skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I completely agree with everything you wrote, it is worth noting that the default view in Windows 10 is the more sane view by category rather than the view you're showing.

That being said I still always use the Search box to find what I'm looking for, despite (because?) having been a Windows users for decades.
How about you don't try to force your views on her? Let her be her own person. If you try to force her into being a STEMLord she will be driven away from it, having the opposite effect of what you intended
A couple of cops showed up asking for my roommate once. I had no reason to think that he'd done anything questionable, but my first instinct was still to hedge and find out what they wanted before admitting he was in. Turned out they were returning his lost wallet. I was so relieved that I hollered for him immediately, and all was well.

In retrospect, I probably still should have hedged, said "let me see if he's in" and got his okay first. Even if they do mean well, it costs nothing to be cautious.
> 2. The claims by the Bostrom/Yudkowsky/etc. crowd that an AI intelligence explosion will cause the extinction of humanity

Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I have a hard time understanding what /any/ "utility function" would be, that the super ai people talk about. It can't be a passive deep learning network that parses information and gives an output, it has to be some kind of complex perception / action loop of many neural nets and actuators in the real world that somehow leads to an intelligent self improving behavior? I guess you could make a deep learning controller for self driving cars say, and if an input to many cars is wrong, all the cars crash and create a big cascading mess of wrong input values, but that kind of accident is a far cry from an intelligent chain of events where every link in the chain is an intelligent decision but the ultimate goal is bad.

And, do we even know any way to chain many deep learning networks together that accurately give correct output values, that we then can hook up to a controller to give a utility function, which can then lead to a cascade of intelligent decisions across domains?
Respectfully, that is a rule you just made up.
Korean exchange yapizon.com hacked of $5M
The article is wrong, in my opinion.

Regarding point #1, still not being formally wrong, world computing capability is growing at exponential rate. Not even the end of the Moore's law will stop that, e.g. 3D transistor stacking, strong semiconductor demand for consumer and industrial market, etc. Aso, the author don't know if there is already CPU capacity for matching human intelligence: may be the key missing is not the hardware, but software (efficient algorithms for "human" intelligence running on silicon).

Point #2 is clearly wrong. Demostration: I, for one, if still alive, and having the chance, will try to implement general purpose intelligence, "like our own". And, come on, I know no hacker able to resist that.

Again, point #3 is wrong, unless you believe we're smart because a religious "soul".

Point #4 is a void argument: the Universe itself is finite.

Point #5 is right: a superintelligence may, or may not, care at all about our problems. In the same level you don't have the guarantee of a human government caring about you (e.g. totalitarian regime).
I agree on gaming, but e-mail often contains important information that I wouldn't want to suffer from random corruption.
A better question is why /shouldn't/ you use ECC memory?

Generally the answer to this is any context where you legitimately do NOT care about your data at all, but you still care about costs. This predominately devolves in to consumption only gaming systems.

In all other cases everyone would be better served (in the long run) by buying ECC RAM.
Better quality than most such posts, but still seems to be missing the point. The remarkable thing about Bostrom's book is how well it anticipated the objections and responded to them, yet no one seems to bother refuting his analysis, they just repeat the same objections. I actually agree with a decent bit of what he says on these points, though his application of these observations is kinda baffling. He makes a lot of misguided claims and implications about what proponents believe. I'll sloppily summarize some objections to his points.

1. This doesn't really bother making an argument against superhuman intelligence. Yes, of course intelligence has many components (depending on how you measure it), but that's not an argument against superhuman intelligence. I'm reminded of the joke paper claiming machines can never surpass human largeness, because what does largeness even mean? Why it could mean height or weight, a combination of features, or even something more abstract, so how can you possibly say a machine is larger than a human?

2. Mainly arguing about the definition of 'general' without even trying to consider what the actual usage by Bostrom et al is (this was in the introduction or first chapter if I recall correctly). I agree that the different modes of thought that AI will likely make possible will probably be very useful and powerful, but that's an argument for superhuman ai.

3. Well he makes his first real claim, and it's a strong one: "the only way to get a very human-like thought process is to run the computation on very human-like wet tissue." He doesn't really explore this, or address the interesting technical questions about limits of computational strata, algorithm efficiency, human biological limitation, etc.

4. Few if any think intelligence is likely to be unbounded. Why are these arguments always 'x not infinite, therefore x already at the maximum?' He also seems to be creating counter examples to himself here.

5. Lots of strong, completely unbacked claims about impossibilities here. Some number of these may be true, but I doubt we have already extracted anything near the maximum possible inference about the physical world from the available data, which is basically what his claims boil down to.
so Numpy feature request: airplane mode
College education has almost nothing to do with this. It teaches most people nothing about this subject.

I'm actually somewhat surprised that more people don't learn how to properly not attract the attention of cops while in college.

College campuses are full of cause-less traffic stops that escalate into full on searches, money (fines) to be made from underage drinking and drugs all of which increase people's contact with law enforcement. Pretty much everyone at knows someone who's been mistreated in a petty way by the cops or done something dumb and then compounded it by playing straight into their tactics or not STUFing. College provides ample opportunity to experience or become aware of fairly tame instances of many of the things we as a society don't like about law enforcement.

You have to have your head firmly buried in the sand to not at least learn a little bit about how to conduct one's self during an interaction with law enforcement.
The thing that strikes me as the most odd - is that until ww1 (thats right the recent Battlefieldified one)- soldiers would carry talismans into the battle, that where supposed to make them bulletproof and immortal.
Thats right, something that sounds oh, so exotic, right in the midst of the west.

Also, it helps if you look at the Congo and Europe during WW2. The same chaos, the same refugee rows, the same anarchy and murdering. Noting is written in stone.
I'll have to keep that link around for reference! I love all the quotes from literary references... I want to see the mental knots that are tied trying to address that cognitive dissonance.
Last year China added 23GW of wind power.

Adjusted for the capacity factor that's over 5.75GW. Sure, it's not one plant, but quite possibly most of that capacity wasn't commissioned until 2013. Better still, they're just getting started with this.

The beauty of this power source is that it scales great - instead of erecting one 7MW turbine you can do that with any number of them, limited only by your budget.

Meanwhile it takes 5 years to construct a single 1GW block of nuclear and you can't just simultaneously start building another one next to it.

Nuclear won't win, because it's expensive and doesn't scale well.
https://letsencrypt.org/ - it works, and it's free!
Not having adequate competition plays a major role in this. If the market was actually competitive, they would have to invest more to stay alive, regardless of the regulations. It's the lack of competition that's driving the industry.
Please accept my apologies, I believe I've been unclear. Footnote 26 contains links to several papers that I believe include the salient data. A brief reading of one shows contents such as:

> Begging provided the main source of
finance for this group of people with which
to purchase drugs. It was not uncommon
for them to earn £50 (Approximately $74
US) during a good day. Homelessness was
an issue for around 30 percent of the beg-
gars within the City Centre who were actu-
ally sleeping in the bus station or car park-
ing areas.
Most of the remainder were
technically NFA though, living in squats
on the outskirts of the City Centre or tem-
porarily with "friends," but likely to spend
some time sleeping rough occasionally.
One was living in a hostel and one had a
permanent address.
I think that there is very compelling evidence (but not formal proof) that there is exponential falloff in terms of the ability of parallel networks of intelligent agents to have heightened overall intelligence.

Imagining that there will be near-human IQ AIs that think orders of magnitude more quickly than humans puts the cart before the horse, as well.
>Ferriss pulled out because he's no good at it. (Easier to be a charlatan in books rather than investing).

Can you elaborate on that? He's spoken about his startup portfolio being a disturbingly high portion of his net worth because it's grown rapidly and is illiquid.
I'm not sure about most banks, but some use other industry-specific software, there's one being developed in Uruguay for small banks and financial companies called Bantotal, which is written in Genexus, a 4GL language or metalanguage that generates whichever language you want (Java, Ruby, .NET, even Cobol and RPG)

http://www.bantotal.com/?lang=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneXus
One time I had a friend who was robbed in Philadelphia and beaten enough to be hospitalized. A detective came and talked to me, alone, with my parents in another state, with no attorney. He informed me that if my friend died, I'd be a 'prime suspect'! Apparently, based on nothing other than their lack of other information... Or he was trying to intimidate me in case i did know more. I wasn't even 18.

Who knows... you do hear of cases where crimes are pinned on innocent people, seemingly because some DA would rather prosecute anybody than leave it 'unsolved'.
MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) – Zach Hartwig
If you use your computing in a way that makes you think about the potential interest of ECC, the price you are likely to target for a rig that fit your needs is extremely probably high enough to get some nice ECC...
I won't bother on a desktop. I've been using 4 machines for the last 17 years with storage varying from 10GB to 2TB and RAM varying from 128MB to 16GB and haven't personally seen any kind of data corruption in motion (or at rest for that matter). Only had 2 mechanical drives fail (though predictably).

ECC is costly. The memory modules itself and the board required to support it properly.
I don't get this association between ZFS and ECC. The recommendation to use ECC with ZFS basically comes down to "all that fancy data integrity checking that ZFS does won't protect you from memory errors, so you'll effectively lose that feature."

Are you OK with silent data corruption? If so, don't bother with ECC. If not, use it.
Ugh, not another AI article by a Wired editor. I skimmed it and saw only strawmen and non-sequiturs.

These issues are mind-bending topics that stretch the imaginations of the most brilliant people I am aware of. It takes them a lifetime to build good intuitions and analogies. I wish that writers of this caliber felt as qualified to write one sentence about it as they actually are.
There is a competing hypothesis of Recent African origin that states humans evolved over 2 millions years in Eurasia and Africa.

> Multiregional evolution holds that the human species first arose around two million years ago and subsequent human evolution has been within a single, continuous human species

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Homo-Sta...
Dropbox Reaches EBITDA Profitability Milestone
I'm curious: what's still in gopherspace these days? Worthwhile things?
Perhaps the word 'control' would be a better choice.
It takes an empirical view, acceptance that simple problems can have complicated solutions, and more faith in research than common sense for these arguments to be convincing.

Lacking any of these, the common sense argument that giving poor people money makes them not want to work has more credence.

All of that disregards the empathy that is required to understand poor people aren't poor by choice.
so let's get this straight "ties to the Trump" = advisors. That's disappointingly shallow perspective.

I guess Facebook has ties to trump? So would Paypal and Founders Fund?

I'm sure you know Peter Thiel holds a position at Y Combinator and thus Hacker News. I guess we all have "ties to trump" now.

https://medium.com/projectinclude/peter-thiel-yc-and-hard-de...

Bad reporting...
The author regularly conflates Amazon's price and Amazon's value. I understand articles like this getting traction on pump and dump finance forums, but I'm a little disappointed to see it on the front page here.
Perceptions of Probability and Numbers
(2) WW3 RUSSIA CHINA IRAN AND NOTH KOREA JOIN FORCES
a) I'm releasing a Mac app for casual DJs. Mac sites are probably underviewed by my demographic and I only have a few DJ sites I can directly target.

b) I don't have to promote to all 125 sites, I can be more targeted.

c) You're automatically treating growth hacking as spam. Growth Hacking is a common promotion process - the issue is how it is accomplished. Promoting on lists - good. Making fake websites with fake articles / reviews - not so good. Paying bots to upvote - bad.
I think you should re-read the main article because you are completely missing the analogy here.

“Our ideas, our mindsets, and our beliefs feed back into the biology and change the biology in a way you can measure.”

+ are you missing the irony in my response to your ironic comment?
The point of the article I shared is that the classification of diseases in France does not include ADHD. Link that with the OP article and you'll see how the existence of a description of syndromes in the US can make these syndroms actually appear in patients.

Seriously, it is a good read.
My guess is that their average customer is backing up data that's on the same drive that the keys would be on. Such that the keys would be lost in the same event that would have the customer wanting a restore .

There are many ways around that, none very elegant. They picked what they felt exposed the least amount of awkwardness. Only expose a flaw in the somewhat rare case of a restoral.
Here's a wild idea: Why don't we all agree that the "introvert/extrovert" dichotomy is a false one, and that while we all have tendencies, it's also good to step outside our comfort zone a bit.

For those with introverted tendencies, that might mean working on being a bit more outgoing and trying to engage in social settings.

For those with extroverted tendencies, that might mean listening more and talking less, and spending more time alone and becoming comfortable with oneself.

Or, I suppose we could all just label and pigeonhole ourselves so we don't find ourselves uncomfortable and can avoid growing and changing. I guess that's okay, too...
Can people here please stop posting that ZFS needs ECC memory. Every filesystem, with any name like FAT, NTFS, EXT4 runs more safe with ECC memory. ZFS is actually one of the few that can still be safer if you don't run with ECC memory. Source: Matthew Ahrens himself: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...
Then why does the bill change depending on the assessed value of my property?
Also, Mozilla's Readability library[0] should help you out to extract only relevant content (this is what's behind Firefox's reading mode). So, the only semi-difficult part is the NLP.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/readability
AMT is also planned on going away though, which would more than make up for this.
Really worst-case scenario: Someone is killed or maimed due to bricked system.

FTFY
That is exactly what a bot would say.
I just went to a conference in Seattle last week (Deconstruct conf) and literally did not have one conversation the entire time I was at the conference. Between the talks I read a book. Recommended!
Brian from Backblaze here.

> A solution would be then to story copy of the key encrypted on their servers

This is what we do. If you set a private passphrase, then we are keeping your private encryption key for you encrypted with the passphrase on our servers. If you never prepare a restore (or up until you prepare your first restore), your files are unable to be read by malicious hackers that have compromised our systems (if that ever occurs), because you have literally never given us the passphrase. Or put differently, we could not possibly comply with a subpoena for your data because we cannot decrypt it, period.

> send you the key when you initiate recovery

This is the only part we do not do. Instead, when you provide the passphrase, we only store that passphrase in RAM on our server side for the minimum amount of time possible to decrypt the file or files you have requested, then we purge the passphrase from RAM. After you download the restored file we purge both the passphrase and the decrypted file from our systems and everything returns to the safest state again. Yes, this creates a short window of decreased security (can be as little as 60 seconds). But as long as we weren't compromised during that 60 seconds your data is and will stay totally encrypted. 99.999% of the time Backblaze has no ability to read your data. It is actually 100.0% of the time if you are using Backblaze as a Hail Mary offsite backup in case your house burns down and burns your local backup up. As long as your house never burns down, Backblaze will remain stoically there and encrypted and hackers or the government will have zero ability to ever read your data, period.
Thank you for sharing.This video changed my opinion about talking to police.I learned why I should never talk to police ever.I am very glad I got to watch this video.Thank you.
> And also, if someone was murdered a few blocks down and then you refuse to say anything and say that you want your lawyer, won't that just needlessly make them suspect you for the murder?

You watch too much TV. I know it's hard, but when talking about real life law enforcement, try to forget everything you've ever seen about it on TV. It's about as accurate as the hacking scenes in NCIS.
Ah, right, Nvidia is always... interesting.
Homeland Security formally opening immigrant crime office
Same thing, using the command line and giving you full control over the bookmarks (because they're staying on your machine).
Chrome Warning: This file is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous.

Nice try Google
Jobs without next? Would not have happend. Without Jobs, Apple would have been long gone.
The power and influence of monopolies are a direct threat to democracy. This is just another example.
The events aren’t independent: in the scenario, the fuzz started with the employer who directly or indirectly suggested talking to the employee.
How to compare document similarity using Python with gensim
> So if the beliefs change then islamic law can change?

Yes, of course. Why wouldn't it?

I feel like people don't understand how religion works in practice. A major religion is never a changeless monolith. Some practitioners will always insist that their way is the unchanging and eternal word of God, but even with a 2000-year-old book at hand, religion is a human institution and has always changed to fit the needs of the people practicing it. As a liberal Episcopalian, my religious practice couldn't be more different than a fundamentalist Baptist's, and both would be unrecognizable to a Catholic from a few centuries back.
This is another common misunderstanding. There is an "industrial exception" for engineers working under the umbrella of a corporation.

From Texas engineer board code (I think other states are similar):
§ 1001.057. Employee of Private Corporation or Business Entity
(a) This chapter shall not be construed to apply to the activities of a private corporation or other business entity, or the activities of the full-time employees or other personnel under the direct supervision and control of the business entity, on or in connection with:
(1) reasonable modifications to existing buildings, facilities, or other fixtures to real property not accessible to the general public and which are owned, leased, or otherwise occupied by the entity; or
(2) activities related only to the research, development, design, fabrication, production, assembly, integration, or service of products manufactured by the entity.
[Sections (b) and (c) omitted for clarity]
(d) For purposes of this section, “products manufactured by the entity” also includes computer software, firmware, hardware, semiconductor devices, and the production, exploration, and transportation of oil and gas and related products.”

Meaning, engineers can perform engineering work for a company without being licensed.
These users don't think they're buying a cannon, they think they're buying a lightbulb which will mimic the sun or a blender which will automatically make a smoothie for them every morning.
Where is the money for this 10x increase?
I don't even try anymore, I just search
I think they're focused on newly-built renewables rather than hydroelectric which was built decades ago by massive government subsidy and seems unlikely to see real expansion given environmental concerns re: fish spawning, etc.
But it's not necessarily indiscriminate. Many of these are sites that want submissions. Even Hacker News is OK if you're doing something relevant to the audience.

As an example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202456
It doesn't even need exotic trades. If you're doing margin trading on a stock for which there is a sudden dip in stock price (as in previous flash crashes), then there will be a margin call and from the customer's perspective, all their money and shares will evaporate.

I wonder how Robinhood will handle it when it happens.
And let google track you instead?
They don't offshore money, they do profitable business in other countries and then don't want to pay taxes to move the proceeds to the US.
What is the point? Why would Uber uniquely be obliged to pay?

As another poster said, you seem to be implying fault.
> Sure, but these are laws which were the result of shared beliefs of it's constituents.

...What do you think Islamic laws are?
Have you not had a computer do something unexpected in the last 17 years? A bit flip might look like a kernel or application crash. Have you ever saved a file that couldn't later be opened by an application? You probably blamed the application for being buggy, but it could have been an upset. Bit flips / upsets cause all sorts of odd behavior.
I disagree with the notion that the novelty of a component of language can be best assessed by when it was first used. In particular, vocabulary is far more mutable than grammar.

Then again, I'm a grammatical traditionalist: I consider English to not have a male gender, but rather the three genders "inanimate", "female", and "animate".