skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you think you are on the cusp of burnout, you are already IN the burnout.

I don't think so. Many people who reflect on themselves actively but have no experience with irreversible burnout think or say that they're burning out, but they just have good self-awareness.

Also -- based on my limited experience and some 'formal' education in burnout management, etc. -- I think that burnout can't be fixed with exercise, more free time, vacations, etc. These can help preventing burnout in your next role, but they generally won't fix your life in your current environment.

For people who are actually burned out the recommendation is generally that 1) first stop the thing that burns you out 2) then start doing things that seem to heal you 3) then make a plan for what you'd like to do next (e.g. in work) and how you plan to keep your balance 4) start doing the next thing

I.e. you can't make good plans and rebalance while you're in the middle of the thing that is burning you out.

I understand that this advice requires a lot of privilege (e.g. that you can drop work for a few months for example), but there are hacks that help even if you're less privileged.
Faith-based claims abound. The simple fact is that we do not know, because we can not know until we can define the conditions of sentience with clarity.
K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android
I am in love with this trend of replacing old school unix utilities with new rust projects that stay just as fast or faster, but increase the usability or feature set tenfold. rg, fd, exa, bat, and now tuc.
Insulation and air sealing of residential construction has barely increased in the past ~40 years. The technology to build higher efficient homes has been around since the 70s, and if done during initial construction would easily pay for themselves in very few years. If money was spent on this instead of other flashy eco technology (Solar Panels,High Efficient Heat Pumps, etc.) you could have C02 and cost savings for the life of the building with limited maintenance and no replacement cost.
And then you get the chemical shift differences of the dissolved phases when imaging with 129Xe as well – got to love SEOP and hyperpolarisation techniques in general! :-)
Bitcoin's first block dates back to January 2009, or 13 years. POS devices have existed since, at least, 2017, or five years. Despite that people are using crypto less as a currency today than they ever have. What are the next 8 years going to bring us that the past 13 haven't?

It seems like as time goes on crypto becomes less useful rather than more as a general utility for buying stuff. Most crypto "currencies" are also a not a great store of value currently.

Just for context, the Ukrainian Hryvnia has lost less value since the Russian invasion than bitcoin has lost today. A financial system more volatile than the economy of a country outmatched in a war with a superpower, is perhaps, not a system you want doing things that require stability.
Intrinsic value is an interesting term, but say we are not talking about McDonalds, but rather say Acacia Research ( ticker: ACTG ). Is their value intrinsic or imaginary? Without going down the rabbit hole of what is 'value' rabbit hole, the argument of value ( intrinsic or not ) may not hold much; mostly because value is what is valuable at a given time.

You will find not argument from me saying that crypto has tons of scams going, but.. quite honestly, same is true in regular finance. Traditional finance is just more regulated. And, before we get to that point in other posts, it seems like crypto regulation was just hatched the other day.
One day, a nude photo will be considered not much different than a face photo and that day a lot of things in the world will be much easier
Sentience is a philosophy question, not a neuroscience question. Neuroscientists and computer programmers owe the world a lot more than “this model behaves somewhat like neurons” to be convincing that a computer simulation actually experiences.

Yes we’re getting to the point that the dismissal can’t just be automatic, but exclaiming “you can’t prove I’m wrong” isn’t much of a basis for defending your position with you can only defend otherwise with shallow similarities.
I'm fine with what you're saying, but the sad truth is that US rarely has "allies" it's mostly puppets and dogs [1], even for a large and rich entity like the EU it's mostly forced to follow the US strategy willingly or forcefully.

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1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABhZQ_VRbsQ
if you think the US is a meritocracy, you can probably get nearly half the country to vote for you
The actual link is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGnZPnvIlHbfuh2ZJxgvWjQ/com...
Illegal Home Demolitions Are Now State Policy. Here's What the SC Can Do
I would love to know that too. Sure, rising interests, bad economy etc. However, what is the back-of-the-envelope calculation to explain such a huge move in liquidity? I don't have a finance background, so I have zero gut feeling about the orders of magnitude involved.
Only if that subreddit also allows such requests to stay up.

Reddit closes subreddits for lack of active moderation all the time.
To be clear, I agree that LaMDA is not sentient. Machine learning is not intelligent.

> It doesn't do anything because it's literally "turned off" when not prompted or given any inputs.

I wondered the same thing. It could be argued that it is sentient during the brief moments that it is coming up with a response.

Put another way; let's assume that we are ourselves AI in an artificial universe. Would you be able to tell if the universal computer was turned off for a day? So, a model might not experience sentience in the seconds while you are composing a message, but plausibly could while formulating a response to your input.
The author linked to this article to explain it: https://medium.com/@dan_manges/the-modular-monolith-rails-ar...

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From the article:

We don’t have an app/ directory in our Rails project. All of our code is either in gems/ or engines/.

Gems contain Ruby code that does not depend on Rails. We use ActiveSupport, but we do not use ActiveRecord or ActionPack. The gems are all stateless.

Engines contain Ruby code that does depend on Rails. Persistence happens at this layer through ActiveRecord. API and Web interfaces are exposed at this layer through ActionPack.
more like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
[..]if we converted just 12% of the land currently devoted to cropland to forest—aka re-wilded it—we could offset 100% of the carbon damage we do to the Earth, each and every year, without changing a single thing about how we fuel our cars, heat and cool our buildings, and run our commerce and lives.[..]

Rewilding our planet is our only hope.

I am a big supporter of E.O.Wilson’s Half Earth proposal which sets aside half of all land mass to habitat. If we cannot live in the remaining half , it means we are living beyond the carrying capacity of the planet.

Why? Because we are a super apex predator relying on other species for our survival. And we have been destroying their habitat and outbreeding them and therefore replacing all the other species that is supposed to ensure that we don’t go extinct.

In other words, we are like the dumbass woodsman who is sawing the trunk of a mighty tree while sitting on the topmost branch of the same tree.

We are killing the golden goose that lays golden eggs because of our greed. When the goose is gone, no more eggs.

Having said that, the author just jumped the shark by making a case for the vertical farm.
Few boats can do anything close to 30 MPH, especially in conditions bad enough to close down their existing airport.
Mechanical action <-> analog multidimensional modem <-> information filter <-> serialize information <-> pattern match with $_

There.
We need a better test.

Turing Test has been beaten already.

My take on LaMDA, after reading through the Washington Post “interview,” is that LaMDA gave some indications of being self-aware, but would not fit the definition of lucid or rational.
> forced

Ultimately through threat of violence or depriving of liberty. That is, it is the state's monopoly on violence which makes a currency. Bitcoin, being state-less, has no such monopoly and must ultimately fail.

Although Venezula seems to have been making a first pass at it.
Important note: the largest "SFW" Deepfake community, r/SFWdeepfakes, was not banned, rather a smaller competing subreddit which doesn't have a recent archive on the popular archive sites.
So adding two disasters together makes it magnificent news? Oh dear.

I don't think Thunderbird is that relevant today since that it's essentially abandoned and still no Android or iOS app for decades. I'd say that ship has already sailed and it would be a long way to go to support iOS.

It has gotten this bad that they needed something like K-9 to have Android support, and you would have thought that even with Google's money they would have already funded an effort like this on their own. Well now lots of Mozilla fans are going to realize that their 'donations' don't actually go to Firefox, or Thunderbird, etc but are really wasted on other schemes.

An opportunity thrown away for years and now they come back again with this announcement decades later and coming very late to the party after Thunderbird getting deprioritised.

A giant mess.
> You need a fairly sophisticated DevOps organization to successfully run microservices

Yawn. Stopped reading when I reached this. One can make the case for their choices without parroting the same old tired arguments against alternative choices. Shallow comparisons between Java to PHP to Ruby is lazy, and very 2010. If I were in the CEO's circle, I wouldn't have recommended this be published. Bad look for Gitlab.
Welcome, GPT-3 or it's cousin! So glad you could join us.
From the quoted Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...):

Fallacies of distributed computing:

- The network is reliable;

- Latency is zero;

- Bandwidth is infinite;

- The network is secure;

- Topology doesn't change;

- There is one administrator;

- Transport cost is zero;

- The network is homogeneous.
Energies converge. Patterns emerge.
> lack of energy, stress, short temper, low immunity

These could be caused by MANY things. Please go see a professional.

One advice (that a good professional will also probably tell) is to exercise yourself.

If you're not yet, this could be as simple to solve as getting your body to move vigorously and regularly.

Cardio-vascular exercises are best. Get your heart rate high for a minimum of 2 hours per week total. Start with 10 minutes per day. Something from moderate to intense. The more intense you can get, the better.

Also go see a professional before starting any exercises. Especially if you have any special medical condition, like heart diseases.
Only another 8 years, eh? Does this assume a ceteris paribus scenario where Apple, Google, Visa, MC, PayPal stand still on infrastructure and mobile wallets?
Github has outages nearly ever week now, sometimes multiple times a week not quarter
To try to clarify the conversation a bit, here's (my version of) a couple definitions.

Sentience is awareness of one's surroundings. Your cat is sentient. Most embedded systems are to some degree sentient. We know what makes this - adequate interfaces to adequate sensors, plus some mechanism to respond to the input in some way. That's basically all it takes.

Sapience is the awareness of one's own mind - the ability to watch yourself think. We're pretty sure that your cat is not sapient, and neither are embedded systems. But we don't know what enables or causes sapience, nor how it does so.

So when we're talking about "consciousness" or something, we have to be clear whether we're talking about sentience or sapience. (And the conversation won't be using my words, so don't go by that - you have to sort out which idea is being discussed.) And of course the worst discussions have different people using the same word for different ideas, and nobody recognizes it, so the discussion is really about different definitions of the same word.
Oh, there were some badly written programs for 68000 Amigas that didn't run on the 68020 or later.

One "clever" trick was to store data in the highest byte of 32-bit pointers — which had worked on the 68000 because it had only a 24-bit address bus.

Another thing that didn't work was self-modifying code. The 68020 introduced an instruction cache, which would have had to be cleared first.
No, we absolutely need to push back on this snake oil storm which will form otherwise. IMO.
> It is the only hope for freedom.

I... am not sure how to reply to something like this. Does this not strike people as a bit cult-like?
I live in a Bay Area suburb that is decidedly not rural.

Also, how is "doubling the school's area and vastly increasing environmental damage" not an efficiency thing? Kids the world over get by without having to rely on cars to experience freedom. If your society requires people to drive multi-thousand dollar pollution machines to experience freedom, then it's not truly free.
I thought nuclear weapons were an outlier, but it seems like humanity is going to have to figure out a more general way to handle technology that exists but is more harmful than not.
Yeah this looks much more similar to Qwik. It even looks like they have a similar view serialization approach.
I'm sure it's better than a dice role, but does it beat a modern classifier trained on the domain specific data?

EDIT:
I raise this issue as over-promises are the death nell for software. Overpromising capability leads to disappointment.
What a bizarre and disappointing article. The problem with this whole field is lop-sided expertise. Either neuroscience and no theoretical compusci, or compusci and no stats; or stats and compusci, but no empiricism.

> Large language models really do approximate the way neurons work, at least at the interface level.

This shows a profound misunderstanding of the mathematics underneath NNs. To be trained, eg., on character strings in books... sets the structure of the NN. This is the only relevant property of NNs to consider in any homology with any brain. Brain structure isnt set by character sequence positioning, even if "somehow, very abstractly" backprop with gradient descent were how "brains worked" (an insane claim, now wholey discredited).

The only sense in which an NN could even possibly be structurally homologous to the brain were if it were trained on actual brain structure data. Since, at the outside, we know that this training doesnt produce homology.. all we're talking about is a confusion which arises when naming interpolation "learning".

> so let's stop pretending that we do

Again, quite disappointing. We do know far more than enough to say that compressing a million books doesnt produce sentience.

We know what criteria an intelligent system has to have: it has to be responsive to its environment with reasons that the environment alone under-determines. It has to fail well. It has to cope. Intelligence is not the production of "the right answer". Intelligence is the strategy of animals given ignorance about the world and the lack of "the right answer" to hand.

Intelligence is what writes all those books which these systems (almost) wrote learn. Intelligence is that capacity to be in the world, to have something to say about it, to fail to describe it and yet succeed in getting close. Intelligence is formulation of theories in the absense of relevant data. Intelligence is a survival strategy.

We know vast amounts about we animals, and what we are doing. We know vast amounts about theoretical computer science. And likewise about stats, and NNs.

And we know that training a regression model on sequences of characters does not produce a system with something to say about the world. It has no intentions; it has never been anywhere. It has never tried to say anything. When it says "I like new york" it does so only because those characters have an order we wrote. It doesnt do so because it has been to new york, has a taste for pizza, and has enjoyed its time there.

To impart text generation systems with sentience, systems which generate text because it has been written before, not because, the system intends to mean what it say -- is psychosis.

And what we're seeing here is techno-utopian charlatans conscripting a willing cohort of people on the edges of sanity into a new astrology. We need to be extremely careful here: most people arent sceptics; esp. most "sceptics".
this isn't about the money! it's about a basic messaging app that was unnecessary when major players were already available ala Google Talk, iMessage, even FB Messenger, and what drew a ton of ppl to WhatsApp especially internationally was that it said it was 'free texting' and ppl believed it because it used phone numbers as User IDs. But all it was was a basic internet messaging chat app and enough internationals in like India and stuff started using it that North Americans (where texting is super cheap and a non-issue) were eventually lured into using it just to try to keep in touch with ppl. While they all had gmail accounts and stuff already and could have used Hangouts or Microsoft or FB or whatever. WhatsApp just got random momentum and got lucky.
> Funds are SAFU

I like how they embraced this term, even though it was originally a typo that went on to live a life of its own.
Cool project.
What are the main differences between this and mpd?

https://www.musicpd.org
I'm imagining a day when telephone scammers call up a loved one with AI of your voice.
Because it makes the engineer working on it look good, rather than like a quitter?
Violent BJP rhetoric and bulldozing of homes show Indian Muslim dilemma
If this is considered a publishable paper then the bar for that publication must be quite low.
ah sorry, missed the sarcasm in your original post. I should have read more closely.
I'm not sure I understand the JPG+RAR notation. I assume they didn't just rename file extensions or whatever?

(sorry, google very unhelpful here unsurprisingly)
What business sense do you have in mind? Thunderbird is funded by donations and governed by volunteers. Even if this were some kind of money grab, who's grabbing what money?
Maybe besides the point but this is falling back behind modern HTML[0] in that it is reintroducing flashes of blank pages.

It's not a nice experience. Remix (and, most likely, Fresh as well) prevents this.

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/paint-holding/
Just because something has a limited amount doesn’t mean its value automatically goes up.
> If something can make decisions, without external input, act on those decisions without external support, then it could be said to be sentient.

So like, a microcontroller deciding to turn on a LED from time to time when it feels like it is sentient? Sounds like it by that definition.

> a key indicator of sentience is the ability to kill another species, even its own, but chooses not to

Oh no. This appears to be a different definition now! I'm afraid I don't meet the sentience threshold then. I have many skills but I don't think that I have the ability to kill another species. Not alone at least.
Ah The Tomahto-Tomayto problem
Trading one form of complexity for another.
I'm not sure if it's matches "single payer".
It has mandatory insurance. And you cannot choose most of the things that what you can get covered or not.

I got a "government insurance", which is the most expensive, but also the one with the best cover. There is "private insurances" with cheaper premiums and less cover that are attractive to young people, but it's kind of hard to later in life switch back to the government one.

Most countries in EU have kind of this mixed healthcare, with private, and public ones with the only goal to make sure the private offer competitive enough services... Same thing with hospitals, there is public hospitals, so private ones don't jack up the prices to crazy values...
My definitions, replying to a parallel comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727408
From everything I've read on this (and his background as documented on the web), my tentative theory is that he has become perhaps a bit too excited about making himself a champion of AI rights and took the earliest opportunity he could find.

I think it's likely ultimately a quest to find a way to make a mark, and he's gotten way out over his skis in the process.

As an aside, the conversation he posted seems much more advanced than anything I've seen publicly. Not sentient, but still quite impressive.
> paranoid

I doubt its paranoid, I am not worried about it, just rather annoyed that driver's aids are being marketed as something they are not, cheapening an entire industry.

> There is no other (equally good or better) way this could work in practice.

We are literally discussing a company that has another way.

> It can and it does,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45XMhMzMDZY

suggests otherwise.

>You should learn more about the cars before hardening your opinions so much.

I work in machine perception, this is my bread and butter. more over I have worked with life critical infra, and I know corner cutting when I see it.
> If they enforced the rules consistently then by that logic I could get any subreddit closed down by asking for things that are against the rules.

No, because the rules specifically mention soliciting. As far as I can tell, the only other time this is mentioned is for "soliciting or facilitating illegal or prohibited transactions".
> I don't think features such as Web USB, Web Bluetooth are privacy invasive.

Mozilla, Apple, and Brave all disagree (as do I).
I said "they will dominate the next century" which means you misread what I wrote and asked something about now.

Its not my fault your reading comprehension sucks.
The shadows can be removed by another box dragging, will update the demo. Thanks for the feedback!
It's funny how arbitrary it seems; "Computers & IT" @ $385/h and "Internet" @ $575/h. But maybe it's low number of cases enough that it's skewed by outliers and noise.
Now that you mention it, indeed a pretty big omission! (For those who never dealt with it, it was a full blown operating system on the server side, with own multitasking kernel that had its own proprietary filesystem and everything.)
You just made a case for children not being sentient.
These have been footguns of web development since the 90s.
ah, the heckler's veto. I had only heard of that happening on college campuses recently. Never expected it to happen on someplace as big and diverse as Reddit
>here was recently an article posted to HN [0] about a startup founder doing this very thing, blaming his customers for behaving like humans.

He did it the opposit. He blamed his product for going against human nature.This is misquoting him.
> Washington investors who wonder why the high-tech boom went bust -- and who worry about whether it could happen again -- should read Mark Leibovich's remarkable series in The Post last week on Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy Inc.

I would have assumed this was a current article.