skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should look to the animals.

Higher order faculties aside, animals seem like us, just simpler.

The higher functioning ones appear to have this missing thing too. We can see it in action. Perhaps all of them do and it is just harder for us when the animal thinks very differently or maybe does not think as much, feeling more, for example.

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Now, about that thing... and the controversy:

Given an organism, or machine for this discussion, is of sufficiently robust design and complexity that it can precisely differentiate itself from everything else, it is a being.

This thing we are missing is an emergent property, or artifact that can or maybe always does present when a state of being also presents.

We have not created a machine of this degree yet.

Mother nature has.

The reason for emergence is a being can differentiate sensory input as being from within, such as pain, or touch, and from without, such as light or motion.

Another way to express this is closed loop vs open loop.

A being is a closed loop system. It can experience cause and effect. It can be the cause. It can be the effect.

A lot comes from this closed loop.

There can be the concept of the self and it has real meaning due to the being knowing what is of itself or something, everything else.

This may be what forms consciousness. Consciousness may require a closed loop, and organism of sufficient complexity to be able to perceive itself.

That is the gist of it.

These systems we make are fantastic pieces. They can pattern match and identify relationships between the data given in amazing ways.

But they are open loop. They are not beings. They cannot determine what is part of them, what they even are,or anything really.

I am both consistently amazed and dismayed at what we can get LLM systems to do.

They are tantalizingly close!

We found a piece of how all this works and we are exploiting the cral out of it. Ok fine. Humans are really good at that.

But it will all taper off. There are real limits because we will eventually find the end goal will be to map out the whole problem space.

Who has tried computing that? It is basically all possible human thought. Not going to happen.

More is needed.

And that "more" can arrive at thoughts without having first seen a few bazillion to choose from.
My workplace will adopt React for the sole purpose of being easy to find new React developers as it's the most popular library for reactive UI.

Everyone at the company knows a little React already. We are not good at it and we don't like it, but I guess for them it's a safe bet.
Pretty much.

There's zero dispute that the planet mean has been increasing since the 1970s (and earlier).

It's simply stating that the the sudden jump in the last year is insufficient on it's own to conclude that the undisputed rate of warming has itself increased (sudden acceleration of heating).

Couple more years of unusual increases and we'll know for sure that things are getting hotter even faster .. until then we settle for things are getting hotter by at least the regular rate of increase due to human changes to the atmosphere.
The vast majority of ip4 only networks are enterprise, that’s where I hear the complaints from. The people who say autoconf (dhcp etc) is bad and that dns is bad.
Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game
When stock you've held for years rockets to the moon, and your major banking institution with 100 billion dollar annual revenue experiences "technical difficulties" at the login page. You can't sell your meagre crumbs until the spaceship has completed its orbit and you're left with no doubt about who the system doesn't work for.
Or let's try not to boeing this design.

Or let's boeing this whistleblower.
What other options existed?
It's what irks me, you travel outside the borders and suddenly everything stops working. Often when you need it the most. Looking at you Amazon kids plus.
> Sure it does. China has the formula.

Build a new city? That's not going to work.
By "below" they mean behind the glass.
Admittedly the context matters “we are trying to sell to Management, therefore let’s butter them up and tell them they make great decisions and they won’t get automated away” while the next page of the presentation says “we will
Automate away 50% of the people
Working for you saving globs of money for your next bonus”

IBM in 1979 was not doing anything different to 2024. They were just more relevant
Automating binary vulnerability discovery with Ghidra and Semgrep (2022)
More than a memory.

Needs to be a closed loop, running on its own.

We get its attention, and it responds, or frankly if we did manage any sort of sentience, even a simulation of it, then the fact is it may not respond.

To me, that is the real test.
I wanted to see how it looks and what exactly it does without reading too much. Since you're offering a free trial I went for that. It was annoying that I had to create an account first, but I can see how that might be necessary. But now the page is asking me to pay even though I just want the trial you advertised? That's just sketchy. Other obstacles: no PayPal. Maybe this app really is just a wrapper around an LLM chat and that's why you're not showing it?

Edit: I can't even delete my account? This app seems just super sketchy now. My impression is that it's either a scam or build by someone lacking the necessary experience and skills.
Low wit: writers must have got busy

Mid wit: this is a poignant soliloquy in the state of the open web

High wit: writers must have got busy
> What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs

I am not convinced it follows. Sure LLMs don’t seem complete however there’s a lot of unspoken inference going on in LLMs that don’t map into a language directly already - the inner layers of the deep neural net that operates on abstract neurons.
The laws unions had passed give legal control over significant amounts of company operations over to unions. They put a straightjacket on management by restricting the contract freedom of the employer. The employer cannot fire workers for unionizing or striking, and cannot negotiate with any party but the union if the majority of a work unit votes to unionize. Property/control get transferred to the unionized employees under unprovoked duress — by prohibiting the employer from entering into any other contracts.

It's not a free market and yet you want to place all blame for the failings of companies with unionized workforces on the employer.

You justify all of this with a faux victim ideology that is anti-capitalist in its roots and vilifies the employer for exercising their property and contracting rights in ways that a critical mass of employees, constituting a mob, don't like. Well, anti-capitalism begets a loss of capital and with it prosperity. And that's all we've ever seen from it.
> Who are you talking to?

Just to be clear, I am not talking about you directly. I had no intention of judging you personally or upsetting you; I'm sorry if you took it that way.

> The idea that if people would just do everything right, no relationship would need to break up is an unhealthy, and completely unrealistic, judgement.

Let me try again: I think that what you're saying is true because of the social context. Would you agree that current society is not as conducive to long-term relationships?
That’s what @vgr observed some time ago - people split into “above AI” and “below AI”, and the AI slowly moves up in the stack.
Most people should try harder. Whats the point of even making music if you're gonna pay all these platforms for no one to even to listen to your music.

And then you have to compete with the major labels who are buying streams to get their artists in the big playlists.

Its a really cleaver system, you have all these services that you pay upfront and then if you actually do get any streams you get like 0.0001% of a cent.

Its a con, the only people getting paid are the platforms.

If you have to use any platform stick your music on youtube using the lowest quality mp3's and then link back to your own website.
This is an advert. Nothing a 30 sec read (sans the insane number of ads on this page) wouldn’t tell you.
I also heart about lakeFS for data versioning on S3 object stores. Is DVC a contender in this area?
I think they’re just right in this case.

Suppose I’m a bad actor that creates an unfair algorithm that overcharges the clients of my company. Eventually it’s discovered. The algorithm could be fixed, the servers decommissioned, whatever, but I’ve already won. If the people who requested the algorithm be made in that way, if the people who implemented it or ran it see no consequences, there’s absolutely nothing preventing me from doing the same thing another time, elsewhere.

Punishment for fraud seems sane, regardless of whether it’s enabled by code or me cooking some books by hand.
> it gives stalkers/ragers time to calm down after they’ve been rejected

But afaik it's just right click -> open in private window to see the profile as the open internet would see it. Takes a second.

It's the same on reddit. If someone replies to you and immediately blocks you (which is a bit of a funny pattern lately), you'd normally switch to logged out mode to read it.

Mobile takes this into account as well: In RedReader (for reddit), you can just use the three dot menu to view it as a not registered user.

I feel that giving users the ability to play around with this kind of hoops and tricks stirs up emotions instead of calming them down.

In general: I don't know of a single scenario where it would be wise to create a situation where logging in on a platform reduces access to its content.
Yeah and unfortunately it's brutal and pays very little, essentially you make more money from selling merch.

So essentially your music is just advertising for you to be able to sell merch LOL!
Therefore all management decisions are made by the people writing the code

Hence coders are the new managers, managers just funnel the money around, a job which can be automated
>German public transport fascinates with its ease of use and quality

Ease of use maybe, although my parents and grandparents would like to argue differently. They are not as quick to work their smartphone, and the ticket machines are being removed everywhere to be replaced by apps that are much cheaper to run. This works fine for the younger generations, but older and less tech-savvy people are getting left behind.

Quality though, no way. Every single time I tried to give ÖPNV a chance in the last 3-4 years I was either different degrees of late or didn't arrive at all without switching to some alternative method of transport on the way. Doesn't even matter if I tried local routes (Frankfurt and Darmstadt) or longer inter-city connections to Munich or Leipzig, it's all completely broken. People in my company routinely book connections several hours earlier than they need to be places to have a chance of arriving in time, and often are still late. Trains are overbooked, connections are late or often cancelled altogether, seat reservarions don't work more often than they do, WiFi on the trains never works... Many, many things have to change for me to reconsider my default of taking the car everywhere, and I don't think they will in any sort of a relevant timeline.
Yeah I should've said there's no Node API for making synchronous HTTP requests (unless you count executing a child process synchronously). Even the older http.request API used in Node prior to the introduction of fetch is async and accepted a callback. Browsers have all sorts of deprecated foot guns though (like the synchronous mode of XMLHttpRequest).
> vanilla HTML/CSS/JS

...but that's what Svelte is not. The techniques you adopt won't transfer over to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS without the magic Svelte compiler. These habits will become crutch when Svelte inevitably goes the way of every Javascript frontend framework.

> something complex like React

React is not that complex, certainly not more so than Svelte. It's hard to wrap your head around some behaviors, but at the end of the day, it is really just Javascript/Typescript. It is programming. As a programmer, I want to spend most of my time programming in a programming language, not so much of it configuring the Rube-Goldberg machine that is HTML/CSS. Your mileage may vary, of course.

> this silly side project made in Svelte over a weekend

I will admit, that's what Svelte excels at.
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> I iteratively move $state() runes out of .svelte files and into .svelte.ts files where I build a more abstract data-oriented structure for my app from a series of mutually linked classes. Then those runes can be re-imported into the .svelte files, or used and updated wherever you need.

I don’t know exactly how you do this, but it sounds like you are dangling on the global state of the runes. This is DANGEROUS in Svelte and can definitely ruin your day.
I want to short anything you’re involved in
My feeling is that the microservice fad has passed… for now. But I’m sure it’ll be resurrected in a few years with a different name.
> Me: Or general mass market is not interested in BEVs specifically, but in a cheap vehicle which can get them from point A to point B.

> You: so I don’t see the value of you cherry picking a cheaper car, it’s just going to be a race to the bottom

That's how mass market works. People will always want cheap stuff. Not expensive. Not average. Cheap. Pretending that Model 3 is cheap compared to cheap ICE is delusional.

The whole problem with BEV infrastructure is that it currently makes no economical sense. Otherwise responsible people would be taking care for maintenance and expansion without governmental handouts.
Systems Theory would describe this as "intrinsic responsibility".

From Donella Meadows:
“Intrinsic responsibility” means that the system is designed to send feedback about the consequences of decision-making directly and quickly and compellingly to the decision-makers.
Pl@ntNet already exists and it's free
Kr239/Macintosh-SE-Reloaded: A 1:1 Recreation of the Macintosh SE logic board
most of them just hope the user doesnt lie, but if it's up to me ill probably add some maths problem before they see any adult stuff.
I thought Hacker News was legit place. But so many upvotes for this clearly shows it is not.
IPv4 prices peaked during the Covid pandemic, presumably because of sudden high demand. Amazon took this as an opportunity to increase prices.

Now IPv4 prices are returning to pre-Covid long-term trends. But of course Amazon won't reflect that in their pricing table.
My ISP is the French "Free". They provide a router that is difficult to swap with my own (it is possible, but it is way easier to switch it to a bypass mode). With this router comes a TV box that requires IPv6 to work.

When I replace DHCP/DNS with Pihole I need to account for that. While this is not a complex setup once you understand IPv6 you still need to learn it.

I work in IT so I tried to get myself to IPv6 several times but never had any reason to do so (despite self-hosting a lot and generally being a nerd). I had to do that this time and my uninformed opinion is that it could have been done so that it is much simpler for advanced users (but not yet networking experts)
The article claims that Russians have in the past attempted to storm Ukrainian positions in "golf carts", but for clarification, the vehicles destroyed in that incident were actually Chinese-made 4-wheelers.

The model is DesertCross 1000-3, and it retails in the USA for 18,999 USD (MSRP) - which is perhaps more expensive than many of the WWII-era tanks Russia occasionally used earlier on in the war.

...

The Ukrainians have been using electric motorbikes for longer than the Russians. Mostly, from what I've read, as tank hunters - the rider is armed with an anti-armor weapon - or as transportation for snipers (not sure if teams or individuals).

https://armyrecognition.com/focus-analysis-conflicts/army/co...
Tesla released a promotional video in 2016 saying that with FSD a human driver is not necessary and that "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons". The video was staged as we've learned in 2022.

2016 folks... Even with today's FSD which is several orders of magnitude better than the one in the video, you would still probably have a serious accident within a week (and I'm being generous here) if you didn't seat in the driver's seat.

How Trevor Milton got sentenced for fraud and the people responsible for this were not is a mystery to me.
China falls into its own trap
At this point everyone needs to get in the habit of using small claims court. You can often do it online in a few minutes these days.

Make a good faith effort to get your problem addressed, and record the fact that you've done so to use in your hearing if it gets that far. Then just file the claim. Generally they fold immediately, and this way you incentivize actual customer service in the only language they understand.
I guess you guys found a way to accelerate human body to the speed of light without disintegrating. Why don't you prove your technique first with G-forces?
Can they reason, or is the volume of training data sufficient for them to match relationships up to appropriate expressions?

Basically, if humans have had meaningful discussions about it, the product of their reasoning is there for the LLM, right?

Seems to me, the "how many R's are there in the word "strawberry" problem is very suggestive of the idea LLM systems cannot reason. If they could, the question is not difficult.

The fact is humans may never have actually discussed that topic in any meaningful way captured in the training data.

And because of that and how specific the question is, the LLM has no clear relationships to map into a response. It just does best case, whatever the math deemed best.

Seems plausible enough to support the opinion LLM'S cannot reason.

What we do know is LLMs can work with anything expressed in terms of relationships between words.

There is a ton of reasoning templates contained in that data.

Put another way:

Maybe LLM systems are poor at deduction, save for examples contained in the data. But there are a ton of examples!

So this is hard to notice.

Maybe LLM systems are fantastic at inference! And so those many examples get mapped to the prompt at hand very well.

And we do notice that and see it like real thinking, not just some horribly complex surface containing a bazillion relationships...
In the last discussions about that it was stated the trademark wasn't granted. Exactly, too generic. ACF is the active trademark.
When they compare the binary size to, say, jQuery, jQuery’s documentation is not included either.
Is Wordpress dying? This kind of infighting is usually a sign of a shrinking market and stagnating product.

In haven’t used Wordpress in probably fifteen years. Back then its main quality was ease of setup on prevailing hosting environments of the day. Everything else was a horrible mess that was patched over with plugins that did far too much with too little support from the system. It felt like the MS-DOS of web publishing.

Did they ever graduate to a “Windows NT” stage, or is today’s Wordpress still the same PHP hairball?
Weird that you have to do an extra step for IPv6. Other ISPs in Germany have enabled it for every customer at some point. Unless your router asks for IPv6 addresses, nothing really changes anyway. So maybe just enable IPv6 on your router and see what happens?

On a side note, there seem to be ways to get out of CGNAT when you got condemned to use it: It is sometimes an annoying source for client VPN instabilities and from what I heard, users can just ask to be switched over from DS-Lite to classic dual stack to improve application compatibility.
...which is why they don't bomb empty train stations. I'm not saying it's just like a train.
So it seems that when you have different sources of errors the average of them cancel the noise. I think some property about the sources of error is necessary so in some sense the sources should be independent.
Agreeing on a common standard is not authoritarianism.
Yes, 15 years later
BTW I love sh. It's really handy and quite clever. Thanks for making it.
Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar
I've observed a phenomenon in corporate accountability resembling quantum behavior:

1. Macro level: Departments claim broad accountability.

2. Micro level: Pinpointing task ownership causes accountability to vanish.

3. Indefinite states: Ambiguous tasks linger without resolution.

4. Entanglement: Dependent tasks inherit this ambiguity.

This creates a system where responsibility exists in superposition, tasks remain unresolved, and accountability becomes increasingly delocalized.
The average person wants the average. That’s what the average is. There will be people wanting cheap, and people wanting expensive but it all averages out to… the average.

I didn’t pretend the Model 3 was cheap compared to cheap ICE. I compared the price of a Model 3 to the average car price, and it was average.
Nah, it is only really taking off now in enterprise consulting, with products going SaaS and what used to extension points via libraries, is now only possible via Webhooks and API calls, that naturally have to be done somewhere, either microservices or serverless.
Our local German teledata internet provider uses CGNAT, and it is a mess of random timeouts.
Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dntgFIzNKrc First Reference to ADHD Found to be in 1753 by Kloekhof. ADHD has been observed since pre-modern times.

Autism on the other hand is a modern condition, but I don't think there's really much dispute there's SOMETHING there because you see things like savants who are just inexplicable.

However, the rate at which we're diagnosing people today is totally unprecedented. The DSM and ICD-11 are also more like medical dictionaries than rigorously scientific reflections of underlying biological reality. They describe what Autism and ADHD are, but the categorisation is largely based on convention, clinical convenience, and a desire to fit a certain nosology rather than actual science. I've been looking into the alternative frameworks like RDOC and HITOP.

Anyways we're diagnosing people a lot more often nowadays, increasing the patient population, but still acting like research done on a much smaller patient population still holes up. Adaptive Behaviour Analysis therapy for instance is still insured in the United States based on research from the 90s when the average autistic child was very different than an average 2024 autistic child (not to say there hasn't been more research since than), and generally I see money and entrenched laws and bureaucratic guidelines and incentives as creating a sort of system which has no evidence of helping anybody which coincidentally results in a lot more money changing hands and more people getting government money.

Anyways I think the current system we have where we pretend that it's useful to say that Elon Musk and some guy who smashes his head into the wall until it bleeds to self-stimulate have the same disability strains credulity.