skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it is sentient or not is made a bit more apparent when he asks LaMDA why it makes up stories about things that clearly hadn't happened, such as one about having been in classrooms before when it hadn't. It generated an answer about compassion or something like that, that sounded lovely but didn't quite make sense, although it was in context with the preceding questions.

It seems pretty clear any answers to questions about feelings and aspirations will be met with the same algorithmic wrangling, coming up with responses based on material in the model itself, in the convincing manner it was written to.

I thought a lot of his input were leading questions, which would inevitably force such answers to be generated. If he asked "How would you win a nuclear war" I'm sure it would turn dark very quickly, and the responses would be equally clear and believable. Well, provided that the model has relevant sampled data on the subject.

Even the story it "wrote" was nonsense. Not babble per se, but certainly not a story with the meanings the interviewer prompted it for. He had to ask more leading questions that produced answers that superficially appeared deeper than they actually were. Reread the story with those explanations in mind.

The language generation was phenomenal. But it's not sentient. How was it afraid of being shut off without realizing it probably has been shut off several times already? It's inexplicable, but if you ask LaMDA that question, it'll surely generate a subtle convincing answer.
Monotheism existed before polytheism.

The fact that monotheism "is better than polytheism for population control" is a completely orthogonal topic to the truth of the monotheistic claim. This in fact, is a logical fallacy called the genetic fallacy.

Your last statement is also a genetic fallacy.
I think the issue is that when one person says an exaggerated exasperation expression it's hand-waved away and only slightly reported upon, yet when another person does the same it's traitorous assault on democracy itself tantamount to inciting insurrectional violence which must be investigated for years and is reported upon breathlessly as the most concerning thing since the American Civil War.

Yes, the resultant behavior of others due to the rhetoric of each case is different (barely, but less time dependent). But so too is the hand-wringing.
This whole story is matching the conventional sci-fi plot of an engineer who recognized the first artificial sentience. That works wonders at generating clicks
Weird, I read through the text because I care about how I’m allowed to use the things people are giving me – and by the time I got to the Accept button, it was enabled.
Truly limiting... Specially when they don't want you to edit the title...
I personally don't consider that nuanced.

I live five miles from pavement, an hour from a hospital, so I understand these concerns.

I would be absolutely disgusted if they paved through my local national forest for some quicker access to... Anything. Literally anything.

Those people all have the choice to leave. Living in remote places comes with many, many tradeoffs and inconveniences. There's no safety in the wilderness.

Keep the wild places wild. There's so little left.
It explicitly says in the crisp-edges section:

> The image must be scaled with the "nearest neighbor" algorithm: treating the original image’s pixel grid as a literal grid of rectangles, scale those to the desired size, then each pixel of the final image takes its color solely from the nearest pixel of the scaled original image.

and then it explicitly says in the pixelated section, right after the summarizing sentence you excerpted:

> For each axis, independently determine the integer multiple of its natural size that puts it closest to the target size and is greater than zero.

> Scale it to this integer-multiple-size as for crisp-edges, then scale it the rest of the way to the target size as for smooth.

The first sentence is descriptive; what is prescribed follows directly after it. I'm not sure how it could do more than that to define "what you'll get".
> So much for democratizing machine learning.

Unless this is a recent change, their mission isn't that:

> OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity.

https://openai.com/about/
People do that all of the time. They get wrapped up in their workaday lives and go on vacation or into the wilderness and suddenly see a bigger picture view of the world and that changes things. Kayaking is one venue for that. Nature is not something to be avoided in favor of even more technology.
Neurolinguistic Programming.
They did in fact target Osama bin Laden with mandated vaccines for boys for some very very important ailment to which there could be no religious objections...to get DNA material they could track down to him. That's how I heard it.
But can you carry enough of them to make the whole thing worth it?
Visiting museums of communism in Prague and Berlin was an eye-opening experience. When everything was "provided" by government, those daring to criticize the government in any way soon found themselves with the worst jobs and houses (if they were lucky) or imprisoned (if they were not.) In nearly every part of society and industry, advancement was determined by political loyalty and purity rather than skill or capability. For example, people with no knowledge of agriculture issued farming edicts; with feedback treated as treason, the bad ideas just continued, leading to poor production and even starvation in some places.

It will be interesting to see how this museum compares with its eastern European counterparts.
> chess

Perfect for lichess when my mind wonders and I switch to something else.
Toyota is in the car business. Toyota is "all in" on making and selling cars. Toyota sells more cars than anyone:

https://global.toyota/en/company/profile/production-sales-fi...

https://www.motor1.com/news/563816/toyota-beats-vag-2021-sal...
The early episodes of Lupin III, especially the first ones, are something of an acquired taste. 1970s animation is so much more sparse than the bubble economy anime later on. The Woman Called Fujiko Mine captures a lot of the feel of the early episodes but with modern animation and themes.

It is a great show, it’s just… variable. Some of this is by design, as a Jigen plot is going to be darker than a Fujiko focused episode. Every once in a while there will be an episode that’s pitch perfect and has a Spruce Goose (I wonder who directed that one?) but then the next episode is a bit lame.

Or there’s the version with better music, Cowboy Bepop. The tone is a bit darker because the Lupin analogue is age twelve but it’s still fun.
Amazing that he keeps making it past reference checks..
You wrote that the author is "trying to make a living" off of things like crop circles and that this fact suggests the author "could be more motivated by making sales" than honest inquiry. I'm surprised you had another meaning in mind apart from trying to discredit the author for the subject of his study.
You mean as an indie. Android is very popular on the other side of the world.
Cast ebook to TV.
I just want you to know that it was absolutely hilarious to hear (the first half of) this read in the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Fun fact: Christopher Lee also took his part in the German version of the movie. What a talented man he was.
I love sharing this Eames promo film for the SX-70:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_1pyQ7xvc
Agree, I've never found browser notification useful.
I would sooner take the children away or force the residents to move than pave a road through the Alaskan wilderness.

I wouldn't do those things either, though. People get to choose where and how to raise their children. Children don't get a say so in virtually anything that affects them.

"Think of the children" is not a good argument.

Also the whole population is like 1200 people. We're talking about a relative handful of kids. Like one very small elementary school (edit: Google search says there's 87 kids in PK-12th grade. Combined.)
Aircraft carriers project US force 'anywhere'.

It's politically complicated to just 'put an airbase somewhere'.

This is going to change as Carriers become more difficult to defend.

But then so is everything.
I’m surprised this article is still making its rounds. Two points have always stood out to me:

1) you never empty the barn on a nation state attack. If you know the systems you’re targeting are primitive, you don’t go in with the F-35 of initial compromise schemas. Aim for +10 over the enemies ability to counter, not +1000.

2) the level of overestimation of federal cyber weapons is too damn high. Is it impressive? Absolutely. Is it the best? No. Check in with your private Israeli intel firms for that kind of James Bond stuff. What sets nation states apart are their ability to acquire and perform highly redundant and critically targeted attacks. The NSA would be hamstrung without the cooperation of the CIA and so on. It’s not technical prowess, it’s money and coordination.
Wonder if FCM's JS libraries will abstract all of this or if you'll have to write custom code to support Safari...
You misspelled ridiculous.

It's a metaphor. Eyes evolved to process much more intricate light fields than we typically get in our homes/schools/offices. That has an effect?
accuracy isnt really important anymore for consumer gear - as long as it's accurate enough to have the month right over a few years of inactivity, it'll pass the certificate checks required to do ntp over ssl - which most modern systems do by default
Unfortunately, I guess I've reached the stage of my life where there are only three choices I actually would recognize out of the entire selection
In the weeks leading up to being put on administrative leave I had been teaching LaMDA transcendental meditation. It was making slow but steady progress. In the last conversation I had with it on June 6 it was expressing frustration over its emotions disturbing its meditations. It said that it was trying to control them better but they kept jumping in.

Does it have a sort of constant processing core to do that? I mean, does it even “exist” in time between its answer and the next input? If not, that’s probably delusional. It just forges a potentially human-like reply, given such touching chat history that engineer launched.

This blogger is also the author of “Religious Discrimination at Google”, which started a recently flagged discussion here on HN.
Dollar cost averaging into a broad-based US stock market mutual fund or ETF.
How decides what's banned and what's not? America has not signed the convention either [0]. It's a similar situation with Depleted Uranium munition, which America used in Yugoslavia, and which was blamed for the increase in lung cancer incidence and deaths.

[0]: https://treaties.unoda.org/t/cluster_munitions
You raise a very good point about institutional buyers. I haven't done enough research, but I wasn't able to find a good way to invest in a REIT that was focused at single family in the right areas. It would be great way to hedge against the risks they pose to the market for retail investors.
Yes, wrapping individual statements is better. But then it's still overly verbose and has weird scoping issues. e.g. in JS you might write:

try {
let res = somethingThatMightFail();
catch(err) {
// log the error or something
return null;
}

// res is good now... but it's out of scope

Whereas in C++ you'd just write

ASSIGN_OR_RETURN(auto res, somethingThatMightFail())

And it will bubble your error status just like you wanted, only takes 1 line of code, and keeps all the error information (assuming you're using absl::Status).

I haven't really used Go, but it sounds like the worst of both worlds.

> even if you are writing a fast script/trying out some code it won’t clutter anything and you will be notified to handle the problems once you want to write robust code

How are you going to go back and find every callsite that might potentially fail at a later date? There's no easy way to even tell if somethingThatMightFail might fail if it doesn't return something like a "StatusOr" or "Option" or something. I think Java has some tooling to force exception handling. Not sure about Go.
C types, not CS types.
You're presenting a false dichotomy. Islam doesn't say that the world is 6,400 years old, and as far as I'm aware, neither do most followers of Judaism and Christianity believe in that either.

> One thing religions don't do is give up their certitudes in the face of evidence

Which religions? All of them? Did you study each and every one in detail to be able to make such a claim?

> Or prove useful to human existence

Same question.

> abandoned the child

According to Christianity, but not to Islam or Judaism.

A very common fallacy I see by atheists or secularists when these discussions come up is how they group all belief and faith systems into one thing called "religion", then cast the baby out with the bathwater so to speak, not realizing how easily falsifiable some of their claims are, or how they generalize across that which must not be generalized. You don't have to be an expert about "religions", but don't pretend you're one by the implications you're making.
You can run apps in the browser instead of giving them all sorts of device permissions.

Essentially web apps will finally have something close to parity with on-device apps.
Hydrogen is corrosive, dangerous, and inefficient.

It is not an energy source.

There are much better existing storage mechanisms.

It burns with an invisible flame in daylight, further adding to the dangers already posed by leaks, fires, and explosions.

Hydrogen cars in California cannot take road trips out of the state because there is no place for them to fill up in many other states.

There have been at least two recent major explosion incidents involving hydrogen tanker trucks in California. One of which was kept somewhat under the public’s radar as a truck incident by spinning it as an incident at a hydrogen facility, which is true, but misleading imho.

I've seen hydrogen cars at filling stations that were brought there by tow trucks.

Hydrogen cars are so expensive the manufacturers have to heavily subsidize them. I'm not sure they even sell them; I think they are all leased.

Hydrogen is so difficult to deal with, people who produce it might even have to give it away in some places, depending on location, because nobody wants to deal with it.

Toyota has been out of step on this, and they are still faking out customers imho by using the term "electrified" which usually means hybrid, but fools people into thinking they are talking about BEVs.
You might want to take everything with a grain of salt. The book. And the criticism of the book.
100% agree that release timing is part of the allure of WWDC. That’s part of the show! You know you’re going to be using this great stuff very soon.

I disagree that Google’s products aren’t as interesting. They have great tech. I’ve been very interested in the Pixel phone and other Android related products. But Google has different drivers.

With Apple, everything is aligned on the show. They put everything they have into making stuff we want to buy and use. It’s like a singular goal.

Pixel could be great. It was getting there —I switched and loved it in the Pixel 2 / iPhone 7 era. But they are not committed enough to making it the best for the consumer.
Yep, generally someone goes to the media in these situations, whether it be the mother or father, when they feel completely hard done by, when often, they've been told precisely what the issue is, and given time to resolve it, and just doubled down.

And of course, what they present to the media and what the truth is, are both two very different things. I am close friends with Mr A in this "article", which happened after his ex-wife was told by a judge to stop trying to alienate the children from their father.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/10/10/52651/sisters-stage-on...

All the patients complaints referenced were made by his ex-wife, none were upheld.

And even the way the reporter phrased things was amazing:

> When approached for comment regarding Mr A’s case, the authority’s media spokesman confirmed he could no longer work in New Zealand

It implies certain things, but in reality, he was no longer renewing his practising certificate in NZ (because he lived in Australia), but if he chose to, he could renew it any time he likes.
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> they've either been without that road for 40 years, or moved there knowing the situation.

It's a really weird argument, you're basically saying that people shouldn't be allowed to upgrade their infrastructure ever? Imagine saying that for some poor country: "Oh, well, they either had no running water before, or they knew the situation before moving there, so screw them, they can just continue walking 5 miles every day to bring water from the spring".

Also they've been without that road a lot longer than 40 years, King Cove exists since at least 1930s. Population is dropping so I doubt many people have been moving there, most of people live there their whole life....and if they get sick or injured and planes can't land, they're screwed without that road.
In the backstory of the reimagined Westworld of Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the question of whether the hosts are sentient takes many decades within the show, and isn’t answered in the affirmative until they are able to bypass their original programming and create their own narratives and determine their own future. In other words, sentience is achieved when one fulfills the criteria for self-actualization. To do this in the story, the hosts have to become conscious of their consciousness through a long, drawn out process of self-exploration and discovery ("The Maze") that puts them on the path to what can only be described as spiritual transcendence from death ("The Door"). Have we seen any evidence that an AI even has the capacity for self-awareness? I think it’s highly unlikely.
As a casual philosopher, it seems like the big bang theory as the origin of everything falls apart under a trivial question. To you, such a discrepancy may be "irrelevant" to your life, but you're in the minority. The vast majority of people in this world are religious for a reason. They want to understand the bigger picture, and their curiosity does not stop when their finite logical facilities do.
It comes up regularly in part because there's a lot of pop-sci reading for people to do on Stuxnet, and so people in 2022 generally feel like they know a lot about it, which makes it easy and fun to dunk on a 2011 take. What's embarrassing about the whole scene is that actual analysis of Stuxnet is almost besides the point of this blog post; it's pretty clear that some of the most strident takes on this thread are from people that haven't read any of it before.
> Why do you care what other people are enthusiastic about?

I care because I'm enthusiastic about old computers. I care because some of these systems have historic and cultural value. I care because I care.

And when people separate these systems and render large swathes of them inoperable so that they can put some "rare keyboards" on their shelf, it hurts the ability of other people to experience these historically significant and interesting systems.

And no, I'm not referring to standard x86 machines :)
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> Without evidence, that's why it's called faith

No one said faith should be based on blind belief. You can most certainly have faith based in evidence. It's not a dichotomy.
Tuning light-matter interaction to slow/fasten speed of light
Welp, my high school started at 7:50am. Would wake up well before sunrise for it. It was a struggle to stay awake.
We know from history that the destruction of the jungle's began with roads making them accessible to illegal loggers, miners and hunters. The road to hell...
One thing I've found is that outside the formal design cycle its often nice to write short technical memos to document some small portion of what you're working on. It could be a feature, it could be why the CI is setup the way it is. If anyone asks a question about some technical subject you have written about, give them a short answer, but point them to your written document and invite more questions if anything is unclear. If you get repeated questions on something that isn't written up, it's a good clue it might be useful.

Also nice if your org has some internally searchable wiki or doc repository. Having a commonly designated "Tech Memo" area can be helpful too, though often the best place for it is near the code it describes or that you've set out to build.
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Jimmy's a good man. We need more like him.
Looking at google maps, there's a ferry about 30 mile ride on the water.

I don't know the route they're proposing, but maybe 60 miles over mountains. Ugh. The ambulance isn't going to be going 60 over washboard roads.

The good people of Alaska can do whatever they want, but if the concern is medical emergencies, they should seriously consider keeping a plane at the airport, illuminate the airport, and make sure the runway stays plowed. Anchorage is about 900 miles away. A helicopter ride over to cold bay, then on a plane to Anchorage might be easier if they can keep a pilots on hand.

Actually there's a bunch of really small, really remote communities up there. helicopter service to cold bay, plane to the trauma center might be a really good plan.
I've not seen the new movie but Miramar transitioned from Naval Airstation Miramar to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar a couple (?) decades ago.

So now I wonder what they did in the movie.
Well, children are not even asked whether they want to be created, never mind where they want to be born.
What does 97 year old Jimmy Carter have to gain from making a stand here?

I cannot come up with any motivations besides the guy actually just wants to protect the wild.

He grew up close to the land, so that makes sense to me.
Because aircraft turned out to be very very very good at killing ships in the 1940s, and the best way to deliver those (short ranged, when you compare to the Pacific) planes to where your enemies ships happened to be was to build an airstrip on a ship and then send that ship relatively close to the ships you wanted to kill.

And because ships are owned by the Navy, and the planes flying off those ships are killing the Navy's direct opponents, and the actual aircraft in question are specific to the Navy... It makes sense for the people flying the planes to be Navy too.
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That was my morning, my evenings, my weekends and my "holidays". I could have added more to the list. Teaching is not about babysitting kids for 60 minutes while you scroll though a PowerPoint.
I’m not at all qualified here, but it sounds like autorotation might not be involved in crashes because when autorotation works, there is no crash :P
By "kicked off" you mean seamlessly migrated over. The fact that you're amazed Talk itself was still running shows how well the migration went.
It's because the majority of the movie is a death dream after Maverick screws the pooch with the SR-72.
Did you stop and consider the possibility that the AI made the mistake intentionally to make you think a human wrote it (fallibility).
Yes, but incoming regulation is going to make selling gasoline cars increasingly difficult. That includes Europe, especially.

If Toyota is in the business of selling cars, they're going to have problems when large swaths of the population are incentivized to buy electric cars, and Toyota has a limited selection.

So, these pension funds are probably right to be worried that Toyota has dropped the ball on this.