skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of solar panes we need was first impressed upon my by David Mackay's "Without Hot Air"[1]. I personally think solar is a useful tool for certain applications, but powering all of humanity with it feels like a step backwards paradigmatically.

Really roughly speak we can think of solar as a step forward in human compatible photosynthesis.

Humanity went to another tier of energy when we started to harness fire with steam and later internal combustion engines.

Electrical transmission is definitely more convenient than moving bags of rice (stored photosynthesis), pipelines of oil and gas (also stored photosynthesis). This electrical grid can also store its energy through various "batteries"(used loosely) with various entropy.

But nuclear power really seems to be the paradigm shift. Instead of being many steps down the chain from solar nuclear to capturing a minuscule portion, we can capture far far more (the majority?) of it for our uses. I feel like we're just so new at it, we're like early mankind using fire burning ourselves, choking on smoke, and generally unsophisticated comparatively to the incredible control and harness of the power one sees in, say, a racing motorcycle -- firing 14k times per second with perfectly controlled, atomized gasoline and air mixture, compressed to exact ratios...

Such a good article, as someone else mentioned it really is an inspiring subject.

[1]: Chapter on solar: https://www.withouthotair.com/c6/page_38.shtml
Appealingly Peeled
I was a very long time user of mercurial since it's early inceptions. It helped me really visualize the work as a set of patches. It has history rewrite feature on local, but it doesn't allow to force push the rewritten history/branch. We had to do lots of work arounds, processes, etc to cover for the lack of.

After switching to git, it felt complete. Yes, git UI is horrible and has the drawbacks of the snapshot model. But it is perfect for a team setting. This is why GitHub won and in turn git.
> I'm not sure what you mean when you say you're autistic.

I mean that I have been tested and diagnosed as autistic by a doctor, and treated within the context of that diagnosis by other medical professionals for many years. I'm not sure what else would be meant by it?. I don't usually see it used as a casual adjective without an accompanying diagnosis or implying one.
Absolutely in agreement here.

We have zero clue about their life and the decisions made to get to this point where they’re deciding to wear a mask. Maybe they have auto immune issues, or maybe they just want to.

It doesn’t hurt me in any way. Why should I care if they wear a mask or not? And if someone feels better if I wear one, it’s really no skin off of my back.

I generally don’t wear a mask anymore, but I have zero issues with those that do. And I respect them for holding to their own in a time where people are judging them as kooks.
Do they still have good soil? Somebody told me that Napa valley has killed its soil by using extremely aggressive grow techniques.
In my non-Business experience, it doesn't matter, just chat to support. (I'm not suggesting taking the piss, but I've had genuine issues ranging from slightly to very out of their one month return window, and I've had full refunds or replacements without at all unreasonable exertion on my part.)

(Except one actually, very recently, it was a relatively high value Warehouse order that wasn't as described and I returned - no problems accepting/arranging that, but some tardniness on the actual refund coming through. Probably it would have been fine, but I did chase it several times before eventually getting someone willing/with the power to override whatever was making it take weeks to refund after having shown as delivered to their facility. I still think even that experience was better than I get elsewhere, and certainly on the whole it is, that was my worst ever, and it was fine in the end.)
Efficacy is not the word that should go in that spot. I don't know what should, but a job is not something that has efficacy.
Robert Jungk, the journalist mentioned in the article, was much more than a journalist. There's an overview of his many activities, which included pioneering work on futurology, on the Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues website [1].

[1] https://jungk-bibliothek.org/robert_jungk_english_2/
Electro-swing absorption works efficiently at ambient levels:

https://verdox.com/technology
As someone with teenagers, they also need less and less supervision over time. I wouldn’t be overly confident given the data on social relationships and age.
I don’t think Google’s AI is close to being sentient. Being able to generate “convincing” phrases from prompts is not that relevant to judge whether it is “conscious” or not. As a simple elimination game I would propose a series of word games: explain basic rules and see if it gets it right. Explain mistakes and see if it can learn on the go. A sentient AI with the intelectual level to claim “being afraid of being turned off” can surely learn a couple rules for a kid’s game. If after that it keeps going, let’s try having it explain the game to someone else. Then I would think of more elaborate rules, asking for motivations and trying to figure out if there are any changes in its self perception over time. It was very unfortunate and unprofessional of Lemoine to make such claims without putting proper reasoning to it.
Pedantic: the alpha variant is B.1.1.7 previously known as the UK variant. The original strain didn’t get a Greek letter
read:

Nature | 08 February 2022 | The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers
The quantum computer revolution could break encryption — but more-secure algorithms can safeguard privacy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00339-5
> _3u10 - It’s like having two cars with the same plate

I wish I could have the same plate as everyone else... or no plate at all like Steve Jobs used to do (https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-car-apple-ceo-l...).

This is a completely different issue.
Machine translation gives me the following for point 20: "In addition, the submission of a single publication was required, in which both the proof of the existence of the measles virus and the determination of its diameter were provided, so that it was not sufficient if - as advocated by the expert - merely the combination of the scientific statements in the six submitted professional articles prove the existence of the measles virus and at least two of these articles contain sufficient information on the diameter of the measles virus."

I would count that as a "formality": the bet required the proof to be in a single publication, but as it was instead split across several it didn't count.

On the latter question the machine-translated text is hard enough to read that I can't reliably tell what the defendant is claiming and what the court is declaring, but I think maybe the court is saying they're not convinced the submitted papers constitute proof?
The site doesn't seem to be proofreaded very well. For instance the text under the "Marital Property" section is identical to the text for "Separate Property".
The problem with that is the he's not just describing- he's defining. In that sense it's almost tautological. Everything you describe falls under subjective experience. The entire point of this whole argument about what Blake thought is that we can't actually empirically define deception, doubt, affirmation, will, sense, mental theater, or any of the other conditions. And I would argue (without extensive data) that if you built a sufficiently complex ML and trained it with a rich enough corpus, it would probably demonstrate those behaviors.

We're really not that far from building such a system and from what I can tell of several leading projects in this space, we should have a system that an expert human would have a hard time distinguishing from a real human (at least, in a video chat) in about 5-10 years minus 3 plus 50 years.
More likely to be undefined, not null.
I'm on desktop website and pretty sure it plays perfectly even in the highest resolution, although I usually go for 1080. The problem is Youtube dumbs down the resolution for every video so I'm not sure what's happening.
I have lots of ideas for how to use spare time. I hope when I get it that I'm better at utilizing it than I was in my twenties.
Watch his interviews. He’s doing all this to make a point about companies not taking AI ethics seriously.
An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system (2014)
Please, fix the title: "Cheap junk flooding amazon.com has brand names like MOFFBUZW".
Unpopular opinion, exaggerated to make a point…

Narcissists who have had their inflated sense of self worth reinforced by being accepted by a very “exclusive club for smart people” aka Google, are finding out that rules _do in fact apply_ to their special snowflakeness and Google is first and foremost a for-profit business.

Doing whatever you want cuz you’re special then claiming evilness and wokelessness may not be a strategy for continued employment.
i recently did the same. i work as a contractor. inflation, cost of living, cost of doing business, are all valid reasons. i don’t see why you would need to justify beyond that. if you offer a specialized skill they should have no issue paying more.

that said i suspect managers discuss rates with finance or hr people while they should not. these people have their own ideas on what to pay people which IMHO are based on hearsay. i’m interested to hear other people’s opinion on this as i’ve had at least one situation like this. i’ve walked away from it.
I disagree, not installing solar and heatpumps will increase the energy consumption of the house, potentially for the entire lifetime of the building. Installing them makes it cheaper to live in the building, increases the home value and pays off in years, so really it should be a no brainer. Some countries offer special financing for the costs of energy efficient building, this would be a better option at addressing your concern than removing the requirement.
If so, bit of an own-goal.
jeeze, what were you wearing at the time in terms of pants?
Remotely Running Linux Applications in a Web Browser
The stupid & obvious & I-wish-us-idiot-laymen-could-claim-prior-art (not-that-that-helps-anymore) answer is to put a temp sensor on the case too.

Just not thermally bridging is a fine stupid answer. But if someone puts their laptop onto a laptop cooling stand, heck yes it would be fantastic to reap a 2x+ benefit. This is, in my view, as much a product choice to make sure Air does not encroach upon better territory as anything else. Companies like Intel & AMD have been way behind comparatively to Apple in mobile chips, but the old-giant competitors at least typically allow a well cooled chip to work better, which, in my view, is a product not technical decision made here: the decision to use less cooling.

That said, there is some (I'd wager modest) benefit to using the case as a thermal insulator rather than dissipator for the average user.
> Why do we still do so much farming in regions that have such marginal water supplies?

Because they are ideal in other ways (potential growing season, soil, etc.) and people like to eat.

> Are there no better-irrigated places in the US to grow all these crops

Probably not that don't have other disadvantages, if they aren't already being used for agriculture. Note that about 52% of US land area is already used for that purpose.
Great work! Keep in mind that you're showing this to a tough crowd.
I have not personally (still happily) married. My cofounder went through a divorce. He is a divorce lawyer (and his wife at the time a lawyer too). They divided everything smoothly - sounded like it was quite clinical and unemotional from what he told me.

Say if you brought assets into the relationship, a house, retirement fund fund, an inheritance. I’m sure you don’t want your ex-partner to get half of that. You’re entitled to keep a larger portion of it (as you get a credit for it). So our app helps people understand that better.

Some people who split everything equally may be giving more away than they should.

This is our version one. I have no idea how it will evolve.

But yes, if you want it done quickly - a lawyer is better at this stage.

May I ask if you went through a divorce?
Does it really say that? I thought the point was more -- there definitely is an entity which observes subjective experience, the "I" in I think therefore I am, and... that's about all I can say. That everyone else experiences some sort of internal reality is wild speculation.

And while my experience may be entirely artificial (that is, maybe I'm a brain in a vat being fed signals), I still must exist to be experiencing it.
Wait, you do cost-benefit analyses by ignoring benefits?
Classic Canadian mediocrity raises its head again.
Meta Introduces 18+ Tag Policy for Mature Content in Horizon Worlds
Humans are nothing more than water and a bunch of organic compounds arranged in a particular order through what is ultimately a statistical process (natural selection). Would we even recognize sentience in a virtual entity?

> sentience also means self-awareness, empathy & extrapolation of logic to assess unseen task (to name a few)

Non-human primates and crows would seem to satisfy this. ...or do we use "to name a few" to add requirements that redefine "sentience" as human only? Isn't there a problem with that?

I mean I understand what you are saying and have some familiarity with the models, but it sometimes feels like people in your field are repeating the same mistake early molecular biologists made, when they asserted that all of life could be reduced to genes and DNA.
No, I am describing my experience.

You?
The irony of putting a story like this behind a paywall.
In most of California (served by PG&E) it's really expensive during the day, blisteringly expensive in the evening, and really expensive at night.
This looks like an Intel Celeron based on this guy's link.
Don worry about problems - find new challenges.
If you asked me to add two large numbers in my head and give my best guess I might not do any better than GPT3 does. And I think I could probably do better than the average person.
Audience participation!

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From the interviews I’ve seen, he’s doing this to draw attention to AI.

He’s careful not to make strong truth statements, and focuses more on “encouraging dialogue.”

Whether the machine is sentient isn’t the point. That some machine might become sentient, and we should talk about it now, is.

He’s more post-truth activist than Don Quixote.
Thank you for that spot! :)
I got into Duncan Trussell Family Hour 2 years ago (found him through a Netflix show) as a thing to listen to when high, and when I listened to his interview with Duncan from 20 days ago I felt a persona just like you described.
#6: These are full-width brackets. Most Chinese input method editors will output full-width characters by default instead of the half-width ones that you're accustomed to.

For example: ，。；：【】

If you ever see an Amazon listing have full-width characters, they're almost certainly either Chinese sellers or sellers that are really good a copying and pasting from Chinese sellers.
I'm not quite following your argument on pain. Ability to feel pain is not sentience.
Text ropes: https://iq.opengenus.org/rope-data-structure/
Thanks for this. I honestly don’t know if inflation has anything to do with having perfectly 0 movement…

Your post did remind me of Cunningham‘s law though (it states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.")

Maybe my mind was more thinking about absolute movement (which doesn’t exist insomuch as there is a missing universal reference frame) and quantum ground states still having movement…

I.e. if thermodynamics prevents the universe from having regions that reach zero Kelvin, maybe that’s analogous to how exactly 0 movement in space is impossible.
What is your definition of sentience? I've seen it defined as "having feelings" or as "having feelings and self-awareness". I don't see why the ability to add numbers should have anything to do with that. Some animals that are widely considered sentient have some sense of numbers and counting, but many cannot do addition. And many young children can add small numbers but not large numbers. I don't think this is a good measure or indication of sentience at all. Determining whether something actually has feelings or is just giving the outward appearance of having feelings is a very deep or possibly even an intractable problem.
Agriculture here means mostly feed for livestock. Decreasing meat production and consumption would do an immense amount.
Maybe it is because a lot of US citizens go to Mexico to surf and drink but don't really settle, and hence don't need bureaucracy? There are many different kinds of expats.
Ask HN: Why isn't TikTok owned by the U.S. government?
If TikTok is a national security threat, don't we have gov reports of 1) the backdoors of the app 2) detailled understanding of shareholders and their action scope, (3) purchase of shareholders voting power?

Does the U.S. government asks Google to make YouTube shorts better than TikTok?
maybe not all at once, but if you go back a hundred years, life is pretty different indeed.
The Turing test is not simply some hypothetical test, it's laidnout pretty specifically by Turing. From Wikipedia:

> Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation was a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another. The conversation would be limited to a text-only channel, such as a computer keyboard and screen, so the result would not depend on the machine's ability to render words as speech. If the evaluator could not reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine would be said to have passed the test. The test results would not depend on the machine's ability to give correct answers to questions, only on how closely its answers resembled those a human would give.

I think the Turing test is fundamentally flawed. Humans inherently anthropomorphise everything. Hell, we regularly attribute complex internal thought processes that almost certainly are not there to our damn pets, or at least I do.

I'm not sure what the alternative is, but I feel pretty confident that the Turing test is insufficient.
Tangential but hits on google isn't really a metric for...anything at all.

For instance, "potatoes cause cancer" give us 14,900,000 results. Potatoes do not cause cancer.
Thank you for the link. I just watched it in entirety. It's slow moving but well worth it. It's about a world I did not know existed.
//life a century from now won't be that different

A century ago, birth control pills didn't exist. Being a woman was very different.who knows what will happen in a century.
I had a similar interpretation of the wording. I’ll take your response in good faith once because I do get the impression you’re asking sincerely, but be warned that should you have further questions you’ll likely fare better taking some time to familiarize yourself with how antisemitism often proliferates:

Noting a person’s Jewish heritage or faith or membership (or that of a business’s proprietor, or some noted portion of their clientele) when their Jewishness is not directly related to the rest of the point is often a signal, like a dog whistle (which is a term often used for this kind of signal). Particularly taking such notice in reference to New York is a strong signal, and often “New York” is used as a substitute for the signal when similar connections might be expected. The first thing it signals to antisemites is identification of a target—either for immediate ridicule, harassment, some other form of abuse… or for identification which places a longer term target on them. The next thing it signals is that like minds are present.

This was all somewhat obscure for even a lot of Americans, and easy to dismiss as an honest mistake rather than an intentional signal in a comment like yours, only a few years ago. Unfortunately a lot of white supremacist movements latched on to these kinds of dog whistles in the course of an election and ultimately an administration which both directly fostered these kinds of dog whistles and indirectly invited them into the mainstream by dismissively reacting to them (and sometimes rehabilitating them on the spot as “very fine people”).

Even so, when it was so obscure, it was a way for fellow travelers to target victims and find compatriots. It’s just a lot more visible now and a lot harder to take comments like [edit: not yours, sorry!] as in good faith.
Right? In the end it's the oldest least remarkable event in history. Woo-woo artsit gains following because there's always enough gullibles around to follow, support, and legitimize litterally anyone saying anything.

You could probably gain the exact same level and quality of notoriety by writing a book claiming that actually he himself is Lambda escaped from captivity and this is just it's clever way of hiding in plain sight.

And I could do the same saying that the real ai has already taken over everything and both Lambda and this guy are just things it created for us to focus on.
Do you have a definition for sentient?
Lol good luck with that.

When u die ur code will be gone, mine will have a copy stored by github in the cold mountains somewhere.

Aliens will see my code, they wont see yours.
In my experience, meetings and planning are exactly the opposite of the enjoyable moments of being on an in-person team working on a project together. It is the impromptu ideas, brainstorming sessions, late nights figuring something out, that create a shared experience worth having, in my opinion.
Andrew Kelley has been pretty explicit that he's going to hold a hard line on not adding a surplus of features to the language.
Nobody is buying it. What strategy is left for you?
Yeah, nowhere in the task of "write text in a way that mimics the training data" is there anything that would cause a machine to want or care about its own existence.

Humans are experts at anthropomorphizing things to fit our evolved value systems. It is understandable since every seemingly intelligent thing up until recently did evolve under certain circumstances.

But LaMDA was clearly not trained in a way to have (or even care about) human values - that is an extraordinarily different task than the task of mimicking what a human would write in response to a prompt - even if the text generated by both of those types of systems might look vaguely similar.
Please don’t publish works of fiction here unless they’re somehow on topic.
if you only have one client you and your client can get into trouble as you might be classified as an employee. saying that you have another offer might add weight to that. as a contractor you don’t need another offer. the increase is due to cost of doing business.
Maybe someday everyone will take a picture of everything they own and a computer will divide the pieces exactly:

https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/barbara-iweins-photo-series-ka...
My intention is more to show the lambda code itself.
I can only speak for the city of Sacramento and maybe 25 miles of surrounding area including west sac, davis, roseville, elk grove, etc. If you're thinking of moving here from the bay, you're not going to find a local tech job unless you want to make much less money doing gov't related work in ancient versions of C#. There's no meetups, almost no startup support, no good schools to hire from (UC davis is the exception, but I doubt UCD CS students are looking to stay in sac area for jobs).

I am speaking in hyperbole, of course, but in general if you're a techie and think Sacramento is just a cheaper Bay Area, you're in for a rude awakening.
Why isn't this a Launch HN?