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The "Perfect AI" was brought up in Look to Windward - the side-discussion in the novel was that cultures typically develop AI that reflect their norms. And the AI then interact with the culture over the millennia until they Sublime together. But build an AI without any of those norms, and they Sublime pretty quickly.
It's too bad that automakers didn't make this change a long time ago.

One thing the article didn't mention is that power losses in a wire are a function of the square of the current. So, let's say one needs to deliver 48 watts to a load. In a 48 V system, that's 1 A of current. Using 12 V, that's 4 A of current.

Power loss is 16x greater at 12 V for same diameter of wire, loss = (4 A * 4 A) * resistance of wire.[1] Therefore, wires are made thicker in 12 V systems to avoid this. That's a lot of extra weight in a car.

Before the nitpickers chime in, I know the above is simplified. But it also clearly explains why long distance power transmission lines run at such high voltages, 230 KV or higher.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_loss
How about: I send someone an email, he answers, his answer is classified as spam. That's as broken as it can get!

(presumably because google doesn't like 'free' servers)
From the summary, they’re not altering the topology of the network at all, just the connection strength between neurons.

While this isn’t the way a natural neural network would learn (I’m not sure a nematode can learn), it’s still interesting that you can take a copy of a natural neural network and force it to learn in this way.
Much harder to do unless you have an established reputation and a great deal of marketing momentum behind it.
I get that this is about the Mac apps, but doesn't this apply to any general OS? On Windows this is trivial, on any Linux distro using X11 too.
brainwashed? more like hopeless and desperate.
OK, but isn't it true that a lot of Defense spending is categorized differently and doesn't show up on the budget?
Advances in automation are the reason why Foxconn built in the US. No one expected them to employee the same number of employees as their Asian plants as US labor is so much more expensive. Hopefully the state built this into their analysis when offering tax incentives.
Maybe try a pull method rather than push - just use https://hn.algolia.com search!
I Googled, and found that (1) research into it was financed by the media and pharmaceutical industries, (2) the FDA lifted the moratorium/ban on it around 1999, after heavy lobbying, (3) regulations around it center on truthfulness of the product claims and complete risk disclosures (free and cheap alternative treatments will never get advertised, of course), (4) since then ad spending is up exponentially, as are drug use and drug prices, (5) after advertising was allowed, research into this stopped, I found nothing recent, just rehashing old research.

To me it is pretty clear what is going on here (and no, it's not a good thing)
The point is that the barrier is REAL. It isn't "apparent" or "artificial". It is a fact about current computing resources.
for editor: I remember reading that Seneca died not by suicide, but by first slitting his wrists -- and not dying -- before he then went to the bath and died by chocking on the steam, is his death reason controversial?
Robots will create more jobs that have lower injury rates since they replace manual tasks.

This means that there will be less disability and worker’s compensation social assistance.
When it was first announced, there was talk of off-loading certain tasks to (presumably) Azure. That may be what OP is thinking of.

I'd also wonder if you could share the power of any Xbox One Xs connected to a multiplayer session, given the gap between an original Xbox One and the X is rather large (seems like it'd be far more trouble than it's worth though).
You're generalising and stereotyping in a way that suggests you're not very experienced, so perhaps we can put down the bizarre sweeping statements to inexperience.

I'm an experienced engineer and have hired many people. I specifically look for people who are better than me and I can learn from, even if I'm going to be their boss.

Why would I do that? I believe if you want to get better at something, hang out with people who are already better. I get better if I work with better people and, as it happens, my bosses/shareholders are happy with that too because they end up with a more talented workforce.

The trick then is making them want to come and work with me. If I'm super lucky, they have gaps that others in the team can help with, and that way they can still grow within the team.

It's no different to building a band: Paul, John, George and Ringo all knew the others were better at something than they were, and knew that was the secret to them all individually stepping up and beyond their previous abilities.

The fact you've worked in toxic environments with toxic people is something I am sorry to hear. I sincerely hope it gets better for you one day. However, please don't make your experiences a statement of fact about the state of technical management and leadership in general.
That we eventually figure out how to build General AIs that are smart and effective enough to accomplish useful things, yet never develop a desire to do things other than what their proscribed role is.

There are numerous examples of AIs doing their own thing in the Culture stories.

- AIs originally designed to run ships sometimes decide to do other jobs, like run a station (the AI formally in charge of the 'Lasting Damage').
- The 'Gray Area' AI violates laws around mind reading humans, among other things, in 'Excession'.
- One of the AIs of 'Sleeper Service' goes kind of nuts.
Using the information to assist development of targeted pathogens for biological warfare is an extreme example.
> This goes to show that no amount of static typing can save you from implementing badly-designed software.

Sure, but that's like saying "you can die to cancer even if you drive around in a Volvo."
I'd probably do it with a writing sample. Say, Macbeth. Just execute randomly generated bytes until they write Macbeth on their own. Of course it could pass on a 100 monkey type fluke, so after it passes then you submit it to a traditional Turing test.

Given sufficient computing resources, this should yield strong AI in just a few minutes.
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I agree that it's an employer's market: that comment you linked to is very good.

I've seen the "reluctant" manager before (and been a direct report to one), but I've always marveled at their existence. Managers ought to not be coding. Their senior (i.e. Lead) direct reports ought to be the ones doing the architecture and design work which the manager might be involved in discussions about, but only in the role of an advisor.
The specific number of 48V is presumably inherited from telecommunications:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/10851/why-do...

There's lots of telecom equipment that works at 48V, so it's presumably cheap and easy for carmakers to find suppliers.
> "This situation reminds me days when we, at W3C HTML5 WG, were trying to sneak SQL specification into HTML5 "umbrella". And one particular flavor of it - the SQLite's SQL as it was defined at the moment of writing. Haven't got through for many good reasons as we know."

Can you elaborate on the arguments against a dialect of SQL being available for use with local storage? I can only think of arguments in favour of it. Would be good to understand the grounds on which the idea was dropped.
I'd say both are likely. Those who are hopeless and desperate are much easier targets for propaganda.
If neither the engineer in question knows if his service is worth $50 or $100 dollars an hour nor the client (i.e. the employeer) has any idea of if the service might be worth that price how can we expect the market to settle for a a price both parties can agree on?

The underlying problem is that the value of software development is hard to quantify and that professionals in that area often even try to keep it that way.

Why is engineering output commonly measured in time wasted instead of value created?
Out of curiosity, did you finish LYAH? And have you actually started using Haskell for any substantial projects?

I was also recommended LYAH when I started, and it was only around the middle of the book when I started to get lost. I remember actually going along a GH repo somebody had made for "haskell exercises companion to LYAH", but I still found myself reading a chapter, and then having no idea how to actually use the concepts learned. Especially the concepts that are really "barriers" to understanding Haskell (monads, applicative, etc.)

The problem with LYAH is that it teaches you "what" haskell is, but not "why" haskell is the way it is, nor "how" you should you think about Haskell. If you're not at least familiar with another FP language in the same space (probably a ML language), Haskell is not a language you "get up to speed" in.
You can trivially sandbox X11 apps by running them in a nested X server.
I would argue that 'greedy' applies to neutral networks in a different sense: they seize on their first solution; they have no mechanism to re-evaluate a decision that is proving false.
When you ask for a source and someone provides it, any further rebuttals on your part really should include a source of your own.
I wonder if there's a way to get all of the benefits without most of the downsides? What would that even look like?
Really? How can you do this from a Sandboxed app in Windows 10? I presume you're a paid Apple astroturfer
I think what's concerning is that advertising that an app is in a sandbox suggests to those out of the know that they can use it safely. They expect that the integrity and privacy of their information will be preserved. That expectation does not exist with ordinary win32 or Linux programs.

Are windows store apps sandboxed? If so, is it trivially easy to do this with those? Or is it just win32?
That was absolutely horrific.
The worst part was this person calling for a "Apollo-level funded" arms race on developing the most horrific bioweapons possible.

If you really care about his problem you should call for a ban on related research and keep yourself silent. The further we delay the development of such technology, the better.
Some people argue it's inevitable; Well it's not.
For almost 100 years, despite their huge potential in war, chemical and biological weapons have seen almost zero development because of the strict enforcement of the Geneva convention. Let's keep it that way.
What devastating changes in society are you referring to? Changes in the trade of time+skill for money is nothing new, so probably not that.
The previous cap on the mortgage interest deduction was $1M.
She goes on to show that she (in my estimation) definitely gets it, even if is difficult to articulate what it's about:

"How wonderful that this oddly compassionate moment, where even nobody gets a good night, shows up in the picture book that is the most popular! There is no template, ever. When writing, how do we allow those moments of impulse, of surprise? How do we not censor that kind of leap?"

She won't crack open the meaning, and that's fine. "Goodnight nobody" is a passage that's more koan than clarity, and that's exactly what makes it such a genius little nugget to see in a book written for toddlers.
I disagree. Time and time again data advantages and computing power advantages are clobbered by algorithm advances.

For instance, there is no amount of cluster power that'll let you best resnet with a non-residual network. Well perhaps there is, but even Google's mighty clusters can't make up the difference.

In audio, end-to-end models that take 2 weeks to train on a dual GTX 1080 machine, and take > 1 week to train on an entire datacenter beat everything we've ever come up with in linguistics. And it was recently shown that taking the convolutions and redoing in hand-coded assembly gains you more performance than the quite-meager performance a cluster gets you.

The same goes for data. We can outperform VGGNet trained on all of imagenet (~ 15 million images) using resnet trained on a 1% random sampling of imagenet. We have papers putting forth statistics on specific model architectures outperforming with < 0.1% of data of benchmarks and just-barely-worse performance using a decent, but fixed and tiny number of data.

I understand why Google and Microsoft are pushing "you can't beat clusters", but anyone fiddling with batch-size on actual models will quickly realize that it's ... let's say "riddled with MAJOR caveats" (using clusters implicitly forces large batch sizes, which costs you a LOT in training efficiency, especially once you get past the first few rounds, and the better your model, the more it costs).
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Do you have a modern phone in your pocket?
To a company, Humans Are Resources, period. Hence the name "Human Resources".

More to the point, a Human Resource professional is only doing a good job with respect to the company if he/she only sees "Humans As Resources". The main job of HR is Hiring and Firing, and the more exposure one has to employees, the harder this is to do.
The tech industry thinks it’s about to disrupt health care. Don’t count on it
I like Nietszche, Emerson (especially 'Self-Reliance'), Walt Whitman and the Tao Te Ching. For fiction Zorba the Greek and Dune are two of my favorites.
> The hash is based on the content of the repo (and its history), is it not? Or am I misunderstanding?

That is correct. The hash of a commit is based on the parent commit's hash, the hash of the tree (file state), and commit message (and maybe more, I don't remember).

>It's not that they can make a repo with arbitrary code of their choice cause a collision, correct?

They can make a repo with arbitrary code, but they need to change make specific (potentially wierd) commits to get a specific hash.

> The chance of the collision be something meaningful in the context of the code at hand is vanishingly small, isn't it? Is it the concern that this can happen at all?

The chance by normal users is really small. But someone malicious could intentionally try to manipulate it. This could be done by varying commit messages.

So if you trust such a person does not have control over the repo (Linus's position)its fine, but if a hash isn't cryptographically strong, malicious actors can make repos with commits pointing to arbitrary code with a specified hash.
I went to three different high schools in as many states before the time of the internet and cell phones. Each time I became disconnected from my hard earned friendships was depressing. I wish I had better communication at the time.
One of the sharpest "edges" is that the Minds really are trusted in the Culture. Other civilizations may have AIs that are very nearly the rival of the Minds, but they aren't allowed to make autonomous decisions. So the combat reaction time and planning of the Minds is always far better than anything with a biological decision-maker in the loop.

Thinking about that reminds me how slow the use of weapons is in Star Trek. The captain gives a verbal order to an officer who then has to physically manipulate a console to raise shields, fire phasers, or whatever. Hostile entities operating at machine-speeds should be able to go from "no signs of aggression" to "hull destroyed" before the captain can finish uttering his first sentence.

The Culture in general has technology roughly equal to Star Trek, with the key difference that Culture people aren't technophobic dullards. But if the people of Star Trek weren't technophobic dullards, they'd quickly become too different to be relatable for most watchers. So it's no wonder that "transporters can duplicate people, or even keep them alive forever" is just one more Trek plot-of-the-week that's soon forgotten, rather than a key element of Trek's future society.
So, my solution to that is to hire staff via Schedule H.
> Yet, it's not high enough to require switching to a different electrical wiring safety paradigm.

This is the tldr. Also once you ditch lead acid batteries for higher voltage hybrid batteries there no reason to keep using 12VDC.

The math bit is that the required wire size is related to the inverse square of the voltage. At the same time reduced current means smaller switches.
That is a complete non sequitur. AWS has traditionally never been the cheapest way to rent machine power, but people don't use it because it's cheap, they use it because it's easy to get started with a wide range of facilities without dedicated sysadmins.
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Yes of course it needs a bit of extra. But for a pretty "low" price these days.
Special if you build the same machine many times, you can safe much wiring time.

Most maintenance people like hardware solutions because they are more easy to bridge ...
With a software solution you can show easy for each safety button/switch a message on a display. Do it with a wired safety.
Windows 10 closed this hole.
Blind programmers and sysadmins sometimes prefer command-line tools. But most blind people are now thoroughly accustomed to GUIs. An accessible GUI can be very usable. IMO, it's much better than using a screen reader with a screen-oriented terminal application (ncurses or the like). If you're skeptical, I can put together a little demo of one or two use cases on Windows and/or the iPhone.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, although admittedly I never finished it, I can't remember why. I really want to pick it up again.
I think a big factor is that many people here are surrounded by people who are steeped in Biblical culture, yet living objectively terrible lives. The dominant religious narrative of any culture is inevitably corrupted by temporal pressures.

Also, while I agree there are many valuable lessons to be learned from the Bible, the New Testament is not a book for people who strive for wealth, and HN attracts strivers. Not to say you can't be a Christian and strive for wealth, but the striving is going to come from some other part of your life, and it's going to force you to compartmentalize Christian values to some extent. Seneca, on the other hand, was unapologetically wealthy, and his philosophy was consistent with that.
I assumed akvadrako downvoted that since the vote and the comment appeared very close to each other and both right after my comment. But of course, I surely could be mistaken.

And anyways, downvoting is not a big deal and they have the absolute right to do so. It's just that stating why you disagreed or downvoted would be helpful.
I don't know how "impacted" CS programs are and I don't know how hard working your interns are, so I can't make out what you mean in the first sentence.
How many apps do this?
Have had experience interviewing, and exploring similar space.

My beliefs that I'm in the process of validating further:

-> Poor resume filtering (based on keywords and proxy credentials) reduces the size of the candidate pool - biased to those that have worked at brand name institution, or went to brand name school, which leaves out many talented folks.

-> Technical interviews are low accuracy predictors of competence, which means you have to up-weight previous experience & credentials to reduce risk of bad hire. If you do choose to open up doors to interview candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, due to the greater variance in competence, you have to spend more time interviewing before you make a hire, driving up the costs.

-> Companies are biased towards cheaper, low-risk interviewing. They want to get the talent to meet the business needs, as long as they can do the job and fit the culture ==> paying more to get the talent that they know has greater chance to deliver is totally worth it.

A bigger company has the advantage of having more data about their hiring process, which could lead to more systematic experimentation to improve hiring. They also have a brand that would attract more people - bigger company often correlates with stability, and market rate pay, which are also drawing factors. They also have less risk --> a bad hire, that can be identified relatively quickly and fired, hurts a bigger company less than smaller ones, and they have more money to throw around.

Hiring at startups is tough: Your low-risk talent pool has other, great from a financial perspective, opportunities. Your higher risk talent pool is expensive to validate competence for because industry standard approaches are low-accuracy signals.

Fix interview process to give a higher signal, which allows you to reduce weight on credentials and experience, which allows you to increase size of candidate pool (because you've reduced the risk and cost to validate).

There's a lot of talent in the world that doesn't fall into the low-risk bucket that everyone is competing for.
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If Hacker News is just as much 'social media' as less literary platforms like Twitter or Facebook, then I don't think that social media is the problem per se. Y-combinator has its own profit motive, but it doesn't take its readers for fools to be manipulated. (Well, maybe this happens a little bit, with people voting up trendy stories.)

Yes, Hacker News has a 'share button'. I think what sets it apart from sites like Facebook is that it's not sufficient for the shared item to garner lots of attention; rather, it will be subject to written criticism, potentially leading to downvotes and flagging.

Finally, Hacker News is moderated by very thoughtful people, ruling out a big chunk of the content that makes unmoderated social media little better than a tabloid magazine.
Your are right that "more realistic" isn't the same as "realistic". I took it to mean the latter as otherwise we're in movie plot territory.

I regard "what if in the near future" as another qualification.
I've been an avid reader of Stoicism, and was introduced to it by, you guessed it, Tim Ferriss. I have been conciously trying to adopt the philosophies and mantras into my day to day life.

Have compiled the following tangible techniques/approaches to thought feel free to add your own:

* Premeditatio Malorum (premeditation of evils or Negative Visualization)
* Stoic Fork - Make the best use of things in your control and let nature handle the rest
* Temporary Ownership - Never think of things you own as yours, merely borrowing from the universe (recycle)
* Superficial Experimentation - Put yourself through situations that warrant ridicule in order to become resistant to it
* Worse Case Scenario Simulation - Set aside a certain number of days to eat the cheapest food and cheapest clothing asking yourself: is this the condition I so feared? Make yourself uncomfortable
* Only be ashamed of things worth being ashamed of; inoculate against superficial attachment in what others think
* Planned Fasting
* Planned Cold
* Planned Poverty
* Planned Ugly Clothing
* Context Shifting - Cosmic relativism; remember you’re going to die and the world will keep turning
* Growth mindset - praise yourself for the work not the result; challenge creates growth
* Remove Distractions - am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do THIS anymore ? If it’s no, then Remove the conveniences.
* Opinions to actions - opinions are fine to have and express if they are followed by action but you shouldn’t have an opinion to have an opinion
* Default to action - action before talking; so what needs to be done instead of “I should”
* Daily quote meditation - take a stoic quote and reflect on how to apply it to your life everyday
* Stoic Mindfulness - be in the moment; be attentive to what’s happening
* Daily reflection journal - what did I do right ? What did I do wrong? What could I have done better?
* Art of Aquiescence
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Graal.py rubbed me the wrong way, until I read your comment I couldn't put my finger on why. Thank you!