skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge, the biggest part of game physics is collision detection. (There's a lot more floats in the geometry of a rigid body than there are in its motion vectors). If you had a perfect raytracer for "free," you could fire out a fiber bundle from moving objects in the direction of their motion to find out what they'd hit.
Is there a source that it was definitely claimed? The BTC have moved, but the site notes "[i]n 2018 we will likely reuse most bitcoins for other projects", and the transaction (splitting into two amounts of 9BTC and ~1BTC) aligns with this Tweet from December:

> PSA: the bitcoin piñata will be reduced by a large amount, the owner who lend the 10 btc wants to spent 9 on useful projects

https://twitter.com/h4nnes/status/939430639576715264
Can you share the whole use case as well as data size?
They are covering two different pieces of news, which show different results. And their headline even included "study suggests," to try and not sensationalize the article. Do you want them to only report on the items that support their position?

Though, if you look at the "most charitable" report, I can't find where they found the countries ranked by GDP. Additionally, the report does show that the USA has the second most total people donating, but only ~43% of the population donating. So both could be true.
I very much doubt that most employees at Facebook share your viewpoint that Facebook is a net negative for society. It’s almost a tautology—people who feel that way won’t seek employment there.
You could still show what you have, and maybe someone ELSE will polish it.
Interesting, do you have a source on that. I would like to see the agreement researchers have to agree to to use fb data. I'm guessing this includes private profile information not public? Or is it a platform level EULA or something like that?

I wonder how FB views public scraping. Shades of webcrawlers.
That just means more opportunity to hire people for an interesting, funded startup.
It's a tool for working with clients. Developers get instant payment, auto invoicing, and escrow, while clients get a convenient way to track your work.

After we improve our PR payout tool, our next big feature is a PR Solutions marketplace. This will help link clients to developers.
It's more specific, but I care about all fatalities, not just car-pedestrian fatalities.
This is brilliant. They recommend using a url shortener, but I want to see if anyone is parsing comments and visiting urls from HN.

https://uriteller.io/7S6asCJSwrOzApjG84hIRA

Edited to add:

Here's the view key if you're interested. Just append it to the end of uriteller.io:

ZBt0gGoUHtIsyQ7KFwikYg

A crawler on AWS hit it two minutes after I posted it.
Uh, given that I have at least ten accounts just for shits and giggles, take whatever number makes it into the reports, and divide by 1,000.

That's being conservative. I mean, how many accounts do ordinary legit companies have? Do companies count as people? Do their test accounts count as people?
I wonder how much money Uber is pouring into Tempe and how much they promised the local government in taxes and infrastructure, to get them to bend at the knees so fast
I'm not sure whether the statement "Facebook engages in surveillance capitalism" is intended as a defense of Facebook in this context or something else.

The rest of your post makes it sound like the former, so I'll assume that's what you meant. In that case, I think you're giving Facebook far too much credit. What you describe in your post re: CA is accurate and scandalous, but I think it's naïve to think Facebook was not only aware and complicit, but rather that they actively encouraged and have essentially based their business on this exact system. Their decision to suspend CA is topical PR spin, an opportunity for them to be momentarily seen as enforcers amongst so many other negative headlines related to Facebook, data and voter manipulation.
Yeah saw that, rather than missing the word light, it’s probably yards. Based on what’s reported (not suggesting it’s true or the full story) she basically jumped out in front in which case this indeed would have been hard to avoid.
If someone saves you a billion, what's $100m?
what in the world is the point of that
I convinced multiple members of my family to vote for Bernie, and then DNC wiped their asses with our votes.
It’s obviously not within the boundaries of what Facebook was willing to tolerate, given that they changed how the APIs worked 3 years ago to prevent this behavior.
Why are you selling? What’s the MRR? Some stats on the business may be useful to prospective buyers.
This twitter thread [1] contains some details on this release:

This is the first version of Zork that Infocom ever released.

It was the only version released through Personal Software, who was responsible for the cover art of a barbarian, which the Infocom developers hated.

It was simultaneously released for the PDP-11.

It was the only 13-sector Apple II software that Infocom ever released, and its copy protection is different than all other Infocom disks.

[1] https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/975818151396040706
Which smart TV platform do you think gets it right?
Given that the car apparently didn’t even start to brake, maybe she was moving at light speed?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17140936/uber-self-drivin...

The LIDAR probably couldn’t see with all the shadows, or maybe she teleported, literally “coming from nowhere.” I sure hope if I’m killed the filth blame it on me in less than 24 hours.
This is just police standard operating procedure. In any kind of manslaughter where a vehicle is involved, save on paperwork and blame whichever party ended up dead before the driver has even spoken the words "she came from nowhere". Here is the police chief spelling it out for Uber:

she came from the shadows

I wonder what that LIDAR thinks about the shadows. I mean, this system is in place because everybody drives and so we've legalized recklessness in the pursuit of "There but for the grace of god go I" but who benefits if police declares an AI driver blameless before anyone has even downloaded the recordings?
> Suddenly, the public gives a shit and I don't understand what changed.

Not the public per se but the media suddenly cares.

My guess it's the runup to the US midterm elections, it's never too early to start the mudslinging...
The crysis 2 myth was from a video game “journalist” using debut mode which forced tesselation always and to the highest quality.

It’s a myth
I don't believe I'm delusional, my code is certainly medium-to-okay. I've put a lot of thought into this. I think autonomous cars are a very good idea, I want to work on building them and I want to own one as soon as safely possible.

Autonomous cars, as they exist right now, are not up to the task at hand.

That's why they should still have safety drivers and other safeguards in place. I don't know enough to understand their reasoning, but I was very surprised when Waymo removed safety drivers in some cases. This accident is doubly surprising, since there WAS a safety driver in the car in this case. I'll be interested to see the analysis of what happened and what failures occurred to let this happen.

Saying that future accidents will be "unexpected" and therefore scary is FUD in its purest form, fear based on uncertainty and doubt. It will be very clear exactly what happened and what the failure case was. Even as the parent stated, "it saw a person with stripes and thought they were road" - that's incredibly stupid, but very simple and explainable. It will also be explainable (and expect-able) the other failures that had to occur for that failure to cause a death.

What set of systems (multiple cameras, LIDAR, RADAR, accelerometers, maps, GPS, etc.) had to fail in what combined way for such a failure? Which one of N different individual failures could have prevented the entire failure cascade? What change needs to take place to prevent future failures of this sort - even down to equally stupid reactions to failure as "ban striped clothing"? Obviously any changes should take place in the car itself, either via software or hardware modifications, or operational changes i.e. maximum speed, minimum tolerances / safe zones, even physical modifications to configuration of redundant systems. After that should any laws or norms be changed, should roads be designed with better marking or wider lanes? Should humans have to press a button to continue driving when stopped at a crosswalk, even if they don't have to otherwise operate the car?

Lots of people have put a lot of thought into these scenarios. There is even an entire discipline around these questions and answers, functional safety. There's no one answer, but autonomy engineers are not unthinking and delusional.
> You just need to see what the car sensed

I don't think all self-driving cars have the same sensors.

If you have LIDAR model X, and they were using LIDAR model Y, will your system "magically figure it out?

If your car has cameras at 5ft high, and the data is from a camera 6ft high?

Sure, someone could release the data, but will it screw up your models more than it fixes them?

(I totally agree the data should be released, I'm just not sure other self-driving cars will directly benefit. Certainly they can indirectly benefit from it.)
FYI you can tweet at reporters letting them know there's a typo, and they typically make the edit quickly. They usually seem appreciative.
>Nobody has a "right" to spread propaganda

It's literally the first amendment.
"When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically.

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.

Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

Some (qualified with the half-hearted I assume) is pretty much the opposite of the overwhelming majority.

http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/
It's not a matter of whether they are better or worse, it's a matter of whether these tests are sufficiently realistic.

Anyone with half a brain would hopefully quickly realize that you don't actually need a live person to lay down on a skateboard. Heck, you can simulate a much more risky jaywalking scenario with a mannequin on a dolly than with a living person.

Waymo is deploying its fleets on public roads too, which suggests to me that they think that private course tests can only get you so far.
> If I had a data structure whose contents could be interpreted differently by different parties, I'd have a very hard time convincing stakeholders that it was immutable... and I'd feel bad trying to do so.

Whether or not you could convince someone of it, it is so. The definition of an immutable data structure is that the contents of it don't change. It says nothing about interpretation. Immutability isn't some nebulous concept, it has a specific definition in computer science. And it is that the data itself does not change.

> To your new point, though, picture this: it's 2016 and you're running your election on the blockchain. Unfortunately, a consensus bug in the blockchain causes the updated nodes (say, half the network that updated) to split. The devs decide to go forward with the new consensus rules and abandon the other chain. However, we find that the tally on the abandoned chain elected Hilary and the tally on the new chain elects Trump. What happened? Were the devs co-erced? Did they introduce the bug themselves? Why was the tally different on the abandoned chain? Who collected the tally and wrote it to the blockchain?

> How do we know or prove the legitimacy of the chosen blockchain over the abandoned one, as you claim?

There is no need for consensus in an election-based blockchain, and this is not a new point, it's been my point the entire time. It's the point of all blockchain-election solutions. We can arbitrarily choose any chain, and then verify all the properties that we care about on it.
It's nice to see the early FUD against GPLv3 being dropped and dropped in a way where copyright holders end up adopting some of the benefits of the GPLv3.

But there's an easier way to go about this: Want the more lenient termination policy of GPLv3? Relicense under 'GPLv3 or later' or 'AGPLv3 or later' and let your users know that they're getting this in writing in a meaningful and not capriciously-dropped way. Businesses (such as those ostensibly agreeing to the terms of this voluntary arrangement) wouldn't settle for less if this were a work you held the copyright which they wanted to license. Users deserve to be treated fairly and as partners in the endeavor and the GPLv3 does a good job of that by looking out for a user's interests.

Don't buy into the business-first viewpoint from which this article is written. That is to be expected of the narrow view corporate media gives us. The issue here affects anyone who distributes GPLv2 or LGPLv2.x-licensed works where any of these parties are a copyright holder.
Ah. As my reply makes clear, I was only talking about people already living here. Obviously choosing to move to a place with a high cost of living and a modest amount of automotive engineering job choices is a whole 'nother kettle of fish for everyone, including those with families.
There's a difference between me telling you my opinion on an issue and me knowingly spreading false information at a mass scale for personal gain. I think that specifically (in my layman's interpretation of law) does not fall under the first amendment's interpretation of allowing freedom of expression since the expression is not genuine, in the same way that fraud is not genuine. You would not be prosecuted for fraud for unwittingly spreading false information, but you would be for doing so wittingly and with incentive for making money
Donald Trump is a cartoon-villain figure of sorts -- Biff Tannen from Back to the Future was based on Trump.
According to the latest info, it doesn't look like the system was at fault at all. Seem like the likely homeless woman abruptly stepped into traffic. Every accident still of-course is terrible, but some maybe are unavoidable. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Exclusive-Tempe...
It's also the kind of thing i'd say to some of my friends as a joke. Maybe he meant it, but in isolation it's not particularly damning.
> “The driver said it was like a flash, the person walked out in front of them,” Moir said. “His first alert to the collision was the sound of the collision.”

I don't know if that is supposed to make anyone feel better about this, if anything it makes it seem worse. I thought one of the big benefits of these systems was they were supposed to be better at exactly these kinds of situations?

More like "autonomous cars are better than people at stopping in a flash" rather than "just like people this car didn't stop in a flash".

I'm really not trying to trash these systems, I'm just surprised at this explanation. Though, I guess based on the other comments now, maybe I shouldn't be.
The Cambridge Analytica Affair Reveals Facebook’s ‘Transparency Paradox’
> According to the Chronicle, the preliminary investigation found the Uber car was driving at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone and did not attempt to brake. Herzberg is said to have abruptly walked from a center median into a lane with traffic.

The autonomous vehicle was speeding and made no attempt to decelerate given the sudden presence of an obstruction in its path? I would expect some kind of reaction from the car within seconds, or milliseconds.
Especially true of the evolution in scientific thought as Thomas Kuhn famously argued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
I’m often cynical, but I have to ask...what makes this “predictable” to you?

Are you commenting on the evolving narrative which shifts the responsibility from a vehicle-initiated accident to Elaine Herzberg’s actions, or are you decrying something else?
IAmA former Theranos employee, AMA
>As far as I know the government has the biggest guns.

Not in the mythical libertarian paradise where all property is privately owned.
This feels like wishful thinking... CA is like a few drops compared to the ocean of Renaissance?
She definitely "jumped out in front" given no actual evidence that "she jumped out in front." I might even venture that "she lunged" given absolutely nothing to offer in supporting evidence.

Carry on Uber!
There’s a difference between implying that a racial/ethnic group will get hassled or deported, etc due to their race and saying that Trump said douchey things in an interview.

Voter suppression is a term of art that means something. Democrats generally don’t engage in it because more people voting usually translates to more people voting democrat.
better be extra-super careful! :)
> I wonder what that LIDAR thinks about the shadows.

I honestly don't follow these systems very close, but I thought that was one of the big selling points, LIDAR can see into tough situations and things like "the shadows" and help avoid situations where people would fail.
Did you read the example? The point is coordinating (and negotiating) with friends-of-friends, when your friends expect to bring said friends-of-friends, without requiring your friends act as a proxy.

> MMS group or Signal group

I don’t see these as fundamentally different from a Facebook event; the point, in my mind, was to compare the class of digital ephemeral forums from the coordination strategies possible when you don’t have any such digital ephemeral forum available.

However, Facebook events have the advantage over MMSes, at least, of people who join/are invited into the event being able to see the history of the conversation so far.
Yes. "Everyone does it and always has" is a very weak excuse.
Ah, based on some other comments, I think I see what you mean with fatigue, because you have to use HTML/CSS/JS or something that compiles into this like Clojurescript and you still have to know what javascript is and how it works to get anything useful done on the front-end. I am praying for a really slick alternative to come soon, where we can capture clicks and events and still keep some sanity with regards to layout, structure, and tying things into the backend via message passing.
I've used Python sparingly in the past for tooling and helper apps and am now picking it up in a more serious way as I'm working on a Flask API app. I've been reading lots of instructional materials and the one thing that I find lacking across the board is coverage of the toolchain and it's edge cases. For starters, Macs only come with Python 2.X, tell me about installing 3.X and some of the walls I might run into in the process. Having used other package managers, pip is easy to pick up but you might get stuck if you forget you need to use pip3 instead. virtualenv is something that could use a more thorough explanation in almost everything I've read, but I'm also now seeing everyone shift to using pipenv and sorting this out yourself is not easy to newcomers (I haven't seen a text yet that discusses it other than packages using it in their install copy and paste and the pipenv site itself). The small things that seem obvious to seasoned devs are really what I'm looking for, especially in an accelerated course.

This applies almost equally to most language reference material I've come across but I'm asking politely, please spend more time on the toolchain.
> "heretofore"
I'm glad your happy with your company's engineering output.

As an engineer, I would head for Chicago or Minneapolis. Madison doesn't have "the next job". When that time comes, I wouldn't want to uproot my family.

I'm glad your rention is stellar. I would expect increased retention due to lack of alternatives.

Most companies believe their compensation is competitive. A lot of them are wrong.

The Midwest might be a place where companies can skirt those two things fairly easy.
Behind every great crime, there is a fortune.
When I think "upstart", I think of my grade 9 English teacher who once described a fairly naughty student as "you young whipper-snapper!".
I don't want to hear any officer's opinion on this until the video and radar is publicly released. It's unclear on what evidence the officer bases this account of events.
Context is important.

The quote is "by definition like 49% of the drivers are technically better than the "average driver"." It's obvious to anyone who's not pedantic that they're referring to the median.

As for an example of a mode average: "The average participant's favorite polygon was a triangle."
Symbol of Detroit's decline to house Ford autonomous and electric vehicle teams
Measure your internet speed with P2P
This was so absurd to me at first I had to think about it for a while.

I guess you wrote it as a continuation of the opinion from the article that interfaces should only be used as input.

From my perspective, I was still considering all other cases also. For other cases, it's precisely because of Go's structural typing that such a thing can even be considered. Java can't implement an interface for a type it doesn't control. You could create a wrapper class, but not exhaustively wrap all present and future implementations.
My hope is this will prompt people to delete their Facebook data (as much as they can now) and then their accounts...
If somebody jumped in front of the car at the last second, it would be physically impossible to break in time.

I assume what people mean by "stopping in a flash" is closer to taking the right actions faster (e.g 40ms vs 800ms) when there's still a chance of changing the outcome.
A X,000lb car going 38mph takes a certain amount of time and distance to stop, even with a perfect reaction time. If she really did step out in front of the car with less than that distance to spare, than there wasn’t much to be done, sadly.
3mph above the speed limit
We use Elixir at Tinfoil Security for our API Security Scanner, and it uses GenStage quite a bit under the hood. It's a big simplification, but we basically have a producer that emits a stream of "scan tasks" to be performed (things like "scan this endpoint for SQL injection"), and then those are consumed by individual worker processes.

It lets us super easily manage things like rate limiting and throttling, while providing backpressure so that an influx of scans (or scans on large APIs) won't overload our infrastructure.
Was there something in there about urination?
Introduction to Nvidia RTX and DirectX Raytracing
That's not even remotely true. When I started learning to drive I had 0 experience with traffic. When I was fully licensed I had less than 2 years experience.
And yet the speeding vehicle didn’t even attempt to stop.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17140936/uber-self-drivin...
I think your parent post was being sarcastic since indeed LIDAR isn't suppose to be affected by "shadows"
بڕوا ناكه‌یت ته‌مه‌نى چه‌نده‌ هه‌موو كه‌سى شۆك كردووه‌
At least now I won't be laughed out of the room when I tell friends and family that Facebook is horrible and they shouldn't use it.
Kind of an irrelevant tangent, but I think the reason why Snapchat is suffering is that HQ is in LA. I noticed that you have to pay great developers/designers more to relocate away from the Bay Area. You also get slower iteration on new hires since they have to fly to/from SF/LA for interviews. It's great that these founders could stay in the Midwest, but if they're ever to compete against the giant companies, they'd probably have to relocate to the Bay Area or Seattle.
I presume the idea is to make the URL appear to be part of the standard API (and maybe even does something useful to induce use?), but it is never actually called by a legitimate application?
Surely there's a blackbox somewhere that could clear this all up.