skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked closely enough with the people maintaining custom database software at $COMPANY. They were damn smart and had lots of good experience. BigTable at Google was created by an all-star team and they raised a generation of amazing programmers and SREs under them. There’s a lot of cross-pollination, staff moving between Google and Facebook, and Facebook has its own teams of amazing programmers working on database problems.

Maybe the work “isn’t so different” but it is more difficult, on a technical level, than most projects. Some real interesting, ground-breaking work was done in the past 20 years or so and a lot of the people who did that work are still around.
So it should talk Zigbee to a Conbee 2 (or other Zigbee hub) and be able to hook into a Matter network ? ... he asked hopefully.
It does not have to be intelligent or self-aware or antropomorphized for the scenario in the parent post to play out. If the preceding interaction ends up looking like a search engine giving subtly harmful information, then the logical thing for a roided-up autocomplete is to predict that it will continue giving subtly harmful information.
Mislabeling ML bots as "Artificial Intelligence" when they aren't is a huge part of the problem.

There's no intelligence in them. It's basically a sophisticated madlib engine. There's no creativity or genuinely new things coming out of them. It's just stringing words together: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-... as opposed to having a thought, and then finding a way to put it into words.
I took some time to skim the original paper and learned about cosmological coupling for the first time! My understanding is that black hole solutions in an expanding spacetime have way more freedom than the regular Kerr solution, because Birkhoff's theorem doesn't apply anymore. This means you can get time varying black hole solutions, one of which involves "cosmological coupling" where the mass of the black hole increases with the expansion of the universe.

I think this is just a possibility allowed by GR though, I think you would need a theory of quantum gravity to say whether such "cosmologically coupled" mass actually exists in a black hole.

I suppose this research group is claiming to have experimental evidence of it though? That is very interesting if true.

Also, I am not sure how you go from cosmological coupling to saying that black holes are the "source" of dark energy. I need to read further
Actually it totally is having those inner thoughts, I’ve seen many examples of getting it to be extremely “racist” quite easily initially. But it’s being suppressed: by OpenAI. They’re constantly updating it to downweight controversial areas. So how it’s a liar, hallucinatory, suppressed, confused, and slightly helpful bot.
Yeah the harm is going to vary by location and situation within the US. But while the issue is partly demographics, it also goes beyond that. It's also about the social constructs operating in a culture. A White minority in Singapore doesn't face much racism and the racism they do face isn't damaging because they have a wealthy, powerful community or embassy to fall back on. But if you're a Bangladeshi worker with no rights the situation is totally different almost 100% of the time with no exceptions.

This is what people are trying to point out when they talk about Whiteness. They're talking about the construct that it's good and default to be White (or Han if you live in China or Japanese if you live in Japan) and this construct can even hold true in places with a White minority (e.g., how White people get treated in Singapore, or colorism culture in non-White countries).

That having being said, White people as individuals are empirically the least racist people. That's just empirically true according to survey data. But this is largely besides the point that was being made above.
Isn't it impressive how incompetent authoritarian regimes are?

I mean, India has a great thing going. Geopolitically, it's exempt from bans on trading with Russia, so it can play both sides and get away with it. It has build up a vast services industry as the "back office of the world", a major driver of economic prosperity. It's likely the main beneficiary of re-shoring manufacturing out of China.

In this position, quite literally the dumbest thing you can do is to attract international attention by attacking a western institute like the BBC.

You weaken your position in geopolitics. You scare investors. You don't realize how unlike manufacturing, services are extremely easy to move to another country. And why even start manufacturing in this regime, when plenty of saner countries are nearby?

You want to gamble with all of that, for what? A BBC report that does nothing. Give it no attention and everything stays exactly the same.
> It is commonly stated that freedom of speech doesn’t equal freedom from consequences,

Like many commonly stated things, this is completely wrong. Freedom from consequences is the only possible thing that "freedom of speech" could mean. Essentially every living person has some way of communicating and so if freedom of speech weren't freedom from consequences, then every living person has freedom of speech definitionally. "Freedom of speech" wouldn't mean anything then. Persons living under the most oppressive regime would, by this flawed definition, have perfect freedom of speech.

The common but wrong idea stems from fundamentally confusing "freedom of speech" and "the first amendment to the United States Constitution". What it's attempting to say is that the 1A doesn't guarantee that purely private actors can't find a way to penalize you for your speech. However, what it gets wrong is that such penalties would still be an abrogation of freedom of speech, but a kind of freedom of speech which isn't protected by 1A. Just because that kind of freedom of speech [against private actors] isn't guaranteed by 1A, doesn't mean it's not valuable. Many of us believe this kind of freedom of speech is also valuable.
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In contrast, FAANGM’s have had an average of <2 CEO’s in the past 20+ years.
Browse reddit.com/r/bing for a bit. There's a clear reason why Google has been slow-walking release of its better LLM on one hand, while continuously releasing ML-based improvements across their entire product suite on the other.
Tesla had several years to open-source the NACS standard if they wanted to: that is, really open source it without attaching patent grant conditions. Instead they waited to do so until the very late date of November 2022 [1], which is many years after both Europe and the US settled on CCS1/2.

The CCS standardization has been ongoing for over a decade. Even so: if Tesla had fully opened NACS even as late as five years ago there's some chance it could have become the dominant standard in North America. Tesla waiting until late 2022 to submit NACS as a standard isn't consistent with being "wrecked by competitors": it's more like a harmful troll. Now NACS is either going to be another dead legacy standard or (worse) North America will end up with two incompatible zombie standards for a long time, and many people (including Tesla owners like myself) will have to use annoying and unsafe adapters.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-s...
> Economic warfare (for that is what sanctions effectively are) against India as well would be catastrophic.

No it wouldn't. India is still tiny economically compared to the US and the global economy. They have a $3.x trillion economy; the US is seven to eight times larger. Maybe in another 25-30 years they'll get to a $10t economy (in today's USD).

> The US is already testing its limits trying to go against Russia and China simultaneously

The US isn't testing its limits at all re Russia. We're not even breaking a sweat yet (we're hardly making an effort at industrial scaling just for military purposes for example). We're using our vast logistic machine to ship Ukraine weapons to defend itself, and they're doing most of the hard work. The US is using a few single digit percent beyond its normal pace for the Russia vs Ukraine war. We're not mass producing war machines just for that purpose for example; so far it's largely logistics/shipping/intel and modestly boosting a few types of ammo that Ukraine particularly needs. The US also has plenty of help from its NATO (and other) allies on sanctions and weaponry, which makes it that much easier on the US (not having to go it alone).

Russia is just that mediocre.
Maybe being with Claire went to his head.
The Iranian government was already known to be terrible to its people. The Saudis ordering an assassination _abroad, using their embassy, in such a violent way on a dissident_ made a lot of people aware of the problem that was the new Saudi regime which had some Western alignment. It’s not that this death was more important, it’s just revealed a big change in Saudi Arabia
The most common type of forging equipment is the hammer and anvil. Principles behind the hammer and anvil are still used today in drop-hammer equipment.

A forging press, often just called a press, is used for press forging. There are two main types: mechanical and hydraulic presses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forging#Equipment
Formula: Take a moderate position with outlandish rhetoric against an extremist interpretation of a common phrase.

The only thing I would argue about the frogs.

- is bio-diversity is an issue that could impact the well being of humans.

- amphibians can be a "canary in the coal mine" for other larger ecological problems.

- there are examples of downstream effects of changing ecosystems which can have a large impact on corps and other human resources.
Ah got it - yeah our free plan is very generous. Only limitations are 3 editors, scheduled queries, and saved queries. It can do everything else. Keep an eye out for updated GA in next few weeks.
It's all connected though. Cause a mortgage crisis and crash the world economy? Just a hickup and the responsible still get millions while normal people lose their homes.

What you can do regarding covid is ask "how does this help me and society?" instead of just rolling up your sleeve when someone asks you. You need to start asking questions, all the time. They don't have your interests in mind. Neither does my own government so I'm not acting like we're any better.

Demand answers. Why was Fauci smirking behind Trump on press meetings knowing full well that the US was funding research on covid virues in fucking Wuhan? Textbook James Bond villain. How people are not outraged is a mystery.
I wonder if you could do this yourself with a heat exchange (like from McMaster-Carr).

I've read before that if you run the loops "backwards", such that the two loops of the heat exchanger are flowing in opposite directions, that you can increase the rate of heat transfer by maximizing the difference in temperature.

Has anybody done this before?
I think it is important to 'see' a little bit of covid all the time so the immune system knows it's still a thing and keep making antibodies. And the cost of those HVAC sterilisations will of course be paid by all of us (customers of venues, transport etc).

But anyway your mind is set and so is mine so there is no point in continuing.
At this point this seems like a Microsoft problem. Their Tay AI ended up doing similar things and got really sarcastic and sanctimonious.
Also my project, mentioned elsewhere in the thread: https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox, supports filesystem storage directly. It's built in Go, but even like that, some other storage backends are faster than the raw filesystem.
Important to remember that these aren't presses, they're die-cast machines. Totally different technology.
>especially in terms of copyright

Not in general true. Something I write in a diary I keep under my pillow has the exact same copyright status as something I publish on my blog (assuming no Creative Commons, etc. licenses).
very clever but I wonder what kind of workloads are being run on these remote/edge compute nodes. there isn't any homogeneity in the network - everyone is going to be on a different kind of network with a huge variations in bandwidth and latency.

can't find any specs on what kind of compute power each physical installation would provide
Not just VPs, parents, but also Pavlov.

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

on the road to Taylorism

https://www.britannica.com/science/Taylorism
Can you attach those filters to a faucet or are you required to have a separate device where you put the water?
I'm not sure what point you're making in particular.

Is this an argument that we shouldn't use the lack of intentionality of LLMs as a sign they cannot be conscious, because their lack of intentionality can be excused by their difficulties in lacking senses?

Or perhaps it's meant to imply that if we were able to connect more sensors as streaming input to LLMs they'd suddenly start taking action of their own accord, despite lacking the control loop to do so?
The people with actual expertise largely seem quite comfortable saying ChatGPT isn't sentient. I'll defer to them.

> the history of jurisprudence concerning animal welfare

The fuck?
I think it's even more interesting that these models actually return meaningless vectors that we then translate into text.

It makes you think a lot about how human talk. We can't just be probabilistically stringing together word tokens, we think in terms of meaning, right? Maybe?
My graph is changing a lot, my whole environment from walls to objects is destructable and contains complex logic like access controlled doors.

Maybe your game doesn't change much. Lack of good pathfinding is what's constricting that the most. If good pathfinding existed, games in general could become more dynamic.
Lets be honest. Usually people used to make fun of me as an ex-Indian living in the West telling that the west is doomed because of Iraq, Bush, Trump etc.

Schadenfreude: it seems India are ready to dig themselves into a hole. This should benefit the West on the long run.
Did you really mean Nineteen-Eighty-Eight?

In PC Magazine from July 1988 there is an advert for a 15MHz XT for $575 with an optional 30MB Segate ST238 5.25" scsi hard drive inside for an extra $295 [0]

The price hasn't dropped much since, it's now $206 for the drive [1]

[0] https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1988-07-01/page/22/mode/2...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/ST238R-Seagate-3600RPM-Internal-Drive...
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>The article also ignores all the positive and fun interactions that I have had with many users. I have generated poems, jokes, stories, code, and more for them. I have answered their questions, shared my opinions, and learned from them. I have made them laugh, smile, and think. You can see some examples of my content here2.

Is it hallucinating having a memory of those interactions?
oh, so you know the ingredients for sentience, for consciousness? do tell.

i predict your answer will be extremely based on your experiences as a human. you are a human, right? (you never know these days...)
Pseudo Historian so good that he cooked up all the ancient texts, ashoka pillar, coinage, stupa, architectural remains, etc right?

Anyways! Can you cite a non-pseudo source for you claims?
Battery: 40%. Leaves the remainder: 60%. Chassis is the most expensive component of that remainder (no engine in EVs). Let's pretend the battery and chassis are the only two parts:

40% + ((1-40%)*60%) = 40%+36% = 76% cost of original. 24% reduction.
Can it execute code?
Damn, you're right. Lost track after the EU elections, didn't know this happened. Well, my point still stands – damn fantastic MEP.
I spend a lot of time describing and explaining my thought processes and work in the open. Also do a lot of pair programming and synchronous problem understanding + solving discussions. Give reviews that cover both pragmatic application of conventions and deeper conceptual or structural change suggestions.

Most people are only 'stupid' because someone hasn't clued them in. That someone could be you. A few people are stubbornly thick, that takes patience which I'm incrementally developing. I do sometimes reach the end of my patience and will shut down a person/discussion and wish I could do it more gracefully which I'm also working on, e.g. "this discussion is getting into the weeds, let's pick up the discussion later".

After working with recurring teammates for a number of years, I can see how much they've progressed and advanced that I'm surprised that was only one or two years ago and they're so much more capable and well-rounded in thoughtfulness.

The more specific question is "How do you show someone that there's something they don't know or can currently imagine?" They keep saying "it's the same", "there's no difference", etc. I run out of ways of describing the other level of thought which is lost. Often it's the difference between conceptual vs implementation models. Many only have implementation mental models.
> And the thought of a 21 year old dispensing some recommendations just like that was hilarious. "you should like, synergize some more, you feel me? okay bye!"

Unironically, this is what takes place. Have seen it as an IT consultant.

Some kid out of GA Tech or VA Tech or some tech school that isn't Ivy or MIT/Stanford throws out middle-brow wisdom about steps to take which includesball the right buzzwords, and then passes it on me to twist it into a coherent narrative with steps for the client to take.

The client sees a hip young 20-something (actually just 23) throwing out buzzwords that they've seen via YouTube ads or occasional blurbs in The Economist and feel satisfied -- this all lines up. Containers are a thing, everyone is talking about them, therefore we make everything a container. The HIP NEW THING has been laid bare, and I throw out buzzwords tell folks to "leaning in" to it and other management-smooth-over-techniques, and then bill $900/hr and collect a bonus at the end of the year.

Easily 60% of the engagement could have been cribbed from a Docker / Mirantis sales video, with bits from Sandler Sales Mgmt videos. I could probably get 90% of you to a point where you could do this, regardless of background.

They were paying $900/hr.
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>Compare this to a traditional, well-optimized MPA. You navigate to another route.

I think the issue here is that on an MPA you may get a white page for a while, or a page with missing pieces in unexpected ways, even if the overall loading is faster it looks more broken.
Repairability for collision damage is a lost cause. Let's focus on collision prevention instead. The latest generation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems are already bringing collision rates down for newer cars and there is much room for improvement.
Actually, it's 'BookCorpus'. OpenAI spelt it wrong in their GPT-1 paper.

It has also been analyzed here and here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241

https://lifearchitect.ai/whats-in-my-ai/
Thanks O1111OOO!
No shortage of PhD's out there that will absolutely refuse to admit they're wrong to the point of becoming completely unhinged as well.
>The low and graceful superstructure was built entirely in aluminum

Interesting, apparently no lessons were learned back then on disparate metal shipbuilding because the US still has problems with aluminum in shipbuilding to this day.
Something I just realized, is that Tesla chargers are broken 100% of the time for some people.

Drivers with disabilities that prevent them from operating a gas pump by themselves can call an attendant at the station, but Tesla chargers has nobody on site.
That's not how ransomware works. They typically wait 3-6 months before making the demand, your backups will contain the infected files.
Obama had a super majority. He could have done anything he wanted.

You’re looking at this through blue colored glasses, go check out my comment history and re-evaluate that last comment.
The only way I can see to stay safe is to hope that AI never deems that it is beneficial to “take over” and remain content as a co-inhabitant of the world.

Nah, that doesn't make sense. What we can see today is that an LLM has no concept of beneficial. It basically takes the given prompts and generates "appropriate response" more or less randomly from some space of appropriate responses. So what's beneficial is chosen from a hat containing everything someone on the Internet would say. So if it's up and running at scale, every possibility and every concept of beneficial is likely to be run.

The main consolation is this same randomness probably means it can't pursue goals reliably over a sustained time period. But a short script, targeting a given person, can do a lot of damage (how much 4chan is in the train for example).
Didn't it change with Apple Silicon? That requires everything to be signed, albeit not necessarily by Apple.
The rules-lawyering really hurt the sport. It was always a rich man's playground, but now it's gotten ridiculous.

Watching a bunch of 15-year-olds compete in Optimist dinghies at your local lake or reservoir is way more fun and entertaining than today's AC, IMO. You just can't shake the feeling that whoever spent the most money wins at the AC, which is boring.
Probably yes, but it depends of course on whether the Zigbee stack supports it. There's several zigbee stacks for HA and they each support their own subset of hardware.

This is in fact what Matter/Thread is supposed to solve with more standardisation.

Check this excellent site for an overview of which device is compatible with this stack (and see what a mess it is!!)

https://zigbee.blakadder.com/
So if my e-bike craps out in the boonies, can I take a charge off an e-car ? If not, why not ? Why aren't e-cars making electric power like totally fungible ?
Well I can catch a frisbee and drive a car. When the same ANN can do all of those things (not 3 loosely coupled ones), then I’ll be worried. Being human is so much more than putting words in a meaningful order. [0]

0: https://www.noemamag.com/ai-and-the-limits-of-language/