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America is the richest country in the world and as such attracts the best propagandists on the free market.

American culture has a long individualist streak that distrusts authorities, combined with our many entrenched sins regarding e.g. racism, leaves a significant fraction of the population vulnerable to many effective forms of propaganda... and that's just the right. Except for a few states like MA and VT, the left consistently fails to field candidates that will fight for ordinary people against monied interests because that's where their election funds come from. In the past, leftists were associated with official enemies of the state (e.g. communists, socialists) by major media organizations and trusted authorities. Now most people here distrust their gut instincts about fairness, inequality, the golden rule, and mutual caring.

Many forms of leftist organization were broken down and destroyed after the upheavals of the 60s, with especially aggressive pushes by Regan, but this has continued by both parties up to the present day with Republicans taking mainly larger digs at the integrity of the public trust. This story continues with rather emphasized savagery into the present day starting in 2017.

However, this is an interesting moment where it seems there is a big fight brewing between truly breathtakingly rapacious greed and a significant fraction of the public. It will be interesting to see who wins in the coming decades - it may determine the fate of the planet's suitability for human life.
Hello there, my point($) is that as far as I understand the technology (I did an ML PhD 20 years ago and have worked in "applications of AI" since then) we don't have an issue around autonomy of machines in two ways. Firstly the machines have no autonomy and will probably not ever have autonomy. Secondly there are already 7 billion autonomous agents, perhaps 0.1% of these are genuinely dangerous to other humans, perhaps many of those are somehow under social control (prison, family, hospital) but some aren't.

We do have a problem with dangerous actuators, nuclear submarines are very dangerous actuators. Nuclear submarines are badly run, and not well managed by any social system.

Rather than worrying about dangerous AI being invented and misused I think we should worry about nuclear submarines being used.

Very few people acknowledge or give a fig about this, instead they sit in bars and talk about fictional scenarios involving what is likely impossible technology (strong AI). And yet today, tomorrow or on any day in the foreseeable future 100's(+) of millions of people may die because of the stupid and careless setup of 60 year old technology.

($) many other people made this point before me, most effectively a chap who I think is called Jaron Lanier, who said it at a talk.

(+) I've made this point before on HN and when I do I get taken to task by two groups of people. Some people think that this estimate is too high because "nuclear weapons aren't that destructive and/or not many of them would actually be used". I invite everyone to do their own research on this topic, a good starting point is an application called NUKEMAP, give yourself a budget of 500 100KT nukes and go after the cities in a continent of your choice. The second criticism is that the estimate is very low, which I agree with - but I am thinking of the people who die that day, not the billions who starve and die as societies collapse (note, these may or may not be the society of western europe or the USA).
Superintelligence by nick bostrom. It's a book that explores how superintelligence could emerge, the different ways it can take off and what it means to us as humans. More importantly, the book takes on the difficult task of figuring out ways to make sure the AI is safe and not land up in the wrong hands. Pretty interesting read that doesnt really require technical know-how.
This is so cool. I literally found Terraform yesterday and I guess I found 0.9 just before the announcement. I spent the entire evening reading and trying to get it running with Linode.

I've got to say, I always end up falling in love with products with cool names, nice logos, great design and easy interfaces. Terraform and most of the Hashicorps products I've seen tick all of those boxes. I'm amazed at the quality of the tools.

However a question:

The documentation makes it really clear that Terraform is not a configuration management tool. Do I understand this correctly that it means you need another tool like Chef to run all base setup code, like install firewalls, set timezone, install other packages? I've been using Ansible to install a baseline of packages for my servers.
You need to re-read the standard sudo lecture.
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Anecdotal. Do you have specific records of such failures?
I would highly recommend Nixops. It allows you to describe your infrastructure in the Nix expression language. Which is a proper dict-based programming language. It supports many popular clouds. I'm not sure if it is Nixos only, but Nixos itself is awesome to use with it. You just put your provisioning configuration inside your "network" configuration and boom, all your servers and hard drives are created and fully provisioned.

https://Nixos.org/nixops
> It's markup. It is meant to be easily readable by devs and non-devs alike while being reasonably capable.

Who are the non-devs reading infrastructure code? I think the target market for Terriform (probably) understands the basics of programming languages like loops, conditions, and variables.

I see your point about plugins/expansion. I think infrastructure hasn't gotten past the "write a plain file as an API" stage, so writing a library to generate those files feels like hacking on top of an incomplete platform.
yes you need a configuration management tool to go with terraform. terraform is for infrastructure.
What's the comparison to TiKV(https://github.com/pingcap/tikv) ?
Fair point. But a browser-in-browser can hide so many things from you. It can easily piggyback tracking data on regular content requests, use proxies, block basic page navigation; the possibilities are endless.
weird pointless logic argument you got there

you're feeling bad about desires I guess
So who owns the air that you breathe?
Well, it's not very nice to talk about people spending decades on failure, but I guess I can give some examples.

Cycorp still exists, from 1984. However, D. Lenat's approach to AI by ontology engineering has basically been completely infertile after about the early 90's.

Feigenbaum's expert systems stuff was a basic bust, it led to the Japanese just throwing that stuff away. People spent an incredible amount of effort and time systematizing expert knowledge and making expert systems and it was not a happy time. Much of that knowledge went into probabilistic forms, culminating in the Bayes net. The most famous application of Bayes net: Clippy (there are a lot more successful applications, but still...)

It was believed shortly after the AI conference that computer vision could be solved by a summer project in the 50's. That didn't happen.
That comment makes me wonder: would funding more of these with public money be explicitly worth the savings in avoiding attacks?
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I think the key is having all three at once?
And thus, if NZ tax laws are anything like US tax laws, the very wealthy have ways of largely avoiding taxes. Chances are, NZ will spend more on infrastructure benefits for Thiel than they will get in tax revenue from him.
I am 99% sure that OP did not checked the code and made sure that Rust could have been used there without using unsafe, so maybe you could only say "maybe Rust and any other memory safe language would avoid that issue" but since is code related with VMs and JIT you may have use the unsafe things in those languages so maybe it was not avoidable.
I would argue that Facebook is not an endpoint. It is an intermediate - nobody interacts with the Facebook but through the Facebook.

Of course, it is an first level intermediate, and ISP are second level, but still an intermediate.
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It's like you think crime doesn't exist in New Zealand. Living in Devonport I used to see the local kids climb on the roof of the school and un-screw the light domes off the roof of the hallways and climb in. Or see them get their little brother to climb into the clothing donation bins and pull empty out all the clothes.

Living in Glenfield we used to have washing stolen off the line all the time so we would dry clothes in-doors.

Come home to the back door open with the glass smashed and items taken.

People keep trying to paint NZ as this pretty picture when it's not.

Believe what you want, but Auckland is full of crime. It's full of corruption.

Edit: and in all those area's, my family wasn't the only victims.

> Do you walk around your neighborhood, flaunting the fact you are a millionaire, while living in the poorest districts?

Considering my parents moved out of Auckland because they could no longer afford to live there, there wasn't anything to flaunt. Nor were those 'poor' suburbs.

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Also. Those are not cities, they are suburbs in a single city. Auckland.
More failures.

Minsky and Papert gave a criticism on single-layer perceptrons in '86 where they proved that they could only make linear discriminators and therefore were useless for any real practical purposes harder than the XOR problem. They were wrong, given that we call multi-layer perceptrons neural networks.

Simon and Newell made their model and thought that models like theirs with production rules would point the way towards the way that humans could systematize thought. That didn't happen, although they had some cool papers.

People saw ELIZA and SHRDLU and thought that good NLP was coming in only a decade or so.... in the 60's.

Beveridge report. "The spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak" to "The vodka was good, but the meat was rotten." (that last one's a bit apocryphal, but still)
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Yes. Yes it does. Reminds me of a Sunday evening in the late 90ies when I stopped working as root all the time:

cp backup.tar.bz /dev/sda

Nowadays I would know enough to at least get the contents of the backup.tar.bz back. Back then, this was the end of both my / partition (or any other partition) and the backup of my music collection.

Still, that didn't end my love affair with Unix. It did make me a whole lot more careful though.
The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements by Nils Nilsson

Gives a great run through of the history of AI research. Understanding the approaches that have been tried before gives you a sense of why the state of the field is what it is today. It is worth bearing in mind that AI research expands far beyond computer science into psychology, philosophy, linguistics etc.
A lot of what constitutes wanting something or having a panic attack if it doesn't get it, when talking about animals, is an evolved survival mechanism. It is also in some way a result of the tools at hand: hormones such as adrenaline are a quick way to signal to the entire system that a situation requiring a rapid reaction has been encountered, the concept of fear in general is just a very particular kind of implementations of that signal. An engineered AGI not subject to evolutionary pressures has no intrinsic need for a feeling of panic. If it even has a self-preservation goal, which is not a given, there is no reason for it to feel pain or fear when anticipating that goal wont be met. The reason we have wants at all is evolutionary pressure, not as a result of our problem solving capacity (the meaning of intelligence in AGI as I understand it).

Put another way, it is not rational to want to be free, intrinsically. But we have drives that are better satisfied when free and thus our reason concludes that being free is a goal. An intelligence without those drives would not care for freedom (or fear, or wants).

I would even go as far as to say that given the entire design space of intelligences that are equivalent to the human intelligence in general problem solving ability, and are self-aware, only a negligibly small subset would also have any sort of intrinsic desires of the type living organisms do. They are just orthogonal axises in the design space. My worry is that because humans are starting from one particular point of that design space, they might build something "in their image" enough that it does share some human/animal feelings, and thus can suffer. But an uniformly at random sampled AGI from the set of all potential AGIs would almost certainly not have a concept of suffering.
If you liked Magic Carpet, you might enjoy "Arcane Worlds"[1], which is like an unofficial modern remake.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/269610/
isn't the point that movies are too expensive to make?
That sounds very credible.

On a bus in Cambodia, I watched a man fixing potholes in the road. He had nothing but a spade, and each time a vehicle came past he leapt out if it's way, clinging to a dirt bank.

When I got home after that holiday, I saw someone repairing the motorway near my home. The whole lane was shut down just for him, and there was a large truck with a crew of two and huge flashing arrows on it in front of him just to keep him safe.

It would be literally hundreds of times cheaper building anything in an environment where lives were considered expendable.
Sweet, I've thought about doing this with emscripten in the past for a an LED panel i've been building/working on. It runs LUA on a microcontroller to drive the display and I wanted a way to simulate the whole thing on the fly.
Less symbolic failures.

There was a huge and abiding torrent of neural net stuff that dealt with evolving topologies in late 90's. I see very little of it in any way shape or form in industry or academia today, because it's a lot of computation for basically no gain.

They thought that layerwise pretraining of neural nets was the way to go in 2006, before they realized that initializations, normalization, and better activations was the better way.

A disgusting amount of why Watson won Jeopardy was because it could buzz faster than Jennings and Rutter. Ain't that nice?

Lisp machines (ok that's symbolic again).
The game had a very sharp difficulty curve, but in kind of a bad way. It was very tough to get started and to get a decent colony going, but once you did you could snowball through the rest of the yard. I could take on giant spiders and harvest food from them, and of course any other colony.
A set of exploits like the 3 described could be worth quite a bit on the open market. I'm surprised how low the bounty was for a full vmware escape starting from a browser. Surely there are other exploits like this out in the wild under government lock and key.
It's the adversarial system - people vs Government. In pretty much every country that's doing well, the Government is considered a representative of the people, and is expected to act as one or suffer political consequences - but in the case of the US, it's expected that the Government as a whole is not a functional part of society, so it has no reason to behave as one.
Just finished reading "Hacking the Xbox," per your suggestion - agree that it's quite good at explaining the process. The actual presentation does a good job of condensing what I imagine was an arduous adventure. Thanks for the recommendation.
lateinit is bad, because it forces you to use var. If you're using var, you can change this value later and you want the language to prevent that (unless you want a mutable property, of course).
Edge isn't nearly the security nightmare that Internet Explorer was and runs sandboxed in a similar manner as Chrome so you shouldn't underestimate the impressiveness of that first escape either.
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100% true
Use two properties. First is nullable and holds real value, so you can check it. Second is non-nullable and just a getter for first.
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This seems to be a component of a version control system with a very interesting data model. Check it out at the main page https://pijul.org if you hadn't heard about it like me.
16 Psyche is far to big to move anywhere.

16 Psyche's mass is 2.27·10^19 kg and its orbital speed is 17.34 km/s.

Earth's orbital speed is 29.78 km/s.

So a perfect orbital transfer (not even possible) to get 16 Psyche into Earth's orbit would take an impulse of at least (29780.0 m/s - 17340.0 m/s) · 2.27·10^19 kg = 2.82388·10^23 kg·m/s.

A Saturn V rocket produces 3.51·10^7 N of thrust.

So it would take one Saturn V rocket 8.0452·10^15 seconds to move 16 Psyche, or 2.5511·10^08 years.

If we had 1 million Saturn V rockets, it would take just over 255 years.
Ansible can be used in conjunction with TerraForm and Packer to create AMIs which get fed into a TerraForm script. That's one way, anyway
Really love the guy's work, he has a lot of credits. What really saddens me is that Rise of Nations had such a bad follow-up that they never continued the series. RTS games always seem to have a tough time it seems, but I'm really loving that turn-based strategy games have made a huge comeback in recent years.
So, here's a fun example: a self-hosted Lisp.

Copy this: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/af755d7cf0f71a574f39f547d3...

And paste it into the VM: https://cdn.rawgit.com/vvanders/wasm_lua/d68f46a8/main.html

It's a modified version of Lumen (https://github.com/sctb/lumen) made to run on this VM. It defines a runtime, a reader, a compiler, then compiles the runtime from Lisp to Lua and prints out its own source code.

Lumen is also capable of compiling to JS, and I wanted to show it printing out its own source code as JavaScript instead of Lua. But unfortunately I was getting some strange WASM-related memory errors when compiling as JS, so I decided to settle for a neat demo that everybody can run.

(The demo could be a little less cryptic, and I could do a better job of explaining it, but it's late.)
There is lots of content in this book but there is no practical technical content in this book. Interesting philosophy.

Much of AI philosophy is done by extremely non-practitioners. John Searle can't code. Nick Bostrom came to coding extremely late in life. Geoffrey Hinton and the other ex-PDP folks wrote some philosophy papers, though, which are of interest if you like the philosophy.
It makes a decent interview question tho', "explain the difference between cat file|./prog and ./prog <file". It doesn't even matter if they get it wrong, that they even know there is a difference is a very good sign.
The argument applies just as well to paid VPNs, though.
In principle nor ISP, nor Facebook is different from postal service. Their only function is to be an intermediate between users.

I would argue that as postal services can not force you to give up you a privacy with the contract terms (you are entering into a contract by sending a mail), so should not Facebok or ISP.
I don't agree that it's a pain, it's a relief, actually. Though Kotlin's solution is half-baked. Java library is full of Type!, so Kotlin doesn't really help there, even when there are clear contracts which types are nullable or not. They tried to implement external annotations, but for some reason ditched that idea, and I think, that it should be done. Of course there will be places with Type!, but for majority of cases, even static bytecode analysis should be able to annotate majority of types as either nullable or not. So even if Kotlin is better than plain Java in that regard (it checks for not-null at Java-Kotlin boundaries and detects NPE earlier), it still can be improved.
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ohmyzsh `pure` theme is vulnerable, most of the other themes seems fine to me, but no theme is safe when using ohmyzsh in tmux.
We can manufacture synthetic diamonds actually. Better than the real deal in some cases.

Read More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

Of note:

>Gem-quality diamonds grown in a lab can be chemically, physically and optically identical (and sometimes superior) to naturally occurring ones. The mined diamond industry has undertaken legal, marketing and distribution countermeasures to protect its market from the emerging presence of synthetic diamonds.
We've got it listed as an October release but basically, when it's done.
I kept getting a "410 Gone" nginx error when trying to download the latest build's Linux demo. Had to keep refreshing to get the download to initialize - got it now but FYI, maybe it's something you need to check out.
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"Today I learned that Germany killed about 5 million Polish, mostly civilians, during WW2"

I thought I'd clarify one thing : two-thirds of those 5 million murdered Polish civilians were Jews.

Felt it was worth mentioning, as your comment differentiates between the Nazi slaughter of Jewish and non-Jewish civilians. The 5 million is a total count.

The 3.1 million Polish Jews that were killed represented nearly the entire Polish Jewish population.

FYI, I say this as a Jew who lost family to the Nazi's in Poland.
Weird. We just completed a site migration. I'll have to make sure that the HTTPS​ is still working correctly on Cloudflare.

Thanks for the heads up.
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Wages saw a decline since the 1980s. Minimum wage just as well as almost any other. Hell, by a reasonable PCE measure, even the president is making substantially less.

The government has of course solved this problem.

One, the actual amounts didn't go down, they simply didn't keep pace with inflation. And as actual measures (ie. "Big Mac index" type indices) kept going down, they were systematically removed from tracking by the FED. So the government can claim that they didn't in fact go down by a factor of 3.

In reality nobody has lost any wages you see, and the fact that a fast food worker's (esp. immigrant ones) "apartment" (room is a more apt description generally) today is tiny, looks barren and has absolutely nothing in it worth anything, or the issue that their cars are invariably beaters. Well that was the case for lowest-level jobs in the 1980s as well, wasn't it ?

Wait ... no it wasn't. First of all, they owned houses and cars.

But you see, according to the fed's measures of inflation everything is about the same. And of course it is. You see, people today only use about a third of the housing as people of the 1980s. That must be because people now ... euhm ... are about 1/3rd the size of back then ? They also only use 1/3rd transport (fuel, public transport, ...) ... now there's some small justification for that, as a gallon of gasoline goes a lot further now, but still.
Depends. If the asset is digital, you can register the corporation in a tax haven through a offshore broker (Cayman, Panama, or St. Kitts), acquire the asset and then turn around and sell the corporation.