skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > AI is an hilariously imprecise term, what is an AI according to you?

> Fair point. I should have said "a hilariously imprecise notion of what an LM is", since that is what LaMDA is ultimately - a next generation Language Model with specific innovations for use in Dialog Applications (as the name hints at).

I would argue that even the term language model is imprecise. That said I am not even sure if the author was trying to make the concept understandable to the layman, which is often flawed.

> It is not "a hive mind which is the aggregation of the different chatbots". The different chatbots are simply LaMDA with some additional constraints, just like you can ask GPT-3 to generate phrases in the style of Ernest Hemingway or Marcel Proust - that doesn't make GPT-3 "an aggregation of the Ernest Hemingway persona and the Marcel Proust persona".

I would argue one way of explaining this to a layman would be along those lines.

> > Well there are LSTM systems (which qualify as memory to some extend) we also don't know if Google does not use continual learning approaches so you making assertions based on incomplete knowledge at best.

> That is a different kind of memory - it allows the model to take into account its previous outputs, but is not a persistent modification of the neural net itself. In fact, any kind of long-term persistence in a LM the size of LaMDA is unlikely to be desirable, as you don't want cross-contamination of conversations with different users, and running separate copies of the whole model for each user is not technically feasible.

> > we also don't know if Google does not use continual learning approaches so you making assertions based on incomplete knowledge at best.

> They have described before what LaMDA is [0], and it is not doing self-learning.

The post describe that they do fine tuning with some sort of GAN approach. Now this raises the question (which I commented on in a previous post already), can something which only does "discrete" learning be conscious. I tend to agree with you that probably not, but I'm cautious to simply dismiss the possibility outright. I can imagine some hive mind like entities which can only learn at discrete instances when they bring their "stupid" parts together to more closely exchange informations

> > Note that the same person acknowledges that other cognitive scientists think we are at the brink of GAI. So your argument is an appeal to authority while ignoring all other authorities.

> Fair enough.

> [0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/lamda-towards-safe-grounde...

Thanks for the link I was not aware. I also should say that I'm generally an AI sceptic and systems are very much overhyped most of the time. However, because we don't understand consciousness very well, and I think our understanding of what exactly is going on in NNs is also severely lacking (why did the network decide this way), I am vary of quick judgement calls. I agree with many here that likely we are not seeing a sentient being here, but I'm reluctant to make absolute calls.
You can also pipe wf-recorder into video4linux or some weird stuff like that. Admittedly having this stuff "just work" is nice on other platforms.
> I'll say though that buying a home may turn out to be a wise move if you can keep making the payments and things recover.

Oh yes. I could lose my job and get a new one with zero equity compensation and a 33% cut to base, and I’d still be pretty comfortable paying everything. And that’s by myself, not accounting for any of my wife’s income.

> currently running $1T USD deficits annually, and that after a spike in tax receipts due to asset inflation

Yes. I forecast this means more inflation. Or politicians choosing to actually make hard decisions and pay the price for their policies, which will happen only after much more inflation.

I have locked in the price of shelter for the next 30 years and the more inflation the better this real estate deal looks.
I always found the msdn documentation quite good, in the sense that almost every aspect of each API is described. However you have to read it thoroughly, a quick skim often leaves you doing things subtly wrong. I think that's where most people fail.

The API is often complex because of how old some parts are and how often things got extended in backwards-compatible ways
There are some USB "phones" - basically composite USB devices with audio and HID, where HID is used to handle keypad and display (if present). I'm using very cheap EX-03 "Skype" phone: https://tomeko.net/software/SIPclient/EX03.php but similar devices are also made by big brands, they are just more expensive (Polycom CX300, Plantronics Calisto, Yealink MP50 maybe?) and probably undocumented.
It'd be a bad investment. E.g. spend money to smarten up your home and enjoy living in it for the next, say, 20 years, vs. only enjoying it for a year because hey it's a cloud service that's died...
Fair point.

However I don't think you'd be able to easily manipulate the random stream.

By triggering the random tube you just generate a random number, but even by triggering it continuously you cannot directly manipulate the bytes. The counter is not reset after every event.

Moreover: the timer/counter is clocked at 20M, for a 16 bit timer it overflows every 3ms. The tube is inhibited for a similar amount of time by a monostable 555. And this inhibit time is controlled by an RC network that is separated from the timer/counter crystal. So even noise and fluctuation on this two clock sources generate some randomness.

I'm not saying that it is impossible to manipulate, I'm saying congrats if you figure out a way.
Computers still scale much faster than humans.
A visual watershed in watershed visualisation.
Writing is an inherently oppressive technology.

Some of the first uses for writing were tax records to record what was owed to the king.

A large bureaucratic state could not exist without writing.

In addition, up until recently, literacy was confined to the upper classes, and the common people could not read or write. This was used to perpetuate the privileges of the upper classes.
I might be biased for being old, but this is how all offices smelled for a long time. You’ll be fine.

Kind of funny how the thing that bothers me is a problem but the thing that doesn’t bother me isn’t a problem.
I wonder if black coffee, which is objectively worse tasting and harder to drink, has something to do with the drinker accepting that it's no longer a social thing but now just feeding an addiction/self-medicating. So taking the 'pill' straight becomes a practical choice.
Not the OP, but celebrity takes many forms. Being the mayors daughter or whatever brings unwanted attention.

One of my neighbors was an NFL player. He got hurt, retired and has a normal gig, just with more swag than most people. It was tough for his kids to just enjoy little league or whatever.
Cold turkey is better in my opinion.

People often lack the self control to keep with something for many weeks

You feel 60% as bad anyway

Relationships suffer because you move from "just a bad week" to "they've been irritable for a couple months now"
'Delicious. Full Stop': Russia's McDonald's renamed ahead of re-opening
> Sadly development has died down a little recently

Isn't this true for all Wayland projects? There seems to be zero community mindshare.
Speaking as a guy from the generative art scene. (Where we design pretty-stuff-generating AIs)

When you have a software-cow that you milk for pretty pictures, the creation process becomes all about tweaking the cow, generating a bunch of stuff and then picking through that stuff for the gems.

Hitting the aesthetic nail directly on the head becomes nigh-impossible. But you have reams of near misses and rando flukes.

Contrast that with drawing. Lots of work. No synthocow is doing it for you. But every stroke is right on the money. Because it's ME doing the stroking.
I have built a graph-based knowledge management system (https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise) on top of SQLite. It runs great. Also, from a management point of view (e.g., deployments, backups) its ease of use is second to none. I migrated the application from PostgreSQL (which is also a great RDBMS) to SQLite and I haven’t looked back.
Bananas are as far from random as possible already: they are all clones! (The widely available Cavendish banana)
Unfortunately impossible to read on my mini screen…

Seems like the viewport is fixed so zoom is disallowed. (Sites should never do this.)
Who are the blowhard hustlers talking to? What are they talking about?
This has a tech solution, but the same people problem. Look at the % that have “leftist” in the description. Again, politics come before interest just like the existing sites.

I decided to still look. There seems to be no interest-based community. Just random posts likely interesting to an existing group of friends.

It would be fun to stand one up for like gardening, fishing, sewing, or another of my random hobbies. But I’m admittedly lazy and don’t want to own that (both $ and effort managing a community).

I enjoyed niche subreddits until each devolved into feuding, politics, or just repetitive “how do I start” questions killing the signal:noise. The commercialization of Reddit was well after my disinterest.
How would it work? Where would you put the two lenses? Consider:

- You can't really have two lenses cemented together. That'll correct for chromatic aberration but, other than that, the lenses would behave as one (except for deviations from thin lens approx.)

- You can't have glasses mounting two lenses "d" apart for two reasons. 1) Having parallel lenses would terribly uncomfortable, heavy, and awkward 2) More importantly your eye and the two lenses would never be aligned (as soon as you move your focus away from the one spot the glasses were aligned for, the optical system performance would collapse)

- The best you could do, then, is contact lenses + eyeglasses. But then you have all the bother of wearing glasses and eyeglasses. Also, it's not obvious to me it would work since the contact lenses are in contact with your cornea, the pair behaving like a single lens.
That "NEVER SETTLE" author bio here is funny in this context. I thought it the whole repo creator was some disgruntled coder who wrote it to push for never settling out of court (but it turns out to be the slogan for the phone).
PowerMac 6100 Upgrade Guide (2000)
I also made the same mistake and assumed the article was about shortsighted thinking. But I've also always found the term "nearsighted" to be very confusing as well. I always confuse the meaning with "farsighted," ie not being able to see things near you.
Interestingly, reading is usually done indoors.
They used to get shipped to China as e-Waste but probably in a landfill somewhere.
> Bank transfers handle the problem by simply delaying full access to the money, at least for larger amounts, until banks on both ends have checked everything.

They are doing it for good reasons, presence of malicious agents (money launderers, etc.) exploiting trust requires it. (In fact, I’d argue banks are getting away with not doing it enough with very moneyed customers.)

Blockchain does not eliminate this need in current age—either equivalent institutions would have to be reproduced all anew, or we need to end the motivations that make people want to exploit financial system in the first place.

And if we do address the latter (the only sustainable solution in the long run), then what is the benefit of blockchain and all? Isn’t it just pure overhead then?
> And what about disabled folk who might rely on the smart functionality of the house to have something resembling an independent life? Or the elderly?

Again, the house just becomes non-smart. What about them? You can't say "I prefer dumb homes because smart homes might stop being smart" "Yeah but then they just become dumb" "But what about people who can't have dumb homes?"

That's not an advantage of a dumb home, it just sucks for people who rely on something when the something stops working.
I experimented with this over 10 years ago. I used a modified dnstxt from djbdns and put MIME headers and HTML into TXT RRs. tinydns allows a wider variety of bytes in RRs than other DNS software. At least, it was generally less restrictive than the other DNS software available at that time.
The data is available for everyone. In the United States there have been 7,300 total deaths for people under 30 and 25,000 total deaths for all people under 40. Nearly 80% of all hospitalizations are from obese people. 40% have hypertension, 30% some cardiovascular disease, and so on and so forth.

If you are under 40 and don’t have a known comorbidity you can treat Covid the same way you would treat the flu. If you’re under 30 with the same health status you can treat Covid as if it doesn’t exist.

Kids under 20 are more likely to die from poisoning or an automobile accident.
A Geiger-Müller tube has a dead-time after a detection event where it won't register a new event. Thus it's possible to saturate the tube. This would drastically reduce the entropy it generates, from what I can gather.
Android 13 started to give some OpenJDK 11 features... but ugh - nothing that we can widely rely on yet.

Core Java 11 features will be backported to Android 12 with ART as an APEX module, but that didn't happen quite yet as far as I can see.
I'd also add that it's probably good to watch it before as well, to give intuitions around things you'll later learn rigorously.
Oracle has done great things for Java. The renewed investment over the past few years are bringing amazing things.
Not only are these expensive, they’re hard to find.

A few years ago I asked my (Indian) in laws to gift me a nice wooden chess set in lieu of the usual gifs they get for me from India. I asked for it thinking it’ll be easy for them to get and it’ll be something I’ll cherish and find use for instead of dealing with clothing sizes or designs I might like.

It was absolutely not like that. The quality of the pieces is so drastically different and now I know why. Even now after they spent 2x-4x more than a good quality plastic set the bishop isn’t that much taller than the pawns. The rook is as tall as the pawns. And that was after they spent a lot of time finding a decent set that had a good feel and ensuring the due isn’t chipping off.
> I very much doubt kids 'studying too much' is the problem - staring at iphones all day watching tiktok and playing video games is more like it.

Civilizational myopia is not a new phenomenon. It is much older than iphones or video games.
Do you mean that because of its complexity, we are not able to define it due to practical reasons (i.e. no powerful enough computer exists)? If so, that’s something completely different. Consciousness cannot be defined with math or logic even in principle. Certain aspects of consciousness can’t be defined either, like qualia (for example, the sensation of a color). Many materialists would even say that consciousness doesn’t exist because of that, and it’s all just a delusion (to which I ask: who/what is this delusion experienced by?).

What properties of fire do you mean?
Does it handle defining functions? I can’t get them to work.
From the article: «East Asia has seen a stunning rise in the rate of short-sightedness».
Do Tesla PR disasters seem to be holding it back? It might simply be a calculated risk.
sm8250 sounds like a Snapdragon thing from Qualcomm. In other words: unlikely to happen because of NDAs. Even if one plus wanted to it wouldn't be up to them.

Edit: It seems there are a lot of FOSS warriors in here, let me clarify: historically, Qualcomm has been legally hostile with both FOSS software communities as well as with their own customers. They will not give anything for free, and if they can slap a ton of NDAs on it, they will. This isn't about if it is GPL compliant or if it is legal or not in some court somewhere in the world, it is about their track record (which is similar to Broadcom). If oneplus has unencumbered source code they have to ship it with their GPL release, if not, they did a stupid thing by being dual-encumbered by conflicting licenses and it's anyones guess what the end result is going to be.
No talent required in the new and lucrative era of the gentleman amateur
All of men who decided their desire or even just convenience was more important than a woman's life. The songs dwell on the murderer's emotion, and pretty much skip over the innocent facing death. Because men matter, and women are property I guess.

'Great American' my ass. Strange anybody today would want to repeat these stories.
Yes; among other reasons, sunlight reflecting off the white pages of a book is bright enough to injure your eyes.

The basic Kindle model is grey and can be comfortably read in sunlight, and yet somehow people are convinced that the "PaperWhite" model is better...
> Speaking of landfills, most of those computers had RTC on board, and were powered by batteries, which tend to explode and "rot" away the board. It's likely very few of them will be salvageable in an easy-to-repair way if they sit for another 20 years.

Yup. During the lockdown I had time to waste and checked various YouTube videos and they scared me enough that I started checking my old computers for batteries. Found one in an old Apple computer (I forgot if it's a Classic or Classic II or Plus: one of those "inside" a 9" CRT) and indeed the battery had started leaking. I took it out, cleaned what I could, and the computer was still working. But a few more years and it would have been badly damaged.

And it's not just batteries: capacitors may sometimes start leaking and destroying the PCB too.
I can’t speak for others, but some of mine are in my mini Mac museum

Apple ][c

PowerBook Duo 210

Original Barbie’s Toilet Seat iBook

G4 Cube

Original iPod

Original iPhone

All the towers had to go :(
The beauty of science is that you don’t have to “believe” in it.
My path was easier - get a good job and put 20% of salary into savings for 20 years. It meant driving cars into the ground and being frugal during tight times, but worth it.
> Autopilot is cruise control that keeps you within a lane when it can. That's it. Other cars have it, and they're equally effective or ineffective.

But "Autopilot" obviously sounds cooler. So you can pay 10k and feel good, while that feature costs 1.300 Euro in my Hyundai (where it also comes with heated seats and steering wheel in the package).

The more I read and see from Tesla, the more it look likes some kind of A/B test on how much money people are willing to spend on a beta software/car-test.
Aren't you still putting the same pressures on the shoulders and wrists per the previous poster? I discovered the rings at age 46, and I love them. I fell off exercise when I moved back to the US at age 52, and COVID helped me excuse my way to the worst shape I have been in my entire life. I was using the book, "Building the Gymnastic Body: The Science of Gymnastics Strength Training".

I think the US as a developed nation suffered as many COVID deaths as it did due to the nation's average fitness and high percentage of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. I have metal plates in my left wrist due to a fall injury, and I had no issues with handstands and the rings. I would say my wrist flexibility and mobility improved.
The last time I tried Codium, not being able to use Remote Development was a showstopper. Has the situation improved since then?
(Proprietary is spelled propriety in a few places.)

I’m surprised VS Codium is so well packaged..
So use helidon, micronaut, javalin, or spark if you want something small, but I suspect in any real application you’ll just end up recreating half of spring. That’s what my company did and it’s not near the quality of anything in Spring.
3b1b explains the meaning of a determinant so beautifully in his video.

Take a look at the comments on his YouTube video - there are tons of people that say this is the first time ever they came across such an explanation.
A really fun feature of herbstluftwm that I’ve not seen replicated is that monitors are virtual and can be reconfigured on the fly, so you can have e.g. a monitor that is bigger than your physical screen, or a little virtual monitor that you can pop in and out of your screen as a kind of notepad.
Intriguing! What was the use for the floss there…?
they're all busy mining retrocoins in some farm in Kazakhstan
In China anything of this ilk is stripped for metal. The cases would have been the first thing to go. Perhaps the boards would have been melted for copper, but now perhaps this is less profitable and/or more difficult to achieve with increasing environmental enforcement operations in developed coastal provinces.
An NDA does not override the GPL, and does not shield from its obligations. As you say, it's "not up to them" to decide which legal obligations they will honor.
Except that it kinda is, because race is highly correlated with wealth in the US due to over a century of oppression and open systemic racism.
> The reality is that as you move up the social hierarchy in modern human society, trust tends to vanish and is ultimately viewed as something only a rube would rely on. This is why contract law exists, doesn't it?

I thought about this in such framing, too.

My observation was exactly this: in “higher classes” it looks like trust is implied, and in lower classes everybody is verified.

My logic, however, runs such that we need to elevate the entire society to that level, rather than drop it to the level of “rubes” you mention.

I.e., treat everyone as a respectable individual—a mentally healthy person tends to behave the way they are perceived by others—and by working on general well-being eliminate mental constructs that push people to secure themselves at the expense of others. Does this make sense?
Maybe we’re all doomed to just power off forever…
I'm a founder. I agree, it's a scam. The constraint I bump up against is that VCs expect standard terms which means that stock options will be granted with tight post-exit expiry schedules. The best we've managed to do is to give people the right to 83b election. The whole structure creates such an adverse situation for employees - forcing people who are usually not in a position to take risk (like this guy) into a risk position and a taxable event.

If anyone has good workarounds for seed-Series B level companies, I'd love to hear.
I see, you were already somehow alerted.
Android Java is not like proper Java, including how ART works. At least they dropped Dalvik which was comparable to early JVM implementations pre-JIT days, think Java 1.2.

Then there is the whole issue that Google isn't that up the game into making the same kind of optimizations as the Java community, and rather calls into C++ via native methods than optimizing ART more than good enough.

Finally the sore state of proper Java support comes from their beef with Sun and Oracle initially, and now their agenda to push Kotlin no matter what, and every modern Java feature that becomes one red less against Kotlin doesn't help.

Hence why most of their Java vs Kotlin samples are mostly based on Java 7.

If the Android team really cared, they would provide equal support for both languages and then let the community pick up which one they were found of.

Even the recently announced improved support for Android 13 is based on a Java 11 LTS subset, when the more recent LTS version is 17, and Java 19 is a couple of months away.
I'm afraid it cannot, since those functions would need to be compiled into WASM first, and that's something the browser can't do.

What I could add, though, is a bunch of "standard" functions (like the ones found in Hugo, for example).

Noted!
Does LaMDA have sentient-nature?
Doctors don't feed people in hospitals. They have registered dieticians on staff for that. Most hospitals now feed patients more healthy food. Sometimes they just need to get some calories into certain patients, and green jello and white bread are easy to digest.