skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that people kill their own children, pretty gross. I wonder if that was accurate: how could he have gotten this kind of information back then?

But China is a very extreme case: in general, if you dont have enough money to support a family, you wouldnt have a family, and lower wages would affect the demographic growth of the lowest earning members of society.
The logical corollary for this is that you always will have people in the lowest earning spectrum, because if they earned more they would have more children, increase surplus and reduce wages. We don't have a reserve army concept yet at WoN, unfortunately.

(btw Marx seems to agree 100% with this concept of lowest earning spectrum/demographics)
Definitely could be this as well. The answer to "can the product do _____" may entirely depend on who's asking. If its a big enough customer at a high enough price, they may want the ability to say "yes".
There's an AI researcher named Robert Miles [1] whose videos I really enjoy. He brought up a good point about this issue in one of his videos a little while back. To use it here, Elon Musk, Putin, and Mark Zuckerberg all have something in common: none of them are AI specialists or researchers. Another way to think of it is this: don't ask your dentist about your heart disease.

Miles does point out very real issues/questions in AI safety –
that's what most of his content is focused on. His point, which is a good one to make, is that the sort of fear mongering spread by non-AI specialists draws attention away from these very real issues that need to be addressed.

[1] His channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg He's also done a few videos for Computerphile.
So the punk thing didn't extend to British post-punk?

Growing up in the UK (born 1971) with an interest in an alternative music, Joy Division were just canon.
So you'll believe any story that critiques Google now?

I would take this article with a grain of salt.

Vivaldi's version of events is one side of the story. We don't know how Google would respond.
What are you talking about? South Korea and Taiwan may not have had those stand out moments of mass murder, but saying they didn't go through an authoritarian period is just not true. It may not have been on the same scale, but it still involved mass oppression, murder, blackmail, kidnapping, and other unsavory methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chung-hee#Legacy

That being said, I don't necessarily disagree with the principle of your statement about free societies being better.
I've really been enjoying http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ unfortunately it isn't complete yet.
That's a strange claim, given that you are not allowed to ask the Chinese people, en masse, if they like their government or not, and they are not allowed to tell you.

Until they are allowed to speak on the subject, we will not know. But the near-daily peasant uprisings around the country would tend to indicate dissatisfaction.
I'm curious where this leaves things like the ZFS appliances? They aren't going to use openzfs on oel are they?
I own a Tesla Model X. I am not trying to be imflammatory, but my grandmother drives better than this car, and my grandmother is dead. Going down a street with a row of bushes, the car will slow down at every bush, and then speed up again. Musk is worried about AI, but his cars cannot even process bushes better than my dead grandmother.
Those are some very big challenges. But bigger the challenges, the more fun it is to solve them. And more of a headstart you get over competition. Best wishes with the challenges. Your mission is amazing to say the least
Probably 20-50 people, 100-200 servers, and comfortably sitting on 10-30% of global instant messaging traffic running through their servers. If that's not somewhat interesting to somebody then I've got a bridge to sell you.
I think the threat is not AI, is what computer program is telling us. Even as simple as writing a test, how many times have we found ourselves writing a test that is giving false positive? That's not AI, but we arenmisled because we trust what the program said ("it didn't crash!"). Now apply that to GPS. How many times have we heard someone ended up in a lake or some swamp? I dislike Waze because the path it recommends is often worse than Google Map's. If I know how to get to my destination I don't need GPS. We believe GPS always knows the best optimized route because some smart engineers spent entire life working on map technology, but in reality that may not always be the case.

I am more afraid we are accustomed to trusting technology. So many just go on the computer and look for answers on the Internet. Students go on Wolframalpha and trust the output. We have forgotten we need our brain to function. Fake news? Bombarded by ads? This is pre-AGI and we are already sufferring.
Most nerds aren't good at communicating.
You responded to someone talking about laying a cable across land. So, no, they did not say that you could cheaply lay a cable across the Atlantic.
You should have see it in 1989.
> He doesn't really provide details on what rules he was violating, but judging from the fact that the ads were reinstated the moment he was in compliance with them, it sounds like a trumped up charge.

I agree skepticism is warranted.

This is one side of the story. Even if you have it out for Google, you should want more details before grabbing your pitchfork. Mistakenly criticizing someone only empowers them.
Isn't Chromium just a repackaging of KHTML from the KDE project?
That's exactly what article is talking about.
Yeah good question - we're particularly interested in filtering, categorising and verifying the social media data that published during a disaster - the volume of this data is absolutely huge, so if you can use some sort classification algorithm (even basic stuff like SVM), then you can potentially massively reduce the workload of responders, who just don't have the time to that sort of manual work themselves - they're too busy doing the actual response.
It says Twitter doesn't allow automated likes, which is what bots usually do.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915

D. Automated actions you take on Tweets or accounts

Automated likes: You may not like Tweets in an automated manner.
It is the same thing if he his insulin homeostasis is out of whack. It's a constant struggle in that case. That's why most people who lose weight in the short term gain it right back when they "maintain".

A thin dude at work pretty much only eats junk food and washes it down with regular coca cola, of which he drinks 3-4 cans a day. Every single day. Doesn't exercise much either. And he doesn't gain weight. For me, god forbid I eat a single donut a week, I inflate like a balloon.
These replies are unhelpful and off topic. Author asked for technical resources, not a bunch of opinions about why they are wrong to want this and what they should do instead.
Unfortunately the world doesn't run off technical ability though. Oracle is a mammoth because it's proficient at extracting value and profit from its businesses. Don't get me wrong, I agree with you in principle, but it's the equivalent of someone destroying artwork and making a gain from it and wondering how they get away with it when the world doesn't care about art, they care about money.
In the case of Putin, are you seriously asking "Why are these leaders frightening people..."?

But seriously, people whom we might call "visionaries" like Musk, Zuckerberg, and let's throw Ray Kurzweil in there, often get their ideas by extrapolating the current state of technology into its logical next phase. (They also like to be grossly aggressive on deadlines, to motivate their employees to be innovative and efficient.)

Unfortunately a simple extrapolation doesn't always produce an idea that is attainable in practice. We will not have human-level AI anytime soon. We're still many years away from driverless cars. An AI that cares about the politics of nation-states (to which we can confidently hand over the nuclear codes) is much farther away than that. But none of that actually matters, because a single tweet from these leaders can cause a flurry of activity and interest that can lead to an unexpected product idea. So, while it's ethically dubious, I see this as being a mostly positive thing.
Here's a cool programming language in a live-coding environment that I developed with my interns two summers ago. It enables natural language programming which is great for introducing young kids to computer science.

It is built in Java and uses a recursive descent parser to parse sentences like "draw a red circle at 300, 300", and is well commented because the intention was for advanced students at my education program to be able to easily extend and hack on it.

https://github.com/techlabeducation/pseudocode
Well, and as of Friday, of course, SmartOS is infinitely better than Solaris.
It's easy to believe the AI threat if you believe AI is a panacea.
BTC has never-before seen volatility, biggest bubble of all time. If bagholders are all aboard, prepare for a dip below 2k for a swing. The market is very orderly (which is why I was able to predict both the price and time of peak, see my other account) using tech analysis only. Therefore there is sufficient evidence of a balanced disparity between insiders (brought to you by GS and company) and the uninformed.

For there to be a move above 5500 you'll need a new wave of buying pressure. This puppy is now owned by your rent seeking masters. It's up to the big players to govern how price is to move and that's largely a function of how much buying interest really remains.

It doesn't take much to realize BTC itself has dubious value; better tech will emerge in our generation. This was merely a first step. That has nothing to do with the short term price or where it finally tops if it hasn't already, though.

Goldman came out on public radio to state the price will be a buy below 2k. Wise to heed their advice here. Trick is to know which of their info they release is reliable, which requires a system in and of itself.
I'll concede that the market hasn't responded, but still applaud MS for pushing forward with new ideas.
If Oracle would do something very stupid, the facts are these:

IBM has a Java VM with - likely - iron clad licensing around it A patent portfolio regarding virtual machines that (at least uses to) be quite deep, and a database engine partially competing in the same market as Oracle.

Almost every large enterprise runs Java somewhere.

End result might be that Oracle gives away quite a bit of business to IBM while simultaneously angering the IT departments of just about substantial company on the planet, not a great strategy.
And think tanks banked by Google, who will pressure them to fire people if they say the wrong thing.
Practical state of AI is image classification, so if you tie that to a weapon and program it to fire at 'its will', yes. Though it'd still not call that intelligence, so in that point of view no. And even in the first case, its how they say? guns dont kill people, people kill people with guns? So i'd say that goes for AI too.
Right, that's the exact use case they state in the paper:

> For the past 4 years, BitFunnel has powered Bing’s fresh index of recently crawled documents.

So it's specialized. But why would that mean it's impractical?
Personally I like refilling the pen. It is a lot cheaper and you get better inks.
> Standards of living increase year-over-year every single year

I lived in China for a few years, and finally left early this year. Standard of living has been declining ever since I arrived, for me and for my local friends, many of them that were from other provinces that came to Shanghai. The declining factors included:

1.) Increasingly worse air pollution. It was not smart to exercise outdoors in the summer or winter.

2.) Increasingly worse water pollution (even reported by the state media). The frequency of diarrhea keeps going up.

3.) Increasingly worse food supply (there was a scandal of a company in northern China that used toxic industrial agents in common food items for 10!! years)

4.) Lack of jobs for migrants. Alot of them had to head back home to their farms.

5.) Censorship Censorship Censorship. Not a day went by that I wasn't frustrated with my VPN not being able to hit a western site.

6.) Inflation. Everything is more and more expensive, in tier 1, 2, 3, and even 88 cities. But standards haven't gone up.

7.) Anyone rich is trying to get out. Australia, US, Canada, anywhere.

Lastly, 8.) Chinese government regressing into a dictatorship, with the possibility of Xi Jin Ping taking a 3rd term.
> Consumption is good for the economy

I doubt hedonist consumption is what Keynes had in mind.

> inheritance taxes are necessary to provide equality of opportunity.

Lets take this to the extreme: lets say that your father could not provide you with anything but minimum substance until your coming of age (18?). Anything given to you by your parents would be taxed away. This means that you now cannot go to any college that is not provided to you by credit. But you have no assets and no income, so nobody will loan you any money. Plus, you don't have money for rent, so you need to work immediately to pay for your own place.

Maybe you feel sympathy for the millions of people that actually live that, but how is forcing everyone to go through that be better for society at large?

Or think what it would mean for the state to actually do that: what if you had to build any infrastructure built by a previous generation from scratch, because "its not fair the SF bridge is nicer than the Brookly bridge, its inherited".

The emotional answer I have against advocating inheritance tax is that the goal is not to be fair, its to be better. And certainly fair by destruction, by removing everything, is not better.
> So you have only a few choices: hold up your release until everyone catches up, ship everyone the same lowest common denominator triaging out the advanced stuff, shipping an app with all kinds of workarounds and fallbacks, or shipping a native mobile one instead.

It seems like the article is complaining more about suspension of its adwords campaign than Chromium. Do you have any insight to that?
Take a look at how many crazy variations of a favicon image you need now to satisfy iOS/Android/Microsoft desires.
Twenty years ago, if you'd said that the surviving commercial *ixen would be AIX and HP/UX, you'd have been drummed out of the Unix Beard club.
I had the same problem -- after throwing together a few open source front-end libraries, and struggling with each to get webpack, babel, karma, flow, etc. all working seamlessly together, I put together https://github.com/krakenjs/grumbler and now just fork this every time I want to start something new.

Being able to just start writing code without spending forever setting up the perfect environment is hugely liberating. I'd encourage everyone to find good boilerplates for what they want to do (or put together their own if nothing else fits)
Here's a fun one, from our very own YCombinator:

> The Flex group uses technology to improve the range and fluidity of human expression. We invent new concepts and representations that amplify people’s ability to create, connect, and understand. We create tools that blur the line between using and creating, in order to provide a conversational medium for thinking and doing.

What they really do is make graphical programming tools. That's it.

https://harc.ycr.org/flex/
I recommend playing a bit with ometa:

http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/#Sample_Project

The framework has since evolved into ohm, but I think ometa-js is more fun for playing around with.

https://github.com/harc/ohm
The Oracle rdbms was at least for a while unmatched. It had programmability, functionality, and tunability that no other database had. If you needed what it provided, and could afford it, there was no real substitute.

Today, Postgres has come a long way, and distributed databases are much more developed. There is probably much less technical justification for using Oracle than there was 10+ years ago.

Also many companies would pay for Oracle and just use it for CRUD operations. That was throwing money away, no doubt.
The thing is, it's new and it'll continue to get better. Think of the telegraph. Look at what we have today.
If a commute takes 1 hr and that is a time of day when you typically have peak productivity/ mental energy then one is hardly likely to want to just sit there in silence. Do you not think that if you were in prison you might want pen and paper at least?
> is this just people being hyperbolic, or is is truly that terrible?

I'm on the outside looking in and don't have any special internal insight, but they didn't just pull this robo-RIF idea out of their ass spur-of-the-moment. Oracle is the kind of place that maintains a robo-layoff system, which pretty much says all you need to know.

"What you think of Oracle is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle."

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m
Catholics don't consider fish meat. I'm not sure what they think it is, maybe some sort of creepily mobile mushroom?
The danger with AI is that it grows in power exponentially, especially since highly advanced AI can start improving on themselves without human intervention. When people think exponential curves, they think rapid progress, but that's only half the story. Any exponential curve starts off with looking like a flat line, before suddenly taking off like a rocket ship.

Without the benefit of hindsight, we can't tell how far away we are from that rocket-ship liftoff. We've had decades of minor progress in the past, but that's normal for any exponential curve. Are we going to have many more decades/centuries to go before we get to the breakout moment? Or is it just 10-20 years away? We have no idea. All we know is that once we get to that point, AI-IQ is going to grow exponentially faster than natural human IQ.

That said, I really don't think that censoring AI research is going to work. Pandora's box has been opened, and if we don't do it, someone else will. All this talk about hard coding Asimov's laws into AIs is idiotic as well. We have no clue how to build AGI right now, and until we do, discussing specific tactics like the above is utterly pointless. They also presuppose human ability to shackle and mold super-intelligent beings, without making any mistakes or overlooking unintended consequences, which is nothing more than a pipe dream.

Realistically, there's only one thing we can do. Embrace bioengineering. Embrace GATTACA style genetic selection. Embrace cybernetic augmentation. Do everything we can to grow our IQ beyond its natural limits. If our minds don't keep up with technological progress, we will inevitably find ourselves left behind.
The D Programming Language (2014)
It's probably harder to slap affiliate links on research papers.
I became a recent fan after catching a feature film [0] and a documentary [1] about the band. Worth a look and listen.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1097239/
Can't you incorporate in an off-shore jurisdiction?
The poster's comment reads a bit like an advertisement, but LMDB would be a good solution for persisting data, in my opinion. It has a pretty simple C API and it's been described by its authors as "crash-proof".
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I am afraid all major banks have departments involved in shameful business practices such as this very sad example.

Let's pick a supposedly "ethical" very small french bank, the "credit cooperatif"'. As their name implies, they offer ethical financial tools, which forbids child labour or any other shameful practices. So apparently if you select that bank you do not support drug cartels money laundering and your money is invested in environment friendly companies.

So far, so good. Except they are a subsidiary of banque populaire, a larger but still "somewhat ethical bank"'. Banque Populaire has merged with Caisse d'Epargne. The BPCE group is the main shareholder of investment bank Natixis which has a not so ethical track record and a huge building on the kirchberg plateau in Luxemburg. Let's just say they did not choose that building for the view on the european court of justice which is across the street.

And by the way, bpce also own a much smaller "banque des mascaraignes" which is headquartered in Mauritius. I am not exactly convinced they are in the business of supporting Mauritius economic growth.

So which is "better", hsbc which was apparently started to deal with opioids between China and the UK and is regularly accused of shameful business practices or a clean small bank which is in fact a front for a large bank with a track record on par with hsbc? I don't have a definitive answer on that ethical question.

No sources because I'm on mobile atm but everything can be fact checked through a few google queries.

Disclaimer: I have accounts in BPCE and HSBC...
I clearly remember his class on, basically, Mathematics for Philosophers. As an engineering student, I thought my pal from Urban Studies who suggested taking it was a way to pad one's GPA, which wasn't my style. Nonetheless, I agreed, and, now, I regard it as one of the most important courses I've ever taken. I have never met anyone with that level of enthusiasm, wonder, and love of Mathematics - who also knew how to partially impart it to his students! Mainly, it's the Wonder of it all that remains with me. What a privilege.
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I've always thought Oracle's primary goal was to keep Oracle engineers in employment.
Thank you. I'm removing ranger and installing nnn.
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You're basing all of this on one heck of an axiom:

> The danger with AI is that it grows in power exponentially

This is like saying "the opportunity with mechanical transportation is that it gets faster exponentially" before even inventing the wheel.
This is typical of the "Enterprise" B2B sales approach, as apposed to selling to small and medium sized businesses and startups.

Enterprise sales has developed its own absurd language and culture that is now indistinguishable from parody.