skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. The specific provision is meant to allow governments to ease sudden shifts. As an example, say the weather in some country Y was extraordinarily great for growing tulips this year. As a result, they're exporting enormous amounts of tulips, at really cheap prices. Nobody is buying durch tulips this year, because they're more expensive. All dutch tulip farmer ("tulipers"?) will go bankrupt, because np business can survive a full year with no revenue and full costs. When next year comes around, the weather in country Y is back to normal, but the dutch tulip industry has been shattered.
I expect it would be much harder to judge whether text (instead of audio/speech) has been written by a machine
Patrick 'patio11' McKenzie's podcast on salary negotiation covers this question and other related topics, http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/06/03/kalzumeus-podcast-episod...
> Google seems unaware

At this point I would say they deliberately allow this to happen.

There is a community of volunteers regularly reporting this sort of stuff. How on earth could Google be aware after years of this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/BadApps/
Being scared of AI wiping out the human race while dismissing the total disaster climate change has already started causing is pretty insane to me. It's like dismissing gangrene in your leg "We can just cut my leg off." while being scared of an alien disease that has never even been discovered because you're sure it's fatal.
Well, there is another group of jobs that is not yet outsourced to machines and doesn't use concentration and comprehension as much: detailed, complex manual work that requires years of training. For instance high quality wood work, soldering, fine grained painting.
Hopeless on the part of Ford.
Another trick is audiobooks. I commute about an hour each day. I used to spend that time listening to the news, but that just made me needlessly stressed. I started listening to audiobooks instead and can now get through one major novel a month or a few shorter novels, just on commutes. It also gives another method of branching out: I find there are some narrators I just really enjoy listening to, and so I try some of the other things they've narrated too. Sometimes I like what I find.

You can either subscribe to an audiobook streaming service, or use Hoopla for free access through your local library.
Yeah probably the admins cleaning things up.
> No mention of poverty, health, education, war.

"Developing world health" is number 7 on the list.

Also - 80,000 Hours aren't saying those causes should be ignored, but that they're currently not neglected - plenty of people are already working on them. The list isn't of 'the best causes', it's 'what causes we think are the most important at the margin'.
1) You might run out of industries to move people to, and shutting down old industries and setting up new ones is expensive.

2) You become dependent on the countries you're importing from. See Russia's fear of Intel chips, various embargoes, etc.
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Japan needs more workers and it can't find them
A video game console has a known and proven entertainment value. The whole family can use it. It's a reason for people to come over to your house. It's a status symbol.

Beyond that, I know a lot of poor kids who don't have video game consoles, and there literally isn't $50 in the budget for something that may or may not produce any value (not to mention the monitor, the peripherals, and taking up vast amounts of time on the family computer -- if one exists -- to figure out how to use it).

I have extended family living in rural Utah who don't even have a computer -- they use their phones for the Internet. You can debate back and forth about the cost of a phone vs. the cost of a cheap Desktop, but people need phones to function in society, for better or worse. Try figuring out what to do with a bottom tier smartphone, a limited data plan, and a Rasberry Pi that just arrived in the mail.

I volunteer at the Boston Museum of Science, working in the Tech Studio/engineering department, often showing off the latest "engineering toys" -- Little Bits, Rasberry pi, Scratch on an iPad that controls a Lego robot... Rich kid parents ask "Oh, where can I get this?" It's not a big deal for them to drop a couple hundred bucks on flavor-of-the-week programming toys. Poor kid parents are often interested and enjoy playing around with it at the Museum, but never ask about getting one themselves. It doesn't even occur to them.

Beyond THAT, there are a lot of majors that don't cost a lot of money. You can use the argument "X doesn't cost much to learn -- why haven't you done X before on your own time?" to apply to anyone.
Job solicitations are probably better suited for the monthly "whoishiring" threads. They are automatically posted 11AM Eastern time the first weekday of each month. The next one will be Thursday, June 1
Could you expand on the "school" part? This sounds fascinating. Are you training other would-be farmers on organic methods?
I did too before I enabled WebGL. If it can't show the mp4 movie it won't show any content.
Why is that the metric that you would judge EA on? Huge portions of EA are entirely uninterested in AI risk. And AI risk isn't interested in botnets. Honestly, have you read any of their material? If not, that's fine you don't have to be interested in it (it's getting plenty of attention at the moment and really is no longer a neglected cause) but why bother criticizing something you haven't attempted to understand?

Either way, MIRI has published some papers that they think are working towards their goal. https://intelligence.org/research/ I'm not well informed enough on this subject to try to judge that claim, though, and overall I'm conflicted as to how important I should rate AI risk. But I think having some people work on it is good, in much the same way that I value basic science research.
There are two ways to look at this.

1) It's really sad that we aren't able to get better progress than we have

2) It's great that we are still far from robots taking over as that leaves a huge option space for startups.

Personally I think many things literally are around the corner and that the corner is getting closer, faster and faster.
To clarify: what do you propose the countersuit would be?
It could be coincidence where the situation happening and being discussed keeps it in your consciousness and caused you to notice the advert.

If the ad played 2 months and 1 day ago would you be freaked out that YouTube predicted the future? You may have ignored it and not made a connection.

Simple evidence for this - note the large % of Youtube Ads that are totally irrelevant to you.
Mostly because some of them are (or have been) clients and friends, and they like to keep their income and tactics secret.

But they're easy enough to find. Just Google lucrative keywords like "best hosting" and you'll see them
Is this actually possible and sustainable? Where would the money come from to buy everything if you are not producing anything at a price that others would be willing to pay?
I haven't gone through CS50 but I took the MIT equivalent online. From the perspective of someone who has done a fair bit of programming but is not a professional programmer (and doesn't do a lot these days), it was somewhat time consuming but not terribly hard for me.

However, my thought when taking it was that if I were a freshman taking this who had minimal experience with computers, I'd have been pretty lost. Not so much because I couldn't have handled individual aspects of the course but there would have just been too much new from the practicalities of a programming environment to a lot of the basic programming concepts to the more theoretical aspects.
Higher levels of testosterone I guess.
Depending on your location and political views, a marijuana trimming job could work out.
Or we could accept their generous gift of a subsidy for our solar equipment supplies and benefit from increased employment and development in our solar panel consuming sectors. Thanks very much China!
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Most people doesn't have your or my kind of work. And even those that do will be able to use their phone on any screen at some point.

So I think it's fair to say that the smartphone was a continuation of the laptop not the feature phone.
“Et cent balles et un mars,” as we delicately put it in France.
It is the interface (small, touchscreen) that is new, along with the wireless network connectivity.

Other than that a smartphone is most definitely a personal computer though. There are many, less keyboard/mouse bound tasks that people regularly did on desktop PCs 10-15 years ago that we now do on our phones.
The official US Army histories refer to it as The War of the Rebellion.

There have been other wars between the states: between Connecticut and Pennsylvania for control of the hard-coal region, which arose to shooting; between Michigan and Ohio for the Toledo strip, which did not, quite.
> high speed weighted pattern recognition, yes, intelligence, no.

I'm starting to believe that this may still be sufficient to fulfill the 80 of the 80/20 rule. Properly directed, powerful pattern recognition can do a lot when tied into regular old programming logic.

Regular programs work well in low uncertainty environments, and some well trained ML networks can create that low uncertainty environment out of a relatively high uncertainty environment.
> I expect that decomposing a problem into a chain of smaller subproblems is a fine way to manage a dataflow.

It is, which is why basically all graphical modelling techniques used for system analysis use it. An executable diagram system that doesn't leverage the experience of system analysis diagrams seems somewhat poorly considered.
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What total disaster are you talking about?
All jobs are in manufacturing? Really? What is it that you manufacture?
> The matter is confused by the prima facie paradoxical fact that Gödel proved the truth of the sentence that "This sentence is not provable."

Gödel didn't prove that. He saw that it was true.
I don't think you should consider up votes or views to be equivalent to agreement. Many people avoid videos that confirm or might change their worldview.

If it confirms your worldview, it might be redundant and boring. If it might change your worldview, it's going to be painful (if you think the video is correct) or infuriating (if you think the video is incorrect).
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I agree with the value of audio books! I have always been an avid reader (probably 20+ books a year) and I am the author of 24 books - but, when I started using Audible and listening to other audio books from the public library my 'reading' time increased a lot.

I enjoy reading blogs on the web and social media on HN and Reddit, but I find I generally get more from books on computer science, philosophy, spirituality, science fiction, cooking, etc.

EDIT: I would like to add that I also feel fine starting a book and not finishing it. This is especially true with technical books when I realize that only some of the covered topics are interesting/useful to me. This allows me to be exposed to more ideas.
Really depends on the narrator. Some are actual accomplished stage actors who invest a lot of preparatory time into the book they narrate, developing the sound of each character and reading between the lines to extract the right emotional cadence for their speech in the scene. John Lee is one of my favorites in this regard:

http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narrators/john-lee/

Listening to these audiobooks at anything other than 1x diminishes the result.
> It looks too much like welfare

It's unconditional income though, in the sense that you are entitled to it regardless of your circumstances. To put it in the same class as welfare is naive, I think. It's not 'something for nothing' in the sense of a free handout. It's infact more than that. Think of it as a safety valve in the face of western hyper-capitalism gone awry.
They don't need one all users trust as a lot of Chinese users will use Chinese browsers and those are already compromised.

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-appl...
How did you fix that link?
I am a little surprised by so many comments talking about the problems with the CS curriculum in college. If people aren't even majoring in computer science then I would first think that the issue starts before students come to college.

Younger students, K-12, have little exposure to computer science concepts or even programming in general. Sure some schools are great but many public schools in the US are average at best.
They are selling the phone for 700 dollars.

700 dollars for a phone? You can get a s8, HTC, or LG for cheaper with the promotions they are running and those companies have a track record for making phones. They could have been like One plus one and produced a high end phone ~400 bucks. For 700 dollars this will have a hard time getting traction.
Yes, we all get that you don't get that it's easy for larger companies to mix in workforce that either does nothing or does not even exist. This is rampant in the construction and IT businesses.
> have the EA people actually done something so far?

In terms of stuff done: OpenPhil, an EA org, has given north of $30million to groups researching strong AI and its risks[0]. Some effective altruists also choose to donate to AI research groups like MIRI[1].

Why would stopping a botnet be evidence of effectiveness at tackling strong AI? Botnets don't exhibit any kind of intelligence as far as I'm aware.

0. http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants

1. http://effective-altruism.com/ea/14c/why_im_donating_to_miri...
Most interesting part was suggestion that Gödel himself agreed with Penrose argument against Strong AI. I think this will be highly contentious.
> Smartphones are not replacing computers in terms of a device to get work done, other than email and phone calls.

That is A LOT of work (real work) being replaced right there.

We also need to stop thinking people bought personal computers to work or be more productive. Part of the personal computer market was sustained by families needing a device to be connected, browse the web, do homewrok, etc... those use cases are now being replaced by the phone or a tablet.

Nobody is saying that smartphones are replacing computers completely, just that for a big part of the market the computer was a complex tool that was underused. That market is now finding smartphones/tablets are simpler to use and more apt for the tasks they want. We will always have specialized devices for certain jobs, but the main computing device is (for the majority of the population) the smartphone.
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A big tactic the fakers use is to paraphrase everything everyone else says. We had a guy in our team that literally paraphased everything said by anyone else in the stand up. E.g. you could say we're waiting on the dba team for a qa db (grr large multinationals and their asshat dbas), he would seconds later say something like 'i think whats currently delaying our progress is waiting on the dba team'. Last I heard he got big pay rises (as a coder at the time with a net negative contribution) and eventually entered management, my friend that was a permie on the team got a insulting 500gbp annual increase and a bad performance review, he wasnt a faker, he quit.

Fakers, cheaters, bullshiters are everywhere unfortunately, spot them early and avoid them where possible, preempt their attempts to land grab credit
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I would open a bar on beach or become a surf instructor. Or write novels or something. Becoming an artist is also a good idea.
I wasn't saying that no JS support is hurting them. I was objecting to the notion that them being separate teams is relevant. It's perfectly reasonable to judge a product by how it is marketed.
Yes, we have classes for various bits. The thing is, most people aren't going to want to take on the whole shebang - at least, not off the hop. Some might just want a "how to keep a couple of plants alive long enough to get fruit?" or "what do I need to know to be able to keep 3 chickens in my back yard?" type lessons. There are so many small aspects to farming that are overwhelming hurdles to people that just teaching the basics goes a long way.

Once you get to scale then you need to start worrying about how to keep the animals watered in the dead of winter, how to extend your growing season, how to prep and store your produce over the winter months when you can't grow fresh. These all seem like tiny things when you think about them individually, but they quickly make people panic and go running for the nearest grocery store.

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Thats not how post scarcity society or economy is defined which was what i was referring to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy
Here is the quote from Gödel supposedly supporting this:

"So the following disjunctive conclusion is inevitable: Either mathematics is incompletable in this sense, that its evident axioms can never be comprised in a finite rule, that is to say, the human mind (even within the realm of pure mathematics) infinitely surpasses the powers of any finite machine, or else there exist absolutely unsolvable diophantine problems of the type specified" . . . (Gödel 1995: 310).
>Every time you get dragged through some pointless, patronizing and degrading interview process that assumes that you don't know your stuff - you can thank the cheaters and fakers, and the fact that our industry doesn't have the will to root them out.

Not only that, but it devalues and dilutes your own degree, which is significantly more damaging monetarily.
> You can invest in Gold, which doesn't yield any return. The notion of investment implies a return, whether it is a cash yield or a principal appreciation.

By my definition, that's not an investment. Nor would buying a rare painting be an investment, but speculation. By buying gold, or a rare painting, and keeping it locked away in your house, you're not making capital available for productive use. You're just speculating that its price, as measured in dollars, will increase. A transfer of value from the next buyer to yourself happens when you sell it, but no value has been produced.

Regardless of the terminology we choose, can't we agree there's a fundamental difference between buying something with money and holding on to that, versus making that money available for productive use (e.g. a producer buying more efficient machinery)? When you buy a bond you're investing, because the issuer can use your capital to increase its productivity, while paying out a part of the resulting profits as a yield. When you buy a lump of gold and gold on to it, all you're hoping for is that the dollar will be devalued sufficiently to make it appear that you can sell it for a profit (in dollars). No increase in productivity needs to take place for the latter to occur, whereas in the former case bond issuers can't afford to pay interest without creating profits.
>Given the gender skew amongst high-school programmers, this is almost equivalent to saying "women should not be starting a CS degree".

Somewhat related to your point, letting novice programmers get CS degrees doesn't fix the problem because there is still a performance gap which results in a hiring gap. If there is problem with demographics having unequal experiences, while colleges can be tweaked to keep the inequality from growing, it is far better to fix it where it comes from.

It's far simpler to say than do, but our society needs to find why the gender skew in high school programmers happens and stop it.
It's not because they want to annoy environmentalists, the republican party just receives a massive amount of campaign funding and lobbying from the oil industry. They do stuff like this and deny climate change because if they don't they'll lose a significant chunk of campaign funding and the oil Giants will just back another candidate in the primary. Democrats are guilty of this too, but oil primarily goes after Republicans.
or you could just accept that this a cute way to present the office dog, and get on with your life...
Sounds like they don't mean 'Japan', but Japanese businesses. The purpose of business is not to create a 'strong economy', profits, or any other such nonsense - it's to serve its people.
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That's a myth. If someone were to attack your infosec engineers physically or virtually you need to build your company from the moon because only nation states and the 1% richest would be able to afford the ride there. If someone were to do social engineering well it will be done, regardless of title. :)

No seriously I bet you this is just a blunt humor attempt. Someone thought it was cute. Those who prefer to remain hidden from camera just don't want to be seen on the Internet. I probably should go on LinkedIn and look for someone with security title working for this conpany, I might be right.
What we need is alternative to Android and iOS, not more shitty Android phones.

There is a reason why iOS feels buttery smooth compared to any phone running Android.
In my French University, group or individual assignments had a very low coefficient compared to written exams (where it was almost impossible to cheat as this was basically like white board coding and students would be spaced by 2/3 seats between them).

It was in the order of 20%(group/coding)/80%(written exam). This had the effect of eliminating 50% of all students on the first semester for the first year of CompSci (DistSys) Master's Degree. So even if a group cheated on group/coding assignments, they most likely wouldn't go through the written exam. We called it: "The Purge".

From then, very few instances of cheating (topics were changed every year). One group got caught cheating on another one during the second year (iOS objectiveC class) and they got a failing grade.

Almost every professor would use automated code checkers on group and individual assignments. And if you get caught, you have to go through thorough questioning by the professor, eventually getting a failing grade and having to go through the second session of written exams (which was most of the time harder than the first session).

What was unavoidable though were group projects with only one person working on the project and the others doing nothing or just spending time preparing for written exams. This happened to me quite a few times. I didn't mind as I was learning a lot, but it got me exhausted for written exams where I was getting good but not outstanding grades.
US company can profitably make and sell widgets for $98 each. Chinese company sells them for $80. President imposes a 25% tax on widget imports, raising the Chinese price after import tax to $100. US company sales surge.

Other US company that uses widgets in their manufacture of other product for export wail and gnash teeth that now their exports are uncompetitive. (Or US company that issues widgets to staff to enable providing services have to cut back, have layoffs, etc).
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There's value in maintaining a manufacturing base at home, because there's often a lot of high tech expertise and knowledge of processes that are otherwise lost. If the Chinese suddenly decide to stop subsidizing their solar industry and they can pump up prices because every other country has decided to let the Chinese manufacture all the panels...Well, it won't be pleasant.