skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question isn't if Volvo is in any way culpable (they almost certainly aren't) but if there's a risk that Volvo might appear in any way culpable to the general public. The very last thing Volvo wants is the headline "Self-driving Volvo kills pedestrian".
TRP on Reddit is a pickup forum (cough 'sexual strategy'). I don't know anyone saying 'this kind of talk' if you mean armed uprisings or similar. Are you thinking of a different sub?
Autodux Is Awesome: Let’s TDD Code a Todo List Duck
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/202

It's in the roadmap, but discussions about it are still going on four years after the ticket was opened...
What's so bad about WhatsApp other than being owned by Facebook? I thought it was secure and the data ephemeral?
I stand by what I said. You're looking at how we meet our needs for food and water today. I'm looking at how we'll do so for 10 billion people, with a larger percentage of them consuming more resources like us Westerner's enjoy.

Vertical farming hardly enters the picture today, and we currently pick a lot of the low hanging or unsustainable fruit where water is concerned. But we're going to have to do a lot of desalinization going forward, and we're also going to need to take a good percentage of farming indoors because we just don't have the land and water resources to do otherwise.

Vertical farming works for more than just lettuce and tomatoes - the thing is it's uneconomical so far. The technology needs to get cheaper and more widespread, and the inputs of energy, water, and fertilizers need to get cheaper. Advances in materials, building technology, and transportation would also help. Cheaper energy helps with everything.
How can you write an article like this without bringing up self driving cars? The end game for Uber is to get drivers out of the loop completely. So, this is just a temporary problem. It's going to get a whole lot worse if your plan in life is to drive vehicles around to make money.

This is not about the gig economy but simply about a lot of jobs becoming commodities before being automated away completely. Anyone with decent navigation solution in their car can compete with whatever awesome skills this medallion used to represent in terms of geographical knowledge. It's an outdated concept that dates back to the days that actually taxis were horse & carriage and it was kind of helpful to have some guarantees that the driver knew where to go. Not a thing any more.
I think the tutorial would be more complete if the example showed some basic security rules. Even if it's a prototype, there is the chance that a joker will delete all your test data live during a demo.
For tens of thousands years, you never moved from small village or tribe you got born at. And you lived with your parents untill you married.

And in recent decades, people were loosing touch very easily.
To be clear, previously the star was apparently dimmed by 4%, and now “really dark” means 5%. It’s still not an alien megastructure, and an additional 1% is not “really dark” and this is clickbait.
For a further exploration of this topic, I recommend the film Can Dialectics Break Bricks.
I don't see why perceived usage share in industry should motivate dissing open source devs. GIMP has a user base and fans who obviously think it's good enough for their needs. If the professionals in the industry and their employers have a need for an all-in-one free software that can do everything - image editing, illustrations, maybe throw in 3D and animations while we are at it - then the industry should contribute towards building it. All the building blocks are available, thanks to those dodgy open source devs.
http://database.ul.com/cgi-bin/XYV/template/LISEXT/1FRAME/sh...

Sorry for the hideous URL, but Anker absolutey does have UL certified power supplies. To my knowledge they're CCC compliant as I believe they're sold in China and as far as I cant tell, that's a requirement. TÜV I'm not so sure about, but I was under the impression they were more of an 3rd-party way to get CE certified (which Anker products already are).

I get being cautious about power supplies - but Anker is legitimate.
Waymo Livestream Unvei
Yeah, now you mention it, it may have reactivated after I gave the correct username and password, but before the 2FA step.

I still think it's insane that you can reactivate an account without actually gaining access to it.
I disagree with many of the points made by the article. I just found that last quote to be the one that best summed-up the problem the cabbies find themselves in.

I’m a believer in mobility: if life isn’t working in NYC, then perhaps move to another place with fewer drivers and a lower cost of living. Just because you like a place and have roots there doesn’t mean life should be affordable and lovely. Much of human history is the story of leaving one place for another, in search of better living conditions.

It seems that they—like publishers were!—are mentally stuck in an old paradigm. Transportation has changed; adapt or move on.
I think this is all spot-on. Polarization itself makes for a lot of confusion, and many accuracies being tossed out the window for politics. Someone recently opined on the problem of having 'the wrong fans' like this: if the KKK likes a tax law that benefits them, does that make the authors and other supporters of that tax law white supremacists? For some reason people are a lot more sensitive when it's about ideas. Especially lately, when there seems to be so much fear that thought might cause atrocities, since it precedes them.
It absolutely is. Proper capitalism requires an open and free market with informed consumers capable of making sound decisions. Advertising, especially targeted and manipulative advertising, breaks down that relationship.
Survivor bias? If it weren't for some weapons, a lot of people might be alive today.

Claiming that weapons save more people that they kill is simply illogical.
I think Facebook is a godsend for introverts. Zuckerberg himself actually seems to be one, himself.

As but one example: Facebook allows me to rather passively stay in contact with many people I'd rather not call every week. Post a picture here and there and your mother is far less angry at you for not calling often enough.
> What if some crashes are unavoidable? e.g. somebody darts out in front of a mobile vehicle.

It should brake as much as possible. Even if the collision is unavoidable, reducing the kinetic energy available for the collision is still a good idea.

> We accept that trains are not at fault for striking “trespassers” on their railways.

When a train "detects" an "obstacle" (the train driver sees the "trespasser"), it goes into emergency braking.

> Also, when we all drive cars with collision avoidance systems, who gets sued by whom? If my car e-brakes for no reason and I get rear-ended, is the guy who hits me still at fault like usual?

When we all drive cars with enough automation, the automation should keep enough distance that the following car can brake without colliding.

> but it’s interesting to see it implemented in cars as emergency help versus in modern commercial airliners (where autopilot and landing control systems are ubiquitous) when it is only relied on for the most routine and straight-shot ability.

Airplanes have the unfortunate property that they can't simply stop in an emergency; stopping would be an even bigger emergency. Cars (and trains) can simply stop, they won't fall from the sky in that case.

But even then, airplanes do have emergency help from their automation: the TCAS has a similar purpose to a car's automated emergency braking, that is, to prevent a collision.
I think the more salient question is "why do people post everything on facebook (and other services)". No sane person can be surprised that this is what happens with your data that you freely give away.
And what I have been hearing nobody actually is surprised. Nor do they care in the end.
Selling adverts is just an extremely lucrative business, get over it. It is what pays for your entertainment (sports etc), information (magazines, internet sites etc) and just about everything.
Regarding DeBeers I heard they already control most of production capacity for artificial diamonds. So the price difference is not as much as many hoped between natural and artificial diamonds.
Subscriptions = Assets owned by private corporations only
In today’s age home loans hang like an axe waiting to fall on our neck the day we are unable to service them.

There’s going to be a future generation which not have access to ownership at all. Everything they use will be subscription based. Only large private corporations will own assets.

Time has proven over and over again how a private corporation can begin to flex their power to extract the last pound of flesh from a customer.

I am beginning to feel that there almost needs to be a moral debate and long term evaluation of the subscription economy. It needs significantly more regulation that the asset selling industry needed.

A subscription economy can leave a person in a lurch the day s/he is out of a job. At least with asset ownership one had a few things one could completely rely on like music in the house, a car to drive to search for a job.

I truly dread the day when everything turns subscription only.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/bmw-and-lexus-look-to-car-subscriptions/amp/
I’m British. I’ve visited the USA a few times (CA, NY(C), MA, RI properly, a few more incidentally), and also Kenya.

Many of my fellow British say similar things about the UK as you say about the USA, unfairly in both cases.

Once you see a place that really is developing, it becomes clear how advanced our nations are. We complain about potholes, they complain the road fell off when it rained. We complain about civil rights, they have to deal with post-election violence. We complain about our schools, they only got free high schools a decade ago.
Energy IN in this context is the energy needed to make the fusion possible and controllable, and energy OUT is what you get from the reactor. For this to work as a generator you want out to be bigger than in, obviously.
The energy produced by the fusion reaction is greater than the energy required to make the fusion reaction occur. The extra energy comes from inside the atoms being fused, it's not appearing out of nowhere.
>Why Is China Treating North Carolina Like the Developing World?

Because of karma?

(Not to mention the "the developing world" as used in the phrase, is quite snotty).
This really resonates with me. I consider myself to be on the spectrum, as does my wife, and I am frequently only a passive participant in social functions because I've learned that most of my normal interactions are "wrong" so I just watch and wait until we can leave.
Previously its been possible to do contained fusion but the energy cost of containment was as high or higher than what could be gleaned from the reaction. Youre right to assume there can't be any new energy out of nowhere, it comes from the atoms smashing together and becoming a new element.
This discussion was flagged marked as dead and knocked off the front page within a few minutes, is that normal? It seems strange that it’s no longer flagged or dead but still off the homepage. I find this to be the most damaging Facebook story on there so I worry about why it’s been removed when the discussion on here was interesting.
When you're successful on a large scale at doing something that is not in people's best interests, then yes I would consider that evil.
> As a layman in these matters I still don't fully understand how some people classify machine learning algorithms as non-deterministic...

Some algorithms start with random numbers for the model and converge towards a better model. After the model is generated the input->output will be deterministic, but since the model generation is non-deterministic the algorithm overall is considered non-deterministic.
Do you have some example charts generated? Sounds interesting.
It depends on what you count as "energy in". A solar panel produces more energy out than it takes in - if you don't count the sunlight as "energy in." A fusion reactor (hopefully) produces more energy out than energy in if you don't count the fuel used. Current designs require us to have another massive power source keeping the reaction going.
Naturally. You don't pump money into something like this for years without expecting to get a huge payback. That patent had a lot of military applications in it.
Most industrial controls have safety interlocks which are independent systems with hard limits. Why is it unrealistic to think that an AI system couldn't be trained to work with-in the limits imposed by these safety systems? If the AI system is being interrupted by the independent safety systems in the car the the AI is doing something wrong.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I am not blaming HN of anything. I am just sad about rollingstone's opinion about developing nations.
Jaywalkers Under Surveillance in China Will Soon Be Punished via Text Messages
I don't work at Facebook but I don't know if there are any major companies (tech or non-tech) that are significantly better about this? Nearly all Fortune 500 with any significant digital operations are tracking everything they can, especially all media companies. Marketers want all the data they can get to better target people and better measure ROI - so either you're using the data you gather to better sell stuff or you're gathering data to sell it to people who can use it to better sell stuff. Big technology companies seem way better about this (from the perspective of the user) - non-tech companies have much worse practices when it comes to safe-guarding data, are generally not as conscientious about privacy implications and are much more prone to using shady third-party vendors who are not accountable to users and more likely to abuse data. This, of course, includes nearly all ad-funded publishers, where all this criticism of Facebook (and Google and Amazon and so on) abounds. The journalists that are writing about this and tsk-tsk'ing at tech are literally paid by their employers maximizing yield by selling user data.

This whole big data thing along with all these related jobs (big data engineer, machine learning engineer, data scientist, etc) - what do people this was all about? Why do we have all this data now that we didn't before - it's because everyone is tracking stuff. So where should we all work if we don't want to be part of this? If you're not doing this directly, you're probably paid by someone who is.
> Facebook employees actively working to help scammers get billions of dollars out of uneducated poor users. Despicable.

Welcome to the wonderful world of advertising. You think bloomberg is any different. The news/tv show kids soda and candy ads all day. FB isn't doing anything revolutionary.
On 2: Monero is almost the same. ShapeShift does 7-15% of all tx at least. How many transactions are actually private after you consider hacks or LE warrants? Those TX are what you depend on to get false spends.

On 3: How many people must agree in order to change something in Monero such as HF parameters like ringsize? There is not a single company but it looks [to an outsider like me] as a similar position.

I chose Monero too for similar reasons inc ZCash people openly saying they support backdoors for LE [but promising ZCash would never have them]. And taking 20% of block reward and not doing anything useful with it [for millions I expect really polished clients and some quick upgrades].

But the low ringsize is weak [hence going from 3 to 5 to now 7]. All ring members are not equal to n^k is very naive. Fee, ringsize, payment ID, in/out count are all metadata that distinguish on-blockchain. Let alone off-blockchain such as keys being hacked/warranted.

Given this and Monero's lack of disclaimer or warning at all about how to use it safely... a paranoid person might suspect ill-motives. [Consider: MyMonero, the Monero 'lead' Web Wallet, goes out of its way to suggest users use a few higher ringsizes to get better privacy, when we know this makes their TX stand out. This is something that presumably he could change with 1 or 2 lines of code but has not.]
If they have more revenue per person in the US it doesn't mean that they are losing money in their international business.
Grab-Uber merger will not affect fares, says minister
Are you scoffing at fusion startups in general? Because they do exist.

https://tae.com/

http://www.helionenergy.com/

https://www.cfs.energy/

https://lppfusion.com/
My main issue is actually very non-technical. After I have switched to macOS I've started to put more and more importance to the consistency of the interface. GIMP is very different as it is not rendered using native Cocoa widgets. Things like non-native open/save dialog, clipboard support and drag and drop. It also felt quite slow, compared to when I used it on Linux.
Well that depends on which of Peterson's ideas you are talking about. You can't just say "oh his teachings are fine" and that means that none of the publicity machine around him is of any consequence. There are very much two aspects to Jordan Peterson. What I came on here to say (and have since stayed for the discussion) is that that other aspect to him really isn't as sinister as people make out. I think he does play it up for publicity though. Would you not agree?
I thought the same thing. Why was she so nonchalant about a car about to hit her?

And then I remembered: Pedestrians are simply not afraid enough of cars. They blithely assume the driver can see them, that the driver is a human (!), that the driver wants to avoid hitting them, that the driver has quick reactions, and that the car's brakes are in good working order. Those are a lot of assumptions to bet your life on.

It's much safer to cross streets assuming every car is trying to kill you.
Multigenerational Living
It's more complicated than that. Mozilla is financially sponsoring Thunderbird, and helping to aid in development.

I'd love for them to do more, but I understand why local mail clients aren't a growth area.

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-fu...
To clarify, it produces energy equal to the difference between the mass of the fuel and the mass of the final byproduct multiplied times the speed of light squared. Energy and mass are conserved, but some mass is converted into useful energy.

Doing so in a way that produces sufficient energy to sustain the fusion reaction without creating an uncontrolled reaction ("boom") is the trick that always seems to be 30 years away.
I've been working on webmail that only receives messages, doesn't send any. And I've been using it to signup on websites with, it works really well for the purpose because anything that ever arrives was sent by a computer.

I bring it up because it feels like that's a primary reason why people might be trapped on gmail is just that all the websites they are signed up on are linked to it.
You're playing the redefinition card rather than accepting that abortions of one human being are never your own business, and the set of values you have accepted when you had accepted "God" in your life have been created centuries ago when we knew close-to-nothing about medicine.
Yeah, our experience of the American presidency has certainly been improved :P

That was only half-serious.

But it's not only use for improvement, but also to manipulate us in ways that may not be in our best interest.

Of course, it's your information. If you are OK with sharing it, it's your right. I say the same about smoking: you hate your lungs? Smoke away! But when tobacco companies lie about the effects of tobacco, and make it seem normal and cool, that's when I get angry.

We shouldn't be ok with our lungs going to shit and with our lives being constantly spied. But we have a right to accept this things, if anyone doesn't agree with me they can do it and I respect them.

I don't respect those who misinform, lie or deceit us to make us OK with it though.
There were multiple failures here. Let's not put all of the blame on the victim.

This particular location has the sidewalk end on one side, and there is a paved section in the median which looks like it is intended for crossing. There is a small sign that indicates that you should not cross here.

From the video, we can see that while there were street lights on the road, the area in which the apparent crossing existed was completely dark. A pedestrian may not have been able to see the sign indicating that you shouldn't cross here; or even if she did, there are so many roads that are built in pedestrian unfriendly ways that sometimes you just have to cross at unmarked crossings to avoid having to go substantially out of your way.

Additionally, the video shows that the driver was distracted immediately before the crash. While the dash cam video seems to indicate that you can't see the pedestrian until it was probably already too late, human eyes are a lot more sensitive over a greater dynamic range than most video cameras, so there's a good chance that if the driver were paying attention, she would have seen the pedestrian before the car did.

The thing about safety systems and standards are that there should be some redundancy in them. People make mistakes, so you shouldn't have to rely on every actor acting perfectly to remain safe. In this case, there was a failure on many parts leading to a tragedy.

It's definitely worth investigating whether Uber had done enough to ensure that operators will be staying alert during the entire test, and whether Uber had done enough testing before being on open roads of small, possibly moving obstacles on dark parts of the road, like pedestrians, deer, and so on.

I'd also put a good amount of blame on whatever department designed that portion of road and sidewalk.
Should we also give $1m to everyone who used to work in coalmining, steel puddling, and manufacture? Or is there something special about taxi drivers?
Personal experience has shown that Ubers will in fact pick up folks who hail them, you just have to then set up the ride via the app afterwards.

Found this out while waiting an hour for an uber driver - three others drove by and responded to my waving them down to see if they were my uber, and offered to take me (looking back, I should have taken them up on the offer).

This, ironically, turned me on to the taxi system in NY. They were just more reliable at the time.
Has Zuckerberg done any thing like this before (e.g. Microsoft vs. United States style things)
Pet economy? Maybe it's time to investigate being a Pet Detective again. Might need to rewatch the training videos.
They can't track you if you're not using their app on your phone. Use a sandboxed version (there are many) and it's not running and tracking you other than when you're actually using it. You can also sandbox it on your computer if you like, but there are many privacy blockers that will keep them from tracking you all over the web if you want to just use it in your regular browser.
We don't adopt fission because it's disastrous when things go wrong, so it scares people. Plus it produces a waste problem that lasts for an incredibly long time.

Fusion doesn't suffer from those problems.
6 Reasons for Outsourcing Software Development – Infographic [pdf]
I frequently use `goto` in C for this reason. A very common pattern is that I acquire some resources, do something with them, and have a section at the end of the function where I release them in LIFO order. This is labeled so that failure to acquire any resource will jump to a label just before the resources that were acquired before it are freed.

Other languages have constructs that obviates this pattern, for example Python has `with` blocks that acquire resources and free them upon leaving the block, and Go has a `defer` statement which adds code to some LIFO structure that always gets executed upon returning.