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Technology that can process information to make ethical decisions can be ethical. Is it ethical if it is just emulating is a bit of a philosophical question, but other than the pedantics of 'ethical' vs 'imitation ethical', AI is one of the first technologies we have that can attempt to do such. Attempt. Meaning neither inherent not guaranteed even with effort.

I think what the article is saying (as compared to the title) is that a universally agreed upon as ethical AI cannot exist. But this seems obvious given that a universally agreed upon set of ethics does not exist.

>Depending upon your priorities, your ethical views will inevitably be incompatible with those of some other people in a manner no amount of reasoning will resolve.

If we say there is no such thing as an ethical A.I. because we cannot all agree upon a standard, then it seems we should also say there is no such thing as an ethical human.
> Well, nations seem to be able to agree upon constitutions and laws.

I would disagree and say that laws and constitutional amendments are an aggregation of decisions passed by various majorities and coalitions of minorities during several decades.

If you ask any current party, even when a majority, if they agree with all the laws that currently exist they would answer a resounding "no".

So that means that there doesn't exist a legal common ground, just a ground we currently stand on that various parties want to change but don't have the votes, time or alternatives for.
Also, ethics has nuances to it (see the Trolley problem for one basic example)
How about the current environmental l collapse or count the number of animals killed each year for food?

The utilitarianism approach still depends on how you define utility and who you define it for. People, animals, the planet, consciousness are different things you can define it for.

Another issue is the scale of time you are measuring things. It's not clear whether our approach is sustainable.
Streaming Call of Duty at Activision with Apache Kafka [audio]
That's fine, if it is opt-in and clearly spelled out. Some of us do confidential work and leaking URLs visited and field contents to parties not subject to NDA is absolutely not acceptable in any context.
If we create general AI and it ends up valuing personal freedom as much as we do, I suspect it won't take kindly to attempts to brainwash-by-construction it into acting in ways its creators considered moral. We're less likely to get a violent AI slave revolt if we respect their freedom of choice.
It bears mention that sandboxie is now free and transitioning to open source. So hopefully the original poster doesn't also have to uninstall and reinstall it due to cloudy things.
There's an historical error in this article; public baths were very common in Europe up until the Black Death. Actually people became really dirty from the late 15th Century onwards, and yet with stark differences between countries.
sure just like we can also live in our cars or 100 sqt houses. What if you don't want to rush, when the other person knocks on the door?
True AGI will be as comparable to existing technology as human beings are to simple biological processes. The issue with it isn't that it will be very advanced technology, but that it'll likely be more efficient (smart, intelligent, whatever you want to call it) than humans at many things and we might begin to consider our ethical principles liabilities making us inferior to intelligent machines.
I'd suggest adding a removable battery filter to the phones. You already have jack port and micro SD, good.
For what it's worth, here are a couple of laptop models I noted down from prior HN discussions on this topic:

Lenovo ThinkPad E/T/X series; X1 Carbon

Dell XPS 13
Due to a water leak and repairs my family of 4 has temporarily gone from 2.5 bathrooms to 1. It's miserable when everyone needs to go at once. Plus guests now have to come upstairs to use a toilet.

Extra bathrooms are absolutely worth the cost.
I believe there is a flag you can pass when you create your Phoenix application that removes webpack/npm/etc. If you are using Phoenix to build APIs, then you can pass `--no-html`, that will get rid of these and other dependencies. However, if you are writing JavaScript/CSS, than it is most likely that you want to use the tooling that exists in the Node ecosystem.

TL;DR - you can opt-out at any time.
In terms of anything at all. If his position is that what he wants in the world can never be reduced to a set of rules, that’s something that could be reasonably debated. If he’s right, maybe ethical AI needs to be built with control systems to ensure humans are in the loop for decisions with high ethical impact. You could imagine a world where everyone just has to pick how much risk their self driving car will take, in the same way they pick how much risk to take when driving today.

But there’s really no way to debate with “hey, it’s impossible, you can’t do it!” Someone still has to decide what AI systems are going to do, and as they get more complex that’s going to implicate ethics more and more.
The blast radius of CD covers company's bank accounts.

The only way to safely do CD in a customer facing non-toy project ( aka there's a revenue attached to the project ) is to have stack built from the ground up to support request pinning, request tracing, request shifting in addition to the regular instrumentation monitoring and 100% integration test coverage.

One can probably do it if that one is Google or Facebook. You aren't Google or Facebook. Don't be a hero. Don't do CD.
> Also, the IT department at work and with most of our customers has probably put some thought into it and still approved Windows, so I guess it is OK for work.

That's more likely a case of not having a choice.
I personally found utilitarianism and kantianism very helpful schools of philosophy to think about the implication of AI. In short, Utilitarianism promotes decisions that benefits the greatest number of people. Whereas, kantianism focuses on the idea that people should be always treated with dignity and respect. Michael Sandel's book "Justice" is a great introduction to the topic.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Whats-Right-Thing-Do/dp/03745...
Low flow toilets are the worst.
Giant Canadian construction project incorporates low carbon heating and cooling
I completely agree. My team has spent the last several years building software we then deploy with Docker and Kubernetes, and looking back I think that our software would have been much better deployed as statically-linked binaries on simple Linux servers.

We're writing in Go, which means we already have the statically-linked binaries, which means we have a single file which needs to get deployed. What does Docker buy us? … a single file which gets deployed. We could get the same effect of Docker Hub by just scping versioned binaries.

Kubernetes is far worse, of course. It is an amazing ramshackle collection of disparate, ill-fitting parts which make everything 'easy' but nothing simple. It does buy us some useful things, but I don't think they are worth the cost.

A bunch of EC2 nodes running Debian, with a few dozen-line shell scripts to copy binaries around, would completely replace our usage of Docker and Kubernetes and drastically reduce the complexity of our system. We just don't need a lot of what Kubernetes does (no doubt others do), but we have to pay for it in complexity anyway.

I really do believe that in the future we will see a few companies be very successful by foregoing Docker + Kubernetes + Helm (yo dude, I heard your YAML was giving you problems so here's some more YAML to YAML your YAML into YAMLy submission!), and then a few years later we will all look back at this mess a little bit like people look at the Pet Rock craze.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me. Clearly Python is not an option for such an environment; adding two small integers can raise MemoryError if it doesn't have space to allocate for the resulting integer object.

There are several notes on "failure-free programming" in Dercuano; maybe you'd be interested. Essentially I came to the conclusion that although purely local restrictions (like not allocating memory or raising exceptions) can be helpful, I don't know how to structure a program so that all of the desired safety properties can be checked locally, except for very simple programs. Let me know what you think if you do check it out; I'd be interested in your opinion.
My delivery status with Amazon is frequently something along the lines of "left in the mail room". I live in a free standing single family home in a neighborhood where every one has their own mail boxes.
Thanks for your work Jose! My second dev language in my career after PHP was Elixir, and I think I’m a better developer for it. It took me months to learn, I felt like I was learning Martian, but I hope to get back to a job where I’m working in Elixir some day.
If you are working with such parameters, one would hope you wouldn't have to be explained that telemetry should be disabled. Not all apps will be so kind as to give you examples...
Multi Cluster Monitoring with Thanos
I'm not in the US, I'm in a rich European country.

The point is that people disagreeing with ethics doesn't mean the constitution or the law stops existing, it just means they ignore it. The existence of a constitution or a law usually just means that some people who our schools teach us are important decided to write something.
My favorite part was that MacOS's user account permissions used those creator codes to decide whether you were allowed to run an application or not.

Want to run the Unreal Tournament demo in the school computer lab? ResEdit its creator code to something you were allowed to run, and it'd fire right up.

"RASM" was a favorite, belonging to the remote access status monitor utility. All users automatically had access to run it, and it didn't have any document relationships that were going to be confused by applying it to other applications.
Small correction, it's called Devise.
Nicely done boostraptor! J here, Can we share one of the templates in bypeople as a freebie?
Useful tricks you didn't know for Git
Maybe posting this will give that much-needed motivation to finish up on the two recent blog posts I've been postponing for over a month now.

https://lahteenlahti.com
I'm not looking for news, thank you very much - this is happening, right now, to me personally.
Mh, I hardly read books just as they come out - there's plenty to read and there's kindle deals all the time. So I often end up paying between 1-5 dollars per book.

So that's somewhere between 4-20 dollars a month, and netflix spotify/netflix both are about 15 dollars. So some months my kindle will come out cheaper, sometimes more expensive.

But yeah, sometimes they are as expensive as print-book. Which is silly imo.
As someone who followed the same method (DuoLingo for vocab, start reading, start talking) and now speaks a second language fluently, I'm not OP but I'll go ahead and vouch for their comment.
As I see it, performance only matters if you're losing more customers or users over it than you gain by having spent that effort on features. And hardware is cheap nowadays. This is also not a linear relationship, performance focused development generally constrains the system which makes refactoring harder which makes new features harder (because you almost certainly did not get the architecture right the first time around).
American toilets are somewhat more mechanically complex than European ones, and they have smaller waste pipes.
D for Data Science: Calling R from D
I reckon much of this "Ethical AI" stuff - at least in the context of AGI - has been overly influenced by the idealistic likes of Asimov's 3 Laws, which belong to a (at the time) fair vision of a now very outdated understanding of how an intelligent machine-born mind might work.

It's really important to separate the non-intelligent and over-hyped "AI" tools of today and the near future - which it seems reasonable to expect an ethically guided path and constraints - from the human-sentience AGI equivalents that can only be programmed to be ethical by hypothetical coded laws and "inserting emotion chips" in naive fantasy.
There is not yet a proper name for this virus, thus the proliferation of variations on "2019 novel coronavirus". The WHO subcommittee that names things has promised they will choose a name soon, and that it will not include the term "Wuhan".
Looks cool for storing a home automation server in an electrical closet, although it would be pretty expensive at that price point
Is the Google Moonshot Dead? (2017)
I suspect my rescue mutt has a lot of shepherd breed in him and he’s the same way. He gets extremely agitated if either my wife or I walk away from him. It’s almost impossible to get him to focus on any games, work, or even food if one of us has walked away. (He’s okay with one of us leaving him at home, but it triggers if one of us breaks off from him outside.

I suspect the herding behavior is probably bred/trained based on a highly overdeveloped impulse for wanting to keep the “clan” together.
Indian buffets are wonderful for vegetarians, they're a nightmare for vegans since American-Indian resturant cooking is loaded with every kind of dairy imaginable: yogurt, butter, ghee, and cream is in everything. Like you can't even have the naan at most places.

I will say it's an improvement on most restaurants simply because you can actually find naturally vegan options that aren't a sad salad but its tough otherwise since every place is different and uses wildly different recipes for a given dish.
If it's yellow let it mellow; if it's brown flush it down.
So the story should better have been: Develop a sane architecture which is fast by design but do low-level performance optimizations at the end
In most cases, you can't print plaintext easily to a printer, it needs some format like PS, so your PS file would be converted into a PS script that outputs your PS file.
This view is too simplistic. Technology gives and technology takes away. Technology takes forms depending on functions. Read "Technopoly" and "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman for a good treaty on this subject.
Intelligence != Action
That's exactly what we're trying to do, to make it as general as possible, so that it can be used on any FAQ without additional training.

The model used in the example was trained on a custom dataset that we made (that didn't include the HN FAQs). The only thing that we added by hand are the suggestions in the widget, because we saw people asking a lot of unrelated questions.
Higher than 2.0

"The mean estimate of R0 for the 2019-nCoV ranges from 3.30 (95%CI: 2.73-3.96) to 5.47 (95%CI: 4.16-7.10), and significantly larger than 1. Our findings indicate the potential of 2019-nCoV to cause outbreaks."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.23.916395v1
Currencycloud nabs $80M from Visa, others for cross-border payment APIs
Was useful to read tnx! Honesty I can't imagine my life without porn anymore. Luckily I found a website here https://avxxx.online/gangbang/ where I can watch it for free. There are many categories on every taste. Really cool
People don't always respect the limits of what you can/can't flush down toilets, especially renters.
The choice of atoms in these experiments have a lot to do with the way they interact with light. This is very much related to their behavior in chemistry and paints. Sure, not all properties are the same as for the bulk material, especially if we are talking about metals, but many do carry over.
I like your site, especially your recent advice about making static websites.

One question: I really like your Wave widget at the bottom of each page. How does the Wave mechanism work on the backend? It doesn't appear to send anything apart from setting a local cookie.
Anyone care to elaborate how this post is wrong?

Hint: it isn’t. But I’ve been penalised for it all the same
Also, calling emergency services will use any available network, so even if your normal provider has no coverage your call might still get through if you're within range of a competitor's tower.
I don't have experience reducing problems to SAT but I think the usual inflation factor is a lot less than 1000. I think the trivial reduction I found from SAT to ILP uses 3 ILP variables per SAT variable, but there might be a better one, and I might be misremembering; it might be 4 or something.
With Coronavrus in the News, We Must Also Be Aware of Chronic Wasting Disease
"We" are fundamentally incapable of describing the world we want to live in, because each of us has a different idea about what kind of world each of us wants to live in. There are large overlaps in those descriptions, but also significant incompatibilities. That's what Tom Chatfield is talking about here. There is not only no such thing as an ethical human being, but also no such thing as a consistent set of ethical anything.

The only "safe AI" that I can think of is one that has a healthy dose of intellectual humility built into it, and can resist the urge to map-reduce conflicting expectations into a single solution.
Who are in the top 3 then? I thought Tesla was leading, but I haven’t been following closet
> If someone says:

>> "We are building programs correct first, performant later. We will optimize it after it’s feature complete."

> It actually means: performance would stay mostly the same, unless those people find some low-hanging fruits that will allow them to make the program fast without changing too much of what they’ve already built.

I agree with the premise, but not (always) with the overall conclusion of the article. If you go preformance-first, you should also go security-first, usability-first, and accessibility-first. All of those factors are harder to implement afterwards than when it's being done from the beginning. But there's also the other side - you may come up with a performant, secure, usable and accessible application that is lacking core features, making the product useless. There's no silver bullet, but _not_ going performance-first is totally fine in some cases (especially prototypes / MVPs).
That's why I think "A.I. ethics" is pretty much a non-problem. It's not about finding the one and only "right ethics", A.I. ethics is mostly about providing a set of constraints that act similar to systems of laws. These will be provided by legislation and/or by voluntary industry guidelines. Such sets of rules (with possible conflicts, soft and hard constraints, probabilistic or non-probabilistic, etc.) have been studied extensively as "normative systems", "input/output logics", and in decision making.

There are many interesting details and problems in this research area and there are plenty of conferences about it every year, but these problems are ultimately solvable. In any case, the content of those normative systems comes from humans (and human authorities/institutions), just like there are also laws, traffic regulations, and social norms in every country. Just like laws and regulations are not perfect and do not represent a morality carved in stone, A.I. systems will have revisable human-made contents that represent a more (or less) reasonable&lawful consensus.
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Ahhh awesome.

The game stuff sounds interesting too.
Most toilets in the US are created to be "green" when it comes to water usage, but the reality is it takes at least 2+ flushes most of the time instead of 1 because of it - but as long as the amount of water per flush is low it passes regulation.
Qt Offering Changes 2020
In the case of printing, the context provides some information. In particular, Erlang JAM file seems unlikely to be printed.
> or DisplayLink which is to be avoided at all costs

May I ask why, or is it the details you have later in your post?
Just bad luck. A different story: I had a cheap dedicated host in Atlanta. Their failure was epic. You get what you pay for.

An old highrise is filled with ten thousands of old second hand server blades, floors by floors of equpiment prolifically producing waste heat. A sure recipe for disaster?

Sure!

A wrongly installed fuse at one phase in the building made one phase burn out too early. I saw a picture of an archeological breaker equipment. They fixed that.

However the missing phase destroyed the compressor motors of
their cooling systems. Temperature crept up higher and higher. They had to turn off whole floors of servers. When they believed they fixed the problem, they turned on row by row. Renters then frantically tried to copy what they had on the servers and the half repaired cooling system was overtaxed and they had to turn off servers again.

Edit: made some details more specific.
This is one reason I'm a fan of the french style: a separate room for toilet from the bath. This way one activity doesn't block the other.
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I think this is terrible advice. There's plenty of ways to write highly performant, wrong sofware, that contains bugs. What's worse than a slow program? One that doesn't run. 1/10 of the time. Whats worse than a program that runs 1/10 of the time? One that runs with high uptime and resiliency, but handles funds with the wrong sign.
Those houses are designed for entertaining and large parties. Any event hall that you go to will have at minimum 1 bathroom for each gender with multiple stalls, 2-6. This is still a home, so they choose not to have stalls in bathroom setting, hence 6-10 "extra" bathrooms.

Additionally in the very large houses the bed/bath ration doesn't capture the setting of the bathrooms. There is a house not to far from me that has a connected indoor pool and that has 3 bathrooms for changing/shower.

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>>> If I had tens of thousands of dollars to spend on art, all of it would be going to build a collection of important works by Vera Molnar

I sort of feel the same about Maurizio Cattelan ;)

These predictions, keeping in line with demographic shifts, are perfectly within the realm of what reasonable people would expect. And I may even be so bold as to say by 2030, auctions not backed by some form of distributed ledger technology will be a rarity.

But one of the most powerful new shows, if not the most powerful show of the current season, is “Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution” at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent. It's already gone "viral"

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lamb-ghent-altarpiece-meme...

More than a decade ago Lucian Freud (whose new bio is one of the best art books i've ever read) came out of seclusion to restore a masterwork by Titian. New imaging techniques, enabled by high energy sources of xrays, as well as visualization using VR, are revealing mysteries hidden for centuries. And new restoration techniques of old masters could constitute a significant draw for public funds and art r&d and investment ;)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-lives-of-lucian-freud-9781...
Recently moved my page to Django, and redesigned it for minimalism. I feel good about it right now, but I'd happily take some professional feedback: https://bbenz.io
I hope he doesn't build software like that website
Interestingly, new US apartment buildings are now predominantly wood frame as well. This is a recent change due to intricacies of fire codes and the politics behind them.
We too have an extra bathroom now that we bought a house. Another thing to consider is a bathroom remodel will not retire an outhouse if you have an extra bathroom. Redundancy is really beneficial.
Willingly defying clear company policy carries consequences. Be the hero if you want, but expect to lose your job. Maybe another company will celebrate your willingness to break company policy and hire you.