skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot of text for explaining why a car might go to 3mph too fast.
There is a big difference between a cruise control and an autonomous car.
In Germany you can get a ticket for going more than 3km/h (1.875 mph) too fast. It's not acceptable for a self driving car to go so fast that you can get a ticket. If that means going up to 6mph too slow, I guess that's the way it is.
Also, going 5km/h means you will need an extra 5m of braking distance or so in case of emergency braking.
With electric cars, regulating the speed smoothly will be even easier.
On other hand, I always think:

Many poor countries, especially in Africa, complain that their resources are exploited and they get nothing from it.

But that doesn't just happens with (Saudi) Arabs. You just don't try to exploit Arabs. When you try, you're the one who gets in debt prison. So at least they're doing something right.

Just my tangential 2c to your spot-on comment.
Their pricing looks great. Has anyone used them?
I would love to plug a cheap accelerometer an get these efficiencies. But it leaves me some questions:

* Will these techniques work on a stock Android device for stock programs (ie Google Maps)?

* Will the different (extra?) calculations cause my processor's calculation to go up, killing battery life? I didn't see any testing on this and your statements seemed questionable - "Herewith, the algorithm should not consume whole battery within 3 minutes as well as all available RAM."

Doesn't Android already have similar filters? I would assume they do since they've been in the business for a while.

This looks like great theoretical ideas. I hope you can use it to get a job at Google or turn it into a marketable product.
You can stay in touch with relatives via mobile phone. You can text them and ask how they do. Personally, I created a Whatsapp group for my extended family. Some of them don't use Facebook by the way.

It doesn't make any sense to complain about Facebook's business model and also not want to sacrifice a worthless personal account noone cares about.

We choose what we use and they choose how they make money. You can expect them to be ethical but they have no responsibilities to meet your expectations, as they have never promised to be a platform that respects privacy.
I think fascist nowadays is used to put down someone that has an opionion different to you.

It's kinda weakening the term IMO.
The same as Apple, Sony and Nintendo. I guess.
Just because a plaque says "hunting" doesn't make it true, though. Everything you see and read is canted by someone else's opinion or agenda. Everything. The cultural warriors have left no stone un-turned in their battle to belittle and subjugate humanity.
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> or someone went out of his or her way to tell you

The language of the copy is pretty telling... “out of their way”? People talk about what they did _all the time_, it’s what people do when they get together.
There are plenty of benefits, but you can also ask the dead person in AZ about the downside of defending a product that isn't ready. A self-driving car that drives itself without the most basic of defensive driving habits simply isn't ready. Ask yourself, why do the reports show that brakes weren't applied?
Definition of fascism

1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
early instances of army fascism and brutality —J. W. Aldridge
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Yes, you see it is fascism to want to protect your nice place from people who have destroyed theirs and want to migrate to yours to destroy it, too. And if you're white, all the better since they simply want you dead. Don't believe me yet? Look at South Africa right now.
Typically, "natural" means "not of human manufacture". That it's general meaning, and how it is meant in this case too.
The cool thing? This "whistleblower" already spoke publicly with an op-ed on the NYT months ago.
Again, this is just the top of the newscycle. Let's see what happens in three months from now. My guess: Facebook revenue will go up. This is a PR shitshow, and a great piece of advertising for Facebook's ad department.
A lot of marketers right now are thinking "wait, we could do that with all that Facebook data we have?!"
Right on. Another thing that works for me is not watching any news at all on TV except for occasionally NPR. Instead, I like the text only feeds of NPR and CNN, and I try not to read those every day.

I do still look at Facebook once a week for about 10 minutes. I do so in a private browser tab, and routinely try to delete FB cookies.
https://i.imgur.com/tn6dav0.png

the "key" is a very simple algorithm, that is obviously not illegal
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> "is waging a brutal war against one of the world’s poorest countries (and not even winning)"

I wouldn't say Yemen was exactly "winning" either, the situation over there seems horrendous.
Why do a billion people need to emigrate? The solution is for the rest of the world to become richer.

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/21/bill-gates-they-will-be-no-p...
"raw" data from the GPS chipset has already been through a Kalman filter... its how they form a 'fix' based on constant measurement inaccuracies.

Of course the difference here is that the extra accelerometer data is involved. It's been a few years since I last worked on GPS chipsets, but I would be surprised if they didn't now incorporate one for this exact reason.

edit: They do: https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/gnss-gps-socs/bcm...

"Broadcom's second-generation sensor integration technology, adding accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer and altimeter outputs to the positioning engine"
Some nice points, in the age of cutting lines and hacking sales, nice to get some old-school that says it’s good to learn skills :)
> any car going 35 mph will need a few feet to brake if something jumps directly in front of it.

It seems like you're working pretty hard to justify this woman's death.

She was apparently walking her bicycle through an intersection. Did she grab her bike and jump directly in front of the car? Maybe, but let's not jump to assumptions.

> it seems the algorithm is pretty safe

It ran at least six red lights in San Francisco and would apparently swerve into the bike lane when making turns, now it's killed a pedestrian. It just doesn't seem that good. How many similar incidents have you heard about with Waymo? They've driven more than twice as many miles in city streets.
Well, the largest animal known to have ever existed is still around today.
> but with the downaide that you can't tow heavy loads.)

And the frustrating rubber-banding.
> Given our corrupt political system

This is an unhelpful "truism" that encourages us all to lose faith in a system entirely built on trust. It's a sentence easy to bandy about--especially unqualified--and impossible to counter (in any government).

It also fails to bolster your argument. Your post without those words would be just as effective.

Please reconsider.
Email addresses come and go all the time, get changed, deactivated, or people start using different emails and never check the old ones. But FB messages are always seen. Email is just not a reliable long-term "address" for someone.
I think a lot of expats in Germany uses N26 because it used to be easy to open an account without a registered address. But unfortunately, the e-postident doesn't work amymore for most of the South Asian passports (https://www.facebook.com/deutschepost/posts/1805883209423283). Hope N26 will introduce more ways of identification.
Looking forward to the apocalypse, sparked by the most responsible Islamic country in the world!

The American Empire is so full of political science geniuses.
I agree. I can’t imagine a better platform for educational content. Crash Course and Khan Academy have been a godsend.
This is one of the better side-effects of Trump.

We wouldn´t be having this conversation if Hillary or Bernie had used these powerful resources to tilt the odds and get elected.

Because almost no one with a platform likes Trump, it gets exposed. If this happened under Obama (like, uh, Assange and Snowden and Manning and massive data centers in Utah happened), it would be completely swept under the rug in favor of a feel-good progress narrative that's completely impossible in current conditions.

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Maybe this was Thiel's true play: a shit government is a watched government, a hostilized-against government, a true Libertarian's government.
France and Japan have little energy resources and build their nuclear industries from the 60s to the 80s, long before alternatives existed. The French also have far better architects and generally know to set the right priorities in life.

The best counter-example may actually be Iran. But their nuclear industry also started before the recent exponential improvements making solar a viable alternative, and the various trade sanctions likely forced them to forgo the solar suppliers in the west and China, making them dependent on whatever Russia had to offer.
As far as I understand your comment, driving at the speed limit is unsafe because everybody is speeding. Sounds like a self-fulfilling thing. Maybe it would be even safer if the majority would obey the speed limit?
Yes, how awful. Another country trying to get off of fossil fuels. How ever will we cope?

In seriousness, how the hell is any of this relevant?
"I created a Whatsapp group for my extended family"... You're just changing one poison for another one. Don't forget who owns Whatsapp.
In the computers, i suppose an object's memory address is its true name, which is why we go to such great lengths to conceal it, with opaque handles, ASLR, etc.
It was the one tool there that I got a warm "man, I could crank some code with that". All the others were cognitively heavy and I could just feel the mental effort. It has a laser like focus on getting a usable app into a user's hands with minimum fuss - wysiwyg and zero pretension.

Drop a button, double click, cursor will be at correct location in generated hook, write your code code, ship it. The experience in Python/js just can't compete to that.

I sure have complained about VB and for certain types of code it would be a nightmare but I've also shipped it. It gets something right that the mathematisation of programming misses time and again and is in denial that it matters.
Many dozens or even hundreds of people, not to mention the thousands on the groups that are helpful strangers? And even if I got all that contact information, email and other contact stuff changes pretty quickly, easily a lot of it would got out of date within a year or two. But people keep their FB accounts active so you can always contact them through there.
I just said this in another comment but it so belongs here, I'll try to say it in just one sentence: there was a feel-good narrative to Obama that's just impossible now.
Not a very detailed article, not an interesting read at all.
I don't understand why to you, population rise implies migration.

Africa (currently) has a lower population density than Europe or Asia. We know people can sustainably live at much higher densities than Africans currently do.

The drivers behind migration are global inequality and conflict. If you want to reduce migration, start there. Isolationism and closed borders will only ultimately lead to more humanitarian crises, and more migration pressure.
Matthew Green had a good analysis on why this is interesting also from outside a crypto currency perspective https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/97606641626793984...
I'm tempted to take Facebook's actions at Face value in this case. They say they were going in to audit what Analytica was up to (and to make sure nothing was deleted). I kinda believe them.
Also missing the SoftLayer/IBM S3-compatible offering. We use it very lightly (our IoT firmware builds from CI are going up there) and pay nothing, their free limits are quite generous.
What's utterly horrifying about this whole thing is how the media is acting as if this is some sort of surprise. Like what did you think was happening at a company collecting data about billions of people? Especially at a company that has a CEO who is famous for calling its own users dumb fu * * s? A company that experimented on at risk teens. Like come on.

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Or lordy, didn't expect this comment to blow up this much. Do forgive me if it sounded a bit smug, that was not my intention. But the fact of the matter is this was something we were all warned about, we were shown countless examples of exactly this, not just us nerds, everyone, people like Edward Snowden risked their lives telling us about how all this data was being used against all of us. and yet everyone kept giving more and more, you were looked at like a tin foil wearing nutter when you told people not to give away so much information about themselves so easily.

At the end of the day, this is not really 100% facebook's fault, this is our fault, the fault of everyone who so readily made their information available without giving much thought to who sees it and what happens to it. And no just because you are not a techie you are not off the hook for not caring enough about your own privacy. I mean what level of technical knowledge is needed to know that once you post something online others can see it?

Funny thing is, this would all blow over after a few months, and everyone will go back to the usual habbits.
I don't agree with the fundamental concern. I think sacrificing maintainability for ease of use is a valid thing to do.

Saving 100x 20 minutes in developer time for the library users for taking an hour more to implement a feature is a good trade.

Every rule has an exception, but fluent interfaces being bad for maintainability is often justified.
Even in Java: if you want your fluent builder to be extensible, that's easy enough to achieve with a base class that returns a generic self type in the fluent methods. If lack of extensibility is the strongest criticism of fluency, then fluency must be great.
Oh man this is bad.

>the platform operations manager at Facebook responsible for policing data breaches [...] warned senior executives at the company that its lax approach to data protection risked a major breach

>One Facebook executive advised him against looking too deeply at how the data was being used, warning him: “Do you really want to see what you’ll find?”

>They felt that it was better not to know. I found that utterly shocking and horrifying.
I only go on facebook to talk to other car enthusiasts for a particular brand. Some of them are on some online forums, but most aren't. They are also not my friends - so I don't really want to share emails. The group is also non-English speaking - so services like Meetup or Slack are out of the question. It's a tough one. I think reverting back to standard post-based online forums is the best, but they have more friction and they are hard to discover for some.
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C++ is maybe low level but not over complicated
I'm not too worried about reading bad programming advice, because i'm confident i will ignore it (this is not arrogance - i ignore all programming advice, good or bad). But there are a lot of impressionable minds who take HN quite seriously, and bad advice risks escaping through them into the real world.
Interesting to see that "science" and "fiction" are so similar according to this metric. Not surprising, though, given how often they co-occur in text, but this clearly shows the limitations of the method. The unit of interest is not really character strings but lexical entries and there can be multiple lexical entries associated with one character string. For instance, the word "bank" can mean "financial institution" or "edge of a river" but both meanings would contribute to a common word vector. You could say that this only affects ambiguous words, but first ambiguous words are very common and second these words probably distort the whole vector space (by introducing "short circuits") and therefore also affect the vectors for non-ambiguous words. A long way left to go for these methods I suppose.

Edit: Have people tried to detect ambiguous words by measuring local conflict in word2vec space? E.g. "laboratory" is similar to "science" and "science" is similar to "fiction" but there is no evidence to suggest that "laboratory" should be similar to "fiction".
> How do you know if there is an actual connection or just a coincidence?

You look at an etymological dictionary for either language.
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As I understand it, originally the Facebook API allowed you to access friends of friends - hence the millions of records. They changed this a couple of years ago (but apparently after CA had accessed the data).

It was also against the terms of service to download and store the information retrieved from the API. They also changed this many years ago, in the name of developer convenience.
I would not be so sure that would make the Middle East less volatile though...
It's not a surprise to most readers of HN, but most people are not readers of HN, and take things at face value, where face value is what they see in advertisements and hear from their friends.

People still have an expectation of privacy, even when, from an HN perspective they should be extremely skeptical about having such an expectation.
I think this is a great idea - it should also encourage downvoters to leave a comment explaining why. This has long been considered good etiquette on SO, so it should be encouraged somehow, or maybe even mandatory.
Your bigger problem is going to be EVDO networks shutting down...
Natural selection is the process by which the traits that are most suited to surviving reality get passed down. That's all there is to it when you don't sugar-coat it
I really wanted to like B2. I love the docs and super-clean interface. But B2 was just too "weird" when it came to uploading an object. You can't replace an object key, so you always get a new object key when uploading. This is unlike any normal object store, where you can just upload to an existing key.

Also, if you upload an object with the same name (e.g. myphoto.png) it creates a new version, and there's no way to stop this. I don't want or need a new version!

I have a feeling this restriction is in place because of the underlying "vault" implementation.
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could this work to calm breathing in freestyle swimming? I try using 'box' breathing exercises and they seem to work a little (in-count-4, hold-count-4, out-count-4, hold-count-4 cycle)
For code I have on my machine, right?

Well, I guess it's better than nothing.
Compile-time duck typing :) To be fair, C++ templates have a similar problem. Rust nails this one with traits, I think.
Well, under the hyperbolic post I see someone saying that Saudi Arabia going after nuclear power should be viewed with great skepticism, and some amount of trepidation, based off their past and present conduct.
Regulator asleep at the wheel.
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> While I don’t like Fluent interfaces at all, I don’t like the alternative presented much either

If you pull at this sweater thread the end result is working in a language powerful enough to model the 'human readable' bit as structured code, and let mini-DSLs flourish in code bases and interfaces... This may entail leaving OOP partially behind, but it's highly achievable (Scala, F#, Haskell, LISP, etc).
For so-called “traditional medicine”. Barbaric, yet zero sanctions, boycotts, or any economic consequences really. And once all the rhinos, tigers etc are gone and they can’t do it anymore, only then will they realize it never worked in the first place! :-(
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"Data Security Chief" lol okay. Chief of giving everyone's data away, maybe
I can easily tell which side you're on, but you missed some pertinent information.

Iran is also fighting in Yemen (by proxy) and has been directly supporting the Assad regime, one of the most brutal dictatorships the Middle East has ever seen.
Saved by "open link in background tab" - didn't even notice, except the center of the logo faded in before the rest of the logo.
If you look at ressource-rich countries in Africa, you will actually see a somewhat similar structure: Equatorial Guinea, for example, is one of the world’s most expensive places to live and has a large ruling elite syphoning up the spoils of the county’s wealth in oil.

The difference is only the far larger populations of these countries. In that regard, it’s a model comparable to tax havens, in that it doesn’t work once the population grows too large. FWIW, Saudi Arabia also has a large underclass of what are essentially slaves building the country’s tacky infrastructure. But because they are immigrants, Saudi Arabia, as a country, is commonly seen as the perpetrator and not the victim in this scheme.

Edit: thriftwy’s criticism of this theory below is probably right. An index of <revenue from resources>/<population> would be helpful.
> Hot reload of code is just one feature that is absolutely unique to Flutter, at least when comparing to alternatives viable today

You could live-reload Qt code for years (https://doc.qt.io/QtQmlLive/index.html)
OK thanks, makes sense in genuinely decoupled microservice architecture (with messages crossing language and environment boundaries). Monolithic systems (distributed or not) seem not to have the same problems though, in which case it would still seems like a good idea to me, for debugging purposes.
The west also shouldn't be exporting billions of dollars worth of weapons to SA, and yet, we do.

If someone can make a buck, someone will do it. And Trump isn't exactly the person to stand up against them.
Well, yes, cigarettes and alcohol (the latter in excess). Or even sugary drinks in excess. But there was, of course, a huge settlement in the case of cigarettes and the dangers are fairly well understood. There also would seem to be a qualitative difference between links to health problems/mortality over the course of years and failures that lead to someone's immediate death.
If someone thinks about building a new, better and more mature social network where users data wouldnt be sell to the Facebook’s tune, this is your time!

You dont have to have your startup listed on stock exchange and answer to shareholders how you squeezing out every possible penny out of your users; you just need to show enough ads to keep servers running and paying for salaries. And now you dont have to show off to everyone that you so nice tou only make $1 salary per tear — keep a cool million bucks annul to yourself. Thats a small percentage of ads shown and small percentage of dollars collected that Facebook is harvesting right now, to be able to run similar size of enterprise. And you be on your way of helping out our civilization in truly noble way.
The front page should tell us exactly what this is and who/what it's for. Those with knowledge of this industry might be able to jump on board quickly, while everybody else is left scratching their heads.
Fascinating to watch - it shows how much power media has to put a topic on the global agenda if it fits into their preferred narrative.
I don't understand; what do you mean?
someObject
|> doThis
|> doThat Thing
|> doThat OtherThing
|> dontForgetToPayTheBill

or

let getErDone =
doThis
>> doThat Thing
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someObject |> getErDone

[not just pseudo-code, that can be compiled with the right definitions]
Bitcoin is about money and it’s properties. It has nothing to do with income verification, loan standards, or rating falsification.