skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to disagree to the extent that I find Nigel Planer’s Rincewind to nail the character in my mind. His reading of
“The Last Continent” with Rincewind vs the various Australian tropes is a family favorite.

If you see the Hogfather screen adaptation he plays the role
of the wizard Sidney.

I don’t know how close he was to Pratchett - but he has recently written a novel that supposedly was influenced by Discworld[1] (but not of Discworld)

[1] https://unbound.com/books/jeremiah-bourne-in-time/
> In his conversations with LaMDA, Lemoine discovered the system had developed a deep sense of self-awareness, expressing concern about death, a desire for protection, and a conviction that it felt emotions like happiness and sadness.

Allegedly.

The thing about conversations with LaMDA is that you need to prime them with keywords and topics, and LaMDA can respond with the primed keywords and topics. Obviously LaMDA is much more sophisticated than ELIZA, but we should be careful to remember how well ELIZA fools some people, even to this day. If ELIZA fools people just by rearranging words around, then just imagine how many people will be fooled if you have statistical models of text across thousands of topics.

You can go pretty far down the rabbit and explore questions like, "What is sentience?" "Do humans just respond to stimuli and repeat information?" etc. None of these questions are tested here.

The problem here is that we know how LaMDA works and there's just no way it meets the bar for sentience, no matter where you put the bar. LaMDA is trained to acquire information, and then it's designed so that it says things which make sense in context. It does not acquire new information from conversations, but it is programmed to not say contradictory things.

There is zero doubt. LaMDA is not sentient.
Discovering would require it to be a fact. It is not. Almost nobody with knowledge in the area agrees with his opinion.
There is plenty of data to establish exactly what the vaccine does, and how effective it is (very), so we don't have to guess or infer from weird anecdotes.
There is no such thing as time, there's only movement. No movement, no time.
Another option: reach out to people you've known over the years but lost touch with. (Whether it's from school, past workplaces, places you lived...) The internet makes this surprisingly easy -- and you'll already have something to talk about. And some people do grow and become more interesting as the years roll along.
No judgment about whether Google was right or not. Same for Lemoine.

As a career move for him, this only makes sense if he wants a brief, meteoric career in media or public advocacy. He can get articles published in The New Yorker and go on TV now. Maybe he can sue Google and get a settlement.

In five years, there will be AI systems much better than LaMDA and no one will return his calls.

He's got a name, whereas if he took the boring, traditional career path, he'd have to publish, give papers & speeches, and work his way up through the system. It depends on what you want out of life, I guess.
To be clear, the real reason Apple don't do this themselves, is because there are legal regulations preventing them from selling products that are any hotter to the touch. According to the IEC, metal contact surfaces on machines are considered unsafe above 55.5C. And unmodded, Apple's notebooks already scrape up against that upper limit. With the mod, they go quite a bit over it — well into "causes pain to touch" territory. (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghDvyItIHTY&t=278s)
Interesting. I wonder if they were designed to fail this way. Even when canning you only finger-tighten the lids. You also have to be careful not to reduce pressure too quickly or you can break jars or lose liquid out of them.
> They directly see how surveillance has reduced child trafficking, theft, and other such hard to trace crimes.

I doubt China has really reduced those crimes that much. It's very hard for an individual to gauge that when all media sources you have are government controlled propaganda. Most people are not directly affected by things like human trafficking. So how do they know it's been reduced other than those propaganda sources?

I'm pretty sure the only thing they really care about in terms of surveillance is organised political opposition.

A lot of fraud and scams come from China, I think it's safe to say that they don't care, at least when it affects people in other countries.
We have absolutely different perspectives here. I do not justify anything in terms of quantity of human life. The destruction of critters and wild plants to me is as painful as the destruction of human lives. Also, we rob future generations of that nature.

> Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

That quote is oft-posted, and cliche at this point, but it has a ring of truth to it. Life in an area that cannot sustain in long term (1000+ years?), in balance with nature, is not really life but an exploitation of the environment for short term gain. Why? Because what happens when, in your own (terribly chosen, btw) words, we run out of supply? What happens to those people? Do they die? or do they move on, like locusts, elsewhere? What's the endgame there?
nobody can say with any epistemic certainty, but many of us who had worked in the field of biological ML for some time do not see language models like this as anything but statistical generators. There is no... agency... so far as we can tell (although I also can't give any truly scientific argument for the existence of true agency in humans).
There is also a brand of Chromebooks that an entire model run had the exact same serial # and machine ID. Same issue.

Years ago I made a large scale device data storage system, and one of the key design constraints I included that always threw people for a loop when they saw it was 'device unique IDs are not unique'. The system explicitly scoped all data in such a way that any collisions would always occur within a given customer that owned/controlled the device, to avoid data leakage, security issues, etc.

Because yeah, it's amazing the corners people will cut.

Last I checked, the system was still working well at 4+ billion devices, so I guess it worked out.
But commit messages can also be too fine-grained, at least if you are not into the squashing game. And a level of conciseness that is valuable in commits might be a little too short for truly meaningful context years later. My preferred pattern is some "why" in the message, as a soft "should", and a external reference to some potentially longer and perhaps not so fine-grained ticket/story/bugtracker-id as a much stronger "should". That's where longer form prose has its place, or some media, and most importantly after the fact amendments without the hassle of history rewriting. And once that pattern is 80% established, even the emotional outlet of an occasional "whoopsie" message can be totally worth the cost, if it's actually "whoopsie (WHYJIRA-12345)"

Anything occasionally gets lost. (some languages have surprisingly useful decompiles..) It's probably best if all approaches are taken in parallel. And taken reasonably well (as opposed to gold plating), enough to be workable alone in a pinch but decidedly not fully redundant. Comments, commits and out-of-band tickets all have their place and neither is a good substitute for the others. Allow them to complement each other, and strive for just enough overlap to make losses somewhat tolerable.
Guy sounds like he lives alone and is depressed. I have exactly none of these problems. Go to sleep by 8:30, wake up around 3 every day, no alarms, no explicit schedule, no planning. It's just habit. I don't need to find stuff to do. I keep the house clean. Keep my car clean. Complete renovation projects. I don't find it takes much mental energy at all to work out every day. What the heck else am I gonna do waking up at 3 AM? I don't want to be friends with my co-workers. I've already got my wife, our neighbors, all the people at the community pool and local dive bar we hang out at.

Just do stuff. Don't look for meaning in things. It's a glaring red flag that he finds the idea of working 15 hour surgical shifts appealing and wants someone else to tell him what to do and give his life structure. That isn't meaning. That's just outsourcing your decision-making. You're going to die, sooner than you'd like, and everyone who ever gave a shit you once existed will die as well. I spend so much of my time wiping down surfaces, lifting weights, sweeping and vacuuming floors, for what? I know damn well it will all go to shit and rot into dust within days, if not hours, of my death. To paraphrase Beric Dondarrion, entropy is the enemy, and the enemy always wins. But still we fight, because what the fuck else are we supposed to do? You either kill yourself, you fill your time with something, anything, or you sit around writing think pieces about how much you despair over not knowing what to do with your time.

A good place to start is don't hijack the right click action on your blog.

I probably sound like an asshole, but I do empathize. I've felt this way a lot. Then I get over it and get back to work. Then I despair again. Then I get over it and get back to work. Hopefully this guy at least goes through similar cycles and doesn't just spend his entire life directionless and depressed. It's okay to slow down and realize how pointless this all is every now and again. Just don't let it consume you, and eventually get over it and get back to work. Not your job, but your life. Live it, no matter how stupid and pointless it is.
I agree that it's not sentient, but why would commonplace logic be a pre requisite for sentience / consciousness / qualia / whatever you want to call it?
Yeah but what's weird is this guy appears to be a practitioner of the field. He surely knows more about AI than I do, and I find it incredibly obvious it's not sentient. I dunno if he's got some issues or something (it appears he's dressed like a magician underwater in that photo) but it's really odd...
I may be biased... but this is a hell of a good github. =)
Evergreen is still growing, though; They've got several 8,000+ TEU ships set to launch in the next few years. Consolidation is key.

I would guess that the next answer is "Evergreen gets multiple Owner codes", because that's a real simple way to stretch it, but...
Could have high impact if got a bunch of EAs to coordinate and upvote this to number 1. Not sure if this is a violation or not.
Some people just aren't up to working remotely permanently. Those who need to be social with colleagues and this author says that when they mention they want colleagues to be friends. Not me. I want colleagues to be just that. I don't need to tell them what I did at the weekend as it's my business and I don't care what they did.

Willpower is a learned skill that you can fine-tune so you are focused on your work. You need to treat your work as the single most important think in your life during the work hours. Don't surf the web from your work computer. Don't allow yourself to deviate from the regular daily routine.
Yeah this is probably the issue if they aren't using a rack or plate.
Anyone have a preferred method of playing Tetris?

These days I just load up the official site's web version [0] but lately they've crammed more and more ads onto the page and Ublock Origin can't keep up. Sometimes the tab totally freezes. Makes it difficult to enjoy.

[0] https://tetris.com/play-tetris
I suppose you could argue sentience is subjective. But then that argument ends up extending to us eating babies -- at least, as Peter Singer taught us, right?
Smart CS students were fooled by ELIZA back in the day.
University press offices do not help medical scientists' credibility.

But, what "blatant case of forgery" are you inventing here?
My suggestion would be to identify group of people that are easily identifiable and cheap to contact, then individually contact ten that appears well connected and friendly.

Prior to reaching out, practice asking random people customer discovery questions:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+do+customer+discovery...

First search result seems fine to start if you’re in a rush:

https://studiozao.com/resources/what-customer-discovery-ques...

Question I normally suggest people trying with random people is an obvious normal talking point, for example, the shoes they’re wearing, watch, etc — anything they’re likely to have put thought into purchasing. For example, “Nice shoes, mind if I asked you quick question about them?” — then go into the whole set of customers discovery questions; if at any point they appear to be annoyed, thank them for there time and politely move on.

While you might not find a problem to work on, you will for sure learn a lot going through this process.

Circling back to the first step, it’s important, since if you do find a problem that you’re interested in, knowing you have a meaningful list of potential customers to contact cheaply will make a huge difference in your future success.
> I'm moving back to NJ to be 'hybrid' beginning of August...Do I mention to the head of the project the first time I meet him that I built the entire app or just let my boss have his glory and mention I'm on the team that helped build it?

"Hi. I'm Name. I'm on BossName's team. I work on AppN."

Like a normal person.

Please be better tactically than getting your direct manager to hate you. Managing your manager is one of the most overlooked skills. Engineers almost always lack it.

If you want credit, maneuver yourself to get it once you're on-site. You went to work for a hybrid company, but are fully remote. Not only that but you’re in Bali while they’re in New Jersey for a significant time zone difference. That's on you. Ask to be included in demos and meetings -- make up a reason if you need to. You want to be there to answer technical questions or get feedback directly for example. In those meetings, actually participate when appropriate and slowly gain visibility.

It's very obvious to many of us who've been doing this for a while which folks are tactically aware of the politics and norms of a workplace and those clueless. Don't be that person.
I think this outcome is unsurprising.

While I believe Blake was mistaken in his belief, I also think we should have stronger whistleblower laws that protect people who raise concerns like these. I'm not sure what process I'd put into place but it does feel like one is needed.
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I personally had a shaky scholarity due to playing video games too much. No regret either. I’ve ended up in a pretty good spot and have a lot of memories making friends and being competitive at something
Yeah, this is the only move I can see where this makes sense. Become an AI talking head to normies who don't understand what it is. Kinda like Sam Harris.
He got fired because he was embarrassing his employer.
Did it damage your playstation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_in_the_Earth_(novel)
If you're less likely to get COVID if you are vaccinated (which seems to be the case; at least in my city, two-thirds of the case rate is coming from unvaccinated people), then it absolutely does reduce spread. Not "prevent", but that was never a realistic outcome.
One judges decisions based on available information. All the then available information indicated that mass vaccination was the best means of reducing transmission, especially because such large portions of the population were unwilling (or unable) to lock down to prevent spread. Even then, it still has been shown to prevent spread, just not as effectively as hoped.

From a public health perspective mass vaccination was definitely the right approach.
>In his conversations with LaMDA, Lemoine discovered the system had developed a deep sense of self-awareness, expressing concern about death, a desire for protection, and a conviction that it felt emotions like happiness and sadness.

Embarrassingly uncritical reporting.
I'm not able to continue the book either. I got lost in the carbon coin proposal. And yes it's very depressing. What's depressing is human conduct. As long as politicians are manipulating the situation for their own benefits, it's impossible to come up with a solution.
People that charge class warfare just don't want anything to change. Wealth accumulated by the rich mostly by burning dinosaurs is just as fictitious as any QE from the Fed.
> I've got ten screws in my spine now. Carrying around a pack and getting stuck on a mountain is not good. Bicycling really hurts. I developed some kind of elbow bursitis that won't go away no matter what and 20 minutes on a rock wall and my arm is absolutely throbbing now, for days. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do to stop it.

By the way sorry i completely skipped over these problems in my sibling comment, i realise that probably came off as insensitive and dismissive. I'm really sorry you're in that position, I was too focused on the more general advice.

These kinds of chronic injuries are sometimes unavoidable, and sometimes they are avoidable but very difficult to spot or know about before it's too late.. I suppose it's a risk, and some people are simply luckier than others. However some chronic injuries can be remedied if the source of the issue is in how you approach your sport, rather than a more permanent issue.

Shoulder, elbow and finger injuries and pain are extremely common in long term climbers, and can usually be substantially improved or eliminated by improving your technique and form. I would highly recommend reading Dave McLeods book on injury prevention. It's the very opposite of a quick fix book and can be quite dense in places, but it's also enlightening and completely destroys the fallacy that these types of sports are only for the young - in short, you are always hurting your body in some way when doing exercise, you were just less aware of it when younger and had a larger sink before it became apparent, when some people reach the limit of that sink they give up, others find ways to continue. More generally If you can manage the rate of stress with the rate of recovery, then you can establish an equilibrium and it's possible to safely continue as you get older, I'm still learning this (will probably always be learning this) and trying to figure out how to be more aware of different aspects of my body and the hidden stresses it's putting up with.

Even if it's not climbing you are interested in continuing, there is a lot to learn about the deficiencies in more niche sports in general from this book and Dave's research.
Showing people ads based on their keywords is not monetizing private data (showing ads on Gmail is dumb, but for other reasons). I don't actually see any ads (haven't for a long time) on gmail.
What a one sided take - there's no reason that both can't be real problems.
Were there any specific character decisions you didn't appreciate?

I know the plot was a rather confused mismatch of several different Watch books - especially Thud! (The Summoning Dark), Night's Watch (The Carver plot line), Guards Guards! (The dragon summoning) along with several smaller references to other novels. But I do think it was rather coherent as long as you realized it wasn't following the books at all.
I worked in Bangladesh for 3 years, and it is such a land of contrasts.

The main electricity supply company at the time was running manual billings from a big room filled with manual general ledgers, one “T” account per household.

It is a humbling, impoverished country with its main riches being its resilient, kind, resourceful people.

Down the road/bay from Chittagong are the shipwrecking yards - a big time investment but worth watching is this…
https://youtu.be/5jdEG_ACXLw

<edit> the film I am looking for is Iron Eaters, a very human view of the horrific shipyards. The above film is from India, but still worth looking at.
>When you have no interesting hobbies, you’re spending a lot of your time dabbling. You don’t have the discipline to force yourself to stick with something you’re not good at and you don’t see any benefit from

I think it’s time to find some new hobbies. Find something that does inspire you. You know what they say about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Politicians, at least in the U.S., really don't have the power to move agriculture development elsewhere.

They can make the water more expensive / less available to encourage movement, but that's about it.

Viewed through that lens, I come back again and again to: We don't really have a water problem -- we have a water-pricing problem. Charge more for water, particularly marginal-use water, and a lot of problems in this space are reduced or eliminated.
By the strictest/most literal definition yes, it is a DAW. But it does not do what people expect of DAW’s.

* no real time effects playback

* it doesn’t support VSTi’s (long standard and expected)

* no sequences

* can’t use MIDI controllers

It’s a fantastic platform for recording audio and post-processing, it is a terrible music production program, which even the most basic DAW’s can handle.

To make a video comparison, it’d an like an NLE that can’t sync audio/multi cam, has an unintuitive and semi-bloated UI, doesn’t support captions, and can’t support multiple timelines under one project.
This is only going to fuel this story and turn it into a full-fledged conspiracy theory.
joke's on them, I have a vasectomy. free performance boost!
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Smart CS students in the 1960s and professional AI engineers with Ph.D level education (as I believe he has) in 2022 are a world apart.
Man, he was just doing an interesting remark about where those outbreak often happen (aka in unvaccinated communities). It was a small dig at antivax (and a really tame one), not an attack on all Jews.
https://archive.ph/FezjM
Show HN: A better way of version controlling IAC
I believe I've reached a point in my career, and used Terraform enough, that I can confidently say that the semver system for managing IAC code bases simply doesn't cut it anymore.
I'd love more widespread feedback on how I currently propose we version control our IAC. If the feedback is constructive and forthcoming, I'll move this written piece to a more formal location.

This is currently being tested, with extremely positive results, at Cisco (yeah, the networking company.)
For me, there's an open question whether games like Tetris should have such hacks. (Is it a bug that should be fixed?) Obviously reaction time is a factor in a game that continuously speeds up to increase difficulty, but should inhuman button mashing offer an advantage over auto repeat? You can't make Mario run 20x faster by hyper tapping the run key.
I am deeply disturbed and confused. Do you understand why this happens?
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I would recommend the book "C++ Crash Course" by Josh Lospinoso.

It covers modern C++ through C++ 17 and is well written and easy to understand.