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"Fragile and limited" does not mean safe. It is a strange idea that AI would need to be any of robust, general or complete to be risky. If anything, the main take-away from today's AI is that many problems that previously looked hard turned out to be solvable at superhuman levels with such unsophisticated machinery. This realisation should be extrapolated.

The call for regulation also need not be specific to be useful, though I suspect it would help. The greatest hurdle with AI risk is getting acceptance that this is a problem that needs to be dealt with ahead-of-time. Even if Elon does nothing but improve awareness, he has been useful.

Self-driving cars are actually the least in need of extra regulation. They are already regulated, their effects are observable, there is market pressure for them to perform along lines beneficial to humanity, there is little to no incentive to extend their AI to anything more general, etc. My expectation is that the AI that is most dangerous is the AI developed behind closed doors for purely private interests on broad domains.

I personally dislike the paperclip maximizer analogy; although it serves as a meaningful explanation of the AI alignment problem, people take the literal meaning too seriously, and the absurdity of it discredits the actual risk.
Because a memory reference isn't necessary to be completely understood to understand the concept? It's just a low level implantation detail. I can draw a structure on a whiteboard and indicate that element a points to b. That doesn't need to imply a "pointer". I'm. It saying avoid the topic altogether in saying one doesn't need to understand memory management to do structures

If anything learning things this way would likely make learning about memory references easier?
The language was not made from "scratch" but a progression from bitcoin scripts, Ethereum is the like to blockchain dev like Unity is to gamedev, it lowers the barrier to entry, it has a lot of the similar apis and functions as bitcoin, I don't really consider this a bad thing
>I've been reading the Guardian for a long time and I've noticed it's been embracing some of the more unsavory elements of the left in recent years.

What elements? If you mean deliberately antagonistic opinion pieces from transphobic feminists (TERFs) then yes you're right. But I'm guessing that's probably not what you were referring to. If you mean run of the mill socialists then I can't see any truth to your claim - there's a small handful now and it's mostly the same small handful they published 10 years ago (Monbiot, Jones, previously Milne, and a couple of others). The Guardian as an institution hates socialism, even if it occasionally allows a mild opinion piece from a socialist about how it might be nice to raise the top rate of tax by 1% to pay for hospitals.

Other than an increase in the amount of clickbait the Guardian is mostly the same as it was 10 or 20 years ago. The editorial position has actually shifted to the right slightly since Viner took over. But historically it's always been a liberal paper. It supported the SDP, has supported the Lib Dems at various times, supported Blair and supported Iraq.

Part of liberalism involves giving voice to any old opinion no matter how dangerous, crazy, offensive or wrong, at least as long as it comes from the elite class and doesn't do anything as gauche as question the property rights of the wealthy middle class readership (coincidentally this leads to great clickbait on a lot of social and religious issues). So that's why you see the Guardian doing things like publishing articles by Ergodan or other fairly repulsive people as well as hosting flamewars over atheism/islam/feminism/cultural appropriation etc. It's not being left wing that leads to any of that. If it was a left wing paper it would contain far fewer articles of that type because the left wing generally doesn't subscribe to a "free market of ideas" like liberals do.
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You won't get much upvotes on HN with that... Comparing yourself to Kubrick, on the other hand, will create some reaction.
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This is more or less what I was getting at. Do these things in a simplified language first and then drop down
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Perhaps in aggregate. The linked article discusses the logic and math of a home builder. "Eventually pays for itself", even if indisputable, doesn't magically get you more investors. You're still building fewer affordable units.
I'd venture a guess that without either form of power generation the site that's suitable for windmills is going to be much more aesthetically pleasing than the place where there's four power plants.
There's no shortage in players in this space: Alterrus (built Vancouver's vertical farm, filed bankruptcy), infarm (Germany), aerofarms (US), growup (UK).

There are lots of issues to settle with vertical farming. One is organic labelling, which is N/A for detached soil in most (all?) countries. They can't compete in the non-organic market.

There's currently nothing "sustainable" or "ecologic" about these indoor farms. They are used to grow leisure low-calorie high price ingredients for hipsters.
You are very condescending. These people are trying to do something, they share the process, they try to get some inspiration from people they like. What's the big deal ?
I think the new UI looks quite good, here is a screenshot from an install of nightly with the dark theme http://i.imgur.com/LVZSyTS.png.
and then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14788663
Only Soylent Green was made of [spoiler]; other colors were safe. Soylent is "soy + lentils".

"People are our most important ingredient" (c) some fast food joint, IRL.
Do people really care about environmental impact , when buying their vegetables ?

Considering that transportation fuel is a relatively small cost of product , using something like biofuel is easy.
Another question: How do you plan on handling non-deterministic expressions, such as CURRENT_TIMESTAMP or ROWNUM, et al.?
A gentler view of some ideas coming back into political vogue ;)

See: Inside the Secret, Strange Origins of Steve Bannon’s Nationalist Fantasia

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Yes, I explained badly. I appreciate the clarification.
Most of the issues pointed out by int_19h would be handled at compile time during static analysis and wouldn't change much to the generated bytecode. I'm talking about strong typing, immutability by default, less error-prone syntax, tail calls, evaluation order etc...

Even replacing 256bit ints with arbitrary precision "bigints" wouldn't add too much of a cost if it's a native type of the underlying VM (as it should be for such an application IMO). It might even reduce code size by removing overflow tests.
Their prices are pretty much competitive already, was kind of surprised I think they are operating at cost for the launch.
Gambling seems like an interesting use case. Having a public seed and a public algorithm would mean that results should be verifiable but not predictable.

I suppose it would be interesting to consider how latency of this public resource represents a risk and how it could be mitigated.
With the exception of Peter Dutton's new mega department will streamline dog whistling and fear whipping I cant see how you could compare these with the Breitbart articles in anyway.

For example, "Your worst nightmare: a successful Donald Trump Presidency" is an article critical of the left(!) The headline itself comes from the conservative British historian Niall Ferguson. The complete quote is:

“I think one of the things Guardian readers, and their counterparts on the American coasts, don’t want to think about is the possibility that despite his obvious ineptitude, Trump might actually be successful.

“I said last summer to a bunch of liberal friends: ‘Your worst nightmare is not a Trump presidency; it’s a successful Trump presidency.’ The successful Trump presidency scenario is one in which, despite it all, the economy does better thanks to deregulation and tax cuts, foreign policy delivers some big wins on North Korea, the Middle East.

“It doesn’t take an awful lot for a president to start looking good. If the expectations start really low, which they have done, it may be one win, and I definitely don’t rule out a kind of ‘success in spite of himself’ scenario. And then you begin to wonder if a left-of-Clinton Democrat in 2020 would be blown away. We’ll see. The fun thing about doing history is you really can’t tell at this point which way it will go. It could quite easily go Jimmy Carter and he could be a lame duck.”

I just don't see how you can compare this to the Breitbart "reporting".
That makes sense. I figured there had to be a reason why they didn't just check the AST directly.
Can you even imagine Turing-complete GUI? That's what would be necessary to rival Turing-completeness of scripting in CLI.

And even if such GUI would be created, I don't think it would be any easier to understand than learning CLI commands. And it would require significant overhead to use; consider for example how you would search files for content matching a regex - in CLI I simply type in the regex one-liner, but in GUI I guess I'd have to click around visually building the regex? This would be a nightmare to use.

GUIs definitely are not a good tool for vast range of tasks.
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The suggestion that there are other kinds of valid thinking besides scientific thinking is way off.

No matter how obvious something feels, you can't know it's truth value. Humans can have auditory, visual and conceptual delusions that are completely convincing and completely opposite of what other humans experience.

The only conclusion you can draw from this essay is it's actually how the author says he thinks he feels. This may be a good starting hypothesis for a more rigorous study, but it says very little about life in general.
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It's like how after 20 years of jellybean cars all the OEMs slap an angry looking grill on their jellybean to prevent people from associating it with the clapped out 90s Camry the janitor drives.
> wouldn't the work factor decrease so that regular people could run it on their desktop machines?

other people would start mining-- botnets, gpu gaming enthusiasts, people with excess FPGA capacity, etc. and then these people would become miners.
I thought they had a ton of debt, largely for their new offices? Did that change?
AR is the new coming thing.
> Programming is creative endeavour too, but, no one is asked to build a product that succeeds in the market; that's the job of management.

Really? Maybe in really large companies, but even then, management just decide what product to build. It's still the engineers that build it.
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I totally agree with you. And although my two sons are too young to accurately observe this on them, I can tell you I fit the bill. I can manage on the 'fixed path', working in a company that has a plan sorted out, but I feel constrained and frustrated. I see rules as something nice but that has to be allowed to be broken when its the right thing to do. So I did do my start up journeys. A few times over the last 20 years and I'm still at it. I have never, however, heard it explained in that manner as to WHY I feel most comfortable when the odds are stacked against me and when I'm doomed and expected to fail. I revel in those moment as i know its my time to spark up and deliver. And when things get routine my light seem to dim... Until the next 'crisis'.
Why is it ok to force someone to buy something?
the ownership of cryptocurrency is based on a cryptographically signed ledger. Today, everybody agrees who owns which bitcoin because everyone agrees on the rules of transfer.

When you change the rules of transfer in a subset of nodes/users, then all of a sudden there is disagreement about who owns what: there are two ledgers, and you look at the one whose opinion about "ownership" you agree with.

So the "fork" is a fork in ownership or truth: a difference of opinion about who owns what. Nothing more, nothing less.

But it's a complicated economic effect to predict, because it's likely that the losing side (the opinion with the smaller number of nodes supporting it) will wither and die - one major value proposition of bitcoin is that it's universal. But what happens to the people who used that losing fork in the interim? Well, basically none of their transactions were "real" (they didn't take place on the ledger that eventually won), and if you sold something to someone on that ledger, then they have the goods/services, and you have nothing.
This is a standard press release. Can someone tell me what this technology actually is/does? Is it a bluetooth profile? A new protocol? At what layer? Is it a new spec/new optional/addition to the spec? Does it require new hardware?
It's reliable, you just need to use an rf cable.
Agreed. Thank god Wifi has never been as bad as Bluetooth.
try this infographic: https://i.imgur.com/RjTkcdQ.png
I'm not sure exceptional is the right word. I wouldn't even call it 'gifted'. Maybe its just being able to function better when the conditions are not ideal and the pressure is up, as opposed to when things are fine and there is nothing to worry about.
I think it means anything that doesn't require you to know or even decide how many servers you are using. It automatically scales by default.

It would include App Engine and Elastic Beanstalk, but also 'functions as a service' like AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions.

The author is clearly talking about App Engine, but comparing it to EC2 which is definitely not serverless, and very disingenuous. Even Google has an 'normal' non-serverless EC2-like option now.
+1. It's very hard to take seriously reputable sources when the work they produce is of such poor quality. Lies, partial truth, clear lobby/politics/companies influences, lack of fact checking... Even the correct ones, doing a decent work, don't provide much interesting analysis or insight.

That's why many people are on sites like HN: we get often more values from the comments that the articles themself.
> for loops and arrays are implemented are broken? Well actually they should rarely be used

A great motivation: it's always better to write half-assed implementations of rarely used features because they are rarely used.

> You do not need a complete language like F# and C++ to write contracts

Agreed. You need a small verifiable DSL, not an entire new language.

> Once again the type system doesn't need to be perfect

That's the spirit when designing a language!

> it amazing to see the progression

Well... yeah, if you started with the goal of executing without crashing it can only improve over time.
I agree. I don't think they add anything to the discussion. In fact, I wish a lot of the new folks who have joined HN in the past year would go back to reddit or where ever they came from because they don't seem to understand what HN is all about.
Assuming they manage the convince a large player in the organic retail biz to play they can create some sort of a "label" and go from there. Not that big of an issue.
Well for me it's the same reason I don't give functions names that suggest something different from what they do.
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Craziest one I remember from my Java years (long long ago) was someone claiming that returning values by throwing exceptions and catching them to extract the return value was faster than simply returning the value....

This was wrong on a number of levels.
Closest I've come to really embracing that kind of thing is https://github.com/serprex/pythonaes/tree/master/aespython

NB it really is faster

edit: nvm, Crumb is way more that kind of thing: https://github.com/serprex/Crumb/blob/master/C3.py
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Here's the kernel documentation about the Intel MEI driver (Management Engine Interface) which describes the /dev/mei node that allows you to manage AMT and other things on your local machine[1]. And HECI[2] also goes through Intel ME. So anything that uses either of those things requires Intel ME, and Linux provides support for both.

I also believe that I've read somewhere that the reason you need to use tools that talk directly to the EC to modify things like battery levels with coreboot (as opposed to the "standard" tools used on stock machines) is because of the lack of those interfaces for Linux.

I may be mistaken about the latter, but it is definitely true there are useful things that Linux does provide support for (and might use internally, I'm not sure).

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/me...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Embedded_Controller_Inter...
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Big enough of an issue for everyone that's tried so far it seems.
My thoughts are it seems that you either have to pick "mandate solar panels on homes" or "build more affordable housing" as both views don't seem to work together.
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The whole house will take that long to pay for itself. Any new home that pays off earlier points towards a bubble.

So if you assume that it takes 30 years until the house has amortised (via rent or saved rent), why not assume the same for the solar roof?
> "But Juho, what does any of this have to do with S3?", you ask. Well, S3 is one of those rare services that disable timestamps.

Interesting. Every once in a while I have issues on my cable provider (UPC in Austria) with S3 and S3 only. Next time that happens I gotta have a closer look at it.
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> The people who would benefit from the warning don't have the necessary background to understand it.

In my experience, this is accurate, but underscores a teaching opportunity. If you show Joe Beginner how to get the warnings, explain how they apply to the code and why the warning was good, they may slowly begin to appreciate the warnings. So that even if they don't understand, they won't necessarily dismiss the warning next time -- instead they'll go ask for help.
They expect to have some form of "lazy caching":

conf = {}

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The analysis leaves much to be desired, namely what has been and will be the effect of pooling all this money in passive investment funds, but I guess it's still newsworthy to note of this change in the investing environment (if true).

Personal opinion is all this consolidation into 2 or 3 companies dominating various fields will not bode well in the long term. Once you have enough people invested in something, it's tough to let it fail (politically), so you have a situation like 2008 where the people that made bad decisions were bailed out creating bad incentives and moral hazard going forward just because enough voters were negatively affected because everyone was invested in the same things.

Of course, 2008 wasn't the first time that happened, and it won't be the last, but I assume the cycle will continue until we reach a breaking point and the game is reset.
I think the main problem is that it's very hard to preemptively defend against all abuses of a law or contract. It's the whole "letter vs. spirit of the law" divide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law

If tomorrow I sign a contract with my mobile phone carrier and it turns out that through some loophole in the contract they get entitled to the kidneys of my first born daughter then clearly I have a case to go to a tribunal and get it overturned as it's obviously not a reasonable clause.

I think people arguing that "code is law" (which is simply a modern form of "letter-ism") don't really know what they wish for. I guess is many are going to change their minds when those attacks get more and more common and they lose a ton of money because of an unforeseen and obviously unintended flaw in the contract code.
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Exactly - no big deal, at all - but Kubrick is responsible for several really big deals.
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reminds me of possibly my favourite document of all time, the pepsi galaxy. https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

> The Pepsi Ratio is created by two simple circles,
that are in a set ratio to each other: The Golden Ratio.

> The Pepsi Ratio is aesthetic geometry.

> The Golden Ratio establishes a proportion of one part (a) relative to another (b). Playing by these rules produces an aestetic that is universally accepted to be in balance and harmony. The Pepsi aesthetic respects these rules: The brand identity can be derived from two circles, that have a set relation to each other.
How does their business model work then?
Subscription fees?
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Why sell at all? I get that you want to focus on your startup but if time is the issue, then just hire someone to competently manage it like a property manager of sorts to setup renters the same way you do now. Pay them out of the $90k profit and you should still have profit left over for not much work at all.

Also, rents only go up right? The longer you hold the property lease it the more passive income you get.
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I am looking for arguments on both sides of this debate. How would we roll this out in US and how would we work out the economics behind this? Will this really solve any problem? Are we creating a new problem? Will this create a class that can survive but not do much beyond that.
Yet another problem caused by shitty consumer-grade network equipment.
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wait–these are flat, black rectangles, installed on the roof, right?

Never mind the aesthetic judgement–would you even see them in the course of a normal day? I just had to use google earth to find out the color of my roof.

Maybe for a single-story house, yes, you could probably see them (when you're outside, during the day). So maybe this serves as motivation for more two-story development? That would have the added benefit of reducing urban sprawl–imagine cutting your commute in half!

Other than that, I'd say that yes, this seems to be one of those situations where the tradeoff seems justified, especially in Florida, which will be the first state below sea level if humanity can't get its act together.
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