skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent developments have been rather less than encouraging. First of all, gradually the whole of the original/long-term developers for the front-end either got moved to other projects (the iOS browser, other experimental mobile projects, Focus, ...) or left Mozilla, so by the end of 2016 almost nobody was left and most of the front end development was transferred to the Taipei office. There was some initial enthusiasm and activity, but then the same thing happened again - some developers were shifted over to start yet another browser (Firefox Rocket) and after the UI refresh for the 57 update activity started quietening down again.

Then of course this January all mainline Firefox development from the Taipei office ceased completely (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16186927), which has led to the situation that since then, the front-end part of the app hasn't had any active Mozilla developers assigned (!).
There's some minimal staffing to continue looking at bug reports and identifying any real critical issues that still require fixing ASAP with whatever development resources can be scraped together or contracted in, but other than that everything is on standby.

There are some signs that some sort of rewrite might be on the table (although interestingly the roadmap keeps completely quiet about that), but until more is known about that, I tend to be rather pessimistic and assume lots of opportunities for losing or regressing current functionality and it taking ages until things are sorted out again, if ever.
Anecdote: my rav4 hybrid really impresses upon me how complicated hybrids must be to engineer. It’s tempting to see it as “just two electric motors, a battery pack, and an ICE drive train”. But it’s clearly juggling many factors to figure out the optimal source of each increment of force.
paulblyne fair enough I see your point. but what i find interesting is the willfulness americans will _permanently relinquish_ their rights and the rights of their descendants to the government in one case vs the other in the name of safety in reaction to current events.
I can't see PornHub continuing to allow these videos. It's not really in keeping with the core product, and previous stunts give the impression that they tend towards the left wing. I give it a week for them to start removing gun videos.
Dubai-based certified car marketplace raises another $1M
False flag is the quicksand of online drama. People allude to them a lot more often than they are found in the wild.
The problem is that all of a sudden your side-searches for rash treatments or your checks on your gmail account go through that VPN as well, linking your identities temporally.
>20 years ago, there was an expectation that when you left the office, you were unreachable except in an emergency. I don't see any hint of that expectation anymore.

This is commonplace in Europe. Vacation is vacation, and largely this is respected.
Absolutely not. The cars should launch perfect, not just as good as humans. If you have any other human operated machine and replace it with an automatic one that sometimes kill humans, does it matter if it does it less often than the human operated one? Absolutely not - a machine cannot have an operating mode where death is possible. Look at Therac radiotherapy machines - they surely saved hundreds if not thousands of lives from cancer - but they had an operating mode that would kill the patient. Does it matter than a manually operated radiotherapy machine would most likely kill more people due to operator errors? Again - absolutely not.
We are looking at alternatives like Payoneer. I have a personal moral opposition to PayPal :-)

We very seriously investigated cryptocurrencies. We found that companies would have to pay with crypto to make it legal under us law, and companies were not ready to do that yet. Details here: https://www.moonlightwork.com/blog/cryptocurrency-and-compan...
Thanks for this clear explanation!

Regarding your example with 1000 muls followed by 1000 loads... That's why in my experiments I interleaved loads and bswaps, because that's what (hopefully) every decent compiler will do.
Are you referring to the Kremlin? There is a wealth of allegations of such activities attributed to them:

The most infamous (and heinous) oft sighted example...

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

And there are plenty of more recent allegations such as the framing of North Korea for the attempts to disrupt the Winter Olympics:

https://www.wired.com/story/russia-false-flag-hacks/

Parkland shootings etc etc

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/feb/22/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-the-parkland-s...
I wonder if a two or three column view would be better. Could have a current best and newest sort. Third column could be random.
"Mental Health issues, homelessness, and drug addiction" These are methods of creating and participation in a human trafficing situation. The product of a sex worker is a human service and the source of the product is humans. The mentioned problems are a part of societies lack of response to "bullies and actual mental conditions propagated by weaker social enviornment" When some one does not undetstand they are on drugs they may decide to do something exciting and change their norm for a little while also with the use of primos (i.e. the neighbor keep smoking something ect.) and corruption through persistance and groups of people to create a stressful situation at home people now have an alternative to their own rite to their own destiny. A list like craigslist allows perpatrators and unwitting victims to communicate without being seen as easily. If no one is going to address the activities then the participants are going to go too far passed the boundries of other persons and society has less safety for those not interested in participaton in those activities. A person who would be left out of normal social activities is now able to affotd to create problems and join with others who do the same more easily and safely. The issues first mentioned here are paid for a lot by governments designed to help society members. A human trafficking issue also involes intellectual activity and skilled labor as well as the fact that the more some people are left to succede the more they add these to the society they live in and pay the problems what the probllems would consider zero profit or power.
Is the macOS unified log private, or a vulnerability?
> Step 2. Stop Diverting Police Resources to enforcing laws
> on what consenting Adults do on their own time (both
> Prostitution and Drugs)

But society has rules, it's the grey areas that are always going to be in contention.

I'm sure you want the police and laws there to protect children from sexual exploitation.

The same with drugs, you don't want smack and cocaine being sold in Boots.

So there has to be a law, and that law is going to be too restrictive for some people and too lenient for others.

The laws and implementation of them swings back and forth all throughout time.
Craigslist personals offered us a very clear view of the utter failure of authorities to combat sex trafficking.
That is what I have been told from German friends, hence my assertion.

Looking at the contents of 3 years bachelor + 2 years MS, versus the contents of old Licentiate 5 years duration in Portugal, they are clearly equivalent in content.

Hence why after Bologna many universities basically renamed their Licentiate degree into something called Integrated MS, which means the students get a BS + MS paper at the end of those 5 years.

Also the reason why former Licentiates are allowed to basically acquire their MS title, by paying bureaucratic fees and in some cases presenting some kind of career report as thesis.
I generally agree, yeah, if a provider has a large or controlling market share then they should be obligated to some form of common carrier principle beyond "they're a private company, they can do business with whoever they want".

It's simply a risk that lawmakers or the company itself begin enforcing laws outside their jurisdiction (using the company as proxy) or their personal beliefs and ethics (enforcing rules that seem nonsensical to an affected culture or country)
I'm totally with you that "Leiharbeit" needs to go. Its about exploiting the weakest for the financial gain of morally rotten middlemen. I'm just saying the law could have been passed with less collateral damage.
This. I absolutely hate that.

By the way, there is Whatsapp Web where you can type with your keyboard. But it's clunky (somewhat less clunky with the Opera integration, if you use Opera), fickle and still requires you to have your phone on and with enough battery in the same wifi as the computer, which isn't always trivial.
Music Industry Sees Fastest Growth in More Than 20 Years
Actually prostitution is legal in Nevada (but not in the big cities). So even that isn't so clear cut.
When I read the title I assumed this was going to be a very different piece, as I've recently been discussing with friends and colleagues about how degrees in general are going to be less and less important over time. This is a digression on the topic of the original post, so I'm sorry if I shouldn't be posting it here.

The reasoning goes: the reasons why we need degrees are certification and reputation. By certification I mean that we only let people who we all trust practice medicine, as that kills people directly otherwise. So we restrict the people who can to those with the appropriate degrees.

The second point is more relevant to most other careers. A degree is nothing but a more reputable institution 'lending' reputation to its graduates. The reason this is necessary is because nobody's got the time to verify whether every person knows Computer Science - we're better off just knowing that people from University of X know CS if UoX says so. Even if you're going to personally interview every candidate for a job opening, still relying on degrees helps you filter candidates.

The thing is our interactions are recorded to the level that we can now reason about individuals in a way that was not possible before. Why do I need to trust UoX if I can mine your entire internet presence with reasonably comparable effort?

I thought from the title that, since CS is the field that is making this shift possible, we'd be the first one to suffer this influence.
No. But it's slowly getting better. Every once in a while someone posts a "100% remote" contract. Usually it's full-time on-site. Sometimes a few days a week "home office".

Working through these kind of agencies is not freelancing in the sense OP is looking for. It's working as a temporary employee (still with more freedom and paid overtime :).
> Start by legalizing prostitution and removing the black market

That would be to rational thing to do, but people aren't rational and they don't actually want solutions.
I had to cancel my honeymoon and my brother's honeymoon because of work.

I am an H1B from India working for the American subsidiary of an India company. For a short period of time, I was put on a project that was created by some other team and finally abandoned by the customer. Then, 1-2 years later, new customer management decided to bring the project back to life. Only thing was the new management didn't know it was still in prototype stage. They tried to go to market with it, only to find issues.

Unfortunately for me, when this customer approached my company, I was free and I got assigned to this project. I did what they asked to. It was only for a month of so. Then, I heard nothing from this customer for a couple of months. Then they showed up again asking me to make some changes, that lasted for 1-2 weeks. It repeated once or twice again. Then I never heard from them.

2 years passed by after I worked on this project for the first time. I must have worked on and off for 2 months total in this so far. I went to India on a 40 day vacation for my brother's and my marriage. I get an email from the manager who handles this customer that this customer has come back again and they want me to work. I tried to work from India as much as I could. But this manager insisted on me cancelling my vacation. Finally, he escalated to my actual manager's boss's boss, saying that I have to cancel my honeymoon. I was scared of loosing my visa, so I ended my cancelling my honeymoon. Since my brother and I got married within the same month, we had our honeymoon's planned together. So he also had to cancel.

The day I got the email from the manager asking me to cancel my honeymoon, I stayed in room for the whole day. I was incredibly stressed and miserable.

I was never the same person after this. I lost all my interest in work and my company. I will resign within 1 or 2 months and leave US altogether. There is a good chance I will regret it later, but it has become too much for me to handle.
Not a native here, but the way I understand is that it's Sun the celestial object vs. sun as short for sunlight. No? You can't really be "exposed" to the former.
The machine learning reproducibility crisis
A Tale of Two Blockchain Startups
As a counterpoint, I see lots of "all the gear no idea" kayakers who think that buying the newest design will improve their paddling, when they would be better spending more time on the river than in the shop.

Though I discussed this with someone else fairly recently- as kayaks become more idiot proof, there are a lot more incompetent people on the rivers now, "surviving" rapids that are really beyond their ability. A "worse" kayak will likely make you a better kayaker. (Though there is probably a lot less difference between the quality of kayaks and the quality of guitars).
This was a free choice made by a private corporation. Surely they are exercising their rights here? No?
Yes, I'm fairly certain that the BKA being involved would have been a far greater scandal. The BND is well known to act above the law because of a total lack of accountability. The BKA is just the federal police.

To put it in terms foreigners might be able to relate to:

BND = CIA

BKA = FBI

BfV (Verfassungsschutz) = NSA

The BND is the German intelligence service and primarily tracks threats outside Germany. The BKA mostly just coordinates investigations at the national level (it's a lot more hands-off than the FBI). The Verfassungsschutz monitors domestic threats.

The Verfassungsschutz also infamously completely missed the existence of the far-right NSU terrorists who happily comitted a number of attacks and bombings which went unnoticed because of victim-blaming ("A Turkish fast food joint was bombed? Must have gotten involved with the Turkish mafia."). The Verfassungsschutz also later interfered in an investigation against itself by accidentally destroying evidence.

So if you still have difficulties telling them apart:

BND = unaccountable spies

BKA = federal police that doesn't really do much policing

Verfassungsschutz = really bad at hunting nazis
This is certainly true of most stock-picker type hedge funds, but there are legitimate strategies that aren't a shirty replication of an index fund. Unfortunately, stock-pickers have somehow become most of the industry seem to be most of the industry (probably because there's no real talent or capital constraints on them).
To be clear on this: I agree with almost all of your reasoning (in this and the previous post), but this is not exactly the most convincing way to open your counter-argument:

> It's not hypothetical.

> We haven't observed it in nature

Also, the fact that in the long term such a mutation would cause a population to go extinct eventually is not really evidence that we should not find this in the wild, because it would still be effective in the short term. Look at that recent story about the mutated lobster taking over the waters of Germany for an example.

Anyway, the crucial disagreement lies here:

> It's easy to do simulations.

Yes, if a gene would evolve that brings the mutation rate to zero, this simulation works. But achieving such a thing sounds a lot like beating the laws of thermodynamics and stopping entropy from increasing. And sure, reducing entropy locally is possible by globally increasing it - in this case that would mean increasing the energy/resource budget spent on it, but I suspect that this in itself will be at a cost too high to give an advantage.

I basically don't believe (and I fully admit that this is a subjective point of view) that the "easy simulations" are noisy, large or complex enough to reflect the messy biological reality here. Essentially, there's too much approximation going on.

And btw, evolving to extinction is not the same thing: a gene that makes the entire population male is not in itself advantageous like reducing mutations is. It is more generic than the "mutation rate zero"-gene scenario, the latter is basically a specific hypothetical example of it.
That is the first time I have heard this position, and I find it indefensible.

“You can't assert that kids died in this school shooting until the investigation is over, since the extent was unknown.”

It similarly does not work if parents are preparing the funerals.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report back in January 2017 decisively stating this:

> We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US
presidential election.

> Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.

> […] We [CIA, FBI, NSA] have high confidence in these judgments.

> We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her
unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment.

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
Human trafficking is about the least innocuous thing I can imagine.
Yup, I graduated in Bologna with a 3+2 engineering degree, it was pretty much a straight conversion from the previous 5 years curriculum, with the latest 2 optional. The classes themselves were made more accessible (broken down in shorter modules), but the 3 years curriculum is, to all effects and purposes, a degree.

In hindsight, I don't think having a Master rather than a Bachelor influenced my job opportunities: but having a degree at all definitely did, at least for finding a job in established companies.
That feeling of grabbing a Sega game box off the shelf (after agonizing about which game for what felt like forever!) and taking it up to the counter, where they'd take the box, turn around to a filing cabinet behind them, and pull out the actual cartridge and put it in the box. It felt like dreams coming true.
> Broad restrictions on prostitution and adult services were wanted by conservatives

I severely doubt that conservatives want anything of the sort. What they do want is for internet companies to take responsibility for keeping kids off their sites which is not that big of an ask if they would just stop their whining and do it.
Your second link points to:

> Prahlad Jani (Gujarati: પ્રહલાદ જાની), also known as "Mataji", (born Chunriwala Mataji, 13 August 1929) is an Indian breatharian sadhu who claims to have lived without food and water since 1940

Since 1940? This link just substracts credibility from your initial post.
> That is incorrect. Many bug reports are marked as private for security reasons.

Maybe you don't know how this works. Most (almost all) employees do not have access to these bugs, either. But community members can and do have access.

Early access to these reports can be worth literally millions of dollars in the wrong hands, and cause much more damage to our users. However, who gets access isn't decided by who gets a paycheck. It's decided by who is involved and participating and trustworthy. That can be literally anybody.
I don't understand why everyone in this thread is so focused on the sensors alone. The sensors might detect anything they like, but they're not going to stop the car on their own. The car has logic that tells it how to react to what its sensors perceive- that's the AI part. If the car's AI can't identify a woman pushing a bike as a woman pushing a bike, or it doesn't know that it has to stop before hitting her- well, then it won't.

There's so much confusion here, about the capabilities of these systems. People think that a combination of better sensory perception + faster reaction times suffices to drive in the chaos of the real world. That's not so. Sensors and fast thinking won't get you nothing if you can't think right. You have to be able to know what the things are that your sensors detect, and how to react to them.

It's perfectly possible that the Uber' car's LIDAR detected the lady crossing the road- but the AI just didn't know what to do about her and simply did nothing.
> What's the alternative position?

Developing and testing the technology in actual test scenarios (build entire testing cities and fill them up with paid stuntmen and -women, if necessary) instead of in public, until you're able to prove that the tech is statistically at least as safe as human drivers. After that, you can continue testing in public, provided that you deal with any changes to your system responsibly and ensure that the public is not exposed to additional danger because of your testing.

This is actually very common in the software development world. For production-critical systems, companies go to great length of creating a staging environment as realistically as possible, but fully separated from the production systems. You may get around that effort if the only damage you can potentially do is people not being able to see stupid cat pictures on a social network. But sorry, for life-critical tech, the move-fast-and-break-things approach is irresponsible bullshit.

> I would happily take a million deaths right now if it meant driverless tech instantly became available to everyone

What if your own death is guaranteed to be among them? Still "happily taking" it?
Look up the author's name and then see if you can stand behind your comment.
User research – what’s tomato ketchup got to do with it?
Computer science is a field which hasn't yet encountered consequences. [Thread]
Hooking up for a one night stand is trivial.

That is true for maybe 3-5% of the human race. Some people can indeed easily attract casual sexual partners in a matter of minutes or hours in almost any environment. But the vast majority of the population cannot. That’s why prostitution will never go away, regardless of how many laws are passed trying to limit it.
My favorite analogy to describe "luck x startups" is that it's like your first game of darts, except you only get 5 shots, and then you can never play again. Theoretically it's skill-based, and if you had the time/resources to practice you could perhaps nail the bullseye 85% of the time, but your first 5 throws are mostly luck, and that's all most people ever get when it comes to startups.

Also, even though you theoretically are better when throwing #5 (4 shots of experience and learning), it's still random enough that you could score worse than throw #1
> The only thing EAs have going for them

... is the ability to optimise a black-box objective.
Disclaimer: I haven't used Signal's iOS app for conversations since 2015 ... because ...

When I tried Signal, it frequently crashed, corrupted messages (requiring a reinstall of the iOS app), dropped messages, etc. As a result, all the people I persuaded to use it stopped and I currently have zero contacts on there.
It's good to have e2e crypto but the clients aren't very pretty. That's going to put folk off. Just saying.

I use Signal myself and it's nicer than Riot, IMHO, but I can't get anyone else on to it other than my other half.
Telegram is awful. First, it doesn't have logins and passwords so you cannot even log in without having a phone nearby. Second, it collects and uploads all of your contacts to Durov's servers. Third, all the messages are stored on the servers too so Durov can read them at his spare time.