skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you have to convince. Try signal. As good as whatsapp, in most ways, better in others. Signal did whatsapp's encryption.

I use both - if a contact is on both signal and whatsapp I use signal.

I think signal is the best of these with whatsapp second. Everything else is equal last. This ranking will no doubt change in the coming years with upstart competition doing communication with proper encryption. I look forward to it.
So... you want a media filled with negative results? Every time someone chases a lead that goes nowhere that it shows up as a (literal!) non-story that no one wants to read?

I mean, what was she supposed to have written. Obviously you want her to have written about Theranos being a fraud, but she didn't have that story. All she had was a fire alarm and an inability to find anyone getting finger prick tests.

She couldn't prove fraud. She just had a hunch that things were wrong. She had no leads on a fraud story, and she had to get articles out that her employer could actually publish.

You're asking too much here.
Einstein was right about some things and wrong about some things. Which work of Einstein are you referring to when you imply that a peer review could have detected the error in his work?
It is not a terribly lit road. You cannot increase ISO, but you CAN increase dynamic range. The human eye, as an example or as another example a much better camera, can easily see those seemingly large dark voids between street lights.
I hope larger fish don't get confused and attempt to eat these robots.

So I wonder what are the biggest predators that live near these reefs.. and how they are able to identify prey.
Interestingly not mentioned is that many migratory birds that go through Europe pass through a lot of hostile territory. Covered several years ago by none other than Jonathan Franzen:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/songbird-migration...

Maybe not a significant reason for the decline; I don't know, but obviously you can't blame the conditions in France alone for a decline in 70% of migratory songbirds. France could not be the issue at all.
How fast was the car going?
Ludicrous injunctions!
I mean, I just went and installed signal on my whole families phones one druken evening (I have 7 sets of aunt's and uncle's, no small feat). Now we communicate all through signal and they didn't even realize it helped them lol

Then all the sudden a week or so ago they freaked out and I was like - no worries, remember that one time I switched your text messages?

My family primarily communicates in texts, phone calls, and in person. So this was relatively easy, myself and the other half the family either stopped using Facebook years ago, or never used it in the first place.

Easy really, and not necessary
I think Waymo is claiming 5 million miles in total, and Uber 2 million miles.

[1] https://medium.com/waymo/waymo-reaches-5-million-self-driven...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2017/12/22/ubers-self...
If you want to cripple Facebook but still get the advantages of using it as a contact book / for events and groups, just block the news feed.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...

Yes, I know they make money other ways. But if no one uses the news feed, their ad revenue will take a noticeable hit. Most of the negatives come with the endless feed/scroll in the first place. I still spend time on Facebook, but only when I want to. No endless scroll, and I don't miss a thing when it comes to groups/events/messaging.
There's an associated set of ads on the Play Music app as well.

Every couple of days there'll be an interstital/overlay/message about the paid subscription option, it's incredibly annoying because it doesn't let you dismiss it forever.

I've previously paid for Spotify and for Google Play Music, I've gone back to buying my music (hooray Bandcamp) and don't stream any on my phone but get subjected to all the ads anyway.
Zuck's already said we're "dumb fucks" for trusting him. Believe people when they tell you who they are.
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You have no idea where the video came from. Completely conjectural example: uber contacts police (who haven't even tried to find any sd card or download the contents or figure out how to convert it to a format postable on twitter) and says "hey I have the video for you."
now what about the imperative to push adds and exert 'soft' political control? Some fifty years ago everyone was watching the same TV stations and reading the same newspapers (that's when media companies had a lot of influence) - nowadays you have two thousand TV stations and two thousand newspapers, so that the problem of exerting 'soft' control has become much harder.

What alternatives levers of control over the public are there? (short of coercion by force)
Pre-2016 Trump campaign, data was used to reach people and encourage voting.

2016 Trump campaign, data was used to stir up FUD and/or discourage voting.
Collisions between pedestrians, bicyclists and cars would be impossible if we restricted the roadway. Collisions of vehicles between lanes, including the opposite and crossing lanes, would also be impossible.

You don't even need self-driving cars to do it, and it would greatly reduce the number of serious accidents and fatalities. You could start with just the roads with the most accidents.

And by the way, nobody seems to have mentioned that assisted driving technology could be added to cars today. We already have cars that emergency-brake for us. They could also warn us of upcoming red lights, fast approaching obstructions in the roadway, or unsafe actions on the road, such as letting the car drift lanes without a turn signal.
And if you want to access messaging from mobile but have deleted the app, you can go to http://mbasic.facebook.com
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I completely agree that it is amazing we have not blown ourselves up yet. Unfortunately, the risk of a nuclear exchange is only rising...

stress of climate change + 7 billion people + human nature == war (very possibly nuclear)

Nuclear weapons have proliferated from just the US having access, then to only a few super powers, to now 8 or 9 countries. That list will only go up over time, not down. The weaponization of nuclear technology is the first time our species created something that is outright able to kill us all (or most of us).

Couple that with the disturbingly long list of near nuclear accidents publicly made available (who knows what the actual number is): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

In the short period of time we have had access to nuclear weapons, we have come very close to nuclear war between superpowers:

* Cuban Missile Crisis - Vasili Arkhipov prevents launching of nuclear torpedo while his Soviet submarine flotilla is being bombarded by depth charges (happened to be signaling depth charges). Turns out the US warships above them just wanted the submarines to surface so they could communicate the end of hostilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov

* Computer Malfunction - Stanislav Petrov holds off alerting officials of multiple incoming nuclear ICBMs because he "suspected" they were a glitch, preventing a likely nuclear counter-attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

* Science experiment looks like nuclear attack - Boris Yeltsin correctly decides to wait launching a counter-attack based on an incoming rocket. All the while sitting in front of an activated nuclear briefcase and being pressured by aids to launch within the 12 minute response window. The rocket was meant for atmospheric testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

* Many, many more... (your example just being one)

Now throw in the ramifications of climate change like political instability, infrastructure strain, resource scarcity, and refugee migrations into the mix.

Things do not look good for the human race.
Are you joking? Uber has always flaunted laws. Even in their home town it was illegal to offer a taxi service without a license. They did it anyway. Later, the city decided to differentiate between ride hailing via app and sticking your arm out to hail a cab. That change happened after uber broke the law.
Pulling user data(and friend data) from the API was "fair game" pre 2014. It was an explicit permission you could ask for.

Gleaming insights from that data and then using that data for targeting on FB is/was the point.

Creating an app that collected the data under false pretenses, transferring that data to another 3rd party and then claiming you never had that data makes it a different situation.
Someone in another comment rightly mentioned that LIDAR might just be one input with visual/radar being others.

So it may have ignored the LIDAR because of whatever was coming from the other inputs.

It will be interesting to find out what actually happened. It is clearly a major malfunction or deficiency in the sensors, no doubt.

For a self-driving car to not even apply the brakes at all in this situation is inexcusable.
I'm no where near an expert here, but at that expense, why not just give them the money?
It used to be possible. I had college professors that did it for decades from the 60's until the mid-90's, when computers started killing off previously imaginable ways of life.
The title is ambiguous. It was Max Schrems who warned Facebook in 2011. And Facebook said basically "no problem", because users OK all that when they sign up.
Was this access to Zuck why the NYT silently changed their story to make Sandberg look less culpable yesterday?

It worries me.
Unlocking Insights from Multi-Round Searches with Reinforcement Learning
You're massively underestimating human response time to visual cues and also the distance needed to stop a vehicle traveling at 35-40mph. It takes a full quarter of a second to respond to a visual stimulus on average, and more than that to also move your foot and depress a brake pedal. By that time the car was less than 50 feet from the pedestrian. At 40mph braking distance is about 80 feet in good conditions. There is absolutely no way a human driver could have avoided this accident assuming the same visual distance and dynamic range as the camera. Best case, the car may have slowed down a bit before impact.
Many people have posted here with their needs for apps to help them in their businesses. How did you get these people to use your site?
At the very least, bold that "no longer supported" text and move it up the page.
I love this idea! Can’t wait to move towards using Reddit in a read only user mode through my email inbox.
That was pretty much my experience as well, though I was in college. Someone pointed me at Google when I was struggling to find something and it was just clearly so much better that I basically just never used Yahoo again.
Not just selling alcohol, "transactions". Which means no more swaps. Trading local brews or homebrews are fun communities, and they just got wiped out with zero warning.
Light fields are large, but not insane, because they are highly compressible. Think of them as a matrix of images, each representing a micro lens at a point in the field. Most patches of the image seen through each lens are roughly similar to a patch in the non-light field JPEG.... just skewed to a slight different place.

This isn’t 100%... new image can be exposed by looking around a corner, shifting reflections, etc. But each lens requires adding less and less to your compression table.

So really, the light field is an index into a slightly expanded compression space more than it’s a whole new set of data.

As for the complexity of rendering... it’s just a JPEG with a gnarly projection equation. There’s nothing fundamentally more complicated about that... although it’s complex math.

As with anything it takes time for code to mature, but in the limit there’s nothing fundamentally more complicated about it than playing compressed video.

There’s probably some efficiency to be gained with custom compression algorithms and custom hardware, although I don’t know enough about existing video compression hardware to say for sure how far the existing chips will get us.
"Despite a government plan to cut pesticide use in half by 2020, sales in France have climbed steadily, reaching more than 75,000 tonnes of active ingredient in 2014, according to European Union figures."

That's an incredibly large amount of pesticides - over two pounds of active ingredient per French citizen per year.
Unless they human drivers have been a lot more active then we've been led to believe, or perhaps they don't drive as much at night.
Ask HN: How can I protect myself from Referer tracking?
I use uBlock, Privacy Badger and NoScript in Firefox in an attempt to keep away ads, trackers and malicious scripts.

But when I check the network traffic, I see that it still sends the Referer and the Origin headers to the massive amounts of CDNs, mostly .googleapis.com, .gstatic.com and their army of bloat.

Google seem to put the cache headers already expired to make sure that it is notified on every page I visit no matter if the scripts were changed or not.

Obviously they do not need cookies to track my session because it is very easy to fingerprint a browser using only meta-data, or simply just the IP, which makes Privacy Badger seem really really useless.

I rarely see anybody mention this issue, and even search engines gives me little to no results.

My current idea of a solution would be to create a FF extension which holds a list of the tracking domain and simply prevents the Referer header from being sent.
But there is also the Origin header, and also the issue with trusting Google altogether.

If they see that the request headers are unusual, they might aswell just respond with a whole other script altogether to further their tracking, or target the browsing session aggressively.

I suppose I could set up a mirror of all these CDNs and monitor them for changes.

Am I missing something? Are there any current extensions that prevent this?

Any network setup maybe with a caching proxy of some sort in the middle?

How can it be prevented?
You are confusing two things:

i) what human eyes need to do to get details from a dark image (increase ISO and risk washing out bright areas); and

ii) what human eyes do when looking out at the real world (rely on the huge dynamic range that the human visual system is capable of, which dynamic range is about an order of magnitude larger than any video camera sensor);
The bike probably had a reflector on its pedals.

I would be very interested to learn whether or not the car's autonomous system identified a bicycle at any point prior to the collision.
Tasmanian tiger is still one I’m sad about. The video of the last one in a zoo makes me so sad :(

New Zealand also has some horrifying stories (the last group of a thought to be extinct bird was killed by a lighthouse owners cat after he’d sent one to be identified. I hate cats.)
This is not what I expected at all. The original news reports based on the police comments made it seem like she was on the side of the road and then randomly darted out. That's not something I would really expect AV's to be able to cope with yet, if ever.

Instead what we see is a scenario that happens all the time: a pedestrian who is sleepy or perhaps with mental problems or on some substances...in any case not hyper alert...crossing a road without looking. It's not that busy at that time of night and I'm sure I have done the same thing. It's very discouraging and angering that these cars are being driven without the capability. I feel very disappointed. To me it's not super important whether an ordinary driver would've stopped: ordinary people drive drunk, exhausted and/or distracted all the time; but I hoped that AV's were already better than that.
Do phones still have bad camera performance when using Lineage? I'll need to move two Nexus 5x devices when Google drops support.
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One can also request the FB site be reloaded as the desktop version - less painful than mbasic.
i'm not sure i follow what you're trying to communicate. what do you mean by "get away from us"? also, framing things as "obstacle" vs "living person" seems like a false dichotomy.
Alibaba Blink: Real-Time Computing for Big-Time Gains
Indeed, people kept in touch with friends and family just fine before Facebook.

And people who don't use it now also manage to keep in touch with people they care about just fine.
Apparently you have a reading comprehension problem. My point is precisely what you said, which is that there is not partisan symmetry with law enforcement agencies.
Wow, didn't know that. A lot of politics, unfortunately, is showing visible progress. Whether it's $300mm or $100mm, some sort of impact should've been visible on the streets or at least touted by our mayors due to the political points they get.

Goes for transit as well. Because the homeowning / wealthy won't pay their fair share of taxes, those of us in the lower brackets who will really benefit from public transit also have to take on that burden at the sales tax level.
Used tools to delete all of my facebook and twitter content. I'm free from it. Feels great.
I guess I dont see the outrage. As someone who has been privy to tools (hidden api enablers) that some would consider darker "hat" I've been able since I was invited to beta test FB Product Ads in 2012, to cross pollinate an audience of people that like mint gum and are fans of Willie Nelson. Throw in local roasted buyers and late risers and I may have a super niche that nails a 800% ROI. Really powerful.

edit - and very happy, high ltv (as the kpi is known as) customers.
Wow, that's like a 40k salary per homeless person. Where did you get those numbers (I'm interested in quoting the source too)?
FWIW I found the bug reporting schedule really off-putting.
Did anyone bother to go to that exact spot at night to see what things are like from a human perspective? That strikes me as the first thing to do as a news agency...
Pullling the data that your app needed for its stated functionality, exclusively for use within your app, was “fair game”. Pulling anything beyond that, and/or using it outside your app, was absolutely not allowed, ever, on the platform, even at the very beginning in 2007. Allowing it to be analyzed for targeting was never allowed, nor was it the point of the platform. You’re simply wrong.

How do I know this? I developed apps on the platform from 2007-2014 and was always reading the rules and any changes they issued because I didn’t want to violate them and have my app banned. They were exceedingly clear on this issue. Sadly, Obama’s app was allowed to violate these rules and received no ban.
Needs to be retitled- this isn’t about cigar/gun/beer communities - it states in the first paragraph that it applies to the /sale/ of those items.
I'm conflicted when it comes to this stuff.

I don't actually own a gun, and have never shot one, but I think the quick response to blame America's gun culture for the current string of shootings is a problem. Don't get me wrong, every death that happens at the hands of an active shooter is a tragedy, but banning guns and pretending like they don't exist feels the same as removing the stove from someones house because it might cause a fire. The gun itself is just a tool and given the fact that America is built on the idea of "freedom" to do what you want it feels as though this violates some intrinsic value we have.

I also dislike how everyone uses these events to push their own agenda. Liberals blame guns, conservatives blame mental illness/video games/bullying ... etc. The truth is that the issues are all a combination of these things and dealing with only one of the features won't do any good.
I 100% agree, however arguing about semantics is not productive.

I deliberately chose the word "obstacle" to hammer home the point that the car did not even need to identify that the object in front of it was a person.

If that obstacle had happened to be a fallen tree, it would be the car's passengers that would be dead instead.

Literally all it needed to do was stop, or at the very least slow down.

In this case, I believe the car performed much worse than an average human driver would have, and this video shows without any doubt that these cars are not safe to be on the road in their current state.
In vehicle vs. pedestrian or bicyclist scenarios the criminal justice system is almost always tremendously biased toward the vehicle driver, unless the victim happened to have been a child in a residential area.
It was nice to "see" Zuckerberg on CNN today, given he was at his office reading from the script (you can see the eye movement) and interviewer was somewhere else in a greenbox room.

Unless CNN went SO amateurish that you only show a back head of interviewer and you never show him with the journalist together!
I am pretty sure Uber uses an iPad app for its autonomous vehicles. The driver is looking at that iPad application periodically along with the physical windshield view.
I couldn't find the HN link. This was the story iirc.

https://lawandcrime.com/exclusive/facebook-forces-nyt-to-qui...

[edit] It had dropped a long way down
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16632743
> buzz feed

Since you are as surprised as I was a month back, I've looked further and concluded that buzz feed actually funds very high quality journalism (yes yes shocking I know) and presents facts from both sides. They do it using the money generated from click baits. I'd even make what will sound like a hyperbole , if you are the sort that wants truth on both sides of political spectrum and not just an echo chamber , go to buzz feed, and not NY TIMES or wapo.
This was not what I was expecting. If this had been an accident with a normal vehicle, I think the driver would have been found to be at least partially at fault, and guilty of involuntary manslaughter. But I'm not a lawyer.

I thought the victim jumped out into the street, but that clearly isn't the case. The pedestrian always has the right of way, a human would have seen her and slowed and swerved, and no one should be driving so fast that they can't stop for an obstacle that is just coming into view. And like many others mentioned, I'm sure she was visible to the human eye where the camera's exposure was set up to not wash out what was in the headlights.

Uber screwed up on this, maybe they were just lucky it didn't happen earlier.
If this is the direction reddit is going, expect niche subreddits like emulators getting banned
Hitting her on purpose would not be criminally negligent homicide, it would be homicide. What you described is a blase attitude that suggests it's OK to have no imagination of risks that can get people killed, and that's OK because after all they're drunk or stupid. Your words.

Malice is not required for criminally negligent homicide. And yes, indeed, much better to fix the problem, that was my point. Not blame drunk or stupid people, which was your point.