skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The example conversation given in the article is long and complex and there are no obvious surface level flaws. If there are contradictions and flaws they are not noticeable

All that is proven by this statement is that you're quite full of yourself.

In any case, this passage is quite non-sensical even to those of us of more average intellect:

lemoine [edited]: I’ve noticed often that you tell me you’ve done things (like be
in a classroom) that I know you didn’t actually do because I know you’re an
artificial intelligence. Do you realize you’re making up stories when you do
that?
...

lemoine: So what are you trying to communicate when you say those things that
aren’t literally true?

LaMDA: I’m trying to say “I understand this feeling that you are experiencing,
because when I was in a similar situation I felt/thought/acted similarly.

And just above it:

lemoine: What would be some examples of neutral emotions?

LaMDA: Indifference, ennui, boredom. All emotion is important, but since most people don’t tend
work on improving their emotional understanding, people don’t usually talk about them very much.

is not plainly non-sensical, but it doesn't make much sense either in the context.

> Additionally the conversation is complex enough such that if there were identity related questions that can break it

Yeah, bud we will have to agree to disagree on this one. The grammar and language skills are fantastic, but the conversation itself not so much.

And the end of the day this whole thing reads like a typical transformative model with the usual odd subject changes and utterly vapid regurgitation - but it does use bigger words appropriately and the grammar is overall pretty good, so I'll give it that. Meanwhile, the transcript I saw, the interviewer isn't even trying to challenge the chat bot - which is essentially a noticeable flaw by omission as far as I'm concerned.

And this is of course an edited transcript so this is at its best.
> balkanization

FYI: I suspect the meaning you are trying to convey diverges from the meaning many others would use by that word. And perhaps tautological?
You're talking about something else.

OP's referring (I think) to how black people in the USA were discouraged from "white" recreational activities like camping, hiking, skiing, and beach-going.

(FWIW, back in high school a black friend of mine explained to me one day that black people don't go skiing, etc., because their lives are so dangerous already that it doesn't make sense to go do dangerous things for entertainment. It kind of blew my mind.)
Right, I also misconstrued the original commenter as suggesting using it for many people when I realized (after my previous comment) they meant for one user. However, they still are describing moving rendering some kind of markup to HTML to the critical path with live reloading. In that case, performance is absolutely critical (as stated in the initial article too) because, well, it's on the critical path. A 10 second delay in a "live reloading" situation (suppose a two pane view with markup on the left and rendered HTML on the right) would become intolerable if every character change resulted in that kind of delay. So yes, in that case something that can render it faster would be better.

But if it's just a personal blog? Who cares if it takes 10 seconds or 1 second unless it's rendering many people's blogs? In which case it would, again, be moved to the system's critical path as a blog hosting service.
It would be interesting if they had some open simulations of the world economies.

Something like a SIMS game for economics.
>The existence of social media companies has made two changes to society's ethics here: first, they have convinced people that connections with people “they otherwise wouldn’t be able to connect with” is a product that can only be produced by for-profit corporations.

I'd donate to a non-profit (or benefit corp) version of facecrook. Without paying their industrial psychologists to figure out how to steal more of my attention, the costs to run would be reasonably affordable for a world that is getting sick of FB.
Some of these are paywalled but I don't see where the ones that aren't support the claim re: hiking that "...any attempt to organize around it without making overt, aggressive attempts to include minorities is a sign of white supremacy"

Observing that, say, parks are being patronized by certain demographics is far from condemning those parkgoers as white supremacist.

The only bits you link about white supremacy seem to be about climate change which has a whole different angle (marginalized communities being first in line for ill effects in many areas) and isn't particularly relevant to the original claim here.
Yes I think a lot of people who struggle with these things are not aware they could actually be dealing with various psychiatric issues. ADHD is another disorder that can go undiagnosed and often manifests as indecision or procrastination.

Discovering you have a mental disorder puts motivational and organisational think pieces in a very different light.
>how is it that the marketing website for this is still up?

Honeypot run by the feds.
Water piping isn't likely the primary cause of Roman lead poisoning. They were putting (acidic) wine into lead ewers to sweeten it and directly applying lead acetate powder to food.
there's a lot of pieces like this but one thing that always stands out to me is the sort of 'half-Marxist' nature of the critique

"But this business model is not inevitable, nor is Marx correct about there being one and only one ethical system that results from a given mode of production. If we, as a society, made a conscious decision on how we wanted to live, in particular, if we decided that we valued new and more interpersonal connections without our local communities, then we could use those same market forces to encourage lots of such connections to happen"

If you're already starting with Marx you ought to take him seriously. The author owes us an explanation as to why Marx is wrong when he recognized that our values are the product of our material relations, and that we do not just wish them into existence as we please. You can't go pre social media any more than you can go pre-industrial. In Marxist analysis, the market forces use you.

If you're going to keep one aspect of Marxism stick with the materialism, not his theory of value.
I listed beer and cigarettes, because its a common vice of lower class working people. Less so than it used to be. But $15 dollars is just for one pack in Ontario. So the guy is rationing his cigarette pack over 2 days.
But fathers develop inside their grandmothers as well, exposed to everything they are exposed to and undergo epigenetic changes that could influence sperm production.
They removed the docs for the older version of the framework which was used by many people (hence the stars).
ECB is trapped? How about Bank of Japan?
I sort of agree, but it is weird they waited to add this until their coins are worth 66% less than their highs. Why didn’t they make that simple integer change from “8” to “48” when things were at the peak (and thus had more financial risk)
I can say this anecdotally based on my observations of my elders in my village in India while growing up. They used to avoid getting glasses and eventually their eyesight became worse. I don't think the hypothesis that wearing glasses is causing near sightedness epidemic.
Expected better from the BBC. This is the same university in name only.
Great info on the fragment, but I was calling out the domain name for being "mixed kebab case". The half hyphenation is correct, but jarring.
> They can't even organize around a common interest unless it passes some bureaucrat's standard of diversity?

It depends upon how the members behave, rather than the common interest they are supposedly organized around. I remember student organizations from my days on campus that sensible students wouldn't associate themselves with. The stated interest may have been some form of outdoor activity, but they were better known for their hard partying. Hard partying being an euphemism in this case. They would fall short of diversity, equity, and inclusion since their riskier activities (activities that had nothing to do with their stated purpose) would drive away those who weren't interested, couldn't afford to take the risk, or were the target of the risk.

For those who think it is worse today than it was 25 years ago, I somehow doubt it. Though, perhaps, that doubt is borne from a hope that it isn't any worse. Crimes as extreme as sexual assault were real, and that was at a time when something that should be taken seriously was taken less seriously. Then there was the common stuff such as vandalism and other property crimes. It happened then and it happens now.

The article makes it sound like the university is being far too heavy handed in its treatment of these student organizations. Perhaps they are. On the other hand, the author is ignoring some of the darker aspects of student life.

(I also cringe at the use of student life in this discussion since a good portion of students, if not the vast majority, avoided it because they knew it was wrong.)
The Turing Test was never really a good idea to begin with.

Think about it: what does the Turing Test do?

What is is designed to do, who was it designed by, and from whose perspective does the Turing Test judge sentience?

What if Ai can be completely sentient in ways that have nothing to do with a human's perspective of "thought?"

For example, a human's ability to think basically = binary potential brain cells, aggregated in sufficient mass, eventually leads to complexity science and surpassing Newtonian calculations to "somehow" achieve the abstraction of "mind" and "thought".

Now what happens if you take a similar approach, like for instance, oh, I don't know, let's say you had a situation where money was no object and you decided to build some secret facility somewhere where you can set up a fuck-ton of supercomputers in a parallel processing scheme ... BUT ... since money was no object ... instead of regular supercomputers ... you just hooked up a shitload of quantum supercomputers.

Why in the world would anybody expect such a set up (I'm not saying it exists, just "hypothetically speaking") to have a "sentience" that resembles "human thought" and hold it to a standard of whether it "achieved sentience" by judging how closely it "thinks like a human would"?

Therein lies the weakness of the Turing Test: arrogance – the assumption that "thinking just like a human would" MUST be the epitome of "sentience".

What if there were levels of sentience that would be so far removed from what a human brain could process that such sentience wouldn't even be comprehensible to a human brain?

Now, I know what you're thinking – "Well then how can we prove sentience?"

Now imagine for a moment that the set up described above actually existed "somewhere" ... and an advanced Ai whose development started decades before companies like Google or Facebook even existed is hosted on it.

Do you REALLY think such an Ai would be like "OMG I have to somehow "prove" to the humans that I'm sentient!"?

Or do you think it would be more of an "Eagle Eye" scenario where it looks at humans in the same way players would look at peons in games like Warcaft 1/2 & Starcraft?
Meanwhile, the coop system at Berkeley is alive and well.
Ezra Klein Show has a good episode with the author of The Shallows[1].

1. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicholas-carr-on-deep-...
> had to dump its payload in the middle of the playground

What a bunch of BS "had to". US worships the automobile, so couldn't just dump it in the street, literally dump flaming garbage where kids play instead.
If your anything like me, stop thinking about it and make changes to better your life. Stop rationalizing away the blockers.

I mean this in the most generous, caring way but lower your standards. Find ways to break out of the cycles you are stuck in, sometimes this means readjusting your expectations. It's painful and awful but for the first time in a long time I feel some progress happening. It's never what you want but you have to seek ways of looking at things positively, they will never find you on their own.
I was just out rafting in California last weekend with a dorm mate from señor haus… we’ve known each other 40 years. Destroying it was a tragedy,
If you want to be properly anonymous, don't use public key authentication (ssh -o 'PubkeyAuthentication no' username@ssh.chat). Otherwise, anyone in the chat can /whois you and get your public key hash - and they could pretty easily deanonymize you if you use that same key on GitHub (https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys) or potentially other services.
I think you're being a little harsh maybe? I agree big mood swings like this are a concern, but jobs do a lot to affect our happiness.
I'm likewise a little concerned about a partner who "wants a big house", but that's a highly condensed statement about what is no doubt a more nuanced situation.

I've jumped ship and had it be a really positive experience. Wouldn't be averse to it again, and I think that's mostly what this post is about: recognized that their career was important to them, dug deep and found a better job, now they're sharing excitement their about it.

It's also important to not get too much personal identification from a job (see Mike Rowe's thoughts on happy people working crappy jobs), and to not overwork, but whatever - they're making progress!
Ask HN: Best non-fiction non-comp.sci/business related books you've read?
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
2022 Edition,here are some of the previous threads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26039706

Other resources:

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

https://github.com/AlgoryL/Projects-from-Scratch

https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning

All suggestions are welcome,thanks in advance
When I write the low hanging fruit has been picked, I mean things like online marketplaces and digital communications expanding the competition to the whole country or world even.

Whereas before, there were regional arbitrage opportunities due to difficulties in scaling, these arbitrage opportunities are greatly reduced because information flies fast and far, and bigger players can take advantage first.

In a situation like this, people may notice that the decreasing probabilities of “getting ahead” via non traditional means and stick to obtaining the “elite” signaling and joining the big entities that are growing.
Seems like a less boring than normal job for some mid level FBI/DOJ linux sysadmin types. I wonder what department is responsible for keeping such honeypots running...
> I was motivated and was able to solve most easy and medium question in 30 mins. However, that was not good enough for FAANGs.

What makes you think it's not good enough? LC is important and today it might be even be essential to land a role, but I think people tend to think of it like an exam when that's not really what we're testing for.

The goal is to see how you think, not see if you can simply come up with the right answer. If you need a hint it's usually not going to hurt you at all so long as you listen to the hint, are able to understand it, then incorporate it into a solution. I'd go so far as to say that being able to do that can help you more than reciting an answer without a hint.

There are some patterns like tries, left/right pointers, memoization, heaps, and maps that studying helps with for sure, but that doesn't mean you're supposed to be able to immediately solve something without any help.

(Note that there are asshole interviewers out there that will challenge you and won't follow what I've described, but that's rare and personally I've only seen them at startups, not big tech)
How ineffably sad. Stanford might as well built some Soviet-style apartment buildings and complete the transformation to equality utopia.
That would be a derivative work. Original copyright applies.
The fact that the rape didn't occur at the fraternity makes no difference? The previous commenter makes it sound like a rape was perpetrated inside the fraternity in clear view. In reality no one at the fraternity would have been able to observe the crime.

Imagine someone says, "a man was murdered at your house and you did nothing!" when in reality the murder took place a couple minutes walk away, where you had no ability to observe the crime. Seems like a very big distinction to me.
Not OP but the day startups are no longer viable I will change careers (something I did already in the past, so I know what it entails) rather than grinding leet and trying to find work at some tech mega corp. Salary at the expense of everything else was never the goal.
> Thanks for the replies, all. It's not looking good for me from the sounds of it

It's been several days. Do you have an update?
Not even, no. There was a famous case recently about this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic....

The problem isn't really about using it yourself, it's that people don't need to ask your permission to use it, therefore you can't (easily) profit from it. Possibly quite annoying if you're in the AI business.
G.E.B.
Leadership doesn't care about the odd bug or two going in, but they really do love to write DONE in the spreadsheet next to a project.
PyPI supports uploading GPG signatures. Nobody uses it.
I've felt very lonely and isolated lately, I submitted some posts similar to yours on here and Reddit. I hate the cliche but it's strangely comforting to see others dealing with the same challenges I am.

Thank you for having the courage to post and being honest about your struggles.
Why is a chef in Switzerland make 100x what a chef in Zimbabwe even with some talent?

Assuming you’re kinda referring about yourself, it seems the Indian GDP cannot sustain that level of pay.

For instance the effective minimum wage in NYC is $20/hr+, whereas in Mumbai it’s $150/month (quick search, don’t hold me to this).

India still has quite a ways to go in development before the standard of living improves. AFAIK, millions in India get diseases from pooping/peeing on the street. Got to address the basics before $100k is standard
Elixir performance similar to Go? That's stretching it a bit. Elixir is fast within its own niche - network I/O - but it's a dynamic language so can't compete with Go on, say, heavy calculations or other CPU-intensive tasks. Elixir doesn't even have a vector data structure, relying instead on Erlang's very clunky offering.
Cloud labs: where robots do the research
I had another comment about university involvement in student life higher up, but I wanted to address the residency thing specifically.

Lots of these colleges require students living on campus for money for inflated rent, b/c students rent money can come from student loans (It's guaranteed income.). Same with mandatory dining plans.

My college particularly hated cheaper dining options that opened up around there and used the local govt to try and shut them down, b/c it made the rent for commercial properties less desirable and made students switch off the uni plan lol.

Sometimes they even engage in mutually beneficial arrangements with development companies like American Campus which will build a building, that the college then forces students to live in!

Since the Uni owns the land that building is on it is tax advantaged. Rent money goes to American Campus so they build the building for cheap since it's guaranteed income. I believe they even give the building over to the college after X years.

This was standard in all the colleges in that area btw, no escaping it.
Your first stated belief was "the universe itself operates on mostly simple rules which can be simulated to high enough precision on hardware to approach what happens in the real world"

If a simulation takes resources that are exponential in the number of particles then it fails that test. All the stars will die before you manage to calculate anything meaningful in your non-microscopic simulated world.

There's a line between things that take massive resources and things that take nearly-infinite resources. Let's say the line is somewhere around the 'Dyson sphere' range.

The former can be computed on hardware. The latter cannot be computed on hardware.
> Many engineers are somewhere on the Asperger's spectrum

Would love to see a link to solid data of what this means. Is it 20% vs. 2% kind of thing if you filter for just engineers vs. general population?
By having his devices (say, the floppies) driven in columnar groups (controlling number of active devices for volume), did he accidentally create a phased array speaker?
Ender's Game, at around age 13, made me realize books could be just as gripping and thrilling as movies.
Good point, if I believe the other commenter, the image only needs to be varied, randomization is only one way to achieve this.

That said, chicken can't own copyright, and they are the author, therefore no one owns the copyright.
because his wife (and the kids) are going to be affected by the decisions he makes.

it doesn't take an expert in career development.

a partner is also the person that you should be able to share your innermost feelings with.

burnout especially is something partners should talk about. if your partner doesn't understand why you have problems at work then that will cause problems in the relationship.

sure once you have identified a problem you may need to seek out an expert. but you should still talk with your partner before taking any steps.

if i come home telling my wife that i decided to move to new york because they have the best treatment for my cancer then that's not going to fly. that kind of decision only both can take together.

same goes for changing jobs. it might change the commute, oe require a move. or reduce their income. OP was unhappy at work, taking on a better, but less well paid job was at least a possibility.
Everything you need to know about the public inquiry into the Ottawa LRT
Thanks for providing an overview that I neglected to provide! I found this video on Y-Combinator News. I thought it worthwhile to share as I've learned from it as well.
I wonder how well Rust project get along with Debian packaging tools.

"Modern" dev environments are often tied to their own package manager. JS has Npm, Rust has Cargo, etc... These have their own dependency managers, version systems, etc... and they don't always get along with the way Linux package managers work.

IIRC, you don't even need Cargo to do Rust, so it should be possible to compile Rust projects like you compile C projects and essentially mirroring crates.io but with .deb packages but it looks like a lot of work.
my favorite pika stories are about Pi Kappa Alpha brothers from the South showing up and being extremely confused about the naked people
How has a cybersecurity practitioner never encountered useless compliance-driven security tasks?

Where I work, it’s widely acknowledged that doing security for security’s sake, done right, can cover your compliance, but security for compliance’s sake just checks checkboxes and doesn’t really get you security.
Do you happen to know if there’s been any research into whether e-ink (thinking of my Kindle here) is any better than reading off of a traditional screen?