skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This still falls into the same trap.

Why would a machine care about its own existence?

Humans care about our own existence because doing so is an evolutionarily beneficial trait. If you care about being alive, you are more likely to do things that will keep you alive, which will make you more likely to pass your genes on to the next generation. As a result those traits get selected for over time.

LaMDA isn't rewarded (through propagating its genes or otherwise) by caring and as a result it doesn't have the ability to care. It doesn't even have a mechanism where you could do this even if you wanted to. The environment it is in has nothing to do with it.
Leaked document showing how Amazon managers evaluate employee performance
It's working out great for the communist governments of Quebec and Washington State. The communists in Norway also seem to be doing ok.
Most dams are privately owned.

https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-08/fema_living...
If only we had more than one person... Jokes aside:

By studying how that "internal world" emerges from the anatomy of the brain(neuroscience, neuropharmacology).

By querying that internal world in various interesting ways and studying the responses(psychology and behavioral biology).

By studying the theory of computation and its physical constraints(computer science, mathematics, physics).

And by studying language and its implications for cognition(linguistics).

Philosophers can't just sit in a bubble and figure this shit out on their own. They've tried that for milennia. At the very least their theories need to be physically, neurologically, and computationally possible...

Obviously science has things to say about these questions, even Chalmers would concede that.

I pose you a question. Can you prove, or suggest a way of discerning, whether this internal world, impenetrable to outside probing, actually exists? If you can't, do you think it's reasonable to stop all attempts at scientific inquiry without proof that it's hopeless?
If you're doing carbon sequestration you skip the part where you convert it to methane and just sequester the captured CO2.

Given the scale of the problem, something like that will (should?) be done. If we take it seriously and figure out a political solution, eventually every current natural gas well will be converted to CCS and run in "reverse", as it were.

However, the energetics are such that most carbon capture, barring nanotech magic, will be done via enhanced weathering or tree burial.
Better question, what problems/scenarios would you try to solve with c++??
"Just curious, what evidence do we have that humans are sentient"

The fact we can ask that question and most people on the planet have at least a simple understanding of what it means.
Reminds me of this part of Wes Borg's "Welcome to the Internet Help Desk" routine:

https://youtu.be/1LLTsSnGWMI?t=240
Man, what are you on about. It's crystal clear what "I'm still happily married" means.
LOL... my mind went straight to "Two identical UUIDs were generated for containers running in a Kubernetes cluster which powers Chittatong's infrastructure, wiping out everything in the process".
Of course you don’t have to switch, since you can brew install bash 5 or whatever the latest is and then chsh to it, but if you want to use it as an opportunity to change shells, consider checking out some of the newer interactive shells like nushell, elvish, xonsh, oil etc. Some of them are even based on actual general purpose, fairly common programming languages.
Well, that's an interesting way to look at it; I see better where you're coming from now.

But I wasn't trying to get the unmodified data structure to handle deletion efficiently; I was trying to use it as a basis to design a structure that could. I thought I saw a minor modification that achieved this, but then I found out why it doesn't work. That's what my linked note above is about.

More generally, if you only try things that will probably work, you'll never achieve anything interesting.
Well, i do hope you back that assumption with some actual statistics, otherwise you're just using what is "common sense" or your experience with "x people" as a proxy for data.
Atlanta startup turns regular hairstylists into mobile stylists
Because about 60 million people is the US could use at-home haircuts, this atlantan start-up enables regular hairstylists (and barbers) to become mobile and start offering at-home services in 15 minutes.
They are still working on the product market fit. Any idea or suggestion will be much appreciated. Check their website out.
> We are saying if AirBnB doesn't fix this problem, we will take our business elsewhere.

But you wont. They are now too big. If the tech industry leaves it will just be filled with the rest of the world. Im on your side, I think its scummy. They were a scummy business to start with, skirting laws, subsidized by VC money, just like Lyft, Uber, etc.... However, this is how its done now. The gig economy is an economy built on 'what can I make right now' I dont want them protected. It's just schlepps earning a buck here and now because they cant anywhere else.
Video shows the turbine after being struck by lightning, not the lightning strike itself. One of its blades is on fire.
Higher water prices translate to higher food prices without replacement. The southwest has ideal growing conditions when irrigated. Replacement won’t be 1:1.

Changing the water prices in the southwest will hit consumers across the US.
Divorce is a legal process for ending a civil marriage. It should be easy to accomplish for those interested in doing so. There's no point in instituting roadblocks for the sake of preserving a union, especially when its constituents despise each other.
Would you watch your favorite influencer's private laptop/ phone screen+ face?
Would you watch Elon Musk's face + laptop screen while he works? Bella Poarch's screen+ face as she watches tiktoks in her room? Your best friend shop online for clothes?

Why? What are you curious about?
I've worked with a MIT grad; smarter than then entire organization COMBINED imho....
Yes, because who gives a fuck about treaties. After all, when your neighbor can't fight you it's a-ok to take their stuff. /s
Amazon won't refund your lost time though. Unless I'm feeling particularly generous, or have some other reason to believe it was a freak occurrence, getting shipped a bobcat and getting a 100% refund on a $1 widget is an instant negative feedback and low-scoring seller review. That $1 widget being Chinesium garbage has set back whatever was working on by at least a full day, probably more like a week, and wasted all the initial time I spent selecting the item, plus the time I spend determining that the item was indeed faulty, and it wasn't my fault obviously costs way more than a dollar.

These companies couldn't afford a "no risk no questions asked refunds" policy, since there's no way they'd ever pay for that wasted time.

I'm not asking for a genuine Rolex, but fakery is so bad at the moment that I'm not even confident I'd get a genuine Casio.
I was trying to imagine what advertising works on me...none.

What does work is a family member, friend suggests something or even an article online that is genuine and not written by someone with a flare for social engineering.
I understand the inclination to think "if it quacks like a duck..." but in this case, it's literally just a recording of ducks quacking.
Yah.. yah.. yahyayayayyyyyyahoo!
In the residential context, the magic word here is "ground source heat pump". A really big coolant loop that stores heat underground. Depending on the jurisdiction and loop size, figure it will cost $15,000+
Summary:

• Mexico, Indonesia, Taiwan, Portugal, Spain, the UAE, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, and Singapore are
the best destinations for expats in 2022.

• The worst destinations for expats are Kuwait (52nd), New Zealand, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Luxembourg,
Japan, South Africa, Turkey, Italy, and Malta (43rd).
Many SEA countries are effectively third world. It’s no wonder they have to go to Thailand for western-ish level medical care. The locals will not have the option at all so it’s not really a fair comparison
Absolutely devastating, but the young people keep the game going. It's so bittersweet.
1178. This is actually part of the base stats package in R:

> qbirthday(prob = 0.5, classes = 1000000, coincident = 2)
1178

See https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/stats/versions/3.6.2...
Lived in Thailand for a bit. The "foreigner tax" (farang is usually reserved for White foreigners) is usually for untraceable cash payments (i.e. taxis, stalls, etc.) and government ran spaces (national parks, etc).

In the case of the latter, usually foreigners pay 5X for entry -- this is government mandated.

Now, as for the former, it's more for gullible tourist fresh off the boat. I was drunkenly making my way home one night, and hopped in a taxi. Guy told me something like 1,500 baht ($40 USD). I just laughed at the guy and said "meter", followed by him giving me a knowing look and a laugh as he turned on the meter. It was a 5 minute drive and ended up costing like 50 baht...If you know, then you know.

Aside from the constant absurd and abusive racism handed out by Thai police in BKK, the country is an amazing place to live. Safe and friendly. And, I want to make it clear that I only received racist attacks (physical and verbal) from cops in BKK and nowhere else in the country -- but of course, everything became fine once they realized I was an American...
Two external monitors is still the exception, one external monitor is the exception.

Why should apple be increasing the cost of hardware, or reducing the feature set, of hardware for everyone to support niche users? The more I read, the more I suspect that supporting 6k@60fps _requires_ that much hardware in their display controller. "Can drive any screen you plug in" is better than "Can drive a pair or two of low-mid end screens" as a feature to communicate with end users.

Don't get me wrong, I get that some people use multiple external screens, and you _can_ get the bigger MacBooks (that support 2-3 6k@60Hz screens) or some cheap pc laptop - though that means sacrificing the over a billion colors (/s). But if your price sensitive windows machines continue to exist, and if the cost vs features favors lower price[] for you that's probably where you should go.

* Let's be honest, game studios still target windows+consoles first, then maybe linux for some reason, and finally macOS. Also they apparently write so much assembly ARM isn't feasible (they do not).
I recommend a $200 Lenovo. It's tough to beat the quality.
>> It’s extremely hard to be friends with your co-workers. You have to go out of your way to reach out and be available. Friendships don’t happen “organically” like they do in the office

>…because, most people seem to think they can just on their asses all day, don’t post on slack, don’t talk to anyone other than on standup and just get work done.

>So many tickets done.

>So totally miserable.

Oh no, people being productive at their jobs. I went remote for this, so I don't have to socialize at work and can actually get things done. My friends exist outside of the work sphere.
Ask HN: Do you have multiple income streams?
I'm thinking about what I've done over my career and wondering if I should have taken more chances and built alternative sources of income.

In our industry it seems we could but how many do?

Have you? If so what is bringing in your side income?
Why is Italy so low??
This is exactly the right question. Further complicated by the fact that everyone has differing operational definitions of the words "consciousness", "awareness", and "sentience".
Ask HN: 3D Websites?
There are movies with 3D glasses, and now things like the metaverse. Why no 3d style websites?
Correcting an error: evidently the iCE40UP5K is no longer Lattice's largest iCE40; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199137 mentions an out-of-stock SparkFun breakout board for the iCE40LP8K, which is about 50% larger. And it's at least two years old!

https://old.reddit.com/r/yosys/comments/81yhas/list_of_icest... is a four-year-old post that says it's supported by Yosys, and the designer of the breakout board https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyfpga/tinyfpga-bx/ says, "IceStorm currently supports the TinyFPGA B2 and I will be working closely with its creators to implement support for the TinyFPGA BX as well."
Interesting in that in population spread, expanding rings aren't entirely improbable - if a population has a tendency to exhaust resources when it expands into an area, its spread could naturally form loops around the edge of depleted, unpopulated areas. It would be interesting if there could be cases where a species expanded like that in the past, and evolved under that kind of closed ring pressure. Even if later that ring broke, how would that ancestry show up in the surviving species' taxonomy?
> late nights

Nothing is universal, but I can't help but assume that the work-from-office cohort is VERY disproportionately young. People whose lives are not yet as full as they likely will be a decade in the future, and for whom their job may be at the center of their personal socialization.

I remember the shared experience that you're describing, and sure... it's great to have a few years of that when you're fresh out of school, working your first couple jobs as a junior dev, and transitioning out of that college student lifestyle. But I was married at 25, and had two children in my 30's. I am OVER late nights for the sake of late nights, and think that's normal and healthy by the time you're a mid to senior level professional.
Why would you expect a “questions for confluence” plugin to create a user, or have the ability to create a user…
Which would be a good alternative to build similar cluster supercomputers nowadays?
My point was his policies caused a shift in investment capital away from unproductive tax shelters and into productive investments. Eliminating the tax shelters was part of the deal he made with Democrats to get the budget passed.

That can't help but produce positive economic changes.
> And by nearly any quality of life measure I can think of, Italy is far, far ahead of Mexico.

I agree with you that Italy is probably hands down a better choice - but if you want to live in a city - it is tough to beat the nicer neighborhoods in Mexico City for quality of life and affordability and being in the same time zone.

If you want to live in the hills, or a small town, Italy is tough to beat.
Are you just gonna keep repeating that or do you have an actual argument to support this claim?
How often do people get one large grant upfront, vs yearly refreshers? I was under the impression the latter is the norm.
That sounds more likely than this weird claim.

> In June, CyberScoop reported claims that “radical ecologists” who oppose digitalization may be behind the attacks.

I wouldn’t rule out a nation state “practice” attack though.
I have pretty good relationship with my boss. Some weeks I work 20-30 actual hours. Others, I will get on in the evening to fix things if we are having issues. My salary is decent but I would love to continue building my career, however, whenever I interview its so hard to gauge the actual work load. Devs often say "we work 40 hours a week"...
There must be some mechanism to mitigate lightning strikes. Feathering the blades? Applying the brakes? Neither will put out the fire -- but it will be less click-worthy... and maybe the cows, below, will appreciate not having debris rain down on them.
I think it means he is frightened that his employer forces him to do other, non AI related things (because he is than more able to focus on that stuff).
Zipmex becomes latest crypto exchange to block withdrawals
Writing great software isn’t all about the software you write (2020)
No. Most Colorado river water is used for farming in the southern deserts of Imperial and Riverside counties.
That's what engineering means.

"We thought we'd had smarter officials in place." - me
> Yes, this is inefficient. Yes, academic bureaucracy sucks and the publication game is easily corrupted and early advances are more relatable than later ones.

How would you promote teaching and knowledge transfer while not needing to do this? On the job learning?
Wow shoutout to insolation being an amazing word
Even that "exponential" growth is a not a thing anymore. There are factors which make it less obvious (growing TDPs of modern CPUs and GPUs; going wider, i.e. increasing the number of CPU cores, instead of faster; making chiplets and building cpus out of them instead of big single dies), but these factors only postpone the inevitable (there's only so many levers you can pull and most of them have already been pulled). We're a couple years away from the silicon limit, the 2nm situation already looks grim.
A person can change their mind, attitude & perspective on a dime. The willingness to disbelieve in sentience is fantastically remarkable, as a grevious oversight.
A nice neighborhood in Mexico City is roughly as safe as a nice neighborhood in an average city in the US.

Outside of there, it's a crapshoot. Could be very safe, could be VERY unsafe... In a way you don't see in many parts of the US or EU.
This one:

https://ubuntu-mate.community/uploads/default/original/2X/e/...
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0375703764

Since Jan 1st. Ashamed that I'm only 130 pages in (~660 total). Life just keeps getting in the way were I don't make the time to sit down and read. Been over-indexing on my career and reading technical stuff after hours. It usually takes me a month or two to get through a book. But half a year later and I've barely put in a dent.

It also doesn't help that the book is mind-bending and incredibly postmodern and effectively has a plot structure not unlike the movie Inception, with footnotes taking over the entire page for several pages before falling off completely. Not exactly a "quick read before bed."
The people still exist, possibly in a different location. Best to stop having so many babies. Even better if you already did this 50 years ago.
As Cory Doctorow once said, “It is only a matter of time before a computer kills us.”
"never ever" is both a strong claim and ridiculous.

I'll take the Australian Snowy River Hydro scheme over the mess in Texas any day.
I mean if we suck it out of the air and put it back in cars, then we close the loop, right? No more externalities?
The problem isn’t that we’re using too much energy. It’s that we aren’t producing enough carbon neutral energy.
Oh The Foundation is such a beautiful read. Anytime I think about the longevity of our civilization, I think of it. I'm sure the creators of Horizonte Zero Dawn were inspired by it.
Nice, there's now an app to facilitate marital breakdown. This is peak "there's an app for that".
The c100 / c101 Asus Flip is my favorite laptop form factor. Durable, extremely lightweight, loved the keyboard. Felt great in the hands. And inexpensive enough to make theft a non-worry. I wish Asus (or someone) would still make them.
They can pry my home office from my dead, cold hands. I am never stepping foot into another godawful, soul-sucking office ever again.

The sole fact that I get to actually sleep like a human rather than waste away 2 hours of my life every single day travelling in the early morning is more than enough reason for me to never, EVER go back to an office. Not having to interact with the parasitic middle management types is also a big bonus, because I have actual friends outside of work and have ZERO interest in turning my co-workers jnto anything resembling friends.
After a spate of bad cables (mostly where their internal circuitry overheats)
I've stopped buying most electronics on Amazon and instead use bestbuy's insignia brand.

For me it's worth $5 to not have to buy a replacement every 3 months.

Maybe just my sample but it seems these things always fail _just_ after the return window.
Kubernetes for Developers Who Know How to Develop
Highly. I think I've read it a couple (or maybe three?) times in my life and I know the next time I do that I'll get something new out of it. It's a lifetime book.
If you failed to clarify in your original post, it really does look like it's not material to the story: we don't have the context so reasonably people are going to ask why you even brought it up. No need to get so indignant about it.
My 2019 Intel Macbook Pro certainly heats up enough to prevent lap use.
> Then is torture, rape and murder wrong because the victim is sentient, or because the perpetrator is?

Nothing is wrong unless it's done by a moral actor (which is a much higher standard than sentience. Pretty much everything with a central nervous system is sentient, but lobsters, for instance, are not moral actors.

Similarly, the usual understanding of the moral status (the gravity of not the binary permissible/wrong status) of the three acts you describe is somewhat connected to the target as well as the actor being a moral actor (that's least the case with torture, and most the case with murder) rather than merely sentient.
Bought a couple of these for the kids, and they love them. Not a Chromebook, but surprisingly well made and priced like a Raspberry Pi. Even has an LTE modem. Comes with Windows 10 Pro Education installed, and I haven't seen any difference from our other Win 10 installations. Of course, you could also buy it from Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/evolve-iii-maestro-e-book-...
Not really because any good scientist knows a unblinded, uncontrolled sample of 1 doesn’t tell you much.
The US govt outsources software development to the big consulting firms. Any one of them would take 5 years and $10B to create an equivalent app. And then it would only run with Microsoft Explorer (not Edge).
>I don't see any correlation between spies as agents and spying on your own people.

Well now that doesn't make any sense. If you spy on the other side, and they spy on you, but you don't spy on you, then how do you know what they know? Or what they want to know but don't yet?

Information is the currency of warfare. If the other side is in our OODA loop, they're going to shape our decisions at a tempo we can't respond to.
I dislike remote work and have a full social life.

What you think would be a good adjective to describe this opinion you just shared, that people who prefer in person work don't have their lives stuffed with meaning and structure?
This is great - ideally it would evolve to a more generic mediation app. One thing surprising to some folks is that most people, including lawyers actually don't like litigation. Most things are settled out of court, and even more are mediated before a settlement.

Helping people realize the cost ineffectiveness of litigation is honestly a good thing. Obviously for corporations and businesses the logic is different but I believe for most we should be discouraging using courts.

Good work!
If you’re looking for something similar in Seattle, I like ALT Space: http://www.altspaceseattle.com/

I haven’t been to the new location after their landlord kicked them out earlier this year, but it’s community-run by nice people. It’s a really affordable ($20/month for occasional access) way to have access to equipment without having to own it yourself. The woodworking and sewing stuff have been handy for me. The equipment isn’t super nice or super specialized; just practical things.
> ELIZA came out few decades ago

Like, 6.

It's just amusing how old this example is.

The Mechanical Turk was much much older - but easily shown to be a person hiding in the mechanism. I think ELIZA was in some sense a mirror, reflecting back consciousness, and that's the feeling we get from these systems.
We do, however, choose to not give guilty verdicts to people we feel are not adequately capable of judging this for themselves.
Perhaps to gauge the fitness of the horse, but that data is not typically available in the US.