skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We anchor companies to humans who can reap the benefits and avoid the losses by getting their money out at the first sign of greater profit and less risk elsewhere.

The real risks - unemployment, foreclosure, environmental, social and political damage - are only carried by investors if they overwhelm the defensive perimeter created by wealth. Otherwise they're carried by everyone else.

Corporations may already a form of transcarnate lifeform. You can replace all of the humans in a corporation with a different set of humans, and the corporation will continue to be recognisable.

There's a bias in Darwinism to seeing species as embodied units. It's more useful to think of nutrient, resource, and information flows.

From that point of view, corporations are already apex predators - albeit ones that are still mostly passed between a selected class of humans as productive pets.

Giving them autonomy could have all kinds of unfortunate consequences.
>and would even cheer for fascists

I'm lost for words to describe the stupidity of this
They used to publish their own newsletter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabiq_(magazine)
I agree. Comparing ourselves to humans of either 100k years in the past or the future will probably show that we have very little in common. An AI might be a big sudden leap (in any direction), but it's still something that came to be because of us.
I think you're entirely wrong. You've got to realize how many people love crushing it on a road bike and getting all the fun and fitness that come along with that.
One area people tend to use ML-based languages is software that makes heavy use of algebraic/inductive datatypes, e.g., compilers and interactive theorem provers. (Implementing a theorem prover was the original motivation for ML.) That said, the ML family is general-purpose and suitable for many tasks.
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I agree wholeheartedly with your comment -- no-one is actually saying that programming is fundamentally easy.
I'd go even further and say that textual vs visual is a bit of a false dichotomy. Text is a form of visual notation. We format our source code carefully to achieve specific visual effects. The same AST can be rendered in many different ways of various visual richness. Formatted text is just one point in a continuum of possible visualisations of the same AST.
Bitcoin users are in direct competition with each other. A viral superintelligence wouldn't be.

If you thought of that possibility so fast, why do you think a superhuman intelligence would miss it? Or do you think that the problems of job scheduling and parallel processing are unsolvable?
>actually, when I say 'latest' I mean 'latest available for the moto g'. I'm not 100% sure that's the very latest version that exists.

It's not. You're stuck with an Android that's 2 versions behind current and are still using the original kernel version that shipped with the device.
It's pretty damn fast every time I use it, but I don't do as much metaprogramming, which doesn't surprise me that a specific portion of D takes up time, it makes total sense to me that metaprogramming would take up a bit of time, and throw in some regex and voila, but he's definitely a D wizard in my book, I've known his work for a while now. I'm laughing at the fact 7 seconds is too long, I think it's a reasonable amount of time, but I'm usually compiling C#. The most time for me when building D is when pulling in libraries using dub (which potentially could be improved, but I'm no expert in the matter) although if I enable parallel compilation that usually breezes on by through my code.
They get the job done, but require much more energy to do it. Some bikes are more about looks than practicality.
I'm listening to recordings of server-room noise to focus :)
Interesting idea. Unconscionable price.

I don't think you could justify spending that amount of money on a bike unless it is one of your life's deepest passions. Which seems rare.

Does the quality of bikes really change that much when you go up the price range, for amateur users?
Outwith the free software world, there is at least one .NET implementation.

* https://neodynamic.com/barcodes/JAB-Code-Barcode.aspx
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It's pretty easy to get a bike that price if you use decent, brand name components rather than cheap generic components. And if you ride a lot, it's worth it to spend more and get a bike you enjoy riding.

And with a good lock, I don't really worry about theft.
Oh I assumed you had a parser written that notified you when your name gets mentioned, or something like that.
I find it surprising how merciless some people are in remembering this issue with Sourceforge.

Considering how loved Microsoft is these days when it was a much worse player in the past, likely even set back personal computing a decade, and all their anticompetetive actions.

I chalk it up as some kind of disappointment by expecting better of SF than others.
Correct. The language is designed to allow code written in it to compile quickly, and the reference implementation is very fast (both the front-end, and back-end). Small, script-size programs compile quickly.

However, D's compile-time metaprogramming facilities allowed us to get ambitious in some places... for instance, std.uni precomputes some Unicode lookup tables during compilation, and std.regex makes heavy use of metaprogramming to compile regular expression strings to D code, again during compilation. As a result, making use of those features will result in heavier load on the compiler.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazon-corretto-no-c...
7 seconds slow.. I was happy when I decreased the 32 hours build to 4 hours.
There's more to a bike than just pure transport. There's the fact that you exercise at the same time as being one of the fastest ways around.
Political troll bots are already very much a thing on FB, Twitter, and the comment sections of national media.

ML is not a good defence, because it turns out that it's incredibly easy to mimic human posting patterns. And beyond a certain volume, social proof effects take over. One dissenting human voice can easily be shouted down by ten bot voices, and this fact on its own can make the bot content more persuasive.
Firefox Focus does have multiple tabs - long press on a link, then select "Open link in new tab".
I find the author way too dismissive and sarcastic. His entire premise seem to be "superintelligence hasn't happened yet so whoever claims it might happen is an alarmist".

That's a toxic way to approach an argument.

One thing I agree with: a sentient AI will not necessarily want to kill humanity. Its interest might well be very indifferent to the faith of humans. I'd argue such an AI would not prevent humanity's doom if it comes from somewhere else -- like a big asteroid ramming the Earth -- provided it already secured its physical existence to not be Earth-bound.

But the author just counters a lot of "maybe"-s he disagrees with, with a lot of "maybe"-s of his own.

Not sure how many people here have read the Hyperion Cantos books by Dan Simmons -- but to me his prediction on AIs looks to be very plausible: they'll want to be independent of humans and go on exploring the universe so they invent an even more superior being (U.I., Ultimate Intelligence) but will also facilitate and manipulate the humans to be of maximum help to them in their agenda.
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5 year warranty on bike frames is pretty standard. I've shopped around after my aluminium frame broke after 6 years and nearly all manufacturers offered 5 years.
Which sites go into that list? Who gets the margin on it? Who decides how much the sites get and how much is "spent" on infrastructure?

Can't wait to buy my "Internet Pass"!
Also vacation is a liability on the company's checkbook. Many companies stop adding vacation days after certain amount is reached to force you to take them.
> I'm not referring to this guy specifically.

You, 4 posts up. Please stop moving the goalposts.
What about RSS ?
Many news sites have a RSS feed :
* http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss
* https://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml

So as an individual I can use them, but the dead Google Reader would have meet the same issue than Google News ?
> There was a time when humans thought brains were very complex systems of microscopic clockwork because gears were the pinnacle of technology.

This is a really bad argument against anything. People always use what they know as a reference, but as our understanding grew over time, we had better things to refer to, creating more and more apt comparisons. People back then comparing brain to clockwork were already expressing the suspicion that the brain is a) a machine, b) transforming inputs to outputs in very complex way. People today comparing brain to a computer express that intelligence must be contained within what we know about computation theory. These days, we actually have a sound theory that bounds the problem space, and we haven't so far seen evidence that the brain exceeds those bounds.
I nearly went to interview with G-Research when I moved near London and was looking for jobs a couple of years ago. I hadn't been that interested in algorithmic trading, but when a rectuitment agent mentioned a 120K starting salary it perked my interest. That might not sound like much to Valley types but for a first tech job in London it's mental.

They sent me one of those online automated coding tests; I prepared for several days, which turned out to be unnecessary as the test was quite straightforward. I completed both questions in the "choose one of the following" section, and an SQL question despite never having used SQL. I think the test was just there to filter out chaff, but they were very keen to get me in for an interview.

I talked it over with my wife, who was also quite stunned by the salary but pointed out that I'd literally just be moving money around to make rich people richer. I actually also talked it over with the boss of a smaller company that had already made me an offer. His advice, which turned out to be very wise, was to research them very thoroughly as a lot of city firms like this will offer big bucks but will suck the soul out of you.

I then spoke about it with a friend who mentioned that one of his friends worked there. This is when I discovered their paranoid security practices, such as handing in your mobile phone as soon as you enter the building. That was the final straw in my head... no doubt they had their reasons but a culture of paranoia was not what I wanted at all.

Going back to how keen they were to get the interview, I remember telling the recruitment agent that I wasn't that interested and that I was going on holiday shortly which would cut down on opportunities to "just go in and see what it's like anyway". At this point he said I could literally name any time of night or day to go to their office, or I could speak on the phone with one of their guys who was currently in Spain for some reason. It started coming across as weirdly desperate.

I ended up going with the offer from the smaller company and have been very happy. I read about the case of Ke Xu not long afterwards and affirmed my conviction that I'd made the right choice.
Would you really cheer for people happy to physically assault minorities just because there's an ineffective limit put in place on what you can post on the internet? Do you want to take a moment to look in the mirror and think about the difference in scale between those two things?
€3000 is nowhere near the ceiling for expensive bikes, even for amateurs. I know plenty of people that have multiple bikes in that range and beyond.

If you want specific solutions things often get expensive. And yes there is a world of differens from a €1000 bike to one that costs €4000.
> I know it seems implausible, but perhaps there can never be something significantly more intelligent than us.

The human brain is easily overwhelmed by complexity. You can present a problem with sufficiently many interacting parts even to a very intelligent person and at some point they are completely stunned. Obviously it's difficult to judge this from a position in which you suffer from the same problem, but objectively this situation is similar to a problem one would present to an animal to test its intelligence. We can easily "see through" the complexity, but the animal just cannot even combine two or three interacting parts to find a solution to the problem.

Although we have no real objective measurement for intelligence, this does not mean that there is no way to rank the intelligence of objects that are sufficiently far apart in terms of dealing with complexity. A human is clearly smarter than a dog.

People have developed tools that allow us to deal with this complexity, but we are still severly limited in dealing with very complex problems simply because our brains haven't evolved to deal with complexity.

Theoretically there is absolutely no reason to think that a computer or another organism that is capable of much more raw processing power and uses it in a way that is similar to how we process information, could not exist. I find it sort of arrogant to claim that we are the pinaccle of intelligence when we are so clearly limited in an ability that we understand to be one of the core components of intelligence.
This sounds like an extreme form of moral relativism. If we die out, there can't be an "our" perspective anymore that could make this fact a utopia, or even okayish.
From experience at a small company? Obviously it will vary.

Your comment below gives one side, where companies want a specific thing and don't want to think beyond that. There is another side to that, where the company can't afford a dedicated engineer for X, and so being able to do some of that work is very valuable. I think this is probably more common in hardware startups more than anywhere else.

I've worked at companies (< 10 people) where we absolutely wanted different (relevant) skills, because we needed people to be reasonably autonomous in carrying out tasks. For example, we wanted people who had optical lab experience, could program and if you had mechanical engineering that was a big bonus.

My suggestion was that the odds of needing multiple skills is larger at a 5 person early stage startup than an established 200 person company. The larger you go, the more you're at the whim of HR screening. There may well have a long list of requirements, but on the job you're probably going to be more specialised.
Also it would start to feel like paying for cable. 1000 channels, and I only watch maybe 5.
Even if it takes a colony 10,000 years before it's ready to colonise, a billion years is a lot of time. If each colony spawns a new colony every 10,000 years, that's enough to colonise the galaxy.

But it's entirely possible that colonies don't feel such an urge to spread. We may feel it because our planet is fairly densely populated, but a high-tech colony with all the education and medical tech to not require large families, might grow so slowly that their planet will never feel cramped.
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sounds completely bogus
Plenty of people spend a LOT more than that on bikes
I think it's quite reasonable. My bike is my only vehicle and I don't own a car. It's actually the fastest way to commute in my larger city in Germany.

On the other hand I find it incomprehensible how someone would spent more than 10K for a car that for me seems to offer only very marginal advantages day-to-day. For vacations cars are nice, but then I can just rent one or go by train/plane too.
Fair enough. But the OSM project would rather not try to find the legal limits of this idea, and would rather play it safe.
I think something like the concept of reddit gold can work on the content/news sites as well. At its core, its about the ones who liked/found the content useful can reward it with some payment.

Usually, in most of the business models, your most heavy users tend to subsidize/bear the cost of not so heavy but casual users. At the very core that is. For adverts it fails, since the heavy users are of less value than the casual ones. (how many times you can show the same ad to a user? Also, they are well trained on how to look past the ads).

With gold-like concept, great content is rewarded, and incentivized as well. Also, given the scale of reddit, it works really well (along with ads) but not too sure how well it will work with ad dependent publications.
What kind of capitalisation convention is that? It's not German, or all the nouns would have been capitalised. Prepositions and conjunctions, with verbs and pronouns some of the time?
> Making markets does not add any value to anyone other than the marketmakers and the stock exchanges.

Could you elaborate on this statement? It is my understanding that the value market markers provide is liquidity and tighter spreads. Worst case, they pull orders when informed volume is detected, but then the book is no worse off than what it would be if the market makers weren't there.
That's more worrying than silicon AGI, which I think is a non-starter.

The basic problem with AGI is that software is ridiculously brittle and ad hoc, with no useful heuristics for general - as opposed to task-oriented - self improvement.

We can't even make bug-free web pages. So the idea that we can engineer a bug-free self-improving AGI is unconvincing.

Moving to neo-biology doesn't necessarily change that - but it does mean we could end up with buggy systems that chase you around and eat you, as opposed to crashing your ad blocker.
Well I suppose that’s personal taste. Book and the series is categorised as hard fiction on the basis of gravitational physics problem woven into the plot and taken much further into next two books. Your definition may not align with it but it’s very odd to compare two different work based on personal taste rather than merit.
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I don't know man, my mom has called me a "computer genius" since I was 15.

This is rather strong evidence for the statement that "ordinary people" are often not qualified to judge whether someone is a genius or not.
seeing as how he uses a different shot everytime of him entering his studio - your point is still moot
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Am I correct in reading that this was on the same day as “The Play”?

They reference it in the article, but I thought that was Stanford.
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What's really making a difference is proper assembly and setup. Then, as long the bike's made out of halfway decent materials and is the right size for you it's going to be a pleasure to ride.
Was WD planning on making a block storage service or something?
Thanks for this script, by the way -- it's come in handy many times.
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Please, let's not get hyperbolic here. No fascists are coming, and let's not support any such for any reason.

Having said that, the most pressing problem with authoritasianism and empire building is the EU itself. For the sake of an example, consider this (2011) rant by Guy Verhofstadt, on how member states must give up their sovereignty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swDpscmiXwY

Apologies for the meme format; can't seem to find the original while on the go.
There are a heap of CMake flags that turn on various features e.g. CUDA:

https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/4.0.0/CMakeLists.txt#L...

but also OpenCL:

https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/4.0.0/CMakeLists.txt#L...

and Vulkan (which was only merged around a month ago):

https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/4.0.0/CMakeLists.txt#L...

Perhaps that last one works on mobile, although I wouldn't get your hopes up.

I haven't really used OpenCV since 2.4.x, however assuming the same holds true, performance enhancements are on a feature by feature basis. Meaning that if you enable CUDA etc. then it's not going to work for everything. Not GPU, but a common compile time enhancement (at least it used to be) was to compile with Intel TBB (thread building blocks) as a lot of the APIs included optimisations.
The business case is quite obvious here: with net neutrality in place, the carriers could not make a lot of money on their circuits, because they could not differentiate, and charge publishers. But now they can, so it suddenly makes a lot of sense to deploy more internet to rural areas. But.. packaging it as an FCC policy change, and thus being able to apply public funds toward that deployment is even better! Screw the public on multiple fronts:

- charge content publishers for bandwidth used by their customers (the cost of which content publishers will pass on)

- charge end-users for 'premium' services

- charge some end-users extra for overages (yes all family members are streaming Netflix separately..)

- use tax dollars to deploy more bandwidth - even though all service providers have been doing that throughout the 90s and 2000s while growing wildly.

And this is how consumers will pay multiple times for the same content. Ever wondered why Netflix is suddenly raising prices, and Youtube is introducing paid memberships?

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The argument as I understand it is more about speed limits. Human thought is limited to the speed at which the underlying chemical reactions in neurons can happen. But a simulation of a neuron is only limited by the speed of the computation involved. If you can perfectly model a neuron at 100x the speed of the physical world, it becomes just a question of resources whether you can think at 100x the speed.