skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without resorting to extinction events, it's not hard to imagine action-taking models doing some really bad things. Maybe you have a contextual bandit making loan decisions and it learns to make mostly predatory loans. Maybe your RL agent decides to take an anticompetitive pricing scheme to drive out competition. Much later, we might even see our first full robo-business. If it's uninterpretable, you might not even know what it's doing that until it's been done.

The same research that prevents little problems should hopefully prevent big problems. The research to take RL to the real world is progressing quickly. I don't see a "kill us all" AI arriving soon, but "do bad things" AI and "wreck the economy" AI are quickly approaching.
Games or not, when you're relatively young you'll waste time by the standards of your elders. At least it's not drugs or criminal gangs.

Youth is wasted on the young.
Most experts don't think this is likely, just that the potential consequences are bad enough that it's worth making it less likely. It's just like how most people don't think global nuclear war is likely, but it's still worth reducing the likelihood of.

Also, the people who worry about this aren't concerned about current ML stuff going haywire. They're worried that we're one or two algorithmic breakthroughs from something that can improve itself. If the upper bound for what sort of intelligence is possible is much higher than us, we could quickly be outclassed. As Nick Bostrom says:

> Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization—a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

If you want to delve into the best version of the AI risk argument, I recommend Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom.
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my Azure Edge GPU system for Legacy Games 3.11 for Workgroups (built on NT Technology.
Something else to note here is that the Python interpreter is slow compared to native code, so if you're parsing a lot of small JSON files, whatever difference in speed the JSON parser makes is masked somewhat by the interpreter overhead (assuming you're doing something with that JSON you just parsed). When you're using a JIT like PyPy, the overhead of the rest of your code becomes less, and so then the bottleneck could become something like JSON parsing, I/O, etc.
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Name and shame companies who bow to Chinese censors

https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina

(Repo named after south park episode)
Relevant quote:

Bitcode is not [12:30] a magic solution, though. You can't take a 32-bit app, for example, and run it on a 64-bit device. That kind of portability isn’t something that Bitcode can give you, notably because that is something that's visible in C. As you're writing C code, you can write #ifdef pointer size equals 32, and that’s something that Bitcode can't abstract over. It's useful for very specific, low-level kinds of enhancements, but it isn't a panacea that makes everything [13:00] magically portable.

What’s funny, is later on after Apple shipped a 64 bit chip for the Apple Watch. He admitted that forcing developers to ship watch apps as bitcode allowed Apple to recompile all of the third party Watch apps on the fly to support it, he knew that was coming, but couldn’t say anything at the time.

https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/1046960724646465541
"White House HR once tried to reject a candidate whose previous employer was Github because he didn’t specifically list experience with version control on his resume."

This happens in the private sector too, had this with an internal recruiter that had no idea about the role and was only checking for keywords.
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Kotlin seems promising (because of android).
What is a good definition of magic? Does magic necessarily NOT exist by definition, or do many/most/all forms of it not exist due to empirical results? Does magic that works become science?
This is one of my favorite non-fiction stories. The BBC movie starring Kenneth Brannaugh isn't bad. There were rumors of a Tom Hardy-led movie a couple years ago, but haven't seen any updates since.
The Dreyfuss affair is a perfect example, reading the Wikipedia article made it immediately clear in the first few paragraphs where I would side, and made everyone who would disagree with me seem like an un-thinking, un-principled mob.
At a broader level, this is why I think that "core values" of a corporation in a capitalist system are always, 100% of the time, complete and total bullshit and exist solely to motivate employees to work harder: https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/mission.html

I have NEVER seen a "core value" that takes precedence over the almighty dollar at the end of the day. It's not a core value if you uphold it only when it also conveniently aligns with making money. The thing that make values, well, values, is that you're willing to uphold them even when (or, more correctly, especially when) it's difficult.

This is such a transparent example of cozying up to an authoritarian regime for profit purposes, I'm really wondering how all the Blizzard employees with Western-style values are reacting to this.
As an actor, we'd call that kind of thing "indicating", which is more telling than showing. Rather than actually feeling something, you put on the indicators of that feeling: "There is water leaking out of my eyes, therefore you know I'm sad". Which misses the whole rest of the performance. It's better than saying "I am sad", but not by much.

What you really have to do, in both writing and acting, is more subtle and difficult. It has to become an organic part of the narrative/performance Any example you give is always going to sound like indicating, since it is extracted from that overall flow. If you've crossed out "he was nervous" and wrote instead "his pulse raced", you haven't improved it by much, if anything. But if you're fully visualizing the scene, from whatever POV you've been using so far, you can seek out the next detail and write that as the next sentence.

The essence of "show don't tell" is to be active rather than passive. Talking about feelings, or even indicating feelings, is less active than saying how they act on those feelings. The more specific their actions, the more the reader will internalize the feelings as they live it with the character, even -- or perhaps especially -- when being told from a viewpoint that wouldn't give them access to internals like pulse rate. Movies are exciting without getting any of that information directly.
Doesn't that approach have the downside risk strongly elevating gender to be essential to activities where it really has no business?

I have no idea what your gender is and I don't think our interaction would be improved by forcing you-- by either rule or convention-- to specify something. Doing so would unnecessarily prime my sterotypes and perhaps leave you and/or me worrying that my response was unduly biased by the knoweldge. An effective requirement-to-specify implicitly makes a strong assumption that your gender can be described categorically rather than as, say, the fractal attractor of a complex collection of partial differential equations. :)

For a long time online I've tended to fill out apparently pointless gender fields with a "none of your business". I'm happy to support people identifying in whatever way they find most enabling, but at the same time it feels like a step back to elevate gender as important in contexts where it isn't after working so long to push towards a more gender blind world.
Creating rules by consensus is actually a terrible way to ensure that those with views counter to the majority are treated fairly.
I don't get your point.

Tay was trained to mimic users. It did that and because the users were trolls and saying obscene and objectionable things, Tay mimicked that.

Likely the same thing happened with Zo.

It's a parlor trick, much like a parrot mimicking human speech.
A good read on the topic but ultimately I don't agree with many of the author's premises, particularly with regards to the author's conclusion of whether a fast, medium, or slow takeoff is most likely.

By the author's own admission:

"Whereas today it would be relatively easy to increase the
computing power available to a small project by spending a thousand times more on computing power or by waiting a few years for the price of computers to fall, it is possible that the first machine intelligence to reach the human baseline will result from a large project involving pricey supercomputers, which cannot be cheaply scaled, and that Moore’s law will by then have expired. For these reasons, although a fast or medium takeoff looks more likely, the possibility of a slow takeoff cannot be excluded"

Arguably Moore's law has already expired, and on top of that as giants like Google lead the way on AI it appears increasingly likely that if we ever reach human-level AI it will be the result of an incredibly expensive research project by a gigantic corporation, one that can't simply be scaled up at ease because it will probably utilize an entire data center. Thus I find it very likely that a "slow takeoff" is in fact the most likely outcome. A slow takeoff invalidates all the fearmongering about an intelligence explosion because we will have somewhere between years and decades to respond to the threat (assuming it is made in the public eye, such as by a giant public corporation, and not by a secret military project) before it becomes existential.
I don't know... After slogging through hundreds of thousands of years conquering, taming nature, accumulating capital, developing technology, and eventually making far enough to give life to the most powerful agent in the known universe, a quiet, peaceful retirement (and, yes, death) seems well-earned. Our bodies aren't exactly suited to intergalactic travel. Why not leave it to the silicon-based children?
Agreed. There's really no new information here, just that a reporter got someone from an institute to speculate on corporate social media policy.
I think applying agency to the software in my examples is actually very pernicious. It's not the software that dislikes the ethnic minority, it's the Chinese government. Blaming the software lets bad actors off the hook.

Perhaps what's really needed is ethical standards for technology. This would have the added advantage of being applicable even if the technology doesn't feel like AI to some people.
Seems kind of nuts that a country with such a drastically different governance and economic model is allowed to exert (effectively direct) control over so many companies. Seems like a glaring weakness.
I didn't know malli, thank you Borkdude!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/09/11/hard...
I agree with you, but this is a truly unpopular opinion.

People REALLY hate the idea that they’re responsible for things they haven’t even conceived of.
A modern version of this should be written in this exact style:

"On the generation of diverse animals and plants through descent with modification..."

"Of the refinement of the silicate ores and the arrangement of circuits thereon..."

"Of the splitting of the atomes to obtaineth warmth, light, and terrible destructive forces whose mere possession shall discourage all enemies from waging war upon thee..."
This seems like nonsense.

The author simply invents futures to refute various arguments (all presented out-of-conext, so who knows if there's any real relevancy from that direction either).

What we might do about a super-inteligent AI would strongly depend on what that is, exactly, which, of course, no one knows or really has any idea.

So it's OK to casually BS about this stuff, but in terms of substantive discussion, much less action? No.
> But let’s see how they handle boom-bust cycles.

The interesting thing is, how would we know that they haven't already handled them, and in such a way that we don't even recognize they occurred?

Also, let's not forget: Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
I was honestly just surprised to find out /r/blackpeopletwitter still existed; maybe it's a Mandela moment for me but I could have sworn it was either banned or at least quarantined some time ago. At least for my part I went out of my way to make sure no posts from the sub ever appeared in my browser, so maybe that's what it was.

I'm Afro-Cuban and to be honest the whole thing feels kind of minstrel-y to me.
Yes, fine. I agree. But if Amazon did the security screens off their property, should they be comped?

Moreover, why not just make the workers salaried so they can’t complain?
I was also mostly referring to potential bad effect on Blizzard.

However, I would find it funny if the whole episode made some of your "average" Blizzard-gamer care about China and HK.

(Emphasis on the "average" here: I obviously have no data, but I suspect that the average Blizzard-game player is a young teenage boy who's spending too much time playing with friends to be passionate about international Asian politics. Again, using an hyperbole here. I know you exist, DoTA-geopolitics-nerds.)
> If that works out well, then, you are invited to do a trial, where you work alongside an Automatic team for a period of 1-3 months for ~10 hours per week. This trial is paid with 25 Dollars per hou

How are you supposed to live/support a family on $1,100 a month for 1-3 months? Would be a hard pass for me if I was looking.
As Brundolf said, marketing. But also, science fiction. Finally, a large tribe of scamming and somehow funded imbeciles like Robin Hanson, Nick Bostrom and that weirdo who writes harry potter slashfic.

The same dynamic manifested itself when nanotech was a thing; there was a big tribe of knuckleheads claiming the grey goo apocalypse was right around the corner unless you give them money. How's that working out? FWIIW the science fiction writer who dreamed up nanotech, Drexler, is now an "AI" guy, to make it painfully obvious.
Northern Maine is too poor to afford significant amounts of road salt, so they supplement heavily with plain dirt and sand.
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Wow. That Wikipedia entry on Le Roux is wild. I never knew any of that.

Something straight of a complex spy thriller.
Would you oppose firing of James Damore as well?

Look I understand that we need to have free expression and free speech. Absolutely. But a business wants to protect itself from negative political reputation. If the gamer was talking about say LGBT rights, and his opinions were considered against the current acceptable position on the matter, and then he was banned, I am sure everyone would have applauded blizzard.

Let us not put burden of being politically correct on free market corporations.
Hi Joe! At https://hostifi.net we have tons of people using the USGs and connecting them to the cloud server. The USG actually is the only UniFi device that has a web gui and it has configuration options for setting up the WAN before you adopt it specifically to solve that problem - how to get internet up so you can adopt to a cloud server.

If you have a couple static IPs at one site though, keep in mind that the USG can only do one static IP (without having to dive into CLI), so for any more advanced network like that most people are using a different router vendor but sticking with the UAPs and UniFi switches for the rest of the network.

We also have lots of people using both the built-in hotspot portal pages as well as external portals just fine.

As others have mentioned, if the controller goes down, the networks do not go down. All of the device settings are stored locally and don't depend on the controller, the only exception being that the hotspot pages do require the controller to be online in order to work.
Ask HN: How does working as a software developer in the US compare to Europe?
I'd be interested in hearing some experiences from people who have worked in both places and are able to list the pros and cons in regard of working and living in the US/Europe as a software developer.
so no Java Function to clojure Function automating mapping ? do people use macros to make it nicer ?
Notion is great, but I cancelled my account immediately after finding out they use fullstory. Yes I can opt out, but the risk is too high for private notes, especially when using different browsers or multiple machines which I often do.

I should say that I have nothing against fullstory, we use it for our own saas application.

Edit: typo.
>India actually has a functioning democracy.

Democracy or not what they're doing in Kashmir is worse that what China is doing in Hong Kong.
Maybe, but the solution for stopping young children getting addicted to gaming is simple - stop giving kids gambling games, monitor any online play and teach them to play games for healthy amounts of time.

I personally can't point to a single thing a parent can do in order to greatly reduce the mental health crisis and I'm not sure it's yet well understood. What is clear though is that behaviours that lead to suicide (e.g. depression) are spot-able and treatable to some extent.
The last 50 years have been a turd sandwich compared to the previous 50. Try the exercise in your mind. Basically the last 50 years have been ... fracking, better networks and packet radio, democratized for the masses. The previous 50 years .... atomic energy, computers, quantum mechanics, antibiotics (probably the greatest human biological innovation thus far), supersonic flight, landing on the moon, the 747, diesel engines, all of electronics from vacuum tubes up to LSI.... I could go on, but you get the idea. 1969 -> 2019 is lamesauce nonsense compared to the progress we got from 1919-1969

Progress, like everything else, is an S-curve, not an exponential increase. Exponential increases are not physical.
Thanks I really appreciate it!! I'll definitely make another video like this soon.
I wanted to say this, but since you did already, I'm going back to playing with the moons...
> Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg stepped down after one of the airline’s pilots was found to have taken part in the protests.

Wow, that is crazy.
I think the idea is that you can squeeze the 10h/week into your existing schedule.
"It seems to be a hangover of the Medieval Catholic era that causes most people, even the educated, to think that everybody must "believe" something or other, that if one is not a theist one must be a dogmatic atheist, and if one does not think capitalism is perfect, one must believe fervently in socialism, and if one does not have blind faith in "X", one must alternatively have blind faith in not X or reverse of X. My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assume certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. The more certitude one assumes, the less there is left to think about, and a person sure of everything would never have any need to think about anything and might be considered typically dead under current medical standards where absence of brain activity is taken to mean that life has ended." Robert Anton Wilson
The community that these discussions take place in are a sort of "safe space" for those who want to discuss things rationally. Nobody is claiming that subtle logical arguments are effective in the real world against anyone who isn't already in that crowd.

One problem is that emotional rhetoric is often dressed up to look like rational argument, thus sucking people into a debate about arguments instead of a power struggle. When faced IRL with a fallacious argument designed to force them to say something factually correct but distasteful sounding, rational people definitely need to develop the habit of laughing in the attacker's face instead of responding with argument. I agree that not doing this is a problem they have (one that their enemies exploit). But I think you're reading into it if you think Alexander consciously endorses answering emotional attacks with reason (he might be tricked into it, but would agree it was a mistake if it were pointed out). He's talking to his own audience here.
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Strange - blank window on Firefox, but as soon as I drag the tab the thumbnail shows the page contents.
IDK?... I guess we will find out on Oct 31 lol
$50 isn't that pricey. Similar to the cost of a new BD-ROM drive. I was imagining a lot more from TFA. What's a good way to hook up an ATAPI drive to a modern computer? I'm curious if mine still works.
And then there's China and Hong Kong. Who will stand up?
They're... numbers...

So you're telling me we could come across a series of numbers, that would somehow imbue the computer storing these numbers into sentience. And having these numbers in such a sequence could pose a existential threat to humans.

The people worried about this are having an entirely different conversation devoid of what practitioners call AI.

I've written a blog post on my thoughts of Bolstrom and other AI alarmists:

https://medium.com/ml-everything/ai-optimists-vs-pessimists-...
Ironically, only a Eurocentric worldview could have one believing that "racial equality is a distinctly european tradition"

There were many celebrated anti-racist movement leaders across the world and in various time periods. The most well-known of these would be the Prophet Muhammad, who famously in one of his last sermons declared "Surely all of mankind – from the time of Adam until our time – are like the teeth of a comb (all equal to one another) and there is no greatness for an Arab over a non-Arab or a non-Arab over an Arab and no greatness for a red-skinned person over a black-skinned person or a black-skinned person over a red-skinned person, except due to one’s consciousness of God."
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I agree, this is a great book. Just about anything by Sowell is worth reading, but _Basic Economics_ and _Economic Facts and Fallacies_ are good starting points.

Also consider _Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics _ by Henry Hazlitt. It's coming from a strong Austrian school perspective, which some object to, but at a minimum by reading it you will be presented with ideas that are worth considering and debating.
Depends on your definition of "singularity". Yes, life is very different from 170 years ago. We can communicate with people around the world with very little effort, almost instantly. We can cure a huge number of the diseases that killed people back then. We have electricity, which powers almost everything. We have cars and airplanes. Life is massively different.

But the singularity is defined as more than just massive change. It's defined as, essentially, an infinite rate of change. (Of course, the last 170 years may have felt infinite to someone in 1820, taken all together. But at no point did the change look infinite to someone living at the time.)
What I meant was more equal than before.

Basically Apple is treating both places in the same way with the same restrictions whereas before nothing special applied to HK.
Pretty sure they are beyond the point where firing them would put them out of work.
Any company that asked me to do that would get a hard pass. I’d immediately send the “thank you for the consideration and time blah blah” email. I usually research companies and hiring processes before hand and wouldn’t even apply.
I believe the First Amendment already protects the free speech of non-citizens. Do you have a specific case in mind that broke differently?

https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/t-he-constitutional-rights...