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> if AI becomes intelligent in absolute sense then it would see sense in not continuing on the path of destruction.

Although it's clear that humans have caused a lot of extinctions, it's not clear to me that overall they did not create much more than they destroyed.

Also, it's not clear to me why AI would attribute more value to creation over destruction, to life over death.

An intelligent artificial being can modify itself as it pleases, and as such there would be no point for it to keep emotions and feelings like pain, fear, contempt or desire. I don't see why it would care about anything.

Death, its or others, would be meaningless to it.
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I usually wear a pantyhose over my head in public spaces. Also makes it possible to withdraw money from any bank without having it deducted from your account.
Yeah... If Apple oh, I don't know, halved the price of their cables, and maybe went outside the mould a bit with lengths and multi-chargers as you mention, I for one wouldn't bother looking elsewhere.
I have to agree... I'm still using the bash that comes with git for windows. It actually works (mostly) as one would expect it to work.

Also, not being able to edit the WSL filesystem from inside a windows editor is a huge loss in terms of usage. It's worse than using Samba/CIFS to share a directory and edit across to a full VM. I happen to like my gui editor, but prefer to run in Linux.
Hardware performance is not a problem for Level 5 autonomy - the software is. If Tesla insists on deploying full self-driving capability in the next couple of years, they will be litigated out of existence. We are a few decades away from autopilot to "understand" what it is doing. Right now it is just parroting the most common scenarios. This may be as good or slightly better than the average driver, but it still will result in many deaths, if deployed in hundreds of thousands of cars. Unless Tesla somehow shields itself from legal liability, it will be sued to oblivion.
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Apart from all the other BS in the the posting the most worrying aspect is that he assumes that if you don't support Trump then you must be under the thrall of the Clinton's. He is essentially saying all non-trump supporters are suffering from a mass hallucination. So now disagreeing with someone politically means you are mentaly unstable?
Camera's do pick up infrared. Look at the infrared LED on a remote control (while pressing a button) through your phone camera.

Incidentally, "night vision" security cameras exploit this by clustering infared LED's around the lens.

So, you could have some kind of head band that shines LED light down over your face I guess!
> Why can't you customize ribbons?

Two reasons. First, you don't want to, just like you don't want to customize main menu. There should to be a place that has every option, which you cannot unintentionally mess up.

Second, ribbons are very carefully designed for looks, and it makes them hard to customize. I think it could be done, it's just not trivial.

So, for example, in MS Office, they don't bother with customization. If you want to look at how customizable software looked like in the past, look at for instance AMI Pro. You could redefine keyboard shortcuts and toolbars any way you liked.

And we are not even talking about software like Emacs, which can be customized very deeply.

I think some users would customize, it's very paternalistic to think that they wouldn't, and it would make them more productive. But it's just not in the fashion right now.
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Yeah, but our cameras have adaptive resolution, a large field of view, very good dynamic range + low-light performance, multi-axis control, and they are tightly integrated with a sophisticated processing system.
I do not know how effective is it, but highly reflective clothes could help too:

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/paparazzi-proof-clothing-thats...
https://theishu.com/ is a scarf designed for this purpose.
Starting anything with "As a parent..." or "As a mother..." etc is a sure fire way to get my heckles up. As a parent is puzzles my why that would make someone an authority on anything.
Twitter is a private company it cannot suppress free speech, there is no right to free speech on their platform.
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Also, badge could be obscured with the person's face still visible. Maybe a sticker on the forehead will work...
> The real problem is the amount of output.

That's a nonsense argument. The output is proportional to the number of violations. If you keep your project clean, then you'll have about a report of about 100 lines showing the statistics, with a one-line message: "your code has been rated at 10/10" at the end.

Of course, if you run it against a project that is full of violations, you'll get lots of violation messages. If you use a linter or style checker or whatever on a project that is full of violations, and it doesn't produce lots of output, then the tool is rubbish.

The right thing to do is to use it from the start and either fix or explicitly ignore any violations as they come up.

The approach described in this blog post is good for existing projects. However, the linked examples disable all warnings and explicitly enable those that the author has deemed important. It would be better to explicitly disable unimportant ones.
The only problem is, Tesla's sensor suite is too weak to ever get to full autonomy. So once they upgrade the sensors, what good is the data from the old sensors? Perhaps it's possible to extrapolate the data somehow, to have a database of "situations" rather than actual sensor data?
Consider that, to do a new thing, we don't need a cohesive platform that replaces the whole of the web. We can leverage the web, e.g. use it to distribute native applications, or scripts that run on some new interpreter.

I like the look of the Red language. The goal there is to make a more modern, open source version of Rebol, which has aspects that tried to directly compete with the web some years ago.

I suspect the successful modern version of a Red-based open, distributed app network and hypertext document system will have more of a symbiotic relationship with the existing web.
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@scottalpert Yes. It's strange. You'd think that every app conforms to the usual design assumptions. But some apps really do need to be different.
>it's not clear to me that overall they did not create much more than they destroyed.

Can you elaborate on this? In terms of nature, what would you think humans have created more than destroyed?
events diverging from what was expected after the ejection of the back heat shield and parachute. This ejection itself appears to have occurred earlier than expected, but analysis is not yet complete.

The thrusters were confirmed to have been briefly activated although it seems likely that they switched off sooner than expected, at an altitude that is still to be determined.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/Schi...
Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were IMHO the best - well designed for usability, traditional, consistent, with good guidelines. I think those prove that it can be in OSS.

However, I don't think users care that much about consistency, unfortunately (even though I think it's important aspect of design). Look at web, every website is different and it's considered a good thing by designers. There is no consistency on web and yet desktop apps struggle to compete.
The nice thing about a Cheney-On-The-MTA style collector, in addition to allowing for relatively cheap first class continuations, is that makes the whole stack vs heap allocation moot.
But do whiteboard exercises that consist of concepts that someone is unlikely to ever touch really count for the quality of code one is likely to output?

Especially when many of those concepts necessitate code that is less than discoverable, well documented and easy to follow?
And when you click the first result, open it in incognito/private window. Otherwise WSJ sees your cookies and knows you've been there before.
That was something else that irked me in the article, where they decry the small $2,000 a year they receive in donations; but they don't address how much their commercial support contracts[1] bring in. OpenSSL seems to be both an open source project and a cottage industry all wrapped in one.

[1] https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html
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Your sensor suite is two cameras below the level of the rear view mirror and two microphones.
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Aside from the frosty international relationship, couldn't it be that what's in that tape would point the finger against Bolivian flight controllers and the latter doesn't want it to come to light because of potential liabilities?
I don't think so. It's not hard to make an algorithm that drives slower/extra careful when facing unusual circumstances. It's the same thing human drivers do btw.
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It's data from a completely different sensor suite than Google uses so might not be as useful to them, but I don't see why not.
At the very best it will only put Google on par with Tesla in terms of collected data. Given that it will require Google to reverse-engineer how Tesla process their data it seems like it would still require quite a large investment on their part.
I did the same thing with Go and Ruby: http://blog.paracode.com/2015/08/28/ruby-and-go-sitting-in-a...

IMHO the end result is more maintainable, readable, and accessible from FFI point of view. Regarding the performance, so Go has a GC, but I'm wondering if that would affect things dramatically at all.

Here is the Ruby side FFI code: https://github.com/jondot/scatter/blob/master/lib/scatter.rb

And here's the "native" part:
https://github.com/jondot/scatter/tree/master/ext

Every now and then I keep looking at Rust and how it can integrate with higher level languages, the last time I really wanted OpenCV to work well with Rust. I think that's a big selling point. So far, to me, it's not perfect yet but it may get there.

From a pragmatic point of view, I imagine Sentry getting more bang for a buck with Go as there would be less wheels to invent from an ecosystem POV, and from a maintenance POV it would be closer to Python. But that wouldn't advance any of the Rust ecosystem at all, and we do need that as a collective.
Really? We haven't had any problems with our .NET Core projects (a few web apps running on core and a bunch of libraries targeting core). In addition, ASP.NET Core (on .NET core) has been a great stack so far (using it since beta5); I feel very productive with it as well as enjoying the development experience. Why do people need to get fired for this? It doesn't seem like it will be hard to move from project.json back to (a new and improved) csproj.
That's exactly what comma.ai is doing, isn't it?
Or you could spray your face with this - https://www.phantomplate.com/

That would take care of flash photography at least.
MD on a major bank trading floor is very much a hands on job. Probably supervising between 2 & 20 junior traders, ultimately tesponsible for their positions, and setting strategy. An IT MD in a bank would have headcount in the 100s.
You want to rename it to HackerJokes?
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> Just realize that talking about these or other sensitive topics can make others feel unwelcome, or perhaps even unsafe, if approached in an aggressive or insulting manner.

"or perhaps even unsafe"

ffs.
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if you find black on white unpleasant to look at that likely means your monitor is too bright.
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ISP network engineer here: I really don't see this ever being practical in terms of latency, even if the distances from client to GPU are only 5ms or less. It is still an eternity compared to the latency and performance of a GPU on a local PCI express 3.0 x16 motherboard bus adjacent to CPU, ram and m.2 SSD. Just a distance like Seattle to Portland would be a latency killer. Even the routing/fiber path from issaquah to Seattle would be too much, at 2.5ms.
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I don't understand why people buy chromebooks to then enable the developer mode which can wipe your data if you are careless and then install a different operating system or crouton instead of just getting a equivalent laptop with windows and then do the same.
With modern driver assistance packages, that's not true anymore. For example Mazda's safety technology apparently gives drivers access to radars and radar coverage that Tesla simply don't have; see e.g. http://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/safety/active_... There's also been talk of mandating active safety systems on new cars because regulators are worried about the safety of drivers relying on just their own two eyes.
But they have a lot of drivers in Norway.
An AI is essentially a program, and it does what it was programmed for. If we created a program with the intention of it mimicing a human mind, sure, we could get into a pretty sticky wicket pretty fast. But so far all the AIs are designed to do specific tasks, and a human has to actually use them, much like any other tool we have.

We have lots of dangerous tools, but it's only with things that have the possibility of intelligence attributed to them that we get really scared of the unknown possibilities (which, btw, is what we fear most - the unknown). The biggest danger with AI is what humans do with them, not what they're going to do on their own,
"I think you're underestimating how quickly Tesla'a AI software can improve"

Do you have any basis for that statement, other than that you like Elon Musk, and read an article about "big data" once?

I have actual experience in this field. The parent is right: the sensors matter more than hypothetical gains from "big data". Because right now, sensors suck. There's a reason every serious player in this game is plopping pairs of $10,000 lidar units on their test cars (and still failing to work in the rain). You can't distinguish signal from noise by collecting more noise, and until you have a decent sensor suite, "big data" is just garbage-in, garbage-out.

Reading this discussion, you'd almost forget that the reason Tesla is doing this is because its existing sensor suite was proven to be a total joke in actual use...but hey, here's to the emperor's new outfit! One hundred percent less naked than the old one!
Speaking for myself, I found the article to be a very interesting; almost compelling read. (Didn't quite time it, but I think it took me about 25 - 30 minutes.)

I also recall: didn't Nat Geo do an episode on this on their Air Crash Investigations series?
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If that's what you got from my article you didn't read it very well. Design is very important, and thoughtful designers will make good use of type. The cargo culting of design looks by people who don't understand them is much more of a problem.
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Well, you could also go to a job postings site. ;)
It's not just slow: if you're running anything doing a control application (like running a radio), if you hit a breakpoint the whole system crashes to a halt when you hit a breakpoint (because you're no longer servicing whatever you mean to service). This makes the subsequent stepping meaningless.

In this environment, a stream of debug output (printfs in the basic case) is unmatchable. Also, as you build them up throughout your project they become a great diagnostic tool allowing you to trace program behaviour and diagnose bugs just by looking at the output.
I was precisely thinking of non-natural things they created. OP did not specify a reason why natural things should be more valuable than others. So if we consider all things humans did, regarding nature or not, it's not clear to me they destroyed more than they created.
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This is one of the most insightful comments here. Too bad it gets drowned in all the rest. Also, if you read the WSJ or other articles they don't mention this either.
Good job by Tesla PR I suppose.
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Order? We reverse entropy so as to accomodate our consciousness and experience of a confusing universe. We extract, collect, curate, assemble for the sake of learning and understanding. That's got to count for something.

But maybe that's too abstract to count as creation.
What do you make of this, then?

https://www.tesla.com/nl_NL/videos/full-self-driving-hardwar...
Also, since the article says:

> It continues to amaze us; every time we look carefully we continue to find that Planet Nine explains something about the solar system that had long been a mystery

Why hasn't the existence of an additional planet been hypothesized before?
I think there is an easy and intuitive explanation:

Two thirds of the time, you pick the wrong door on your first choice. So far, so obvious. Now, you picked a wrong door, Monty opens the other wrong door, and there are only three doors. Obviously the remaining door has the prize.

Every time you pick the wrong door, and then switch, you win. That means two thirds of time, if you switch, you win. That makes switching the right strategy.
What do you make of this?

https://www.tesla.com/nl_NL/videos/full-self-driving-hardwar...
Okay then...if not a logical fallacy, then just a fallacy ("mistaken belief").

The sort of prognostication that would do poorly on a debate team, because its premises are unsound.
Why is it "undue hardship" for a brand to face competition from imitators?
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It's not uncommon for screens to have input latencies in the 50-100ms range - John Carmack tweeted "I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?". [0]

Given that people are generally happy to accept that kind of latency for a frame getting from their GPU to photons, I don't see why an extra ~10ms of latency getting a frame back and forth from a local datacenter would be a dealbreaker except for the most demanding scenarios. It does require that the datacenter is close to the user though.

[0] - https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001 & http://superuser.com/a/419167
The video is incredible: https://www.tesla.com/videos/full-self-driving-hardware-all-...
No, the problem is that even if a story deserves the lengthy treatment, it might not deserve this lengthy treatment. Maybe it deserves a different style, or narration. It's not that the only way to tell a long story is to start it in medias res, then digress to the summer of a few years before, then introduce a side character, then jump back to a mystery, then expand a side story a bit, then proceed a little forward on the main thread of the narration... it's just like randomly pouring salt and spices on a food to make it tastier. It would ruin the best of dishes.
Why are you throwing away so much of the gamut like this? You are ensuring that the best possible ratio is 10.9:1 rather than 21. Now, what happens if your user is outside and the ambient light on the screen makes what was dark much lighter? What happens when screen dimming kicks in and reduces screen brightness.
You are likely designing on a very bright desktop monitor, effectively staring into a lightbulb all day. Turn down your monitors brightness instead of forcing everyone else to turn theirs up to match.
Serious suggestion... Open up a text editor, and lay out your functionality in 80 columns wide, and 25 lines high... This is how it was in the really old days with text interfaces... everything comes up fast, you can create boxes to isolate information, but literally can only fit so much text on the screen... Now, take this, and turn it into a relatively scaling gui... for mobile, go 40x50.

There is something to be said from experience as an ansi artist and a sysop in the bad old days before the web.
No, it's a landing page and virtually all visits are from mobile devices. It's the first click of unique visitors - they didn't have the choice of the platform.
I'm actually not sure that reflects reality. Many of the concepts behind a lot of privacy stuff comes from a time and mindset when a camera was a unique device to carry around. Nowadays just about everything can have a camera slapped into it, and the reality is that the number of pictures being taken in any public place at any given time is far greater than it historically has been.

As much as I too dislike having my picture taken without consent, the reality of even small towns is that it's probable every person you pass has a camera, and pictures are plentiful as a result. Incidental pictures, pictures of an awkward moment or accident, or just something funny I think have to be expected more, if not by people actively photographing these with their phones/tablets, then passively by accidental photos and by monitoring systems.

I don't know if there is a good balance between the two since there's nothing inherently wrong about just taking a picture of your surroundings in a public place - the people there are part of what make the photo. To use an over-used expression, pin-hole sized cameras on phones were just opening pandora's box, and we can't really close that anymore. More than likely, the result of this will be photography obscuring clothing, styles, and technology, some of which others have already posted.
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Why would AI necessarily view humans, and the things we do, as separate from nature rather than a part of it? If they do become super intelligent they might find our constructs quaint, and view them like a bee hive - a part of nature - rather than how we view them - as apart from nature.
>Too bad, I say. Because when you are in a public place, you cannot expect privacy.

You may not have a right to privacy, but you should have a right to non-celebrity.

Going out in public does not constitute permission to become a figure of mockery on youtube. Requiring everyone to wear their PR-face in public in case they get recorded for all time and broadcast to every person on the planet is dystopic.

You totally have the right to take a photo of me, store it on your hard drive and look at it occasionally. Uploading it to reddit might be a different case.
But Google Maps vans cover land comprehensively, whereas Tesla's "convenience sample" is not comprehensive. However, Tesla's data then covers the relevant data more often.

Definitely two data sets that should be put together.
> If we created a program with the intention of it mimicing a human mind

It seems to me that people underestimate the desire we have of creating a machine that would be just like us. Once it's done, and I believe it will, "normal" humans will be relegated to the same status as other great apes, and the concerns I was talking about will apply.

And even if we don't create such machines, the knowledge we'll gain from artificial scientists will allow us to fully understand biology so we'll modify our bodies first to do obvious things like curing diseases and ageing, but then to improve ourselves in various ways. And the same concerns about self-modifying intelligent agents will again apply.