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Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist's election gamble backfires

cnn.com
21 points·by mellosouls·kemarin dulu·11 comments

Big Burnham will be watching you

spiked-online.com
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The White Crip - Tyler Corcoran (video)

youtube.com
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There's this mystery of what, actually, is this thing?: DeepMind's philosopher

theguardian.com
4 points·by mellosouls·11 hari yang lalu·1 comments

Open Domesday

opendomesday.org
3 points·by mellosouls·11 hari yang lalu·0 comments

Today programme suffers 'body blow' as BBC prioritises social/digital content

theguardian.com
4 points·by mellosouls·14 hari yang lalu·1 comments

They quit the West for Russia's traditional values, but it wasn't as expected

bbc.co.uk
13 points·by mellosouls·14 hari yang lalu·8 comments

Garry Tan: Put a Leash on Your YC Founders

twitter.com
6 points·by mellosouls·15 hari yang lalu·4 comments

Carspreading' could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds

theguardian.com
6 points·by mellosouls·17 hari yang lalu·0 comments

Ten years on, Brexit's economic impact is becoming clearer

bbc.co.uk
19 points·by mellosouls·17 hari yang lalu·5 comments

A scientist says he can scan prisoners' brains for signs of evil

theguardian.com
17 points·by mellosouls·17 hari yang lalu·8 comments

HR consultant wins English court case using AI lawyer in apparent legal first

theguardian.com
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Court Transcript Costs

hansard.parliament.uk
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James Burrows, legendary director of Cheers and Friends, dies aged 85

bbc.co.uk
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Binface, foxes and raving loonies: the UK's proud history of costumed candidates

theguardian.com
3 points·by mellosouls·21 hari yang lalu·0 comments

UK Environment Agency threatens to prosecute campaigner after waterway cleanup

theguardian.com
1 points·by mellosouls·22 hari yang lalu·1 comments

BBC to axe Radio 4's The World Tonight after more than 50 years

theguardian.com
17 points·by mellosouls·23 hari yang lalu·7 comments

'Most famous tree in the world': Sherwood Forest's 1000-year-old Major oak dies

theguardian.com
15 points·by mellosouls·23 hari yang lalu·1 comments

Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site

bbc.co.uk
7 points·by mellosouls·23 hari yang lalu·2 comments

Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles

meta.wikimedia.org
4 points·by mellosouls·24 hari yang lalu·0 comments

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mellosouls
·14 jam yang lalu·discuss
For anybody misled by the title and still a bit confused by the article he's not referring to music.

This is clever-clogs George Hotz of hacking, comma.ai and tinygrad etc fame.

He used (?) to live stream hacker stuff like long running coding sessions.

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

Unofficial video archive:

https://youtube.com/@geohotarchive/videos
mellosouls
·16 jam yang lalu·discuss
Binface discussion thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848034
mellosouls
·kemarin dulu·discuss
"sedentary lifestyles" is certainly the sort of thing that can be influenced in the manner I suggested (traditional cultural roles being championed or subverted). I don't see why dietary choices shouldn't be either.
mellosouls
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Glib "witchcraft" comment - see the HN guidelines for how not to counter. I proposed socio-cultural mechanisms as possibly influential.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
mellosouls
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Honestly, there is no need for that sort of comment. Its very normal these days to build things with AI and they don't necessarily have to be slop.
mellosouls
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Its in the first comment. Presumably that slipped down the thread as other comments came in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804802
mellosouls
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
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mellosouls
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
Off topic (and at risk of being downvoted), I don't think I'll ever get a better chance to insist here that

"99 and a half won't do"

https://youtu.be/1QVJCjbgM-s

Holy Disciples

Trying to Make a Hundred
mellosouls
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
Ah great yes just tried it, nice and simple!

I think that simplicity is its main selling point at the moment as its otherwise a pretty crowded marketplace.

Best of luck with it, however you decide to progress it.
mellosouls
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
I'm guessing its being hugged now - it says generate in under a minute but my short is taking ten minutes and counting; anyway I like the simplicity and am interested in seeing the results - though I do think it is quite depressing as we will see this sort of service mostly put to use for slop.
mellosouls
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
Consider the difference between capabilities when gpt3 was released and now - the "increasingly babysitting" is exactly right.

Knowing how to code (and more generally software engineering and other roles in software teams) is definitely still extremely useful, but is rapidly becoming less vital as a human-provided skill as models and harnesses greedily hoover up the knowledge margin.
mellosouls
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33734846

2022 (310 points, 82 comments)
mellosouls
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
I'm not saying brains are the only way to produce consciousness, just that the evidence shows that they are the way animals do here on Earth.

On some views, the brain may be a particularly complex organisation, localisation, or exemplar of consciousness, rather than its ultimate origin. That would include any brains here on earth.

It is extremely unlikely that there is something else involved.

Well, that's clearly a view to be expected of a hardcore physicalist like Carroll but the quoted text seems somewhat circular as it insists on a framework that seems not to really get to grips with the Hard Problem.
mellosouls
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
I think it's own sub-dir OpenWiki serves as an example of the sort of output you might get:

https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki/blob/main/openwiki/...

I agree with others this seems somewhat over-engineered; you can get similar results with a good prompt/skill; I guess the rest of the implementation here is intended as an agent-maintainer.
mellosouls
·7 hari yang lalu·discuss
Well I did check that first and didn't take the omission of Kimi to mean anything but the docs haven't been updated.

I guess it will be a wait and see thing.
mellosouls
·7 hari yang lalu·discuss
I've decided to go back to graduate school to get my Professional Educator's License in Secondary Education, final destination unknown

He's long been a fabulous teacher to adults; kids will be lucky to have him.

Best wishes to him going forward.
mellosouls
·9 hari yang lalu·discuss
where does it say that? its not available to me (also annual) at the moment via cloud but it said it is rolling out gradually, so I'm not too concerned. Tho I'm not overly excited either given Copilot pricing now; I reckon this should be at most 1x.
mellosouls
·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
Underlying announcement might be a better link:

https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

I predict this won't last long in any extreme version in any significant open source repo.

Banning AI-slop is one thing, but AI as a properly used co-programmer is becoming more and more capable and shutting out well-guided AI will enable competitors who don't to edge and then power ahead.

There are obviously problems to solve here, but blanket bans (while understandable in under-resourced maintenance environments) aren't anything more than a short-term buffer.
mellosouls
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
It's a HN thing, not down to the commenter. Sometimes threads are reactivated if the mods think a low profile discussion is worth a second chance or boost. The submission time doesn't always reflect the original submission. Sometimes it's due to a comment move or thread merge.
mellosouls
·12 hari yang lalu·discuss
it's bad faith to choose a fringe definition that hands off its definition to such a nebulous term.

I do not think it is at all unreasonable or "fringe" to regard understanding as involving intentionality: ie a directedness of thought toward the object-relations being "grasped". That may not be the only possible conception of understanding but it is a mainstream philosophical idea.

In fact, I'd argue that statements about what "is" and "is not" sentient relies on even more spirituality and word games for anything that isn't a terran tetrapod.

Then you seem to be confusing "hard to understand" with "meaningless".

you're just expressing dogma rather than having a discussion.

Anything else is bad faith, or assuming bad faith on the part of the participants

Have a think about that (repeated) tone before responding.

Fwiw I am a long-time believer in consciousness being fully realisable in machines; I think the jury is still out on LLMs.