skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computerphile has a series of videos on AGI that touches on this topic, using the lens of "define a human to a computer," a seemingly simple task with a huge slew of ramifications that come with it. Basically exploring whether or not Asimov's Laws are actually useful or practical (they aren't, and this is a huge reason why).

The short version of the specific video in the series about this explores how edge cases become extremely relevant in this domain, and asks whether or not an AGI would consider these to be people or sufficiently people-like:

* Dead people

* People in vegetative states

* Unborn people

* Simulated human brains

* Sufficiently intelligent animals

And so on. We can't simply list every edge case, that list would be literally endless and the developer is guaranteed to miss one that the AGI will eventually find.

They all come with implications. How can an AGI never harm a human without also accurately predicting extremely discrete details from the future? Any action it takes may cause harm or death to one or two humans 50 years later, and it can't really know for certain. It can probably known if its actions will affect hundreds or thousands, but not one or two.

Suddenly a whole lot of deep moral judgements have to be made, some of them nearly impossible for a human (e.g. the aforementioned unborn human example above). The Three Laws of Robotics unfortunately rely way too much on human intuition, something that is extremely difficult to model in a machine.

I may be remembering incorrectly, but the whole point of that story was how those laws fail spectacularly. That's a critical detail. But I digress.

Clearly an AI designer isn't qualified to just make those judgements on their own, and probably doesn't want to anyway. Really no one, either living, dead, or unborn, is qualified to be the judge and jury in this case, and a committee isn't necessarily better.

It's a fascinating topic, to be sure, but I'll admit that it's not my area of expertise.
Quite a different story from what the Agora team were telling:

https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/83v7x9/these_resul...
It's easy - you have diminishing improvements in pedestrian survival rates. 40MPH+ is associated with a fatality rate of over 50%, whereas you get to 30MPH and you have 7%, and 20MPH is essentially zero: https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/libor-scandal/
>Mixed traffic speeds decrease safety.

Sure, but city streets are already mixed traffic. There are pedestrians, bikes, vehicles parking or turning, etc. It's not reasonable to raise the limit to what people want to drive and just ignore all the other users of the street.

Also, the optical narrowing mentioned in a sibling comment is quite effective. They've done that on a few streets near me via things like sidewalk bulb-outs at intersections, and swapping the parking lane & bike lane (so it goes curb-bike-parking-drive, rather than curb-parking-bike-drive). Everyone drives more slowly on those streets now - myself included.
For the cases where data is encoded as the P2PK address those tx should be safe the prune, although downloading them to verify the block would be necessary.
Nope. A variable is only global if you are in non-strict mode and leave off a `var` on the declaration, or explicitly assign to the global scope (aka window in the browser).

Object internal state is generally true, if you're using prototypal objects. Use function closures when you need to internalize something.

Speaking of which, anything hidden via closure is truly hidden and can't be overridden. Anything public can be overridden, excepting objects frozen via the ES5 spec's Object.freeze method.

I generally enjoy most aspects of JS, and generally detest working with CSS, in large part because I delegate interacting with many browser APIs to JS libraries, whereas there's no escaping the awfulness that is years of backwards compatibility with incompatible vendor specs and CSS implementations.

I suspect I'll be happier once CSS Grids are universally supported (properly) among all of the browsers I need to target, and use postcss for the rest.
CSSinJS has only advantages, except maybe the lack of autocompletion/highlighting in editors, but that should come sooner or later
Though getting the money for a down payment is a bigger problem. It takes a while to save up the $250K down + closing costs (let's not forget that 1% mansion tax) on a $1.2M one bedroom apartment.
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Show HN: An extendable Error class for JS/TS compatible with very old browsers
The whistleblower said they had access to private messages. Are those ever publicly available? I don't see any privacy settings for messages in my FB profile.
You are saying that the ssh client that I have that locally validates SSHFP records using getdns doesn't actually work because DNSSEC is not universally deployed?

Strange if something I've been using for a couple of years cannot exist.
Not the meal. The vegetable itself.
To be fair, all the examples you gave could also happen to a human driver.
As much as I think most of Twitter's userbase comprises one of the worst cesspools on the Internet (yes, really), you can fit a hyperlink and short commentary to something well worth reading within a tweet.

Its function as a personal RSS feed can still be pretty valuable, and I see no reason why you can't be judicious with your follows and entirely avoid the toxic majority.

I have a Twitter account that's barely more than domain squatting from the early days of the service; at this point I follow probably five people and have logged in a dozen times in almost a decade. But when I do, my feed is dense with fascinating stuff. If I were to spend a little time curating, I could probably get to a lot more volume and still keep the high quality of the feed.
No, dynamic code execution is not allowed which is pretty useful if you want a performant javascript experience.
> If CocaCola sells $10B of Coke in the EU, a VAT captures that and it should.

If I understand correctly, you propose to eliminate corporate taxes and go from the current system (taxes on consumption and taxes on corporate profits) to a pure consumption-tax system.

In that case, when CocaCola sells $10B or LossMakingSoda sells $10B (or ExtremelyProfitableCo sells $10B) the taxman gets the same amount (directly from the consumer, and not just conceptually). It’s natural that governments want to extract more money from those companies that have more money.
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> Perhaps the 100% media saturation helped to legitimize his views?

I'd say what helped him most were his speeches, no doubt. The media saturation was a side benefit. He had an absolutely captivating way of giving a speech.

> By captivating, do you include the calls to violence and dog-whistling?

I would like to clarify, here, that captivating and able-to-be-rationalized are not the same thing. Hitler's speeches were captivating beyond all doubt, but were not possible to rationalize.

Trump's speeches were captivating, and occasionally easy to rationalize. Did you listen to any? There were very few, if any, calls to violence - dog whistling wasn't an overt thing from the speeches I observed, either.

The vast majority of his speeches he focused upon two sole things - former prosperity, and regaining that prosperity. He directly mirrored Reagan's campaign, down to the slogan - "Make America Great Again."

A typical outline of a Trump speech goes:

[INTRODUCTION - He starts giving "I love you all!" kiss-ups.]

[PLEA FOR THOUGHT - He gives the story of someone who serves as a conduit to gain sympathy for one of his causes, usually someone hurt by an undocumented immigrant, or a military member.]

[EXCLAMATION OF SUPERIORITY - He combats the Republican candidate's talking point of the week, along with the leading Democratic candidate, whilst telling how he has a plan to do better. He does this very well, even if the argument itself doesn't hold up.]

[EXCLAMATION OF PATRIOTISM - He begins going on about how he loves his country, and how it has potential to be wonderful again. Ironically, this was the most disillusioning part of his speeches for me.]

[EXIT, I LOVE YOU ALL - He again tells the audience how wonderful they are, and how he's happy they support him. He then leaves in an occasionally bravado way.]

* * *

It's rather simple, but he perfected the formula very quickly.
Had the car passed the driving test?

There should probably be a specific, complex and comprehensive test for autonomous vehicles. Also I'd want to see shared liability, the company are driving it (by proxy through their software) so they should be liable to some extent.
The payouts are issued on PR approval, which has mitigated the spamming of low quality work.

> I'm not concerned about the long-term of the project

You're right. With TrapFi, we try to fix this with a high degree of transparency regarding the quality of work that the developer is charging the client for.
It's inspired by this checklist.

You can get two code implementations here:
https://github.com/sqreen/CTOSecurityChecklist
https://github.com/sqreen/DevOpsSecurityChecklist
What you're describing is a driving test that every human needs to go through before they're allowed to drive on public roads. Something that can be revoked temporarily or permanently.

I would be very interested in a 3rd party (government or private) create a rigorous test (obstacles, weather conditions, etc...) for self driving vehicles. Becoming "XXX safety Certified with a Y Score" for all major updates to the AI could help restore confidence in the system and eliminate bad actors.
Under 50 times. Still horrible, of course.

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2017/12/ubers-autonomous-ve...

Presumably a bit more since December.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Fluctuates just over 1 per 100 million.

(1/2+ million) / (1+/100 million) ~ 50-
I'll be releasing some episodes on this in the coming weeks/months to help shine a light on this topic for others.
> In my opinion, most CSS bad bits are a byproduct of bad use, not a problem of the language(?) itself.

I've seen far too many bad languages come and go to believe that anymore. People used to say that about PHP and VB6 too.

PHP eventually stopped with the "only bad programmers use me badly" and grew up, and VB6 died. A win in both cases.

CSS could be far better; and bad practices won't disappear until doing it the right way is easier than doing it the wrong way.
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>If you're the kind of person who votes based on targeted advertising, or the hyperbolic posts of people who vote based on targeted advertising, don't ask Facebook to change. Get the f### off Facebook.

The people that vote based on targeted advertising may not be the ones that have a problem with it. This is like if people complained the pool has too much pee in it, you told the complainers to stop peeing in it.
You say that like there's something wrong with exploiting greed.
When regular cars first appeared, were they not tested "live" immediately? And yes, there was FUD even back then, and in parts of the world a backslash which resulted in sometimes silly safety rules.

The largest real difference seems to be the speed of communication nowadays, the rate at which public opinion can be manufactured and globally spread.
> This is completely different. Cambridge Analytica deliberately lied and deceived users about the intention of the application they created to harvest information about users:

Yes, but lots of apps are deceptive about what they do with data.

> Cambridge Analytica is also in the business of using manipulation and psychological techniques to convince users of an outcome. And this isn't something I'm making up, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica peddles this as the potential of his platform: https://youtu.be/n8Dd5aVXLCc

That's called advertising. Obama's campaign did the same thing (and so did every other modern political campaign).

> The most damning aspect is his naked promotion of misinformation under the newspeak of "Behavioral Communication" where he suggests comparing the effectiveness of using "Private Beach" vs "Sharks Sighted" as a deterrent.

That one is actually somewhat significant, although it's not clear that lying is exactly a novelty in politics.
That sounds like a great exercise, I wish it was standard. But I'm guessing you must have taken this course in a rural area, or else be able to talk faster than an auction caller. I don't think I could list off all the hazards in an urban area fast enough. :)
This is making Kitty Hawk look a lot more attractive.
After landslide re-election, Russia's Putin tells West: I don't want arms race
Not a chance. And that is a good thing. This knee jerk towards "lets just monitor everyone, everywhere and automate the law" is antithetical to a free society. Most people know that, which is why speed camera votes always send that company (RedFlex or whoever) packing.
I don’t mind the [citation needed] generation to “believe me”, thanks.
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America is first in absolute dollar amounts given, but not percentage-wise.

Also, when people and institutions give to charity, there is sometimes a political or even financial incentive to do so. For instance, some charities (like the Peace Corps) have been accused of spying for their governments, and others like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been accused of being used to funnel money to large corporations. In both cases, the underlying motivation for donations could be more about helping the people giving the money than about helping others in need. Without such motives, it's possible that not nearly as much money would be given.

In the experiment the article is about, however, such political and financial incentives didn't exist. It was purely about giving money to others without any conceivable benefit to oneself. Thus, it could be a better gauge of an actual urge to help others motive without any recompense than charitable giving in the real world is.
Based on landmarks from the photo from the news article, and the fact that the accident supposedly happened near Mill and Curry, I'm assuming that this was the location of the accident:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,...
I made a text-based zombie survival mmorpg
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You've hit upon one of the most obvious ways to improve the safety of these systems. Deploy the systems more broadly, without giving them active control.

Then, you can start to identify situations where the driver's actions were outside of a predicted acceptable range, and investigate what happened.

Additionally, if you have a large pool of equipped vehicles you can identify every crash (or even more minor events, like hitting potholes or road debris) and see what the self-driving system would have done.

The realistic problem is that Uber doesn't give a shit. As such, deployment will never be optimized for public safety. It will be optimized for Uber's speed to market.
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You are right on the money. Also, why must self driving cars be on the roads with human drivers at all? We're an unpredictable bunch, and lives are at stake! We should simplify the problem domain and keep self driving cars away from other human drivers and pedestrians (even once the technology reaches a very advanced stage). When they are actually ready to go mainstream, then think about putting them on roads with humans (and even then, dedicated routes and infrastructure specifically for self driving cars may be the safer way to go).
These aren't examples of private citizens reporting on each other. This as an example of a member of an organization providing information on wrongdoing by that same organization, or a company pursuing claims against a company they do business with who is engaged in fraud.

Those things are not at all the same.
What made me cynical was that the government didn't step in and handle it the same way that a private citizen having untenable obligations would be handled.

I expected the failed institutions to literally be seized, and an orderly re-distribution of assets processed. I also expected, as a result, a correction in the price of housing to actually realistic levels.

I was extremely naive about the housing issue; I had not realized how artificially constrained the markets were and how (at least in the US if not elsewhere) government regulations continue to distort the market towards artificial shortage.

It all needs to be repaired and re-worked, but regulatory capture and conflict of voter interest by those who've made it in to the 'I have mine' status is far too systemic.
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Has the uptake of Clojure plateaued?
Introducing Amazon Lightsail – Virtual Private Servers Made Easy
Those historical loner inventors were inventing much simpler things than we work on today. Every city with a university has a baseline amount of research, sure, but at some point a critical mass is more useful.

Agreed on capital - all that VC money slushing around is more akin to chasing the next big thing rather than fixing real world problems. It's just that tech's reliance on unconventional methods of funding makes SV startups more prominent than startups in other industries.
Benefits of working on projects/gpa during college
Which should college students focus on? How would each affect job outlook and overall satisfaction with the field?

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China is the best place in the world to start a startup if...you are chinese focusing on the chinese market. China’s outright hostility to immigration and the lack of much international diversity means that it will necessarily be a closed system for the foreseeable future. That’s not even to mention the great firewall and still wicked pollution problems.
Getting Value from Machine Learning – It’s About Making It Easier to Use
8 things I learned while leaving a startup to work for a big firm
The application is different, but not 'completely different". The use of friend lists harvested from an application to target ads was not known by users. Much of political campaigning, and advertising in general, is exactly as you describe, "using manipulation and psychological techniques to convince".

I would agree with you that the purpose of the application was deceptive, but don't most applications that use Facebook logins attempt to monetize this data?
I think this is... fine? Are we concerned about our friends not using Facebook or are we concerned about you yourself not using Facebook. I don't see a problem with letting your friends organize things on Facebook and getting pulled into the loop by a member of the group.
Never understood why people prefer verbose and repetitive BEM classes over custom properties and appropriate CSS selectors.

<div class="my-block my-block__my-element my-block__my-element--my-modifier">

becomes

<div my-block="my-element my-modifier">

This solves for specificity, and uses built-in CSS features instead of a "manual" workaround.
This. I've been on twitter for more than six years now and I still don't see the useful/worth side of it.
What a strange story. He spent 40 months in prison for the things he blew the whistle on, and was the only person jailed for it.

Then he later received $104m, and yet still no one else went to prison.
They didn't have a bill they've been trying to get passed for years that this story would have justified.
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> Are you making accusations in question form so you don't have to back them up? I certainly didn't say that.

Nope, I'm just having trouble grokking your argument and I thought that might be it. It's true I added a rhetorical edge to the language that was probably unnecessary. I apologize for that--I'm not trying to put words in your mouth. What is your argument?
Not really. The EPA has done this for decades, specifically for Superfund sites. When you can, it's more efficient to have bad actors pay for their bad acts rather than burdening an industry as a whole.
Dropbox is not a devs-only product, given that eg. the CEO might want a personal Dropbox folder, or one might need a shared folder between the marketing team and the developer team (and even then, at the enterprise level it is not unheard of to use simpler alternatives like SFTP/NTFS shares).

Canaries on the other hand are exclusively used by technical people, who won't mind developing and spinning up a tiny honeypot.
If I published the secret key bits for the root KSK on Pastebin, right now, who --- specifically --- would be endangered?
Ask HN: Which USB flash drive do you use?
I was looking for a USB 3.0/3.1 flash drive for myself. I am curious about what folks on HN use.
What if self driving cars kill less people, but the type of people they kill are different from the type of people who die in human driving accidents?

For example, what if instead of 100 people per day dying from human-driven car accidents(where 95 of them are car drivers/passengers, and the other 5 are pedestrians/bicyclists), self-driving cars only kill 30 people per day, but 28 out of 30 are pedestrians/bicyclists?
Tests? what tests? We are too busy fighting over if controller tests are still worth it.
Thanks for your input.

Unfortunately, startups don't have this kind of resources (CIO/CISO etc.). What we see is that security is often handled by CTOs in Seed/SeriesA startups.
One reason for the cascading is to reduce bloat. If the CSS is bloated because of cascading and/or needlessly complex then the CSS and/or design is wrong, not the cascading.
I hope they aren't expecting people to only appear at intersections:

"The California Vehicle Code says you can actually cross any street as long as you aren't a hazard to vehicles. It is also legal to cross mid-block when you're not between two intersections with signals." [1]

The article points out that LA has a different rule. Uber's going to need to geofence locations and use different rulesets for different cities.

[1] https://www.scpr.org/news/2015/04/14/50992/how-do-you-cross-...
Drug pricing isn't transparent. The list price is publically available, but many manufacturers offer point of sales discounts or rebates. For some drugs the actual price might only be 10% of the list price.

This makes it hard for Medicare and Medicaid to know how much to reimburse. It's in the drug company's and the pharmacy's best interest that what Medicare pays is as high as possible, since the difference between acquisition cost and reimbursement is profit in the pocket of the pharmacy. It also benefits drug companies since that profit incentivized use and what do they care? It's not their money.

What the gov't does is require every drug company to report various prices. What is the average price the drug is sold at (inclusive of all discount/rebates)? What's the lowest price the drug is sold at? The gov't then uses this information to determine how much to reimburse.

Some of these companies simply reported the wrong prices to the gov't that resulted in inflated reimbursement. That violation falls under the False Claim Act (from the US Civil War) and the companies get sued for every pill they sold at that wrong price. So it adds up.