skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer is "no. we are nowhere near the smartest creatures possible".

Right, like I said, this whole thing was just "thinking out loud" more than any thoroughly researched and validated idea. And I didn't do a very good job of even explaining what I was getting at. It's not so much that the question is "are we the smartest creatures possible". It's more like:

"as smart as we are, and given the constraints of the physical world, is there room for a hypothetical 'smarter than human AGI' to represent an existential threat, or something that justifies the analogy to nuclear weapons?"

See also skybrian's comment which actually states it better than I did originally:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10755109
also check out FIGARO and Hakaru.
Note there's a strong selection bias for people who post on HN. There's definitely plenty of ways to get laid... but you need a sourcing mechanism. Typically that's people from your hobbies or from your social circles... and hopefully those circles are gender-neutral and in your age range. :)

Disclaimer: I am a techie with very artsy hobbies.
Which is just free speech. Rights stop where other rights get infringed. Free speech also has its bounds in the USA. You can't scream "fire" when there's no fire and cause panic, you can't post (nude) photos of someone without their consent, you can't call for someone to get murdered. In Europe you just also can't call for crimes to be committed against ethnicities, adherents to some religion etc.

I always find the american worship of the constitution as strange. It's a bit like people that try to take the bible literal and forget to think about the actual meaning behind the words. Also the constitution is not a holy scripture. Several things in it have been turned around by 180°. We have way better documents to express the basic human rights.
Map making is hard. You can't transfer spherical world to a flat paper sheet/screen without distorting it in one way or another. There was an article not long ago here in HN about this problem:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/google-maps-get...
Which law precisely are you talking about? Racist hate speech was already illegal in Germany.

I'm genuinely interested if you could link to something describing what you are talking about.
To support free speech is to support free speech precisely when you disagree with the opinion voiced.

Either you support that people may say whatever the hell they like to say or you are definitely NOT in support of free speech.
I've asked Sam Altman (President of Y Combinator) if they are going to do anything about it. That is "shouldn't early employees, investing their under-market salary/time receive the same conditions/protection of their investments as VCs?"

He had said - "Yes!"

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10361451

I hope that any under-the-market-salary investments from employees would start getting the same treatment as any other investors money (e.g. dilution cap, not vesting cliff).
It was after a Hackathon that flew me and a few college buddies out to sf for the weekend. We were talking with some locals at Dolores when I heard that.

EDIT: If you mean where I left for, then I went back home, Ithaca NY. Aside from it being much smaller and having the shittiest weather in the United States, it's an excellent place to live. Short commute, super friendly people, good local organic food, and it's not constantly in a drought. In fact, it is the safest place in the US from the effects of climate change and it's insulated from pretty much every natural disaster imaginable. It also has a minuscule cost of living compared to coastal cities and there's much, much more space than you'll ever get in a big city.

Just be prepared for cloud coverage so thick you could go weeks without seeing the sun.
> This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke...

I'll give it a try:

EFF and the White House Sat Down to Talk About Encryption. The White House says: "EFF, we want Access, Now."
Mobile app stores are junkyards with terrible discoverability and they have a captive audience.
You can't read the obfuscated code directly. You have to use tools to deobfuscate it. With Web Assembly it will be the same. There will be tools to help you read the code. You may proclaim that they won't work as well but I think it's premature to say that. Web Assembly is not machine code.
How much security do you lose if you encrypt each frame individually?
> raise a family

That's assuming that you somehow find time amidst 100-hour weeks to get a mate.
Definitely. Indeed, I'd expect an organization with a sense of mission to be better at compensating everybody fairly rather than letting gains accrue to a narrow elite.

An interesting example is Kingston, a memory company. In 1996, after the bulk of the company was bought by SoftBank, Kingston's founders gave $100m in bonuses to the 550 employees. It's a shame that doesn't happen more.
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I don't know. I mean, we don't seem to even be close to actually beginning to colonize Mars, much less be close to the point of overpopulation. I think Ng's statement, formed in an analogy similar to yours, would be closer to

"a freshman student who is putting off studying for his Senior final project until his Senior year".

The question Ng asked was something like "is there any practical action we can take today, to address over-population on mars" as an analogy to "is there any practical step we can take today to address the danger of a super-AGI". And honestly, I'm not convinced there is anything practical to do about super-AGI today. Well, nothing besides pursuing the "open AI" strategy.

But I'm willing to be convinced otherwise if somebody has a good argument.
When I first read the title, I thought it as a phenomenon of Psychology.
For anybody not familiar with the background of the author of this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_John_Nilsson
I love ddg for english searches.

For non english searches it is still behind google. For example "pizza name-of-my-town" lacks half the pizza places google lists.
What many of them do, including my former roommate, is to move over here during their sophomore or junior years of high school so they can achieve resident status in the state of Washington and get cheap college tuition. So going by those numbers you found, the true percentage is probably between 25% and 30%.
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I wouldn't use the word romantic but maybe we're talking about the same thing: the excitement and joy you get from building something from scratch as a small team. You truly have to understand the whole solution and the team is small enough that rapid changes in direction are still possible and happen regularly. I agree that has immense value and getting experience with it is worth the cost. This is why I work in startups.

But what are you going to do with that experience you have gained. To go back to the romance option, if you can't get someone else into the bed, romance can become very sour.

I too see that the Box guy got more value than just the earnings on the options. But that more value is largely theoretical unless he can turn around and put what he learned into practice (and get compensated for it).
All I want is to be able to write 500 to 1000 lines of code a day and not think about anything else while I do it. I just want to focus. I want to be prolific. Money is irrelevant if the thing a person wants to do doesn't require it. I can see how writing software can make someone a lot of money but if I was interested in money it is not how I would go about it. The people with wealth I know don't seem like they are doing it for the money -- they are passionate about making the deal. It is a game to them and the rules are simple, buy low and sell high.
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The ratio had an effect, but in practice it was manageable. In NY attractive women were common enough that they would pick _me_ up (this was a complete shock to my system the first time it happened). In SF I had to make the first move. I could walk into almost any random bar in NY and be flirting with someone within 5 minutes. In SF I had to pick my venues. 10+ years ago it was already somewhat common in SF to go on a date with someone you met online, but in NY that wasn't a way to casually meet people. In NY working in tech was interesting, not so much in SF. In SF I would meet people at the climbing gym, an outdoor rave, or through work. In NY it was bars, clubs, and through work, although the work hookups were extremely illicit.
> reversible randomness

Yeah, we have a word for that: encryption
> Am I the only one who, when being interviewed, doesn't mind whiteboard coding?

I'm sure you're not, but my experience is completely opposite of yours. I'm still relatively early on in my career (I've had 3 software jobs, but have grown up coding since I was 12), but every job I scored was one that didn't use a whiteboard/paper problem during an interview.

I got a lot better at whiteboards with practice; but early on, every whiteboard problem I received resulted in me blanking on even the most basic concepts. I would have no idea how to solve problems on a whiteboard that I explicitly solved in a codebase the week prior. Then I'd step out of the interview and the solution would just hit me.

It's like state-dependent learning, in a way. As I got tested more on whiteboard coding, I figured out that whole problem-solving process better, and I do pretty well on them now. Still, I continue complain about those problems. They feel like a completely foreign, perpendicular challenge compared to having a discussion, answering questions, or writing code to solve the same problem. It's not a skill I've ever used outside of interviews, nor is it a situation that has ever been simulated at any workplace I've been at.

There's nothing wrong with evaluating a candidate's whiteboard presentation skills. If the goal is specifically to evaluate technical or algorithmic knowledge, it's worth taking into account that testing for that knowledge on a whiteboard can introduce a side-effect that bottlenecks the candidate's ability to present their answer.
Just checked their page, and it's live now.
Take a developer job at a top tech company and you'll be an accredited investor quickly enough.
It's actually quite good. Give it a try!
Nurses make pretty good bank.
> "as smart as we are, and given the constraints of the physical world, is there room for a hypothetical 'smarter than human AGI' to represent an existential threat, or something that justifies the analogy to nuclear weapons?"

The answer is still yes. Your "thinking out loud" is privileging an already refuted hypothesis.
Just about everybody in SF is from somewhere else. Something like 8% of the population is under 18.
That describes so much of the history of Chomsky's theories...
> he used to be such an ass

Gates became successful back then, not now when he became mellow.
I'm continually astonished at how much sway Universal Grammar still holds. This entire field has completely ignored the fact that AI and machine learning exist. Chomsky was and is a genius, but Max Planck was right when he said science advances one funeral at a time.
Why use DDG at all if you're using Startpage/Ixquick?
The law against it actually already existed previous to WWII, starting with 1871. But it wasn't strongly enforced, and worded not clear enough.
It's best viewed as the equivalent of "Ewww, a nerd".
A founder who does everything you describe should own a substantial chunk of what they've built. They de-risked the business on their own dime. Many (most?) startups these days however are funded by an angel or early stage fund and the founder has very little risk. A failure for them means a cush stint as an EIR for their VC earning $120K/yr to look at companies while they decide what to do next. I hope _that_ company is giving substantial equity to early employees, because the risk is much more evenly distributed.
>It's not limiting free speech unless the government is asking for or compelling it.

The First Amendment applies only to the government, but the principle of freedom of speech is broader. Large corporations, especially those that effectively operate as common carriers (e.g., ISPs), are rightfully criticized if they block speech due to its viewpoint. Facebook has a legal right to censor speech on its own website, but others have the right to criticize Facebook for doing so, and the principle of freedom of speech is a valid reason for such criticism.
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>The startup scene is not representative of the job market for the majority of people.

On that note, I'm surprised that startups would hire frequent-short-stint employees. The startup I work at has a great proportion of people who have stuck around since the early days; yet I have worked (and interviewed) at large companies where everyone bails within a couple of years max. I don't know what the West Coast "scene" is like, so my company probably doesn't resemble SV startups, but the pay is great, the people are smart and passionate, and the businesses is hitting all of its goals, so I'm not complaining.
i'm glad to see that this isn't a silicon valley only thing or even a US only thing.
Except people are calling to torch refugee homes and for violence against refugees, and refugee homes have been attacked and/or torched, more than 800 this year. At least one person was killed in these attacks. That's far beyond where free speech ends.
That "true size" website is wildly inaccurate. I'm puzzled what the motivation is for that.
I think it's a really good idea to read the wikipedia article about the law this is based on:

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

It makes some things clear, what is allowed, what isn't and why.
It seems like the real solution is to have proper sandboxing in the OS's, though it would take much more coordinated effort to accomplish.

I see no reason why each domain couldn't have a chroot for example, the browser doesn't need to implement those things.
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When I see comments like this I feel like I'm living in an entirely different world from some people. I'm a twenty-something woman in tech, working in Silicon Valley. Most of my coworkers are in relationships or married. I have friends making $50k or 80k who are in relationships. I've never (knowingly) met a guy in my age range who's a multi-millionaire. And income's definitely not on the top of my interest list.

So I can only conclude that not only do you and I exist in different social circles, but that your workplace must be significantly different from mine in order for us to reach such different conclusions.
Employees sometimes take big risks too - I have (naively) given up over $100k/year opportunities on top of salary working at startups, including 60-80 hour work weeks for a year in the trenches coding, and have had nothing to show for it, also being offered a pittance of 0.225% of stock (or similar at other startups). In my case, I probably have given up $200k-250k/year in opportunities in the past 1 1/2 years working at startups, although the past half year was by choice by turning down some high offers for a role that more aligned with my current lifestyle.

Now I know better as a software engineer to avoid immature companies like the plague unless they're willing to pay very close to market value. That stock is worth zilch with the way the VC investment game is typically played currently, and founders are fully willing to abuse the naive assumption by those in the trenches that employees will come to riches by working hard and overcoming bad executive/management decisions to save the day.

Founders need to be more honest about employee compensation and more willing to compensate more in line with the market if they want true talent. A $160k-180k offer (or typically less at many cheap startups - a YC company tried to go low with a $120k offer in SF within the past year) with uncertain value of stock doesn't really compare favorably to $250k base + performance bonuses + stock options at a Google or Facebook (or $375k cash/immediately vested stock from Netflix, or in one case I turned down, $170k base + various bonuses for typically $350k-400k compensation). The terms are very unfavorable to employees currently, especially the highly skilled ones, who are also more likely to be savvy.
This might not mean anything, but NetScreen-5GT 6.2.0r15 (The first affected version) was the first release with a SHA-1 sum. April 2015 is the first archive of this page I could find.[0]

I wonder if the reasoning behind the SHA-1 is (possibly) that they were starting to notice some strange activity.

I applaud them for disclosing all of this. That could not have been an easy thing to have to do.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150422145246/http://www.junipe...

Archive link:

https://archive.is/jdw13
lol who writes 500-1000 lines of code per day?
If you are not able to earn $200,000 a year as a senior developer in the valley working at one of the established companies then you are not really the sort of person that would be an early hire by a first class startup.

Joining a second rate start up is even a worse idea than working for an established company - you will end up with less pay and worthless options.

Edit. Wow this comment hit a nerve with some people here.
I think Unreal Engine 4's Blueprints are a bit "too visual". They're difficult to manage at scale and, if anything, make understanding the "big picture" harder than just writing out code.
Then the first one to report it should have been paid a lot more than the $2500. The fact is that FB didn't understand the impact of the bug, and it needed Wes to show them how severe the bug was.

And once they knew how severe it was, they ought to have acknowledged the severity and paid him a lot more.
Having lived in Romania and Vietnam, you learn to appreciate the efficiency of just paying the bribe and getting on with your life. For example, if I get caught speeding I can bribe a cop for like $20 in Eastern Europe or Asia versus losing $1000s in Canada between fines and insurance premium increases.

I personally find it a lot less stressful than living in Canada where every time I see a cop I get a little adrenaline rush of fear.

Anyways, most of the other things on your list exist in Canada too, we just don't call it bribery, we call it "private clinics", "private school", "private motorcycle training academy where your instructor, who's the same person you're paying and reviewing, is the one who gives you your license".
Those are traffic circles or rotaries, not roundabouts.

Traffic circles are not roundabouts (nor are they 'traffic calming circles'). Eg, http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090621/columnist/9062... (warning: that's the "print" page, rather than having three differet pages):

> Often there is considerable confusion about roundabouts and traffic circles or rotaries. People often say that they don't work in the Northeast (especially in New York and New Jersey) and are being removed, so why build them here [in Florida]? ...

> A study done by Per Gardner at the University of Maine found that traffic circles have 3.5 to 6.5 times more crashes than roundabouts. ... Because of these growing concerns, the last design reference to traffic circles in the U.S. design standards was in 1965.

> Then came roundabouts. The first roundabout in America was built in 1992 at an intersection in Gainesville. Although traffic circles and roundabouts use a circular design, they operate very differently. Traffic circles are very large and are designed for high-speed vehicle operation. Roundabouts are designed as small as possible, 16 to 180 feet wide, and operate at 15 mph to 25 mph.

See also http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Safety/roundabouts/BasicFacts.htm and http://www.wcroads.org/sites/default/files/pdf/media/Modern%... .
Not really. He discovered a typo in a database entry.
How much will Apple pay to move closer once they build the spaceship in Cupertino?
Google going after Uber by turning its self-driving-car into its own business
"At some point Perl 5.22 or one of its successors will make it into Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And at that point we have a problem."

This made me laugh this morning, version 5.22 will probably be included in the 8.0 release? So we have a few years to go. RedHat 6.* is still running Perl 5.10 so no worries about anything breaking in the next 5> years.

Edit: formatting
Thanks for the cite. According to Wikipedia, 25 mph NEVs can use roads posted at 45 mph in some places. But laws notwithstanding, even 10-15 mph speed differential is hazardous.
Absolutely. I got one a couple of weeks ago. It asked me to design some API and other arbitrary garbage. Obviously an auto response. They also had the nerve to "cap" it at 10 hours.

I won't even respond to these "companies" anymore. It's a waste of time.
It's trivial to forge authorship in VCSs like svn and git, unless authors regularly sign commits with GPG or something.
The freedom of speech applies when other people than the government are calling for it to be stopped.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for example does not say "it only applies to when a government are restricting those rights".

Article 19

1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.

2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:

(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;

(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.
> One of the core problems of Unix is this focus on textual streams.

> ...every proc-style file

You're conflating Linux with UNIX, wrt what /proc emits[0], or if it's even the interface to do what you think you want[1].

[0] https://illumos.org/man/4/proc

[1] /proc/mounts vs getmntinfo(3)[2]

[2] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getmntinfo
Have you considered not speeding? It also helps avoid the fines.
Making a racist statement is something completely different than telling you to go out and torch someones home.

The latter encourages you to actually commit a criminal act, while the first is just an opinion that you might dislike or not and therefore criticise.
To be generous to the grandparent if the problem you are working on is simple then it really is possible to churn out 1000 lines of crappy code a day. Why anyone would want to is another issue.
Sure, they'll be the one deciding. Except, that other bounty hunters are watching their reaction and their fairness in paying out people for their work.

The next $1M bug that gets discovered will probably go out onto the black market because of Mr. Alex's actions here.
I definitely agree that universal grammar has been dying a long slow death, but despite press coverage, I suspect universalists are the minority nowadays. Either way I hardly think linguistics has ignored AI/machine learning. In general there's an anticipation of eventual synergy between the domains, but ML has yet to magically solve the "poverty of stimulus" issues with pattern recognition that originally prompted hypotheses like UG...