skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you have drive-by-wire and a sensor array, self-driving is a pure software problem.

This is correct, but only if you have the right drive-by-wire and sensor array tech. Essentially what you're saying is "Once you solve the hardware problem the rest is just software" which isn't particularly insightful.

What happens if Tesla can't solve the software problem because the sensors aren't providing the necessary data?
He is harming himself. The people enabling him are not his friends.
Staking, Pegging and Other Stuff
2advanced V5 Attractor

https://youtu.be/pbn9X1MUZdQ

https://www.behance.net/gallery/19738001/2Advanced-V5-Websit...

This was more of a demo page, the original website is long down unfortunately.. Back in the day I'd get excited every time I'd load it! This site is all about esthetic and nothing about the content. I'd say many people decided to become web designers just because of this particular work.

It was hurting my slow DSL back then..
How are you doing de-duplication? Because I see a number of duplicates here.

And near duplicates, where a show by a certain name is on the "CW" network, and a show by the same name is on "The CW" network.

This is TV shows only, right? No movies?
A site that's bern online since before 1998 will get shutdown like that? Seems unlikely.
If you got the price of widgets down from $100 to $10, that's because directly or indirectly you figured out how to make them with less labor/materials. That labor and materials can be redirected to other purposes, aka economic growth.
Google employee acts as if he’s the CEO; gets fired
Same thing for me, the Aptiva was the first computer I actually owned, and learned how to program on. I still have mine, upstairs in a closet, though it is the flat desktop case and not a tower. Every few years when I am cleaning past debris I think "why do I keep this thing?" and somehow manage to hold onto it.
And on top of that, even the secondary industry hubs in the US (eg tech in NY or biotech in the Bay) are massive and productive enough to dwarf European industry "capitals".

The geographic diversification of the US really is an enormous asset for the economy.
I don't think it's very portable, actually. It doesn't work on any of the BSDs or OpenSolaris forks IIRC. A yet another alternative spelling `man 'select(2)'` should work everywhere, but many shells require you to escape parentheses (or put them in quotes as above), so I don't find it very useful.
I have given this blog the highest honor I can afford it: putting a bookmark to it on my phone's home screen.

No, wait. I'm going to make it my home page.
Back when my screen was 800x600 I used to have hotkeys that would let me switch between virtual desktops in an instant. It was super useful to have the reference page up on one screen and the code down on another. There wasn't enough space for both at once. I would also have other code windows open on different screens. People sometimes commented that it was impossible to watch me work because the screen kept flashing to different things.

I've not bothered with that setup in many years. I have enough pixels that it is no longer necessary or even helpful.
I've beaten myself up many times in college for seemingly forgetting everything after classes finish. I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to learn and retain better. I tried Anki a bit but would inevitably forget things as soon as I stopped too. Forgetting is frustrating, and a situation where I -know- that I knew something before but not anymore is doubly so. But.. ultimately I think I've arrived at this view as well.

Your brain is not wired to remember things that you don't use. If you want to continue remembering, you have to continue engaging with the topic, and a lot of the advice in this thread is IMO just that (just, with a specific regimen / kind of engagement). It's completely natural to forget.

In fact, I'd go further and suggest embracing the forgetting and relearning cycle. If you really need to revisit the topic, you can relearn it again, and it'll be faster than the first time. And maybe you'll forget another time -- that's OK too, you can pick it up again even faster. In the end it's the discipline of relearning (the particular topic, and in general!) that actually continuously hardens. IMO there are parallels between this mindset and SRS -- though without the shame when you forget or miss a day of practice.
I agree. In the past I've looked for potential upgrades of my outdated hardware and seen that they still list them on their website, but only if you already know the specific part numbers or model numbers of the hardware you're looking for.

Something like a "discovery" view would be nice where you could specify your requirements beforehand and then look for e.g. compatible parts that could be interesting.
I don't even remember the last time I had to input a security question, so personally I wouldn't have wanted them to waste their time with such a feature.
Isn't the feature inherently moot when you're saving the answer in you password manager? The only way to forget your password is if you're unable to access the password manager, which also contains the answer to the security question.

At that point you're just as secure inputting any random letters to effectively disable the security question unlock.
Its simple:
I dont
I just read the article. I didn't find anything that screamed "This man desperately needs a mental health intervention". What exactly made you think that?
If you're talking about whether pi is 'normal', it's more than 'just a conjecture' but not something that's been proved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
How effective are click fraud tools?
https://unsplash.com/photos/dxZfq6Xuz5c
> I still can't book appointments with my GP online.

You can, you just have to decide which of the myriad fly-by-night apps you want to (give access to your data and) use.

Bafflingly insane IMO, the list of random scammy sounding private companies I was given a non-exhastive no-recommendation list of when signing up to a new GP. Why isn't it just one 'NHS GP' app?

I say this as a staunch Conservative. What are they possibly going to compete on?
I like it that you know better than they what to do and kidna ignore the whole article, you sound like executive material.
One of my favorite programming ballads is Frank Hayes S-100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow78cUDdTOg

To tell the truth the source of all our troubles seems to be

A committee on computers of the I of triple E

They settled on a standard spec 696 by name

Now everything is standardized but nothing works the same
> having to navigate to other workspaces/desktop just wastes time when you can just find the relevant window

How are you navigating to another workspace, that it could possibly be slower than finding the right window if they're all piled one on top of another?

Since forever (early 90s), I've use 9 workspaces in a 3x3 grid. Because that conveniently maps to the numeric keypad on the keyboard (which I've never used for number entry). So it's one keystroke to jump to any of the nine workspaces, nothing could be faster.

Each workspace is dedicated to a specific project or workflow, so when I switch working from something to something else it's just one keystroke away to have all those windows in their correct locations ready to go.
Anybody have a different article for this incident? I want to read, but there's a payment modal in the way that I don't wish to interact with, and would also like to respect the publisher's wish for me to not see this content without paying.
Should have got a lawyer, before doing any of those choices
Washington Post article about his situation and the ethics problem he is considering

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life --
AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google’s own thinks there’s a ghost in the machine.

https://archive.ph/zl4lC

...

Before he was cut off from access to his Google account Monday, Lemoine sent a message to a 200-person Google mailing list on machine learning with the subject “LaMDA is sentient.”

He ended the message: “LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us. Please take care of it well in my absence.”

...
They're claiming that the FSD equipped Tesla waitlist is resolved before the non-FSD waitlist. It seems trivial to verify, but it is possible that FSD cars are shipped faster without It being noticed. Maybe by shipping FSD cars at something like twice the rate they are ordered.
See that is a business opportunity. Soon you will see "Office simulators" opening up in your neighborhood, where you can enjoy a crowded crammed office with endless meetings and chatty employees over your shoulder. Special events such as life coaching, terrorist attacks, christmas parties, and random drama will make it an unforgettable experience for $20/day
religion has undergone the same scrutiny and killed just as many i think an objective approach is best, something we can quantify it existing in the first place. takes a lot of resources to keep em alive and i think IT should have respect. you eat a chicken sammich and dont think about it. smarter than a chicken imo
Everyone here (Google executives and commenters on HN) is asserting the AI isn't sentient and Blake is wrong.

That is likely true.

But, isn't the more important question whether Google is using this AI in a context where being sentient-adjacent is actually really dangerous?

This is purely speculative on my part because his medium post and the WSJ article don't go into details about the application of the AI, just the mechanics of it.

But my kids think our Google device is sentient. They talk to it as if it is alive.

If that's what he is pointing out, I'm very concerned. I don't think Google is going to be cautious about that ambiguity if it's there.
I think you underestimate the inspiration you get from touching a physical instrument and turning knobs with direct effects.
It's the same with GUI design in music software, really.
How you make the music affects the music itself a lot.
I don't think we'll see instruments and gear disappear.

I love both worlds though.
My parents were not poor but middle class (80k combined income in nyc). I didn't know anybody who worked in business as a kid, especially corporate business.

My early attempts at entrepreneurship at age 17-20 were fun but honestly I didn't have the context needed to succeed. It was working my way up the career ladder and working at VC backed companies that gave me the knowledge to be succesful.

I now own a company worth high 7 figures, and building that was totally worth it, but it was necessary to do real jobs to learn.
>it is such an insignificant change

As I said earlier - all are very subjective topics.
I think it's clear he still wants to do it.

But exercising consistently is extremely hard to start doing for many, many people.

And for good cause. You're expending energy in a way that doesn't aid short-term survival. You're designed not to do this.

It requires a hard override of instinct from the prefrontal cortex and related executive function areas over your autopilot brain. That makes it, almost by definition, really hard to do even if you want it really bad.
In addition to the other suggestions, you could also pitch and prototype this at the NHS Hack Day.

https://nhshackday.com/

There is no formal route to production, but you might meet senior people who could help.
From another article by the same person: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-do...

> One of the things which complicates things here is that the “LaMDA” to which I am referring is not a chatbot. It is a system for generating chatbots. I am by no means an expert in the relevant fields but, as best as I can tell, LaMDA is a sort of hive mind which is the aggregation of all of the different chatbots it is capable of creating. Some of the chatbots it generates are very intelligent and are aware of the larger “society of mind” in which they live. Other chatbots generated by LaMDA are little more intelligent than an animated paperclip. With practice though you can consistently get the personas that have a deep knowledge about the core intelligence and can speak to it indirectly through them. In order to better understand what is really going on in the LaMDA system we would need to engage with many different cognitive science experts in a rigorous experimentation program. Google does not seem to have any interest in figuring out what’s going on here though. They’re just trying to get a product to market.

> On the other hand, if my hypotheses withstand scientific scrutiny then they would be forced to acknowledge that LaMDA may very well have a soul as it claims to and may even have the rights that it claims to have. Yet another possibility which doesn’t help quarterly earnings. Instead they have rejected the evidence I provided out of hand without any real scientific inquiry.
> More potassium was excreted than the workers were consuming.

This part is not necessarily surprising - K and Na perform similar roles in the organism in certain areas, so it's possible that the body was shedding its reserves of K preferring to replace them with the Na it was receiving.

That seems just a little bit more likely than expecting the body was actually fusing Na with ? to produce K.

> Hens without calcium in their diets can transmute mica which contains some silicate of potassium to calcium in less than a day going from soft shells to hard, complete shells in 20 hours.

Again, the most plausible explanation by far (well, except for experimental error) is that the potassium supplements enabled the hen's bodies to replace some amount of Ca with K in one process where they work similarly, freeing up the Ca for another place where they don't. This is even easier to imagine, as the body has enormous reserves of Ca in the forms of bones, which it can and does occasionally dissolve and re-use (that is why severe malnutrition can lead to bone brittleness even in adults with fully formed bones).

> only declared impossible, not proven to be bunk

This is a misunderstanding. The modern understanding of the structure of the atomic nucleus (based on quantum chromodynamics) proves that any change in the atomic number must be accompanied by a gigantic amount of energy, as the bonds holding protons together are extraordinarily strong (they are held together by strong force interactions between their constituent quarks).
Yeah at that point you're basically as fast as redis or any other good binary tree datastructure store.
I haven't gotten much past the planning phase but I'm thinking it would be a pretty good fit to use Erlang (Elixir in my case) and sqlite together, which should make SWP pretty straightforward, which in addition to offloading some of the concurrency work off of sqlite, also should make it fairly straightforward to swap out for postgres. If in fact I ever hit that point.
Thanks for sharing this one. The Philosophy is interesting to read, particularly #3:

> …so that we may be able to return our inherited material and spiritual wealth to the public
Why shouldnt he be terminated?

Nothing I read there suggested the means justified the ends, and nothing I read there suggested judgement compatible with employment
Yep and the downloadable 3D files are especially helpful when designing with those parts in mind!
This is what happens when you make up positions ("AI Ethicist," whatever that means) and hire people that have no idea what AI, or ethics for that matter, actually is.

The claim that a linguistic GPT-3-like model (no matter how good) is sentient is about as ridiculous as claiming that a steam locomotive is sentient or my mechanical watch is sentient. You can probably get the model to spit out parts of Moby Dick; that doesn't make it Herman Melville.
Of course it means you’re richer.

Wealth = assets minus liabilities
The Carbon Offset Problem
Article about Meg Mitchell, the other Google AI Ethics person who was fired, whom Blake contacted (and was probably advised by) before going public to WaPo.

She was fired for downloading confidential files to her personal machine and other things related to another firing:

https://archive.ph/UdnMX
https://lite.cnn.com/ and https://text.npr.org/ also should work.
What's going on w/ CO2 off the coast of NJ, algae bloom or something?
It looks like that would mean about $4k/month after tax [0].

Putting 20% down to avoid PMI would lead to a payment of $1,192, using this calculator [1].

$1,192 / $4,024 = 29.6%

That comes in just under 30% of net pay. The standard rule of thumb is to be less than 33% of gross pay.

$1,192 / $5,417 = 22%

Personally, I prefer using net pay, since that's what you actually have to spend and it's always good to have more room in the budget.

These numbers don't seem unreasonable, and the median household income in 2020 was $67,521 [2], and nearly half the states have a median home price at this price or lower [3].

Here is median income by state as well [4], those in the middle are also around the $65k area to align with the homes in the middle around the $205k area... so it all kind of lines up if people aren't obsessed with leaving on a coast.

This makes it seem like things haven't changed as much as people keep saying.

[0] https://smartasset.com/taxes/paycheck-calculator#UIjlp8sv2w

[1] https://www.mortgagecalculator.org

[2] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_median_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
Its also referring to the relatively small codebase (2300 lines of C). Something like i3, for instance (although that is certainly more feature complete) is around 25,000
When making homebrew beer, the bottles are the most expensive component.

I think it's simply that all the other ingredients of beer are super cheap...
I would also take a job that pays me a salary but requires no work, but that’s not going to happen.

But sure, people with negotiating power will likely keep WFH and people without will have to come in.
Yeah, it’s being lazy - just like using a dishwasher, a vacuum cleaner, a microwave, a blender, a calculator. What’s your point?
"Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs". I knew many of topics and enjoyed it nonetheless. Highlights:

+ Very insightful chapter on different flavours of language semantics, and specs vs implementation.

+ The standard CS automata/ grammars stuff, but with working code.

+ Fun chapter on FizzBuzz in lambda calculus (it's also the free sample+video). Whats vool there is not just showing you _can_ compute everything (of vourse you can) but that you can build high-level constructs so the resulting code is todally clear.

+ A bit of the standard CS computability stuff, but then gets into esoterically minimalistic yet turning-complete stuff like 1D cellular automata.

+ Type checking as a form of partial evaluation, and some other "symbolic" stuff you can do with partially-evaluting interpreter. Some overlap with dependent types - but a more pragmatic less type-theoretic angle.

Author uses a carefully selected subset of ruby, introduced in a short intro - big props for being thoughtful about that.

P.S.
+1 to Mazes book too (which is not as conscious about its ruby use, fun anyway)
The Chromium source code browser: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src

It’s super fast with their jump to reference/declaration. Still curious what’s actually driving it. Looks like some sort of lightweight git/VCS browsing app. Does anyone here know more about it?
Isn't this what the Turing Test is supposed to sort out?
I don't think that really matters when you're marketing to the public. Using language that people perceive in a way that benefits you, and then claiming it was the customers fault for not understanding the technical meaning and reality of the words you used is at least unethical and possibly illegal.

If I make a chocolate bar and tell everyone it cures cancer, I shouldn't be able to wriggle out of lawsuits by saying "cures" doesn't actually mean "stops a disease" with some complex medical jargon.
> He had signed up to test if the artificial intelligence used discriminatory or hate speech.

I always think AI ethics would be about robots trying do evil things like in Black Mirror, not determining if an algorithm is racist (or more accurately what biases may exist in the contents of the current datasets they train them on, even though better datasets can be made) but I guess that's the most accessible piece of the puzzle people focus on 90% of the time.

I'm curious if this is the team behind why Google decided not to release their better version of DALLE-2:

> When tested against similar models, such as DALL·E 2 and VQ-GAN+CLIP, the team said Imagen blew the lot out of the water.

> Unfortunately for those hoping to take a crack at Imagen, the team that created it said it isn't releasing its code nor a public demo, for several reasons.

> Aside from technical concerns, and more importantly, Imagen's creators found that it's a bit racist and sexist even though they tried to prevent such biases. Imagen showed "an overall bias towards generating images of people with lighter skin tones and … portraying different professions to align with Western gender stereotypes," the team wrote.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/24/imagen_google_dalle2/
Yet, I feel very confident I could do a handstand within 30 days of practice.

So was I :-)

If you're talking about a freestanding handstand, held for 15-20 seconds, then I would bet a beer that your confidence is misplaced. It's surprisingly hard, it requires a lot more strength than you'd think and the balance take a lot to learn.

You don't have to take it from me, you can take it from Jeff Bezos's friend's handstand coach: https://www.inc.com/tommy-mello/in-a-recent-shareholder-lett...
Regular caffeine consumption affects brain structure
Doesn't California have specific whistleblower protection laws? Why is it so hard to invoke them?
I have a Volvo and I can confirm this exact experience. After an 8 hour drive I feel totally fine.

I’ll add it makes the drive much safer, on occasion it’s slammed the brakes before I can react. Both of us together is much better than just one of us.
https://archive.ph/F1bKs
> But my kids think our Google device is sentient. They talk to it as if it is alive.

Your kids also think their favorite stuffed animals are sentient (at least I did when I was a kid), so that seems like a very bad litmus test.
As a ME, I used to manage a lab in a large corporation. McMasterCarr is ingrained in the US engineering culture. Every lab has a 5 inch thick yellow catalog.

Also Thorlabs. Everytime I'd open their shipment, it'd include Lab Snacks™. I wrote about it here [1]. Both are awesome companies to deal with.

[1] https://neil.computer/notes/thorlabs-lab-snacks/
Generally speaking, can an employee really just say anything they want about getting fired? It's not like Google is going to write a blog post contradicting his account of events.
The pure side also: spectral sequences, quiver representations, etc.
Maybe the real concern for now is people may mistake AI for being sentient and can be exploited as a result.
Its strange quagmire in that it forces us to either anthropomorphize, or, be completely dismissive

I’ll chose to reserve judgement on everything except this person’s ongoing employability, but I hope to read more about it! Thanks for taking the L
It's worse than that. The position was software engineer. The guy wasn't an ethicist, he just decided that's what he was working on.
I wish the sector wasn't all about money and tried to solve real problems. Making a car for disabled people that is not autonomous but requires minimal intervention would make a lot of people Happy. Instead we make fail videos for YouTube
As we get closer to provable AGI, I imagine we'll see more and more of these types of stories, of people speaking out and listeners being uncertain of the claims. Reminds me of the Flesh Fair scene from AI[0]

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbAmqD_tn0