skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if many people today remember Silent Spring:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring

The main point of the book was that the use of pesticides (specifically, at the time, DDT) had an impact on the entire ecosystem, not just the agricultural pests they were targeting. If I remember correctly, spring was "silent" because you couldn't hear the animal sounds anymore -including birds' song.
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It is interesting how those that disagree that man causes climate change are martinalized due to “scientific consensus” but when an even more overwhelming consensus exists around fluoridation, you have counties banning fluoridation without much public outcry.
While I agree in general, I don't buy this argument with regard to Facebook.

People aren't "too busy" to waste a lot of time on Facebook. If anything, tight time constraints would make people not use Facebook in the first place.
You get civil wars when powerful families/factions decide to gamble on violence instead of staying with whatever was the ongoing peaceful arrangement for power sharing.

The supply of foot-soldiers has little to do with it.

The Roman republic had plenty of civil wars, and they had indissoluble monogamic marriage for the aristocracy. And the Persian empire, with harems, also managed to have plenty of successor conflicts. I doubt any wars were started by poor wifeless men.
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The workshop: http://lambdaway.free.fr/

The paper: http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=els_2018
uBlock works just fine on Firefox for Android...
No, network effects are the barrier preventing you from moving elsewhere. The stronger they are, the more of your friends have to simultaneously move elsewhere for you to move as well. In other words, the stronger the network effects are, the more a company can mess around with their users.
Frankly, I'm moving back to vinyl. I'm aware that most albums have finally been properly remastered to be in a digital format, eliminating the disparity in sound quality, but I feel like something purely analog with zero possibility of any DRM is more permanent, crazy as that may sound.

Plus, Bandcamp is nice. Artists I've discovered through there frequently have a vinyl pressing available, which entitles me to download the lossless digital version as well.
I actually don't want to pay for services from google though, nice if vimeo had something similar.
The link that you give mentions "record setting count circles" - but this is about the number of areas in which they count, not about the number of birds!

In fact, apart from two or three statements about one particular species I see not a single statement about the overall status. So I don't see how this article in particular supports your assertion of "No there are not fewer birds.", it does not say anything one way or the other. The only statements about bird numbers made in that article are about declines, but only about two or three selected species, for example with this sentence (quote from your linked article): "A disturbing finding from last year was the continued decline of the Northern Bobwhite".

So you may or may not be right, the one reference that you provide does not help me to come to a conclusion, except that I wonder why you chose it.
The government has also already shown they can force licensing as they did for radio.
I did mine. My tool concat all js files from my source tree and remove comments.

The output for standalone HTML page looks like that: https://p.sicp.me/aQ5S3.js

I generate also a standalong shell file (for node app): https://p.sicp.me/pAALV.js
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LIDAR still has a signal to noise ratio that limits it though, especially with materials that reflect little with the wavelength used (usually NIR, somewhere around 980nm, the military uses 1500 because it's more eye-safe).

But even then, this impacts the maximal detection range only. Even if the obstacle suddenly popped up at 20m it should have been enough to drastically reduce the collision speed.
Depends how you define "worked for them". Spotify is still not working profitable to this day.
For years, I've been told by AV technooptimists that these are all "never happens" scenarios. I have a feeling we have a Therac-class failure here.
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The thing that is "presumed to have been made during my period of employment" is "any _such_ invention, discovery or item of intellectual property", and the "such" here refers to "each and every invention, discovery, (...) made (...) during my period of employment".

It's pretty redundant and there could be a fight regarding when the invention was made vs disclosed, but the wording limits it to the period of employment.
I love how you contemplate the logic of the pedestrian but impute no responsibility into a potential driver. Why do people want to defend a clearly defunct AV system so much that they question the thinking process of a woman who was killed?
It would be really good to have the IR camera recording as well as the internal state of the model that drives the car.
These nine specific payloads, if you take the tweet's words literally.
Mid priced xeons: all sorts of motherboards available from eight different Taiwan based OEMs.

AMD: I need some threadripper or server Zen motherboards, again there's 4+ OEMs with many designs.

Both amd and Intel: all sorts of stuff available that meets open compute platform dimensions for motherboards. Or for ordinary 1U servers, or atx size boards that can be mounted in DIY blade enclosures.

ARM: where are the motherboards I can buy right now in small to low quantities, and what are their specs/price? Who makes them? It I want to order 40 or 400 tomorrow... where do I go?

Edit: I just spent ten minutes googling for arm centriq platform motherboards and cannot find a single product I can actually buy. As compared to how easily I could start the process of ordering a hundred 1U xeon based servers in the next half hour.

At a massive scale such as cloudflare, sure you can afford to custom order thousands of motherboards. But for a lot of operators who are not nearly as big as them, the existing economies of scale in the x86-64 platform are a greater advantage. Right now I'd be willing to bet that dual socket current generation xeon motherboards are manufactured in much greater numbers, as much as a ratio of 500:1, compared to ARM server motherboards. Being able to mix and match whitebox parts from Taiwan and China sources to DIY bare metal blade hypervisors is a huge advantage.
I feel firefox on android in many ways far more better than chrome (especially the UX and addons), the only thing preventing me to make it my default browser is the built in page translation of chrome, for me its a must have since i live in a foreign country.
Filter certain types of ads by default: Firefox will offer users a simple ad filtering option. We're in the early stages still, researching types of advertisements that should be blocked by default. (Q3)

Come on, do the right thing for once and put the user first.
There is a blog post from CF a few months back with benchmarks. https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/
Before i was hired i went through around 150+ rejections. Every time i would go for an interview or interview candidates in my current role as technical team lead.

I will seriously wish for some resources which can teach me and others about the full interview process. what to do and what not to do. What kind of questions to prepare and what not to prepare.

And moreover a self assessment tool which can tell me how good i am as a developer from the interview perspective.

So i started http://www.codespaghetti.com

currently i a, working on an AI based self assessment tool. Hoping to launch it by the end of this year.
Wow. Good job!
Some better examples would really finish this off!
Using GMO crops doesn't mean you don't need pesticides. The crops are engineered to withstand the pesticide, but you still have to use pesticide to protect the plants.
> atrocious JSON-based query DSL (seriously thought it was a joke at first)

I could not agree more, I found this in my codebase https://i.imgur.com/44stiHv.png

I've never seen an odder choice of data structure.
Because it's very hard to earn anything on general purpose IDE nowadays.
Twenty years ago it was a quite profitable market, but not anymore.
All parties have a responsibility when travelling in and around public roads.

Using your logic, if I were to try to cross the railway line and got hit by a train, the conductor has a "responsibility to spot and react in situations like this as it is the dangerous machinery that can cause injury and death." While I agree with the conductor's share of the responsibility, I'd still say that I'm to blame for not crossing the railway lines more carefully.
That's a great approach to logging/debugging complex models on large datasets.

I'm pretty sure this can be applied outside the math, e.g. on systems with complex business rule over large datasets.
There's a saying "a sign is not a wall." You can make dangerous things illegal all you want (such as "not overdriving your headlights," hint hint), but it won't stop people doing that. "But that person was not supposed to be there" is a rather weak excuse for manslaughter.
Today I switched off the location tracking for Facebook on my Phone. I never enter the correct birthday on Facebook. Unfortunately we cann't trust any of the tech companies.There are a lot of people working and keeping track of security for now seems impossible. Anyone in the company can put in code with a security hole. May be AI in future can help in making systems secure. For now, none of the apps is secure. There are companies that can unlock any iphone. Would you leave apple for that?
If a pedestrian has the right of way, why should the impetus be on them to be mindful? Why shouldn't the impetus be on drivers to slow down? Why should pedestrians live in constant fear of being killed when the law should protect them?
> Even I noticed that Chrome uses more RAM that FF

Reflects my experience. I use Firefox at work, Chrome at home. Chrome RAM usage is much higher than FF. Not that I really mind - I have more than enough RAM to support it. But it often leaves me wondering if some tab/plugin/extension is misbehaving, which in turn forces me to close all my tabs only to find that the memory use stays high and the number of Chrome processes doesn't decrease as expected. I'm considering switching back to Firefox at home now.

EDIT: OK, tested with Firefox now. Number of process doesn't decrease as I close tabs either, but memory use is still considerably higher than Chrome.
Well... after the car hit her there's no obstacle anymore. If there is no provision to detect an accident and then cancel the route to drive it's natural that the car doesn't stop, since the obstacle is now behind it. It's a computer with wheels.
Spotify used to be exclusively Facebook login, but introduced email login a long time ago. When that happened, I immediately disconnected my Facebook from Spotify.
This whole comments is full of people talking about FB in general, and not this specific article.

As far as the article goes, it's hardly suprising. There are a few specific people who have left, and others who are thinking of leaving. Picking out individual cases like this is hardly any evidence of a mass exodus.

Also, it's interesting to note that lots of people who are leaving say things like 'I more or less stopped using it, but Cambridge Analytica was the last straw'. It's almost like those users were going to leave FB anyway.

So is there really any exodus to speak of, or not?
Ah, ok. Try AdGuard, it works great for YT ads.
IRC api over all networks (access to the channel list for example).
uBlock works on a phone on Firefox (on Android). There's also NewPipe: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
Make sure you have these rules enabled https://i.imgur.com/S9pCwIc.png

This blocks all twitter/facebook/google/botnet widgets, other tracking elements, all ads, even those on youtube. Highly increases your privacy and browsing experience. I use these rules for so long I even forgot youtube has ads.
I think a 25' ad for a 5' video is a lot more immoral...
uBlock has youtube specific rules, check my setup https://i.imgur.com/S9pCwIc.png
Agreed. No mention of the severe memory issues. I like it, but my computer needs to be usable too.
Wikipedia comes to the rescue → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing

Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems by performing data processing at the edge of the network, near the source of the data. This reduces the communications bandwidth needed between sensors and the central data center by performing analytics and knowledge generation at or near the source of the data.
> Also, in over a decade of very active research in this area progress is being made mostly on the applicable algebraic topology part, not necessarily the applied part.

I'm not entirely sure what this means in terms of applied mathematics. Does it mean applied mathematicians produce these papers but applied fields like EECS, CS, biology etc never use them?
It looks a heck of a lot like any number of mobile messaging apps combined with subject-specific forums, in my circles. But we're relatively out of the mainstream - not in tech, but a different circle that hasn't wanted to be attached to Facebook for years.

Honestly, I think it's going to be "mobile messaging and X" where X is different for every subset of people. The mobile messaging allows you to keep contact details for people and keep in touch in a non-1-to-1 way through group chats, while the choice of X allows people to make a statement about what sort of person they are.
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This is cool but on some level this pisses me off. What is this story about, really? Is it a quick recap of when a bunch of elites gathered and lived in luxury for a bit? The bit about free booze flowing and attendees smoking high end cigars triggered something in me that I'm not sure I understand fully. It feels like Bezos just wanted to host a cool party so that other people that he consider cool will think he's cool.
Well, one or the other. I don't think it makes a difference.
This is only a fig-leaf of a driver (for catching legal flak by sitting in the front left seat), not actually operating the vehicle at all. This part was inevitable, given the unbounded technooptimism.
> Because if some random guy's fascination with 100yo rifles means kids in my son's classmates are more likely to shoot the place up, then screw that.

Do you support banning violent movies and video games?

I mean I love gta but I couldn't in good faith make the argument that it's less harmful than videos on making ammo for 100 year old rifles.

> and yes banning most of this stuff is reasonable

Why is it reasonable? Show me the clear evidence that banning this kind of content leads to less violence.
Unfortunately being slow & hogging resources tends to more of a rule than an exception. I doubt it would help if everyone started drowning developers in bug reports that basically state the obvious.

It might also be that being the second fastest guy on the track will not win you a gold medal. As everyone tends to develop and test software on Blink/V8, it will undoubtedly feel slow when ran on a competiting browser.
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Just another mild Chromium fork. What's the point?
Banning alcohol references but not weed is bizarre; it sounds like they simply haven't thought this through.
The timing was perplexing, because Facebook's account of events just don't make sense. They were tackling this problem head on themselves, yet waited till just hours before the ICO shows up at CA's offices to "secure the evidence"? They were "working with" the ICO all along, and not ordered to stand down?

The whole thing of them showing up right before the ICO did, frantically carrying out their "forensic audit" reminds me of the Uber employee talking about how they had a system to instantly wipe all data in case foreign officials raided their offices. The more they try to sugar coat this, the more it reeks.
It would be a national catastrophe for every nation involved, and no-one at the top levels is in any doubt about that.
a) there are people on the roads inside those metal boxes on wheels, y'know.
b) "shouldn't be there" is not a bianco cheque for "run them over", at least in the civilized world
I don't recognize your experience of Firefox in my own.

I use tree style tabs, so I have lots of tabs open - after a cleanup this morning, I still have 26, but 50 to 100 is far from unusual - and it's just as fast as ever to open new tabs. I don't notice the memory usage at all. Sure, browsers are all the biggest hogs - Chrome, Firefox, Slack - but with 16G in my work laptop there's no noticeable difference than with my home machine with 32G.

I don't use Chrome much beyond development testing, but with some features - anything with smooth animations in particular - I see way more CPU usage from it than FF.
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> A number of innovative browsers never gained traction,

because they weren’t a net improvement

> and when mainstream ones try to improve UI it gets considerably worse.

Examples? Firefox’s recent UI improvements are pretty great.
“Currently 120 bikes are available”

How is this a 'boom'? The mentioned events in China saw millions of bikes deployed:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/evgenytchebotarev/2017/12/16/wi...
The intent behind such laws is simple: You must not endanger others to save an animal. These are good laws, even if those without actual driving experience may not understand them.

As the Globe and Mail puts it: "It doesn't matter why the chicken crossed the road — your responsibility is to the people around you."[1]

"If you're forced to choose between getting
rear-ended and hitting a small animal — hit
the animal."

"People end up in serious crashes with other
cars because they let their emotions take over
when they see a bunny, DiCicco says."

"Drivers need to be prepared to make these
tough decisions and not get in a 12 car pileup
because they saw a baby deer and thought of
Bambi," he says.

My unfounded speculation is that the RC car jockeys who programmed how the car should react under various conditions did not fully understand what such laws mean (probably having no real life driving experience in ambiguous conditions). And, the cars sensors saw the human with the bicycle, but thought it was an animal.

This is pure speculation, but it makes sense to me. My gut feelings are somewhat validated by every single comment here that tries to make this this poor woman's fault.

PS: You might correctly deduce that I do not think "self-driving cars" is a good idea. I think everyone needs to be reintroduced to Asimov.

[1]: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/culture/commutin...
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People who don't understand why you took time out to travel around Asia, are people you probably don't want to work with. Think of it as a culture litmus test.

If you're back and not currently working, you could pick up freelance work or work on your own project or open source. This will give you something to talk about when talking to recruiters. i.e. What are you doing now? "I take freelance work and am also working on this great project which does X, Y, Z".

Also believe in yourself. You are valuable. When speaking to potential companies interview them to see if there's a fit. Be like I am really looking for the right opportunity and X, Y, Z. I'm not willing to jump on anything....(even if it is not the case, play hard to get. People want things that are hard to get.... not things that come easily)
Facebook has changed so much over the years.

It first started off at Harvard and then moved to other elite universities. It finally expanded to all universities by the time I joined. Its exclusivity (only for people at uni) was its major plus against myspace. When I was at uni, you could use it to find people in your class and meet and interact with new people in a friendly manner. Since then the people who can join has expanded, and the positivity for facebook has gone downhill. Its not the same when your parents can see you trying to flirt with random people.

The whole reason for facebook has changed, and for the worst I think. I don't think they can recapture the magic of early facebook and retain their valuations.
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Google Street View seems to show 45 mph - if the imagery is current, that is.

https://www.google.cz/maps/@33.4350531,-111.941492,3a,75y,33...

OTOH, if the issue was "human thought computer was driving, computer was actually off", this might be a completely new class of errors in driving (although it does happen in aviation, where both pilots think the other one is PF: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/5091/how-are-co... )
> I had thought this would take decades...

Well it took decades...