skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, what CA did was more of a phishing attack than anything. People voluntarily gave the "personality quiz" access to their data, and that was abused. The reaction to the data being given to CA wasn't big enough, but beyond that I'm not sure I see what Facebook did wrong.
We do, but clearly the balance right now is far too much in the favour of the naked self interest of shameless home owners. I mean a place to live is not a luxury, it's up there with food and water.
I think often it's more complex than that. If prices are high enough in LA, it might actually be a case of "I got mine, screw everyone else" mentality, but I think much more often is more nuanced. People work hard to afford s home, and how do you explain to someone that saved for five plus years to afford a home that because of a new housing policy, it's possible their home could drop quite a bit in value, and not just because of normal cyclical market forces (meaning it could take decades to reach the same real value, if ever)?

It's a hard decision to support legislation or policies that may may hurt double digit percentages of your populace, just because of bad timing on their part.

At the same time, the need for cheaper housing is real. It's just not as simple as rich vs poor.
People should not propose a law to stop that guy from wasting money, but people should be allowed to have an opinion about what is wasteful and what not, and allowed to speak out their opnions.
Was lead exposure ruled the cause of the early delivery?

I'm all for eliminating environmental pollutants, but let's encourage it using things less trivial to dismiss.

Edit: rereading this, it sounds harsh. I can't, offhand, think of a good way to soften it, so I'll say this: I appreciate you sharing your story and empathize with the difficulty of the lives of the people involved. I want more people to understand and internalize the need to reduce needless pollutants (safe or not, because the trend seems to usually be we think it's safe and then we find out it's not). People who don't already care or want to dismiss this issue will ignore anecdotes. If a doctor said that lead was the cause, it ceases to be what I'd consider an anecdote and it's harder to ignore.
This is a good post. 1/ I am not sure if it matters that social good is hard to value. Even a sloppy metric, even just a boolean – e.g. environment neutral vs negative – serves the purpose, because by simply existing, people can point at it, tweet about it, start to ask questions, apply peer pressure. A couple good catch phrases is enough to get elected. 2/ I think we probably will figure out how to value things like this in the future. A friend of mine suggested that applying options pricing theory might be interesting - air pollution doesn't have a value today, but it could have a very high value someday in a future worst-case scenario. But that's all above my head and I see that you are much better versed on accounting than me.

(I see now our replies crossed so will leave this and stop posting :)
Housing prices can crash too. See: the US.
edit: Mods, please kill this thread. It's a dupe of this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643056

(I'd delete it myself but I had thought that was discouraged)

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Some info about the video:

The video has no sound and it runs for a total of 22 seconds. The first 5 seconds is from the external camera. It stops right before the AV makes impact with the victim. The remainder of the video shows the driver.

There's no gore, but the sudden visual of the victim will be a little dramatic. The video seems to support what police said in initial investigation, that the victim appears out of the shadows. You can see her feet at 0:02, but her full shape is not obvious until 0:04.

The Uber AV was in the right lane. The victim was more than halfway across that right lane (i.e. she'd walked 1.75 lanes ). She is walking her bike, and, when she is fully lighted, there is no ambiguity that she is someone who is walking the bike.

The street is far darker than the accident photos/Google Maps made it appear.

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The main question I have is: what is LIDAR expected to detect at night? There's no other traffic, weather is clear, and the victim was on the road for at least several seconds. I definitely agree with the police chief assessment that, based on the video, most humans would fail to brake in time.
Certainly - although the JS can also just read the document and submit that. To make sure that it isn't doing either, you'd have to read the code on GitHub.
One of my friends mentioned that Trump denying climate change galvanized a lot of support for reducing greenhouse emissions. Apparently people hate Trump more than they like our planet...
(2) is where your argument falls apart. Everyone wants to buy houses nowadays- it's not illiquid. In large cities, most houses only stay on the market for a few days. Buying houses with cash is becoming increasingly common also.
Previously posted here[1]. Some discussion there

[1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643056)
I am afraid this piece is missing the most massive reason that articles are still published in journals - Impact Factor. Academics live and die not just by the number of articles that they get published, but, crucially, where they get published. The entire academic system of progression is basically controlled by the journals. The reason that the splashy websites never succeed is that they have targeted the wrong problem. If you want to fix the system then you have to come up with a new way of rating academic's publications, which would then be fed back into the career progression system in their individual institutions. Good luck with that.
Use a crosswalk?
> The context is taking their children away from their parents under the pretext that the parents are unfit to raise them. Can we agree that "a professional association of physicians made a recommendation which the parents violated" does not constitute "unfit parent"?

Being aware of a parent disregarding widely disseminated recommendations of the medical community on a death risk is certainly reason for a third party to be concerned about fitness. It may not equate to unfitness, which corresponds well to the lack of any CPS action when the report was investigated.

The threshold for reasonsble reporting to a investigative authority should not be certainty of a violation.

(Now, I would expect a babysitter to attempt to resolve this with the parents first.)
The problem with voat is it basically the dregs of reddit so no-one respectable wants to be associated with it. But if reddit bans enough stuff that is semi-respectable and those people are able to hold their nose to migrate to voat they might end up making voat respectable enough to overcome their current poor reputation.
Tempe Police release fatal Uber crash video
The problem with JavaScript doing meltdown is that there is no easy way to flush the cache except by hand, and that is incredibly slow, especially if you need to flush from LL cache too. And you can't easily access a direct memory address. More than likely, the JIT machinery will get in the way. There just isn't an easy way to exploit meltdown in JavaScript lacking the direct memory poking or cache management. Has anybody seen a JavaScript exploit of meltdown? I still haven't, but I also got tired of looking a month ago.

I'm not sure exceptions are only checked on retiring the instructions. I thought they were checked earlier on. They can be checked even earlier since the page table has the access information and can fail very early (this makes the meltdown fix easy from a hardware perspective and could possible free up resources on chip earlier on an interrupted computation).
Yeah, except that the quality of tech jobs is such that it does the opposite of those things.

This person is not describing gentrification, in fact, they're describing being avidly opposed to the opposite of gentrification.
> When Obama did it, no one cared

When Obama did what? Nothing here even remotely resembles the methods used by Obama's campaign.

"No, Obama Didn’t Employ the Same Strategies as Cambridge Analytica"

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/21/no-obama-didnt-empl...

HN is so full of already-debunked right-wing talking points, it has to stop. This place is full of as much disinformation as anywhere else. Everything in your post is a straight lie, a specific intent to deceive readers and create a false narrative about balance.

Edit: Dang, the flamebait here is the lie, disinformation and chaos created in the statement "When Obama did it, no one cared" which I was responding to. The cause of the flamebait frequently on HN is the frequently-upvoted lies and falsehoods, not my responses. My responses are entirely factual and do not contain lies or disinformation, unlike the flamebait I was responding to. I'm not allowed to reply to you directly because your software won't let me.
Yes, but I was saying about overhead.
permission for one.

Which were the same permissions that the users of the Kogan app gave. Remember that the issue here revolves around the fact that friends of the users of either app never gave permission for their data to be used. The only difference is that Obama did this to about 4X as many people.

Also, that number 189 million is absolutely likely to be way too high and is likely bullshit

According to their own campaign manager, they obtained the entire US social graph, and Facebook knew about it and allowed it to happen. The 190 million number may actually be low.
This is very dismaying to see

I have used Youtube in the past for seeing how to install gun accessories, put guns together, how to fix malfunctions, etc. Watching those videos has made me a more knowledgeable, and hence more responsible gun owner. This is an especially large blow for people who are part of niche communities, like reloading ammo for 100+ year old rifles. A lot of historical content will be lost.

The new youtube rules will also get rid of entertainment channels like Hickock45 and Demolition Ranch (the proceeds of which help subsidize the creator's other channel, Vet Ranch)

I'm also pretty disappointed in Reddit. They made a new admin account yesterday to anonymously post the new rules. I believe this is the first time that's been done for an announcement, usually they're posted by a CEO or a specific individual. /r/gundeals was a fantastic community and I don't know if anything comparable exists elsewhere online. There were lots of links posted by regular users, but when dealers posted themselves they really made an effort to engage with buyers. Crappy vendors/products were usually called out in the comments. Other than optics, I can't imagine why reddit would ban strictly law-abiding communities while allowing illegal and toxic ones to flourish.
Oops, thanks!

(mods, downmod this thread)
Supply that meets demand means prices come down... however, it.needs to be the right supply for the right demand. A bunch of high end housing doesn't make middle or low end housing cheaper.
What’s interesting is my parents and their parents before them, had multiple slices of white bread+butter and glasses of whole milk with almost every meal. It was cheap and filling. And they were thinner than we were.
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The same way the Germans do, they save money.

Rising housing prices have played out the same across the Anglophone world. It's not sustainable as a means to get the lower classes into the middle class, because the higher prices rise the more debt they need to take on to join the game.

Housing is something people consume. It's durable, but so are cars and imagining them as being a gateway investment to the middle class because they will cost more in the future should be just as silly as for housing.
People were (and many still are) convinced that if black people move in next door, that the value of their house would fall. So they created policies, and acted, both formally and informally, to prevent that. These days most people regard that as horrible and in no way justified. Maybe one day we'll view exclusionary zoning in the same way.

Furthermore, if housing is expensive, adding to the supply won't crater the price like the economy going bust does: at a certain point, people become less enthusiastic about investing in new housing, so it's a much smoother curve that, realistically, is probably not going to crash prices.

In the end, though, you can't have both housing that's affordable, and also treat housing like some kind of investment that's supposed to keep growing and growing in value.
It's not just that. There's also mainstream media having an incentive to attack competitors. There is a legitimate case to be made if the NYTimes did exactly what Facebook did there would be even more outrage.

Also, it's Facebook losing control of data to a company that has admitted on video that they setup politicians in fake situations with hookers and use that to pressure the politician as well as create fake new stories to impugn that politician. This is a variation on blackmail and Facebook data and infrastructure is the vehicle for actualizing a part of that blackmail, even though it's libel.

There's also the pile on effect.

There's also the loss of trust in Facebook because we've been here before. Zuckerberg has variably told people to "calm down" in 2006, to claiming that privacy is no longer a social norm in 2010. And also this ideological statement “If people share more, the world will become more open and connected. And a world that’s more open and connected is a better world.” The idea that privacy is itself a detriment to the world. I found it an obscenity in 2010 when he said it, and the recent events of the past year prove that this is an embedded part of what Facebook is and it cannot be removed without destroying Facebook.

Today's statement is likewise telling.
I've been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn't happen again.
And is it now understood, and you know what went wrong? No.

The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago.

The most important actions have already been taken, are unspecified, yet this mess still happened meaning those actions were insufficient. Whether this is an assessment problem, a failure to implement safeguards problem, or bad ideology, the net result is loss of trust.

I've never trusted Facebook and everything that's happened over 10 years with this company just reinforces how right I was to not trust them. That history is 95% not Trump or Obama related.
I think people are sort of doubtful they will really follow through whole-heartedly with what Zuck wrote, because that's sort of their MO.
> They could've been, but they weren't.

> I wasn't calling it "explicitly racist", I was calling it "vaguely racist" because, while we all new what they were implying, They didn't come out and say it. Ergo "vaguely racist".

You're saying that "poor people" can't include Caucasians and Asians, then?

Midwesterners are quite notable for being both neoconservatives and poor, along with (generally) being majority-white. He could have easily been referring to them. What made you associate "Poor people" and "Racist"? Poor people are a demographic.
Prices are not dropping even when thousands of units are hitting the market every month. The reason is because foreign buyers like to park their money out of their country so it won't get confiscated.

[Citation needed]

And, furthermore, exporting housing services is a huge, underrated opportunity: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/19/exporting_hou... . We should be doing a lot more of it.
> ... Facebook's de facto anonymity ...

Facebook does a pretty good job of authentication, at least for nontechnical users, who are arguably the majority. If you sign up using VPN services or Tor, you get nagged for a mobile number for text verification. So Facebook either knows your IP address or mobile number. I don't consider that "de facto anonymity".

Now if you're skilled, and willing to invest some time and money, you can circumvent that. Or you can buy accounts, if you know where to shop. But that's not the case, for most Facebook users.
Ghosting Facebook
There's a list of API's here: https://lineageos.github.io/android_lineage-sdk/reference/li....

I believe this update was mostly around styles, "Change the system accent to some color based on some event" was listed in the blog post earlier, along with night mode.
Google Cloud Armor
The leverage you can get on real estate with a mortgage far exceeds any margin account.

The US gov subsidizes real estate investment with long duration fixed mortgages.
Yeah, Facebook/Google/... vs trad media is like lions vs hyenas fighting over a wildebeest carcass on the Seregenti.

Personally, I'm rooting for the wildebeest to come back to life and run off.
Not to mention" that LiIon cells were known by Ford and Edison. Their first examples are in the museum in Florida.

Why didn't they use them in the first cars? When they either over or undervolted, they tended to explode. We didn't have the electrical circuitry to handle lithiums.

Now we do, mostly. Bad "spray fire and death" style accidents still happen.
And if you're starving and there is free food one block over you go and eat there.

There is plenty of very cheap land to live in. The problem is that no one wants to live there because living in dense cities for whatever reason is extremely appealing now.

The price of a house grows exponentially with the minimum travel time to a metropolis from it.

Blaming home owners for this is very useful scapegoating while ignoring the context.
My blog posts typically have more scientific content than a CS paper.
Please stop spreading the "Obama did it too!" canard, they didn't exceed authorization.
With all the logged sensor data this should be the best documented fatal collision in history and will be able to be replayed again and again with different software to see if it was avoidable with the current hardware configuration.

Obviously a sad situation, but it's reassuring that the knowledge from one crash can lead to all other autonomous vehicles learning to avoid it in the future.
Maybe that will happen but I don't think the site will be Voat. Its reputation is far too toxic at this point.
How This Amazon Engineer Builds Drones [video]
I really like the idea of Japan's zoning laws. They have 12 zones nationwide, and they restrict by maximum allowable nuisance. Industry is considered the highest nussicance and low rise residential the lowest. You cannot build a business in a residential area, but you can build apartments in a commercial zone. I feel this opens up many more options for growth while maintaining the spirit of American zoning laws. Here is a good explanation:

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.ca/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
What story? "I went to Theranos, didn't get to talk to anyone who did the test, then there was a fire alarm"?

It all fits together quite nicely in hindsight when stuffed with a bunch of vague accusations and synthesis about motives, but I would have agreed with any editor axing the story at the time.

For the record, I assume her suspicions about people getting cagey, and maybe even the fire alarm, are quite right. But once again, hindsight.
> Being aware of a parent disregarding widely disseminated recommendations of the medical community on a death risk is certainly reason for a third party to be concerned about fitness.

Absolutely not. Way over the line.
There was inevitably going to be a wave of takes.
Let's make a new strain of BSD to celebrate this that specializes in machine learning. I naively suggest 'Joy BSD'
1. How do you think journalism works? They just wander around talking to people and come up with a story later?

Now I agree this story would have been great to come out earlier, but that isn't her decision.

You seriously have a childlike understanding of how journalism works.

How do you think developers work, they just write whatever they want to write, and someone will merge that code into a product?
You gotta understand the ruling elites though. It was fun to watch different "Springs" happening in some distant lands. Not so much fun when "American Spring" happens in your own country, even if it's a "mild" edition.
While this is true in many institutions there are now useful proxies, specifically a Google Scholar profile or an individual h-index which can be calculated without publication impact factor.

You are correct that it will take a long time to update documentation and policies that reference impact scores, but informally, at least in Machine Learning, people know who the contributors are with high actual impact. In addition because a lot of impactful work is coming out of industry and there is rapid turnover between academia and industry the culture as a whole is evolving.
It does over time: http://cityobservatory.org/what-filtering-can-and-cant-do/ or http://cityobservatory.org/urban-myth-busting-new-rental-hou.... The problem is that we have a 40+ year backlog of underdevelopment: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/12/27/why-did-cities-freeze-in-.... We've waited till the symptoms are acute to even begin acting on the underlying problems. Then we're surprised when we don't see immediate, instantaneous fixes.
You don't see the addiction itself as a quagmire? It sure is on its own. And "what quagmire"? You know what quagmire. The one where Facebook has been acting extremely guilty around entering Cambridge Analytica's offices and refusing to leave until police forced them out. The one where Facebook is complicit in the stolen information, whereby they had knowledge of the problem for 2+ years before acting. The one that spoils the trust of investors and users alike. That quagmire.
And at the end of the day, all that matters is avoiding an adult conversation over our absurd campaign finance policies.
> Discovery was ruined on purpose.

Bingo. And it has gotten worse in recent months as they had to censor and cater to the mainstream media.

> Results aren't complete (they probably create a short search table/cache every few hours based on a finite, semantically-defined number of categories)

Also, heavily weighted towards paying customers and their own pet projects. Some days, youtube is just filled with SNL, late night show, movie trailers, logan paul, youtube drama, etc.

> Every day hundreds of people create new channels making interesting, thought-provoking and informative videos, and youtube decides to hide them in favour of clickbait garbage and shitty ads, and take away all means you have to discover them.

I remember just a few years ago, one of the fun things to do was go down youtube's rabbit hole. Now, youtube is just another managed and curated platform to funnel you to certain corporate interests.

Even when stephen hawking pass away, the only thing on youtube was CNN's video of it. What a marked difference from a few years ago when steve jobs passed away.

Sadly, youtube is just becoming a "tv platform" now. Which is a shame.
How does Section 230 relate to banning videos about completely legal firearms accessories?