skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i suppose that uber the solely-for-profit corporation will decide to offer grief counselling to employees - or not - based on some cold-blooded approximately rational position of corporate self-interest. it may make sense to offer grief counselling if it doesn't cost very much and may reduce risk of churn of key people in engineering.

i don't have much empathy -- if you get paid to work on self-driving cars you probably have a pretty good range of options in life to be working on many different projects with various employers. if the product you are developing accidentally kills people, and you're not okay with that, there's the option of doing something else. although maybe many other potential employers for this skill set might be developing weapons systems to actively kill people...

personally i am more concerned with how uber treats members of the general public, or disadvantaged people it has a disproportionate amount of power over (uber drivers) rather than its engineer employees.
To the GP's point, the fact that Facebook has stated recently that it will reduce the information provided to third party apps shows that there was still a bigger leak than it cared to admit all along.
For a person with no prior background, this is a good start:

https://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/chap_00.html

The language is Ruby, and it's suitable for rapid development, too.
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I made the automatic assumption the poster meant a cat that was well domiciled and enjoyed human contact. Come cats that are pets exist in a more co-living agreement, where you just agree to live alongside them and you keep your lives separate. Very much a cat person myself.
This person has revealed everything Facebook and Google has on you
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Any timeline for iOS port?
I also like the ads, nice job. Some tips:

You should increase the surface area of your <a> tags in the ads. Ideally they would cover the whole card and the egg, too. Also, consider adding a hover effect and a "pointer" cursor. I was trying to click your ads and I couldn't figure out how to!
I think you are taking Facebook far too seriously.
Every kind of animal getting wasted together in the same area, why don't we have a camera permanently pointed at this spot
I don't think it's the case yet. GDPR will enforce the right to be forgotten and as such truly delete data about you, but other than that, I don't think there are other regulations forcing you to delete data.
“Leak” Reminds Us to Watch Palantir Because It Could Be Watching Us (2015)
IDK, there's a quite narrow whitelisted known range of addresses that should be readable by your process; you could (and should) certainly have an simple automated test that simply tries to read everything with the expectation that it should succeed only in known cases.
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> I too dislike how many of Google's consumer services are being increasingly gated on the location history permission, which I too have disabled and which therefore means I can't use those services.

Huh? Google Maps works fine for me despite having disabled location services. It nags me nearly everytime I open the app to "enable location services to proceed", making it sound as though it is required, but I just click "No" and get on with it. Haven't noticed any missing features.
Doesn't work like that.

It all depends on what you want to build or focus. Based on that info we can pick the likely suitable ones.
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On Huffington Post, the odds were 98% Clinton, iirc. I suspect this led some people to not vote.

Here it is: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/high-probability-clinto...
If you just can’t quit Facebook, it could be because you have decided that the benefits outweigh the risks

I would argue that most users don't know or understand the risks. For most, it's not a fully-informed consent.
Sarcastically: who will even notice a 200ms hiccup, nowadays, given the enormous waste of time that everybody shoves into their Javascript ad networks.

Personally, I don't want them to expose anything. The RTT on my packets is yet another piece of metadata capable of being abused.

In addition, I hope that the whole QUIC thing is a nice reboot of actually getting end-to-end connectivity back on the Internet so we can get some protocol experimentation moving again.
On the surface, no.

But...

The end of that walking path is perpendicular to the roadway. The other end of that walking path is perpendicular to the roadway on the other side. How it behaves in the middle (not perpendicular) is irrelevant. The walking path itself is legally considered a roadway.

The "no pedestrians" sign does not face pedestrians crossing as this pedestrian did, it faces the road.

So... in California drivers would be expected to give the right of way to anyone crossing the street.

Assuming that the argument is won that this was not an unmarked crosswalk - California also has a blanket vehicle code law that requires drivers to "exercise due care for the safety of any pedestrian upon a roadway".

Arizona actually does have a similar law:

1. Exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian on any roadway.

2. Give warning by sounding the horn when necessary.

3. Exercise proper precaution on observing a child or a confused or incapacitated person on a roadway.

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Everything is arguable. Uber threw the first shot in the PR war by producing a sub-par video and pushing the social media perception that the pedestrian was in the wrong. In a civil courtroom, different lines will be drawn. You'll have statements from Volvo, Google, and the LIDAR manufacturer that say the accident was entirely preventable. You'll have video showing that the time to react by an alert driver at the same time of night was plentiful. You'll have a dead body that was thrown a significant distance. You'll have an undertrained driver, who was without a partner in the first month of that experience. You'll have a driver not paying attention to the road. And you'll have Uber staff testing the vehicle without the full use of it's available safety systems.

The question isn't fault. It's how much damage was done to Uber's self-driving vehicle program and self-driving vehicle programs in general, and how much it's going to cost Uber both financially and in PR - both of which can effect future investment, which was already nearing a close.
For the same reason I want to leave my house at all: social interaction.
Can you give an example of an industry that began with regulation?

Medical industry is heavily regulated now, but regulations appeared after it has grown in size. Similarly transport, construction, and anything else I could think of.

The reason it happens this way is that it's hard to set up standards and practices for something that is entirely new - when you set them up too soon, they may end up impossible to achieve, and block innovation altogether.
Also fish stores the current directory along the command in history; so in ~/src/project the completion will show first commands you typed here rather than ~ or some other directory. This is incredibly useful.
Sounds like your system is antifragile.
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I know at least some humans around me began smoking because they like the taste and, particularly, the smoke swirl.
Love the site. It's clear and to the point.

One thing, if I may add, is that you need a link from the "about" page back to the main page.

Thanks again for sharing!
Thanks You for suggestion, now the answer is yes, nice alternative to 'top -m io' on Linux.
Thanks You for suggestion, now the answer is yes, nice alternative to 'top -m io' on Linux.

While 'dstat' gives some information its usefulness (at least for me) is far from 'gstat' outout.
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I read quickly and didn't think of a white bear.

Probably because my focus was to quickly read the article.
>>Can you give an example of an industry that began with regulation?

The issue here is that almost every industry began in times when we collectively didn't give much shit until things went wrong. If you wanted to make a watch factory using radium - sure, go ahead. It was only after people started dying that we figured out that maybe this needs regulation. But if you wanted to make a commercial product in 2018 using radium you would have to go through plenty of hoops, and rightfully so.

I don't see why autonomous cars are any different - I don't see why we're starting with the assumption that it's fine to test this without strict regulation applied to everything else automotive. Like, if you wanted to start a startup making new tyres using a revolutionary compound, it would not be allowed to just go ahead on public roads - they would need to pass extremely strict testing that we apply to tyres since they are a life/death kind of component. But autonomous cars are allowed as-is right now? With a failure mode where the car literally doesn't react at all to a person crossing the road, despite having 4(!) sets of sensors used to detect this exact kind of obstacle? That is an engineering failure of the worst kind. The law tried to make it better by requiring a driver behind the wheel - but that's still clearly not enough.
Hm, we have a published app, and continue to pay $0 for it. But looking at search results the 25 was already there in 2014, so ... maybe it's just for new accounts?

> strategy

Agreed! The embrace extend and E-something always works wonders, even if you don't do it, you just have to be in the position to be able to do it.
In France they didn't, what do these "European" plans do? Since you are legally allowed to use any local plan when you are abroad (except if your plan is less than 3,85€/GB indeed, then your operator can decide to give you less data or charge you more within this limit).

I'm just using my regular 10€/40GB plan whenever I am abroad and it works fine.
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Netdata, the FOSS real-time performance and health monitoring released v1.10
soon? havent you been watching new Xfiles?
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Why are comment about Uber accident different than about Tesla accident. Why are many so biased about the subject.
In Uber case everyone was levelheaded about the news and waited for official answer . When Tesla maked an accident there are 50% of post questioning about if it happend , why report and useless armchair reporting about conditions of the road.
... or the apparent failure of the crash barrier. Which is a relatively new type, when they built that flyover it had a sand barrel crash barrier.
Glad you like the site :) Good point — I'll add that in.
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>If it was not the case - consumers would not use it.

Consumers don't use it, producers do, and consumers have no choice about that.

What value does the consumer get out of it that justifies the producer spending billions on advertising?
Same on Vivaldi and Google Chrome on Mac (Sierra, 10.12.6)
Interesting. I started smoking despite knowing what was wrong with it (my grandfather died of lung cancer). At the time, I was battling depression and a drug habit. I made many changes in my life to get out of that pit; unfortunately cigarettes were one of them. So it struck me that smoking can't be all that bad, since it helped me pick my life back together.

Now, I'm clean of smoking too - by slowly cutting down the habit to 2/day and then drinking a glass of water whenever I crave a cigarette. I haven't had any nicotine in 4 months or so.

To whoever's reading this - if you have any addictions taking over you, remember that all is not lost. You can still get out of it. There isn't a one-size-fits-all technique, but there is always a technique. Find it and achieve it.
Yes questioning the spin bit is the point of the article.
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Part of me, really wishes it were though. As long as they're benign, that is..
> Realistically, they need to be many times safer than human-driven cars for acceptance.

Yes, many times yes. The promise of self-driving cars is that they are totally safe, that is, nothing will happen except in exceptional, unforeseeable circumstances.

The reason for this is, in a self-driving car, nobody's in charge, and therefore, any incident (let alone, a fatal accident) is immensely more complicated than the same incident with a human driver.

(It's obvious that a self-driving car with a safety driver at the wheel doesn't provide any benefit whatsoever and isn't, in fact, a self-driving car).

A self-driving car needs to:

- transport people who are unable to drive or are "irresponsible" in the legal sense (kids, seniors, drunk people, injured/sick people going to the hospital, etc.)

- drive itself with absolutely nobody onboard

The analogy with trains is flawed because trains have drivers that deal with problems when there is one. Even "autonomous" metro trains are monitored individually.

In fact, save for special conditions like a closed network on a campus, etc., I'm less and less sure self-driving cars will ever be a thing.
Also isn't it trivial to reflect the laser back to its origin? And if the laser is powerful enough to take down a missile, I'd thought the reflection of the beam on smoke may be harmful to humans too.
I personally understand different things when I hear that an application is "free" vs that it is "free software" [1].

It also helps to look at the more correct terms to use when talking about a different kind of "free" [2].

It doesn't actually matter, but even if we dig the actual root of the word, and its usage, we see that the "libre" meaning precedes the "kostenlos" (without monetary cost). It meant "noble, free person" in the proto-Germanic [3]. If you say that someone is a free person, no sane person would think that he/she can be owned for free. So the phrase "free software" is a very unsuitable substitute for "free to redistribute" or "free to use", even when you ignore the industry jargon. License to use it is free, not the software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software , https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/basics/summary.en.html , https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software , https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_(disambiguation)

[3]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/free
I've been using dev-builds from https://www.partha.com/ awhile and branch 2.9 is amazingly fast on macos. It has some minor issues but everything else is amazing.
Does a P100D have a gearbox? I thought it was single speed. It also has a mountain of torque and power.
Many medical experiments, including all of those described by the author of this article, do involve risks to participants. The rationale for such studies is to work out whether the benefits (if any) of an intervention justify the risks. The broad consensus in contemporary medical ethics is that people have the right to be informed adequately in advance and to make autonomous decisions about whether or not to join in a given clinical research study. The question by a parent of whether to subject an unborn fetus to a drug with a risk of causing congenital defects is categorically different than A/B testing responses to your site in yellow or blue.
Love your work. Makes sense, thanks.
Interesting idea.

Only if youtube add the feature of getting a humming as input and show the video of that thing.
> Erlang has an extremely unfamiliar syntax, but I don't think that makes it less suitable for building a service.

However, you can learn and understand all of Erlang's syntax in half a day.

Rust's syntax is... less than optimal.
I strongly disagree.

In this day and age, there are far too many laws to both understand and be sure you are law abiding. Ignorance of the law is a given. Ignorance not being an excuse for something like murder makes sense because you should just know better, ignorance not being an excuse in possession of the feathers of a protected animal that you found on the ground should be valid even though this presents an insurmountable burden to prosecution: it shouldn't be possible that picking up feathers you find on the ground is a crime, but it is.

The sentence "a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client" should be an indictment of the legal system and not a jeer at the self-represented. Justice should be given to those who deserve it, not to those who manufacture it through technicalities. The fact that a lawyer is necessary to achieve justice implies you are not achieving justice but rather merely a bureaucratic victory.

This state just renders law into bureaucracy and divorces it from the concept of justice. The rule of law is only sensible insofar as it can achieve justice, not as its own end divorced of anything humanly meaningful.
It makes sense for a logical perspective, but in practice that's not how it works.

In reality if something breaks, and you are stupid enough to mention it, then (a) you are considered an a-hole for blaming <responsible-person-for-topic> even if you didn't and (b) responsible for fixing it.

So your main job is somehow make your stuff work despite all the other stuff that doesn't work and all the other people that try to stop you, silently. The less you criticize the better. What you get in return is that if you fuck up, people will try to avoid blaming you as well. Also if you don't succeed at making anything happen you get a little arrogant smile from your manager and a mediocre feedback round. But otherwise nothing happens.

The only change to that pattern happens when you piss off your manager or your manager's manager. Then suddenly each and everyt activity you do will be scrutinized and if there's a problem it will be used against you. The best hope they have is that you go away by yourself.
I think the Skripal assassination attempt in London proves that it's not because biological weapons are banned that they aren't developed. And if Russia does it, I doubt the US is sitting idle.
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This is great, but there remain very difficult problems to be solved. The prosody generated by this is fairly generic and not informed by a true understanding of the text. Consider this sentence:

I have plans to leave.

If you stress the word "plans", the sentence means that the speaker is not necessarily intending to actually leave. However, when the stress is on "leave", the speaker definitely intends to leave. A human reader can easily infer the correct meaning from context but text-to-speech systems can't because they don't have any systematic understanding of the things being talked about and the social pragmatics of the discourse. As long as these issues aren't solved, text-to-speech systems will make mistakes. These mistakes will be easy to spot in some cases but can also have catastrophic consequences in other cases: "I have plans to bomb North Korea."
FYI, his original post contained incoherent ramblings about Peter Thiel sending people to gangstalk on him for the past 20 years, and how he's on the verge of killing himself.
Hi Charles, a lot of us have trouble accessing your site due to some sort of SSL issue. Can you check?
This is an on going thing.

Transpilers are just a word invented to mean compiling one high level language into another.

The thing is, compilers already to that. The "level" of the language is irrelevant, the fundamental concepts are the same.

So compiler works.
Right on. From watching my pets, I know that when they're healthy, happy, and bored - they will start doing lots of random shit "for the hell of it." Same applies to humans, and often to apex predators. Perhaps we're too deep in our bubbles of overwork and self-actualization to remember the entire concept of free time and doing random shit just because.
While I don't think STEM makes sense, precisely because it isn't "an interconnected cluster of highly demanding but economically valuable disciplines."

Eg, we don't see politicians who want more people in STEM calling out for more people to go into anthropology, archeology, marine biology, horticulture, or linguistics.

The US government also seems to de-emphasize an education in ecology or climatology, compared to those fields like computer science which are more economically valuable for US companies.
they are really nice.
Ever taken a look at how bootstrap's CSS is written? It's horrible and even worse when you start to try to override certain things :(
http://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting/

http://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting2/

http://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting3/
People who use these seem completely oblivious to the fact that you're wiring your home. The important part is these things are always on, always recording, and often sending data back home. You can't monitor all of that, and your phone doesn't do that. Stop with the disingenuous phone argument.
So, looking at some examples on rosettacode.org... This is basically a Smalltalk dialect, which is good. But it is also, completely needlessly, a Forth dialect. So instead of Smalltalk's statement separator (the period), you "end" statements by "dropping" some value.

That is, instead of:

foo doSomeThing.
bar doSomeOtherThing

you write:

foo doSomeThing drop bar doSomeOtherThing

Why?

It also has named variables (which some Forth purists don't like), but instead of the reasonable Smalltalk syntax of

x := baz compute: #something

it uses

baz compute: #something ->x

for assignment.

Why?

This might eventually turn into a nice programming language, all it needs to do is drop (haha) some of the Forth baggage and admit to itself that its Smalltalk subsystem has everything one needs.
You're right about the issue I mentioned which is irrelevant since there is no overloading in Go. Thanks for pointing it out.

I didn't know you worked on Rust and now on Swift :-)

What strategy does Swift use to compile a generic function or method? Does it generate only one polymorphic version of the code, or multiple specialized versions for each expected parameter types (often called code specialization or monomorphization)?
This proposal is a compromise. Wouldn't a specific metadata/heartbeat "packet", routinely dispatched by the involved parties, serve a better solution?

My personal stand is to prohibit exposing any metadata on the connection whatsoever, but given the counterarguments, I don't think the proposed solution is ideal.
if you want some fun there's https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laser+rust+remo...
Yup... don't have side effects in constructors. That's the whole point of other lifecycle methods... this is a practice as old as C++
The ageless appeal of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Which modal editing implementation would you suggest for Emacs?
> interesting to know what impact the current packet inspection practices by the middleboxes have on network performance.

well, all (almost ?) current boxes can do that at line rate for minimal sized packets.

> incentives of the middleboxes to inspect packages(sic)

incentive is for charging / billing / steering packet flows etc.
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My cousin got a laser pen in Thailand, the thing say 5000mW which is probably false, but it's still way above the usual 5mW pointer. It's reaches buildings miles away with ease, and clouds too .. to the point that I got to learn that it's entirely dangerous and illegal because you can blind plane pilots.
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Jaguars in the Amazon rainforest are known to consume leaves of the Caapi vine to get high, because it seems to improves their ability to hunt effectively.

The Caapi vine is also the main ingredient in the psychedelic Ayahuasca brew drunk by the Amazonian shamans.