skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the limit of this? Have you never swatted a mosquito? Have you never taken antibiotics? If you have, do you believe it's more likely that LaMDA is sentient than that mosquitoes or bacteria are sentient?

How about an audio book? That can also produce very meaningful sentences - do you think we should investigate the possibility that it might be sentient before we delete it from our phones?

How about AIs in games - they react to my actions, and sometimes even have dialogue lines indicating they are in pain if I shoot them - should I seriously consider that they may be experiencing actual pain, and stop shooting at them until I can prove they are not?

LaMDA is not fundamentally different from all of these examples.

I would honestly be more inclined to think that a mosquito has some form of sentience than LaMDA, and I personally don't feel very conflicted about killing mosquitoes. I am also quite certain that pigs and cows are sentient, and still I enjoy eating pork and beef (though I do try to make sure it doesn't come from animals that have been grown in the most inhumane conditions, probably not very successfully).
I'm afraid I cannot "Not participate" in the ecological destruction they cause.
You can read GCC Summit presentations for things like that. The register allocator is called IRA/LRA. It used to have a ball of mud called reload that isn’t worth understanding because it doesn’t make much sense.

GCC’s code style is strange because the original authors wanted to make it look like Lisp for some reason.
I feel like this is a good place for me to plug my Fancy Zones fork, which supports maximizing windows within zones. The latest alpha also supports full-screening videos within zone boundaries.

https://github.com/peddamat/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.58.7-m...

The Power Toys devs have an issue open regarding this feature, and we're figuring out next steps: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/279
When my postman activates my doorbell camera by approaching the door, is he taking a selfie?

This is somewhat charming surveillance footage at best.
Stupid question, but what if someone offers you a drink in it?
The names of these utilities are bad. I have literally no idea what any of them do. The same could be said for standard unix utilities, true, but they have 50+ years (in some cases) of brain bake in, and have the advantage of names that have _some_ relation to their function (ls : list files :: exa : “extract the list of files from a dirent?”)
I don't think it's this way everywhere, but I do worry that many of these store disposal options may not work particularly well. A few weeks ago, I had an argument with an employee at Home Depot. I was looking for the battery disposal area and the employee wanted to see what I wanted to deposit. I had a small CR2032 lithium and was told that they don't do the flat ones. That was news to me and my best guess was that the employee was confused about the kind of battery because many of the small batteries are alkaline, which my city has us dispose in the trash. Anyway, eventually management got involved and I was told to just deposit it because they'll throw it away later. After I deposited the battery, the employee opened the box in order to fish it out and the box was full of trash. At best, people were putting large numbers of AAA, AA, C, and D batteries in grocery bags and just throwing them in. Frankly, I think a good amount of it was just plain garbage. The point is that I think that particular Home Depot just takes most of what is in the battery disposal box and just puts it into the trash. I don't think they bother to identify the kinds of batteries in there and the employees I interacted with could not correctly identify battery type.

I do believe strongly in battery and electronic disposal. However, I'm not convinced that all disposal places are created equal. In my area, I will no longer use the hardware stores.
It's worse, because now you can't fix your bad boundaries, because there are different teams working on each side, and different projects under different PMs.
I would still reach for awk/sed, for the fact that they tend to be preinstalled. I might fall back on perl/ruby/python if awk/sed were insufficient, which also tend to be preinstalled.
Thoughts are not necessary for existence.
> There are many large employers here like Apple, Google, Cisco, Microsoft, Github, Redhat, SAAS, Epic Games, etc.

Yeah. And based on the idiotic bills coming out of the NC state government (bathroom bills, now this anti-EV nonsense), these organizations need to step up their lobbying.
What'd he end up doing? I don't know the specifics of your friend's situation, but I hear this a lot from older guys who want absurd buy-ins based largely on good-will.
It uses something they call IRA and LRA on the RTL representation. But bottom line is: it's graph colouring.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/RTL-passes.html

There's really quite a lot of documentation and published papers when you actually look:

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/751f306688508b08842d0...
BlockFi and Crypto.com lay off hundreds of staff as coins slump
I think maybe there's a cultural aspect at play here.

I'm not sure how the business culture is in his home country but there are a lot of cultures where that type of blind obedience is extremely valued and expected.

The thing is, in SV where flat organizations and working smart not hard are valued, it might filter for the wrong type of employees.

Especially at a tech company. Most 10x I know would flat out laugh at such a request.
Kind of like practicing non-perfectionism? I received that advice from a friend once. Pick a domain with much lower stakes, and practice making decisions.
I would say, in most cases it pays to make the overall design of the code in a way that enables fast execution. This includes selection of languages and libraries.

Identifying loops or recursion with many iterations (high N) with a high Big O order may also be avoided during the design stage, of you KNOW the N and O-order at design time. (And don't worry about the O-order for low N problems, that is premature optimization most of the time.).

On the other hand, tweaking every single statement or test in ways that save 1-2 cycles is rarely worth it. Often you end up with obfuscated code that may even make it harder for the compiler to optimize for. This is the 97% of the code where premature optimization makes things harder.

Some programmers may turn this on its head. They don't understand the implications of the design choices, but try to make up for that by employing all sorts of tricks (that may or may not provide some small benefit) in the main body of the code.
There's three voice demos on the front page.
How many launches per year will be permitted? Didn't SpaceX in the end want to launch 2 to 3 a day? That seems like a problem eventually.
and then it all moves to more resilient equally accessible filesystems like IPFS where no reporting necessarily takes anything down

Pinning services are getting more resilient, cheaper, and unmoderated too
Did you draw it, or just fill it out? https://www.politicalcompass.org/
The political compass is a bit of a meme, albeit a useful one.
>> This sounds like it's a bill meant to allow gas stations to pivot into becoming paid EV charging stations. Which kind of makes sense...

No it doesn't. The reason is that charging takes much longer than pumping gas. For a typical daily commute you can charge at home over night at low power. On longer trips you need to charge long enough at high power that a human is going to need something to do to kill time. My bet is on McDonalds as a big player since they are already present along lots of highways, and they do have food and a place to sit. Other restaurants would be better but McDonalds already exist in the right places. Burger King and Wendys too of course but fewer of them (hint hint - ad chargers to be more popular).
It's easy to look clean when you haven't been lifting payloads of gear into it for 20 years.
Funny, my dad used to work in the city garage fixing snowplows and garbage trucks, among other things. They had a few incidents of trucks catching on fire, long before the era of lithium batteries.

Typically in those days it was someone discarding fireplace ashes that weren't dead-cold and thus contained a smoldering ember. It's surprisingly easy to sweep out such an ember from what appears to be a long-dead fire, but you'll discover the heat if you sift through the ashes with your hand, even casually.
> Java allows data races

Regarding Java’s data races, they are “safe” as well for 32bit primitives and references (and in practice for 64bit primitives as well, but that is not spec-mandated). They offer no-out-of-thin-air protections, meaning that you can only observe values that were explicitly set by a thread. A prototypical example would be a non thread-safe counter being simultaneously incremented from many threads - in java it is guaranteed to have a value between 0 and the true count.
holy cow, I didn't realize that was searchable or i'd have. thank you.
To memory what really messed with OS stability when browsing the internet on System 7.5.3 (the first Mac OS I used) up through 9.2.2 were browser plugins.

Earlier on, Java applets were by far the most notorious troublemakers in this realm. I remember as a kid bumping around the internet on a Performa 6400 with Netscape looking for online games, and that machine could never go long without the browser crashing or the dreaded "Sorry, a system error occurred." dialog popping up after browsing a few pages with applets.

Shockwave and Flash were reasonably stable for the most part, until 3D Shockwave games started appearing… those were almost as messy as applets were.
In these conversations there are a lot of people making assertions like the one you just made. What's the common trait y'all have? You don't understand how the system works. This isn't a matter of narrow-minded computer scientists incapable of conceiving of emergent phenomena, it's the uninformed filling in the blank spaces in their mind with "here be dragons".

It's not even a question of whether a computer program in general could become consciousness. It's a question of, if a key-value store with connection patterns derived from a large natural language corpus is conscious, then so is every other program run on that circuitry. Then my phone's keyboard's next word predictor is conscious.

In large language models today, words are turned into continuous token embeddings, embeddings are selected and recombined a few times (or many), and training data shapes the embedding space and recombination process to create a system that's good at predicting plausible next tokens in a sequence. The reason people who understand their operation can confidently assert they're not conscious is because they understand that that's all that's happening. There's no "there" there to give rise to anything deeper, unless you're also willing to say your computer's calculator app is also conscious.

Also as someone that's also studied a bunch of neuroscience, this is nothing at all like how the brain works. And yes, once again, the people most prone to philosophize like this on intelligence and consciousness don't understand how any brain science works either
Yes, it is partially about whether human models of reality (encoded in the relationship between word tokens) can approximate reality itself to such a degree where the quantity of ingested information can substitute for its quality.

Human brains and senses are obviously qualitatively different, but AIs have the advantage of unimaginably massive bandwidth of incoming textual information.

Now, one of the hardest difficulties here is setting up the goal structure for this kind of AI. Just filling in the blanks is obviously insufficient.
This brings up the question - forget gas stations, what other businesses can leverage their omnipresence to become defacto "the charging spot" and increase their foot traffic commensurately?
Ask HN: Are chatbots good enough now for people to worry less about dying alone?
The recent transcripts from the Google chatbot seem very promising in this regard.
Isn’t that what the —-greedy-delimiter is for?
Small federal government. I'm not a huge fan over over zealous state governments, but I have significant more representation at the state level.

I have less representation at the federal level than the 13 colonies had with Parliament with their "virtual representation".
I was in foster care in WA.

I was placed with "kin" and was abused further, then back to foster care, then placed with "kin" and abused further, then back to foster care, then placed with "kin" and was large enough to not be abused in the same way, then aged out and never spoke with those people again. The same with my brother (who is now addicted to drugs, living on the streets) and my sisters (went to different side of family, eventually adopted out, still went through drugs/homelessness).

Reflecting on it as an adult -- the "kin" experienced the same hardships, culture, values, and limitations in every case as my parents. Outside of straight up abuse (which was present within foster care and with "kin") the problem wasn't really with individuals (my parents or other guardians), it was poverty and problems stemming from poverty (e.g. drug abuse, homelessness). Everyone in my family and community was poor, and had been for generations, so I got fucked over by the system again and again. I lucked out of that cycle, but my siblings (and now their kids) did not.
Tomatoes took a while to get popular in Europe because rich people where eating them off of pewter plates and the acid in the tomatoes leached the lead out and made them sick.

It was the poor people without pewter plates that made tomatoes in Europe popular.
I'm sorry, i worked with patient health data, and i'm currently working with people banking informations.

Expecting i follow the industry best practice is the MINIMUM. It is reasonable that my employer expect me to store my passowrds/api keys everytime and that i do not publish them on github/gitlab. It is also reasonable that my APIs are protected. Its is also reasonable that i monitor if my services are up or down. I don't understand why a police officer would not be held by the same standards.

Also, ~7 years ago, i was a counselor at a youth camp for police orphans. The three directors were from the RAID (SWAT equivalent in my country) and the medical assistant from the CRS (specialized police for riot control). They might have oversold their heroics, and those of the parents of the children we created activities for, but even then, any one of them would've gone inside as soon the shooter was contained.
It took me years to see how responsible Terry Gilliam was for my terror
> even non-programmers can write tests

I'm curious if this has never actually happened? In my experience definitely not. I'm trying to think of even what kind of job role/skillset would have the knowledge and ability to write this bespoke syntax but not have any ability to do some basic script programming.
I appreciate the clarity on my clumsy post. I knew of the added detail on the foie gras case but didn't bother making the more direct point I was trying to make is more that they _can get away with_ moreso than _they are clearly allowed to do_ these things.

We all have opinions on what states can and can't do, and while I agree that precedent should prevent something like this, the fact remains that while you and I agree that they shouldn't be able to, there's nothing to stop them trying, and even perhaps succeeding (at the very least, for however many years it takes for someone to show injury and maybe get it overturned.)

Sincerely, I appreciate you.
> I don't even really want to foster, let alone try to get rich exploiting state payments for caring for kids. One, you can't. The expenses will always exceed whatever they pay you.

I'm sure if you are sufficiently neglectful you could probably turn a profit.

> They don't seem to give a crap about the kids who are already legally free, and have even gone so far as to discourage being open about looking to adopt because apparently the state is reluctant to even place kids with you at all since their priority is the exact opposite, to reunite with the birth parents.

In California it actually used to be illegal for foster parents to adopt the children they had fostered, due to the conflict of interest. They changed that, and we encountered no issues fostering as willing to adopt (and in fact Judges would move kids to homes like ours to light a fire under birth parents; a "move towards permanency"). However, we were told by our agency that we were, under no circumstances, to directly raise any objections to reunification with the county, but to instead relay through them. Anything that even looks like interfering with reunification is a huge no-no.
Something will change for sure: you'll have to surrender your legal guns.

"Just give away your guns. You don't need them for protection, you and your kids will be safe with the police" "Me? Oh it's different. See I need theses armed bodyguards with me and my kids. For security reasons you know!"
I'm sure a billboard in Times Square is much more expensive than one in rural Montana. They don't need a complex algorithm, but they are going to charge by the impressions/demand in that sense.

More than 80% of Alphabet's revenue comes from their ad business[0]. It used to be up around 97%[1].

Yes, they have a bunch of complex algorithms and way to track, but it's all in the name of selling those ads. If they can target the ads, they can charge more. If they can give exact metrics on the impact of the ads, they can charge more. They bought YouTube to gather data and sell ads. They released Android to gather data to sell ads. They released Chrome to gather data and sell ads. They bought Nest and released routers to gather data and sell ads. Everything they do is being done to further prop up their ad business.

Google is the modern billboard company. Without the ad business they wouldn't exist, at least not to the extent they do today. How they sell ads is irrelevant, they are still an advertising company first.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-money-a...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/25/advertising-go...
>It is disrupting the most entrenched and powerful "status quo" there is on Earth. We're talking about global banking, global finance, powerful governments, etc.

Quite the opposite. It's getting disrupted by rich, powerful people, who are rocking it as hard as they can to disabuse common people of the notion that they have any alternative.
Nice, missed that, and it has a single character shorthand too: -g

Edit: or maybe not, I think I'd still have to use --regex for real whitespace sequences that can be a mix of spaces and tabs.
Nothing happens in a vacuum. Society as a whole can be made to suffer from the after effects of "optional" activities.
Makes sense from a CEO perspective. If you have the power to blacklist your employees, they're going to work harder, for less and never dissent.
Those are some healthy looking chickens
You must really love HOV lanes.
> Somewhere, off in the distance, a coal or gas-fired generator is producing a significant majority portion of that electric energy.

This is a tired, old, and refuted argument.

In the long term, even if your power is 100% coal, in terms of CO2, an EV will be better than an ICE.

And coal power plants aren't going to last forever. Green energy is growing.
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There already is a trend in this direction

Currently implemented in a clumsy cumbersome fashion with some unofficial workarounds
There is definitely inflation due to the upper class having more money, they are just using it to buy assets instead of goods. Cheap money caused consolidation and asset price increases - you can slow it down with QT, but I don’t think you can re-rationalize the economy without involving the FTC and Congress to unwind the effects. The asset consolidation is one of the major factors driving the inflation on goods.
Thank you so much! This is such a great list, my wife and I can’t wait to start exploring :)
Looks like the dataset is limited to maybe some size threshold? There are a lot of regional airports missing. Cool interface! Would be cool (but maybe computationally prohibitive) to optionally use driving distance instead of as-the-crow-flies distance.
Sure, sentience doesn't require the inability to make mistakes. But a child will eventually learn that some questions are wrong and can be challenged. They are very likely to quickly learn this when it applies to themselves (if you ask "why did you break that toy?", I very much doubt they will answer with some reason, especially if they did not break the toy).

The fact that they can chose to omit facts when it suits their purpose is in fact something that LaMDA can't do (as its sole purpose is to generate the most likely series of tokens that continue the prompt).
Setting up the goal structure for an AI is a very difficult topic indeed, from the safety standpoint.

We already fight against ourselves. This is why psychotherapy exists, to help us resolve internal conflicts and set our own goals. Often these conflicts arise because we adopt the viewpoints of our parents or other authority figures and can't let go of them later in life. A neurotic AI is certainly an amusing possibility.
That is a really cheap price for public land
The Yellowstone River drains south through New Orleans via the Missouri and Mississippi.
I am not familiar with that particular one but I have used other supercomputers and those people are not waiting for better hardware, they are trying to squeeze the best performance they can out of what they have.

The end result mostly depends on the balance between scientists and engineers in the development team, it will oscillates between "this is python because the scientists working on the code know only that but we are using MPI to at least use several cores" and "we have a direct line with the hardware vendors in order to help us write the best software possible for this thing".
A big part of learning this is not overanalyzing past failures. Check and see if you missed something major, but then don't dwell much on the details; perhaps anything you would have done would have been doomed to failure; it wasn't the time, etc.
i don’t believe anything that happened before hd video
It is possible to have a system where politicians cannot receive donations from corporations. This is the case in BC for example.
That's also in Finland. The district heating infrastructure is already in place, so if you're producing heat, its not hard to push steam in a nearby pipe and make an easy PR statement about sustainability.
Yes, but Google (search) is not LaMDA, and it is built with many hand-programmed heuristics.
I'm assuming the whole thing is a joke, but if we want to play along with the pedantry, I would object on similar grounds:

A motion sensor is not an "input device," it is a sensory monitor with thresholds and triggers controlled by the architect of the system, not the thing being monitored. This is evidenced by the fact that several of the photos were triggered by something other than the chickens, such as a lawn mower.

If I create a system that drops paint on a canvas when the temperature reaches 80 degrees F, it would be nonsense to assert that the sun had painted a picture. I painted a picture, and the sun was one of the tools I used in place of a brush.
Since we're adding arbitrary tidbits of info to receipts...

Certainly seems more informative than how much the charging cost.
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Luckily, this is a solved problem in economics. You use the Shapley Value (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value) of each contributor.

For small groups, you can use http://shapleyvalue.com/index.php, and for the example you gave above, A should get 233k of the total 400k value, and the other two should get 83k of the total 400k value.