skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar behaviour years ago. I deleted the app from my phone, but then after a short while logged in via my phone's browser. A short while after that I chose to 'delete' my account (after backing up the archive of course).
Since it gives you 30 days to reconsider your decision, I thought if I really missed facebook that much I'd log in within the 30 days. It's been years since and I haven't had the slightest desire to be apart of facebook.

In recent times my attention has been drawn to the amount of time wasted on random Youtube videos. Youtube is more difficult since the service actually has value to me. Somehow restricting my access to only videos from my subscriptions could be a possible solution.
Seems that 'not in my back yard' is a big problem. So what about a rule that says, "If you build a high-density apartment you must financially compensate nearby residents"?
> we don't want to judge AV solely on whether it performs as well as normal humans

You don't think performing as well as normal humans should be sufficient to allow them on the road?

Or are you saying they should be allowed even if their performance is worse than human? (...as long as some other criterion is met?)
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We recently open sourced a library that makes it easy to quickly get started with pre-trained word vector models like word2vec from Google, Facebook, and Stanford. It adds a ton of extra functionality like fast similiarity indexing with Annoy and fairly robust out-of-vocabulary word lookups (handling misspellings) out of the box. If you want to quickly get started with pre-built models, it might be worth checking out along with Gensim:

https://github.com/plasticityai/magnitude/
At this point I very much want to know what data about me has been collected by private companies. I'm getting sick of not knowing. I'm repulsed by people divining or extrapolating. I want to fucking know.
I don't think there's anything wrong with preferring that.

I just don't like that they try to give the feeling of being "pro-privacy", when their actions speak otherwise. I find it very deceptive.
IR can help with that. Headlights are limited by the disincentive of blinding oncoming drivers...

Now that I think about it, self driving cars may be paralyzed by other self driving cars running IR boosted headlights.
If you want software updates, you can get those through your computer rather than connecting to Apple directly. I'm not sure what would be involved in opting out of Apple's iMessage system. Edit to add: looks like that's an option as well in the settings. (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6430569)

Are you asking rhetorically? For someone who repeatedly, adamantly, and assuredly posts about Apple and security, I'd be surprised if you don't already know the answer to your question.
The depressing part is that there is actually somewhat of a point to that.

I despise Google, Facebook et al
and I develop a webpage in my freetime for a club that I'm in. I'll gladly work an extra hour, if it means I can avoid sending data to one of those asshat companies, but it's really not as easy as it sounds.

I for example used a template to base my webpage on and that template creator chose a font, as he should, but then instead of statically embedding the font file, the guy included it by linking to Google Fonts, meaning that all of my users' browsers sent their IP and that they are visiting my webpage (as part of the HTTP Referrer) off to Google.

I found out by looking at my page with NoScript and I suppose, you could find out by looking at the network requests, too, but neither are necessarily something that a hobby webdev is going to look at.

Another time, a module decided to load JQuery off of a Google server. And incidentally, that module was installed by the guy who maintained the webpage before me, so that's another point how "everyone doing it" does actually make it harder on you.

Then we wanted to embed a map. I happened to know of OpenStreetMap, but most webdevs probably don't, because everyone's using Google Maps everywhere.

For videos, I was convinced to embed YouTube-videos, because of networking effects and such, so then I wanted to at least try to make it privacy-friendly and, you know, comply with EU law, so I put up a picture, if you clicked on that picture, it would then load in the actual YouTube player.

I was hoping to find a module that did this automatically. I found one. Exactly one, that is. And it was kind of shitty at that. So, then I had to spend not just one extra hour, but probably rather five, to try to patch that module up into a semi-usable something.
Even Uber couldn't be oblivious enough to consider this a PR win.
Please weigh your own personal hobby against our society's clear dysfunction when it comes to gun violence. Does the pleasure you get from learning about "reloading ammo for 100+ year old rifles" does not outweigh my desire for my son to not be shot at school?

There are more important things than the issues you cite. If losing historical content and "niche communities" having to go find new hobbies means just a couple fewer kids don't get shot this year, then I'll take that trade. And I hope you will consider taking it too. Are your hobbies really that important to you? What's your worst case scenario? Mine is yet another school shooting, but this time in my kids school.

More generally, I really hope that as a society we can find some way to back away from extremism. As a liberal, I'm dismayed by the cancer that Trump represents. But I imagine that his supporters are just as dismayed by things liberals do. The more liberals push for gun regulation, the more the NRA won't budge an inch, and doubles down on even more extreme positions for fear that liberals will confiscate all guns -- give an inch, take a mile. Sooner or later, people are going to decide they really have had enough and start actually proposing to take that mile, because we can't seem to discuss things and come to a reasonable compromise.
No. The term we need to introduce here is "Dynamic Range". It is pointless to say "Sony A7s can vastly outperform the eye" where it could have been set for a low light exposure. Human eye has an amazing dynamic range - I don't know the exact number today, but last time I checked was like 3 years ago and the cameras at the time (D800) were not even close to human dynamic range.
>> There are _so_ many ways to make a leathel weapon I can't begin...

Yeah but guns are "cool" while ramming a car into a crowd it's not that cool.

I believe people should be allowed to bear arms but that doesn't mean the guns should be sold and advertised as lollipops.
Perhaps you have heard of DevSecOps? This is cyber securities version of DevOps. (also sometimes called SecDevOps and a variety of other terms).

As developers continue to move toward CI/CD (AI and ML) I believe that in the future many more Cybersecurity professionals will have to be fluent in a language as automation of detection, reaction, remediation will be required skills. And that is just for the 'testing' side of application security. Network security, has long ago had this automation with tools like Metasploit, Nmap and others which are getting chained together into very amazing automated attack platforms.

Application security is catching up. Burp & OWASP Zap in particular and expanding feature sets to include automation as a core function. You can right click an attack in Burp to get the curl command for that attack to use in automation for example. Simon, Zaps lead developer, inventor and all round great community leader, was hired by Mozilla back in 2010 precisely to continue to improve Zaps automation to be able to automate the testing of Mozilla software.

On a personal note, I recommend starting with Python - there are good books about hacking with python like "grey hat python, black hat python, violent python" that will get you started down a good path.

Of course there are many disciplines in cyber security, reverse engineering, API Testing, IoT testing, Compliance, Governance, incident response, reverse engineering malware, to name just a few. I believe Spaf said that he identified 54 unique skills in our field in a conversation we had recently. Not all of those are going to require you to program, but if you do learn to program some of the more interesting and sexy jobs in cyber open up to you.
I'd highly recommend course.fast.ai - it's focussed on deep learning, but is designed for beginners to get to a production stage.
Japan is very much a nation of renters

62% of households in Japan own their own home. This is ~10% above Germany and ~1.5% below the US.
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Focusing on the car-automation and driver may be missing the point in this scenario.

@jedweeks: Nearly 2 miles between crosswalks, that's why. Street was designed to kill pedestrians.
I'm more than a little disappointed to see the victim walked all the way across the left-side lane, unnoticed, before being struck. While the monitor appeared to be more interested in her phone, or whatever she was continually looking down at, instead of keeping an eye on the road and vehicle performance which I imagine was what she was being payed to do
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There are a lot of questions around the vision side of this, but I have slightly different question, the answer which probably points to greater systemic issue in the overall solution.

Why is a car, the speed of which is regulated by the autonomous driving system, breaking the legal speed limit?

Even accounting for errors/accuracy of odometers/speed cameras, this car was traveling at a speed in excess of the legal speed limit for that section of road, increasing both all the underlying risks of operating a 1-2t motor vehicle at 60+km/hr, and the material impacts from those risks.

In a relatively new technology, why is the decision to trade safety for speed being made?

In any technology where safety (and ultimately human life) is concerned, why are we testing in production?
In North America, isn’t the vehicle owner usually liable, regardless of who is driving?
Not really, depends on the size of the dataset and the complexity of the operations - when did you use it? Sounds like you were on a dodgy build or set up

I think Elastisearches policy on sizing is pay us or a partner to have a look and give you a guesstimate, which is pretty standard
you put some content into a service, whether it’s a photo or a video or a text message — whether it’s Facebook or WhatsApp or Instagram — and you’re trusting [you dumb fuck] that that content is going to be shared with the people you want to share it with.
> LIDAR also has limitations on angular resolution just as a function of how the sensor works. It's entirely possible that the size of the person/bike on LIDAR was just too small until it was too late to stop.

I highly doubt this is the issue. I am not sure what Ubers setup is, but even a standard velodyne should have been able to pick that up based on angular resolution.
Is a driver ever at fault when a pedestrian is in the road at night without a crosswalk nor lights nor reflective gear?
> Given a human would 99%+ of the time not have seen this woman in time

I'm far from convinced that a human would not have seen this woman in time.

See all the comments in this thread about how the dashcam footage is much worse than reality, and even one person who drives that road regularly saying it's not that bad visibility-wise.

I think if I had seen that lady slowly walking her bike onto the road in my adjacent lane, I would have slowed down for sure. And from seeing my own nighttime dashcam videos, I think I would have seen her. She's the only object nearby, on a fairly straight road with no adverse weather conditions. I would have seen someone pushing a bike onto the next lane.

Maybe I would have hit her still, but I would have slowed down for sure.
Usually other reflectors are required when riding at night.

But this was a pedestrian, not a cyclist.

Personally, while riding at night, I look like a Christmas tree. $10 on EBay goes far these days in the reflective tape and bike light department:
And the residents complain of high property taxes. They may not realise the blessing.
Here's a question, Cambridge Analytica gets 50 million of these highly robust personal data profiles, and that's a "scandal"!

But facebook has something on the order of a billion of these (even more) highly robust personal data profiles, and that's, not a scandal but a multi-hundred billion dollar corporation?

Can it be said the collection of these profiles is a net positive for the world?

Or is this mass societal exploitation for private profit?

Note this isn't asking about the existence itself of facebook, just the collecting of these profiles, fb could function in some way without collecting these profiles.
Pay ~$300k for a house in Tokyo, which will cost you +/- $10k down [+] and ~$1k a month for a mortgage. Japanese underwriting standards would consider this doable at a household income of approximately $2.8k a month or so.

c.f. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w

[+] I realize that number is surprising, and I would have found it surprising up until ~3 weeks ago, but I can assure you that this product is presently commercially available in Tokyo, including to people who do not exactly smash Japanese banks' definition of "desirable client."
If the elected need to use deception to implement their goals...
Not comparing to Cloud Armor, but the $200/month minimum to bring one's own tls certificate. That alone puts Cloudflare squarely on the list of unusable options for any small project or business that is running their entire production infrastructure on less than $100/month. Also, the inability to specify cache expirations below... what was it... 30 minutes or 2 hours? Again, forced to pay too much for one of the core features of a CDN.
I think we should be given one in school, trained, and make it normal.

The problem is you're right, they are being advertised. Although, what I will say is I don't know a single person who treats them as toys (I live in a pretty rural area, so pretty much everyone has one). Every gun is taken care of and very well managed.

It always amazes me, because I'm one of the few people who refuse to have a gun in my house (might change). People in the bay area (where I lived for two years, before leaving) have absolutely no idea how common and really safe guns are. I think it leads to a lot of fear mongering.
The reason I think people are talking about repealing the 2nd is because the NRA won't budge an inch. Extremism begets extremism. If people can't get sensible gun regulation, extreme gun regulation starts to seem more attractive.

Conservatism, I though, was all about making slow and slight tweaks to society, rather than radical changes. But refusal to allow even the slightest evolution or deviation on some issue, like gun rights, leads to the opposite: at times it feels like we are heading towards outright civil war.

In the face of an obvious societal problem like gun violence, real conservatism would say sure, lets make some small changes to gun regulation, see how that goes for a few years or decades, then re-evaluate our position to see if society is better or worse off. Instead, seemingly obvious minor tweaks to gun regulation get cast as the first giant step towards impending repeal of the 2nd amendment. Maybe we are past the point of no return, I don't know.
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Sure. And as it is likely to continue to be good for their bottom line for the forseeable future, I continue to benefit from patronizing them. See what's happening here? It's a selfish economic system whereby we both benefit. I guess capitalism works sometimes, at least for (relatively) short periods of time. Who knew?
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I just read a good article about the passenger pigeon [1]. It was originally published in Audubon, but I read it in a book called "The Best American Science and Nature Writing -
2015".

[1] http://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-...
They deny science, but also fact-based decision making and inconvenient facts.
I wonder if the driver is liable.
I think we could all agree that:

1. The pedestrian should not have been there

2. The car should not have hit/killed him/her.

Those points needn't be mutually exclusive.
I mean most of the apps, like Maps, Email, GPS, etc.

And I don't know the answer to that, because I haven't used an Apple product since the original iPhone. If I'm misunderstanding how they work, then, please, inform me as to what I'm missing. I'm very willing to admit I was mistaken if they don't work the way I think they do.

I try to keep up with the basics of how they work, I have my friends show me things, etc. But I in no way want to paint myself as an Apple expert.
Check your number commas.
>What matters is really whether the minority of users who actively post are leaving or not.

I see it differently. Looking at it from a stats perspective, people who just login and don't scroll are also pretty valuable for Facebook since they're still come under the DAU and MAU numbers. They're counted for the ad impressions, and subsequently ad revenue.

Even though Facebook has prioritized friends' posts, bulk of the content (even though it can be not the most important) I think for most people is by pages and companies. Who I don't think are going to change in any way after this event.
Would be cool if the driver had to placebo-drive and the car used that input to assess discrepancies and validate confidence.

When the driver fails to do a task that the computer seems necessary with a high degree of confidence, both get shutdown for further evaluation.
Looks like a velodyne 64 based laser. It is virtually impossible for those to not be able to see the the bicycle well in advanced. Uber had a serious issue here. Something like:

1. System was off

2. Point clouds were not being registered correctly (at all!)

3. It was actually in manual mode -- safety driver didn't realize or didnt react fast enough.

4. Planning module failed

4. Worst outcome in my opinion: Point cloud registered correctly, obstacle map generated correctly, system was on, planner spit out a path but the path took them through the bicycle.
archive.is or the Internet Archive will show the content.
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Wetware is astonishing stuff. All the propaganda to anthropomorphize machines is showing here... cheap IR sensors are not the issue. AI is not intelligent and inanimate objects have no self.

They should pivit to augmenting drivers, not attempting to drive for them. I would happily utilize a properly designed HUD (meaning I have source access) connected to a fast MerCad or bolometer array.
Zipf's law is a beast.
I'm saying that the evidence as it stands doesn't remotely support the idea that this accident was avoidable for either the driver or the automation, and that I'm shocked at the irrationality with which people are trying to pretend it does.

If you want to make a point about cameras or eyes with evidence, do so. The evidence in the linked video supports there opposite of what you claim.
You're simply wrong. Drivers aren't required to drive slow enough to avoid every possible illegal or unexpected natural obstruction.

http://www.zacharlawblog.com/2015/11/whos-at-fault-in-an-acc...

> So, should an accident occur between a jaywalker and a car---if shown that the driver could have/should have seen the person and could have/should have been able to avoid, then without question the driver can be held responsible.

https://www.nicoletlaw.com/blog/2015/07/what-happens-if-a-ja...

> To a large degree, it comes down to the driver's ability to avoid the accident. If a jaywalker steps right out into the car's path and is instantly hit, the driver will usually not be held responsible. It will be determined that the pedestrian caused the accident.

> However, if the jaywalker strolls into the street a few hundred yards ahead of the car and the driver does not slow down or swerve, the driver could be held responsible. Even though jaywalking is illegal, drivers are expected to take reasonable action to avoid crashes when they can, even if they feel they have the right of way.

> Negligence also comes into play if the driver should have seen the pedestrian but did not. For instance, a driver who is texting and driving may look away from the road and not see someone step into the street, hitting them with the car. The driver could argue that the road was clear and that the person shouldn't have been there. While that may be true, he or she could still face charges.
Anyone on here is probably one of the tech influencers for their family group. I've just started the work of trying to get people to move onto using Signal. I really really like the ethos of the organisation. I don't see how there's any downside (other than the time of getting people to switch).

Wouldn't it be great if, as a start, everyone moved to a secure not-going-to-sell-your-data organisation for instant messaging.

Then, if Whisper Systems could just bring out some magic Facebook alternative, well, that would be just amazing.

We should care about this stuff, we should try to influence our friends and family.
There's a lot of innuendo that he was forced out after the second anti-trust (There was an initial slap on the wrist which he flaunted).
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No, some are residential. I know someone who just moved in to the new skyscraper by Battersea power station
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I'm surprised to see someone tell it for what it really is. This is just like the Uber "scandal" from last year in that things got blown way out of proportion in some aspects, but positive changes were made.
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If it's so windy, and they have experience in energy fields, a natural thing would be to use that to develop new and better wind based power gen. Of course, it's really hard to embrace the new thing that is killing the old thing you made lots of money from.
Did you not read the article? It says there are less birds.

Not a decline in variety. The birds are going away.
How is that related to security policies?

Also you can't run a GKE cluster across multiple regions, only multiple zones. If you have multiple clusters in different regions, you can use a NodePort service on each and manually setup a GSLB with a backend pointing to all of the GKE clusters.

There is a solution being worked on though, called multi-cluster ingress: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-multicluster-ingr...
Per your own data, 30mph is the "inflection point". 30mph to 40mph cuts survivability by 40%.
You are the same type of person that would have halted the industrial revolution at the first report of a human casualty or injury in a machine.
I actually find it disturbing that Trump is kind-of right: NYTimes is #fakenews. :( What an age we live in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16645321

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16644915