skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not even given by same committee as 'real' nobels, and are used as a political statement at current time, often end up being a huge embarrassment after some time.

I mean, Yasser Arafat (+-terrorist), Al Gore (for a environmental powerpoint), Obama (happy continuing supporting Guantanamo and 2 horrible unjust wars), Aung San Suu Kyi (happy with recent Rohinga genocide), Kissinger and so on.

There are often candidates for it which would actually deserve it, but since it's a vessel for political statements, they usually don't get it.
> badly want Facebook [...] to fail

I can tell you my reasoning. Facebook latches onto a deep human need (for social embedment and human interaction), and cynically pushes a hollow substitute of that, while dishonestly invading your privacy, for money.

Our body craves nourishing food and wholesome, sweet fruit, and has evolved preferences for fat and sugar. Then, today, along comes McDonalds and serves BigMac and Coke, carefully engineered for maximum alignment with our taste receptors at minimum cost.

Facebook is the McDonaldisation of social. It's carefully engineered to exploit the hooks in your brain to keep you online as long as possible, make you reveal as much about you as possible, and come back as soon as possible.

But it's even worse. McDonalds at least sells its stuff honestly and employs lots of people, somewhat ameliorating inequality.

We here on HN know how Facebook monetises: data and ads, but most people did not know the details and depth of the tracking - that's why this story is such a ruckus.

Facebook scales easily, so you get a few (relatively speaking) very well paid people, worsening inequality.

And does it bring anything positive? Before Facebook, people were meeting, organising in clubs and associations, and communicating just fine, using newsletters, the phone, later mailing lists, etc. Increasingly now, with some organisations, it's hard to even stay informed or be invited to events if you refuse to use Facebook!

Lastly, what galls me with Zuck is the pure hypocrisy. Talking about how nobody wants/needs privacy anymore, but purchasing the 4 houses around his in Palo Alto to have more privacy.

Oh, and FWIW, your Econ 101 textbook free market can't fix this, as that theoretical model is predicated on full information and negative economies of scale.

TL;DR: To me, Facebook is a despicable cynical near-monopolistic money making machine (for the few), run by a hypocrite peddling a fake, counterproductive "solution" to real human needs using the worst form of monetisation in a dishonest way.
I'm not convinced modern civilization could recover from a total collapse.
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As bad as they are, human drivers in the US have 1.25 fatalities every 100 million miles, across all road conditions and pedestrian behavior.

Uber just crossed the 2 million miles and it already has a fatality, where a competent driver could have, at the minimum, slow down by a few miles per hour to reduce the severity of the crash enough to result in an injury instead of death.

There's no excuse here. The Uber self driving car should not be anywhere near a public road, where children, the elderly, or distract people can be found.
Other people in the thread have pointed out the woman stepped out in a darker area between where the street lights are placed. Reflecting eyes are not the only way to detect an object. A person watching the road would have seen her dark silhouette contrasting to the next patch of light.

Also remember she was not a stationary object. She was in the act of crossing the road. Human eyes/brains are good at detecting motion in low light even if we can't 100% make out what the object is.

I have lived in Tempe and know that part of town well. There are apartments, gas stations, hotels, strip malls, fast food restaurants and a strip club. It's not a pitch black country road.
also note that pushing the brakes was not the only option : steering the wheel to avoid collision was another, maybe more efficient. Still, I feel the same as you do : I cannot guarantee I would have avoided this.
If autonomous drive had been off then Uber would be the first to say so and not be blamed for this death.
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I'm currently using it for my Computer Architecture class(MIPS edition). It's rather unfortunate that I'm just grokking the book for the grades, it's a very good book and explains a lot of concepts quite well. I may not grasp it the first time I read a section, but after going over it, I almost always understand.
Yes decommissioning is an integral part of the project and regulators and lenders mandate you to set aside funds for it before the first brick is even laid. Knocking them down is part of the project's economic and environmental risks evaluation. Projects can be rejected by regulators if there is no feasible way to run it or knock it down without irreversible damage to the natural environment or communities.
Try PWA based one. Since they load in segments and cache a lot you'll have fun:

https://pwa.rocks/ - Look at the business and news webpages

Also look for the website that use AMP. They're even more fragmented then PWA pages. Below is article about AirBNB using AMP and iFrames:

https://medium.com/swlh/how-airbnb-is-putting-amp-at-the-cor...

https://www.ampproject.org/
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How long until every site is like Oratyria, where users can freely censor each other for everyone else?
It's easy for people to criticize. Ignore them. Recruiters want easy wins so they can get paid.

There will always be people who are negative about X, Y or Z. Find your own way. If you start believing them that is trouble because it'll come across in any interview.

Be proud of the time you took out to travel around Asia. "I had a fantastic time, learning about new cultures, broadening my mind, meeting new people from all over" etc. On top of that you were resourceful enough to pick up projects/freelance work over that period. Many people will be jealous of this. Speak to this part of them.

Not sure if you had prior experience or just graduated. Either way I would put it on your resume along with your travel. Something like:

2017 - Travel around Asia while freelancing. Here's a list of freelance projects I worked on:
- Sysadmin running servers.

2014-2016 - Software engineer, Midwest city - Regular software job
I find it very unlikely that a total collapse of modern civilization in addition to poor, irradiated harvests due to nuclear winter is easier to survive than poor harvests and extreme weather while having access to modern technology.
In the wake of the Tesla accident, there was this discussion about the difficulty of detecting stationary obstacles (too many false positives, so they're readily discarded). As here the movement was perpendicular to the movement of the car, I wonder whether that had any impact.
Because mobile phones are complex beasts hardware- and software-wise, and going top tier makes it much more likely you'll have a fast device for years, that works with whatever random idiosyncratic software and hardware you throw at it.

Like, e.g., last year my SO was changing phones, and we didn't have much budget left, so we went with then-recommended Huawei P8 Lite. Almost good enough, except it seems to have its Bluetooth stack broken in a very specific way that renders her Pebble almost useless. Oh, and every other day, it randomly drains battery very fast. It's those kinds of things you generally don't have to deal with when you go with higher-end devices.
Based on my own analyses, I can't see how Bitcoin will survive. Other "bitcoins" (cryptocurrencies) will surely arise to fill the gap.

Time to call it for me: The fundamental value of Bitcoin is naught point nothing. USD 0.00 EUR 0.00 etc.

Tax evasion pressures, money laundering pressures, commercial pressures, exchanges "losing" bitcoins all the time - and now child pornography hidden within the blockchain itself?

Whatever the current status of the open source project(s) and whether they can play nice - can anyone explain how this can turn out well for Bitcoin?
It has to be the driver (or computers') responsibility to spot and react in situations like this as it is the dangerous machinery that can cause injury and death.
> If there is something that isn't going to help the public perception of autonomous cars

If there is something now that's going to help with the public perception of this cars that people claim to be autonomous, it's people like you just quitting trying to defend this and care about the deceased ATM. The software and hardware was sub-par, and the driver of a fucking TEST DRIVE was not looking at the road, let aside having hands ready on the steering wheel. The driver's feet were probably wandering around relaxing besides the pedals. TBH I don't give a flying fuck to the public image of autonomous (!) vehicles ATM.
I'm using all day Firefox for front develop, an I have multiple tabs open. I don't have any issue of excessive RAM or CPU usage. Even I noticed that Chrome uses more RAM that FF . The actual instance that I have open to write it, with 16 tabs open, it's using around 300-400MiB and ~5% of CPU.

Also, FireFox for Android runs faster that Chrome (not because FireFox is faster that Chrome on Android, but because the ad-blocker does a nice work avoiding to load garbage), and the RAM usage it's keep at bay. I have like ten tabs on FF for Android and keeps working like if I had one open.

On any case, on Chrome and Firefox you can install a add-on called "Tab suspender". It allows to save ram, literally suspending tabs that has not been accesses on some time. Try it.

*edit : grammar
Not a lot of details, mostly rumors. I'm not sure what a company like Google would gain from this move besides the hype surrounding anything "blockchain" these days.
That's fine. If someone is willing to pay you, then they are allowed to tell you what to do. Whether that's "Do this job", or "sit at home watching TV, but don't work for this company"
All I can say is I'm glad we live in a world where some people do care about things which don't directly affect them.
Because people are too busy trying to survive until their next paycheck. Nobody has time to waste thinking about some vague overreach by a government agency.
hahaha...Lord Google is in everything
In my mind this accident is on Uber no matter how you interpret the video.

Scenario 1: Lets say the pedestrian was visible to the naked eye and sensors. The model and safety operator still didn't "see" her and act in time. Who to blame? Uber.

Scenario 2: The lighting and environment was in a condition where neither the model nor the safety operator could see the road more than 10 feet in front of the car, yet neither thought it to be irresponsible to go at full speed. Who to blame? Uber.

I believe that:

1. The sensors should have detected the pedestrian from far away even if the lighting was bad at the time. I mean that's sort of the point with autonomous vehicles, that they are better at perceiving their surroundings and can make better decisions on how to act quicker than any human could.

2. The safety operators are not engaged enough in their tasks to be effective. I think people underestimate how boring it must have a job where 99% of the time you should do absolutely nothing other than stare straight ahead and be ready for a situation like this. This problem is hard to solve. Maybe we should be training the model on closed tracks and only release on the real roads when it passes some sort of test where it is put through various scenarios. Like a driving instructor for AIs.

For those of you who think the pedestrian is to blame. I agree that the pedestrian might have made a bad decision by expecting the cars to brake, however these situations occur all the time. She didn't dart across the road or jump in front of the car suddenly. Yesterday I helped an elderly guy across 4 lanes of traffic which took about 1 minute. All you can do in that situation is to hope you are visible to the drivers and that they will stop before running you over.
Why does one conversion method have the “to” prefix and the other doesn’t? I guess because the inconsistency looks somehow prettier.

But this is what drives me up the wall with the Ruby ecosystem: seems that whenever API designers had the choice between consistency and fun gimmick, they chose the latter. It makes some people feel happy, but often makes the next person who has to read and maintain the code miserable.
I have the same issue on my Linux laptop. It seems like Firefox always maxes out at least one core when loading pages or rendering pages with certain video codecs. I'm guessing Chrome throttles its performance or maybe it's just more performant.
Here's the rest of the exchange:

"No, you may not. This is the software all employees use."

"But Workday might sell my data!"

"...alright, how about you fill in this Excel sheet."

"No, Microsoft might be spying on me."

"You're fired."
I'm going to guess that it's because Facebook was the enabler. Without a Facebook, the "Cambridge Analytica's" of the world would not exist, because they wouldn't be able to buy data of this magnitude. You can throw the CEO of CA in jail, but someone else will just come along to fill his shoes.

So, I think the public gets much more satisfaction out of seeing the CEO of FB raked over the coals, because they think it will attack the problem more at the root. Just my guess anyway.
>> Why is there no one to say, this has gone too far; why can't we hold those people accountable for what they have done and what they are doing, I don't understand.

Probably because they're growing food, which most people consider necessary.

Besides, before getting to the farmers and the destruction they have wrought on to the environment, there is plenty of scope to look at the behaviour of, oh, I don't know - the companies that sell the pesticide the farmers use, just off the top of my head? Not to mention other industries that cause much more harm to the environment than agriculture, which is, at the end of the day, something we literally can't live without.
I haven't logged in for about five-six months now, and FB started bothering my friends to hit me up on messenger to lure me back in.
Modern technology is build on a mind boggling dependency chain. Just think about how many steps and technologies are necessary to turn sand and ore into a computer. Or even an electric generator. Simple things like reliable, low resistance ball bearings require precision tools to manufacture.
The story in the linked blogpost.
Yes, it is good idea to add those small projects. More relevant they are to the job. More points for you. By not adding those. People reading your resume will wonder what you have been doing in this period?

You can also add some of your personal or side projects as well.

The idea is to show them that you were somehow active during this period, either by doing small gigs, or by doing your own stuff or even by reading books or taking online courses.

I will highly recommend you read these guides

http://www.codespaghetti.com/cv-tips
http://www.codespaghetti.com/interview-success

I really hop you will be able to find the kind of job you are looking for.
I _think_ (not entirely certain as the docs are pretty bad) that the very-recently-accounced Google Cloud Identity free tier does almost that for free; but it's just the identity service, and doesn't include any apps like GMail. Not sure if it has mail routing settings, or if that's just standard DNS.
I never actually considered they might be micromanaging those privacy reminders. But yeah, it sounds plausible.

A bit more of context - I might be an outlier here, because from the get-go, I always, deliberately, kept everything on my Facebook profile public. I've always treated it as something similar to a personal website/blog. I still do, despite Facebook's constant reminders that I can limit my posts or profile visibility to my Friends.

Also, in my circles in early 2010s, Facebook was as much about being able to discover other people as it was about sharing things. Over the years I've noticed how people increasingly lock down their accounts (sometimes to sub-Friends granularity); that discoverability use case is pretty much nonexistent nowadays.
What's to explain?
I'm also using Firefox on Android because of the Adblocker, but it is not faster than Chrome. The page load time is generally slower than Chrome, even with ads blocked. It sometimes freezes and crashes
The human driver appears to be reading. I know that's a pretty hefty accusation, but I can't shake off the impression.
I use youtube for music in the car on the way to work and during work hours (which I have an adblocker for).

Two experiences I'd like to relate,
In the car, music being interrupted more often with annoying ads. Even more so in the last 3 months. Some ads even asking me to take a survey in the youtube app.
This annoys me and makes me hate using youtube. Often will make me switch to using bandcamp (which I purchase music on that I really like) or soundcloud.

Experience 2, when youtube brought out a new algo to pick the next song to play. After stringing together ~10 bangers in a row, some that I haven't heard recently / before, I actually looked into youtube red. Can't remember why I didn't start a subscription.

I'm not opposed to paying for a service, I've had Spotify, Apple and Tidal before.
I know the Spotify annoying ads worked well for them. I'm not sure how well it will work for youtube.
I'm talking about this article, which is calling for Zuck's resignation. I disagree with the article, and I think resigning would be crawling away from the problems.
Hmm, if you're lab A, why would you help to do the cover up of lab B's work, especially if you might be competing with them?

Scientists at least in my field don't do each others' dirty work, we're much more disconected from each other than that. Also, peer review is anonymous.
France has commonly been one of the five largest agriculture exporters for the last several decades. As recently as 1995 they were the world's #2 agriculture exporter after the US (I believe they're currently #6 or #7 globally, having lost ground the last few years).

As in the case with California exporting vast quantities of its water to Asia in the form of things like Almonds - at a steep resource cost for a very modest financial gain - France could clearly afford to reduce its agriculture exports at minimum cost to its overall economy and reduce the strain on its natural resources.
Here's what I do in such situations:

1. Record a profile with the Gecko Profiler WebExtension (Install it from https://perf-html.io/)

2. Upload the profile to https://perf-html.io/

3. Create a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ with a link to this performance profile.

The Firefox developers are friendly and welcome, and I'd say in about 50-75% of cases the bugs get fixed in a timely manner.
This is ridiculous. If one is harassed in private they have all the evidence they need to expose the harassment to whomever they want.

So now they are not private messages and shouldn't be called as such.
This is amazing! We're witnessing the beginning of the demise of Intel in the data canter, right in front of our eyes. I had thought this would take decades...

I just hope that thanks to large companies like CloudFlare buying large numbers of ARM servers their prices finally start going down to a reasonable level.
exactly this. what's the response time of software? it ought to be close to zero and significantly faster than human's. let's say it's a generous 0.5s - no brakes where applied at all, and even with the crappy darkened video we got (place isn't that dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0 ) the pedestrian was in view for 2 to 3 seconds.

car didn't see it at all even in those last moments.
Ask HN: Best charity that fights human trafficking?
I want to donate a thousand dollars to a charity that fights human trafficking/slavery and I want to make sure my money has the most impact possible. I've found surprisingly little information online about which charities actually get things done. Does anyone here know anything about this field and can provide guidance?
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The Battersea / Nine Elms area has seen development over several years from when the American embassy announced they would be moving there, new tube stops are coming too but it’s just one targetted area only and the prices are totally crazy for anyone who is an ‘employee’ of any sort. Got your own multi million dollar business going? Then it’s no problem.
What’s the difference between a police force and a gang?
See, sibling post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16647116 Please record a profile and report this.
It's pretty obvious that server side rendering has more potential bottlenecks and IO overhead. But with that said, nothing says it must be slower. It just has more potential to be slower.
Ask HN: What is wrong with this approach?
Hi,

In this last paper http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=els_2018

1) Following a short introduction understandable by an average people, I show how three rules and a single predicate function working on simple words are sufficient to introduce the key concepts of a functional language, data structures and recursion. I am not aware of any presentation of recursion being more simple, relegating the Y-combinator to the rank of a fun exercise, and in any case secondary. A kind of lambda-calculus for dummies!

2) As a first application, I build the set of natural numbers defined as lists, replacing the rather old Church's approach and leading to a simple and "symetric" definition of the standard operators [+,-,*,/,%]. Just an exercice demonstrating what can be done with so little foundations.

3) Finally I show how to use the modern web browsers' powerful functionalities to build on this single and strong basis, "on demand" and online, more and more sophisticated libraries leading to a true programmable programming language.

Since a long time I try to share - for free - such an open source personal work with people around me, especially here in Hacker News. I thought it was the place to do that. But zero echo, nada, at least concerning the "substance".

So my question is « What is wrong with this approach? »

Your opinion is welcome.
Please, don't be evil!
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I don't think so. I'm guessing that the xeons feature set is not used at all and this specific payload is just much better on that arm.

There is a big chance, that whatever cloudflare is doing on that machine, is massive parallel and simple.
I wanted to love Quantum (really liked the Containers for cookies and sessions, found it useful many times)

but it takes up too much CPU. I kept track of the issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

It seems it's just normal that every page render takes 80-90% cpu. I'll take battery life over marginal performance improvements.

Hope they'll make it a priority one day.
Also in the Philippines! I can't begin to tell you how many Filipinos I know who, to this very day, have @yahoo.com email accounts and still use Yahoo! Messenger.
and this is where youre wrong :D
by your logic compilers are wrong because they keep you from writing raw MC
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I'm in same boat like you. I use Facebook occasionally when I need to post/look at posts in rental listings groups.
Its time to regulate this. Make facebook and all other social media platforms to open up connectivity to other platforms.

It can't be, that one company has so much power.
The list has fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net, but it missed fbcdn-creative-a.akamaihd.net

If anyone wants it
13 years after the Herb Sutter prediction: is the free lunch really over?
Since we are speaking about CF, they usually a do lot of crypto. Which, unless I'm wrong, is accelerated by a lot on Intel CPUs.

I'm really curious at what the blog post will reveal on this.
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