skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have made this observation, I even mentioned it in my comment. I am urging you and anyone else who reads my words to assess your behavior so as to affect a change in the status quo. Sometimes pedestrians do walk into the road and they do get struck. The only foolproof way to prevent this is to change driver behavior which is why the requirement to yield to pedestrians at intersections is codified into most laws.

When I am driving I often see people standing at the curb just staring at their smartphone. Usually these people are wasting time because they don't expect traffic to stop. When I stop for them they are usually pleased, they cross the road and get on with their life. Sometimes these people are just waiting for an Uber or something, when I stop for them they get confused and look at me funny. I don't mind, I just smile at them and resume driving. I am in a car, so I can accelerate and travel very quickly with almost no effort. It is no trouble for me to spend a few seconds stopping for a false positive.
I've always loved this idea. It's seemingly completely ridiculous but completely astounding at the same time.
Batteries exploding causing fires, damage, and possible harm to those around it

vs.

An expensive slab of metal and glass that, surprise, bends if you do things like sit on it with it in your back pocket or other unnecessary forces.

100% completely, completely different. One is an actual danger (Samsung), the other is mistreating and not respecting the device (People who spend a ton of money on an iPhone and then treat it roughly).
You're missing the context of this thread. The software in the Uber car has a clear failure condition. That has nothing to do with whether it's possible to infer such vector collisions without jerky driving, which is the point I'm addressing.
$17k potato heist. AI-Powered Facial Recognition. The "Michael Jackson" of China. I can't help but think of how cool it would be if Michael Mann put together an updated Chinese remake of "HEAT".
If you assume it was not a hoax, the police response was still to shoot without being provoked. Hardly seems like whether its a hoax or not is op's point.
The GDPR fines based on global revenues.

I'd bet Pinterest is very risk averse given how little money they make from Instapaper.
Charge the officers and the entire chain of command
Um, no - The GDPR treats the simple act of storing personal data as 'processing', so turning off the service while still keeping the data resolves nothing. It doesn't even matter if you take the data offline, or temporarily obfuscate it.
Back in the early 90s, I remember seeing a cartoon in one of the tech magazines, possibly BYTE or PC/Computing. It featured an elevator opening onto a floor of office cubicles.

The guy in the elevator screams "COMPUTER! FORMAT SEE COLON SLASH WHY ENTER" across the whole cube farm. The doors close, and the elevator is gone.

Caption was something along the lines of "Speaker-independent voice recognition might be a bit tricky."
> What more do you want? A picture? A video?

I want police officers to assess if there is any danger before shooting. The guy they shot was not even the guy who made the call, they had no proof that it was the same guy. I just want police officers to think about the current situation before shooting. If he had no weapon drawn, he was not a threat and there was no reason to shoot.
I’ll believe it when I see it. I very much doubt that the incumbents will let that happen, be it through legal chicanery or otherwise.
Don't think if the show as "cancelled". It's the fact that Netflix won't invest money in paying for another season of the show to be made. They want to invest money in shows people watch the most and will keep them on the platform. So yes, ratings do matter. But in sort of a different way.
Isn't the real issue here that the cops are all trigger happy? To me, that feels like it should be the real issue.
https://np.reddit.com/r/AskLEO/comments/2dgwkp/what_makes_am...
Working from home or working remotely is now becoming commonplace for the first time since the pre-industrial era.

That's very recent, and it effects only a very small portion of the population.

Industrialization might have correlated with population movements from rural areas to the cities in the past. It's not so clear it still means that now.

The article is about trends that we have seen so far. You are speculating about the future.

And as for falling fertility rates, that's surely more related to improvements in healthcare.

Not just healthcare. Having a lot of children is economically beneficial to farm families, it is a great expense for modern urban ones, and so they have greatly reduced how many they have.

but I was talking about internationalism

Cities are booming because factories and big businesses are located there, and these are all involved in economic activity involving the nation, and usually other nations too. Internationalism is the philosophy that this is a good thing.

For instance, if we drill into the definition of "populism", whereby it sets "ordinary people" against "elites", the most direct and simple explanation is that maybe in recent times there have been transfers of power away from ordinary people towards elites, and "populism" is simply politicians reacting to the concerns that this has caused.

I agree with that. The thing is, for most of history, wealth was in the land, and the elite were landed aristocrats. With industrialization, wealth has moved largely to cities, and so that is where the elites live, and the people in the countryside have become much poorer, and so they often become populists.
[CVE-2018-8012] Apache ZooKeeper Quorum Peer Mutual Authentication
Evidence?

Rules of engagement that don't immediately mean an innocent person winds up dead?

Can you honestly not see this?
The DoS aspect is mitigated via pam and user management controls in the OS (for creating /etc/shadow entries).

scrypt and bcrypt are a long ways out for supported Linux distros. This depends on glibc to make changes that they have stated they won't make. So for now, sha512 shadow hashes are the best most people will have in their datacenters.

Perhaps wrap that rascal with MFA / 2FA to be the first line of defense as a mitigating or compensating control.
Critical to what, exactly? The consequences to the user are the same.

Obviously, intentionally designing a feature that spontaneously records and transmits audio is a problem for many reasons. But the lack of intent does not magically erase the consequences for the people who experience this kind of bug.

And, to be clear, this was not simply a matter of "faulty voice-processing". The fact that this could happen without the user's knowledge is a problem in itself. Clearly, there are inadequate visual and audio cues, and insufficient or nonexistent verification. Those failures are not bugs; they are bad design and engineering.
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The most shocking thing about this story is how a customer was able to get qualified engineering support for an unusual support request, from a large company.

Or... what's missing is the hours spent going through support tiers 1 through N, and somehow not getting dropped/lost along the way.
Maybe the training is calibrated correctly. Perhaps these deaths are an anomaly, but a different calibration that might save these lives would result in ten times as many officer deaths? Without frequency information, it’s hard to tell. And then there’s the ethical question of trading off between police and bystanders... Seems more nuanced than some in this thread want to admit.
Well indeed! But that's how it's supposed to work.
>Minds only think what they've been trained to think

That's a pretty forward statement about how every brain works. Who comes up with the training? Clearly new ideas must arise somewhere, and where they do intelligence gets involved.
Reminds me of the organ donor sketch from monty python, except real and tragic.
that’s causing companies trouble because it’s not entirely clear right now what information residents will request, what format that information needs to be in, how to locate it and package it, and whether new infrastructure needs to be created to manage this request pipeline. Personal info is a somewhat nebulous concept, and the fact that experts are describing the GDPR as “staggeringly complex” is not making it easy to cover all the bases. (Granted, companies have had two years to prepare for this.)

That is bollocks. The most stupid excuse I have ever read.
Economic espionage is a mainstay of intelligence agencies, so you don't even need to play the potential politician scenario out.

Just working for a company that an agency is surveilling is enough to make you worth targeting.
> As it is I hate how I can't talk ABOUT "ok google" around my phone... because it always goes off.

On several tech podcasts I listen to (http://atp.fm, https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/) they use fillers like "Yo, dingus!" to talk about alexa/hey siri/ok google
I think we'd disagree about the relevance of this, but that IS exciting news! I'm very impressed overall with node progress, especially considering how unstable the ground seems to be, or have been, in jsverse.
YAGNI. You can get to a 90% solution today at 10% of the cost and effort. If, later, you want to extend the system you’ll not only have learned a lot about the operations and failure modes of the current system, but hardware purchased later will be cheaper and may support even more functionality.
>minds only think what they've been trained to think

Millennia of novel thoughts disagree lmfao
Are you seriously suggesting that we disarm the police?

"Stop it right there, or I'll... I'll get really mad!"
Yeah, I have a six bedroom four bath house because of the kids. Bought it for cash. I shudder to think what that would cost in SF.
There's Wallabag [1], which you can host your own instance of.

I'm the creator of BeeLine Reader [2], which has a reading list feature. The app is free to download and if you want to use it as a reading list app that's totally free. There are some IAPs that hook into Kindle or provide other functionalities, but they're unnecessary if you just want a read-later app.

1: https://wallabag.org/en

2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beeline-reader/id938026867?m...
This is absolutely the right analysis of how these systems work and why you can't expect autonomous cars to halt traffic deaths. What the Uber crash has shown us is that the tolerance for AVs killing people is probably exactly zero, not some (very meaningful) reduction like 10x or 100x less.

My company didn't start with this zero tolerance thing in our minds, but it turns out our self-delivering electric bicycles have a huge advantage for real world safety because they weigh ~60lbs when in autonomous mode and are limited to 12mph. This equals the kinetic energy of myself walking at a brisk pace, or basically something that won't kill purely from blunt force impact. I think the future for autonomy will be unlocked by low mass and low speed vehicles, not cars converted to drive themselves.
New VPNFilter malware targets at least 500K networking devices worldwide
That, of course, is a reason to go back to the drawing board, not to disable the alerting.
Thank you. I agree. It is not professional. I didn't call him names, but I would say feelings got hurt.

Equity won't happen now.

There was no contract. It was verbal mainly.

Thank you for the final settlement amount. I appreciate that advice!

I don't really care about the money now, rather the principle that he can't renegotiate invoices when he feels like it. His integrity is lost.

Defamation for what? For speaking to his investors? I sent them notice that I was informing them. I didn't want to threaten them. But I guess by notifying his customer base and buyers, it could be seen as that?

Cost-not-viable. Appreciate you lining that up!
Blame doesn't "move" or "shift". It's a sequence of events with blame in each one. Saying the kids committed a crime doesn't in ANY WAY vindicate police shooting an unarmed person.
Same thing with my Android phone. When I am in an area without internet access, but phone-calling signal (at least) the dumb ass phone defaults to using an internal low-quality OK-Google speech recognition. So instead of looking up hours to a nearby restaurant I look at my phone and it is suddenly calling someone in my contact list (that I haven't really talked to in years)... and of course since the speech recognition blasted the CPU's horsepower, nothing on the screen is responsive and my thumbs are constantly slamming the screen with no feedback - the calls goes through for about a second or ringing before my phone decide to hang up fully.
There is none.

BTW: our privacy counsel, at a very good law firm, rates France as amongst the most aggressive of the regulators, given to assessing large fines.
GDPR could have safeguarded data by demanding more transparency, still allowing apps to accept data as a form of payment through personalized ads. It's not obvious why they are requiring apps to provide the same service for free 'without detriment'. That destroys a number of business models. Why not just allow they give an option to not give their data if they are willing to pay?
Yeah electric motor efficiency is awesome. Back in 2005 I had a film-canister sized motor capable of 300W at 90% efficiency, and magnets and motor design have just improved since then.
We use eye contact because we can't infer what another person is thinking and we can't react quickly enough to their actual movements at car speeds. This latter isn't the case with automated vehicles, so eye contact shouldn't be necessary, as long as you get the vector algorithms right.
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I doubt 10nm chips would be useful on Mars. These rovers use special chips that are shielded against radiation. Cutting edge chips are much more fragile. They only work in ideal conditions.
> What more do you want? A picture? A video?

Direct observation of the threat. Period.

> someone was armed and dangerous

That's a rumor at that point (just like ANY call). They need to assess it themselves. Arriving at a scene and assuming anyone they see is this someone also seems pretty irresponsible.
Harm? Physically? I did not do so. He was threatening me...

I will go see a lawyer. Thank you.
More like demilitarize them.

Edit: To the point: Yes. Anyone who can't respect "Don't fire until fired upon" should 100.0000% be disarmed.
Can anyone who tried this elaborate on what are the ads on the free tier? Are they only in the iOS app or is the service intercepting unsecured traffic to insert ads?
Off-topic: one of my favourite Ted Chiang short stories - Exhalation[1] - is about compressed-air-based lifeforms.

1. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/
Ha, nope, didn't realize this until everyone started mentioning it in the comments.
This comment affirms my adjudication.
In the U.S. military, operating in a foreign country, the typical orders under similar intelligence are to go and evaluate the situation themselves to determine if there is really a threat, before opening fire.

It seems crazy to me that soldiers operating in a theater of war are held to a higher standard for use of lethal force than officers of the law interacting with U.S. citizens.
Strictly speaking, it is classified as a conflict of interest.
IT companies are valued now on what they're going to earn in 20 years.
The times I've been in these situations, it's usually involved a recruiter, and I've had verbal confirmation from the recruiter to the effect of "I gave them your number and they are OK with it". Now it's possible the recruiter misstated things somewhere along the way, so who knows? But that's what made these things all the more surprising when they've come up: the fact that I was told specifically "I gave them your number and it's within their range" or "they're OK with it" or some similar verbiage.

Had I been applying direct (no recruiter involved) I probably would not have gone through that much process without demanding more details. Knowing what I know now, I definitely wouldn't.
Mechanical engineer here. The ideal gas approximation is plenty reasonable for the pressures and temperatures of interest here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressibility_factor
Where do you put your phone? I put mine in my pockets. It's not unusual for a fair amount of strain to be applied there.
Starting from the end

> Can I request all of this information be deleted?

Yes, the ones that are on HN. I'm not sure how it works for 3rd parties that obtain your data

> does this include other comments that referenced my username?

I don't think so, this is unlikely, especially as you didn't create it and HN doesn't link this (as opposed to reddit)

> What about comments that might have linked to my GitHub profile?

I'd say that being required is even less likely as HN has no way of knowing what's your GH profile

GDPR is what they know about you. If they're actively trying to link pasted GH profiles and usernames then this would apply, otherwise no.

> What if there are server logs that include my IP and a time which can correlate to when I posted a comment or something?

That thing with IPs being PII I'd say this would apply, but then again, this doesn't bring any new information.

So if they keep track of users access times then yes, but if this information is rotated, sent to /dev/null then no.

You're not obligated to connect all the dots, or track user login times. That being said, IP (especially + times) are PII so better anonymize it and discard once not needed.
Are you seriously suggesting that the police should have rules of engagement far less strict than those applied by many militaries around the world in literal war zones while fighting actual enemies of their state?
I think it has more to do with training and better use-of-force regulations. The police in the States appear to have a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality as evidenced by these events. Disarming them in a country like the US is impossible, but surely better training and stricter rules/penalties would help the situation.
It's appropriate for them to have 'less lethal' weapons. It is also far more appropriate for them to be trained in the proper use of force and de-escalation of situations.

Peace officers are supposed to be professionals.
And "somehow", only people that are swatted in the US wind up dead...

even though 'gamer culture' is larger in Europe and Asia. ( and in many countries in both, swatting has been attempted ).
A secure language does not protect you from insecure design. I could very easily build a system in Rust with gaping security holes, purposefully or accidentally.
Wait to evaluate if the guy is a threat and he could have already shot you. Safer to shoot him first. This is what people are talking about when they complain about militarized police. Treating unknowns as threats that must be neutralized instead of something you need to observe closer is how you end up throwing grenades on sleeping babies and shooting innocent people. But the converse is that the suburban drug lord pulls out his AR15 and shoots down 3 cops before they have a chance to figure out what is happening.
Hmm, maybe it's bad in different ways for different viewers.

For me, it seems so ruthlessly risk averse that if I watch one video, it fills my queue with every single thing that person ever made, to the detriment of other interests.

Does YouTube assume all humanity is completely obsessive, based on some subset of frequent users who probably behave that way?
I'm absolutely fascinated with type system theory. I also really like logic programming stuff too, some of what's happening in the relational logic world is very interesting stuff.

Anyways, thanks!
Hell, I suggest that we disband the police entirely.
I'm not sure what size company is too small — we'll have to see after a few months. My hunch is a team as small as 3 could make the system useful with a bit of self-discipline to answer on the site and not in Slack or what not. It's also useful if your team expects to onboard new people. Those questions from new members can really help build up a collection of policies and processes that haven't been written down yet.

At any rate, moderation tools are toned down or removed altogether for Teams. As we hear back from customers, we'll likely be tweaking the tools to fit better with their workflow. A lot of the moderation tools on the public site amount to crowd control.
Perhaps there should be 2 tiers of officers, with appropriate training and psychological evaluations required for those authorized to carry firearms.
This is from the NTSB report:

"At
1.3 seconds before
impact, the
self-driving system determined that
an emergency braking maneuver
was
needed
to
mitigate
a collision
(see figure 2). According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are
not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to
reduce the potential for erratic
vehicle
behavior."

I believe you are the one who has misunderstood.
You know what, I'm gonna back you up, you got a point. But it's certain human psychological weaknesses that lead us to abuse human psychological weaknesses to get cheap clicks and views. Just take it as something fun to observe and think about.

No, I don't go to parties either.
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The Hornslet collapse[1] is the one I was thinking about in particular. It is especially daunting now that I've toured a site for myself. Those things are huge!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornslet_wind-turbine_collapse
IQ shouldn't be conflated with human worth. It should be taken as a measure of societal progress, however. Poles and Italian immigrants in the US raised their average IQ scores over the 1st half of the 20th century -- by over 15 points!

Where there has been no progress and backsliding in average IQ scores, this should be taken as an indictment of the policies at play in those times and places.
> It could also discourage hiring practices that arbitrarily and counter-productively weed out the less-well-IQ’ed.

Affirmative action for the stupid?

> This might even redound to employers’ benefit: Whatever advantages high intelligence confers on employees, it doesn’t necessarily make for more effective, better employees.

Uh-huh. Sure, it doesn't necessarily make for it, but it's a good indicator.

It really did read like it was written by a Luddite.
This only works if you don't have other cars run into you when you slow down unexpectedly. I am not saying that current traffic is sane but just saying "always also down when you see pedestrians " just doesn't reflect reality. In CA you often have speed limits of 45 right next to houses with driveways. Either you play it safe and go 20 or less and get cursed at by other cars or you go way too fast to respond to unexpected obstacles.
Not much of a lesson if I can’t remember it.

Yes, eventually I will, but I’ll have to live trillions of years first.
Yes.

The police, along with everyone else, should be disarmed. NOBODY should be allowed to defend themselves with a gun. Guns should only be allowed for hunting.

Are you seriously suggesting they shouldn't?
I am slightly jealous, having only one bookcase in my house I can use for cookbooks. 6,000 cookbooks is a lot, but who knows if it's really the largest collection. Julia Child donated her collection of 5,000 to Radcliffe's Schlesinger library, which has about 18,000 cookbooks.
> What the Uber crash has shown us is that the tolerance for AVs killing people is probably exactly zero, not some (very meaningful) reduction like 10x or 100x less.

It hasn't shown that at all. It has documented beyond reasonable doubt that Uber should not be allowed to participate in real world tests of autonomous vehicles.

There are plenty of situations where people would fully accept a self driving vehicle killing someone but this isn't one of those.