skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So question. I always see statements like this online. And I sometimes wonder what is the point. Like it's a colony. The oldest structure are from societies that are all but dead. What's the value of statements like that?
> It just seems a petty thing for airports to do, to try and make a few dollars or euros or pounds that way.

Doesn't the party on the other side of the transaction – i.e. you and I who do not want to pay for an Internet connection – have the same attitude?
I'm a really big fan of geotargeting these notices only to the EU. If the EU wants cookie notices, give the EU cookie notices. Don't give anyone else cookie notices, because they're garish and few people reasonably care.
How do we know that reality itself isn't a mass hallucination?
Sometimes, a project's origin is not the one you would assume. For example, did you known that Docker was originally built by French engineers ?
Haven't you seen wildlife documentaries where, say, lion A protects a zebra carcass (killed or stolen from other predators) from lion B, in order to eat enough of it?
You may be correct in this instance, but I've come to be just as suspicious of folks claiming their healing approach is held back by big pharma as I am of big pharma itself
I sympathize with your view (although with s/5 year old/me/). However, over the years I have come to realize that many of the things I used to think I could have done, I actually could not have...to say nothing of your 5 year old. It might look like a few apparently random splotches of paint could have been put there by you, but in many cases looks are deceiving.

You might watch a grandmaster chess game and think that you could make those moves. Or perhaps you see a solution to a traveling salesman decision problem and think "it's easy to see there exists a path that short". But in both cases you're mistaken. The moves you would have played wouldn't be as good as the grandmaster's. The path you would find wouldn't be as short. And the paint splotches you would throw on the canvas wouldn't look as compelling.

Yes, there does exist shitty "art"--things that you or your 5 year old could have done. But I suspect it's less common than you think.
I agree.

I doubt that they could mean causally indirect. I think it must mean something like: not used in accordance to their the engineer's intent, especially when that intent covers a a general affordance (e.g. affords communication over long distances), but is being judged for a more specific affordance (affords communication over long distances to order a terror attack). I dunno. I'd have to be a philosopher to work it out.
I haven't seen it, but I just watched the trailer. Looks like an awesome documentary, thanks!
Or the slave-worker are foreigner, from Philipines or India, so are not counted in the national health statistics
Complex carbs (fibers or at least carbohydrates that are slowly digested) do not stimulate insulin production as far as I know. I think it is very important to realize that there are different types of carbohydrates. You need fuel (carbs/sugars), you just don't need them to get rushed into your blood at breakneck speeds requiring massive insulin dosages to bring it back down. You want them supplied slowly and steadily to your blood during the day and night. Which is what happens when your body and your gut microbes slowly degrade complex carbs into smaller constituents, such as sugars.
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This isn't entirely true. A country's knowledge and collection of skills affects the overall wealth and standard of living of the people.

Perhaps on a purely relative scale, not much would change comparatively between the citizens. But the country's wealth will have increased.
Considering that exploitation films are a superset that includes several genres of horror movies, yes.
It's a weird world where kids are more scared of the metric system than they are of a credit card-sized Linux computer with its guts showing.
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For your "entertainment" here 3 links to art that got destroyed by cleaners (apologies for the German):

http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/putzfrau-zerstoert-kunstwerk-...

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/galerie-sala-murat-in-bari-re...

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/weggeschrubbte-k...

So your assumption might not be so crazy after all.
Before I looked at Washington I guessed its oldest structure might be one of the indigenous people's wooden longhouses. But my guess was wrong.
If they can be bypassed, they do not provide assurance. A work contract provides assurance, if it has clauses on separation and severance. I have never had an actual contract, and have been fired at-will five times. I can't exactly say that "the company lost a big customer and wouldn't be able to make payroll" is arbitrary or capricious, but that only accounts for one. The rest, while never elucidated, were likely as follows: "the stock is at an all-time high, and we don't want any more of your options to vest", "we bought your company but don't want to keep you" (x2), and "we think you might blow the whistle on us blatantly gaming all of our metrics".

I've only even had the chance to get out of Dodge before any axes fell once. A lot of these companies have been for [contractor] government work. I think the contractor companies would only enact such a policy if the largest customers demanded it. They won't do it just because they value employee retention highly, because clearly [to me] they do not.
> Rewritten for normal people

Thank you =)
I literally signed up for HN, something I've been uninterested in doing, just because of this comment.

Saying that engineers need to make responsible decisions in their software design is one thing. But you imply that misuse is a liability for the designer? So if someone takes an engineer's code and modifies it for malicious intent the engineer is liable? That's absurd.

That's like saying the person who designed the airplanes used in 9/11 are partially liable for 9/11.
I suspect you might be just a little bit desensitized to what 'good food' is. Grocery stores sell products. They used to sell food.
That's why diverse teams are important. You're right, we can't expect a CS major to understand social impact, but if you're working on AI or weapons out some other high-risk project there should be someone in the team who does.
I live in Orlando, FL as well. It looks like a 4 leaf clover on a one hour destination map. Everything looks accurate though
Warning: this sorting algorithm may lead to the proliferation of facism.
It's difficult in the US to buy any kind of processed grain that doesn't have added sugar
Definitely cover your ass, given how the fines are instant bankruptcy for a lot of companies.

I'm inclined to believe this + the cookie banners are also a lot of "well site X did it like that, we probably should do that as well" instead of reading and understanding the actual rules.

The easy way out would of course be to not violate the GDPR, but with 3rd party advertisers that's a bit painful.

I still don't know why big publishers don't just own the ads themselves, that is, have an ad department, have them approve ads and return statistics to the advertisers, have tracking all on the same domain, etc.
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we have moral liability for second order effects (whatever those are)
If you look at % of population over 65+ you will see a rather similar map. In the US that's 15.6% where Saudi Arabia is 3.2%.

1/5th the old people generally means ~1/5th the cancer rates.

PS: This also explains much of the increase in cancer rates globally: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS
>Engineers are not philosophers

Hold your horses, some of us engineers have philosophy degrees!

In all seriousness, engineers are more than capable of considering the impact of their creations. But can you predict future uses for technology with accuracy? Of course not.

I'm not sure how relevant it is for most work. People will always find ways to use technology to the detriment of humanity, but the overall effect of technology is beneficial. The internet is obviously for the benefit of humanity, yet there are plenty of people using it for evil.
Peeling potatoes is not exactly difficult. You would learn it in a few minutes.
Bragging.
The treaty in place banning laser- based blinding weapons is working well so far.

Think laser pointer attached to an eye-seeking aimbot. Scary stuff.
The story goes that Thamus said many things to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts, which it would take too long to repeat; but when they came to the letters, [274e] “This invention, O king,” said Theuth, “will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered.” But Thamus replied, “Most ingenious Theuth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; [275a] and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess.

Socrates, From Plato's dialogue Phaedrus 14, 274c-275b

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=3894
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Do you have any evidence to back up your claims?
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Switching directories on Unix quickly
>it’s the biggest country after Brazil

Sorry, what? Australia is 6th largest, after Russia, Canada, China, the US, and Brazil.
I've been using Go over python for a couple months now and so far it has been incredibly effective. I never really liked Python's syntax so it's nice to go back to something c-ish.
we have this whole system of IRBs governing how we conduct research; big reason why
Along the same lines, it doesn't seem to account for ferry routes when there is a lot of water in your area.

https://oalley.net/map/b4y

Sharing only so the developer has another test case :)

The three points on the right are only reachable by ferry, so add approximately 1.5 hrs to the travel time. Plus the one at the bottom right would require the driver to pass through the downtown core of the city of Vancouver; even without the ferry time, it wouldn't be possible to do that in under 1 hour from the origin.
Sources? Citations? Why is "diseases" in quotes?

I'd love to believe you, but you're providing absolutely zero reason to, and throwing conspiracy on top of it makes it even harder.
This line cracked me up:

"An STM32F411 might be capable of handling all the I/O and computing on a single buttcheek..."
As you should be, so do your own research, hopefully before a disease shows up and the forces around you (doctors, friends, family) push you towards mainstream treatment options that at best will put you on a lifelong symptom prevention regime instead of actually fixing the underlying cause of whatever "disease" they say you have. Modern medicine invented thousands of names diseases, when all it is is your body becoming acidic and manifesting this terrible state in any sensitive part of your body, hence the naming of diseases begins. It's like cancer. There are no a hundred different types of cancer. That's marketing. Just like 10 types of Macbooks.
Well, according to Wikipedia, Montreal has 226cm of snowfall per year and Ottawa has 175cm (and 3 fewer precipitation days)

Average and record low are lower in Ottawa though. Would be interesting to know about wind temps though.
Yea I just do not buy it. How much time is saved? Is it writing an additional SSH command to extract the file or hitting the up-arrow on your keyboard to repeat the previously run command?
That is indeed why I left Google, but that was almost two years ago at this point. Last I heard they changed their mind and are starting things back up with brand new people.

Being an ISP is just too appealing a business model. It's 95% profit once you've paid off the loans for the infrastructure. And when you're Google, you don't need loans.
It always amazes me how things we think of as high-tech modern innovations were often known by people a long time ago. There have always been ingenious people, and sometimes they achieved things long before I would have thought it possible. Archimedes almost invented calculus thousands of years ago, and the Greeks knew the distance to the moon and sun[1]. A little ingenuity can figure something out from simple principles; always a reminder that each person in history were living, breathing, thinking people as real as you and I, with a unique viewpoint and achievements.
1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Ar...]
But what if your geotargeting doesn’t work as expected, and has a few false negatives? Will that hold up in court?
Why a "mass" hallucination? Are you sure you aren't the only thing "out there" asking this question to yourself?
Totally agree. And this is not new at all.

All you have to do is read the history of engineers and scientists who worked on nukes or rocketry. The ones that tried failed miserably. Understanding why is crucial in understanding the limitations of domain experts.
Guess: you probably shop more around the outside of the store where you'll typically find the unprepared foods and probably don't shop for groceries at Walmart, maybe not even Safeway. I know it's true for me but not most Americans.
> Science and Engineering are inextricably linked in this discussion.

Of course they are, but this article is very specifically about the role of the scientist. Not the engineer.

Will negative disclosure cause problems for engineers? I don't know. What I do know, is it isn't fair to place that burden of knowledge entirely on scientists while tying their hands behind their back with respect to open discussion in a professional setting. Academic publishing is intended to be open without fear of professional and personal repercussion for increasing factual awareness. Get rid of that and, well, sit back, relax, and I hope we all can enjoy the apocalypse of knowledge, because that's where stuff is headed without the ability to professionally discuss existing problems.

> Nobody would be discussing the moral implications of scientific discoveries if it didn't ultimately lead to machines that cause effect in the real world.

That's just factually wrong. Mathematics. Philosophers. Logicians. All the living and dead theorists who built the abstract foundations essential for the functioning of our machines. People who deal entirely in the world of the abstract. You don't develop a passion for abstraction because you want something out of reality. You develop a passion for abstraction because reality is sometimes terrible.
> Regulation is one possible response to externalities, but externalities don't fundamentally involve radiation.

The only realistic ways to handle externalities are regulations, class-action lawsuits, and (Pigouvian) taxes. Laissez-faire market types typically oppose all three.
Turkey launches investigation into Google over competition complaint
> economists generally don't understand anything

I think this is taking hyperbole literally. The world is not at all completely unpredictable; it's highly susceptible to reason and science - in a way, that's the entire enterprise of the Enlightenment and its child, science. Predictions aren't perfect, but they are hardly useless. Your world is built on them; your alarm will go off; the train will be roughly on time and won't collide with other trains; investors invest based on economic and business predictions; software developers develop based on market predictions and predictions of user psychology; we can predict how well UI's will work, hardware failure rates, etc. The list goes on forever.

In particular, economics has provided, especially since WWII, a period of economic growth that is orders of magnitude beyond what humanity ever experienced before. Depressions used to be a regular occurrence; they have stopped. Systemic bank failures no longer happen, we know how money supply works, and the impacts of various policies much better than throwing darts at a graph. Recessions are not as bad; sustained growth is a norm, which is a miracle. The growth of the world economy, lifting billions out of poverty for the first time in history, is beyond all but the most visionary dreams of a century ago.

Do economists and economics get it wrong sometimes and to varying degrees? Absolutely. Unfortunately, there is nothing perfect in the world.
Thinking back to my time in grad school, I feel that the list of things I would have come up with as negative societal consequences would have at least outed my political opinions and at worst made me look paranoid. You could greatly mitigate the political aspect by not attaching a value judgement to which foreseeable societal consequences should be disclosed. You might be able to mitigate the second effect by having some guidelines about likelihood and how long-term the consequences need to be.

Over time, people will probably turn this task into copying and pasting a standard list for their research area. Existing researchers still mostly won't have to think about societal impact, but maybe it'll have an effect on which research areas people choose to work in.
Isn't it the same as what he said in "Do you mean you fast for 12 hours on each of Monday, Wednesday and Friday, totalling 36 hours"?
You can't do geotargetting here, because to perform geotargetting you need the user consent to use his location (which is a personal data ;) ) if he is european.
Where is immigration brought up? Poster is taking about rate of population growth which includes all sources of population.
Disappointing but not surprising :(
I'm a big fan of fasting, and do so every few months, but won't 4-10 days without water kill anyone in an exceptionally uncomfortable way? I live in a desert, often drinking up to 2 litres a day. Anything less and I experience dehydration & migraines.

Edit: Up to 4 litres a day, approaching 1 gallon.
Separating and processing trash would be a great example where ML, AI, robotics and other stuff would really help progress. It's a really hard problem that should be very interesting to work on.

Instead we have the best minds of our generation working on building total surveillance machines and hacking the human brain to sell more crap.
Ask HN: How to make friends?
I realize that this is likely posted once a year, but I haven’t found an answer specific to a personal problem. I should probably give some backstory. Without going into too much detail, when I was a kid up until the age of 12 I was bullied so badly by much older members of my extended family that it sent me to a downward spiral. I didn’t fully recover until senior year of high school, where I finally made some friends, and at 22 I dated someone for the first time who would later be my wife.

But I was still isolated, at 23 I started getting panic attacks, and became very nervous in social situations for no apparent reason. I couldn’t hold down any job because of fear of negative evaluation, ( I would literally freeze in place or be in utter confusion for minutes at a time) I took everything from SSRIs to therapy, but strangely enough, the only thing that worked was running 7 days a week, something I gratefully discovered at 27 and now do habitually. (haven’t been on medication since). Now, at age 34, I still find it awkward to meet new people, even though I have been told by coworkers that I am quite affable, and am still at my job for 4 years (where prior I couldn’t hold down one longer than 3 months)

All that said, I am still underemployed and I feel a big part of that is a lack of connections. I guess I’m posting here because ycombinator seems to attract a lot of formally shy people who became almost super-connectors. There are also non-pragmatic reasons for this, I am lonely a I feel a big part of it is the discrepency between my desired network and my actual one. (just an FYI, I’ve been to three professionals in my lifetime and all of them insisted that I don’t have autism)

I guess my question is this, to those formally shy people who got out of it, how did you make more friends?
They’re terrible. Who are we kidding, no one has backed out of the website after seeing one of these notices.
I have a slightly different take: engineers shouldn't be blamed for negative outcomes that propagate down from the political and cultural levels.

For instance, machine learning is now widely used for surveillance and advertising in ways that violate basic presumptions about privacy rights. Thing is, I imagine that if, say, ML researchers had gone on strike over privacy issues somehow, society would have essentially told them to shut up and get back to work. Sure, the same larger society now wants to blame ML for the constriction of privacy and for extensive state and private surveillance networks, but it was that very society which cheered the construction of these exact surveillance networks "becuz terrorizm" and for the sake of "free speech" (for billionaire multinational corporations) and for other awful reasons.

The people who were skeptical or critical over this whole social trend knew damn well it was all a bad idea, and we said so. Society deserves to get what it voted for, with both its ballot box and its dollars, and on some level, it deserves to get it good and hard without scapegoating the hired help, when it was them in the first place who told us skeptical, critical engineers and scientists to shut up and produce what society wanted from us.
> It's always amusing to find out what Americans think is old.

It's not that we "think" those buildings are old. They are the oldest. There are no older buildings. Age is relative. If you colonize a pacific island, the oldest building will be 1 year old. That doesn't mean the colonizers think 1 year is a long time.

If you want to get into a manhood measuring contest we could broaden the criteria to include native american structures.
I just came here to submit this. Really cool paper! The counting thing has been devilishly hard for neural networks.
GDPR compliance requires opt-out, so cookie notifications are useless as far as compliance now. If you don't/can't comply, then you might as well not mention cookies at all - in both cases you're in breach of GDPR but at least you won't be ruining your UX.
The fact that cryptocoin exchanges decide to offer leveraged trading options that mirror other popular financial instruments doesn't change bitcoin's core values.

This just underscores the fact that the cryptocoin economy contains many agents that don't have the ideology that quite lines up with the early proponents. IMO, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Ask HN: What's the best way to get user/reviewer feedback on live web pages?
All of the site feedback that we receive from customers/clients comes in a hodgepodge of inconsistent and inefficient forms: texts, slack messages, print screens in email and then confusing descriptions of the problem.

What methods do you use to get user/reviewer feedback?