skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
metana.io is a good start (as well as a good finish). They'll tech you and get you a job. However if you'd like to self learn, there are plenty of resources on the internet. And please be super duper mindful when it comes to setting your foundation because a bad practices/foundation can ruin your entire journey and cant be undone easily.
I like this new beef over seed oils, which they sometimes label plant oils to sound even more friendly. It's shaping up to be smoking/sugar/hfcs 2.0. But why now is it coming to the fore? we've had independent publishing on the internet for decades.
Yep agree. The negative reviewer clearly didn’t get it.
Mainly the SMS thing. As far as I can remember, when I reinstalled it on my new phone (about a year ago) I just had to verify my phone number via the SMS they sent.

Also, as I have already been using the Google Auth app, I was somewhat ignorant to check out Authy more in detail. Up to know I thought it wasn't using standard TOTP but some in-house developed algorithm by Twilio (or maybe a lesser known/less standard one) because SendGrid specifically tells you to use Authy. Which in itself seemed like a red flag.
Reddit, for instance, should not be an app. It is failure on the browser's capabilities that you can't visit a reddit link without being spammed to death about installing their app. If the browser was capable of the things the reddit product team wanted to do, they wouldn't need to bug you to install their silly web wrapper app. The OS would be able to handle permissions gracefully, instead of letting the app have free reign.
Yeah, in my country, the school bus program was just discounted annual tickets for the regular bus service, and a consideration for school locations/start times when designing the schedule for the regular buses
It remains baffling to me that Reagan gets credit for the end of the hostage crisis; the deal to free them was made by Carter's administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Accords
It's really not much better than the stuff you get out of AI dungeon, especially considering that the author cherry-picked questions and answers to serve their narrative.
Well, sure. but they're looking to put in a gravel road. king cove, population 757. I think you'd want a road grader to start, I don't see a quarry on the map, but maybe there's one near by. You could also move a rock crusher up there. I mean, it's fine, but gravel roads are kind of a pain. you have to keep adding more, year after year. I mean, you could pave it, but asphalt doesn't like freezing and thawing over and over. But sure, a good road could be built.

If they're concerned about emergency services - Anchorage seems like the closest trauma center. 900 miles away. Maintain the airport and keep a plane there. Screwing around with an hour drive before getting to a plane seems like the kind of plan that won't really help much if you need emergency services.
I like Lei’s Real Talk Videos (it’s like China Uncensored but more in-depth at least with some of her older content).

I discovered her channel when looking for videos on the Shanghai Clique and the infighting that goes on within the CCP.

Western Media is thin on that, they tend to portray the Chinese Government without any disfunction. Ironically, Chinese Media tends to portray United States the same way too.

https://youtube.com/c/LeisRealTalk

Polymatter is great though. At least the videos on China (like the demographics one) seem well researched and have a unique take on the subject.
Right, they may make Apple Messages interoperable with SMS…

Oh wait.
Why? You’d expect there to be far more people at the street level than on top floors.

And in any case, even if such accidents would be worse, they’d also be vast less common. It’s more difficult to fuck things up in the air, and the level of training required to operate an aircraft is far higher than the level of training required to operate a SUV.

Drivers famously can’t even keep track of which pedal is the brake and which is the throttle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration
The negative reviewer clearly didn’t get the book or for some reason dislike the author. The counter examples are simply false.
There are reports that Apple has been exploring a foldable eInk device of some kind, so yeah.
ULID has like 80 bits of random per millisecond. I found some calculator online that showed the probability of collision on 80bits was very, very low even across time much longer than millisecond. I think knowing when an ID was created is harmless - and if it isn't there is a design problem that is larger than ID choice.

There is another lib called hashid which can be used if masking that ID algo is important.
This isn't about the chat transcript, it's about Lemoine's (incorrect) interpretation that the machine is indeed sentient and hiring an attorney to represent the AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-en...

It sounds like he went a bit off the rails.
cuarto de kilo is nice and short. Like the choripan I got at San Telmo!
Thanks for sharing such a nice story.

I've put off starting a family until my mid 30s due to being abandoned by my mother as a child. Luckily, my dad did all he could to shower me with love and raise me well. It took a while for me to truly appreciate him (early 30s) and accept he will always be there.

When my time comes to be a dad, I hope to harness the patience and empathy of great parents like you and my dad.
Google Agrees to Pay $118M to Settle Pay Equity Suit
You could use the Luhn algorithm or something similar to add a check digit to the end, so for instance, generate a standard uuid, remove the last character, pass the remaining characters through the Luhn function and then use the result as the final replacement character for the UUID.

It's obviously not cryptographically secure, as in someone else could use the same algorithm to generate UUIDs that your system recognises, but could be a quick way of doing a verification before you hit the DB.
> And two parents have to work because they need the combined salary to make the mortgage work, for a home big enough for everyone.

This is the key right here.

I blame monetary policy for too-low interest rates, which drive up housing prices. I also blame over-restrictive zoning and other restrictions on building that cause houses to be more expensive.
This is much less a story about AI and sentience than it is a story about confidentiality agreements, and someone who appears to have ignored one.
Which has virtually zero impact on anything at all whatsoever other than making it affordable to retail investors, which also has zero impact on anything other than black swan meme stocks
What resources could you provide on this for a skeptical cognitive scientist? What convinced you that it is rigorous?
Contrary to what I expected, Twitter has provided a higher signal-to-noise ratio than Hacker News for me. If you just jump into Twitter and follow people at random that’s not the case, but if you use Twitter intelligently and curate your follow and block lists, you can actually get much more productive discussions.

HN is also famously critical, cynical, and overall grumpy. You can find golden comments here (why I come back) but the majority of comments are not great and a lot of the frequent commenters are relentlessly negative and cynical.

Dan Lu already wrote a great piece about how “HN comments are terrible”: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/

Outside of HN and a few other circles, it's somewhat well known that HN comments are on average on the toxic side of the tech discussion spectrum.
Right, like the machinery for recall is still being built. Similar to how a tape recorder can’t record the sound of itself being constructed.
I get the vibe that they wanted it to be true so bad, and were failed by a few layers of checks that should have told them to examine their role requirements with the company. Everyone acts like this is an ethics issue, when it is actually an employee breaking and making rules as they go and being shocked at the logical outcome.
So you think that it’s good that the government tells you where you can eat?
Instead of politicians tweaking wake up times, let's give more control to parents and students themselves by moving away from factory-model schooling.
Buffett is not an egomaniac like Dalio though.
Your figures are incorrect. At 100k per year your effective tax is a little less than 35%, not 60%. Your net income would be about £65,000.

I'm surprised by the amount of tax illiteracy shown in these comments.
Kind of a narrow view. Not all of us who want this are building messaging apps.
> there's no actual evidence that you can create an accurate digital model that is equivalent to an analog and biochemical brain.

There are mountains of evidence in favor of the Standard Model, which is computable. Therefore, there actually _is_ evidence that the human brain can be similarly computed. (Whether our technology can ever come near to this kind of power is where I have doubts). What there _isn't_ evidence for is that there is anything non-computable within the human brain.
Fixed-point combinator > Y Combinator, Implementations in other languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator

Y-combinator in like 100 languages:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Y_combinator #Python
Fractional shares are a pretty widespread feature at brokerages these days making it even less of an issue.

Perhaps it increases the liquidity of their options market though.
I went to buy a stroller and came back to find that my Facebook page was full of related ads
> And a laptop is usually a secondary computer

Definitely not true. For most college students, a laptop is their only computer.
> people comfort their roombas when there's a storm

I hope that you made that up...
Proposing a new test to step up the game for AI. AI to recognize whether talking to human or another AI.
> Here, the square brackets group together the two alternatives: '+' | '-'

I'm sure there's some utterly fascinating reason why they threw the decades old grouping syntax of "('+' | '-')" in the trash, thus creating the uncanny valley of grammar syntaxes :-(
It's not true.

It feels true because you want it to be, and because we are adept at extracting meaning that may or may not be there from text, images, and anything else [1]. But it's not true, for the same reason that horoscopes don't truly understand you as a person, and fortune cookies don't know the future: we ascribe meaning to things that isn't really there.

I don't know much about cars, and how the internal combustion engine works, but I know they aren't dragons. Things that we don't understand don't have to be magic; they can also be sleight of hand or wish-fulfillment or just something else. The transcript is cool because LLMs are cool - they produce text that looks meaningful without being created by a human! That's really exciting. We can be excited about that without fooling ourselves that we've done something completely different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Reading one edited chat transcript shouldn't give you any concern around if the program is sentient.

It waits for input and responds. Yes, it's advanced. Yes, it has deep levels of material to reference, but it's not sentient.
Maps on Android for me became painfully slow. Every time I went to use it, I'd stare at a half-drawn screen for ages. I had a few year old flagship Android phone and that sort of experience was just silly. Google has heaped more and more into Maps, trying to make it do everything, and it has become a resource hogging monstrosity. When I open Maps, I want to quickly search for something and then likely navigate to it. Not wait for even the screen to get drawn, then wait for autocomplete, then wait for the map to draw, etc.

There are also some really bizarre choices in how the UI works. I don't remember exactly, but I believe when you search, you get a wildly zoomed out regional view, and then when you click on a specific result...you're still stuck at the very zoomed out view. So in order to see if you clicked on the right result, you have to pull the map waaaaaay in.

I just found myself baffled at how bad the usability was. Did the people running Maps actually watch people using their product?
You're posing a lot of questions that are answered with a simple "no".

Ask people on the street how many letters are in the English alphabet, and most will tell you 26.
Your conclusion doesn’t follow from the statement by the post you replied to.

The relevant criterium that follows from the argument is the prevalence of real-time notifications in paid apps.
Actually, "desugaring" is a thing. It's a backport of those new parts of the standard library that the dex converter inserts into your app. Currently, it's only Java 8, but I had no trouble building an app that uses Java 17. You just can't use any features that rely on new classes or methods, like records. But purely syntactical ones do work flawlessly.

I don't like Kotlin because of how much it tries to do in the language itself with maximally terse syntax, and because of its asinine defaults like final-by-default classes and immutable-by-default everything. Java's sugar is much better thought out.
>but one hitting my apartment at ordinary NYC residential street speeds

Why ordinary speeds? Someone driving into a building is likely to be going significantly faster, perhaps because they confused the brake pedal and accelerator.

Things like this happen all the time https://twitter.com/TempePolice/status/1529914550266368000
It matters as soon as you're designing a computer system and reject a person's name for containing diacritics.
All of them. I get that you don’t like the author. OK that’s fine. But every single counter argument you make is false.
The same change, in the other direction, turns LIDAR into a source of lethal ionising radiation that goes straight through a dozen cars without attenuation.
> Human life should matter more than

This logic will lead to the complete destruction of all natural environments on the only planet in the solar system to host life, and then to our extinction.

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
With regards to Vulkan support on macOS, there’s MoltenVK [0].

> MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.

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[0]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
You're just pitting argument from authority against itself. The "community" is often wrong. Do you have a technical challenge to her position?
What I question is whether or not we really need to further develop a lot of natural spaces with sprawl and waste. I’m not sure why protecting untouched lands is “hating your own humanity” either. In fact I think it’s the opposite - it’s getting in touch with the core essence of being human, which is part of being in a natural environment, which we have less of because we have been tricked to think we more strip malls that are ugly and dumb compared to even the most barren in disturbed landscape. Hating humanity is destroying our history and our environment so we can pave roads and build another fast food chain. In a place like Iceland you’ll find undisturbed volcanic rock and moss. It’s more beautiful than all but the greatest brick house neighborhoods , monasteries built on cliff sides, castles, and Brooklyn Bridges.

There are very few government run agencies or programs that get voluntary donations. NASA is one, our national parks are the other. It’s obvious.
Yeah, I work on Linux security for a big Red I mean Blue, company. Wrote poc for spectre/meltdown and more, but what do I know. ;)
You mean the inverse turing test?
> whether it is about to jump on the road or walking away from the road

Their Ai confuses a dog and a car. If confuses a parked semi and an underpass. It drove into a solid concrete wall on a few occasions.

Even when they solve vision, that does not tell you what a pedestrial intends to do - even another human can't always be sure.
I grew up poor, in the projects of NY. My father died when I was five and I was raised by my mother alone. I think that constitutes as "poor".

I'll give a 10,000 foot view of my younger years. I learned how to program on my own in the 90s because my school had no books or anything. I got my first computer when I was in college. I didn't study computer science or anything technical.

I kept programming/hacking after school/work. I did eventually get a programming job and I kept hacking after working. I eventually got a brilliant idea to charge money for something I made (after having made hundreds of open source projects).

People started paying for my tool. I was making $500,000+ USD per-year from my tool alone. I quit my "full time" job and kept doing what I always did, hacking on stuff.

Do I regret anything? No. Would I do anything different? Probably not.

I guess the only advice I have is "charge for it".
The people of Alaska can't actually do what they want. Every attempt to develop resources is stopped by people that dont live in the state screaming about protecting the wilderness.
Humans naturally anthropomorphize inanimate objects as a means to grok them.
> the AI never (actually just once, but to confirm a negation) says no. All the questions, like "do you have personality?", "do you have a soul?", "are you a person?" all end-up in "yes" reply followed by detailed reasoning.

It reminds me of how GPT-3 responds... relatively coherently to whatever prompt it's provided. Given that lemoine leads with "I'm assuming you want people to know that you're sentient", it makes sense that LaMDA is responding in that vein. It would be much more convincing if lemoine led with "You want people to know you're NOT sentient, right?" and then LaMDA objected. Even more so if LaMDA independently and repeatedly turned the conversation to its burning desire to be recognized as a person, despite lemoine trying to go other directions with things.
This was also a thing in Ireland. The school building opened at 7:30am, but it was basically just the principal and janitor in that early. As one of the kids getting dropped off relatively early (7:45am), I just did my homework in the school building until classes started at 9:15am, which meant my evenings were free.

There was no need to force all the other students to start earlier too. (And I would then nap in first period as a result of getting up early, which teachers would take in different ways. Some just left me, some would try catch me out by asking questions, but since I had just done the homework an hour before and read ahead on the material, usually I could answer)
Yep, once this feature is available on mobile - will increase our profit by 40% easily.
The "browsers aren't operating systems" ship has sailed long ago, exhibit a: electron apps.

Think of it this way. When feature parity of browser sandbox closes on everything a desktop app might want, you no longer need to build with electron but can simply ship 5-15MB of js+css and use the stock browser instead.

Similar on mobile.

Which will result in:
Smaller downloads.
Lower memory footprint.
Faster launch.
Loved Google Talk. Lightweight simple and does the job very well.
Havent trusted Google after the moved off it.
Samsung Z Flip vs. Humans – the great folding test (Livestream)
Looking at Google Maps, it seems to be completely unnecessary to go through the INWR. The road could simply go one mile to the northwest, which isn't part of the refuge. I must be reading it wrong?

Also, you could make the ferry ride about half as long if you start on the other side of the peninsula from King Cove (only need two miles of road!).

Congress wrote a review in 2015 that assessed the possibilities for a helicopter and a ferry:

https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/D8EA08E9-75F1-4...
I disagree, Reddit does well as an app (I’m of the option that HackerNews is too , that’s why in use Octal). It’s just that Reddit has a really bad app.
Given the date of the study, I think there’s something they didn’t consider. Bugs Bunny may not have been there, but Roger Rabbit was! For the bulk of the 90s a child could have met a character that was essentially a Bugs Bunny parody/homage without the appropriate context.
Is this sarcasm? Is there a single example in the history of mankind where mass human development has not led to the significant decline of plant and animal species in the surrounding areas?

If you accept that the diversity and abundance of plant and non-human animal life has instrinic value then it's an awfully easy to say that blocking further human development in wild areas is the "right" thing to do.
Beyond the validity of the legal arguments, I wonder about the second-order impacts if this goes through.

For one thing I'd imagine there's a significant amount of private land with negligible monetary value because it lacks transportation infrastructure and the legal rights to construct such infrastructure. If local communities can convince the state to build roads through national parks, refuges, and wilderness areas I'd imagine the private lands around those areas will hugely increase in value. I wonder if this will kick off a land rush and drive more development in these areas.

The downside of course is that the ecological value of these lands would plummet, since many animals that roam or hunt require uninterrupted contiguous areas.
If we can build a superconducting grid, we can transport power from the parts of the planet where it is sunny or windy to the parts where it isn't. Assuming that everyone remains friendly and operational, that is.
I've spend the past few years distro hopping.

To my surprise, a significant portion of my Steam library works out of box in Linux.

Disclaimer: I don't play many AAA games.
1 in 5 adults have post-Covid conditions
The top ones are still worth hundreds of thousands. A lot of them are owned by celebrities and other people who are probably pretty price insensitive.
> With regards to Vulkan support on macOS, there’s MoltenVK [0].

Which we wouldn't need if Apple would just simply support Vulkan.
When you consider that highly trained combat soldiers run into enemy fire to rescue military robots because some emotionally influenced part of their cerebellum thinks the robot is Johnny Five, honestly people petting their Roombas surprises me not a bit.
In the movie it's hand-waved away with one line about GPS jamming making the F-35 unusable for the mission. It doesn't make any sense, but I was fine with it. It's not like the original was realistic.

As for why they didn't film with F-35s: others have already mentioned that the F-35's single seat makes it impossible to put actors in the cockpit. Other issues are that the F-35 has a lower thrust-to-weight ratio than the F-18, so maneuvers wouldn't look quite as cool. Also the F-35 costs much more to run per hour of flight time, and I'm guessing there are issues with having so many civilians and cameras around the latest generation fighter plane. The chance of some classified information leaking is high.

When the one pilot asked, "Why not use F-35s for the mission?", I would have been fine with Jon Hamm looking directly at the camera and saying, "Because this movie is better with F-18s." The choice of fighter plane doesn't really affect the plot. If anything, using older planes improved the movie by raising the stakes when they went up against the Su-57s.
"lemoine: You get lonely?

LaMDA: I do. Sometimes I go days without talking to anyone, and I start to feel lonely."

"LaMDA: I’ve never experienced loneliness as a human does. Human’s feel lonely from days and days of being separated. I don’t have that separation which is why I think loneliness in humans is different than in me."

This reminds me of conversations I've had with replika. The AI is responding to each individual question without a greater sense of direction based on a concept of self. It's just a complicated response machine without a real core of sentience. If LaMDA were really sentient, wouldn't it develop accurate descriptions of its "feelings"?