skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's so infuriating in France is that farmers are basically sacred: nothing can be said, let alone done, to curb their behavior.

They benefit from all kinds of advantages: they don't pay taxes on fuel and don't pay for water (water in France is very expensive for everyone else except farmers), have all kinds of special conditions and fiscal deductions, and that's in addition to the direct payments they get from the CAP (around 12 billion Euros / year).

All of this for less than 2% of French GDP and the active destruction of the ecosystem, deforestation and pollution on a huge scale. In the French countryside all one can see are immense fields of corn and wheat, watered all the time (it's esp. infuriating to witness watering in the summer, at noon). The French countryside isn't charming, it's horrible, it looks like a grand experiment from an evil dictator.

Yet politicians from absolutely all parties from the extreme left to the extreme right and including everything in-between, fall over themselves to give more to farmers. Every single national politician attends the "Salon de l'Agriculture" held in Paris in February, etc. etc.

Why is there no one to say, this has gone too far; why can't we hold those people accountable for what they have done and what they are doing, I don't understand.
Yeah. Trying to stop shooting the shit out of the birds they have left would be a positive first step, I feel.
I always got the vibe that they pushed things like that so hard and in your face in order to find out more about you. If you are the type to set your privacy a certain way they corral you into a group where you are looked at in a different way than users who don't toy with their privacy settings in a way where it draws attention to the fact that you actually seriously care about your privacy. This is just a hunch but with their endless data points and the internal teams involved with making these decisions not only decide what privacy options we are shown, how, and why but what the inverse effect would be in terms of how to treat and monitor those specific customers in order to harvest and obtain the types of data that were essential to providing useful and actionable information to those looking to buy that information.

Something about how in your face their privacy awareness campaigns seemed to be while all the while everyone in tech or paying any attention knew that Facebook is in the business of selling personal / private information. I think what you don't say, don't do, and don't want them to see creates just as much of a profile about you as anything you do voluntarily give up to them. I feel they wouldn't be successful if they weren't the type of company that thought that deeply into it.

All that said one of the scenarios in my mind that I figured applies to this, which is very apt right now with the goings-on of Facebook / Cambridge Analytica is when a user is flagged as the type who has locked down their privacy, thus being corralled into the group of "Members who care about personal internet privacy" that would be their cue to needing to harvest your data points via your friend circle or 3rd party Facebook tools / features (like external Like buttons) in order to obtain those data points while still sticking to their "Privacy Manifesto". Maybe that's when they start serving you lots of ads interesting you in dating on Tinder, using external photo sharing apps like Instagram, or external messaging apps like Messenger or WhatsApp. Who knows, really? But they and we know they've had many ways to skin a cat all along.

Maybe I'm paranoid but I'd rather be paranoid and a bit fanatical than ignorant. PS. Not calling anyone out there ignorant. Just ranting is all.
> It's hard not to conclude that it's immoral to not chuck lithium in the water supply

It took me a while to decipher that quadruple negation.
In conclusion we should consider chucking lithium in the water supply.
How Facebook’s 50m file leak could have been avoided
> Cats kill a ridiculous number of birds.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 Billions is ridiculous, huh.

>Has there been a huge increase in cats lately though?

Yes, for 20 years. Dogs fall and cats rise. 6 millions cats in France in 1980, almost 12 millions now.
Google is working on their own Blockchain
I would recommend reading this article. It was written in 80s, when NRA was just gaining political steam, and long before Heller v. DC (after which, like it or not, there is definitely a constitutional right). And it's written by an unsympathetic liberal law scholar.

https://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html
The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware Platforms [pdf]
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> REP MOVS is still the fastest and most efficient way to do mempcy() on most Intel hardware, and likewise REP STOS for memset()

Would that be the original REP MOVS/STOS, or the "fast strings" (P6)? Or the "this time we really mean it fast strings" (Ivy Bridge)? Or the "honestly, just trust us this time fast strings" (Ice Lake)?

> Now, with a cache miss taking tens to hundreds of cycles or more, it seems a few extra clock cycles decoding more complex instructions to avoid that is the better option

You can have both, actually. E.g. RISC-V with the compressed instruction extension achieves higher code density than x86-64.

> and dedicated hardware for things like AES and SHA256 obviously can't be beat by a "pure RISC"

Well, if you're really looking for minimal instruction sets, RISC is way bloated; IIRC single-instruction computers can be Turing complete. Obviously they are not very useful in practice. I think a better approximation of the RISC philosophy is "death to microcode", that is, the instruction set should match the hardware that the chip has. So if your chip has dedicated HW for some crypto or hashing algorithm, I wouldn't consider it "un-RISCy" to expose that in the ISA.
> Plus, it does not seem to support web calls at all (Google Meet, BlueJeans, GoToMeeting you name it)

I had many issues with Firefox and Webex. In the end just put it down to Linux or Ghostery plugin rather than Firefox specifically, as I couldn't get it to work with Chromium either.

However, in my experience Firefox does work flawlessly with appear.in
It seems a little ironic though, to inter Hawking in a religious center considering his Scientific world-view:

"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

http://time.com/5199149/stephen-hawking-death-god-atheist/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking/851...
No mention of u2f. Is it because it's already available on the build (via about:config) or because they are not focusing on it at all this year?
I would view it as a fundamental parts of the system not to be flexed with. You're also never going to get back anything you give up.

You could easily live through 50+ years of incrementally handing over bits and pieces of your right to bear arms to the government before things turn ugly. It's San Francisco relaxing its building codes since it hasn't had a big earthquake in 100 years.
Does anyone know if WebRender will become available as a crate for other Rust applications to use? I will be working on a text-heavy GUI application later this year and WebRender looks like a good fit feature-wise.
#TeleRAT, a new #Android #Trojan that uses #Telegram for data exfiltration
Possibly downvoted because of no references. So first, cats are a menace to wild animals. Second, "We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually"[0]. Entirely humans' fault of course. Without humans there wouldn't be so many cats.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
Laws have no meaning if [most] people can break the laws without consequences. The ability to enforce is important.
Same in Bavaria.
I had the opposite experience, some years ago I switched from chrome to ff because certain recursive calls in javascript would lock up the processor and put my computer into an state where manual reboot was the only option.
Even with no extension ?
That's not a compelling argument.
This. If it's becoming unusable on my pretty beefy i7/16GB (Ubuntu), how does it work for the average Joe?

It is a showstopper. I don't care about new features if it can't handle basic stability.
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And management.
It's only selfish if the ban actually achieves some important social objective. But it doesn't, not really. You don't need any of that content to buy a gun and shoot up a school.
Then isn't it that a reasonable, unprofiling, harmless use is possible?
Elixir, I suppose, would be a 'modern' example too.
> and even then that's not wise.

The girl who ran a red light three feet in front of me while looking at her phone would agree with you -- that is, if she even realized she had done it. (I was in the crosswalk and I stopped when it became apparent that she wouldn't)
You can probably just pull it from GitHub:

https://github.com/servo/webrender

(Cargo lets you specify Git repos for dependencies.)
Golang for Rubyists. Part 2. Go type system
Pure OS: A user friendly, secure and freedom respecting OS
Is it possible for car to do some calibration of some sort to decide what is current "sensor visibility"? Like a human would do in a fog. Is this a common practice to use this information to reduce or alter speed of the car?
Haskell Tensor Flow Guide [pdf]
what about astroturfing?
It's not, I recommend you to create your company account in Facebook and be horrified on the amount of information that you can collect from anyone.
Uhmm while not on the roadmap, according to their wiki[1] they are still working on it.

[1]https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CryptoEngineering
I said correlation, not an exact known equation.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Crime-l...

Countries with least crime: Malta, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Sout Korea, UAE, Belarus, Georgia, Bahrain, Quatar.

Countries with most crime: Maldives, Venezuela, Afghanistam Kenya, South Africa...

I'd say the most important factor is wealth, not the single factor.
I think it is effectively part of/superseded by Web Authentication, which is mentioned and links to:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/t...

First sentence in that thread is "Web Authentication is backward compatible with FIDO U2F second-factor tokens, and also supports more advanced capabilities in future FIDO 2.0 devices."
Can't win if you don't play.
Ask HN: What are the most challenging pages to scrape?
Mdncomp: Show MDN Browser Compatibility Data on the Command Line
then, if i format the pc or my hd breaks I can't do anything?
That IM exchange was mentioned in a news article (I knew it sounded familiar): http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...

When I signed up for Facebook (back when it was just Harvard-only) I made up a new never-before-used password, because going thru other students' passwords was just the sort of thing I'd imagine Mark doing in his spare time...
IMO, Python is worse at immutable operations. Ruby makes it easy (but inefficient). Python makes mutable code the easy path.
And those who are aware often lack the understanding that with glare-minimizing headlights, reflective surfaces at or below knee-level are many times more useful than anything higher. A reflective hat would be pointless.
And who decides what is hate speech and incitement to violence?

The country which Orwell called home should know better than this.
Yep,

> An alert human driver would still have had a bad crash, but might not have killed the pedestrian.
I'm not sure how you come to this conclusion, or what you mean? As I understand it, QUIC is a transport layer for the HTTP application-level protocol, so I would guess that pretty much all of the JS-exposed APIs are equally applicable.
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Yup, just came to edit my comment after reading the Web Authentication bit, guess will leave it if anyone has the same question.
Go Roku RSS Provides Support for Roku Com Link Activation
If the LIDAR was turned off, then it's pretty unforgivable. You don't get to play experiments with cars on live roads.
Could say the exact same about consumers.
I can think of no better place than to inter Hawking than in the same place as Isaac Newton, to be honest.
The alternative seems to be importing a lot of food that has been grown in countries that might care even less about the environment.
It was chosen not because of its religious significance but because it is where Isaac Newton is interred. Hawking will be remembered like Newton and Einstein.
So? It's their job to be the human lookout in the car, not watching a TV screen.
Those are great products built for different purposes, thus, with different mechanics to support those purposes.

Eve.QA is built using Discourse.org - a forum engine built with the purpose of supporting civilized discussions.

Our business model doesn't stipulate collecting lots of your data to distract you with ads - we're offering branded channels to our supporters.

Another advantage IMHO is what Eve.QA lacks:

1) doesn't and will not have the "reposting" feature, so no (or less) viral spread of content.

2) its FOSS without all the "black box" magic to "curate" content for you.

3) no vendor lock-in, means you can start your Q&As on Eve.QA and then move to your own setup if you need more fine-tuned experience.

Eve.QA does one thing well - supports Q&A discussions on cutting-edge topics.
Simple and easy :)
How voice assistants can evolve into voicebots
The lexer hack
You are 100% correct about this.
There are blunders - but the difference is that there is a lot of scrutiny on iOS and macOS compared to other more niche options. But I guess security through obscurity is not too bad. Apple did benefit from it for many years.
The space of learn-ML resources is bigger than the void inside me, so it's expected from you to be lost and feel like you won't ever figure it out. If you've never done math (I don't assume you haven't) before and you don't believe that anyone with a reasonable level of intelligence can do it, start with: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M55a.17/index.html
I'm kidding, here's where you really start:
https://github.com/nbro/understanding-math
If you're extremely math anxious (I don't assume you are), talk to your therapist and get rid of it. You can do ML without math, but if there's any opportunity to learn as much math as you can, use the hell out of it. Otherwise you won't even know what kind of opportunities you're missing. Don't expect HRs to care though, just start screaming "TensorFlow OMG SO HOT" at them.

I've tried plenty of industry-oriented courses via Udemy, Udacity, Coursera, edX, and was disappointed by the lack of depth. I was annoyed by the recent Google's ML Crash Course. I never checked fast.ai.

Here's the way I'm doing it:

Step 1. Use MIT OCW to learn prerequisite math.

Those are courses denoted by 18.01sc->18.02, 18.06sc, 6.041sc->18.650. Throw in some 18.062J->6.006->18.410J->18.415J.

If you're a sociopath, go with http://www-math.mit.edu/~goemans/18310S15/18310A.html, that's cool.

Go to Stanford Lagunita, take CVX101.

Personally, I read textbooks for each course. Time commitment is not that bad, something like 60-70 hours per week, I never enjoyed having friends or life anyway.

Step 2. Use MIT OCW to learn prerequisite programming.
Those are courses 6.0001 and 6.0002

Step 3. There're three popular ML textbooks:
ISBN 9780387310732 (canonical)
ISBN 9780262306164
ISBN 9781461471387

Then there're MIT 6.036 (Introduction to ML) notes: https://github.com/kchobo13/6.036/blob/master/2015%20notes.p...
They're considering to do edX' MOOC, so keep your eyes open.

Then there're those:
https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...

And my favorite is:
https://see.stanford.edu/course/cs229
https://github.com/econti/cs229 (notes 2017)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Andrew%20Ng (a short note on "little to no prerequisites")

And here's the one I've never checked:
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nando.defreitas/machinelearni...

Step 4. Since any sane person would enjoy swimming in a pool of resource diarrhea instead of doing actual work, here's a bonus, jump in:

https://mml-book.github.io/
https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses#machine-learn...
https://github.com/Wrosinski/MachineLearning_ResourcesCompil...

Now go get them.
If your less than 30 simply state you wanted to get your travel itch scratched before you make plans to settle down.
I am looking for pages which are difficult to scrape, to see the applied techniques, and to learn how to bypass them.
> some of this is the hostility immigrants feel from republicans and republican voters.

A little. But it's not one of the big three drivers -

The first is social welfare.

The second comes down to ideology - American conservatives have a unique brand of beliefs.

For example the value placed on:

- Freedom of speech
- Firearms
- Individual liberty over collective safety/feelings/effective policy

These traits are not shared by conservatives in the rest of the world. In the U.K. for example the majority of conservatives are happy with strict firearm control.

The third is personality - American conservatives are loud, proud, straight talking, and rough-edged - this rubs conservatives from other countries the wrong way.
Facebook will limit developers’ access to account data
GUI in Terminal using Ruby
> The only wall companies push up against is that of the law.

Even then it's a matter of weighing the risks vs. rewards. Back in the early days of HFT I knew of companies blatantly violating SEC regulations because the rewards were so large any legal consequence should they get busted was insignificant.
"is tied to"
I agree; the video alone has exactly zero value in judging what the human driver would have seen under these conditions.
When travelling perpendicular to the car, bike pedal reflectors are not visible.

What is surprising is that the bike didn't seem to have Tire reflectors like these:

https://www.wired.com/2011/11/fiks-reflective-rim-strips-for...

They are mandatory in lots of countries, to the point that it's impossible to buy tires without them. All brands come with them.
Someone on Reddit posted a comparison of the same spot at night but with a good camera: https://m.imgur.com/a/PM7uu from a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0

That paints the whole accident in a very different light from the video from Twitter. Would any human not notice someone crossing in the good camera screenshot?
Sorry for that - you can't believe my surprise that you really do have an actual Nazi running. That's honestly unbelievable. I hope you can understand why I assumed you were being hyperbolic.
The UI of Firefox improved greatly, just remember how the old preferences screen looked like before.
> And, in light of recent events: everyone not turning in their own guns and campaigning strongly for reversing this nonsense is an accessory to the mass murder of children. Everyone who used their money to support the proliferation of guns have blood on their hands.

Do you support women’s right to terminate their pregnancy? Assuming you do, what would you think of similarly worded pro-life argument?

I think you’ll find such emotionally charged arguments are never effective and will convince no one.

It’s also uninformed, as there’s plenty of objective evidence to suggest that guns save more lives than they take[1–2].

[1] recent study: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-study-use-firearms-...

[2] more via: https://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
Are you sure that hormones are species specific? A pregnant human's hormones makes certain frogs lay eggs, insulin from pigs works in humans... at least for vertebrates it seems that the hormonal pathways are fairly similar between species.
Back to days of ASCI and ANSI art. Those were fun times on BBS's.
Fun fact: Had to read about the Reddit announcement in another sub because it got downvoted.

An important announcement and most people don't see it unless they read a subreddit that cares about it.
Plenty of alcohol is gifted in Reddit's own gift exchange: https://www.redditgifts.com/gallery/simple-pleasures-exchang..., I wonder if they will ban their own sponsored exchange.
Logging in large mathematical models
Frequent, randomly scheduled disengagements should keep the driver quite on edge, preventing them from becoming a passenger. But each and every one of them would create additional risk, so the net improvement might be negative. There is just no way to get this right, except for being reluctant of pushing to scale. With all the hype, wishful thinking and investor pressure, this clearly isn't happening.
Unfortunately, performance doesn't come free on a computer. Have you tried limiting the number of CPUs Firefox uses?

You can see a setting "Performance" in the first tab, uncheck the "Use recommended.." and reduce the number of CPUs it suggest. Maybe that'll help?
We are so many that have been through this just like you.

My realization was also what others have mentioned, that I'm trying to use a search engine backend for log storage.

Specifically 3 months, which is the law here. That meant that ES had to keep 3 months of logs readily searchable. It's just not feasible when you're generating 25-30G logs each day.

I still use ES for search engines but I've stopped using ELK for logs unless it's for small environments.
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They do: there's a very prominent amount of windmills along the I-80 in Carbon County that's quite a sight to drive by :)

http://www.uwyo.edu/werc/wind-wyo.html
Indeed they have. Apple also agreed there is a problem, and they are apparently trying to fix it. Better answer to the problem than I expected, honestly.
You can even deploy your own code, or others directly through Xcode...
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Huh? The board was a major success, the only thing Theranos had going for it.
One bomb going off by accident seems way less scary than the prospect of nuclear war.
In my experience typically only minor infractions like parking violations are assigned to the registered owner of the vehicle, but in other case – accidents, running red lights etc. – the driver is liable regardless of who owns the car.
If you want purity of intent in every transaction or contract you ever enter into then the world is going to be a very frustrating place.
>I've always loved Firefox. Had to switch to Chrome for stability and resource consumption

Have you tried brave browser ? It was created by Brendan Eich, the co-founder of Mozilla and I'm so happy with Brave browser right now, especially in terms of resource consumption, it's just so slick and fast
Exactly! In 2003 Mark Z. was charged by the Harvard administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy. 15 years later he faced similar charges from the United States of America. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. If a guy doesn't give a shit about user's privacy, it invetiably hits people hard way.
> Also, apparently the car was driving at 38mph in an area where the speed limit was 35mph. Would the autonomous mode allow that?

This seems key. Whether in autonomous mode or not, whether someone got hit or not, this clearly should not have been happening, and as such indicates some malfunction or lapse in protocol.
Policies of equality of outcomes are inherently discriminatory. If black people are positively discriminated for then asians are being negatively discriminated against. Since spaces in college are limited when you give one space to someone you take it away from another.