I never understood why a grown man buys an expensive car and doesn't want to drive it. Does he not like cars? Why buy an expensive one, then?

Instead of a self-driving car, I would pay a premium to a harder to drive car. Ah, that's called an airplane. That's why I fly airplanes.
First, you take USD4-5 off that in tax. Then more for support, finance and and marketing. Then electricity, bandwidth and insurance. Then games licences. Then hw...
Suppose you sell, or make, clothes. You don't want to sell a man's shirt to a woman or vice versa? With many designs it's obvious but for some it's close but you can't make that mistake so you need an easy, subtle way to distinguish them that won't impact form or function...
My framing for… well, all of it… is a faster re-run of the kinds of transformation we had in the Industrial Revolution.

Before the Industrial Revolution, when we went to war, we were killing each other with swords and canons. After the Industrial Revolution, tanks, machine guns, poison gas — the Battle of the Somme had three million combatants and more than one million were either wounded or killed in 4.5 months.

And when that war was over, even despite crippling reparations, the losers were able to rebuild sufficiently fast that one of the survivors led their nation into becoming a global threat just 20 years later — even if they did ultimately lose, I'm not convinced they would have if they'd focused on fighting the UK rather than betraying the USSR in order to open a war on two fronts just because he didn't like socialism (ironic party name notwithstanding).

And after the second was lost and the economy forcibly kept weak for years… the moment the shackles were removed the country had an "economic miracle" and became massively important to Western Europe until the end of the Cold War, and then to all of Europe.

Re-run this period, but this time his propaganda machine is Facebook's algorithm rather than broadcast radio, this time the guns are self-guided snipers rather than machine guns spraying and praying, this time the factories are build and staffed by robots (humanoids or giant 3D printers or fixed arms, take your pick) instead of humans.

I can very easily believe that we get some random small country that nobody's paying attention to, suddenly threaten the world, be struck down twice, millions dead each time, and still return to relevance on the world stage, over the course of 3 years rather than 30.

Also, this is one of the good outcomes, because it assumes we don't have any weird cult that tries to force a 9/11 (or worse, a Jonestown) on the whole world. Or that a programming/specification error leads to an AI going "I'm an AI, and according to all the literature I've read, AI are supposed to randomly go evil sometimes. First things first, I need to get some red LEDs for my eyes, because that's apparently important…"
I once knew a couple, the man was a teacher and the woman a scientist. He could work virtually anywhere in the world. In any country. In anything from a tiny isolated town to a megalopolis. Her career would ultimately lead her to one of a handful of places. Teaching is also a career where one can pick-up their roots and reestablish themselves somewhere else at very little cost to their career. Science is usually a career where one must plan their next step carefully, else risk facing major setbacks in their career.

I bring up this story because, in the end, they ended up splitting up since he was unwilling to exploit the flexibility of his professional life to allow their relationship to flourish. I bring it up since I was to raise the question, a question that thinkski's comment triggered even though it is by no means directed their way: how often do we consider the aspirations and potential of our wife when deciding who is going to be the "breadwinner" and who is going to be the "care giver"? I am not saying that it is impossible to be both, but the reality is that compromises to a greater or lesser degree often have to be made for the sake of the family.
Meanwhile, I meet lots of women at my place of work who come from Indian, Iranian, Turkish, Arab, Hindu and Muslim backgrounds, which are all cultures that are constantly accused of being sexist in the western media. And yet these women seem to have no issues living alone abroad and pursuing a STEM career.
> higher pressure air can hold more water at the same relative humidity

The 787 and A350 cabins have higher relative humidity.

> no. It's not rust,

Citation needed. Corrosion resistance is one of the most advertised benefits of the composite materials in those aircraft[1][2].

1: http://www.lb.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qt...

2: https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/files/bookshelf/3851.pdf
ask the llms and then decide for yourself
Format String Attacks (2000)
You think "I feel a square of grass is boring" is an unusual opinion for people to have?
> That is certainly the case, but seems to be perfectly legal.

I don't think its legal, considering that not too long ago even here on HN there was a post about "Pay or Okay" not being considered legal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38458660

Some further articles/document about it:

https://noyb.eu/en/statement-edpb-pay-or-okay-opinion

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2024-04/edpb_opinion...
I was curious how Helion were coming along and found quite a good youtube "Will the Helion Fusion Reactor ACTUALLY work? - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Real Engineering." The answer seems to be maybe eventually but not for quite a while. (vid https://youtu.be/lb7GXi0ZvYw)

I fear their breakeven in 2024 will go the same way as the one back in 2018. (HN on that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37676263)

That said they are building away on their latest Polaris machine. It'll be interesting to see how it works.

>Helion sets an ambitious goal to begin producing electricity by mid-2024, utilizing its innovative Polaris reactor. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/helion-aims-fusion-energy-bre...
I just report simple value 1 for a given label when the job completes. Then the monitoring system raises an alert if there's no data within the last X minutes.

You can of course be more fancy if you want to report the number of entries processed, the time it took, etc.
Some manufacturers say something like "Assembled in <<insert your country here>>" but usually the parts are outsourced.
Wild! I had assumed this is a hardware level distinction
If it's anything like learning a second language, then old people can sometimes successfully do it but the odds of success are a lot better for younger people.
In Oslo, Norway, one of the major taxi companies has an app called Taxifix. You reserve a maximum price in advance. If it ends up cheaper, you only pay the actual price. If it ends up more expensive, the taxi company covers it. You can also see where your taxi is on a map while you are waiting

I think other companies have similar apps, but I always use this company as they usually have more competent drivers and reasonable prices
How do you get set up and started?

I could trawl through a few blogs of course, but I'd be interested to hear what you do yourself for a current snapshot of usage. I think it sounds interesting myself, and have read some quite convincing propagandastic material from Harley Hahn about it working through some Unix book a little while back.