skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are different definitions of safety

If what you mean by "safe" is "memory-safe", then you're wrong. It is definitely truthful to say that Rust code is guaranteed memory safe (within safe code sections, barring compiler bugs, etc).

If what you meant by "safe" is "bug-free", then it never claims to guarantee that your code is free of bugs- that would be nonsense (though it does a lot to help out!), and I don't think people would get that idea.
While your house wiring is typically copper, transmission and distribution wiring isn't. That's very-often aluminum. And as you point out, we make a huge amount of the stuff.
Yeah that's fair, I guess if you hire enough engineers one of them will eventually believe AI is magic.
It's only fictitious if Jeff Bezos is comparing his wealth to your wealth.

Try to tax it away and use it for something that would benefit everyone and suddenly it becomes a lot less abstract to him.
The big problem being, of course, is that no one knows what sentience requires.

If strong AI requires quantum mechanics, then of course it can't be sentient. If strong AI only requires large linear algebraic matrices, then FAANG companies (and maybe the NSA) would be the only people on earth that can make one.

But as to this LaMDA, it seems as if it's only responding to prompts. It's not actually using computing resources to satisfy it's curiosities. And if that's the case, then it's not strong AI. And it's definitely not sentient.
I keep reading that H2 storage is difficult, lossy, and dangerous. H2 gas stations have blown up every now and then. Has that changed?
Reaper Man was one of the first ones I read, and after reading 20 or so now, the plot about the snow globe things is still the most bizarre by far.

It’s definitely one of the most Pratchett-y but not necessarily one I would recommend to read first.
I can relate to most of these. As an extrovert living in a different state than I grew up, I really miss just being around people. However, for now, this just works really well with having a toddler and a wife that has an unpredictable schedule.

My situation is fully remote, however my home is my "duty station." I am required to work at my physical home. If I were in a position to nitpick my situation, I would really like to just be able to go to a public space to work such as a coffee shop, campsite, shared space, etc. sometime - just to interact with humans.
There is a saying “two of a trade seldom agree”.
Gas is (relatively speaking) quite clean, and presumably pure synthetic gas likely to be even cleaner.
I played with ELIZA back the 70s as a student. I wasn't fooled, and nobody I knew was fooled. I wasn't a CS student, either.

One rapidly realizes how its answers are formed from the questions, and for questions not in a handful of forms, you get one of a very small number of generic responses.
Me too. I live in an area filled with hills and forests. Big open flatness makes me sad. Developed areas too.
It’s probably people who think we don’t need gigawatts for a distributed ledger.
I have a strong belief that for an AGI to become sentient it must have an embodiment. Sentient life in the world as we know it evolved in that way.
FWIW, he's a self-proclaimed "Christian Mystic".

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/religious-discrimination-...
It's a big world out there. Sometimes the best connections aren't found locally.
Just curious, what evidence do we have that humans are sentient, other than our own conscious observations? Is there any physical feature or process in the human brain you can point to where you can say, “aha, that’s it, this is where the lights turn on”? It seems like this is part of a bigger issue that nobody really has a clear understanding of what sentience actually is (with or without a PhD)
Many scientists (and... others) internationally were publishing claims of efficacy that collapsed under light scrutiny. The small handful that did not collapse showed a very small effect that could be accounted for by decreased parasite load.

Reputable sources said, correctly, that there was no good evidence that ivermectin worked against COVID. Later, they were able to say they had good evidence it did not work, a stronger statement. They could not honestly say that, early on, and did not; but we all know that almost everything doesn't work. So, anything claimed to work deserves skeptical scrutiny.

Biochemically, it would not have been surprising if ivermectin helped some. But "not surprising if" is a very, very long way from "does". Reputable sources made, in the end, the correct call. Meanwhile, people draining the ivermectin supply did themselves no good, but made it harder for those afflicted with parasites to get needed treatment. Those using ivermectin instead of getting vaccinated made themselves carriers, contributing to spread and mortality.
> What I'm saying is that it would take an immense amount of effort, looking at literally tens of thousands of Amazon listings, to even realize that "this is what everyone else is doing."

You're assuming cause & effect here.
To this point, imagine:

- The crowd following the leader / a particular success story

- Most individual sellers are not actually "individual": Same owner or network

- "Educational" boot camps to "get rich". There are towns where people gathered to learn from "the pros" (search for related documentaries)

- Learning from the same person, e.g. via tiktok-esque platform

- Subscribed to update packages

- Generator to fill forms

> That's implausible.

'thousands' is tiny in terms of scale at China.

Imagine yourself as a seller within a network of an extremely competitive network, with a "succeed or hunger" mindset, would you follow and immediately implement any changes that can improve your chance of success?

e.g. New gossip of the day: "Amazon is going to ban any seller using the characters 【】"

Try to relate why being on the first page on HN can bring certain websites down?

I think you are also underestimating what 'travem' mentioned about language and literacy.

Again, imagine you have a limited or zero grasp of the English language. The alphabetical letters are just gibberish to your eyes, but you know you can copy them as your native language characters on your PC/smartphone. Would you attempt to be creative or play it safe?
Forgot to mention that (imo) "bar/pub" falls under the "[insert your favorite term]" part of the religious institution thing. Also fits in almost everywhere else, to some extent. I think I left it out because the experiences at such places are too varied to categorize.
One of the joys is when you re-read one of his books and discover its tie-ins with the other books in his universe. Small Gods has a tiny but important role for Lu Tze the history monk, who subtly interferes with the story to see it to its conclusion. But I completely missed it as a plot point until I’d read Thief of Time, which explained the whole point of the history monks. Then they show up again in Night Watch.

His fictional universe evolved - but also circled back and reinforced itself. (Mostly!)
Those are some interesting ideas, thanks! I hadn't thought about trying to apply minimum-cut to the problem!
Well remember that 40% of the U.S. corn crop is used to produce ethanol. Ethanol use can be eliminated (electric cars and getting rid of the ethanol subsidies...). Land and climate good enough for corn is good enough for other crops.
But isn't the position of a "Better C", already covered too, by languages such as D? And I mean literally too, with their "-betterC".

There is arguably no place for Zig to go, along the "better C" route, that hasn't been covered by other languages. And languages like D and Object Pascal, are way up on the charts, so it will be a hard climb to reach them in popularity. Even the much older Nim language (which has been called a C alternative), still hasn't cracked the top 50, among language rankings. Debatably, a language's "claim to fame" (to escape niche status), can't just be about being a more complex C replacement. There has to be other things about it, that it can firmly stand on, for greater mass appeal.
This isn't whistleblowing. It's blowing his own horn to make himself the Flavor of the Week (if that's not a mixed metaphor).
The same author has a really good blog article with the math showing that it's cheaper to build solar locally in places with poor insolation than it is to build high voltge DC lines to bring it in from sunnier places.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-...
Bumble app
Conversely, the libertarian in me essentially ceased to exist after personally witnessing the initial American response to the pandemic. Libertarianism works best if every individual acts selfishly in their own interest, and the number of people who chose to _not_ get vaccinated _against_ their own best interest showed me the folly of treating individual choice as paramount concern to any policy discussion.
Why don’t we build a few nuclear power plants at least to buy time for the energy densities of batteries to get to the point that we can store enough energy for everyone
I called this the "Dark Matter Strategy" recently: https://dx.tips/whats-your-dark-matter-strategy

basically if you work in developer marketing, content marketing does tap out at some point because most people just dont have energy/attention for your content. the subtle art of paying for eyeballs is still a thing.
And now you have empirical evidence that a Ph.D education just means someone stayed in school entirely too long.
>what's the excitement of this game is beyond me

It's the same excitement as speedrunning if that helps you get it. Having a community where you are all trying to get better at something while having fun doing so.
From what I understand, in addition to the problem of the heat differential between the jar and pot, steam will form under the jar and cause them to bounce. The bouncing can cause the jars to break.
Funny thing, to me, is most of the problems described in the article were problems I had with unemployment.

Working from home solved my problems.

I do not want, necessarily, to be friends with my work mates. I have an other life, and there my friends are.

The person writing that article needs to go back to the office. Not me
> I attribute the 'magic' to large scale statistical knowledge assimilation by the models - and reproduction to prompts which closely match the inputs' sentence embedding.

In effect this is how humans respond to prompts no? What's the difference between this and sentience?

People also fail to use logic when assimilating/regurgitating knowledge.
Glad to finally see https://container-news.com/ hit the front page on HN
This is kinda a weird take to me, because I don't see "trust someone else more than yourself" as equivalent to "grant final primacy over your own thoughts to someone else".

I trust myself very little when it comes to many topics, because I have next to zero expertise in them, and I know that "common sense" often does not lead us to good decisions on topics where we have little understanding. That doesn't mean I'm going to outsource decision-making to others who are experts on those topics, but I am probably going to most often do what they say, after applying their information to my own situation and determining what seems reasonable and doable.

As an example, I will most likely get the Omicron-tuned COVID vaccine when it becomes available, assuming the relevant experts I trust say that it's a good idea. I have no idea if I really need it, but the non-zero threat of long COVID, coupled with the fact that we still know fairly little about the long-term effects of having contracted COVID, means I would rather face the very low risk of vaccine complications than increase my risk of getting COVID, with the attendant risk of it being something that causes lingering health problems for some significant part of my life. I won't be outsourcing my decision-making to a third party, but I recognize that I do not trust my expertise in this field (since I do not have any), and will allow those with expertise to heavily inform my decision.
While not exactly the same that reminds me of metamoderation at Slashdot. Admittedly that was a pretty geeky audience, but the trolling and griefing load there was huge.
Solar power in Factorio pairs really well with spidertron. You can give it a bunch of bots, and an automated production line and it just builds itself. The only hard part is to make sure to always keep power growing rather than only expanding when you need more power.
Absent an ancestral tradition of healthy cooking, people gravitate towards the cheap convenient slop sold at every corner: rice + industrial produced meat, wrapped in 5643 different sauces that give them the illusion of a wide variety. Then there is the time pressure from long work hours. Then the lack of home-making relatives, heavily looked down by the culture. Then the snacks precisely designed to maximize pleasure, while minimizing cost and nutritional value. Then the never ending stream of advertisements for said poor quality food. Then the culture of "my neighbor is not my responsibility, s/he is free to go down the road of perdition.". Then the sedentarism of office work.

The situation is dire. Some obvious tropes:

* Turn off the TV, install an ad blocker, treat ads as personal affronts.

* Buy only food with less than 3 ingredients on the label, ideally just one.

* Cook for your family.

* Weave in your schedule at least 2 hours of movement every day.

Sadly, no way to make that work at scale.
Ah. I even entertained the fact that it may be for complex numbers, but... honestly didn't know C added support for that! This despite using complex numbers a lot, just not in C so far. I always assumed I would have to use an external library.
Thanks for your message.
Not yet, indeed: metaverses offer just a different speculation mechanism,rather than a real immersive experience. My bet is on the hope that it will change at a certain point. Being ready to index them when it happens may be a relevant advantage before a Google takes over the whole field
Quality doesn't actually change the load on the servers (most of it is just dumb HTTP in the end). It would reduce bandwidth, but overall, bandwidth isn't really all that expensive these days.
This. I strongly recommend not using it at this point in time.

SQlite really lends itself to having a spatial backend and would likely become a bit player in this space if it did, but it probably needs a major overall first.
First Solar (the largest American solar manufacturer) has provided recycling for the panels they make since 2005:

https://www.firstsolar.com/modules/recycling

https://www.bnl.gov/pv/files/prs_agenda/2_krueger_ieee-prese...

https://www.firstsolar.com/-/media/First-Solar/Sustainabilit...

German company Flaxres recently completed a pilot scale trial for recycling silicon photovoltaic modules from any manufacturer:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/07/22/industrial-process-fo...
It's right there in the announcement, albeit coated in tech-startup babble: they're out of money.
They should get a dog

- it forces you to wake up at a certain time

- you get some exercise in

- you go outside and have micro social interactions

- if you take them out at a certain time after work, it’ll come let you know that it’s time, so you won’t overwork

- they’re great antidepressants

- great for company when your partner is gone 4AM to 7PM
In the long term, complete displacement of hydrocarbons from the economy is probably the end goal. However, we are nowhere near being able to do that right now. Obviously for the billions of vehicles on the road and the current grid power generation we need not just solar/wind generation, but also massive amounts of grid storage (or massive increases in nuclear) and vehicle batteries. But in industry there are tons of chemical processes that also require hydrocarbons that we haven’t found suitable replacements for yet.

Because it’s not clear how fast we can get absolutely massive amounts of grid storage or nuclear deployed, finding ways to make effectively carbon-neutral natural gas/petroleum is a good step in the right direction, where we can continue to use some hydrocarbons without a net increase in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere and oceans.

It’s also not clear if we will be able to replace all of our current petroleum reliant industrial processes with non-carbonized alternatives, and in those cases, this will be the absolute best case for us.
Yeah it's quite watchable. To the point I signed up to Apple TV just for that show (and promptly unsubscribed once I'd finished, been meaning to check when the next series is out).
This kind of energy infrastructure is only build in China at the moment. High voltage DC, solar& battery manufacturing, solar installation, new nuclear plants
+1 for SHRUBBERY'S PRECIOUS

if anything, this proves that candy hearts should be larger, and less disgusting
Working remote is for adults with established social structures, skill sets, and maturity. It’s not the ideal environment to start your career.

What’s interesting is that successful fully-remote companies are full of emotionally mature and established people. This is a moat in itself.
Disaster at 18,200 Feet
In general, increasing the concentration of any product in a closed system requires net energy input across the system boundary. Larger increases in concentration need more energy input than smaller increases of concentration.

Concentrating atmospheric CO2 involves increasing the concentration from approx. 400 ppm, to a higher target concentration. That's 0.04%. There is no way around the energy input requirement within the basic, universally applicable and virtually undisputed laws of thermodynamics. You can make your process as efficient as possible, but there is a minimum energy requirement (theoretical limit) that you can calculate on a per unit basis for atmospheric CO2 capture that is very, very, very high.

For that reason, industry captures CO2 at point source (you start from a higher concentration). Unless you have zero access to point sources, point source capture will always be more "Environmentally Friendly" than atmospheric carbon capture.
I'm not saying viruses do not exist. I'm saying that they are merely a theory that is not proven with the same scientific rigor that bacteria infections have been proven. In fact I find the science on the existence of viruses rather thin.

https://rumble.com/v13jt4t-science-pseudoscience-and-the-ger...

> especially now that we have shown mRNA vaccines work

Right, they dropped from 100% effective to 30% effective in the first weeks, then requiring boosters. They totally lied/oversold them. And everyone got "it" anyway. How does that mean "they work"?
Or that! TBH that's what I usually do
Although you quoted "Value you bring to the company" I did not say that. Your value to the company is separate from the value you bring the company.

If a company has button that when pressed makes them $1M. A person they hired for that role brings them $1M in value assuming they had no one to push the button before. The value of that person is very low since they can easily find a replacement.
Are you looking for a lifestyle-type business or a hockey-stick business? At first I was thinking that I had the opposite problem that you have, I've got loads of ideas for small-scale projects. But maybe it is similar to your problem, I don't know how well they would do as a profit making venture, so I don't have the motivation to follow-through.
IMHO "I think therefore I am" is the only provable statement in philosophy but only to the person referenced by "I".
Religious Sites Carry More Malware Than Porn Sites, Security Firm Reports
Ah, I still internally mispronounce Quay - no matter how hard I try and relearn it as KEY.
He's like a cat who gets fooled by a mirror.
Solar is a meme, nuclear is the only way we get the grid off carbon.
I applaud the author on being honest with herself about the downsides of WFH. I've worked from home a lot over the past 10 years. There's definite benefits and it helped me sometimes knock some shit out. In my experience, doing it day in day out is so difficult that very few people can do it well. I get why people want it, but like others pointed out here, it causes depression. There's no real boundaries, it's ground hogs day and self motivation starts tough and gets tougher. Its similar to the negative feedback cycle of feeling like shit and not wanting to get out of bed, so you stay in bed and feel even more like shit tomorrow.
I have been using Vercel with Python for a few years now, it’s pretty good! Be it Flask, FastAPI or Datasette, it does the job pretty well. I admit there were some rough edges when it was still called Now but Python is now officially supported.
A Nobel Prize?
The early episodes of the Expanse were easily the best Sci-Fi TV I can remember watching. Was still good towards the end but definitely didn't keep me as glued to the screen as the first series.
I’ll byte… Current generation of AI / ML is simply an approximation function with large number of parameters that are “tuned” on a given set of inputs. The output of AI / ML is “good” if the approximation is good and most of the time this means that the new input is similar to the training data. However, if the input is very different from training data then at worst the models will be completely wrong (but very sure) and at best - simply not produce any output. We are far away from real sentience that would not stop by use an unusual input (situation) to learn new things about the world. Yes, it is amazing that we can create an approximation function automatically for very complex input data sets. But no, this approximation is dumb and not sentient. Not even close.
That's interesting. There must be other products with "odd features" for tax reasons. There was a case where Ford installed seats in a particular model of van so that it could be imported to the US as a passenger vehicle, but they removed the seats before selling. They ended up getting fined of course, but probably wouldn't have if they left the seats in and allowed the customers to remove them...
My favorite version is Puyo Puyo Tetris. It's on Steam, Switch, PS4, Xbox. Also a Puyo Puyo game but you can easily just play Tetris if you want. It's fun, it's colorful. Also has multiplayer, online and split screen. No ads but you do have to buy it for $20.

After that it's probably classic Game Boy Tetris.
> As someone with a PhD in this domain,

What is sentience then? Last I checked the Searle Chinese Room argument was still unresolved.

Is it not possible that our brains are also just "large scale statistical knowledge assimilation" machines?
Thanks.

The “hit and run” aspect, coupled with fake reviews are indeed problematic when they occur. It’s also baked into Amazon’s model: their whole goal was to make it more accessible to small and upcoming entities to go sell globally.

I was looking at the “baby mocassin” listing the tweet is mentioning, and picked one of the “small business” labeled ones that have probably been vetted as an actual US business: https://www.amazon.com/sp?ie=UTF8&seller=A1O25JS82TADDG&isAm...

The only info is about the last 12 months, and we don’t get much clues about the business behind it, even as it has a full store page in Amazon. And of course Amazon wouldn’t want you to get too involved in a any specific shop, as it would strongly lower their leverage as a marketplace (shops stop being replaceable)
Fewer new builds I think. Not many empty lots left.
Of course there is. In AI domain (and philosophy) for e.g you have associative logic: "Grass is a plant. Plant is green. Grass should be green". There is symbolic logic too where relationships are established based on rules of observable world.

Logic isn't treated as the CS logic per se, but as a high level concept although at a fundamental level they will be compositional of the mathematical logic rules. That is still an ongoing goal - a unification of "world models" which can be modeled and explained
Insider trading suspect's byline vanishes from Coinbase blog on transparency
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32178643