skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He married Caroline Greenwold https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FFT4-FVG .

https://books.google.com/books?id=qLXytSDc5YIC&pg=PA202&lpg=... says the memoir was published in 1934. ("Black Sox in the Courtroom: The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial and Civil Litigation" by Lamb.)

https://books.google.com/books?id=6nSAnkWiy_IC&pg=PA103&lpg=... has an excerpt from the memoir. ("Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series" by David Pietrusza)

https://books.google.com/books?id=b-uFZl4g8ZkC&pg=PT234&lpg=... says "As Mrs. Carolyn Rothstein Behar, she granted Fox Film a $2,500 option on the rights to a memoir she proposed to write on her life with the man Damon Runyon dubbed "The Brain."" ("Spencer Tracy", by James Curtis)

However, despite all that information, I am unable to find that memoir in the Library of Congress or Worldcat.

On the list of historical emergencies, this is very low.
I saw "Pet Sematary" when I was ~10 and I regret. I haven't seen the movie again but I remember that as a traumatic episode.

I have seen a lot of movies rated for adult with my daughter but not horror like that. I think every person is different, use the common sense.
Assuming that the title question is ever relevant, which it probably will not be, what can we do about it?

The most popular proposal is to encourage AI researchers to think about "Friendly" AI, to program morality into their potentially self-aware code and to generally take measures to ensure that any intelligence that they create will be benevolent before it's turned on for the first time. The problem there is that professional AI researchers don't have a monopoly on the technology. Given the numbers, it's more likely that someone who isn't a recognized researcher will create a generally intelligent computer program before a major research institution will. And what then? Unless there's some way to compel every hobbyist and grad student to program a certain level of friendliness into their experiments then all of the warnings and precautions will be for naught.

With known existential threats there are warning signs. If someone is developing a deadly virus or building a dirty bomb they'll most likely have to order specific materials and use certain lab equipment. There will be red flags that someone who is looking closely might have a chance to see. But with a computer program? All someone needs is a computer. Maybe dozens of computers, or more likely dozens of cloud servers hosted with several different companies. If we took this threat very very seriously and tasked a government agency with stopping potentially harmful AI, it would still be almost impossible to catch in time. For all of the famous people sounding the alarm, what solutions are available?

The threat isn't very likely, and unstoppable even if turns out to be real. All we can do is focus on the AI problems that we can solve, develop existing technology and try to chill. If there's one thing human intelligence will always be good at, it's hoping for the best.
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There's no inherent value in calling a computer "smarter" than a human, because computers aren't "smart" like humans -- it implies a single or small collection of metrics that measure intelligence, when in reality we can't even reliably sort humans by intellect.
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Are they really? Those engineers need something those 'humans' have (i.e. money). I doubt you'll be able to make similar offer to the machine.
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I completely agree that being excited and not capable will not get the engineer and the company far. Yet being capable and only interested in the paycheck will not make an engineer understand the customer and what the problem being solved is.

In a start up with a team of 10 or less (including all roles), it's critical everyone is excited about what the start up is doing.

Actually if you look at the history of success stories, the core team was always filled with those who believed the vision. Start ups that have failed, most likely did not fail due to the team having too much passion for their product.
They did have time-choice; they chose to allocate a substantial portion of it to having children.
Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507236
As long as the vision doesn't contain annoying online advertising I'll take it. The video was neat, but how close are we to solving the battery problem? I'd like a laptop that can last a week. Or charger tech that can charge a day-long device in under 2 minutes. Thank you very much.
The amount of space isn't so impressive, but the physical size and number of spindles.

I worked at one place that had 3 100tb disk arrays, each one was spread over 15 racks, giving 3gig a second throughput. (in 2007)

Now, 170 tbs, and a server fit in 5u. 60 disks give 2gigs(bytes) a second throughput. 2.5 racks gives you 5.5PBs and ~60gigabytes/second peak (25-8 sustained)
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Yea, so maybe it doesn't exist yet. And us talking about it is like pre enlightenment era humans talking about Modernism when Modernism is basically all the ideas that have happened as a result of the enlightenment period.
It's an interesting writeup by salon.com for sure... I enjoyed it so much that I read the entire Wikipedia article on Rothstein as well, which reads very differently than the article.

He wasn't randomly shot because of his gangsterism prowess, he lost $320,000 in a supposedly crooked poker game and refused to pay up.

His nickname "the brain" was one of his many, apparently.

I find the salon article to be outlandish in the many claims it makes, which based solely on one man's interpretation of Rothstein's wife's memoir.

Still a fun read, though.
The kids in the article seemed quite reflective.
It's possible to compute the fastest function for a finite domain (see my proof here http://forwardscattering.org/post/13 )

However for an infinite domain, I strongly suspect it's not possible, due to the fact that it's impossible to tell in general (e.g. it's uncomputable) if two programs compute the same function. This is due to Rice's theorem, and hence ultimately to the Halting problem.

It's possible there may be some kind of constructive proof but I find it unlikely.

So in summary, general superoptimisation is probably impossible.
Not always true. For a trivial example, in fortran code, we'd often see people wanting to write code that calls runtime methods directly because it leads to clearer implementations. The language rules were such that we could prove invariants on these runtime calls that were much stronger and farther reaching than the general bitcode optimizer could do, resulting in a class of matrix operations going to n*lg(n) from n^3, and we could also switch the stride direction to make better use of cache because of the algorithm change. This sort of thing was only possible because language knowledge was exploited — generic optimizers will miss this stuff.

I think the future of languages like haskell are bright in terms of performance, because they are so loosey goosey with what gets evaluated when, which gives language-aware optimizers a lot of meat to chew. An aggressive optimizer could turn out versions of the same code that run screaming-fast single-threaded, or that fully exploit massive parallel machines, or even version for all of those.
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beautiful. i really should take the time to explore perl 6.
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> If you seriously need lots of tiny files in order to find code

Nobody said that.

Please read more carefully, especially before goofing off others. Or, simply don't goof off anyone in the first place.
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In his defense, I bet this guy knew how to party.
I laughed earlier, but I wasn't trying to be a jerk. I just thought it was cool that you were going to go forward with it.
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Yo. I wrote to you back in December, and never received a reply. Should I write in again now?

Eehhhh, I'll just scurry off to write a nice cover letter.
There is a bit about customizing packages in the linked video, at about 21 minutes in. It explains how you can make a derivative package by inheriting from a package spec and only specifying changes.

I think the title of this was misleading, but in essence it seems Guix is a system for specifying packages and OS dependencies in a way that allows for easy customization.

They show, at ~36 minutes in the video, how to specify OS dependencies and from that create a virtual machine instance automatically.

With regards to your main complaint, I found this after about two minutes on their site: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Defining-...

It seems fairly easy to me to use the following to specify your build configurations:

(arguments `(#:configure-flags '("--enable-silent-rules")))

As for saving your configuration locally and on a private server, could you not just save these package specifications you've made?
The code doesn't look optimized with respect to reflection (i.e. avoiding it); maybe a lot of gc churn as well. The latter is a fact of life if you do lots of computations with lots of immutable collections, so it's important to identify parts which can be refactored to use Clojure transients and/or other mutable objects, but without "polluting" the entire program with mutable state.
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>programmers could write an app just once with Web technologies that span not just iOS, Android, and Firefox OS, but also Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS, Tizen, Ubuntu and any other mobile operating system that arrives tomorrow.

This, to me, is the most powerful prospect of Firefox OS.

I have been "writing apps" in HTML, Javascript and PHP ever since I can remember.

They are just as responsive and useful as any app I have ever used on my Android. Which works fine, but had recently been creeping the heck out of me because it's distributed by Google.

Every app is virtually a simple website imho. Look at google docs, for example. Angry birds could easily be written in javascript. As could flappy bird, and virtually every game I can think of.

I see no reason to bother writing a piece of software that can only be used on Androir or iOS, except for sheer greed, so I haven't. It's worked out well for me so far.

Here's to hoping Firefox OS comes to the first world sooner rather than later.
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> Do you really think keeping _people_ in the dark

Yes they're "people", but the young are also our charges, and we are responsible for their right upbringing.

If you found your 9yo kid-plus-friends going through your "best of" porn folder at a sleepover or whatever, would you stop them?
If only it were shoving. I feel like I'm being thrown under a bus every time Google is like "YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR GOOGLE+ TO DO THAT!" and it just makes me want to head to a bar.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is mitochondrial disease. The only reason there's any dispute over it is that OXPHOS testing is not standardized and so doctors are scrambling to put any meaning behind all these symptoms.

Chronic fatigue triggers -> medicines (many of them are starting to be known for being cytotoxic - bacteriocidal antibiotics anyone?),
surgery (plenty of well-known mito diseases are triggered by general anesthesia or exacerbated by), severe infections (energy saps of the body that can throw off the energy homeostasis greatly even in normal people).

Hell depression and anxiety may even be mitochondrial disease manifestations in the brain in some cases.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680051/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3760005/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22579150/

http://www.mitoaction.org/files/Dykens%20for%20Mitoaction.pd...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763246/

http://triggered.stanford.clockss.org/ServeContent?rft_id=in...

It's completely fucking tragic that society has to demonize mental illness and all these debilitating diseases that we are causing ourselves in many cases. It's a fucking luck of the draw whether or not it will destroy you and possibly harm your future lineage.

It makes sense that stress reduction helps some people because stress uses up a lot of energy. That's less energy for maintaining homeostasis in a weak metabolic system.

One open question is to whether it is secondary or primary mitochondrial disease.
Funny thing I grew up in Michigan and in the 80's Brad played guitar in a signed indie band called Spahn Ranch. I was briefly their manager mainly because I had an Atari ST and a laser printer and helped out creating stickers for shows, and occasional digital artwork projected up behind them while they played. We toured the East cost around 90 play a festival in Pittsburg along with a few random shows along the way. They regularly opened for bands like Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, and one particularly interesting night, His Name Is Alive. After that particular show we all went back to Brad's house and hung out, an impromptu acoustic session broke out, with Brad playing guitar while Spahn Ranch's amazing vocalist Bob Sterner (RIP) sang without the aid of any amplifications. If you have ever sat in a room and hear someone naturally sing like that then you know how magical that can be. After they played the two women from His Name Is Alive took up the acoustic and played a few of their songs as well. It was a night I'll never forget.

It was a fun time for sure, Brad was always a very impressive guy. A practicing Krishna, he always seemed to have his head here and in 'another realm' so to speak; when you talked to him (back then at least) he had this rather intimidating look in his eyes like wheels were constantly turning in the background, solving who knows that computer or religious quandary caught his attention that day. I lost touch with Brad around his MIT days and only recently because of the passing of our mutual friend Bob Sterner been back in touch with him.

Here's a sample song that's a good representation of their https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJMkwuL05t4

Entire Album: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spahn+ranch+thi...

Best of luck Brad, how things have changed since those heady U of M days when Brad was just a unique guitarist for an Detroit indie band.

Edit: better representative track.
When we create a computer that can do everything a human can do but better/faster, then we can call it smarter. I find it odd that you think just because smartness is hard to quantify that there is no value in calling a computer smart.
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And three weeks until the next one.
Another great article on how to write is "How to Say Nothing in 500 Words" (http://www.mrgunnar.net/ap.cfm?subpage=348270)
100% agree here. I have same feeling.For some reason 15 years ago i learned basic java script from some "learn in 21 days book" and they quoted it as a helper language to get things done at client. And for some reason i can't seem to come out of that and still use it only where i needed.
If you think there is any insight into current market structure in that linked article, you're on the wrong track. It manages to be 15 years out of date and confuse open outcry (pit trading) with the specialist/broker system employed for equities.

And there's nothing magic about simulating "manipulation" - you're not one of those deranged paranoid zerohedge balloonheads are you?

And it's clear you have no experience in this area if you say something as trite as your last sentence.

Good luck with your "system".

Good luck with your "system".
At the pace and modality we're moving, we'll be creating powerful and destructive hybrids first (also known as computer-aided mega corporations) and long before a self-contained AGI becomes viable.

Advanced chess[0] is the perfect example of this in action right now. The best advanced chess teams, i.e. computer-aided humans, are stronger than humans alone or computers alone.

<tinfoil hat> I suspect that these "human vs AGI" discussions are just bread-and-circus tactics used by our computer-human-corporation-hybrid overlords to distract us from the real danger of the hybrids.</tinfoil hat>

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess
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It's told very clearly on both the project's website and in the linked video that they consider the Scheme language to provide a more hackable interface for package specification and management. It's also demonstrated that it all integrates very nicely into Emacs.

On top of that it's also stated in the comments here, by a Guix developer, that while having a DSL for package specification is nice, they think having a whole general purpose language for it is better.
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Last I checked, I don't write infinitely big functions.
Tizen is interesting, but it has the downside of the old Meego - too much control from Samsung. When Nokia and Intel pulled the plug, Meego disintegrated and only community fork (Mer) survived, on which Sailfish is actually built. Tizen has a similar risk. And it's not a major priority for Samsung it seems.
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