skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, Android technically supports it, if the app developer wants to. Then they can send off an "Intent", asking the OS to ask the user to select e.g. one or multiple .jpg and .png files, and then the OS hands those files back to the app.

The problem is that not many users understand the implications of just granting permission, so developers don't really need to care.

And this dialog that Android opens is roundabout the shittiest, least usable piece of software I've seen in a long while, so for an developer it actually can pay off to ask for full permission and then build your own file selector even if you have no malicious intentions.

Others here have mentioned that iOS also supports basically this the same way as Android, though presumably they have not quite managed to make their file picker quite as shitty.

And then, well, browsers have worked like this since forever. So, presumably Firefox OS works/-ed like this, too.
The thing is, most humans are not doing those types of jobs for YEARS like robots. Humans can learn on the job and acquire skills and impress their boss and get raises and maybe become the boss and apply to other jobs or find something like better. That's why it's called "ground floor", because you can move up, and most people eventually do.

The % of people making minimum wage at any given time is a snapshot, and it covers people at all stages of their lives. Are there some people working their ass off and not making it a la an Upton Sinclaire book? Sure. But that's not most people. In fact, most people (1) making minimum wage are between the ages of 16-24 and aren't going to be making that forever. And even among those who aren't, most are well above the poverty line.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/who-earns-the...
Then that number becomes arbitrary. If it was measured in deaths per lightyear your 'n' would become 0.

You know what I meant when I said "n=1".
Then you add special cases for steam, and plastic bags, and small fast moving animals that it's more dangerous to swerve around than hit. And then when some kid in a chicken costume runs out in front of the car, the car stops even though it can't identify exactly what it's looking at.
Yeah, but where's the incentive?

> If nuclear fusion takes off, we have more power then we ever need, and mass pumping Co2 out of the atmosphere could be a viable thing suddenly.

...and it will still be cheaper for the rich to climate control their own domes than the entire atmosphere.

> Then there are looming miracles in food production. Lab grown meat and indoor farming in high rise buildings could massively raise food supply.

...for those who can pay for it.

> And lastly, autonomous robots doing construction & logistic work, and beyond that replacing basically every heavy lifting job on the planet. There are ~50 millions or so car produced annually, what if we started to pump these kind of numbers in robots? There could be "landscaping projects".

...and robots would consolidate all of the money into the hands of the wealthy elite even more, since they no longer have to pay workers.

Technology is important but ultimately it is only a tool. Without massive social change, technology will continue to fall into the hands of people who only use it to enrich themselves.
Wait, what's your threat model? Surely you're not imagining that you can pass data from one process to another without root being able to see it? (On Linux, since you're using /proc.)

Other users' processes can't see /proc/$pid/environ, unlike using cmdline.
I think the public will probably feel the same way, but if this happens again with another company, I think there will be sustained backlash. Hopefully Waymo is as advanced as they’re advertising, and given what a terrible company Uber is by comparison, that doesn’t seem to be an unreasonable assumption.

You know what they say though, once is a mistake, twice is a habit.
The IRS appreciates when you try. It sounds like you’re deliberately trying to fuck them and make excuses. I know crypto is young and naïve, not unlike those who deal in it, but if it’s one organization you don’t mess with, it’s the IRS. Unless you’re wealthy enough to hold dual citizenship and/or buy off some senators, you WILL lose.

Alternatively, if you can’t handle the tax reporting, hire an accountant, or don’t day trade cryptocurrencies. The IRS won’t give two shits about your smug “what about”s when they garnish your wages for eternity.
A group of founders who wanted to move fast, ignore industry regulations that they didn't personally understand the historical reason for, and chose to keep pushing forward even when they realized they were doing unethical or illegal things.....where have I heard that story before? I've heard such tactics praised often enough here on Hacker News.
The pedestrian also has a significant contribution of negligence to this collision, IMO.
This is in line with what we are building right now at https://www.textile.photos/. See andrewxhill's response above re: mobile and desktop apps that automagically sync with one another. Getting grandma on board is always difficult, but with super simple (and super secure) inter-device linking, we're hoping to lower that barrier to entry big time!
Hm. I wonder what will happen to Linksys supporting open source WiFi drivers now for their WRT/ACS routers.
I find it so frustrating when people trot out the "if you're no the customer, you're the product" about Android and then claim that it's impossible for Apple to monetize your data just because you also paid through the nose for that shiny iPhone.
Yehuda Katz wrote both, so he gets the credit either way. :)
As for the problem with languages like HyperTalk and AppleScript being read-only, the solution isn't to change the syntax, it's -- wait for it -- AI! If Google can figure out what you want from a spoken free-form inquiry, then a smart interpreter should be able to figure out what you're trying to say in a line of code, even if you don't get the syntax quite right. And if your code is ambiguous, it can ask you confirm your intentions. Why haven't we seen more of this?
Gsheets is utterly useless for importing and browsing a several MB size CSV file. Where the same file imported into native x64 libreoffice is totally smooth.
Unless it’s icy out, you have to swerve, or you’re being tailgated...but yes, stopping (or at least attempting to stop) is the best decision from a liability perspective.
When I was at Sun John Entemann was an engineer who got promoted to manager. We all laughed like crazy. John? Really?

And then he walked into each of our offices and said "what do you need? I'll get it"

And he was suddenly our hero, our favorite manager.

So do that. Help them.
I'm all for privacy, but I'm also all for facts and reason, and some of this comments are getting incendiary.

> facebook is performing one big MITM

Is it a MITM attack if you choose to use that platform? That's like saying Uber is kidnapping, because you're in someone else's car. The whole point of MITM is you don't know there's a MITM.

> shameless siphoning

Accurate.

> selling all information to nefarious bidders

The data by CA was not sold, it was stolen. Facebook sells targeted ads.
Shares in Facebook did not fall on Monday - they were up 0.45% at market close.
This is the only reason why I would support dropping net neutrality. If the ISPs charged more for content, we could potentially see an ad free future!
I've only known people on the extremes of the spectrum. I don't know anyone who is clearly "in the middle". I do wonder if it is a spectrum or just two different spectra, because I agree that the extremes are not really comparable. My heart goes out to you. I hope your son catches up eventually.
> One of the most devastating aspects of colonialism in Africa was the soil depletion caused by short-sighted colonial planters who planted resource-hungry cash crops.

I love this slanted viewpoint.

Of course deforestation, drought, erosion, population pressures, or the geologically induced and inherently low soil fertility had anything to do with it, did it? Nope, it was all the stupid white farmers fault.
Uber sent out an email for people to download Grab, since it will no longer work in SE Asia after the 8th of April[0].

Personally, so far, I'm not impressed with grab's software and epayments infrastructure in Indonesia, compared to uber where I can use my card and pay for any of my wifes/friends usage without having to think about things like topping up or buying credits (though to be fair, a lot of platforms in Indonesia [maybe even SE Asia] seem to have the same situation regarding payments, with worse software). Maybe this will change, but right now it feels like a demotion.

Here's to hoping a decentralized platform for ride hailing can come into existence in the future and remove the reliance on SoftBank's will to unify the market on their terms.

[0] https://help.uber.com/h/1e6cfc45-10da-416c-a7a3-d13f75505c34
> Would you rather live in a world with no smartphones where you afford a house/apartment

How rich are your poor? That may seem a silly question, but are poor people really buying houses? Did they ever? You seem to be talking about middle class people - perhaps lower middle class at worst.

The question is where is that threshold? At what decile is the world worse? The bottom 10%? The third bottom? Where?

This is not as clear cut as house no technology/no house technology. This is an issue that affects different percentiles of the income curve differently. There are no doubt some parts of the income curve in some specific locations worse off, but I'm not sure people have a full grasp of how much better life is in general in the 1st world today versus 1960, let alone 1920 or worse, during the Great Depression.
And this is what makes me wary of apps like Signal as well. Who pays for the servers and why are they free?
When I worked in an academic lab about 7 years ago, we never neutralized acids or bases before dumping them in the sink. The logic is that they'll be diluted almost as soon as they go own the drain.

Of course, this was using small quantities of acid, not liters.
Were you able to register timb07? If not, let me know and we'll tweak things on our end.
Sure, it still leaves room for malware etc accessing data if it's running as the main user.

I think the better solution is to read it out of a wallet into stdin
Architectural engineer wanted
Look for an architectural engineer. Need a degree and need to know how to design and what types of materials are strongest
It might surprise you that we were testing (selectively) autonomous cars on the autobahn in Germany in 1991 as part of the Prometheus project. Our tech was nowhere near as good as what's available now and so we compensated by having attentive drivers hovering over the E-stop button.

I don't think that stopping testing over a single crash is warranted. Maybe suspend it for a short time while you look into it, but if we stopped medicine every time a patient died in a trial, society would be worse off.
The Techies Who Said Sorry
That's technically impressive but it's not much of a feature.
Give the man a credit. There's merit to what he says. He understands the slippery slope argument, he understand what giving away freedom & privacy could lead to.

He's right most often. You might disagree with his extreme attitude, but eventually it comes down to: Is he telling some truth?
In a privacy-less future, one has to learn how to achieve goals without revealing intentions by hiding them in randomized behaviors and words. One has to practice double-think, triple-think or even recursive-onion-think.
January 1 1992 and it was the first state to do so.
I’d rather have ads.
Oh it's so much worse than that. The EDID is typically implemented with an I2C EEPROM connected directly to the AUX lines. The "edid read" procedure is no more than reading "0xA0", the standard EEPROM I2C address, over AUX.
The first time I ever sniffed that bus and saw a simple "read" command to that address I'd seen in so many other places before I almost fell off my chair.
> You’re just doing a really great impression of someone who is?

I read that less as "arguing in favour of FB", and more as a reminder that overindulging in the blood frenzy makes you lose perspective.
Having just built my first project in Go, I'd be happy if some form of standardization is introduced. Everything I read was mostly along the lines of "well there's this community standard process we use that's not official but it might as well be". But when I started installing packages, it was clear that the result of this lack of focus on package versioning meant that people were simply pulling packages from master or the latest release on github depending on which tool you used.

Examples of how I had to deal with packages:

Yaml parsing - Used gopkg.in/yaml.v2 . What that means? I don't know. v2 could be one git hash today, and another tomorrow.

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

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.

The point is that in all 3 of these examples, each person had an entirely different way of doing things. All 3 libraries are mature in terms of functionality and the people behind them being experienced go devs. I'm not entirely sure where the "Independently, semantic versioning has become the de facto standard for describing software versions in many language communities, including the Go community." statement comes from (the including the Go community bit). Because that was not my experience.

If this tool introduces some clarity and helps push the community towards developing and releasing more sensibly I'll be really happy. Otherwise I foresee that instead of using semantic versioning, I'll be locking to different git commit hashes to choose which API version I want.
I've always attributed Facebook's success with older generations to the feeling you get when somebody you're talking to brings up a name you hadn't heard in numerous years, and here's why.

Let's first think about the demographic that has kept Facebook afloat; Baby Boomers and Generation X. When you think about most of these individuals, they graduated high school and college without much there to remind them of individuals they were acquainted with, minus maybe their yearbooks from high school. Sure, most probably wrote or emailed their close friends, but we're talking about those afterthought individuals that they came into contact with under specific circumstances that generated that "acquaintance" classification. Then, all of a sudden, appears Facebook, a platform that allows these individuals to link their name with their school. It's a database at their fingertips with all of their classmates with up-to-date pictures, life stories, and mutual friends to explore. Facebook is that one "person" I referenced earlier; the person that brings up that name you hadn't thought about for years, except now you can actually explore what they are up to, and Facebook continuously reminds people of those afterthought names.

The question is, how long is this effect going to sustain Facebook's competitive advantage? Like people have mentioned, there was Whitepages, now there is Facebook, but what's next?
Nice try. Tesla already demonstrated Mobileye's inability to handle impending collisions.
> but in practice, it basically means everywhere including SF and the east bay

Silicon Valley includes neither SF nor the East Bay, not even in practice.
If you're paying for a product, you are the product, too. Merchants, banks, credit card companies, utilities, etc, routinely sell your transaction info up the river.
That needs language support too, some languages simply do not support it. I believe this includes Go due to how linking works. This could be fixed but it would be hard, maybe a 2.0 thing and it does make package management harder. And in a monorepo it doesnt happen so Google doesnt care.
If you're a high-functioning adult, a diagnosis won't do much good -- you've already figured out what you needed to at least unconsciously. But suppose now that you have children. And one of your children is on the spectrum. If you know what to look for, you might save them and yourself a ton of stress.
Just today I contacted Belkin live support for a usb-c gigabit Ethernet adapter that stopped working 1 month in. They are shipping me a replacement.

My previous experience was with a router that would occasionally fail under load (e.g., torrents), requiring a restart. They sent a replacement for that, too, but I never found a use for an unreliable router.
Less conservative than you might think: https://sustainability.ups.com/committed-to-more/fuels-and-f...

At 3 billion miles driven per year, there's a lot of room for experimenting with a few hundred/thousand new vehicles.

Anyway, electric freight works well for this business assuming the range is decent. There are lots of lower range freight routes with well forecasted volume, and controlled environments at both ends allows for installing charging infrastructure.
This is ultimately not about ads, as Zaynep points out. It's about building an architecture of self-reinforcing social manipulation on a large scale, while how it works (and the fact that it is being done at all) remains totally opaque to the persons who are part of somebody's A/B experiment.
I just want to echo your story because it is almost identical to mine (right down to the incorrect diagnoses). I was bullied to the point where I developed a colossal thrombosis in my arm. We had no idea until I was 16, which is when my parents became aware of these types of issues.

I was lucky enough to get off the meds extremely quickly (2 weeks as I recall, I told my mother I hated them - she took me off after noticing how lifeless they made me). I was lucky enough to move countries, to a new school with fresh schoolmates and friends - somehow a school with the most beautifully accepting people you've ever met. With just that one chance that "normal" people gave me, I turned completely and you simply wouldn't believe that I am autistic today.

I've overcome a lot less than you and I am proud of it, I can't imagine how proud you must be.
No, i dont know what you mean. I know only that your comments do not portray a deep understanding of statistics and probability. Do your own homework to determine the liklihood of a low probability event ocurring within a small number of observations. That is you answer to the question of how meaningful it is that Uber experienced a fatality in only 3,000,000 miles.
> look at bigger items like health care, housing, and education

Indeed. Question is, what will a dollar buy you? We have more treatments for illness, we have more educational options, more and more.

There is no silver bullet to be sure, and there is no universal upside option, but surely now is a better time to be almost any income percentile, in almost any place on the planet.

Where geographically it has gotten worse, e.g. Flint Michigan, I am not sure how we make a world where Roger & Me is released in 1989, and 30 years later, the population is 2/3s what it was then. Part of life is change, and making the world better requires that people adapt with the changes.
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Mobileye explicitly did not want Tesla using them in the fashion they were, and discontinued supplying them with chips.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mobileye+sends+tesla+a+lette...

This came about because Mobileye was honest about their capabilities: https://electrek.co/2016/07/01/tesla-autopilot-mobileye-fata...

Tesla, in their immediate response (same article), basically tried to imply they have magic abilities to do much better, which, based on later crashes, we know is not true.

Mobileye, in response, chose to end their partnership with Tesla (and yes, it was Mobileye who did it. The letter they sent ending the contract can be found if you browse around, after Tesla explicitly asked them to continue and signed a multi-year contract earlier in 2016)
Agreed, this really grates on me too. I'm seriously thinking about just filtering anything with an unsubscribe link.
The fact that your personal information is being sold (with your name, user id, email address, possibly physical address + political opinions) is probably news to most people.

Another thing: Did you know that facebook recorded your phone calls (time and recipient)? Or, it sold your personal info to brands for marketing outside of facebook, say by email?
Privacy Advocates ask Facebook to stop opposing their proposed ballot measure
LinkedIn is not a competitor to Facebook. Why? Context. When you go on facebook you’re in a social state of mind. When you go on LinkedIn you’re in a formal / business state of mind. It’s a glorified resume and socially conservative af. That fact alone means that, even if LinkedIn has the same exact user base as facebook, we are not going to use LinkedIn like we do facebook.

Facebook profits off of our attention and engagement. Facebook’s real competition is who or whatever holds our attention. Whoever manages to make us give facebook less of our time. LinkedIn does not really have our attention like facebook does. We set up a profile and leave and maybe get on it when job hunting or when someone writes us a recommendation. There is no “LinkedIn addiction.” But you wanna know what website has been getting even more and more of our attention? Netflix lol. Netflix can take hours out of our day and during those hours we may be so absorbed in the show that we’re not really engaging with facebook. So yeah, Netflix is a bigger competitor to facebook than LinkedIn.
Why? They crossed a 35 mph (so in Tempe this is a “slow” road) at a corner (unmarked corners are also crosswalks, legally) on a well lit road. Where the car was many seconds away when she started crossing.

Would a human driver be deemed at fault in a court of law? Usually not (though in this case, maybe) unless they kept going after the collision, or were under the influence. But that’s because we give human drivers a lot of leeway to kill people. Not because it isn’t their fault.
Yup, you're also dealing with companies that may have fixed routes and the capital to develop the infrastructure if it makes financial sense.

Your average consumer isn't going to drop $X0,000 to put in a super/mega-charger but a business might.
What new features do users gain from the new file system?
You have to deal with disruption. No doubt. A typical problem might be that the kid just isn't conscious of things like homework assignments: laziness, or ASD? If laziness, then discipline should help. If ASD then discipline won't help, but therapy might. Knowing really helps.

Having the right diagnosis is important. Who wants to end up taking powerful medicines for the wrong condition?? Sure, if you have no diagnosis then you won't take the wrong meds either, but that's not a reason to avoid a diagnosis.
This was a great speech she wasn’t trying to say all algorithms are evil or that machine learning is evil, but despite it having good consequences it can just as easily bring about a great evil. Not only do we have to be aware of hidden biases in machine learning that could be doing unethical things, but we need to be aware of the great power and effects these algorithms have on those they are being used on and how they can be used to manipulate.

Near the end she states, “Many of these ad finance platforms [e.g. Facebook, Google] boast that they are free. That means that we are the product that’s being sold. We need a digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest bidding authoritian or demagogue.”