skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my reading about this incident, Blake strikes me as a very "Life of Pi" or Don Quixote type person. Someone who is a bit adrift in the real world and subconsciously relishes losing the boundary between reality and fantasy.

A larger group is unable to bring themselves to lose the boundary, but enjoy, or perhaps are addicted to, standing on the edge. For example, the folks who constantly worry about a malicious artificial general intelligence taking over the world, or Roko's Basilisk.

Whenever something new happens in the world, there will always be a sliver of people who really, really want it to be a complete escape, a portal to another dimension where everything is different. An immense reservoir of novelty to enrich a life that has become too much of the same.

Alas, it will never be. Provided we avoid nuclear war and catastrophic climate change, life a century from now won't be that different. Hopefully it'll be a little better.

Personally, that is the closest to fantasy that I get.
Every time I've asked this myself (not here) or read/heard others asking this, the advice boils down to the following:

- Play casual/board games

- Play D&D/Magic the Gathering/niche games

- Play music (jam session, open mic, practice/learning)

- Play sports (league, informal, professional, up to you)

The above set requires that 1) you be interested or become interested in those activities; 2) you are able and willing to find others to do it with you, without feeling any sense of intruding upon an existing clique; 3) you aren't uncomfortable around the people you find.

The next set is:

- Go to temple/church/synagogue/mosque/[insert your preferred term] and associated events

- Go to school/alumni events (if possible)

- Volunteer with local organizations

- Join a meetup.com (or similar) group

- Join short term classes/seminars (painting, wine tasting, ceramics, makerspaces, Home Depot learning sessions, community college/trade school, continuous education events in [insert your professional field])

- Join a gym or martial arts (or yoga, Tai Chi, etc.) class

This set costs more money and time, and has the same issues as the previous set, but you're less likely to encounter clique behavior (religion dependent) since there's usually either an understanding that everyone is paying for the experience or there's a sense of proselytization that encourages newcomers.

The next set is:

- Join a Discord/subreddit/IRC/whatever group

- Play video games

- Create a product/service and treat the customers as your new friends

This last set is highly effective in the short term, but is by nature less "real" and can lead to some serious struggle if you get too into parasocial behavior. Not bad for getting your foot in the door to meet others in a safe way to do things from the other sets, though.

The last set is:

- Run for political office

- Join "irl" activist/protest groups

- Join the military

- Get a job

This set will give the strongest sense of camaraderie with those you encounter, but will also cause the most grief if something goes wrong. Your mileage may vary.

Hope that helps somehow!

Postscript caveat: I've been collecting this list for decades now and tried nearly all of them at some point, and I am quite alone, but I recognize that's a "me" thing and that these suggestions are all quite valid otherwise!
But the new new generation won't even remember the old internet. They won't know any better. I think this generation is now emerging and this is what the OP refers to.
Today all I did was attend the standup meeting, had a brief huddle with a coworker on Slack, did about 2 hours of light work, then pretty much logged off the rest of the day just doing code reviews on my phone or answering a slack message. Basically nothing. Felt like a day off. And I frequently have days like this.

If I was in an office all those days would just be wasted time rather than actually using it for living my life. I really don’t understand how people could prefer living in an office and pretending coworkers are their friends rather than on their own terms.

The upside of having easy days like this is I genuinely enjoy immersing myself in the challenge of hard problems once in a while, with full energy to tackle them head on.
> Being given what I am owed is nice, but it would be better for me to receive nothing, than to do so in a way which would harm them in the process.

Hopefully I don't come off as rude, but this seems like a very privileged position. I don't know OP's financial situation, but 1.2k is a lot of money to a lot of people. What should OP do if they were relying on this money to feed themselves, or their spouse/children?

Not everyone has 1.2k to throw away because they don't want to harm the person/company that stole it from them.

Your method probably works in situations where the issue was a genuine accident, and the company would right the wrong if they knew about it. But it seems, to me, to fall apart if we assume any actor in a situation is malicious, as you effectively give the thief the power to say "No" and then get away with their theft.
I recall this. I called it Metcalfe's Law.
Oh I'm sure the genius behind the block chain tech knows what they're doing
> Also, for me at least, I have this weird anxiety that, whenever I tell someone I made a decision, that I could never go back on that decision.

To me, especially in technical contexts, I've always been afraid of backing away from a point I strongly defended before - because I want people to trust and what I say and not be afraid of relying on it, which is undermined by admitting fault.

However, admitting that you're wrong (and maybe even more so, admitting that you might not be right) is actually quite freeing: Nobody should expect you to be 100% perfect, and regardless of your technical prowess, if you challenge yourself you will sometimes fail. Communicating clearly when you are unsure about something, or when something made you reconsider your opinion, is just as valuable to how people perceive you as "always being right". As a bonus, it also helps keep you humble to admit to yourself that you won't always be right.
That, and someone who can be convinced a chatbot is sentient seems like the sort to give sensitive credentials to one.
A sand battery prototype in Finland is recently in the news. Has a lot of appealing features for local energy systems. https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-sand-battery
Just to add some more details - I believe he reached out to people in congress, and obviously people in the media as well. So it's pretty clear to me Google was entirely justified in this decision, even if there were other PR-related reasons for it.
You should really read your own sources

> Except the USG officially apologized for the "undiplomatic language" on the tape [0]

>> Victoria Nuland reportedly said ‘Fuck the EU’ speaking of Ukraine crisis, though department didn’t confirm it was her voice on tape

There’s no confirmation whos voice is on that tape although the tape itself is reportedly said to be authentic

> Yes, the "peaceful revolution" is very much a manufactured narrative, you should check out your own link [1]

The Russians often lie _is not a narrative_ the Russian government nearly never tells the truth. All you need to look at is there state media during this war to see many examples of it, from downing civilian aircraft to weaponised witches, the firehose of falsehood is well and alive.

> Yes, the "peaceful revolution" is very much a manufactured narrative, you should check out your own link [1]

The only person on that page that suggests this is a coup is the former president who got deposed and ran away back to his masters in Russia. No amount of images will change the fact it wasn’t a coupe, no amount of walls of text from you will either.

> The evidence is overwhelming and blatant, that's also why all you can do is deny, even trying to strawman the discussion by talking about "weaponized witches"

Do you think the Russians lie?.
Hi everyone, yesterday I was here sharing a image to CRT project [1], but the implementation was really slow. I took a few minutes today to speed things up a bit by manipulating the image data directly.

Let me know what you think.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198455

P.s.: everything is processed in browser, no upload, no data collection
> So, it’s regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information. We will continue our careful development of language models, and we wish Blake well.”

You can't expect to be employed by a company while simultaneously building a personal brand around publicly criticizing that company. I'm surprised Google tried to work with him for so long before removing him from the company.

He didn't just try to blow the whistle with his disclosure. He's been doing media tours and joining a lot of different podcasts. I suspect Google is sitting on a long list of clear disclosure policy violations and, from the sounds of it, even gave him a chance to reign in his policy breaking before they finally cut him loose.

It also becomes difficult to trust someone when their position stops being one of (supposed) moral responsibility and starts becoming a source of fame, celebrity, and access to influential podcast/media circles that were previously out of reach.
A couple of paragraphs up in the Wikipedia article: "Oral polio vaccine results in vaccine-associated paralytic poliomylelitis in about three per million doses". I've also seen one in two million doses quoted elsewhere, but it's somewhere around the one in a million mark. You coupld probably quibble about whether that really counts as getting polio, but it's paralysis caused by infection with poliovirus and there is "no clinical difference between the paralysis caused by wild poliovirus, OPV, or VDPV" according to the CDC's FAQ on the topic so that's not a particularly interesting semantic quibble to me.
Say goodbye to any warranty and possibly repairability gluing a sheet of copper inside your macbook though.
Because they're no substitute for friends you see in person.
A brilliant colleague Janelle Shane works specifically on how language models fail (obnoxiously often). This is her line of research to show how LLMs are overhyped / given more credit than should be. I think her fun little experiments will give a better answer than I ever can :).
She's on substack & Twitter

https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/okay-gpt-3-candy-hearts
It sounds to me like they made a good faith effort to engage with the guy. He came out with this story many months ago. I would argue it indicates lack of qualification to perform effectively to be fooled that the AI you're supposed to be working on is sentient.
That's up to the account admins, not Google. The NL government is making a big mistake here: it's trying to keep things "local" to EU, and replacing products that are secure and private (while also providing admins with the necessary tools to implement policy) with ones that have far less engineering.
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I also don't think it's necessary to use the word "ignorance", as I read the article pretty carefully. I'm quite read up on GDPR- having implemented policies for a company I worked for- and often times when people say Google is not compliant with GDPR, they're dead wrong.
A gullible employee saw a computer program pass the Turing test and leapt to the conclusion that the thing was sentient. And then he couldn't be persuaded to shut up about trade secrets to the press, so his employer fired him.

He probably thinks he's some kind of whistleblower protecting a new life form. This is a known effect in human psychology and it was discovered in 1966.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
Yet strangely Vlang has had REPL since at least back from 2020 (https://youtu.be/Pvbv4b9TibA), a year after the language was released. Don't think it's as impossible as it is being made out to be here.

Just like comparatively, Vlang had a self-hosted compiler the first year it came out, but Zig did not achieve this until this year (which is around 6 years after its release).
Your questions are loaded. You're doing the religious person thing of "Well you don't believe in Jesus, so what do you believe in?" Just because I don't believe synthetic hydrocarbons are a good idea doesn't mean I have to have a replacement.
Is there really a difference between commonplace logic, advanced logic, and otherwise? Logic is logic, if there ever was a tautology...
+1 on the coworker thing, with traditional office jobs you’re friends with those guys and you’re close and then you or they change jobs and you never hear from them again. All along it was just being in close proximity and seeing each other every day that kept you together. That’s not friendship.
It just seems one engineer failed to acknowledge that he failed the Turing Test even with insider information, and (according to Google) was told he was wrong, but decided to double down and tell the public all about how wrong he was. To which they reported on because the claims were so laughable
It's either intentional in terms of deliberately neutering the non-pro model (something we see all the time in computers and processors) or intentional in terms of not wanting to make people feel uncomfortable with the heat
I have worked from home, remote or on distributed teams far longer than I have working in-person and onsite, for over a decade.

I can't do much about having a harder time socializing and bonding with co-workers. On the distributed teams I have been at, there were periodic in-person gatherings (retreats, or everyone showing up for the same tech conference) where we can do things that is difficult by being remote. You'd have to take that up with your team and manager.

I can offer some words on some of the other things:

Probably the most important thing is to find and live in a purposeful way, whether that with in-person teams or on a remote-first team. That purpose is what gets you up in the morning, fuels your willpower and self-discipline.

A lot of people substitute external activity for that inner purpose. Unless someone has purposefully found a company whose mission aligns with their purpose, chances are, that person is using their job as a imperfect proxy for that purpose. That person, in having to rely on something outside of themselves to be self-disciplined, is not likely to do as good of a job as someone whose inner purpose aligns with the company's mission. I personally think this is close to the heart of what I see as malaise of modernism.

The other is that, if you can, try filling the extra time you would have gotten into commute to get to know your local community. Whether that is going to the coffee shop, volunteering for something local. I think a lot of people substitute a connection with their local community with their workplace. There's a sense of belonging, of place that happens in a company, at the expense of the local community.

If the local community you inhabit does not resonate with you, then finding one you feel you feel you belong to will guide you on where to move out to. It's helpful if you can find some place that is walkable, designed for humans to walk around, to live, to work, to play. Or perhaps, you find that you enjoy hiking and biking and outdoors, in which case moving to an area where you can do that would make more sense. Perhaps you enjoy being nomadic. You can make that happen with a remote-first, distributed team and a starlink subscription. Perhaps you like gardening or farming; working remote would let you work out from a rural area.

Finding the purpose within, and finding a community you belong to are things that, once you connected with, will endure through jobs in your career. Hope that helps.
> Today, it is available in every food store, often looked down on as cheap, poor quality and low status.

> It would be of huge benefit to the safety, quality and sustainability of our food system if the snobbery surrounding canned produce could be stripped away.

Thanks for this article. I felt similarly, I "discovered" canned fish when I started working out as a great source of excellent fats and protein. They're among my favourite foods now, and I marvel at the ingenuity of making highly perishable foods last almost indefinitely in such a compact format, without requiring cooling, every time I open a can.
No, he got fired for breaching NDAs.
Are these similar to space-filling curves like z-order indices? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order

Some more such curves: https://web.archive.org/web/20220120151929/https://citeseerx...
Could someone explain what ipfs protocol support means? What can ffmpeg do with ipfs?
Like Nigerian scammers, you win in bult and let your customers filter themselves until you get Hertz
Could this be used to browse/send email from a 2fa domain?

I'm desperate to use a cli/tui client but my organisation's 2fa requirement has me stuck on web outlook.

I'm trying to get alpine to work, but I'm not sure that it can ...
In my experience, Airbnb is more risky than booking a hotel, and also not really cheaper. I don't even look at Airbnb anymore these days.
I don't think he was ever really a practioner in the field- more like a SWE who transferred to an ML group and got delusions of grandeur.
Isn't this just a variant of what is already being done with molten salt solar towers?
Money != Wealth

You can go ahead and force every billionaire to sell off everything they own and hand it to the government and all you end up with is a one time boost to government tax receipts.

That's it. One time boost. Next year those billionaires will be gone. There won't be new ones.

And it won't create any more food. It won't solve shortages. It won't create more solar panels. It won't create 1 mile of copper lines.

Because when the government goes and says "I need 40 million acres of solar panels"... Who is going to do that? Where is that going to come from?
Thanks for answering. Of course, I have the opposite of your second sentence, mispronouncing words I've only ever read :)
I don’t think those students were told they were being evaluated though did they? They didn’t know Eliza was a machine right?
I don't think "practitioner of the field" counts for much in this case. In reading his open letter, it was pretty apparent that he'd well and truly crossed over from thinking about the situation rationally into the realm of "I want to believe".

If you ask enough practitioners in any given field the same question, you're nearly guaranteed to eventually get a super wonky response from one of them. The specific field doesn't matter. You could even pick something like theoretical physics where the conversations are dominated by cold mathematical equations. Ask enough theoretical physicists, and you'll eventually find one that is convinced that, for example, the "next later down" in the universe is sentient and is actively avoiding us for some reason, and that's why we can't find it.

On top of this, of course it's the most provocative takes that get the press coverage. Always has been to an extent, but now more than ever.

I guess all I'm saying is that there's not much reason to lend this guy or his opinion any credibility at all.
If you remove it before servicing and don't leave any traces of it, it shouldn't.
Not so hypothetical: here's a $11.99 lettuce in Australia last month. (Admittedly 'only' $8.30 in freedom dollars.)

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/jun/03/why-does-this-i...
Commit messages should match the bug ID and synopsis of the bug the commit fixes. Failing that it should be a short description (80 chars or less) detailing the functional change.
I always wondered if this was designed to integrate into the existing railway numbering system. In the US, at least, owner identifiers are pretty consistently 4 characters or less, and individual unit numbers are 6 digits or less (i. e. BNSF 123456).
Same here ! Just finished setting up plex, deluge, radarr, jackett on docker
I think this was pretty much the status quo in the past. Because governments didn't have the capability to open every letter especially unnoticed. If they really wanted to target someone then yes. For everyone, no..

This is why this development is so dangerous in the digital realm. Because there is no longer any limit to how much data can be collected and processed.
Could you be more specific? Because battery energy storage barely works for houses and you can't build pump storage everywhere. Then there are few prototypes like Power-To-Gas which has promising prospect and rest is in level of sci-fi
Your local pet store likely has a fountain made for cats with an interest in running water. Not too expensive and rarely needs refilling as it just recycles the water. You sound like a wonderful parent and your autistic child is lucky to have you.
A lot of us are in the same boat, and I see some good advice here. But the pattern I see in the OP's observations is the lack of motion. The repetitive motion from home to work, work to home, is like breathing on a different time scale, and as annoying as the travel itself is, you are at least moving through the world. And when you're at work, you are with people who are facing the same mundane challenges of where to get lunch, where to find parking, traffic, weather and so-on - also, interestingly, mostly problems about moving through the world.

I haven't figured it out yet, but certainly a standing desk is now essential for my mental and physical health. Again, it falls under the umbrella of movement. Joining groups (which are still around - meetup.com is still around but clearly getting long in the tooth!) is a good idea. Going out to bars can be fun, too. Just seeing real faces, hearing real words -- it's very refreshing and good. We've all been in solitary confinement for a solid chunk of time, so now that the pandemic is cooling down, it's time to revel a bit in the joy of other humans!
Thanks. With sous-vide you don't have a heat source below the pot, so does that still apply?

From memory, the water bath was 161F. The pot most likely is not much hotter than that, if it's hotter at all.
In addition to the staleness argument (which is somewhat countered by its inverse: the good, helpful commit message might be hidden under a huge layer of naming convention changes and the like), there's also the off by default. A comment always helps itself to some mental bandwidth, whereas the commit is nicely tidied away unless you ask for it.
Just book a hotel. Same price, less hassle.
Im not sure understanding sentience is a prerequisite for understanding AI, so perhaps that’s where things break down? Bring an expert in one domain doesn’t make one an expert in everything.
I don't think it's malicious. I just think at some point he found that he wanted to believe, and it's hard to go back from there.
definitely. i’ve been doing startups selling to enterprise customers for a while. audits and soc 2 compliance generally do lead to improvements or caught some things we’ve overlooked, but it certainly is not comprehensive. you’re checking boxes in some horrific xlsx file so some folks at Acme Corp can check boxes in another horrific system of theirs.

earlier on i tried to fight the good fight on some points and explain why it was unimportant or nonsensical in our context. that’s a brutal way to live though. i try to go with the flow and have more of an open mind these days. it’s easier for all parties involved. i just want them to write us a check.
as someone who has no problem with WFH, working from home for (and with) someone you don't ever encounter in real life can easily get people depressed.

most people seek for meaningful relationships and purpose in life, not just paychecks.

it's not people's fault if that particular way of working can lead to depression.