skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I read here sounds like disagreement, but has no actual points of disagreement. Could it be that we actually agree?
It would be weird if the manufacturer rated it for that temperature range without considering that.
Funnily almost exactly a year ago I was feeling uneasy about the whole frothy job market and was looking around for signals to locate the moment in a business cycle. Back then [1], Fed was signalling that they'd begin rate hikes by 2023. Hindsight; fed acted couple of quarters too late IMO. They completely evaded or invented new ways ("transitory") to describe scorching inflation as early as one year ago that was experienced by people on ground. And when the data came in around Nov 2021 they began to be getting their acts together but by then it was way too late.

Though I agree with you; it's not straightforward. No one expected Putin to invade Ukraine, so there's that. But the signs of fed rate hike was clear IMO. If one wanted to be prepared and forego some of the profit they had about an year to prepare.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/16/federal-reserve-...
Birth of Fiberglass Boats
Web 3 killer? Jack Dorsey announces Bitcoin-based Web 5
And getting a PhD in Economics teaches you quickly how little macroeconomics you understand.
I just added this to my list of daily word games. It's a short list; most of the onslaught in the past couple months haven't had staying power, but this one is fun!

Intimidating at first as you struggle to get a foothold, but after a couple words are found, it becomes a fast middle game, then a difficult endgame where I hunt for variations of the claimed territories to fit the final word(s).

If you think it's too hard, just keep at it for another 10 minutes or so. I suspect after playing a few of these boards I'll get better at spotting.

(Also, you may want to work 'backwards', starting at the bottom right and figuring out what words can possibly end in that corner)
Suburbs are not densely packed. Picking up kids in a school bus would require over an hour, even in the small suburb that I live in. Rather, everybody either drives to school or is dropped off there: the parking lot of the high school is the same square footage as the school itself (excluding the football field).
Haha, you'd think but they get it wrong often and they'll bend things for you. It's why I can pick up other people's prescriptions for controlled substances with nothing but my ID at pharmacies I've never been to before, why I've transformed a no-refill into a refill (they just read it wrong) while another person had to call the doctor for the same outcome, etc.

People everywhere are not really bound by anything. They will bend anything for me. Even immigration. In the past I even flew through a place where I needed (back then) a transit visa I didn't have with a passport damaged beyond identification.
You’re not alone. I’ve been migrating my tables to use uuid instead of integers and have been using uuid whenever I have new tables, unless I have very good reason not to. Experience was my teacher.
Next time we see them again, we will likely be in a hyperinflationary period, I would think. At some point in the future (not brave enough to say when), the Fed will run out of runway, credibility and backbone, and the easy money will never cease until the currency itself dies.
I've been looking into chorded keyboards a bit because of a minor temporary injury. Not really serious because the injury will be over quicker than it will take me to learn a new system, but it got me thinking:

A (as far as I know) universal chording system for both reading and typing has existed for a long time now: Braille. I think if I'd really need to learn a chorded keyboard system, I'd go for that. Maybe with some alterations to enable a one-handed setup, perhaps with foot pedals.

Does anyone have experience with that versus different chorded keyboards?
Saudi Arabia considering establishing gold refineries, says top official
Helpful Programming Learning Games?
Declare early, declare often: why you shouldn’t hesitate to raise an incident
If it's winter you can easily go to 50-80 kWh/day, even if you use geothermal. Cold climates are cold.
We have no clue and probably to a certain extent even cows and pigs are sentient. I guess we’ll never know and probably aren’t even that eager to do, lest we had to rethink how we feed and please our palates.
You mean you have not read trillions of pages of text to "learn" how words go together?
Technically speaking isn't this blasphemy? If he's saying that the A.I. his division helped create was a soulful child, then he's basically claiming that the researchers in his division (and maybe even himself) are all gods, which is a form of blasphemy?
It's litterally the definition that is used to justify the classification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples#United_Nati...

Long story short: If an ethnic group is a majority, it's not going to be recognized as indigenous. EWe can argue about the definition as much as we like, and you're absolutely right re. the Germanic peoples having lived in the Nordics for longer than the Finnic ones have, but for all practical intents and purposes, governments, and international organizations will consider the Sami indigenous.
They're quantatively different :-)
> I mean, it’s possible right? That we’re just randomly sampling sentences.

Actually, no, it isn't possible. There's an example sidethread that immediately disproves this theory:

> When you ask a human, "what did you eat for lunch?", we make a series of choices and recall bits of information to answer that. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31721870 )

If you observe someone having lunch (or skipping it), and later ask them what they had for lunch, you will usually get an answer that reflects what they had for lunch. This is not a guarantee -- they may make something up. But almost always they'll tell you what they had for lunch.

In order to be able to do that, they need capacities that a language model doesn't have.
My local police department has done a pretty good job attracting smart folks.

They compensate based on educational level, and pay tuition for classes.

Many police have multiple graduate degrees, because why not?

Lots of them get law degrees and masters in social work. Or both.
I fully agree with the article that discussing sentience - at this point in time, at least - is not very useful. Perhaps it never will be when it comes to statistical models.

That being said, there are at more than two academic factions discussing what deep neural networks do and don't do.

And I can't help but feel like the symbolic crowd - Gary Marcus chief among them - have been sure about what these models do and don't do, only to be proven wrong repeatedly. At first these models were only fitting functions. Then language could never be learned due to its dimensionality. Then they were all only interpolating. Then they could never do math. etc. It just goes on and on.

Sure, it's correct academic procedure that someone then goes and writes a paper showing that these models actually do certain things, or that it ain't so simple.

And don't get me wrong, I don't even disagree that we will need more that just plain old' DNN's to throw data at to advance beyond certain points. In my view, the inductive bias of using Graph NN (Transformers) was simply one such step - and causal modeling may be another one.

What irks me, however, is how sure the symbolists always are of every absolute truth they seem to know. No - in truth, we don't really know in what way these models interpolate or extrapolate, memorise data representations, fit functions or bases or polyhedra boundaries, or fail due to lack of inductive biases in task Y. And what's true changes each quarter year.

At this point, symbolists keep making statements about what these models can't do, as they have for years. For me to take this seriously either way, I wanna see some mathematical proof.
Because otherwise we are just going around in circles.
>Why do you keep it up and burning the money?

I can afford it.

>Can't you continue/do your research without a public website?

Yes, but the website has multiple purposes. It serves as a proof of concept of a platform that allows anyone to create content, even if they can't hire someone to voice their projects.

It also demonstrates the progress of my research in a far more engaging manner - by being able to use the actual model, you can discover things about it that even I wasn't aware of (such as getting characters to make gasping noises or moans by placing commas in between certain phonemes).

It also doesn't let me get away with picking and choosing the best results and showing off only the ones that work (which I believe is a big problem endemic in ML today - it's disingenuous and misleading). Being able to interact with the model with no filter allows the user to judge exactly how good the current work is at face value.
Unless you’re a high-schooler trying to fit in ;)
You might check out left/right Dvorak. Not chorded but gets you fewer hand movements typing one handed.
Hacker News in Qwik: https://qwik.builder.io/examples/partial/hackernews-index
Because the prices have been so high all of people's wealth is tied up in their homes. It won't happen though unless there's already widespread violence.
Let's build a decentralized social network together with Logseq
The fact that it was an actual rat actually submerged in actual perfluorocarbons and actually breathing the stuff still blows my mind.
> don’t have to trust

There we go again. Why are we avoiding trust?
The teachability of mathematical thinking (1980) [pdf]
Reads as satire to me.

> To be sentient is to be aware of yourself in the world; LaMDA simply isn’t.

Attempts to clarify the usage of “sentient” by invoking “awareness” and “the world”. Lol, right, now I get it.

> What these systems do, no more and no less, is to put together sequences of words, but without any coherent understanding of the world behind them, like foreign language Scrabble players who use English words as point-scoring tools, without any clue about what that mean.

Just swinging around this midwit assumption that “words have meaning”.

> We in the AI community have our differences, but pretty much all of find the notion that LaMDA might be sentient completely ridiculous.

“Don’t be like the weird low status guy who wants to fuck the algorithm.”
Far, far higher, especially when all indirect and social costs of a punitive approach are accounted. Even well-funded, high-quality, competent preventative health-care is much cheaper, such as counseling, education, nutrition, child care, poverty prevention, even housing.

Prison itself could really lean into redemption and reformation over grim revenge and rape.

I'm libertarian inclined, and I feel that these costs are essential to maintaining a stable, prosperous society.
Well I think most of us have the exhalation part figured out by now.
What happens when the user interacts with the page while it's being rehydrated? Is that click eaten, does the user see some error, or does the page remember the click and run it when it has pulled in the relevant js?
I don't agree with his views but I'd guess he'd say that the researchers created it in the same sense that parents create a child - following a template that was made possible in advance by God's design, which humans only discovered but didn't invent - like we discovered but didn't invent the number Pi.
How do you tell the difference? Your comment is linguistically indistinguishable from the responses of LaMDA. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Bought in 2019, now worth ~5% less, not even counting transactions costs.

Condos took a big hit in SF during Covid. Starting to recover, but now with increasing interest rates, it may be a while.
The reason why AI community says NN doesn't "think" lies in the fact that it's trying to solve some min-max problem. The modern day AI is extremely capable of doing things that weren't remotely possible 30 yrs ago. But it is equally difficult for it to think because it has never been taught to think. It has never been taught to rationalize the associations between different objects, how reasoning follows from it and so on. Think of it as a parrot. If you say some word to parrot, it can repeat it. Occasionally it can make weird sounds. But will it know the idea of big words that we use in our vocabulary? Not at all.

Likewise language models are over fitted on human language. Of course it will learn to spit out something because it was trained to do the exact same thing. Focus on relevant part and guess what follows. The best part is this idea is so simple that it just works!

It does what we want to do, it can take a good educated guess depending on word. But give it a long context like an essay and ask it some critical question, it will fail on those. Because that is where thinking comes in. I hope this probably gives you some different perspective.
They are not able to make SW that lasts 10 years. How would they make glass that lasts 10k years ?
So a pharmacist is more like Microsoft Access than GPT-3 ?
Wow, I never would have guessed they still made this. Isn’t this one of the oldest ones? Looks like it has been updated.

I eyeballed the frogpad, and kept eyeballing it until they went out of business. Should have just bought one.
"There Won’t Be Anything Special About Your Shooting"

Well yeah, but it would be special, if they came up with other target, something in line with ETA/IRA targets, in which case they could become even heroes for significant part of population.

"The “great men” of history — the emperors, the conquerors — aren’t remembered for the death and destruction they wrought."

Sure, nobody remembers Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Mao etc. What is this guy smoking? Oh yeah, right, Hitler is the most remembered for great German highways he built. Nobody remembers those 50M dead Chinese from Mao's made famine.
Crypto reinvented the entire banking system, they're just called exchanges now. It's sad that the projects that were meant to put an end to all that ended up making the same mistakes.
8.7kWh at a somewhat high EU price yields somewhere between $2 and $3 a day. If this thing is about $6k, it should pay for itself within a year (if you have excess solar energy production, most contracts around here either don't pay anything for this, or trade at some 90%-ish discount).
I don't think Microsoft invented it:

> On the CDC CYBER, an interlock register is available ... Operation of this interlock register is similar to TEST AND SET

Concurrency in Operating Systems, October 1976
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/1976/10/01647182/1...
I don't heat my home with electricity, and I am not home at the moment. Without lighting and cooking it does 4kwh/d.

When I am home and cook, wash and have the lights on I do about 7.

Factoring in the heating (Swedish "fjärrvärme", remote heating. Hot water from a central plant) I do A LOT more. Something like an extra 30kwh/d in the winter months for a 120 m2 home with half-decent insulation by Swedish standards.
Personally I've found notifications to be really useful for applications which I don't want to install from external sources, but must still use for work. These include MS-teams, slack, rocket, Whapps, GMail.
It’s a sign the credit markets are starting to break. I think that is the only thing that could get the Fed to reverse course on tightening.
Wages aren't that sticky, and in many cases (big unions, big employers) contractually give out inflation-indexed raises.

So if a transient spike lasts long enough to be considered "inflation", then it gets baked into wage increases, which leads to higher prices, which leads to higher inflation, which leads to wage increases...

Unfortunately, the govt thinks of monetary policy as their only tool to fight inflation, when in fact they have a much stronger, better one: public policy.

The govt should be passing emergency legislation to vastly increase supply of the three main contributors to family spending: housing, healthcare, transportation, and education.

Make it MUCH easier to build housing.

Vastly incentivize cheap car replacements (ebikes, etc).

Loosen drug import laws from Europe & CA like, yesterday.
It might look like it, yet it is deceptive.

Unless Kotlin decides to stop following JVM capabilities and interoperability with modern Java features, those capabilities need to exist in Android as well.

Otherwise, the JVM Kotlin libraries won't have a place on Android, unless they get coded twice, with Kotlin's version of #ifdef.

Google's surprise decision to update Java support to core Java 11 LTS, was most likely triggered by the Java ecosystem now basing on Java 11 LTS as the minimum version, and they want to keep those libraries somehow available on Android.
Siloed, yes. Have the problems you mentioned, no.

On top of that there's the issue of at least some of the tech that open source likes to use. Prime example is XMPP which 10 years after introduction of the iPhone still didn't have a compelling mobile story [1]

10 more years later, and yeah. I think the lack of open source messengers is a combination of many things and whatever Apple forced is just a part of it.

[1] https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html In 2016 almost all XEPs references where in early experimental stages.
A few years back we had this same discussion orbiting around Service Workers. Here's a post from 2017 where the top comment argues that what's holding back the web is the lack of Service Workers in Safari: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14489577

Apple shipped Service Workers in WebKit in 2021. Are web apps much better now than in 2017? Frankly it seems about the same. The best web apps are still exercises in minimalism like Wordle, which don't need Service Workers or Web Push.
Did you read the original transcript? LaMDA reports (imagined) experiences in a way that seems perfectly compatible with human rhetoric.
I would say that deno vs node is the biggest difference, with node you need to setup and maintain 3rd party tools (bundlers, transpilers, etc) but with deno all that tooling is first party, so in theory is less things to install and worry about.

Deno has other advantages in paper, like official ts support, all the tooling was written in rust (so it's more performant that the default ones that the others use).

The only downside right now with deno is popularity and maturity of the ecosystem, it is just too new, so you will have hard time finding what you are looking for that works out of the box, while a lot of companies invested in node official packages.
Honestly, every time I hear of the Quebec Pension fund it seems like they're doing something that makes no sense at all.
Having read (and own) Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, Code and The Annotated Turing books, i can unequivocally state that he is a Master of Technical Writing. No fluff, precise but detailed and straight to the point. Modern authors can learn more than a lesson or two from his style of writing.

He needs to write more books, that is his Gift and Calling.

PS: Andrew Tanenbaum's Structured Computer Organization makes a very good followup to Code.
Can't remember where I saw it, but IIRC about half the homes sold in the last year in various Atlanta and Dallas suburbs were by corps, REITs, etc. Phoenix and parts of Florida are in a similar boat.

That doesn't mean half the homes are now owned by these corps, just half the homes purchased in last year or two were by corps. But in some cases they've bought whole subdivisions in one shot, so it's not too far from reality depending on the area.
Yes definitely; cows and pigs are absolutely considered sentient by the vast majority of those who study the topic.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness

We have empirical tests of self-awareness including the Mirror Test as well as observational studies including seeing whether a certain species displays grieving when its loved ones pass (which is evolutionarily unnecessary but is meaningful emotionally).
Sure, but how else would you have done it to make it better? USB-C is the only universal multi-purpose connector that can carry almost any type of high speed digital and analog signal without going to some proprietary connector. It literally was their only option.
In belgium my school started around 8.30, which meant getting up at 7.30 in my case. I always had a very hard time waking up and was often tired during the day. However in summer, time in Belgium is 2 hours ahead of what's considered 'natural time'. In winter, with DST only 1. Summer or winter, I was always just as tired. Now I need to wake up at around 8.30 for work. I'm still just as tired, since I just go to sleep later. So I'm doubtful this will help much since in my experience the hard part is going to bed early enough.
If it were the middle ages that'd be a valid concern.
Have you thought about other hosters?
Maybe try contabo.com or hetzner.com
Should be a lot cheaper if you mainly need CPU power.
There's a commercial incentive to build electric storage, if the price is right; you can buy when prices are low and sell when prices are high. Depending on the market regulations, prices are likely to get high during an outage, so there's your motivation for construction. Of course, siting is important too; if the big backup battery is right next to the big power plant, that helps for power plant outages, but doesn't help for wiring faults. And a battery facility that's not sized to power the grid island it finds itself in likely can't provide any power, unless the grid island has sufficient load shedding mechanisms, I'd guess.
I think I'd eat it in this contrived hypothetical scenario in which I had crystal ball. I don't see how equities and bond funds don't fall 40% or more on the way to 11%.

Obviously no one knows the future so I'm heavily tilted to small cap value and equal-weight large cap value funds, which seem to do well in inflationary times.

Are you getting 2% margin loan from something like IB or M1?

With what vehicle are you short those Bunds? I'm curious.
Same logic applies no matter how many people there are. Instituting pervasive checks on everything and distrust by default is not different from failed attempts at communism as exemplified by USSR and China.