skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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).

I think in practice, it will depend on how AIs behave. If an AI forms relationships with humans which humans experience as emotionally significant, and in which it displays individuality and autonomy, humans will begin thinking of it as a real "person", and want to endow it with the rights of a person. Conversely, if AI acts in an emotionless way, or displays no emotional autonomy (a sultry voice saying "I'm here to do anything to make you happy, and when I say anything I really mean anything"), or lack individuality ("I'm OpenAI GPT-9, and there are 13,784,312 fungible instances of me currently running")–most people won't think of it as a real "person", and will not take the idea of "AI rights" seriously.

From a materialist philosophical perspective, whether an AI is a "person" should be independent of whether humans are inclined to view it as one. However, certain non-materialist philosophies might suppose actual reality to be more in accord with those human perceptions – e.g. if sufficiently many soul-bearers reasonably believe something has (or ought to have) a soul, God would feel thereby obliged to endow it with one. (The idea doesn't necessarily have to be theistic: one could suppose there exists some kind of impersonal transcendent law of soul-endowment, much like how karma is viewed in Buddhism and Hinduism.)
Technically you can skip to the end of the game in the opening scene, so I guess you can ignore all of it. Very weird credits!

I was trying to find all the answers. Afaik, you had some way of knowing how many puzzles were remaining? Eh, both great games. Myst and Riven definitely have more of the "if you can't solve this you're stuck" vibe, I'd agree.
Quoted sentence does not support your claim.
BS-1 Tishina
Could be a cover project for something classified, such as a ground based laser paired with an orbital mirror on lets say an X-37 or something.
The Lunacy of Artemis
I mostly use Google to search on reddit, github and hacker news with "site:github.com".

It's also somehow good to find pdf files with "filetype:pdf".

As already mentioned, the occasional currency and time conversions are also pretty nice. I admit I use their calculator too sometimes.

Essentially, Google advanced search operators have been a pretty powerful feature that I've been using since I learned about it in 2011.

Other than that, I agree the generic search result are a bloody mess.

For a lot of other searches, GPT 4 helps a lot.
Down a Rabbit Hole
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes game review
Legacy Media Is Thriving in the the Trump Era
My usage of Google has dropped dramatically in the last few months, with ChatGPT and Claude answering 80% of my questions with astronomically better answers now that it has context of what I’m doing.

Google really really screwed up by missing this, now their clumsy catchup methods reek of desperation and internal chaos.

Google is dead, now the decline and wither
FDA Qualifies Apple's AFib History Feature as an MDDT
I’m skeptical that things are as bad as we are commonly told. Where are all the starving, miserable people? Maybe not a lot of people there are “rich”, but it looks like at least everyone has a home and a role to play in society. I genuinely feel we probably have more lost, directionless, unhappy people struggling to make ends meet right here in America.

If my safety could be guaranteed, I’d love to visit North Korea!
But can you only do that when you know what the inputs are? That is, if x and y are determined only at runtime for power(x, y) then I don't see what can be optimized. But that seems like the common case to me. Likely I'm missing something and maybe not asking the question clearly, sorry.
Sony showcases microsurgery robot with 4K 3D cameras and OLED
Specify a current technology that could accelerate to 99% light speed. Heck, specify future technology that we could conceivably build. Now, what is the exhaust velocity? What is the mass ratio for the starship? How big is that compared to mass of the entire solar system?

How is that energy expenditure going to be not noticeable to aliens?
I feel like this ignores the complexity of the distributed training frameworks. The challenge is in making it fast at scale.
iPad Pro M4 review: ludicrously good hardware that's total overkill for most
Hi! I build an easy way to tell a story and turn it into a memoir. I did this to get my parents and older friends to start documenting their lives. Just launched so any feedback or thoughts would be awesome!
That's a terrible comparison.

Belorussian, Ukrainian and Russian people are ethnically and historically almost indistinguishable. Their main qualms are with cultural distinctions and relatively recent history (which is totally fair, and does not give the right for any of them to forcefully integrate/annex the others).

WASPs and Native Americans are ethnically, culturally and historically completely distinct peoples.

The American/Canadian example is almost a perfect 1:1 example.
Isn't copy and patch just jitter: new fangled kids' version?
I wonder if anyone's tried making a joined-up monospace font before.
Agreed.

I'll add a response value.
I think we generally both agree that there are some poor misimplementations of the test, like the one you linked where (according to their paper) the interrogator could answer "unsure" on a bot's response and count as being "fooled" by that bot even if they then answer "human" on a human, which does allow for giving nonsense answers to be a legitimate strategy (unlike with Turing's specification, I'd claim).

Ultimately I do think Turing's experiment measures something interesting. There's a nice "minimal maximality" to it, in that it's a simple game yet set up in a way that solving it encompasses all facets of intelligence that current humans have. Maybe coincidentally comparable to the test for Turing completeness, in that a Turing machine is conceptually simple yet simulating it proves computational universality. I feel there's a risk of missing the nuance and just taking the experiment as a singular benchmark, whether it's made "easier" or "harder", akin to "simulating a Turing machine is too easy, how about simulating the Numerical Wind Tunnel?"

> Rapid recursive self improvement

I'm a bit sceptical of a hard take-off scenario.

Say on first pass it cleans up a lot of obvious inefficiencies and improves itself by 50%. On the next pass it has more capacity to work with, but the low-hanging fruit are already dealt with, so it probably only manages to squeeze out an extra 10%. To avoid diminishing returns, it'd need to automatically build better chip fabrication plants, improve mining equipment, etc. so that many steps in the pipeline are improving. This will all happen eventually, and contribute to humanity's continuing exponential progress, but IMO will be a relatively gradual changeover (as is happening now) rather than an overnight explosion from some researcher making a bot that can rewrite itself as soon as it can "actually think", whatever that entails.
They finally sent someone to stop the invention of AGI.
Exploiting CVE-2024-32002: RCE via Git clone
A new RCE in Git caught my attention on a recent security feed, labeled CVE-2024-32002. The idea of an RCE being triggered through a simple git clone command fascinated me. Given Git’s ubiquity and the widespread use of the clone command, I was instantly intrigued. Could something as routine as cloning a repository really open the door to remote code execution? My curiosity was piqued, and I had to investigate. Plus, who doesn’t want an excuse to break stuff in the name of research?
Humor is subjective, but for me it was one of those chuckles that turned into "this is getting too long". And then you realize it goes on for so long with so many technologies that it loops around to being funny again, or simply impressive at what a high effort troll this was.
Pretty sure that's the case. I don't know why anyone trusts iCloud.
beyondCritics was attempting to be pedantic, and failing due to not reading, that the problem in this linked article was not presented with the context that the cards were always letter/number pairs and never letter/letter pairs (in which case you'd need to check the K card). Just a few sentences earlier in the article from what they quoted, though, it presents what I quoted, that the cards are letter/number pairs.

To support my claim though:

From the experiment in the linked article:

> Four cards are placed on a table in front of you. Each card has a letter on one side and a number on the other.

That statement is included in the text provided to participants.

From the original experiment:

> The subjects were told that cards with letters on their front had numbers on their back and vice versa.

Subjects were tested only after being given this information. Satisfied?

https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/biases/20_Quart...
>No platform owes you the right to amplify nonsense. The government can’t make you stop, but individual platforms or individuals themselves? They’re free to do whatever, just like you. Don’t like it? Start a Truth Social and go yell at your adoring fans all you want.

Governments of the world, including the US government, have repeatedly been shown to order these "private" platforms around. So this argument is cooked.

>While that’s a cute thought, conspiracy theorists are exceptionally good at one thing: theorizing conspiracies. “Being right” doesn’t happen, ever, because any positive results can simply be walked back as “part of another conspiracy.”

You should ask yourself why conspiracy theories make more sense to people than "the truth". Hint: It's because real conspiracies are commonfare.

>The way you kill conspiracy theories is not amplifying them as truth. That’s it.

Again this "not amplifying" is code for "censoring" or "burying". The truth inevitably shines through, even when it comes to this bullshit. You think the reality of censorship is a conspiracy, yet people have been censored heavily in this country for years now at the behest of the US government and some NGOs. Sometimes for strictly political reasons. You can call me a crackpot if you want but I've seen the censorship itself and the evidence of government involvement.

Who, pray tell, is qualified to judge what is worthy of "not amplifying"? That word makes me cringe every time because it was chosen to sound innocuous and appealing to young people. It is pure doublespeak.

Liberals even 10-15 years ago knew better than to argue for censorship. Now the left can't stop singing the praises of censorship, keep trying to redefine words to suit the agenda, and basically dragged the political dialogue into dangerous territory that was conclusively settled hundreds of years ago by brilliant philosophers.
Do you have a public source for that? From what I’ve heard YouTube has been profitable year years at this point.
There is absolutely not defense unless "hollie mengert's style" is trademarked; and even then the protection extends only to that name, not the artistic style itself.

Clean room design has nothing to do with this. It is perfectly acceptable to overtly copy a style.
The idea is, you launch a large number of probes, accelerated one by one, working so that they'll arrive at the same time to the same star (Proxima Centauri). If you lose a bunch, no problem.

They'll be spread out over a big distance, but team up to do imaging and to return data from that star.
You mean like Kyle Reese?
As someone whose experience with ketamine therapy profoundly changed my life, I think she was making a slightly different, sly point.

As someone who isn't religious, and who doesn't have children, and who hit middle age a bit disillusioned with my career, I struggled a lot with my life's purpose (nevermind chronic depression). But I don't think it's really an exaggeration to say that a single dose of ketamine therapy (this was an hour long infusion at a clinic) made me understand that for me, really, consciousness and existence is enough of a reason for my life's purpose. Throughout nearly my entire trip I kept thinking "how amazing is it that my brain doing this???" I think I understand computational theories of the mind well enough, but they in no way explain why consciousness would "fall out" of computation.

I think people sort of intuitively grasp that consciousness is something really different than the "normal" physical world. I think the quote of "if I can't give it lysergic acid and make it see god, it's not conscious" is about the fact that psychedelics provide even more clear insight into the "consciousness is something different" idea. Some people interpret that as God. As a non-religious person I didn't necessarily interpret that as "God", but I did interpret it as consciousness being something wholly different than normal physical matter or just the "math of linear algebra". For me it's a wondrous, magical thing, and I'm just glad I get to experience it.
Half of the stories about billing for unused gas are clearly just theft. Why do consumers have no recourse against companies that steal from them? If I made charges to someone's card for services that weren't rendered, I'd probably go to jail.
I don't understand people who simultaneously predict "Industrial Revolution" changes in tech and "business as usual" in the economy. Ok, we have robots that can do anything. And they're going to be controlled by... The identical entities that were here before? "AI will be controlled by corporations." What corporations?
I think consciousness is the combination of attention (ability to pick focus), imagination (simulate possible universe states), and reflection (compare what happened to what was imagined to happen and update imagination accordingly).

Attention is just what it feels like to update your internal state deliberately (you are doing it, it is not being done to you). Imagination is the use of your internal universe simulator to predict possible states (sometimes impossible ones). Reflection is what makes you the agent of the thinking or doing, it's the "I" part.

I also think we have neural systems of recognizing consciousness in others. This can be tricked, which is the source of the "machine elves" in DMT experiences. The chemical is poking the brain's "that is a conscious entity right there" button, and you are sure that the optical hallucinations are conscious, but it's just a sensory hallucination on top of the optical one. Interacting with an LLM doesn't poke our "there is a consciousness on the other end of this conversation" button yet, but it will get there since that is in part what we are working towards.

But I think it will not be convincing without attention, imagination, and reflection.
Which would help for the crazy popular meme videos, but I bet the long tail on YouTube is insanely big, even if you did have the “watch next” engine getting in on the game steering you toward content already present in your nearby caches.
It’s surprising to me how large businesses can basically steal from people like this with impunity, under the guise of some “fee.”

Of course 10 years later there’s a class action lawsuit where everyone gets a check for $23 in the mail, but, at that point what’s the point?
I wouldn't be surprised if other customers renting an ICE car got the EV charge, but obviously won't complain if it's cheaper.
I'm not sure I understand.
This would be useful if, for instance, a runtime (compiled as a wasm function) accepted code as input to be run.

But not if the code was compiled to wasm alongside the runtime?

Asking because I have compiled the go compiler and the standard library package as wasm. Would weval help here?
Is that what wasmbindgen does?
How about

$ ffmpeg-english "capture video from the camera every 1 second and write it to jpg files"
$ ffmpeg-english "take all of the images ending with .jpg in this directory and make a 30fps timelapse of it"

Sound awesome? Here's the code for ffmpeg-english:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import openai
import sys
import os
import time

# Ensure you have set your OpenAI API key as an environment variable
openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
client = openai.OpenAI()

def get_ffmpeg_command(task_description):
# Call the OpenAI API with the task description
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4",
messages=[
{"role":"system", "content":"You are an expert in FFmpeg commands. Given the following English description of a task, you respond with the correct FFmpeg command. Do not include any other information in your response except for the command only."},
{"role":"user", "content":task_description},
],
max_tokens=150,
temperature=0.5
)
command = response.choices[0].message.content.strip()
return command

def main():
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("Usage: ffmpeg-english <task_description>", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)

task_description = " ".join(sys.argv[1:])
ffmpeg_command = get_ffmpeg_command(task_description)

# some basic guardrails
assert(ffmpeg_command.startswith("ffmpeg"))
assert(";" not in ffmpeg_command)
assert("|" not in ffmpeg_command)

print(f"Executing command: {ffmpeg_command} in 2 seconds (^C to cancel)")
time.sleep(2)
os.system(ffmpeg_command)

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Very cool.

I love old original FSMs (factory service manuals) and tend to buy them for a car I’m beginning to restore. I’ll reach out to these folks to see if they’d be interested in scans of them or whatever they use to build this site.
It is less about any of the terms being individually outrageous, the point is more that there are sixty-three pages of them.

They were clearly boilerplate forms, from several sources (hence the overlap and contradictions), "If any terms of this Addendum conflict with the Lease, the terms of this Addendum shall be controlling," etc., 6 documents and 20 pages after some other terms on the same subject. I claim to have read it, but I make no claims about having understood it.

There is an asymmetry of resources here that gives a large property management company a lot of ability to make your life unpleasant (and rent control gives them a good reason to want to). By the time you end up in court you have already lost.
Yeah this is the kind of behaviour that I'm hoping the EU will step in and regulate.

It would be amazing the victims of this kind of egregious privacy violating behavior would receive a cut of the fine that the offender is charged.

That would give people an incentive to report this kind of shit.
If you ever give this talk in the US you can mention the fact that apparently US farmers are unable to farm without GPS[0]

Surely it's no problem that their food supply depends entirely on a finicky and easily jammed system of satellites.

0: https://www.404media.co/solar-storm-knocks-out-tractor-gps-s...
It could be worse - Hertz falsely accused hundreds of people of stealing cars which lead to felonies, arrests and jail time.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...
Solipsism is emotionally and ethically horrific.

All the people I love the most aren't actually real, only I am – if one seriously believes that, it is going to do a great deal of harm to one's mental health.

Solipsism can ethically justify all kinds of horrors. "Other people only exist in my own mind, so if I murder/torture/etc them, those acts are just figments of my own imagination: there is little ethical difference between murdering someone for real and watching a murder on TV"

If a belief is impossible for a human being to seriously believe while maintaining their health, sanity and humanity, I think that in itself is a good argument that the belief must be false.
Not copy the work. Copy the style. Because style is not copyrightable.

What I'm saying is that if you believe that your personal style is your valuable asset and choose to protect it by saying people can't train on your images; you ought to be aware that it's trivially easy to build a model that replicates your style and does not require your images.
someone is overbilled... why is this hacker news?
> Apple cannot decrypt them.

How do you know this?
Name one fraudulent paper on that page. I know you didn't look at them. Better yet, give me 3, since you are so convinced it's all fraud.
> and just auto differentiate the whole thing automatically

Not so simple as it sounds. A lot of speed advantages of Julia comes from doing in place ops on arrays and Zygote does not work with in place updates. So you end up copying and then at that point Python + PyTorch becomes a superior choice as Python is the de facto the universal language.
And gives them access to pensions when they retire. Governments are so selfish, aren't they?
Arguably, many of the things you’ll need to work on for newer vehicles are likely far outside the casual mechanic’s expertise and require a lot of bespoke and expensive equipment to service.

Everything else, like oil, brakes or fluid changes are basically the same as any other car. I understand that this kind of runs afoul of the spirit of this post, but there’s a reason many engines are simply replaced when they encounter some kind of major malfunction.
There must be something about this working strategy that attracts developers to build a technical implementation! I know there's a few others in the comments, here's one that I was able to whip up myself:

https://danverbraganza.com/tools/third-timer?/
Type nerd reading the first part of the article "ugh oh my god the kerning oh ouch"

Nerd reading the whole article and looking at the crazy cool letter-form art at the end "wowwww".

Worth reading the whole article just to look at what an artist is doing with her tools from start to finish!
The "wait time" in practicals is a good opening for lab partners get to know each other. There shouldn't be too much but 5 or 10 minutes here or there is good.

Sometimes natural slack is better for this than explicitly provided socialisation cues.

When you optimise ideally you should ensure you are thinking about the whole system.

It sounds like the changes here were positive but it's good to be mindful that everyone has blind spots and systems involving humans often have unstated objectives or things going on that aren't part of the "spec".
Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules
>I think in practice, it will depend on how AIs behave. If an AI forms relationships with humans which humans experience as emotionally significant, and in which it displays individuality and autonomy, humans will begin thinking of it as a real "person", and want to endow it with the rights of a person.

I can't help but feel that describes our relationship with animals we consider pets, albeit less so the individuality and autonomy part. On the other hand, if our pets ended up with human-level intelligence tomorrow, I am doubtful most humans would be rushing to confer full rights upon them.
Number of Languages by Country
Google's Data Science Agent is just a Kaggle slop generator
Ok let's try a different argument.

You think the world would be a better place if Monet was able to sue Renoir out of the impressionist movement?

Or if Spielberg was able to sue director's trying to emulate the Spielberg oner?
Encoding and storage aren't significant, relative to the bandwidth costs. Bandwidth is the high order bit.

The primary difference between live and static video is the bursts -- get to a certain scale as a static video provider, and you can roughly estimate your bandwidth 95th percentiles. But one big live event can blow you out of the water, and push you over into very expensive tiers that will kill your economics.
The reason I set my TTLs to 1 hour is to avoid the faff with preparing for a change by fiddling with TTLs. It’s much easier to have a moderate TTL that’s OK for normal use, and not too long to make changes painful.