skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How certain was the same with Uber while they were going through the bulk of their issues? In a full employment market, not wanting to be associated with a company simply due to potential perception would be enough to have most candidates pass on an opportunity.
More exclusive moderation is required to have constructve conversations. With constructive i mean ones that construct things. HN might not be the place. (Its not for me to decide.)
n =/= 1

If a baseball player has 10 at bats, and gets 0 hits, he's 0/10, with n=10

If same baseball player has 500 at bats, and gets 0 hits, he's 0/500, with n=500

You can be a lot more confident that he won't get his 1st hit anytime soon from the 2nd case compared with the 1st case. Because the sample size is significantly larger, even though the # of successes is equal between the two cases.
Facebook take out full page newspaper ads to apologize to users
> Food went from being very expensive (people actually died of starvation not that long ago!) to being so cheap that obesity is a major epidemic among the poor.

Food being cheap is not the reason for the obesity epidemic. It's because food has become of such poor quality. Also, it is engineered to cause you to overeat.

Otherwise, I agree with your overall point.
I think both these things are true:

Something was very wrong with how the Uber car handled this.

A human driver might well have avoided hitting the pedestrian, but would not have had any legal trouble if they did.
As a pedestrian, it's still our responsibility to make sure approaching vehicles are actually stopped before we start crossing. She did not, or she would be alive.
After diagnosis? There are no drugs specifically indicated for treating ASD. You might find people on the spectrum getting prescribed ADHD meds, say, but I understand that's more of the exception nowadays.
https://boingboing.net/2018/03/20/why-did-facebook-pitch-in-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia#National...

"Under the statute it is effectively illegal to perform any of the following in the presence of minors: hold gay pride events, speak in favor of gay rights, or say that gay relationships are equal to heterosexual relationships"

"The law subjects Russian citizens found guilty to fines of up to 5,000 rubles and public officials to fines of up to 50,000 rubles."
Bitmain has developed an ethereum asic miner, Wall street analyst claims
I think mid to mid-late 70's was when most cars could no longer take leaded gasoline (the pump nozzle wouldn't fit, and catalytic converters would get plugged). Leaded gas was still available, but as older cars died not much leaded gas was pumped (cars back then didn't have as long of a life cycle, so probably by 85 or so more cars than not were on unleaded).
+1 for Datagrip, use it everyday
DAG-only chains are very experimental and have unresolved game theoretic vulnerabilities.

IOTA resolves it for now with a centralized coordinator while Nano seems to just be counting on no one attempting to exploit its vulnerabilities until its developers come up with a solution.

They are not ready for major commercial use and there's no guarantee they ever will be.

If a DAG-only protocol can be shown to be secure, it could be a major breakthrough for distributed ledger scalability.
Only in part. The part of Airbus that deals with confidential information [1] will stay on the Microsoft stack for a while (at least for e-mails).

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/19/sorry_microsoft_hat...
Typo: Swartz
Companies comply because they are in the health care business, that is how they make money, and HIPPA doesn't stop them from doing that. But Facebook is in the data collection business. If it complied with a strong data privacy law, it would go out of business, so it wouldn't.
I don't live there, but this article suggests that there is signage for "no pedestrians" at the location where she was struck: https://www.curbed.com/transportation/2018/3/20/17142090/ube...

This twitter stream suggests the same with more details: https://twitter.com/EricPaulDennis/status/975889922413551616...

It appears to me that they did not cross at a corner, and the corners "nearby" in the references above all have marked crosswalks.

If that's the case, I don't see how one could assign 0% negligence to the pedestrian.
> Yaml parsing - Used gopkg.in/yaml.v2 . What that means? I don't know. v2 could be one git hash today, and another tomorrow.

I'm sure that you can use a fixed git hash if you want.

> Slack SDK - Used nlopes/slack. dep ensure -add dumps me on to the latest release of Github. That was fine although I didn't realise that was what happened. The latest release is 12 commits behind master at the time of this writing

Do you expect the author to tag a release every time he pushed to master? And you can use master branch if you want.

> A CLI framework - Used urfave/cli. Same thing with dep ensure -add. Except I realised that the last release to Github was eons ago. August 2017 IIRC. The code I needed in particular had been released in October 2017 and since then had many commits to master. I just added a constraint to my Gopkg.toml file to lock the pulling to master.

It is barely 6 months old! How often you expect the author to release new version?
You're being pompous. I never claimed to have those things.

Re-read my original comment with my edit and you will see why I believe your statistics in fact do not answer the question of how meaningful Uber's fatality is. I doubt your expert testimony of pedantic statistics will trump common sense and the video evidence.
Ah I wasn't aware of that. Emissions are definitely the primary concern, at least for me.
Facebook never gave me anything of value in exchange for constantly monitoring and profilingmy behavior online. in fact, as it became ubiquitous,it added a new chore for me: maintaining ever changing privacy options on a defensive profile on their network.

So it takes peoples time, attention, and details on top of behavioral monitoring.

In contrast, Google provides me with a very competent productivity suite, a superb photo-managing software navigation, maps, aggregate traffic data,and a host of tools to actually build a business and educate myself and others.

Plus i get enterprise class security for my account and -arguably- the best web email service.

The day theres a data breach or in this case a breach of trust, im more likely to view google in a better light and give them the benefit of the doubt. Facebook gets my contempt and scorn.
Hangouts also does SMS. And, on Nexus phones at least, it does it by default.
It's mostly anecdotal. That's not devoid of value even if not very informative (because anecdotal). It could also be political and still be of value.
Predicting Churn Using xgboost
And I was specifically referring to the absurdity of comparing Uber's death rate to humans'.
That looks like about what I'm talking about, though I'd prefer it to be a condo, and to be in silicon valley proper; I'm not really cool enough to work in San Francisco and am intolerant of commutes.

If we built more apartments, assuming people really do prefer to live in single family homes, I'd assume that apartments would get cheaper compared to single family homes, just because land is such a large portion of the cost of anything around here, and single family homes are usually single story around here.

I've been following Scott Wiener on twitter, and yeah, I should do something.
New PiedPiper Website
Except when it isn't. This is not the trade-off for the vast value of Wikipedia or Archive.org.
We ALL pick the cat videos.

Phones and mobile software are exquisitely engineered to be as addictive as possible. And it works.

Here I am, having this largely pointless Hacker News conversation, instead of completing a Deep Learning course or something.
Alas, the web site (https://qbix.com/people) appears not to work on Firefox Developer Edition 60.0: “Unable to init adapter. App config is not defined.”
It’s ironic, but true that telling someone they’re pompous is almost always in itself, very pompous. In general I find that making a reasoned argument is inevitably more valuable and convincing than calling people names.

Calling names is saying: "you are a pompous person". It is very different to saying "you are being pompous".

And you accused someone else of pedantry!
Right, but that is only if they discriminate based on what they had recorded about you. A company recording whether they think you are gay based on your location information isn't doing anything illegal until they discriminate against you with that information. There are things that a company can do (like advertising) that doesn't meet the bar of discrimination that they can still legally do with their inference about your sexual preference (or whatever else they infer about you from your data).

Advertising "gay" products to you based on the fact that your cell phone spends a lot of time in close proximity to a gay bar probably doesn't meet the bar for a discrimination lawsuit.
Signal Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation

Paid for by Brian Acton's conscience.
Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224858

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051902
I suspect I was a lot happier before I got so addicted to my phone.
Outside of incredibly expensive corporate contracts does Microsoft actually support their products? That would honestly be news to me.
I agree entirely. I believe Tesla is quoting a two year payback period versus traditional diesel class 8 semis, which means they will be sold out indefinitely until production ramps.

It’s a smart move. Between passenger vehicles, stationary storage, and their semis, the Gigafactory should be fully utilized.
I wonder if this is because waymo has shown more details of how their lidar operates (and how it would have detected the pedestrian who was hit by the Uber car), but Uber is refusing to show the inner workings of their lidar's abilities to the regulators.

The manufacturer of uber's lidar system recently came out and said that they do not believe it failed, but that the input from it failed somewhere inside Uber's software.
The article explains the problem very clearly.
ICE still have a decent amount of efficiency headroom, so range and operational cost will continue to improve if auto and truck makers choose to spend the 80% investment to squeeze the last 20% out. Automakers seem pretty split - some are building initiatives to go full electric while others are focused on the ICE endgame. We'll see what large equipment and truck manufacturers do but I think the time horizon is quite long.
Hopefully Waymo has test drivers that actually pay attention.
Can get != has, unfortunately.
No! Headers are much worse. There is nothing in an API response that tells you in a standard way how to set headers, but there is something that tells you how to follow links (URLs). Accept-version is a non standard header, not defined in the http spec so definitely that is not restful - how do you know if the site supports it or what the version numbers are? You have to hard code in the client!
> It seems a little weird to focus on this.

I'm not sure I'd say that this is being "focused" on. It's an interesting bit of info, the other players in the space (Intel, Volvo, Aptiv) have an interest in getting their spin out there, readers are interested, so we get this article and everyone is happy. It's not a super critical key to the story, but it does help explain what happened in some small way.

> having a second system running that can't coordinate with the self-driving system would likely make the combined system less safe.

That seems like a bit of a leap to me. The Volvo system is not super-advanced; the relevant bit here would probably be their "Collision Warning with Auto Brake" feature.

Multiple independent systems with the ability to sound an alarm and slam on the brakes if they detect an imminent pedestrian collision...seem like they probably would be safer overall? They'd certainly be safer for the pedestrians, and we're currently at 1 pedestrian fatality and 0 fatalities for "people in cars killed due to overzealous/conflicting automated safety systems".

I rather suspect Uber disabled it because they wanted better data, not because they thought it was safer for other people on the road. That's certainly a valid choice, but one which might have been wiser if their tech was a lot more reliable.
Yeah.... if they hadn't survived, they wouldn't be ancestors ....
wow, so sincere.
Of course just being gay isn’t a crime in glorious motherland, but promoting homosexuality is. That’s so broad that it includes being openly gay, or standing up for your rights if you’re gay. It’s sort of like saying that it’s not illegal to be alive, it’s just illegal to breath.

Typically thuggish laws from a state run by its own intelligence services-cum-mafia.
Does not seem obvious to me at all. First thought I had when hearing of the accident was "how come Volvo didn't break, they advertised the tech quite a bit few years back?"
What makes you think that money would go to content creators? Net neutrality and ads are almost entirely orthogonal.
Not very convincing though - genuine neutral party here without a fully formed opinion and I see no reason that's absurd. If self-driving cars (or brand X of them) are killing people at higher rates per mile, that's not good. I don't see how the statistic is an absurd comparison.
That is certainly not true for most European countries, especially not those were some forms of sex work are in fact legal.
you could integrate with people's existing dropbox (i.e. copy the photos into it) and provide a super simple web viewer
I'm assuming that if you're getting paid, you must be producing something of value. It may not be something everyone values but somebody values what you're doing enough to pay you.
Exactly, the "you paid nothing so you're the product" trope is patently false.

Spend $1000's a year on sites that are still highly invasive. Using blockers and disabling js often breaks them. Does this business really need to send my data off to a dozen 3rd parties to upsell me on a drillbit set?
@bitumen, calling names is saying: "you are a pompous person". It is very different to saying "you are being pompous".
The author argue for something patently false (reading the news never did anyone any good) instead of some likely true but more pedestrian claim (e.g. most of us would be better off if we read news less frequently) with the goal of drawing attention.

Don't we call this clickbait?
> new FS [...] in record time

That's an odd brag. I might be from a bygone era but it used to be the case that filesystems were particularly conservative and rollouts equally so. Getting one deployed in "record time" is hardly difficult because everyone else is so conservative it can take tens of years in some cases.

Look at Microsoft's ReFS, available in Server 2012, 2012 R2, Windows 8.1, Server 2016 and Windows 10 and has had eight public versions. Yet even after all of that it isn't the default partition type for Windows installations, and Microsoft only recommends it in specific circumstances[0].

So congrats to Apple's record time but I like my filesystems like I like my Toyota, reliable.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs...
You could just look up the answers. https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/ describes an aligned philanthropist helping start the 501(c)(3) foundation that supports Signal.

Another resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) happens to come from a completely-free-of-3rd-party-ads-yet-free platform…

It's good to be wary, but the idea that nothing is ever free is actually wrong and helps make people think they have to give up something or pay etc. even when they don't need to. We need to get beyond "How can it be free‽ There must be some catch!" and to the reality of just "Is this really free without a catch?"

Because we should be wary but not give into the idea that free is actually too good to be true. Things can actually be free, and people can actually be pro-social in their motivations.
It's certainly prudent to do so, and any amount of self-preservation says you should, but is not checking if you're about to be run over actually negligent?

Edit: Also, if you as a pedestrian, stand at a 35mph road, at night, and wait for all approaching cars to stop before you start crossing, you will be standing there a very long time indeed.
Last week, a few super geniuses in SF were debating Tesla's valuation. This was after the last night of Token Fest.

I've only been in SF since August but what it has taught me is there are super brilliant people in this world. So smart that I think it's possible, dare I say probable, that an amazing infinite world is on the horizon.

Elon's unfathomable intellect and ability to execute is, in fact, a normal basic expression of the human mind. He's just synchronized perfectly, like a superconductor, with the invariant object at the center of the Universe.

What is that object? Total information in hyperspace. Here is a video I found 9-years ago that explains it well-

https://youtu.be/r9UsvGo2ImU

Barack Obama recently said during a speech in Japan that he hopes to create a million young Barack Obamas. I agree with him -- I think the principles that make a person great are fundamental, universal and within everyone's reach.

Elon is proof that anything is possible. Here's to a million future Elons, Baracks and, most importantly, a million new Satoshis. Smart, cypherpunk minded super geniuses conspiring without credit in a great work to build a better world.
This reminded me of Scott McNealy from 1999 saying you have no privacy get over it! https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
What is it compared to human drivers in general? That seems to be the fair comparison as "computer will never be drunk/tired/distracted" is usually cited as one of the benefits of computer-driven vehicles.
Sorry, the context here is Microsoft Exchange, which is what the parent is talking about.
how do you deal with the constant update prompts? ignoring them, or is there some defaults system key that can be used to turn them off?
being able to duplicate a 1GB directory in an instant
I have pointed out an error in your statistical reasoning. This is not a matter of pomposity or opinion. No insult was intended, and i retract the snark. My criticism of your statisitcal reasoning, however, stands.
Monetizing User Data on the Blockchain
Create a PyTorch Tensor Full of Zeros
It probably helps to know who the author is/was (note that I have not read the article yet): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
I wouldn't get too carried away with this announcement. For FedEx, this is a minuscule pilot project and (more importantly) a cheap way to generate positive publicity.
And speaking of marketing... Toot? Seriously?
I agree. The US is an independent country. The way international law works is only if we have similar law here. Like trademark agreemwnts. Or like China can sue you to post pro-gay things online in Cantonese. That makes no sense.
https://appletoolbox.com/2018/01/disable-macos-software-upda...
Is lobbying really helpful for the people in the US? For me, it looks like it always benefits the companies and the politicians. Lobbying is illegal in many countries. Why is it allowed there? Under what thoughts? Can someone explain, please?

EDIT: Quickly checked Google. An Investopedia article argues that it's not bribery because it benefits everyone in the country. But we can see that it's always so that the companies make more money right? Only the rich keep getting more money. Also, the article seems to have been written by a lobbying enthusiast!
You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about you
I was hoping the arguments here would be about legality of ICE getting access to (private) Facebook data and how users are unknowingly handing over their life.

Executing a search warrant on an individual (assuming criminal) is understandable, but how do you defend - 'the company developed a special system for ICE to access a vast “ecosystem” of data to facilitate immigration officials in both discovering targets and then creating and administering cases against them.'

This sounds like violation of 4th amendment rights. Also, how is this any different than surveillance?

Further these tools could be used in targeting a particular group(s) of people.
1. It appears to be a framework that creates list of people that can be targeted.
2. Then they request almost any data to Facebook and Facebook hands it over promptly
3. Then they 'administer cases' based on this data.

At this moment, this entire apparatus is targeting 'illegal immigrants'

Since we know the intentions of this administration (see. Executive order on Muslim ban), it would be very hard to imagine that this apparatus will not be misused. Remember that immigrants don't get a fair trial.
(Old article '09 - http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29706177/ns/us_news-security/t/imm...)

'The report reveals that from January 2017 through June 2017, Facebook received 32,716 requests for data from 52,280 users. Facebook notes in its report that it complied with 85 percent of the requests and “approximately 57% of legal process we received from authorities in the U.S. was accompanied by a non-disclosure order legally prohibiting us from notifying the affected users.”'

32k requests for 52k users, sounds like a bulk data request potentially being served to Facebook. This is in line with the FISA fiasco that happened few years ago.

Facebook is unfortunately complicit in creation of any 'lists' (I do realize that Facebook is in itself a list)

Overall, the rhetoric (in this case anti-immigrant) coupled with unfettered access to Facebook data and palantir data analytics are digital weapons that can be/are used to target large swaths of people.

People were afraid of 'knock down the door style mass deportations', apparently all they have to do is ask Facebook for help.
Based what I learned about Uber their self driving cars probably run on NodeJS.

I'm only half joking.
To save others a click, that's the author of the website confirming that the site was compromised by a code injection attack via Squarespace control panel.
Ah I missed the part where there was a sign saying “no pedestrians”. In that case I’d agree it’s not 0 responsibility on the walker, but I don’t think I’d assign the woman full responsibility, either. If the driver attempted to slow down and still hit her, the driver (in this case the car) probably wouldn’t really be at fault. But a collision at 40 in a 35 zone is really bad for a driver.
One legal definition of negligence is A failure to behave with the level of care that someone of ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances.

If you've established that doing so is "certainly prudent", then I think it's reasonable that not doing so is negligent.
FYI they do not support RTL languages yet https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/19
ISPs are paid to handle the connection between you and the WWW. The bandwidth they charge you for is the highway. Them throttling services is not fair because you're paying for that highway. What about them charging more would make you think the rest of the internet will eliminate ads?
For the same reason so much engineering talent works in adtech, which is also all about making user experience worse - because there's money to be made there, and people involved don't give a shit.
That's like saying that because we hate traffic, we should privatize all the roads and let for-profit companies control them and toll them however they want because they might potentially solve our traffic problems!

I mean, it's more like if we had already privatized nearly all the roads, the companies covered them with orders of magnitude more billboards along with tolls, and you say "we should let these companies charge different tolls depending on brands of cars or have preference for drivers going to certain destinations over others, because maybe if we let them do that, they'll take the billboards and cameras away…"