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> I find the danger with ad blockers is they hide the true extent of the tracking from me, because I never see the results.

Seeing some relevant ads on the web is just scratching the surface isn't it? Isn't the true extent – and far more worrying – what we can't immediately see, or know it's because of tracking?

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/the-surveillance-parad...

I only discovered her writing last night, but Shoshana Zuboff appears to think it is mass surveillance, that big data has bought in new classes of overloads, technology is an attack on democracy and some uses of it break the fundamentals of trust and contracts etc.
Based on the video shown there is no way a human driver could have avoided that collision.
There were still people on Facebook? Hard to believe.

I think people fleeing from Whatsapp or Instagram would be real news.
Can you help us understand the problems with this?
You can probably make this argument for car/bike racing and tuning, fast food or a number of hobbies and "correlated" deaths. Luckily this restriction seems to be about weird stuff like bump stocks.

And as for the "Blumph!" comment, we still have yet to see Syria driven to the state of Libya so that's at least quite a few kids saved from getting shot right there.
We've been seeing a similar issue in Ohio with our apiaries (bee hives). For us it has been three items. I can image it's the same in Europe:

* Varroa mite - a Chinese mite that spread to Europe and then the by cross species breeds. It bites into the side of a bee. Adult bees are usually strong enough withstand the bites. But the mite's feeding leaves holes in the shell that never really heal and makes it easy to contact diseases like Fowl Brood Hive Disease.

When the mite hit the brood (aka larva) they'll grow up in cell with the brood. Regular brood will have the mites cleaned off or the brood and mite larva will be removed as soon as possible. But drones have a longer gestation period and deeper cells. By the time the drone emerges the mite has already gone through it's full life cycle and is ready to restart the process attaching to nurse bees. Ohio would have eradicated it by now but neighboring states don't regulate their hive.

* Fowl Brood Hive Disease - It's bacterium that spreads on contact between bees. Since bees are very social it spreads very easy. Remember when a bees stings something it dies, so why fight when you don't have to? Plus queens prefer to breed with other hives to prevent genetics stagnation.

When a brood has been infected it forms scales on it's shell and begins to for scales similar to Harlequin Ichthyosis in humans. If they die in the cell the nurse bees will remove the decaying brood. In the process the nurse bees also get the spores on them spreading the disease in them. At the point the only good way to stop the disease is to kill the whole hive, clean out the hive, and boil everything. Again Ohio would have eradicated it by now but neighboring states don't regulate their hive.

* Genetically altered crops - We have enough floral diversity in our wetlands, open fields, forests, and private gardens to feed our bees. But we sees build-up of genetically modified pollen that has a pesticide in it. The first couple years of a hive theirs no issue. But around year 3 we can almost count on total hive collapse. Its because the pesticide builds up in the wax they keep rebuilding for the brood, nectar, and honey storage. Eventually to get so strong it poisons the brood or the hive swarms to find a better location.
If the replacement is a federated social network, then there may be 2/3 large competing players for the interfacing part.

My dream is a cryptocurrency based social network, so that those running p2p nodes can also get paid. Also the end clients can compete with each other for the interface part - dumb/some-algo based (Facebook can also be one of the clients ;-))
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Firefox reader mode.
I activated it after 15 seconds...
>tracks logged in users

It also tracks logged out users. Assuming you didn't log out of Facebook AND clear your cookies. Logging out of Facebook merely marks you as logged out. But the cookie remains and they use it to track all the sites you visit.
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It's doubtful - it's swimming more powerfully than other fish, not less. It's why it looks so odd to humans - the tail strokes are far too heavy. Fish have a lot more subtlety in their own.
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Could someone post stats: mileage covered by self driving cars, mileage in bad weather, accidents per mile....

Also is it true it was going over speed limit? How is that even possible for self driving car?
Generally I am against loss of human life, be it in war or gun violence, but I'm not sure how I would have felt at the time of the Revolution, and I'm not sure you do either.

But really, that is just a weak strawman. The US government/military is MANY orders of magnitude more powerful than the British vs the colonists. The US military could nuke every single state capital in a few minutes, for example. If you take the argument to it's logical conclusion, we should have legal access to weapons equivalent to that of the military, which we already definitely do not.

I am just pointing out that an untrained populace armed with even military-style assault weapons is really just laughable if your enemy is the largest military that has ever existed with technology and weapons that could annihilate humanity. I just don't agree that it is productive to use that as an excuse against thoughtful regulation in the face of the actual, currently occuring epidemic of gun violence (accidents, suicides, school shootings, domestic violence, gang violence, etc) where people are really losing their lives.
Yup. There's a place for education here. I know I wasn't really aware of the benefits until adult age, when I started to find myself more often in a car, at night, in rural areas. I still remember the first experience, in which I've noticed a cyclist on another lane ~0.5 seconds before we passed him. Dark clothes, dark bike, zero reflective elements.
Does https://touch.facebook.com/ still work ? Last time I checked, it was a halfway house between mbasic and the desktop version.
thank you this is amazing! I can feel the negative response from not getting the dopamine hit
General population don't practice ramming car into crowd. Those are not hobbies. So, when mentally ill people want to cause harm they don't use those methods. It does not normally comes to mind.

But, shooting is common. It's a hobby. A killing machine is normalized and it becomes a culture. So, those mentally ill men feels completely normal to shoot people when they go crazy.

Consider this: ramming car into objects becomes a hobby and people starts to do that and take pride in it. They practice it every week. Then, those mentally ills will start using those methods. And then government will ban riding a car. But, this is not happening, just a hypothesis. You can replace car with other objects you can think of here.

That's why countries where gun are banned for general population, does not have mass murder by "common people" like USA. There are mentally ill people everywhere, not just in USA. This is the point gun lovers don't understand.
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>One lesson from this accident might well be to map "illegal, but likely crossings"

Good write-up but I don’t understand this part. I would not be comfortable with these cars making moves based on calculations of the legality of observed behavior.

EDIT: Nevermind! I thought about it some more and realized they mean mapping the geographical locations where pedestrians are likely to be crossing the road. Much more humane than I previously thought! But I remain uneasy about any system with room to benefit from selective inquiry like such.
In France it’s 100% (in civil cases), unless the driver can prove it’s a suicide. It just goes by kinetic energy: you store it, you are responsible for it. Other people don’t have to dodge your car. And since death penalty is not part of the arsenal, killing a pedestrian is not an appropriate sentence if they commit a infraction that’s punished with a 50€ fine.
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Such a human shouldn’t be fucking driving.

If I’m driving fast enough that I can’t see pedestrians with enough time to react, I slow down.

Yes, this means in near-total darkness, slowing to a crawl if you can’t turn on your high beams.
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The problem is that every time Mozilla is mentioned on HN, a contingent will see it as an opportunity to bitch and moan about Mozilla not being the FSF.
I didn't read that as a suggestion to take the legality of a crossing into account. In fact, the suggestion is to do the opposite: instead of only mapping legal crossings, map all likely crossings without regard to their legality.
Please add Cross Region Load Balancing in Kubernetes.

What are you guys doing to achieve that for now?
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Because when we organize a society, we can specialize into roles like policing and become more effective at defense as a whole?
It doesn't mean that it will take legality into account, it means that they should have a database of illegal crossings as well (they already have one of legal ones - a map).
> is full of baseless speculation...

Can you list all the "baseless speculations" in the discussions/blog post?
Of course they get money. Otherwise why would they set google as default.
From the video, it seems that the woman didn't even look at the street (the direction where the car came). Actually, she didn't even seem to look at the street before she crossed.

I do believe that autonomous vehicle should have prevented this kind of accidents (since they are 100% aware, unlike humans), but why did she act like that? Is it common there to just cross the road and expect cars to stop?

The reason I ask is culture difference. From my experience, in some countries (e.g. Indonesia), people cross the road like they have superpowers. They use their hand to signal the car to stop while taking time to cross. In Malaysia, even if you pay attention to the road, the drivers _seem_ to want to run over you when you cross (they go faster).
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Have you checked out the ActivityPub spec?
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview
Elaine Herzberg probably casually jaywalked previously but human driver slowed.this time she got surprised by robot killer that violated asimovs 1st law. Safe av's are coming but why so impatient?
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Maybe a better word than "intended" would be "expected". As in, most normal, rational, reasonable people basically familiar with the technology involved expect this to be preventable.
I drive an VW with a pedestrian emergency brake system that is made for these situations. I wonder if it would have worked
The populaces of Syria and Ukraine have lots of guns (supplied from outside, but there), that didn't stop civil war, in fact, in may have caused it.

The Syrian government just uses barrel bombs on civilians and rebels, anyway. It's hardly a preventive measure. If the US gets to a Syria situation, there's going to be tens of thousands dead. But yay, when the world ends for those people, at least we've got firearms and can reenact The Patriot.
especially the 100year old rifle. Noone is going to shoot up a school with a karabiner
Someone pointed out elsewhere that human eyes are better in low light conditions than cameras. It's a lot less likely a human couldn't see her than that camera, but the human wasn't looking at the time.
Human eyes have much better dynamic range than most of the cameras out there. Yes even in differently illuminated areas. If the vehicle was on High beam, (which you would be on if you have trouble seeing stuff in distance), then A human should have spotted her from a very good distance..
It would be but there is no way that it will ever happen. Besides that he has things set up in such a way that even the board can't force him out. The only people that can fire Zuckerberg are the users.
I can't speak to Arizona in particular, but in all the parts of the USA I've been to, the common wisdom has always been to look both ways before crossing the road no matter what, because regardless of who has the right of way, there's always the possibility of some idiot, drunk driver, or other hazard that ignores right of way rules.
Self-driving cars are meant to coexist with humans so they tend to be programmed to drive like humans (slightly above the speed limit).
It's not a shitstorm until Facebook announces subsequent quarterlies with a material decrease in revenue. Then it will be a shitstorm. Until then any stock movement is just Wall Street.
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The video is extremely misleading because the camera is overcompensating for the bright lights illuminating the road. A human driver could have seen the person and/or bike from a long way off.

Our eyes are extremely good at adapting to high, non-linear contrast. That's why "pictures" of total solar eclipses have to be composite images to really capture what people see when they look at one.
I never thought I'd see the day when $200/month is considered "way too much" for a CDN... We've really come a long way.

Personally I use Cloudflare's free tier for lots of projects, and it has a perfectly reasonable TLS offering.
And thank god they didn't.
IMHO:

* Frat have a publicly stated organization with a written creed and legal status, gangs do not

* Frats have at least some publicly held and organized meeting, gangs do not

* Frats can be disbanded by the college or parent fraternal order, gangs do not

* You can attend college with college with out belonging to a frat. If you can live in a crime ridden community without belonging to gang you don;t have to belong to a gang as well. But its easier to join a gang and get a familial support structure you wouldn't have without the gang.

Frats can be a good and bad thing. But any organization can have bad actor: churches, government, Facebook, any open forums, ect.
But wasn't it obvious to everyone who glanced at the Facebook API back in 2014 that it was trivial to gather tons of information, and all they asked you to do was to clickwrap promise that you'll be a good boy/girl?
Because its the only sensible search engine and setting it was default improves the user experience of firefox.
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> That's why we have principles and constitutional rights.

You never had a constitutional right to owe a firearm. This is legal nonsense put together relatively recently, starting as answer to the Black Panthers arming themselves and then later some politics. Please look at https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/nra-guns-sec...

> From 1888, when law review articles first were indexed, through 1959, every single one on the Second Amendment concluded it did not guarantee an individual right to a gun.

And, in light of recent events: everyone not turning in their own guns and campaigning strongly for reversing this nonsense is an accessory to the mass murder of children. Everyone who used their money to support the proliferation of guns have blood on their hands.
Right, I might phrased it imprecisely. Anyway let me show you screenshot from my bank taken today (sorry it's for some reason only in polish):
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so putting 10k PLN (2k EUR) for 24 months in, you'll gain 50 EUR and small text at the bottom says it's BEFORE taxation!
Average gross wage depends on region, but it's around 1k EUR per month. I cannot find median, values but it's much lower, most people here don't have two cents to rub together not to mention to put twice the average salary for 24 months to get 50 EUR
I wonder how the Uber engineering team is feeling. I've had bugs in my code, but they've never killed anyone.

I guess the feeling may depend on how rushed vs. well-tested they feel their software is. But no amount of "I told you it wasn't ready" is going to repair the psychological damage.
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> Wetware is astonishing stuff.

It really is. The eye can detect a single photon. Fingertips can detect 13nm bumps, smaller than a transistor on Coffee-lake CPUs.

We're better off acknowledging machine limits to work on other problems instead.
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You're saying that Facebook was the main guilty party for Obama but not so guilty, just negligent with Trump? In that case, why are people upset at Facebook? It's less guilty than before. They should be pleased with Facebook's tighter authorization and blame only CA/etc.
If LIDAR can’t do, car shouldn’t speed.

Either way is a fail.
For non-technical people, it might be good to help them get set up on Mastadon network:

https://joinmastodon.org/

https://instances.social/
Quitted facebook a long time ago when I started to feel extreme dopamine hits when I get a new message. Social media, gaming, and internet is too addicting for me
It's almost as though a corporate structure set up to enshrine its founder as BDFL is a really bad idea. Go figure.
> I really hope that as a society we can find some way to back away from extremism.

That would include backing away from extreme censorism. Banning everything that could potentially lead to your child's death would result in banning... everything!
> From the video, it seems that the woman didn't even look at the street (the direction where the car came). Actually, she didn't even seem to look at the street before she crossed.

IME, at least in places I've driven, this is not at all uncommon for apparently-homeless people in urban and often suburban environments, at points that are not legal crosswalks and at points that are controlled crosswalks but against the controls (also, of course, at proper crosswalks without or consistent with controls, though that's less remarkable.)
Mark Zuckerberg has always been incapable. I'm amazed that he has been able to stay at the helm of the network for so long.

Negligence gives cause regardless of terms. We all know that claiming negligence would be the softest explanation for his architecture. Outright nefarious and evil is a better description of every move he has made since inception.
FWIW, Mastadon supports ActivityPub:

https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422
Absolutely. You can see Mozilla attribution in the Google URLs. (Unless you've modified your search engines--which Mozilla has made harder to modify.)
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> raytracing scales less than linearly with the scene complexity

Not really true, is it? More like O(log n), or linearly to the number of pixels/samples.
The good news about self-driving car accidents is that improvements to the system will be eventually shared by all cars saving many lives.

We can finally say this poor woman did not die in vain, which is a step in the right direction which may end up making cars safer than airplanes someday.

The only serious mistake (misunderstanding) to come out of this is to believe the human behind the wheel is at fault. No human being can keep full attention on a road when a computer is driving the car for you.
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Very cool. I'll wait for generation 2 or free ordering to come out. Nothing against the company but I've gotten burn by similar projects on Kickstarter.
Because they know what their users wants?
You absolutely don’t need to brake in this situation, there are 5 lanes, you release the gas to give the pedestrian more time to finish crossing and if it’s a bit short you go to the next lane over, aiming behind the pedestrian. That’s what everybody was doing in France, now that I am in Arizona the drivers are just murderous towards pedestrians, they don’t release the gas or move to aim behind them, like it’s perfectly ok to kill someone. (Don’t get me started on right on red and exiting from a drive in, I think I will get killed on a sidewalk here)
I .. was aware of that, but you literally pay for Schadenfreude and charity there. I sincerely believe that no streamer can make money or get a following with a schedule of Desert Bus runs.

Nor do I want to believe that there are people out there, bored out of their mind to click on anything, anything(!) on Twitch, would pick Desert Bus over literally any other thing for more than three minutes.

It's painful. People like seeing others suffer, I guess.. But these streams do serve a purpose in this thread: The poor players do look exhausted and ready to die after a short while already. Which brings me back to my original point: These Desert Bus gamers have something to do (correct the bus repeatedly) and in your example a whole community who engages them. The Uber driver ... has nothing at all?
The Snowden revelations had a huge response, just not how you'd hope. There was a dropoff in government criticism and traffic to websites related to certain keywords. Was certainly a win for Eve.

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/277843-snowden-revel...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2769645
Did you read the writeup? He directly addresses the points of when a human would be able to detect the person as well as the fact that the Uber was driving at the upper speed of safety for the situation which a human driver may not have done.
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Just curious, but blocking third party cookies would also stop the tracking or it uses some server-side library to embed the cookie in the site’s domain?
JFC. How does logging out of Facebook revoke all OAuth tokens for linked accounts on that machine but they still leave a token to track your movements.
Yeah, I found it only after I replied. I read through all of it now; I don't think I have any points to add to it.
Average human reaction speed is around 215ms. Not an apples-to-apples comparison because humans can react much faster to continuous situations (humans have a timing accuracy of around 9.5ms) while a machine-learning model is limited to only reacting once per frame, but still.
Tons of screenshots in the amazing series of articles about that topic from ProPublica. Like this:

https://assets.propublica.org/images/articles/_threeTwo2000w...

via:

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enabled-advertis...

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-disc...

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My more generous interpretation is that they were looking at the computer screen where the car shows its interpretation of the situation, people tend to lift their phone towards their face.
It's funny how the internal camera which shows how distracted the driver was has way better night vision than the external road camera...
The meat of the article is about how LIDAR, Radar, or any number of systems could have detected the pedesetrian/obstacle on the road and should have stopped the car.

If those worked, considering likely crossing locations in addition to certain crossing locations like zebra crossings should only improve safety, not be required for it.
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