skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop using that term. The idea was to communicate "technical stuff that needs to be done" to product management and sometimes have a lever to rework the shortcuts taken due to business pressure - in that case it should be called product debt, and not tech debt. Product took out the money (earlier release), not technology. And needs to pay it back with scheduling development work.

What I see is that the term makes technology look bad, doesn't work as a lever and demotivates developers.

Be a craftman, don't do technical debt. For time to market create a zerocode/crappy MVP that you throw away. Schedule real technical debt like DB migrations and do them as needed.
Really? I read the role was “AI Ethicists”… not something FizzBuzz worthy I presume. But I might be wrong on all counts :)
Google pays you if you deliver ads from their network on your website. They have a bunch of websites that can show ads, Google pays them. They use the money to buy Google shares.
I think the model does have short-term memory, but not long-term memory, if I'm understanding it correctly.

From https://aibusiness.com/document.asp?doc_id=777540 : "LaMDA2 was trained on Google’s Pathways Language Model (PaLM), which has 540 billion parameters."

And then looking at the PaLM paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.02311.pdf on page 5 we have: "PaLM uses a standard Transformer model architecture (Vaswani et al., 2017) in a decoder-only setup (i.e., each timestep can only attend to itself and past timesteps)"
That's outdated advice popular among doctors like 30 years ago. No credible specialist would tell you to wear weaker glasses in 2022.
Waking up at 9am is torturous?
You can also get a human to generate sentences like "I want to X" and "I don't want to X" in short succession, with decent prompts.
From the guidelines:

> "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
Yes, the reason matters... that reason is intelligence.

If I ask, "What do you think about what i'm wearing?" and you say "it's nice" *because* you have seen it, compared it to your tastes, etc. and believe it to be nice -- then you've answered the question i've asked.

A lookup table cannot answer this question: it can only answer it "in quotes". Ie, really it answers: "given what everyone has said about this before, what is the on-average answer?"

You realise that we're not trying to answer questions right? That our interest in intelligence isnt having some useful output on occasion of some prepared input?

We're interested in intelligent agents being in the world with us. It as important they get answers wrong. We are interested in systems which act for the right reasons (ethical, intellectual, cognitive, athletic, emotional, etc.).

Perhaps the most important things animals do is act well when the answers arent right.
“Not your keys not your coins” is a mantra in crypto for a reason. If you deposit your tokens into an unregulated and unaudited bank promising above market returns from their opaque strategy, there is a high likelihood you’ll eventually run into trouble.

Obvious solution is to encourage more regulatory framework around companies that claim to be custodial banks and investments. More audits, stable backings, and all of that.
time/budget/resource reasons means it DOES make sense. It's like saying you want a Ferrari, but at the moment all you can afford is a bicycle... its a start, it gets you going, and it maybe not what you want long term, and you can't realistically go long distance, but it gets you started. They are just strategic decisions, not technical debt.
Rising interest rates drive up
the mortgage rates. The vast majority of US home buyers have to finance their purchases, so an increase in mortgage rates is effectively an increase in the total cost of buying a house. The total cost of homeownership is correlated to rental markets, as we are talking about different ways of consuming the same good.

Interest rates have gone from 2.75 to 5.4%, meaning monthly payments on purchases have gone up almost 40%. Not all that will transfer to the rental market, but I be surprised if rents don’t continue to go up; barring a general collapse in house prices.
In Sweden you have to go to 'cop college' to become a cop. A 3 year practical and academic program (including at least 6 month on the job training) that teaches you how to be a cop. You cannot just show up with a random college degree and decide to be a cop.
The specific issue described is a recent development. I'm a former Mozillian, and this is surprising to hear. In the pre-Rust days, this NPM-style fractal-of-dependencies approach wasn't a thing in Gecko/Firefox, and anyone naively insisting that this is just how things work in software development (and purportedly have to work) was someone who demonstrably didn't know what they were talking about. Looks like we've lost some of the "demonstrably" part.
Since Google grows at a much faster rate than their ability to buy shares, their owned part of Google will always be insignificant.
So what if you said century. Time doesn’t stop for other countries. They’ll continue to progress, unless they become like Hong Kong and China takes them over - which is another clue for you to ignore.

No I wasn’t educated in America, not do I live there. You’re moving to personal attacks because you have nothing else.
Liquid breathing hurts?
I agree, the world needs a healthy dose of jokers :)
24kWh a day here. Fairly large house near Cape Town, South Africa. This is excluding heating in winter, for which we mainly use a slow combustion fireplace and also natural gas. Stove is also natural gas. Rarely use AC for cooling.
I want to share with you my new gitbook/repo about Threat Actors: Killing The Bear:

https://killingthebear.jorgetesta.tech

Very useful for SOC, CTI and Threat Hunting teams, I hope.

In it you can find:

- Threat Actors (Currently, Alphv, Killnet & EvilCorp are the most complete. -> means 'trend' group so more info will be in this one)

- Malware

- Tools

- TTPs

- IOCs (collected in my OTX Alienvault)

- Summary

- Wallets

- Comms

- Timeline

- Relationships

- Etc...

Today I published Evil Corp category. You can find it here:
https://killingthebear.jorgetesta.tech/actors/evil-corp

Hope it helps!
An LSP (Language Server Protocol) Server for Scheme
If I ask, "how did you like new york?" and you answer the question, sure, you can have you `I`.

That requires having gone to new york, having tastes, having judgements, having memory -- having a subjectivity which is unique and composed of the history of your experiences which can be related to novel environemnts. It requres existing in a shared world we can both co-refer to with our words. It requires being embedded in a space of social and physical significance.

It isnt google. "Language models" just zip the internet and search for patterns in text already written about the world, and reports it.

It's one step above a tape recorder on playback.
Defining terms is pretty essential. Blake Lemoine seems to be defining it in religious terms, and Gary Marcus seems to be responding to that.

I suspect that sentience by any definition will always be irrelevant when it comes to AI. Humans desperately seek companionship, connection and community. When AI comes to be able to offer that to human beings, it won't be through a process that we would consider analogous to our own sentience (whatever that means) but that will be irrelevant: we will nevertheless be comforted.

I do find it interesting that the arguments against LaMDA's sentience seem to amount to "it cannot be sentient because the process by which it arrives at its responses is understood and simple", which indicates that on some implicit, unspoken level sentience is defined for some people as there must be some mystery or unknown in order to be true sentience.
> I think sentience/consciousness are relatively clear concepts, at least in most areas of application

If you think that, try to come up with a black-box test that determine if something or someone is sentient / conscious.

I think that it is pretty clear to US that WE are sentient, and it's pretty clear to us that block of silicon isn't sentient, because it's so different from us, and because it doesn't make a sad face when we're mean to it -- but that assumes that our form of sentience is the only one that counts.

The article quotes a tweet saying

> It is mystical to hope for awareness, understanding, common sense, from symbols and data processing using parametric functions in higher dimensions.

but that is all our brains do, really.

How can we claim that a computer doing the same kinds of computations that we do is fundamentally different? This just reeks of human exceptionalism.
You have to be crazy to think awareness requires wetware. Silicon is going to zip past every possible measure of it in the next 5 years.
Thanks for the question.

The point I am making is that if the capabilities of multi-modal neural models continues to improve, it will become harder to convince folks one way or the other.

The reason I went with that scenario is that I thought it would be compelling and evocative, as well as a logical extreme of AI agency in human lives.

I personally find the entire question meaningless for the most part, although it's really interesting the divide in peoples opinions on the topic.
Come on, it hasn't been proven on humans.
Kids from age 1-4 also have an incredibly vivid imagination for fantasy, and can't tell apart the difference between reality and imagined scenarios sometimes.

The prototypical scenario in which this is relevant is the whole "there is a monster in my closet". Sure, they just imagined it. But the visual feels just as real as if they had actually seen it.

It's easy to dismiss this as an adult, but modern parental advice is to treat these flights of fancy very earnestly, and engage it on it's own rules ("I went inside the closet and I chased the monster away" is a much better strategy than "There's no monster in your closet") [this isn't advice for you, I'm sure you don't need it, but any non-parent reading that may find it interesting]

My 2 year olds frequently tells me and my wife stories that we know are factually inaccurate. (Like something that happened on a walk with one of us so we know for sure it didn't happen)

The best leading theories about infant amnesia is that language IS what causes it. Memories are indexed by different keys until language is developed. Once language comes in, it becomes the only key function for accessing memories, and the ones mapped before language just become unsearchable.

I hope I'm wrong. It would be super cool if your kids actually remembered these things for real. But I doubt it.
"Both of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughters work for the tech giants: Alison Schumer works as a privacy and politics product marketing manager at Facebook parent company Meta, while Jessica Schumer is a registered lobbyist for Amazon in New York state. The fate of the Senate’s antitrust bills targeting the tech industry comes down to Schumer, who will ultimately decide whether or not to bring them to the floor."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2022/02/22...
There was a recent point in time where I could feel myself getting a headache from passing over all the regular cynicism in the comments. Every bit of negativity I passed my eyes over physically felt like poison, but I kept coming back because I was addicted.

This kind of routine sounds familiar - it's the same kind that's brought up when applied to other forums on this forum itself. I kept thinking I could escape that cycle by finding the place away from "the other mindless information hoses". The impression I got from reading comments here makes me want to believe this, but I don't think it's true. And the false sense of superiority that got into my head from thinking I'd found the nicer place led me astray.

There are a lot of comparisons of this site to others, but regardless of what HN is labeled, I think that despite the engaging conversations that do take place, the comments are not always a comfortable place for me to return to. It's to the point where I've seemingly overestimated the many pronouncements of better moderation, or that it's less toxic than that other place, or that there's insight to be found in lots of places. The catch is that all those things might be true, and yet one can still feel worn out by everything in this place besides the unequivocal good. I can count on one hand the times in the past five years where an article or comment I read on HN meaningfully changed my life.

Additive firehouse sites can still house valuable information, and said sites are unlikely to go away in the long term from scores of people bickering at them from a distance. The world is far larger than what a single orange site can encompass.
Hydration only makes sense when you have a vdom that you have to "synchronize" with the initial state of the page (the html you got from the server). The act of performing this synchronization is what hydration is about (notice that this includes setting up event handlers too). What you do here is to reconcile the in-memory representation (vdom) with the actual contents of the page (the dom).

In the jquery aprroach the in-memory model is built straight from what's on the page (the dom). This removes an entire class of problems (there's no mis-synchronization possible) but has its own set of issues (the model you build may not end up being what you expected while coding).

More importantly, "hydration" use implies that the HTML that gets sent to the client is a Server-Side Rendered version generated from the same JS code that runs in the page. The very big advantage here is that there's a single place where the page's content is controlled from (the js/jsx/whatever code) instead of having to manually maintain the html/js relationship by hand like in the jquery case.

Furthermore, the jquery approach is global in nature (you can manually scope jquery-fiddling, but if you make a mistake you may end up modifying stuff elsewhere on the page) whereas this cannot happen in the vdom approach.

In general, the vdom approach makes code more manageable at the cost of runtime performance. That's why many people recommend react and/or other vdom-based frameworks for the complicated cases (lots of dynamic stuff on the page) but vanilla/jquery/etc. when the in-page interactivity is lower.

Today's crop of "frontend frameworks" (such as nextjs, fresh here, etc.) are trying to achieve the benefits of the vdom approach while minimizing its' drawbacks (and full-page hydration is a big drawback because it takes "a lot" of time decreasing the page's Time-To-Interactive metric).
(I mean, what I was saying is by getting rid of the box in the DOM, you avoid the issue of the TOS altogether since you "walk around it" instead of agreeing to it.)

Aren't we all appropriating the work of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and others? It's not like Maxwell's equations are copyrighted.

You're entitled to your opinions, but as a PhD myself I'd rather my research get used by people than end up in a copyright junkyard of things people can't use.
There are a number of high-level technical explanations in there: LaMDA is variously characterized as autocomplete, a massive statistical database of human language, as an Excel spreadsheet, and as word sequence modeling, all of which are basically correct -- and none of which can possibly be sentient.
“Nonsense. Neither LaMDA nor any of its cousins (GPT-3) are remotely intelligent.1 All they do is match patterns, draw from massive statistical databases of human language.”

The thing is, what exactly is intelligence? This comment is like when AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in Go, and people claiming AlphaGo is not intelligent, all it does is just monte carlo tree search.
Which makes it a replicant, right?
In my experience, thats a big NO. While there is some performance impact, in other ways it can actually be a benefit (spreading writes out to multiple pages, for example) so as with anything in regards to performance: benchmark, benchmark, benchmark.

PS.: UUID's also work quite nicely to deal with certain system hiccups, specifically temporal ones. Could be thought of as something similar to the Erlang supervisor trees.
The obvious milestone is the external behavior. The internal representations are not something the public knows anything about. Even machine learning researchers only have limited ways of doing visualization.
If that's your definition of black box, you need to specify this.

Blackbox would mean in a normal setting that no one knows how it works
I assume most Celsius holders didn’t watch the tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hG4X5iTK8M
I've had a similar experience, but only once, and only induced as an accidental side effect by months of mental and physical preparation. About ten years ago, I spent three months where I almost singularly (outside of my software job) thought about and prepared for a powerlifting competition (amateur, not crazy strong). This would be my second competition (and at the same location), and every night before falling asleep, I would visualize the entire day, from waking up, to driving to the location, weighing in, sitting in the stands, walking up to the platform, and completing the lifts. What I would be wearing, what I would eat, what books I would bring. What lifts I would attempt, and how I would warm up.

During the competition, while I was on the platform, I felt like my consciousness was ten feet above my head, and all my actions happened autonomously, without any conscious direction. I can hear, on the video someone recorded, my father yelling my name from the stands, but in the moment I had no conception of that. I bumped into the spotter while resetting my stance on one of the squats, and didn't even really register or respond to his presence.

It felt incredibly powerful, but that's probably because of all the purposeful preparation that led up to it. I can't imagine how terrifying that would be to have happen at random without any warning.

Do you lose muscle control? I imagine you'd still be walking around the grocery store, just without a sense of agency of which steps you take, right?

Somewhat unrelatedly, I've recently been toying with a philosophical idea: what is the inverse of solipsism? Solipsism is the belief that the Self is the only real thing, since it's the only thing that can think. Everything else, and everyone else, may all be false perceptions. So I am real, and everyone else is a figment of my imagination. The inverse of that would be that everyone else is real, and I their collective mass hallucination. Who am I to say that I exist? The best way to exist is to not believe in one's existence. I wouldn't say I exactly subscribe to it, but I do enjoy thinking about it.
Future generations will look back on this era's treatment of animals as barbaric. They will have the benefit of being able to grow vat meat identical to any steak and perform drug testing purely in-silico, so they will not need to use animals in the way we do now, but still, when you remove the economic/scientific rationale and look at the fundamentals of our treatment of animals, you can't help feeling at least a little bit saddened by it.
To add to this, an interlock (which unfortunately is a dated term) is the part of the hardware checking for atomicity when required.
How to Go Solar as a Renter
You can argue LaMDA is somewhat sentient, but then you need to be consistent and apply this same pan-psychic viewpoint to every machine / algorithm out there. The fact that this particular algorithm is designed to pattern match with human writing doesn't make it all that special.
You are getting muscle spasm on top of myopia. Unlike the changing physiology of the eye, this is reversible.
I use 70 to 80
People know you can't pay a human to love you, but it's in principle possible to make an AI that loves you, assuming a human level AI exists.
Also these techniques can be a double edged sword. Like the author mentions techniques known to Bulgarian hackers in the 90's. Well that's the problem, everyone knows about it already so you should assume there's a good chance the enterprise security software you're up against knows about it too. Plus I'm sure if this was created by US intel they already had a pretty good idea what the Iranians would have been running on their networks and tested Stuxnet against it before it was launched.
That reminds me of the mechanicus in warhammer 40k. They perform ancient rites to please the machine spirits before using a machine.
New web framework, why?
And the fact that the creator exist is evidence that the creator’s creator exists, etc, etc.

Or is there a stop? And then what? Your stance creates more questions than it answers while introducing extra, unnecessary parameters.
AFAIU, you can stop a gas fire by removing oxygen (e.g. with fire extinguishing foam or a lot of water). Lithium batteries burning reaction provides its own oxygen supply so you can literally do nothing to extinguish the fire. It can burn even underwater.
Same thing, any company putting diversity and inclusion first is a huge red flag to me and I usually stop my own hiring process.

As a capitalist I consider any strategies other than "Hire the best individuals as long as they are also good teammates" the only viable strategy. And I am wary of anyone doing something else.

"Let's hire more black people" does not seem like a viable strategy. And the message sent to the person actually hired is terrible. "Yeah we hired you because we needed to appear more inclusive".

If someone built the opposite product I would be interested, would help me not waste time with company I share no common ideals.
80 here
One other "fun" use of perflurocarbons (like fluorinated crown ethers or cyclo-alkanes) is that, containing large amounts of 19F, they are MRI visible. So, you can directly image the compound in the lungs leading to some really striking images [1, 2] while they are in the gaseous phase, or indeed in the liquid phase
when one lung is partially inflated. I think that some compounds like these have been proposed for use in patients who have inhaled hot or burning gasses (viz: most likely blast/explosion/deflagration victims) and suffered an internal lung injury. Oedema can impair oxygen availability at the surface of the lung and it's my understanding that there is at least one or two research projects using PFCs as an intensive life-supporting measure as a consequence .

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmri.26292?...

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrm.28270?c...

[3] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrm.10008?c...
Isn’t “Jay Walking” the classic trivial ‘crime’?

Most countries are happy to let you cross a road at any convenient place provided at that particular moment it doesn’t cause vehicles to slow down (ie there’s a safe gap in traffic). In the US, and often in a oddly ‘ethno-sensitive’ way, that’s an offence.
He has a PhD in computer science from ULL and worked as a senior engineer at google. AI ethics was his 20% project; and he used it to publicly make an idiot of himself.
> The "response" you select is a step in a plan to achieve a goal.

Is it? Or are you just a bird trying to explain how flying works by dropping poop on my head?

> If the plan is to utter a sentence, the way you generate the sentence is NOT to emit the most likely token to fit all of the speech input you ever heard before.

This is completely incoherent to me.
I have two deaths in the family due to pulmonary embolism. One the first week after the first AstraZeneca shot, the other after the first week of Moderna booster. Another one had a stroke just the day after the booster, and is still unable to talk or walk.

Now like most HN users I know my statistics and I guess we've just been unlucky or it's all a coincidence, but my emotional response is to never take one of those things again.
Are there any implications for next winter? If regulations says we should cover breathing holes...
But isn't FSD at this moment just that lane holding assistant?

Anyway... Confusion at its best. :-D