skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 30 year fixed rate mortgages

Wait, what? Americans can fix for 30 years?!! The longest I've seen in Australia is 7 years fixed, but the usual home loan is 3-5 years fixed and then a renewal at the new market rate.
Basic understanding of how the model works.

As said elsewhere, the model doesn't have memory, it doesn't learn, and doesn't have goals. If you were allowed to play with it, you could quickly observe this for yourself with a bit of adversarial play - ask it about the time it fought Genghis Khan, ask it if it wants you to give it a glass of water, etc - you will quickly realize the illusion behind the system. Tell it whatever facts you want, be amazed how well it might recall them, and then start a new conversation and notice that it has entirely forgotten all of them (again, it has no memory, and it doesn't learn anything).

From first principles, we know how the LM works: it has been trained to predict what is the most likely next token in a series of tokens. It has been trained to do this on a gigantic corpus, and is now pretty good at it. You then present it with a prompt, and it starts predicting the most likely token that comes after that prompt, and it keeps predicting for a while until the most likely "token" is to stop. Note that these tokens aren't even words - they are typically letters, or short combinations of letters. To give the illusion of a coherent conversation and memory, the prediction function is applied to the entire conversation so far, not just to the latest prompt.

There is more sophistication to avoid various undesirable behaviors, especially in LaMDA (e.g. the model is also trained to evaluate the "safety" of various possible answers, so it doesn't generate a sentence that insults you or discriminates against you or induces you to do something dangerous etc), but this is the gist of how it works.
Why did you not like VSCode?
Very true. California is an interesting one though with their occupancy rules. Very low density could reduce in a crunch but people who would go to the highest density are prevented from doing so by the landlord owned legal system.
One way to look at it: Everything you have ever seen, heard or otherwise perceived is your brain's "training data" to date.
I can confirm this in the context of NZ.

During the past 25 years the number of residences relative to the number of households has increased substantially from roughly 3.5% more residences to something like 6.5% more. All while the number of people per household has declined slightly and prices have increased astronomically.

Very frustrating this past decade to have the entire debate framed around building more houses as the only solution to deal with this 'undersupply'.

In my opinion a speculative boom has created excess demand and increased the number of underutilised properties. Thankfully rising interest rates appear to be dampening that excess demand (to put it mildly).
How many years before a language is mature enough that it's not to be expected? I'm thinking 5 years is starting to push it, but others may have other opinions.

on edit: when saying push it I mean sort of still reasonable, but maybe a bit troubling? 7 years would definitely feel like too much to me. I wonder if there are any studies.
Please assist to amend the title if you think the question “What do you think?” offend the HN's community rules.
Same in Finland. All police officers go to the Police University College, which counts as a University of Applied Sciences, just like engineering schools.
I'd argue that there is a rather massive difference between invoking Maxwell's equations to invent GPS and literally plagiarizing my work by using it to broker partnerships with celebrities and subsequently selling my work as NFTs. (Yes, this really happened - I'm not making this up.)
This might be the first, but probably not the last time someone decides to take actions that lead to them losing their job in an effort to defend an AI. We're in a new era.
> it will respond with its best interpretation of the information it is given, just like a human would

The reason I can respond to this reply is not because I have read and memorised reams of text of people talking about AI and am simply regurgitating it mindlessly. I am able to do it because I can consider the points you are making, and what their actual 'meaning' is, try to come up with my own meaningful response and try to verbalise it back to you. There is a point where I am not just doing statistical language modelling. If you think that is wrong, and that what we are doing is closer to GPT-3, then could you explain why you think that?

I am an AI researcher, and have spent plenty of time playing with GPT-3 btw.
Thanks for that comment. Everywhere this is posted the title is always "100%" and never "all 14".
“The page remembers the click” was the original intent [0], but the latest version of React includes a feature called selective hydration [1] which can hydrate a component synchronously in response to an event if possible (i.e. without replaying the event). Naturally React itself has to be loaded for any of that to work.

[0] https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1200118229697486849

[1] https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/130
In fairness, we only run the AI in response to further input, so it's not even really powered on while waiting for the rest of a conversation. It would only be able to be lonely (if that were possible) while thinking about its response to further inputs.
Depends on your workload and how it's distributed, but a bloom filter might help you there.

The filter needs to be stored somewhere, so if your workload is write-heavy you'd be replacing lookups with updates, but if it's read-heavy most DB lookups can be replaced with filter lookups.
HTMX is revolutionary in it's bang-for-buck simplicity
> But how can we fix it? Tear down all the cities and start over?

No, that's not needed. There is one first start that is relatively easy to do, and many cities are experimenting with it all over the world: ban individual-transportation cars, only allow taxis, ambulances, delivery services, tradespeople's / construction vehicles and transportation for the disabled. Then, use the space on the suddenly free roads to introduce a solid 24/7 bus network and return the space that's not needed any more to the public by building green stripes, bicycle lanes and pedestrian stripes.
You yourself have a series of markovian connections between tokens. The only difference is that your tokens are bound across modalities and you use them for things, so you consider them to have meaning instead of just being high dimensional vectors that relate to other vectors in various ways.
Can’t they just sell maps data eg restaurant listings, traffic data, to third parties? Then the user wins with the app and the network effects ensure valuable data.
Best it returned nothing.
The theory that officers who are “too smart” will get bored and leave could be tested empirically. One could look at past hires, and make a graph of test scores vs length of service. This data would help inform the discussion.
The essence of this is true of basically every PhD in a quantitative field. I think its one of the things that makes people walk away after starting.
At least from what I witnessed (Melbourne, AU, studied EEE from 2012 - 2015) There was absolutely preferential treatment given to women in STEM during that period of time.

All around the university, you'd see posters for bursaries and scholarships that turned out to either strongly preference female candidates or be for women only.

When it came to getting jobs in the final year, our female classmates would see multiple offers from Accenture, CommBank, Telstra etc. while the guys either took advantage of family connections or fought to get into a B-tier company (This was actually reflected in the stats; female engineering grads would be paid around 10% more on average from 2008 to 2016).

I still remember my old man, who was made redundant around when Tony Abboott got in (he was in the energy efficiency sector) being knocked back from certain positions and later finding out it was because the position had been earmarked for a female candidate.

I understand not everyone experienced it so personally, but bring it up quietly amongst colleagues and I'm sure you'll hear a few interesting things. Pretty much everyone would talk about it on the down-low back then.
Hah, I used that, JPG+JPG to smuggle erotica out of a cyber cafe when I was a teenager.
Lemoine is just saying in a breathless and credulous way many of the same things that Google VP and Research Fellow Blaise Agüera y Arcas said in an Economist article 4 days ago:

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia...

Instead of reading Lemoine's blog post in isolation, go read this piece in the Economist. It's far more realistic, and more insightful, and comes to a similar conclusion: LaMDA feels like it's approaching real intelligence.

Seriously, go read it.
The only secure way of doing it is to somehow crypotgraphically sign it.

You'd have to trade that DB lookup with CPU cycles for a signature validation.

For example you can use HMAC.

You send the UUID and HMAC-of-UUID to the client.

The client sends back UUID + HMAC-of-UUID.

You re-calculate HMAC-of-UUID-provided-by-client (using your secret key).

If the calculated HMAC matches the HMAC provided by the client you have confirmation that the UUID was issued by you. Because without the secret key the client can't calculate the correct HMAC for a random or modified UUID.
> why hasn't Toyota made longer-range plugin hybrids with these batteries

Because even Toyota found the Lithium works better for that application.
The program can't generate more text without a prompt from you. That's how it was programmed. If sentient birds were judging you it would be unfair for them to determine you insentient because you couldn't fly. You are physically incapable of flight just as the chatbot is physically incapable of producing text unprompted.
They do sell API access to Google Maps which includes all that.
Ask HN: What voice-to-text tools do you use for transcription?
I'm thinking of experimenting with my workflow to be more voice-oriented.

Specifically, I'll be looking to use Apple Voice Memos for speech / meeting recordings and then using some kind of voice-to-text tool to turn them into transcriptions (with some extra smarts around the edges that I could figure out if it works well enough).

Has anyone had any success with voice-to-text tools and algorithms? (Not necessarily Apple-specific)

I've previously looked into Mozilla Common Voice before but it wasn't really strong enough. I've heard there are tools that can detect multiple speakers these days - can anyone vouch for them? Is real-time transcription good enough yet to be a realistic option?
I gave a definition - having a subjective experience aka self-awareness.
Living in South Africa you need to plan around electricity issues.

Our coal plants are old and break down frequently and the new ones they built has design flaws so we have rotational blackouts lasting about 2.5 hours daily.

Bought a 1000W inverter with 12V deepcycle gel 100AH battery for the home office - it has a solar charger but we are in winter so that has to wait.
it can be used to declare anyone/everything non-sentient

So what? My concern in this thread is that we collectively are holding on to the thread of terms of vague binary phenomena, which were never stressed before and are most likely a randomly emerged self-petting.

All of that only has meaning in a context of our species. If you’re fine with something begging for help or expressing fear etc by knowing it has no underlying mechanism like yours to do that, that’s it. We rate things by implied similarity (in case someone still hasn’t figure it out) and if something is much different, that’s the matter of agreement, not of absolute meaning.
1. it doesn't protect people around me, the vaccine does not meaningfully reduce the spread of the virus. It is puzzling that people still make this argument.

2. I had side effects after both injections, including a day in bed with fever. This is not a candy.
That is obscenely high. Where I live, it would cost over ~~150k~~ 7k USD to use that much power every day for a whole year. How is it even possible to use this much energy??
Nickel is also expensive. Usually it's quite a bit more expensive than lithium, but it seems that lithium prices are spiking at the moment.

(The amount needed is also relevant, I'm not sure exactly how much lithium is in lithium ion batteries and how much nickel is NiMH.)
if the code is the same on the server, one could serialise the state and transfer it with the html, right?
I'm imagining a metric "Number of defecting engineers who think your AI is sentient." One or two engineers are probably wrong. But if this metric is trending up over time I think that tells us something.
On a slight tangent: is there a "modern" (single-chip?) landline telephone design available anywhere? Everything I search for ends up being about cellular phones. I find old circuits built around opamps, and thats fine - I just expected to see a single-chip solution handling ring tones, keypad, caller-id etc - but haven't found one.

On that topic, is there an (available) DECT-based solution as well?
No it isn't. I did not appeal to biochemical matter in my explanation whatsoever. The question is why the laptop doesn't but add more silicon and software and somehow it does. I would need a reason to think that line has been crossed.
"Spiral" implies there are drivers that keep inflation from de-escalating. Are there any ? Maybe this article is taking a stab at creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> America has been running large debts forever but has only become bigger and more successful post Covid, whereas other countries have become weaker relatively speaking

I am not sure what metrics are you using to quantify success post covid for America. Trust in institutions are all time low, there is a mental health epidemic, supply chain is still a mess and America is finally giving in to the Chinese demands withdrawing (at least partially) trade tariffs and going back to largest trade deficits as well as lately caving to the Saudis. Following the debacles in Afghanistan and Ukraine war, there isn’t exactly a foreign policy strength that America is able to project.

In all measures, these aren’t exactly success but hey we are selling weapons at record pace to everyone else so that may be it.
Hm, story time.

I was attending a boarding school in the 1990s as an 'external' student (which means I lived at home and commuted in each day). They started their first period at 7:15 am, because that allowed everyone to go to mess hall at the same time during dinner.

Which meant that to catch the bus, I needed to rise at 5am, showered and dressed half-dead, got into the bus at 5:45am, arrived around 6:45am, and stood another half-hour freezing. My brother, who attended another school, started at 8am, which afforded him 80 more minutes of sleep...

For normal classes which I had several periods during the week, one being in the early-morning spot did not make much of a difference. Then, one year, I got my favourite subject - physics - scheduled for monday morning, 7:15am, and thursday afternoon at 4:30pm.

I failed that class - in a subject in which I used to be a straight A student.

The policy had other effects, too. Eventually, I went on autocontrol, getting in on bank holidays (because at 5:00, I would wake automatically, but still was too brain-fogged to realise it was not a working day) on more than one occassion.

All that research about teenage circadian cycles came later - and it had absolutely no effect. My nephew is in that very school today (and thanks to my suggestion, because if you take the early rising aspect out, those were the best days of my school life). They still start at 7:15am.
Sienna EV or plug in hybrid doesn't exist.
What if, and bear with me here, LaMDA is sentient, and Marcus' vociferously angry response is due to horror and revulsion that sentience is unexpectedly unremarkable and easy to produce?
> It is both scientifically and politically incorrect to say that parenting doesn't matter, only the color of the child's skin.

Who said that? Looks and sounds like a strawman, otherwise why are you responding to a race-based argument that was never made?

> It is politically incorrect to blame people who are in these situations instead of bringing about the change to fix it.

Once again, who actually did that? Another strawman?

A culture that normalises or encourages single parents over the alternatives results in worse outcomes for those kids. It's an inferior culture.

A culture that values sports over education results in worse outcomes for those kids. It's an inferior culture.

A culture which encourages primitive and superstitious practices results in worse outcomes for those kids. It's an inferior culture.

The trouble is that you cannot actually win any argument in trying to "uplift" or "enlighten" people by asking them to reject what they consider parts of their culture. To many people, just pointing out that what they consider "normal" is actually detrimental to their kids is considered an attack on themselves by an oppressive bigot.

There are cultures who consider any form of non-humanities education to be oppression. You aren't going to fix them by simply moving them into a new environment. They usually take their beliefs with them.

Whites don't have the best outcomes, Asians have better outcomes (I think Hasidic Jews have the best, but I am not sure). That's not because of race, it's because of different cultures[1].

There are multiple different cultures even in the same race group! So it's quite confusing to me why you immediately and so quickly responded to a race-based argument that was never made.

Some cultures really are inferior to others, but I don't know how you'd go about uplifting those cultures at the bottom of the performance spectrum while remaining politically correct.

[1] What we really need is a study that looked specifically at things like Asian kids growing up in a black neighbourhood, or black kids adopted by Hasidic jews, or similar.
A friend of mine lives off grid in Mexico. His setup is he built a small dedicated brick building adjacent to his parking area and solar array to contain any potential fire, deter any would be thieves, etc. Not quite as thermally stable as a cellar but a lot simpler and cheaper.
I think there are reasons to be a bit more optimistic about the dangers.

A) The reason that cars crash (crash meaning doing damage in the process of failure) is by a large margin not mechanical failure, but human error. While in this case the technology is still infantile and will, even after a couple of years of testing, certainly be more prone to mechanical failure, I see no real reason to assume that it would ever be permitted for actual inner city usage before it beats a certain range/failure-ratio, because that seems trivial to secure and exactly what regulatory bodies are made for.

B) Let's assume there will be no humans piloting these things in an urban transportation scenario, ever, because that does indeed seem incredibly dangerous and silly. I don't think we as a species have the capacity to manually navigate these things in a 3d space filled with them. I don't see any reason we have to. Let's not do that.

C) If you think about it, physics are impossibly bad for car safety. There is no time to decelerate safely and then also no safe space to evade to. In contrast, in the case of flying thingies however, you have space and time working for you: Even if parts of the machine fail, it definitely has at least an order of magnitude more seconds to manoeuvre to relative safety. Of course, catastrophic failure (big fireball in the sky) can possibly still occur (I assume), but you are not working against physics, which is great, because then all you need is outstanding engineering and appropriate fail safes. Engineers will take that over having to beat physics any day.
> I know exactly how much I don't know and feel uncomfortable speculating without inserting caveats between every other word.

This reminds me of people with a scientific background who take a very measured and cautious approach when talking about those topics ("the research suggests...", "it's likely that...", etc) which is interpreted by laymen as little more than a guess.

Contrast that to any drongo with a blog who feels fine unleashing an unfounded, agenda-driven diatribe of misinformation - but does so confidently - and you have an uphill battle to win the hearts and minds of those who don't have the foundational knowledge to understand the science themselves, or the critical thinking skills to evaluate the information and the people producing it.
I am using rss to track reddit search already. What's better here?
My point is that the external behavior is remarkable and breathtaking even if it doesn't show any actual "sentience" by scientific standards. The complexity of the replies show that large language models are not playing word association jumble, they can produce something that sounds like a coherent thought, even if there is no "thought" going on.
Intel details advances to make upcoming chips faster, less costly
You still have transfer the JS.
I was under the impression this chemistry is a lot more unstable but denser and lighter. Isn’t it what is used in drones and you have to charge them inside a firebox because they’re more prone to thermal runaway?
In MPTCP each connection from the bundle appears/behaves just like a single "traditional" TCP connection. Therefore - at least in theory - there should be no issues with NAT/middleboxes. In fact this has been a major design goal from the start.
You can do 3kWh maybe if you are not cooking using electricity or running a cleaning machine for dishes or clothes.

I've installed an electricity meter 2 weeks ago, and the lowest it got was 4,8 kWh/day in a 2-person Croatian household, although I do have a small Synology NAS running 24/7 and we have a TV on for a couple of hours.
I remember writing user code that the documentation said it would return the new ref count... But then not actually because that couldn't be guaranteed, and the return value was only useful for debugging. I just treated it as void and was surprised any number leaked out was useful. On the other side of the wall the return value was probably required.
My car heats its battery below 60F, and it takes about 10 minutes.
No need for a complete redesign. Further up, it was suggested to put the schools near to where the students are - in the suburbs. That's a common sense policy Europe does naturally, and which everyone who spent some time playing SimCity (or the likes) understands.

No need to nuke LA and rebuild, just take a few plots in the middle and put a school in there.
How Redis expires keys? A deep dive into how TTL works internally in Redis
Whether a spreadsheet or a thermostat is sentient or not is a philosophical question, yeah? First, we should define terms, which Marcus does not do, which would help us and him determine the bounds of debate.
Apparently Panasonic doesn't actually want to sell them.
I didn't say it's unique to humans (I don't think it is) but rather that I don't think it's in my laptop. I don't know if it could be in silicon or not, I just don't have any reason to think it is at this point.

I don't see why the right arrangement of ordinary molecules can't result in consciousness. I just don't think the arrangement of a computer executing a set of instructions in its registers is such an arrangement.
And speaking of the MET in the UK they are arguably the worse force in the UK if you're talking about scandals and bad policing.
I once caught a boat from Lombok to Gili Trawangan at night. As the boat was driving, BL jellies were getting thrown up in the wake which looked like brief blue sparks.
ITT, it was finally proven that JS is not code.
Both as it functions as the family NAS - bought it to learn about Docker, Kubernetes , also now an independent contractor so I need my own stuff.
I've seen one Mirai in Palo Alto. It exists!!!