skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow interesting, thank you.

Bt Delta Endotoxin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipopolysaccharide#Health_effe...

an interesting side note, endotoxin test have relied on availability of horseshoe crab blood:

The standard assay for detecting presence of endotoxin is
the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) assay, utilizing blood
from the Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).[44] Very low
levels of LPS can cause coagulation of the limulus lysate
due to a powerful amplification through an enzymatic
cascade. However, due to the dwindling population of
horseshoe crabs, and the fact that there are factors that
interfere with the LAL assay, efforts have been made to
develop alternative assays, with the most promising ones
being ELISA tests using a recombinant version of a protein
in the LAL assay, Factor C.[
Those are all real risks of homeownership that we can't just handwave away with misguided NIMBY legislation. The first step is coming to grips with the reality that homeownership isn't a magical risk-free investment.
I'm not convinced London has a housing shortage. Or the UK for that matter. The problem is that anyone can buy a house in the UK and they've become investment vehicles. Also consider London has just reached its pre-WW2 population, and all the properties bombed most likely replaced by more efficient housing.

I found a study about supply and demand for housing, but am struggling to find it. There's a post here which seems credible enough, related to the topic:

https://medium.com/@ian.mulheirn/londons-housing-non-shortag...
Still looking for an alternative self-updating Rolodex.
I believe delhanty was referring to the general public as the wildebeest.
With on the seed, there is a lot less neonicotinoid than in an area spray. I tend to prefer minimalist use versus area use.
Deep Learning for Forecasting Stock Returns in the Cross-Section
Even lows are still in the upper 70s, and again, asphalt will absorb heat during the day and then release it at night. 10pm isn't exactly "middle of the night", either, it's only 3 hours after sunset.
The suggestion someone here made is that it was not an attempt to make an actual product, but a scam to defraud the US military. The idea was to get the military to buy the technology for a multi-billion dollar price and later bury that it didn’t work. My memory is some lowly lieutenant refused to sign off on the deal ordered by a four star general and the whole thing fell apart.

This scam was the reason for the board structure and the rather interesting way Theranos went about developing their “technology”.
I wonder how many more would abandon Facebook after seeing the targeting options in the Ads creator.
Culture is much harder to change than you're making it out to be. The employees are not his subjects that can be bossed around and ordered to behave in a certain manner. That's old school management thinking (from 50+ years ago) that's very ineffective.

The culture is one of the hardest things to change once it has been established. It prevents companies from entering certain market segments; from competing in certain ways; from taking certain actions. In a large company, it's so difficult to change, that it's easier and more effective to establish groups outside of the company to pursue new initiatives.

For example, this is the reason why AWS is separated from the retail segment inside amazon. Why Walmart won't compete with Nordstrom. And why large companies regularly create subsidiaries to innovate on new ideas or pursue new market segments (and they're often established off-site, so the corporations culture doesn't carry over).

GM makes a great example about how difficult that can be. They spent billions on Saturn as an experiment to build a new car company. Later they tried to integrate Saturns success into GM by adopting their culture and other practices... but it didn't matter what the management wanted... Saturn died and GM didn't change. Saturn's culture didn't infect GM--GM successfully killed a culture that tried to change them, even after seeing the success of Saturn.
Thermal cameras care about more than just the absolute temperature of an object. The emissive and reflective properties of the material (in infrared) also matter significantly. A human being would almost certainly be visible in a thermal imaging view of that scene.

When you walk outside in the daytime, everything is bathed in a uniform light from the sun, but you have no trouble distinguishing between objects, as they emit and reflect light differently.
If you turn your headlights off on a dark country road, your sight capabilities actually go up, not down. The problem is: most roads are lit or you st least have to compete with other headlights, and it would make you harder to see.
>this doesnt even cover the 73,000 homeless people in Los Angeles county we cant seem to find a place for because no beach city wants to house their own unsustainable numbers of homeless, and no desert community is within a radius of health and welfare services required by many transients.

Wasn't there a pledge to spend over $100 million on this issue last year? Not to mention a new tax w/ HHH.

But yeah, LA is bittersweet. Great weather and lots to do but the lack of a true center, unaffordable housing, and the slow, expensive build out of public transit leaves a lot to be desired.

At my age, I don't care so much about housing in my current situation (to be honest, given the schools here, I would go elsewhere), I would just like half my income not to go to rent (this is in a rent stabilized building - my recent bout of unemployment would've seen me joining the other flood of folks leaving since it wouldn't have covered market rate rent).
If I were to do this, I would go the old-school lead-acid deep-discharge marine battery route. They are safe enough to put in the basement or garage. How to do this is well understood and doable by hackers.

Lithium batteries are pretty scary. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_... is pretty frightening.
Only business though no? OPs point is that there are no / not enough residential high-rises being built.
It strikes me that a good way to test self driving cars would be to simulate people doing random dangerous things like walking in front of the car and seeing how good the car is at avoiding an accident. Then you give the car less and less time to see how well it can eg. respond to a giant mannequin being thrown in front of it.

Following that train of thought, an accident like this
could have been caused by fear of corporate liability.

Because you would eventually have to set some threshold where the car would not respond to an errant pedestrian for the safety of the occupants. Especially in wet weather. A good lawyer could argue that is when the car software decided to kill the pedestrian. So, Uber's AV team might have just said "she was jaywalking" to avoid writing code that dealt with situations outside of the rules of the road because it might in the future look controversial, even if the addition of that code may have the effect of sparing more lives than it takes.
Facebook did report the first decline in monthly active users (MAU), is this the turning point [1]? Ive always wondered if facebook would die a quick death or a slow crawl. Wonder who gains from this ? twitter resurgance ? dont think so, snap ? not so sure, time for google to give another go to push google+?

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/facebook-north-america-daus-...
If, by behavior, you mean movements by the body, then I think is a silly idea - a straw man, in fact, even if it was constructed by people who actually believed it. Pointing out its silliness may be amusing, but it doesn't get us any closer to understanding consciousness.
Autopilot does not count. I'm assuming it's because it requires people to be actively engaged in the task of driving and it only works in very specific situations. Tesla reported 0 miles of autonomous driving in CA on public roads last year.
Yes I do too,

some quick searching says that spotify pays the record companies monthly, around 50-70% of revenue for the music licensing.

however there seems to be a serious distinction between free subscriptions and paid.

Because free users are getting music for free, this seems to be where the Spotify Group may be packaging up and selling data to music companies or elsewhere to pay for hosting, salaries etc.

I guess the opt out is to disconnect your facebook from spotify;

Or, create a new separate spoitify account. But, because your billing/email settings would be the same.. it's would be easy to join/coalesce the account data in the backend.

or just buy cd's
Facebook doesn't seem necessary at all.
Then move out to the suburbs? Don’t force the city to stay suburban to accommodate your snowflake preferences.
MIT's Soft Robotic Fish Explores Reefs in Fiji
You were active in the 90s?
You keep stating the same allegations and assumptions, and now including statistics, without sources.
One can do nothing about that: a simulation can be indistinguishable from the real thing.
It’s SO unnecessary. Not having it forces you to engage directly with people you truly like. You’ll have more time for them as a bonus.
I think it's worth stating: if you're not deleting your friend connections, you're not leaving.

I say that because your friends retain their friend count, and that's a big part of FB-identity. Also, you can always pick it back up when "they" fix the problem (which isn't fixable).

I made my act public, left a message with contact info as my last message, and then deleted all my "friends" (which was, honestly, a pretty nice reminder of folks I hadn't spoken with in a while). Finally, I bcc'd them on an email so I could stay in touch. I can always reply-all that email if I need to spam them with news/info/etc...

it's not a perfect solution, but it's the best I could come up with on my own, and I'm advising my friends to do the same.
We can directly measure brain state to some resolution. So, as long as the brain can detect and understand outside stimulus we could still communicate.
twitter just had their first profits. the celebrities use it, marketers use it... seems like the big contender, at least for people over 20
Desert Bus. Not quite Twitch stream material..

I agree that it's an apt comparison, except Uber seems a worse experience. In Desert Bus you have to correct the bus.. Stupid work, but something necessary - boring - to do or you fail.

There seems to be nothing at all to do in that Uber?
Prediction: water shortages will not impact 5 billion people in 2050.

Nearly all these predictions rely on extrapolating some trend and ignoring innovation and changing market dynamics.
I think we have power. If you can't get people to build a product because they don't think it is ethical, then you can't build the product. That is the leverage developers have.

Of course, this works best in an economy where there are a surplus of jobs.
there's only one reason it doesn't exist... go build it.
Yes there is. Almost every major class of produce has an industry association (or several) which promote the interests of their industry, including funding research. In fact, a family member of mind sits on the board of two such associations in California, one for peach growers and one for tomato growers, both of which have funded tons of research out of UC Davis.

That isn't to say that the research is flawed, but somehow Greger only sees this funding mechanism to be fundamentally bad when they contradict his predetermined conclusion...he conveniently doesn't see any reason to question a study on kale funded by the kale industry.

And yes, Greger is biased. His opinions start with the premise that vegan==good and anything else is bad, and he works backward from there to shape a view of research that bolsters that premise. It's no different than Mormon scientists attempting to prove that coffee is bad for you, or Muslim scientists that attempt to prove that pork is bad for you. The idea that humans shouldn't eat animals or animal products has a valid philosophical foundation, and while a vegan diet is likely far more healthy than the average diet, editorializing the science to attempt to prove nutritional superiority of that philosophy is irresponsible pseudoscience.
There’s still LinkedIn or Twitter if you must.
The question is - will this be just a minor blip to Facebook and then normal services will resume after the indignation wears off? Or will it the beginning of the end of the social media dominance of the platform?

For me personally, I use FB primarily to keep in touch with friends, family and old colleagues who are spread all over the world. It is purely a contact tool, and not really used to market products of services etc., so my attachment is purely an emotional one.

However, I must admit that this latest episode has really hammered my trust in the platform FAR more than any other previous ones (and there have been many). Yesterday, for the first time ever, I went through my FB settings and removed a lot of personal information as well as stagnant apps that I had approved YEARS ago from my permitted apps list.

I am also seriously reconsidering what I do post on there from now on, as well as drastically reducing the number of times I post. I've also turned off location tracking for the FB app on my phone, and am considering deleting it altogether and just sticking to the web platform.

Will I change my mind in a months time? It's unlikely, but who knows? I like being able to talk to family that are literally on the other side of the world, and it is too hard for me to get them all to adopt Telegram or any other communication tool outside of FB Messenger, so I may find myself drawn back in.
> but I find it difficult to imagine how a material thing, the brain with its neurons and electric impulses and neurotransmiters, can be able to generate what philosophers of mind call qualia, which is something apparently non material.

There was a time when people said the same thing about the body. How can a slab of muscle and bones move? What is moving the body? Of course, it has to be a soul. The same thing with the heavens. Look at those magnificent planets and stars. Certainly gods must reside there and are moving them.

> I have an experience. How my brain/hardware causes the experience? Is the experience material? Perhaps. I wonder: how? e.g.: when I see a cup, where in my brain is the subjective experience of the cup? Is it coded as electric impulses? What decodes it and translates the impulses to qualia?

This is basic philosophy questions. It can't be answered by philosophy. It has to be answered by science ( neuroscience ).

Honestly, philosophically pondering about the brain/mind right now is akin to pondering about the gods/planets a few hundred years ago. Or philosophizing about where the soul reside in our body ( pineal gland? heart? liver? )

Now, we see how absurd those assumptions were because we advanced scientifically and we gained knowledge. I'm fairly certain the same will happen with the mind/brain questions.

All I know is that there is no "qualia" without the brain. Applying occam's razor, why do we need the mind? Other than as a crutch for our lack of understanding of the brain?
Bizarre specific options like “single black female addicted to weed?”
Based on the video, it took about 1.5 seconds from when the pedestrian came into view till the vehicle collided with them.

At 38 mph, a car is traveling about 56 feet/second. That means that the car traveled about 84 feet in that timeframe. VOL (Visual Aim on Left) headlamps are supposed to be aimed 2.1 inches below headlamp level at a distance of 25 feet [1]. If the headlamps on the vehicle were about 2 feet off the ground, then they should have been able to light up the roadway about 286 feet ahead.

Had the headlamps been aimed properly, then the driver could have seen the pedestrian about 5 seconds in advance. That would have given the driver about 1 second to react and 4 more seconds to slow down or change direction to avoid the collision.

[1] http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/aim/aim.html
What tax incentive is there for real estate other than the small SALT deduction? A mortgage is just leverage, you can similarly deduct margin loan interest (with no cap other than investment income IIRC).
I asked a friend if they would pay $1/mo for a facebook alternative, and they said no -- they would just start using instagram. When I explained facebook owned instagram, they still didn't think $1/mo would be worth it, citing:

"It's just another thing I have to pay per month: Netflix, Spotify, etc."

People have mental budgets, and maybe their psychological good will in balancing those budgets get drained over time for things like recurring payments that aren't on a bigger scale ($100+) and aren't 100% necessary like internet.
> It's part of their education to learn how to take part in the community by doing things like reviewing papers.

And this "part of their education to learn" keeps really cheap labor running science. Even postdocs are considered trainees, because they will always be learning because is part of their "job"
I kind of doubt that this action will stop all of the devs that check in their api keys into public repos everyday that are then used by other parties, but at least it will allow facebook to cover their ass a bit more.
the sooner you're off it, the sooner you can build your graph in other places that work JUST AS WELL.
This exact situation happened to me on an unlit road 3 years ago. I swerved in the opposite lane and avoided the collision, without thinking. I was just lucky that my reflexes kicked in on time and that there was no opposing traffic.

I had to stop and shake out all the adrenaline and rage after that.

Real question, what would have happened to me, a human driver, if I had hit the person?
The point you are missing is that there was no cambridge analytica app and nobody opted into it an app that doesn't and didn't exist. They opted into a completely different app that datamined it for completely unrelated purposes and then, much later, sold off to CA which used it to target people. one was on the up and up and one was CA. Again, if trump did what obama did on the level it would have been fair game. they were shady and used shady tactics and shadily acquired data. Not a single person that opted into the koger app thinking it was a political app but people that used the obama app knew what they were getting into.
If the last possibility is the case, there would likely have been a lot more accidents by now
Yes, yes and yes. The marketing sucks and the documentation is a confusing mess, but this is what it looks like:

1) Cloud Identity Free = User accounts, SSO, with Google or external identity provider.

2) Cloud Identity Premium = Advanced user management, device control, compliance, reporting, etc.

3) G-Suite Productivity Apps

4) Google Cloud Platform

G-Suite or GCP include Identity Free Edition, but you can use Identity on its own. And then you can always upgrade it to Premium edition for more control.

https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/7431902
Obviously a "hello, world" failure of self-driving.

I wouldn't blame a human for not seeing that person, but better should be expected of the tech.

However:

* there doesn't appear to be a single reflective device on the bike. For instance, the usual spoke-mounted reflectors that are stock equipment on even low-end bikes do not seem to be there.

* the woman seems completely oblivious to the car's approach. She doesn't react at all but keeps casually walking with the bike right until the moment of impact. She mustn't be looking in the direction of traffic at all and is mowed down completely by surprise, like someone sucker-punched in a bar. (Was this someone with disabilities? Visual or hearing impairment? Developmental?)

* I think here is the road where this took place:
https://www.google.co.in/maps/@33.4351488,-111.9415554,3a,60...
The scene of the accident is a little bit forward of here.
Utterly not a place to be crossing at night in a way that is completely oblivious to the presence of vehicles and far away from the intersection. Note that this is a one-way double lane; there is only one direction in which to look out for cars.

This kind of badly behaved, suicidal pedestrian is a challenge to drivers even in daylight. However, you would expect precisely this sort of situation to be among the highest priority test cases for self-driving tech.

BTW: here is a shot of a sign forbidding pedestrians from crossing at almost that exact spot: https://www.google.co.in/maps/@33.4362927,-111.9424451,3a,15...
She wouldn't have seen that one because she probably crossed the other lane already; she's coming from the median. How did this person live to 49?
Just a different point of view on Venice (respect to SC and their opinion)... It can be a fantastic place to live and a lot of people love it (and though the streets are not gilded like other West LA neighborhoods it is every bit as expensive and desirable). If you do decide to live there, though, stick to the area between the Santa Monica border and Abbot Kinney and, oddly, steer clear of the blocks right next to the beach (you might find some killer deal on a place close to the beach, but if it seems too good to be true it usually is because of summer crowds, homeless issues, quality of apartments/houses, etc).
Twitter resurgence? Is there one? I am basically turned off Twitter far more than I am Facebook at the moment. The signal to noise ratio there has tilted FAR into the red zone of late. The proliferation of bots, and the ability for anyone with a pulse and a stupid meme graphic to plaster them into any conversation has just killed the conversational or learning capacity of that platform for me.
I've seen precious little of that.

In fact I don't know of any example that required a plurality of people to act, that wound up being anything but a unit fix and not a global fix for a problem.

More than likely someone will go down in flames, everyone will congratulate themselves on a job well done and then it will be business as usual for everyone else doing the same thing. Hell, I'd be surprised if Facebook even takes the hit for this one.
The code isn’t perfect obviously. The software is probably programmed to avoid anything in the opposite lane.
koger did report that but ended up not deleting it and also ended up selling the data to CA.
Link: 'No, Obama Didn’t Employ the Same Strategies as Cambridge Analytica' https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/21/no-obama-didnt-empl...
Ads manager targeting is a funny beast. Even FB doesn't really know the available targeting buckets. A lot of the time, the algorithms just create the targeting buckets.
There are two explanations for the video published:

1. They DO have cameras onboard with the exposure settings necessary to see the woman in the video, and have not released the video because it makes for bad PR.

2. They DO NOT have such cameras, in which case they should have their self-driving permit revoked because this failure mode is completely predictable to anybody working in this space. And anyway their LIDAR should've detected the person.
A Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg About Data Privacy