skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one is defining consciousness. You are simply referred to what is expected to be a common shared experience.

Our shared experience is a real
thing, yes. But it’s worthless to ask whether something that’s not a human has our shared experience, because we’ve excluded it by definition. If you asked “does ChatGPT experience the world identically to the way we do?”, the answer is trivially “no”, since we’re human and it’s an LLM. But if you change the question to “is ChatGPT conscious?”, suddenly this is supposed to be a less trivial question? No, you said yourself, nobody’s even willing to define consciousness, and when prodded, we default to “that thing we have”, and how exactly is that supposed to illuminate anyone towards a meaningful answer to the question.

Of course ChatGPT is not a human, duh. If you aren’t willing to state your terms, and “consciousness” isn’t willing to be defined an inch past our noses, then it ceases to be a useful to discussion to ask whether anything is conscious.

> please explain to yourself how (merely) a structure is affording the phenomena of what you experience. Physics only please.

The structure and what I experience are the same thing. My brain/senses/body apparatus is a thing that by its very construction includes the ability to ponder and reason about stuff, and experience the world. It is this way because it is this way. There is no “me” separate from the structure, so there is no ability to ask “how do I experience the world given only this structure?”

I am the structure, the structure is me.
But your statement is presupposing a world where the "sea of bad things to good things" has no flexibility in how it works. I am proposing that the current method where software is developed to go after microprofits through advertising and trivial functionality, and on a closed, corporation run platform, IS A BAD THING.
It's also a derogatory term from the cold war. I am happy to help bring it back.
This reminds me of a situation which I'll label "satellite office syndrome" - which is where a company has a large/dominant Head Office, and smaller regional offices which are in a permanent state of playing second-fiddle in terms of funding, attention, respect and company culture.
The best is when people post on “Who wants to be hired” with no way to contact them, I don’t get it.
Speak for yourself. A lot of us here don't work in adtech or fintech and do something useful every day.
Oh wow this is great technology. (Also surprised that it's driven by the UQ/rio-tinto. Hopefully GMG will learn from the failures of Tritium on the business side of things (as they are from similar stock))
Don’t you think it’s kind of crazy that we are on the brink of understanding some fundamental things about cognition and what we seem to be most interested in are hotel bookings and product recommendations?

Pity or what have you aside this is a massive L no matter how you take it
What does "adopted" mean in that context? (serious question)
Well. My dude. There are definitely different kind of farming. And in my family case, it has always been a small business, growing vegetables and fruits, selling products locally and fair compensation for the worker.

Not every farmer has to be a capitalist piece of shit you know.
A very interesting novel I read, some years ago, is Fall from Grace, by Larry Collins (the co-author of other bestsellers with Dominique Lapierre).

A review by Ken Follett, another bestselling author:

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/16/books/on-the-altar-of-ove...
You may get the point. My background as a Japanese in my 30s may affect how I perceive those periods. I have feelings for the 40s because WWII is mentioned often. For the 80s, even though I wasn't born yet, many people talk about it as the best period for Japan, so I have a concrete image of that too. And the 90s and 00s are when I was a kid/teenager so I have an emotional connection with the period. Other than these, I have weak connections and just think of the current or near-past periods.
you have a large app using a bunch of python libraries and now you want to add a GUI to it and you like flutter. what, e.g., is the dart equivalent of networkx?
Oh definitely. This is the same reason why probably every company that's critical to the functioning of the internet probably has moles from every major intelligence agency private and state-run
Is there a cross-platform accessibility library? I can tell you that developing a cross-platform GUI framework is a gigantic can of worms fraught with forced yakshaving, no documentarion, no support, and endless bugs across the stack even down into the OS and GPU driver stack. So in my opinion, everyone asking for accessibility features on every GUI framework announcement should get together and make a GLFW for accessibility libraries so that it can indeed be standard.
Right. But, how would this duopoly have emerged or be sustainable in a nation that truly embraced individualism?
It’s not entirely surprising your country would prefer to forget that war. Disappointing perhaps but not surprising.

In my opinion, a battle is generally not important compared to a milestone of democracy. I learned about the Magna Carta in 1215 and saw a copy once and appreciate that knowledge.

But sure, keep arguing for ignorance and dismissing education if you’d like—we’ll enjoy the show here in posterity.
Anecdotally I’ve found that I often can’t get started on a new piece of work because for every possible solution I imagine all the possible ways it could go wrong. After a glass of wine I lose my hang-ups and I can “just get started” and bang out some code.

I suspect it’s the same as the well-known “social lubricant” effect of alcohol, where it eases anxiety and uninhibits nervous people.

However, while I’ve noticed it gets me going it has the same deleterious effects as in social contexts: the code I end up writing is not as clever as I thought it was the night before.

No matter, had sex! I mean… got an MVP working that can be nurtured into a relationship… I mean product.
> which is something you don't get on macOS

Oh you sweet summer child...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252412228?sortBy=best

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7655683?sortBy=best

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251442866?sortBy=best

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251628859?sortBy=best

I pretty much stopped using MacOS because they put so many fucking ads in the OS by default and smugly expected you to just accept that they were there. It's not as bad as Windows yet, but honestly it's just as annoying.
The 1st two paragraphs of the article are brutal. A surreal way to start a narrative. Is that even real ? Sounds like it belongs in a movie script.
Trade and colonization aren't the same thing. People are taking these jobs because they're better than the alternative, sad as it is.

If developed countries all refused to outsource work like this to poorer countries, do you think that would help the condition of the people there?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for better working conditions, but ultimately that is primarily the responsibility of the government(s) of that country.
I think I replied to the wrong comment
Golang is more mature, but it's still a relatively new language.

C#, Java, and to a lesser extent NodeJS and Python are enterprise level backend languages with support for whatever you can imagine.
I find that stuff enjoyable. I almost never use malloc, I learnt to use calloc so it's my go-to allocator.

Whenever I write an allocation I try to write a free after it, then fill in the code in between.

Use of static analysers and sanitisers helps too.

Like some people enjoy making all their hand tools from scratch in their workshop, there's a craft and discipline to follow and a satisfaction in doing things well, I enjoy the craft of and discipline C for the same reason.
Robot 'commits suicide' in South Korea due to excessive workload
MPV can play videos direct to the FB, with hardware acceleration too
You may think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.

I was trying to convey that laws should be carefully written, not to motivate people to do things that keep them inside the law yet are still damaging.
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How much we care about trying as users to keep our accounts secure, the websites aren’t that good to keep our data secure. How many data breaches we had in last 5 years that affected all of us. I feel like at least a few affected me.

So in that case storing OTP with passwords or don’t does not matter.
>report disillusionment

I've heard similar. Of course, it's hard to know whether they'd also report disillusionment with ten (or whatever) political parties.

And, really, the idea of political parties is itself not wholly compatible with individualism.

But, the broader point is that the current state of affairs seems antithetical to the notion that individualism is a major feature of American society.

American "individualism" reminds me of all the people who call themselves "free thinkers", but managed to free think their way to exactly the same set of beliefs.
Not just new language to learn, but also new toolchain to become familiar with and library ecosystem to get a grip on. Longtime devs of any language have a grab bag of go-to tools and libraries for a variety of situations and it’s not fun to have to give that all up.

It’s really in the best interest for any UI toolkit project with goals of mass adoption to be as language agnostic as is reasonably possible, or at minimum reasonable to write C bindings for so the community can then build their own bindings to other languages without too much fuss. A lot of devs aren’t going to switch languages for a UI toolkit unless it checks every box imaginable — think something as capable as AppKit/UIKit or Qt Widgets — and most newer UI toolkits (including Flutter) don’t come anywhere close to that.
Examples can be found in Thomas Rid's book I mentioned above. IIRC it was usually originating out of West Germany organized by East German agents
This is true if you deal one card at a time. If you deal 2 by 2 or 3 by 3 on the other hand...
It's an excerpt from a book. A lot of Guardian "articles" are just excerpts like this or op-eds.

They know their market.
How many number of hours is chill? 4? 6? 3?
Yeah if the person was a rapist or murderer or criminal and it's my cat....yeah. The murderer dies and I save my cat..........??? are you not like that?
Yup, in NZ a two pizza team would average out to about three people I think.

Are US pizzas giant?
Why not just pay Unionized American Workers?
And where do you think these governments comes from? Why do you think they are in such a precarious situation?

Maybe colonialism has something to do with it, hasn’t it?
I mean, yes? IBM is profitable and is spending some of its money on projects we all benefit from - just like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Apple, and just about any other larger tech company out there. That doesn't mean that their core business is on a healthy trajectory. Transmeta was paying Linus' salary for a good while, it didn't save them.
That's a good point. I take for granted that I remember well what it was like in the analog age. Channels could be changed in what must've been around 30 milliseconds.

I always found a modicum of latency to be generally acceptable in something like TV tuning once it went digital. Streaming doesn't really offer anything with that kind of experience anymore. Even analog car radios tend to have digital tuners with their own degrees of tuning delay.
> you'll see legions of people who do not understand statistics and pay a heavy price for that.

At the risk of stating the obvious, and not adding to the conversation, I think we all know that people putting their life savings into slot machines aren't doing so because they don't understand expected value. They may or may not understand that they are going to lose all their money, but they are gambling because they are addicted/have some kind of mental health problem. Knowledge of statistics doesn't really affect things for problem gambling.

As for those putting modest amounts of money into gambling, most of them will tell you that card games/etc. are fun, and are therefore worth it.
I feel like the point is skipped in the post: if you ship TS sources, it means you need the TS compiler on the installed side, right? And specifically the right TS version for each installed package... which in some cases may mean conflicting requirements?

(If you own code is in JS, that is)
Your comment has gone on a complete tangent that makes 0 sense. This is open source software. People decided to build this and give it away for free.
OK, so it seems you didn't get the memo: LLMs at the present stage have not yet reached AGI, and have some notable other flaws, like not being able to do math reliably. Commercial interests will try to exaggerate the current capabilities, but most people can see through that.

The capabilities are nonetheless nothing short of astounding, given where we were 10 or even 2 years ago, and clearly point to a near future where we can expect the machines overcome these shortcomings.

Thousands, if not millions, of researchers, coders and others will have to adjust their worklife expectations, just like previous technological revolutions have seen thousands of other professions disappear into think air.
What does $600/mo afford people over there that they can't get with $300/mo, $150/mo, $75/mo, etc?
My use case is mainly containerization and container orchestration, but in 12 years I've had Sid break on me once, and testing never. Maybe I got lucky.
And context, so much context.

The sqrt(-1) sometimes doesn't exist, sometimes it's 1i. 2+2=4, except in literature where it can be 5. 1+1=2, but sometimes 3 in advertisements or in ironical text.

We often have some ideas about e.g how it works in a quiz, where you know there is only one factually correct answer. And we are disappointed if the model is wrong. But even in a quiz setting the jury gets that balance wrong every so often, where there are other answers than the official one which are also correct.

Even "logically valid" is context dependend. This is not to say that models don't hallucinate, just that even within the logically valid answers, there is hidden context surrounding the data which is not expressed in the data itself. Fermats last problem is a solved problem in mathematics, but not in documents from before 1994.
Nelson has a "tech people meetup" pretty often.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/kootenayworkers/
The Times eats it up. Consider this:

> In the next five years, Old Salt’s goal is to sell meat to 10,000 families around the country each year, up from around 800 now. It won’t be easy: Americans are used to purchasing ground chuck from the grocery store, not from a website.

But of course only locals can buy ground beef from Old Salt's website, by picking it at the company's refrigerators, for obvious reasons. Though the web site nicely obfuscates this:

https://www.oldsaltco-op.com/collections/fresh-cuts-ground/p...
cheaper to manufacture with less parts, since anodes are usually an expensive part made from expensive materials and are hard to manufacture
Tangential, but I was watching A Capitol Fourth this past Thursday, and near the end of the traditional performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, I was reminded how much I'd like to see Joplin (one of the other fathers of popular American music, and the father of a sadly-abortive branch of "serious" American music) celebrated in the same vein. Whoever decided to use Joplin's "Solace"[1][2] as the loading screen theme for Bioshock: Infinite is a genius, because... wow, what a piece.

Unfortunately, rags have been misrepresented as an almost naive form over the years, instead of the foundational element (ripe for rediscovery, experimentation, and innovation) of American musical composition that it is. Looks like Dabney was another casualty of this oversight.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ms-WVWI9w (B:I's modified version)

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLNORRrRyMQ (Full version)
First I'm hearing of Antifa originally being a "black activist movement". Citation?
A teen tech whiz 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint
It's weird that you discovered the richest grade gold mine in the world then just went rafting like nothing happened.

Are you looking at pyrite or are you Jed Clampett? What's happening here
I don't like that. "Recognizes" implies that it only works because it has seen exactly that before but I can throw data in a completely made-up format that the world has never seen at an LLM and tell it to convert it to another format and it does so with no problems.
Are governments profiting from a technology or treatment? PMI profits off the the smokeless tech
It's not that its unsolveable by me. It's that it even has to be solved. People who need wheelchairs could also figure out creative ways to go to a wheelchair store with no ramps. That doesn't mean its not insane that that would exist.
> Bug fixes work a lot like efficiency improvements, the main difference being that competent management makes things much worse. You can’t make fixing bugs into a “goal,” same as you can’t make optimization into a goal, because people will just add more bugs up front and then fix some of them.

If competent management makes things worse, then it isn't really competent management. I'm not sure why introducing additional process is considered a sign of competence

Instead of setting arbitrary goals, couldn't they just pay attention to the things that people are actually working on and give out rewards/punishments based off of their own judgement? If you need to create some elaborate resource quota CI/CD system because you can't trust employees to do things decently, then it's a people problem
Yeah, but you can't do both, that's the point! If you can directly change the website content, the website itself runs in a sufficiently non-sandboxed environment to allow the data to be sent somewhere else. You can only get around this by making a more limited blocking process (which may not need to be as limited as chrome has gone with, but still, not being able to e.g. substitute in shims for ad networks will reduce the effectiveness of your adblocker. It certainly makes anti-ad-blocking have the significant advantage).
Not true, over the years many people have been put in jail for political reasons, they just don't receive media time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoners_in_the_Uni...
Like working in some FAANG? Spending tons of money into accelerating climate change, maximizing profits for stakeholders while aggressively suppressing every cooperative efforts for the workers to unionize?

Sounds great! Congrats!
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I'm on the first part and I struggle to not scream.

- the well run place seems too keen on micro managing. Estimating every step to the point of cancelling improvement is not 'well run'. I'm sure every book about advanced company management will tell you that.

- the badly run is hmm.. at least partially (if not totally) naive. What are the odds that people not being asked anything don't just talk all day long ? The most probable equilibrium point will be most employees doing a little bit of the mandatory duties in the morning, a little bit in the afternoon, separated by lengthy bits of smalltalk (not they kay kind). I have yet to see one person trying to fix anything in their environment because they had free time. 99% of them will just have a new topic to vent about in the coming coffee / smalltalk pause.

ps: anybody knows talks or books about people operating like emergency teams ? where the natural spirit is optimize everything until you reach hard limits ?
That makes me believe that what they were measuring was not energy expenditure, how can that be the case without breaking the first law of thermodynamics?
I believe you, and it's telling that this wasn't part of the OP's post. There are lots of reasons that ERs are seeing increasing load, and some of them support a left-wing argument, and others support a right-wing argument.

The person doing the arguing will pick and choose their examples to fit their preferred narratives.
If you asked the people of these countries why their country and government are in this situation, what do you think they'd say?
Or perhaps corporations grow large because they serve diverse needs. Much like users only need 10% of Microsoft Word, yet many cohorts often need a different 10% slice.

Or we lack anti-trust controls, so rent seekers are soaking up markets.

Maybe a combination of all three.
Your rhetoric falls flat against any infant mortality chart.

> alienate themselves

Sounds like a first-world problem to me.
> one env per project

That causes 50 copies of the exact same version of a 1GB library to exist on my system that are all obtained from the same authority (PyPI). I have literally 50 copies of the entire set of CUDA libraries because every conda environment installs PyTorch and PyTorch includes its own CUDA.

I'm not asking the OS to maintain this, but rather the package manager ("npm" or "pip" or similar) should do so on a system-wide basis. "python" and "pip" should allow for 1 copy per officially-released version of each package to live on the system, and multiple officially-released version numbers to coexist in /usr/lib. If a dev version is being used or any version that deviates from what is on PyPI, then that should live within the project.
I keep seeing this being thrown around but ChatGPT can do addition just fine since at least GPT-3.5. Not that I care or expect it to (why would I use an LLM for math?) but still.
So we should now exclude them from global labor markets because colonialism?
I suppose if you want to be really thorough, you could run the tests with ptrace and single-step the threads to make different interleavings at instruction level. Has anyone seen that sort of thing done? Is there any alternatives for black-box testing, if you are not able to instrument the code like what is done here?
You wouldn't need hundreds of gigs of ram to answer this query in 5ms. You'd need a few mb or so to answer this query, after initial indexing is done of course.
Yes, and conflate "totals" with proven reserves while failing to mention that people aren't really actively looking for more reserve as aggressively. But this is a PR piece for the University for which the standard problem is to magnify both the problems it avoid as well as the impact it produces.

But at its core, an anode free battery has a lot of desirable properties which make this engineer feat notable. Perhaps the most important is that the materials are readily available in a number of countries which could source their own raw materials to produce batteries. They also do not fail exothermically[sp?] when cell integrity is breached, that makes them a better battery for cars than the current Lithium ones.

So the next bridge to cross (and one so many battery breakthroughs fall down on) is what is the cost to produce batteries at scale. If, as we read yesterday they can get them down to $1/kWh then you'll be seeing a whole lot of these.
ty, I didn't know about this, I should play it
I'm not, but am looking forward to everyone getting disenchanted with Go so I stop seeing yet another startup pick it for something it's bad at and then struggle to eke out performance and scale the project.
Interestingly, there have been studies that show that students lectured to feel like they’ve learned more, and self-report that they have, while students learning the same material in self-guided labs report feeling like they’ve learned less but perform better on assessments.
> It leaves the structures it touches barren and brittle

If overdone - definitely.

But there are plenty of cases where people forgot to add an index or used linked lists for search heavy stuff or issued rpc for every keystroke.