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> The Android userspace is actual garbage. It's very heavy and the UI paradigm means you're sitting staring at blank screens while you wait for things to load or switch or whatever and things are constantly getting evicted from memory and forced to restart (or crash sometimes.) It made some dubious amount of sense when phones had 512mb of ram but once you hit 1Gb it just became this over complicated mess that adds nothing but pain.

Compared to your average desktop computer, Android at least tries to use SELinux, and by-app unix user partitions. Systemd/Linux "Flatpak app" and "snap app" security by comparison is awful.

I think that Termux, (once you get past Zygote forking) to be reasonably fast and responsive, and it runs on almost barebones Android/Linux fine. So I don't think it's fundamentally related to the Android userspace platform as well.

> Android's app ecosystem isn't much better, it's mostly converging with iOS as a tool for corporations to deploy their telemetry into your life rather than a platform for running useful community maintained software.

I think we all need more libre software in our lives. Or at the bare minimum, more things like F-Droid; not ideal since the base OS is still somewhat locked, but a start.
> Is someone claiming LaMDA is sentient or nearing that point?

Yes, a man who works at Google made that claim.

In the end it doesn't matter. What matters is that people will divulge their secrets to these "AI" products. Google wants to be right there when that happens. The heart of the consumer. That's why Google has their 7-point AI principles ready to go. A couple to note:

"4. We will design AI systems that provide appropriate opportunities for feedback..."

I guess the Google guy's feedback didn't meet the standard. Since he was a priest, maybe it's more a religious position to assign actual intelligence to the LaMDA, in which case his religious views need to be protected.

"5. We will incorporate our privacy principles..."

It's a tough gig, to believe in privacy and transparency so much, but also tracking and profiling people around the web and across devices.
I got a fancy HPUX refrigerator-sized server to replace a mainframe in the early 90's. Was on Netware 3.11 at the time and did not understand the concept of IP, so just made up a bunch of random IP addresses. The confusing thing was telnet did not work at all, but ftp kinda/sorta did. That was an embarrassing call with HP support, but the guy I talked to kindly gave me a 30-minute tutorial and usenet filled in the rest later (and crynwr packet drivers).
Using the Brave browser, the examples don't work on your home page.
“Security enhancement”
Well, I'd like the voices of David Attenborough and Christopher Plummer for audio books please...
That's pretty cool! Easy and fast to use, with reasonably good speaker reproduction.

Right now the free version only allows a sentence or two of output. Are you moving towards a paid plan with longer outputs?

And the training right now is just a paragraph of text. Does it get better after additional training?
Back in the dot-com days, thanks to employer-subsidized soda fridges, I was drinking easily 6+ cans of diet soda a day (in my case, Diet Dr. Pepper). Along with other startup related behaviors like eating fast food (Carl's Jr, what's up?) and not exercising, my weight increased to around 220 lbs on a 6'1" frame. I stopped drinking diet soda around the time I joined a weight-loss startup in 2011, and started eating healthier and I end up dropping down to around 175 lbs, which I more or less maintain to this day. I personally think "diet soda", even though "0 calories" doesn't do anything great for your metabolism or weight and is a great oxymoron of a product.
Come on! Navie understanding of the market/society is a virtue. Profit is always bad for public good. The market is just failing everywhere. Captial investment is ruining everything. Downvotes prove you are wrong.
don't ever go to any ACCESS animal hospitals then. they're prominent in southern california, and probably beyond, and sold out to PE many years ago. they take advantage of pet owners in the most acute veterinary situations to bilk them (or their insurance) out of many thousands of dollars. it's despicable.

i was so furious i nearly punched a vet there who was hard-selling me on very expensive cancer treatments for my (then dying) cat a few years ago when he hadn't even confirmed it was cancer (there was much more to the story, but i'll leave it at that). that was my one and only visit. never again.

i've since found a great vet working at a non-profit rescue organization. she's no-nonsense, genuine, caring, but importantly, unconstrained by financial metrics. when the sibling cat was dying, she recommended palliative care (and generic medicine from a formulary) over low-odds treatment, because the best case was a few more months at the cost of significant agony for my cat.
It's not stealing if you came up with it yourself.
Has that actually happened though? In his first year in office, Biden approved more oil permits than Trump. Biden's continued to approve more permits recently. Obviously many of his supporters (including myself) don't like this. However the reality is that Biden has done more than Trump did to keep oil prices low, he just got hit with an unlucky set of geopolitical events.

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-da...
This is a feature to require that you can do instant withdrawal to specified addresses, and adding new addresses incurs a 48h lockout for those.

I don't like Coinbase, but it's good that they are disabling SMS auth for this too.
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I mean, they own Banfield and have been in the pet food business since the 30s, so...
If your car calls for regular gas and you give it premium, you're probably throwing money away.

If your car calls for premium and you give it regular, your diminished performance & fuel economy is also most likely wasting money. Penny-wise/Pound-foolish and all.

I've got a Germanic turbomotor, it's going to break if I look at it wrong. It calls for a minimum of 91 octane, but Costco in Illinois only has 87 and 93. So 93 it is.
>Thinking he was the first officer to arrive and wanting to waste no time, Arredondo believed that carrying the radios would slow him down. One had a whiplike antenna that would hit him as he ran. The other had a clip that Arredondo knew would cause it to fall off his tactical belt during a long run.

There are children being shot and he's worried some radio antenna's gonna smack him as he ran, or that one might fall off his belt? Bite your lip and put up with the antenna whipping you, and/or put the other radio on your belt, hoping that it doesn't fall off, and if it does, at least you can say you tried.

I realize we're talking split seconds, but it doesn't take long to clip a radio, as you're walking, to your belt.
Some brief thoughts:

- have a great note taking system - personally I like anything which auto links to related notes, like a wiki. There's obsidian, but I use vim notes as I like vim and need to keep internal stuff out of cloud.

- get involved in cross team initiatives - will help build domain knowledge and relationships

- for digging through codebases one thing I'd like to try and haven't got round to is using a lightweight IDE just for hunting around and joining up the dots. Eg the main IDE I use is heavyweight with all the indexing it does. Sometimes I'd rather have a local "monorepo" with lightweight tooling which isn't always indexing or spawning daemons.

On that last point, get your tooling to work for you exceptionally well. Any friction will add up over time and discourage quick experiments or exploration.

Hope it goes well!
Seek professional advice, talk to a psychologist, start therapy.

I see a lot of well intentioned advice here, but keep in mind that these are not professional therapists you are talking to here. Burnout can be different for everyone, just because you have some "symptoms" doesn't mean you are burnout.

I've been through a burnout once and I was not doing therapy, I felt helpless, took me years to feel like myself again. The second time I experienced the same symptoms I had professional help and was able to get my life back together relatively quickly thanks to that. It helped me so much, I'm so thankful for that.
The title is a bit sensationalist. Looks like two CEOs of smaller tech companies talked about this casually on a podcast, while the title implies a _much_ larger number of people.
This person wasn't a Mac user; that entry is both inaccurate and uninteresting. If someone with more patience than me would like to rewrite it: From the programmer's perspective, the Mac was always essentially a 32-bit machine (you could make an argument for the early Mac being limited to 24 bits), and the "ingredients" were actually very well documented in the early Inside Mac volumes; lockdown came later as Apple tried to move the application base to a succession of "modern" OSes.
My mom and step-dad have run a small veterinary clinic for the last 20+ years, they recently sold to one of these companies for a lot of money because mom was completely burnt out and wanted to retire. Step dad agreed to continue working for 3 more years though to ensure a smooth transition, mom worked for an additional 6 months and very recently retired.

They both despise the company. Before selling they were not beholden to any boss or investors, and worked hard to do the best for their clients and their pets. Now they're forced to use systems they have no control over. People can schedule appointments online through a system they don't manage, which means they could end up needing to euthanize an animal that they've known for 15 years at 9 in the morning, and then 5 minutes later have to pretend they're completely ok and happy to accommodate a new client with their new puppy. Step dad says it makes him feel like a psychopath.

They also take issue with the fact that there's no screening of the appointments that are scheduled. To test it, he scheduled an appointment to a nearby hospital on the same network with the description (and I apologize for the morbidity, keep in mind this didn't really happen and he just was making a point), "Garage door was accidentally shut on my dog's head and severed it. Can you please reattach it." It was approved and apparently nobody noticed it until an hour before the appointment was supposed to happen.

On top of that, now he's started dealing with corporate politics that he's never encountered before, and he says he's worried there will come a day that he just loses all motivation to go to work.
MMC Market – Industrialised Construction in the UK
Hey all, wanted to submit something I've spent my 2022 on, building an interconnected index of MMC (modern methods of construction AKA industrialised construction) in the UK, which ties together manufacturers, consultants and the projects they've collaborated on. I hope you find it interesting.
I know I'm special and so is everyone else. does that make you foam at the mouth?
If you prime a model to behave as though it's sentient, and it displays a facsimile of sentience that's realistic enough to fool a reasonably bright human being, shouldn't the burden of proof be on anyone who claims the model isn't sentient? Or at the very least, shouldn't one making that claim have to propose a test that, if passed, would get them to seriously consider the possibility that the model is sentient?

I'm not claiming an affirmative one way or the other, but it does seem rather unfair to hold an AI to an apparently higher standard than we'd hold a human.

It's also worth noting that (assuming no cherry-picking) the observed output of a model represents a lower bound on its true capabilities. "Sampling can prove the presence of knowledge but not its absence" [1] and all that.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3-nonfiction
Still down here in western US. Some product pages don't even show that error; they're just empty.
That sounds like insulin resistance, not diabetes.
It is probably just overload for you - I get the same thing after a big big meal or a lot of sugar. But a small amount is another story. If you drank the original size of coke (which I think was 8 ounces?) you might have another reaction!
They're not wrong; I'm fairly sure that that bodycam footage would show nothing but weakness.
I think the point is that they should be legally required to intervene when a crime being committed but currently are not.
Can this really work though? You can't crowdsource the data anonymously, because anonymous data is useless. You can't crowdsource it with verified profiles, because no one wants to make an enemy by publicly giving a coworker a bad rating. Lastly, you can't get the data from an impartial source (like company HR departments) because they have no reason to share which of their employees are valuable.
A supercomputer comparable to mid-size hyperscaler DC. (and no, it doesn't have uniquely good interconnect, it's broadly on par with the HPC GPU instances available from AWS and Azure)
I've worked on four or five Rails codebases. All did things "the Rails way". All were quite different, and none were plainly incorrect.
Stains from diet soda are also way easier to completely clean up due to the lack of sugar! I've seen Diet Coke/Coke Zero stains vanish from light-colored clothing within minutes.
My wife is a vet and is affected by this. We are not in the states affected, but she works for one of the corporations involved.

This has been a long time coming. As another comment said, with a few anecdotal exceptions I can think of, many vets simply aren't good business people. Margins have been incredibly small since veterinary care became a thing. Vet schools have required business literacy classes for a few decades, but this is an industry where people get into it to help animals first, not get rich.

Corporatization came in to fill a void, but whether it's good or bad, the economics for veterinary care, and especially consumer perceptions, are due for a reset.
You don't, it's not his job to care, it's yours.

And just like you don't ask permission for writing down a line of feature code, you don't ask permission for maintenance work. You just do it and schedule it accordingly to business needs to the best of your ability. And make sure not to apologize for doing your work or treat maintenance work as "unimportant" because that is how it will be perceived.

It does get tricky when you have a manager defining tasks and you have yet
to determine whether their job is to be a technical manager (and is adequately competent) or a nerd babysitter/translator. In the former case it's good to run maintenance projects by them if they need active, dedicated time as opposed to something you can mostly do during downtime. In case it's the other kind of "manager", and you've already tried and failed to convince them to prioritize basic stuff, you have to just put it inside other estimates and rope in the rest of your team to do the same and/or polish your résumé.
I think neural networks alone are not enough for sentience. After all, only those animals (humans included) survived whose actions were beneficial for them (aka evolution). Neural networks seemed to have been beneficial for animals, so they thrived, till today when some apes stumblingly took over the world.

However there is also life without neural networks. This all is complicated and I don't presume I know the answer, of course.

I just have a vague mental image of the brain having some sub-systems not being neural networks. Sentience is the looking at themselves, and the expression of volition, too. And perhaps neural networks aren't just capable to express these parts.

Of course this doesn't mean that humanity can never build sentient systems. I just think that something is still missing and we will first need to discover it.
Even those don't see an MPG benefit from high octane - just a torque benefit.
These are our reflections after doing a kaggle competition using Graph Convolutional Networks.

The post is meant to be a basis for discussion.
We are happy to have that here!
I had a great history teacher in school who would use every opportunity (and there were many, obviously) to drive home this point. Not just Rome: most, if not all, major historical events and developments are driven by multiple causes.
Why are we blaming Republicans here? The ARP cost US taxpayers $1.9 _trillion_. Such spending causes inflation. [1]

[1]https://www.vox.com/23036340/biden-american-rescue-plan-infl...
And it will continue that way if we keep converting food into gas.

Gas today typically contains 10% bioethanol, and that number is expected to increase in the future. The goal is to burn less fossil fuel, which is a good thing.

Problem is: bioethanol often comes from sugar beet or cane, we literally run our cars on processed food. For Diesel, it is typically mixed with vegetable oil, again, burning food.

There is hope that one day, we will be able to make biofuel in a way that don't compete with food production, but we are not there yet. There are some successful experiments, but nothing at scale.
> I lost all access to my language faculty...One moment I had thoughts. The next moment, after the last word blinked out of existence, I had only feelings.

It's a common belief, but a myth, that you need language to think. You can tell you don't, like when you can't remember a word but you know what you are trying to say, or when can't remember someone's name but you remember everything about them. Deaf children (certainly before modern times), they know how to think no problem, but they don't have language.
> But the heavily discounted prices of the 2010s aren’t coming back. The Millennial Consumer Subsidy is over, and for the foreseeable future, metro residents will have to go about living the old-fashioned way: by paying what things actually cost.

Or, more likely, these residents will simply not pay for luxury goods and services that were previously sold at a loss.
I really think this is one of the single most valuable things someone can do in our society. Thanks
Would LaMDA be able to understand, when it is talking to itself? That would mean self-awareness to me. So what would happen if one would just repeat the answers of LaMDA and presented them as input prompts like an echo. Would it recognize itself and stop talking? Would it start talking to itself? I think that would be an intriguing experiment.
There's a wonderfully written story by Andri Snær Magnason of a scientist couple setting out to map Icelandic glaciers. Their seemingly eternal nature was a recurring theme.

He's the grandson of one of the scientists. It appears in Dark Mountain issue 14 https://dark-mountain.net/product/dark-mountain-issue-14-pdf... though I believe he has since written a book.
Thats an absolutely excellent point. Maybe the cost to start/stop fracking is too high AND/OR they don't think this will last long enough to justify getting started. Otherwise you are very correct yet I have seen no evidence of a sudden fracking boom. Very very interesting...
Then I incur a 100% loss and move on.

But so far, this crash has stayed above the 2017 top. So it looks like I'm holding the S&P at 4x leverage, but with no margin calls.
VCs got in at stupid early prices on a lot of these projects, unlikely they're hurting. a16z if you hadn't noticed was shilling Solana hard through their latest "State of Crypto" deck. What is hurting though is all the project and company grants that rely on the value of the underlying token. You've got a lot of crypto startups who have to sell on the open market to continue ops that will start to feel the heat.
Thanks proc0! What you are describing (a hierarchy of bones) is exactly what I'm doing. I decided not to mention that to simplify the explanation of how character animations work, but here are the missing details:

- All the little curves that I'm plotting show the local orientation of each joint.

- To obtain the world orientation of a particular joint, it's necessary to combine the transform matrices of all its parent joints until you reach the root of the hierarchy.

For example, to get the world transform of a wrist joint, you need to combine the local transforms of the wrist, elbow, shoulder, neck, etc. joints.

Animation curves are stored in local space in glTF files, and those are the curves that I'm displaying.

I hope this explains things.
FAA Issues a Mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact for Starship Launches
Windows ME must have been brewed from corn, as on a fresh install I'd get a kernel error at least 1 out of 3 boots!
This is just unreasonable. Humans have a natural desire to preserve their own lives. First responders aren't any different. The idea that first responders are superheros is a fallacious trope. The vast majority of police never use their gun over their entire career.
Call me when they reach $100B in market cap.
In the FDA's case, it's less about the strictness of the definition, as convenience in labeling. Their definition of "flavor" includes being those "whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional".

Because sugar and other sweeteners have calories, they regulate sweeteners separately. Artificial sweeteners may not have calories, but they're still lumped in with the sweeteners because that's how people conceive them.

To be honest: the distinction between natural and artificial flavors is kind of bogus. There's no reason to think that the artificial ones are worse for you or taste worse. They're often the same chemicals; the artificial ones are more simple because they contain fewer other things.

The natural and artificial sweeteners are likely to make a much bigger deal because they are nutritive, and have bigger effects on your metabolism.
Full PDF: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2022-06/Final_PEA_Ex...
All entrances to Yellowstone National Park are temporarily closed
What is a hypothetical conscious program doing differently than a program like TurboTax? I'm talking about on the level of the CPU. I don't know where else consciousness would be located in a computer.
I'm not really big on either ultrawides or 4k TVs for productivity usage.

Ultrawides don't play as nice with OS workspace management and can't provide physical partitioning/prioritization (e.g. primary windows on main screen virtual desktops, auxiliary windows on secondary screen virtual desktops). They also tend to not measure up to regular monitors in terms of specs.

4k TVs put heavy constraints on desk arrangement to get satisfactory perceived sharpness and UI scale and come with all sorts of extraneous TV junk (unless you go with an ultra-basic or signage model, which are anemic in terms of panel capabilities).

My preferred setup would be 2x 16:10 30-32" monitor or a single 16:10 30-32" monitor accompanied by a 1:1 or 5:4 secondary monitor that's height-matched to the primary monitor, but that's not practical so I go with the pretty-standard setup of 2x 16:9 27" monitors. If I absolutely had to go with a TV-like setup though, I think it'd be with a BFGD (big format gaming display), because the panels on those are more monitor-like and they don't have all the cruft that TVs tend to come with.
what happens when where you're going is 50 miles from a train station? Do you take a cab?
Intel 4 Process Node in Detail
Lumi is the Finnish word for snow in case anyone's wondering.
I mean, I worked for years as a professional web developer on MacOS 8 and 9 machines. The stability wasn't great, but it was fine.
>trained to do, not compelled to do

Right, and it's pretty fucking sad that "kids getting shot" isn't enough to compel them to do their jobs.
I'm pretty sure since that time a judge ruled in her favor and the previous probation history is no longer a threat to her maintaining custody to her kids.

Can't find where I saw that right now.
Is there a chance he pitched it this way to manage expectations / because he was pitching this at Remix Conf and didn’t want to upset the hosts?