skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I care, because getting it wrong in either direction is bad.

Brain uploads will bring significant benefits regardless of if they are conscious.

Thinking "this brain upload is conscious" when it isn't, means we'll get an empty future where the lights are on and nobody's home.

Thinking "this brain upload isn't conscious" when it is… I've not seen most of Black Mirror, but it is the plot summary of many episodes given on Wikipedia. Also of the Westworld TV show, which I have seen. Some of the characters in the We Are Bob series.

How would we tell, is, unfortunately, a complete unknown at this point.
Admitting that I know a fair number of older women who take care of their yards... If you called 'em "Dandelion Laws", limited them to invasives that easily spread to neighbors' yards and were a PITA for those neighbors to keep under control, and cultivated a group of older ladies who were willing to show up and complain loudly at the occasional City Council meeting - then it might be surprisingly easy to do. At least in upscale and wanna-be-upscale areas.
What do you use your peanut butter for? Baking?

I primarily put peanut butter on toast. Cold peanut butter will tear apart a piece of toast (and also make it into cold bread).
This looks like a really cool project! I do have two questions, though.

1. Do you plan to add AMD support?

2. What advantages does Metrics have over leaving a PC with Steam always on and then using Steam Remote Play?
There's only 600MW of direct grid connection between Sweden and Germany[1]. Southern Sweden uses 4GW right now, Germany 47GW.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Cable
You can simplify it a bit. Yes, gradual replacement is likely the way to go, but you probably don't need to replace individual neurons one at a time. Individual neurons don't really matter or meaningfully contribute to our consciousness.

You can likely replace the large "functional groups" of neurons instead, with the group size threshold being the maximum that doesn't meaningfully affect our consciousness. This might well be many billions of neurons at a time.
> would not resolve its ability to track, say, the user changing their clothes.

In context learning works fine for this (and does for the Russia/Ukraine change too).

But yes, sure. It can be outdated in the same way a person cut off from news can be.

We've never argued that a shipwrecked person who was unaware of news became less intelligent because of that, just that their knowledge is outdated.

Additionally, the whole point of machine learning is to make systems that learn so they remain useful.

It seems likely that a model in soon (one year? five years? one month? who knows..) will be able to continually watch video broadcast news and videos of your home, continually updating its model.

In this case it would understand both the Ukraine issue and what you are wearing. Is it now suddenly intelligent? It's true it might be more useful, but to me that is a different thing.
How is this in any way different than an RNG? The numbers are completely made up, does slapping an AI label on a RNG somehow make this unique or interesting?
One huge benefit Outer Wilds has is that its fans are like "No! Don't watch this spoiler - Play the game" which is definitely the correct advice. If you're not sure, play the game.

I actually only played a few hours of Outer Wilds and decided to watch others (and particularly Thor) finish it instead because I'm bad at flying the ship and I found it too frustrating to die unsure whether I was bad at it or what I was attempting is impossible.

But I know I'm weird, I think the Penn & Teller things where they explain the trick are the best, clearly Penn himself doesn't agree because you won't see too much of that in their newer work. My favourite bit of Portal 2 was playing with commentary on just before "The Part Where He Kills You" where there's a frantic portal fling and in testing they realised it's not fun if the player accidentally flings the wrong portal. Like, sure, if you actually did that you die, but so what? So - if you hit the wrong button you get the correct portal anyway, as a special exception to the game's rules. So yeah, I'm weird, I like to understand how it works.

Outer Wilds (less so the DLC) has a lot of opportunity for you to completely misunderstand and I think it's actually overall nice that the game doesn't finish by insisting on correcting you. You can keep believing whatever it is, and maybe you eventually realise you were wrong or maybe not. Life's like that.

SPOILERS - Stop reading if you haven't played Outer Wilds and think you might

It's very possible to "win" Outer Wilds not understanding why the visitors died. Maybe you never visit the asteroid, maybe you don't understand what's happening there and never go inside, maybe you see what happened but never understand it. This is especially likely if you haven't noticed that they're clearly right in the middle of everything, they actually have just discovered the Sun Station doesn't work at the time!

If you understood why they died, it's even more possible to not see why Hearthians were spared. Video game protagonists are used to miracles that save them, but your whole species is here and yet other species were annihilated in seconds. Was it so long ago? Well, yes and no. It was a long time ago, but your ancestors were amphibians and like radiation the death is abated by water's density so that's why you're here.

It's also really possible to not "get" how the "Quantum" rules work. To "win" you don't need to actually go meet the last "living" alien although ideally you will, and so you don't need to grok the rules well enough to go there. So you can get to the "end" of the game without ever really knowing why the weird rocks move or that there's a coherent explanation for how and why they do that.

Ooh, edited to add the biggest I forgot - it's easy to not realise this game takes place at the End Of The Universe. The stars are dying! Unrealistically quickly, but that's what's happening. You aren't seeing more supernovas just as a hint (although it is a hint) or because of where this happens, but because everywhere the stars are dying.
Has anyone here played Quern? That was the first time I felt I was playing something Riven-like…well, since playing Riven.
Oh I definitely am not on his side. My opinion of him could hardly be lower.
I use Google alot due to habit but DDG seems good enough and a bit faster so I might switch. I sometimes use Phind or GPT.
I understand how mortgages work and didn’t learn anything new from the articule. I am not criticizing the article for that.

But if I didn’t know how this all works, the article would have made me more confused.
Can't believe I'm witnessing another node/io.js thing in 2024.
Real question: Is aluminum a practical danger in this way, or is it more like the Manhattan Project team not sure if they would set the atmosphere on fire? Is aluminum the best option?
Using C++ as a Scripting Language, part 13
I must say you really do make it sound simple, and I generally like it. I think the part where I struggle most are the details though.

> document what PII you store

that part seems doable, the hardest part here are probably figuring out what PII is, and then take care of numerous services logging IP addresses. That's PII, isnt it? What about IPs of phone calls over IP? Or phone numbers stored in phones of numerous employees? Do companies delete those, or is it not necessary?

> who has access to it

I personally try to self-host as much as possible with as little third-parties involved as possible. But I think here are edge cases too, a lot of people might not think about, such as time tracking tools, calendaring, accounting software etc. What happens if employees just use online tools the employer doesn't know about? I am sure it's defined, but it's not entirely clear to me

> what you do with it

that's probably the easiest part, if you do something with it you probably know it

> Also have an internal procedure to scramble someone's PII on request.

I think that sounds good. It's just not entirely clear to me what that procedure should look like? How deep do we go with that? I could be nitpicking and say that physically information can not be destroyed. What if a SQL Server uses MVCC and doesn't delete data but just marks it as such? What about event sourcing architectures with kafka that rely on keeping the data? Or how about backups? Probably no deletion needed, but how to handle cases where backups are restored and previously deleted data reappears? I just think a clear set of rules would be great here, and a lot of people like to oversimplify things (or me, overcomplicating things here, probably)
Talking about US mortgages without referring to the FDIC guarantees shows that the writer is not actually knowledgeable.
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There's much to blame the Americans for and I can see why one might want to seek a certain distance. But some countries manage to tell the Americans what they need to hear about the massache in My Lai without falling into the arms of the guys responsible for the massacre in Bucha.
One of the reasons behind the backlash against Google's AMP was that they would contain the full experience. You are on a Google's OS (at least significant amount of users are), on a Google browser, using a Google search service and from there you go to Google servers to get the content. The main difference is the last step.
Adding leverage to the housing market probably isn't a net good thing.

Especially when you have a mismatch between demand for desirable housing and the available supply.

It is interesting that when you look at the US, some of our most expensive markets (housing, healthcare, education) have tight regulations on supply and federal policy response focused on subsidizing buyers (rather than addressing the structural supply problems).
Sure. I'm certainly not arguing against that - just the limited point where the OP is misunderstanding what "responsibility to its shareholders" actually means under law and in practice.
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or an LLM it’s data sources.
Then the person using an LLM to produce something that infringes on cooyright is responsible. They better check for every produced output, whether it infringes, since they are not creating it by thinking themselves and coming to a solution, but are using a tool that stochastically regurgitates bits and pieces it has seen before. Not much credit is deserved.
What are the evidences that Google is crushing it?
It's a pretty out-there idea that we're the only conscious animals. Along the lines of "animals don't have feelings" which seems to be mostly pushed by Christians.
There is a ridiculous amount of material to read online and you can answer all those questions fully in about 30 minutes of searching and you could have relevant the policies written up by lunchtime.

> Do I have to search the weblogs for the users IP?

No, because you don't keep web logs with any PII in them longer then you have to, right? The time you need to keep them for is a legitimate interest that you need to be able to justify.

Do I have to search the mail servers for his emails - of all employees? What if he used multiple emails to communicate?

Write an Email Retention Policy, there are templates. Follow that.

Am I in breach if an ISP decides to route internet packets through the US?

Isn't it encrypted?

If I put people on CC in a mail, I am leaking everyone's email, probably without their consent - is that a breach?

You said it yourself: it's a data leak, so yes, it is (assuming this is some bulk email list). Depending on the sensitivity of the list, you may need to disclose the leak to the affected parties.

If you want to profit from being a data controller you really should already have done this homework, even before the GDPR and friends required it by law. A responsible company would already be taking care of it's customers' (and employee) data and at most just needs make sure the existing processes are documented. Demonstrably, companies don't do this, through laziness, incompetence or malice, and that's how we end up with these regulations. Just like how companies injuring people in unsafe workplaces is how you get H&S regulation.

And really all you have to do is just actually make a decent effort. If you find that extremely onerous it's usually because you actually want to use the data for something that you know deep down is not something the information owner would want you to use it for.
America's class of 2024 graduates into an uncertain job market
5 CDs, of course. How perfect for the lore.

This game kickstarted my interest in computer graphics. Got a “making of” book and was fascinated by how they did the textures.
I recall the graphics of titles such as Myst and Donkey Kong Country were in itself newsworthy.

There was definitely something appealing in these lower-resolution rendered graphics for the way they hid the imperfections of computer graphics and conveyed more detail than was actually present. In a way our minds filled the gaps.

A good example of this are the trees in Myst in this image (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E9ZtXtFXE84/maxresdefault.jpg). They're just textured cones with a central cylinder, but as composed they look far more richly detailed.
> use cases for that level of endurance in modern data storage.

All flash arrays. Saying that, as I have a bunch of smaller (400GB) 2.5" SAS SSDs combined into larger all-flash arrays, with each one of those SSD's rated for about 30PB of endurance.

I'm expecting the servers to be dead by the time that endurance is exhausted though. ;)
you seriously think the people of EU will accept policies that makes apple leave? the government will lose. People must have their retarded icrap and facebook, its the sedation the governments need to do all the crap they do. take their facebook away and they will dissolve the governments in 1 second
> You cannot model the world and your place in it without consciousness.

At any high school you can find a robot which models its place in the world without consciousness.
As a sometimes nomad myself I have to agree with the cafe and bar owners.

Almost every coffee shop in the popular areas of Bangkok and Chiang Mai fill up with DNs and wantrapreneurs who sit for hours, ordering one coffee every few hours, running charging cords to the outlets, talking on the phone, editing videos with the sound on. They don't engage with each other, the staff, or the "locals" as they call them. They squat in a place of business and don't respect the spirit of a cafe, coffee shop, restaurant, or bar. I see them in McDonald's in Bangkok, taking up seats that could accommodate four people, headphones on, hunched over a laptop, for hours at a time.

The places digital nomads tend to visit in numbers have co-working spaces, hotels and hostels that have wifi and tables, short-term apartment rentals with wifi -- plenty of places to work. I don't think DNs should shift the costs of doing their business onto cafes and coffee shops that exist to serve coffee and food, not to serve as free hotdesks.

As happens more often than not, the selfish actions of a few will cause a backlash that affects everyone. Someone wanting to check their email for ten minutes over a cup of coffee can't get their laptop out now because too many entitled DNs sat there for hours, mistaking generosity and tolerance for approval.
Ask HN: Could you motivate high school math by using it to explain how AI works?
Wouldn't this make high school math more interesting for most students?
To be fair, that's all we know. That's all we are. That's all we can truly say exists in our world.

All the theories, names & everything we have are mental models around what we call objective reality.
This is another widespread misconception. The mortgages that got the economy in trouble were the no-doc, no income verification type mortgages - ie “non conforming”.

By definition, a non conforming loan isn’t backed by Fannie and Freddie. I had multiple non conforming loans I got before the crash. Yes they ended up just like you suspect.
Google lost the spotlight. It's a suits company and all the nerds left. Nobody cares about IBM, HP and now Google efforts in AI.
I actually prefer the taste of the “garbage” peanut butter. Natural peanut butter tastes too overwhelmingly like peanuts to me. It’s also too thick (especially cold) and messy to deal with.
I guess restaurants avoid it because of its long-range effects.

> In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified after the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming
Yeah, I agree: I think there are a bunch of little details that would have been VERY hard to find in a truly open world navigation setup. I do remember being bailed out by clicking around to find paths at least once.
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Journalists, pundits, politicians, software developers, advertisers, lawyers, propagandists. Take your pick.

Right now, the best LLMs are interns not experts at each of these things; I don't expect the transformer model to be good enough to reach the top level in each of these things, but then again I didn't expect anything like Stable Diffusion to happen before self driving cars.
My favorite space station. Neo and Morpheus are there. Has anyone seen Takeshi Kovacs yet?
If you are in a jurisdiction with TDM exceptions, buying a personal copy does allow you to train on it.
I just failed the test. :) The only thing that this teaches me is to pay more attention before attempting to solve a problem.
I'm in the same boat. I work as a data engineer but am completely burnout in this field. I don't think moving to other companies will fix because I already moved a few times.

I do have a few side projects but they are mostly tutorial/textbook oriented so no match for real projects. Plus the burnout is also hurting them. I don't know how to get into low level programming job with such a small profile.

I wish OP good luck. Maybe you can find a position in current company?
It's one of the reasons i cancelled Geforce Now, a total lack of support for Linux on higher resolutions. An alternative should consider the downsides of the competition. (don't get me wrong, i really like this initiative :)
Shadow Robot’s three-fingered hand is robust enough for reinforcement learning
I miss rooting my Android phone and spoofing access to the GPS or camera.

I could pipe arbitrary bits to any application.
I get that free will means you can do evil. But, given the choice, why would you not only do it this baldly, but then go out of your way to show it off?
"The Law" isn't some fundamental property like the speed of light. And its not handed down from all powerful all knowing deities. It's an agreement between members of a society about how things should work and it evolves and changes along with the people. When the written law no longer matches what the population wants, its not really "the law" anymore - its a shackle that to be freed from.
Donald Trump and Fox News are maybe the canonical examples in modern times. Say what you like about Rupert Murdoch and Trump, they're incredibly effective communicators who have built fanatical religions based on words alone. And what we're about to see is that level of reach and intensity multiplied by millions.
That's more of a social problem than a technical one. Although iterating on the technology ultimately circumvented it, it could have been addressed without completely throwing away usenet.
At the end of the day Fusion has been treated as a very expensive science project not some critical technology we really need to get working. Thus delays which have nothing to do with feasibility or even cost just politics.

Joint European Torus (JET) built in 1983! eventually hit a plasma heating Q of 0.67. Scaling that up isn’t some big leap of faith. ITER was started as an agreement between Regan in Gorbachev in 1985, but didn’t begin construction until 2013! based on a significantly scaled down and very conservative design from 2001, with an expected completion date of 2025-2030. It’s terrible, but under funded multinational projects don’t move quickly.

That’s why nothing got done with fusion, you need experiments to make progress running computer simulator and toy machines isn’t enough. Further, you can start site prep and building the facilities well before a design is finished. So much of these delays were completely political in nature not technical, we could start site prep for DEMO today but expect site selection and prep to add a few years of completely avoidable delay to that project as well.

Of course being able to build a working device is only part of the story, it also needs to make economic sense. But that’s a different matter from why things have taken so long.
Riven is why I got a CD drive (Plextor) that used caddys rather than a tray. I knew that I was going to be swapping discs fairly often and the caddy gave them more protection. Every time I went to a new island, it was a furious sorting of caddys to find the right one, then slam it into the drive to avoid wasting time out of the game.
Could you elaborate this? Is the melting because you suddenly have lot of energy and no way for cooling?
Which ones there are very powerful? Other than perhaps political leaders (which need not be great writers), power is usually low.