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> There is no hard border between tool and decision to use it, the infrastructure will always shift the context of what's possible and alter society.

Technology always changes the landscape, but that isn't the thing anybody ever complains about. Nuclear weapons are only terrible when they're actually used against a city, not when they cause a cold war instead of a kinetic one. Which is the political decision.

When you build a system to affect mass desires and use it to get people to conserve water during a drought, nobody calls you a monster who is destroying society. You'll find serious people arguing that it's irresponsible not to do that.

People don't object to the tools, they object to the uses. Especially when somebody else uses them in a way that disadvantages the allegedly aggrieved party's political goals.

> Once a massive, uncensorable communication network becomes pervasive, the old social institutions that guide public communication become irrelevant and we build new ones or face massive misinformation and propaganda campaigns. It's not that we choose to use social media to propagate fake news, it's the inevitable political consequence of their technical structure.

Fake news isn't a controversy because it's a new thing. The "old social institutions that guide public communication" are the things that brought us three centuries of racist propaganda, gave birth to "yellow journalism", celebrated every desecration of the justice system in the Drug War, swallowed the party line on the War in Iraq and flamed outrage for the sake of ratings so hard that the current President of the United States is Donald Trump.

The reason fake news is now a big controversy is that now there are a hundred cell phone videos of the event in question, ordinary people have easier access to primary sources and the barrier is much lower for someone who objects to the prevailing narrative to find an audience. So when the latest line of bull makes the rounds, it's more often followed by an angry mob decrying its falsity to anyone who will listen and backing their objections with evidence. And then it seems like there are a lot more lies, not because there are actually more lies but because there are all the same lies and many more people pointing them out.

The people to watch out for aren't the people who create this kind of technology. It's the people who think only they should be in control of how people can use it. Which includes both Facebook and the people who think Facebook should be regulated instead of smashed into a million tiny pieces.
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I'm pretty sure that's why muslims break their fast at night during Ramadan. It's much easier to go through the day hungry than it is through the night.
I would like to engage more substantively with you, but I don't think I understand where you stand on this issue. Do you agree or disagree with the suggestions in the original article?
I don't think people really grasp the majestic scale of evolution. All living things are constantly evolving, all the time, in response to threats. The Earth has seen rising temperatures before, but what it didn't have back then was grass.

The dinosaurs evolved to get big because they couldn't graze. After the meteor got rid of them, grasses started to overtake the land, providing food chains for herbivores that simply didn't exist, and megafauna went from reptilian to mammalian.

Mammals are more adaptable than reptiles ever were, and the other great offshoot of reptiles, birds, are more adaptable still. The hit to biodiversity that climate change creates may not be as large and cataclysmic as we think it will be.

And it may be very short-lived. We can geo-engineer as a stop-gap until the rest of the world catches up technologically. China's already starting to successfully push back, Latin America and Africa really aren't that far behind. The developed world already slowed its contribution to climate change massively and is getting better all the time.

What I worry about is that we won't be able to save large cetaceans. Dolphins seem to be doing fine, but the larger sea critters are barely hanging on. But my thinking is that the biggest hit to their ecosystem happened 50 years ago and it didn't kill them, so they're adapting to noisier oceans. Maybe they're not as fragile as we think.

Ocean acidification has destroyed much of the diversity of coral reef ecosystems, but I don't think we'll ever reach the point where jellyfish take over the seas again. We're seeing blooms but mammals can figure out how to eat them.

Managed climate change can have the interesting effect of making the world's ecosystems more and not less robust.
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Taos Pueblo is on here, there aren't a lot of standing Amerindian structures from that period.
> writing to stdout

rtm "with output redirected to /dev/null" !

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> new BufferedOutputStream(System.out);

$ time /opt/src/jdk-10.0.1/bin/java mandelbrot 16000 > /dev/null

real	0m7.144s
user	0m27.405s
sys	0m0.156s

> new FileOutputStream("./mandel_out")

$ time /opt/src/jdk-10.0.1/bin/java mandelbrot 16000

real	0m7.125s
user	0m27.367s
sys	0m0.184s
I tend to be sympathetic to your views, but I recently heard a different take on this whole IP / Copyright theft matter and I'm not sure what to make of it:

1. US residents and workers own pretty much zero IP/Copyrights themselves and basically zero stock in companies that own IP/Copyrights.

2. Therefore, forcing Chinese companies and consumers to "pay up" for IP and Copyrights really only benefits US companies and wealthy stockholders (not US consumers and workers).

3. If there no charge at all for this stolen IP, Chinese companies would be able to offer cheaper exported products to US workers and consumers, who would actually benefit more from the lower prices than from protecting the IP in the first place.

4. Furthermore, if US company products (e.g. Microsoft Windows) are pirated in China, it leaves the Chinese consumer with more dollars to buy other US imported goods which are not IP-focused (e.g. soybeans or almonds or wine or something) thus benefiting the average US consumer and worker more.
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> Their Google, FB, and Twitter knockoffs don't count, they are all crap compared to Western versions.

Tencent has $35b in revenue and Baidu has $12b revenue (USD). Meanwhile Twitter has $0.7b in revenue (for reference, FB is $40b).

Yes Twitter appeals more to me but just because I'm not the target market of those Chinese platforms doesn't mean they are crap. They make real money and work for their users.
I was interested in seeing the meetup feature, but I don't see how you can supply multiple addresses currently.
No, what is killing Ericsson was betting the house on a shoddy partner like Intel, none of the 10nm chips they designed can be produced in significant quantity: https://semiaccurate.com/2018/07/02/intel-custom-foundrys-10...
But this might not be necessarily criminal. What if the guy has only encrypted his vacation pictures ?

Fire-able offense as the laptop was company owned and such behavior sets all alarms. Once fired, they get to look at your history...

Let's admit that when dealing with IP worth tens of billions different procedures are in place, and the burden of proof for being fired /investigated is much, much lower than "beyond reasonable doubt" used to jail you.
What is a negative social consequence?
In the interview e.g. the 'destruction' of jobs through automation is given as an example. I personally do not agree that this is a negative. Freeing people from forced labor and allowing them to have other pursuits I see as truly positive.
The fact that we maintain an unsustainable socioeconomic system in which one's right to live is tied directly to one's role in a planet destroying economic production system is the real problem.
This * 1000. The way things work nowadays is the supermarket chain doesn’t pay the cost of polluting the planet.

Every goddamn product is planed obsoletion so it can be cheap with a fat price margin and the customer has to keep on buying every couple of years.

Charge supermarkets for plastics and pay customers to return recyclable things and that’s a huge motivator to reduce landfill garbage in half.

I’m also a big believer that we need better robotics. When I saw Wall-E I just got super excited by seeing trash recycling robots.

Robots should be doing stuff humans don’t do, not replacing them. It shouldn’t be a zero sum game.
>SpaceX _received_ a lot of tax money

Yes, but most of that money was either for doing resupply missions to the ISS for developing the capability of tranporting humans to the ISS. The resupply missions to the ISS are cheaper than what NASA can do themselves, and SpaceX transporting crew is likely to save money compared to Russia doing it (because Russia raised the prices as competition disappeared). So in a very real sense the government is gaining money here by spending less on something they need anyways.

>There's also a lot of industries in which the capitalist model produces something much less efficient than alternatives. Public transport

It's rare to have a public transport system set up to even allow for fair and open competition. Most started as state monopolies and transitioned to private monopolies (which are hardly capitalism). The areas of transportation where the capitalist model actually happens seem to do great (for example airlines, with the possible exception of the united states where mergers and consolidation seem to limit competition).

>This is, I think, a very dangerous argument. If the existence of megacorporations was taken to its logical conclusion, with a handful of monopolies, where workers rights were removed and all the power went into the hands of the companies, _this would still be true_.

Just to be clear, I am against monopolies and for government-ensured workers rights. But in a hypothetical scenario where workers rights vanish, workers still continue to be a limited resource. If I offer a job, but everybody willing and able to work already has a better one I won't find a candidate. I have to make the job desirable enough to outcompete everyone else looking for employees (for example by raising pay or improving working conditions). The more jobs offered on the market, the higher that competition.

With higher unemployment of course the bargaining power of the individual emplyee sinks, and with that the working conditions and pay. But high unemployment also means higher social unrest, which means the state is incentiviced to provide sufficient benefits/insurance/whatver to keep the unemployed happy, simultanously giving the employees another way out of entirly undesirable jobs.

The true danger is if companies try to find creative ways to make their job "attractive" without actually benefitting the person employed, or if they manage to prevent employees from switch to a better job. That's where exploitation begins.
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I read #2 in their press release;

But; it seems like a poor marketing decision; You're attracting people who want no fees and subscribe the the Random Walk Model - then you prove the Random Walk Model. I don't see how this encourages people to go into more different funds.

Maybe for asset allocation for near term cash volatility.
> Islam makes it even worse, since it's very exclusive and does not allow for cultural assimilation to take place.

I have seen some generalizations on HN but this is a howler - takes the cake.
8809G doesn't have to share with the CPU. 256 bit controller adapted from Polaris would not go to waste, but you may be right from a cost perspective.
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I remember for about a week after playing it, when I got in the elevator at work I half expected the narrator to start talking.
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Since most people seem to be missing some context and commenting about the headline, just be aware that the proposal is smaller. Most papers have a section that essentially says "This work is important because of XYZ. It will enable better ABC." They already talk about societal and technical consequences, that's nothing new. The proposal is to not sweep the bad bits under the rug and be as rigorous in that section as in the rest of the paper. It seems fair. If you want to hype why your work is high impact, then you have to be honest about the anticipated impact.
And how accurate will those predictions be?

Nobel predicted that the dynamite will end all wars. Turns out, he was very wrong. On the other hand, plenty of technologies in recent decades have created predictions of impending dystopias, none of which materialized.

This all sounds like trying to blame scientists for not telling us the bad people will do bad things, instead of stopping bad people when they're doing bad things.
Only with a super efficient or interesting architecture for example in AI.

But by then I guess they just sell it to Google or Facebook.

So nope. No way that they go away...
Since it is impossible to force all inputs to be well-constructed, text acts as the more predictable interface. Once I learn a bunch of command-line tools for processing text, I know exactly how to compose commands or post-process text from a file or extend the usefulness of a program that doesn’t happen to produce output I want.

While there may be something “brittle” from time to time, in my experience this just means it was possible to tackle the problem with text when the alternative would have been to have no way to do it at all.

PowerShell feels like it wants everything to be structured perfectly, and “perfect is the enemy of the good” applies. Sometimes, I don’t care if there is a way to perfectly structure a particular input because many use cases just don’t have stringent requirements.
"Even a few spoonfuls of peanut butter left in a jar can contaminate a tonne of paper and make it unmarketable — destined for the dump. Same for that glob of yogurt left in the bottom of the container."

The article seems to claim that the yogurt can contaminate clean paper that is mixed in, making the paper un-recyclable, not the plastic yogurt container itself.

Also, this appears to be a new thing, since China stopped accepting contaminated paper for recycling.
On the other hand, a small museum is unlikely to have the requisite expertise, and rolling your own security is not advised unless you are an expert. I would have thought the insurance companies might be more proactive in this area, but I also note that its exposure was much less than the current value of the art.
Yup, wholeheartedly agree with you.
A case of natural justice if you ask me.
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True. Also have to factor in the proprioceptive sense, EG, index finger in neurologically mapped space pressing on the arm of a chair. But what about the condition where an index finger is pressing against an adjacent thumb? Here percepts involve two conjoined sensors reporting as both sensors and objects being sensed. What's the priority source of the sensation?
Thing I have heard people do in this situation:

1. Change location in LinkedIn to new city.

2. Get in touch with relevant employees at companies in target area, e.g. another data scientist. Ask if you can do quick talk about their company and what it's like there. You get to learn more about company that way. Sometimes you can hear about jobs that aren't posted, or they'll want to submit your CV because of referral bonuses, etc..
> That requires wasting water though

Yeah, this.

This is the thing that most people who consider themselves environmentally conscious do not seem to have taken fully on board: there are no simple solutions here. There is an elephant in the room: there are simply too many human beings on the planet for them all to have a prosperous life style without enormous changes to the fundamental structure of the world's economy. Recycling will not save us. Better gas mileage will not save us. Electric cars will not save us. More public transit will not save us. The only thing that might save us is massive investment in nuclear power (plus solar and wind, but those two alone will not save us) plus a concerted effort to make birth control more widely available and socially acceptable.
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I think you'd want access to such a market, but still want your accounts and user interface to be with a brokerage that would tell you whether you're getting a good deal on trades. Of course this could be entirely automated.

Having a UI that clearly tells you what's going on and doesn't lie to you or use dark patterns seems pretty basic?
A good discussion by one of the scientists on why it was challenging to create "mega-chromasomes". It's interesting, because both groups attempting it were unable to delete one of the centromeres (#15) for unknown reasons.

https://bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/users/170546-jing...

Also see the original Nature paper:

https://go.nature.com/2n43y6c
Are Cookie policy notifications a thing outside of the EU? I always assumed that websites geo target these notifications and life with the small risk of corner cases (like EU customer in the US). If anyone has experience, or numbers I’d find that highly interesting.

One datapoint from Germany:
We were largely unaffected by cookie notifications before GDPR, because of a local law (TMG) that superseded the EU “cookie law”.

Since GDPR we are in the curious situation that every small and medium sized business plasters it’s website with extravagant opt-in notification pop-ups while the worst privacy offenders, like the nations largest newspapers, bombard you with all kinds of cookies with no notification at all.

Just one example I tried a few moments ago:

spiegel.de one of the most widely read German-language news sites set 54 cookies from lots of different domains plus local storage usage. No cookie notification whatsoever.

Another example:
bundesregierung.de, the official government website, states in it’s privacy policy that they set a web analytics cookie (Matomo) but they don’t show a notification either.
That's a strange reading of Agile to me. Agile is not about making developers fungible, it's about building high performing teams of people. That takes time, and it is set back any time you have to replace someone. There's plenty of Agile literature that points out the hit to velocity when there's turnover.

As for 'i can get something in 2 weeks rather than waiting for 2 years', that's about not waiting 2 years to find out that you've been building the wrong thing or that the software sucks. Maybe as you deliver features you'll find out that the application is good enough in 18 months. Maybe you'll find out after several months of sprints that the product owner is bad at getting requirements and you need to do something different. Or maybe you'll find out that it is taking longer than original estimated to deliver functionality so important dates need to be adjusted accordingly.

In the old waterfall model, all that bad news may not come out until 2 years later when the software is released. And in the old model the customer is not getting useful software until 2 years out, rather than much sooner with a minimally viable product.

Agile is not a panacea and any methodology will fail if attempted by dysfunctional/incompetent groups of people. But if there's one benefit of Agile, is that everyone should find out much sooner that things are going awry.
If by "democratically" you mean through the market, then yes, it's how this works.

EDIT: what I mean is, roughly, markets are how we usually screw ourselves up in the first place.
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Did you always have in mind that you wanted to sell it to zoopla/rightmove? What was your initial pain point that caused you to develop your idea?
The pictures in the article appear to show the console just straight up running Windows 10.
There is no indication that this GE technology is patent protected. With private "trade secrets" which can be kept wrapped indefinitely, the public never gets the benefit of disclosure while incurring the cost of monopoly. There is an argument to be made for non-patent trade secrets being an overall negative.
And people wonder why it never caught on...
Does it take into account time of day? It's off a little for my area, just outside of Toronto. Putting in a 2 hour window comes up short east/west (by about 25%) but is relatively accurate North of here. Problem is knowing the speed of various highways at various times.
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I think the Bitcoin ecosystem reacted exactly as it should as all actors involved in the fiasco got exactly what they deserved.
Adaptability depends on having enough generations to adapt. Animals on one-year breeding cycles are a lot better off, while cetaceans are long-lived and the change happens within their lifetimes.

> The hit to biodiversity that climate change creates may not be as large and cataclysmic as we think it will be.

It may be hard to separate from other human-induced loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, which is happening at a high rate.
Cool, but now I would love to see a map which is colored by the total are (km^2) reachable in a given time.
You make a fair point -- it's popular to take the same tack with web servers and ad blocking (a server makes content publicly available -- users can decide which parts to view). Not a stretch to apply the same logic both ways -- just because a server offers a file to you, doesn't mean you are forced to store and give the file back on demand.

If this view were more widely adopted, it would maybe pressure browser vendors into being more transparent with users on cookie management and proactively ask them how they want to handle them.
Exactly. No one -has- to add a cookie that tracks you across sites they don’t even own. They can easily be used for authentication and session management without scraping a bunch of personal information from every visitor, logged in or not
Not everyone outside your political cease-fire zone will agree that the work you're doing is apolitical.

If one has an agreement (formal or tacit) to not talk about politics with your colleagues while the team manufactures Nazi flags... that may make for a pleasant and productive workplace, but broader society is still going to have a political reaction to that work.

The key is to understand the difference between contexts. Defining the context of your workplace is fine, but it's a mistake to assume that all contexts should treat you and your work the same.

This mistake is where you get comments like "but Facebook is such an inclusive company and everyone who works there are good people." That can be 100% true, but still not invalidate the criticisms of how Facebook's products are affecting society as a whole. And if someone at Facebook is going to listen to and consider that criticism, that will by necessity introduce the external context into the internal context.