skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did i kick someone's puppy here or what? I could understand getting this level of disagreement if i claimed all doctors are psychopaths, but all i did was point out that not all eye doctors enjoy their job. Not like i give a shit about karma, but i am honestly curious what caused this seemingly extremely irrational reaction.
I agree fully with your first paragraph and I chuckled at the "trolley problems all the way down" depiction.

However I can't imagine a car company accepting the legal liability of allowing their autonomous cars to go over posted speed limits to "match traffic".

In a trolley problem you have the option to refuse a decision. By participating in "speed matching" you become one of the trolleys and you have accepted the unsafe conditions.
I have seen that. It doesn't look good for him no doubt. But that equates to less than a billion right? The stock drop alone in the past few days cost him much more than that ($5 billion from one article I read).

So given that he's probably not an idiot, it looks really bad to sell if he thinks it's going to drop, and the money he made from selling is far outweighed by the drop from the controversies, it doesn't seem likely to me that it was because "he knew it was going to drop."

I don't like the guy but my feeling is it was unlucky timing.
At the risk of sounding macabre, the engineers will be pouring over thousands of lines of logs and if Uber self driving cars ever do survive to make it onto the roads again, the circumstance of woman's death and the after analysis will mean it will never ever happen again. I expect that during the coming years we will analyse car crashes with the same scrutiny as airplane crashes with the hope to solve every single edge case. RIP.
Java 10 Released
Batteries included React Component for rendering, creating and editing diagrams.

Really beautiful and functional diagram drawing and interaction code (not to be confused with https://github.com/rmfisher/react-flow-diagrams (note the final 's')).

See a quick demo video here: https://twitter.com/DrummerHead/status/976113865464467462
Such sales are usually coordinated with SEC well in advance. You submit your filing to SEC and sell accordingly during next 365 or 180 days (not sure about timeline, but definitely not a week).
you run without js by default? God your internet must be boring :)
The bail bond industry (also for-profit) will not welcome it. And my guess is they know how to fight back.
I bet he tries to avoid this becoming a 'Zuckerberg' story and is more okay with FB declining a few points on its brand perception.
Yes. Our initial target population are those individuals who are currently in jail pre-trial-meaning they have not been convicted of the crime for which they were arrested. Most of these people remain in jail because they cannot afford to bail out. We believe this is a critical population because they often have pressure to plead guilty to a crime they did not commit just to get out of jail. They are often then on probation, which can lead to a cycle of incarceration for probations violations-often that are very minor infractions.
The ethical thing to do here, if asked whether you will treat the word of a law enforcement officer as always true, is to lie.

That question came up the last time I was called for jury duty. But it was the people who affirmed that they believe police are always truthful who were excluded.
I imagine running without JS would be way more impactful on site function, so yeah, it wouldn't change your experience much.
If the reported speed of 38 mph is correct it does not appear to have been speeding, unless most of the reports have the location wrong, or the speed limit has changed in the last 9 months.

The nearest sign on the road it was on, for the direction it was traveling according to most reports, that it would have passed says that the speed limit is 45 mph [1]. That image is from July 2017.

For the other direction it is 35 mph [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4350531,-111.941492,3a,75y,3...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4371031,-111.9433154,3a,75y,...
100% means it's always true for everyone. It's not reliably true for anyone, though it's sometimes true, and it's more likely to be true for certain people.

I am objecting to the “100%” characterization, and pointing out that reality is much more complex than that.
Should the enforcement of rules be stricter or less strict when applied to those responsible for enforcing the rules?
I wish it were that easy. Good start, but Facebook will still:

1. Get your data from other websites/apps that you allow

2. Get your data through your friends that use Facebook
Is there a way to export the list for a /etc/hosts.allow?
Yes, Michael Seibel, please read up on the history of Twitch.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/07/21/trends-cloud-computing...
Sure! You can reach out at sgterban@gmail.com
I use Little Snitch[1] (and its sibling Micro Snitch[2]) for filtering connections at the system level. I don't interact with it too often though, because I rarely install new apps.

Not to say /etc/hosts doesn't work, these days I just find I prefer things with better UX.

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[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

[2] https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
>This is the same argument constantly used to justify violating a country's own values...

I think you are conflating two separate issues, nations vs individuals. If an individual wants to buy land and happens to be Chinese, who cares? But this is the Chinese Government buying land in the US.

It's not the same thing, so different rules should apply.

Let's take this to the extreme to see how bad it could unreasonably get. What would happen if a single foreign government (for the sake of argument, run by a dictator for life) bought all the land in the US...? Or even less crazy, a majority of the movie production companies (or used their market share to force government paid censors to be at the filming and have editorial rights), colleges (or controlling interest in them), news companies, or valuable land (no need to buy deserts), etc ... seem far fetched?
The graphs you linked clearly show that the growth is declining.

"Productivity growth is declining" doesn't mean "productivity is declining"

The red line here is going upwards and to the right, but its slope is decreasing:

https://imgur.com/a/M2T7C
This isn't quite accurate to how we set it up.

Each step in our protocol could set a different amount of delay to close the channel. Beginning the close process does not require waiting, but finishing it does. It's actually the opposite, if you wait too long to close, you may not be able to close at all. This means that if you need to close it, and you can't reach your peers for the honest_close case, you better get to it!

Because each step can pick delay, the honest_close case allows a channel to close without any delay.
Weird scenarios that can't be predicted are important to consider. Waymo presentations like talking about a situation they ran into where the car needed to stop because it encountered an old woman in a wheelchair with a broom chasing a turkey. As I understand it, most of these companies sensibly say "unknown weird thing in/near road means stop the car."

ooo, there's video of the turkey wheelchair broom chase: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2017/mar/16/goo...
I suspect that among people who are not antisemetic, being Jewish doesn't preclude someone from being considered white. I know some consider being Jewish to be an ethnic or racial identity rather than just a religious identification, but I don't think most people do.
You don't need to lie, but you need to be careful not to frame your realistic skepticism as bias. Then, if you do make the jury, you need to be incredibly tactful so that the prosecutor doesn't get the trial thrown out on the basis that, e.g., you're biased simply because you don't take police testimonies as ground truth.

The risk here is that there are people fighting to get out of prison for things they're not guilty of. If you have realistic expectations that police and their representative prosecutors can and do lie, please exercise caution.
Does he have an evil lair in New Zealand like the rest of the oligarchs? Might want to check there.

Zuckerberg is probably with his lawyers who are telling him to keep his mouth shut for now.

There are active warrants and subpoenas flying around in multiple jurisdictions that could conceivably extradite or detain him.

Being rich isn't fun if you can't go anywhere or do anything. Better to let the stock crash for a while than risk incriminating yourself because you shot your mouth off.

Zuck isn't as stupid as Trump.
> IBM is not a company that comes to mind when I think of cutting edge cloud services

But Apple is?
And I disagree with your characterization. Selling people shit isn't the bulk of the problem like you say - it's everything that surrounds it. I'm not sure why you don't think of it as a major issue, but I hope that someday you will.
Test vehicles collect all the data. I think it was Cruise that mentioned they collect about 4 terabytes per day per vehicle. It likely isn't much different for Uber.
That's hilarious. Seriously. If you want to right a longer Tim Cook fan fiction, I'd be the first one to buy your e-book.
Does /etc/hosts support wildcarding subdomains?
Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley
The chain as i saw it:

Jurors are asked if they will treat the word of law enforcement as always true.
Jurors are disqualified if they don't say yes.
Jurors are sworn, as you say, to tell the truth.
Presumable jurors get punished if they end up acting counter to their previous word?

Thus, jurors that end up on the bench are forced by law to act as if every word by law enforcement is true, even if it contradicts physical reality. No?
Isn't the Pen mightier than the Sword? Aren't ideas immortal contrary to people?

If you agree with those tropes missiles are less dangerous than propaganda.

My comment may come as exagerated but I think you need some shock value if you want people to start really thinking. Cognitive dissonance is hard to break and rare are those who don't consider themselves good people.
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower on how they used Facebook [video]
No but you have to keep in mind the dynamics:

1) once a police officer submits or makes a knowingly false statement that results in your prosecution, exposing this taints all cases where that officer was involved which could result in retrials or dismissals. The da absolutely does not want to be responsible for this. They will drop the charges once your lawyer takes them aside after the statement has been made. Note: do not give your lawyer this evidence until the perjury has occurred. They may not be happy with you and inform the DA thus cutting you off at the knees (it's pretty incestuous at times.) Play dumb and outraged that this is happening to you.

2) a finding of perjury is rare, you're after dismissing the charges

3) nothing will happen to that officer but you may end up being considered hostile in that precinct.

No doubt about it, they are the enemy when it comes to finding a scapegoat and they do it with your tax dollars.

Edit: I'm unable to respond, apparently I'm commenting too much for the last hour so my response is here:

Think about this regarding not trusting your own lawyer: if the case gets dropped, the attorney makes no more in fees. If that evidence is neutered, it needs to go to trial. Trust no one. I'm a very hard looking guy (hard life but I'm really quite soft) and most people think I'm guilty of everything. Add that I am not white, don't look rich, and it's a recipe for distrust on sight. Even when faced with evidence, I've had people continue to lie as if admitting that I'm innocent would cause a tear in the fabric of the universe.
And the idea that the speed limit itself is the problem... is there any room in your worldview for that possibility?

Why not lower it to 5 MPH on a nationwide basis? Think of all the lives that would save!
It would be useful to know how to generate this list in the first place, then just adopt that to create the list on our own, instead of coming back to this github repo to sync every so often.

I do not see this in the repository, presumably to get people to come back to his github repo for updates, but that's my cynicism.
Wish competing service providers appear soon. The need is real.
Your host file, hmm. Maybe something based on disconnect.me. If you're mostly worried about the browser (which seems sensible for most users), you can just enable tracking protection in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection
Of course. But that driver could have a disability - their allergy if it’s severe.

Maybe it shouldn’t be a toggle, maybe it’s a part of both the driver and users profile so a driver can’t descriminate and instead it’s more of a matching algorithm.
Hmm ok. That's an odd thing to take issue with. I guess you'll take the risk next time you're being questioned?

Edit: It doesn't matter if I'm not statistically correct, the question is whether you would take the risk that, no, they're not out to get you if they're questioning you for something serious... Seems a bad calculation.
Here's the article (someone else found it for me!):

http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-tow...
Oh yes, and sticky events, and flipping the "is it handled already?" flag on an event because some subscribers must have exclusivity...
The biggest advice I'd add is to talk to users before buidling your MVP. You can potentially save yourself a lot of work.

Also, there's a ton of details in how to identify risks and validate assumptions. Four Steps to the Epiphany is a good tactical book on how to do this.
> I don't even like Facebook, but really, is this newsworthy now?

Yes, it is newsworthy because while those of us on HN have been familiar with all the crap that Facebook has been doing for a while now, the common folk have not.
AWS actually has services that directly mirror this. See SageMaker, Rekognition, Polly, ML AMIs, etc.

One can only speculate as to who is the current leader of the cloud ML space, but let's just say that Watson hasn't been warmly received in the past.
I might do this. Just curious if this will break the internet for me... Will certain non Facebook pages fail to load?
As with the intel ceo case, as fb employees we have particular windows when we can sell shares. I don't think Zuck is extempted from this.
Does it? I wasn't aware of that. Nowhere does it specify that just the source code is protected by it, it refers only to 'Software' which includes relevant documentation and I assume, the compiled version of the software. If I included a compiled version of an MIT licensed library in an application I was under the impression that I would need to include that copyright alongside my own as I could be distributing, selling or sub-licensing the library (all of which are explicitly covered by MIT).

Regardless, nowhere in the MIT license does it specify that the concept cannot be replicated by someone else using entirely new code. By making it open source he left himself open to a larger company redeveloping the idea and making money off of it.
having cars follow the same level of investigation as a plane crash is probably the best thing to happen.
Money the is language of business not english. The language is important but not more important than taxes.
IBM Tool Seeks to Bridge AI Skills Gap
At 6 weeks after a Mesenchymal stem cell injection for osteoarthritis in one hip joint — results nothing short of miraculous.

Reportedly positive results for many other “soft tissue” issues, including some brain issues such as Parkinson’s.

I predict stem cell treatments will obsolete many “gold standard” treatments for various soft tissue and brain injuries...
it's not a technological issue. Does it matter if body cams exist, when the footage can easily "go missing"? When the DA and the judge are incentivized to be lenient to advance their own careers? How often do you see headlines where the police commit outrageous atrocities and get a slap on the wrist?

The system is fundamentally broken. The incentive structure needs to be changed. This is a sociopolitical issue.
Ireland agreed to a special Apple tax treatment so that Apple pays practically no taxes. Special deals for single companies are illegal under EU law. You want access to the EU market? Play by the rules.

The tax law is also not applicable only to US companies but to all companies.

This is like saying all law breaking mafia members that corrupted a member state are coming from the same country and putting them behind bars is not fair because the EU is a consolidated market and if you want to profit from it you have to agree that the mafia extracts value from the arrangement and leaving the rules unchanged for the rest of the non-mafia economy is not fair or free trade.
Per this old article from 2016, yes: https://medium.com/waymo/sounds-of-the-self-driving-car-c26f...
Man, sorry for the downvotes.

You have to remember that many people on here probably don't own a car, or necessarily even hold a driver's license. They most likely either live at home or at school, or take a bus to work (NTTAWWT).
Lots to look at, but one that caught my eye was evryhealth. Health insurance, and they're talking to... employers. Employer-provided health insurance is a huge barrier to personal mobility. Might it not have been better to try to tackle the personal market, and help grow that, vs just moving $ around the employer-provided insurance market?
The loans that someone can take out should be capped on the average 1 year salary for the field they are going into.

Too bad it won't happen, because it's cruel to not provide students the opportunity to acquire hundreds of thousands of debt.

If the funding was cut, the schools may have to make due with only 100 million dollars for the ice hockey stadium.
This is a weird link to advertise Java 10 to developers. Instead, a short google search brought me https://blog.takipi.com/how-java-10-will-change-the-way-you-... and the heading picture https://384uqqh5pka2ma24ild282mv-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... probably explains type inference more or less without words :)
Ideally you'll work with early users who are just one or two degrees removed from yourself, so they'll feel social pressure not to ghost you.
It's interesting how high profile this post-crash analysis is - name another time you read so much commentary about the details that caused a car crash?

It seems to me that this is exposing a few gaps in how we think about driverless cars currently:

- A framework for how cars should be making "moral" decisions (the trolley problem [0])
- A defined process for post car crash investigations - akin to the process in air crashes

Will be interesting to see if these emerge soon (or are emerging and I have missed)

[0] https://qz.com/1204395/self-driving-cars-trolley-problem-phi...
Not mentioned in the article but a possible source discussed at an Economics of AI conference in Toronto[0] (among other places) is the idea of a restructuring lag[1]. In effect, we as a society are investing an enormous amount of capital in activities that augment or replace existing economic activity but have not yet completed the transition.

For example, auto and tech companies are investing heavily in self-driving vehicles. At the same time, very few vehicles have been economically displaced as a result of that investment. In effect, we went from spending $X on cars to $X+$Y where $Y is self-driving research. Thus, productivity as measured in an aggregate economic sense, starts to fall. If anyone knows of more research on this argument, I'd love to know more.

[0] https://www.economicsofai.com/nber-conference-toronto-2017
[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59c2a584be42d60a2772b...
Not just crossing all those lanes, since the damage is to the right side, she crossed in front of the vehicle. And yet it never braked.

That's a failure on every level, from prediction to just sheer radar obstacle detection. You don't hit things right in front of you, mid-class vehicles you can buy today already have sensors to emergency brake when the driver won't but an obstruction is ahead.
That's a very optimistic view of what will happen -- or I suppose a pessimistic one. I agree that there will be a lot of scrutiny of the logs, but unless they identify an actual bug ("Oh shit, we had a buffer overrun right here!") it's not necessarily going to be possible to preclude this or something very similar from happening again.

The driving of an autonomous vehicle is an emergent event of large numbers of complicated and in some cases opaque subsystems. Changing the interactions of these subsystems in a narrow way to preclude this particular kind of event is not necessarily something they'll be able to figure out a way to do without causing more problems.
I agree that the tax is more like a duty or tariff despite being sold as an attempt to correct a corporate tax loophole.

The reason it is not marketed as such is because it makes it obvious who will actually pay the tax - the consumers of the products.
It’s a problem people knew about back when “autopilot” was just for aircraft, not cars.

https://blog.prototypr.io/automation-is-making-us-dumber-and...
Cambridge Analytica filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap
Rightly so. Otherwise there would be no point in all this evidence, trial and jury business.
Can one be started? Sub-questions include:

1. Are public court-records complete enough to show it?

2. Is it a judgment-call whether a given record shows it?

3. How would list-makers avoid charges of defamation?

4. How do they prevent spam?
Do You Really Want to Be CTO?
I have used many feedback forms that Google provides. I am convinced that they completely ignore my feedback.
No, jurors have to swear to tell the truth when answering questions during jury selection. However, in practice if you express any reservations about police testimony you will very likely be struck from the jury by the DA.

My own limited experience on a jury is that, because of the way jurors are selected, they tend to be fairly deferential to authority (especially the judge's authority). Arguing for jury nullification or any similar concept is at a minimum going to freak your fellow jurors out, and I wouldn't be surprised if in practice they might ask the judge to kick you off the jury and use one of the alternates (regardless of whatever the legality of the situation calls for).
I'm saying they are paying taxes per the Ireland and Luxembourg requirement so what is the concern for the other countries in the EU?
I think you’re right about the street design being the main cause in this case. A street with people on it should be designed so that drivers naturally drive at slow, safe speeds. The intersection in question is designed for high speed. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/2/2/forgiving-desig...
Suboxone usually contains some Naloxone.
For everyone who cheered when Thiel took down Gawker, this is what you've wrought. Look up the definition of "chilling effect" sometime: even if Gawker's behavior wasn't defensible, now that newspapers know Facebook has a board member willing to go to war with news organizations that don't get in line, they have to self-censor to stay alive.
California Dreamin' sounds pretty cool, I wonder how it tastes. I like the choice to do 10mg because it's enough for a decent buzz. It would be good if they did a 5mg version too, then you could have 2 or 3 without it getting too intense. If their target market is people drinking alcohol I imagine that being able to have more than one in a sitting will be important.
This is about as feasible as putting smart chips in all roads so that cars know where the lanes are.