skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> at which point you should complain or switch

if only switching banks for such things was easy and realistically doable...

hate that banking apps are such a hassle to live with, but i do kinda get why they're very protective.
From your page:

> I have to buy the sequel, then another, then wait, or in some cases wait forever and hope the author, or I, don’t die before finishing it!

So, how old are you -- got burned by A Song of Ice and Fire, or by The Wheel of Time? :-)

Oh yeah, and: Thanks for the download!
> Yes. I would say better enforced/respected than in Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Greece) or Balkans.

I guess one simply needs to live on the ground floor or not have any windows in their high-rise apartment:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_notable_R...
For me, it is a picture to look at. Like a bust, I had a head and shoulders to look at. The stranger's eyes were deep brown; practically black. They were half asian half white, had black hair, palish white skin, dark eyes, a flat near-smirk. He was wearing a blue collared button up shirt with a mild jeans like texture. The sleeves were rolled up. The buttons were white.
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Would you prefer something like this numpy then?

def life(x):
y = np.array([np.roll(x, -1), np.roll(x, 0),np.roll(x, 1)])
y = np.array([np.roll(y, -1, 1), np.roll(y, 0, 1),np.roll(y, 1, 1)])
z = y.sum(1).sum(0)
a = np.array([3 == z, 4==z])
c = np.logical_and(np.array([np.ones(x.shape), x]), a)
return np.logical_or(c[0], c[1])

Video of Scholes building up the life APL expression can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
That is a very fun logo.
"Confirmed the possibility" -- it was known when they invented this.

https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/112632040031740747
At a certain size company, you being a professional asshole is a requirement for any position. Also being very good at lying and deceiving. The danger begins when those people start believing their own lies.
> Can someone explain to me why, over time, democratic states tend to drift into mass surveillance ?

Democracy, even a flawed democracy leaves the status quo power structure vulnerable to being changed by popular political action. Mass surveillance allows the existing players to identify any nascent political movements that may eventually grow to threaten them and undermine or destroy these movements before they ever become a threat.
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Why are they comparing a fan cooled 12 core laptop with a passive cooled 8 core laptop? This should be versus the MBP.
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The question is one of what has been learned. It seems possible that an animal could learn, from experience, that outcomes can be different depending on whether it is light or dark, without developing any intuition as to why that might be so.

I'm all for the 'consciousness as a spectrum' view, but as TFA says, anyone looking for a eureka moment [in this matter] will be disappointed.
My father had a siamese cat growing up, smart, would open drawers from behind to get food, tease dogs outside by standing just out of range of their leash. One day it slipped on a jump, his brother laughed at it. It ran away humiliated. That night while they were asleep it attacked his brother
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I also removed my cameras and microphones from my old iPhones. It's kinda cool, but you have to explain yourself a lot when you leave your cable headset at home and can't talk with anyone without it :D.

You cancel the call, then write an sms: I can't talk right now, what's the problem?

And everyone thinks you are an idiot :D.
> this new Orwellian EU law

Yes yes, the UK doesn’t have those at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023

This is not a one-up game. Both laws suck, all governments (and systems of) have flaws. We should oppose them equally instead of pointing fingers and shrugging our shoulders.
> Honest question, why do we (US, EU, wherever) not have more harsh punishment for child SA? Why not castrate the offender have two strikes or even one? I am sure there are other biological reasons for this to happen but I got the impression a lot of abusers were abused as children.

Because castrating people as punishment ‘because’ they were abused as children doesn’t feel right?

Of course, doing that as part of treatment could in extreme situations be justified, but luckily there’s ‘reversible castration’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration), and that (of course) is preferred as treatment, if such harsh measures are required.
Bureaucracy is complexity vapourware?
Most LLMs determine their token inventories by using byte-pair encoding, which algorithmically induces sub-word tokens from a body of text. So even in English you might see a word like "proselytization" tokenized apart into "_pro", "selyt", "iz", "ation", and non-English languages will probably (depending on their proportional representation in the training corpus) also receive token allocations in the BPE vocabulary.

Here's actual output from the GPT-4o tokenizer for English and Hindi:

>>> [enc.decode([x]) for x in enc.encode("proselytization")]
['pros', 'ely', 't', 'ization']
>>> [enc.decode([x]) for x in enc.encode("पर्यावरणवाद")]
['पर', '्य', 'ावरण', 'वाद']
There are multiple tiers of Xeon. The “base” tier (I am very much over-simplifying) is the same silicon as consumer desktop/mobile with some features turned on like ECC. Mobile workstations and the like get Mobile Xeons. It’s less crazy than Desktop Replacements with socketed Desktop CPUs.
I mean, it makes a better headline than "meh, it's kinda competitive", I suppose... But yeah, hard to characterise this as 'blowing away' (also a little suspect that they don't present a graphics comparison).
Counting up vs counting down may have more about using pre- or post- unary construction, I mean ++x or --x are known as faster equivalents of x++ or x-- that explains more effective asm code of example with counting down.
Since you seem to be one of those who denied(?) consciousness of a cat, how do you conceptualize it?

Something like “a cat is just a large finite automaton and I am not”? How do you draw the line? Through “soul”? Through “neocortex thickness”? Why a cat would not experience its life like you do when e.g. drugged or seriously drunk? I mean, cats aren’t drunk, but isn’t it easy to experience or at least imagine the “animal mode” in yourself? At times when you were startled or in rage or had sex like an animal, so that your intellectual parts didn’t work properly, did that pause your consciousness? Have you thought about it and if yes, what’s the answer?

Also why is it so surprising to you that a cat noticed a change and… how exactly does this connect to yes/no consciousness?

(These are all curiosity questions, I’m not an animal rights fighter or something like that.)
You are not alone - there are definitely conditions that cause this, and noise sensitivity is a condition on its own.

I'm not going to attempt to get into the medical side of things, but I can recommend you look at something like this: https://us.loopearplugs.com/

I've had a pair of those for a while, and they help me. I've had them long enough that I don't remember exactly which brand/type they are... they literally just sit in my back pocket and I throw them in when I'm out somewhere loud.
I think we’d have trouble because we’d have to tie the gene to a specific linguistic cognitive function. My hypothesis is that humans configured themselves into self-replicating group structures I’d call institutions, and language evolved as a way to facilitate that. These institutions exhibit all the thermodynamic properties of life, and they have goal directed behavior independent of individual humans.
I think the question was always if the non-Apple world would finally, after all these years, get a valid M processor equivalent. The answer seems to be yes. And that's huge news.
> for learning Finnish

Jos tarvitset apua, niin heittää viesti.
> I assume there's an element of cost,

This assumption is very correct. Optical interconnects are extraordinarily expensive relative to copper. We have the art of manufacturing copper PCBs and connectors mastered. Putting optical interconnects into a system requires that the signal go through transceivers at either end as well as external optical cables, which are not integrated into the PCB. It’s extra components and complexity everywhere.

The reason optical interconnects are being explored here is that next gen PCIe is so extremely fast that the signals cannot travel very far in PCBs without significant losses. PCBs built for these speeds require special, expensive materials on the layers with those signals. They might require retimer chips to amplify the signal past a certain distance. These limitations may not apply to consumer motherboards with a single GPU very near to the CPU, but datacenter motherboards might need to connect many GPUs across a large chassis. The distances involved could require multiple retimer chips along the way and very expensive PCBs. Going to optical interconnects could introduce much more flexibility into where the GPUs or other add in cards are located.
That's where I wonder about a tool like this interfering with legitimate software.

For example, I believe the anti-cheat software used by games like Fortnite looks for similar things -- my understanding is that it, too, will refuse to start when it is executing in a VM[0]. As a teenager (90s), I remember several applications/games refusing to start when I'd attached a tracing process to them. They did this to stop exactly what I was doing: trying to figure out how to defeat the software licensing code. I haven't had a need to do that since the turn of the century but I'd put $10 on that still being a thing.

So you end up with a "false positive", and like anti-virus software, it results in "denial of service." But does anti-virus's solution of "white list it" apply here? At least with their specific implementation, it's "on or off", but I wonder if it's even possible to alter the application in a way that could "white list a process so it doesn't see the 'malware defeat tricks' this exposes." If not, you'd just have to "turn off protection" when you were using that program. That might not be practical depending on the program. It's also not likely the vendor of that program will care that "an application which pretends it's doing things we don't like" breaks their application unless it represents a lot of their install base.

[0] I looked into it a few years ago b/c I run Tumbleweed and it's a game the kids enjoy (I'm not a huge fan but my gaming days have been behind me for a while, now) ... I had hoped to be able to expose my GPU to the VM enough to be able to play it but didn't bother trying after reading others' experiences.
That's not the definition of species. Many species can interbreed, sometimes even species that are pretty distantly related.
"Once you write the slides and script, it’s time to practice… a lot."

All great speakers are look great because they practice and iterate on the material and end up with polished presentations that they've given dozens or hundreds of times.
Whitespace is useful in normal prose because it has no inherent visual structure aside from punctuation. A programing language is inherently structured into logical functions and blocks. If your function is so complex that you need to start adding whitespace to make it visually parseable then that's its own problem.
All of this is very much dependent on the types of senses. The Sāṁkhya metaphysics system gives a breakdown of everything that exists on top of the conscious entity:

1. Intellect

2. Ego

3. Mind

5. Sensory capacities

6. Action capacities

Humor would be a part of the Mind and Sensory capacities which reflects back the changes in Action capacities.

So 'consciousness' is actually none of these things. It's the irreducible entity, or in simple terms energy or force that animates what would otherwise be dead matter.
Thanks for the vote of confidence (and I can always throw VMs onto ZFS volumes), but I think I'll chalk it up as "I'm not its target market" and move on. Their documentation talks of snapshot releases and such, but there's absolutely no information on actually finding them. It doesn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Bad actors have forced them to pull all the rugs except the nightlies, it seems.
Problem is that it's too narrow, makes it hard to click. That's why I'm specifically looking for a native widget.
I liked the pist-WW2 middle-age crisis - threat of nuclear annihilation was bad, of course, but beyond that, people had ambitious and hopeful visions of the future.
> How do you "prove" that other people are conscious?

For sentience scientists mainly look at behavioral cues:

> For example, "if a dog with an injured paw whimpers, licks the wound, limps, lowers pressure on the paw while walking, learns to avoid the place where the injury happened and seeks out analgesics when offered, we have reasonable grounds to assume that the dog is indeed experiencing something unpleasant." Avoiding painful stimuli unless the reward is significant can also provide evidence that pain avoidance is not merely an unconscious reflex (similarly to how humans "can choose to press a hot door handle to escape a burning building").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience#Indicators_of_sentie...
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There are a lot of variations of EM.

Think of an EM role as being like a moldable puzzle piece.

In your case, it sounds like EMs are molded to be project managers.

It's hard to know if that's right or wrong from your reply because we're missing the context of why the EM does spring planning.

If the EM needs to fill a project management void for reasons then that's what the EM needs to do.

Pods or verticle teams could work if they could work in your team or company. I know that sounds like a tautology, but it's true. There is no universally better team, process, or culture structure as it's all contextual to the people, team, company, and product you're creating.
Again, the usual scarecrow of "internet is corrupting our kids and our minds"...

The good excuse to push for population censorship and control.

The truth is that the problem is coming from the social society that we prefer to ignore: education collapsing, government and political world having arms wide open to dictatorship when it benefits to them,...

Just to remember that a few decades ago, same kind of persons were stating that books and free press are responsible for all of the moral corruption of the society...
But Apple's deal with OpenAI is superficial at best. It's not their entire approach to AI. You can use Apple Intelligence and not once submit something to ChatGPT. To me, that means that they are only using OpenAI as a crutch until they've improved to make it no longer necessary and/or gives them an option to swap out which ever 3rd party model is the new hotness. It's less embedded than having Google be the default search engine as ChatGPT isn't the default AI model and is absolutely opt-in with a warning message stronger than any data sharing message from anything they've offered.
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You had an answer canned for one part of the query. Why are you trying to release security software completely anonymously? This is insane - you want an incredible amount of trust from users but can’t even identify a company.

Simply, if users are as intelligent as you think, they’re too intelligent to use your product.
maybe this could help:
https://turso.tech/blog/something-you-probably-want-to-know-...
Their newer drones support DJI RC[0] so you don't have to worry about installing their app on your phone and giving all the permissions. I use it with my DJI Mini 3 Pro, another advantage is that you don't have to worry about phone battery

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I guess it spread peacefully … the British on the other hand …
I think we all forget how nonexistent on-device inference was back then. If you had a 500mb CNN model, there was absolutely no way you were including in a mobile app.

You could maybe host it on a server behind an API, but that would be significant costs.

We are spoiled these days. I can drag an ONNX file into a handful of services and do inference for fractions of a cent.
Looking at different generations (parents boomers vs millennials like myself) while there may be some group similarities, it seems to be like addiction or drugs, where humans take to social media on a spectrum from those who avoid it to those who make it their lives and the average people who use it as a tool sometimes
...and then? Don't leave us hanging!
Wouldn't the analog counterpart be the postal system? They have no right to poke in your private communications.

Edit: That said postal systems are generally owned by the government. So I suppose ultimately (if nothing else) it would be up to their T&C. But I don't see how they could reasonably justify monitoring the traffic. It's not like it's a PR issue for them what users share through their tubes. I would imagine it'd make sense to have them regulated similarly as the postal system (ensuring private communications).
We could make that the definition, but we'd doing a lot of redefinition: coyotes and wolves would become the same species, as would lions and jaguars. Fertility issues tend to increase with genetic distance but aren't guaranteed; for example, mules are usually but not always sterile.
This is the right question, and the OpenAI API supports requesting JSON with e.g.

client.chat.completions.create(..., response_format={"type": "json_object"})

But the nature of LLMs is stochastic, nothing is 100%. The LLM vendors aren't dummies and train hard for this use case. But you still need a prompt that OpenAI can handle, and validating / fixing the output with an output parser, and retrying.

In my experience asking for simple stuff, requesting json_object is reliable.

with LangChain even! eye-roll, you can't really title the post 'every way' and omit possibly the most popular way with a weak dig. I have literally no idea why they would omit it, it's just a thin wrapper over the LLM APIs and has a JSON output parser. Of course people do use LangChain in production, although there is merit to the idea of using it for research, trying different LLMs and patterns where LangChain makes it easy to try different things, and then using the underlying LLM directly in prod which will have a more stable API and fewer hinky layers.

this post is a little frustrating since it doesn't explain things that a dev would want to know, and omits the popular modules. the comment by resiros offers some good additional info.
A redo of a classic, the powers of 10
https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0
That’s really not always true. And it’s disingenuous to so unequivocally write the title of a paper about mice when the headline article is about humans.
You can't spot the super subtle difference between a name with a rep to protect and a no-name?
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There was a disjunction around the late 90s/early 2000s when the internet got big. That was around the time that the corporate news sources started losing control of the news to more citizen reporter types running podcasts or whatever gets big on social media. What gets called "the narrative" split from being the consensus of journalists to a cacophony of random people who don't form consensuses.

Before that change, a scandal in the papers also meant you had to have lost political favour with the people who owned the media companies, ie, were losing big political battles. You also had no hope of being re-elected through a hostile media because if they didn't carry a favourable message there was no way to communicate with voters. I'd argue people like Jeffery Epstein never really made it to trial or public attention because stories got buried.

Afterwards the better approach is to point and shout "Fake News". There are multiple channels that reach voters and it turns out that the corporate media are actually much more unreliable and unpopular than were previously suspected. A lot more dirty laundry is aired and the Streisand effect takes hold.

CA wasn't the change, it was just one of the first big scandals to happen in the new era.
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'For example, $780 billion is spent world-wide annually on advertising. Many more billions are wasted on ventures that fail.'

A blanket statement that advertising is waste is wrong. Advertising can increase consumers' surplus by introducing them to products they were unaware of.