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>Not true at all, the person was not standing under lit streetlights and was in the shadows...

The 'shadow' is appearing completely dark due to the poor dynamic range of the camera. It won't appear so to a normal human eye..Also, people use high beams in this situations which enables seeing stuff really far away, which would also should have saved the day in this case..
I think you have a good point - there are plenty of people who would love for Facebook to fail, and for something better to take its place. The promise of Facebook was great but it has nothing to do with the website anymore. They’ve paywalled and gatekept catching up with people with their network effect, to the point that a lot of reasonable people don’t think it’s worth the price. In a sense, Facebook has taken something away by changing people’s social behavior to feed their ad network.

But then, I’m one person and not all hacker news readers.
Soviet and later USA didn't crush Afghanistan easily in a few months.

The Nazis had quite a lot of soldiers tied up in already occupied countries because of sting operations.

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Street lighting is a side issue, and the lack of street lighting is AZ is a feature. It's awesome, I get to keep my night vision, and we have the stars:) Making things worse to accommodate confusion about what computers are capable of is a bad idea, and the correct sensors don't care anyway.

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In response to a question about Alex Stamos leaving: "So we’re going to double the amount of people working on security this year. We’ll have more than 20,000 people working on security and community operations by the end of the year, I think we have about 15,000 now. So it’s really the technical systems we have working with the people in our operations functions that make the biggest deal."

Huh? 20,000 people? This seems like a wildly misleading number. He's grouping security and "community operations" together, whatever that is. That must include masses of people doing manual video and ad reviews, or something like that. That has nothing to do with the question. It's like you asked the president about the Secret Service and he said "Between the Secret Service and US Army we have over a million people and that number is going up this year!"
Effectively: I am going to read exclusively what a group of people biased toward racism and sexism writes about history and philosophy etc. Since there is no censorship, that will surely give me objective account of reality, history and science. If you dont take effort to read about history and politology also from people who are not on voat for a reason, you will just close yourself into a bubble.

It is not so much that those views are "disgusting" in metaphorical sense. It is also that they are threat to my freedom and my success in life. Talking about all that as if it would be all just about badly written literature is misleading.
I'm currently in Europe (Germany) and if I cross a 4 lane road thinking I have the right of way, I'm dead. Can you point to any road provision that supports your thesis? Because my quick research does not confirm your standpoint. It also seems to defy logical sense to let cars on a 4 lane road stop for pedestrians because there would be an enormous amount of accidents when cars overtake each other
She's probably crossed there a zillion times and never had a problem, and so has stopped caring. It's a well lit area with good sight lines, human drivers would have to fuck up to a significant degree to hit someone under similar circumstances.
Is 360 degree lidar really needed? A smaller FOV and higher resolution for 120-180 degrees pointed forward seems a better bet.
Indeed; I'm wondering why the police were so fast to say that the woman suddenly entered to road, when the video shows this clearly isn't the case.
Im conviced 99-100% that the Automatic Emergency Brakeing (AEB) on my Tesla would have braked for that. The promise of these systems, as you also point out, is that they can see things, humans cant. The "real" cameras on this car (not this dashcam footage), and the LIDAR, should be fine with it beeing near pitch black.
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They have indeed made it a lot harder to modify. And even harder to set it to Bing! Earlier it was just a dropdown in settings.
I fear you overstate the resilience of modern technology.

In the case of, even brief, total civilizational collapse, I doubt you'd be able to access any server whatsoever. The Internet is not stable, it's actively maintained and in the state of constant flux. As for accessing individual computers and small computer networks - just how many of the survivors will have enough knowledge to arrange for electricity at appropriate frequency, ensure it doesn't burn out the fragile machines, and then be able to interface with a (likely password-locked, disk-encrypted) system to extract some useful data?

And even if they do that, just for how long will it do them any good? Modern electronics are built with planned and unplanned obsolescence. Their lifetimes under active use are measured in years, and even inactive they'll age. With no industry (requiring a complex, global supply chain of millions of people) to build fresh replacement drives, there will eventually be nowhere to move the data to.

Our civilization is like a living system, in the sense that it constantly works to repair itself everywhere. Disturb that, and it will rot and die.
The music industry isn’t a monolith, there is an array of companies and rights holders that control over a century’s worth of recorded music. The only single party that could step in and simplify the legal morass is the government.
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On the other hand, one thing Taleb points out in Fooled by Randomness is that meteoric rises are often followed by catastrophic losses, whereas gains more slowly made are typically also lost more slowly.

You can also apply Richard Gott's estimator:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/06/we-ha...

At the 50% confidence interval, it predicts that Facebook has between 5 and 42 years left in it. Maybe the Cambridge Analytica scandal is serious enough to be the death knell, and in five years it will be defunct. Five years is a long time on the web. I could easily see us looking back on this as the scandal that led to Facebook's complete downfall.

Another question I don't have the answer to is how dependent is Facebook on advertising. If their brand becomes toxic and all the advertisers pull out, how much runway do they have? Enough to build a completely new revenue model before going out of business?

Day to day big things are rare, but over longer time intervals large companies do die, and for more frivolous reasons than this.
> Have you actually talked to a 19yr old recently?

Yes, most of my intake into the military were 18 and 19. As a society we consider them adult enough to send them into harm's way. I was the Old Man at 31.

Your defence seems to be based on the premise that 19 year olds are children. No aspect of law or society concurs with that.
Install the Messenger app, delete the Facebook app. There you go.
Most people switching to Firefox are doing it because they want choice. I know that was my motivation. It's not an upgrade over chrome in any other metric.
There could be other factors.

Anecdotally, I remember in the 90s my parents having an old and very box shaped Volvo. Driving through light snow one day my mother was struggling to clear the windscreen, we were on our way to pick up a hire car which ended up being a brand new Mercedes. The angle and shape of the windscreen was entirely different and the snow just followed the airflow up and over.

That said, we have front registration plates in the UK which are probably less subject to aero improvements and ISTR the same phenomenon being observed there.
When buying Leica cameras collectors often pay more for “brassed” models. That’s where the paint has worn away with use to show the brass metal underneath. I guess it’s supposed to show that the tool was used for a long time in the field.

With these intel chips it’s a similar story. You’re looking for authenticity.
I really hope this will be looked at professionally and unbiased. The initial statement of the police sounded anything but. If they looked at the same evidence as we do now, it would indicate a severe lack of understanding of the difference between camera pictures and human vision. Plus, who spread the rumor on the very first day that the victim was a homeless person? What does that have to do with anything?
Gold. :-)

Should probably be https:// though!
The key here is contrast; plus a IR light at 2 feet works great, at 60 feet...not so much.
The article goes on and on to describe how Facebook has tried to do and be many things that it wasn't before, and how it has failed in those attempts to expand beyond a basic social network.

Fine, let's assume that that's true. Facebook did indeed do some useless things. But how is this a reason for its CEO to resign? Facebook did nothing wrong! Yes they failed to become better, and their platform became bloated, but so does every other platform in the world at the moment. But since when is failing to become better now suddenly a really good incentive for it to buckle down completely like the article is suggesting?

I feel the article's argumentation is completely unsound. Premises I have no say about, but its conclusion definitely doesn't follow from those premises.

The author didn't even rein in the privacy stories that are all over the news suddenly. Now that would give their argument leverage, but they didn't.

Go hate Facebook all you like, I do too, but this article doesn't make sense and doesn't deserve to give a reason for you to hate the company or its CEO.
I wonder where is the difference on getting hacked and losing 50M user profiles or giving them away for free.
I've been wanting to delete my FB account for years. Stupid me has it connected to a bunch of other services though by using single sign on feautures... Most used of those services is Spotify and they still don't offer a way to disconnect Facebook from the account.
Facebook has made enemies in very powerful entities. News agencies, governments, google. It's not surprising to witness this unjustified onslaught.
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Yes, it was. Posted speed limits are for optimal conditions. Night driving is not optimal, so if the driver (robot or otherwise) outruns their visibility, then they're speeding.
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I've lived in Silicon Valley my whole life and have now worked here for about 8 years, mostly doing QE of some sort. For the last year or so, though, I feel like I've hit a wall.

I don't really care about working on world-changing projects, or a pool table and fridge full of snacks, or even tons of free t-shirts. I really just want to walk in at 9, do work with some minimum threshold of interesting-ness, and walk out at 5 without worrying about whether I'm on call or what ridiculous promise the sales guy in our open-plan office has made.

Do you have a job like that? Does it exist? If so, where, and how can I get there?
Have you tried an address book?
Azure differentiates itself here by aligning their interests with the customers’ interests. They’re not first do that either. For example, another major hosting provider, OVH, bundles DDoS protection in their basic service.

Google’s model de facto means they’re just running another protection racket, that is they make more money the more DDoS attacks there are.

From Azure’s website:

> Protection against unplanned costs

> Our cost protection provides service credits for resource costs which are incurred as a result of a documented DDoS attack.
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Barring egregious criminality, it doesn't make sense for someone who took a company from nothing (well, maybe a concept pioneered by Friendster and its antecedents) to $500 billion in market cap to suddenly resign.

I feel this Cambridge Analytica story is a bit overblown. When the whistleblower says “target their inner demons”, he is just referring to campaigns placing Facebook Ads with certain parameters about who should see them.

Now the question of political targeting data being re-​purposed from a personality quiz app, and issues of data privacy in general, are worth investigating. But the fall in Facebook stock price is a giant overreaction (unless the story invites legal regulation.)

The shock of Trump’s election and Brexit have prompted more scrutiny of social media, which is warranted. But there’s a limit to the benefit of worrying about Youtube algorithms, Facebook targeting, and Russian trolls. Changing the political situation will mostly require old-fashioned door-to-door politics.
State of the art emergency assist systems in normal driver-operated cars would have seen this woman/bike and started to brake the vehicle. Even without any assist systems, it should be possible for a human driver to see this bike/woman. It was dark, but otherwise conditions were excellent.

I would suppose that sensory capabilities of a driverless vehicles are above those of normal cars. There is clearly something very wrong with uber's technology.
Yeah, I'm surprised every time I see that number that it doesn't seem to get much scrutiny. Furthermore, the claim is that they are monthly active users.

Only 1/2 of the planet is even on the Internet. Yet they have 2B MAU?
You can use some other streaming service if you really want to ditch fb. And let spotify know why when you cancel.
It's getting out of hand. The hate train is running off the rails here.

If this was Reddit, I'd suggest the mods pin a megathread to contain it but HN doesn't work that way. I'm generally against heavy moderation but at this point I'd vote for a moratorium like we did with politics awhile back.
There is no legal precedence to define when a combination of different work create a single work. In theory a program linked with a library could be seen as one work, or two works that interacts, and this is where the disagreement comes when lawyers discuss linking technology. The reason why there is no legal precedence is that no lawyer of a company being accused of copyright infringement has argued the point of the work being multiple rather than a single one.

Why has no company done this? Lets look at an example. Back a few years ago when "cloud" was a major buzz word people were suggesting to turn gaming into a service. A cloud provider would buy a single copy and serve millions by running the game locally and providing a remote desktop like environment to the user. The game industry reply was that this would be copyright infringement. A single copy and millions of users would obviously be wrong, no matter what technology is used to enable it. Their bet is that a judge would see very similar on the issue.

The question about what a judge or jury would think is very significant. Do they care if a library is linked statically or dynamically, or if the programming language is intepreted or compiled? Will those technical aspect determine the question about what constitute "the work"? My bet, and many others including Eben Moglen seem to be that judges and juries will not. What do you think?
If their brand becomes toxic and all the advertisers pull out, how much runway do they have?

There are plenty of companies that will still advertise there. As long as the users remain - and that appears to not be a question, at least right now - there will be advertisers chasing after them. I am in charge of a relatively large Facebook advertising budget, and I can tell you that I would love it if, for example, half of the advertisers left. Facebook ad pricing is largely based on an auction model, and that would mean less competition and lower priced clicks. But I'd be stunned if even 0.5% of the advertisers left over this.

Mozilla is in a unique situation, in that the political views of its workforce seem to dictate many of its business decisions. That is not the case at most companies.
Iirc the flambda work had to be integrated with the multicore branch. That must have been some serious effort.
There’s a spectrum of understanding of what is being done with data. If you’re outside tech and data then it’s not easy to grasp and people underestimate what they are trading drastically, but they are lead to do so.

It’s important to remember that you’re trading with other people. Regardless of the contract or their policy: it’s just humans on the other side with all the usual trappings.
This is exactly what so many people are missing about this story. Posted speed limits are the fastest you can go, not the recommended speed.
> I want to live in a world where instantaneous human-caused planetary disasters cannot happen.

That may very well stay in the past (until the first such disaster) - the whole point of technology is to have ever finer control over ever more powerful things. Two big subsets of that are ever-increasing energy demands (energy = destructive power), and self-replication (aka. biotechnology).
> Now the question of political targeting data being re-​purposed from a personality quiz app, and issues of data privacy in general, are worth investigating.

The data from the quiz wasn't repurposed. The data from the quiz itself has nothing to do with this. The quiz was merely a gateway to get the user to hand over a laundry list of their profile data on themselves and all of their contacts.
Yes, what’s annoying is that if you are using Gmail, you are automatically logged in on all other Google services, including Maps, YouTube etc. When I’m searching a doctor’s address or watching a stupid video on YouTube (most of the time embedded in some other webpage), I don’t always want it to be added to my history. https://myactivity.google.com

Now I’m using Firefox Multi-Account Containers to separate Gmail from the rest. And I am considering switching entirely to ProtonMail.
> the other side didn't keep a stockpile in an off-the-books location?

This seems an implausible strategy on the long run, to organize such a conspiracy you would need thousands of people in the know, from political leaders to technicians. The value of this intelligence would be so colossal that it's unfathomable nobody would sell it for profit or release it for conscience reasons. See the Israel story and Mordechai Vanunu.

Then again, if you manage to have a stockpile of nuclear pits (actual warheads require continuous maintenance, Tritium replenishment etc.) that only 15 people know about, in an non-deployable configuration and hide them so deep that the ultra-sensitive nuclear detectors mandated by the treaties can't sense them, is that a major threat? Their existence might simply fade out of institutional memory.
I don't. Yes, I think Waymo is probably taking very nearly all the necessary safety precautions. But how would we know? It's simply a matter of trust, which is not good enough. And as we see here, the problem isn't Waymo the problem is every other fly-by-night automated vehicle operator out there. We should all know how the sausage gets made in this industry and it is absolutely not through a process of meticulous rigor and studious observance of industry best practices. We all know that software systems get made via mountains of short-cuts and compromises amidst an environment of half-assed development practices.

The only way to fix this is to have regulations which actually enforce quality control. That means code audits, it means a lot more process and a lot more oversight, all of which is going to be a drag but which is necessary when developing systems on which so many lives could depend. If you look at the regulatory requirements for aviation software or even video poker machines they will really put into perspective how little is being done now with autonomous vehicles.
Quote from the article:

> To be clear, while the car had the right-of-way and the victim was clearly unwise to cross there, especially without checking regularly in the direction of traffic, this is a situation where any properly operating robocar should have avoided the accident anyway.

I'm not assuming you haven't read it, but I think this is the best answer I can give you.
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Spotify should work absolutely fine when FB is deactivated, just send a 'Forgot Password' email to the email you used to sign up for Facebook.
Get their e-mails and phone numbers. It'll be a significant improvement in your life, trust me.
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I'm not too upset about them getting rid of videos on how to do things like full auto conversions [0](although I'm curious how they'll handle videos of bump firing that don't incorporate accessories like bump stocks). The language of the ban is vague enough that it could cover nearly all videos of firearms accessories.

Right now, manufacturers often put videos up on YouTube of how to install parts they sell. Like with Ikea furniture, I find these way more helpful than a paper manual. Same for videos about how to disassemble, clean, and reassemble guns (which often link to whatever cleaning products are used) [edit: BTW assembling something that already is a gun still falls under the ATF's definition of manufacturing a gun, so if Youtube uses the same definition these videos are banned even if they don't refer to specific products]

As for the 100 year gun-- let's take the M1 Garand (in WW2 movies, it's the one you hear go "ping". It's only ~85 years old, but bear with me). Over the last decade, the US government has sold off several hundred thousand of these rifles. As far as older guns go, they're fairly common. They shoot .30-06 ammunition, which can be found in most gun stores. However, 85 years ago metal was lower quality. If you use modern commercially available ammo in a Garand it will break [1]. There's a few options though. You can buy surplus ammo and hope that it was stored properly and that 40 years ago the quality control guy at the factory was having a good day[2]. Many people opt to recycle an initial batch of brass and manufacture their ammo. If done correctly this is safe, but there's a bit of a learning curve. Unfortunately the new policy bans videos that detail how to safely manufacture ammo.

[0] channels like ForgottenWeapons often describe how antique firearms work, which might run afoul of the new rules

[1] you can mitigate this with an accessory that reduces the pressure from the gasses. There's some good videos about it on youtube

[2] for more obscure weapons, I don't think this is an option
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The Teslas are not restricted to cameras, but sensorfuse with multiple radars. Im 99-100% sure, that my Tesla would have braked.
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What does Zuckerberg know about user's privacy. He does not believe in the concept[1][2].

I remember when this chart[3] first made the rounds. If this didn't convince people that facebook is evil. I don't know what will

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg...

[3] http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
This is the U.S. century equivalent to Chinese-style self-censorship.
That's ISO and not dynamic range. Dynamic range is what you can see (detect) at the same ISO setting.
Tangential but I find it interesting that countries so geographically similar would have such a different custom in handling that situation.
Good. It is about time people wake up to facebook and Zuckerberg's lack of belief in privacy[1][2].

I remember when this chart[3] first made the rounds. If this didn't convince people that facebook is evil. I don't know what will

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg...

[3] http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/