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It's the ideal job we're electing them to fulfill, our broken election system makes this very much not their job, but the statement is correct in theory.
> What, concretely, makes you think that any of those companies wouldn't place a focus on safety and value alignment?

Competitive pressure, and the "if we don't, someone else will" effect (or Moloch, if you like). AGI- particularly recursively self-improving AGI- is the ultimate first-mover advantage: the first company or country to have AGI will very likely be able to leverage that into keeping anyone else from getting it (if it doesn't, y'know, kill us). This strongly encourages treating all concerns other than "get there first" as secondary.

> Automobile manufacturers and their tier 1 suppliers are the world leaders in automobile safety, after all.

Not by choice they aren't. They are forced to be the way they are by government regulations, which they always bitterly opposed at the time of creation. In fact, capitalism has such a reliable record of "not giving a shit about safety until they are forced to" that I'm perplexed you think AGI would be any different.
To be frank, your comment history has all the hallmarks of a crank[1]. Specifically, points 10, 9, 7 and 6, although there's also evidence of 2 and 8. Now I could be wrong, but convincing me of that would take a demonstration, or at least explicitly describing the capabilities of your agi.

[1]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304
> I’ll take NYC tap water against any bottled water worldwide.

Me too, but NYC is a major outlier when it comes to water quality. NYC water was, quite literally, sold as bottled water for a while.

Most other places in the country have nowhere near the quality of tap water that NYC has.
This is 100% correct. I seriously can't believe people are hating on you. Too many rude comments!
What kind of threat model are you operating under where a 72 character password is insufficient?

Even if your password consists entirely of lowercase ASCII letters that's still 7.5E101 possible combinations. 20 orders of magnitude more than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
Yes, but you can obtain other info without the keys, such as SSID locations.

Personally I’m doubtful, unless the satellite was in geostationary orbit then it wouldn’t have that long over each location. I guess if it was in a Molniya-type orbit, but that would take it quite high. Guess we’ll never know.
i work near a group of homeless bike chop shop people with trash bins filled with parts. they move alot* of bikes.

i dont see any of the ford or jump bikes around. i think they are just so awash in parts and frames, there really isn't any strong pull to try to mine the bike rental stream. the frames in particular are probably worthless except as steel scrap.

i wonder about the battery/motors though.
Yes, I used `load_data` and friends and it is certainly convenient. I was just curious about a kind of open source market place for models, where you could find niche models that people train in their spare time.
If US hadn't neglected borders & trade imbalances, they'd be doing the same - with better human rights.
Slow down. We are both right and both wrong. Figuring out how the reasons apply to you is half the battle.

As a technical person you are better at getting it working so spending a couple weeks getting a working prototype is worth the effort, it might be ugly but it builds trust that it can work. If the idea is radical your potential investors/customers won't believe it is possible.

The real problem is until you have enough paying customers to pay everybody you are living on borrowed money. How you best borrow the money is the only question, and the answer if different for every situation. Some ideas are so obvious when seen that you can get millions from investors. Some ideas will get the "that ain't possible" reaction until you show them the finished product when they will beg you to take their money. Some ideas look cool but nobody is willing to actually pay for them. Some ideas are cool and will generate sales - but never enough to pay for all the people required to make the product. You have to figure out where you are.
We were scraping data for a client for public events like music shows, business special days/etc, and that's been severely shut down and apparently on hold to approve any new apps. Again this is just getting like the date/location/ticket URL for a public page FB event that presumably businesses want people to know about - no private data about attendees/humans at all.
Signal relies on GCM, and needs a smartphone app. I'm failing to see the win.
There are a lot of cities with older areas which have gentrified into concert/eating/drinking-hang-out hubs. These areas weren't planned so they may be too spread out for foot traffic and adding bikes may increase travel in the area. People aren't about to bring their own bikes but if they're already there why not use them. And if the bike sharing startups prove to cities that people are willing to ride bikes cities, especially those with universities, may begin planning to have dedicated bike lanes. As drivers learn to look for bicyclists it will become safer and easier politically to plan for bicyclists. I'm all for it.
I figure that it's showing the Metadata for the pages you provide links for. A ton of other messaging platforms provide that ability to show information about the link.

Anything could be sending your message unenciphered. A client could get compromised. It could be pulling an IMAP/E-Mail shenanigans of sorts when it sends your Drafts up. It really falls on how much Trust you're willing to give on its claims.

I guess if you'd like to find out, you could watch what it sends for a while to make sure WhatsApp isn't doing anything funny.
Great cartoons. Ironical to use Instagram to show how toxic the 'gram culture has become.
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> Can you give me a play by play of how a newly developed strong AI eradicates the human species quickly and thoroughly without us having any time to react?

Terminator, The Matrix, 2001, I Robot, War Games,
(anecdotal data point) I grew up in a very poor family. (Like electricity-or-food, owned no car my entire childhood poor) Always had a love for technology, however, and bought my first used computer (old 286) at 18. (1995) Bought my first Windows machine 2 years later. Was always learning and writing code - school machines, graphing calculator, my computer etc. In 1998 got first "tech job" doing phone support for ISP/computer store in little rural town in Oklahoma. Starting doing web sites for them, then learned server-side (ColdFusion), and by early 2000 was doing contract work in Houston at typical rates. Definitely broke out of poverty, and along the way, made some very dumb mistakes (as well as significant medical costs). Still not in poverty.

Counterpoints: my aunt's family was middle class and all educators, so I had a great example within arm's reach. I'm also a white male, so don't have some of the social issues that would hindered me otherwise.
Really racking up that social credit score to up your online dating, eh?
Sure, but that has nothing to do with the fact that they're saying they won't compete, but assist if that wasn't the case.
Washington, DC is a big bike commuting city. Jump bikes are everywhere here.
historically speaking japan was maniacally focused on internal unity during the years 1640-1900 as well.
Ask HN: How some services can scrap Android In-App Ads?
I see services which can scrap

Android In-App Ads (StartApp, MillennialMedia, InMobi, Airpush, Leadbolt)

How do they do it?
Ask HN: How can we make California sexy again?
I know a lot of people (including natives) who are leaving California right now because of: "high taxes, politics, bad behavior in general as well as housing prices and the fact that cities like LA and SF are turning into open shelters for homeless on the streets". These are all the reasons why people are fleeing California from what I've heard so far. People are moving to Oregon, Washington, Texas, Arizona, etc.

This includes mostly upper middle class (colleagues, friends, etc. from my entourage). How could we avoid losing skilled workers in California? How could we make California super attractive again?
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a few days back meant a great deal. Feel free to ask anything!
> there are simply too many of us on the planet to support

No, we could easily support 10 times this many people. The problem is that people are "selfish" and will starve, steal, and kill others for power or property. Starvation isn't because of the lack of food or resources - its the governments, rebels, gangs, and guerrilla fighters.
Yeah, but it hasn't been maintained in a long while. Unless someone steps up to maintain it, not sure it'll be usable for long.
It doesn't matter how he answers them, if he answered them in a way you could interpret.
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Inflation helped you to escape poverty by reducing the purchasing power of other people's wealth so that you could catch up.
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Not true. They actually announced the end of the friend's data permission BEFORE the C.A. scandal broke in 2015. (Namely, they announced it in 2014.)

https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/
It’s easy to bust on people for buying TVs and cellphones but that’s not what is keeping them poor. The enormous cost of education, health care, housing, transportation; long term unemployment or underemployment, disability. This is what is keeping people down and why class mobility is so tough.

But she has a big screen TV so she’s irresponsible?
Self-driving bikes probably have a lower fatality rate than cars. Maybe this gives them some breathing room to improve their AI under-the-radar, so to speak.
los angeles is perfect for bike transport. it's sunny and doesn't get too hot or too cold most of the year (in the LA basin proper, the san fernando and inland valleys are a different story). the city government is pro bike path and installing more bike lanes every day. biking is faster during the 6 hours of rush hour a day. most amenities are within 2-3 miles (~15 minutes) of where you live. you can take your bike on buses and trains for the daily commute.

the biggest challenge is bike security (not getting it stolen). bike racks and locks are a poor solution if unattended. if we could put bike racks right in front of the gate attendant booths that most public parking garages have, it would be a much better deterrent to theft. and for residential buildings, you could have lockers or a locked bike storage room (possibly with security cameras too).
I wouldn't say always focused -- maybe since the start of the Ming dynasty. Also, I would think that implying the Chinese have taken their old enemy's plans, and used them with far more success than the Japanese ever did, was a roundabout form of compliment.
I'm not sure how on-topic this is, but this story/topic reminds me of the latest from Isaac Arthur called "Portable Power": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffXqcf48D9Q
That's not about electric power per se, but maybe a nice context/background. If nothing else, in the first 2 minutes I learned something that I (who studied physics) hadn't even considered: that the electrical words "battery" and "charge" come from artillery terminology!
From the article:
"Milk contains healthy vitamins and minerals that are naturally stored in either water or fat. Because skim milk is made by removing the fat from whole milk, skim milk has more water-soluble nutrients like calcium but lacks fat-soluble vitamins A and D. The FDA requires dairy farmers to add synthetic versions of those lost vitamins to skim milk in order to label skim milk as “skim milk.” Without the fat of whole milk, the vitamins break down in skim milk before reaching consumers. In other words, the FDA manages to confuse American milk drinkers without providing any health benefits."

The addition of vitamins seems to be a useless step (because they break down without fat and do not provide health benefits in the end) that probably costs some amount of money that could be saved by a small scale farm. Also the marketing value of being able to honestly say "100% natural, no additives" etc. is another factor.
Interesting. Would say the exact opposite.
Curious to know why they chose to require python in addition to node, wouldn't node with npmjs/yarn be sufficient and require less setup? Does python/pip provide any benefits here?
I deployed Carbon Black, and it seems a nice enough product. But it seems to generate too many programming related false alarms.

Well, they could at least identify when I used ncdu on / and thought it was a crypto-locker, which is nice.
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An earth-to-space optical link would still suffer from diffraction, right? As I understand it, this is also the same reason why it's dangerous to point laser pointers at airplanes.
It saddens me that IBM is setting the expectations so low for natural language processing that they're basically reducing it to a Myers-Briggs test.
> One simple privacy-focused solution Apple could have implemented since many years ago is keeping iMessages E2EE, instead of backing them all up to the cloud automatically

Which means they would not be recoverable or even restorable to a new iPhone. Not a good default for a consumer device.

Apple made the right choice, letting you opt into stronger security at the sacrifice of recoverability. And now they're working on the best of both worlds.
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Also winter. Most of the dense cities in the U.S. also have significant winter weather that makes biking less ideal.
> how do they address the harmful effects these algorithms already have on society?

shhhh, we don't talk about that.

Especially don't talk about how Elon is pushing the idea we are so close to AGI that we need to be afraid, while his cars still steer towards barriers sometimes.
The whole point is that we can all see this is a form of imperialism.
Having infrastructure in foreign countries isn't too helpful if the infrastructure isn't actually useful. How would the Chinese government use the airport differently than the Sri Lankan government that would make it all of the sudden worthwhile?
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True, but there were 40 years between that focus and their attempts at empire in WWII, while China is still very much still in “hold it all together” mode. Even though Japan has an impressively chaotic internal political history, it’s always been a small nation. China has always been huge, with lots of land routes and connections to other potential invaders. While superficially similar, I think that the Chinese commitment to unity Uber Alle is unlikely to change the way Japan’s did.
Most of those problems are already solved by open source tools and standard on video streaming services like amazon, netflix, hbogo etc.

There are mature open source clients that will do most of those things automatically out of the box. For example shaka player from Google.
Exactly! Nuance is the enemy of most moderation. We have tried in the past (I think) to favor permissiveness and inaccuracy than attempt to step into the role of “arbiter of truth”. I don’t envy anyone who needs to fill that role. At best you are judicial, at worst, Orwellian.
Why should it worry everyone?
Then, read “Debt, the first 5000 years” after that. A great combo.
The question is whether that state of affairs can exist forever, or if the system can find a way to adapt and head off any cataclysm.
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>Ban users early and often.

OP is referring to an online community not an echo chamber. Therefore, your advice does not apply IMHO.
The quote specifically mentions American inequality. There are no legal slaves in America currently. The closest thing is sex trafficking, and that is very clearly not what the author was referring to.

EDIT - I would also like to point out that a fundamental point of this article was that the economist discovered it was basically more fair and easier to escape poverty prior to 1970.
What actions?
Why don't you just summarize your actual point or at least provide further guidance? You literally posted a link without any further clarification about its relevance.

As it stands, you're not giving me any incentive to "strongly reconsider" my position.
Only that's not actually what happens on the ground. The "bad" schools typically had more money per student (and were larger, so more money in total) than the "good" schools where I grew up.

The sole and only difference that mattered was the raw material (students) that attended. Heck, I attended a private inner city high school for a year - those demographics were identical to the public school next door, but since the private school could filter for the best students they did far more with far less.

School funding is rarely the problem. You could increase funding 3x and still not put a dent in the problem until we decide as a society that school's are not social welfare centers. Exceedingly few children can be "saved" from a horrible environment outside of school.

Edit: I do actually agree with the virtuous cycle premise - I just don't think it's directly related to finances. I am quite convinced after 20 years of studying the debate that school funding is almost entirely divorced from school performance. I've had a unique enough education background to know small pockets of poor folks who value education exist - and they get just as good if not better outcomes than the rich suburban "college prep" schools for about a quarter of the cost if they are large enough to fund a private school, or even less if it's simply a high-functioning homeschool group. Parents are pretty much the only thing that matters in this debate, the rest is line noise at best.
One "hidden" cost of people over replacement numbers is "footprint". The more people the more we encroach upon wilderness. As people gain purchasing power, the more they plug-in to consumerism. It all adds-up to a leger human foot print on the planet.
Not until we start building orbital colonies at least.
Statistics rarely gives causal indicators (and arguably it would always be impossible to distinguish cause and effect in this case).

So, this is an unhelpful criticism.

Is there a correlation? Yes.
Is there a causation? We can't know for sure, but we also can't rule it out and it is certainly worth considering and reporting on in lay terms.
Meta-reviews might help; for instance, on Slashdot, periodically being shown random comments from others, with ratings, where you can say whether or not you agree with the original rating. At least that way, some additional scrutiny occurs (maybe not objective individually but probably an improvement when aggregated).

I guess in Uber’s case this might be implemented as: randomly showing previous riders a rating for a driver they had, and asking if they agree.
> There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions by distorting what they see on their news feed, front page Google results, etc.

... and Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter, etc.

When I'm discussing politics with friends on Facebook, at least I know I'm talking to real people whom I've met in person. This isn't true with most other platforms. (Except some followers on Twitter...)
I don't really understand what you mean.
I would strongly recommend reading what Pagefair has been putting. They have been one of the few sources I've found that is take GDPR literally. It isn't even clear what level Google's compliance will be - https://pagefair.com/blog/2018/googles-nonpersonal-ads/

There are a lot of extremely serious questions that arise regarding network security, anti-fraud, and anti-abuse measures. Just looking at basic bot detection measures, all of the sophisticated methods are now illegal. It certainly requires a major re-think of how websites serve content as well as the sustainability of advertising as a revenue channel. I can't even wrap my head around how someone would run a GDPR-compliant dating website/app.

If you think Pagefair's interpretations of the GDPR are correct then Google and others are calling the EU's bluff. They are implementing part of the GDPR strictly but the parts which invalidate their business models are being interpreted more liberally or ignored altogether.

I'm not saying that the GDPR is a good idea, bad idea, morally right or wrong. Rather, a lot of things we have come to view as a given -- such as how we detects bots, fraud, and abuse -- are no longer valid. Infrastructure, both technical and business, will need to be re-designed either to comply with the GDPR or evade it.
Couldn’t it be argued that these social symptoms are indicative of SF being too “attractive” at one point? Meaning we might have to look for a new solution. Instead of attractive. Perhaps sustainable?
How much VR user data is Oculus giving to Facebook?
Should read a bunch of these articles. This one is from 2008[0]

But just gooogle “China invaded Africa” to get a bunch more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036105/How-Chinas-t...
Just signed up for this in San Francisco -- Only to find that Russian Hill, Nob Hill, and North Beach are excluded. Plus Fort Mason, the Presidio, and anything west of the Panhandle.

"San Francisco" it is not. Which I guess is fine, but they make you pay up-front, so I found that a bit of cheek.

Admittedly it's only $2, but even on principle it's annoying. They should be much more transparent in the signup process. They even geolocate you, so they'd be aware you're out of their coverage zone.

Edit: This is the coverage map: https://www.evernote.com/l/ACu5gnYkvnNKq6r8MPguZAczRDuT1B7p6...
That'd be silly, since it's obvious why Snapchat would want camera access. If you don't want to grant it access to your camera though, you _should_ be able to click "Deny" and still use the app to read messages.
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I was thinking because they don't need to be exposed to farm conditions, with disease being able to transmit from animal to animal.

Because meat isn't true or untrue, it provides things your bodies need, things it doesn't need, or things that are harmful to it.

I'll be honest, I'm not totally on board, but I don't see any reason we shouldn't grow meat in a lab, and probably many benefits.
> To "avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power" what does one do with an idea or line of research that could potentially harm humanity or unduly concentrate power?

Pursue the research and publish its results freely and in their entirety.
I find it hard to believe that individual actors acting in their own Rational Self-Interest will ever do what you are proposing. Governments, or private actors working hand-in-hand with the government, could do probably do so, even on the framework of a capitalist system, but you'd have to completely reverse the trend of privatizing and selling off everything.
But it also applies to EU citizens living outside the EU. So the use cases get complicated.
Invested wealth grows faster than inflation, almost always. Wealthy people are disproportionately protected from the effects of inflation because they can invest more. Poorer people spend their income.
That's quite a claim. It's not at all clear that the world can support 70 bn people.