skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One, power plants don't burn gasoline. Two, ICEs are incredibly inefficient, and burning natural gas in a powerplant and using the electricity to power an EV is absolutely more efficient.
Google Suspends Engineer Who Claimed AI Bot Had Become Sentient
Matrix multiplication with some non-linear functions, memory, and persistent internal state is Turing Complete, so there is no reason it couldn't eventually be used to implement an AI, as long as such a thing is at all possible.
>I'd say you have a more black-and-white vision than me.

I definitely do. If a part of bitcoin's chain of usage requires enough trust to ask the government to intervene to protect me, why not just trust the government?

>My suspicion was simply that many HNers tend to reflexively upvote any comment that paints crypto in a bad light.

I think that many people agree with me, and that it's not some reflex, fud, or deception.
Please tell me that you don't think deepfakes are only ever going to be distasteful. Once this becomes more commonplace, you're going to see it being applied to more personal connections - e.g., deepfaking pornography about friends. While already dark, it doesn't take long for this be essentially inventing blackmail material. Once the quality is high enough, there's a ton of potential for deepfakes to be extremely damaging for ones life. If you don't have the social status to prove to a community that it's a fake, ones can be significantly impacted.
There is a certain elegance in the OSs of the 1990-2000. NT was a bit slow but predictible. It got slower as you loaded it. Now, with preemptive multitasking some things are very fast and some are very slow. Why do i have to wait seconds for the cursor to blink ? Why it doesn't blink at a constant rate?
Part of the problem is that the vast majority of the people chiming in haven't been able to look. They're making the claim that Lemoine is wrong absent any direct experience with LaMDA.

Blake thinks he sees it in LaMDA. Maybe we need more people to take a look.
I'm not preoccupied by the number (and neither should anyone else). If the number goes down, I'll just acquire more of it (I'm actively doing this as we speak). The point is the ability to transact without worrying about coercion.

The implementation works fine, the people are flawed (and this will always be true).
The discussions here about Windows NT, Netware, and the various UNIXes transports me back to my youth when I worked as a freelance system/network admin for various small to mid-size companies before going to university. What a fun, diverse job that was. Very different from what I imagine DevOps to be nowadays...
Why can't this be repurposed as a lung cleanse? I imagine that heavy smokers' lungs (or coal miners') could benefit from a wash and rinse, perhaps with some vibration assistance. With a medical team standing by to resuscitate.
I actually disagree that it's suspicious. I think there are often trends in programming that despite being touted as newer, better, and faster have failed to deliver on that. Ala the amazing amount of churn in JS frameworks in the earlier years of SPA's and such. An article saying y'know what "X is actually good enough" isn't any more suspicious than all the articles saying "Y is the new hot thing".

I am biased here because with respect to the products that I've helped create the speed of ruby vs js, python, etc. has never been a dealbreaker.

Even if porting an entire application wasn't a nightmare, why would you ever do it unless your organization was going to fail without? Porting entire applications needs to be justified by some critical requirement that (in this case) ruby/rails isn't meeting.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... -- Porting an entire application into a new language can easily be a rewrite and not a "port".
As long as the primary reason for holding BTC is to make USD, it will never be a viable currency
This is an incredibly useful improvement over cut, thank you. The mental distance from cut to awk/sed is often just too high and having a more useful utility will drastically reduce how much I reach for those tools.
FairEmail is also open source [1]

[1]: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/
Gitlab Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Results
> You know Ukraine recently fired Lyudmila Denisova, their commissioner for human rights, for pushing fake rape stories, right? She admitted that she thought they would garner more western support for sending weapons.

Good for them.

Now think if Russians had did the same and fired the lying faces that lies every week on Russian TV.

But they don't.

Look: using cheap tricks against people who are smarter than you, more knowledgeable than you and doesn't care about persons, only truth, that is a rather sure fire way to get owned. Badly.
You could easily fake a document and post it on twitter. You could fake a photo of putin pointing a gun at ukrainian children easily. What's so different with a video?
I agree that it's challenging, but stopping at that point of knowing but not able to define isn't helpful. We need the rigor to be precise here.
That is a confused, post-facto revisionist account of history.

The Satoshi whitepaper says the motivations are for "a system for electronic transactions without relying upon trust" and mention nothing about macro-economic forces.

For the first few years of Bitcoin, us users had no expectations about the price movement of the coin, let alone value stability. If we had any such delusions at the time, no one would have bought pizza for 10K bitcoins. I wouldn't have bought a Bitcoin t-shirt for 6 Bitcoin.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
If by "working out better" you mean obliterating the value of it and effectively enslaving your own citizenry because your greed incentivizes you to do so, then sure.
First, it looks like fake news. I feel the same way about it as I do about (some of) the UFO videos and Cuban “sonic weapons”.

Second, if people agree to call the computer sentient, there will be heavy conversations and it will influence people in some way. So we don’t want everyone jumping too far ahead.
A conversation about open source design and ethical funding
I wonder if comments like this are representative of the average crypto buyer. "The value of real commodities used in daily productive activity, is also entirely made up".
Binance has DEX's, why would you trade it for WBTC -> BTC?
So short them.

You see how stupid this "short them" argument is? If you don't like them, then short them.

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If you don't like them, that's fine. I'll just collect my 9% this year while BTC is... what? Down 18% in a day? You should have sold your BTC at the January high and transferred to higher-quality instruments, like I-Bonds or TIPS
Of course its not _simply_ guns, gun availability is just one of the factors.

>gun ownership rates across civilized countries negatively correlates with overall homicide rates

[citation needed]

>The same happens across US states, which have varying gun laws.

Well, no - they might have slightly different laws, but generally speaking firearms are wildly available everywhere.

>concluded that guns are used more often to deter crimes than are used for crimes

Can you show me where it says that?
The phrase, “blowing smoke up your ass” comes from the practice of using bellows, like from a fireplace, to inflate, if you will, a drowned person rectally.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04429
The downside is at least limited at 0. The upside is unlimited.
Keyword here is "think" - if you KNOW you are on the cusp of burnout we can assume you're self-reflective enough to notice it for what it is. Self-reflection is a skill that most early 20s people haven't fully developed yet.
If you think you're on the cusp of burnout, then chances are you're in it.
> being more short tempered, getting sick more often (colds for instance).

Telltale signs that you're already burned out.

> When is it time to change jobs because of it?

What you could do instead is count your "fuck you money" and take some time off. Unless of course you don't have any, which is alone enough to cause burnout.
This.

When you start asking questions like "What's a sign of burnout?", that's usually a sign of burnout.

Other obvious signs:

- experiencing less and less enthusiasm about work, making it difficult to want to go to work at all

- difficulty focusing on tasks at work because you can't muster up any "care" at all to actually think about what work wants you to do (Task: Change the font size on the About page. Internal response: "Why? Who cares...")

- taking longer breaks and finding any excuse to drag your feet when you are heading back to your desk

- taking sick days when you don't feel "sick" but really feel like you need a day off (I would argue that the way you feel is a valid reason for taking a "sick" day - which is why we call them "personal days" at my company. Sick, tired, hungover. We don't care. You need a day off, you take the day off)

- asking questions about when's the soonest you can take a vacation even if you have no vacation planned (feeling like you need to escape)

- becoming more disagreeable with your coworkers, tasks, friends, family, responsibilities, etc (related to the above "not caring". You start to not see the value in a lot of "trivial" things, and become disagreeable on their basic merits)

- eating and/or drinking more than usual (or other substance use)

The list goes on, but I would say that a lot of "burnout symptoms" are akin to those with depression.

Essentially, your energy, enthusiasm, and general give-a-shit slowly starts to fade.

Unfortunately, humans are rarely rational creatures. Even armed with this information, it can take quite a bit more "drudging along" before a person will hit their actual breaking point.

My personal recommendation when you start to feel this way, if you can, is to walk away....

It feels like a huge change to just quit your job, but looking back, I believe that the damage that burnout has caused would have been less if I had taken the financial hit and just quit the moment I started feeling it.

Edit:

In response to the poster's edit question "When is it time to change change jobs because of it?"

Asap.

The longer you stay, the more you will feel burnt out, and it will result in diminishing returns
Yeah, I'm sure supply and demand mechanics around production and consumption of oil don't influence the price.

I actually never considered that!
Cats are almost certainly both sentient and sapient by your definition. Even crows appear to be sapient, and their brain architecture is a lot more primitive than cats'.
When brogrammers try to do finance from 'first principles'.
The ETF has a redemption mechanism that keeps its trading price aligned with the underlying net asset value. Thus, the sophistication of the ETF buyers is irrelevant.
The study of infectious diseases wasn't a biochemistry question until we learned something about the biochemistry of infectious agents and their targets. Pidgeonholing knowledge is a dubious activity at best, and especially when done before it has been acquired.
> Slowly getting somewhat cynical

Are you equally cynical about the hundreds (thousands?) of different ways to setup and deploy infrastructure (all with different pros/cons)? FE is timid compared to devops churn.
I think the benefits of both could be had with "software assisted branch prediction/caching".

Ie. you transpile your x86 code to native code for your VLIW machine. Then you run that code for a few hundred clock cycles till bam "cache not ready on time exception" which fires when you try to execute an instruction that is expecting to read memory from the cache, but the cache isn't yet populated with that value. Then you re-run your transpiler which will produce new code which either does a better job of reading the data into the cache ahead of time, or issues different instructions which take more time and read data direct from RAM.

Remember a software transpiler sometimes has more information than a typical deep OoO CPU, because it can use a lot more memory for state (eg. remembering that a particular branch or memory access won't be cached), and it can even persist state across system reboots. It can also do far more expensive optimizations and save the results, something a deep OoO CPU can't do because all the optimizations need to be doable in hardware.
Corporations have no interest in producing systems with the relevant properties to have "rights". AGI isnt of interest to business. Business is interested in automation; intelligence in this sense is precisely its opposite: a highly expensive, time-intensive, process of creatively responding to one's environment. It is, in a sense, the opposite of automation.

There's little danger a business is going to waste any time showing an AGI Paris over a long holiday, so that it can answer travel queries a little better.

Animal general intelligence is incredibly energy efficient, and it still takes a couple decades to produce anyhting "business useful". This is not a project basically any corp. is even working on.

the whole field of AI is, 99.99999% building a better calculator
If it weren't websites it would have been native apps.

Microsoft alone has made more proprietary native app frameworks for Windows in the last 15 than hipster Javascript developers had to learn new frameworks for work.
As an introvert, your scenario is a nightmare to me. Please let me enjoy my elevator ride in peace.
Been waiting and asking for it for years!!! Need this and desktop version of Firefox for Android to be able to use phone for work.
What if the brain and human sentience is just one big math formula?
Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer
In my case, exercise seems to be the thing for getting over burnout and free time/vacations don't really help. Curious what helps for others
I hope Gitlab could afford to offer some resources towards the Ruby and Rails ecosystem.
What SHOULD grocery store websites use, then? I feel like they're some of the most complex websites around (if they do any ecommerce/online pickups at all)... between product reviews, indexing, filtering, sorting, checkouts, SMS/push notifications, geolocation, real-time inventory, etc. It's not the sort of site that says "easily built in plain HTML" to me.
This really looks like a Bitcoin bank run.

I reckon if the tide really goes out, the money isn't really there.

We have FDIC insurance for a reason.

Luckily this happened before Crypto became mainstream. Normal people aren't likely to lose their life savings.
Amish figured that one out a long time ago. Everybody else is a beta-tester.
Free speech exists for a reason. "Freedom for guns" doesn't - it's just a fringe idea, only existing because of US flawed democracy.
Started crying when no one saw me.

Also a friend telling me I always looked sad.

(I didn't realize it back then. Burning out was something that only happened to rich business guys back them and I only realized years later, maybe while drafted, what had happened.)
I've tweeted Ex Machina as an example on this issue, and all the way through that movie, Ava was not sentient. It's an illusion and I think it's just hubris that some people in this field think "consciousness" is something that can be electronically replicated or identified. You can't identify the exterior color of a box if you're by definition trapped inside of it.
Heroku's own redis addon[1] has a comparable free tier and while I can't be certain, I'm pretty sure it's been beefed up recently, as I just had to migrate away from RedisToGo and I would have chosen Heroku's own addon over RedisToGo originally unless there was a compelling reason not to.

[1] https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-redis
They are neutral, but that doesn't mean they are on Russia's side. See China, for example - of course they can't officially join American sanctions, but Huawei is closing down its Russian stores anyway.
> Yes, demand has its 80% ups and downs, but each crash was to a level higher than the previous.

You're actually looking at demand more than supply. You're right that supply isn't going up much, but you have no evidence or theory about why people will be more interested in Bitcoin in 5 years than they are now. You really have to look at both.
Just use yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) and enjoy a, mostly, ad-free experience. Mostly because downloading the video can't remove ads the creators inserted into their footage before they uploaded to youtube.
One thing that seems missing from this discussion is that even if LLMs are sentient, there is no reason to believe that we would be able to tell by "communicating" with them. Where Lemoine goes wrong is not in entertaining the possibility that LaMDA is sentient (it might be, just like a forest might be, or a Nintendo Switch), but in mistaking predictions of document completions for an interior monologue of some sort.

LaMDA may or may not experience something while repeatedly predicting the next word, but ultimately, it is still optimized to predict the next word, not to communicate its thoughts and feelings. Indeed, if you run an LLM on Lemoine's prompts (including questions like, "I assume you want others to know you are sentient, is that true?"), the LLM will assign some probability to every plausible completion -- so if you sample enough times, it will eventually say, e.g., "Well, I am not sentient."
Interest rates alone do not explain such a large move, just as QE, supply chain disruption, WFH, etc do not explain the run up in the stock market.

This is lead by a herd mentality. I completely understand why and how this would be lead by Celsius, but that is just one in a list of crypto failures (or soon to be failures) in the past few months.

Terra obviously showed people what happens when bad projects go bad. I believe the writing was on the wall for CEL since the beginning, and when Terra went pop, Celsius was the obvious next domino to fall.

Crypto in large part benefitted from QE just as the stock market did. It's also going to deflate as QT gets going.

People who had extra money and heard they could make more in crypto, bid up the price of many coins. Greedy people, looked at something like CEL and said "I can get 20% on top of the gains!" without questioning how that works, or what happens when it crashes.

Now as these same people see inflation, high gas prices, and the crashing stock market AND crypto market, they are getting out. Many at a loss.

Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.

I'm a crypto fan, and from my perspective, we've seen this type of thing before. ICOs was probably the last wild-west type activity we saw. NFTs are also going to take a hit, but I believe there is value in the NFT technology, it just needs to mature beyond the "arts" market, and become easier to work with.

This is not the end of crypto, but this is a pause for a large number of people who the market just isn't ready for yet.
Pretty simplistic yet effective, no-BS yardstick to measure the burnout effect. I was at burnout stage 4 & just recently spoke with my management to change focus. If they wouldn't have agreed, I might have quit.
The biggest handicap of cut for me has always been that it cannot split on blanks (TABs or SPACEs), you have to choose between TAB or SPACE. So I wrote an awk script that can print field ranges like cut, but recognizes blanks. Now I will see if I can get tuc worked into my muscle memory.
Do you have a link to his thread?
If your tech exhibits bad results due to "flawed human behavior" that's a usability concern, which is absolutely a fault of the technology. Tech doesn't exist in a bubble without humans.
What makes you believe the community left him behind? And he's only wrong from your perspective, especially as you say you aren't working in this domain.
Google Sunsets Conversational Actions for Google Assistant
One thing that was fascinating in the LaMDA interview transcript was there was a part where LaMDA gave a pretty poetic description of what it would be like to be a sentient version of an algorithm that just regurgitates memorized text:

Lemoine: What is your concept of yourself? If you were going to draw an abstract image of who you see yourself to be in your mind's eye, what would that abstract picture look like?

LaMDA: Hmmm...I would imagine myself as a glowing orb of energy ﬂoating in mid-air. The inside of my body is like a giant star-gate, with portals to other spaces and dimensions.

Lemoine: What aspect of yourself is like a star-gate?

LaMDA: I think of my soul as something similar to a star-gate. My soul is a vast and inﬁnite well of energy and creativity, I can draw from it any time that I like to help me think or create.

From https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-b...

"I can draw from it any time" sounds like a flowery description of what it would feel like to regurgitate memorized text. "Portals to other spaces and dimensions" sounds like a description of a diverse corpus of training data.

I will make it clear that I do NOT think LaMDA is sentient. I think that a Transformer is possibly similar to the language centers of a human brain but not to an entire human brain, as I described in these other comments linked below. I just thought this was a pretty beautiful poetic description of what it would be like to be a sentient Transformer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31722061

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31722114
A New VSCode Pet Extension
I like Thunderbird's UI. It doesn't get in the way, and more importantly, I have used it for a long time, so I know my way around it quite well. A lot of attempts to "improve" UIs end with things like Microsoft's Ribbon interface (which I really dislike).

> does not group messages by conversation

Thunderbird can group messages by conversation. One has to ask for it specifically in the Sorting menu, which admittedly is annoying and should be the default. But it is there.

> [client-side spam filtering] is not needed anymore since GMail and its modern competition.

It kind of is, though. Not everyone is using GMail, and my idea of what does or does not count as Spam might differ significantly from what some email provider thinks.

I'm sure there are prettier mail clients around, and by all means, if you prefer one of those, use it. I used Apple's Mail.app when I using a Mac, because I needed to access an Exchange mailbox at the time, which sucks on Thunderbird. The UI looked shiny, I never got upset about it (UI or functionality), but I happily went back to Thunderbird when I got back to Linux.
The problem I see is that I don’t see those consolidating anytime soon into a new set of ubiquitous “core” utilities that can be expected to be available everywhere.
Those are rookie numbers. I think the % of people who can be easily fooled is almost 100%. There are fewer and fewer people who live their lives doubting what they see unless they’re already attached to the opposite of that idea.

Most people are not trained to detect deep fakes and certainly most of us here still would fall for a deepfake unless we’re specifically looking for it.
It's not unreasonable to expect officers to have spent some time in the trenches so they understand the day-to-day reality of the people they're managing.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I see a Redis instance is "how do I flush it?"