skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't exactly what it's doing. It's proposing that there are two ways we evaluate things — deeply examining and rationally analyzing them in depth to identify specific strengths and weaknesses, and using the very fast pattern-matching "feeling" portions of our brains to identify nonspecific problems. These are cognate to "System 1" and "System 2" of Thinking Fast And Slow.

Having established that people evaluate things these two ways, the author then says, "I will demonstrate to both of these ways of thinking that AI fears are bogus."
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Now that nixpkgs' CI has an osx build, this may well get better.
There is no chance that the Russians let him in without debriefing him.

If and what information was handed over to them is another thing.

Likely that they got the same package that the reporters got plus maybe some documents related specifically to Russia that weren't released.
Most of your ancestors were nothing like human.
I'd qualify it as "not worth it".
Any recommendations on decent pop-sci books that explore the latest understanding of the origin and mechanism of consciousness?

Is anyone exploring this third way at all?
I don't understand how they can say "Ultimately, our goal is egalitarianism" and yet point #1 is "Make Women a Priority". Targets, arbitrary quotas, not holding events if 50% of the participants aren't female... does not sound like egalitarianism to me.
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Well I know very little about contemporary American fiction so it was all pretty new to me.

NoViolet Bulawayo was my favourite. Anthony Doerr, Rebecca Lee and Robert Coover I liked. George Saunders made me laugh though I didn't think the story was exceptional. I remember really not liking Sam Lipsyte but everybody I spoke to said I was being unfair.

I'd never read any Don Delillo and I know I'll have nothing but grief for saying so: I thought it felt like something dust-covered from the 80s to me. Like a story set in a world of filofaxes. And not in a good way.

I didn't feel strongly enough about the rest I guess to comment. So a pretty mixed bag - but you know that's contemporary for you...time hasn't sifted the work, so it is bound to be patchy.
I mean that for a lot of things, doubling our brainpower would would only extend our predictive horizon by a tiny amount.

There is a large class of problems for which you have fairly good solutions up front, but where even vast amounts of additional computing power don't help you do much better.
Thanks! We are super happy to have completed our vision on Idea to production this year. We'll keep improving and innovating in 2017, you can count on that :-)
There is a shim so you don't need to wait for all the browsers to implement wasm
I don't disagree with your view of Livy, especially the early parts (books 1-10). The 2nd Punic War is more factual but still like the fables of the earlier volumes in the sense it's first and foremost a ripping good story. I first read Livy's account of Hannibal burning and pillaging down the Val di Chiana in Italy while sitting on a hill overlooking his march. It was part of his successful plan to enrage the Roman Consul Flaminius and entice him into an ambush at Lake Trasimene. You could look out over the flat valley and imagine the smoke rising up where the Romans could see it easily. Reading history does not get much better than that.

Incidentally I believe that in Germania Tacitus was holding up a mirror to Rome so the bias goes the other way The praise of the German tribes was a hit on his own citizens. For example, the memorable inference in Section 2 that nobody would leave Italy for the awful weather, formless land, and sorry agriculture of Germany unless they were natives was implicitly a criticism of the effete Romans.
The issue, of course, is time to prepare food. If you're well-off, you can choose to spend time cooking, or have someone else do it for you sometimes - if you're not, then you might not have time to spend cooking (especially if you have children), and almost definitely won't have the mental or physical energy to prepare three healthy meals a day. Job insecurity is draining and causes low-paid workers to put significantly more effort into their work than they're paid for, and many people across the US (and some other countries, like the UK) suffer from it.
i.e. they would be wildly popular if they just didn't have any competition?
Certainly the assumption that every intelligent agent will want to recursively self-improve is unwarranted.

But it only takes one intelligent agent that wants to self-improve for the scary thing to happen.
There's also no rewriting millions of lines of code. There are a bunch of more realistic approaches, like making compilers much safer by default, sandboxing services, partially microkerneling critical pieces of code, for example: moving network stack out of the kernel and into the userspace with proper security measures, we even already have netmap to begin the process.
Could you elaborate on why that's a problem?

If the threat model for the communication within your group is concerned with attack or coercion from hostile governments, then you have the ability to set up your own email server and convince your participants to switch to it. It's not really much to ask -- it's fairly routine for companies and organizations to issue email accounts to employees/members and require their use for official business.

Consider that it may be easier to ask your communication partners to start using a new email account you've provided them than to adopt a new communication platform.

On the other hand, the people you're communicating with have chosen to trust the organizations that they're using to provide them with those services. Whatever service they're using is not radically different to trust than it is to trust the Signal developers, or the Google Play Store or Apple App Store to distribute the Signal application to your mobile device, and so on. Even if your participants are using Signal to communicate, they may have online backups enabled with their device to Apple, Google, etc., such that without your awareness your communication partners are trusting them just as much as if they were email providers.
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> The problem with argument ad hominem isn't that it never works. It often leads to the correct conclusion ...

You immediately self-contradicted here. If a decision heuristic often leads to the correct conclusion, then it's a good heuristic (if you are under time constraints, which we are).

Of course, given unlimited time to think about it, we would never use ad hominem reasoning and consider each and every argument fully. But there are tens of thousands of cults across the world, each insisting that they possess the Ultimate Truth, and that you can have it if you spend years studying their doctrine. Are you carefully evaluating each and every one to give them a fair shake? Of course not. Even if you wanted to, there is not enough time in a human lifespan. You must apply pattern-matching. The argument being made here isn't really an ad hominem, it's more like "The reason AI risk-ers strongly resemble cults is because they functionally are one, with the same problems, and so your pattern-matching algorithm is correct". Note that the remainder of the talk is spend backing up this assertion.

There's a good discussion of this in the linked article about "learned epistemic helplessness" (and cheers to idlewords for the cheeky rhetorical judo of using Scott Alexander and LW-y phrases like "memetic hazard" in an argument against AI risk), but what it boils down to is that our cognitive shortcuts evolved for a reason. Sometimes the reason is because of our ancestral environment and no longer applies, but that is not always true. When you focus solely on their failure cases, you miss sight of how often they get things right... like protecting you from cults with the funny robes.

> "if they look like a crank, ignore everything they say", then you miss special relativity (and later general relativity).

A lot of people did ignore Einstein until the transit of Mercury provided the first empirical evidence for relativity, and they were arguably right to do so.
Can confirm, I've been to many social gatherings hosted in Manhattan studios.
When was the last time you ate a real tomato? Not the one grown on hydroponic farm and full of water, but a real one coming from an old and tasty variety full of flesh?

Big food processing firms have been decreasing the quality of food over the years to keep the price low. No more yoghurt but "milk preparations". No more raw milk cheese costly but tasty. Biscuits are getting smaller. Fruits are tasteless and full of pesticides. Let's not even talk about swine, which almost no one knows the real taste anymore since it is produced in industrial facilities and then chemically processed to give it the "standard" tase and color. All of these were not happening on such a large scale 30 or 40 years ago.

My point is that there are other variables to take into account other than prices. Quality is one. You think you have more, but is it of the same quality as before?
My knee-jerk reaction to the shocking scale of losses reminded me of Amazon during the dot-com days of the late 90s and early 00s. They seemed to bleed vast sums of money every quarter. And now they seem absolutely rule online retail.

Granted, it took a long time to get to this stage.
Congressional report: Snowden in 'contact with Russian intelligence'
> Does U.S. fair use require you to destroy the fair use copies when you're no longer in posession of the original? I don't think so, I think you could even return it to the store, keep the backups and be perfectly legal.

The point is to not argue about such things. Never mind what is and isn't fair use, imagine the strongest possible case for fair use that you can. Something that definitely is. Now in that case suppose the source is a Netflix stream rather than some physical medium.

Why is that supposed to change anything? How is DRM OK in one case and not the other? There is no case where it doesn't prohibit you from doing something you have a right to do.
"So scheme is not a purely functional language"

No language is purely purely functional, otherwise it wouldn't be able to have inputs/outputs.
Trumps tweet today about increasing the US's nuclear arsenal seems like a reasonable thing to be quite nervous about, assuming he has the political skill to make it happen (which maybe is a reason to be less concerned).
Explanatory Gap is BS. This is what happens. Then why does it not describe how it feels?

You are not wired up to understand the low level effects, it's simply not a useful. At the same time it does describe how it feels, if we started using firing of C fibers instead of Pain people would assume they understood what was going on.
Can confirm, I met my spouse in a bar.

I also became good friends with a bartender who I met when she was serving me. She no longer bartends now that she's out of school but we still see each other all the time.

A lot of my friends now usually prefer to meet out rather than have someone come over. It takes the pressure off to be a host.
I don't understand what you mean by that. Can you create an issue about it [0] so we can discuss it and fix the problem (if applicable)? Thanks!

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues
> You're technically required to report accidents to the police when they happen, are you not?

No, you are not. Unless there is an injury or death, you just exchange information and pay the other party or let insurance figure it out.
"You must call the police or the CHP if the accident caused a death or injury." http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Pamphlets/AutoAccident.aspx#...
In WA, you also have to report if there was over $1k in damage. But it is obviously easy to estimate it is under that while at the scene of the accident. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.52.030
Most states are the same. If there wasn't an injury and it isn't impeding traffic, the police don't care.
We should figure out intelligence before speculating on super-intelligence. I think Kurzweil and Hofstadter have a compelling model in 'How to Create a Mind' and 'Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking', but it's not exactly rigorous and we still haven't created anything that could pass the Turing test which wouldn't even require high intelligence - just 2nd grade level or something.
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There's no reason that something else can't exist in the material world, I think the parent is just pointing out the third way is thinking there's something else material outside our current understanding.

If God exists, there's no reason there couldn't be new phyisics describing how his world works.
Love the bit at the end: "Quantum computing and consciousness are both weird and therefore equivalent."

Quantum consciousness doesn't sound very different from plain old vitalism.
Out of interest how do you know that accounts are linked?
So? Just because it's in some paper doesn't mean much. There are tons of BS string theory papers for example.
True! And one should always KISS to start, at least.
Pop-sci is useless in this area. There is plenty of good research on the topic, but pop-sci on the brain is just as bad as pop-sci on quantum mechanics or computers.

EX: People making decisions based on eye tracking not matching up with the subjective experiences. Or the classic you chose not to do something, but your arm is already in motion and you can't stop it fast enough.
> What if I never want to share my location, take pictures, or send files?

Don't use these features and / or disable the corresponding permissions.
You usually don't have to report accidents. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241292
I definitely agree (and prefer writing/using native apps), but i would say that uwp apps get all of the UX benefits of a native app (the js apps for UWP get access to all the same libraries as the .net/native apps; I don't know about default styling but I'm sure someone has a template).

Also, UWP apps are full apps like any other windows app.
A key missing piece for intelligence: how many measurements can you make on the world? It doesn't matter how much computational power something has if it can't make measurements and ask and test hypotheses.

Edit: should state that this is a corollary of "> The Argument From Actual AI," but generalized to any 'intelligent' system, not just neural nets.
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> who is non-violent (unlike USG).

I assume you really mean non-aggressive (eg a libertarian would respect a masochist consenting to having violence done to them). Except we've moved the boundaries such that USG is actually non-aggressive (domestically, at least) - you've merely assented to a contract that says you will not use drugs, or USG may imprison you (this could be plausibly beneficial, say you wanted to avoid drugs and were worried about temptation).

> How do solve this: Trade Sanctions/Non Cooperation. Bitcoin is a similar development.

I fully agree, but this is besides the point I'm making. For example, you're actually implying these approaches are inapplicable because USG is not a corporation!

> That is, think before agreeing to a contract (and arbitrator).

Okay... So tomorrow, USG offers you an explicit contract by which remaining on its property (eg inside its borders), you agree to follow its detailed code incorporated by reference (currently called "laws"), as interpreted by its courts. You have a year to decide. At the end of the year, do you agree to this contract or do you leave?
I'm in a similar boat. Does Kubernetes have a persistent local storage API story on the horizon?

The one thing I have found on Mesos that I really liked are persisted volume resources:

http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/persistent-volu...

I was hoping K8 has something similar but it didn't the last time that I looked.

Edit: I just looked at your 1st link. I see the PV docs, none of those fit my use case(local) unfortunately.
Assuming you can even figure out you're being slowly poisoned.
can you please create an issue and/or paste the issue here?
yep, this is basically the same as the way that our first version ran. While it does give a nice reading experience, it unfortunately requires manual activation on every single page. The reason a feature like this can't run automatically, of course, is because it would blow away the page layout and site navigation, which is usually a bad thing.

We're currently building a feature that will give the best-of-both-worlds in this regard. It will automatically run, enhance focus in a similar way, but then allow the user to still access page navigation elements when desired. Making the web readable is no simple task!
When you're viewing a source code file, there are links to Raw, Blame, History, Permalink... The Raw link is broken (for me). I can create an issue.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13216451
"Hopefully you'll leave this talk a little dumber than you started it, and be more immune to the seductions of AI that seem to bedevil smarter people. "

Nice.

All in all, effectively reasoned. I've been making similar arguments for the last few years. AI is likely to create a lot of problems, and solve a lot of problems. But I think both aspects are messy and our relationship with our future technology will be complicated and fraught with regular human issues.

Some of those potential issues are very serious, yes, but serious like automating jobs and not solving the employment issue, or creating a very effective army of automated drones and single-handedly taking over a country (or, sure, the world), not issues of AI destroying the planet and/or enslaving all of mankind.
Well, that and finding out that AWS could make $5B/yr.
>But it only takes one intelligent agent that wants to self-improve for the scary thing to happen.

Only if all sorts of other conditions (several of which are mentioned in the post) also apply. Merely "wanting to self-improve" is not enough.
Gas explosion: House destroyed, you still own the land, you can rebuild on the land. Even if you move to a new home, you can sell the land for the going rate in the are (which will likely drop because more land is coming on the market, but perhaps not too much).

Nuclear incident: You own irradiated land. Good luck, maybe the government will buy it off you, or the power company if stipulated as some penalty.

One destroys some of your local property, the other destroys the value of all your local property.
It does turn into if-then statements (some implicit, e.g. via try! or ?), if done properly. But I don't understand the objection or calling it "devolving". Errors have to be handled. This way is as efficient as any other. And, in my view, is cleaner than exception handling systems.
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If I remember right, something like a safety factor of 30. So not really as big as people would like!

More detail in this great summary:
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/chung1/

And the Los Alamos paper is really good reading:

http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/la-pubs/003290...
High level abstraction or syntax sugar?

Terrorist or freedom fighter?
You are calculating from life expectancy at birth, not life expectancy at his current age. That's a fairly serious methodology flaw that makes your calculation meaningless.

For a 30 year old male, life expectancy is +52.2 years, so Trump taking 40 years off of that would leave about 8 years after the end of the first Trump term.
I guess we could have a long conversation about whether it's Clinton or Trump who would have ultimately been worse in terms of national infosec implications,

but that conclusion is far away from "Trump is not bad for infosec, actually" especially when you look back further than the Obama administration and remember that the US government used to classify cryptography as literal munitions.
MSI are more usable for large deployments.

They integrate with windows GPO and it can be rolled out everywhere, among other things.
It may not be the hardware; it may be the the OS. Since upgrading to Sierra, I've been plagued by various runaway kernel processes randomly eating 100% of the CPU. Have finally managed to kill most of them through deleting .plists and the like -- all for native MacOS apps like Contacts by the way, not in any 3rd-party apps -- but this kind of bugginess could easily produce the kind of results that Consumer Reports saw.
Exactly. If you want this stuff to change, stop waiting for others to do it, you can get involved and start changing things.
Rust is a magnet for creative, intelligent people. There are bound to be lots of implementations for things like low-level I/O because lots of people want to explore the relationship between the OS, the application and the hardware. That is different than fragmentation in the sense you're implying.

The Rust community is pretty unified, esp. as its communication channels are well defined. For asyncio, I am pretty sure that Tokio will be the tool for most applications.
Agreed. The cross pollination required to get security into organisations correctly isn't there. Orgs see security as a pain in the ass, and not an investment/insurance policy.

I feel your pain in those latter points.
aha. thanks for the answer. so when you do :wq, you press the azerty 'q'?
You can speculate about what went on after his arrival in Moscow, all you want.

The point is that the Committee's report (in its current version) provides precisely zero information about what happened.
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Not really. Up until I think at least the 1970s, on-the-job training and apprenticeships were a lot more common. Both the expectation that employees will already have the required skills and expertise and across-the-board requirements for university qualifications are relatively new changes.
(2) and (3) assume the buyers are wanting to buy licensed, not counterfeit, products. This is not the situation described in the OP, nor the one I described.

(1) is a non-starter as sellers sell multiple of the same product (i.e. one listing could represent 100,000 units of inventory), or the seller doesn't even have the item on hand (they acquire it from a local supply chain the day they get a customer order). Taobao isn't primarily a flea market with someone selling their own stuff. It's more like Amazon marketplace, with almost all the volume coming from professional sellers.

Your service (assuming it is as you described) has value in protecting folks trying to buy or sell authentic items, but that's not the case here.
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Amazon was building out crazy infrastructure. What is Uber building out?
This is fascinating. If you had fewer women to choose from, and their applications were often worse, you were arguably "lowering the bar" in the name of diversity. And yet you ended up with better results in the end. Do you think that's because the skills needed for a good application weren't the same as the skills needed for performing well at the event? Or was it a team-based competition, and you ended up with mixed teams that therefore performed better? Obviously you've thought a lot about it, so I'm interested in whether you've come to a conclusion.