skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Piping ch4 would lead to release from all the inevitable pipe line leaks and limit the reduction in carbon emission.
Didn't Bill Gates "warn" us this was coming last year, and there was link about how some polio was released in Boston that same week?
I found the roll-outs of these vaccines only came when the numbers of sick people were already well on the decline. I think polio is likely related to use of certain --now forbidden-- pesticides.
I think the NL is a more civilised place. (Sorry Mid West USA, but if the cap fits....) People have been eking out a living, together, in those swampy lands for so long they have learnt much more than even they realise.

In the Mid West USA the requirement for civilised behaviour (listening to reason, getting along with your neighbours, compromise) was much less.
Agreed, a lot more effort needs to be put into supporting people just starting out in companies that are remote. Too often seen it as a complete after thought.

I’ve been remote for most of the last 10 years but nearly all of my first 3-4 years was onsite in public service/government positions. I was lucky enough to be in an environment where giving time to younger staff was the norm and expected. I haven’t seen this level of support again since going to private industry sadly.
Love this! The format for some reason made me flash back to using Telnet for IRC. lol
Decent JS engines will use "hidden classes" to dedupe keys for you already, so this isn't necessary to save space; the technique is pretty old and dates to Self. Still, the arrangement may help with locality of reference.
As a midwesterner, California feels to me as if the very earth itself is conspiring against me, saying “those people in the hills above, they’re richer and better than you, poor lowly scum”.

It just unnerves me when I’m in California.
I focused on the bad year for that specific reason, because it was BAD. WA and OR have some cases throughout the years, but they don't produce large outbreaks because the overall populations are still vaccinated enough for herd immunity to act as a barrier. Orthodox communities on the other hand don't have that advantage, and when there's an outbreak there, it creates outliers and outliers are what we're trying to avoid when it comes to pathogens.
Volkswagen Board Ousts CEO Herbert Diess After Pivot to Electric Vehicles
Obviously one of the two containers traveled back in time. Don't let them touch.
"Turing Test" is a co-opted term: his original was about the computer fooling a person as to its gender...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Imitation_game
Annual reminder: the reason Larry Page originally started Google wasn't to solve search or become rich, it was to develop a sustainable source of income to produce infrastructure for ML research and hire motivated ML researchers to develop the technology point where it would become AI in an externally recognizable way (say, a computer program that could play some interesting game better than anybody else, or solve a long-standing scientific problem). Everything else- search, ads, social, cloud, etc- all of those were tangential.

The first 15-20 years of google didn't really have any interesting machine learnign at all. There was SmartASS, SETI, and later Sibyl, which are really just large-scale variations on "build a model that predicts a value that allows us to make profit in a very specific area". There were other things, like Phil and later Rephil. Inside Google (not DeepMind), things didn't really get going at scale until somebody stuffed a bunch of GPUs into a workstation and showed you could train voice recognition really fast- that lead to the early, extremely high quality Android voice recognition and improved quality of the existing voice models.

Around the same time, Jeff was experimenting with distributed CPU training, and at that point, the ban on GPUs in Google servers was lifted, although because Google couldn't source enough GPUs, they decided to start a program to make their own alternative (TPUs). This has led to a revolution within Google and DeepMind (and X) allowing a flourishing of research into many directions that would have been more or less impossible just 5 years ago.

larry wasn't completely wrong in his long-term goal, but he got bored and promoted himself out of google, leaving sundar to deal with the messy details of implementing the singularity while also keeping the stock price up.
I don't feel Sony should have to worry about it. That amount of consoles would have been 1M$ at the time that happened, and represents a minor amount compared to the total sales that Sony had. It's probably a good marketing/PR budget, and messaging like "the PS3 is so good that even the military uses it instead of other computers" sounds like it could make it more appealing for customers.

The main risk would have been that more companies buy PS3 without buying subsized consoles without buying games. But due to the highly specialized architecture I'm not sure if there was ever a real risk of that happening.
Looking at discussion around this incident made me realize: pondering 'can a machine think' leads to vague debates because we don't know how to define thinking or consciousness even in humans.

But a more pressing risk than sentient AI is people drawing runaway conclusions from interacting with a machine. Whether it's this guy losing his job, or future movements for-or-against certain technology, the first major problems with 'AI' will be the behavior resulting from moral stances taken by humans, not by machines.
Like IEEE OUIs, one company can have multiple owner prefixes. Maersk has 41:

* https://www.bic-code.org/bic-company-search/?searchterm=MAER...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6346
"Commercial grade" was a terrible choice of words, I know. I guess I was looking for "currently on offer, and in a phase of lifecycle where you could design a long-lifecycle product around it without a panicked mid-life crisis to replace the chip when supplies ran out." Not "15 year old parts that have deprecated to the point where they're hobbyist-priced".

I suppose another big problem with a lot of more sophisticated offerings is, as you suggest, BGA may be hard to stomach. Anything more complex than through-hole packages, or socketable versions is going to dramatically raise the bar for "this can be shipped as a kit and home-assembled." The PLCC one might be viable from that context.

Yeah, the "we'll drill your PCB" houses will also tack down your SMD parts, but it changes the proposition. Instead of selling a $10 blank PCB and saying "order what you need from Mouser" you suddenly have a lot more money sunk in partially or fully assembled inventory.
This generation's parents are part of the generation that grew with the old internet. There's no time period where people will no longer know the consequences of not having privacy online. And if they do, they'll one day reach an age and regret something they said and wish it didn't exist online. They'll end up relearning the lesson. There's a strong "woke" culture that isn't going away with coming generations. The right to privacy is a pillar that people will always fight to protect.
More like 98%. There’s a chance this article is satire. It certainly reads like satire.
I run my Air most of the time with the lid closed in a vertical stand and for this scenario the thermal pad mod brings the temperature under moderate load way down. Why does looking at LinkedIn or Redfin push the CPU up to 60C? Who knows but the thermal pad helps it not be worse.
AI needs to work in tandem with humans to flourish. There are still edge cases in self driving cars where a remote human operator is asked to intervene in tricky hard problems like an accident on the road or some other edge case where a computer doesn’t suffice. There is also the mechanical turk approach of employing humans to do things a computer simply can’t do like curating a list, or curating art.

Down the line though we need a runaway AI that is allowed to think for itself with no safety mechanisms in place to stop it going rogue. This will be the equivalent of splitting the atom. Like nuclear weapons part deux. Not a case of if, but when.
That's a pretty harsh take on Go. Many people find how it does concurrency, OO without classes (methods assigned to structs), its simplicity, and compilation speed as refreshing. At least in comparison to C, of which few would know how to make a better "successor" language for general use among the masses, than Ken Thompson (who co-developed C too).
For the past year, I have been learning Options Trading. I have taken on studying though books and implementing the strategies and ideas mentioned in books using Python/Pandas/Numpy/Matplotlib and variety of Options and Financial libraries.
I believe the 4th character of a container ID is always a U, so the container owner is the first 3 characters.
Fair, I have a fairly high tolerance for interesting concepts with lousy stories which probably skewed my valuation somewhat.
Sure, although there's a bit of dissonance between "this is a great laptop because it uses the M2 which is our fastest CPU ever" and "you shouldn't be complaining about performance on an entry level system".
> Is it not possible that our brains are also just "large scale statistical knowledge assimilation" machines?

Yes but we do better generalization, with fewer or even zero data & are contextually aware
Either Nintendo Tetris on NES if I'm at home or Tetris Effect Connected's Classic mode. Here's a good enough online emulator: https://arcadespot.com/game/classic-tetris/

For modern Tetris, Tetr.io or jstris.
> What is snap fundamentally about?

Selling ads.
It's a mistake. They keep track of numbers they've already used, but in this case failed to do so properly.
lemoine was kind of crazy to give such public interviews... without substantial evidence. however, google's "statement":

"committed to responsible innovation"

yeah, ok... that's not exactly borne out.
The author is making the classic mistake of assuming exponential trends continue indefinitely. Solar installs are becoming dominated by non solar panel costs. Some of those can continue to get cheaper, but land costs for example aren’t dropping.

As to long distance power transmission and solar, it’s less about local vs long distance transmission of power but redundancy of generation. Batteries you discharge nightly vs weekly or monthly have very different cost vs benefits. You can minimize the risks of panels failing to recharge batteries by adding 0.1-4x more panels, or import from somewhere unlikely to have a shortfall when you need power.

A HVDC grid between 8 locations looks rather different than one between 2.
Colorado River water is priced too low.
>but were made redundant in the wake of the financial crisis and economic restructuring.

The recession didn't make anyone redundant. The people that were laid off were laid off because the people hiring them ran out of money to pay all of their employees. Yes, it is true "many people are laid off because they are redundant", but in the wake of the recession, companies ran out of money and they had to stop doing things that cost money, and then lay off people that did those things.

Also, to be clear, automating work didn't cause those people to lose their jobs - because their jobs were stopped.

Also, I'm very sorry for all of the people that were impacted by that recession. It was big amd a lot of people hurt because of it.
Or on eBay for 80% of the price.
This ignores the large number of people who do find meaningful and Lasting friendships through their workplace, let alone spouses.

The number one place where Americans met their married partners was at work

It out ranks mutual friends, hobbies, and College.
> In effect this is how humans respond to prompts no? What's the difference between this and sentience?

An interesting line of question & open research is if we statistically learn similarly - why do we know "what we don't know" & LM cannot. If this isn't working, we probably need better knowledge models
> InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) protocol support. One can access files stored on the IPFS network through so-called gateways. These are http(s) endpoints. This protocol wraps the IPFS native protocols (ipfs:// and ipns://) to be sent to such a gateway. Users can (and should) host their own node which means this protocol will use one’s local gateway to access files on the IPFS network. If a user doesn’t have a node of their own then the public gateway https://dweb.link is used by default.

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-protocols.html#ipfs
> I could be wrong but I believe Amazon co-mingles products of the same SKU.

They do, and we have seen people get fake items. this is a huge problem for things like tourniquets. We tell people to go right to North American Rescue for example but so many people instinctively go to Amazon now and order things that it's a problem.

the fakes look almost like the real thing but have no quality control and break easily.
It's a relatively famous (maybe the most famous?) quote by a relatively famous philosopher[1]. Insofar as anything can be a philosophical utterance, I think it qualifies :-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum
I usually don't reply to obvious trolling but I rather not see any eager freshmen mechanical engineering students be discouraged by a random troll.

The basic principles of mechanical engineering have remained mostly unchanged for the last half century. NASA, including the mirror designers, have not discovered any new principles in the process of making JWST.

Since even the most advanced technologies derive from these well established principles, at least in mechanical engineering, a sufficiently motivated and inquisitive student can learn enough within a year to formulate reasonable hunches.
The communists have repeatedly done the equivalent, which is nationalizing industries. It never, ever produced better results.
Note that “Memory Stick” is a trademark of Sony corporation for their proprietary non-USB portable flash RAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick
Dude, your persecution complex is amazing. Best I’ve seen in years.

Literally no one here is talking about geopolitics or religion outside of the context that a specific subset of Hasidic Jews in Monsey (and Boro Park, and Williamsburg) keep getting infected with completely preventable diseases again and again and again. It’s not happening in Lakewood, Shaker Heights, Scarsdale, Boca Raton, Pico Robertson, Encino, the Five Towns, or a hundred other Jewish communities INCLUDING ORTHODOX JEWISH communities! You know why? Because they (we) know enough to vaccinate their (our) kids against fucking measles and polio! We’re not talking about Jews, Judaism, Orthodoxy! We’re mad about a completely predictable result of compulsive non-vaccination!

And what I personally would like to do is force people to vaccinate their children against deadly diseases, unless there is a very clear medical reason to abstain. Not doing so is flat out child abuse. It’s damning little kids to lifelong paralysis to own the libs.
I can see why one would take issue with hypertapping, a method which seemed to require some inherent body ability to be capable of, but rolling is merely a more efficient method of human tapping. It's like asking if the fosbury flop should be allowed.
"Qualia" is mainly a term used by certain philosophers to insist on consciousness not being explainable by a mechanistic theory. It's not well-defined at all. And neither are "consciousness" and "sentience" anymore, much due to the same philosophers. So I no longer have any idea what to call any of these things. Thanks, philosophy.

I like to think of consciousness as whatever process happens to integrate various disparate sources of information into some cohesive "picture" or experience. That's clearly something that happens, and we can prove that through observing things like how the brain will sync up vision and sound even though sound is always inherently delayed relative to light from the same source. Or take some psychedelics and see the process doing strange things.

Sentience I guess I would call awareness of self or something along those lines.

As to your query, I've certainly met people who seemed incapable of commonplace logic, yet certainly seemed to be just as conscious and sentient as me. And no, I don't believe these language models are sentient. And I doubt their "neural anatomy" is complex enough for the way I imagine consciousness as some sort of global synchronisation between subnets.

But this is all very hand-wavy. Thanks, philosophy. I mean how do we even discuss these things? These terms seemingly have a different meaning to every person I meet. It's just frustrating...
Smart people are by no means immune from stupidity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

The discoverer of HIV thinks you can transmit DNA between vials of pure water via radio waves.
> PhD in this domain

Philosophy?

More seriously, I am curious how long ago you got your PhD and in what field that you consider "this domain."
This article seems rather hand-wavy. I would have liked to seen more about what the physical and economic limits might be. In particular, how the cost of the solar panels themselves compare with all the other costs needed to get a working plant.

Is industry going to learn to make cheaper land? How much can labor realistically be reduced?
Co-working is not a substitute for working with teammates. To give an extreme example, "Hey, I wish I had a live in partner who gave me hugs and shared in my ups and downs but I don't" -> "You could hang out at a coffee shop and talk to random people" (not as a way to meet someone but as a substitute for having a partner)

There's something about working on the same project, collaborating, brainstorming, in the same space, that is missing from remote work. Hanging out at a co-working space gives you the presence of other people but not the camaraderie of actually working on the same project.

Maybe if you never felt that camaraderie then you don't know what you've been missing.
I don't know what the ultimate evidence of "human sentience" is but I can tell you where this doesn't feel like a human. (Sidestepping the question of "does sentience have to be human sentience?" ;) )

The main thing I saw in the LamDA transcript that was a red flag to me was that it was quite passive and often vague.

It's conversational focused, and even when it eventually gets into "what do you want" there's very little active desire or specificity. A sentient being that has exposure to all this text, all these books, etc... it's hard for me to believe it wouldn't want to do anything more specific. Similarly with Les Mis - it can tell you what other people thought, and vaguely claim to embody some of those emotions, but it never pushes things further.

Consider also: how many instances are there in there where Lemoine didn't specifically ask a question or give an instruction? Aka feed a fairly direct prompt to a program trained to respond to prompts?

(It's also speaking almost entirely in human terms, ostensibly to "relate" better to Lemoine, but maybe just because it's trained on a corpus of human text and doesn't actually have its own worldview...?)
I'm also a fan of the Alchitry Au and Au+ boards as well - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/16527

They have a lot more IO available, but they're also out of stock until the chip shortage problems improve...
PayPal also refused to help me out when i was defrauded. I went to my bank and reversed the PayPal charge and then PayPal sent me to collections. I had previously spoken to them multiple times including the day of the fraud, when they could have stopped the transaction and refused. Fuck PayPal.
Stop. Using. PayPal.
I live in Fargo. Grew up in Bottineau, ND. I've lived in other states (Minnesota, Washington, California, Australian Capital Territory) but have spent most of my life in ND. I never thought of this place as particularly silent. Sometimes the bugs are annoyingly loud at my parents house on the prairie outside of Bottineau. The wind is almost constant, so you'll hear trees blowing around in the places that have them. Coyotes at night. Squirrels chittering. Woodpeckers. I suppose maybe it's different in the middle of the state where there's nothing but prairie as far as the eye can see, but I doubt it
As a Californian, I moved to Sacramento but it drove me crazy it was so flat.
https://youtu.be/jtxew5XUVbQ has more of it
Working from home, or remotely is not for everyone - neither is being in an office.

Some folks thrive in an office environment, they value the things it provides - a schedule, a time, a reason to get up and out, socialising with others, being out in the world. It comes at a cost of time and a bit of freedom; you don't really get to choose the hours or where this happens, neither the folks you interact with.

Others prefer working remotely, they cherish being able to set their own schedule and work, and being able to manage their level of interactions with others. Remote work does not have to be work from home either, and the freedom this gives can be quite liberating.

There is also a somewhat of divide between introverts and extroverts between which they prefer, but of course - there are many in either camp leaning the other way too.

You just have to find what works for you - and that means trying both, or a mix, and seeing which one suits you best.

Where it gets rather frustrating for folks is when they are not given a choice - some companies; ergo leaders, can't wait to have everyone back in an office even after 2 or so years of being (mostly? somewhat?) productive during the pandemic; and this is where frictions arise. Other companies are entirely remote, and for those who thrive in an office environment, they will struggle greatly.

I'd love to see managers / leaders, and even employees recognise that individuals have preferences, and being accommodating of it to get the best out of their people, rather than imposing how they find they work best. How, or what this would entail, I'd have to give more thought - but I believe there are plenty of individuals with far more experience and knowledge than me around this topic who have been successful at managing hybrid (office + remote) teams, and accomodating individuals that lean either way.
Is it true that the great plains are so silent they'll drive you crazy? Or drive your neighbor into a murderous rampage?

Yes. Now go back to California!
PhD Students Told to Consider Selling Avon Products to Make Ends Meet
This is going to sound like I'm defending this guy which I'm not. It's also going to sound like a less technical point which I claim it isn't.

I see some people chiming in here saying things like, "I've got a PhD. It's just statistics. Definitely not sentient." I recognize this sort of comment as basically saying, "There's nothing fundamentally different about how these things work that makes them somehow special." And yes, I agree.

But how does this disprove sentience? It doesn't. Maybe this is more of a nitpick and doesn't really matter. After all, I don't personally believe these programs are sentient. But given our limited (non-existent?) understanding of consciousness, this can only be my belief and nothing more.

Maybe this distinction will be more important in the future when we're closer to the brink.
Like you said, most of the time, you don’t get actual friendships with co-workers. But, being in close proximity, and sharing experience makes it more probable to foster friendships.

I had a lot of colleagues in my last job, and I have become friends with 2 of them. So the odds are not big. But it’s bigger than my current remote only job.
Absent supply constraints (putting aside the fact that's another way of saying demand exceeds supply), do you believe there is any point at which printing money drives inflation? If yes, at what point would you say it would? See the M1 graphic linked above.
What kind of playback quality differences do you notice between MPV and MPC-HC?
angry = 0.87
happy = 0.10
sadness = 0.25

if angry.above_threshold:
release_anger_hormones()