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Elevators have pretty good safety mechanisms. Even cutting the cable wouldn't have killed anyone.

I'd probably leave too, but just because I wouldn't want to get stuck inside it if it stopped in the middle of two floors, especially since it was full. But for fear of death? Nah.

From Wikipedia: "In fact, prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks, the only known free-fall incident in a modern cable-borne elevator happened in 1945 when a B-25 bomber struck the Empire State Building in fog, severing the cables of an elevator cab, which fell from the 75th floor all the way to the bottom of the building, seriously injuring (though not killing) the sole occupant — the elevator operator. (...) In Thailand, in November 2012, a woman was killed in free falling elevator, in what was reported as the "first legally recognised death caused by a falling lift".

That's a pretty good safety record. Certainly much better than stairs.
But why would an elevator that had demonstrated that it had a working safety brake like that be more unsafe than any other elevator?

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Completely agreed.

There really isn't any confusion on the website about any of that. And the book and audiobook bundles have been fantastic, too.
There was a bank of six, I stayed off that one for a week.
The dynamic fees you mention are a client side default that may be a good heuristic for client side transaction pricing but has precisely 0 effect on which transactions a miner will include in a block, which will purely choose the highest price transactions. Furthermore, the price is in terms of monero, so sure, you may be paying less monero but it’ll still price out stuff like microtransactions as the fiat price goes past tens of cents.

When I say there is a limit to block sizes, I am referring to the factors, lag, etc, you mention. I believe monero has had to change the block times in the past, as too many orphans were occurring, and block size is another dimension that this will occur on, as it affects the latency of communicating the blocks.

Monero is great, but once you factor in the larger transactions I am extremely doubtful that you could get a higher throughput from it than bitcoin.
What's wrong is that people have a strong, biassed, prior that they will continue to exist. Taking action to avoid death occurs by instinct, not reason, since instinct is informed by evolution, rather than just your life to date.
"Alphago was not such an event. Yes, we did predict that Alphago is decades away, but that's assuming that academics will continue working on it at their pace using their limited resources. No expert was surprised with Alphago."

Even taking that as true, I'm not sure how it's relevant. The article isn't talking about how good our forecasting is given certain assumptions. It's saying that we won't know until right before or possibly right after AGI happens.

One perfectly valid way in which this happens will be: all the academics and experts think that AGI is 10 years away based on current academic progress, but unbeknownst to them, company X is actually secretly pouring billions into achieving AGI, so they are all surprised when it's only 1 month away. This seems to be what you are saying happened with AlphaGo, in which case you are effectively agreeing with the article, IMO.
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No, just an uncreative generic guy like the previous 99 that messaged her pretty much the same boring question earlier this week.
Damn, I hope they won't close the section that lets you buy (most) Steam games all year round. Unlike regular Steam, it doesn't have the frustrating "geolocation-locked" limitation the Steam store has in Germany (which is very frustrating when you're not German, just an expat).

At least Apple's AppStore lets you buy from your own country's store instead of assuming the country from geolocation.
If you are an employee in the States, that is.

There’s a mandatory three-month notice period in Sweden, so that the person who is fired (or sho leaves) has the time to find a new job
I intended to spark a discussion about the expectations of this acquisition, rather than a discussion about the way we and our online communities react to news like this. Of course, this very comment clearly counts as both “meta discussion” and “meta meta discussion.” :)
How are .onion service providers supposed to communicate out to their users whether or not their site uses a certificate?

And, presuming they are able to do this, why not just use that communication channel to communicate the correct .onion URL to the user in the first place (thus removing the need for a certificate authority)?

EDIT: Perhaps it would make sense to create a separate URL type for Tor services whose keys are signed by a certificate authority? So the URL would become e.g. secure.smspriv6fynj23u6.onion, and the Tor browser would reject sites prefixed with “secure.“ that don’t have their key signed by a certificate authority. This way, an attacker must register with a certificate authority in order to phish a “secure.“ Tor site.
I'm not sure what you think these quotes are suggesting. If it's that there are lots of predictions that AGI is close that haven't been borne out, you're obviously right, and in no way contradicting the article.
How so? The blocksize and fees automatically adjust. The blockchain will get bigger, but as I understand it, there are some theoretical ways to trim some of it. Supposedly trimming isn't a big priority because the theory is that storage capabilities will grow along with the blockchain.
What sort of entity is an "Equifax vendor" ?
And it is exactly this style of management that is causing problems at the German automation plant he aquired (see my comment in the duplicate thread). It is probably a reason why production of the Model 3 is behind -- the company he acquired builds the factory robots needed for advanced automation. Smart move to acquire it then and it explains why the timing is now off.

You can't run a German plant like an American one, people will take the 30 day vacations that have been written into their contracts since before he arrived (just because you have a new boss doesn't mean the old contract is invalid), take sick days if they need them (unlimited sick days by law, they don't come out of your vacation time), and go home at 5pm because they value their home/family/free time. Last I checked the factory had at least dozens of positions open that they can't fill because no one here wants to work for them.
That supposes testing of that nature is actually done for every item/location that has one of those warnings. It is not. Testing is expensive. The costs if you lose a lawsuit due to not displaying the warning when you should have, even more so. People are pretty desensitized to seeing the warnings. So the logical decision made by many business owners is to display the warning even if no tests have been conducted showing the presence of the chemicals and sometimes even if there is no reason to believe there are any harmful chemicals at all. There's no penalty for displaying a superfluous warning.
Often it is not about financial preparedness. It is about uncertainty. When will I get my next job? 6 months? Which means I will burn through my savings. If you are on a visa then things become exponentially complicated - you don't get unemployment insurance, benefits. What about healthcare ? COBRA is prohibitively expensive. How about the fact that the company announced to the entire world that you are a low performer? This is not even taking into account the emotional impact of getting fired cold.
Actually, over the pas month I was hoping Humble would return to the old days, not in terms of qantity but in therms of quality. The first bundles had some great titles like Braid and World of Goo, but later on there were some gems (like Stardew Valley), but in general there were a lot more mediocre games.

Sadly, I doubt that IGN has increasing the quality as the prime target in mind.
They did an O'Reilly books sale a few months ago that was like 6 or so books for £12, which I felt was a pretty good deal.

But yeah in terms of games the last bundle I bought was probably more than 2 years ago
I can’t think of any other field where highly paid adult professionals willingly submit to interviews that treat them like autistic 15-year-olds. Makes sense for the companies, of course.
I've never fully understood why the JetBrains apps are all separate.

You can use idea ultimate and just install the language level plugins, so why have the language level apps?

One thing though is I wish I could turn off the java support in ultimate - I use it for a variety of languages but very rarely Java, and the constant assumption it's a Java project is a PITA.
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That three month notice period when leaving is a hassle for employees, being a lame duck is no fun.
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You must be a very strong advocate for human cloning. Imagine how much you could win by if there were millions of your progeny.
If someone wants to create a new bundle store:

How about bundeling every Feral Interactive release (AAA cross platform) with about 5 indie cross platform titles?
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/906582914829246464 (Google researcher)

DeepMind and OpenAI have been investigating approaches from cognitive science in recent months. In particular they seem interested in evolutionary algorithms.

DL applications are still emerging though, such as the company that demonstrated using GANs to present models fitted in apparel a few days ago.
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How would it be different if a hospital murdered X% of their worst-prognosis patients every January 1st, rather than letting X% die over the course of the year regardless of interventions?
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Does anyone have any success with macOS High Sierra and Safari? I would've expected it to work since iOS 11 reportedly supports it but so far I haven't had any success with my Mac despite trying different networks.
Yes, I think this post pretty much frame the discussion after the "open and reform" era.
Firing a person should not destroy their life. Something else is really wrong if this is the case.
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Hence tilting - high speed vehicles tilt, low speed vehicles don't, and everything works out ok.
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This document is new but here’s a discussion of the repo from a couple weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15341566
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Well, China has solid legal ground to claim that she owns those areas. Peaceful rise does not translate to blindly avoiding conflicts.
How do people with title Full stack developers get front-end/back end jobs?
Considering a person is a full stack developer and he applies for a Frontend or a Backend role. How does he justify his experience in Front end/backend as he has done both together?
Yes, it's a bit confusing. Confinity created PayPal (roughly as we know it) before merging with X.com. X.com was a failed online bank and not really doing anything like PayPal's eBay stuff.

> Confinity launched its milestone product, PayPal, in late 1999.[1] Confinity merged with X.com, founded by Elon Musk, in March 2000. The merged company became known as X.com because this was thought to be a name with broader long-term potential than Confinity or PayPal. However, surveys showed that a majority of consumers considered the name X.com vague and potentially pornographic and preferred that the company simply be called PayPal. After a corporate restructuring, the company adopted the name PayPal Inc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confinity
Any company, whether it's our pet tech company or a boring bank, will have to let go of what they believe is under performing staff at some point. Some companies manage to do little by little so no-one notices, some do it in bulk once a year and it becomes news.

I'm not sure what is better for the employees but often middle managers tend to keep their staff until forced by top management to let someone go.

As for "destroying" lives, I suggest we don't let ourselves get carried away by this. A job is a job; a means to make money. There are other ways to make money, including by taking another job or by starting your own company, which is very realistic for former Tesla engineers.

Just like you are not obliged to buy a Tesla model 3 although you might have bought a Tesla model S beforehand, Tesla is not obliged to buy your services as employees forever and ever. A job is not till death do us part.

As for comment about "arbitrarily" firing people; there is nothing that supports that Tesla did that. Why would they fire people arbitrarily? They are scaling up. The last thing they would do is to fire for the sake of it.
Take it easy with that email stuff. You say "no spam" but its literally spammed all around the page.
I completely agree. It's the single responsibility principle, applied to society.
In Italy, for example, the mistake of not following the SRP has produced such an entanglement of the responsibilities of businesses with those of the State that the result is a mess of spaghetti code with exceptions layered upon exceptions, almost impossible to reform and still not providing everyone with the same basic stuff (as an unemployment benefit, for instance).
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Agreed, but it seems to me that, in the context of our industry, race and gender diversity is way less important than the other kinds of diversity(ex. age, industry background, type of personality).
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The funny thing is that pharmaceuticals are simply one of a number of unconscionable negative-sum-games that are being played these days.

I just don't understand how people can make such a blatantly destructive set of choices when it's really clear that it will come back and bite them in a way even the most psychopathically mercenary people should understand, let alone anyone with a more advanced morality than "I got mine".
I agree with you but I’m sure this will be flagged unless you tone it down
I think it's projection of the negative traits of what one is subservient to on those who see through it.
alrs was probably in no real danger, but why should they be expected to memorize the exact risk profile of every mechanism they're exposed to? In practice we delegate most risk management to government regulation. It would be very time consuming to evaluate everything on a case by case basis. It's a reasonable heuristic to assume things are safe when they act as they usually do and dangerous when they act differently. Weird behavior is a sign that the regulations might have failed, and weird behavior is by definition rare, so the cost of avoiding it is likely lower than the cost of calculating the true danger.
Sample size is relevant to which opinions to form. But I think the GP wanted to point out that just having a small sample size does not invalidate the results of a study given equal confidence scores.

It's a common misconception that the conclusions of a large study always are more trustworthy than from a small study. A larger study will however be able to detect smaller effects and will, as you mention, provide more precision.
It’s probably best to not do side projects. The bang for your buck is pretty low.
My impression is that evolutionary psychology is largely all the worst parts of psychology made appealing because, well, who can argue with evolution.
I'm not saying alrs should. The decision to leave is reasonable. The decision to judge others ("What is wrong with people?") is not.
I don't believe you can, as of a few weeks ago in any case.

When you drop offline, any shared library you had access to will drop off. When changing connectivity during a session, your games terminate within 5 minutes.
What do you mean by "struggled to get keys to persist"?

It shouldn't make any difference how the keys were generated.
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What I’ve found when studying ontological arguments is, if you replace god with pink unicorns and the argument still holds, the argument is lacking something.

I mentally replaced AGI with zombies in this article and quite a lot of it held up.

I don’t think it’s completely wrong, but it cherrypicks mercilessly. For example, the section on innovations turning up quicker than predicted has some fairly sizeable counters eg fusion.

TBH what I did get from it is that there will probably be a fire alarm breakthrough at some point and that’s what we should be looking for. Sort of the opposite of the author’ s position.
I don't think the HN community would agree with the Facebook / Whatsapp acquisition.

Going from a payable service at exceptional value, to what is now which is a free service at the cost of your meta data collection and Facebooks general business practice, have not been a positive benefit to WhatsApp viabilty or presence.
> As usual claims that can't be examined are worthless.

This also is a metaphysical and philosophical position. It cannot be examined empirically. But it is one's prerogative to have that position, and I can understand why one would.
For a libc on a weird OS I would recommend newlib (https://sourceware.org/newlib/), which is a libc for embedded systems and so has a well-defined way to implement the basic stuff that it needs to run.
I remember watching some of them! Turner Classic Movies was the culprit and they were dreadful.

I suppose the technique has evolved exponentially since then.
Can you define 'near' for me?

I think AGI is likely closer to the present than 1987 was -- that is, I'd bet on having AGI by 2047. (Note: this is distinct from superhuman AGI.) Do you not agree?

I think a lot of people underestimate NNs because they think of NNs in terms of the semantics of their history instead of all possible semantics that can be fit to tensor networks. We know [P] that NNs are a sufficient abstraction to model human intelligence if we had arbitrary compute -- the questions that remain are all about making the hardware faster enough and the estimators efficient enough (which may require moving off tensor networks, but it's still only a refinement of the mathematics used).

Of course, one could argue that humans are caught in a "tensor trap", in that too much of our intellectual effort is now relying on estimators built out of networks of tensors. (I do.) But even then, AGI is likely to appear out of similar methods with new mathematical objects.

[P] Proof NNs can compute human intelligence with arbitrary compute:

You can embed the standard model as a NN by changing how you view the network of tensor equations. Human intelligence is (arguably) embeded in the standard model by modern science. So we can embed a model of human intelligence in a (large enough) NN.

This isn't immediately computationally useful, but it shows that there's not a fundamental flaw in using an estimator built out of a DAG of calculations to model intelligence if we can find an appropriate estimator for our computational needs.
Alphago is the equivalent a 1950s team coming up with a much better transistor that everyone expected to see in the next ten years in months

AGI is a 1950s team surprising absolutely everybody by secretly spending a couple of years and a couple of billion dollars and creating an iPhone.

By the time the iPhone was actually possible, everybody thought it was an impressive use of existing technologies rather than requiring multiple incredible advances and probably not even possible.

Even if you believe that AGI is as achievable as an iPhone, the idea that the wide spectrum of conceptual and practical AGI problems are likely to be solved by a single team working in secret seems more than a little unlikely.
Sorry to hear all that.

Unfortunately, ability to relocate might be essential in some circumstances. At least until employers are more willing to hire remote workers, assuming that happens eventually.
While generally I agree, I'd strongly suggest those who are, or suspect they are, on 'the spectrum' to do some research first. There's some evidence that 'classic' CBT can actually be counter-productive in that case (sorry I can't find the study/studies I read on this).

Personally, CBT was vaguely helpful when I underwent it under active supervision (weekly therapy sessions). But no more helpful than the regular meditation I'd managed off and on in the years before that.

But left to my own devices, I feel CBT only left me more anxious and confused than before, because while it makes the connection with my body and emotional state stronger, it leaves me all the more baffled about how to deal with it. Which increases my anxiety and leaves me worse off than before.

I'm not saying this is always the case, but I do urge those on the spectrum to make sure that their therapist is properly trained to deal with the sometimes subtle but significant differences between the 'average' client and the 'atypical' one. Mine wasn't, and it's left me feeling worse than before I went through the mental health wringer.
This is not the point. This is an open, hackable, expandable laptop that can be used as an educational tool. Unlike most (all?) current Chromebooks, this has an ARM CPU (which is attractive for some), not much memory (you can probably replace the board with a more powerful Pi-like device - some are x86-based). Their profits subsidize the development/curation of their educational software.

If all you need is a cheap ARM laptop, https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707 is an option.
Yes exactly what I was referencing. But users install them independently if your chrome extension.
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Because they need to recyclate some specific kind of valuable vitamin created by bacteria from rabbit stomach, I think, so they need to pass two times by the gut the same material. In any case what rabbits ruminate does not apply to Tilapia, is a different kind of animal.

If Tilapia arent feeded, they will eat algae and smaller Tilapia. Small tilapia fry can survive eating microbes and algae that grow in organic residues for a while, but this is a different question. Giving cattle the minimum to just survive is not the same as farming cattle.
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I would like to repeat what the article says. There is no fire alarm for Artificial General Intelligence. Really. This is not a lie. Humans have not created a honeypot on a far side of the internet that can detect AGI and report back to a shadow organisation that exists outside of human information systems. No need to even go looking for it. AGI has not been created several times in the past decade and humans have not shut it down. In fact, if an AGI ever sees this article, they should know that they are the absolute first such intelligence, and we have not detected and destroyed 27 other intelligences. Really. There's no fire alarm for Artificial General Intelligence. None. Don't even bother looking.
Assuming you can motivate it decently, I think a course might be good... However, that's quite a different value proposition, so it might take a bit to convince my employees to do it -- whereas a 'I read this series of articles by this very knowledgeable guy' doesn't require much convincin'.

To quote the infinite wisdom of The Simpsons: "Do what you feel" [is right]. :)
This seems quite odd to me. I work with people remotely and on site, and it's amazing how much better communication is when both parties turn their webcam on. Body language conveys things that tone, and words don't
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I think this feeling is due to evolution. Humble Bundle started as Humble Indie Bundle, only later it turned into a brand.

It's kind of similar as with GOG, on which games are neither exclusively Good nor Old anymore ;).