skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, not sure I agree with the logic here. Firstly, slavery is not exactly something that's rare outside of 'Western' civilisation and (unfortunately) dates back to the near beginning of human society, with examples in basically every culture under the sun. If this 'fear of robots' really was connected to slavery, you'd expect that to be a theme across Africa, South America and the Middle East as much as it is against 'Western' societies. Heck, you'd expect themes of robot uprisings and being overthrown by their creations to be common in all kinds of deeply unequal societies if that's where the idea originated from. Where are all the Terminator esque franchises coming from South Africa or Saudi Arabia or what not?

I also question whether the following is accurate as well:

1. Whether Western works are more likely to have killer robots/robot uprisings than Japanese ones.

2. Whether Western society in general really shows more fear of robots.

3. Whether other societies are more likely to see themselves as 'part' of nature rather than something beyond it.

For the former, well there are quite a few works made in Japan with the plot revolving around killer robots or what not, just as there are quite a few works made in 'Western' societies featuring heroic or everyday robots. How many examples would we need to make a judgement one way or the other? If you're going on examples you know, well perhaps Japanese robot stories have robots turn evil more because they're 'hacked' than because they turn against humanity of their own accord. I mean, that's the setup for basically every Mega Man game. Plus the setup for last year's The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.

Either way, the concepts aren't exactly exclusive to one or another, as these pages show:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TurnedAgainstThe...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RobotWar

It's also questionable whether the portrayals of robots in culture (or the sensationalist journalism seen online) really means that one society fears robots and intelligent machines more than another. Perhaps the general concept is just kind of interesting/entertaining, in the same sense as a medieval fantasy story involving a hero taking down some demonic monster is.

And the latter... well I'm not convinced by that either. Seems like a cliche you see in all kinds of media about how 'closer to nature' less developed tribes are or what not. Either way, not convinced by this article at all.
Yeah, ugh. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Boston,+MA/Beijing,+China/@6...
> CRT's

True, VGA being an analog interface was perfect for CRT-based monitors. Many modern LCD monitors still have it, not sure about the image quality though.
It might not be profitable to recycle plastics- I'll give you that.

But it's better than sticking it in a landfill and waiting 1000 years. Or worse, tossing it into the ocean.
Another interesting case is going from Key West out. Naples, FL is shown inside the 3 hour range, 110 miles apart as the crow flies. I'm not sure whether it's finding a ferry route, or whether ferries reasonably go that speed, but I thought the results were interesting.

https://oalley.net/map/b8y
Probably same reason you dont need to see video of the food in a restaurant or video of your room in a hotel.
I'd sooner blame later marriage and lower fertility. It's people you (ideally) live with and are 100% committed too. Friendships can be tenuous, but family is putting your money where your mouth is.
Banned on what grounds? Apple doesn't have a monopoly, so there's no anticompetitive angle here.
In the past you had to interact with other people more. In today's world you can do nearly everything without needing to talk to a single human being or even leaving your house.

In public people wear headphones while walking, on public transportation, and even in grocery stores.
This is how it should be.

Monopolized software distribution platform is bad for so many reasons.

And for anyone claiming that this is bad for security, blame Google and Apple who don't support the other way of secure software distribution and try to lock-in to their proprietary locked-in platform for the greed.

Also, Don't use Android or iPhone in the first place because it's so restricted, unsecure, and cannot be trusted one bit.
> OMG, you are so disconnected

This breaks the site guidelines, which ask you not to call names in arguments. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here. Your comment would be fine without that first sentence.
And then the rest of SE Asia will say, "oooh, juicy IP coming our way, just asking to be copied!".
Yep, I've been a customer of both Fidelity and Schwab and both have been fantastic replacements for brick and mortar banks. The only catch is dealing with cash deposits, but that can be easily mitigated by keeping a no-fee bank account with branches and/or ATMs locally. I use Capital One 360 for that. Also, both Fidelity and Schwab offer 24/7 customer service, and both have live chat if you don't want to wait on the phone.
I rinse foil and reuse it, or rinse it before recycling if it's torn. But what I wonder is how dirty is too dirty to recycle in the case of aluminum? I'm not leaving large chunks of food on it, but I'm also not operating a chemistry lab here. I'm just curious what kind of process goes into repurification.
One of the problems with alcohol-based hand sanitizers is that there's a war between "Kills Bacteria" and "Demolishes Your Hands" - one of the major problems in hospitals is compliance, and the harsher the alcohol concentration, the harder it is to get people to use it.
Oh, I see. I misread "not necessary" in your post as saying "people don't need as much social interaction anymore." Glad to clarify.
I think we can learn a lot from kids in this area. My six year old is so much more open and tolerant than I. Her thought process: “you look like my age, let’s play and be friends!” And now the parents are arranging playtime next week. Just like that! We adults could learn a lot from that outlook.
> The idea is not to try to predict the future, but, on the basis of the literature, to identify the expected side effects or unintended uses of this technology.

What will you do with this information?

> No, we’re not saying they should reject a paper with extensive negative impacts — just that all negative impacts should be disclosed.

So at best its useless, and at worst it serves to fuel the imaginations of those who would use it for evil.

> our field has an arc of innovation towards positive impact

How would this change the course of innovation? The only way I can see is if its used to censor.

> We need to be saying, based on existing evidence, what is the confidence that a given innovation will have a side effect? And if it’s above a certain threshold, we need to talk about it.

Why is a specialist in a specific technology qualified to determine negative societal outcomes of it? Human societies are extremely complex systems and even those specialized in it have poor predictive track records.

> Then, the gatekeepers are the press, and it’s up to them to ask what the negative impacts of the technology are.

Why would the press have this power? They've never had such substantial control before. Governments have been able to suppress independent nuclear research in the most extreme case but the laws surrounding that are not exactly proven. If we barely allow our government this power why should we give it wholesale to an unelected press?
This is purely anecdotal of course, but I have never had anything but the friendliest and warmest encounters in Japan while I lived there on and off for a few years. None of the gaijins (foreigners) I met had any issues neither. They are almost too friendly to a fault. Of course after you get to know them, they drop some of the cultural barriers, especially Kansai (western Japan) folks.

I highly recommend anyone who haven’t been to Japan to go now :). Beautiful landscape and architecture, smart and cultured folks, and of course, sushi!!!
It doesn't even have to be because it would actually cause conflict. Even the mildest bit of embarrassment - an opportunity for a little joking at one's expense, for example - can be a pretty powerful deterrent.

That said, I think for most of us the potential deterrent is much greater than that. My partner would absolutely mock me a little bit (because mocking each other is how we show love), and then probably sign up as well. My co-workers, on the other hand, would start gossiping. Having that icon seen on my home screen could be a career-limiting move.

Not saying that a dating app shouldn't include such a feature, but the association is going to be a huge headwind toward it becoming a pervasive platform for finding non-romantic friendships.
None of these analogies make any sense or have any relevance to the nature of what's going on when you use a service. Fundamentally you are sending requests from your computer to their computers, and their computers are sending things back to your computer in response. They have every right to log what activities their own computers are doing, and (in my mind) they have every right to claim sole ownership over the logs that they create.

The fact that they have to legally release this kind of thing is really twisted, at least to me. If you want to have logs of your listening data --- if you want to have logs of what your computer is doing --- how about you log it yourself? If that's too much work for you, whose fault is that? Don't use it if you don't like it.

Music services are a dime a dozen nowadays. The biggest reason that any given consumer stays with a given service has to do with recommendations and playlists and the profile that they've built on you. The fact that these companies now have to give that data back to consumers, which they could presumably feed into another (cheaper) service, disincentivizes companies from building better recommendation engines and down the line it ultimately makes for a worse experience for music listeners.
Intel did some work on this for the Xeon Phi that had fast on-package memory and slower main memory. IIRC they use fake NUMA nodes to separate the RAM.
Technically, it does both.
Same here, I've made my new best friend here. You just need to know what you are looking for, I pick mostly techmeetups and volunteer work as the common interest and to build mutual learning / bonding experience. I don't really get much out of pure generic "social" meetups though... people seem to care more about what you do VS. who you are in my opinion. Sports is another mutual bonding area too
'The Oldest Building' actually should say 'Oldest Known Building'. Hard to believe that in a country this large there aren't structures that are around (occupied or not) that are simply not catalogued in any way or don't fit with what the article considers a 'building'.
Yeah. If Netflix sends me every byte I've ever viewed, that's pretty useless.
Not only does it uses third party email just fine, there are explicit wizards for Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook, and one or two more.
"But in settings where killing bacteria is necessary, dehydrating the skin is an acceptable tradeoff." Only if doesn't hurt hand hygiene compliance.
Indeed, but is loneliness primarily a health concern?
Social media interactions don't replace that though. Previously, if I wasn't hearing their voices or seeing their faces, then I wasn't interacting with them at all. Now I can at least see little glimpses into their lives without having to get on a plane.
Dymaxion maps are still deformed, just not as much as most other projections.
I have 2 Android phones and a couple of IPhones lying around as well. One of the Androids, using sweet-cookie-icecream-sundae whatever version, has the camera app crash on startup pretty regularly.

I'm sure "I'm a fool" for using the vendor-supplied crapware and not doing a fresh reinstall and rebuild with this one custom kernel XXX_sw33tH4x_69 put on that forum that uses gcc -03 optimizations, but no, I don't think Androids are for poor people per se, they're just for the same people who thought buying a Wintel laptop in '08 was a good decision. Yeah, it might work out of the box, and you might get "support" from your vendor for the next 6 months, but only if you're lucky. You also might get spyware, adware, and shitware that crashes and makes your CPU's heat up your living room 24/7/365. You never know.

Androids are either for people who don't care, or for people who really really know what they're doing and can wipe/clean the OS - same people who bother with Linux at home because they like to tinker. I'm a tinkerer, so I get it, and it's why I have Androids - I'd just never depend on one.

Otherwise - I have no idea why anyone would bother. I'll take that new IPhone for $1000 now, thanks.
The whole post looks like written by a Japanese-American trying to fuse nationalist ideas (some superiority of Japan over the Western world) with neo-marxist theory ("oppressed" machines). For example "The Western concept of “humanity” is limited" is totally ironical when we talk about a culture that have categories such as non-human (heta), burakumin, kitsune-mochi, zainichi (Korean) that are still discriminated a lot on a day to day basis. I have no time (nor willingness) to deconstruct everything, but the only decent idea to keep is indeed the one in the title: Japan fear way less technology. The same apply about AI, not just robot.
Good article. I find this to be one of those rarer cases where a popular article on mathematics is both precise enough to be informative and accessible enough to maintain the audience.

The only part I dislike is the title. But perhaps that was the editors. I do commend the author though on managing to write this part:

"The fact that Kolmogorov complexity is not computable is a result in pure mathematics and we should never confuse that pristine realm with the far more complicated, and messy, real world. However, there are certain common themes about Kolmogorov complexity theory that we might take with us when thinking about the real world."

I am not well versed in any of Kolmogorov's work, but the introduction certainly makes the spirit of his work much clearer.
> It's relatively hard to sanitize PET because tiny defects hold contaminants really well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate#PET.... Also I would guess that the defects add up over time and you'd need a way to test each bottle's integrity before shipping it out again.

From your sibling comment. Just reposting since you might not other see it and it seems to address your question. Well, assuming these bottles are made from the same sort of plastic.
> But then, what about being in stores, malls, ect? I then need to put up defenses against aggressive marketing.

There's aggressive marketing in the street too. Most often when someone approaches me on the street, they're trying to get money out of me. Either they're panhandlers, or they're selling me something, or seeking donations of some sort - which are all really the same thing.

The only exception is if they want to influence me in some way, i.e. they want my vote.

So ultimately, strangers approaching us in public areas are looking to get something out of us. They're not looking for a reciprocal social relationship. They're looking to get something: money, votes, support for their cause.

I do agree that it's a big part of the reason why Americans don't make social connections in public areas. I'm not sure about the solution though. The biggest problem in most places I lived was the panhandlers, and that's a big problem that causes a lot of issues in general, and doesn't seem to have a good solution.
Interesting, here in Germany peeled potatoes are pretty much unheard of and only available in jars which are super rare.
I've had to disinfect so many of my friends computers because they downloaded VLC media player from a website that looks darn close to something "official" but wasn't. Even with the one-time perms to allow this specific app to be installed from outside the GPS I can definitely see this being a headache for not only Google because of the high profile and popularity of this game but also Epic. Good luck to everyone involved.
is cython compatible with all python code or is it only a subset of libraries that you can use?
Amazon and Walmart’s rivalry is reshaping how we’ll buy everything in the future
Cannabis-Infused Beverages Are the New Hot Edible (Er, Drinkable) Trend
That imposed constraint is the thing I keep circling around.
Somebody says "this is enough," and all the companies seem to agree, except a rare US company that isn't in the loop.

Toronto is universally anchored to that 120 number, and 200 seems taboo. Whatever your company is doing, that's fantastic you can do it in Toronto, as QoL for people is really good, and it has the kind of culture pretty much everyone wants to live in.
I mostly agree. Although, it is often the "unreasonable, specific beliefs" that bind a social group together despite their differences. If that core belief or two is strong enough, you will force yourself to interact with people you wouldn't ordinarily hang out with. I have found this aspect of social clubs to be the most beneficial to me (and others). It also seems that belonging a religious community with moderately strict beliefs is the most efficient way to get this.
Sounds pretty par for the course. 1/3 to 2/5 of respondents but only 4.5k out of 18k responded.

So assuming the non-respondents were predisposed to be generally positive (otherwise why didn't they reply) if you divide the numbers by 2 (conservative figure)then you have 15-20% of the foreign population with negative experiences.

I'd say that's probably better than I'd have expected.
Yes, but only vertically.
18 to 22 is the worst? Wow. That was unexpected!
It's actually ironic that your name is Seattle_Spring, because I'm talking specifically about a Seattle experience. Flying into Seattle and taking a taxi or using a town car service downtown was at least formerly, much cheaper than what I have gotten on Uber / Lyft, to the point I've just gone to using the light rail even though it is slower to my destination. $65 on Lyft vs. $35 by taxi / town car, from my most recent experiences.
I'm wondering how possible it would be to have garbage trucks identify valuable materials in trash as they enter the truck, so the city can fine someone who doesn't separate.
that's sort of what I do with cookie auto-delete, which keeps cookies until you close the tab. otherwise some sites dont play nice when you disable cookies entirely.
Anecdotal evidence suggests not all Bumble BFF seekers actually have platonic intentions, kind of defeating the point of the feature.
Bury it in a folder, talk to your spouse about what you're doing with it ahead of time. Don't use it around other people if you're worried about someone you know being a dick about it.
Not OP, but yeah. Those who ate and valued food when it was available were the ones that lived.
> Honestly, I've never had problems talking to random strangers.

Did you grow up in a culture that prized that ability? I've noticed that in the U.S. south, being able to make conversation was a point of pride. ("friendliness")

But not so much on the east coast. East coasters tend to be more clammed up and introverted.
I've heard many Muslims actually gain weight during Ramadan.

As a fasting schedule, it is rather self-defeating. Even not drinking water during the day is not such a big problem, if you go about it smartly. On the other hand, complaining about Ramadan seems to be as big a part of the tradition as the eating after dark.
Really appreciate your answers. I've wondered about this stuff for a while but never had the time to read through the Git source code.

>No, because a hash of some commit data is what’s signed and the parent is part of that.

How does this work with cherry picks or rebases? Would it just be authorized by the key of the person doing the rebase and lose the authentication of the original commits? How would this complicate say forensics investigation attempting to understand how authored a backdoor?

>I don’t understand that question. Can you expand on it?

Lets say I am a member of an organization and I am syncing a git repo for the first time. How do I ensure that the code I am getting was only authored by members of that organization? Who does the work of adding new keys for new members, revoking old keys when employees leave or keys are compromised? How does everyone agree on this key set?

> No, and the same goes for pretty much anything else that can be compromised.

I agree to determining key compromise is impossible but the detection of use of compromised keys in a suspectious manner is certainly possible. Consider a chain of one-use keys where each key is only used once per commit and then deleted. Using a key twice triggers alarms and emails.

>You read it before you run it.

You should read it before you run it however everyone makes mistakes and detecting underhanded programming techniques is hard. One could imagine a source code system that would warn users that the code they are about to run has not been authored by anyone in their organization.
The ‘feel-good’ horror of late-stage capitalism
On which devices specifically can you upgrade storage, memory and keyboards?

memory -- 27" iMacs
storage -- seeing that Thunderbolt is more than fast enough to handle external memory, all Macs.
keyboards -- Mac Mini, iMac, MacPro.

What laptops allow you to update keyboards?
A 70% solution is considered the most effective. Higher concentrations of alcohol (over 90% especially) evaporate more quickly, reducing contact time. Also, they work too quickly. By coagulating the outer proteins of bacteria instantly, they form a protective layer that actually stops the alcohol from penetrating further.
Well, maybe westerns not exposed to Asimov's novels directly nor indirectly. Anyway, in such a globalized world, I'm, not sure how right could be that: E.g. Japanese anime is very popular in Europe and America.
> Looks like we need to start washing with Everclear now.

It's actually backwards from that. Adding some water to alcohol kills more bacteria than pure alcohol.

See here: https://blog.gotopac.com/2017/05/15/why-is-70-isopropyl-alco...
Better not buy a new high-end car built after 2010 or so then. You should see how difficult they make it to work on them.
What is your goal for your career?

E.g. my personal goal has been more and more "making positive impact on world", and so I've started shifting jobs based on that.

Maybe yours is "make enough money to pay for early retirement", or "work on interesting technical problems", etc..

Whatever it is, you shouldn't be thinking about this job in isolation. Start with your goals, work backwards from that.
2 hours is still reasonable though, but yea 3 hours looks really strange though
I wish this article had provides a link to a comparison between the different hand sanitizing methods.

OK, so alcohol-based sanitizer isn't great. How does it compare to plain old soap and water? What about foaming liquid soap? How does the big gun of Hibiclens work out nowadays?
HP's "The Wolf" commercials (feat. Mr. Robot^WChristian Slater) totes up their printers as "the world's most secure printing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkajtSOAyec :)
Seconding this. When I game, I game at 1080p because I employ an analog antialiasing technique known as sitting several feet from the TV.

That said, I did recently upgrade to a 1060 so that I could run basically everything at ultra quality and buttery smooth framerates at 1080p resolutions.

But... if I weren’t quite as fussed about maxing out the quality on every title, an AMD APU would very much be in the sweet spot.
> Or is it possible that bacteria could evolve resistance right up to 100%?

Adding some water to alcohol kills more bacteria than pure alcohol.

See here: https://blog.gotopac.com/2017/05/15/why-is-70-isopropyl-alco...