skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> With no way to define intelligence (except just pointing to ourselves), we don't even know if it's a quantity that can be maximized. For all we know, human-level intelligence could be a tradeoff. Maybe any entity significantly smarter than a human being would be crippled by existential despair, or spend all its time in Buddha-like contemplation.<<

The only intelligence that I believe is important is problem solving. If an AI is as capable as humans at problem solving then that is all you need.

>>crippled by existential despair

Sounds to me that you are talking about feelings. I really do not see the purpose of purposely giving the AI feelings. A strong AI should not have any feelings just like your google maps application does not have any feelings when giving you directions.

A general AI will simply be a general problem solver at the same level of a human but with a virtual infinite capacity to scale its computational abilities.

You could definitely give it free will so that it decides its own goals but why would anybody do something like that unless they want it to turn on them?

It would be like somebody launching a nuclear ballistic missile and letting it decide which city to land in. It is possible to program that type of free will but why? It could decide to destroy your city.
Eddie was as mainstream as mainstream can get, how old are you?
A bit off-topic, but I don't understand the popularity of hidden directories for what should be human-visible files. Why be intentionally obscure rather than discoverable?
Except that no one was building the future the way Jobs did. Having the idea for something is only part of the battle, actually implementing it in a usable fashion is the most important part of it.

If you look at the Xerox Alto, and the Macintosh, it's amazing how much more advanced the Macintosh was at UI and how much easier to use it was, and how much less expensive it was (Jobs actually supposedly helped design the Mac mouse, which was really good and super cheap).
Some trolls specialize in sealioning. It's hard to tell which ones are debating in good faith. Plus, assuming most are not debating in good faith then that still leaves us with the problem that the "other people are going to stop going there and contributing to the discourse".

Perhaps you can share from your experience in decrying racists on Twitter how you can distinguish one from the other?

"And the alternative is to ban everything from twitter that people find offensive"

Is banning from above the only solution you can think of?

One alternative is much more effective control tools.

Some people voluntarily use collaboratively developed blacklists of accounts to ignore. This is not censorship any more than kicking someone unruly out of your meeting in a library meeting room is censorship. (Old-style shared Usenet killfiles are also not censorship.)

Combine that with some collaboratively developed training corpus of spam/ham to filter your twitter stream.

Then have Twitter set up a few default filters, rather like "Safe Search" on Google.

Very few people say that GMail censors their email by automatically placing some messages into "Junk".

However, this will cost money, and likely not increase Twitter revenue. It might even decrease it. So why would they do it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the First Amendment. I'm just pointing out that the situation is more complex that people usually appreciate. The First Amendment is just a plank in the arena of 'free spech', it's not the source of it (after all, free speech exists in countries that don't have the US constitution).

I mean, take your example of the boss firing you for saying 'go to hell'. It doesn't make sense; it doesn't make any real-world differentiation to other countries. In what western democracy do people get jailed for telling their boss to go to hell? You have to go to some pretty extreme authoritarian states before you start to get to behaviour like that.

My point is that merely quoting the First Amendment is not sufficient to carry an argument on free speech. There are lots of indirect ways to suppress speech, and I gave an example link. That's why the US isn't up at #1.

I mean, look at the rest of the US Bill of Rights. Amendments 1 and 2 are the poster-children, though 1 isn't perfect as we're discussing. The third amendment is now utterly irrelevant. The fourth amendment is routinely ignored, given things like 'civil forfeiture' and SWATting. Fifth amendment is mostly intact, excluding again things like 'civil forfeiture'. The sixth amendment is sick and dying, with plea bargaining replacing the vast bulk of trials, and trials hardly being called 'speedy' these days. Seventh I don't know much about. Eighth is long gone, with extremely long sentences given out to poor people for non-violent crimes, and frequently ridiculous sums given for bail. The ninth is a curio pertaining to law. The tenth is a source of lots of controversy, with all sorts of arguments about what is states rights and what is not.

What I'm trying to get at with all that waffle is that despite these things being "enshrined" in the constitution, it doesn't mean that that's the way society behaves. "It's in the constitution, therefore it must be so!" is not always the case.
Going to guess: your keys for your car are in your right pocket because that way they are in your right hand when you go to start it.
Someone posted on HN fastmail includes a very unusual and nice way to stop spam using alias, basically it's mailinator baked in:
https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/aliases.html
So what about those of us, who are despite common belief the majority, who are in between? Those too old or broken or indebted to work like a 14yo and hope for a future? Those who lost everything after doing what you did and building a life. Those of us who WANT to better ourselves and be independent but cannot get the support to do so? What do you expect US to do? You are falling victim to survivorship bias and victim blaming when you say "I did it and know others who have therefore anyone can". Do you really think I would CHOOSE to live like this if I had an alternative? You need to believe it's all bored, lazy people so you can hold on to your point of view and feel safe yourself. You are afraid and you take it out on those suffering. I have seen this over and over. Any "discussion" people with such views ever have is full of blame and assumption.
Using SHA-1 for password storage would be sev:low in a pentest. There are a lot of other sev:low things that you would certainly agree are signs of incompetence. Unsoundness of engineering and vulnerability impact are almost orthogonal.
I don't think it would - for the obvious reason that when we talk about the size of, say, a desk, there is never a concern about its meaning, and we rarely, if ever, think about the object itself in terms of waves or particles. Protons etc., on the other hand, is a totally different matter, and since everyday notions cannot be trivially applied to such objects it becomes important to be clear concerning the meaning we choose to give to the word.
Sounds like somebody left an S3 bucket wide open yet again.
Gave a copy of Leisure Suit Larry to a friend in early high school. Their parent called my dad and gave them an earful, and my dad laughed and didn't understand why. Hahahahaha.
That's pretty likely, but not certain. Go-playing-AI went from "talentless amateur" to "better than every living human" in about a year.

Sometimes things progress rapidly, and some kinds of intelligence could recursively self-improve.
How is this “Lisp-based” when it’s a wrapper around QtWebKit?

I’d expect a “Lisp-based” browser to implement its rendering engine in Lisp, probably atop CLIM. Otherwise you’re just using Lisp as a scripting language to glue a couple prefab components together.
I don't know any, at my employer are all trying to replace years of ObjC no matter the cost.
Thanks for bringing that up naasking, quite nice indeed
> Steve Troughton-Smith: Fully excluded; a Swift-only conference is one that has nothing for me. I don't want to have to care about Swift best practices or design patterns now before the language is fully formed and before Apple is using it at scale. I don't want to collate a dozen community-led design patterns, I want to do what Apple does.

So if it's not endorsed and spoon fed by Apple, he wants nothing to do with it.
The grandparent post was about a hypothetical 100 million years dead civilization. Certainly not humans.

Wait it does say humans. Yeah, that's nuts. Intelligent civilized dinosaurs sure...
The most scary thing here is that in some cirsumstances it allows an attacker to make malicious code permanent:

"This brings an amazing opportunity for an attacker with capabilities to inject program code into BIOS: to turn Intel BG technology on manually making any modifications in BIOS permanent. It only requires configuring Intel BG by programming the chipset fuses (via pure software way) after the modification is done."
It's true that there's a sense in which the size of the proton is undefined. But there is also a sense in which it is very precisely defined, which is the root mean square of the electron scattering cross-section. This can be measured very accurately. And that's what the article is talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_radius
This one? https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1
It is now present at both urls... well, at least it is there :)
Especially with the team getting toasted in the audience assuming it was all going to blow up. Even hardware succumbs to a distortion field. I too love watching it.
I have been dry for almost 8 years but have memories of how delicious Dogfish Head 120 minute and stone ipa were. I can't remember what other beer tastes like anymore but the ipa memory lives on
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This is a good write-up. There is an insane amount of FUD surrounding Bitcoin, and not all of it is unfounded. I certainly hope that Bitcoin gets its act together, because the volatility makes driving adoption significantly harder than it would otherwise be.

It has been very interesting to see how he Ethereum has handled many of these same problems. I would be interested in seeing analysis about the impact to alternative crypto currencies such as Ethereum and Litecoin, if Bitcoin ends up blowing up over this.
Neither are solving any actual problems.
Mitchell and Webb sketch about nazi SS death squad is one of the best one, and often quoted by other comedians.
Thank you for the feedback! We'll fix this
It's not immediately useful, but you might find this interesting:

https://github.com/google/skylark
Power in a lot of places is 2-3x that, and for a naively designed data centre you can double that to include the cost for air conditioning (yes you can do a lot better but on a small scale, basic AC is going to equal your workload draw).
> The rate at which these security breaches are happening is very alarming to me.

This should be no surprise if you're a developer. "Lean/'agile' companies" have tried to cut cost so agressively that we don't have QA teams, tickets have to go as fast as possible, etc.

Businesses won't care about this until it hurts their bottom line. Even then they'll deny that it's possible.
Toyota's another great example. They went from Japan's post-WWII decimation to the world's largest car company. They did it through an intense focus on increasing customer value and reducing waste. US automakers couldn't come close to matching their quality or effectiveness. This despite Toyota's attempts to teach them through efforts like NUMMI.

I think their unique culture has declined over time, but it was still powerful enough to give us the Prius. Now ubiquitous, at the time, it was revolutionary.
I think i have played Maniac Mansion like 300 times... truly an innovative game!
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> the root mean square of the electron scattering cross-section

Thank you, and I wish the article had said that.
My own rebuttal to that unimpressive Maciej argument is that he merely listed many ways in which something that seemed as though it ought to work didn't work out at all as expected, so we can safely assume that something as challenging as "superintelligence" won't work out either, and is therefore no danger.

But the argument that there are countless ways for plans to go awry and instead cause something unexpected to happen is hardly reassuring evidence that there is, therefore, "nothing to worry about".
I am speaking from personal experience, so you can not believe me, but that's about it.
So, from the video, I get the idea that a "self-driving car" is going to still have someone behind the wheel (a more-qualified someone than otherwise, it seems) so the self-driving part to ... increase safety? make you good about automation? allow more videos to be made? ...
It's pretty awful- there's not a lot more beginner material for Objective-C anymore. Even if you think it's for legacy work only (Facebook and  itself have a word with you), it's still needed to learn. Many many apps are too big to rewrite in Swift. Don't discount your roots.
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But they don’t write about it
There are approximately a fixed number of shares out there for a company. When you say investors moved on, that's not exactly true; somebody bought those shares. Somebody took the losses as AOL declined. And although some investors surely were happy to move on, they would surely would have been happier if the stock kept doing well, if they didn't have to move on.
Some kind of academic independence like a free press is essential for a free society. Universities are often venues for dissent and perpetuation of ideas as they provide the context and space for contemplation, research and developing ideas.

This role has heavily and quite consciously diminished since the 70s. We have already learnt a free press often does not function as we would imagine easily co-opted into furthering various agendas and established interests.

With academia too engrossed in getting funding and a free press not really 'free' with their own funding constraints who plays the role of a watch guard and informed comment. If everyone is too busy trying just to survive a society in many ways ceases to be dynamic and loses its self awareness reduced to mere trading and consumption.
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I can agree that First Past the Post is suboptimal. I can also believe that we must improve the current system until First Past the Post is replaced, which might be never in the United States and certainly going to be a difficult state by state issue. The leap from the First Past the Post to STV seems insurmountable in the face of how hard the GOP is clinging to power with voter disenfranchisement with the same old tricks of hurdles to voters of color along with this 2010 50 state strategy that led to the extreme gerrymandering. (Having the Democrats be incompetent enough to have the GOP loudly proclaim their strategy in the editorial page of the New York Times pre election and still not react is another issue.)
Uhh because Swift threatens their job? Objective-C is an abomination, which has kept Python/Ruby/JS developers away. Swift on the other hand greatly simplifies switching between, JS,Python,Swift. From employers perspective this opens up a huge talent pool, for employees especially the Objective-C hipsters its a bad news, since their privileged status in the app economy is now under threat.

I don't see any sane new startup/projects using Obj-C, other than bullying by Obj-C devs.
I got an email too.
The thing is, I don't have a Disqus account. The only mention of Disqus in my gmail account is the haveibeenpwned email. Any idea what's going on?
You can delete your comments if you get to them quickly enough.
Beautiful interview. Love him or hate him, you have to respect him.

I loved this passage:

Playboy: Do you know what you want to do with the rest of this lifetime?

Jobs: There’s an old Hindu saying that comes into my mind occasionally: “For the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.” As I’m going to be 30 in February, the thought has crossed my mind.

Playboy: And?

Jobs:

And I’m not sure. I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back. And that’s what I may try to do. The key thing to remember about me is that I’m still a student. I’m still in boot camp. If anyone is reading any of my thoughts, I’d keep that in mind. Don’t take it all too seriously. If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. What are we, anyway? Most of what we think we are is just a collection of likes and dislikes, habits, patterns. At the core of what we are is our values, and what decisions and actions we make reflect those values. That is why it’s hard doing interviews and being visible: As you are growing and changing, the more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you that it thinks you are, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to go, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.
This, my friends, is the way it's done. Kudos!
What about the 39 nations above the UK in the RSF listings? My point was that the First Amendment is not the only legal control on freedom of speech in the US; merely adopting that one line of law doesn't make the rest disappear.
Was the salt leaked?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ow
>if you have no automated testing then that should be the first priority for a dev shop

This is the key point.
This entire page reads as a stream of consciousness.

This one line is particularly egregious:

"Security.txt defines a standard to help organizations define the process for security researchers to securely disclose security vulnerabilities."

> Defines a X to help Y define a Z for Q to W.

> Securely close security vulnerabilities.

Ick.
> I am fully cognizant of the perils of making bearish predictions about new technology.

> But, to quote another well-worn and wholly unreliable aphorism, this time it's different. It really is.

and

>... because the only other alternative is chaos, and probably the end of the whole Bitcoin experiment.

I'm very much a Bitcoin skeptic, but, I'm not sure this time is different, or that Bitcoin will die.

For the last 8 years, various sources have been predicting a Bitcoin collapse over and over again. It's still here, alive and well and quite high.

3 years ago: Business Week - Bitcoin Is Collapsing => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893616

4 years ago: latimes.com - Bitcoin virtual currency is on verge of collapse => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7306035

6 years ago: theatlantic.com - The Bitcoin Economy Is Collapsing with No Sign of Recovery (2011) => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8431092

6 years ago: Bitcoin & Gresham's Law - the economic inevitability of Collapse => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623549
Swift is nice although it doesn’t have any advantages for someone who knows objc. Plus for interoperability you still need to know c/objective c anyway, and then why bother.

I guess Swift is popular with JavaScript developers, coming from web dev.
How does Qt get around that?
Wouldn't that be "reinventing the flat tire"? The Web needs far more serious redesign than just replacing the syntaxes.
> The rate at which these security breaches are happening is very alarming to me.

It is the rate at which they are being published that is alarming to you, the rate at which they are actually happening is much higher still.
That is understood, although it leaves me wondering if this could be interpreted as the hydrogen atom being only slightly larger in "size" than its nucleus. (Point being, nothing is "obvious" at that scale.)
This is completely useless. Any company that cares about security enough to do this will already have security@, support@, abuse@ emails setup. Those are the well known contact endpoints. Bug bounty platforms also have contact info and messaging built-in.
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While I agree with your comment, there are at least two big OSS projects that manage to disagree with this remark:

> If companies have to pay for licenses to OSS they will simply stop using it.

Qt and Red Hat Linux.
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Great co-workers, somewhat interesting work, insight into a really interesting organization, and a situation where I went in with too little information and now would face substantial costs if I back out rather than persisting for another 3 or 4 years.
Hi, I totally agree, the thumb reach map does show it as a right hand usage diagram, but the flipped view holds true for left handed users too. Also inn my proposed alternatives, I should have mentioned that the should have preference for left handed users to flip the diagram.
What similarities does Swift have to JS at all? There are some with Python, though not many.
“niche” doesn’t have an accent aigu on the e, that would make its e pronounced, roughly equivalent to what you’d transcribe as “nisheh” in English. The e is silent.
You needed to contact 100k sites about security? Do you have more details on this?

The example security.txt for this site currently has a twitter handle as the contact. How are you going to automate that?
Get a test kit and understand how it works. That's the only way to have a good idea what the compound is.

https://dancesafe.org/
BA beers have definitely gotten more popular down here in San Diego. Not just bourbon, but rum, and even gin! (Saw it at amplified brewing)

Btw, logsdon is awesome. Probably the best saison I’ve ever had. He was the cofounder of wyeast (one of the two big yeast manufacturers), so he definitely knows his yeast. (I think he is also married to a Belgian, so he knows his Belgian beer)