skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a refreshingly honest evaluation of the study that you tend not to see when these studies get brought up (the Wikipedia page is particularly bad at this).

We already know that language acquisition is going to be driven in large part by motivation on the learner's part, as well as competency on the teacher's part, and it's all too easy to construct a study that self-selects motivated students and competent teachers for Esperanto and unmotivated students and marginal teachers for other languages.

Another major question that's completely unanswered to me is the effect of pedagogy on teaching (and, perhaps to a lesser degree, to assessing competence in the learned language). One of the studies Wikipedia cites claims that you can learn the grammar of Esperanto in ~5 hours, which is "impossible" for other languages. That instead screams to me that Esperanto is taught as a detached grammar course in early instruction, whereas other languages will tend to start with a phonological crash-course combined with basic phrase acquisition, instead spreading grammar out over several hundreds of hours of instruction.
Good point. Another noted expert in "AI" is Andrew Ng (formerly Google and Baidu) who stated that, "Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."

...For some reason Elon is really hung up on gradient-based descent methods terminating all of humanity. We just aren't close to that possibility yet. It is not even in sight.
Yudkowski is the most well-reasoned author I have ever read.
I once found myself in the odd position of working as a janitor while hiring a maid to clean my floors and surfaces at home (only before having guests over) because I couldn't find the time and energy after I was done with my regular job.

The biggest one I can think of is car repair, or driving itself. Mostly it would probably be indirect stuff like food prep, though-- dollar menus and cheap frozen dinners. For the 'working poor', being able to spend less time cooking is an accessible luxury that's hard to resist.
It's only the top few models. It's using some kind of image analysis to recognize landmarks and help it navigate.

The video would have to be processed onboard, because wifi isn't require for the Roomba to work. I'll have to look at my router's logs for the Roomba, it should be pretty obvious if it's doing any amount of video uploading.
>Turning on an AI or copying the code for one and spreading it would probably be easiear.

What people never mention in any discussion with AI is that the AI will be as limited by physical world as we are. AI It's not just code, it's also the hardware that will run the code. That hardware has theoretical and practical limits, and requires a lot of power. It's not like AI running on some peta/exascale supercomputer will be able to jump to your laptop and take it over and spread itself to every electronic device in the world.
I don't think it would fragment that quickly. In times past travel was slow, there was no telephone, or news papers. The few books were mostly reserved for the elite.

600 years ago (before the printing press) most people lived either on or near their farm. You went to the nearby village for things you couldn't make on the farm. Traveling to the next village was as far as most people could go: they needed to get back to the farm to milk the cow again, or otherwise care for the farm. As such there was no way to know your language was fragmenting, much less any reason to care.

Today we have printing presses, telephone, TVs, movies. All give us ways to find out about fragmentation and reasons to care. While languages will still change and fragment over time, the above pressures will help to keep the changes in check.
But how can one think that Mark's understanding of "sci-fi AI" is limited? We're so far from any of it that at this point it's all speculation about what could or could not happen.

If I have a theory that humans will evolve into separate species, I can't say someone else's understanding on the matter is limited.
But AI is not just bits in cold storage. It would need a lot of computing power and or bandwidth. it would need money and power also.
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It doesn't really matter whether it continues exponentially, even if the singularity is hundreds of years away the dangers are mostly the same.
> In this case, judging you for using a broken system, akin to tax loopholes, may not be "good" - but it's certainly not the root of the problem

Wouldn't the greed of man be the true root of the problem? It just so happens that we can't actually fix it in a practical manner so the next best thing we can do is to be make it so it's difficult to take advantage of others.
I wonder if all those declarations by Intel are just a game: Declare something big/interesting with tons of media etc - stock picks up by x%, than a few years afterwards, cancel it without a fanfare, stock goes down by much less than x%. Intel wins. For those knowledgeable about the stock market, could it be the case ?

Because that would be a good explain why did Intel enter this field, which is is a very poor fit for it - unless they come with some breakthrough.
Right. Servo is an engine that will be embeddable into apps that need to render HTML, not just browsers.
A majority of the experts in AI would side with Zuckerberg on this one. See for example: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/07/18/artific.... It's not that we shouldn't worry about AI, it's that the issue Musk is raising - AI as an existential threat -, is distracting from the real issues.
Indeed, there are a few companies that can help you with this[0][1], even bigger ones like TI. It is somewhat expected that you are driving this, though. There are plenty of resources on the internet about every step to production.

[0] https://www.baldengineer.com/arduino-prototype-into-product....
[1] https://www.postscapes.com/forum/arduino/47-if-arduino-is-fo...
Even billionaires end up wasting their lives bikeshedding.
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Which competitor is the closest to that platform? the mbed ?
> They can be far reaching but again they can't breach the sandbox

False, they can breach the sandbox. The sandbox is software and it has exploitable flaws until proven otherwise (which hasn't happened).

Look, like I said in another comment: you'd be fine if you restricted yourself to relative comparisons, but for some reason you have to go too far and make absolute statements of security, statements which can't possibly be true. iOS might be more secure than other OSes, but it's still insecure, and it's dangerous and misleading to say that any users don't need to exercise reasonable caution.
Are you expecting that Sapiens Sapiens would somehow last as a species forever?
For Chinese there's the Wubi method [1], which assigns each radical component of a character to a key, by typing the right combination of keys for some of the components, individual strokes and disambiguation keys, any Chinese character can be almost uniquely identified (some typographic variants have identical representations).

I'm currently trying to learn it, because I hate scrolling through long lists of homophones to find some rarer character; but I have not yet achieved the level where I can just freely type out anything without looking up its key sequence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_method
Because the nature of the system makes it unstable with more than two viable parties. It is possible for a third party to attain a critical mass and become viable, but it would displace one of the current major parties and we'd be back to a two-party system.
How can Trump be upward mobility incarnate when he inherited tens of millions of dollars, though?
Given that Edinburgh council seems more interested in selling of parkland for development I don't think there would be much chance of that. I'd be worried that if the council did somehow take ownership of them they'd end up being developed and a lot of green space (albeit private) would be lost.
Yes. That is why a post from Fox is interesting. I was not making a value judgement, but if you're trying to coerce one, here it is. In addition to having a conservative slant, Fox News is evil.
It’s supposed to be a deal where the building owner gets a variance on zoning restrictions if they promise to maintain a public space. But the reality is that a lot of them are inaccessible and there’s no enforcement. http://gothamist.com/2017/04/19/pops_balderdash.php
A symbolic language, such as Bliss[0][1][2], avoids cringe-worthy issues with accents and comprehension, at the cost of being written only. Sign languages do the same.

International Sign Language[3] + Bliss are in theory the perfect combination for intergalactic communication. Blind people, unfortunately, would have to continue to suffer English until such time that direct brain stimulation becomes feasible.

EDIT: Key point in all seriousness: the Bliss language has enabled thousands of cerebral palsy sufferers to communicate with a full range of expression. Sadly curbed in recent years by the much more limited pre-phrased, Hawking-like computer voices. Alternatives exist. Listen to the radio shows in [1] to find out more. The BBC one I found particularly moving. The Radiolab one starts at 5min, goes on for some 30mins.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols

[1] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y26qf, http://www.radiolab.org/story/257194-man-became-bliss/

[2] - https://archive.org/details/mrsymbolman

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Sign
Is it "limited" or "biased" - as in biased so it serves the purpose one is trying to achieve.

It would apply to both though :)
Provisioning more than one ethernet PHY is an issue. There aren't a lot of choices for two or more PHYs at a reasonable (singe $ digits in medium quantities) cost
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Honestly I'm pretty appalled by Musk's statements. There's no indication from recent research that we're close to the "dreadful super intelligence". I think he has an a very naive and scifi-ish understanding of the state of AI and his fear mongering is irresponsible at best. Or maybe he's right and private companies are so technologically advanced that they surpass academia by a wide margin. Somehow I highly doubt that.
Learning Esperanto is a powerful experience, for one simple reason - there's no such thing as a foreign accent. It's a truly international language, with no territorial boundaries and no in-group. Esperanto is a long way from perfect, but it's the closest thing we've got to a linguistic and cultural level playing field.
Taking those concerns at face value doesn't seem like enough. How do you get from that to "therefore I really want this con-man to be President"?
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Was Isaac Asimov being distracted from the real issues as well just a few decades ago? Food for thought :-)
> which I'm realizing we may want in our DSL since we're converting user input strings to atoms

careful there. Theres a hard limit on the number of atoms that can be created in an environment, and serializing user input to atoms can get dangerous
My boot time on an SSD + i5 on my 4.5 year old desktop is <10 seconds. The same PC boots Ubuntu in ~5. ~2 seconds of both is BIOS boot time. I haven't experienced any annoying issues with Win 10.

Obviously, there is some variation in experience, and I doubt all of it can be chalked up to the OS.
> It doesn't end well

It's an unpleasant story, but the ending seems OK.

Cops play the role of corporate lackey (like they do everywhere, in the USA and everywhere else), treat citizen badly, with probable significant racist component, and end up shooting him with a taser and arresting him. All bad so far.

But then he sues, and they settle for $100,000.00.

That's pretty much how that story should end.
Mr. Bliss
Waking up only every 5 minutes limits the usefulness of this, doesn't it? It's not exactly something that they can use to respond to random, arbitrary events. Though if it's used to sample something like, "how many people are currently waiting at this crosswalk", that's pretty good.
Why are pixels relevant to a discussion on computing power?
How was this admitted? You're probably misusing the word collusion. There's no evidence of collusion yet, and there's barely evidence of the Russia hacks. Those intelligence agencies are relying on the investigation that CrowdStrike did. They were the only ones with access to the compromised servers. It's not like they all took a look themselves and came to the same conclusion. It's been consistently exaggerated and misrepresented by the media because they have a bias.
My newborn son has $250,000 in debt thanks to the welfare state. Borrowing from him to give to someone else is criminal. How can you talk about expanding the welfare state when we can't even pay for the one we have?
The problem is that both are potentially right.

The majority of the ML field still ignores entirely the AGI discipline - and in general rightly so as there are enough narrow problems to solve to fill a lifetime. That's the perspective of Lecun/Ng etc... because they are scientists.

The others Bostrom et al. are philosophers, so they approach it from a different perspective.

There are valuable reasons to think about it at both levels.
The Symbols of Bliss
Mr. Symbol Man
As overloaded as the term "AI" has become, to the point where mainstream discussion is unlikely to be substantative, I'm glad a tech-business leader like Elon Musk is at least taking a public position of some skepticism. AI can be as empowering or as dangerous as we design and constrain it -- but to a layperson, AI and "algorithms" seem like inevitable magic, in the way that iPhones have steadily "improved" in hardware specs and in life-augmenting features.
I don't see anyone mentioning that Google won't allow you to use U2F anywhere but on Chrome. E.g last time I tried I couldn't log in using Firefox even if I installed the plugin. [0]

[0] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/IwKFuNh...

Edit: link
Maybe I'm in the minority here but I don't have a problem with this. If they raise the price based on demand, and I still deem it a good price, then who was harmed here? Sure I paid more than I needed to but I still paid less than I felt it was worth to me.
It's not useless as a term but AI has become a catchall for anxiety about the future.

I'll add another set of concerns you see in these discussions.

People know that the current version of predatory Capitalism we've created so far would happily mass unemploy everyone (possibly all the white collar workers reading this much sooner then you think). This would leave no workers and no consumers with money outside of the ultrawealthy.

I agree. I don't trust the current version of capitalism to program these AI of the future. I think they will burn the house down in their greed.
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One example from the article: the London City Hall, where the major works from, is in private space so there can't be any demonstrations there. Don't you think this is problematic?
Yes, I like to run the official self-updating build from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-c... , because it's the official build (which is appreciated when reporting bugs) and always fresh.

- You could switch to that too (I run it even on my job Ubuntu machine, never saw any benefit to using the official Ubuntu PPA apart from proper packaging, which I don't care about, this Firefox lives in /opt/firefox and that's okay with me, and getting updates are a matter of hitting Help -> About, easy).

- Or just wait a few days for the PPA to serve a fresher build. EDIT forget about this and read bzbarsky's answer above. Thanks, Boris :)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

The possibility of using AI to surveil and manipulate Facebook users (and non-users) on a mass scale (and probably give his presidential campaign a boost along the way) is worth far too much money for Zuckerberg to admit to the potential downsides.

Zuckerberg isn't optimistic about AI, he's optimistic about the money and power AI will grant him.
http://koken.me/ might not be very lightweight (MySQL needed), but the installation and administration are very easy.
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My Dad was a smartphone holdout until last year. I deeply regret getting him one. He is now nose deep in it whenever I see him and much less interesting to be around since his conversations are now about what's popular online and not the original thoughts he once used to have.

This has made me more reflective of my tech absorption and how hard it is to see until you see it happen to someone else.
Indeed, SEP is a separate ARMv7 core apart from the application processor. EL3 on the AP is used for KPP. [0]

[0]: https://xerub.github.io/ios/kpp/2017/04/13/tick-tock.html
to what others are mentioning I will add:

-stability

-recoverability / error handling

-quality of construction

-documentation

-ease of use/support/baked in features
As much as I love PostgreSQL, which is a lot, MS SQL still has some exceptional functionality around business intelligence and handles large reporting warehouses with ease. We just purchased three UCS blades for a new SQL Server deployment to consolidate our existing databases and handle the data warehousing project we are starting, here I am wasting days writing ansible modules and roles to set everything up when I could just be templating out a couple config files if all the SQL Server components ran on Linux.

I'm incredibly happy Microsoft is bringing SQL Server to Linux as a DevOps person, I'm really hoping SSIS/SSAS/SSRS makes it in eventually because they're the only thing keeping me from saying we should be deploying the new cluster on Linux instead of Windows.
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You misspelt "less corrupted zoning process"
A solution might be to identify what you need it for and build a process around it which pushes you to do what you are here for in the first place.

You wouldnt start to bake a cake by buying meat, right?

Theres currently no process in place for anything, but only lots of information and people trying to get you addicted to spend money and time(depending on you product or customer) on things you do not require.
You think the owners of the means will ever hand them over peacefully?
Yes, it's a pipe dream. I would much prefer that bin pickup schedules got more reliable first…
This is not about science fiction. It's about science today and in a near future and its consequence on policies and regulations.
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Exactly. And that's one big reason I find so many of these "doomsday" scenarios less than useful. They're largely based on a view of AI that's rooted in science-fiction, not reality.
"That is in addtion to our Veritizing a medical practice as a showcase for doctors and healthcare biz pros around the world to emulate (using Veritas, of course). Think of us just capturing 50 basis points of all of the medical practices and related healthcare businesses in the world "
(From [1])

Wow! This in a post announcing the 8M USD hack. And what language he speaks.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887061.msg20348125#...
Ask around your friends if any need some help in IT ? Start with helping out and getting back into the field, then cover ground.
Well, if the_Donald is allowed to be a safe space, I don't see why LSC can't.
I didn't decide gravity exists, but I can say it does. HN has standards; I'm aware of them; your comment doesn't meet them.
Right, I wasn't really proposing that people should restrict themselves to 10 proven correct ones. It was mainly meant as an existence proof.

I believe that people have made formally verified (trivial?) contracts (based on the spec of the vm iirc? Not sure), but I don't remember anything about a formally verified contract being used in practice. People definitely are making progress on the formal verification front (building foundations/infrastructure/etc.) but they aren't really there yet. ("There" being, ready for widespread use, and in widespread use)

I don't really understand why people buy into many of these ICOs. I mean, I'm somewhat enthusiastic about "smart contracts", but I don't actually own any cryptocurrency.

I don't mean to say that I think all ICOs are bad, but given the number that are failing, I find it hard to imagine that the people buying into them are doing enough research into them before buying for it to make sense.

Also, I don't understand why people aren't building contracts on top of a contract layer that handles arbitration for reversing fraudulent transactions yet? I thought that would have been built by now.
intel IP just doesn't even offer anything in that space. who cares about x86-compatibility when you're doing new firmware? it's a horrorshow compared to what ARM provides.

i don't need AVX extensions or whatever, i need sane and plentiful interrupts, a reasonable memory model, simple IO, etc.
It's not like AI running on some peta/exascale supercomputer will be able to jump to your laptop and take it over and spread itself to every electronic device in the world

That's exactly a proposed scenario - with the form of "jumping" being any kind of communication. See: The AI Box problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box
I met couple of them:

Soldier in the navy, served enough to fully retired. While being on retirement he learned HTML, CSS, PHP (around 2000s) and he is contractor to this day.

Manager in warehouse. He was working there for 5+ years starting as the lowest paid employee (some other physical jobs before that), decided to start coding. He learned front end dev in 2 years on online courses and landed his first dev job just before he turned 30.
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42 minutes could mean say 40 miles. That's near the upper level limits for a round trip without recharging for older generation cars like my Leaf.

The newer Leaf will make it with plenty to spare. Same with the BMW. Next generation Leaf coming up will go 200+ as well. So things are changing and costs are dirt cheap.

For most of my time owning my car, I charged only at work on the weekdays. It was free. Think I've personally saved over $8K in fuel costs total.

So for me, the total cost of ownership is around 27K. For an civic, I would probably be well above 30K by now.

Get an electric car if you can swing it. Total savings is great!
Intel really seems to be stuck in their commodity PC / Server mentality. The number of customizations that are done these days in mobile and I suspect as things become cheaper IoT is pretty impressive. Intel hates customization since that means other people make money (see the whole NVidia Ion chipset saga). I just cannot see them making any headway with their current "must be high volume commodity product" attitude.
It's not. The same amount of glycemic load consumed all at once or over time throughout the day will not have a significant effect on insulin resistance. Not being able to eat as much because you are constrained to an 8 hour window will cause your overall glycemic load to go down.
I honestly believe some of Asimov's concerns regarding AIs are not science fiction but rather forward thinking and will eventually happen.
Pointing out that add more cores is yet another wall because FLOPS is only a proxy and few things are truly embarrassingly parallel when your start talking 1+ billion cores.