skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In defense of the "scorched earth approach or nothing" folks: from my perspective... it's a completely and totally human response to faceless, blameless, unapproachable (from their perspective) perpetrators and facilitators of systematic abuse and exploitation of innocent and vulnerable people.

Yes, the instinct is understandable, but by the time we're putting NGO experts in government-sponsored working groups for the purpose of drafting legislation, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that we're expecting something that rises (high!) above mere instinct. Otherwise, we can (almost, somewhat melodramatic exaggeration) just let mobs with pitchforks take care of business and save a ton of effort.
Youtube holds a pretty dominating market share of video sharing but there are 10+ other relatively large sites that you could host the content in question on. There's a difference between access and an audience - youtube shouldn't be obligated to give an audience to content they don't like. People are free to migrate to other platforms (case in point - phub) if they so choose.
>It got worse because no one wants to be a prostitute, and there has always been a strong coercive element to women entering that profession.

it is factually wrong that "no one wants", it would be more accurate to say "very few"

But this also holds true for many occupations, very few people want to be toilet cleaners, or pick up trash, or really work at all. So the same "coercive element" could be said (and has been said) to drive people to enter any field of employment making all work for wages "coercive" by nature.
Why wouldn't I? For ML, without an advanced degree, you are seriously disadvantaged from the very beginning. That is my first hand experience. For those areas I listed, it is not adequate to contribute much during the bachelor's. To edge towards the frontier, it simply will take more time.
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> I would not want to swap positions with the 14th century peasant and I suspect the author would not want to, either.

I'm glad to have anesthesia, antibiotics, and so on, but if they lived as we do today, the Earth, seas, and air would have been choked with plastic, mercury, greenhouse gases, and so on centuries ago.

We're externalizing our costs to future generations, who will have to pay to clean up our messes, or live with them.

Would you prefer living in a way that leaves the Earth as clean as you found it? If so, are you? Why don't you?
The user can always refuse access to SMS, contacts and other sensitive features on Android.
I have Messenger on my Pixel, it's working fine without having access to all of that.
Are you sure this was possible > 8 years ago? If I remember correctly, I researched this for quite some time then and didn't find any way of deleting the account and everything stored in it. But it's possible I overlooked the option, of course.
You got the TLD wrong. It's https://ipfs.io/
I think the chances of that data being released without a court order is fairly low. Ideally both the raw data, plus the product (actions based on the raw input, not the model/program) should be released, so that it can be included in everyone's dataset.

However, being that the sensors used are supposedly secret and innovative, along with the programs/models, I don't see the motivation for any AV company for releasing the data
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The problem with a decentralized network is that bad actors with disproportionate resources can flood the system.

Consider Russia & Cambridge Analytica - they would put hundreds and thousands of people on creating propaganda. There is no "solve" for well resourced bad actors usurping the decentralized system.
Developing DNS-over-HTTPS clients and servers at the IETF101 hackathon
Here is, roughly, the media's playbook:

1. Never stop talking about Trump. Mention his name 300 times an hour on CNN. He's not a serious candidate, but he is entertaining so they give him free publicity until he is a serious candidate.

2. Start blathering about Hillary's emails, as if that were somehow important.

3. Now Trump is elected. In these tough times, it is more important than ever to support high-quality independent journalism. Subscription numbers swell.

4. We need someone to blame for the outcome of this election. Obviously it is the fault of Facebook, Google, etc, who have been taking the media's ad revenue. Not the fault of the media who would never shut up about Trump.
Censorship is the correct term for any organization restricting content. E.g. a parent restricting a child's TV is censorship. The First Ammendment only deals with censorship by the US Government.
Sorry for the language, but the authors of this article are morons. It's true.

Firefox Studies is off by default. They enable this feature and they get outraged. The definition of a moron.
Germany has the whole EEU working menial jobs for them. So in Germany VW workers slack off and even protest to get reduced work week, while in EEU German managers walk over a car plant with watches and time each manipulation in order to fulfill their quotas. Yet the sales are reported in Germany, so productivity metrics goes way up there. It's really naïve to think they aren't benefiting from what is essentially softer colonialism.
DNS over HTTPS being skewed into a bad thing is a new one for me. How could this be worse than sending it in plain text to any other entity? At least in this case it's going to be limited to Cloudflare and not whoever's watching in between.

If this is part of what it takes to get this technology rolled out, then do what it takes imo.
Only copyrighted stuff and sometimes its bogus, so the best turn is to have a lawyer friend, write a nice letter and never hear from them again.
If we actually had a Swiss-style militia system, the constitution would be completely unambiguous. Instead, the pro-gun interpretation of the 2nd amendment is that it’s first clause is completely meaningless. I’m not sure how they resolve that kind of “being literal only when convenient” hypocrisy in their heads.
Inverse, Skinny all my life until I was around 21, then started steadily (slowly) gaining weight. Now I'm classified as "Overweight" but I'm not outwardly fat looking.

However, I do look quite old for my age, I'm 28 and could easily pass for 35. I had/have a high metabolism all my life.
No it is not 30 it is minimum 25.
Parental leave with a 60% paycheck than normal.
Medical is not first grade, it is notoriously horrible to get a doctor appointment for specific things as you hope to hop from practitioner to practitioner while they refer you.
Dental is not even considered.

Also do you remember that this costs you 40-50% of your salary? http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm

With the same amount of money you can get a normal private insurance in other countries that bring you a golden spoon.
That's a pretty stark difference from the Uber video. There's no reason this incident should have happened.
The Uber victim did come from the shadows. Arizona gets dark at night, especially during a new moon. The question isn't why the optical cameras didn't see her, it's why did the LIDAR failed to detect her?
I was under the impression they were moving to platform independence.

Deploying a Python Website to Azure with Docker

http://www.jamessturtevant.com/posts/Deploying-Python-Websit...

"Azure Web Apps for Linux using python"
Would love to see how Google would handle this situation. Have to believe their algorithm would be smarter and handle.

Remember Google had to deal with bike corner cases a couple of years ago.

"A Cyclist's Track Stand Befuddled One of Google's Self-Driving Cars"

https://gizmodo.com/a-cyclists-track-stand-totally-befuddled...
> $47,000 vs $56,000 for 2017

Ever tried to buy a (non fast-food) meal in Germany and in the US? Your purchasing power is way higher in Europe.
I guess it might be the reason why my facebook showed ads that always related with what i search in google/non facebook apps.
So are you saying that you want an actual foldable phone? Putting aside the technical challenges of getting the chassis and other components to also fold, I struggle to understand why this would be a desirable product.
> Special Branch enjoy secrecy and closeness to power

Yeah, but they operate in secret, which means there can't be any transparency, because that would reveal their operations and whatnot, and we wouldn't want that. Also, they're "just doing their jobs."

Literally what all short-sighted surveillance defenders always say in such cases.
Could you cite some of this evidence?
The BBC is notoriously biased for the government. I stopped reading anything from them after their appalling coverage of the Snowden revelations.
Which is not at all smart.
I hate to victim blame, but he's entirely at fault for the predicament he's in. It was widely known that legacy extensions would be phased out it 56, and a few searches related to firefox 56 will tell you that ESR would be the only branch that supports both legacy extensions AND will recieve security patches past 56. So he should have switched over to ESR before 53 came out.
Yep, I have the name of this account as a gmail account as well - and I get legitimately typo'ed e-mail from someone at least once a week.

As fun as the replying to shopping list e-mails is, the auto-responders for signup forms do get quite old after a while. And it is truly amazing how long accounts will last with bad e-mail addresses on them (looking at you, Netflix).
Shut up and enjoy your rights. /sarcasm
I think it's also about those channels not being suitable to advertise on / having a bad demographic to advertise to and them being funded by patreons or private shop backers advertising in-video. YT gets very little revenue from that even though they are high-volume channels so it's just a pure cost cutting exercise.
Isn't this the reason that dropout works so well as a regularizer?

In dropout, you select 50% (say) of the nodes in one layer of your network at random and force them to pass on no signal (neither positive nor negative). You then train the network to still return the result.

This is effectively training the network to be robust to failures (i.e. "harder to break").

While writing this, I've realized that we've both assumed that not only "networks which generalize better are harder to break" but also "networks which are harder to break generalize better". I think that's true, but worth being explicit.

(Still developing my intuition for machine learning, so I could be wrong...)
I think a big problem with this whole debacle is that we're discussing cameras and lighting, before discussing the actual matter: a person died and someone is responsible.

It doesn't matter if I were to run someone over when it's dark. I would still be accountable.

The discussion about footage removes focus from the actual issue which should be a legal issue, not a technical debugging session.

Edit: Sorry, am not native English speaker. What I meant when I wrote accountable was that I would have to own up to what happened. Not that I would get a sentence if it was an accident.
In addition to en4bz' point Forgotten Weapons almost always disassembles the gun being discussed to show how it works. This could be construed as showing 'how to make guns'. They may be technically allowed, but try convincing an algorithm or non-expert poorly-paid censor that.
>why isn't this on the BBC News front page all day?

I remember this clip of Trump boasting of oppressing someone[1] and wondered why the media didn't grab a stronger hold of it.

1-https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/07/513976112...
I decided to download Instagram the other day. I wanted to be somewhat anonymous so I created a profile with a generic username, didn’t attach my email, and didn’t allow it to download any contacts.

When I signed in, the whole suggested friend list included people I knew. Family, old coworkers, ex-girlfriends, people I haven’t spoken to in 10+ years...

The only explanation I can think of is that I had used my phone number to sign up, and they scanned all their users to see who has my phone number stored in their phones.

I got super creeped out and deleted my account. Funnily enough, I had the exact same experience with Twitter last year too.
> Great, like the trade is going to suddenly end. All they've achieved is 'out of sight, out of mind.'

I had the same reaction to this. Shutting down one avenue, just pushes these people back into the shadows where its going to be a LOT harder to track down and find them. With CL being up, it was public, traceable and arrests could be made discretely and out of public view.
Craigslist kills its personal ads after passage of sex trafficking bill
Trump threatens to veto omnibus spending bill
10KG? in 6 weeks? that sounds like a dangerously high amount of weight loss.
I got into video game development. It is mostly fun and interesting work and I have never regretted it. Sometimes when I was younger I was exploited for my passion with long hours or poor pay but the game industry largely grew out of that. It can still be tough especially on triple A games with huge marketing budgets... nothing puts pressure on managers and a team like a 7-8 figure marketing spend or a launch deadline that cannot be moved (sports seasons, movie releases, thanksgiving) Video games are software and software does not like to be told to finish in the next N weeks no matter how many bugs or how complex they are, or new features that have been dreamed up and must be implemted. This is where tales of long death marches come from. Even those are not ubiquitous. Anyway finally I get to your point: games are online now and they often don’t finish at launch. You can now continue to fix bugs and tweak gameplay after launch and have users update. Not only that but work begins on downloadable expansions and some games have live stores and other online services like leaderboards. I switched to the mobile game industry which is a lot less punishing on staff because you rarely have hard deadlines and games ramp up more slowly. They tend to run for 3-5 years so there is no final release. This means more career stability because AAA teams tend to have layoffs after launch and sometimes disband entirely.
>No, the so-called secret chats are end-to-end encrypted and not stored on their servers.

This feels dishonest to me. Nobody ever uses the secret chats because Telegram devs have deliberately made them impossible to use.
Can these companies (Craigslist, Reddit) open offices in Europe and run those sections of the website from there, somehow?
Isn't NTSB usually releasing this kind of material after investigation? I do think it is reasonable that they do not release it before. The idea of NTSB looking at things is to analyse and find what to improve, not really to assign guilt (which appears to be the primary motivation just now).
I would love to have a transparent dashboard display on my desk. In fact I'd pay a lot of money for it.
There is a big difference between interfering, which is covertly affecting the outcome, and influencing via direct diplomacy or perhaps even clearly identified advertisements etc. I was referring to the first and not the second, and could have been clearer on that.

There is no such thing as "a little phishing" in another election. It is the equivalent of calling something a little hand gesture without mentioning you shoved your hand into someone's vagina first.

The autarky of self-governance is sacred, and should be respected as such. The modern world has completely lost its moral compass on these issues, and I have previously denounced harder lines by the EU and the US interfering in smaller countries elections / forcing laws down their throats (Eastern European and Balkan) countries). But as I alluded to in the beginning of this thread: Just because everyone's doing something does not make it right.
As an occasional commuter cyclist, I'm well aware of the position cars and drivers hold in our social pecking order. It's a well known "joke" that if you want to get away with murder, you do it with a car.

While we should not absolve Uber, including the driver who was too busy looking at his phone to intervene, I do wonder if a standard driver would have also been deemed not at fault by the police. The answer is likely, "yes".
This used to be true in the U.S. It's increasingly less so. That's true in a general way for all Master's programs.

Bachelor's degrees are mostly focused on covering all the general stuff that no longer gets taken care of in high school, plus a couple of semesters of consuming the basics of your degree program. The Master's is basically an intro to research + some deeper dives into focused topics.

I think the article is accurate but not particularly useful. The value of all degrees is dropping over time as degrees inflate. It's not specific to comp sci. It's a reflection of our incredibly shitty primary education.

Universities simply don't have a choice. They can't keep the standards of admission they had 20 years ago, let alone 50. They just won't have any students at all. And each link up the chain of education has to pay for the sins that came before. High schools have to deal with kids who can't read. Colleges and Universities have to deal with kids who can't write. Grad programs have to deal with kids who don't know wow to research, and PhD programs have to deal with people who don't know how to produce new insight.

There are some exceptions, of course. But it's a problem the entire academic system is struggling with very badly right now.
Maybe the took the mid-range from a HDR* video and published it? This way they technically did not add contrast, but just conveniently dropped all the info in the shadows to "make it accessible"

* not tone-mapped, I mean what HDR truly stands for
Recruiting and training for all, and for the more fortunate among us benefits like health insurance, transit benefits, etc.
It's wonderful that there is someone with mind as unclouded by propaganda to enlighten me and improve my limited world view.

Did you find any figures or arguments in the original paper that I overlooked? Like, Chinese peasants, German peasants, etc.
what everyone is doing is far, far from a sound definition of what is "normal".
Its a finance thing. You will expect a greater rate of return from equity because its more risk than debt. For example a company is worth $10 $5 equity and $5 dollars debt. If company value goes to $20 the value of equity has tripled, but debt is still worth $5. However if company value goes to $5 well equity goes to 0, but debt is still worth $5. Since you are taking more risk with equity you need a greater rate of return on equity. So when equity is priced it needs to have a better return than debt for the added risk.
Implying that media is manipulated "from the top" seems needlessly complex. The perpetual urge to produce more makes the media chaotic, it can amplify any fluke in the white noise. You can manipulate the opinions while being nobody.
>I'm sure you want the police and laws there to protect children from sexual exploitation.

Which is why I clearly said ADULT in my response.

We protect children from all manner of things because their brains have not formed to the point where we as a society believe they can make rational choices for themselves

However if we are going to have a free society at some point you become an adult, at which point I do not believe the government should act as a parent over your life making choices as to what is "best" for you

Allowing for that type of government means you lose self agency and your liberty. I reject that

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

Not sure what a boot is, in American English a boot is a type of shoe, I dont really know if I care that people sell drugs out of their shoes...

Aside from that, Yes I believe "smack", cocaine, and every other drug should be legal to sell to adults. The government has not business telling an adult what food, drink or drugs they are allowed or not allowed to take. At most the government has an responsibility to enforce quality, and truthful advertisement laws (i.e not allowing people to sell snake oil, or fentynal as heroin, etc) but beyond that the government has no place in it.
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If Uber's self-driving cars are no better than the visual acuity of humans, they shouldn't be on the road. There is no point to this at all if we can't make robots better than humans.

Self-driving cars should be able to use sensors that pick up stuff better than human eyes.

I can't believe that radar and LIDAR were completely unable to see this woman until the visual cameras picked her up. This seems like either a serious flaw with the sensors or with software. The driver, despite looking down at a phone, still seemed to react faster than the computer!

I'm not that comfortable with Uber doing self-driving cars. I don't really consider them a true tech company. They are not built on world-class engineering and design. They are largely a company built by getting around legal regulations and getting rid of staff workers. They've done incredible legal work with regulatory environments.

A company like Google, I think they have the talent and the culture to build something really good here. A company like GM would understand the stakes at hand here and would be cautious. Uber just doesn't seem to have the talent, mission or ethics to be in the self-driving car business. It's no surprise they are the first company to kill a pedestrian.
Impact of light sensitivity of camera, and light resolution, is probably more relevant here than even low/high beams. The car must be able to drive with low beams as well, but it's really relevant for human observers, not what the car actually sees.
> Across the UK, smoking remained by far the leading cause of preventable cancer, although it dropped from 19.4% in 2011 to 15.1%. Second was being overweight or obese . . .

Since obesity doesn't just randomly happen but has causes, shouldn't they say "caused by" the causes of obesity -- i.e. sugar, inactivity, etc?
> It doesn't matter if I were to run someone over when it's dark. I would still be accountable.

As long as you weren't drinking or otherwise found to be obviously negligent this is typically not the case.

The interesting part of this to me is that the police are treating this as if it were a human driver and holding the car to that level of responsibility. A human driver would not be charged with anything for a typical accident like this one (hitting a pedestrian in low light conditions outside of a crosswalk on a high speed road).

The court case will happen since this is so high profile, but if an average Joe driving the exact same route home from work had hit her, it likely would not even go that far.
Just because someone ought to do something, doesn't mean it should be codified into law. Laws should be made to solve an actual problem that people are already having, not to force someone to do what we think they should.

Also, YouTube isn't just a service among services. They are, effectively, the only service. YouTube's subscribers have no better option, because there isn't much content anywhere else; YouTube's content creators have no better option, because there aren't any subscribers anywhere else.

It's a chicken-and-egg problem, that nobody has been able to solve. Coming up with $200k to start an ISP is easier than breaking into online video streaming.