skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Societal consequences" are an emergent phenomenon. By definition, they are impossible to predict.

Often, the consequences of some new technology are both good and bad.
I like the idea - but it isn't working well for my location, at the base of a canyon in Utah, with mountains on 3 sides of me and a big lake on the 4th. It looks like it knows that there are canyons and roads and obstacles that need to be accounted for, but the spikes jutting out from my location don't follow the roads or terrain.

FWIW, the site at: https://maps.openrouteservice.org/reach also fails to compute accurately from my location for an hour, but does work accurately for 50 minutes or less. If nothing else, maybe I'm a good test case?
Mine's https://www.jamestease.co.uk . I designed it about five years ago and can't be bothered to change it now :)
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I heard the same thing except it was Huawei stealing IOS from Cisco.
Or your own, for that matter?
Is anyone saying that it is worse, or are commenters suggesting that that the pay and working conditions should be improved?
Computer Science is a much bigger field than it once was. There are many aspects where compsi is useful from a interdisciplinary point of view, and this imho, entails working with researchers from different specific areas.

You shouldn't expect a computer scientist to deeply understand sociological/psycological/philosophical questions, but they can and should to some degree identify where knowledge from other fields is important. My understanding is that they are not asking researchers to predict the future (although this is apparently what the interviewee imply), but simply identify that there might be (societal) consequences, good or bad.

This is why in areas like social robotics and HRI you will find more and more articles that are written by researches from different areas. E.g. a Computer Scientist and a Psychologist.
A lot of the natives (at least in the NE and Midwest) did not live in shelter that were meant to last for hundreds of years. They lived in semi-temporary small buildings
I disagree with you on the phrasing aspect for this specific case. When discussing an advertising message the phrasing is extremely important.

Albeit the thread didn't invite substantive discussion on it because of the snark.
Each cancer is different and might respond to different treatments. I was speaking very generally. This paticular cancer reacts because of its unique properties, but the principal may work on others too.
It’s a figure of speech you may not have encountered before, relatively common in British English.

But quite apart from that figure of speech, the CEOs and senior management of megacorps that don’t pay tax in such an outrageous way ought to be criminalised.
I'm not so sure about that. We in the US certainly did such to England with cotton mills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater
Anecdotally, these are too new / unfamiliar or were inaccessible for a while. For the ones where this is not the case like coinbase, it's a company with a well-known track record of being terrible to work with (hard to get money, freezing accounts with no recourse, etc). It's much easier/safer to use European alternatives that are based more locally, because those companies will be crucified by the authorities for committing that kind of fraud. That's a thought that lets you rest easy.
Given the way their government work (one-party rule), I would blame it more on their political system than their culture. Obviously you can make the argument that culture precedes political system, and also the same argument the other way. Bit of a nature vs nurture thing.
I am also much more impressed than I expected to be with the Model3's I see on the street lately. It looks a lot better in real life than in the photos.
From the article: "In other words: get used to turning off machines, even if they don’t appear to like it. They’re silicon and electricity, not flesh and blood." So? I don't think that's the correct way of looking at this scenario. What do we mean when we say it's silicon and electricity? How does that factor into the decision as to whether we "kill" it? To me the answer comes down to is the device conscious and does it have agency? Consciousness changes everything for it's at that point that morals apply, it's at that point the robot is no longer "just a machine." We can argue the possibility for a robot to have consciousness as Penrose and Hofstadter have done, but I don't think we can argue that should there come a time when a robot has consciousness that the rules of engagement have changed.
Originally intended to be called Armageddon. End of game screen of "The End" instead of Game Over as a result of that same futility. Dave Theurer talked about it in some depth here: https://www.polygon.com/features/2013/8/15/4528228/missile-c...
GCHQ's Gaffer comes to mind https://github.com/gchq/Gaffer. The classes are well documented in Javadocs and the provided examples should enable a competent Java programmer to get started easily.

Apart from it, there are a number of competing products listed by Apache Tinkerpop - http://tinkerpop.apache.org/providers.html
Stop comparing your self to everyone else, you cant be better than every one at everything. This is obvious when spelled out, but not while you are judging your weakness. You will compare it to others who don't have that weakness, setting your self up for failure.

Stop comparing your self to other individuals, you are not them, you don't have their strengths or weaknesses. You are trying to compare apples and oranges.

Stop judging yourself over such a broad spectrum, you just can't be good at everything you don't have the time to learn it all. You have weaknesses sure but you also have strengths, deal with it, give your self a bit of credit where credit is due.

Stop comparing your self to external forces that are beyond your control or ability to understand. Stop setting your self up for failure.

Start comparing yourself today to yourself yesterday. "I always feel I'll be lagging" you can't lag behind yourself. "cannot make the same connections", "cannot have the same insight" you make your own insights and connects not others, this is your strength and their weakness, give your self some credit where credit is due.

"I avoid trying to learn and develop" Don't try to match or improve on others, improve on yourself, start small. Learn one new thing a day, it doesn't have to be a big new complicated thing. Through out your day you will at some point have a question or a curiosity. Keep an eye out for it and encourage it, answer your question or do a bit of research, then make a note of it, job done, you are now objectively better than your competition(you yesterday) and have the note to prove it. Well done! Give yourself a reward like a coffee or a cookie :)
An alternative to projects- the noprojects approach
There used to be an organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility CPSR. It grew out of Xerox Parc. I just looked at their web site and they don't seem as active anymore.
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"Hm, this guy died and one highly likely reason was his diet. In order to play him correctly, I'm gonna try that diet too."
Jeff Bezos's $150B Fortune Is a Policy Failure
It's what one puts into an Automated ATM Machine.
Sure, but i found - as you mentioned - groceries, including conversion to USD, to be more expensive in Toronto than LA. Eating out was definitely cheaper. Rent, for an equivalent place in Toronto is, I think, slightly cheaper, but probably not 50% or so cheaper.

You're right that you need to convert both sides of the equation but I still think that all things considered Toronto pay is pretty poor compared to the US.
It depends. They are not bad if you're a contractor.
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You should be able to pick period less than 1 hour. If you are still not able to do it let me know.
I hope to be able to add walking feature soon.
Well, it's also easy to blame criminals but at the heart of it our legal system sucks. /s
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Why does the list cite Mesa Verde in Colorado yet ignores New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, which pre-dates Mesa Verde by 300 years and certainly is much older than Taos Pueblo? There are also Anasazi sites in Arizona as well that aren't quite as old as Chaco but, none-the-less, are older than the mission they list. Further, Utah has thousands of Anasazi sites from granaries to whole villages that date to the 12th and 13th century. Why didn't they make the cut? If the criteria is that the building must be intact, then Mesa Verde shouldn't be there given that it has been heavily restored from how it appeared when first discovered by Wetherill in the late 19th century.
Should Nature disclose negative societal consequences (real, and present, not predicted)?

It’s not like CS researchers are the ones turning science into a dumpster fire to sustain 30% profit margins.

Most of the more hysterical screeching about AI, automation, etc is reminiscent of buggy whip manufacturers bitching about cars.
There are many more Chinese-Americans than there are Chinese-Germans.
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US accepts dual citizenship. China does not for anyone over 18.
The thing about these new factories is that they will be using already developed technology and product so the risk is much lower for them than for the original model3 factory.
Love how the name is basically "Où aller?" in French ("Where to go?"). Really interesting concept!
The real thing website: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/alterego/overview/

The mechanism from FAQ:
How does the system work?

A user's deliberate internal speech is characterized by neuromuscular signals in internal speech articulators that are captured by the AlterEgo system to reconstruct this speech. We use this to facilitate a novel user interface where a user can silently communicate in natural language and receive auditory output through bone conduction headphones, thereby enabling discreet, bi-directional interaction with a computing device, and providing a seamless form of intelligence augmentation.

personal opinion:
Not too fancy as the title suggests
Never heard that before, but it rings true.

Our house (Americans) is from 1909 and we think its crazy how old it is.

Our friends from the Netherlands came to visit and informed us that the next day they would visit DC (2-3 hours drive) and then swing by the upper peninsula of Michigan the day after (20+ hours).
Demographics were very different back then. Nowadays we have one person households. Also nowadays nobody peels potatoes anymore. I honestly wouldn't know how.
The systems themselves likely aren't very different from a "standard" x86 system

The hardest part will probably be the sheer amount of DRM installed around them, as consoles tend to have
Fasting is great for weight loss and for lowering your insulin resistance, which is now considered by many the main cause of obesity and of course type 2 diabetes. This has been shown by studies.

Some say that fasting activates "autophagy" which has great health benefits, supposedly being great for preventing the remission of cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy — but note that I could not find any concrete study or proof of it, this being anecdotal evidence from some clinics that advise their patients to do fasting instead of chemotherapy.

I practice fasting for 36 hours, 3 times per week. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I don't eat or drink anything other than water and coffee. You can go shorter, like one meal per day in some days or longer, e.g. 5 days is easy once you get used to it.

As a tip: eating high fat, low carbs meals before fasting helps. Also if you get dizzy or if you get cramps, you probably have an electrolytes imbalance and you need to stop your fast. If that happens to you, make sure to take salt (sodium) and possibly magnesium supplements. Once I started doing that, the dizziness and the cramps stopped. But document yourself first and consulting a doctor and doing some blood work might be good ideas.

This is a pretty good book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A...
Not for the moment, but if there is enough traffic from UK and the data are available I will add it.
I'm a bit disappointed they're not using Forth.
Obviously, it would be speculative given many factors that contribute to cancer like healthy eating, drinking, smoking... but it is interesting that in the top 50 countries with the highest rate of cancer, there are no Muslim countries. Fasting could be a factor that contributes to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cancer_ra...
Haha, my own house already 90 years old. I got married in my city's town hall which has been in active use since 1544. It's a different world from the US :)
Retro Man Cave giving a tour of such a clone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI
Rewritten for normal people:

Cancer sometimes becomes resistant to chemotherapy, but we did a study that shows a certain type of lung cancer is highly dependent on a certain amino acid and when you fast intermittently it deprives the cancer of that amino acid and causes the cancer cells to die.
Congrats on the app! I saw it a few days ago. Best of luck! :) If anything just contact me to jp at standups.io or let's follow each other on Twitter, my handle is @restrex

I am from Chile, but left almost 10 years ago, but I try to come back as often as I can. If I ever make it to Sao Paulo, I'll let you know. :)
I didn't mention the marginally higher average wage (across all industries, not specifically IT, which does not average higher) or population of Calgary. For reference the Toronto metro area has a population of 6.4 million with the Calgary metro area having 1.3. If we're talking about the praries as a whole which the parent was, that also includes Winnipeg and Regina.
Weirdly enough, people are choosing to work there instead of

>retail

>Restaurant

>outdoor/home

I dont get it, but people are choosing that job instead of higher paying jobs in different conditions.

I'm a big fan of letting employees decide rather than bystanders outside the industry make that judgement for them.
Except for lisps, few languages let you name functions/variables using dashes and other symbols but looks like any legal name in Clojure is fair game:

function people-eq?(p1 p2)
if p1 == p2 then
println("Are Equal!")
else
println("Not Equal!")
end
end

Interesting.
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So, just to be clear, the HN gestalt is that economists generally don't understand anything because "homo econimus" is a fiction and they don't understand the impacts of even relatively simple-to-characterize policy changes due to the complexity of a society made up of irrational actors, but it is reasonable to expect computer scientists to correctly predict the impact of their prospective research whose practical applications may not yet even be a gleam in anybody's eye, and decide on that basis what should and should not be researched and/or published and/or written?

The solution to this conundrum is obvious: Take the computer scientists who can make these amazing predictions and move them into the field of economics, where their predictive power can generally do more good for society. Then they won't invent anything harmful and can do trillions of dollars of good for the world economy, which is way better than all but the most black swan-y of research projects they could have come up with.

I'd also observe, HN gestalt, that you believe that pure research should be pursued because it is unpredictable where advances will end up being useful. This contradicts the idea that researchers can guess the societal impacts of their research. If researchers can successfully guess the societal impacts of their research, then people are justified in cutting pure research whenever they decide it's useless, because the judgment process that led to the conclusion "this is useless" is the exact same judgment process you're asking researchers to do here. Accepting that these predictions can be made will rather quickly result in the elimination of pure research. (Because, pretty much by definition, it looks useless for the forseeable future.)

If you want to decide this is a good idea and incorporate it into your worldview, you're going to have to give up several other things to get there. And have a frankly irrational view of the predictability of the universe, in my view.

You can't even really escape from this by saying "But it's so obvious in some cases that research is bad", because it really never is. Even germ warfare research can lead to valuable medical insights, and you really never know what valuable medical insights will lead to something that helps germ warfare. The idea that researchers can predict the future and should exercise some social responsibility by doing so is not some sort of major moral advancement; it's a childish regression from something we figured out decades ago, demonstrating our further scientific decay.

(The other inevitable objection is probably around nuclear bombs. Had the Manhatten Project never existed, there is no world in which we'd be sitting here in 2018 with no nuclear bombs. The only change would be who had them when. Nuclear bombs do not exist because of man's hubris and disregard for consequences. They exist because the laws of the universe permit them.)
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So does Utah- Hovenweep National Monument is just inside southeastern Utah, dating from 1200-1300. I'm not sure why it wasn't listed.
Ashton Kutcher is not diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
No, you're an adult. I don't personally know anyone that's been into Nerf since the mid 90's.
Thank you so much. Means a lot to, and gives me a ton of motivation :)
As far as I understand it, then Jobs was doing juice fasts which is probably the worst thing one can do in the presence of cancer.
These buildings all look pristine in the photos, almost too pristine.
java.net.URL please.
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The micro:bit draws on technology from our global partners, and you will be working closely with engineering teams inside Arm, Microsoft, MIT, Nominet and with the global Python Community to deliver innovative products that transform the way computing is taught around the world.

It's awesome working for a creative not-for-profit that's all about broadening the range of people that get excited by computing. We're flexible about office hours, working style, and the team's built from people passionate about EdTech. This person will be hiring other team members as we grow.

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Don't some banks allow 6 digit PINs?
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AFAICT, brute-forcing of short PINs is usually prevented by locking up after a few failed attempts.

E.g. with a phone SIM card's PIN, you theoretically have the laughable space of 10000 variants, but you only get to try 9 times, the 10th should either be correct, or the SIM card stops working. This gives you about 1% chance of guessing right. With trying the common PINs first, likely maybe 10% chance. Still makes an attempt to break in impractical in very many cases.
Then don't call yourself an engineer. Engineers build bridges, airplanes and when those fail, engineers are investigated for culpability. If the failure is due to a design flaw or cut corners, engineers are held responsible. I say this as a computer scientist with an undergrad in eng and a PE.
There is a lot of evidence that high fat low carbohydrate diets, also know as fasting diets have enormous health benefits, completely at odds with the dietary recommendation here https://www.choosemyplate.gov/dietary-guidelines is one of the drivers of obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome which in includes heart disease and high blood pressure
Perhaps - but it's mostly rich countries on that list. If you die of malnutrition, preventable disease etc you might not live long enough to die of cancer.
The vast majority of CPU power dissipation is from dumping gate capacitance to ground - not the resistance of the interconnects. It's akin to filling (very small) buckets of water and dumping them back out billions of times a second.

Zero resistance interconnects would allow us to charge those gates faster resulting higher clock speeds though.
SteamOS anyone?
How easy is it for a Canadian to set up the legalities of doing remote in the trump era ? I have an impression it’s only the big fish (fang etc) who with their legions of lawyers can mow a path down for remotes to begin working smoothly (& legally)
I don't think this matters. To my knowledge, much of what would cause the negative social consequences isn't necessarily coming out of the academy, or up for peer review. Instead, it's coming from companies who handle massive amounts of data and aren't submitting their tecnology (in general) as a paper to a peer-review board, but as a product to market. While researchers for these companies can and do publish, the end goal is profit, not publication.
But fasting occurs in other cultures and religions besides Islam, so I don't see the relevance of this.
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If Amazon pays its employees income, and those employees pay income tax, how is that different to Amazon paying tax? The government gets its money from Amazon either way.