skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Normal people slow down when there are kids playing with a ball on the sidewalk.

The driving-exam manual I had to read before getting my license was mentioning this exact scenario, i.e. if one sees kids playing on the sidewalk close to the road that the driver should slow down. It was even included among the questions given at the written exam itself.

But, then again, the authorities over here in Europe are more attentive when handing out driving licenses to people who are about to handle 2-ton pieces of metal inside populated areas. In this case it seems like the "US driving mentality" (only the driver counts, damn be the pedestrians) has also affected the actual engineers who have programmed these "AI" cars.
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Is there a firebase similar product offered by Alicloud?
I disagree with a few caveat - you need to go with the Interface Per Operation pattern, use a builder, and provide many parameters to your methods. You're guiding your user through the object building pipeline, so bonus points if you constrain them to only certain operations at certain points in the pipeline so that they don't shoot themselves in the foot.
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This is very sad but natural selection now is unfortunately like this now. Unless you are small and can eat human garbage or we care about your species in some extend (Cows, Pigs, Horses, Dogs, Birds, Cats and so on) you are going to become extinct in the next couple of hundred years. Which is depressing to say the least. Even if technology brings them back, it will be for zoos only for a very long time because the real problem is that their environment is gone, so it's not even worth it unless we have that problem fixed.

I am a bachelor in Biology besides the computer degree and this is something I perceive as a deep loss not because of this specific specimen but because of the trend it again confirms. We have modified the key features a species need to survive because of the way we are and big beautiful beasts like this are essentially doomed unless we change our ways, which I am very pessimist about.

I guess this is something we will need to get used to, it is going to happen more times in the future, our grand children might be the first ones to not see a live elephant or giraffe animals so common in cartoons and they toys will be like dinosaurs for them. It's terrible to think about it.
>they are all good guys that are eager to make an amazingly powerful product

Lovely. They are also devoid of vision and ethics about the likely results of their actions. In short, they fail to consider the saying:

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Have they even considered the question: Which of their targets would EVER sign-up for their service?

Who are their customers, and why would they pay for the service? The only plausible reason to pay Sentiance is to understand a target's behavior at a fine-grained level in order to insert a stimulus to get them to do something they would otherwise not do willingly. (or a stalker, to assault them).

So, they are making a wonderfully powerful tool to enable strangers to change a target's behavior without permission. Yet they are not bright enough to avoid putting a "sign up" popup on their website in a way that interrupts their own video.

They will enable someone to cause serious damage to our world. Please get a message to them that they need to stop and shut down.

If they want to build something REALLY powerful, they should pivot to building something to allow us to DETECT & PREVENT other software on our phones/computers from doing what they are now trying to do.

I'd pay for that, and I'm not the only one.
> Would you really use mode to calculate "average"? Ever?

Of course, to impute a categorical variable in a data set with empty values, for example.
How convenient for Facebook that large dubious data collection practices like this are exposed only two months before the European GDPR privacy law comes into effect.
> 3mph variance is perfectly normal even on modern cruise control.

That'd be a variance between true ground speed and the speed as estimated by the car. Chances are that the 38mph number came from the car itself, so there should be no "variance", leave alone 3mph over the limit. Modern cruise controls are perfectly capable of maintaining set speed, even at a considerable downhill.
If you think it’s necessary you can still explicitly list receivers on the message handler instead of using a list of objects that implement a certain interface. It makes code a bit more kludgey though.
You can deactivate your FB account and still use Messenger (and hence keep your contacts). You would lose Groups and Events though
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> What's different here?

Cambridge Analytica and Facebook tried to deny their involvement and cover their behaviour

That says something
Oh yeah baby!
OP is jokingly referring to the FB/Cambridge Analytica scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil#The_banality_...
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> Facebook makes money, in other words, by profiling us and then selling our attention to advertisers, political actors and others. These are Facebook’s true customers, whom it works hard to please.

And you just figured this out now? This is like saying "wow, who knew we would get so fat by feeding only on pizza, hamburgers and coke, aren't those companies evil".

Well, yes, companies are evil. They don't work for you; they either sell something to you, that is usually bad for you (why else would you want it), or take something from you, that they can then sell to somebody else.

> Should we all just leave Facebook? That may sound attractive but it is not a viable solution.

Of course it is. It's the only solution. If you think Facebook's management care about anything else except the number of active users, you're crazy. The only way to have them change their ways (maybe) is to make that number go down. It's also good for you, like drinking water instead of soda.
I used `curl -H` to send anonymous love-letters to all the sysadmins of the world who just happened to be log-diving. Apache and Nginx have very liberal header sizes, so you could fit entire poems into them.

Also, do you know why c-ares isn't standard on libcurl packages?
> given the sudden presence of an obstruction in its path

It doesn't even need to have been in its path; it should have detected a pedestrian near the edge of the road, concluded that they might step into the road (it's a possibility), and decelerated. Before she even stepped into the road, the Uber was at fault.
> Lower taxes sounds good until you consider the implications: less money invested in the society itself

Or, perhaps the Laffer Curve? Maybe revenue actually increases? Look at Texas: huge budget surpluses and lower taxes and public schools ranked higher than California.

I am not trying to debate which state is better, but I am trying to make the point that lower taxes does not correlate to a lower quality state. A poorer state does correlate: such as Mississippi for example, but low tax “rich” states do just fine.
Thanks for the Therac-25 reference :)
Code and data, not people's personal details.
The sample size is not one. The sample size is 4 million. The 5% and 95% quantiles of the posterior are roughly one in 11 million and one in 800,000.
As a first-class language feature this goes back at least to 1985 and Linda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language) and tuplespaces. (You'd know about Linda already if you'd read Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. Don't delay, read CTM today: https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigms.html ) And here's a Martin Fowler talk about the practise of implementing it informally as a pattern or framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKCRSUsyP0
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The death of a (sub-)species.

We are destined to see more of this in our lifetimes, given how some people treat the natural world and our animal kingdom neighbours..

Other sub-species of rhinos, and even elephants, may not be far behind.

But we are making progress. In the 1980s, it is estimated that over 600,000 elephants were killed by poachers in less than 10 years.

We are now "down" to 20,000 killed per year by poaching. But sadly, this is still more than are actually born in a year, so it's not quite enough progress, and there is still much work to be done.

If you feel like supporting conservation and education efforts to help with this progress, here are a few places to start:

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust[0], The Amboseli Trust[1], Save the Rhino[2], and of course the World Wildlife Fund[3] if you want to support conservation in a broader sense.

0: https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/

1: https://www.elephanttrust.org/

2: https://www.savetherhino.org/

3: https://support.worldwildlife.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=...
The use of orthogonal is literally increasing exponentially.
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It's not only Facebook though.
If you look for a restaurant at Google it will show you a link to that restaurant's website, opening hours, etc. but also: how popular the place is at any time, and how much time people spend there. All thanks to tracking phones.

In case of Google you can disable that in the phone's settings (and trust that opt-out works), but you can't really do that with your phone operator. Or with the apps that do the same but don't brag about it.

To answer your question directly: I showed a search result page to my friends, and showed them how to disable location tracking. Some were terrified, but - sadly - most of them didn't and don't mind being tracked.
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Can we include Wasabi[1] in the comparison? They seem to have a really compelling offering when it comes to Object Storage and their pricing.

1. https://wasabi.com/
We are reaching a tipping point already where we are sending far too much garbage into space that quite literally is not going anywhere. Elon Musk has plans to add even more clutter to low orbit with plans to send up 12,000 satellites. The question is, do we really need all this extra infrastructure when so much of the world is already connected via cable?
https://www.wired.com/story/maybe-nobody-wants-your-space-in...
By that measure, Apple has been a sinking ship for over a decade.
How does Digital Ocean compare in terms of reliability and compatibility with existing tools? I haven't used it, so genuine question.
According to that "update", Tesla Autopilot can never be at fault right? Because the driver is supposed to be in charge. So, even if Tesla rams full speed into a semi, the driver is at fault!
You'd still have to go give up your phone number. In the end, you might give up your FB profile but you've not quite achieved the objective of giving up your FB profile.
I assume you meant Lisp. R started out as a Scheme dialect, so yes, there is definitely a connection.
This is not really from natural selection.

Rhinos have been killed by humans by the hundreds of thousands over the last 30 years.

There's nothing natural about that.
How does this differ from an Agent based system?
I think there's something off about your arguments, human drivers speed, but they don't do it because of properties of the speedometer or the cruise control, or air resistance, or potholes - they do it because they don't care much about the speed limit.

It's completely possible to stay below the speed limit in a car, a lot of people just don't bother. Cruise control won't apply the brakes (at least in older cars) if you encounter a significant downhill gradient - that's up to the driver, and while speedometers are often out and GPS is more accurate, speedos universally over-read in my experience. If you're doing GPS 38mph your speedo is probably reading 40, which is not really within an excusable error margin of 35mph IMHO.

I would expect a fully autonomous vehicle to be able to accurately obey the speed limit and I suspect the reason it wasn't/doesn't is because that behaviour has been programmed in or developed. You could make arguments that doing what the other cars around you are doing is safer than being an outlier, but that's not the same argument you're making. I think the 38mph figure is significant.
I've taught students both mindstorms NXT and Scratch, and they're quite different. Scratch is basically procedural programming with blocks instead of text. Mindstorms has some of that, but variables/data connections are really different and wierd to get your head around if you're already a programmer. I've not used labview so can't compare to that.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Just because you can do something, does not mean that you should do it.

People must apply the same creativity, intelligence, and forethought as they apply to designing & building of their technology to considering the consequences of it's existence and use.

And then take appropriate actions to prevent bad consequences and/or misuse. This must include some decisions to not build it in the first place.
A lot of these look cool to me. I wonder how many of the environments could be brought up in a VM?
Change is upon us, join patchwork at secure scuttlebutt. The social network is the network, no central services, federation or global anything.
right, what did Linus Torvalds use? Emacs or Vim?
AWS is blocked in China so you're forced to use Alicloud. Friends who use it say it is hard to use and has bad documentation.
I was really excited about DO spaces. I compared every major Object Storage (OVH,B2,Wasabi,S3,Azure). DO spaces came out much ahead. I did dozens of hours of research. I was a customer (and I still am). But I am less excited now.

Basically, there are loads of issues with rejected requests because of rate limiting (returns a lot of 503 "slow down" responses). Basically, I don't recall ever receiving this from S3. You can check the forums to see more in-depth discussion.

The good part: This is a solvable problem, and I hope they relax these limits very soon.

Another great anecdote: their API is 99% compatible with S3. In fact, the official recommendation is to use the AWS SDKs on the server, which I am doing!
In France, the car is always at blame whatever the cyclist or pedestrian did. This the jurisprudence as set by a case where a drunk cyclist, driving at night without any light in the wrong lane and against traffic was hit by a car coming by. Though the driver obviously wasn't at fault, the decision was to always protect the vulnerable and feeble, i.e. the cyclist.
Insane pricing, questionable benefits but 240 upvotes...
On a few occasions he's actually said that the Linda model is better than straight-up message-passing.
So word of mouth is dead? How are we supposed to find out about Zomato app then?
I never understood why people prefer abusing CSS to create icons when SVG is a much more suitable candidate for this kind of job. And in many cases they can be smaller in file size too.
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(*) for a particular use case.

The example is 200GB storage with 2000GB data transfer (out) every month. That's a LOT of data going out every month, so I am guessing the scenario is if you are hosting a photo library and lots of people are downloading every month.

If however you are just using the service as an online storage to hold <100GB of data as backup (i.e. mainly only transfer in), then S3 turns out way cheaper than DO.

Not knocking either service - I actually use both, for different use cases.
What does autonomy have to do with it? Most regular cars would be better off as single-person vehicles; there are a few small-scale efforts in this direction (the Smart car, the G-Whiz electric car, I think BMW has an enclosed-canopy motorbike) but they largely haven't caught on.
I've never used fb, so it's scary to see comments like this.
> I don't know much about Go but in Java and C# mocking frameworks use runtime bytecode manipulation to make it really easy to swap out concrete implementations without needing to create separate interfaces.

You cannot do that in Go, you need to write interfaces upfront. Or you can't unit test a controller that depends on a repository which concrete implementation relies on a database.

There is no "bytecode manipulation" here, since there is no bytecode.
Did she then go on to create jQuery? Because that concept (with a touch of functional inspiration) is one of the underlying ideas behind the library and why it was considered so much easier to work with than the DOM API.

I get where you're coming from, but I don't think it's a good reason to avoid classes. That's what they're there for.
Thanks very much. Web version (incl. download links) struggles for me in primitive Australia

By the way another worth adding IMO (as it has serious industry use and traction) is Grasshopper (a plugin for Rhino) - focussed on 3d modelling. Very common in Architecture and design fields
Is there any open source S3 compatible software? I know Riak Cloud Storage (http://docs.basho.com/riak/cs/2.1.1/), but I think it’s not maintained anymore.
I asked my question after I read these articles and watched both the 16+ minute reports.
I think this is a good thing.

the web landscape needs more than one large browser, otherwise the company behind that browser ends up dictating web standards.

also, IE Edge is a fantasic browser. from a consumer perspective, nobody is missing out.
SCO vs Novell will be litigated till the heat death of the universe, so you can't really blame them.
> All of this is too bad, because R syntax is just plain rotten icky stuff. (but I may be seeing things with some of the examples looking like awful R syntax... maybe I need sleep)

If you can get over the way assignments are made, I find R's syntax, quite nice – especially with the pipe paradigm á tidyverse that is getting increasingly common. I personally find that the (from a software engineering perspective) awful syntax instead comes from many R users having a different background than those of other languages. I guess very few R users write unit tests, for example.

Of course, this is fine in most cases – messy, unengineered code is completely fine if few people will use it.
Actually, with a good receiver you can use GPS for very precise speed measurements by using the doppler shift of the carrier signal. It's just that most receivers don't give you access to that so the only other option is using the current and previous position and the timings of them.
> My understanding is that a third-party app asked for access, and people gave consent

Did people consent to use their data to be mined for a political campaign? Currently, consents are meaningless and vaguely worded that can include anything under the sun. Sooner or later, we are going to go the "Informed Consent" way [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent
9p suck over ip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IL_(network_protocol)
Thanks. I'm aware of this report and it's definitely awful what they did and they should be shamed for many years forward.

But there is big difference between comparing moods induced by negativity and "Facebook is proud that it knows how to make you depressed, so much so that they published a paper describing how they made hundreds of thousands of their users fall into a depression."

OP statement is misleading and tabloid worthy. The goal was not to cause depression. It lasted one week and they didn't try make someone depressed or kill him.
Well there's three parts to this: One is that data was collected without consent - ie, the third party can collect information about me because my friend gave consent. That's something that facebook has actually stopped now - but the damage is already done.

The second is that Facebook weren't diligent with who allowed to access this data - the 'researcher' collected data and then passed it to a commercial entity with no consequences. This is probably in breach of quite a few laws (especially in the EU).

The third is that Facebook knew that CA had participated in this deliberate breach of their terms to steal data and allowed CA to continue to use this data to target advertising on FB during an election campaign. They only banned CA after it got bad publicity, rather than when the actual infraction occured.
In addition to what n4r9 said, we organize our moral code around freedom of individuals, and not freedom of other entities. So it's morally acceptable to ask for privacy of individuals, yet ask for things and institutions to be surveilled by society at large.
I believe minio.io provides open source S3 compatible storage on your own servers.
I knew a guy who ran a business which designed and sold PCBs. He'd make up different names to stamp on PCBs. Designed by Joe Bloggs, Code by Derek Smarts, Layout by Jamie Simple, etc. He wanted the business to seem bigger than it actually was.
This is gold. Because it shows you info that's not accessible through the interface, like whom you unfriended or who unfriended you.

It even shows which advertisers have your info.
At least today we have the investigative reporting from the Intercept. It's kind of crazy the lengths to which citizens had to go through to get the word out about COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Invest...
The main cost seems to be bandwidth (speeds). If you've ever tried Spaces, you know it's a real slog uploading and downloading (even with good client-side speeds). DropBox has similar specs to Spaces, and does it for only $10. OneDrive has the same thing with $7 for 1TB. And there's another Chinese company, Tencent, that gives you 10TB for free (except it's slow and it's all in Chinese).

The problem I have with this article (very brief table), is that the author is comparing two "enterprise" solutions to a consumer solution. With "enterprise" solutions, you get guaranteed uptime and speeds. With Spaces, and the rest I've mentioned, you don't get any of that. Only that your data will still be there as long as you pay out.
I was at the Natural History Museum in London on Saturday and astounded to learn the Mastodon was still around 13,000 years ago. I started looking online and realized that many of these animals I thought were super prehistoric are more recent that I thought, including the Mammoth (present until 4,500 years ago). The plaque suggested a bunch of reasons for the Mastodon extinction but one of them included hunting. We (our species) have been at this for a long time. Perhaps if the Earth was far larger they would stand a better chance.
When you say way cheaper what do you mean? Like savings of ~$5-10 on a spend of $10-20? Or is it material? Like $50
Getting from "execute arbitrary SQL queries" to "execute specific exploit code" is not a completely trivial step, though of course it's not the most important part.