skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for being naive on this, but I have some questions:

Looking at this, it appears that they have mounted this device on a car and just had it taking in all sorts of data to effectively feed dataset into a map that can be used by self driving cars, correct?

If I were doing a project like this - I would attempt to work with waste disposal companies to put these sensors on every garbage company. Garbage companies will literally map out every potential road which can be driven on - as they will make rounds to nearly every structure to retrieve their waste - and will even drive down alleys, apartment/condo complexes/gated communities etc...

Has anyone attempted to work with waste companies? (I have some contacts who work with the bay area waste management company if anyone needs to find out how to talk to them)
Most government IT projects are given to contractors after a bidding process, the GDS and NHS Digital are teams of skilled developers working within the government.
No Russia is the source of problems that Russia creates.

Influencing elections and referendums, assassinating people abroad, hostile acquisition of parts of a country, widespread cheating at sport, assassinating opposition members etc.
Figuring Out Embedding-Free Neural Networks for NLP: Reproducing Research
Things haven't changed that much since post-ww2.
U.S., allies slam China for economic espionage, spies indicted
I think the argument of private sector vs public sector for quality also comes with a price. As in, how much did that fancy UI cost the public, vs. how much (edit: it would have cost) the private sector to build.
In all the talk of where people will go from Facebook, it's interesting that the proposed solution is a similar model of feeds and superficial connection. It's possible that we may be starting to realize the way this method of "connection" simply doesn't serve us from a well-being standpoint, versus using technology to better enable us to have actual closeness and friendships.
What if they convert speech to text like the American intel agencies do as proved by the Snowden and Vault 7 leaks?
Right?? I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes with how lax people have gotten with cybersecurity or even the most basic concepts of digital hygiene / common sense internet practices. In the nineties giving any information out online was idiocy. And remember refuseniks? People who just refused to own a phone based on the privacy and social ramifications of always carrying around a sophisticated bug that would make CIA engineers during the cold war spontaneously orgasm?

It's been a slow boil since then; people accept things today on a regular basis that would have caused riots just a couple decades ago. And I get it, there's lots of important and valid improvements to life thanks to smartphones and the modern internet. But I'm not talking about the way things are now. I'm talking about the way things will be soon. Very soon. Like the next 10-20 years up until we all die in the climate wars or whatever, hopefully not but that's a different story I guess.

People were worried about cell phones back when you had to pull up the antenna and checking your email was an incredibly exotic feat of mobile technology. They had no idea about the kind of big data extrapolations that would soon become possible. If they did, they would have been far, far more worried.

Digital assistants, ubiquitous computing, "smart" cities which keep tabs on your life better than you do and other advances in mobile tech are going to be the same way. Those ramifications we can think about now are only the very tip of the iceberg. Completely unexpected uses and exploitations are going to appear out of nowhere like black swans as the years unfold. We can't make informed decisions about what we're doing to our humanity because we really have no idea. This has always been the case with industrialized society, true. But it's happening faster and more dramatically each time.
> Influencing elections and referendums

That is no way limited to Russia.
Does the GDS do the gov.uk universal credit website? That mostly-stable-but-plenty-flaky site that I have to use, that has numerous stupidities to it which I've reported but they don't do anything about?
Perhaps you can tell me: how do I get their attention?
TIA
(edit: because I'd be embarrassed to release something so clunky and sometimes even user-hostile - seriously, how?)
Something I noticed with my local Kroger delivery service, is that most of the items have a silent markup through the delivery service! So like, maybe tomatoes are 0.69/pound in the store, but the same tomatoes are $1.30/pound through the website. And then I pay a delivery fee on top of that!
> All of England is only one and a half times as large as Greater Los Angeles County

What? That's not even close to true by land area or population.
Not to downplay the quality of this work, but being able to extensively plan and specify requirements ahead of time is a luxury that a lot of engineering teams at private companies would love to have.
What if a trade-off was that your Echo was actively recording and indexing every single word you've said within its range?
> In July 2018, the NGOs became aware... The NGO reported their findings to Israeli police but declined to provide Facebook with their research. WhatsApp only received their report and the screenshot of active child pornography groups today from TechCrunch.

Huh? Who are these NGOs looking out for? Why wouldn't you tell FB in the first instance?
When human lives are threatened.
Torts law is, happily, able to distinguish the very wide spectrum between such extreme cases.

This means it is notoriously complex and nuanced, but it's not going to be overturned by boolean strawmen.
Because XMPP itself is not enough. If you want to deploy XMPP-based chat service in your org, and you want everyone to have same features (offline, mobile, images), you will have a hard time.

You cannot just tell people "go choose any XMPP client, and it will work fine". Instead, it is more like "get XMPP client, but make sure it supports XEP-1111, XEP-2222 and XEP-3333". And if you have multiple platforms (Android, iOS, Win, Linux), let's hope you can find a client for each.
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Can't you just have a website like Medium that acts as an aggregator (of RSS feeds) instead of a platform? The issue I have to whether stick with RSS feeds, which seem like it's dying, or to use ActivityPub, which doesn't seem to be developed that heavily.
And I'm sure you believe Iran should've taken more reasonable measures to prevent Stuxnet? Securing yourself against script kiddies is one thing, but against a nation? Good luck.
At the same time I can see their reasoning: a nation would only need to attack a company with the goal of ruining their reputation in order to benefit a domestically-favored competitor.
Whole Foods employees HATE Amazon...

The deli guy literally was talking about how horrible it was there...
The government embraced an agile transformation as a legacy enterprise software company would that wanted to remain relevant and compete in the private sector.

Because they have the right approach to software development and the services were so far behind and costing so much it couldn't really be objected to as a strategy.

The other big factor was that all 3 major political parties agreed at the time and it wasn't blocked. It was moved to focus on the needs of citizens owned by civil servants rather than the convenience of government and farmed out.
I say "Wake me up at 7" and "Turn off my alarm" every work night and work morning. If I'm ever timing something (like how long to let my French press steep), I say "Set a timer for x minutes."
As someone who has been involved in corporate security where we had a state sponsored attack your position is simply uninformed.

Almost all companies simply do not have the capabilities to defend against state sponsored attacks and are already taking reasonable measures to prevent and mitigate. When you have undisclosed exploits being used against third party vendor hardware to attack the company what can you reasonably do ?
Crowley was a visionary genius who tapped into the 21st century and one could say helped bring it into existence.

What makes you say that?
Ok, can I see your credit card statements for the last 5 years? Can I listen to all of your phone conversations? Can I watch you shower and use the bathroom? I mean, you sound like an average person with nothing to hide...../s
NYT Headline is "Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics".
I'd like to have a chemist take on this. Thanks.
Yes, driving 5 minutes isn't a big deal.

>> selecting the products in person?

How long does this takes ? And how is the experience if you're a busy mom with small children ?

So yes. Maybe you're right. Maybe large-scale grocery delivery won't happen.

But in-store pickup ? There's decent likelihood it would become a large scale service.

And than, that would be a great time to scale a delivery business.

High consumer density for pickup, leading to high delivery density with cheap prices, guarantees lots of online orders and that high delivery density.
"elementary number theory from a geometric point of view"

It's stunning how intuitive geometric explanations can feel. I like the geometric approach.
[citation needed]

And yet, repeatedly in this thread I asked for scientific studies on the effects of tap water, and nobody provided them. Hmmm. Perhaps "steady on" should be your watchword.
T'was a different time. Remembering that not only was Nixon elected, he beat Humphrey by popular vote and electoral, and he won re-election. He did some popular things (EPA, for example), so we weren't ready to hate him just yet. Though I was young, politics didn't strike me as much of a team sport as it is today. Watergate, though, showed us what politicians are capable of. Though many might have suspected, the 70s were the first time it showed up in your living room on TV as live-and-in-color proof.

Today, thanks in part to Watergate, we have a much more cynical populous and so, say, Trump probably won't have as far to fall.
Another good driving dataset. I liked Berkeley's as well.
> I never understood why "climate change" advocates don't see past this glaringly obvious fact: almost every time there is some action advocated to "stop climate change", the source comes back to some progressive group. They are always advocating some pet progressive agenda like mass transit, human population reduction, or the reduction of living standards by forcing energy use reductions. Hello??? It's so frustrating.

That's not quite true - there are plenty of non-partisan and even conservative groups that accept climate change. For example, the US military and the Department of Defense: not exactly a progressive think tank. Yet they accept the reality of the situation, since they are pragmatic and actually have to deal directly with the consequences. They study how climate change affects world stability and combat and are actively preparing for it. Many oil companies have finally admitted to the facts and tip toe around the issue for PR safety. Even Trump is building sea walls around his vulnerable properties while milking the political benefits from denialism.

As for your second paragraph, yes, I agree, let's focus on the implementation. There's a lot of imperfect solutions that we need to sort through. I just wish we could already all be at that stage.
To quote Wikipedia:

> As of 2013, the majority of United States free trade agreements were implemented as congressional-executive agreements. Unlike treaties, such agreements require a majority of the House and Senate to pass. Under trade promotion authority (TPA), established by the Trade Act of 1974 and renewed by the Trade Act of 2002, Congress authorizes the President to negotiate "free trade agreements ... if they are approved by both houses in a bill enacted into public law and other statutory conditions are met.

In the case of the USMCA, the Trump administration is seeking approval under "fast-track authority", which he has under the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015. (This authority was originally set to expire in 2018 but was successfully extended to 2021.) [2]

The effect of fast-track authority is that when "implementing legislation" for a trade agreement is considered by Congress, no amendments can be proposed, debate time is limited, and (as a result of time being limited) the bill cannot be filibustered in the Senate. This makes it much easier to pass.

However, the process only applies to legislation, i.e. to the congressional part of congressional-executive agreements. Passing an agreement as a true treaty would still have to follow the normal Constitutional procedure requiring a two-thirds majority in the Senate, which is generally considered more difficult than getting a bare majority of both houses. I'd say that applies even in the current political situation, because the Republicans will only have 53 seats in the Senate; a two-thirds majority is 67 votes, so they would need 14 out of 47 Democrats (30%) to vote yes, assuming all Republicans voted yes. In contrast, in the House the Republicans will have 200 seats, and would require 18 out of 235 Democrats (8%). On the other hand, the House rate would face an opposing majority leader, and the House can also vote to withdraw fast track authority. [3]

In any case, regardless of what the administration could theoretically do, it's currently trying to pass the USMCA as a congressional-executive agreement, which means the change in House party structure certainly is significant.

By the way, even if a true treaty is passed, in theory the House can refuse to provide funds to implement it, which is arguably[4] allowed under the Constitution. But admittedly that's very unlikely to happen unless they really hate the treaty, which wouldn't be the case with the USMCA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_(trade)#TPP_and_201...

[2] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5b4c71fc-b979...

[3] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43491.pdf (page 27)

[4] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-106SPRT66922/html/C...
Please can someone explain why this post was flagged ? (I’m not very familiar with the rules). Thanks.
What action do you believe the Canadian government should take in order to reform telecoms? There could be multiple plausible explanations for their high prices, and since I'm not sufficiently familiarized with Canadian laws and regulations, it's not obvious to me that their services are severely overpriced given the ecosystem in which they operate. I'd ask why it costs so much for native customers, while foreign visitors can consume data at much more competitive rates. For example, I'm using Google Fi and they charge $10/GB, regardless of your location. Maybe if you're Canadian you should try signing up for a Google Fi account and using it for mobile data.
I randomly walked by the Capsule Tower last month and it immediately reminded me of the stacks in Ready Player One. It honestly looks pretty run down.
See my reply to a sibling of your post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18729955
Not selling outdated phones in Germany, and not selling only at their stores?

Apple will happily sell you a brand new Xr or Xs instead.
They can't just get bread but a specific size/brand. If they don't see immediately they leave. I've had decent luck with whole foods through primenow but I also had good luck with instacart until they lowered wages for the shoppers and tied it more heavily to orders fulfilled per hour. Once that happened all of sudden everything that was heavy was out of order and I'd start getting items that looked vaguely like what I ordered, like bone in chicken instead of boneless
I think most government projects are contracted out to huge bloated dinosaur companies with crony connections and more people on staff that know how to navigate government purchasing buerocracy than know how to code.

In the US we also have a new in house team of coders, led, I believe by xoogler Matt Cutts that has been doing an excellent job as far as I have heard.

I think the key here is that outsourcing your tech is rarely superior to highering talent in house.
Half the time these "Drones" are just birds or plastic bags.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/drone...
Read the indictment:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1121706/downl...

... this still has to go in front of a judge of course but it's not like they're claiming there's no evidence.
""A nation is a people" does not say anything. It's a totally empty phrase"

No, this is absurdly false.

If you visit different nations, you find different kinds of cultures.

This is obvious.

The very words 'culture' and 'ethnicity' exist in every language to describe such a thing.

That they are 'fluid', of course, does not deny their existence.

I understand that we want to be wary of ethnocentrism, and hyper-nationalism, but the denial that there is such a thing as ethnic groups that constitute 'people' who have a shared culture and history is just as repulsive.

"People are free to be xenophobes and bigots if they wish"

This is childish, anti-intellectual rhetoric.

The mere observance that there is such a thing as different groups of people on the planet does not constitute any, even remote form of negative connotation.

Finally - the position that 'those with less exposure to migrants in the UK voted for Brexit, ergo, ignorance' is not necessarily true. Those in highly cosmopolitan areas tend to identify less with the groups around them, whereas those in areas with lower rates of migration, are more likely to identify as part of an ethnic group to which they belong.

I live as a tiny English speaking minority in a fully Quebecois part of Quebec. I'm only one of a handful of people in my area that speaks English as a first language - moreover, the area is not multicultural at all: it's very much Quebecois. The coherence of this community is obvious and palpable to anyone. My family members (English) notice it immediately when they visit. In fact - we 'English Canadians' have a very globalized culture, much less affinity for one another to the point wherein the level of social cohesion among the Quebecois seems strange to us. Sadly - this also implies that it's 'harder to break into' this culture, and that they are less successful with integration.

Whatever the Quebecois are, for better or worse - they are absolutely 'a people' of some kind. Because it's so gloriously obvious to anyone without an ideological bone to pick, one might have to consider how one could possibly arrive at the conclusion that the sky is not blue when it obviously is? That's the interesting question.

A mere 10km drive from my home to the English speaking area yields obvious, quantifiable and measurable differences. A child would see the difference. That's literally what 'diversity' is.

There are nations of people in the world. It doesn't make some better than others and it doesn't deny our common humanity. Of course there are nary any 'hard boundaries' between cultures, and as you say - it's all fluid. But they still exist, and it absolutely must be part of the equation as we move forward, otherwise there'll be calamity.
Side note: If you want to build your own mid-size event analytics data pipeline, then I recommend looking at snowplow: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
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Any idea what percentage of all (at least the biggest ones) were taken down? '15 high-profile [...] websites' could be most of the high-profile ones or just 10%. Sadly, few articles put things into perspective.
As much as I think Disney is a bunch of over-sueing bastards, with one expecption I can think of [1], they use stuff in the public domain.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimba_the_White_Lion
Breaking Down San Francisco’s Car Break-In Epidemic
> International Business Machines Corp said it had no evidence that sensitive corporate data had been compromised. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said it could not comment on the Cloudhopper campaign.

> Both IBM and HPE declined to comment on the specific claims made by the sources.

> DXC Technology declined to comment, saying in a statement that it does not comment on reports about specific cyber events and hacking groups.

> Reuters was unable to confirm the names of other breached technology firms or identify any affected clients.

I wonder why the title of the article sounds so certain while it seems none of the claims are confirmed
The company that chooses to call itself "Meet Up With Friends" had it coming. The English language has a gazillion 4-word permutations. Why choose one that overlaps a well-known mark? In a civilized society people stay out of each other's way. If I've taken this spot then you go take some other spot.
No idea, the whole post was flagged / downvoted.
Any datacenter usage, where you save money on hard drives by running your OS in RAM and mounting the work storage over the network. This also provides faster recovery from errors, since you're not storing any state on the working node.
They aren't the victim. The victim is the people they helped hack, and the people whose private information they helped leak.

This is like defending a teacher who left a loaded gun on their desk because they are the victim of theft.
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>Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything?

You mentioned this, but constantly in the car, but it's not even sort of begrudging. I got an early sale on the Echo Auto devices (Alexa for your car, basically), and love it. Everything I could do by dinking around with my phone, I now don't have to.

Outside of the car, voice commands for stuff like home control is natural, and almost kinda magical. Walking in with both hands full of groceries and barking "Alexa, turn on the kitchen lights" is awesome. Same for setting timers while cooking, turning on music, and so forth. So long as you remember that you're dealing with what amounts to a voice command line, not the Enterprise's computer, everything flows smoothly.

Conversely, I almost never use Siri even though by way of car bluetooth it should have the same kind of functionality.. but it's so limited and inaccurate as to be functionally useless.

>is no one else creeped out at always on mics and video cameras in their house?

Not for me, because a device that is local-only listening for a wake-word is not even sort of creepy. Your explanation, intentionally or not, paints it as a device that maintains a constant connection to the mothership and gives $company a live stream of everything happening around it.

This is an incredibly annoying misconception that I've grown weary of seeing.
You can see some of the lighting halo/starbursts from where longer exposures were used, but much of the magic here is HDR.
The key might be whether it is competing. If A sells a product that does not compete with Q or Q's licensees then the damages can be allowed to pile up if A chooses to continue selling and hope that it wins on appeal. An injunction can still be issued if it prevents additional damages which might not be reparable by the final judgement or settlement. As the plaintiff I may even prefer this, if the defendent has big pockets.
What if I just ask pointless hypothetical questions and follow them up with no substance at all?
Social media password, search history could be required to buy firearm in NY
Sure, maybe this was something beyond what could be reasonably prevented by a non-state. I don't think we know yet.

But they have a duty after the fact as well, to ensure the damage is minimized. That includes actually telling those potentially impacted what is known, etc.
The borders among 'German speaking people' have been nutbars since time immemorial, frankly the concept of a fairly federalized Germany is a very, very new thing in history.