skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, so the proof that she didn't say so is a website with 3 embedded youtube videos where ... she says exactly that.

Hmm, okay.
The only way this becomes interesting is if you can deploy it to your TV. Then you could comment out all the "features" and dumb your TV down to where it's not spying on you and showing you ads.
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign.

In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, said the 2012 campaign led Facebook to “suck out the whole social graph” and target potential voters. They would then use that data to do things like append their email lists.

When Facebook found out what they were doing, they were “surprised,” she said. But she also claimed they didn’t stop them once they found out:

https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-f...
The location of the crash (from what I can tell):
https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,...
I don't use it either for trivial things. But for example, we are 14 friends from 4 different cities that have been planning a trip for a couple of months now. Deciding where to go. Dates, Hotel choices, flight bookings etc are discussed. People have been added along the way that weren't in to begin with. That kind of thing that's ongoing for a long time, and has input from tons of people is terrible to do in e.g. an email thread, and can't be done by just getting together. Group discussions (long, persistent) like those is what I use it for mostly.

I'd switch to anything reasonably convenient for event planing - but phone and email just aren't replacements for all scenarios.

> Why is it all of a sudden people feel like they're incapable of socializing in any form without the likes of Facebook?

I never had that feeling. But I would find it inconvenient to plan a few kinds of events. I'd create a group skype chat. Or even throw up a discourse VM. But send a mass email to a large group asking for "so, where do we go on this years trip?" I would not...
I think the likes of WeChat and Alibaba have Western companies thinking twice before proudly wearing a "Banned in China" badge.
And a countless number of people have been killed.
I never understood the recent push towards self-driving cars, as it already seems perverse that the entire surface pavement has been dedicated primarily to motor vehicles and only secondarily to our actual selves, as pedestrians.

Putting further pressure on what should really be 2 discrete planes of activity (perhaps one in tunnels below ground or in the air, and I don't mean the pedestrians!)

Perhaps now the arrogance of such bad ideas becomes a little bit more clear to the tech set of folks, that in my view were excessively pushing such strange goals upon a public that wasn't clamoring for it.
Uber's Self-Driving Car Just Killed Somebody
Startup turns your dead body into a tree
Autralia call for visas for white South African farmers
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."

It's a great sounding quote, but obviously entirely untrue.
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I was also wondering if the brief tangent in the article here that the DXR used more Compute than Graphics cores (given availability) may also indicate that they are using something of an ML approach to the Raytracing renderer here?

Obviously, it's hard to extrapolate from just a press release, but with Microsoft's big ML kick of the last few years, breakthroughs in ML steps in raytracing might seem like a reason for the press release.
I'm paranoid when I'm on a bike. Any road with a dedicated bike lane may be classified as bike-friendly, but I can't consider it so if cars are on the same road. IMO, the only bike-friendly routes are where there are no cars. I wish pavements could be made wide enough for bikes everywhere, so that bikers could be on the road only for a limited amount of time while crossing intersections.
I would rather have one single request for a large static asset, than multiple small requests for per page based css. In my experience CSS files typically fall in the range 50-100KB. I'd rather not have to pay the perf penalty every time I load a new page considering the typical file size.
I think they are quite similar.
Agreed, it's a fascinating topic. I've been reading Bostrom's Super Intellegence which has been a great introduction to this range of problems.
This is hardly a secret, it’s why Tesla has so many short sellers.
You mean Archimedes? It's already an ARM-based computer that can run RISC OS, so that's some kind of recursive loop.
Less migraines triggered on weekends. I found that idf I did not consume a similar about of caffine per day I coul more often get a migrain on a weekend when I did not have the same amount. E.g. I used to drink 3 Mt Dew a day and have none on weekends.

Now I limit the amount I drink to be infrequent (maybe 1 a week) And I love Mt Dew
The wording is ambiguous. It could be read either way.

The way you're reading it, there are three different amounts: three potential amount for each of two cards.

But it's perfectly correct to read it as there being only two different amounts: one final, chosen amount for each of two cards.
If he weren’t, this post asking for help would be a post asking for work.
Really it's "socialize the costs" as well, considering that autonomous vehicle development was funded by taxpayers.[1] Like most high tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
The world’s largest SSD clocks in at 100TB
As long as your product does not need to cross the great firewall, you might be right.
You should also realize that people who did everything right lost. You could be a profitable employee at Bear Stearns, but a bunch of yahoos on a different floor could implode the company.

You can be an autoparts manufacturer whose line of credit got stopped because of a global credit crisis.

You can be a student with a job lined up who happened to graduate in 2009 and have your offer revoked.

The market isn't a meritocracy.
> But if your domestic society shifts to where building camps is an upstanding economic sector...

Is that the case, though? It seems to me that in the last few years the tone has shifted in the opposite direction, where even the mainstream is starting to question the overall utility of social networks and other surveilance-filled software.
Different ways of dealing with async code in Swift
We already have a system for privatizing negative externalities in traffic accidents (and in 95% of the rest of life). It's called tort law, and it will certainly be used in this case if Uber was at fault.

There are of course situations were externalities fail to be privatized (e.g., traffic congestion), but I don't think auto accidents is one of them.
>Why can a private for profit company "test" their systems on the public roads? The public is at serious risk of getting run over by hacked and buggy guidance / decision system.

Because the for profit company has a say in government and lawmaking, the person getting run over doesn't.
What happened to Google Finance?
Studies about generosity with inconsequential amounts of money will yield inconsequential results.

Obviously people won't behave the same if their hard-earned money was on the line or if the sums were potentially life-altering.
Looking further then the devastating tragedy at hand, it might be necessary to get the question of responsibility publicly answered. I dont think I am the only one here who has deliberately chosen not to work in fields where human lifes are at risk.

Despite the likely outcome, that the engineers behind this took every safety percussions, I think its extremely important, to get the message across, that people with an CS background with such use cases are going to be held to the same standard as for example mechanical and electrical engineers.
These numbers are low for Atlanta - unless I too am in a bubble - all of my friends with 10+ years of experience are making 120K to 145K. These are standard corporate jobs. Atlanta is not high cost of living place. You can easily get a new build - 5 bedroom 3 bath 2800 square foot house in the northern burbs - for around $350K. Even in one of the wealthiest cities in America (Johns Creek) houses are going for between 400K - 600K.
No, that's not true, and the way you know it's not true is that there's such a thing as a Qualys SSLLabs grade, where it makes sense to talk about individual systems being secured against specific cryptographic attacks.

DNSSEC is all-or-nothing. You can publish Ed25519 records (in theory), but for anyone to talk to you, you'll have to publish equivalent RSA records --- more importantly, every parent zone also needs to publish secure records, or else your Ed25519 records are just theater. TLDs still have RSA-1024 keys!

DNSSEC advocates really want DNSSEC's security to asymptotically approach that of TLS, but in fact DNSSEC is far worse.
PNG is extensible, so they could totally have defined a PNG "chunk" in the private namespace and shoved the data in that. They didn't though. They treated PNG as just a way to store image data and wrote their extra data into the image, encrypted in an amateurish way.
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It's not about forcing people out of cars
It provides a benefit to the owners of such a company, as the labor costs are reduced. In other respects this is like the same nonsense about how we would live better lives and work less as our jobs were replaced by robots. It turns out that an economic "system" based upon dog-eat-dog principles will not allow such altruistic results to accrue for society.
Like someone said above: "socialize the risks, privatize the profits"
Wouldn't that make it worse? But I feel Japan will deal with the ageing population the way they deal with everything else. Glorious self-sacrifice for order and the group.
> This is what the self-driving cars industry insists on, but has nowhere near been proven

Because machines have orders of magnitude fewer failure modes than humans, but with greater efficiency. It's why so much human labour has been automated. There's little reason to think driving will be any different.

You can insist all you like that the existing evidence is under "ideal conditions", but a) that's how humans pass their driving tests too, and b) we've gone from self-driving vehicles being a gleam in someone's eye to actual self-driving vehicles on public roads in less than 10 years. Inclement weather won't take another 10 years.

It's like you're completely ignoring the clear evidence of rapid advancement just because you think it's a hard problem, while the experts actually building these systems expect fully automated transportation fleets within 15 years.
Node.js vs. Golang
What are your thoughts on Microservices development in Node.js vs Golang? Benefits or negatives of both
A Very Quick DirectX Raytracing API Primer
Thank you. You're right. We will change that
When regular cars first appeard vehicles had to be led by a pedestrian waving a red flag or carrying a lantern to warn bystanders of the vehicle's approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws
In those 10 years ~350,000 people will die in car accidents in the US alone.

Let's say that halving the death rate is what we can reasonably expect from the first generation of self driving cars. Every year we delay that is 15,000 people dead. This woman dying is a personal tragedy for her and those that knew her. However, as society we should be willing to accept thousands of deaths like hers if it gets us closer to safer self driving cars.
I guess I'm just working on anecdotes and guesswork here, but I always assumed the vast majority of drivers are pretty reasonable most of the time. I imagine if this were not the case the clusterfuck on the roads would be considerably worse than what I see in practice. It is certainly true that the dumb drivers heavily outweigh the sane ones in my memories of traffic, but I also know the details of more plane crashes than successful flights.
It looks like Google Finance has become the Google News Business section.

And now I need a new free financial website with clear line graphs representing markets, on the homepage, where I can explore the data, not just read headlines generated by an algorithm.

Anyone have suggestions?
Watch the mini documentary of the undercover op by channel 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ

This isn't just data mining, it's straight up misinformation, entrapment, and god knows what else.
I updated my comment. I guess I need to read up on that. I read of so many areas in which PBR stops short in offline contexts, like using constant BRDFs which is a little unnecessary with offline rendering. What am I not understanding there?
The innocent bystander is indeed the reason. People working with machinery accept certain risks.
If self-driving cars 1. don't read texts whilst driving, 2. don't drink alcohol, 3. stick to the speed limit, 4. keep a 3-4s distance to the car in front, 5. don't drive whilst tired 6. don't jump stop signs / red lights it will solve a majority of crashes and deaths. [0]

The solutions to not killing people whilst driving aren't rocket science but too many humans seem to be incapable of respecting the rules.

[0]: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/1...
> If there are truly separate "universes", then by definition

Sometimes words "truly" and "by definition" don't play nicely together, if the established definition happens to be built on mistaken assumptions.

The "atoms" were named like that because they were thought to be elementary and indivisible. Later we learned better, but the name stuck; it would be confusing to try to change it now.

Similarly, the "universe" was believed to be all there is. Maybe it is not. But we already have a thing which has this name, and it would be confusing to rename it, just because we found later that some other things exist too.

The current definition, intuitively, is something like: If you can hypothetically fly there using a rocket (ignoring the light speed limit), it is a part of the universe. If there is no way to get there (even hypothetically ignoring the light speed limit), then it is not a part of the universe... and it is probably wrong to even say that it exists, because how could you know that?

But this is based on an assumption that you can either travel somewhere (ignoring the light speed limit) or there is absolutely no way you could interact with it. And maybe that assumption is true. But maybe it is not... and in such case the reasoning above would fall apart. If there are, uhm, places you could interact with in certain ways, but not in other ways, would they "by definition" be in our universe or not? Well, the definition does not speak about such cases either way, because they were not assumed to exist.

How could you possibly "interact with a place in certain ways, but not in other ways"? I can imagine a few ways, and the nature may still surprise us by doing something unexpected.

Imagine that there are different "regions" such that certain kinds of particles can travel from one to another, but other kinds of particles can't. So for example, we could send there light, and with a bit of luck have some of that light reflected back, but we couldn't travel there. And if in certain direction does not happen to be anything that would reflect the light back from that specific direction, there is nothing we could do about it.

Or imagine that different "regions" interact for certain amount of time, and then stop interacting. So while the parallel universe is connected, we can scientifically prove it, but after it disconnect, we cannot prove the existence of this specific parallel universe anymore. Or maybe the disconnection does not depend on time, but on the number of particles exchanged, so by the mere act of experimentally proving the existence of the parallel universe we are also pushing it away, irrevocably.

I haven't read Hawking's paper, so I don't know if his idea is similar to any of this. It could be something completely different.
It’s weird to me that the myth is that you need to be in the Valley... until you open your development center in Hyderabad.
Excellently simple and well executed idea! I also plan to go global with some tiny for fun&profit side-projects. I agree, it is not easy job with our EU VAT MESS laws so I look for some all-in-one solution too. I wonder if you had a chance to compare Paddle with FastSpring in any way?
Real cars were an evolution of an existing technology (the carriage). We replaced a horse with an engine and a steering wheel.

In this case have a machine replacing a human and using non deterministic algorithms to do so.

Automated driving ONLY makes sense on specific, well mapped, sensor enabled, pedestrian free roads. Let’s focus on that use case before we let these things take over our towns and cities.
> With some exceptions, users seem to manage pretty well on the web where every website already implements a different style of UI.

That's not necessarily true. It's easy on a site like GitHub, where they actually have a UX team and user studies to guide their decisions, but stuff like the Intel HD Graphics Panel would be better if they had just used stock WPF.

See also: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/
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webOS was first open sourced 6 years ago.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LG-webOS...
Saladbar – a library of functions built for composition to work withthe DOM
I agree since most of the complaints and critiques of the language that I've seen are from people who don't appear to know how to code it correctly. Especially the complaints along the lines of "this is how it works in language X, it doesn't work that way in CSS therefore CSS sucks!" and other similar notions.
> It can be reusable and yet unique on each page. And those should get id's, and are not rare at all.

I _think_ what's going on here is that, in the, excuse my French, _enterprise_ sector it's very common to have some sort of an end-user configurable, enormous form (or dashboard or whatever) full of widgets that are not in any way unique. In fact in many places it's so common, that for a certain section of developers it might be hard to imagine that the opposite is actually quite common.

This is _a lot_ of "web" development. Often done by developers who, to be honest, would rather be doing this in QT (eww) or something.
The public spent a few million dollars on the Grand Challenge, while Waymo alone is worth 10's of billions of dollars.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/23/alphabets-self-driving-waymo...

Self-driving car companies will have massive net positive externalities on the public, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars per year when fully deployed.
What did you do to explore the differences yourself? A simple google search will bring a legion of answers [0][1] (first two hits for models vs golang).

Your question is too broad to be answered properly. Let us know what you already found yourself and what specific items you could not answer. That way we can spend our time efficiently and provide you an answer that you can actually use.

[0] https://www.google.nl/amp/www.hostingadvice.com/blog/nodejs-...

[1] https://da-14.com/blog/golang-vs-nodejs-comparison-performan...
Sure, but it’s illegal in most countries (AFAIK also in the US) to not use a crosswalk when you are in the vicinity of one. Eg in Austria you will be fined (or worse, drivers license suspended) if you don’t use a crosswalk that is within 50m of you.
It must be all the preservatives :)
The survey might have been setup so that there is a constant amount of respondents? After some point, you don't really need more.

However, judging by StackOverflow Trends [0], it's even dropping.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=clojure
Because that will be effective.
Seems like the law is more vehicle-friendly in AZ:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2014/09/...

> According to Arizona law, pedestrians are supposed to cross within marked crosswalks, or at unmarked crosswalks at intersections. An unmarked crosswalk is the location where two roadways intersect but no marked crosswalk is present, for instance in a residential neighborhood. Jaywalking is technically crossing "between adjacent intersections at which traffic-control signals are in operation." In this instance, pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk.

But why would state-by-state (or city) geofencing be needed for this situation? Seems like pedestrian safety would be prioritized regardless of whether the pedestrian seems to be committing jaywalking. Is there a situation in which the AI shouldn't attempt to brake if a large object appears in the street in front of it? And how big of a factor would local laws play?
I guess FB has the advantage of being nearly ubiquitous in some countries. With the amount of information they collect on their users, I bet they won't have trouble monetizing their platforms in time. Some companies are already using Messenger to interact with their customers. Frank & Oak is an example. There's also WhatsApp for business.
Right. That’s what this boils down to. Facebook was backing Hillary, and their candidate lost. Now they need a scapegoat to deflect the blame for failing to deliver.

For the record I was for Bernie.
Nobody has mentioned Wiki.JS yet, so thought I'd share this: https://wiki.js.org/. I've just started using it and am pretty happy with it so far. It reads markdown files from a git repository every 5 minutes and only adds two comments to the top of each file for navigation purposes. You can edit files in the editor of your choice and just git push it back to the origin master, and then Wiki.JS will pick it up within 5 minutes. Or you can edit files directly in the browser through the Wiki.JS interface - and this has full access control mechanisms in place to secure content. Very cool.
Manslaughter doesn’t fall under tort law, IIRC.
This is what it means when politicians say they’re cutting red tape. They’re letting industry do whatever the fuck they want at the expense of everyone.
I can't say that I'm completely sure, but I'm going to guess the answer is "Probably Not". The big telecoms tend to be very conservative about where they spend their money -- understandable with a product this expensive despite the grief one tends to have in working with the product. The market is also moving toward more generic equipment and less specialized hardware for a lot of things and I'd imagine these cards will fall into that category at some point, as well.
Ugh, that's evil. Yeah, that makes sense. Good thing to think about.
> By law, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose information that might directly or indirectly reveal a whistleblower’s identity.

I wonder if they tell the IRS?
I get the point you’re trying to make, but I’m skeptical that a breach can be non-technical if there exists a technical framework whitelisting what apps can and cannot do. By implementing an explicit system for granting app access to user accounts, Facebook is effectively setting the boundaries of apps within that system. How can Facebook then arbitrarily pick an app utilizing the system that Facebook setup to protect user data, and say the app is breaching user data? If it’s a breach, the problem is the system by Facebook. If that’s true, then there must be a “bug” (technical or not) that Kogan exploited in the system. In that case I would expect Facebook to fix the “bug.” Yet the bug is the system itself. There is nothing to fix.
Someone died. There is no way to truly privatize that externality. Money won't bring the woman back.