skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But proportional to birth rate is arbitrary. If we decide there's 10 "races" why not try to force representation to be at 10% each? Wouldn't that be even better for diversity? If your race has a lower birth rate maybe we should give you a little boost by making sure you get a college education and a good job.
Maybe that car had stopped for the pedestrian. We're not going to actually know what happened until the video is released.
I wonder if they have a camera pointed at the safety driver? I'm curious if he is telling the truth, or was just distracted and could have theoretically braked for the woman.
It's already agreed that it's as objective a moral standard as one could be.

Jesus was only referenced as a rhetorical flourish. I prefer Kant's articulations, but the Jesus books include a not necessarily religious moral philosophy.

Society cannot hold together, when people make exceptions for themselves, or play the 'you did it first, so it's o.k. for me' game. That indicates an absence of moral principles.
This article reminds me that I am on the low end of intelligence for the average Hacker News reader.
Running your own DNS server, and intercepting DNs traffic on your routerC is better for two reasons

1) processes and machines that bypass hosts are also caught
2) a large hoss file takes time to parse, line by line, slowing every DNA lookup. A DNs server should cache the entire better.

Dnsmasq takes entries in a hosts file format.
You could release everything up until the moment of impact.
This works great for keeping spam off your devices -- off your local network at any rate. Not possible to modify iOS hosts file without jailbreaking it.

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US does the same, no? Think of all the Chinese researchers, athletes and business people who immigrated to US and brought their knowledge and resources to America.

In the end, the more countries and firms compete on expert knowledge, the better it is for knowledge workers.
Why impute that to the bacteria? Sugar consumption supposedly facilitates tryptophan transport in the absence of other competing amino acids, which in turn boosts serotonin. That effect might not necessarily show up in an insulin/blood sugar imbalance.
how are SUVs even remotely related here? makes the rest of your argument difficult to take seriously
In general blacklists are a better choice overall for non-technical users. Do you really want an angry text message or phone call every time $FAMILY_MEMBER has some site that's rendering poorly because they haven't properly whitelisted one of the 12 legit domains it hits? And do you really trust them to not whitelist some ad & tracking domains?
What consequences though? There's a bit of posturing regarding a recent case, but I haven't seen too much of consequence.
I would be very curious to learn what sort of non-disparagement clauses existed in the Whatsapp/Facebook purchase contract. And how exactly they were worded.
> The total cost of the Willow cremation package is $2,400

Woah! My parents were cremated at $695 each (Miami, FL). How Willow Cremation plans to "disrupt" with that price?
Or fund lobbying of (probably EU) politicians to write a law forcing Facebook to interoperate with the 100+ alternatives that already exist, using OAuth / OpenID Connect and W3C social networking standards.

Once people can have all the benefit of Facebook (i.e. mutual visibility with Facebook users) without having their data stored on Facebook's servers, or their experience controlled by Facebook's UI, then Facebook will quickly diminish in relevance.
So a bus is just a free for all then because you don't need a child seat? What's the reasoning behind that, just because of the sheer size and the weight of the bus cushioning the children from harm?
How do you backup Apple Notes? I reluctantly stopped using Notes because there is no easy way to back up all Notes.
My uncle bought a car with some proximity sensor, basic thing for walls during parking. He, like many, was annoyed at the regular bips etc.

I'm sure a system that warns more for the sake of cautiousness would be rejected by people.
What is firearm exposure? Working next to a firearm? Working after being shot with a firearm?

Any cell phone seems to do the former just fine, and I don't know of any radio, military or not, that can do the latter.
What he was asking is the last sentence. He quit WhatsApp to help make Signal.
> The issue is that the NYT caved in to a demand without even following its normal policy of explaining a correction,

If you start with this premise then you are already begging the question. That is, it's not a given that this revision benefits Sandberg, nevermind that she pulled the strings to make it happen. The reporters' responses have been that the story has been revised to add additional detail (which includes doubling the mentions of Sandberg by name). If you think Sandberg doesn't have such a cozy relationship as to have prior-review power -- or more likely, the suppressive power of reporters being told not to pursue such embarrassing scoops in the first place -- then her asking for this change is going to rankle feathers. So she made this demand, but was OK with the reporters adding this completely unnecessary mention of how reputation-paranoid Sandberg and Zuckerberg are?

> The public reaction caused some at Facebook to recoil at revealing more, said the current and former employees. Since the 2016 election, Facebook has paid unusual attention to the reputations of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg, conducting polls to track how they are viewed by the public, said Tavis McGinn, who was recruited to the company last April and headed the executive reputation efforts through September 2017.

And how is it that Sandberg successfully intimidated the NYT to change their story, and then less than 24 hours later, the same NYT reporters publish an a followup that centers completely on the disgruntled executive (CSO Stamos) and is even more explicit about Sandberg and Stamos fighting over Russian interference -- including implying a direct cause and effect between their deteriorating relationship and Stamos's punishment?

> By October, the relationship between Mr. Stamos and Ms. Sandberg had deteriorated over how to handle Russian interference on Facebook and how best to reorganize Facebook’s security team before the midterm elections, according to more than half a dozen people who work or formerly worked at the company. Mr. Stamos proposed that instead of reporting to Facebook’s general counsel, Colin Stretch, he report directly to Facebook’s higher-ups.

> Instead, executives released Mr. Stamos from much of his day-to-day responsibility, employees said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/technology/alex-stamos-fa...
These are test vehicles. If you don't let the engineers have access to the results of their testing except in the event of an accident, then we will never have autonomous cars.

Of course, maybe thats what you're arguing for. But either way, I think it's a bad idea.
I don't think anyone at Facebook has the bandwidth to deal with a mean tweet from an old employee right now. If rumors are to be believed mass resignations are coming.
I didn't say it had nothing to do with it, but I wouldn't have been surprised to see Feinstein face a more progressive white dude either. She's far too far to the right to be a reasonable senator for California in the current political environment.
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The article fails to discuss executive compensation and stock buybacks, on which companies spend an enormous amount, and do not lead to any productivity gains.
lol seems like your sense of humor is not being well received here
So 3 HN readers walk into a bar. The first guy says "I'll have a larger". The second HN reader says, "You actually mean a "lager", "larger" would mean a bigger drink". The third HN reader sees the raging alcoholic and the grammar police and the comedy judges and says "Make sure you get a safe ride home, but not in an autonomous Uber, because apparently "Working" includes running over pedestrians. Alternatively, just stay here and sober up after your excessively large pint. It is comedy night tonight; but seriously the humour is F- at best."
And then he quit his company to work on another competitor!

He gave 40 million dollars to and works on Signal, the app that WhatsApp is basically a skin of anyway.
Its simply astounding that the "use of personal data" is seemingly coming as a revelation to anyone. What's especially ridiculous is that arms of the government (like the FTC) are feigning indignation. The US government is - by far - the biggest collector and aggregator of personal data and information in the world. Both the government, corporations, "social media companies", and everyone else with access to data has been doing the same, and using this data to create models to influence people believe and support (or buy) whatever agenda or product that respective organization is pushing. Unfortunately this latest episode of faux outrage is very much like the faux outrage that has infected our cultural landscape for the last 18 months (due to Trump). Things that have been going on for decades are suddenly being attacked as evils unique to Trump. If the net result of this selective outrage led to substantive changes in our society, then perhaps it the outrage would be a "good" thing (despite its manufactured nature). Unfortunately, its very clear that all of these practices - the data mining, the troll farms, the bot-networks, the propaganda (both public and private) - will roll forward at full steam once Trump is consigned to the wastebin of history (where he belongs). Once the reigns of power are back into the hands of a trusted steward of global US military empire (rather than a deluded carnival barker) you should have absolutely no doubt that Comcast, and GE, and Disney will direct their minions in the media to focus your outrage somewhere else.
Facebook employees are angry that Zuckerberg ghosted in middle of this scandal
> How do you know we have too many?

The US leads the world in incarceration, with a rate of 737 per 100,000.

Canada has 438 per 100,000... and on virtual all measures Canada and the US are very similar (old joke... What is a Canadian? An unarmed American with healthcare).

Amazingly the UK is 148 per 100,000, Scotland 134, N.Ireland 79, Ireland 78, and Australia 168.
Interesting, except you're redefining the type of "name" in each each class by specifying "string". Also, Clojure.spec allows you to be much more precise about properties. For example, it must be a certain length, non-nil, or even match a regex (e.g. first letter starts with uppercase).
I suppose you could say the antialias filter doesn’t reduce the noise, but rather coherently averages the signal to increase it’s amplitude. If the desired signal is noise-like itself, then I don’t see how the scheme would work.
It looks like there is a lot of trolling on this thread. Just in case there is not, there was no scandal because Obama was not a foreign power intent on destabilizing the US government.
> you're biased simply because you don't take police testimonies as ground truth

If the system considers police testimony as ground truth, why bother with judge and jury?
So the taxpayer who didn't go to college and instead went to work because he lacked either the interest/ability or money to do so at the time, should be left holding the bag on the default of the person who irresponsibly took out too big a loan for a worthless degree? Yeah, great alternative.
The use of analytics does not make it practically the same thing. The same couple articles about the Obama campaign keep getting posted on all the CA post that hit the front page even after they're shown to be different.
This will hopefully be a learning experience for everyone- consent doesn't make something right, nor will it prevent legal investigations and implications. In addition, I'd assume less then 0.1% of users read any TOS.
Promise isnt (yet) working with convicted clients. This is purely a pre-trial intervention, as they keep saying. So supposing that they will be trying to exonerate their clients is a red herring.

Supposing that their motives are pure profit is extra cynical; there are plenty of organizations in the world that do good and still earn a little money.

Since this is all pre-trial, the incentives for Promise are to ensure that they have the best rates possible of a) showing up for trial and b) not committing extra offenses until then. The only danger I see is the possibility that they would over-select candidates and get too many who use this as a way to dodge their trials or commit more crimes. Since either of these harm their ability to do business, I would think you agree that they are incented to minimize those events.

I dont think Lucas applies; its about the weakness of regulations to control actors. This is a new organization that aims to offer an alternative for existing government actors.
He didn't even teach from the MDN website? W3 Schools is terrible, at least MDN has much better documentation...

On a more serious note though: I recently graduated from a private university in upstate NY (probably wasn't worth the tuition, but as an 18 year old I wasn't very informed past "the culture of this school seems great!", and it admittedly worked out), and they have similar issues.

I worked with a few students who helped with setting up websites and the like for some of the higher-level administration, and it's an absolute sham how much money goes into administrative positions, sports, and shiny new dorms instead of academic programs and necessary infrastructure (anybody else's class enrollment done via a 1980s mainframe that crashes every enrollment period for hours?). Because their tech infrastructure was so bad, I actually once got to see some of their salary information... and let me just say, you've got to go a long way down the list of top salaries before you get to somebody who's set foot in a classroom in the past 10 years. And who doesn't have an MBA.

Admittedly anecdotal, but I wonder if some state schools have visible budgets where we could look into this stuff.
Pedestrians don't teleport in front of your car. It takes them time to cover the distance from the sidewalk to the middle of your lane. At the normal walking speed (3 mph) it takes 2.73 seconds to cover the width of a lane (12 feet). No matter how "out of the shadows" someone comes, no way that distance is less than 6 feet, that's 1.36 seconds. Situations where the distance a pedestrian has to cover to go from invisible to in front of your car are numerous, like people crossing the street in front of a stopped bus. But that's when you slow down, and instead of 38 mph, you do 5 mph.

Look, you can quote science, and studies, or you can talk to anyone who has a driver license. In case you yourself have one, then all I'm saying here should not be news to you, or unreasonable.
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The average driver is pretty terrible though. Average is a pretty low bar to clear, and I think there's a decent argument to be made that waymo's disengagement numbers are already better than an average driver.
Well it's more sideways, perhaps even caustic, something like that, I'd say, rather than humorous per se.

Still... stiff upper lip. Though I can't believe I'm getting downvoted for reminding people not to kill anybody while behind the wheel :-o
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I assume such a list would have rows consisting of, at minimum:

a. link to case's public testimony (CPT)
b. text in CPT to officer's statement.
c. text in CPT that contradicts the statement.

(I'd love to see an example row!)

2. Innocent until proven guilty? I'd say best to start with the clear lies first to build the list's credibility. However enough borderline cases surrounding an individual or department can also be interesting.

3. Defamation requires that the statements about the person be false. Referencing court docs about what they said should obviate that concern. Maybe the trick is to bill the db as a "list of inconsistencies" rather than outright lies.

4. I'd be more concerned about DoS attack rather than spam.
> implement a fair trading system.

We're now, apparently, starting to do that. It has been heating up for years, pre-Trump. We currently appear to be in a total freeze on allowing China to buy US technology assets. Which is exactly what we should be doing, until they allow US companies to operate similarly in China.

[2016] "One of the companies that first brought silicon to Silicon Valley — Fairchild Semiconductor International — said it would remain in American hands after rejecting a takeover offer worth about $2.5 billion led by Chinese state-backed buyers. Instead, Fairchild embraced a smaller bid from an American rival on Tuesday, citing concerns that federal regulators might reject the Chinese deal."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/business/dealbook/china-f...

And more recently, prevented or killed under the Trump era:

- Qualcomm by Broadcom (Singapore)

- Xcerra by Hubei Xinyan Equity Investment (China)

- MoneyGram by Ant Financial Services Group (China)

- Cowen by China Energy Company Limited (China)

- Aleris by Zhongwang (China)

- HERE by Navinfo (China)

- Lattice Semiconductor by Canyon Bridge (China)

- Global Eagle Entertainment by HNA Group (China)

- Novatel Wireless by TCL (China)

- Cree by Infineon Technologies (Germany)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-12/trump-iss...
Probably not, but it can mean a great deal if it gets media traction, and Acton would go in the category of "founder made into a billionaire" rather than "employee". It's not like he was some random engineer in a pool of a hundred engineers.
If we use Twitter to announce that people should #deletefacebook, what social network do we use in the event that it becomes necessary to #deletetwitter?
So when is everybody going to band together to bury Facebook and all these other insidious tech companies?
I fully agree with this, there should be laws that enforce TOS length and legibility for those who didn't take the bar exam or had their personal counsel available before clicking I Agree.

Except that the folks who'd write such laws...
Obama didn't make a fake app, pay people to use it, then steal their data, so what exactly is your point?

This is, to be frank, the height of stupid whataboutism.
So he sold it to them?
I'd like to mention a problem with blocklists like this that you put into /etc/hosts. I've noticed that many sites trivially evade the blocklist by adding a redirect. I.e., if example.com is blocked, but it redirects to example.ru or example123.com or example.team, then it still works. The spammers and advertisers don't have to change all the existing links to example.com -- they simply need to add a new redirect every few weeks.
Why do people blame SUVs when pickup trucks are some of the the highest selling vehicles in America and vans/minivans have existed since forever and are still popular? And they’re both the same size as SUVs?
Could this be a demonstration of what people talk about with regards to partial autonomy being a detriment to human attention?

Definitely. By the time the human realises something is wrong and has to take control, it's already too late.

Incidentally, this is also why autopilots in planes have been more successful --- when something goes wrong high up in the sky, there's still relatively much time to assess the situation and react. With cars, even if the car suddenly told the driver to take over, the driver would essentially have to already be fully attentive to the situation in order to make a decision in time. It's the difference between seconds to a minute in a plane vs. fractions of a second in a car.
I have gone back and forth with a lot of different tools from Django to Vert.x, React, Vue, etc etc. But these days my default stack is more and more to use Grails (because although ridiculously heavyweight it's the most feature complete yet self-contained full-stack framework for extremely rapid develoment) and VueJS (because it straddles well between light-weight, inject a component or two use case and the full on webpack build setup).
you ssh into your own trusted openbsd system, run bitchx and connect to efnet, just like the good lord intended back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

i am only partially sarcastic here.
50 million, i believe.
And the human being behind the wheel, who I also have a problem trusting
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uBlock has much the same effect. Requests err in the console with "ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT" instead of a 404, so technically it is possible to detect this with a first-party JavaScript file.
Yes, but where do they offer solutions to transition (emphasis on transition) from what people currently use to a more open ecosystem?

At least in the software licensing arena, having personally visited a lecture from Stallman, I was left with the impression that he wasn't offering a solution, just a vision of a Utopia without any guidance on how to transition to it -- more specifically, how would we make money from open source software, when currently proprietary software is the default for making money.
Smart tactic since Facebook is on fire and Whatsapp is directly pulled into discussions concerning privacy and whatnot.

Curious if he can dish out some facts to backup that tweet or it's just a "convenient" time to shed some light over your new product which is basically another..Whatsapp
Switch mode power supplies are small, but the batteries to power them are not.
NSA certified crypto modules aren't in an ARM chip the size of your thumbnail.
This is not the pay of Google SWE, these are Animators that start at far lower base salaries. Some people get 100+k bonuses for doing crunch, it's really relative to salary.

Look I have done the whole you work sleep or eat and nothing else for peanuts. That does not mean everyone who works 50+ hour weeks is getting shafted.

As to family obligations, not everyone is in that boat. Sure, working insane hours may not seem like a great way to spend your early 20's, but it's also not required that everyone do this. You can make a solid living without pulling crunch time, but it's reasonable for the option to exist.

Really, step outside your bubble. Some people working 80 hour weeks pull in a few million per year, they have options and still chose that lifestyle.

PS: And nobody is forced to do this, if nothing else quitting is an option.
"It's very hard to imagine a scenario in which a 49-year-old woman walking her bike manages to cross 3 lanes of traffic so quickly that the Uber AV, moving at 40 mph, had no time to react, in a location with good street lighting and with clear weather. I would think most humans would be able to at least hit the brakes, if not completely avoid a collision."

Imagining an approximate version of the scenario and thinking that most people would be able to do what the known unimpaired driver could not is literal speculation. You are reading more into the graphic than can be reasonably derived from the graphic, and the -text- of the graphic is itself explicitly uncertain about the victim's location before and after the collision. Your comment expresses more credulity than the very source you linked to.

If you want to speculate that the Uber driver and police are covering up negligence, that's fine. Trying to claim some sort of logical high ground in a known uncertain scenario is not.
If you've compromised the details of millions of citizens, then summoning the CEO doesn't seem inappropriate.
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