skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always kept my online profiles as close to real life as possible just to ensure I never get bit in the ass over it. I have been on the internet long enough to see many people around me get screwed over for trying to live larger on the internet only to be caught and it just never seemed appealing to me.

That said I had Facebook locked down as much as possible as soon as I could. Once I entered the workforce after college I cleaned out the most insane pictures but wanted to make sure any company looking to hire me understood I was a human being who also had fun and wasn't afraid to be myself. I felt like in a way presenting my real self was the only way to do anything public online.

I still don't like the way Facebook does things, obviously, but what really scares me is the folks I love and am friends with who roll their eyes when I tell them about what is really going on and why it's bad. As this latest situation has shown us it truly doesn't matter how strong our individual security is if we are easily figured out just by being associated with ONE SINGLE PERSON who doesn't lock their associated / friend-of-ours account down.

That's the kicker that makes this just a terrible thing to me. The warnings already fell on deaf ears but now it seems that everybody, even the most careful, are caught in the mix anyways -- even if they did every single step perfectly along the ENTIRE route that was their internet social media life.

The un-locked down accounts were essentially unknowing spy cells that could be tapped at any moment to uncover everything about the most locked down people they were associated with. As this CA situation demonstrated it only took a few 100,000 accounts to unlock 50,000,000 others. If we are to assume that those 100,000's of accounts were able to hold the keys to the information Facebook wasn't legally allowed to share with 3rd parties due to "Privacy Policy" and legalities than I'd also, personally, safely assume that regardless of the way the 3rd party backdoor got to those locked down accounts was only one route to obtain that info. The other route? Facebook most likely had all of that information all along anyways through craftier methods such as non-FB pages with like buttons, cross referencing across their other suite of apps (Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram), and mining data from other sources like competitive social media networks, dating applications, and who knows what else really?

They've shown a blatant, almost blood thirsty-like mission towards harvesting personal data by any means necessary -- even people who have never been on FB have profiles about them -- so I've never put anything past them and have rarely been surprised when the actual truth comes out.
This feels like 'racketeering' no ?
Oh Git configurations Let's simplify
FWIW Firefox does support WebRTC (which is used for web calling), however sites like Meet sometimes filter for Chrome anyway (IIRC Meet may use Chrome-only proprietary features?). Hangouts is now available on Firefox though, after years of waiting for Google to do it.
My understanding was that, at the time, Lisp and Prolog were the two "languages of AI", with Lisp favoured in the US and Prolog in Europe and Japan. Knowing how language arguments go, I assume that an AI professor who didn't like the idea the Japanese were going for Prolog would be naturally preferring Lisp. I might be wrong :)

As to the 5th generation computer project, what little I've read so far has more or less convinced me that special-purpose processors will never be better than general-purpose ones, at least not for general-purpose computing (which, ultimately, was the aim of the project).

I'm saying that as a dyed-in-the-wool symbolist btw (and a long-time Prolog user). Special-purpose processors to make my Prolog go faster is something I'd love to get my hands on- but, for most people? I think it's not even number 1000 in their list of priorities ot improve computing performance.
I live in the Luberon on a hectare of land. But check this out— all real estate sales of land claimed to be agricultural land (such as mine,) must be approved by a farm association. So farmers can even control the buying and selling of my home that they don’t even own. If, for example, I wanted to buy up a bunch of agricultural land and turn it into a nature preserve, that sale could be blocked by a third party despite not having any ownership rights to the land in question.

It’s a bit insane.
For me, Firefox only takes more RAM/CPU when waking up from sleep. On a fresh reboot of Firefox, it always takes less CPU and RAM than Chrome.
Honestly, the 'office skills' class I took was one of the most genuinely useful courses I took in middle school, simply for the keyboarding instruction. Although in 06 my high school, which was very proud of it's Cisco networking programs, didn't offer any CS courses.
Depends of course what kind of systems you're building. Just the footprint of an integer is too large in Ruby to do anything fast. I'd expect features such as `days` to be a part of Date library that holds an interface accepting certain kind of objects giving dates back. If I don't need these features, I don't want to hold the functionality at all inside an integer.
Not difficult at all, and you can make them keep reasonable attention. Look at the new Cadillac driver assist: sensors in the wheel for hand placement -and- eye tracking. If the driver isn’t watching the road/holding the wheel, they get escalating alarms until the autopilot disengages.

And that’s consumer drive assist tech, not “we are experimenting with full autopilot” tech, where I’d think such safety measures would be even more appropriate.

This is a solvable and solved technical challenge. Uber just didn’t devote any resources to it because they don’t appear to give a shit beyond acquiring a legal fig leaf to shift liability from themselves to an individual.
giving pledge is just a way to evade estate tax and get good publicity from plebes who don't know better.
Facebook has never been ethical. Zuckerberg doesn't believe in privacy. I remember that from from inception to 2010 every move facebook did eroded the default privacy settings of users[1].

[1] http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
Weird, Firefox Quantum greatly improved all resource consumption for me. Maybe you’re running into a bug.
The problem is that there's a buggy u2f library out in the wild distributed by Google that depends on Chrome-specific impl details. This means that while the pref works for sites like Github, it doesn't work for Duo or Google logins or anything that uses u2f.js. Sometimes it doesn't work to the extent that these sites break in other ways. There's nothing that Firefox can do about this; aside from waiting for it to be fixed.

Ultimately the thing that is going to be shipped is probably webauthn.
Just go into lower level. In many companies people have message brokers that need consumers. That's a good place to introduce languages such as Scala, Rust, Haskell and so on. Try to stay away from frontend and hack away.
Bats too? I'm very curious to know if bat populations have also fallen. They are also dependent on the insects.
>> Yet this crash proves that all the equipment in the world didn't catch a very obvious obstruction.

A human is not an "obstruction", dammit. I mean, literally- it's not like hitting a wall. The driver's life will never be in danger and the care may not even be significantly damaged. There's a very special reason why we want self-driving cars to avoid humans, that has nothing to do with the reason we want to avoid obstacles. And because this special reason is very, very special indeed, we need much better guarantees that self-driving vehicle AI is extremely good at avoiding collisions with humans, than we do for anything else.
I really hope Tempe has the balls to revoke Ubers AI driving license.

This is completely unacceptable. Their approach to AI driving has been terrible from the start. They don't have the data, nor the expertise to do this in a safe way.

This is not the first time they've fucked up royally

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/25/14737374/uber-self-drivin...
A contract is only valid if both parties agree. If one of them explicitly disagrees, the contract is definitely not valid.
Sure, but an unreleased crate is not likely to make any commitments wrt API stability etc.
I've just opened preferences and I don't see much improvement. It's a page now, and there's less stuff, but it's what I had 15 years ago. Anyway, I still have to go to about:preferences all the time.

I totally dislike their experiments with menu bar. I never wanted that. It's Ribbon all over again.
Don't you remember Trump telling the Russians or Wikileake to release some more stolen emails? The rest of the connection is not yet public, although there are lots and lots of connect-the-dots conclusions to be drawn.
Surely the car's computer had data about all sorts of things around it. The car does not and cannot know anything. It would have been up to some programmers to tell it what to do with the data.
The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS
I remember web rings. There were some nice rabbit holes to get lost.
> The law says that you don't drive faster than you can see.

Amusingly, the law also says that manufacturers have to produce headlights that cast light out far enough to leave you adequate stopping distance at 60mph. Almost no headlights on the market currently do that.

Not a counterpoint, just a tangent that I find sadly amusing.
I loved Firefox until it lost the plot. They tried to look like a clone of chrome. They removed the status bar because it was "superfluous" and then they integrated the pocket extension. I hope they regain the joy that it caused when I first used it

[Edit] Why the downvotes? I want Firefox to be successful, it just seems to have lost its charm from when it was originally called Phoenix[/Edit]
Army's brain-like computers moving closer to cracking codes
For my master thesis, I implemented a new and fancy algorithm. The code seemed to be fine and dandy for the usual, simple test cases. After using more elaborate test cases, I found cases that didn't work well.

After contacting the author, who indicated he didn't have such problems, I literally spent months trying to debug the code. When I finally gave up and re-wrote my implementation basically from scratch, and found the same problems, I contacted the author again. He then indicated that indeed there was a problem with the method for these cases, that he understood the problem and found a way to fix it. In hindsight, the problem was not hard to understand (but still, the claims in the paper were unwarranted IMO).

Conclusion? I wish I was a math prodigy, then I would have spotted the problem instantly. Also, be wary of claims made in papers.
I deleted my Facebook in 2012 because I don't like it.
However, scraping user profiles is a privacy problem? What about archive.org that will scrape your personal website so you are never able to get rid of your previous version?
That's blatantly false. US common adherance to science in terms of progress has varied throughtout its history, while general religious belief has almost perpetually declined for two centuries. They do not appear to be very strongly linked in the US; that's due to its secular foundation. The US has been the world's leader in scientific output since the Civil War, there hasn't been a close #2.

Under your theory, the US should be radically more scientifically oriented now than it was a century ago, as religious beliefs have plunged substantially over that time.

Or for another example, the Chinese culture is extremely mystical. And saying extremely, is an understatement. Just their beliefs around luck alone are as mystically out there as any hard-core Christian notions I've ever run across in the US.

And yet those mystical beliefs supposedly do not deter the Chinese from the pursuit of science.

A near majority of people in Western European nations believe in ghosts or the equivalent. In fact, less Americans (42%) believe in ghosts versus people in the UK (52%) [1]. How do you believe in ghosts without believing in some kind of convoluted afterlife theory? How can scientifically oriented people believe such things?

Canadian monthly church attendance rates were as high as recently as 1988, as the US is today. Did that mean Canadians were crippled scientifically until the last 10-15 years? I doubt it.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/why-do-pe...
Saw that the Centriq 2434 (40 cores) is listed at RRP $888.

Does anyone know if you can get hold of a Centriq cpu & compatiple motherboard to build a local server or two? I fancy one in our lab rack to play around with.

I'm assuming that this is not possible and that they are currently just for datacentre partners who make a large order. But would be great to hear otherwise.
Key point to remember: A user in the developed world is MUCH more valuable to FB, so even if only westerners quit, each westerner is worth up to 35x what someone from the developed world is worth, in terms of ad income.

They may have '2 billion' users, but they're super vulnerable to an exodus of even 5% of them in terms of income, if they're from the right regions.

(This is based on my hazy recollection of stats which had a US FB user worth $35USD to FB in income, where someone from the developed world drew in <$1USD)
Bootcamp: protecting the engineering culture during hyper growth
The trouble is, very few of those rich people actually live here, aside from vacations and for tax purposes. Sadly, most people here (especially the politicians) seem convinced that this current coal bust is part of the normal cycle, and the revenues will come back in a few years. At the point that even China is looking to reduce coal usage for environmental reasons, I highly doubt that the mine revenues will ever return to peak levels.

The only tech that the state seems to have attracted is datacenters, but those don't provide much in the way of tax revenues or jobs.
No, the alternative is importing food from countries who have a competitive advantage in agriculture, such as the United States — thus improving the economic condition of the 98% of French who aren’t farmers.

Also, your theory holds no water: France still manages to import vast numbers of cheap Chinese consumer goods which are often produced under extraordinary bad environmental conditions. So if the idea that France is saving the environment by farming more, then it would follow that they’d be making more consumer goods for similar reasons. But they aren’t.
Companies are looking for energy and experience, but by time with experience the energy goes down, basically you start to -at least slowly- burn out. So... after a sabbatical, you supposedly full with energy and a motivation to work better. And you have the skills and the experience.

If a company only cares of the lines written on the resume, it doesn't really matter you filled it or answered really good in the interview, there will be problems later on.

But if a company knows, it's not just sum of the parts but as a whole who you're and how you approach life and work is that all matters, then there will be no problem telling what you did in these times.

You don't have to go to Asia... maybe you just want to focus on some other stuff or have some time off. But also you went to Asia, so you use this time for yourself, in a way you thought would be better for you. I think this is very important aspect of a professional. If you don't know how to allocate your time and energy, you're not efficient.

You did something most people even can not dare to think of doing it. Don't try to please people, be yourself and this way you will eliminate all the pretentious people/companies and will find a better match for you. Don't settle for what people say to you, just because they can't do it.
If you're using Bt GMO crops, you need to use way less incesticide. There's lots of sources on this, eg: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/2190-4715-24-24
I'll stop using both reddit. HN is much better anyway. I'll be waiting for the new wave of migration, as it was the case from digg to reddit initially.
> which is, in my opinion, just an indication of the level of addiction people have to the service

I don't think that's it. I think the problem is that what was revealed was far too abstract for most people to fundamentally grasp.
I'd rather not try -- there's scientific controversy and the explanations on both sides (that I've seen) are low quality. So people are reduced to 'weighing evidence', which is irrational.

Part of the problem of course is politics. Dental health and vaccination are both very important good things and this makes it even harder to determine the truth of the matter. For example, people regularly exclaim things like 'there's absolutely no evidence that X', or 'there's overwhelming evidence that Y'. But they do this rhetorically, and as I said, without associated explanations. In such circumstances 'evidence' isn't always meaningful.

Hence my original point. Since we don't yet understand how the brain and the mind work (if we did, we'd have AGI) we're not in a position to assess damaging effects, if any, which may be subtle. If this was any other organ, I'd say let it go. But the brain is the seat of the mind and is therefore uniquely precious.
Will be even more interesting when RISC-V becomes a contender in the HP space.
So you are essentially blaming peaticide companies for the pesticide use by farmers?

That’s like blaming a murder on the bullet factory.
My understanding is that some large parts of the feature set aren't usable anyhow. E.g. there's enough of a ramp up/ramp down power cost for the vector units that you'd never want to compile your binaries with SSE/AVX turned on unless your workload makes near constant use of those units.
> The reason I think people are talking about repealing the 2nd is because the NRA won't budge an inch.

Because the anti-firearm crowd won't budge an inch either.

All the evidence points towards gun-free zones failing to reduce violence. Will the anti-gun crowd work with gun owners to expand where law abiding citizens can carry?

> If people can't get sensible gun regulation

Without making this partisan - you can't have strict gun control without strict border control.

Should we try and meet the conservatives in the middle and help them secure our southern border?
He is the most hated candidate and least liked president in modern history.

He lost the popular vote.

Republican dominance is a product of voter suppression and gerrymandering.

I agree we're not doing a good job of protecting the environment, but Trump's election doesn't indicate that people's willingness to do so is waning.

I've only ever seen evidence that people care more about climate change as time goes on and the economy recovers.
For a bit more on what the manufacturer reference design looks like:
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/12/06/deep-dive-qualcomms-...
>triggered something in me that I'm not sure I understand fully.

I think that feeling is called jealousy.
The system is very early stage, I believe there's still a long way to go until the system is fully trained and has enough redundancy as to remediate for bugs in one component. I'm pretty sure the engineers foresaw that situation to an extent and that their design intention is to prevent or avoid running over pedestrians.

The same happened in aviation throughout the years, until airliners got to a point where systems just don't fail... Or at least not without other 2 systems correcting it.

There's human intervention behind every aspect of this accident, and again, like airliners, there will be many accidents (and hopefully not many deaths) until engineers can get it right. FAA and other agencies played a crucial role in exposing and recommending improvements across different manufacturers and airlines, hopefully government will assume that role here too to ensure improvements are mandatory before sending prototypes into the road.
Ok, simple question then: should rich people not have fun? Or should they just never allow everybody else to find out they have fun?
I don't think the driver is looking at her smartphone. I think she's checking the car's monitor (as in a computer screen). Although to be fair, that should be showing the car's view of its surroundings so I don't know what's going on there.

Edit: Nevermind. Someone posted a picture of the car's interior, below and there's no computer screen.
why, what did he say about it?
There are just too many weird little anecdotes about all of this. I'm not trying to bring politics into this but as if Facebook as a corporation isn't high enough up on the food chain as it is (in general as a company that makes lots of money, in terms of it's global use, in terms of it's global power, in terms of it's brand strength overall, in terms of it's use for gain by candidate being elected all the way up to the President of the USA) this story is being tied to Trump's campaign (I don't know to what end, yet, but it could be associated to Trump forcefully -- we'll see when we see) and Zuckerberg going missing for two days seems odd enough on its own.

For him to come back and give a Q&A that sweet and rosy just felt odd to me. The questions weren't total softballs. The questions weren't extremely hard hitting, either. The answers themselves are what bothers me. There is a total lack of empathy, total lack of ownership of the serious implications all of this has, and most importantly to me -- a serious lack of humanity behind the eyes and words of a man who runs a business that claims to bring the world together in a happy, constructive, and peaceful way -- meanwhile that company makes millions hand over fist while selling out those very people they claim they champion and uplift. Profiting off of their secrets and personal doings and sayings. It feels like one of the slimiest things I've ever had the misfortune to understand due to my tech background.
> still vulnerable to the bad habits

Doesn't it seem more likely it was a joke?
Law and society at one point were ok with kids under 15 working in mines and factories. Just because we consider 19 year olds right now 'adult enough' doesn't mean that this won't change with e.g. new scientific discoveries. For example neuroscientists believe that your brain is fully developed around 25 years old: http://www.businessinsider.com/age-brain-matures-at-everythi... (random link but there is more literature on this topic)
Artificial Personhood Is the Root Cause for Dangerous A.I
Show HN: Bringschuld – Simple periodic task and email monitoring
In Firefox, entering about:performance in the URL bar will give you some statistics on how much memory or CPU each tab is using.

Entering about:about in the URL bar gives you a short list of interesting about:* links that you can play around.
/r/WeedDeals is banned now. Probably took them a while to go through everything.
All true. This is temporary, when(if?) this gets more traction, you'll find OEMs and distributors having what you want.
That could be true, but the perception of the industry is now "OMG OMG KILLER ROBOT CARS ARE UPON US", never mind that other companies are expected to behave far more responsibly. (To compare: Chernobyl was a case of 1. bad design, 2. disabled safeguards, and 3. reckless operators - yet nobody cares of the distinctions, and it has essentially killed nuclear power)
Re: Russia/Trump. Consider that instead of the Putin cronies and Russian government people and entities recommended by Treasury and State the Trump administration sanctiones a list of 96 Russian billionaires from Forbes.
> no headphone jack

I thought that would be a big deal when I purchased my iPhone 8, but using the AirPods, I've never once felt the urge to plug in wired headphones. Wireless headphones really are better.
From python to Go to Rust: an opinionated journey
Thanks a lot for the insight!
I think you mean envy.