skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minnesota also has a very large Hmong population.
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I don't want to be this guy, but the required Facebook login doesn't seem to be safe. There is no way of knowing is the real Facebook as it's not going though the fb app or regular safari. A bit shady.
> In the interim, we can and should encourage people to be heroes. Let's face it, there are other programming jobs out there. Do you truly need to work for an unethical boss or company?

Assuming that the only consequence is needing a new job is naive. Whistleblowers find it very difficult to get hired again.
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It's always okay to kill a virtual copy of any person on the basis that they're not real as they can simply be duplicated and manipulated in the same way as any other data or software on a machine - a machine which I own. Because I own the machine which houses them, if I can create them, copy them, etc, I can decide to kill them at my will.

> How do you know you're not running in a simulation right now, etc etc.

Ultimately, I don't care. If I'm running on someone's console and they can hit ctrl+c on me, then they can do that, there's nothing morally wrong with them doing that because they own me at a much deeper level, I run on their hardware.

In the same way that I'm okay with abortion, I'm okay with this - your dependence on someone or something else is a defining factor of your rights as an individual. If you depend on a machine that someone else is free to control, their rights trump yours.
Do you think about each key you want to press to type a sentence?

I expect not. Vim, for those that use it, is merely an extension of that.
What people overlook, also this linked pieces is, that Germany also has the banking system for this. You can say, there are three types of banks, private, state and co-op banks. And while there are huge private banks, most state and co-op banks are organised locally. Almost every district has its own Sparkasse und many towns still have a Volksbank or Reifeisenbank.

This is an important feature of the economics in Germany I think. Yes, many of these banks might be too small today and many merge into bigger banks but they are still the most trusted banks in the country.
The Turing test isn't really a good indicator of AI development. I don't disagree with the idea that using sufficiently advanced AI for entertainment could create ethical quandaries though.
> Which makes some US citizens fear of immigration even more laughable.

Even leaving aside the fact that much of the U.S. is not easily habitable, that's a straw man. Even if there is land for more people doesn't mean we have the resources to offer a robust safety net for all those people. (Ironically, many so-called progressives in the U.S. defend immigration by asserting that immigrants do below-minimum wage jobs nobody wants to do and don't use social services for fear of being deported. How that's a good thing escapes me.)
This is exactly what should have been done, but requires a longer term commitment, as well as releasing _some_ control while still alive. (both of which I think are a good thing in context)
I guess I'm not objective then because the only fact I need is "£70K to host a single static webpage on an internal network".

£70K to host one static webpage is not a good process or "carefully worked out explanation" any way you cut it.
What proof do you have that doing nothing kills more people?

Most psychiatric medication has a black label warning that it can cause suicidal thoughts and in many cases people taking or withdrawing from these drugs do kill themselves.

Your comment is based on data promoted by pharmaceutical companies' marketing departments and front group that somehow there is a crisis due to lack of mental health care.

The real crisis is the over prescription of psychotropic medication, when there is no physical test to diagnose any "illness" it's supposed to cure, hence the diagnosis is left to a "checklist of symptoms" voted into existence by committee (the DSM manual).
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Primality Proving: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-783-elliptic-curv... (starting on page 5)
Don't know where you get that idea from. Nowadays a good amount of immigrants are far richer than average American
Eh, I see where you're coming from, but I just consider fiction to be seperate from reality by category. It's like the difference between you imagining you're committing a crime and hurting a bunch of people and you actually committing a crime and hurting a bunch of people.

Those in the dream might have arguably better AI than any video game character could hope to have and be as realistic as possible. But they're also not real. They don't matter and simply cannot matter.

Same goes for virtual acts towards real people's avatars. If they're within the rules of the game and what the creators of it intended, then they're not against the law. Because you haven't really done anything to them.

Otherwise you may as well start saying it's wrong to kill players in a MMORPG setting or what not.

Then again, I'm also someone who thinks fictional worlds should be treated as if they were completely seperate universes to the 'real' one in general. Murder, theft, assault, terrorism... right down to copyright infringement shouldn't be banned in a fictional world unless that world's setup explicitly sets laws against those things.

We have to keep fiction and reality seperate.
We certainly try to. But you'd probably get farther with us if you worked on your own stuff first.
When people imagine what a Turing Test conversation would look like, they frequently underestimate the conversation. I find Dennet's example of an imaginary Turing Test from Consciousness Explained to be a good counterexample:

Judge: Did you hear about the Irishman who found a magic lamp? When he rubbed it a genie appeared and granted him three wishes. “I’ll have a pint of Guiness!” the Irishman replied and immediately it appeared. The Irishman eagerly set to sipping and then gulping, but the level of Guiness in the glass was always magically restored. After a while the genie became impatient. “Well, what about your second wish?” he asked. Replied the Irishman between gulps, “Oh well, I guess I’ll have another one of these.”

CHINESE ROOM: Very funny. No, I hadn’t heard it– but you know I find ethnic jokes in bad taste. I laughed in spite of myself, but really, I think you should find other topics for us to discuss.

J: Fair enough but I told you the joke because I want you to explain it to me.

CR: Boring! You should never explain jokes.

J: Nevertheless, this is my test question. Can you explain to me how and why the joke “works”?

CR: If you insist. You see, it depends on the assumption that the magically refilling glass will go on refilling forever, so the Irishman has all the stout he can ever drink. So he hardly has a reason for wanting a duplicate but he is so stupid (that’s the part I object to) or so besotted by the alcohol that he doesn’t recognize this, and so, unthinkingly endorsing his delight with his first wish come true, he asks for seconds. These background assumptions aren’t true, of course, but just part of the ambient lore of joke-telling, in which we suspend our disbelief in magic and so forth. By the way we could imagine a somewhat labored continuation in which the Irishman turned out to be “right” in his second wish after all, perhaps he’s planning to throw a big party and one glass won’t refill fast enough to satisfy all his thirsty guests (and it’s no use saving it up in advance– we all know how stale stout loses its taste). We tend not to think of such complications which is part of the explanation of why jokes work. Is that enough?

Dennett: "The fact is that any program that could actually hold up its end in the conversation depicted would have to be an extraordinary supple, sophisticated, and multilayered system, brimming with “world knowledge” and meta-knowledge and meta-meta-knowledge about its own responses, the likely responses of its interlocutor, and much, much more…. Maybe the billions of actions of all those highly structured parts produce genuine understanding in the system after all."
Sure it will. If it's already almost outside your door, then it will be outside your door in minutes. Otherwise, not so much.
But wouldn't a guaranteed job program incite corruption?
> Atoms are atoms, regardless of how "advanced" they are, they're still atoms. "Killing" people (if you can call it that) is fine.
> that was greater than 50% of the total population for the city?

So... where, exactly, is this supposed to be analogous to?
Ah, ok. I get it now. I read it incorrectly.
> `locals()` is a lie, it creates a dict from scratch.

Are you sure? The behavior I see suggests otherwise...

>>> a = 1
>>> d = locals()
{'a': 1, 'd': {...}}
>>> b = 2
{'a': 1, 'd': {...}, 'b': 2}
>>> d['b'] = 123
>>> b
123
>>> d is locals()
True
Don't make me give you my Facebook password. Facebook already has a way to auth in.
I think it's vast oversimplification to say a situation like this is always ok. Legally, you may be allowed to do such a thing currently but it's obvious there's a moral grey area here.

Hypothetically, say technology advances and not only do we have sophisticated AI but the technology to copy and store human intelligence. You do just that for a friend and that friend passes away. You now have the only extant copy of your friends intelligence and you notice that it's extremely similar in composition and cognition as an AI you also have on your drive. Is it ethical to delete either? I'd lean towards no.
Let's hope it stays this way.
And the course could be primarily about debunking belief in positive energy

Being skeptical is great but dismissing a potential trove of useful info for some topics that are unappealing is close-minded. I've recently discovered http://edx.org which has a lot to offer :)
It is a plugin. A featured plugin.
There's no moral grey area. It's my hardware, I decide what it does. Plain and simple. I own it, I own all contents of it.

The only "grey area" you're creating is by copying existing humans - that's confusing the issue with a separate one. Owning a copy of an existing human is in and of itself a much, much bigger moral grey area than killing AIs and does indeed raise many more questions - solely because they're based on real humans though and we must consider the original human's choices - maybe simple consent is all that's needed. If they were AI solely, there would be a clear ownership path and all of your questions would go away.
I don't think I'm talking about fiction. OK, how about looking at it this way: At some point game designers will need to start simulating things like 'fear' to make NPCs more realistic. Then imagine the simulation getting better and better and better. Its easy to imagine them simulating a whole complex range of feelings and responses, simulating an inner-world for the NPCs. Then apply moore's law and let the simulations exponentially improve in accuracy and fidelity year on year. At what point would simulations of fear and terror in NPCs start to make you feel uneasy? Unless you believe in dualism or some sort of bio-centrism that means machines can never be conscious, I think there are interesting ethical issues there.
That seems like a very broad request. Are you looking for clients? Servers? Self-hosted web solutions? Just names of protocols? Say that I spent a few minutes listing off every piece of related software that I can think of. What's the purpose and benefit?
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Pretty essential if you're working on a project hosted on Github. I primarily use it to make PR's from the command line, but that alone is a huge win.
what are you going to do when you're broke at 9:10?
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have you been to London?

https://www.google.com/search?q=london+demographics
You're making a false equivalence of bits and atoms. An individual owns the bits on their hardware - no one owns all atoms or atoms comprising another individual. If someone has ultimate control over all the atoms in the universe, then I'd say indeed they have no moral obligation to keep you or I alive. Depending on someone else for life means their right to their own hardware is more important your right to life. The pro-choice campaign has made this argument very well if you'd like to read into it.
This is a github project, that kind of confusion is to their benefit. People will complain about bitbucket/gitlab missing this functionality (but iirc, at least one of them has their own similar project)
What a fascinating DB you linked to. I'd never known these types of things were public or common.
You've chosen to let ownership point the way out of that particular moral maze. That's your choice, not some ultimate truth that society as a whole will necessarily agree with. Remind me to stay away from your hardware after the singularity ; )
Trust isn't a binary relationship. Computer security is hard. I trust people to try their best to not get hacked or not to get kidnapped and tortured, but alas it sometimes happens. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that the only reason to use a block chain is to achieve byzantine fault tolerance. Casper is trying to solve much the same thing that has already been solved by Tendermint but with different trade-offs (CAP theorem trade-offs).
See PyFrame_FastToLocals() in the CPython source.

Try wrapping your code in a function and notice the changes are no longer mirrored. Calls to exec() and eval() cause PyFrame_FastToLocals() to be applied afterwards, as used by the interactive console, but this doesn't happen during normal execution
A professional organization can only be strong, safe, and protecting if it has enough teeth to put moral obligations on workers. That seems unlikely.
The REPL essentially operates at the global scope, which is represented as a dictionary. Variables local to a function are not stored in a dictionary, however:

def main():
a = 1
d = locals()
print d
d['b'] = 123
print b
print d
print d is locals()

main()

Which prints

{'a': 1}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 23, in <module>
main()
File "test.py", line 19, in main
print b
NameError: global name 'b' is not defined
Both of those are well-established service categories with tons of options at various levels. What exact advantages come from adding a blockchain?
You nerdsniped me. Just spitballing a more racket-like way to write it..

(define myfunc length
#:type (-> [a] Int))
(define main
#:type (IO ())
(do (print (length "foo"))))
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I think he's talking about how mismanagement of Sydney's growth has resulted in awful traffic and sky high housing market. But I'm probably being optimistic.
San Diego was over 90% non-Hispanic whites up until the 50's, now they represent roughly 45% of the population -- and that's excluding many of the major Hispanic enclaves south of the city proper.
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But that's a different question, isn't it? We are talking about "overclocking" the brain, so to speak, not necessarily making one smarter or dumber. The speculation here (if I understand correctly) is that "overclocking" the brain has a cost somewhere, but that doesn't imply that smarter people are running "overclocked" brains per se.
Well banks don't necessarily trust their international partners for example totally. Smaller banks fo instance have a lot of trouble sending unsecured wires. With the block chain it would be possible to have more trust on the amount of funds another bank has available.
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Private inter-bank blockchain can be used instead of the archaic system that the banks use today (this is basically what Ripple is doing).

Internally (as in completely private intra-bank blockchain) - for transaction tracking/mining etc.
Right, and you can see how well that's worked out: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/21/pacemaker-security-is-te...
That's not strictly true: vanilla React doesn't even use a router until you wire one up. It's perfectly cromulent to use just few bits of React on an existing web app/site.
Didn't we already have this? Just press Shift-F2 and type "screenshot"
I'm looking forward to the day games like Civilization will have such a good AI that they wouldn't need to buff the AI with multipliers to make the game challenging
That's what I meant when I said Laos, although you're right they're from several countries there.
The end result of mathematics is precision; the inception of an idea, not so much. Indeed, if you look at the early papers on a topic, they are -- for lack of a better term -- "fuzzy" and very often contain technical mistakes. The art of mathematics -- which it shares with all arts -- is to make the leap in understanding and then carve out something to show others the same path in a saner manner, using technical skill. But that initial leap very often doesn't take place in a purely technical framework, and is fuzzy and imprecise. Usually, it takes many drafts of an idea until a suitable technical framework is found.

"Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere."

-- W. S. Anglin

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mathematics#A
Yes, but block chains are also integral to proof-of-stake or general byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithms. Do you mind me asking: Do you have a lot invested in Bitcoin?
> but I just consider fiction to be seperate from reality by category

This is a circular argument. Whether a sentient NPC is, in fact, still fiction is the entire question.

The story in the game is fictional, but at some point the medium bottoms out on something with physical reality. The risk is of the medium of the story having rights. The nearest real-world analogue would be if you were trying to put on a realistic Hamlet, so you get some clone people to play the people who die and then you actually kill them. Is that murder? That they died in the course of producing entertainment.
Good points. But the fact is when you have a relatively rich country to the north and countries to the south that are poor, gang infested, unimaginably corrupt(bad security, education, and health care), fraught with inequality, and having increasingly desperate people, migration is inevitable. Why isn't more attention paid to helping those southern neighbors out so there is less incentive ? Lots of oil down south !!!!
Can't believe you are receiving downvotes my friend. It seems very likely that consciousness is an emergent property of a sufficiently complex system. Given that this is the case, if we have a computational system such that it sufficiently mimics all nonphysical human behavior, it's very tough to argue that it does not share consciousness, especially if you are not a solipsist.
I up voted this post because I think the greater conversation regarding astroturfing and media conditioning us to accept certain policies needs to be had, but I think you could have found a better way to say it.
Texas also has both a huge amount of land, and a large number of immigrants (around 15-20% of the state's population is foreign-born).
That's a much better analogy. Multiple cursors have the same use cases as macros, they are just performed live instead of saved and replayed.
And all those attacks are common in some third-world countries. Registering ownership on a public blockchain would be a big step up for them.
It differs a on a per-service basis.

In the case of Sia, existing services are unable to take advantage of unused disk on other people's machines that is of little value to them, but more value to someone else - making storage extremely cheap compared to other existing services. The virtual scarcity provided by the blockchain provides a completely decentralized way to sell this storage with no 3rd party involvement.

In the case of Namecoin, it removes the need for centralization of naming services and in doing so prevents external parties from interfering with naming services, the owner decides where it goes, not a registrar, not ICANN, not the US government.

Generally speaking, decentralization is in one way or another the major argument for services done this way. Blockchains enable decentralization of scarce resources - but that's it. We need to stop proposing them for everything when they're really not appropriate for everything.
Are there any plans to post the cities you should end up passing through?
future of violence is in MultiPlayer games, something about virtually killing real people that's quite popular. from the tame'ish Dota2, to war games like Call of Duty and Battlefield, through to open survival games like Rust which really demonstrate how brutal people can be :)
How is Proof of Stake useful in an interbank network though? My understanding of PoS is that everyone wants to follow the same chain because the interest payments on your stake make it beneficial to you to accept a new block. Presumably there wouldn't be anything to stake in a private blockchain.
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Your analogy doesn't really say much except that you endorse the idea that bits and atoms are comparable with regard to the "realness" of what they compose, but that assumption is the crux of the debate. One could just as easily say "letters are letters, regardless of how advanced they are, they're still letters. 'Killing' people (if you can call it that) is fine", yet the analogy on it's own fails to enlighten the argument if one already rejects the idea that people composed of text in a work of fiction are real.
Yes but the technology we're discussing would almost certainly need to be maintained and verified by the banks at some financial cost?
I just want to say that this post is well written, witty and I loved the inclusion of what music they were listening to while working on Hackett.
Is there a difference between shooting at a character controlled by an AI, and shooting at a character controlled by another human?
If machines develop a conscious; then at that point, by definition, they should be self-aware enough to recognise that they are a machine; ergo our definition and understanding of "life" itself is something that needs to change, no?

For the time being I think there will always be a clear divide between biological life (as we know it currently), and "virtual" or machine life, as we create it - I think these ethical questions will come in to play when the two become intermixed enough to not be distinguishable one way or another, which I think is still a far way off.

The reason I say the above is just based on our history as a species, and our current treatment of biological life - I think "virtual" life will likely be treated as 2nd class compared to biological life, at least at the beginning.
On a six-month contract I did in Cupertino, we started off with Pivotal. And we were very happy with what it provided.

However, Pivotal had decided to get out of the business of providing software that other people could install behind their firewall, and instead went to a pure SaaS model. So, the lost the business of a Fortune20 company that insists on running everything behind their firewall.

During the time I was there, I heard lots of discussions about alternatives, but nothing was considered satisfactory. One guy kept saying that we should just go ahead and choose Jira, because we all knew that is what management would force us to do regardless.

I never did hear what they finally chose. When my contract was up, I hightailed it back to Austin ASAP because CA was just way too bloody expensive.
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