skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your last link, the open letter, says nothing about human or > human level AI. Just "robust and beneficial usage" of AI. In all likelihood that means the current AI technology and the letter is aimed at (I'm assuming) people who are trying to use these techniques in things such as modern weapon systems. While that is of course a concern, it's not the same as the concern for a Skynet like scenario.

Some experts in the second link you gave are concerned, sure. But I can probably find an equal number who dismiss it as well. There isn't a clear consensus over AGI. I still remain skeptical. Same with your first link, which tries to "forecast" AGI. People can't forecast next month's weather correctly, so forgive me for not believing in a 10% chance in 10 years.

Actually, I take back my appeal to authority argument in its entirety, because I just remembered the first thing I saw in my AI class was a video of experts claiming the exact same thing. The video was from the 50s.

EDIT: Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBjhD1oGQg
We still have no clue about the architecture of the human brain. Even if we did, it's not clear we need to replicate it.

We do have a clue about the architecture of the human brain. Billions and billions of neurons with orders of magnitude more connections between them.

even if we had, say, a million times more flops, and a million times more memory

The point is that we could have those things but we don't have a million times lower memory latency and we don't have a million times more memory bandwidth. Those things haven't been improving at all for a very long time.

There are tons of algorithms we can think of that are completely infeasible on our current architectures due to the penalty we pay every time we have a cache miss. Simulating something like a human brain would be pretty well nothing but cache misses due to its massively parallel nature. It's not at all inconceivable to me that we already have the algorithm for general intelligence, we just don't have a big enough machine to run it fast enough.
> If guns had been outlawed, I wouldn't have been shot.

Murder is also illegal. In your hypothetical scenario, you're assuming the shooter was willing to break the law to murder you, but would not have been willing to use an unlicensed gun to do so?
On Ada Lovelace's 200 year birthday, we might remember her quote:
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."
She was very smart, but she was wrong about that.

>In our journey to achieving HGI, we must first achieve an understanding of HGI ethics, motivations, and behavior.

You mean that it's impossible to make a human level general intelligence ('HGI', to use your term), without understanding those things?

If so, I disagree with your assertion: it is not obvious that those things have to be done before a human level AGI could be made.

It might be a good idea to do so, but its not clear that they are a necessary requirement. Some people would say this is why AGI is dangerous.

Maybe there's a path to bootstrapping an AGI, where we build something from relatively simple bits we can understand, that then becomes very much more complex than we can understand.

This happens all the time: for example, we get very complex classification behaviour from deep nets: [simple pieces] + [lots of data] doing something more complex than we have explicitly trained them to.

If we were convinced that "In our journey to achieving HGI, we must first achieve an understanding of HGI ethics, motivations, and behavior" was a necessary thing to build before we could build a HGI, people would be less worried. But its not; and that's partially why people are worried. In fact, some of the people working on AI risk could be said to be basically racing to understand these things before other folk build an AGI.
> What subsidy?

At least in the US, we provide a credit for each child someone claims as a dependent on a tax return.

> The second idea is vile and destructive. Someone elects to have more than one child, and you come in storming to deduct from their payrolls and tax their income as if you deliberately want to wage a war of attrition against the parents' standard of living for raising a child.

Uhh, that's how tax policy works. You tax things you don't want people to do, and provide deductions or credits for things you do want them to do.
Why would r.haps0dy imply that I'm an AI?

(let me out of the HN-box dammit)
Perhaps he just used a throwaway key and Satoshi no longer has access to it.
I must echo the other reply: the "delta" phrase communicates far more than the "simpler" rewording does, to the point where the simplified text reads as little more than meaningless marketing fluff. Perhaps it would be clearer to word it as "Between your current understanding ..." instead of "In the delta of your current understanding ..." But keep the rest the same; it's a beautiful sentence.
> "More guns in Paris would have saved lives". Both of which are undeniably factual statements.

No, that's definitely not undeniably factual.

And your continued repeated use of "crazies" is fucking repugnant.
My guess is that the network wouldn't recognize as much stuff effectively and might not look as identifiable. Like an ADHD brain with too much stuff going on.

Might look really cool actually; I'd try it.
I made something similar to that. I also made a couple other scripts to help with navigating deep directory subtrees:

"cdup" would jump to the specified ancestor directory of the CWD. So from /a/b/c/d/e, "cdup b" jumps to /a/b. This beats typing "cd ../../..", & it lends itself naturally to autocomplete. Writing this script is a piece of cake.

"cdto" is roughly the inverse of "cdup". It would jump to the specified descendant of the CWD, if one exists. If there is more than one possibility, it displays a choice (using `select`). So from /a, "cdto e" might jump to /a/b/c/d/e. This entails doing a recursive directory search, which can take a little bit of time, but it can save obnoxious typing in big, nasty directory trees. Writing this script is a bit trickier.

cdto also accepted a file as argument, in which case it jumped to the directory that contained that file.
The court system is an arm of the government. Are you saying the government should pass regulations and/or set out citizen rights that limit the potential behaviour of corporations?
> Now we're still slowly getting boiled to death

That's exaggerating. Science doesn't predict such a dire outcome.

http://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
It's quite amusing to notice that almost no-one does what you did and actually looks at the original, rather than relying upon someone else, be it some pseudonymous person on the WWW or things like Phoronix, to do the analysis. The systemd people are probably immensely grateful for that, otherwise they'd be having to deal with stuff that would give the cranks a field day like ...

* ... "Kay Sievers is writing a replacement for udev named /usr/bin/org.bus1.devices."

* ... "Kay Sievers is writing a replacement for Dracut init named /usr/bin/org.bus1.rdinit."

* ... "Kay Sievers is writing a replacement for gummiboot that hardcodes support for Microsoft's Boot Manager for Windows." (https://github.com/bus1/boot-efi/blob/c7f3a8a25acc838677b08d...)

* ... "David Herrmann is writing a replacement for kdbus named bus1."

* ... "Kay Sievers is writing a replacement for systemd named /usr/bin/org.bus1.init."

* ... "Lennart Poettering made no comment when asked about Herrmann's bus1 and kmscon, systemd-consoled having been quietly pulled from systemd in July 2015." (https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...)

The simple fact is that it is an IPC mechanism, and it almost certainly indeed is an attempt to come up with a replacement for kdbus, given the latter's withdrawal a while back. It was Herrmann himself who pulled systemd-consoled, and he did so citing the fact that he was working on kdbus. (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/747) It's not shocking to find him working on a successor. The mechanism is currently a filesystem like devpts, containing a pseudo-file named 'bus' that client applications open and perform ioctl()s on. The caveat "currently" is because there's no design documentation there, and the thing is far from finished. There's no guarantee that that will be its final form.

The replacement plug-and-play manager, EFI boot loader, and process #1 programs look like the majority of the project because the test infrastructure for using the new bus, essentially a very feature limited bootstrap system, has been written more quickly than the actual kernel IPC subsystem itself has been.

It's fair to say that this is at roughly the same stage of development as SystemXVI is, albeit that SystemXVI does have design doco (https://github.com/ServiceManager/ServiceManager/blob/master...).
Boomers are ready to retire from holiday hubbub, but their kids won’t let them
Neither are abandoned, I think both projects are in a relatively stable state.

Both projects also have the same basic functionality but different priorities. z aims to be dependency free and simplistic while autojump requires Python 2.6+ but has a bit more features:

- fuzzy matching (corrects for spelling errors)

- sectional path matching helps differentiate between the same directory name in multiple locations:

-- `j var nginx` or `j etc nginx` is enough to differentiate between `/var/log/nginx` and `/etc/nginx`

-- combined with fuzzy matching results in shorthand jumps: `j v ng` or `j e ng`

- `jc` searches only children directories of current path

- opens up a native file browser with `jo <args>` or `jco <args>`

- manual control of path weights: Both z and autojump use frequency and recency to suggest paths, but sometimes I want this newly created nginx path to always win without waiting for the algorithm to learn

- better tab completion

- more shells supported (fish, experimental tcsh and clink support)

Disclaimer: I'm the current maintainer of autojump.
If you're a Philip K Dick fan, you'll recognize Wilder Penfield as the namesake for the Penfield Mood Organ in "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?"

Canadians would probably remember him from the "I smell burnt toast" Canadian Heritage Minute spot on TV: https://youtu.be/mSN86kphL68
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Thank you, much better!
Terraform can generate graphs of your dependencies using the unix "dot" program. And then there is terraforming which can create terraform scripts from your existing infrastructure. So maybe if you can change terraform to output a file that cloudcraft can use. I'm not sure if has an import. I don't want to have to sign up just to play with it.
Human level AI would have a profound impact on the value of human labor. If you don't consider everyone being unemployable an issue to society then I am not sure what would pose a significant risk.

Most people that worry about this topic don't worry about human level AI, it is the vastly greater than human level AI that is the concern.
Hacking Atom to Create a Swift IDE That Runs on Linux and Mac
It was already possible in the 90s: http://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Plan-Settle-Planet/dp/145160...
I follow how there can be liability, but unless the families are co-signing how can they be liable?

It is highly likely that the parents were "guarantors" (保証人) for their children, which is standard practice here. This is similar to the US concept of co-signing. Also, socially speaking, "my adult child caused trouble for you implies I have a responsibility to you" is something that more than 90% of Japanese people would strongly agree to.
The title of this submission ("Introduction to a star algorithm") is a bit confusing. The article's title is actually:

Introduction to A*

It's about the A* algorithm for finding paths through graphs, and has some interesting animations that show how the algorithm works.
Thank you. You can restart the tutorial from the "User" icon in the top-right corner.
I'm amazed of the unethical treatment of the workers whom handle the plutonium plates (Ralph Stanton). It's a shame that these companies are allowed to operate, it's also a shame that there exists other people whom are continuing this cycle, the doctors whom miss-treat them, the managers that are writing them up in-order to get them fired, the individuals that make the calls for alpha particle detectors to be removed from above the working area.

There was more text down here, but I'm at a loss of words.
For mediocre "pushing-the-envelope" publish-or-perish papers, it's often a matter of flinging the muddy paper at enough journals until it sticks at one of them. If so, the last thing you want is for the reviewer to actually understand what you're talking about. So obfuscate the hell out of it and hope you get a lazy "uhh, looks good!" referee.
It turns out the fellow who posted the challenge is a crank. Not surprising that it is negative expected value.
Only skimmed it, but seems like my thoughts would be similar to manish_gill's above [1]: the assumptions are rooted in pop science fantasy.

More specifically, there are an infinite number of reasons for and against doing anything. Once we understand how humans weigh these reasons and choose between them and model them in an HGI system, we will be able to give it the values and morals that its creators choose.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10724108
Also Userapp and Stormpath. Both offer Passport integration so NodeJS apps can just plug right in. Not to mention 2FA and OAuth.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is great. If companies serve a common API then they can compete on service rather than lockin.
Apparently not.

$12.45 in 2115 dollars in 1998 is the low.

http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical...
Bleach is standard for infectious stuff. Some drugs, maybe even most, would be destroyed. But some for sure would not. Maybe chromic acid cleaning solution?
This is a big deal. Is it perfect? No, far from it. Politics is -- as the famous saying goes -- the art of the possible. This is what was possible today. If you've been following closely, then you know we almost had no deal.

My hope is that the emissions targets (low by what the scientific community wants to see) are tough enough that they will mandate significant investments in new technology. When clean tech becomes profitable (optimistically cheaper via subsidies), then it may become easier to sell the world on ratcheting-up the targets before we run out of time.

As others have mentioned, I will be watching the market reactions with cautious optimism.
There's apparently somebody who is way ahead of you: find all of the apartments that fit this description, scope down to ones which are otherwise desirable, rent them with the intention of Airbnbing them.
Whoah: this title sucks all the oxygen out of what is a very interesting article centering on an interview with Phil Rogaway, one of the world's great cryptographers.

The title should instead be the one The Atlantic chose, which closely mirrors Rogaway's recent paper: "The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists".

Submitters to HN are meant to use the original title from the article where possible, unless that title is so bad it detracts from the article.
As an econ PhD dropout, I never quite understood why such an emphasis was made on physics-lookalike models. I was always more encouraged to come up with a bunch of equations that would mimic some phenomenon, than dig around and understand this phenomenon in more depth.

A few arguments that I can agree with though:

- Models are a compact formulation of complex theories. I remember a professor writing a dozen equations and claiming he just taught us Marx's Capital. In retrospect I think that's pretty funny, and quite telling of the superficiality that is rampant in the profession. But still that might have been a great executive summary (I still haven't read the book). Another example is Piketty's "r > g" that really is a lot of food for thought.

- Models can lead to actionable insight. I think there are people in Central Banks and Economics departments of governments who rely quite heavily on some models to forecast GDP, unemployment etc.

But this comes with a huge caveat: it's often easy to tweak a model to make it describe pretty much the opposite phenomenon of the one intended.

So the real benefits of that kind of academia were and still are pretty unclear to me. I believe some academics were hiding their lack of deep understanding of economic matters behind a fog of math. Even Blanchard (former chief economist at the IMF) admitted to something along those lines in the wake the 2008 crisis.
Thanks, the warning is an upstream component bug (https://github.com/callemall/material-ui/issues/2267) but it's fortunately harmless.
The letter isn't (just) about modern weapon systems. It was put together by this group: http://futureoflife.org/ai-news/

Also, no-one is worried about a skynet scenario. The worrying scenario is just any powerful system that optimises for something that's different from what humans want.

Second, the point is that even uncertainty is enough for action. For AI to not be a problem, you'd need to be very confident that it'll occur a long way in the future, and that there's nothing we can do until it's closer. As you've said, we don't have confidence in the timeline. We have large uncertainty. And that's more reason for action, especially research.

Consider analogously:

"We've got no idea what the chance of run-away climate change is, so we shouldn't do anything about it."

Seems like a bad argument to me.
Sorry, I know it's kind of mean and doesn't really matter to your point, but I see three uses of "I" that reference the article's author:

> I had seen something of this Sicilian side…

> And as I watched this ritualistic scene, I got the impression that Frank Sinatra was…

I didn't find any "me".

In fact, Language Log had a number of posts on pronoun counts and how people easily get them wrong and how they don't mean much anyway (https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Alanguagelog.ldc.upenn....). It doesn't affect your point, of course, but the same point could be made just as well without counting pronouns.
Demography...get ready for a re-write of European history.http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-02/is-the-west...
That's probably not a fair criticism. This is reporting about an extremely famous cryptographer pointing his finger at other cryptographers.

Here's more about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10657540
Admittedly, I develop desktop software, so my experience with 'devops' has been in managing build infrastructure, but I found that the tools and overall philosophy of the movement has empowered my team to control our own infrastructure and actually get things done.

Security was also improved when I started documenting how our VMs were created (and automated it via packer). In the process, I switched them from unlicensed, never-been-updated RHEL boxes to CentOS.
This question paraphrased in the context of the article is basically asking whether or not you believe in ghosts.

Not only would you have to believe in ghosts, but some of these apartments are in cities that were firebombed by the US in living memory, you'd have to believe in ghosts that couldn't move around and were local to specific apartments to care about this more than "were there firebombings in this area?" or "was this house constructed before WWII?".
robots.txt only tells spiders not to request a certain path. The search engine can still infer the content of the page from the link or surrounding text, and show it. Google usually annotates these in the SERPs with something like "Google is not displaying the contents of the page because it's been blocked with robots.txt"
I use Terraform, which allows me to visualize my infrastructure as it stands. Though I must admit it's not too pretty.
See that is actually differently entirely. This article is specifically about the offspring of migrants, not of the migrants themselves. Steve Jobs was born and raised in America, under very different circumstances than 5 year olds that want to leave Syria.

Once again, I am not arguing one way or the other, just that this argument is no more silly than "This baby will grow up to cure cancer, but was aborted so cancer will never be cured" ads.
Forgot
- Lisp: 1958
- Emacs: 1976
At least huge compensation amounts were paid, and the victims are remembered on this page and elsewhere.

In Soviet nuclear program, lots of human beings died for nothing, their names forgotten.
Read the link and find out, that's what the links are for.
Also, no-one is worried about a skynet scenario. The worrying scenario is just any powerful system that optimises for something that's different from what humans want.

So Transcendence in leu of The Terminator. It's still hollywood fiction.
Sorry, maybe I'm misunderstanding?

What argument for pro-acceptance of migrants does this article/fact make?
The team at prismatic listened to our complaints about not being able to export our data:

> Update: You can also export the URLs of all your saved stories in CSV format by first logging in to the webapp, and clicking "Export Stories" in the drop-down menu next to your avatar in the left side panel.

Kudos for listening to the community, especially during what must be a difficult moment to go through.
The Ottoman Islam was perhaps the most progressive sort of the time.

But then the post-ww1 dividing of the empire between the British and the French turned the place into the mess the world is still dealing with today.

Adam Curtis talk about this in part of this blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/2989a78a-ee94-...
I thought this was going to be about hacking our own DNA (perhaps like the water bear) to harden it for space travel.
The issue is misattributions and misappropriations.
And those should be (and are) wrong, esp. in science.

Taking the spirit of the times, ie. migrating software from minis to micros/pc^1-s in both cases and expropriating and monopolizing is not about simply copying, nor evolution in the best sense.

^1 https://xkcd.com/386/
I use the -v switch since I want to see what I decompress, however I didn't knew that I could supress the z switch.
In Australia, Even Learning About Encryption Will Be Illegal Soon