skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To date computers (and AI in general) operate prevalently in an input-output mode. This is strikingly not the case for the human brain which works in a projective – or predictive - mode constantly testing hypotheses (or pre-representations) on the world including itself (J.-P. Changeux, 1986; Friston et al., 2016; Pezzulo, Parr, Cisek, Clark, & Friston, 2024). This projective/predictive mode relies on the fact that the brain possesses an intrinsic - spontaneous – activity (Dehaene & Changeux, 2005). The earliest forms of animals do exhibit a nervous system where spontaneously active neurons can be recorded (e.g., jelly fish, hydra). Such spontaneous oscillators [...]

> Last in agreement with our views, the active
inference theory formalizes how autonomous learning agents (whether artificial or natural) shall be endowed with a spontaneous active motivation to explore and learn (Friston et al., 2016), which other studies confirmed to be sufficient for the emergence of complex behavior without the need for immediate rewards (https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10316).

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What I take from this is that there needs to be something of a [negative] feedback loop in the AI for it to get to consciousness, and if we think about how that works in nature, that means we need several negative feedback loops, including the AI equivalent of various hormones and signaling agents. Think dopamine.

Now, AI already has feedback. But I'm talking at a different layer. The AI's interaction with the world has to help drive and modulate what the AI seeks to do through that interaction. The AI needs motivation in the form of pain, pleasure, and instincts.
"likely" not caused by. Any case I delete such spamming? link.

> Would you care to explain how any of that supports the points you're actually making here?

Other day, if you don't mind.
I don’t see the government as being very different than a huge corporation. I haven’t seen very much evidence to the contrary, and this isn’t just a US perspective.
But nowadays, why would anyone use Modula-2 today and not Rust, C++, Go, or basically any other programming language?
Looking for feedback and ideas for open source admin tool
Hi, my name is Wervice,
I have been working on a project called Zentrox for several months now. The project is a server remote administration tool. It is meant as a very easy and accessible way to set up a Raspberry Pi or old laptop to be used as a powerful and versatile home server.
Currently, Zentrox mainly includes "basic" tools like file management, drive overview and an FTP server. I got a Raspberry a few weeks ago and configured it for development, so I can try new ideas and features for Zentrox.
I already have a list of things to implement like a SMB server, a web server or more easy-to-use package manager.
Nonetheless, that is not a lot. I am happy about ideas, feedback on the current state of the projects, and a star for Zentrox on GitHub.

https://github.com/Wervice/zentrox
> which is what slowly kills you

Again, not quite: starvation by not eating normal food is what kills you.

Urushiol is non-toxic at even massive doses; but vanishingly small doses will provoke painful/itchy allergic reactions in many people.
Why can the author only write in all lowercase?
Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma Silently Enables iCloud Keychain
>Evolution is based on contribution and accounts for the a time period where you will be a burden to the time period where you should be contributing.

Please cite this causal pathway in research

Specifically can you show, in some kind of documented research, that genetic fitness and likelihood for offspring reproduction success (Evolutionary fitness), is causally linked with agent actions in a specific distinguishing state transition between non-burden and burden states.

Also please tell me how these states are measured and through what mechanism

It should also account for things like: Why political prisoners (burdens or the shunned by society) are later asked to be leaders, eg Nelson Mandela etc... given that he had many different children across the entirety of his active periods (exceptionally fit evolutionary)
But that is refutable. You're not a true nihilist as long as you take advantage of the accoutrements of civilization, even down to the technology that enables you to make that post. You can avoid taking advantage of such technology in the spirit of "starting over" (even Pol Pot tried that) -- or you can say the technology around you admits of some advantages, which means limiting the nihilism/radicalism enough to pay credit to something around you. (To borrow from the postmodernists: "Not that there's anything wrong with that.") But for a nihilist that would be an unlikely reversal: the ego having stomped everything under its foot, is now making room for something outside of itself.
Maybe? If they show you started with their code and abstracted your code from their's mechanistically, then it seems reasonable to say that you copied from their code.

If you, a person, read their code and imitated the style - assuming it to be definable as Google's style and not easily confused with the style of others (which would suggest it was not distinctive) - then yes, why not? You would have directly abstracted the essence of Google's work from them.

They should be entitled to the copyright for at least 7 years, maybe up to at most 14!

Could you expand on what you mean by "its style of coding"?
Damn straight. If space travel is so bloody hard, I'll just make the damn aliens myself.

Related, but LLMs are the ultimate example of humans following the tradition of the Timaeus and imitating the demiurgos - the divine crafter, as the gods did when they crafted the demigods, as the demigods did when they crafted us, and as we do when we craft machine intelligence. Neo-platonism engaged with this idea a long time ago.
There were dozens of us!, using M2. I used it on Amiga. It was sort of ironic. I wanted to use C - I guess. But this was pre-internet, pre-university, pre-city. The nearest people to network C with, were cows on the neighbours farm - there weren't any.. I had two C compilers, but no text or people to tell me that you needed to link, what linking was, and in particular, the commandline arguments to do so..
In this world, modula-2 was a godsend. It had a clear type system, clear type definitions, readable error messages, and logical/intuitive tooling, which meant a school kid could figure out how to operate it by themselves. So for a couple of years, I would replicate in M2,what others did in C. I eventually met an environment where I could learn C, but modula2 allowed me to start early.
This makes me happy. He endured shameful treatment at the hands of Chuck Yeager.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/05/1109678316/edward-dwight-spac...
The value of YouTube isn't purely monetary. Controlling YouTube is extremely advantageous for Google, even if it isn't particularly profitable.

Besides the general advantage of having control over such a massive platform, which definitely plays an important part in the lives of hundreds of millions of people, Google likely views YouTube as important to control.
If YouTube were a separate entity, it could e.g. freely choose their ad providers or even provides ads themselves, essentially creating competition for Google. Google also has trivial access to the data there and therefore the easiest access if they want to train AI on that data. Last but not least I think Google sees YouTube as vital for their corporate image and their social mission presented in Google Jigsaw.
What part of "This is not a language you can use to program computers" wasn't clear?
In a simple way: when you start using a device, not a drug, you not start to get high, you just want using it. If you discover, BEFORE YT and co, how to use a desktop and you are smart you can start doing smart thing with it and loving doing them.

Like putting a smart child in a library and let him/her read. Oh even if the child get YT on desktop, a properly configured one, with uBlock and so on, no, the experience is not on par with the mobile, it's far better, and the fact you do not live on a chair avoid the mechanism of having a device always with you: the mobile experience, even with DNS-based ads filtering is so horrific no one want if IF he/she already know the desktop one, and that's they key: you might eventually get addicted to desktop, but you have a life and a desktop, with a proper monitor, mechanical keyboard, a trackball etc does not came with you in your pocket. You can pass hours on it, but not as much as on a phone and you can't be bound to it while you live your life like those who chat on a phone at a restaurant.
Sometimes you want to keep track of something promising, and hear from it when it's ready.
Sam Altman does it too
Resolve is insanely heavyweight for such a simple task. Those video editor UIs are incredibly hard to understand for people not using them every day.
That is what an ideal FTL would do if only a fraction of the LBAs are accessed, but as you say some manufacturers will customise the firmware to do otherwise, while this mod basically guarantees that the whole space is used as SLC.
probably because it's a lazy argument and doesn't have much substance to it and is only speculative. it also has ridiculous bias in its writing e.g. uses bootlegger imagery to describe these companies.
It's all open source, Native AOT, batteries-included stdlib. A very productive and well rounded platform.
Doesn’t mean if you have the energy and ability at 35 you’re odds aren’t great!
When creating a new programming language, age is never an issue. You can create everything by following your heart. However, please avoid getting stuck in the mindset of "I must make this new language popular". Creating a language just for fun or to solve a problem will bring you happiness.
Meringue Philosophy
When does YouTube start deleting content?

They'll have to do that eventually, right?
TIL JSON is a programming language.
>I’m suggesting that the model you choose is axiomatic - taken as given as opposed to inferred from evidence

The brain is the seat of consciousness and the brain is material, therefore consciousness is emergent from material. My evidence that the brain is the seat of consciousness is that when my head hurts it impairs my thoughts, and that my eyes are connected to by brain.

Stated a bit differently:

All events must have a cause, therefore consciousness must have a cause. The brain is the most likely candidate for the cause of consciousness. The brain is material, therefore consciousness is emergent from material.

What role do you think the brain plays in consciousness? Do you believe that events must have causes?
It's the cool thing to do now...
"Running" is really a stretch.

I run a kilometer/klick/0.62 miles, re-orient, run, re-orient, and so on. With radio as I get closer and closer it becomes harder and harder and visual search is required, lots of triangulation with the radio.

Old fashioned orienteering is similar, but replace the radio orientation with pulling out a map & compass, re-plot, stash, and run.

Some do longer, some do shorter distances.

When I write "run" I mean I try to move as fast as possible. I can run on flat ground, but sometimes hillsides is just crawling, creeks will slow me down, swamps & bogs are the worst.

I do not know what country your response is based on, but there are lot of national parks in the world, and most parks will work with and even help organize an event. This topic came up in discussions and the general consensus was that if it is completely denied, people will do it in clandestine fashion. If, on the other hand parks work with the run organizers, it not only makes sure rules can be established (e.g., no off trail, restricted zones, zones where only one path allowed, timing) and the park is promoted for general public. A win-win-win-win ;)
BRICS+ basically exits since 2024. So they can't have tried for years.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/24/brics-currency-end-doll...

https://watcher.guru/news/brics-imf-confirms-us-dollar-is-in...

It has gained a lot of momentum. I will come. But you are right, will it last?
Thanks @cpojer for this amazingly well crafted, open source love letter to the games I grew up with
I walk at least 4 miles a day. Looking back at my daily mood, diet, and health data, it seems missing a day can have negative knock on effects that can last a day or two, and longer if I miss several days. I sleep deeper, eat better, feel less stress and generally happier. I also get a lot of my work done in my head (software, of course), more so if I leave the earphones at home. Even the treadmill helps notability, although I think sunlight and the peace of outdoors is more effective. I don’t have the same data but my estimation is that strength training didn’t quite have the same effect other than physical health (for me). Now, if only I could get myself to do both… I don’t enjoy strength training and it’s been hard to keep doing it consistently.
Ask HN: What database do you often use in Django production?
From various video conferences I have watched online, I know most companies they prefer PostgreSQL.

Those of you who use Django at work or on personal projects, what is the database you often use and why?
nonsense. EU law is meant for EU based users and not dev teams. dev team should be allowed to properly test for EU users and
this is basically apple trying yet again block opening up ios. cant be more transparent
Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this

The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.

Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin / efficiency.

Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant

Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.

The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.
What's the current situation on this? Do you waive the rights for AI training (presumably by Alphabet) when you upload content to YouTube?
It's always exotic with them huh? ;)

So then is this fake news or moot news or...? Now I'm confused.
Okay, let’s go with that.

So the most basic sufficient shelter delivered in the most cost efficient way is the “need”? No, human dignity needs to be respected - but what does that mean? Does the shelter need to be where people want it, regardless of the cost? That’s where tradeoffs start to happen, and at some point those tradeoffs culminate in a market and that market is made up of tenants and landlords.

Being awful is a problem, be it in housing or SaaS.
Unfortunately the german carmakers heavily target the chinese market and those days are just over imo.

Even more so if the EU places tariffs on chinese cars.
But they cost far more than what SLC should be expected to cost (4x the price of QLC or 3x the price of TLC.) The clear answer to the parent's question is planned obsolescence.
Thank you, this is a good resource.
Excellent talk. Thank you for highlighting risks, and explaining the need for robust infrastructure with clear, vivid images. Our systems need communicators like you.

There is one story I would like to clarify. The transcript says

> there were 4,000 wind turbines that could no longer be operated.

I tried to learn more about this. What I have found differs in some key details, suggesting that the turbines did stay in operation, and that the number was 5,800 turbines, not 4,000. What was lost appears to be the ability to do remote monitoring and remote control.

https://cyberconflicts.cyberpeaceinstitute.org/law-and-polic...

Can you comment on these differences? It's worth resolving them, as I will definitely be sharing your transcript with other people.
Just pray you never have to develop in YAML like many of us...
Insurance on rentals is going up way, way faster than rent. This year more than 20%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-regulatory_organization

Works well for the US financial sector despite claims to the contrary
oh that western superiority complex... hits once again... beside the mark
That's an example of learning changing which qualia you experience, not teaching you to experience qualia at all. Almost unrelated question.
DIY (instead of the cloud) is the answer. If you're pushing terabytes+ from day 1 on a shoestring, you're going to want your own CDN. If you can manage a queueing system and the occasional wait, run your own (or rented physical) hardware for transcoding at as high a utilisation as you can.

Build vs buy pushes you to "build" early on when your margins are slim and your volume is huge.
Curious: was your distribution client-server or peer-to-peer?

Or both, similar to Skype's supernode model?
As long as you're mentally and physically fit you can do it at any age.

But I think the statistic skews way too low today because a lot of the existing popular languages are low hanging fruits. Eich I think said once that he wrote Javascript in ten days, and I don't think you're going to make a popular language in two weeks any more.

The standards and expectations on a language ecosystem are so much higher now if you want to add value I'd honestly even say no new popular language is going to be built by a single person. Unless the Lisan Al Gaib of programming comes along and invents an entirely new paradigm.
So long as storage costs decrease exponentially I think they'll keep everything.

Especially if the amount of content uploaded keeps going up, so the relative benefit of deleting old stuff is small.
and how did you get to that conclusion?
to me its odds are very much for technical failure and harah weather caused it to crash.
much more logical
You should wait for Chris's upcoming post :) the minimal changes are the same as the ones I have for my tiny interpreter. There are some more advanced changes you can make for more performance
> and similarly for those who feel that materialism cannot possibly explain consciousness.

Perhaps for some it's indeed a matter of "feelings". But for others it's a conviction built from reasoning that leads to self-validating and irreducible truths. If you seriously go into this, the only possibilities left once you've dug and eliminated all mistaken assumptions are not material. It can be counter-intuitive and does take a bit of work to reason your way to those conclusions, which is why it's admittedly not a popular outlook. But once you grok it, you don't go back. The fact that materialism is slowly going out of style is telling.

Whenever I exchange with someone who makes concessions about consciousness possibly being the product of matter, it's due to one of two things: either some holes haven't yet been covered in their own explorations, or they're still oblivious to some of the implications of their current position.

Materialism is fast being eliminated as a possible antecedent to consciousness with reasoning and logic, not simply with beliefs. Currently, it's being salvaged in popular forms of dualism, where it would be a co-primitive of reality with consciousness (e.g. panpsychism). But even this position is just a short stop-over on the way to idealism, as it creates new problems and is just less parsimonious than simply saying consciousness first.

An example of a relatively elusive and subtle realization to get, but that also becomes rather difficult to renounce once you grok it, are qualia and how they lead to the hard problem of consciousness. Qualia are so enmeshed in our experience that people have a hard time first seeing how divorced from brain activity they actually are. If you don't get qualia, you can't get the hard problem and how it's really an impossible problem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX0xWJpr0FY).
One should really consider the product validated after the cha-ching sound of the transaction. They will tell you whatever you want so that they were left alone and didn’t have to part with the moneys.
Resective surgery is the most common epilepsy surgery. It involves the removal of a small portion of the brain. The surgeon cuts out brain tissue from the area of the brain where seizures occur. This is usually the site of a tumor, brain injury or malformation

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/epilepsy-surgery...
All this data shows me is that programmers typically peak in their 30s. You see the same effect in chess.

But I'm not sure what it has to do with whether or not you should create a programming language. If you started programming at 40 you will probably peak at 50. If you want to write a successful language, you probably should have tried to write a few bad ones first. Etc.

But why do you want to create a "popular language" in the first place? Why aren't the existing ones good enough? Is it because you need to fill a need in the world, or because you want to achieve fame and glory?
You have to be quite delusional or historically ignorant to think that current "civilized" Western nations didn't do the same in the Age of Sail or British India or colonizing Africa.

For some reason I don't see your posts condemning that in every other thread?
Factor in the 15 years for it to become as popular as you might want it to be.
Yea, coming from Trapani I can surely say that
Catania doesn't even feel like Sicily. It is much more advanced than even Palermo, and no other city can really compete.

That's the real problem of Sicily; it's not about the bridge itself, but rather the whole ecomomic situation and living standard that lags behind the rest of Italy. I don't remember if the rest of Sicily is affected, but in Trapani we don't even get fresh water every day! Instead each house has canisters and pumps that fill every 3 days or so. Another example might be the almost complete lack of actual industries and a much more agricultural-based economy, to the point that almost all sicilians also own a farm or a piece of farmland (or at least I think so, again, I haven't visited much outside of Trapani). There are *lots* of things to improve, but I still think that Sicily has one of the highest economic potentials of the 20 regions, because it has lots of natural resources, people and space, and Catania is definitely an example of that potential turned into reality.

Also Palermo does have a subway, so Catania isn't the only city with such privilege.
We massively underprice the potential for ai generated porn to derail humanity.
It's a nice idea but surely any variation in mass of the lightsail will result in significant forces which will literally pull the sail apart. And with a thickness of 100 atoms that variation might be just a few atoms. I can't see how this can be manufactured to take such high forces and be so light and thin.
There are some lawsuits, especially in the very reflexively copyright-pilled industries. However, a good chunk of publishers aren't suing for self-interested reasons. There's a lot of people in the creative industry who see a machine that can cut artists out of the copyright bargain completely and are shouting "omg piracy is based now" because LLMs can spit out content faster and for free.
I'm not sure what to tell you other than to click on the submission link, which goes straight to the GitHub repository containing the source code.