skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad he said this. I developed an app that would scan your friends to see where they worked and if there was an on going union organizing campaign at their workplace, users could then message their friends with information on how to got involved. It was clear in the TOS that the information could not be stored except to enhance the application, which in my case involved caching. They obviously realized this feature was being abused and turned it off and thus broke my app. People are making a huge deal all of the sudden out of a feature that was hardly a secret for the last 7 years.

Edit: this feature was also heavily used by the Obama campaign in 2012 and I would venture to guess was designed at their request.
I have a phone for that.
"Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire." Unfortunately, yes he does. It's called time. Act like you're changing things, do a little change, the least the better, and wait it out. People will bitch about it but eventually, it becomes the new normal. Even if FB fails, which it won't, there's another social network right after it.

But I hope I'm wrong.
This is pretty revolutionary. Servers sending bad code is one of the biggest set-backs to JS crypto being useful.
Maybe ask them how they would feel if a little robot owned by some giant corporation was following them around every day, all day long. And imagine the corporation had similar robots following everyone else around, even children. And tell them the corporation made its money by selling the information it collected to anyone who could pay. And tell them some of the purchasers use the information for various nasty things, like identity theft, And then ask them how they would feel if the robots were invisible, so they didn't realize they were being monitored. And then tell them that is what is actually happening today.
I definitely used it on 8GB or RAM but only about 10M documents or so. It's pretty kick-ass for ad-hoc queries about data that you would typically have to set up a star schema. I tell you probably the best thing you can do is set up a Kafka queue, Apache Spark and ElasticSearch (do the research around these 3) but you'll love the ability to find out things like how many M(ale) patients that are above the age of 30 that have diabetes have died shortly after a surgery. Trying to set all that up with complicated star-schemas etc.. really sucks compared to just building a JSON format that you pipe through Kafka or Spark.

Edit: And yes originally used it for log processing, but really people should definitely try it out for replacing very expensive BA stacks. For log analysis something called Graylog that actually uses Elk internally or just go with Splunk which gives you out of the box primitives for session length calculations. In ELK if you want to do something that sounds as simple as session lenght - you'll ending having to reprocess documents using Kafka or Spark with background jobs that reprocess documents greater than 1 hour old (or something to that effect).
>that driver sure didn’t see that pedestrian either

unless their phone was showing video of the road in front of them, I don't know why they would have seen her.
I am sure that MZ is the latter. F*book is a farce. You are the problem. Be the change you want to see. Reach out to people other ways for events. FFS, you are connected 24x7 to the internet, not facebook exclusively, never in the history of humanity have we had this level of instantaneous hyperconnection, that excuse is a lie.
Can you clarify for me? Why might the image break after I've locked it? Why can't I just unlock it again? What are the consequences of this? I'd like to run Lineage but so far I'm unclear of the unanticipated negatives.
I suspect she was picked up by the sensors and categorised as an object. These are absolute fundamentals, and I can't fathom the car working at all if it can't do this. If it was being driven with a limited set of sensors or a malfunctioning sensor, hoo boy the NTSB will have a few things to say.

I reckon it's more likely that this is was due to a software issue where she was flagged as "not a collision concern" or similar due to being in the other lane on a 2-lane road, or due to her path not being predicted accurately due to the odd returns received by a bicycle in profile at that range (it may have thrown off their regular pedestrian detection). In any case a terrible shame.
I highly recommend deleting the fb app from your device to prevent it listening on you, tracking location, draining your battery and bombarding you with notifications.

If you must use messenger in mobile,

https://mbasic.facebook.com/

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We don’t know when the pedestrian car into view for the human eye. It’s possible that the actual scenario was much brighter in real life than on camera.
> If you're choosing to cross a road in the dark, you, too, have a responsibility to understand the drivers' limited visiblity and act accordingly.

You have a self-responsibility, which most people act on (self-preservation). But as a driver you have a responsibility to pedestrians who can be killed by the machine that you are driving. That is the greater responsibility and why active care for pedestrians should be one of the highest regards of a driver (or autonomous driving system).
I don't think it's primarily about optimism vs realism.

Those are attitudes, and I think the matter is more epistemological - about what valid conclusions we can draw based on the known details.

For example, if we have incomplete information and we can't draw clear conclusions from it, rather than thinking of what sort of attitude we should take towards it (or optimistic vs cynical) -- what we think is likely the case -- our first step should be to admit the incomplete information and be agnostic about what's actually the truth of the matter.

If there are particular reasons for thinking one option (eg fraud) is likely then you can list first reasons and the facts that support them. Doing so doesn't and shouldn't have to involve an attitude like realism or cynicism.
What the heck are those trails doing in the median if it's not a legal crosswalk?
It is not in your brain. Thinking "it's in my brain" happens in your awareness. You think that there is a brain and a body and a world but all these things show up in your awareness and never elsewhere. Look outside, where are the images? Where are the sounds? Where are the feelings? In your awareness. The feeling of 'something outside me' itself is in your awareness.

Where is your awareness? Can you locate it? No because it is always everything you feel. When you move and travel awareness doesn't move. It doesn't have a location or a size or any physical attributes. It is always one field representing all aspects of your life right now.

The brain has effects on the things that can show up in awareness, but not really on the experience of awareness itself. Awareness is always the simple direct experience of things (thoughts, images, sounds, body feelings). You might not get images or get modified thoughts when you have some brain diseases, but you are always this aware field of things appearing.
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Clearly there are still issues with the car. The sensors should have picked up on this. I would be surprised if the automated emergency braking in my Honda wouldn’t have picked this up based on past experience of a close call at night where it saved my ass.

I want to focus a bit though on the human failure here. Uber has been piloting this program with human backup drivers just for situations like this until there is enough confidence in the maturity and safety of these cars.

Whether this driver could have prevented the collision if their eyes were on the road, we will never know. What is clear is the driver was looking down, most likely on their cellphone.

For that there is negligence on both the part of the driver and on the part of Uber. Uber is recording the interior of these cars, so there should have been some type of review process in place to capture this type of behavior from the drivers so it could be addressed.
People will generally be interested in "real productivity", which subtracts inflation. That will make that graph distinctly negative.
Again, like I said, it doesn't need more clarity than however clear or vague it is at the moment. Either people will figure out how to stay away from the gray area and whatever they understand your red line to be, or they won't and will instead have to find out the hard way. Your mere assertion that this won't work isn't any more convincing than mine that it will work.
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Actually, the basic idea underlying democracy is that people are not only intelligent enough to make the right choices in the benefit of their own interests and the interest of their nation, but that the people are also moral and virtuous enough to guide themselves without the need for outside intervention. That has all been corrupted. Democracy without intelligence, morality, and virtue is not desirable by anyone, that is chaos and will only result in tyranny.

Today we do everything in our power to be free of that responsibility. We shun traditional morals and think fraudulent virtue signalling is a replacement for honest hard-earned virtue. People now see government as a provider for freedom, not from outside meddling and tyranny, but from the negative consequences of their failures and poor decisions, and will vote for anybody that offers them the most shit out of their neighbor's pockets, and will gladly accept whatever tyrannical means needed to accomplish that.

Democracy was created for an intelligent, moral, and virtuous society seeking national independence, but which now considers those same qualities to be able-ist, oppressive, dangerous, and xenophobic. American nationalism has been subverted by marxism. McCarthy was right. It is impossible to deny without remaining willfully ignorant.

The corrupt and foolish idea that the right to choose your government comes without any cost or responsibility is one of the ways we got here. As soon as people were given the ability to vote for handouts, the morality required to keep democracy a just political system was corrupted. There should be no pretense to what it is today.

And really, if you still really think Trump is satire, or that the election of Trump is some kind of eye-opening unfathomable result to you, it is my opinion that you have no idea what you are talking about.
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LA increased in population by 42k last year. That’s not the metro area which is also increasing.
When combined with her walking a bicycle, I suspect this is an edge case they never tested. It may have tripped up their pedestrian detection or path prediction (or both) if they got inconsistent hits on the bike.
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There were black hat scrapers in 2013-ish that enabled affiliate marketers to enter a FB page or public group,and export all the commenters' and likers' names, handles, numeric ID's, locations, emails, ages and a few other things to a CSV.

I assume their scraper was more in depth. If you had friend-type permissions back then you could perhaps see their posts and shares. You'd need post and share content to run text analysis, figure out their hot buttons based on language and frequency, sort them into groups and then target then.

Affiliate marketers could also upload lists of unique user ID's (like the FB group members scraped above) for specific ad campaigns, y'know, disguised hookup sites, skin cream credit card rebill offers, etc.

Back then, many of the privacy options were deeply hidden, obscure, changed names a couple times a year or were unavailable.
San Francisco spend over $300Million/yr on 7500 homeless people per year, and there's still human feces all over Market Street.
The point you're missing is most affected users didn't download anything, and were simply friends of someone who did. (OFA or Krogers app)
The distinction you make of OFA being on the up and up and CA not is valid, but doesn't mean suddenly OFA is on a completely different level. There still was a massive amount of data sucked up without consent.
So why even tout the figure? It's obviously inflated. I would be surprised is if it is 500M actual users.

What % of American voters users Facebook? I would be surprised to see over 80%. Nothing has adoption rates that high.
> dreams.. "..we're closing the main Facebook app and web site.."

I think a better dream would be if FB open-sourced an advertisement-free Facebook, and provided $1B in grants to build permutations of the UI that all sync data.
ah the network effect. Same reason im still on fb. Diaspora is brilliant but I feel its never going to capture the imagination of the general public.
Maybe we should all go back to blogging. - if only, sigh
I get more and more depressed browsing my fb newsfeed (which I mostly do when I am taking a shit and run out of things to read)
Which is great.

It seems to me that zuckerburg cares about ad revenue, which means he needs eyeballs and needs to keep them for as long as possible. And, he has proven to care very little about privacy. Therefore, for those who can't shake the habit 100%, cutting back to one day a week is a good way to get the connections you need while slicing into the attention getting ad revenue.
Consequences matter. I'm generally okay with animal testing that is focused on finding disease cures and generally not okay with animal testing that supports bio-weapons programs.
I'm sure you're right about the civil suit.
I wonder if the driver grabbing the wheel disabled the response from the car.
Why would they have any incentive to do that?
You cannot argue against the laws of physics.

It is inadvisable for any non professional driver to attempt to maximum break and also steer away. It is just not safe.
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If you want this to happen, users need an alternative. I'm not sure it matters to them if the alternative truly protects their confidentiality or if they will understand whether it does or not. I know there are alternatives out there, is there one that is user-friendly, confidential, and secure, and that users can switch to right now?

It reminds me to remind myself: A project that seemed quixotic a month ago suddenly has potential and value. You need to start developing such things when the market is in the 'quixotic' stage in order to have them ready when the world suddenly understands. Congratulations to those who started months or years ago.
>When you singup for Facebook, you agree that anything you post might be shared with others on the platform.

There's no consent on behalf of the friends if one shares information about their friends to an app. Consent is given directly
Well your awareness contains: beliefs you need a car, desires to do stuff with that car, concepts of money and bank account. It basically contains your life and is not incompatible with the fact of a life happening.
I already deleted my FB account once, maybe 6-7 years ago (not suspended, deleted). It was a mistake. I lost contact with a lot of people, including my relatives in Europe and old friends from grad school. Once I rejoined FB, it took a long time to re-build my friends list. FB has a lot of flaws and I don't use very much or share very much on it, but for staying in contact with people... I can't think of anything better, unfortunately.
While these areas where "making contributions to humanity" they were religious
Not everything but Wikileaks for sure.
You just compared a yearly figure to a daily figure?
We also don't know if the driver was looking at snuff videos. However, we can make an educated guess that it likely wasn't either.
This is why I've always criticized Tesla over its defense of Autopilot accidents, even when most people here were defending them. Then Waymo and Ford came out and confirmed what I and several others here were saying - that humans can't react to "take over the wheel" if something shows up in front of the car.

It's either Level 5, or nothing.
I love those videos. Maybe I'm jaded, but I never assumed they were autonomous... hell, it's hard enough to get a game AI character to open a 'door.' The mechanical aspect, on the other hand -- the balancing and movement -- is very impressive.

If it was me, I'd ditch the entire AI aspect, and just hire a thousand offshore workers at pennies an hour to remotely command my 1,000 ATLASes as they march across (insert name of country you want to invade.) Sort of like drones that fly across the Middle East while being piloted by humans from a nice, safe, air-conditioned office in, for instance, Lackland AFB.
Could have been getting into the right hand turn lane to head down Mill Ave that blends in right there.
Some great points. It is always important to remember that everyone has an agenda (especially in the current era of "fake news"). If we need to be skeptical of news seem on Facebook and other common places, why not be skeptical of things on Hacker News ... etc. One more current example (related to non-hacker news) would be that I've yet to see anything in the "trending" news section on Facebook about the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Just shows that they curate that for their agenda.
> I don't know that I would even feel that sorry for her,
>there is only so much we can (and should) do to protect...

This strikes me as a good example of willful blindness and could subject a person to a charge of criminally negligent homicide. And I even see that possibility in this video, that the driver was maladapted for night conditions due to a display in the car that maybe wasn't supposed to be there.

Imagine a condition with this car not recognizing and then hitting an animal (elk, moose, horse, cow) such that the animal goes right through the windshield and kills everyone inside the car. This is a real problem worth solving, regardless of whether you personally care about humans outside the car.

Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed.
also, CA did this [1], which is quite illegal and immoral:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/cambridge-an...
And there are places in Paris where you cannot drive a modern American style car down the medieval streets. Those boulevards are relatively new.
I had only just learned of Eve through this post, and watched a bunch of Chris' videos... I was blown away by him!

I've been in tech a long time and have known lots of extremely bright people. But, I've not met many who exhibit such a broad horizontal grasp of complex technical concepts combined with an elegant and concise way of expressing this knowledge (e.g. via Eve).

I'd surely bet on this guy again.
> Even IF people bought a lifetime worth of food or electricity, I still wouldn't care. A 90% decrease in costs for food and electricity would STILL save 10s of thousands of lives every year.

And yet the "saving lives" portion of this comparison only works with food, and a select other few items. Do I really have to explain why making a comparison between items and using a feature that only exists within the compared to situation makes for a poor comparison?

Are you saving millions, or even hundreds, of lives by dropping house prices immediately in a locale instead of looking for policies that both create housing (hopefully affordable) while also trying to reduce the most egregious losses from the middle class?

To be clear, again, I'm not against allowing house prices to drop, and I'm not against building more housing. I'm for a considered approach that tries to reduce extreme negative impact for people who would also have a hard time dealing with a large drop in their home price? Because I'm having a hard time understanding why people are so averse to trying to find a best possible option instead of just doing the thing that immediately just sounds like the simple thing to do.

Feel free to have the last comment. On this topic, I think I'm done telling people over and over again how they've ignored the actual point of my argument only to have them double down.
Like any language it takes a mixture of reading and practice. If you just read, it won't stick, because you have nothing to hang it onto. If you just practice, you'll adopt hacks that work but aren't the best way to do it. So it would be nice if you had a job that demands you regularly come up with new SQL. Try to prepare your data as much as possible in the database, instead of partly in the database and partly in your middle language (say, Python). So, for example, try to make web pages that use the Mustache template system (a very strict and minimal one) and use Python (or whatever) only to pull the data from the database and stuff it into the template. That will make you learn the esoteric features of your database.

I agree with others that you should try to use Postgres. It's easy to get going on Linux, but if for whatever reason you can't right now, SQLite is good, too. Really, Postgres or SQLite, there is no technical need for any other database.

Supposing that you can go with Postgres, then your reading assignment is easy: just read the Postgres documentation from start to finish. Of course you won't get it the first time, and it might be a multimonth affair, but it's about as good as any book I've found. For some reason, all books on SQL are really boring. My very first book was Databases Demystified, which was a fine book and helped me learn "normalization," which is a fancy word for Don't Repeat Yourself --- except it's talking about reducing redundancy in data instead of code.
I thought whole initial response from the police was weird. They went out of their way to basically say she jumped out in front of the car, and that the accident was unavoidable. They even told us that the women was homeless, which I viewed as a subtle way to hint that maybe she wasn’t in her right mind.

It just felt like they were saying everything possible to absolve Uber, in a way that’s very different from how most crashes are treated.
He was clearly not paying attention. So why not cut the crap and say it like it is: the car is driving itself with no supervision.
> The problem is that anyone can buy a house in the UK and they've become investment vehicles.

Doesn't that imply that there is a shortage?
I agree, but I don’t think the eye can adapt beyond its inherent dynamic range over a matter of milliseconds - the iris is not opening or closing over that timescale, so you’re relying on the inherent dynamic range of the retina (which is pretty good).

What the eye IS doing is some kind of HDR processing, which is much better than the gamma and levels applied to that video. I bet a professional colorist could grade that footage to make it a much better reflection of what the driver could see in the shadows - even with a crappy camera, you can usually pull out quite a bit of shadow detail.
> It's no different than Mormon scientists attempting to prove that coffee is bad for you, or Muslim scientists that attempt to prove that pork is bad for you.

Assuming the proper procedures are observed I don't think I see something wrong in principle with these examples. Certainly if they're massaging the data we're talking about something different.
I'd argue a lot if not probably the majority of users of Facebook are read only. What matters is really whether the minority of users who actively post are leaving or not. These are the most affected by privacy concerns. Once enough of them do, the platform dries out and its end will accelerate.
> Why would they have any incentive to do that?

They could just use a token to align incentives
Economists call this a transitional gains trap. Here's an economist discussing it (and a theoretical solution):

https://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2009/09/transitiona...