skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please point to the section where this evidence is provided?

Last paragraph in the wikipedia section:

"Research by the Oxford Martin School showed that employees engaged in "tasks following well-defined procedures that can easily be performed by sophisticated algorithms" are at risk of displacement. The study, published in 2013, shows that automation can affect both skilled and unskilled work and both high and low-paying occupations; however, low-paid physical occupations are most at risk.[7] However, according to a study published in McKinsey Quarterly[63] in 2015 the impact of computerization in most cases is not replacement of employees but automation of portions of the tasks they perform"

Oxford or McKinsey Quarterly, which source do you prefer?
Has someone used this book? I am currently doing Abu-Mostafa's Caltech course (Link for the interested: https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html) and I would like to know if it is a good complement.
I believe that a sufficiently close approximation of AIXI is an AI that can do everything a person can.
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As stated above, I believe that a sufficiently close approximation of AIXI is an AI that can do everything a person can.
Yeah, the last 100 years have sucked since the tractor was invented and I've been unable to find farm jobs.

You just beautifully summarized the "Lump of Work fallacy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Yes, technology changes/improvements causes transitions in the job market but as it turns out, human needs are endless and new jobs are created for displaced workers.
I would agree with the headline. They're attacking basic science and education. They're blocking basic infrastructure spending that will pay dividends for generations. They're forwarding the goals of the oligarchy, like monopolies, harmful trade agreements, ubiquitous surveillance, manufactured wars, and defense overspending. And they're spreading disinformation about planetary issues like global warming. We're in deep doodoo.
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> Large swaths of the population unemployable though... That's a real issue.

IMO the one job that is most threatened by future progress in AI is the job of software developer.

As for the menial jobs, of course nobody cares whether a human or a machine mows your grass. But I do think that most people would rather be nursed by human being than a robot. I think there will be a big increase in care-giving jobs, which would be wonderful because the world is in dire need of care-givers.
Good. Then we can focus on creating jobs that are fulfilling and creative instead of repetitive and replaceable.
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So, a "real AI" needs to learn? Why does this distinction matter?
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Energy usage? What would the difference in energy used be for Chrome vs. Safari vs. Firefox?
Having always used a standard british keyboard, the subtle differences, e.g. location of \, #, ", `, ~, really slow me down. It just seems petty for Apple to ignore the standard and go it's own way... then again, it is Apple.

Also, I use # loads every day for c++ macros, and #if 0 blocks.
> Since no one understands how general unsupervised learning actually works, we're quite a ways off from building the general AIs you see in movies.

Is this really the case? I thought the field had a pretty good handle on the theoretical foundations of unsupervised learning. Can anyone confirm what he's asserting here?

> Some people claim this is just a matter of getting more computing power -- and that as Moore's law continues and computing becomes cheaper we'll naturally have AIs that surpass human intelligence.

And this is happening, it's just not in a general sense because the general case of human intelligence is enormously complex, a composite of all the simple cases that improvements in computing power and models are just beginning to master.

> This is incorrect. We fundamentally do not understand how general learning works. This is an unsolved problem -- maybe the most important problem of this century or even millennium. Until we solve this problem, throwing all the machine power in the world at it cannot create an AI that can do everything a person can.

Again, can anyone fact check this? Seems a bit overstated.
Interesting article. I can touch type but I prefer pen and paper for to do lists, mind maps, exploring problems and note taking. It's always seemed more "effective" than using a computer or my phone - even crossing off a task feels better.

I always assumed this was because I engage more areas of the brain. I'm excited to find the real reason so the research is now on my to-read list.
Factually false. I know people who lost money on ESP, granted it's rare. There is a non-zero delay between determining purchase price and when you can actually sell it. Stocks can and have fallen more than
15% in this window.
Sounds a bit like it's going in the Slashdot direction. I once had a very similar idea when I used to have a website with a custom forum and wanted a way to describe certain posts with a handful of simple tags.

Personally I think a 'helpful' or 'useful' reaction is badly needed also, but apparently it's not a common enough reaction to show up on Facebook's radar.
If you are making a marketing website, Wordpress is great. Also, all marketers and bloggers know how to use the admin. I have seen several website projects go off the rails because some developer involved felt that they were too good for Wordpress and turned the job into a personal hobby horse with some "superior" framework that resulted in an end product unusable by anyone else.
As my dad says (I don't know if it's from him or somebody else but who cares): It's better to have rich issues than poors issues.
> it will make many jobs obsolete and they will not be replaced at a fast enough rate.

Why won't they?
I've been running my "consultancy" for over 5 years. Roughly 15% of my annual revenue is lost to non-payment. Customers pay late all the time. Literally. I've never had an invoice paid on time. Customers cancel projects right before they start, or pause projects half way through to focus on other areas.

Due to these situations, I try to always have 3 months of salary in the bank. I never do, but I try. If you are paid net 30, and invoice at the end of the January, that check will clear your bank account early March at best. This results in Just In Time mortgage payments.

If I were to hire somebody to code, and focus on sales, I'd need even more money in the bank than I have. This leaves me in a bit of a pickle.

You need a lot of capital. If 3 months of buffer salary for two employees isn't a lot of capital..... it's time to admit you are in a strong financial position and not everyone can simply be an entrepreneur.

(To answer the inevitable "charge more" question, I'm available for hire and I'll charge as much as you'd like :)
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Hopefully to the point where work is optional and everyone has a great standard of living because machines will do most things for us.

I have hopes for a more utopian future versus one where most are homeless because their jobs get replaced. The transition will be painful.

There's also the mentality of clinging to jobs because it's needed for livelihood. Wanting to keep jobs that will bring 0 value to society. Think about all the crappy toys we make that's thrown out after a month or two. Who would want to work these jobs except if it's needed to sustain a decent quality of life outside of work?
Here's an example:
__START__ mr. speaker, for years, honest but unfortunate consumers have had the ability to plead their case to come under bankruptcy protection and have their reasonable and valid debts discharged. the way the system is supposed to work, the bankruptcy court evaluates various factors including income , assets and debt to determine what debts can be paid and how consumers can get back on their feet. stand up for growth and opportunity. pass this legislation .
__END__
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I don't think it unrealistic to say that the removal of money (at least at certain levels) is going to make you unhappy. In the worst case all your money is removed, you can't make rent, and get kicked out. Now you're homeless, and either sleeping on people's couches or the street, and I bet you wouldn't be smiling in that situation.
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Could be wrong, but part getting through a firewall is establishing open ports and mapping the machines behind the firewall and since you have a verified machine name this would save bad actors a significant amount of time being that they can make the assumption that the computer exists rather than timeouts to nothing. While this goes in on the hiding an IP (disable ping) is not proper security argument it is valid that you would want to stop disclosure on such a public level.
It will be different this time.
(I know they probably said that all the other times...)
i suck. after installing nltk and sklearn, I get this:

$ python demo.py RY 0.25
[constructing dataset...]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "demo.py", line 37, in <module>
(dataset,vocab) = construct_dataset([TRAIN_DIR,TEST_DIR,DEV_DIR])
File "/Users/asdf/workspace/github/conspeech/con_util.py", line 48, in construct_dataset
for f in sorted(os.listdir(p)):
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'convote_v1.1\\data_stage_three/training_set'
Olive oil only has a fraction of saturated fat, it is mostly unsaturated fats.

I think whatever sources you are leaning on for your claims would have the same issues that all the sources demonstrating good things about olive oil have, there is no central consensus for any of it, making that a pretty weak argument.
I thought this was their "answer" to Siri:
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/facebook-launches-m-new-kind-vi...
I was initially confused by the statement that direct current has lower transmission losses over long distances.

My recollection was that a big argument for AC over DC going back to Edison v Tesla was that DC required DC generation centers all over the place because of transmission range:

"The primary drawback with the Edison direct current system was that it ran at 110 volts from generation to its final destination giving it a relatively short useful transmission range: to keep the size of the expensive copper conductors down generating plants had to be situated in the middle of population centers and could only supply customers less than a mile from the plant."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents#Edison.27s_DC_...

Yet, it appears this is no longer the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

Why is that?
“Facebook” is a large organisation: there is a team (led by Yann Le Cun) that does research and supports image-recognition, NewsFeed and ad-market optimisation, but this is not exactly what Mark suggested he would dibble with. Those handle was is de facto an industrial problem.

He is more curious about the ability of using AI for daily interactions (hence the reference to what are movie characters): do notions like personality, convenience and interface, implicit assumptions matter? If he asks “Buy a new set t-shirt” will the robot be able to joke “which colour?” (MZ notoriously only wear the same grey model).

I would look into what Messenger wants to be doing (or, what Slack is doing) to see the implications: can small companies do what Uber does with the key-word integration in chat? Is it creepy, hackable, tedious?
This of this like his dog’s Fb page: it’s building empathy for the users of the Facebook platform.

First problem he’ll probably have to find: Who to call when saying “Call Mike!”?

Of course “Mike” is probably the Mike with whom he has the closest ties (based on Facebook graph data) — except his VP of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer, is known as “Shrep”, so that’s probably not him: how easy is it to program something that can learn that seamlessly? In which case the ambiguity too high, and Jarvis should ask for confirmation vs. just casually saying the full name out loud and wait a second? How to measure ambiguity? Would it be simpler to just start calling people with non-ambiguous name? Would he feel like sharing his code with peers? His heuristics? How to gather that “Mike” is still in Europe where it’s 3AM, vs. was in Europe for in last post and actually just landed?
Do the Alice thing, leave early, and do useless programming puzzles for several hours in the afternoon?
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Definitely agreed. There's something about physically engaging with the note-taking space that can't be replicated at a layer of abstraction, through peripheral devices.
> Surely if all your internal hosts are talking directly to the external NTP servers you are doing it wrong? My gateway box sets itself by pool.ntp.org and the internal ones set themselves by it. I thought that was how you should do things (even if it isn't a rule, it is only polite to try not overuse a public resource).

Depends on how many internal hosts you have, and ease of configuring them (there is a DHCP option for ntp server, but not everything will use it), and available hardware to setup ntp servers: ideally you would have each client syncing from three servers so the clients drop a broken server.
It's his personal challenge. Its about what he wants to learn/promote.
When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990015
He says:

Since no one understands how general unsupervised learning actually works, we're quite a ways off from building the general AIs you see in movies. Some people claim this is just a matter of getting more computing power -- and that as Moore's law continues and computing becomes cheaper we'll naturally have AIs that surpass human intelligence. This is incorrect. We fundamentally do not understand how general learning works. This is an unsolved problem -- maybe the most important problem of this century or even millennium. Until we solve this problem, throwing all the machine power in the world at it cannot create an AI that can do everything a person can.

I recognize that this is the accepted belief of most people in the computer science community, but isn't it akin to saying that since we don't understand it, our human intelligence must be the result of "intelligent design" or an omnipotent creator? Why does the core of the computer science dismiss the possibility of strong AI arising through evolution even with the increasing popularity of evolutionary algorithms?
Check out this article, or google around for others. Apple has spent a lot of time making Safari more efficient to extend battery life:

http://bgr.com/2015/08/05/google-chrome-vs-safari-battery-li...
Marvin Minsky died. It was in his honor. You can see all of the stories on HN here -> https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Marvin%20Minsky&sort=byPopular...
> As a wise man once said:

I'm pretty sure this was Daniel Tosh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RoLdkgjKhs
The comments on that post make me angry and incredibly sad at the same time. Even after close to 20 years of being exposed to 'random internetter' levels of stupidity, sometimes I'm still caught off guard.
> They're forwarding the goals of the oligarchy, like monopolies, harmful trade agreements, ubiquitous surveillance, manufactured wars, and defense overspending.

These specific points also apply to democrats.
how is any of this making the case that potatoes are better than nuts and leaves?

if the goal is to lose weight, the calories should NOT be replaced, by meat or otherwise.
Those who are more creative will create ways for the less creative to contribute. It's not like the tech sector is made up entirely of creative geniuses, or even entirely of engineers, there's plenty of other jobs built around those creative endeavors that require varying skillsets.
I trust Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk more than Mark Zuckerberg.
I guess people who design bridges are not "real engineers" because so many bridges have been built before and they are only plugging together load formulas that someone else came up with.
Yep. Meteor is taking the flexible approach. With React taking the View only approach it makes it easier to just plug in with Meteor.

https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/react/creating-an-app
I don't get statements like yours. If we were following this path and not moving forward being afraid of obsolete jobs that new tech brings us - we wouLed be stuck in the past. Lots of people said the same when the assembly lines were introduced, lots of people lost their jobs because now it required less people to build the same thing, however assembly lines created lots of other higher skilled positions and now most of the assembly line process is done by robots (which were also dramatized by people with similar to yours opinion) and it also created a lot of higher skilled jobs to build those robots and maintain them. The same will happen with AI, it will create a higher skilled job market which will benefit a community in a long term. Being afraid of changes will always get us stuck in the past.
So, as long as I have the cash, breaking the law isn't an issue for you?
Right-click in the browser is hardly more discoverable than long-press. I can't think of a website that uses right-click.
I thought the same thing, and left the article to come to HN hoping for a summary (and got it!), BUT.. to be fair, the title "Inside Facebook's decision.." hints at being an exposé rather than a quick factoid.
Because I try to be sensitive to sexism and react accordingly, that makes me sexist?
while the post I was replying to specifically said you didn't have to do that.

I read that post as saying that losing weight does require a change in diet. Reducing calories is a significant change to make.

I think one of the easiest ways to reduce calories is to change the composition of the diet, there are a lot of calorie dense foods that provide little nutrition and not much satiety. Eliminating (or simply reducing) them can be an easier way to shift calorie consumption in the right direction.
We can sell insurance to each other.
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Thanks for your aclaration, it helped me understand the idea :)
My AI announcement: I'm here to announce that I'm also working on an AI project. I will star from first principles. I expect that it will take the rest of my life. With any chance I get lucky and invent AI within the next ten years. Here are my goals.

1-star life long project on GAI

2-....

3-Invent GAI

4-Use general AI to extend human life for centuries, advance human knowledge like never before, In secret. I can easily see somebody putting a bullet through my head to steal my AI.

5-Decide what to do next. Decide If I want to share.

I'm not joking. I actually believe I have a chance.

Why I believe I will be successful:

1-I'm like a dog with a bone.

2-Once I'm working on a project I don't let go.

3-I've worked in years long projects before.

4-I've been thinking about GAI for a long time.

5-Recently I just came up with an approach that may lead to GAI. It is no like the current approaches in existence. I think my approach is much better.

6- There is nothing more interesting to work on then GAI.

7-I like the challenge of beating the best minds in the world.
Time will tell.
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Improving the security of the Internet's go-to time transfer protocol is certainly useful. However, switching to a different protocol would not mitigate this port scanning attack. According to this researcher, just sending an empty packet to an NTP server's port is sufficient to result in a port scan back.
You got the names wrong: Bob is Dilbert, Clyde is Alice and Alice actually is Wally.

Wally is the 100x engineer.
From the conclusions of http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0004001 :

"All tasks which require intelligence to be solved can naturally be formulated as a maximization of some expected utility in the framework of agents. We gave a functional (2) and an iterative (9) formulation of such a decision theoretic agent, which is general enough to cover all AI problem classes, as has been demonstrated by several examples. The main remaining problem is the unknown prior probability distribution AI
of the environment(s).

<...> the universal semimeasure, based on ideas from algorithmic information theory, solves the problem of the unknown prior distribution for induction problems. No explicit learning procedure is necessary ... . We unified the theory of universal sequence prediction with the decision theoretic agent by replacing the
unknown true prior AI by an appropriately generalized universal semimeasure ξAI. We
gave strong arguments that the resulting AIξ model is the most intelligent, parameterless
and environmental/application independent model possible.

The major drawback of the AIξ model is that it is
uncomputable, or more precisely, only asymptotically computable, which makes an implementation impossible. To overcome this problem, we cons tructed a modified model AI, which is still effectively more intelligent than any other time and space bounded algorithm."

The copy/paste lost some information, especially symbols, so take a look at the paper for a better read.
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well this is a private company, no? Not really of much impact to a whole nation
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relevant previous discussion from the first zuck AI announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10832996
The question "would space still exist if matter disappeared" is posed with an ontological bias which influences the answer.

A better question is: does a universe in which there is nothing (and never has been) still contain space? (Though a better question, I wrecked it by introducing "never", which presupposes that the universe has time---even though it contains nothing, and therefore no events take place.)

The question creates a bias because when we imagine matter being removed from the universe, we firstly imagine the removal as an event unfolding in time. Secondly, we continue to imagine the locations where pieces of matter used to be, and those locations continue to be separated by the abstract space which we continue to imagine.
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
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Very interesting post, I've suggested to Brad that he consider probes with a decreasing ttl in the packet to see if the harvesting is happening at an interstitial node or directly on the ntp server. If you had access to a compromised Juniper router it would be straight forward to add a rule to mirror packets which were headed to the NTP pool addresses.

Oddly after being an unwitting participant in one of the NTP amplification attacks I set up my own stratum 0 NTP server based on the beaglebone black, the adafruit GPS module, and the PPS time keeper code. So all of my machines only talk internally for time, although initial installs still use what ever the distro packed into them. I brought up Debian on a Dragonboard 410c and it sets the time via an NTP call during the initial startup process. (or fails to set the time as NTP is blocked egress/ingress from the firewall)
I'll just say:
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature1...
HN discussion thread for link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10918491
Is it reasonable to compare a situation in which a general AI can do virtually any job a human can and way better to the invention of a tractor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnC3Nwif1k
Eventually we will get to post-scarcity and have universal basic income. We just need to make sure we take care of people who have a rough time in the interim.
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